skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy how many people are willing to just give control of their devices over to LLMs. Especially when they consistently get things wrong all the time. Like what the fuck?
I think this is Apple's not-so-secret weapon.

Apple is just more willing to invest into a product line and build it out for a longer time before throwing in the towel.

I saw this really fascinating video from NeXT computers the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtnX1EJHbC0

It's Steve Jobs talking about their opportunity and it's not hard to see how this strategy is in large part what he executed at Apple. It's about building out the best product you can for the "Professional" class and then also capturing all the market share by people with lots of money that think they need Professional product. Part of that strategy though sorta has to be continued investment, because you can't get a bunch of people to buy $3000 headsets and burn them and not suffer some sort of fallout for that.

When you compare it to how its basically a meme at this point that Google is going to kill anything that isn't an instant success or even stuff that is successful but they just don't want to anymore. Apple is sorta the polar opposite. I have an iPhone 11 in my pocket, released in 2019 this thing still works great and iOS 18 will support it 5 years after purchase.

I don't think the Apple Vision product is particularly compelling right now, but if they keep iterating on it I imagine I'll probably want the Vision Pro 3
It would be nice to know what services they use to provide the navigation data. And in addition they should provide some sort of full disclosure of what happens to your data.
Have you tried it much?
or just who is weirder
The article briefly mentions this (search for budget), it's pretty much "we don't want to pay for that".

https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/documents/SPSMP_Fed%20Reg%20Draf...
The original post stated they use T-Mobile.

That being the case they could have turned on Sim protection. That should stop the Sim swap dead in its tracks.
I particularly like the Luna USB HSM 7 that the DNSSec root is in the process of switching to. But price of the thing is truly ridiculous, especially for its handheld form-factor.

For a long time (10 years?) I'm thinking about how I would design an (possibly open source) HSM and I'm pretty sure that I have reasonably secure and tamper proof design (including external tamper input, which was the obvious feature for the original application I had in mind). But well, the idea of putting all that into handheld device with no battery…
I bought something similar that was marketed like this:

> “Rhinomed Mute” Snore Stopper Nasal Dilator for Snore Reduction
I had somewhat similar experience with ~>7 years gap from last pro software eng. position.

But the job in that gap was still in the same industry (management roles and startups). And big part of startup experience I could pack as hands on software engineering which it actually was.

And it happened not in the middle of a down market.

I still had to spend some time polishing cv and reaching for help, networking, etc. So it took couple months instead of couple weeks as with some of my engineer-engineer friends.
The first pharaohs and the last woolly mammoths on the Wrangel Island were contemporaries.

Of course, as far as travel from Egypt to the Arctic Ocean goes, they could have lived on different planets.
"AI" is over-hyped. Chatbots are rarely useful/necessary for what people want in a product/website so it's annoying to see them shoehorned in where nobody was asking for them. They are infuriating when they replace actual humans for support. For personal use, they can be helpful though and they make for amusing toys too.

For me, the biggest issue is that the things I'd really like AI to do for me are things I would never trust a third party with for privacy reasons. As local/offline AI chatbots become better I'll use them for more things.
Check SEPA Instant Credit :)
California is a bad example of "working power grids".

Thanks to decades of graft, PG&E keeps blowing up / burning down neighborhoods / cities, and then passes the liability cost to consumers.

At this point, we're paying $0.40 / kWh for grid power. National average is $0.08. Our solar + battery system is saving us something like $600 / month for a small, energy efficient house + one small, energy efficient EV.

With the new rates, there's barely any financial reason to connect to the grid at all. You have to get solar + battery anyway, and getting a backup propane generator to keep the batteries from running empty is only an additional $10-20K.

At that point, your house would be off-grid capable. Assuming a 10 year depreciation cycle on the generator, that's an additional $166 / month over the equipment's lifespan.

Finally, assuming people move to battery + solar to avoid paying $500-600 per month ($60K over ten years, which is more than battery + solar cost, so everyone should do that right now), they'll have to raise the rates so that people that are almost never importing power are still paying enough to cover liability + grid maintenance.

$166 / month / house isn't going to cover that. PG&E's screwed.

Personally, I want to buy a direct air capture device that I can plug into my house. Whenever the batteries charge above about 80%, I want it to convert all surplus electricity into little solid carbon bricks, and dump the "waste" air (with low CO2 content) into my house. That + propane generator + close my PG&E account seems ideal.
You appear to be describing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
If you were looking at the same revision I saw, the "citation needed" was on the word "was", and on mouseover said "Please add credible news of death".
Ignoring the problematic details of this specific implementation (Seriously? they didn't make encryption the first thing to implement?), I think the biggest thing to remember is that, while the only sure-fire way to prevent this data from being stolen is to not record it, the likelihood some 2-bit hacker is gonna access this data goes way up when it's easy to expect it to be there.

CoPilot Recall is a massive target because if you break into a system, there would be a good chance that data is there since it was opt-out by default. open-source recall implementations are not only opt-in, but require additional overhead to install, so the likelihood that one would find this data on the drive is such a low target as to be not worth including in an automated scanner.

Remember that surface-area does matter in things like this. If you believe you're a large enough target for some amount of focus (and you might be if your involved in mid-scale open-source projects, like XZ apparently), then it's good to be cautious. If you're not that kind of target, then just remember you only need to be more complex than the average person, and something like this absolutely qualifies as "more complex".
A notable project where her work was confidential.

Her deadname did not have achievements publicly associated with it in the way wikipedia requires.
For me it's pragmatic; MacBooks are or have been the best laptops, and Android phones have been the best value for money while also being less locked down. IPhones are just really expensive luxury devices imo. My phone will probably break for some reason out of my control within a few years of getting it, or it'll become outdated, so I want to get the best hardware + software combination I can for around ~$400USD
I for one would love to live in Norway.
What is the connection? You don't always have to buy the latest of anything, certainly not the latest Light Phone. And as I'm sure you read, "We have no plans to stop producing or supporting the Light Phone II."
She spoke at my commencement a few years back. Her story is an interesting one
> I've never seen nor heard of cases where it might take 30 minutes to escape and reach a store.

Well, me neither. I grew up on a production farm with actual rows of corn as far as the eye can seen – in what I am quite sure everyone would agree was decidedly rural – and there were still several different towns with stores within a 5-10 minute driving radius.

> I think some people in this thread are getting a bit hyperbolic about how inconvenient they are.

No doubt, but that doesn't really have much to do with the conversation. The conversation is about what we call the places that are just rows upon rows of housing without a shared and vibrant mixture of businesses, hospitals, schools, etc. They're not exactly rural, there are too many people living there to be considered rural, but they aren't like towns or cities either. They are more like rural than anything else.

Suburb seems to be the prevailing term.
This is all circumstantial at best!
My uncle has tails of going overland twice once by motorcycle in the the late 60’s and a second time in the late 70’s with a group in an ambulance. Many stories but one I find interesting is that he has 2 photos he thinks taken by the same man at the acropolis. The photos from the 60’s the acropolis looks like an Abandon ruined. The second photo from the 70’s looks like a ruin with a few more people.
Yes, the motor should have thermal overloads and/or limit switches connected to it, but this is Hyundai we’re talking about.

I’m not surprised they shaved a few cents off the BoM after they caused a car theft epidemic by saving a few bucks by leaving out a simple anti-theft device that every other manufacturer includes.

Why anyone buys a Hyundai/Kia after the last couple years is beyond me, I’ll never own one.
Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
anecdotally I've had multiple non-Kia cars with recalls for fire hazards, it happens
TechSmith (Snagit and Camtasia) is moving to subscription model
> Sure, and that takes 24 hours to be processed (business days only)

There's SEPA instant now (that starts to be ubiquitous).
This looks awesome... Love the google Keep integration. Any plans for this to be able to install into firefox?
MSI's M.2 add-in card looks like a GPU, sports two hot-swap PCIe Gen 5 SSD slots
Utilities can have huge capital budgets, and programs like this are weighed against the cost of building new power plants or contracting with external power sources. It's money that was already going to be spent - programs like this redirect funds.
"offline first" AND "privacy first", self hosted or cloud options, AND I need to sign up?

Why do I need to sign up? When I "sync" how do I know my notes are private? Where are they 'synced' and who has access to the keys?

I wish there was a 'how Unforget works' section

I'm not web tech savvy, but I value my privacy (especially with notes) and I need a note taking app with permanence. With this landing page I have no idea how it works, where my notes get saved, how do I access my notes if https://unforget.computing-den.com/ goes down. how do I self host?

maybe I just didnt spend enough time or navigate to the right section of the app shrugs

edit: I was going to delete this comment because I am not sure it adds anything meaningful. It was mostly a rant. But I want to explain that I'm coming from a place where I've also been looking for a note taking tool for a long time and this is very close to what I'm looking for.
I'd buy this purely to support a company making phones held together with screws.

Oh how I long and wish that my phone had screws. This glued-shut brittle glass box with a puffy time bomb inside makes me sad.

It's sad that the concept of a phone with screws makes me so happy.
Yeah, Flower Mode was added late in the XP timeframe and was the only mode allowed in some countries. It does make sense that some countries with living problems from minefields might have some issues with the original game theme.
I know some are mourning the loss of the eink, but as someone who tried to make the LP2 work for a few months, I think this higher price point and better display and build will ultimately serve them better. The LP2 was too underpowered, felt cheap, and frankly unreliable (alarms straight-up not working were a big part of me ditching it). 5G, NFC, a camera, a good screen, etc. all make this a much more appealing product. I don't think the increased capabilities will cause "app creep" and negate the original intent of the project.
Yup, it's been super convenient to have iCloud sync all the keychain entries including wifi passwords, and quite secure and private.

I also enable keychain sync on my Mac so I can create passwords there too.
Track 01 - A Man Soon to be
[ Our Young Protagonist is Born! ]

Track 02 - Digital Wasteland
[ Our young protagonist discovers the DarkNet....... And his natural talents. ]

Track 03 - Final Solutions Inc
[ And so rises our protagonist's future employer.... ]

Track 04 - Digital Rain
[ FDVR is Here!!! ]

Track 05 - The Cathedral and The Bazaar
[ Outside of the walled gardens of "Curated Content";
A new, Bizarre society emerges. ]

Track 06 - The Silent Patch: Part I
[ Our young protagonist becomes a man....
And earns his moniker... ]

Track 07 - Welcome to the now
[ The AI-Corp' has opened for business to the Public.....
'The Acceleration' has begun. ]

Track 08 - The Silent Patch: Part II
[ The Legend GROWS....
Larger than the man... ]

Track 09 - Just Hit CMD+QUIT
[ With an aging body, Failing health and a Conscience growing
ever heavier with guilt's burden;
Our protagonist contemplates his exit strategy.....
ANY way will do.... ]

Track 10 - Kernel Panic
[ Our Protagonist promises one final mission to his employer.
Unfortunately (for him), His Employer has struck another deal...
With a Hacktivist group on the War Path ]

Track 11 - The Great Backup
[ THE SINGULARITY IS HERE!!!! ]

Track 12 - Ctrl+Alt+Del
[ Wherein our protagonist's employer
absolves themselves of any guilt
while throwing him to the wolves. ]

Track 13 - Final Dawn
[ Our protagonist, now one of the last remaining "Fleshers",
counts his final hours from behind the bars of Death Row. ]

Track 14 - Immortal Dreams
[ Denied his pleas for the clemency of a natural death;
Our protagonist is sentenced to be uploaded to a prison
in the digital domain, where he will spend eternity... ]
The other part of the new feature was that you don't need to share your phone number or other information to do it via NFC or whatever they use.
Because we exist. Admittedly, "healthy enough to procreate" is not a high bar, but it's pretty good in comparison with no bar at all.

Yeah, there are cases where they were unaware of the harm--like lead. We should absolutely be finding better ways to identify and mitigate harms of that sort. But in the absence of reliable information from such efforts, natural==safe is a viable heuristic.

And I'd say that our scientific establishment is not sufficiently hardened against attempts by companies to tamper with scientific consensus in cases where that consensus might be bad for business--so an absence of reliable information is indeed our reality.
Sounds like some low-hanging fruit for screenwriters wanting to make a great movie.
QT is not as approachable as web stack.

With all downsides of the web stack I still would rather go with it than QT.
Ask HN: Any DIY Direct Air Capture CO2 projects that people are aware of?
I am interested in any DIY projects out there for learning / home Carbon capture. Is this a thing?
If you believe the cell you are under is compromised, further action should be performed under a different cell.

Actually, I would like to have an option to identify the cells devices are connected to.
If only we had an AI that could sift through all the slop and give us only the decent information that we wanted...
I prefer reasonably scoped take home assignment to leetcode "prove me you're awesome in 30 minutes" kind of interviews.

Relying on these kind of signals as a main input is a sign that company didn't think through their hiring process and rather just cargo-culting.

But all that are still secondary concerns: good people can make bad process work, bad people tend to ruin the best of processes.

So for me the only important "flags" are specific people I contact — their attitudes, levels of professionalism, questions they ask, answers they give, their decision process etc.

On all steps of the interview process.
Then Google will inexplicably move the functionality from Wallet into their new GeminiPay or whatever app, but GeminiPay will only be available in half ths markets Wallet was in. Then in 5 years GeminiPay will be deprecated and Wallet will be brought back with half of its original functionality.
Hang the alarm clock from the ceiling :).
There's also https://www.snipaste.com with very similar functionality. I dont understand how it's free.
Encoding the video in the browser is on the roadmap, but currently we stream the frames one by one to an ffmpeg backend process and concatenate them into a video there. This has been very reliable and fast so far. I've only just started looking at WebCodec, but it seems to be more challenging, especially as most of the APIs aren't supported by some of the mainstream browsers, so as you said, some fallback will be necessary.
Interesting..

I immediately "didn't get it" because I only saw two flashes.

Wow I have such a big brain - I only perceive reality.
Yeah, you can buy a cheap android and uninstall everything, except the thing will still be huge and google will still be in your pocket. They're all made for media production/consumption, and there are very few adequate devices available.
If you prefer a more tradition Android experience in e-ink, maybe check out Hisense's line. https://hisenseeink.com/products/hisense-a9-pro-e-ink-smartp...
Disruptions on the Horizon
It’s not a conspiracy; the City of London police, alongside normal local duties, have a national responsibility for many kinds of economic and cyber crime.

This almost certainly comes from long experience investigating fraud and other financial crimes amongst the businesses and people based there, to a degree and level of complexity not found in other regions of the UK.

For instance they host Action Fraud for the entire country.

If you want to talk about enforcement priorities, contact your PCC, or better yet, right now, your local candidates.
I'd love to have travelled Europe and Asia like that, before the current over load of tourists we are now at. (I see this first hand as my home city is major tourism destination ow, number of tourists has doubled in ten years)
They just shared the paper for XTTS, which got accepted to Interspeech and might be the reason for this being posted now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04904
You don’t live your life exclusively for you after you have kids, I think
That would probably be point number 2 in your list. West coast and northern Norway eat a lot of fish/seafood. Also within the last 20 years sushi has gotten a lot more popular here, even around Oslo.
It's interesting seeing the attempts to make a phone that only does what you want it to do, and not be a huge distraction. I totally understand the desire for this too, modern phones are a rabbit hole of content, and after enough apps get installed you end up with a phone in a hard-to-use state.

But I have a lot of trouble seeing a new piece of hardware being the solution. Sure, this thing only does a handful of things, and that's it. There's no temptation to install the latest game, or a bunch of different messaging and social apps, because there's only so much you can actually do with the phone. It's basically a "dumb phone" with a few extra features to make it more palatable.

But there's a problem with this simplicity. If you have a need that the phone doesn't meet, you're screwed. The only way to get this phone up-to-spec with other phones is to have a marketplace full of apps, each providing the functionality you desire, and at that point you're just another iOS or Android platform with the same problems.

Just get a phone without much bloat, like a Pixel, Nothing, OnePlus, or Fairphone, and consider putting a custom ROM on it to further scale it down. Then just do regular app maintenance - remove apps you don't want or need anymore, and go through your notification history and shut up every app that you don't need to hear from.

You're not going to be able to have the superpowers of a smartphone without also needing to do some amount of housekeeping. With the power of having a personal computer in your pocket comes the responsibility of taking care of it.
That as a child seeing a parent struggle deeply has a very strong impact on their wellbeing?

This is obviously true, but it is unclear had they not undergone transition the children would have come better.

For the children it has probably not been worse than a bad divorce that unfortunately happens way more often. And to pursue the analogy, it is often hard to tell what is best for them, keep an unhappy marriage until they leave the house, or cut it short as soon as possible to leave more time to re-create stability afterwards.
why it loads for ages sometimes ? it feels sluggish and unstable on latests versions...
From my experience, the issue is not the means to query the data, it's the actual idiosyncrasies of the data. The key metric is thus not "users seem to be more independent as we are receiving less inquiries for help", because there is a very high chance said users are pulling and interpreting completely bogus metrics from the data.

I have seen this over and over. Once low tech users have access to the data, they start building pyramids of bogus analysis, somehow convinced that after all it's not that hard.

The real blocker is all the context that is - let's be honest - always required to perform a correct analysis:

- "Oh no, you cannot use the delivery date to compute monthly sales, since the finance team refill it for recurrent sales"

- "Oh no the prices are stored in USD in the catalog but we actually adjust the rate monthly based on the `monthly_discount` table"

- "Yeah you have to remove items that have a null purchase date from the sales report we have that convention to mark last year's unsold stock"

- "No you cannot sum the sales without joining with the FX rate table since prices are in local currency"

- Etc, etc, etc
"Yet I believe this pay package helped drive his descent from visionary business leader to bizarre carnival barker."

Elon's South African origin, the use of "Descent" in the title and the strange, inhuman way they've pictured him in the photo above the article gives this article a out-of-place evolutionary vibe.
As a follow up to the IP point, you could always say "I have an integrated AI in my IDE for code completion, so I need to be certain regarding the IP" :D
Because Kia/Hyundai makes very good and reliable cars and those are facts backed by lots of data.

The only brands that are more reliable are all in Japan, with 3 exceptions (Mini, BMW, Porsche) being German.
This is amazing, and much needed. Thanks for organizing this. Makes me want to flex the programming muscle again.
Building, Shipping and Debugging a C++ WebAssembly App
Living in Alaska I struggle more with the endless daylight than the short dark days. It messes with my sleep too much.
I definitely explained my position and provided an argument. If you can't see it, it's only because you are letting your own voice and thoughts drown it out. Which, from your post history, seems to be quite a typical behavior for you.

And with that, I truly am done. Again, good luck.
The illustration shows him with blinders on, which fits the content pretty well.
> I’ve also had dreams where I’ve known it was a dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
I don't expect that data to influence ads that I see or to be sold to the highest bidder.

You should temper your expectations: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-dat...

France’s data protection authority, CNIL, fined Apple €8 million ... for illegally harvesting iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent.

If ads are a small percentage of Apple's quarterly reports, that isn't sound reasoning; after all, they make a lot of money in general in a lot of areas.