skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! In my case the competitor is much better known and I think nearly all my potential customers would know what they do. Great point about people not wanting to switch if they think you're the same!
And narcissistic personality disorder.
Maybe. The overstaffed kitchen also has more slack if someone needs to go home sick or has some family emergency. We saw during the pandemic some of the downside of finely-tuned supply chains.

But, yes, it's a balancing act and does depend on the cost of a bit of extra slack or "just in case" margin.
I would probably resin coat my floor instead of using urethane, but I would agree there. Even concrete floor contains silicates. I also wonder what kind of microparticles scuff off of a tile floor.

Shellac or traditional varnish are probably the only things you could put on your floor that aren't produced with an industrial process. Shellac in particular is the harvested secretions of a beetle that have been cleaned and dissolved in alcohol. But it's water-soluble and so probably not appropriate for use on a wood floor. You could also use tung oil or boiled linseed oil but you'd have to sand down to #0000 steel wool to get it to shine like urethane. Tung oil is a nice coating because it doesn't turn orange like BLO, but either one you will have to keep applying every few years or the floor will stop repelling water.

Obviously we'd end up with huge Tung plantations or Shellac plantations if we tried to replace all of our floor coverings with this stuff.
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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.

It's always worth emphasizing imo that technological prophylactics like mobile-style sandboxing are redundant on operating system distributions whose social processes of development take responsibility for things like this (auto-updating, startup behavior, default app associations, file type associations, etc.) away from apps and centralize it under the control of the user via the OS' built-in config tools.

To be more explicit: free software distros generally lack software that behaves this way, and often actively patch such behavior out of ill-behaved cross-platform applications (who also sometimes lack it themselves, in builds targeting free operating systems). The problem is, as you note in your second paragraph, just as much that we're getting our software from untrustworthy distributors as it is that our desktop operating systems do too little to protect us from untrustworthy software. In some cases, the problem is rather that our software distributors have too little capacity to intervene, both for technical reasons (e.g., they don't have the damn source code) and social/economic ones (e.g., the model is to accept as much software as possible rather than to include a piece of software only after it is clear that there is capacity to scrutinize it, sanitize it, and maintain a downstream package of it).

You can avoid 99.999% of this kind of crap just by running a free software base system and avoiding proprietary software. Better app sandboxing is great! We should demand it and pursue it in whatever ways we can. But installing software directly from unscrupulous sources and counting on sandboxing to prevent abuse is also an intervention at the least effective stage. Relying on a safer social process of distributing software goes way further, as does keeping shitty software off our systems in the first place! These should be the approaches of first resort.
The devil doesn't operate on the basis of "If" though.

Far too much of the Twitter takeover debacle has involved self-appointed Musk whisperers to translate his diffuse ramblings into something resembling a coherent business strategy. That ship sailed when $54bn in cash changed hands for a perma-unprofitable social media site full of anonymous, untargetable users.

Take out the enterprise spam, and you'll be left with celebrity spam, Youtuber spam, Hustlebro spam, crypto spam....the list goes on.

Most social media content is spam, not organic content posted 'just because'.
Optical phased arrays are a really cool emerging technology, and this is one of the silliest possible applications for them.
There is even a QR code standard for SEPA transfers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code
The app is, and has always been, "Wallet". The cancelled app was a peer payment thing to compete with Venmo, it wasn't about payment handling. Nor was it about NFC payment device handling, which hasn't changed either.
Priavcy first!
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On the bright side, I think getting the money-sending integration would be more politically viable, at which point we can just piggyback the messaging on top of it.
It's unfair. Period.

But nothing in the world has ever been fair. So unfair as it maybe, it's also normal.

General question, has any high HDI country fallen prey to the resource curse? (Maybe California and some communist nations?)

Norway has done well, and they've done very very well.... But, high HDI, no immigration, cultural homogeninity and infinite money hack does make it seem like they're playing on easy mode.

Many countries with lower starting HDI have navigated around their resource curses just as well (Singapore, Botswana).

Norway deserves credit, but it is an ineffective blueprint for nations looking to beat their own economic traps.
I had a similar experience. My only copy of the "The Dirt" the autobiography of Motley Crue. It was a hard cover that my ex pilfered from me when we broke up. I went on Amazon to get it replaced. Ordered a soft cover because it was significantly less expensive.

What came was exactly the same thing. I think the cover was legit, but the contents were so poorly photocopied, you could see the shadows on the corners of many of the pages where they were copied. Many of the pages were just flat out crooked to boot. It was comical the seller passed this off as legit.

It was the last straw for me ordering things off of Amazon. Now I try and order stuff directly from the manufacturer so I know for sure it's legit. I'm now comfortable paying more for stuff knowing that's it legit than rolling the dice on Amazon and getting a fake or counterfeit item.
I have done math in a dream before.
I have mixed feelings about the RP2040.

On the one hand, it's a great chip for hobbyists. It's cheap, it's easily available, it's easy to build a board around, and it offers plenty of stuff for your average application.

On the other hand, it's definitely a bit lacking from a professional perspective. The peripherals are fine, but once you start looking into the details it's easy to run into limitations. That XIP interface is great - but it doesn't support writing so you can't hook up an FRAM chip and expand your memory. That PIO interface is amazing - but having only 2x32 instructions is quite limiting once you try to implement more complex interfaces. And where are my Timer/Counters? No capacitive touch? Analog on only four pins? No 5V tolerance? No high-speed clock input for the PIO modules? Why can't I run the bootloader off the internal ring oscillator? Hmm, a USB-C PHY sure would've been helpful...

I was also surprised about its poor ESD performance. An Atmega or STM32 can handle the occasional zap just fine - ESD protection is more of a nice-to-have on external-facing ports. The RP2040? If you don't add external protection to every single pin you are basically guaranteed to see a few of them die due to day-to-day use.

To summarize: neat chip, great for hobbyists, wouldn't be my first choice in professional environments.
Columnar formats allow for some pretty interesting optimizations with respect to filtering by rewriting and pushing down constraints / checks; and evaluating multiple of them simultaneously, pulling as little as necessary.
It's summer for like a month. Living that far north is hellish for most people. It's not just like a colder Seattle or something.
Ok, think about it like this. It's your anniversary with your partner so you decide to commission a drawing from an artist as a gift. However, when you receive it, it's clearly an AI-generated image that was printed out.

Would you still consider that "spam"?
Maybe it's not the exact use case and maybe you know about this already but just in case, in the dev tools, if you right click on a node in the inspector you can directly take a screenshot of that specific node.
I agree I don't understand the difference? Are the calculations an NPU is capable of doing different to a GPU?

Are they not basically identical hardware?
Random and fixed routes with Apache APISIX
I had the same experince in the past thinking I didn’t sleep at all while having some sleep amongs the twists and turns but of low quality, shallow and REMless sleep which I found unsatisfying. Luckily I get that much less these days though I do sleep in chunks of a couple of hours and do wake up in between. It’s really a bad habit and probably having to do with sleep apneea.
Controversial Chick-Fil-A Summer Camp Charges Kids $35 to Work at the Restaurant
Unfortunately, questioning sunscreen use has become a popular topic among health communities that obsess over (and misinterpret) studies about chemicals.

Even Andrew Huberman, who was held up as the most science-y podcaster before people caught on that he doesn't know what he's talking about on many topics (not to mention, it turns out he's kind of a bad person) made a big deal about sunscreen for a long time.

At one point he said he was "as scared of sunscreen as melanoma", which triggered a lot of his listeners to start reducing their sunscreen use and debating the merits of sunscreen. Combine this with other podcasters like Joe Rogan pushing Vitamin D as a miracle mineral and a lot of people who think they are science-driven in their health choices are eschewing sunscreen. It's a maddening turn of events.

EDIT: Aaaand of course I'm getting downvoted for calling out Huberman. This is a good time to remind everyone that he has numerous positions like this one, such as avoiding Bluetooth headphones due to "heating effects" of their wireless signal. It's impossible for Bluetooth headphones to even emit enough power to warm your skin, but it's something he believes is true. He's very charismatic and charming, but he frequently strays from the science when he senses a good story that will engage his listeners.
January Generative Music Game
It's actually surprising how north the famous EU countries are. Already south France and Italy are about the same latitude as New England; Norway must be like Alaska as far as daylight goes. If it weren't for the warm Atlantic current the place would be a glacier.
I'm not saying the US should disconnect, but our obedience to Israel isn't doing us favors. Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is the one counterexample I can think of, and it ended.

Syrian Civil War started only 3 years after Obama took office, and I don't see any connection to Obama reducing our involvement, if that's what he did. The US funded Syrian rebel groups both secretly before the war (leaked later) and openly afterwards (the FSA), though this stopped when ISIS formed and they began defecting, then we built that coalition to defeat them.

Btw, Israel has never fought ISIS. We fought a war against the largest terrorist group in history almost adjacent to our supposed weapons-testing, anti-terrorism ally without them being involved.
Right, but the article describes a scenario where you aren't actually awake.
I struggle to remember any point at which Windows (or DOS) was great. Perhaps Windows 2000. This is Windows thirteen years in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUyxjLhAxU
I'm rendering Quake Done Quick (a Quake 1 demo) using POV-Ray. It's not fast. :-)

https://blog.habets.se/2015/03/Raytracing-Quake-demos.html and qpov.retrofitta.se

Here's an earlier video from before I added level texture mapping support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y85pVYyK2uA
Perceptions are slow to shift.

Nowadays, you can use .NET on Linux with VS Code and Ionide (open-source LSP). No need to ever talk to a Microsoft sales rep :)
Ask HN: Does last job experience 4 years ago make my application unattractive?
I am looking for a job as a software engineer. I have more than 6 years of experience, but in my résumé the last job experience as a software enginer (in particular, senior software engineer) is 4 years ago. I am applying to all kinds of roles, but no company invites me to an interview.

How can I work around this? It looks like a vicious circle. I need a more recent job experience to be hireable, but I cannot get one.

My field is backend development, so my knowledge should not be really outdated.
Use the chatbot, citizen
FDA rejects MDMA and allows phthalates- what an agency :(
The lawsuit was settled out of court (https://www.wsbradio.com/news/national/documents-detail/VUTB...). Reading between the lines, I'm guessing OceanGate (a company with substantial financial resources) would have buried Lochbridge (an individual with substantially fewer financial resources) in lawsuits if he had not settled. (Not to mention the stress, hardship, and real-or-perceived threat of jail time for Lochbridge, should the court find him to be guilty.)

If you're implying that the judge was somehow complicit in helping OceanGate ('oversaw', meaning presided over and made decisions concerning), then please provide evidence of that?
There is an app that you can use to manage your cards but you can also manage them on the web, where by nature Google is of two minds so you can use wallet.google.com or payments.google.com. The difference between these seems to be a UI with rounded corners vs. one with sharp corners on dialog boxes. On one of these sites you can check your Google Pay balance and on the other you can check you Google Play balance. Not confusing.
Generally safety is evaluated based on intended use.

The intended use of leaded gasoline is burning it and putting lead in the air.

The intended use of asbestos is as an inert fire-retardant layer. It's safe in that context. Where it's not safe is in all the work that goes into building, or tearing down that layer.

The intended use of BPA was putting it into 'microwave safe' plastic containers, where it leeched into food.

Bleach is safe to handle (carefully), but not safe to drink.
Cured fish is fine, it's the fermented fish that I draw the line on :-)
I don't think the analogy completely fits; if I bought my friend a house it's probably because I was doing something nice for them because they're my friend.

Elon is a human but he's also a businessman, and he should know that these kinds of decisions are decidedly not-personal. Elon probably has some degree of empathy and feelings, but businesses themselves do not, businesses are sociopathic.

If this were some 22 year old who just got some VC money, I'd be a lot more sympathetic, but at this point Elon had been in business for decades and had made many billions of dollars doing it. He should have known that unless it was in some kind of binding contract everything is liable to change.

ETA:

I know it comes off as cynical, but I will never have even a 0.01% of the success that Elon has, but I feel anyone who has been in the working world long enough eventually discovers that businesses kind of have to be evil, at least to some degree.

Businesses will treat you like "family", and they will try really hard to convince you that they're "family" or "friends" because they buy you lunch occasionally, but they are fundamentally not. You don't just fire a family member because you don't feel like you're getting sufficient ROI on your investment with them or because the economy takes a nosediv, you don't just snatch away their health insurance the second they do something wrong.

Elon, at this point, shouldn't really think that people he's doing business with are any more honest than any other company. If I am aware of this, he should be too.
Just think of dihydrogen monoxide. Instantaneous addiction, and withdrawal is fatal!
Afghanistan did not knock down the twin towers. It actually offered to hand over bin Laden if the US provided evidence of his involvement and tried him in a neutral country.

That wasn't good enough for the US, who were itching for a military invasion anyway, and were keen to build some military bases in a spot where they didnt yet have any.

The idea that the US follows international law is a sick joke. The idea that the country that created the Hague invasion act has nonzero respect for international law is laughable.
Hmm, interesting. I'll need to check the in-store egg prices when I go next to see if they match the website.
Raspberry pi was originally an educational non profit
Truthfully it's neither fair nor unfair, it's academic. These minerals are not actually rare, they're ubiquitous, but they're energetically and environmentally unfavorable to exploit. China does it because of their um... unique economic system, and lack of eff's to give about the environmental consequences. Everyone else would have to pay a fortune in energy costs and another fortune mitigating environmental effects, which makes them economically unfavorable to exploit.

For Norway, just like Wyoming and a dozen other places this same story has played out, this changes nothing.
Passwords.app is coming to windows (iCloud is on Windows already)
So it's fine for Norway to sell oil and buy nestle for the good of its people. But it's bad for the ultra rich to do the same?
What is new here exactly? This is AppleCash, which has been around for years.
Slipknot Self-Titled Album
Many people have had problems searching for Slipkot's self-titled album in the Spotify search engine and even on the band's home page. If you had this problem like me, I would like to support you with the direct link to Slipknot's self-titled album.

I want to clarify that, by entering the Spotify playlist called "This is Slipknot", we can find the songs from this same album, but with a version titled "Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition)", which ironically only contains two extra remixes, since The other songs, at least in my case, are not available.

In any case, if you want to appreciate the album on your own, it's easy to find, but here it is:

Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition): https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2dL9Q5AtIv4Rw1L6lKcIU...

You can also find the same songs from this album in compilation albums and anthologies, even so, the songs are spread out, and not all of them are found in these albums.

That's all, thank you very much for your time!
Thanks for the snippet. I wish it would work for all TLDs.
The Serbian campaign was ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, forcefully and methodically expelling over a million Kosovar Albanians from the area by the time they were stopped by NATO’s intervention. That does, arguably, rise to the level of genocide under the standard definitions.

Just because someone can claim something doesn’t mean it’s right. That determination is up to independent observers, experts, and courts, and tribunals.

Russia tried to claim at the ICJ that it was invading Ukraine under the Genocide Convention. The court ruled that it had to end to the invasion immediately, which Russia ignored.
The only three possible explanations I can think of are

1) Things have radically changed since I last lived there 20+ years ago

2) My view is heavily biased by only having lived in/around Oslo and the rest of the country eats a lot more fish

3) Norwegians eat a lot of heavily processed fish based foodstuff (fish sticks, fish cakes etc), but hardly any fresh fish.
The real competition is the STM32 line-up, in my opinion. Much more computing power at a comparable price. Or half price if you only need a few MHz.
Phthalates are estrogen mimics.
Is there a non-Chinese equivalent of ESP that compares in terms of module integration re: Wifi et al? (but perhaps not cost)
maybe. i put the focus on ex. be gone, it's over. good bye.
The people I’m referring to are business owners, people who made money vs just passive investing.
> The RP2040 requires careful placement of about a dozen components, including a crystal.

To be fair, the chip is designed to make these really easy to place. There's pretty much one single layout which makes sense, and it provides easy access to all the pins you could possibly want. Combine that with the excellent documentation they have provided, and it's essentially just a multi-part drop-in design you don't ever have to think about again.

It did look a little bit intimidating at first, but it was a genuinely pleasure to implement.
> I wish the post office was a bank and they hosted their own pay apps.

Lol.
> at which point we can just piggyback the messaging on top of it.

Which is exactly Google's messaging app strategy for as long as it existed.

That's how we got messaging inside Google Maps.
> Only hate speech was removed from Twitter.

Discussing the lab leak theory or writing news pieces about Hunter Biden were “hate speech”? I don’t like the idea of some label like “hate speech” because it is highly subjective. We have the notion of free speech in the US constitution because it is so fundamental to a functioning democracy. Giant social media platforms are no different from your electrical utility - if they censor, it has impact similar to us not having foundational rights like in the first amendment.
The Mazda Miata and most non-muscle car coupes are sized quite reasonably.
Megalodon was not a dinosaur. It was a fish (shark).
Are you saying USPS is not going to screw things up ?
The thing about money is that people will chase it regardless of the weather conditions if they can make enough of it. The folks out there in the Gulf of Mexico who spend 16 hour days working on oil rigs aren't there because it's fun.
Nah, the next three service will all be called Google Wallet and they'll be completely independent and incompatible.

The fourth one will be called Google Wallet Duo
>Sorry, we're all missing the context but if you don't have an account, that's all it shows.

This. You used to be able to see the comments (although they were often in a weird order) and such but after the move to X, they removed that altogether.
If I'm understanding correctly, the difference is that it's going through VISA directly. Kind of like how you can send someone a Starbucks gift card through iMessage / Messages app, without it ever going through Apple Cash technically.
How do you propose proving a negative?
Ask HN: Favorite Little Corners of the Internet?
When I tuned into SomaFM this morning, I found myself reflecting on how much joy it's brought me over the years, and how its most popular station has only a couple thousand listeners at any given time.

Stuff like this is what I love about the Internet: Sub-scale, non-commercial services run by a handful of people who are doing something with heart, that makes life better for the rest of us.

By definition, these things aren't widely known.

I'm curious: What's your favorite little corners of the Internet?