skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Race for US Technical Talent: Can the DoD and Dib Compete?
Kia Issues 'Park Outside' Recall for 2020-2024 Telluride Vehicles for Fire Risk
Ask HN: Problems You Frequently Encounter
My co-founder and I have just closed a chapter in our lives and are about to embark on a new set of challenges. Before we get ahead of ourselves and build something no one needs, I would love to hear if there are:

1) any problems you frequently encounter that you would love to see go away
2) any tools you currently use that feel overly bloated and complex

Feel free to answer in the comments below or use the following form if you prefer: https://tally.so/r/wvBEKv

Thank you!
Apparently "we".
But what features are unique to the payed ones? The Firefox one already checks if your accounts was found on a leak, it has the complete set of feature you would expect to "CRUD" your passwords, integrates with the virtual keyboards in iOS and Android so it's easy to fill login forms on any app and by virtue of being part of the browser has perfect integration with the browser, autogenerates random passwords for you and finally it syncs all your passwords across all your devices (plus all the other things that firefox sync syncs). And again, works on all relevant platforms no exceptions.
Flow Computing raises $4.3M to improve CPU performance by 100X
They don't need to reasonably define a hate crime. Being scared of a hate crime is enough. And if they're scared, they've been given reason to be scared. And the person giving them a reason to be scared should be watched. If you don't want to be locked up for a hate crime, then don't scare people into thinking you're going to hurt them.
Good thing ARM laptops are becoming ubiquitous. Tuxedo will have theirs, but so will Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and many others.

And Apple, but the Apple ones are on a different league. I use Apples as the Unix machines (and heirs to the NeXT lineage) they are, and I install Linux on the rest, whenever possible.
"What's the problem if you ain't got something to hide? And who would possibly want to even live without a smartphone?"
The post says, about SIMT / GPU programming, "This loss results from the DRAM architecture quite directly, the GPU being unable to do much about it – similarly to any other processor."

I would say that for SIMD the situation is basically the same. gather/scatter don't magically make the memory hierarchy a non-issue, but they're no longer adding any unnecessary pain on top.
Well, because they keep asking me how to log in after they forgot their password for their Live account. Or, how to keep using windows live mail, since it's been replaced by this Mail client, which is horrendous. Or, how they decided to drop support for older drivers and now, after getting Win11, they can't use their scanner.

And while trying to tackle that I am bombed with these ads, that propagate products which are expensive, or subpar or both.

I need to get the T-shirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer" :)
Arguing that an argument is bad simply due to logical fallacy is also a logical fallacy.
I am so confused though.

Some data says Norway is the second country in the world by amount of fish eaten [1][2]

[1]https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-upda...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_seafood_c...
A faithful remake of the good ol’ Minesweeper is at https://minesweepergame.de/

Since it’s a PWA, you can also install it.

It’s also open-source: https://github.com/phartenfeller/minesweeper_js
But how can anyone prove safety here? On anything? I’m unaware of any substance which isn’t dangerous or harmful in some context. Even sand!

What is the actual bar?
That's farm life for all of history minus the phones
Mozilla is explaining why you'd enable a feature they defaulted off.

Those benefit from a sales pitch.

If anything, I'd say it's the opposite problem -- that, instead of a marketer, they left the marketing speak to an alpha nerd and no one else proofread it.
I am confused, Bowlero is public traded, not a private equity company. Looks like PE bought it in 2017, then went public via SPAC in 2021. I'd bet that most PE got out at the IPO, and retail shareholders will end up being the losers here.

So PE can't take all the blame or the continuing blame.. The bankruptcy of AMF and Brunswick was a large catalyst.
In terms of cheap things to try, I'd like to recommend trying a nasal stent. I don't snore because I side sleep, but do if I'm on my back, and I suspected some minor apnea was taking place regardless of position. The stent has noticeably improved my sleep quality.

If it doesn't help, you're out twenty bucks, if it does it could literally add years to your life.
Coming up with and quickly adopting new terms to sound "hip" is one of the most important skills for AI practitioners. We've had "agent-based" concepts in CS for decades, but if you're "in" you'll of course refer to "agentic" workflows and the like.

It make sense to come up with terms to describe common patterns: Chain-of-Thought, RAG etc. are good examples of this. But the passion some members of this community have for being intentionally confusing is tiresome.
RP2040 has single handedly reinvigorated a really niche market: custom controllers. Due to the wonderful work done on gp2040[1] which is open source game pad firmware, people can buy cheap, quality, fightsticks and leverless controllers for a lot cheaper than they can from vendors like Victrix or Razer. Not only that but because its open sourced the hobbyist side of the controller community are building RP2040 pcbs to accommodate all kinds of projects and weird controller ideas.

[1] https://gp2040-ce.info
A GraalVM native executable can start faster than a C program. Think tens of milliseconds.
The book is very much still relevant
Show HN: A cartoon intro to how the attention mechanism works
I started to draw cartoons to make complex concepts in AI more accessible to the rest of us. Hope this is useful & lmk if you have ideas or feedback!
Show HN: Play Pictionary using only emojis
I made a fun little game while I was learning how to use websockets. Play in teams with friends or strangers to get your teammates to guess the answer, but your clues can only be emojis! Check it out and let me know what you think.
Thanks a lot for sharing this.

How much does the net cost come out to for a run? (Am not a startup.)

Also, any smaller datasets you would recommend that still demonstrate some useful capability?

Thanks.
A simple TVOC & HCHO meter at home should imho be a low-cost first step, indicating a need for improved ventilation, or for eliminating questionable sources of the gassing. The alcohol hand sanitizer sets off the TVOC reading though.
Evidence-based decisions matter, but so does extreme caution when considering the scale and widespread impact. There was no evidence against leaded gasoline… right up until there was, and by then everyone had been breathing exponentially-increasing amounts of lead.

So maybe let's be conservative when considering compounds that live permanently in the environment, are damn near impossible to remove, and are spreading widely to every part of the ecosystem yeah?
I'd say the website was already broken. I'd rather block content than have insecure resources fetched with a potentially sensitive referrer. That is, I don't want `https://example.com/why-does-my-butt-hurt` to fetch `http://media.example.com/spacer.gif` over the coffee shop's open wi-fi.
Whatever the tipping point is, it must not be that far off from how much you eat to be satiated in general. Go running or work out and its hard not to feel hungry later, unless you drink a protein shake or eat bigger meals that day.
Are engineering, design, and logistics just sub fields of marketing? Is this really how people use the word marketing?
Remedy would also include appealing this judge's ruling, IIUC?
I was surprised to learn that some of the highest concentrations of phthalates can be found in alcoholic beverages in glass bottles (Table 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460375/ )

This occurs due to the plastics used in producing the alcoholic beverages combined with ethanol (alcohol) acting as a solvent to liberate the phthalates

I was equally surprised to learn that the food industry was already moving toward using fewer phthalate plasticizers already. More recent sampling efforts have actually found fewer or sometimes no phthalates at all in tubing, whereas decades ago it was ubiquitous.
AMD P-State Linux Patches Updated for Heterogeneous CPUs
Customers who paid for a Retina display can apply their hardware to use cases which fall in the simplistic market segmentation between headless SBC and slate.

The utility of a working Retina display need not be limited by unsupported and insecure software when connected to public networks.
Today's AI is not to blame for anything because those AIs lack agency. Take a good look at the theory and real-life algorithms and soon you will realize that GPTs are just better parrots. Tools that they are the blame does not lie in the tool, but in the user. Not unlike guns.
It depends on the definition of "new". With some definitions, we may claim that nothing is ever new — we may say computers started with the Antikythera mechanism and abaci, or maybe before. With other definitions (like "new" as in a "new for most people") we will see that Apple has brought about many new things. So we need to agree on the definition.

I used the definition of new somewhere between "new for most people", "newly popular", and "meaningfully advanced from the previous iteration". With such a definition, I think you can agree with me.
Appreciate the info. That it's not new doesn't change my opinion about it all that much. I'm sure that in practice it probably resembles a restraining order, and requires a certain level of likelihood that said harm will come to pass.

But in the end it's the state that has the latitude to broadly restrict the movement and behavior of an individual who hasn't committed an offense.

That is too much power to entrust in the state, and poorly justified.
The Lightning has plenty of times since I am confident I could get it repaired or replaced easily. The Cybertruck... not so much.
If I have the bare minimum of messages between the two of us establishing that I'm buying something from them, what the price is, and I hit the "Turn on For Purchases" button then I will absolutely get my money back. Have done it multiple times.

I'm not sure how you took "will protect a purchase agreement" to "will protect a random unspecified transfer."
Agree that starting apps up at boot is normally pretty annoying. But, it seems like a nice feature for a web browser. A web browser might host a user’s whole universe of programs. I mean, it seems like a nice to have optional feature.

After Ubuntu switched from a native package to Snap (I think it was), Firefox first startup times got bad. It is objectively not a big deal, but it feels awful, like using some crappy old pre-SSD computer.

Anyway, starting the program before the user asks for it is a pretty hacky and ridiculous way of solving this artificial Snap-induced program (and I don’t think it was the motivation). But it would technically work I guess.

What a mess.
But no one wants that, bank numbers are too much hassle and typing out 34 digits is error prone.

Everyone in Europe also uses Tikkie, Blik whatever else service in other countries.
Normally I’m conflicted when a big tech company comes to stomp on a market of smaller app makers but the password manager industry has left me with little sympathy.

Years ago I bought 1Password via a one off payment and set it up to sync via my iCloud Drive. It all worked great. Then they took VC investment and quickly every new feature was locked behind a subscription gate. I switched to Bitwarden. Then they took VC investment and I’m sure will end up down the same path (and you could never use a third party storage service with BW AFAIK). A password manager’s remote storage doesn’t need to be anything other than a safely encrypted SQLite file, you ought to be able to save it anywhere.

I think everyone should have a good password manager in 2024 and non tech inclined folks shouldn’t have to battle with upsells and spammy notifications as a price for being secure. If that means they’re using Apple’s offering, so be it.
Golang Weekly: Issue 510
You'll soon no longer be able to find anything of use via traditional search engines. How will we keep improving AI models when the amount of 'slop' in their training data starts to outnumber the real content?
Win11, for me at least, came with a bunch of phone-app style solitaire games by "Random Salad". I can't find where the executables are: I suspect they're in the hidden folder Program Files\WindowsApps, which tells me "you don't currently have permission to access this folder" and then "you have been denied permission to access this folder". I just disconnected the internet and tried opening one of these games: it span a loading icon for about a minute, then sat with a black window for ages, before finally showing a phone-app card game with spontaneously bouncing icons (one of which would apparently turn ads on) and web links and a generally sketchy feeling.

Windows used to come with a pinball game by Maxis (Will Wright, of SimCity), which was awesome.
What the article describes at the end sounds a bit like how many folks' memories may work. At least mine often has that issue unless I consider those memories.

A year afterward, there wasn't any inconvenient gap there, it was all like a quick training montage, and 1 -> 2 -> 3 nicely spaced. "I didn't spend months writing that proposal, that was like a week tops wasn't it?"
Which indications are those? Honest question. I don't know much about this. Since plastic is one of the most biologically neutral/non-interacting materials I've never been too concerned, though I suppose in certain forms and over certain amounts it could be harmful?
Daytime Astronomy: Huntsman Telescope Tracks Stars During Day
Better get your money out. They locked mine up and refuse to settle up.
Maybe we can give Elon Musk a chance to be Microsoft's CEO.
June-Sept in most places in Ireland has a mean daily temp of around 15C, and around 6C winter time. It infrequently gets much above 20C, or much below 0C year round. 5 consecutive days of 25C is the meteorological definition of "heatwave".

As a predominantly temperate maritime/oceanic climate it's unpredictable and erratic, from 15C mid-winter days to 4C mid-summer nights :/

Plenty of grey and wet though.
I call it Twitter whenever I want someone to understand what I'm talking about.
Please don't waste your time on this. It's emblematic of a company that doesn't know what they are doing and you probably don't want to work there. There should at least be some sort of skill-fit screening on their end (quick casual chat or specific filters on resume) that doesn't require you spending hours of your time doing unpaid work.
Very solid point and why it matters. I wonder if other browsers are or will do the same.
> so many things in it feel so incredibly familiar

I get this reading a lot of old texts. "De natura deorum" in particular struck me as downright uncanny. I've seen this exact discussion play out time and time again in discussion boards in the early 2000s. The only thing that's a bit off is that the tone is civil and level-headed.

Like the thing is 2000 years old, how long have we been having these arguments?
...and it doesn't use mass storage at all, blocking access to it in a clunky way to prevent simultaneous usage.

UMS seems like a nice idea when you first hear about it, but it doesn't really offer much once you look at it closer. The only proper argument for it is "no special software needed", but it a world where picotool is `apt install picotool` away that's not very advantageous anyway and only causes automount annoyances.

UMS shines where you have a device with a filesystem in its flash that you can access to actually manage the files stored there. Super useful for stuff like MicroPython. In contrast, pseudo-mass storage like on RP2040 doesn't seem very useful at all. It makes it appear more approachable, but only superficially.
> cults

So many people cut off their family members based on political identity in the last 8 years.

You're free to do that. But cutting off people who aren't "in" your group is one of the signs of a cult.

Scientology is even OVERT about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconnection_(Scientology)
Thanks for all of your rational contributions to those many threads, Jeff.

It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look. If I was pressed for an opinion, I would say that I wish Eben had taken the high road and gone all in on supporting PIO despite the tangy mystery aftertaste for the simple reason that it would be a net-positive for developers.

The way things stand, migrating away from the Arduino IDE to using VSCode with RP2040 feels like you're being actively messed with; there's so many projects and forum posts that sound like the right path, when it seems like the actual answer should be super simple. This is super painful for newcomers.
Subscriptions may be a 'good financial model' for the business, but are rarely a good financial model for the consumer.

If I am required to pay you monthly for a product there becomes less and less reason for the owner of said product to improve the product. With the hassle that comes with switching password managers (even for myself, I provide three families with this product (my parents, my sisters family)) there is a lot of friction involved with leaving a product that is stagnant that I am paying monthly for.

I was much happier with 1password when i was able to evaluate their new major version, see if any features of it were compelling to me and my extended family and make a decision wether or not it was worth the asking price. Generally speaking a major version wouldn't get huge changes over it's lifetime, maybe some bugfixes, maybe some ui improvements around it's new features (could also be considered bugfixes), any security issues that cropped up. At that point their development staff was more focused on brand new features for the next major version.

I think what we ran into, partially, with 1password is them running out of ideas for their next major version. A password manager, to a consumer, is not a super complicated product that requires a bunch features, a lot of the work is in the encryption and security which isn't really consumer facing.
“Gacha”, that’s a new term to me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game
Skimmed about 2/3s of this. It's unclear to me if code needs to be specially written to run on the NPU.

Normally I think of something like CUDA to get code running on a GPU. Can code targeting a CPU or GPU automatically be sped up running on a NPU? Or does code explicitly need to target the NPU?
> Getting a refund for the "broken" equipment is a standard ebay RMA process, and Craigslist/meta-Marketplace returns can be a bit more complex.

But the equipment isn't broken: it's perfectly-functional. Some third-party putting the GPU's serial number on a naughty list is no reason to demand (nor approve) a return. Even assuming that spoofing is impossible (it's not) and the GPU was involved in illegal behaviour, why assume the seller knows that? Not everyone plays your video game.

> This is pointless, as there are several anti-cheat queries companies can run,

I'd say it's pointless because you can just instruct your computer to report a different GPU serial number. There's no reason for a cheater to replace the hardware: the only reason to replace a GPU is if it's faulty, or you want a different GPU.

> > This reads as condescending

> It is not my call what companies do with problematic users.

That too, but: what you've written reads as condescending.

> And MTG events also bans cheats for marked decks, and pulling unfair tricks that violate the rules.

Every time someone writes a criticism of the ban methods, you start defending the bans. There's some kind of miscommunication going on here.

GPU serial numbers are not a good proxy for people you want to ban. The burden of this fact should fall on the decision-makers, not everybody else. "Guilty until proven innocent" is not usually considered just.
> Unless Elon is a moron

He very well may be, but he is also seemingly human (sometimes, at least). He provided the major funding with a certain goal in mind. It would be hard for any human to not be unhappy to see that go to waste.

I mean, if you bought your friend a house to provide them with what you saw as needed shelter, and then said friend decided to tear down the house and use it as fuel for a fun weekend campfire, you'd probably be unhappy too – even though logically it isn't for you to decide; you chose to give it away. 'Tis the way of the irrational human.
> Is the technology not there yet?

Your system of government isn't there yet.
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The person who wrote this article has been on a Twitter tear for months about how the police (and not the campus police) need to shut down campus Palestinian protests. The chutzpah to turn around and bash Canada's government for outlawing hate speech. He's been advocating the police shut down campus Palestinian demonstrations for months!
I'm with you. What were people in the early 1900's using rare earth metals for that they would be used up by now?
I was, and I just might re-subscribe to it, I'm getting tired of how increasingly useless Google is becoming.
As someone that blocks ads with a vengeance, I'll turn off my ad blocker when advertising companies turn off their privacy invasion, and stop running ads for criminals and scammers.
A bunch of comments here are roughly "there's not great evidence that these are harmful" -- but is that the right standard? Or should there be an obligation to provide evidence that something is "safe" in order to use it in some consumer applications (like food packaging)? It's tempting to say that we should conclusively establish that something isn't harmful before we use it absolutely everywhere ... but what standard of evidence would be both achievable and ethical?

Because generally people aren't getting acutely ill after eating food from a plastic package, we're left with the possibility that accumulative impacts over years might be harmful -- but it doesn't seem feasible to run long term studies where a treatment group is exposed to plastics for decades and a control group is not. It hardly seems achievable to do correlation studies, because you often don't know what's been in the packaging for all the food you've consumed, which may not even be in your control.
> Is there a way to do everything from the commandline with FOSS tools and without installing e.g. the Arduino-IDE?

Yes. In fact, the official getting started guide[0] is all command-line based, with an optional chapter later on about using VS Code if you wish.

I have a low volume product in production using the RP2040 and I've never once opened up any sort of GUI for developing the software or programming it.

[0] https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/pico/getting-started-with...