skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can scuttle and quash whatever. Almost every massively successful tech product can be given the same treatment from the IBM PC to Microsoft Windows to the iPhone.

And there were plenty of people who clicked their heels saying "there's nothing new here!" when the iPod, YouTube or Instagram came out. I used to be among them.

You can also "but wait, there's more" those products and go back and forth and say how different and unique they are. Nest, Ring,
Roku, Kindle, Uber, Airbnb...

It's a game. You either take a risk and make a splash with a consumer-friendly, consumer-form factor, consumer-priced version of something or you don't.

There's no modern printer people love and nothing in one they can get at say, Best Buy, they couldn't get 20 years ago. They're all frustrating plastic things sitting in the corner.

Making innovative, actually great printers people are excited about is a product opportunity. Brother is close, but they're the Zune. Nobody's iPhoned it.
Cisco warns of appliances vulnerable to RegreSSHion vulnerability
I have absolutely no idea how this works in Java, but in C++, there are a few reasons you need std::atomic here:

1. You need to make sure that modifying the producer/consumer position is actually atomic. This may end up being the same instruction that the compiler would use for modifying a non-atomic variable, but that will depend on your target architecture and the size of the data type. Without std::atomic, it may also generate multiple instructions to implement that load/store or use an instruction which is non-atomic at the CPU level. See [1] for more information.

2. You're using positions for synchronization between the producer and consumer. When incrementing the reader position, you're basically freeing a slot for the producer, which means that you need to make sure all reads happen before you do it. When incrementing the producer position, you're indicating that the slot is ready to be consumed, so you need to make sure that all the stores to that slot happen before that. Things may go wrong here due to reordering by the compiler or by the CPU [2], so you need to instruct both that a certain memory ordering is required here. Reordering by the compiler can be prevented using a compiler-level memory barrier - asm volatile("" ::: "memory"). Depending on your CPU architecture, you may or may not need to add a memory barrier instruction as well to prevent reordering by the CPU at runtime. The good news is that std::atomic does all that for you if you pick the right memory ordering, and by default, it uses the strongest one (sequentially-consistent ordering). I think in this particular case you could relax the constraints a bit and use memory_order_acquire on the consumer side and memory_order_release on the producer side [3].

[1] https://preshing.com/20130618/atomic-vs-non-atomic-operation...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering

[3] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order
> when you say "expansion in poverty" I'm assuming you mean it attracts the poor to the city (ie moves them), and not that it actually creates more poor individuals

Both of these can be true. A larger available labor market of less skilled workers lowers wages.

Low wages lead to more poverty created.
Are there any examples of banishment working with so many people? In the past when you lived in a village where everybody knows everybody else it seems like it could work. With modern large cities you could just move to another part of the same city and never see the same people again.
JumboGoSlowTelco?
Correct, it's a joke.
It's true that the library doesn't stop you from shooting yourself in the foot by duplicating UI references. But you can limit the effect of this with a bit of design work. I'm currently iterating on a few ideas, but this lib is only a week old, so I'm still thinking my way through it.
I found crawlee a few days ago while figuring out a stack for a project. I wanted a python library but found crawlee with typescript so much easier that I ended up coding the entire project in less than a week in Typescript+Crawlee+Playwright

I found the api a lot better than any python scraping api till date. However I am tempted to try out python with Crawlee.

The playwright integration with gotScraping makes the entire programming experience a breeze. My crawling and scraping involves all kinds of frontend rendered websites with a lot of modified XHR responses to be captured. And IT JUST WORKS!

Thanks a ton . I will definitely use the Apify platform to scale given the integration.
Unfortunately, I think ads are going to get worse before they get better. The huge hotness in marketing right now is using AI and the trove of data to write personalized ad copy for every recipient. Right now it's expensive enough that not a ton of people are doing it, and the ones who are are only targeting a small niche of people, but I expect that the economics will improve quickly.

Given Microsoft's full dive into gathering personalized information, integrating those collection pipelines deeply into the operating system, and integrating AI into the OS, it seems likely to me that personalized ads are coming to a Windows system near you.

On a related note, gnome weather is minimalist, very lightweight, and entirely ad free.
> I don't know how it got so out of control

Because you won’t say the reason.
If only you could directly access the DOM or other browser APIs. I understand the GC proposal might help with this (?).
> And here I am, avoiding downloading things on cell service because it might negatively impact other people around me.

You paid for that service, they should be able to provide it to you. If it negatively impacts other users, that's the provider's fault.
How are the rental ones (and scooters). I do not have a smart phone (and live in a rural area). I go into Austin now and then for a day or two and am reluctant to use sisters e-bike because of the hassle of taking care of it (when going inside a building). Rentals can just be left on the sidewalk.
A Message from Etsy's CEO: Strengthening our commitment to creativity
"we have identified an interoperability issue [..] in which random temporary
radio traffic disruptions are incorrectly recognized as legacy switch power
toggles"

Yeah right, this is some nice BS. These lamps are driven by Zigbee, Please explain to me how "random radio traffic disruptions" are able to disrupt a protocol that has built in proper AES-128 encryption.
There’s a documentary about it called “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.”
i'm sure the drinks menus will prominently market and upsell it as a luxury you pay even more for
Interesting, when I zoom in to 300% the T in TLDR is exactly 3x taller than when at 100%. Seems to be an embedded Google Doc though so the canvas does a weird recentering jerk on viewport size changes.
Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
> Why is mass tourism such a problem today and not the 90s/2000s

Back then was mostly Western tourists, and maybe a smattering of other folks. Now much of Asia has caught up, as has Eastern Europe and parts of MENA. Volume has just increased.

Cheapo flights like RyanAir + cheapo accommodations like AirBnB also make it feasible for less well off folks to travel. Again, just spiking the volume.
Great question. So right now the library is using xpath expressions under the hood, which are more powerful than css selectors because they can query for content as well.
They're portraying this as ensuring handcrafted stuff, but "All items on Etsy must be either: Made by a seller, Designed by a seller, Sourced by a seller, Handpicked by a seller" is probably unenforcably broad.
What apps can one currently use to run them on say an iPhone? Only aware of the MLC one which has literally 3 old models only
If you want to run a perfect dictatorship, just wait a few years until private companies have built perfect surveillance technology and infrastructure for the whole country. Then take it over and you have tools that Hitler, Stalin or the Ingsoc party of “1984” could only have dreamt of. And as long as profits keep flowing, private companies will happily cooperate.
It's very, very obviously a joke.
You have a tenuous grasp on reality. Regardless of your views on Taiwan being a country it is indisputably true that U.S. carrier fleets are a primary reason China can’t invade, blockade, or otherwise disrupt the integrity of Taiwan.
This is nearly identical to the massive issues with retail and car theft that we have in San Francisco.

The uber liberals will say “oh they’re just trying to feed their families” while there are endless low skilled jobs (since the pandemic) available that pay $20+ an hour.

The reality is that current policing and prosecution rules/prosecution practices make being a retail thief more convenient than getting a job. Nothing is going to change until the punishment becomes a deterrent again.
I did not read it as a joke. Granted,I'm not American and English is not my first language.

In a way it made me think "wow, it had to be an American who doesn't care about others than him and is rude and self centered"

Which is stupid a stupid generalization I know. And also goes to show the ambiguity of written language. And how strong our preconceptions can impact our judgement (as it did mine initially).

I'm overthinking this haha.
Add it to the list of reasons that I don't want a computer in my lightbulbs. I know a lot of you have had fun creating the smartest homes and there are definitely some legitimate use cases. But mostly I just want an inexpensive LED bulb in the usual color range that will last a pretty long time, and I can control with a switch. Generally I would rather have a smart switch than a smart bulb.

We talk about inflation a lot these days, but not too much about simple things being over-engineered to the point we can't afford them anymore. And companies apparently have little incentive to produce real budget options anymore.
I do think the global mega banks are too big to fail in ways that other entities are not. You can force their assets to be wholly absorbed by other entities, like the Obama admin did with WaMu and Bear Stearns, but you can't liquidate them like a normal company.

Nor can you try to slowly unroll their assets piecemeal on any normal human time-scale, and big parts of the organization's 100's of billions of dollars of value prop are things you can't sell in the first place, like principal arbitrageur status.

I'm not defending the banks here, and in fact this is one of a few large reasons why the US has had such huge conflicts over establishing both a national bank, and national governance of the banks. It begs the question, if these entities hold such a huge portion of the nation's financial destiny in their hands, why are they not beholden to the public?
My experience from visiting many many of them is that 80-90% of small venues don’t even bother with scanners.
It is sustainable if the amount of biomass taken is less than the amount of biomass generated per area.

It is green in the sense that logging a forest net sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. Yes, even if you burn the wood. There's still carbon left in the ash and from discarded branches, and forests are most productive when regrowing.

You are right they are not healthy. The air pollution generated is nasty and even with a good catalyst stove cannot be reduced very much.
> FedEx, which has a secretive, private police force

I find that way more interesting than the original article. Reportedly, Tennessee authorized FedEx to have its own police, with full law enforcement powers.

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2004/02/29/fedex-h...
No, they gave up too late! Instead of chasing trends out of their lane, they should have been working on the robot vacuum everyone wanted them to make. They only released their first robot vacuum this year[1] because they were side tracked making EVs and wireless headphones[2]

1: https://www.dysoncanada.ca/en/vacuum-cleaners/robot/360-visn...

2: https://www.dysoncanada.ca/en/headphones/zone
I can see this is a problem but I see teenagers (and adult for that matter) doing similar things in cars (and larger trucks and SUVs). I do not know how to stop them either.
Sorry, but you've not understood the planning process. If the "mad" councillors were wrong to block planning permission, the applicant can request a review by Planning Inspectorate, which is a national body. The appeal process is independent of the local council and will be reviewed by a planning inspector.
Did Dyson do this?

Do you have details of the planning application which was refused? I looked, but all I could find is one that was approved in 2014: https://www.insidermedia.com/news/south-west/116246-dyson-wi...

And this approved in Jan 2024: https://development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/planning-applicati...
These are paying customers, discouraging them from coming back is a net loss. Suppose your cabin includes a shower but you need to pay every day to actually use it. Nobody would think that’s reasonable, but because internet used to be difficult companies are still tacking on insane fees even though the actual costs are minimal.

With Starlink you’re looking at a lot more than 15mbps. We’re at the point where some cruise lines offer free Wi-Fi and people still see multi megabit connections anyway.
> You're the one asking the question, you can provide your own scheme

Well, I'm responding to someone else providing their scheme for everyone else to use.
Google search turns up a number of commercial options

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=extract...

For open source there is

https://github.com/tramyardg/CVparser
https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser

which are rules based. A modern approach would be to use a model like T5

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/t5

Training something like that would take a few thousand resumes though.
I thought you might like this, as my other blog posts went down well! Let me know if you have any questions.

Here's the last ones:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842116
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31987713
App for making money through social tournament
Hi Hackers,
Money can give Freedom, and people trade their years and months to make some money to live freely, but many never get to live freely because the money making mechanism is itself slow and takes up major time in their One chance at Life.

From the philosophy that ‘Get rich quick is possible but Get rich easy is not’, I have been researching for years to minimize the money making time for humans.
From all the options that are given to us to make money, there is nothing legal and non luck based where I can do some activity NOW, win it and make money out of it.

All the tests and exams we write are for further exams/classes/jobs. There should be a test that humans can take whoever wins by performance receives direct money.

So the idea is simple, people enter a social tournament of a very simple and universally playable skill based game, the winners receive the pool money based on their performance.
By this system we can reduce the money making cycles to minutes.

As this is a zero sum game, steps have been taken to reduce their spending for making it a low risk- high reward scenario.

Please let me know what you think about this concept. I am presently building this system and would love to get any input to fastrack my mission to give Liberty to at least a merit based section of the society.
Availability, partition tolerance, and self-organizing maps
I honestly don't know how to respond to this, it's too vague.
As the article explains any Wise (a fintech popular for travel debit cards and cheap intl money transfers) that had USD balance was exposed with the breach.
Mostly.

I still wish that there would be no liability until money changes hands between the parties.

According to your link, liability still may exist if the FOSS project is a "commercial beneficiary." Does this mean that there could be liability even if the third party doesn't pay for it, just because others do?
Yes, and then your main kernel image is no longer on ZFS and you lose the ability to reliably roll back your root dataset. Everything is a trade off. I reboot my workstation once a week for a kernel upgrade, so an extra 2 seconds of boot time isn't even a consideration.
CVE-2024-6409: OpenSSH: Possible remote code execution in privsep child
At least they're not EVs going full throttle.
This makes the most sense given that is precisely the power cycle behavior. Maybe even something with the firmware is causing a hard/soft reboot of the lightbulb which is the same as a power cycle to the software..
If you're an establishment selling to wealthy consumers, which is the market in the kind of places they're targeting, then your clientele does respond to kind of outrageous gimmicks like this. They're seeking novelty and pedigree. Then it comes down to: if you can entice customers to pay some X up charge, pay Y for the ice, and X > Y, then it's worth it for everyone involved to ship that stuff around.
I'm teaching people dev with sqlite, and DB Browser is a few tools I recommend them to download (alone with VSCode and Meld)
It's going to backfire on the libertarian's massively. Environmentalists are going to weaponize Chevron and bring polluters into court in massive numbers. Judges now get to interpret Congress's vague rules instead of the agencies. Some judges will interpret in favor of the company, others in favor of the environmentalists. So companies will not have a clear idea what the actual regulations are. Uncertainty will reign, and uncertainty is bad for business, even worse than harsh but clear rules.
It really still is the case that most if not all consumer motherboards don’t have built in graphics. For the most part especially on the intel side, they’ve relied on the iGPU in the CPU for output for probably 10 years now
Police shouldn’t be able to share any kind of data with any private entity without public approval.
I have two hue bulbs. I made sure to get the BLE version with no hub.

In the rare scenario I change one from 20% brightness and red color (we did this for a nightlight when feeding baby, but then loved it), I do so manually by opening an app and connecting.

I can’t imagine dealing with all the “smart home” stuff people get into.
Food regulation is one thing. What's stopping a sitting president from directing his party's governors across the states to appoint judges favorable to their politics (already happening the last 4-8 years). Wink wink, nudge nudge, they get "tipped" after the fact by big business XYZ (the supreme court ruled this is not considered a bribe) to do some terrible thing, sure, here you go.

It's long been an open secret that our politicians are for sale to the highest bidder but it's very difficult for me to understand how the mask can be this far off and people don't know, realize, or seem to care all that much.
Indeed, not many facts in that article. For example it claims that "Estonia is unique in the amount of land still covered in trees" (50%), and yet that is only 5th highest in Europe [1]. Finland has a tree coverage of 73% [2]. A hundred years ago Estonia had a tree coverage of only 30%, so forests have expanded a lot in Estonia since then [1].

Sure it looks ugly when a forest is cut down, but some types of plants are waiting for just that chance to sprout (adapted for forest fires), and in western countries forests normally grow up again after being cut down.

[1] https://www.eramets.ee/forests-in-estonia/

[2] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7750867ad5cf467998492fc...
Always interesting to see how people try to spin Diego Garcia vs PRC in SCS. Chagos/Diego Garcia case another reason why US will never ratify UNCLOS. Reminder there's now actual ITLOS ruling (as in official UN) against UK vs Mauritius. Also reminder that there is no actual formal ruling (as in ITLOS/ICJ) against PRC for SCS - PCA PH vs PRC is not formal UNCLOS case since PRC not subject to optional arbituation clause - hence ITLOS has no formal position on the case. PCA has the legal status of a high school essay. Post ITLOS Chagos ruling, UK (by connection US) is now worse violator of UNCLOS/international law than PRC in SCS... as in actual UN international law, not make believe rules-based-order law. Extra spicy drama now US/UK can't even maintain the rule-based-order wank between friends.
Target and Walmart have internal crime forensics labs and sometimes assist police on public cases.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/csi-w...
Perun had a good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tou8ahLZvP4

tl;dr - there are nuances and differences in how countries define and employ these systems. You'll likely think differently if your country is at war and/or in the middle of the drone war developments.
Middle launched from mainland China at a carrier fleet 1000 miles away isn’t going to hit with the current missile technology. Missiles are great at hitting fixed targets. They have some room for adjustments and maneuverability but not enough as it currently stands. Pinpointing within 100ft where a carrier is in open seas is highly nontrivial.
The numerous countries submerged in misery due to US intervention certainly would welcome a lessening of its power.
I remember hearing over a decade ago that when correcting for that by comparing similar jobs, the gap actually flips - women out-earn men by a very small percent (like somewhere around 2-5%).
First glimpse of a big problem in the future.
Reminds me of the possible excess power of P/Poly versus P. Also does anybody remember the general name for circuit complexity classes where the circuit itself has to be written out by a simple Turing machine (I thought there was one but it isn't on the tip of my tong).
There's a fascinating video of a fellow trying to make a ring out of Purple Gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Pcp944sRI&pp=ygUQcHVycGxlI...

No, I hadn't heard of purple gold either.
Better yet, get rid of patents. Patents are what prevent competitors from rising up and that are run by more ethical entrepreneurs that care about their customers.
I think the smartness should be optional and decoupled. A smart switch is nice, a smart bulb isn’t.
Empty set idea doesn’t seem so abstract. A bag of stuff can have nothing in it, so it’s empty. Combining and splitting up containers of items would have been an everyday occurrence.
Florida's Cyber Security Act prohibits paying or otherwise complying with a ransomware demand.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ... (canonical legislation reference)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240222015607/http://www.leg.st... (wayback for https)
"Suppose you entered a region that was labeled: "In the next 10km, you will see managed forestry""

Really like this idea. In reality, though, the Estonian state forest management council seems to put more PR-efforts in showing how they also preserve wilderness, build camping trails etc. They don't seem very confident in showing "actual forestry" to the general public -- but, it is, obviously, also not an easy task these days, especially considering that e.g. clear cutting and usage of harvesters is ethically questionable to many people.

I think for these "In the next 10km, you will see managed forestry" signs, the whole society would need to become more mature at first. As in, foresters should have more acceptance for wilderness preservation, and the general public should have more acceptance for the forest industry.
It could power simple agents like Siri under the hood. Helping with natural language understanding, intent classification, retrieval, and other agent tasks.
Enshittification explained with bad AI clickbait.
So buy one of those simple bulbs. It's not like there is a shortage of them. I like my smart lights.