skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is looking better and better, and I really want to try it, but am unable to make the full leap.

Has anyone had experience switching between the Light Phone and their daily phone on a day-by-day basis? My daily phone is Android, I don't know if that's relevant.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Google Fi, but I could possibly switch carriers if it came to it.
To say nothing of battery life.
`pass` is an excellent case for storing passwords locally that you don't need to carry with you. I use a lot of login credentials for work on `pass` and it works great. If/when I need to upgrade laptops I can just back it up in git.

I use BW for all my personal stuff because my wife and I use it.
Like most sticky internet slang terms, "slop" stems from 4chan's "sloppa", initially used to describe gross looking food, i.e. "slop of shit" shortened to "sloppa"

Now used to describe anything that looks half-assed, poorly put together, etc.
I feel like this is very obviously what they are doing: they have a small margin on the entry config where people are a lot more price-aware, and jack up the upgrade costs to get a fat margin on configs bought by orgs and power users who generally care less about how much it costs. Frankly, I'd do the same thing.
Anyone can sue anyone for nearly anything. Whether they can win or not is the more relevant question and it seems like Don has evidence that he's comfortable keeping in reserve and would prefer to call out poor behavior and fade the risk of a frivolous lawsuit rather than keeping quiet and safe.
> What is Solo?

> Solo is a Mozilla Innovation Project focused on developing an AI website builder for solopreneurs.
Cellulose and algae are considered safe for human consumption and are also biodegradable; but is that an RCT study?

CO2 + Lignin is not edible but is biodegradable and could replace plastics. "CO2 and Lignin-Based Sustainable Polymers with Closed-Loop Chemical Recycling" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202403035

What incentives would incentivize the market to change over to sustainable biodegradable food-safe packaging?
> The EU recently mandated instant SEPA transfers be free

Small nitpick: The EU mandated that instant SEPA should cost no more than regular (slow) SEPA. We all expect this to be zero, since regular SEPA is currently free under almost all conditions, but: zero isn't the law.

Src.: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024...
Have locals adapted to this or they’re generally more depressive over the winter months?
One major difference is that the American banking market is significantly more fragmented as a policy choice compared to Europe. By share of deposits, the top four are JPMorgan Chase at 16%, BofA at 15%, Wells Fargo at 11%, and Citibank at 5%.

The fragmentation means it’s very difficult to get thousands of credit unions and smaller banks compliant with things, since the lesser regulations for these smaller institutions is a policy choice to let them survive and thrive. The US favors these to avoid market concentrations like the big cross border European bank failures in the financial crisis, and also because smaller banks lend more to small or rural businesses.
My bank account number is 14 numbers plus a suffix.
I've had good results with a nasal strip (like BreatheRight) plus an anti-snoring appliance (like zQuiet). I had a dentist-provided appliance that cost me $1000 out of pocket and broke in less than a year (when I had moved out of state); the zQuiet + nasal strip helps just as much and is an order of magnitude cheaper.
Most would agree that a trans parent is better than a dead parent, though.
> install Signal or Messenger or anything else just makes it dead on arrival imho.

? , that’s literally the selling point, that you cant install those things in this phone duh. Besides, they know what they are doing, they sell pretty well too. They churn out enough of these each year, that foxconn handles their manufacturing for this unit. They must be selling decent numbers in that case.
> Besides rent-seeking, what reason could justify preventing the community from maintaining features/microcontrollers that the organization is unwilling to (due to costs)?

Platformio I suspect.
> On the other hand: how does one determine who is rational? Once again, you're back to opinion/consensus.

I don't think that has to be the case. There are a lot of objective standards you could apply and tests you can do.

For example, as a somewhat bad example, ask people if they trust vaccines or not, and if not why not.
I live on a remote island too, but it has a bridge! Same feeling: Wouldn't want to live anywhere else!
Clicking the checkmark button from the editing view causes the header to expand until it covers almost the entire window. Using Firefox 127, macOS.
Sad but poignant during Pride month. Even in the US, we still have so many people who oppress those who are different, in gender, sexual orientation, relationship style, etc. Lynn suffered that oppression. Yet despite it, she achieved great things. I'll think of her whenever I see a Pride flag this month.
> “respect everyone” position to advocating ... no longer wanting to spend time with

So abandon a person who is being manipulated?

> isolating you from all your friends so it’s easier to manipulate

Someone is being isolated so they can be manipulated?

Thats an interesting paradox that you have created to excuse a set of behaviors on one side and blame shift on the other.
Polio measures did not focus on sacrificing the children for the elderly. COVID school and social/learning activity shutdowns did.
Looks promising - I've been using Shotstack's visual editor to create video templates but keep running into limitations. Looks like Revideo has an "editor" that allows previews but not edits? Is editing through the GUI on the roadmap?
That's a different one, that's one with auditory beeps and only two flashes. It's not the same as the illusion in the paper.
The tragedy of Wikipedia is that something like 3,000 people in the entire world are active editors (>100 edits)
I will, for a living wage plus a bit. I cannot guarantee that I can help prevent AI mistakes or come up with effective solutions to mitigate them, so my complete effort will go into 'owning' your AI's mistake. Package must include a written evaluation of my owning of the mistake that I can provide to future employers should you decide to publicly terminate me for it. And a good life insurance policy if lynch mobs are possibility.

As a 60 year old administrator whose greatest strength is with Perl, I believe this is my best option for the future.
Norway also has a weekly tradition called "Taco Friday" that a decent amount of people participate in, so it's safe to say that generalizing food habits doesn't really work anymore nowadays.
How are you faring so far? Can you join some groups of less reserved/more gregarious immigrants and carry on together?
And here I thought the gynecomastia was caused by just the beer ...
Probably, but the wing-nuts will make hay out of nothing whatsoever.

This may or may not be a good idea, but the reaction of the bigots simply doesn't enter into it. They're going to throw a shitfit regardless of what you do. So just take it as a given, write it off, and make the best choices you can for the benefit of the not-stupid people.
I don't really see how an overheating motor could catch fire. I tried! All there is is a bunch of metal with maybe a few plastic bits and enamel on the wire. It would probably create a disturbing amount of smoke though so it seems like a prudent move on their part.
I think an eink phone running full android is the perfect compromise between a dumb phone and a smartphone. Shame the light phone is losing the eink screen.

Here’s a video of me using various popular android apps on an eink Hisense A9 smartphone.
https://youtu.be/dvO9ScTdwz8

TLDR: Great for reading/text/messaging/hacker news, terrible for video and scrolling.
I failed one of those take-home projects (got about 1/3 of it in probably 3x the time) but felt it was a pretty good experience because it got me to try a kind of coding I'd always been interested in but never did.
>Well. They're not discernible states if they are in another world. That's the very definition of "another world".

Discernible in principle. Either the states are distinguishable from within the system (e.g. two branches that disagree on the state of the world), from an outside observer, or a God's eye view. If none of this is true then there is no other world.

>Now imagine creating a particle in some state and have that machine measure that state and record it internally. Provided that the particle+machine system is isolated from the environment (and us) you'd probably agree that the particle and machine are entangled and that the state of the "log" is not in a defined state until we measure it.

Lets further imagine a large collection of these machines connected in series. Each machine can perform one of two experiments at any given trial, and which experiment they run depends on the most recent outcome of the prior machine in the series (e.g. the direction of a particle's spin). There are an exponential number of scenarios as the number of machines in series grows. If we imagine this system entangled until we observe it, and we expect that the definite state is consistent in terms of which particle the machine measured and the corresponding prior outcome in the series, then the entangled system just has to carry discernible state in proportion to the exponential state space of the system. If not, then the system isn't in an indefinite state until observed. The concerns about exponential theory cost remain. Unless the state space is bounded by collapse or some other means, the theoretical cost to MWI or any theory based on Schrodinger without additional posits is supreme.

>In that sense, it's "useful" to imagine how things look like from the "point" of view of that machine and it's possible outcomes in the many worlds, although these worlds might not really matter to us since we can describe the system that includes that machine as having been in a mixed state all along until we humans actually observe its "log"

There's a tension here that needs to be released somehow. On the one hand, you have an external observer determining the system is in a superposition of states. On the other hand, you have the perspective from within the system of everything being definite. You can't just carry both forward simultaneously without addressing the disagreement on the state of reality. Either there are really an unbounded number of branches, the branches are bounded by some mechanism, or there are no branches and the evolution of reality happens asynchronously.
So needing to get yearly re-certifications in Leetcode questions is viewed as preferably by you than having to only study them for interviews? And spending 10+ hours on coding exercises, un-paid, per job is also seen as preferably by you to the current status on top of the yearly Leetcode certification? On top of a full panel of behavioral interviews? Plus needing to take an IQ style assessment online before each job (see the second item on my list)?

I'll take having to study Leetcode every few years over all of that any day of the week.
> I am not a doctor and nothing I say here is medial advice.

Was there any reason to read beyond that? This person is making a huge claim with no medical research of his own to back up said claims.
> you'd be happier than at a tropical beach with half of that money.

Waaay too warm and humid. And no seasons. Thanks, but no thanks.

My ideal climate is proper 4 seasons with sub-zero and snowy winters. I am pretty sure I am not the only one.
That doesnt say anything about accuracy or predicative power.
Sounds fairly similar to the famous Orient Express, if much longer and more unreliable.
Which plastics could and should be replaced with other materials?

"How Do You Know If Buckets Are Food Grade"
https://epackagesupply.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-buckets-a... :

> Buckets made of HDPE (number 2) are generally considered the best material for food storage, especially over the long term. A vast majority of plastic buckets that are sold for food storage purposes will be made of HDPE. It’s important to note that not all HDPE buckets are food grade; to be sure, you’ll want to look for the cup and fork logo (described below) or other indication of “food safe” or “food grade” materials.

> Cup and Fork: Elsewhere on the bottom of the bucket, some food-grade buckets will have a symbol consisting of a cup and fork on them. There may also be markings like “USDA approved” or “FDA approved.”
wow, i'd never even heard of cgas
How We Made PostgreSQL as Fast as Pinecone for Vector Data
I am in the camp that sees themselves getting rid of a smart phone in the future. Right now I've been on the "defanged iPhone" warpath, whittling down my apps to just the necessities. It's been working well, perhaps made easier by giving up social media and news years ago (feeds are harder...I've managed a 1+yr HN fasts a few times, but get sucked back in because of how intellectually stimulating it can be here).

I really want to like this phone, and applaud what they are doing. But...it's still a "phone". Aside from the obvious, how is this fundamentally different (or better) than a defanged iPhone/smartphone? When are we going to rethink this problem of how we integrate networked technology into our daily lives in a way that's healthier for us?
As someone who has build a data catalog tool and is now building one of these looked down on LLM agents(1):
Data catalogs are mostly used by technical people/the data team and a handful of power users. Why? Because it's intellectually really difficult to understand data deeply and it's similarly hard to present data to make it easy, so people just ask the people who know (no self service).

An LLM agent can shine here because a) you can give all the relevant context that is needed to make sense of the data and b) it can be personalized and proactive, so the user just gets appropriate reports when they need it, instead of wading through a "Customer360 Cockpit" with hundreds of visuals and options.

(1) https://www.getdot.ai/
Ah 38 Studios :)

It's too bad about that one, fun game for what it was.
But that's my point, what are these metrics that supposedly don't show the contributions anymore? Because the (IMHO) important ones all still show it, because they go by commit authorship in the repo, so you still get listed in the important places and can point to them.
Nice. If anybody's wondering: flipper keys are z and /, nudge keys are x and ., and if you zoom the page by about 200% (ctrl-mousewheel) you can see there's a pinball game there.
Sounds like you'd prefer to interpret slop as being a subset of spam. So all slop is spam but not all spam is slop.
It always cracks me up that you can pay an upper level manager >$XXX,XXX and they can't run BI sql queries... SQL was invented for the purpose of making it easier for managers to query data. lol

As a former sales guy/ manager I also have no sympathy for those people...
But it eventually happened, which is a good thing. Society does not always change fast enough.
This is near how I conduct business, as I cannot keep track of everything, nor can I have a non-stop scribe to note and catalog things.

AWS and several others use this in interviews.

I use STAR/SPAR:

[S]ituation or context

[T]ask or [P]roblem

[A]ction or solution

[R]esult or expected outcome

Basically, tell me the background, tell me the problem or thing that needs done, tell me all the ways it was reviewed, and the actual picked solution or action, and finally what is the expected outcome or result. As an exec I can be a stateless machine and with that set of details, I can make a decision.

Sometimes I dig into it a bit to see if proper due diligence was done, if there is real info & data is present, but once I am comfortable that the person distills it properly, it is a no brainer decision. I can say, "yes, go forth with your action/solution" or "no, because XYZ, go back and consider that" (usually from the T/PA/R areas).

There might be a way to craft this for story telling, after all, most things are stories.
> was surprised to learn that some of the highest concentrations of phthalates can be found in alcoholic beverages in glass bottles

Well, this fun fact ruined my day. Alcohol is itself an endocrine disruptor already. I just want to be able to poison myself with wine without being poisoned from the epoxies used in storage tanks or the hoses during bottling!

Anyone got a list of "clean" wineries that aren't selling contaminated product?
Apple doesn't have access to user keychains
Yes, regulation in the US requires that vehicles be able to protect their occupants in pretty extreme crashes. Part of that requires a crumple zone, which means you can't fit many people inside a small car. For example, the Smart Fortwo is small, but only sits two people, while a kei vehicle of the same size would seat 4-5. I don't see much of a market for a 2-seater car.
Demetri Martin has a great joke on digital cameras: "I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately. Just like, look at us. We’re so young. Standing right there, wow. Where does the minute go?"
Interestingly the cert expired just a few days ago.
Keychain has been around for decades, but the feature isn't as visible as third-party apps that also advertise themselves. On the Mac, you even had to go into the complicated Keychain Access utility to retrieve them.

I guess Apple just wants it to be more obvious that hey, you have a password manager already.
All major US carriers do.
Be the change you wish to see :)

I edit wikipedia casually.
I've never had to fire a bad employee. So every time has been awful. But I would have gleefully fired the bad ones had I the authority to do so. :)
I developed desktop applications a long time ago, but I do webdev now, including Electron apps. Modern web stack is just a much better developer experience. Sure, if you just want to build a simple app with 5 controls and two screens, you can remember good old days of VB6 or Delphi fondly. But for a modern complex application with localisation, reactive design for mobile and desktop screens, a lot of user content and complicated state that is changed asynchronously both from the user input and from remote events, modern web stack is actually great.

Typescript is about the best mainstream (not Haskell) programming language I've ever worked with, modern web frameworks (React, Svelte and others) use functional programming concepts in the right places without requiring knowledge of type theory, it's easily debuggable at runtime and modern css/html is actually a pretty good way to do layout of complex user interfaces.
> Can we reasonably run such a study to prove that wax paper is safe?

We don't need to. We have a "Generally Recognized as Safe" standard that is well known and widely applied.

> widely used in some significant (think 5%) portion of the industry then we allow it

How about we just label things so consumers know whether or not the packaging contains phthalates? That way the market can decide if they want it in their package or not.
Google really needs to start publishing LTS commitments on their new services - or put "beta" tags with disclosures on them - so at least you know how long they're guaranteeing support on a service you are getting committed to. The reputation they're accruing by killing all of these services is really affecting the consideration for new services. That is a very hard to measure and consider data point, but I can say first hand for my own services and those of companies I advise - this point comes up every time someone mentions electing for a google service.

Imagine considering building gemeni into your product knowing full well they will likely sunset it in a year or two or force you into the newest version (or replacement service entirely) vs OpenAI who are supporting and reducing cost on legacy models and service as they release new ones.

The other ugly side of this is the sunsetting of free tiers and plans on many products they do choose to keep. Gsuite free edition is a very good example - early adopters of gsuite for businesses were promised it would remain free, only to find that last year google walked back on that and sunset nearly all the free gsuite accounts, forcing early adopters (and supporters) to pay or get off. Google One is another example - they removed the ability for gsuite accounts to subscribe to Google One individually, and the aftermath of that was "take your data out or upgrade your entire organization to a premium storage tier per user". Zero intention to accommodate or support those users that had been happily paying for that service for years. Icing on the cake: they kept billing for it even after removing access to the service.
https://goomics.net/239/
> I have operated upon it with a non-CSV parser, but for my way of thinking, the file itself is still a CSV. You disagree here, because in order for my use of the parser to be correct, I can't possibly have operated upon a CSV file, I must have operated on a CSV-like file.

Not quite my opinion. The file is still a CSV file, but IMO the parser is not a CSV parser unless it supports the full spec. The file is still CSV, and it happens to be compatible with the incomplete parser because it does not use any "harder" CSV features.

Lets say we have a website that uses UTF-8 (declared via content-encoding and similar). Some pages on this website only uses ASCII, some uses higher codepoints within UTF-8.

I can parse some of these pages with a ASCII decoder, but that does not mean that my ASCII decoder is a UTF-8 decoder since it only handles a very small subset of UTF-8 that aligns with ASCII. In this example your CSV-lite would be like ASCII and CSV would be UTF-8.
We have a good standard in the US: is a statement a “true threat?” Violent rhetoric that doesn’t rise to the level of a true threat is a part of political expression. For example, the folks bringing guillotines to Jeff’s Bezos’s house are making a political point. So are Islamic imams advocating violence (in the abstract) against infidels.
>> store the board in a 2d array of some sort and write some functions to interact with it

thereby making it a data structure problem
I think you can have both.

I also want strong regulatory bodies doing those analyses, but I also would like to see them using reasonable Bayesian priors on safety. I think assuming the Bayesian prior that: compounds that occur naturally in our environment at concentrations and particle sizes similar to what we'd be exposed to in a proposed new product are likely safe to use. The opposite just is not a good Bayesian prior, and such compounds should require greater assurance of safety before being allowed to be used in novel ways.

The above is particularly true for organic compounds.

I'd also like to see regulation of analogs like they do with drugs. Swapping out BPA for other analog chemicals with very similar shape/composition is something most people with a decent background in biochemsitry would be extremely skeptical of. Let's say they banned BPA entirely. I'd like to then see regulators step in and ban analogs by default for the same use until proven otherwise.
I used to think of Hyundai / Kias as nearly as reliable as toyota or honda with a 10 year warranty and no 'premium'.

Over the past few years, I've been pretty appalled by the fact so many of those cars were getting stolen for the lack of 1990's tech that probably cost a few dollars per unit. This combined with the serious recalls is pulling me back towards toyota / honda / mazda as my main car makers.
Teton Pass Collapse Reveals Infrastructure Fragility
But does it have Copilot to help you play the game?
They could have momentarily raised the energy prices and a similar thing would have happened.
Well technically the line you quoted is valid and your response is also mostly valid. I guess the answer lies somewhere in the middle.