skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pi Pico is not a "huge form factor". It fits better on breadboard than pretty much anything with an ESP32 on it (since it's less wide), and it provides access to most of the RP2040 pins. Since the PIO can drive a lot of pins at once, this lets you really unleash the RP2040's power to do things like DVI output. Having access to more pins is something many people consider a plus not a minus.

As to your other points, I wouldn't mind more flash but I don't think the amount it has is particularly small. The micro USB, though, is a disappointment, though.
> outside of a very small number of patients with serious, often hereditary sleep issues

He is likely referring to FFI.
This is a genetic disorder. You cannot "catch" it. Your anxiety won't cause this.

If you are the kind of person who "can't sleep because you stress about not sleeping", then you can ignore this, your sleep issues are due to anxiety.

And the good news for people who have sleep issues due to anxiety: At some point, your body will win and force you to sleep.
With TSA precheck, you have to be fingerprinted, no?
Yes, but why should I even bother with Zinn especially when his talk was basically to take him at his word/narrative, over other, better sourced accounts of how the US Govt is lying to me?

(* some of which comes from other parts of the US Govt meant to keep tabs on certain other parts of the US Govt)
(*granted, also this assumes the US Govt is one monolithic entity when it is anything but)
> there is no chance that this particle size sensor is anywhere close to accurate. Accurate sensors will cost $500-$10000. Why? Because that's the cost for accuracy.

Did you use circular reasoning?

I would love to see some comparisons between cheap and expensive gas sensors. It's probably out there.
Can you give examples of the issues you mention? Or are you merely scare mongering?
I would say that as of today, the Middle East is destabilizing Europe right back. The US got off easy.
I’ve long suspected marijuana has a similar effect, in that it “helps” you fall asleep by making it harder to remember the process of falling asleep. It’s widely known that marijuana inhibits short term memory formation. (I could be wildly off base)
Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder
>if there is no critique of the founding of Jordan, which was given as a gift by the British to the Hashemites for helping them during the Arab revolt, then I think this is a problem.

That can also be criticised. Although what is tend to get lost in these type of arguments is that, it is entirely different to give assistance in ruling a patch of land versus literally displacing people from their land and homes and imposing military control over them.
Yeah, I've done some dream yoga [1] practice and this is a common instruction in those texts for inducing lucid dreaming as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga
Related: retro PC stuff.

https://github.com/polpo/picogus

Emulates all kinds of sound cards, including the Gravis Ultrasound.

https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/ISA-PicoMEM

Emulates a memory extension, but also so much more stuff.
> A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks.

Sounds like some of those 1970's miracle filters, that would let you fuel your car with microenergized water and hand-waves, instead of gasoline.
"... because no one ever comes up to you in business and says "hello, do you want to sell your soul today?". That's not what moral compromise looks like."

Actually. it looks exactly like that. It can also be more subtly, but is usually more up front.
Is this another Mill CPU?
Some ideas for an open 'digital hub' device
> sports, etc

Just going to keep pointing out that human beings have very little sexual dimorphism compared to the other great apes, and that any difference is any sport that does not actually employ the genitals is probably more down to food access and/or training disparities than actual “significant” biological factors.
It wasn't readily clear to me that this was an obvious pipe-dream.

I remain cautiously optimistic. There are often large performance gains left unclaimed for the purpose of "generality". My favourite example is Postgres vs TimescaleDB; by exploiting the structure of certain tables (in the case of TimescaleDB, time-order), we can get better performance -- but of course that only works with time-series data.

Could it be that by focusing on parallel operations in a separate chiplet, these workflows can be made much faster? Maybe someone here has the background to tell me why I should be more pessimistic
That's not what they meant or what the phrase means. It's mildly racist and misogynist, and the kinds of discomfort it elicits are not the kind that will make people trust you, the user of the phrase.
As a cynical, seasoned pro, I loved it and I love the ideas behind it.

The only note I have is that I don't think it's really accurate to say this approach wasn't possible in 2004. I was a working web dev in 2004, and from that perspective, what we did was pretty close to what the talk describes.

Intermediated by commerce, certainly; as I recall having put it one day in that same job after hanging up a call wherein had occasioned a request that $400 a month of backhaul be provided free of charge, it's nice there's folks out there trying to save the world, but some of us have to earn a living. ("You said you were a web dev. Why were you talking to anyone about backhaul?" I pulled cable too sometimes, in those days. The mid-00s were a different time.)

And of course there were no LLMs involved, that technology then still being much the stuff of science fiction and allied fields like futurism. Even so, though: none of us had any real idea what we were doing, but we knew how to figure out what worked and what didn't, and that was usually enough even if the level of trial and error, and the lack of rigor, were shocking by today's standards. (I wrote my first SPA, a triathlon registration system for an org that lots of folks in the DMV might recall if I mentioned a name, in 2011. Imagine my surprise when two years later, on leaving my local backwater of web dev for the mainstream, I discovered that was what I had done, when I thought I'd just been trying a wild idea I was sure would fail, because it was that or lose the contract that was keeping the business afloat...)

Honestly, the vision described in this talk is a lot more like the kind of life I thought I'd live, when I got into this line around the turn of the millennium. It'd be easy to take an overly rosy view, and maybe I am. But then too, it'd be good if not every quarter-square-mile neighborhoodlet in my city had an intimate dependency on Amazon in order to function, too.
When to Design for Emergence (2022)
Thanks for calling that out, I'd like to read more about how that went. I'm considering what the best move for me is now, obviously with the terrible market and obscene competition, whether to try and leverage the amalgamation of skills I've built up and just push harder as a contractor, or pivot entirely down the meme path of trying trades. Being in her situation would perhaps be more wildly more difficult, but for different reasons and in different circumstances.

What also struck me about that snippet of the story, is that the context for what a career meant might have been a bit different than now. A career at one single company seems like quite a rarity these days, and we wouldn't necessarily consider it to be a career restart if you're just going to another company, unless you're perhaps of a certain generation.
Show HN: Congressional Fundraising Leaderboard
This article and others say the Corporation pretty much does as it pleases. There's a "conspiracy theory" that says that the City instigated Brexit to avoid EU jurisdiction.
Yeah that's what the synchronization is for - the precise frequency doesn't matter except for consumer devices that use it as a clock signal. If the hot line is at 120V and you're a quarter cycle out of phase at 0V, all of that energy is just going to flow directly to your circuit and destroy something. Since the frequency represents the spinning of large turbines, a power plant going online out of phase is essentially slamming their turbines into a massive external force (things go boom).
Removed - conversation tone not right.
Interesting, I've been using raycast clipboard that even stores images. Instead of cmd+shift+v i use cmd+shift+p which is much quicker to pull up.
Arc Prize Guide
Apple is glad to have some potential future competition for its $20 billion search contract with Google.
Cool.

> it has associative arrays

Zig also has a variety of generic data structures in the standard library for this purpose, HashMap and ArrayHashMap and variants. The main limitation in the current implementation of comptime is that it can't handle heap allocations, so these can't be used at comptime yet. D has a garbage collector, which makes that sort of thing easier. It's also about fifteen years older, which also helps.

That limitation won't be there forever, though, this is just the immaturity I referenced in my first post.

But fair enough, you've convinced me: D is also a language which has improved on C++ templates using compile-time execution.

Looks like C++ itself is another such language! The last time I used it was well before the later constexpr and immediate mode function features described here existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile-time_function_executio...
> Company prestige matters a lot.

It absolutely means fuck all in real terms.
Tech stocks keep going up
Anyone see how much higher the market keeps going up? I am firmly bullish and believe the market has higher to go, yet still things seem so frothy. This goes to show the power of corporate profits, but also ignoring the ebbs and flows of the news cycle. The market is evidently not deterred by high inflation or high interest rates, and a lot of people heeding such headlines sold in 2022-2023 at the worst possible time on such fears.
Not a single mention of Open Source Software. The author is missing a huge piece of the puzzle.
A very helpful and practical reply, thank you. Good to see how this
getting more practical for everyone. Sure, there are 'issues' with
HSMs, but in general they make for better security for operators that
fully control them in the ways you've shown how.
WIPO Launches UDRP Portal, Forgets to Secure Response Form
30 seconds. TSA has the stereo 3d cameras at a lot of ID/boarding pass checkpoints now, but all you have to do is say "no camera thanks" (and hold some paper over the lens if you want) and they will check you the regular way
Filtering out that sort of thing is either too expensive or too complicated to bother with.

> We're coming back around to the pre-Google era of search engine result quality.

A solution is just to formalize this process. Does a site have a high reputation? Then return its results. What makes a high reputation? Can't really quantify "quality content", but you can say "a lack of slop", good citations, and fact checking.

There's really no such thing as "reputation quantization" (as far as I know), but it would certainly help address the "slop" problem.
Every quantum physics interpretation agrees that these universe-branches multiply for any isolated quantum system until a human makes a measurement of that system. They only disagree on what happens when and after a measurement is made.

Even the Copenhagen interpretation agrees that if you do the two-slit experiment with a single photon, that one photon will traverse all trajectories to reach the target screen.
Well, the broader context of the proposal is as an alternative to the original comment in this HN thread

> Well, a 89-day "update-and-revert" schedule will take care of those pesky auditors asking too many questions about NSA's backdoor or CCP's backdoor and all that.

As a backdoor I am taking it to mean they can compel assistance from inside of Apple, it's not a hack where they have to break in and hide it from everyone (though certainly they would want to keep it to as few people as possible).

At least in the NSAs case I think it would be reasonable to imagine that they are limited to compromising a subset of the users data. Specific users they've gotten court orders against or something... so yes a subset of nodes and also circumventing user diffusion (which sounds like traffic analysis right up the NSAs alley, or a court order to whatever third party Apple has providing the service).
I have had this problem and my assignments really stress that it doesn't even have to be done, we can look at in the meeting and possibly finish small parts together or talk about work that'd be done. But still people do sometimes do far too much and it's not the positive signal they think it is.
Harness this power for good, put “P =? NP” on your alarm clock.
> the cynical seasoned pro

Im that guy.

She is way off the mark on some trivial points in there and they are easy to overlook.

Right now the big players are pouring money into hardware. There is a lot of talent out on the street. If they aren't resting and vesting in those orgs what are they going to do?

It's possible for a small team to bootstrap with ZERO money.

How much do you need to earn enough to support 3 devs? Apple only takes 15% if you make less than a million a year. Is that a staff of 3? They only take 15 percent of subscriptions!!! That dosen't include android.

If you dont piss away money on on cloud (vps), on everything as a service (login, metrics) the economics are amazing.

There's room in the market for 1000 founders who do very well, you wont be google but you can live a more than comfortable life.
Didn’t try your app but as a longtime Maccy user: What is Maccy missing from these 4 points?
Note that you can click on a row to see information about corporate donors, congressional stock trades, and more.
You can write assembly for NPUs although the instruction set may be quite janky compared to CPUs. Once you've written NPU code you need some libraries to load your code but that's not particularly different from the fact that CPUs now need massive firmware to boot.

Back in reality, that's not how any vendor intends their NPUs to be used. They provide high-level libraries that implement ONNX, CoreML, DirectML, or whatever and they expect you to just use those.
The author clearly reads HN or used to. I’m curious if he plans on pursuing this further. Sounds like the last investigation wrapped in 2021 and he may have even gotten a cash injection to upgrade some of his kit. The last update kind of leaves you hanging!
> Unlimited PTO can potentially be a red flag depending on other aspects

The key on this one is to then ask your interviewers how much PTO they usually take per year. If the answers are below what would make you happy, then that's a problem.

At my last company with unlimited PTO, at my height I was taking ~8 weeks per year. I was highly productive and my boss knew that even losing me for two months out of the year, I was getting much more useful work done than most people who were taking 2-3 weeks. (At least I hope that was his thought process, and not just that he wasn't paying attention.)

> Business model that is not generating any revenue

Do you mean profit? Not generating any revenue either means they're very young and don't have a product yet (fair to not want to work on something like that, but every company has to go through that phase), or that they have a product but are somehow not charging for it at all, and don't have any other monetization strategies like ads (gross) or selling user data (even grosser).

But if you limit yourself to only companies that are turning a profit, you're essentially saying that you'll mostly only work for older, established companies, and for the most part nothing that's VC-backed. (Which, again: fair, but also pretty limiting.)
Hackers steal "significant volume" of data from Snowflake customers
that is fair, I did a lot of robotics research in University so I may be a bit biased :p
It's not a type system loophole in the sense that the type system is supposed to contain subtyping as a feature. In Java you could be unhelpful and pass every argument as type Object. (Of course the language allows you to cast the type afterwards.) That's not the fault of the type system it's the people using it. Do you hear people proposing to ban the use of Object in function arguments? No? Because it's a style issue not a type system issue.
I also had the turn-off-the-alarm problem, what seems to have solved it for me is building "snooze" into my schedule. My alarm is always set 10-15 minutes before I actually needed to get up, with a 5-minute snooze, and ever since I haven't had issues getting up at the intended time.

Best guess is it helps with waking up slowly over 15 minutes instead of being jolted awake when the alarm first goes off.
Ask HN: Multicast over UDP vs. Multicast Mellanox Infiniband
I'm working on a pet project involving multi-cast. Unfortunately I don't know enough about how this scales.

Consider a network of 50 Linux machines connected to 1 TOR switch. 10 processes in this network are multi-cast transmitting long lived streams of data. Other processes in the network may or may not elect to listen to these mcast packets forwarded by the switch.

Is the following true?

* If IPV4 UDP multi-cast is used, the switch is obliged to forward all mcast packets to all 50 machines.

* If Mellanox Infinband mcast is used (and the TOR switch is infiniband compatible) the switch is not obliged to forward the mcast packets to all 50 machines. In fact, Mellanox Infiniband does mcast with subsciption. Receivers subscribe to a mcast channel (address). As such the switch only forwards mcast packets to subscribed receivers.

All-in-all, the Mellanox mcast approach is net more efficient. The switch forwards fewer packets to targeted receivers meaning all the work to get the packets into each NIC of all 50 machines, then into the kernel, and into the receiving processes is eliminated.

In contrast the UDP mcast is net less efficient. For example, if there's a machine with no listening receivers, that box would still get all mcast packets from all 10 producers only to be dropped somewhere in the kernel.
Offering a choice of generative ML tool provider is much better than locking everyone to ChatGPT, though admittedly it feels un-Apple-like to do either of those things as opposed to building in-house.
so let’s take this article that was posted today, it was on the front page for a while that did not get flagged

https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience...

Who is this guy? I can’t find a thing about his background on his blog and why I should believe anything he says in that article. I even looked for him online and nothing comes up. Maybe other people know who he is but I can’t figure it out.

So it’s not really about The source it’s about the content. And if it’s about the content, I find that disappointing that there’s no discussing about it. If I had a bad idea, it can be easily disputed In a discussion.

And I’m not talking about practicing medicine, that’s why I said I’m not a doctor. I didn’t say I’m not a doctor, not because I wanted to say I wasn’t smart, I was saying I’m not a doctor because people shouldn’t, use what I talk about as treatment.

I’m sorry because I’m really just writing this out because I have Asperger‘s and it helps me understand these things. I mean, the people flagging it might not understand science, but there’s may be a lot of people here that do understand the science and we would talk about it more. And maybe even show me something that’s wrong. we learn not Through agreement but Through disagreement.

And the thing is, I’m not just saying things I’ve cited everything. I’ve said all I did was link together the previewed articles to come to a new hypothesis That even setting, the article needs to be tested.

Anyway, I’ll Leave it there, because at least I know how to read the room. Thanks again for your patience.
Why investors are going gaga over a tiny, $35 computer
Can I guess it's AI-generated?

It has the same forced-to-BS-beyond-real-knowledge feel. It gets most of the outlines right-ish, but just hallucinates a bunch of other stuff.
I'm more suggesting that bad decisions should be litigated against fast-and-early, so other companies aren't encouraged to follow in Apple's footsteps. If every company had their own Lightning connector, there would be no choice but to force them all to converge. The original sin is letting it happen at all, in the first place.
Strip Clubs vs. Academic Fraud: Which Is Worse?
Also posted a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633667

And 8 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644940
iOS 18 makes iPhone more personal, capable, and intelligent than
Overintellectualizing
Yes. State Dept already has my photo from my passport, fingerprints stored by DHS aren’t that much more (Global Entry specific).

I trust federal agencies more than private corporations, having seen the inside of both.
When dreaming, if I try to do math or anything difficult, my mind does a nifty trick where it just skips all the hard steps and gives me a result.

I must usually accept these results, but occasionally, I don't, and that's often when I realize I'm dreaming - I literally cannot conjure up those steps at all, they simply don't exist.
"Boiled" linseed oil is not actually boiled, to save costs they just add metal salts to catalyze the polymerization. You can get linseed oil without the heavy metals, that is actually boiled: https://www.triedandtruewoodfinish.com/products/danish-oil/
Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library
Yeah maintenance has been a major problem lately.

But this route has delivered iron ore reliably for probaly 100 years now. The iron ore from Sweden was (somewhat paradoxically) the main reason Hitler invaded Norway.
You caught me, I was weak in the face of ridiculousness. Keep on keeping on, you do a great job keeping this place halfway civil.
The lawyers who blocked Elon pay demanding a $5.6B payout
Source article: https://www.mastercard.com/news/europe/en/newsroom/press-rel...
While it's not fair, what I've settled on is this: if they can't spend for in-house recruiting, they probably can't afford me. This is based on ~20 years of this consistently happening. Again, not fair, but I have limited time to do job searching and empirically 3rd party recruiters have always hit a dead end.
I'm very skeptical that 1.25mg of CBD alone could have any impact on sleep outside of placebo.
No, I meant the cumulative latency that increases with every hop. You can’t fool physics. Not proxying is just faster and in case of an already super-slow server these seconds matter to any UX designer worth their salt.