skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think those arguments fall a little flat when he started Tweeting about Tesla accepting Dogecoin as a payment. Moreover, intentional or not it definitely led to huge inflation of Dogecoin.

The thing is, this isn't some random 20 year old posting meme, this was (at the time) like the second richest guy in the world with a lot of social media presence and as such I do think he needs to be more careful about stuff that's "just a joke bro!" For better or worse, people do trust these billionaires as financial geniuses and I don't think "I was just messing" is a terribly good excuse.
This is such an insidious movement. It has nothing to do with child safety. The ~35 people that showed up here are nothing more than useful idiots for surveillance lobbyists, if not planted there by the lobbyists themselves.

The entire "Apple won't protect children" narrative pivots around Apple's decision to back away from their earlier misguided plan to monitor iCloud accounts for CSAM and alert the authorities to offenders.

Privacy advocates correctly pointed out that if Apple can scan your iCloud account for CSAM on behalf of the government, Apple can scan your iCloud account for anything on behalf of the government. Given Apple's privacy-centered marketing, the entire plan was dead-in-the-water from a customer trust perspective.

But a small subset of mostly right-wing reactionaries have decided that this is another moral failure of big tech, and are demanding that Apple "stand up to pedophiles" by tearing down user privacy.

It's a complete non-issue, because people who deal in CSAM are generally never going to store their contraband on cloud services, and even if they are careless enough to do so, iCloud isn't really the service to use if you intend to distribute this material.

At the end of the day, people are demanding that their own right to privacy be torn down just so that we can expose a small subset of harmful people that were never meaningfully enabled or empowered by Apple in the commission of their crimes. And the loudest voices here are coming from a deep bias against "big tech", where they paradoxically demand that these companies be held accountable, not by restricting them, but by demanding that they exert authority against their user base...
Google leading again on the minus side
Right, but I mean there's faster than spring boot (30 seconds), then there's fast enough for a typical web experience (<500ms)

My experience on lambda is with node and python, and I've always needed to pay for concurrency. Cold starts were 1-3s, which is not good enough for a web api
"Comes with NO GAMES"?? I switched to Mac for Apple Chess. And I was very glad to hear yesterday that they've committed to putting all of their wood behind it going forward.
Here you go. There might be more but these are all I can think of off the top of my head.

Nintendo Switch modchip - PicoFly: https://github.com/rehius/usk. That is the OG source of the firmware behind the already mentioned https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly

OG XBox Modchip - Modxo: https://github.com/shalxmva/modxo (see initial impressions from ModzvilleUSA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUsov3i6jL0)

XBox360 NAND reader / writer - Picoflasher: https://github.com/X360Tools/PicoFlasher (used in the RGH3 hack for some versions of the console as described at https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_360:RGH/RGH3)

Gamecube Modchip - Picoboot: https://github.com/webhdx/PicoBoot

Gamecube Optical Drive Emulator - Flippydrive: https://github.com/OffBroadway/flippydrive as described at https://teamoffbroadway.com/
It's not about being clever, it's about being perceptive. Apple's cloud commitment has a history of being sketchy, whether it's their government alliance in China, the FIVE-EYES/PRISM membership in America, or their obsession with creating "private" experiences that rely on the benefit of the doubt.

Apple doesn't care about you, the individual. Your value as a singular customer is worthless. They do care about the whole; a whole that governments can threaten to exclude them from if they don't cooperate with domestic surveillance demands. How far off do you really think American iCloud is from China? If Apple is willing to backdoor one server, what's stopping them from backdooring them all? If they're willing to lie about notification security, what's stopping them from lying about server integrity too?

And worst off, Apple markets security. That's it; you can't go verify their veracity outside the dinky little whitepapers they publish. You can't know for sure if they have privacy violation baked-in to their system because you can't actually verify anything. You simply have to guess, and the best guess you can make gets based off whatever Apple markets as "true" to you. In reality, we can do better with security and should probably expect more from one of the largest consumer technology brands in the world. Simply assuming that they aren't violating user privacy is an absurd thing to gamble your security on.
It would be perfectly reasonable IMO to put your metadata elsewhere and still use DuckDB for processing.
It seems like you want to believe that. Why? Why would you be exempt from what the science tells us? Does that belief benefit you in some way?
> If these cooking robots are just glorified assembly lines that require uniform inputs, they should be taxed to the point they do not displace a human.

A human line cook is also part of a "glorified assembly line that requires uniform inputs". This does not preclude the use of real/fresh ingredients, and also of course requires the employ of a human prep team to turn lumpy items into uniform ingredients.
I was pleasantly surprised to see they said they would have a Windows app, but it's DOA for me unless they also offer a solution for Android :(

I love my mac and I love my pixel phone but sometimes being a Mac + Android user just sucks.
Don't bore us, get to the chorus.
GP is clearly talking about ESP32 boards, not the chip; they mentioned "LI Battery Controller", and "Display or Camera Connector". People sell RP2040 boards with those too, for example:

- board with a battery charger: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-rp2040-pico/powe...

- board with camera: https://www.waveshare.com/pico-cam-a.htm
What a waste of time. Aren't there actually harmful monopolies, oligopolies and collusions to go after?

What next, going after ISO and ANSI because they collude with industry to force standardized sockets and plugs and screw threads on a ruggedly individualistic citizenry?
Musk uses free speech as the philosophical version of a human shield. People like him couldn't care less about free speech once they've burned it's utility out playing games.

At the same time letting corporations thought-police (usually written on the wind of whatever crusade the mobile vulgus, of one variety or another, is on about this week) speech is so epically stupid it is almost funny. Musk latches on to this like he is some soothsayer of some impending 'takeover' when he is just exploiting a different facet.

CEOs loving free speech? You mean the idea of a free press that can report on their misdeeds? Consumers with the ability to raise flags about products and companies? Whistleblowers? Protestors and boycotters? Union organizers? What CEO would ever want to discredit free speech by turning it into a clown show of racists and woo-woo nutjobs?
It may still make sense if they're honest about their goals. It's not rare to find people advocating for policies in other fields that have high costs to society the advocates simply don't value as highly as the issue they're advocating.

I imagine some people, including these advocates would find my opposing position that no crime can justify mass surveillance nonsensical.
Active doses vary wildly between people. And spectrum folks (which 30% of hners are) tend to need less of most drugs.
That's exactly what it meant. Its use to describe UCE derived from a Monty Python sketch where a restaurant customer was trying to order food without it, but it was included in every menu item.
I sympathize with the plight, as I have also occasionally tried to fight this fight.

However, to quibble with your last analysis, you're almost certainly entering an agreement with the EU registered legal entity of a multinational company, and you almost certainly already had to do that to obtain the hardware, run the OS, use the browser, etc. The degree to which any of those contracts are enforceable is another matter.
A news story is making the rounds of a badminton racket that killed a poor, unfortunate child. Matters of life and death are extremely broad, and even negligible probabilities mean that terrible things happen.
If you look at most protests lately there is no nuance.
They embrace a single view point absolutely to the point of not even considering any others or admitting that perhaps the issue is complex.

They are the target for the political ads and talking points that seize on a single point and use it like a cudgel against the opposition. The worst part is so many of those at protests have only a limited understanding of the issue they are protesting against. Perhaps that's how its always been but social media has just made it more glaringly frustrating.
I get it, but 10 puzzles in a row? It's not like the number of puzzles makes a difference to a bot when they're all of the same type (except for the bots that guess randomly, but there would be smarter combinatorial ways to trip those up that are less user-hostile; eg simply saying "select all" instead of "select the one" increases the possibilities tenfold while increasing effort only ~twofold). You're going to be filtering out a lot of humans this way. I personally only went through with it out of curiosity, because I was half-expecting it to not work in the end - as it did, so at least I have a story to tell now.
To clarify: it's not prebundled in Windows. You have to go download it like any other games.

If you see it as first party, Minecraft Dungeons is also first party.
Win 9x copies of minesweeper and solitaire and hearts (and ski free!) run on basically any desktop system thanks to Wine.
Maybe the dissolution of Arkane Austin was a mercy. And come to think of it, couldn't all of the terminated employees simply regroup and form a new independent studio?
“Since” could mean yesterday.

But i would like to hear more details of the corruption if parent is willing to share. This is pretty much my worst nightmare scenario.
Edit: This was a garbage-tier comment. Leaving it up with edits because I think the links are interesting.

1/4 "serving size" (if you will) isn't homeopathic, ~~and aligns pretty closely with the recommended dose of the only FDA approved CBD medication~~ (see edit below):

> Increase in weekly increments of 5 mg/kg/day (2.5 mg/kg twice daily).

Edit: I'm dumb and mixing mg and mg/kg. This would be 400mg/day for an average adult. Still not homeopathic.

https://www.epidiolexhcp.com/dosing/dosing-and-administratio...

Though the ~~recommended dose~~ (again, see edit below) for various activities does vary wildly:

> post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): 1.5 mg

> difficulty sleeping: 300 mg

Edit: Turns out that's just the dosage that was administered during one of the studies, not necessarily the recommended treatment dosage.

> Despite these early findings and data from two case reports in which CBD improved sleep quality in a single pediatric patient with PTSD and four patients with Parkinson’s disease, we identified only one randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, study with sleep as the primary outcome measure. In this trial, 27 healthy volunteers received either oral CBD (300 mg dissolved in corn oil) or placebo. CBD did not alter any sleep measures (e.g., self-rated sleep quality or polysomnography examinations) relative to placebo.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7880228/

We really need better studies of this stuff...
Neat work and more power to you to build further.

This reminded me of Joplin. What's the direction you're looking to take this in?
They already do something like that for the HEVC video codec[0]. It's only $0.99!

[0] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmzlz57r3t7
Well, it's more basic functionality than backwards compatibility. There was no other API to capture the screen from Vista to Windows 8, and not being able to programmatically take screenshots wouldn't have been viable. The newer DXGI Output Duplication API wasn't added until 8.1 and that still requires the DWM to change its composition strategy when active.
I use the Firefox screenshot tool quite a lot, mostly because it automatically snaps the region to DOM elements. This makes it less fiddly to take cleanly cropped screenshots of sections, especially if they don't entirely fit on the screen.

I'm not that knowledgeable about the screenshot tooling space, but I feel all my needs are covered with the default system one plus the Firefox screenshot tool for convenience in some cases.
I see 'slop' used more often in contexts where, say, you look up a problem you're working on, find an article that seems to be relevant and may have the answer you want, but at some point turns out to be devoid of content and possibly AI-generated.
By the way, does anyone know why the site stopped being updated in 2019? Besides Death Valley Germans there were other interesting articles in there, about other Search & Rescue endeavors, Area 51, an interesting take on Bob Lazar etc. I hope the author is OK and in good health.
Asking Apple to censor people’s phone? Let’s scan your phone for stuff we don’t like. If you are a child abuser the cops should take you away not apple
Analog is large area and expensive in general so sticking to good digital and passable analog is a very good strategy to keep costs down.
> But a small subset of mostly right-wing reactionaries

If you look at the photo of the protestors in the article or research the groups stated to be involved, it seems pretty unlikely that these individuals are "right-wing". There is a contingent in support of this that is likely more conservative by way of being law enforcement aligned, but there are also other segments in support of these measures that have very different motivations.

I am not one of these people FWIW—I think opaque on-device scanning is a clear and unacceptable invasion of personal privacy.
What we need is an AI agent who can parse through 10 minute videos, and then extract out and summarize in text format only the important 2 seconds.
i am partial to ex-twitter myself. because it sounds like X/Twitter or X(formerly twitter) and it actually shows that it is no longer twitter, ergo ex-twitter.
Just in case you were unaware, the RP2040 is available on dozens of ready-made, arduino-compatible boards like the Pi Pico, the Adafruit feather boards, of the Seeed XIAO RP2040 boards. Those have all (or at least most) of the IO already mapped to pins, USB headers, booatloaders, reset buttons, etc already mapped.

Things like the Pico are really easy to solder onto a designed PCB as well because of the castellations, so it's easy enough to design a board around the footprint and then just solder the entire pico onto your PCB with a soldering iron, avoiding the need to use something like a hot-plate or reflow oven. This has been my preferred way of working with it.
This is my understanding as well. Until recently, it wasn't worth the cost for most countries to secure their own supplies, so they just bought them from the countries that sold them cheaply. When push comes to shove—or, when rare earth metals because strategic—it's a question of "do we want to invest in digging up our own?" not "gee, do we have enough of this stuff in the ground at all?".
Demanding surveillance and censorship for safety and the children.
Moving PCs to a more mobile-like environment, where apps are always sandboxed and all permissions are explicit, sounds so tempting. But then you realize that manufacturers will always cross the line: MS and Apple apps get special privileges, the bootloader will be permanently locked, and you'll eat your DRM because you have no other choice.

I prefer to curate my own apps and if they misbehave, they're uninstalled immediately. The downside there is this philosophy feels a lot like, "I don't need a virus scanner because I'm too good to get stung by a virus". Still, it seems better than the alternative hell.
https://www.registry.google/register-a-domain/

There are a few registrars that can be used. I wish this list be bigger, but it's not only squarespace.
This is more of "Would someone please think of the children" fallacy in-action.

This was already thoroughly discussed, and the consensus was that privacy needed to prevail. You can either have privacy, or you can open the doors to invasive content-scanning. If you let them scan for one illegal thing, that opens the doors for them to scan for anything they want.

Examples of how this could slope down:

* Oh, you took 30 seconds of video at the Taylor Swift show? Since we let governments scan your private data, we're now compelled to forward your PII to the RIAA.

* You have Metallica mp3s from 2001? Since we let governments scan your private data, we're now compelled to forward your PII to their lawyers.

* EXIF data shows were driving on private property? Since we let governments scan your private data, we're now compelled to forward your PII to the township.
Israel gave Gazans a 250-300M flower export business.

Which promptly failed due to Israeli-imposed border closures.

You can confirm this from any source you like.
This is so cheap, nasty and abhorrent. What a strange branding position for Microsoft to take.
Oh the classic irrational HN hate on JS/Electron... 1Password 8 takes <1s to load from scratch on my machine, and is instant most of the time since it runs in background.
Good riddence for 1Password, terrible interface
Eh, don't know about that... We're really just like anyone else, we've just ended up with a fairly decent political environment by the time we found oil, specifically.

We've been pretty good at mining out our copper ores and everything else that we knew of that had value; we've built a whole bunch of hydro plants and have dammed up numerous valleys; no one thought there was oil in the North Sea or that it was valuable enough to get it up, but now we have a pretty extensive petroleum industry, and it barely took five decades since the first oil was discovered.

What resources we have been good with, however, is fish. But that's just proper regulation over the last century or so.

As for our friendly neighbours... Norway was ruled by Denmark for 400 years and we've been part of all their wars, for a start. Our national anthem has 8 verses, 6 of them are about how we killed Swedes, Danes and Scots.

And we'd like Jamtland, Herjedalen, and all the islands in the Atlantic back, thankyouverymuch!
Did you actually get it with your computer ?
I typically use term / emoji "eggs" when referring to the zombified husk formerly known as twitter.

"It's gotten hard to read eggs without an account these days" or "ever since they got rid of content moderation eggs really smells." or "did you see that egg Musk dropped last week?"
Spam = unwanted and against what you asked for, trying to sell you something or get you to do something

Slop = technically what you asked for, but intentionally created just to fill space and increase traffic/hits, generally of the lowest quality rendering it unusable
Women Rethinking Marriage and Family Life Because of Miranda July
https://archive.is/2024.06.11-160211/https://www.nytimes.com...
For one the hero's journey includes resenting the call to action.

That makes the hero relatable but is not a strategy you can always easily include in a corporate technical talk.

"Just buy more of last year's product and let me enjoy my vacation, but no, you needed more features!"

If you're horrible at communicating it'll help as it forces you to simplify yourself as a character of simple motivations but it's not a recipe for success or attention or quality content, especially when you kill most of what people found interesting about the Iliad/Odyssey as theatre plays: Violence, Sex, Death, Love, Hate.

Death/Rebirth moment would best be embodied as a massive failure and some positions don't allow that kind of honesty or framing without risking your job, although it would indeed be more interesting.

The hero's journey is a bread and butter narrative from stage plays from 8th century BC. I'm of the belief that the structure is useless and what engages us are the emotions at display.

Even act structures are just an excuse so actors can change clothes during the play - there's no divine insight about writing there.
Just be aware of this https://github.com/polhenarejos/pico-hsm/issues/28
Blog throwback: How did you get started in software development?
That sounds cool (no pun intended)
If I ever payed for minesweeper continue option I would combust
They're not trying to be clever, they're trying to point out the very important philisophy of maximizing self reliance that so many people like you eschew.

How do you distinguish between a company who 'has built protecting privacy into their core value proposition' and one who just says they've done so?

What are you going to do if a major privacy scandal comes out with Apple at the center? If you wouldn't jump ship from Apple after a major privacy scandal then why does your input on this matter at all?

Some people feel that is inevitable so it's best to just rip that bandaid off now.
I don't know about military standards but there's only ONE automotive standard and it's ISO 26262:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262

There's nothing in ISO 26262 that would prevent someone from using an RP2040 in a car. You'd just have to be redundant about everything which you have to do anyway regardless of the chip you choose.

Also, ISO 26262 is not a law. It's up to the auto manufacturer whether or not they'd require it and no single chip on its own can claim to be "certified" (or similar) for ISO 26262 since the focus is on redundancy and error checking (which means one chip would check the status of the other and vice versa, not some special internal consistency checking feature... That's just marketing).

Most "automotive" versions of chips (e.g. Atmel's stuff) are just branded that way. Atmel will make a claim like, "this chip has been tested to function properly under these sort of extreme conditions..." (that happen to match what car manufacturers are looking for) and then a car company would just trust that and make it so that only chips that are marked "automotive" and manufactured by Atmel will be allowed to be used by their electrical engineers (or suppliers).

It's all entirely arbitrary though: If you can convince the manufacturer that your board works fine under the conditions they require they'll probably buy it. Well, they won't hold it against you that you used one chip or the other. They just want some assurances.
All that, yet the platform is still swarming with bots.
As I see it, if you need everything to run on a single cpu core, the alternatives are to either implement threads (wasting memory on redundant stacks) or to write the event-driven state machines manually. Whether the state machine is pumped by interrupts or not doesn't change anything IMHO.

Because of RAM constraints, all the bare-metal projects I've worked on have used manually-written state machines, and I'm comfortable enough with this approach. But sometimes these state machines can be hard to understand when the control flow is complicated, and I am seriously considering adding some compiler-generated state machines that will fit nicely into my existing model.
Living in northernmost Germany, I can confirm.

It’s not the cold or the endless weeks of rain.

It’s the days that barely feel like daylight.
Have you ever heard of lucid dreams?
Music player. Podcast control. Toggle and sliders for lights around my house. Volume control for speakers. At a glance bookwyrm viewer to see how friends are progressing through books. Hypothesis list of recent annotarions. Pomodoro timer. Quick multi-modal capture.