skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Motte and bailey. Marketing is what you say on paper, but nothing like it in practice.

(And people have been giving me identical response with "advertising" in place of "marketing" for years now, so I'll say yes to both; the terms are effectively interchangeable in both motte and bailey cases.)
I find it ironic when overweight people with an empty, sugary iced coffee drink next to them complain about the scary-sounding ingredients in processed fast food they eat.

The scary ingredient is not your biggest health concern...
The best part is GPay also included a messaging component. It was close to feature parity with Google Allo.
In the US. Apparently it's doing great in India?
This looks great. I'm excited to try this later! Great work!
It doesn't matter how many times you click it, there is a delay before it unpauses. If you click it once it will unpause after about 15-20 seconds. I'm not sure why it does this, it could be syncing with iCloud to also remove the restriction on your phone and iPad or it could be a feature that gives you a short pause to reflect on whether you really do want to continue wasting you life on hacker news.
Slackware 15.0 comes with xminesweep and has no ads. And is much smaller:

VSZ RSS SZ CMD
5908 4160 1477 xminesweep

Size: 37464 bytes

Just saying :)
I’ve come to a similar conclusion about “self-service BI” myself but my solution is somewhat different. The solution I have is move the layer of abstraction higher: make extremely customizable dashboards but do not expose SQL to business users.

An example of this might be a dashboard with 20 filters and 20 parameters controlling breakdown dimensions and “assumptions used.” So asking “how did Google ads perform in the last month broken down by age group” is about changing 3-4 preset dropdowns. Parameters are also key here - this way you only expose the knobs that you’ve vetted - not arbitrary SQL.

Obviously this is a hard dashboard to build and requires quite a bit of viz expertise (eg experience with looker or tableau or excel) but the result is 70% of questions do become self service. The other 30% - abandon hope. You will need someone to translate business questions into data questions and that’s a human problem.
Fonts files fail some 'system validation' on Mac for me. Does anyone know what's that about and how to fix it?
There is an official post,

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ipo/

and submission here,

Raspberry Pi IPO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644111 - (8 comments)
the occam's razor is an abstract principle, so it is hard to really quantify what counts as additional 'theory burden'. i simply don't agree that this "actual discernible states, each of which is a unique posit and thus a unique contribution to the theoretical cost of the whole" is an actual way of judging theory burden vs. just "the rules we've already discovered continue to apply at large-scale and chaotic systems" which i would say is very low theory burden

Copenhagen isn't even clear on if the states have a concrete reality or not - there certainly are no hidden variables, at least.
Only San Francisco has San Francisco weather...
Yeah, and I bet even the expensive wool stuff that only rich people buy is treated with scotch guard and flame retardants with questionable health effects.
The comparison to George Orwell's "thoughtcrime" is apt, but zooming out, I think Canada is paving the way to "Brazil", the Gilliam movie which was originally called 1984½. The dystopian future is totalitarian, but ruled through inept bureaucracy. The Ministry of Information controls everything and is responsible for nothing. This shift in control structures can be seen in the Hate Speech Bill, Bill S-210, the CRTC Streaming bill, and the massive increase in government jobs and roles.
Why?

Honestly no idea. They just don't. Growing up the only fish we really ate was fish sticks and heavily processed fish cakes. When going out to restaurants I have no real memory of anybody really ordering fish. Even when I was living in down town Oslo (admittedly 20+ years ago), just getting ahold of fresh fish was hard. The only food store that had a fish mongers and sold fresh fish was the really fancy store in the most expensive part of town. There were maybe two fish stores in all of central Oslo that I knew of, one of which was a high end luxury food sort of place that also sold fancy caviar, foie gras and oysters. Compared to basically any costal town anywhere in Europe where fresh fish is plentiful and ubiquitous, it is really strange.
I think it's pretty clear the microplastics fear-mongering doesn't have a lot of credible evidence to back it. Of course no one wants tiny plastic particles floating around the environment. But the claim here is... does it harm you? Is it toxic? How dense are the particulates per millilitre? Very little to suggest anything substantial.

Just a reminder that the holistic and wellness industry that sells you detoxes for this stuff is worth 4.5 trillion dollars (more than big pharma, even). They are incentivized to drum up fear; plastics are killing you, aspartame is killing you. I've heard them claim even fresh fruit is killing you.

Evidence-based decisions matter.
Also worth mentioning EJBCA from PrimeKey. They also sell their own HSM appliance
The CEO of Heat Initiative is a former VP of Thorn, a startup founded by Ashton Kutcher that sells scanning technology, and wants to land Apple and other big techs as customers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-gardner-aba90013/
Of course, those comments just as terrible and repetitive. From a moderation point of view it makes zero difference whether the high-order bit is yay or boo.

Maybe it "has to stop" but that doesn't mean it will stop. People won't stop behaving like people. All we can do is moderate what we see, as I mentioned above. Fortunately the community sees a lot more than we do—so if users bring to our attention posts that need moderation, it extends our range.
It'll just move to nevada
I've seen examples where seeing someone make e.g. some repair really benefits from video. But I certainly won't argue in general.
XTTSv2 is only slightly behind StyleTTS 2 near the top of the TTS Arena leaderboard, though they are both far behind Eleven Labs: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena

Personally I prefer StyleTTS 2, and it has a better license. But XTTSv2 has a streaming mode with pretty low latency which is nice. I did run into hallucination issues though. It will hallucinate nonsense words or insert extra syllables in words, pretty frequently.

As others mentioned they shut down so there won't be any updates to XTTS.
True but Ocean Gate were planning on multiple use, surely a higher bar.
Tangential question to fellow tech observers, have any of you Mac users found an optimal plugin/ extension similar to ublock origin for Safari ? Safari is buttery smooth and runs cool. I hate to use Firefox / Chrome just for ublock origin's reasons.
Before they could, theoretically, just roll past, but now Finland will be compelled to join due to Article 5.

Not that they'd need much compelling.
If you think 3D printing is always going to be on a flat bed of the same size using the same amounts of material, then yeah, minimizing the printing mechanism sure seems like a non-necessary improvement. But that's not the intended use case anyway. It can only print small things. Maybe it can add tiny details or structures to large prints though
Russia did 'liberate' norway during ww2 and tried to drag it unde it's influence. It's not war per se but still
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.
Modern Microcontrollers focus on analog because modern microprocessors start at like $5, maybe even cheaper.

If you need digital girth, don't mess with lol 264kB RP2040 systems. Just buy $3 of DDR3L RAM (aka: 128MB) and run Linux for goodness sake.

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Even ESP32 is a glorified Bluetooth/Wifi chip first and everything secondary. You have to have a niche at this price point to be competitive.

RP2040's niche is the 264kB of SRAM, but not much else. It needs a bunch of external parts before it can become a reasonable solution as well, so its not really cost optimized IMO.
Space Omics and Medical Atlas (Soma) Across Orbits
Recipe for cinnamon rolls:

When I was a kid we used to spend summers with my grandmother. It was an idyllica pastoral setting and we used to chase the goats around and catch butterflys.

[snip 3000 words]

...when I asked her for her recipe, it turns out she made cinnamon rolls by buying pillsbury ones at the grocery store! So if you don't want to be like grandmother, use 2 cups of flour...
Aurora EVM rust library: Cancun hard fork release
They're not publishing any docs about the GPU portion. See: the rest of the thread currently. They give you the Metal API (only designed for Apple OS'es), and that's it.

In contrast, AMD and Intel publish GPU documentation.
I don't get this pigeonholing of the concern as being only about "water hobbyists" or "underwater professionals". It's literally just a type of machine you will become aware of some time during the course of reading about engineering or subsea operations. As I said, I'm not even fully sure it just applies to underwater vehicles yet I have bumped into the term/concept more than several times already in my life. If you're new and this is your first time encountering it, appreciate the learning opportunity. I bet you'll see the term a lot more now due to Baader-Meinhof.
It's a real input field now!
The model is not opensource. Also now we are stuck with walled garden for models thats deeply integrated at OS or Browser level.
1. Apple Models not open - so we cannot run Android, also not on Desktop Chrome or Edge.
2. Microsoft Phi3 - Can run inside iOS ,but on Android only as an APP but not on OS level or no supported APIs. Can run on Desktop Edge not chrome.
3. Google GEmini nano - Can only run inside Android and Desktop Chrome not Edge, not on iOS as weights are not open.

So we cannot get a similar answer from LLM as its different models, you cannot across ecosystem.
There are a number of industries that also do this where they'll be voluntarily shut off or pulled back during times where the grid nears brownout/blackout because their processes are interruptible with minimal cost which for battery charging stations is pretty true unless they're entire stock is at a very low charge.
Show HN: I used AI to make a Rock Opera about the rise of AI
"2035: The Silent Patch" tells the story of the acceleration to AI through the life of a Hitman in the employ of an AI mega-corp.

Each track has program notes that continue the story in the description (like an opera)
Sure, but did they do that? I've seen plenty of reporting about the extensive and blunt waiver but nothing about them misleading passengers or, as you said, hand-waiving the risks away.
If you're interested in a mix of SQL, Python, DuckDB and low-code interfaces to SQL databases, you may want to check out https://count.co
It's uber-cool if you are stuck in the year 2001. X Games, XFL, X-files, XXX starring Vin Diesel, the aka xtreme James Bond.
I sleep pretty well in general, but when I do sleep poorly I also experience the same thing. I am so convinced that a dream is reality that I wake up confused and have to take a minute to orient myself mentally.

But this rarely happens because sleep is very important to me and I worked hard on my habits to get good sleep. Good sleep for me equals no memory of dreams.
Seems to be free from ZeroSSL https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119973-Is-I... but Letsencrypt decided against it since their whole thing is about proving ownership over a domain, or set of domains, and doing that for an IP address would be some nonsense. I would be absolutely shocked if the "name brand" cert issuers don't support CSRs containing iPAddress SAN entries, since it's very clearly part of the RFC, but I haven't ever had a need to try such a stunt, either
I honestly would not be surprised if Google added some form of ads to Authenticator. The only reason they likely haven't is that it isn't the type of app that is used frequently or for long sessions.

Microsoft has been pretty shameful with ads in Windows recently, but they also give away OS updates for free. Someone that purchased Win 7 has been able to go all the way to Win 11 for free (assuming their hardware is supported on 11).
I doubt this will change anything in the space. iOS and macOS (through Safari) has offered password management for years at this point. This is just a more flexible version of that system.
Yes, it's not perfect.

About iTunes: I did not know that! Thank you.

About iterative/innovative: I considered hardware and software that became household names or general knowledge to be significant innovations. It is not rigorous, I tried to include more rather than less. Still, on some years these companies mostly did version increases for their hardware and software, like new iOS and macOS versions, and that was it. Those years I marked as iterative.

I included a few too many iPhones, although when I wrote that, my thought process was that these phones were pivotal to how iPhones developed. I should have included the original iPhone, and iPhone 3G — the first iPhone developed around the concept of an app platform and with an App Store. This has undoubtedly been a big innovation. iPhone 4 and 3Gs, perhaps, should not have been included.

It's loose and just to illustrate a general trend, individual items are less important, we could all pick slightly different ones. But I believe the trend would remain.
WSL2 can manage it I bet.

[edit] also I’d be surprised if any of those executables fail to run on native Win11.
I'm not sure a password database is a 'online bodyguard'. I am sure that 1password has been going downhill for a few years now. Getting rid of the ability for me to manage my own vault was the last straw for me. I'm still limping along with 1password7 with a local vault for my 'important/sensitive' passwords but i let keychain manage most of my randomass website passwords. Since I'm primarily in the apple ecosystem this works out for me, I do have some linux in my life too, but since I generally access those linux resources using a mac it's just not much of a problem.

I think this new interface to the password feature in macos will probably put even more of a dent into 1password/bitwarden/etc's consumer business driving them even further into catering to enterprise, it's a pitty, but 'this isn't a product, this a feature'.
FWIW I had some insomnia a while back and thought "maybe if I just lay here long enough" and so I did that for hours and my smartwatch thought I was asleep. I'm 99% sure I was not sleeping. Maybe my smartwatch sucks, but I don't think most can handle "laying down and not moving but not sleeping".
Typically the sell back time is in the evening, after solar production is done but before people go to bed. Also some in the early morning, albeit to a smaller degree.
If you've scared your fellow citizens into believing you're going to commit an imminent hate crime, then you're probably guilty. Government exists to keep us all safe from external and internal threats. Government protecting us from people who are imminently going to commit hate crimes is government working as intended.
the most successful sheeple operation is the one the sheeple and the entire world is completely oblivious of it.

jokes aside, this is no different from people selling bunker beds, gold, ammunition, crypto, vpns. It is specifically for the set of gullible people who think they and their data is so important. Reality (except for 10,000 people or so) is, most lives and their 'precious' data is worthless. (I'm not talking about SSN, Bank Accounts -- those are well protected by tech cos HN seem to hate on)
Also most microplastics in the environment are from rubber tires grinding away on road surfaces so the food packaging stuff is a little forest for the trees imo.
Ask HN: Real life code task before HR interview. Fishy?
I recently applied to a young tech company, and they initially told me it would take time to process my application due to the high volume of submissions. Then, suddenly, a day later, I received an email stating that due to the volume of applications, they are changing their recruitment process. They now want me to complete some coding tasks that mirror real-life scenarios one might expect to encounter in the role. So far, so good. However, this comes before any HR interview, and if HR does not give the okay, then you can't continue with the process. I find this illogical. Why ask me to invest potentially 8-10 hours of my time on a task, complete with comments in the code, only to share it with you and potentially be dismissed after a 30-minute chat with HR? Sounds fishy, doesn't it? Should I go ahead with it? This is not the recruitement process they advertise on their website...
PIO is fantastic. Revolutionary. Not trivial to use but extremely powerful and adaptable.
Too bad about the ADC. To be clear: the ADC is not "OK". It' s BAD.
I know it's the lesser of two evils but I'd rather have quality vinyl off-gassing PVC than carpet emitting PFAS and trapping dirt.
I’ll definitely push back on that. Apple and Google run the number one and number two biggest gaming platforms by revenue.

Microsoft is the also-ran, that can’t make more money than a hi-fi company who fell ass backwards into gaming.
Whole-Genome Alignment: Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions
Behind the pelvis
> the fundamental trust is broken.

This seems to be the core of the discussion.

Is there a fundamental trust to have towards any of these corporation, and where do you go when they all breached the amount of trust you had in them ?

To give a parallel, it's like boycotting every airline that wronged you. Very quickly you have to revise your criteria.

Linux would be the exception as there's a path where you don't need to trust any organization, but I don't think it's practical for an average computer user.
Plenty of brands offer DLP-based printers, like the elegoo mars 4 DLP.
If you just care about the instruction set, there's a long series by Raymond Chen about the AArch64 instruction set. This is the first post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220726-00/?p=10...
I think the onus on proving safety should be on the people selling products, not on some third party to prove that those products are dangerous.

Otherwise, we get vendors poisoning us for decades, and then whoopsie-daisies pleading ignorance. And even when they get held accountable (almost never), the value that remains in the vendor is insufficient to compensate for the damage inflicted on us.

Heads I lose, tails they win.
For me it's completely unfit for purpose:

* It's incompatible with some apps, e.g. Roblox, that are full-screened, and you end up in an annoying loop between the Roblox screen and the request more time screen fighting with each other, with no ability to click anything. My kid has learned how to hit the Option-Command-Escape shortcut to force-kill Roblox using just the keyboard and restart.

* Sometimes Screen Time requests come via Notifications (yay), and sometimes they come via Messages (boo). There doesn't appear to be any logic behind which.

* When they come in via Messages, and I leave Messages.app running for too long, it ends up eating all of the memory on my 32GB M1 Max and forcing me to restart the system.

* Sometimes requests do not come through at all.

* Sometimes the user cannot request more time. Clicking the button does nothing.

* Sometimes multiple requests come through for the same app. Approving one of the requests does not satisfy all of them, you have to approve all of them.

* Requests for websites do not work. Every so often Roblox breaks and results in having to re-download the .dmg. You end up in a loop between approving the request for more time and the website saying the user needs to request more time. I ended up writing a shell script to curl it instead (which requires munging User-Agent because the Roblox download page does not have a direct link to the dmg).

It's clear there are no Apple employees who actually use Screen Time to manage kids time. I can only assume they just let their kids have unlimited access, because trying to actually use Screen Time is absolutely infuriating, and only gets worse over time (e.g. the Notifications vs Messages thing is a recent regression).

It's also worth pointing out that I have absolutely zero issues with Android Family Link. It all Just Works for similar purposes.
Amazing that you can blow something so significant off so easily. This is literally the greatest crisis of our age (underlying nearly every other great crisis of our age.) while at the same time the most profound revelation of our psycho-spiritual humanity (down right magical, if you understand the implication of "worlds within worlds".)

While schizophrenia is certainly real (chemical imbalances triggering all manner of internal confusion), I speak of a truth that many also live with, for which you do no favor by your dismissal.

The signs are there and have always been there throughout history. Obviously without "inside knowledge" the layperson is hopelessly caught in this incomprehensible and isolating nightmare.

This truth can certainly trigger the crazy in anyone. For the bold few with insight, this is literally the precipice of life and humanity (our consciousness is spiritual technology.)

We are not alone in our own minds!
Ungoogle yourself. I once, under unfortunate circumstances, lost access to a very valuable phone number (Google project fi). Lost the number, consequently lost acccess to my Gmail account, lost software licenses, Android apps, my emails etc.

I have a random gmail account for Android. Don't even know it out of my head. Some Android apps have register codes (pleco). insync was so kind to grant me a new free license for their software.

I still have (new) google project fi phone since I travel a lot. But google sucks. No accountability, you are the product and expect everything to be gone tomorrow.
In marketing and policy advocacy, root psychological causes are not something that we tend to be very interested in. It’s a very behaviorist field.
How about: AI will become everyone's co-pilot

Now we don't need to write hundreds of additional articles.
That's not lock-in, though, since Mozilla makes it very easy to export your saved passwords to a .csv file if you ever do want to switch ecosystems.

I use KeePassXC to store passwords for apps.
My apologies, I don't have a waffling permit. Yourself and all your friends are pleased with everything that happened during that time period? My mistake. I can only take you at your word, that's what I mean by lived experience.

If you're happy, I'm happy. The Australians I met stuck abroad at the time were... not. You might also look upthread. Maybe their opinions don't count or something.
We're BitWarden users in our house. We switched from LastPass after they double the price for the 2nd year in a row. We each have our own accounts, and then a shared organization.

If it were just me, I'd be tempted to just switch everything over. My wife is smart, and technically competent, but isn't interested in switching to new things until the pain points are too much. If I want to move to a new app or a new service, it can't be on a whim of mine, and it can't just be because I want to see what the new features are like.
A TypeScript monorepo that sucks less
One of the other major things that's changed is that Nvidia now has independent thread scheduling (as of Volta, see [1]). That allows things like individual threads to take locks, which is a pretty big leap. Essentially, it allows you to program each individual thread as if it's running a C++ program, but of course you do have to think about the warp and block structure if you want to optimize performance.

I disagree that SIMT is only for embarrassingly parallel problems. Both CUDA and compute shaders are now used for fairly sophisticated data structures (including trees) and algorithms (including sorting).

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-volta/#independent_...