skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can appreciate intentions, but a Pi Pico does not compare favorably to a chip module in any regard.

It's huge, it only exposes 26 GPIOs.

I'm not saying Pico sucks by any means. It has uses and places. It's just very not this: https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/espressif-systems/...
DEI petition to increase the number of female funnel-web spiders in employment in Sydney when?
For some reason, whenever I see the term "Xitter", my mind always parses it as "shitter". How do you pronounce it?
Windows 11 can’t even move a window in “overview mode” from one screen to another. Something single-men projects trivially do. It is absolutely useless, I rather use Gnome than that.
> he should know that these kinds of decisions are decidedly not-personal.

Just as you should know that your friend's choice wasn't personal. He didn't tear down the house to spite you, he simply felt a fun night of sitting around the campfire would be a better use of the materials. He wasn't thinking about you at all. And why would he? It has nothing to do with you.

If you give away something to someone else, of course you know they are free to do with it as they see fit. That doesn't mean you won't have feelings towards what they do with it, though. A human can be upset about something even while knowing there is no logical reason to be upset about it. The human is inherently irrational.
Your second paragraph is a very good argument against requiring that everything used in food packaging be shown to be safe before it can be used.

Can we reasonably run such a study to prove that wax paper is safe? What about plain paper? Do we just require all food producers to use no packaging at all until these controlled longitudinal studies are completed? If we allow them to use packaging, how do we define in a principled way what packaging is allowed while there are still unknowns?

One possibility would be to say that if something is currently widely used in some significant (think 5%) portion of the industry then we allow it, but that has two problems: First, it wouldn't exclude phthalates anyway, so it doesn't address the current concern. Second, it might exclude future packaging materials that we think might be safer than our current materials but which have yet to be tested.
I can believe that "hiring" children for 3 days does have a net cost for the company because of the staff time needed to instruct and supervise them. Summer camps commonly charge an order of magnitude more than this one, and parents are choosing to pay for this camp, so the outrage is misplaced. Some people may be biased against Chick-Fil-A for other reasons.
Where do you live? Plenty of companies today sell 4G/LTE capable dumbphones or featurephones as they're called, including Nokia.
In America you can also send money to mostly anyone else in America via Zelle (most banks in the U.S. support Zelle)
Connect the dots for me: what does this have to do with this proposed legislation by members of the Canadian government?
> (googler, opinions are my own. I work in this space)

Not meaning to attack you personally as I'm sure you're quite good at your job to be at Google, but care to weigh in on why Google's ecosystem as a whole is such a... well, such a mess? As an Apple user I cannot fathom working with Google's offerings, they seem in an endless flux of revamps, rebrands, closings and openings.
Goldberg is a polemicist, not a historian, and frankly not all that competent even in his acknowledged line. Do better - by not ignoring the Night of the Long Knives, for a start.
Elixir is one of the most productive languages there is right now.

Run into something slow? Replace that small bit with a Rust NIF and move on with your life.
Bcachefs Coding Style
> It defines lesser “hate crimes” as including online speech that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification” on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other protected categories.

We have had pretty well thought out prohibitions on discrimination in employment, etc., for a long time. So why do we need to go further and stamp out thought and speech crimes? Why do we need to throw way speech protections and due process because someone might say mean things about someone else? It seems like religious zealots trying to stamp out what they perceive as a kind of immorality.
Do they all skip the same versions, though?
Hey! From the Dappier team here, the team quoted in this piece.

In our opinion, the industry's brand new! The fact that everyone is still visiting websites & turning to Google for info is a sign of that.

Companies like Google are incentivized to figure this out: they risk killing their ads business by building up their own AI scraping product w/ Gemini & AI search.

All sorts of publishers & content owners have started to explore their legal options or launch lawsuits. We're building to provide a fair & realistic alternative!

If you're interested, please take a look at dappier.com, try building an AI agent & add a data set & let us know if you have any feedback. :) Right now we support AirTable & RSS integrations!
> It seems like the only way to succeed in this new environment is to be a real human person who builds a following / cult of personality around themselves and their content with its signature that is unique to them.

Correction: pretend to be a real human (or even a hyperreal human), not to be a real human. This is the game YouTubers and Instagram influencers have been playing for over a decade - there's a team of people building a brand around the face of the vlogger/influencer, making them seem like a really nice and interesting human, where in fact the opposite is the case. The point of it is to exploit human vulnerability to parasocial relationships, creating a captive audience primed to be receptive to the deluge of advertising that follows.

Yes, this is one of the few ways for "content" to keep value these days. Which is ironic, given that the net value of it to the consumer and society is squarely negative.
How so? It only works between two Apple Cash accounts, so it can just be a book transfer within the bank maintaining these (Green Dot), no Visa required.

Or do they now allow it between two non-Apple-Cash debit cards? That would indeed require some network to work across banks.
Still can’t decide how terrified should I be that somehow zuck is the good guy in the AI wars.
There are games/apps that no longer work on vanilla win10/11 and using wine would be good. I wonder how WSL2 would show gui? You would need to run a native win X server and connect to it from WSL2 vm
I think this is a US centric thing maybe because the banking infrastructure is decades behind everyone else
SMS and cryptocurrency have largely solved the "send info or money to anyone instantly" problem. then entities stepped in to protect their walled gardens (governments in control of financial systems, apple, facebook, google) and viola, everything is fragmented and the problem has been unsolved.

the issue was never making it happen technically, it's the entrenched power structures prioritizing money/power over actual progress.
Voodoo Acquires BeReal
Backups ;) Much is lost, some is retained...

(The original poster wrote «records that exist that can be used to tell this story»: of all the documentation that can be lost, that produced during the first imperial Rome is probably some of the most secured. We still lost a lot: for example, the culmination of that period is probably under Trajan, and he wrote the Commentarii de bellis Dacicis - lost, contrary to its model, Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico...)
Thanks for the clarification, still haven’t really played with it, but take it these are the mechanics (not the workflow)…

* You have a big chronologically ordered list of notes

* By default, all notes are in view

* You can make a title (instructions in demo), but significance of title is only internal to note (not for ordering/management)

* Big list of notes is union of two disjoint sets: pinned and unpinned

* Can view either all notes, pinned notes, or un-pinned notes

But not sure if I have that right. FWIW appreciate some of the design decisions I’m seeing, just haven’t had time to poke around to understand.
Yeah, slop isn't new, AI makes it easier to produce.

Other examples include those books where each chapter generously estimated has a tweet worth of thought padded out with 35 pages of meandering anecdotes that just paraphrase the same idea. Like it's very clearly a sort of scam, the padding is there to make it seem like the book has more information that it does when you look at it in a digital bookstore.
The windows XP versions work natively on Windows 11 still.
It is wild you do not have this… and it goes to show how cable tv destroyed normal free to air tv so thoroughly that there are houses getting built without even an antenna hidden in the roof space when constructed.

In Australia it’s basically impossible to get a house without it having a free to air tv antenna and coax cable through the house to several locations from that antenna… you would basically have to specifically build your own house without it… and doing so even in this day and age would probably hurt your property values at least a little bit even in a rich suburb, and hurt them a LOT anywhere else.
>You can game in one hand while scrolling facebook on the other hand.

Like I said, that's an ADHD person's dream.
I don't know why he stopped updating his site, but I believe he is fine and posts to this forum sometimes: http://perryscanlon.com/MSJinfo_phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=....

His latest post is from a year ago: http://perryscanlon.com/MSJinfo_phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6....
Well, they figured as such about bpa and here we are. They figured as such for a lot of things in the past that turned out to be not what they seemed after sufficient data were collected.
Yes I love love love BitWarden.
Was it any good, though?
It's not, AFAICT from the press release.

Confidential Compute involves technologies such as SGX and SEV, and for which I think Asylo is an abstraction for (not sure), where the operator (eg Azure) cannot _hardware intercept_ data. The description of what Apple is doing "just" uses their existing code signing and secure boot mechanisms to ensure that everything from the boot firmware (the computers that start before the actual computer starts) to the application, is what you intended it to be. Once it lands in the PCC node it is inspectable though.

Confidential Compute goes a step further to ensure that the operator cannot observe the data being operated on, thus also defeating shared workloads that exploit speculative barriers, and hardware bus intercept devices.

Confidential Compute also allows attestation of the software being run, something Apple is not providing here. EDIT: looks like they do have attestation, however it's different to how SEV etc attestation works. The client still has to trust that the private key isn't leaked, so this is dependent on other infrastructure working correctly. It also depends on the client getting a correct public key. There's no description of how the client attests that.

Interesting that they go through all this effort just for (let's be honest) AI marketing. All your data in the past (location, photos, contacts, safari history) is just as sensitive and deserving of such protection. But apparently PCC will apply only to AI inference workloads. Siri was already and continues to be a kind of cloud AI.
Isn't this progress? It sounds like as we advance we can afford to have more and more high standards for things we couldn't afford to before
Don't do it. PVC should not be inside your house in large quantities.
what is the drama with platformIO ?
On my iPhone SE 3:

- Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Colour Filters -> Greyscale switches it on. It also sets the default colour filter which is helpful because ...

- Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Colour Filters means you can then triple-press the Home button (on an SE) to toggle that setting at any time

As various studies have suggested in the past, I do find I use it less in greyscale.
I don't know how to feel about that. Social media is like a gigantic public square. If you do that in the real world and advocate for genocide, talk about hanging the PM, talk about killing migrants or gender diverse people etc, what would happen in that case?

I'm actually not sure at all about the law but I would expect to get a visit from law enforcement eventually.
Joe Satriani famously self-funded his first album by taking on large amounts of credit card debt.

I'm sure there are many, many other musicians who took a similar risk that didn't pay off as well as it did for Satriani
It's also easier to search for. Searching for "X" returns too many things that aren't about the site formerly named Twitter.

I'd like to see HN add an exception to its title rules that would say that when submitting articles whose title refers to that site as "X" replace it with "Twitter".
An angle of this that I don't think gets brought up - conscientiousness is a measurable personality trait (EQ) - and it isn't equally distributed across the population!

You can have two people with almost identical positions on controversial issues on something like Israel-Palestine. But your ability to phrase and articulate your position can drastically change which side of the hate speech line you are on.

These sorts of policies are not actually in pursuit of reducing actual received harm - what's actually going on is a redrawing of our class system. People with high EQ are excluding low EQ people who can't "behave" in twenty-first century society. Even if you have never personally harmed someone - you won't get access to the same kinds of institutions - academia, journalism, politics, etc.

Reading these laws makes me think less of 1984 and more of, like, the 21st century equivalent of jaywalking or zoning rules or even redlining. We have new rules about how to fit in and behave - but the rules are not going to be equally or fairly distributed.

Keep in mind, you haven't heard the word "pluralism" as a democratic ideal in the last 20 years.
Define the average computer user... if they mostly use web apps, then Linux is completely viable, and I have several friends and family converted for their own online safety for years now.
I can pay you by tapping the top of my iPhone to the top of your iPhone. https://youtu.be/Own9MiaP57o?t=270
The coolest thing about Forth to me wasn't Forth itself but that it was a part of the OpenFirmware standard: https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1275/1932/
I never understood why that standard just died and wasn't adopted for something like ARM SBCs where the built in debugging ability would come in useful.
FYI. In the embedded space, peripherals refer to the chip's built in capabilities. Typically there is a peripheral that handles SPI, a peripheral that handles I2C, a peripheral that handles USART. There might be a peripheral that handles USB, or I2S, or any number of different abilities. It's either transistors or microcode on more sophisticated MCUs that allows these peripherals, and not every pin is connected to every peripheral, which can make chip selection even trickier. It really sucks to start designing around a chip that looks like it does everything you need with enough pins to only find out that once you start doing pin layouts you can't use both USART2 and I2C because they use the same pins. Worse, is when the datasheet makes this difficult to discern, and you only find out when doing some firmware work on a devboard.
I was very pleasantly surprised recently when I installed Animal Well[1] and it was only 32MB. With the way things are going I was expecting a 1GB executable or something.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/813230/ANIMAL_WELL/
> If it gets bad enough that people will pay, I think some will pay for exclusively real content.

People who pay for content demonstrate that they have disposable income and are willing to spend it, which makes them prime population for advertisers to target. By paying, they're distinguishing themselves for the net-near-worthless population of free users. There's a huge pressure for advertisers to tap into that juicy population of paying users; it takes only so long before any given service succumbs to that pressure.
phthalates, like flax seeds and soybeans, are probably endocrine disruptors in humans. they're oils, not solid plastics; you add them to pvc to transform it from a rigid, brittle substance like those white sewer pipes into a flexible, resilient substance like shower curtains, fake leather upholstery from the 01970s, or nasogastric tubes. they evaporate from the plastic over time, so you inhale them and the plastic gets brittle. they also diffuse out of the plastic into whatever it's in contact with, especially oily things

in general any statement that refers to 'plastic' as a single material is wrong. the only thing the diverse materials called 'plastic' have in common is that you can mold them and that at least one of their major ingredients is a synthetic organic material, not even necessarily the majority

i think probably the concern over harm from human phthalate exposure will turn out to be baseless, but it's not implausible
You're kind of making my point for me; when every engineer has to place a dozen components, a non-zero number of them are going to make facepalm mistakes.

Even if you create a sub-module layout that you include in every project you work on... that's still n slightly different permutations of the same thing, even if they are all perfect. (They aren't.)
I’d worry less about silicates than anything. We evolved along sandy coastlines not polyurethane or pvc.
Why trivialize this stuff? Wondering where this impulse comes from
Running an app store is completely different than running a games publishing or even development business. Microsoft publishes and develops games, and it also runs some games platforms. Google and Apple are almost exclusively in the platform side.

Also, calling Android and iOS "gaming platforms" is a bit of stretch. the majority of successful mobile games are significantly different from more traditional games. In fact, they are much closer in their revenue and even development models to the gambling industry, especially in that they almost exclusively make their money off of the addiction of a few gamblers they have the poor taste to call "whales", which they actively seek to nurture. So, I would say that the gaming sides of iOS and Android's app stores are much closer to an online casino than to a games distribution platform (like Steam, the MS and Sony and Nintendo stores, etc).

Of course, this is not really to defend Microsoft, especially when the whole discussion is about a game every bit as scummy as the worse that mobile gaming has to offer.
1. It's a lot harder to prove something is 100% assured safe then the other way around

2. Every substance/material/etc that is investigated and banned incurs overhead on taxpayers and industry directly.

What you're asking for would be extremely prohibitive to getting anything done at all.
When I want to send money to a friend of acquaintance, they generally show/send me a payment QR code, which contains their bank account number and amount. From what I can tell, this is typical in the Czech Republic.
exactly what I was thinking even though the job is very interesting and tech recruiting is quite hard in the current environment
https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36
>Otherwise it's just bashing the Chinese for internet happy points. Just like reddit.

Not every criticism of China is xenophobia.
Yeah I also like how I can get a whole page pretty easily, even if the page is several screens long.
There's a certain amount of intuition and taste involved when assigning theoretical costs, but that's no reason not to do it. We have general principles with some rational justification for preferring certain features of theories over others. Simplicity in terms of "not multiplying entities without need" is one such principle.

A discernible state is an entity. More discernible states requires more entities or more discernible features of an entity. This is the only way to make the concept of discernible state intelligible. To deny this is just to engage in magical thinking. But each posit has a cost associated with it. We don't know what that cost is exactly (relative to other theories with different features). But we do know that an exponential growth in discernible states overshadows the theoretical cost of the whole regardless of how we quantify the cost of any individual posit. MWI is almost maximally profligate; any empirically adequate theory without this cost should be preferred.
There is an article linked in the release notes that allows users to opt-in to a less secure option.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2024/06/05/firefox-will-up...
I do wonder how much of that can be accounted directly to the RP2040. Projects like QMK[0] have been using a technically quite similar codebase for making DIY keyboards for quite a while now.

At first glance I'm not really seeing anything in GP2040 which couldn't have been done with any other somewhat-modern MCU. The RP2040 has undoubtedly been the catalyst leading to GP2040's widespread adoption, but it seems the same could've happened with a Pro Micro instead.

[0]: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware
I want to shout out the fighting game community with: https://gp2040-ce.info/

It has been using the RP2040 to create cheap and easy to make controllers for fighting games while providing the lowest possible input delay.

The RP2040 does a great job acting as a chip for the base of a gamepad, so it doesn't even have to be for a fighting game controller, but any controller you want to create.
You may be interested in "immutable" distros like OpenSUSE's Aeon, Fedora's Silverblue or the kind-of-Debian Vanilla OS. If you go and try Vanilla, by all means try the beta.
I also forgot about long tweets (though these also were tested before Musk? not sure) and articles (https://x.com/Write/status/1765884209527394325).
Well yes, but flippantly describing the arrangement as "rich dudes convincing poor dudes to take out a huge loan" makes it sound far more exploitative than it actually is.
Solo – a free AI website generator from Mozilla
Carpets often repel water… using PFAS.
Do they need new training data? I'm pretty sure Midjourney, OpenAI etc. already scraped all of the images in existence long before the well was poisoned. They can use other methods, such as improved tagging, to improve their models.
Do you have evidence investigators oppose this proposal?
The conventional BI interface shown in the post is Metabase, which has one of the better interfaces for doing BI out there today. Metabase also has the ability to see the GUI-generated SQL for a question, and convert that question into pure SQL, which is a great way to move from self serve to governance as it's easy to modify and validate the logic and give less technically skilled people an easy route towards improving their skills.

The post is fundamentally correct though, and I say this as a professional data person, a BI tool rarely gives more people correct understanding of the data or the technical skills needed to use it correctly. If your data is well managed, the tools are easy and people can figure things out, but the world is complicated, so your data will become complicated, and the cost of data management is very visible while the benefits are invisible.
Release notes:

1.0 (Jun 11, 2024) - https://blog.soloist.ai/support/release-notes/
You can’t seriously believe that.

First, the Taliban ‘offer’ was so full of caveats as to be worthless and, most importantly, they refused to do anything about the rest of the Al-Qaeda organisation that they hosted and shared power with and which attacked the US. Putting Bin Laden on trial in some supposed neutral third country would’ve done nothing to remove the clear and present threat to the US that Al-Qaeda at the time presented. So, yes, the US’s actions were legal under international law.

None of the major powers outside Europe have acceded to the ICC. Neither the US, nor India, nor China, nor Russia.