skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say one off the biggest threat for pedestrians in European city are electric scooters.

How many deaths have they caused? How do those stats compare to the deaths caused by motor vehicles? Which one is more dangerous based on that data?

I have looked at local pedestrian casualty statistics and motor vehicles are by far the largest cause of injury and death in the large city where I live. I haven't even been able to find what was the last time that a cyclist or e-scooter rider killed a pedestrian. Meanwhile, cars and trucks have killed four cyclists this year alone.
FireFox doesn't work with KeyChain, at least, not the last time I checked (which was a few years ago, admittedly). There's an extension that goes one way (read only), but that's of course relying on an unknown entity.
Oh that's very sad! That's one of the great features of Elixir/Erlang.

I wonder why they decided to not permit that sort of thing. :(
I wish there was even less flare in smartphone camera bumps actually. Hurry up this race to the bottom and arrive at the standard smartphone already, so we can have hotswap camera modules and hotswap batteries again (way faster than fast charging btw)
> and it's good for business - we could slap "code security audited by XXX" on the sales pitch.

You're on the precipice of discovering the problem of incentives when it comes to audits.

Audits are good, but they're inferior to source available
Significantly better than a monoculture society
reference? Proof? How is it slurping data if I have it turned off and don't even use it?
Maybe we should stop demonizing unauthorized sharing? People like to pretend nobody would make art in the absence of copyright, but it's easy to point them to millenia of contrary evidence.
This is correct, an added benefit is if the power poles are actually down then the communication over the powerlines would be down, but that’s fine as power couldn’t be sent over the lines anyway in that case.
What I wonder about/have concerns in regards to, is as someone else mentioned the relays required to turn on and off backfeeding in terms of electrical Utility workers having to de-energize a line to perform work.
I’m not too sure that these workers can entrust their lives to the reliability of various (multiple) relays to not sporadically switch back on once the line has been confirmed as de-energized (in other words depending on the relay not to malfunction and re-energized while the workers are working upon the line )

I assume there will be some types of tools to monitor / alarm the workers for exactly this scenario (ie something they can attach to the line while it is being worked on and if it becomes re-energized an alarm will sound).
Things like battery life will probably improve with experience, I was talking to a silicon guy about the RP2040 and they said it's pretty characteristic of a first generation design. The digital logic that can be validated on an FPGA is fine for the most part, but the analog elements are much more difficult to fine tune, hence the poor power consumption, poor ADCs, and lack of internal DACs or opamps in the RP2040, and why the Pico Ws radio is a separate off-the-shelf part rather than fully integrated like it is on the ESP32.
> Ever since, the Chrome plugin takes forever to login.

This isn't my experience since the recent update that shows up a mini-login panel when trying to sign in. The old experience that opened the desktop app first was fairly slow.
fascinating, I always thought that we have only two pairs by default and don't have cells to create more of them
"spatial computing"
My ISP has a /28 block, so if they chose to penalize my /32 for some reason, that would include 1/16th of the customers of my ISP. Just guessing based on population and situation, that might include on the order of 50000 people.
I bowl in a league and have for years. We used to bowl at a Brunswick Zone which wasn't awesome but had good lanes and a lot of leagues. Now it's a Bowlero and it's complete garbage. They don't seem to maintain their lanes at all, it seems totally focused on expensive drinks and poor service.

We're at a 40-lane independent house now. It's fantastic, a real gem. And they fill almost all of those lanes with leagues, often 2 or even 3 a day. The loss of independent houses and the growth of trash like Bowlero is bad for the sport.
My hope is that equivocating waffle will look so much like ChatGPT that humans will have to write clearly and precisely to differentiate ourselves and we can put this horrible era of essay writing style behind us.

Though I’m starting to think that AI might improve faster than us so there might only be a diminishing margin of opportunity left to do this.
That reminds me of the Burger King restaurant in Mattoon, IL. They had filed for a state trademark, only for the chain to come along with a federal trademark. The settlement ended up with them getting the rights to the name within a 20-mile radius of Mattoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_(Mattoon,_Illinois...
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Because it’s easy for me to avoid the deaths by cars. If somebody wanted to build a highway directly through my children’s daycare I would think it was just as ridiculous as turning their parks into open air drug markets and homeless shelters.
I view them (and Gorillaz) as counter-examples.

I feel like more people are familiar with Miku than her music.
Jeffrey Epstein was sus ever since he appeared because of the way he suddenly rose up in ranks, got handed billions of dollars without having done any significant deals himself. His connections to Mossad and US elites should've raised red flags for someone like Chomsky. I see no reason to give anyone dealing with Epstein the benefit of the doubt.
Well, fair.
It was mentioned in the article, i.e. to turn up the brightness when watching in a bright room. It’s a customisable preset anyways.
People are surprised when kids don't want to go out and play on the street, but their street is as wide as a highway and has no sidewalks.

There are a million negative effects of vehicle centered urban design, and this is one of them.
I know next to nothing about bowling, but it sounds like without Bowlero it would be nearly dead.
> Tax the petrol itself. That works reasonably well in most of the world. No need for complicated individual audits etc.

True — but see my #3 above (political problems), and then add 3.1: Special-interest groups, which donate heavily to politicians' campaigns, always lobby for tax breaks of various kinds, e.g., tax deductions (at the federal level) for state- and local sales- and property taxes.
If you're interested in this subject, modern tusk hunters and science-fiction, then let me recommend the book "Tusks of Extinction" (2024) by Ray Nayler [0].

Very interesting read (his previous book "The Mountain in the Sea" (2022) is, however, much better and IMHO one of the best sci-fi books I've read in a long time).

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127284214-the-tusks-of-e...
SLOP: Judith Miller at the NY Times circa 2003
Same opinion on 1Password's great service. I've found them to be responsive and accessible anytime I've needed them. I'm not seeing all the bugs and issues others are reporting, but I have noticed a couple of odd UI changes lately that feel a bit like a product manager is bored and looking for work to do.
My Switch is unlocked by a rp2040. A lot of devices could be modded with it, given the size etc.
If it's "worth paying for," they can just squeeze more money out of the equation until it's barely worth the cost.

For a real world example, just look at the scientific journal system - researchers pay upwards of $5k to publish (after spending however many tens to hundreds of thousands on the science, out of their own pocket), readers can pay $50 per article or their institution can subscribe for tens of thousands of dollars (if they're lucky and have a good negotiator). Journals do nothing of value aside from hosting the PDFs (which absolutely does not cost $50/download) and facilitating anonymous peer review (which amounts to sending emails to a few academics who will review it for free, at no cost to the journal).

Even content that is worth paying for, like research, will quickly reach an equilibrium that maximizes profit while minimizing effort.
Here's your warning:

Bowlero stock has been dramatically boosted by investment personality Jim Cramer, who has gushed over the company — “You can’t go wrong with Bowlero!”
but they can take your device - then what do you do?
Lucky you! :-)

The one additional bonus of this scheme that popped up somewhat as a side effect is one can deploy the new feature into the “prod” build even before it hits the master: code it up, add the instruction to cherry-pick the change into the branch of a builder, test it and if it works then merge that instruction into the “master” builder.

Then, the feature will remain in prod builds as a custom cherry-pick until it’s merged upstream.

And if it isn’t merged - then one has a recurring reminder of their technical debt that they have incurred by diverging. Once adopted, it became a pretty cool way to adopt “right” long term incentives without door-stopping the short term “urgent” deliverables.
It's not a BGA, it's a QFN with a ground pad.
Not sure but turbulent diffusion might be an example? Fluid dynamics is emergent from its constituent particles, creating sometimes vortices etc. which can decay into ever smaller vortices through the fluid’s coarser dynamics. At some point the vortices become so small that the kinetic energy is turned into diffusive behavior at the particle level instead.
I also don't get why pay for a password manager when there is a free one from a trustworthy entity, Mozilla Firefox, that works on android, windows, linux, iOS and MacOS.
Exactly. There is lots of hard work remaining. Without hope nobody would be willing to put in the hard work.
For a time 1Password had the best integration and UX across Apple devices of any of the password managers. That has become less and less true over time. Integration issues over the last year have me excited to try Apple's Passwords implementation as a replacement. Bitwarden is on my list as well, but haven't pulled the trigger due to switching costs for a family of five who all use 1password currently.
Any time I travel out of country, a week or two beforehand, I pull an old phone out of a drawer, factory reset it, and move my SIM card over. I don’t sign it in to any cloud services. I’ll install a few apps (browser, news reader, YouTube, maps, stuff like that) but nothing of any real substance.

For the couple weeks until I travel I carry both phones, collecting a bit of data, the odd text message from my mom, snap a few photos, receive an assortment of spam calls, get a few destinations in the maps history, etc. Anything important still happens on my main device (can always tether through the old phone).

By the time I hit the border there’s enough data to not be an immediate red flag, but nothing that really matters. If anyone compromises the phone while I’m away, it’s at least reasonably limited to only collecting data on me until I get back and throw the thing back in a drawer.

It’s not foolproof, but it’s a reasonable balance for me between risk/effort/expense travelling to places like China.
Sounds like they found and interviewed a bunch of bowling gatekeepers - the type who would get on you for not doing something “the right way.”
That's a fair point, but I don't think it's really fair to say Gleam has everything necessary included when it's brand new. Because it currently doesn't suffer from the problems of the JS ecosystem doesn't mean it won't in the future.

(As another example besides rust-analyzer, there's also all the Go dependency management tools that existed before native Go modules, e.g. Dep, Glide, Go Package Manager, etc.)
In my experience with a voluntary donation only service targeted and used primarily by educated middle and upper class people, virtually no one pays if they don't have to.
I'm a huge Neal Stephenson fan. Cryptonomicon is to this day one of my all-time favorite books. Years ago now I read Anathem. It wasn't as good but it had some really interesting ideas.

One such idea was how the Internet was filled with garbage by all these agents (which were implied or stated were AI, I can't recall). They would subtly change things to be wrong. Why? Essentially to sell you a solution to this that filters out all the crap.

Currently we rely a lot on altruism for much of the information on the Internet (eg Wikipedia). AI agents will get harder and harder to differentiate from actual humans making Wikipedia edits. I don't think we're that far away from human-vs-AI Wikipedia edit wars.

I really wonder how much human knowledge will be destroyed by (intentional or otherwise) AI vandalism in the future.
> unwilling to actually pay for content

The "content" industry (books, music, movies, all of it) has a systemic issue of which we are only just seeing the beginning. Namely, there is now so much content, and it is all so easily accessible, that the relative value of any one piece of content has fallen way, way down. There are only so many hours in the day, and only so many days in a lifetime, and only so many humans on the planet, and growth in that aggregate content consumption capacity has been far outstripped by the growth in content production capacity.

There's just obscenely more high quality new-to-you content than you can ever consume - and an increasing proportion of it is available very cheaply, or even free. Anything new faces an uphill battle against everything old - and now, against AI too.

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better (and it may never get better).
Well, yeah, given that it's Australia.

Slaughterhouse waste wallpaper should be OK though.
It's another example of enshittification.
1. Find something that makes money and has "inefficiencies"
2. Buy a controlling share
3. Make it more "efficient"*

*Here efficient means: remove everything that makes it fun and unique and replace with the least expensive, low quality alternative. Add invasive advertisements. Charge extra for anything that can be carved off the original service or product.
"(This is the same microcontroller, just two bugfix revisions.)"

It is exactly the same microcontroller! They're just two different packaging options. One is a 7" reel with 500 units the other is a 13" reel with 3400 units. (See "Ordering code" in the datasheet (https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...))
Apple runs on PR and it would be very easy to lose control of the narrative. It’s a touchy subject and the nuance here revolves around things the average news consumer probably lacks context on.

There’s a very real chance that headlines of the variety “Apple makes donation to charity to pay Russian hackers” float around. It’s not even wrong (though it lacks a lot of context).

I’m doubtful Kaspersky is even that mad about it; they knew they weren’t getting paid at the outset.
Their stranglehold on app distribution is absolutely a design choice, and it's done to continue harvesting a 30% tax of as much as they can get away with.
Beyond slop, there will be personalized slop where AI 'optimizes' articles for each reader.

And beyond slop, there will be AI models that do product placement. OpenAI's "publisher partnerships" deck explains https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310228

So soon you'll go to a news website and get the political filter bubble that reinforces - or outrages - your prejudices to maximize your engagement. And in the middle of it, the AI will slip in that the brand of grill that caused the fire was rumoured to be ${insert_name_of_competitor_here} etc?

The big future for AI is to move slop beyond outrage and into intimacy territory. If rage was the engagement of the last ten years, then ending up only talking to AIs who pretend to care will be the even more addictive engagement of the next ten :(
At the US international border, no, even US citizens can’t prevent the phone search regardless of whether or not they consent. They can however usually decline to give a PIN, passcode, or password or to assist in unlocking the phone by entering such a credential, and they can’t be refused entry to the US. However, CBP can then temporarily seize the phone to perform a more comprehensive attempt at searching it. Getting the phone back later may be a hassle.

Additionally, pissing off CBP may lead to extended delays, luggage searching, and questioning to see if they can find another legally valid reason to punish you for annoying them. And maybe they might revoke trusted traveler program membership due to no longer seeing you as a low-risk traveler. But indeed, they will not finally refuse entry to a citizen.

There are rarer cases where the US government can insist on your cooperation in getting past a PIN, passcode, or password, such as if you show them that an incriminating document exists on your phone and then lock the phone before they can collect the evidence.

And while the exact boundary of the constitutional protections regarding face or fingerprint unlock is not authoritatively settled nationwide in the courts, it’s very likely weaker than for information you hold in your mind like a password.

I strongly suspect CBP can constitutionally require a US citizen entering at an international port of entry to assist with fingerprint or face unlock, though I admit I don’t know how physically they can force the matter if the person refuses. It wouldn’t surprise me if that would be grounds for arrest under at least some circumstances (maybe not all).
I've never had great luck with the mass storage flashing. It works fine, but boy is it slow. I bought a J-Link a few years ago and haven't looked back.

(It just takes a long time for the OS to recognize a USB device. And you have to press the reset button yourself in order to enter the bootloader. With something like J-Link, your build script can handle pressing the reset button and sending the code, saving you quite a bit of time between iterations.)
That's too much work - we should use AI to preemptively scan the phones for illegal thoughts
Except it is pretty much just a laser, and requires a vat of resin to actually produce anything.
Still impressive actually, but it’s no tiny FDM.
That makes zero sense.

If your safety oriented, and your company is close to AGI you stay regardless. Your boss isnt going to push you out because you leave and scream "it will kill us all"... All the safety people have been doing that for years, now they are quite.

If you aren't close, or realize "we're never getting there" leaving, vesting makes sense. There's NO existential risk.

Talk of AGI is hubris, vanity and snake oil.
Original linked MIT article[1] has a little better explanation of how this light beam is controlled.

The researchers use electrical signals to nonmechanically steer the light beam, causing the resin to solidify wherever the beam strikes it.

the researchers used liquid crystal to fashion compact modulators they integrate onto the chip. The material’s unique optical properties enable the modulators to be extremely efficient and only about 20 microns in length.

A single waveguide on the chip holds the light from the off-chip laser. Running along the waveguide are tiny taps which tap off a little bit of light to each of the antennas.

The researchers actively tune the modulators using an electric field, which reorients the liquid crystal molecules in a certain direction. In this way, they can precisely control the amplitude and phase of light being routed to the antennas.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-demonstrate-first-chip...
Agree. Content was the OG slop. Buzzfeed with monkeys on typewriters.

The problem is that dopamine addicts generate outsized engagement. I know a literal crack mom who spends a solid 90+ hours a week watching accident videos to keep her brain triggered. The algorithm caters to her. Send promotional emails daily or more, constant notifications, recommend the same few videos over and over. Gotta get in there before she clicks another car crash video.

IMHO: Marketing is a top societal evil right now. If the media machine wasn't so desperate for content, AI wouldn't be a fraction of the problem it is. But with everyone obsessing over the next piece of content, fake AI presentations are mandatory.
I suspect this mostly refers to "Code Protect" or similar functions, that are designed to stop the user for extracting the firmware from a device in the field. Typically, when this is enabled, large parts of the debug interface stop working, and turning it off requires a "secure" erase, that clears the loaded firmware.

While many CP implementations are flawed, or can be bypassed by a skilled attacker (power glitching, &c), I wouldn't say they are purely theater, as they raise the required investment from a <$10 ISP to $$$+ for something like a chipwhisperer.
Go originally didn't include a great way to manage dependencies. That fortunately got fixed. I think my initial statement of it being inevitable was an exaggeration. My point was that I don't think you can fairly compare a new language with one that has existed for decades as if there's not a chance it will end up having similar problems.
Although it looks like BGA, it actually uses a QFN package where all the contacts are accessible at the edge. With a little practice they are relatively easy to hand solder (I've done many, not just rp2040)
To be fair, a police force doing stuff you don't like doesn't necessarily mean that they're incompetent at doing those things
They can refuse entry at any time, and legally speaking it's not punishment
It reminds me of the operations related to organizing restaurant tables and grilling shrimp in the imitation learning-based project Mobile Aloha(https://mobile-aloha.github.io/).
Absolutely, doing easier things at massive scale can still have more value than harder things at small scale.

I actually think exactly what should happen is already happening. All the low hanging fruit from software should be completed over the next decades, then the industry will undergo massive consolidation and there will be a large number of skilled people not needed in the industry anymore and they can move onto the next set of low hanging hard(er) problems for humanity.
This is the way. Until we can grow people in vats, which is far superior.
Solving the GenAI data quality problem with synthetics
It's also important to not get boged down in the airport or denied entry out of spite though...
If you look at the passengers they seem to generally be people wholly obsessed with the Titanic. So I don't think these dives were ever going to be attractive to you and I — the more casually curious.
And for small businesses, there is a massive wave of boomers retiring. Either they sell or go out of business. For the better ones, PE is buying and rolling them up.
Sure, collected in the wild. Probably from a bat in some remote part of the world.
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Almost universally a hobbyist would purchase the RP2040 mounted to a pcb with other i/o components (e.g. the Seeeduino Xiao https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-RP2040/) There are other versions which bring out more lines to accessible solder points.

Of course you can design your own custom board, but I'd wager most people don't need or want to do this.
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This is ridiculous. Put aside the idea of purchasing a new phone for a trip, you then suggest setting up all new accounts and then "telling your friends" - how exactly? contact everyone from your "real" accounts and say add my fake account? What about when you come back - tell them "ok delete my fake account and add my real one"? which is which now, oh and how do you access all your real contacts, credentials, payment, etc that you needed during your trip? And I do this everytime I travel?

You seem to focus on the technical aspects but really gloss over the entire "create a duplicate online life every time you travel"