skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is a weird take, but I wish most eateries would ditch waiters. They're a relic of the industrial revolution making "fine dining" available to the common folk. And a large amount of the frustration at restaurants is one of two things: how something's cooked, and the service someone receives. Remove the waiter and there's no more frustration over service. I don't need a personal attendant to bring me water; I see a jug of water, I have legs/arms, I go get my water.

In Japan you can order your katsu curry on a machine, pay, hand in a ticket, and grab your food when someone calls your number. Same for sandwich shops in the US. Automats used to have bays where you'd just go up to a window, put in a quarter, and take out some premade food. There's no reason you couldn't handle pancakes, bacon & eggs, spaghetti, etc the same ways. Your cooked food is already sitting under a heat lamp in the kitchen waiting for the waiter to bring it to you; why not just get up and get it yourself? You get your food faster, or when you're ready for it.

Yeah this would displace a lot of workers. But that's what progress does: an advancement displaces old workers, and new efficiency creates an opportunity for new products and services which need new workers. The treadmill of labor in a progressing society.
We're running out of alternative explanations. At this point an RNG could make better business decisions on average.
Lovely! Please have some of my $$!
You have to disable the data slurping for each app. The main toggle just governs whether it responds to voice commands. Previous discussion [0].

Separately, the data Siri sends isn't held to the same differential privacy standards as some of Apple's other diagnostics. They just give you a unique ID and yolo it [1]. Unless personalized device behaviors are somehow less identifiable than all the other classes of data subject to deanonymization attacks (demographics, software/hardware version fingerprints, ...), that unique ID is just to be able to pretend to the courts that they tried (give or take Hanlon's razor).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927657

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictati...
One-sided video interviews are horrible. I'd rather write a million cover letters that no one reads.
I don’t think it will ever be an inconvenience to them. They’ll just hire more people and get more resources from the tax dollars. Plus, they probably enjoy irritating people even if it inconveniences them.

Most people probably won’t last long in such jobs. I for one, don’t want to spend all my working time annoying others and being a dick. But the ones who do last long, probably get a kick out of being a nuisance
The difference is Apple and Google aren't game publishers in the first place.

Microsoft has actual gaming studios producing otherwise full fledge-games aimed at making money. To note Minesweeper is no longer in Windows (looking at my win11 install, and there's actually no games anymore), so you'd have to go to the store to get this one, or any other.
Even with chip security features this is still the case (if an attacker gets their hands on it it can be compromised). There's no chip that exists that I'm aware of that can't be compromised to have its firmware dumped.

It's like locks: Every time a manufacture claims to have made an unpickable lock someone goes and picks it. It's the same for chip security features.

Microcontroller "security" features really are security theater and not actual security. The only real reason they exist is because certain vendors/"big buyers" will require it as part of their parts checklists (which is silly) and it provides a way for chip manufacturers to wriggle more money out of each sale.
I mean, I don't dislike Elon so much that I'm going to blanket hate everything he does purely because he's involved; if Elon can do AI better than OpenAI then by all means he should do it.

Do I actually think he's able to? No, not really, but I'd be happy for him to prove me wrong.

Though I keep using the personal "he", which lets be honest is not really accurate. Elon hires some smart people who do the actual work, and like most people who are high enough in the corporate ladder, doesn't really do anything other than be the face of the brand.
Not sure what you mean here - Microsoft are actively working on F# and the .NET Spark and Torch bindings.
hahaha this was exactly my thought! X Window System
Three super-Earths and a possible water world from TESS and ESPRESSO
Recent rebrands:

Twitter/X: Confusing, throws away a good brand, associates the brand even more closely with Elon, and doesn't really do much to make it feel like a platform for more than tweets. Very bad.

Google/Alphabet: Causes financial reporting to mention Alphabet. Extremely minor annoyance, mostly nothingburger.

Facebook/Meta: Successfully ditched a bad brand and got a stylish name without much baggage to umbrella their projects and do new projects under. Doesn't seem overly associated with the metaverse. Actually very good rebrand.
Here's a pretty decent web-based Minesweeper clone. No installation of anything needed. Faithful to the original IMHO.

http://www.birrell.org/andrew/minesweeper/
A battery replacement after 3 years costs pennies, relative to its value
I like to shout out the pico ice. Most of the $30 price tag is for the UP5K tied at the hip, but for embedded projects where you have some sub-microsecond activities it's a (relatively) inexpensive option with open source tooling.
> the captcha was six images of ~5 dice each from an acute angle, and I had to click the one where the top faces added up to 15. That takes considerably more time than "select all the cars"

This has been a fairly standard captcha for the past few years across the "more attacked" providers.

That one, Rotate the [object] to match this direction, Click the item in this image with the highest value, Click the dice that add up to [X], Which of these items doesn't belong, etc.

They are all much more difficult than previous ones, and I've long wondered if they are compliant with various disability laws.
It is probably an internalized "prompt engineering" trick from gpt3.5 times, where you could achieve near gpt-4 performance using stuff like that. Rephrase the question and plan your answer was on top of the list.
frankly i don’t see at all how decoherence can rescue copenhagen and if anything it seems highly suggestive of a MWI interpretation in practice
Apple has had a pretty large office in cork since 1980.
So what's the verb for the "X" platform then? Just "to X"?
Why is a monkey wrench called a monkey wrench?
I'm sure that was super annoying, but Twitter/X has always had a terrible spam/bot problem. This at least is showing an attempt to take that seriously, even at the cost of new user acquisition.
Looking at all those screenshots, I have no idea what this game even looks like. Is it 2D? 3D? Somehow less informative than the trailers they put in steam pages...

Also, oh my god, they changed the old :) icon to an emoji. This is worse than having ads or being pay to win.
So, bit of a side question here, and I was hoping that HN could help.

Background: We've come into some money, we're in the 1% now. We did not grow up rich at all and had a HS experience and college admissions experience like the ones described in the article and the comments here (cutthroat). We have kids. We're still new to having 'escaped capitalism'.

Question: Um, how do I raise rich kids?

Like, do we even bother with the crazy college admissions process?

As long as we don't really touch the principle much, this thing will likely grow faster than my family. My kids aren't going to want for anything real, nor will any of my descendants, if they're not really stupid. Which is a pretty low bar to pass.

I don't want my kids languishing away like some of the rich kids that I have known. That usually leads to ennui and, honestly, a lot of drugs a booze. Knowing my SO and I, they are going to need 'meaning' in their lives. But who knows.

So, if anyone has any tips or tricks here, I would love to know.

Sorry for derailing the conversation here, if I have.
Are you referring to one of the many twitter links? I didn’t see that in the article itself.
I await with bated breath for integrated vertical tabs.
There is a reasonable argument to be made that it would be cheaper and better to educate the population about some of this rather than enforcing a requirement to go through someone who is frankly far too educated to be doing this variety of thing.

There's definitely a line; non-medical professionals probably shouldn't be checking their own X-rays for fractures or CAT scans for cancer. On the other hand, I do very much think people could do things like perform and read their own tests for non-life-threatening infections.

Joe Schmoe can swab their own throat, and tell whether there's 1 line or 2. If you want to be super cautious, require a Bluetooth app to read the results and force the user to run through the typical "annoying but not lethal infection" questionnaire doctors give (Is your fever over 102F? Shortness of breath? etc). The app can give warnings that regardless of results, they should seek a doctor.

It would also free up doctors and nurses to do something more valuable than administering tests a child could do. Again, this doesn't apply universally, many medical things require far too much knowledge for Joe Schmoe to do, but I do think there are a lot of things that could be the equivalent of a home blood pressure monitor.
Luckily were reaching a tipping point where it takes a similar amount of effort to rig up a CNN to just solve whatever god-awful puzzle they've dreamt up for you this time.
You could just visit the other 99.6% of the country that Sydney funnel-webs don't inhabit?
I have this EXACT same experience with my GF but on the other side of things. She'll be snoring so I'll poke her and she'll say she was awake... but was definitely snoring asleep
Maybe out of spite, but originally, it was a joke that went too far.
Isn't Dogecoin a 'stonk'-meme joke going wild? Like, I am not giving Musk the benefit of a doubt, but it has to be easy to just say "it was a joke" in that case?
Just want until they start integrating gacha elements into the OS.

Oh, you want to print? Just spend $0.99 on the loot box to maybe unlock that feature! It’s a rare feature that has a 1/20 chance of being found. Good luck!

Honestly, it doesn’t feel too far off unfortunately.
Seems reasonable. The much loved here (most likely for being free) VSCode is not gonna fund itself. Someone has got to pay for free stuff.
NotesNook has e2e encryption and seems to check all the same boxes? Not sure if it uses electron on desktop or not but the mobile app works well.
That's all a matter of perspective. Bad idea for who? Musk? Certainly. The rest of us? Maybe a good idea, depending on what the final outcome(s) will be.
"Close Duplicate Tabs" is actually a really useful feature for some. My Firefox at work has dozens of tabs open at any given moment, mostly JIRA tickets, and it's very easy to have the same issue open in three different tabs when I'm constantly opening links from email, Teams, etc. I had looked into installing an extension to get similar functionality, but held off. I'm glad it's now baked into the software.
Microsoft has been beyond parody since Windows 8.
Often when you see this, it is because the manager most in charge oof the thing is being awarded for their team's success and not for the company's success. Does this make Microsoft look worse? Yes. Does this provide fuel for a lot of negative narratives about the company? Sure. Is it worth it? No. But, will it help this one specific team make more money and justify their leader's promotion? Yes, it will. The "vision over there" that causes this is "I will get promoted to a more senior leadership position, make more money, and retire in style."

Nobody ever got promoted for limiting the success of their own little fiefdom in defense of the greater whole.
This is very welcome! I had previously used a Siri shortcut on my desktop that would launch the password setting. (which worked very well, but a dedicated app is better)
Thanks, this looks promising.

I hope it also works with the "last session" tabs and doesn't pop up a homepage (If browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone is set to “ignore”, the browser’s homepage will not be overridden after updates.).

I love Firefox's about:config page, it has so many options.
Yes, but... storing stuff costs money, keeping a mine open and unflooded, etc... costs money, even if you're not doing any mining, etc... Also markets will adjust prices if they know about your stockpile, too.
If they are able to think, that means they are conscious no? My favorite type of sleep is the sort that precludes conscious mental activity, since I tend to think of work or other mentally fatiguing subject matter and physical sensations like pain and tension. I'd like my sleep to exclude that sort of suffering. Maybe there should be more than one word for sleep. We could distinguish certain aspects, maybe name them or something? Course I'm probably asleep right now and dreaming I typed this.
I think you'll find details regarding any discussion of async in rust and other languages - I don't mean to casually dismiss your question, but my objections are not unique.

The alternative mechanism is to use interrupts, DMA, multiple cores, distributed devices (eg a CAN network) a state machine, an RTOS, or, it sounds like in context of this thread, PIOs! You get the point. Do these provide a similar coding style? No, and that's the point. The coding style is the objection.

I find the "how else would you do it" style questions that come up frequently re Async rust (embedded or not) amusing. It's as if there is a new method of accomplishing a task, and asking a world that has been accomplishing this task for decades how it's possible to accomplish the task without the new thing!
Hah! I hadn't noticed that, but sure enough:

<meta content="X (formerly Twitter)" property="og:site_name">
Conspiracy hat time: if the first-party games on the computer are predatory and pay-to-win, it conditions users to accept that situation. This in turn leads to increased profits for other predatory games/apps, of which Microsoft takes their cut.
Chiquita Held Liable for Deaths During Colombian Civil War
> Who cares that the city administration is too stupid to put in traffic lights.

The people living there?

> The problem has already been solved.

Yes, that's why the poster said "in the US they would be roadkill". It's very much a solved problem; the US is notable for not implementing the solutions.
> The Go database/sql package actually executes ROLLBACK in the SQL engine.

No: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/beaf7f3282c2548267d3c89441...
Canada's extremist attack on free speech
Free as in identity theft
Masterful article. I wanted a little more in terms of examples & referents, things to latch on to to imagine opening ups of notation, but it was so well written, so many good links, such an obviously good cause. To me, it's speaking to the heart of possibility, of what we could be doing, has found some true kernels to look at.

> I think notation should be judged by its ability to contribute to and represent previously unthinkable, un-expressible thoughts.

Or,

> There’s a subtle but important distinction between augmenting human productivity, which is every tech company’s aim, and augmenting human intellect.

I do wonder if this "as we may think" type discussion bridges somewhat away from notation of writing & starts blurring into systems more broadly. Tech hides under the facade of interface, trading off the rawness of direct representation for the comfort & steering of crafted experiences & human-centric form factors. But if we could create a better human computer symbiosis, better represent code & processing in a more direct way, that wasn't so intimidating & impenetrable, if systems operated more visible & directly, maybe that wonderful Engelbartian augment intellect cause would be better served.

I'd love to see a resurgence of these ideas. Model-View-Controller (MVC) or Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) or Model-View-Presenter (MVP) all purport to be ways for raw models/data to have exterior systems expose them (and offer manipulation toolkits in the case of Controllers). Our current programming tends to blend concerns together, be interior focused at devs, but this decomposition denotes separate logical pieces, which could be understandable pieces exteriorly, denote understandable patterns of data & rendering & control that- if we serve up to users- could ideally help breakdown the complexity of compute & untangle the ball of computing, create distinct pieces we humans might start grappling with, start thinking with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93vie...

This would require a much more amitious shift than what computing's been up to. As said:

> There’s a subtle but important distinction between augmenting human productivity, which is every tech company’s aim, and augmenting human intellect.
I don't think this was ever true, unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "best-effort" or "hack".

In GSM, SMS are delivered either over the SDCCH (when no voice call is happening simultaneously) or the SACCH (when a voice call is already in progress). In the latter case, you might argue that they're piggy-backing onto existing resources, but in the former, there are definitely dedicated resources being allocated specifically for SMS delivery.

SMS delivery has also always been reliable, both on the lower level (both SDCCH and SACCH are reliable) and the upper one (the phone reports successful delivery back to the sending SMSC), so while there are no timing guarantees (is that what you mean by best-effort?), delivery always eventually succeeds once resources are available.

The protocol even goes to significant lengths to ensure timely (re)delivery in case various error scenarios, such as a full inbox on a phone or a phone being out of reception.

While 140 bytes aren't much, reliability is actually great, until you add spam filtering, roaming, and inter-network delivery to the mix, when things can quickly go off the rails. (One unexpected consequence of how it's implemented is that for mutual reachability, it doesn't only matter what operators the sender and recipient have a contract with, but also in which network the recipient is currently roaming.)
If the cows are still queuing up to be milked why change?
You would think that, but cell carriers have been found to retain both plaintext and encrypted traffic for several years in some cases: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-da...
Huh. Whether or not a word has this meaning or that depends upon acceptance. You say it means X, someone else says it means Y, where X and Y can be arbitrarily dissimilar. And as much as you might be saying "means this to me", the way you are each phrasing it you mean "for all". How do either of you resolve this?
You are not looking at it from the right perspective.

Microsoft the company(and shareholders) gives absolutely no shit about it but there is someone somewhere in the org who has that app and its earnings in their yearly priorities and that person and perhaps the people who work for them do in fact care.
Everyone is switching to Wayland now.
It's extremely unlikely we drop Isreal as an ally. Hell, they even sank one of our ships years ago and were still going. The relationship and its effects run deep on both sides.
https://products.espressif.com/#/product-selector?language=e...

This is the official Espressif "ESP Product Selector". I checked everything in the ESP series, and limited to "Mass Production" status, and then it showed me a list of 175 products.

I'm sure some of those are doubled up, or just the same chip with different packaging options or whatever, but as a potential customer I'm still presented with 175 things and told to pick one.
What. Independent confirmation? Why do you want someone else to do things you can check yourself https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/microsoft-minesweeper...

Does everyone subscribe to WP:NOR in their own lives or something?
Borges on Chaos Theory
Good point. The standards for advertising networks has to increase tenfold, right now they reward slop, companies drain their ad budgets on channels they can’t even fully measure, and it repeats since it takes too long for companies to notice the effects.

It’s the reason advertising costs have ballooned digitally, and also the cause of many lawsuits that Google continues downplaying in the public eye.
Information Technology used to be squishier.

imagine doing this when there was little notion of things like "pH" and "temperature control was literally a matter of feel.
Whats the possible way to start earning from internet
I have gained web dev, graphics design, video editing, and digital marketing skills. But the problem is I can't use these skills to make money. I've tried freelancing but no one responded. I have been attempting some internships, but I also failed. What should I do?
> obedient programmers

Always good to point this out here. HN readers often forget (or deny) that behind every one of these projects is a team of complicit developers actually typing the code in. Engineering is not blameless.
This makes a lot of sense.

Pure evil of course, and not to defend MS in any way, but makes sense from a faceless "extract-as-much-as-money-possible" perspective.
In copenhagen you can analyze the interaction between the measurement device and system, you just have to call the device part of the “system”

You can do this arbitrarily and then pretend the collapse occurs at some future later point because “when collapse occurs” is a totally subjective thing of what you define as the measurement
I think perhaps their current usage isn't optimized yet. I'm not sold on people chatting with a model as the best UX. Maybe some abstraction on top of this interaction
I'll do better, here's a benevolent nonprofit that goes beyond what Apple provides to ensure top-notch consumer service: https://grapheneos.org/
Fake news is highly subjective, and frankly a university study from “disinformation experts” isn’t something I would put much faith in, let alone their opinion being laundered through a Guardian headline. It’s obvious that many political opinions on controversial topics (BLM, trans issues, lab leak, illegal immigration, etc) were censored as a matter of policy in the past. Opinions from the left were allowed because these companies mostly employ people with a left bias. To deny any of this is just dishonest gaslighting, and all the “disinformation experts” won’t convince everyone who has been subject to that censorship. And then there’s all that the Twitter Files revealed, which goes further than just self selected censorship regimes.
Raw materials aside, a tiny printer can go places a large printer cannot. Space? Deep sea? Inside other machines? Or on the tip of a robotic arm to do print little parts right onto their permanent place like a spider placing silk? Who knows!? 99% sure the "in your pocket" statement is more like "smaller than a breadbox", as in, it's plain-as-day comparisons of size, not use.
Often times when this stuff comes up I think it’s Microsoft’s organizational structure that’s to blame. Namely that each team operates like their own little company in many ways. So the team and PM for minesweeper forget they’re just a small part of a broader ecosystem.
Since the RP2040 uses external flash you can pre-program the flash chips before they even get soldered on to the board. Other standard methods still work like breaking out the debug pins to some spot on your PCB so you can quickly "pogo flash" it as part of an assembly process.
I got very close to a win, but then:

web/glue/src/log.rs:34 panicked at win32/src/winapi/user32/message.rs:206:5:
assertion `left == right` failed
left: 512
right: 0

I'm playing on Android Chrome 124, and had slightly zoomed in to make the tap targets larger.
Tax road wear. The weight over each axle to the fourth power times number of axles. That'll put smaller cars on the road.