skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On iOS the “problem” for a third-party app is that there is no mechanic by which it could always listen to your mic, and trigger actions based on keywords.

Only Siri would be able to do that on iOS.

Therefore, no third party can “become the platform” on iOS for voice assistants.

But who knows. Maybe EU will force Apple to open up for that at some point, like they forced Apple to open up for third party App Stores on iOS in EU.
AI is increasingly used to prescreen resumes for a lot of these high-applicant jobs in tech. The Hiring Manager is probably looking at 10% of the resumes that come in after AI has screened them. I'm working on a side project that tailors each resume for the job description to get past these AI filters. It's called https://CustomizedResumes.com. I'd love to hear your feedback on the idea.
Air pressure at airliner altitudes is still about 20-30% of the sea level value. That means 20-30% of the atmosphere is above that—a column of mass equal to 2-3 meters of liquid water.

A thin lead sheet would be a rounding error next to that.

This is an oversimplification that's rather wrong, but: a decrease in altitude of just 300 meters, at airliner levels, puts an additional atmospheric mass equal to ~1 cm of lead (Pb) above your head.
I understand, but I also won't participate in those and will actively work to undermine them.
As a Canadian, I would not get scared to invest in the US if the US adopts a policy of nationalizing every industry owned by countries it is at war with.
lol! I worked at Rabbit and left after reading through the codebase and being gaslit by the execs
dear god, where is this list from? surely not hand curated?
Behavioral interviews seem like the new way to reject candidates based on "culture" without saying that though, because saying a candidate was rejected due to "culture incompatibility" can be taken as a bias or discrimination.

I interviewed at Netflix. The market is tough right now and they pay really well. I really wanted to pass.

I did great on their tech rounds. Their "culture round" is notoriously hard, people throw out advice like "read the culture memo". I did. Now I have no idea what I did "wrong" in the culture/behavioral interview with the first hiring manager, they passed, they gave me no feedback, but they still booked me for an interview with another team. I also failed with that hiring manager.

Is it because my "EQ" is bad?
long story short: your data sent to china
"What are you going to do to fix it?", ask the people who broke it.

This has been a strategy for decades now. https://front.moveon.org/20-years-of-gop-strategy-in-one-lit...
I've been commuting under my own power for almost three decades. The health benefits are great, including the it feels so good to move myself across the land rather than burning stored solar energy that heats up the planet too quickly (at the scale we have been operating).
I grew up listening to Tom Lehrer. My father (a physicist, taught at UC Berkeley) loved listening to Tom Lehrer so my whole family got to enjoy such classics as “Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life” and many other very funny songs.

BTW, search for “Tom Lehrer” on YouTube Music - they have a lot of his stuff.
The telltale sign of the ipc binary suggests this is probably one of the SoCs looked at in https://openipc.org/

I tore down an ankya brand device which had some fun features like setting up the wifi password by showing the camera a QR code
Really? In my Amazon interview last month for a SWE position they asked a LeetCode style question after the initial phone screen about writing a social network data structure (a directed graph) and then asked me to write a method to traverse it to n-depth.
It should be, but if the teacher is teaching you multiplication and you are struggling because you haven't reviewed addition in a while, the teacher will probably just yell at you.

Only the most dedicated of teachers will review addition with you yet again before moving on with multiplication lessons. After all, there are dozens of kids in the class, they can't all delay the lesson just for your sake.
There's no "consumer rights" in B2B transactions.

Unless contractually specified otherwise, it's generally up to the buyer to check the delivered goods for defects and report those without undue delay*. If this is not done, the goods are deemed to have been accepted.

Sure you can contractually specify that the product has to meet certain specs and pay extra for the seller performing QA, but the default often is "you're buying whatever comes out of our factory, check the goods yourself on delivery". The reason things are done this way in the business world is that it is generally cheaper to accept certain failure rates than to perform testing at every step of the supply chain and add a whole lot of bureaucracy and complications because of returns.

Whether custom contracts existed in this case is unknown, but it is likely that Infineon notifying customers was already a courtesy. They could've just said nothing.

* Under German law, which likely applies here since that's where Infineon sells from.
isn't apple getting so far out of the tiny phone game they've cancelled all the minis and even cancelled the next iphone SE?
Agreed. But I wouldn't ever deploy the above with any requirement to actively provide radio comms back to me as the host. They would operate with autopilot, gps waypoints, and engage based on ML models.
Average salary? Salaries are determined by the size of the company, how much value software engineers add, supply of software engineers, and the location of the office.
Which 2020-2024 policies have harmed the economy?
Using programmatic SEO to grow from from 0 organic traffic to thousands
To be sure, Puerto Rico is a territory of the US. I imagine that making deals with China as you describe would draw the ire of Washington, if it's even "legal" in the first place.
Cool write up!

The software looks garbage and the company doesn’t seem great either at this point.

But if it’s easy enough to run custom apps on (even/especially) in kiosk mode, I could imagine some pretty interesting use cases for this form factor.

Bonus points if you could just slap something together as a PWA too, as then it gets much quicker than programming an ESP32 + battery + screen, and in what looks like s pretty nice self contained unit.

Would be nice, ideally to be able to get it running more secure / without any Google services, something like GrapheneOS.

Having not looked at what’s out there (yet) does anyone know if people are using them in this way for custom single focus apps or have any pointers?
This looks amazing. I do wonder though, how long it'll last before Apple C&Ds it.
container of znc
https://hub.docker.com/_/znc

and irssi is the way to go
> a proper explanation (which I didn't find skimming the article) needs to cover why tech is more influenced by that than say travel & leisure sectors.

Sure - the explanation goes like this: in the tech industry, a larger number/proportion of these jobs are in pre-revenue/growth stage companies (as acerbically categorized by OP). The difference between a growth stage company and an established company is that the growth stage one needs more capital to fund its growth. The cost of capital has risen rather dramatically, therefore the total workforce these companies are able to fund has shrunk.

P.S. Love the "slugs through the hourglass" meta tag find!
See more info here: https://psychology-tools.com/test/meq-30
Not to Google Voice though, because Google loves nothing more than orphaning communications products.
How much of the consequences of a poor life style can be mitigated by simply reducing the chronic inflammation response by the body?

I'd love it if cheap shitty food wasn't bad for me. At the end of the day a calorie is a calorie and many animals handle the stuff that shortens our life with no problem.

Look at it another way, if dogs can't eat chocolate but humans can, is the problem with chocolate or with dogs?
He lost me when he boldly declared that correlation IS causation based on one chart.

Complex systems are a lot more .. um .. complex than he suggests
That's one of the reasons that they are best done by experienced HR personnel.

Good HR people are worth their weight in platinum. I used to work with one whose thumbs down became an automatic "no" from the team because we discovered that she was so good at reading people that everyone she didn't like inevitably threw off massive red flags in the rest of the interviews.
The climate movement wasn't taken seriously 70 years ago, but as people see its effects more and more and the more you live and remember that you could actually walk outside without AC and not melt the more its strengthened. So I highly doubt what you say.
Hard to say without phones available that cater towards other needs. I'm waiting for one that brags about not having access to most functionality outside of phone, gps, sms, and camera.
Indeed fastest growing OSS project. I love the support and active slack community.
Precooling or supercooling can maybe help a bit in a few areas but it won't make a huge difference in terms of solar power for AC. Most buildings don't have the thermal mass or insulation to gain much benefit. And you can't cool buildings below about 65 °F / 18 °C or else the occupants complain.
No need to search for long, for instance Sonnet recently outranked most GPTs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/anthropic-clau...

If it's not 'every month', it is at least improving regularly, like every other new revolutionary technology.

Don't understand the downvotes though.
Learning depends a lot on self-commitment and the time you invest.

Great teachers know how to motivate students and keep them excited, which is crucial because many people give up during tough times.

But doing that at scale wasn't possible - until now.

Self-learning platforms had low completion rates, and cohort-based courses (CBCs) were seen as the future during COVID. But it turns out drop-offs are similar in CBCs since everyone learns at a different pace.

If we can learn from AI versions of the best teachers, it would be a game-changer. We could see massive improvements based on outcomes.

This is the closest we've ever been to matching the results universities can predictably produce. It'll be interesting to see if this works.
I find the ways in which things work less interesting than the ways in which they do not.
Ask HN: OSS / Did you ever ask somebody for help with your project successfully?
This is great, it's the streaming iPod I always wanted! Preordered.
Check out these Wikipedia articles:

Confabulation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

Hallucination
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

What drove the AI industry to blow off accepted naming from psychopathology and use the word for PERCEPTUAL errors to refer to LANGUAGE OUTPUT errors?

When AI hallucinates, and AI people already use the preferred term “hallucination” to label confabulations, then what’s the new word for “hallucinations?”

How will we avoid serious errors in understanding if hallucination in AI means confabulation in humans and $NEW_TERM in AI means hallucination in humans?

Just seems harmful to gloss over this humongous vocabulary error.

How can we claim to respect the difficulty of naming things if we all select the wrong answer to a basic undergrad psychology multiple choice question with only two options?

It feels like painting ourselves into a corner which will inevitably make computer scientists look dumb. Who here wants to look dumb for no reason?

I don’t want to be negative, but is using the blatantly wrong word for confabulation a good idea in the long term?
Mine are ONVIF-discoverable and will expose RTSP (H264 and H265) URLs and a snapshot URL. As I mentioned, they are 'dumb' (video and snapshots are their main purpose), and it's the security hub that makes them smart. No cloud-based remote access, your data stays on your device.

If you decide to check it out, and feel free to ping me (email in profile). I am proud of these things, for the reasons you mentioned :)

https://monitoreal.com/pro/monitoreal-camera/
https://monitoreal.com/pro/security-assistant-spartan-i/
https://monitoreal.com/pro/monitoreal-relay/
> That sounds like something straight out of a scifi film since the 80s is not exactly known for great advances in personal computing.

That is jaw-droppingly ignorant. That's the decade that gave us the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, ... the rise of online bulletin boards (BBSes). Communication speeds in consumer equipment going from 300 bps to past 9600. Graphics resolutions rising. Quality audio becoming available: from speakers connected to GPIO lines for square wave toggling, to 16 bit stereo samples at 44+ kHz sampling rates. Memory sizes, complexity of applications, ... games! Mass storage: from floppies to tiny hard disks (like the IBM PC/XT's 10 megger), to much larger disks. Home printing: dot matrix/daisywheel to laser. HP LaserJet: 1984; Apple LaserWriter: 1985.
Imo, there are two kinds of programmers: people who can write code to build stuff, and people who can write code to build stuff and are also conversationally fluent in the theory behind writing code. The second group is 5x more useful than the first, and coding interviews are testing which group you're in. Often the first group doesn't think the extra skill of fluency is important, which is fine, think what you want, but they're definitely wrong, and I wouldn't want to work with those people; when there are actual problems to solve I'm going to go looking for people in the second group to figure them out. A terrible situation is to end up with a team of entirely people who can code but can't theorize about code, because they'll build a mountain of crap that other people have to rebuild later.

(Now it's true that some people can't theorize quickly, or in front of someone else, or especially in a stressful interview where there's a lot on the line. Those are real issues with the format that need solving. Not to mention the "esoteric trivia" sorts of questions which are pointless.

But the basic objection that "coding tests aren't testing the skills you need in your day job" is absurd to me. They're not the skills you use everyday, they're the skills you need to be able to pull out when you need them, which backstop the work you do every day. Like your mechanic doesn't use their "theory of how engines work" every day to fix a car, but you wouldn't want a mechanic who doesn't know how an engine works working on your car for very long either...)
L10 is generally the Vice President level at a company like Google or Facebook.

The vast majority of engineers will never make it to L10.
Not a startup, but a winddown (wind down)
> ActRed went almost exclusively to Trump

"ActRed" isn't a thing, and the shooter didn't donate to "ActRed".

> it's equally possible that he's just a conservative never Trumper

Of course it's possible, but it's more common for someone to register as the other party to vote against them in the primary than it is to donate money to a PAC of the other party.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-tru...
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-crossover-voting-gop-prim...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/o2yiyq/should...

> the great work of the Lincoln Project

No.
More employees make number go up.

Back when interest rates were near zero complained hired more people than they needed. The money was really good too, I was making more money 4 years ago.
Light-weight solar-powered flying robots are coming
How to make complex Chrome extensions: a zero gravity guide
Lots of fuss to make sure you stay on the CopyBits fast path… no masking, rectangular regions, no format conversions, color table has identical ctSeed, and you can even get a pointer to a lower-level, specialized version of CopyBits if you need.
Or… the market has been enabled to spend more by elaborate and ever-expanding finance products, which in-turn underwrite pensions and other institutional investments, and that has inflated prices.

Would there be as much viable demand at a given price point if you could only get a "salary x4" mortgage like you could 15 years ago? Or x2, 25 years ago? We're x10 now.

Not controlling lending is the biggest economic failure of the past century.
Lovely answer full of helpful details, thank you!
Training advanced writing skills: The case for deliberate practice [pdf]
The dissents, not the opinion
Thank you for providing the detail I was scant on.
Yeah, at best I've seen is it gets you in the pipeline without being ghosted, but you still jump through the stupid hoops.
This patent is just for the business owners vanity. It's clearly not defensible in courts. Even if it was, they probably don't have the money required to pursue court enforcement of the patent. More so when any reasonable lawyer will tell them they'll get their case dismissed anyway.
A great article which will go in one ear and out the other of the people who actually follow Vitalik. The other day he tweeted a pretty anodyne statement about how getting vaccinated against covid is good, and was mauled in the replies by his supposed fans. I imagine it's a special circle of hell to be an extremely intelligent person whose hordes of fanatical devotees are all some of the dumbest people alive.
The latter is the assumption most of us are making. People tend to refer people based on an intrinsic understanding that 1) I know what my friend likes and I think they will like working here and 2) I know what my employer likes and I think they will like my friend.

No2 is usually formed by a good understanding of how a company measures success in any given role. You'll find the same principle applies to good recruiters. The more a recruiter understands about how your company measures success, the more likely they are to submit candidates that will pass your interview process.
Hmm, I always interpreted the title of the movie with the current/conventional meaning of 'quick'.

There are two kinds of people. Those who are quick on the trigger. And those who are dead (because they were not quick enough ..)

It was an entertaining movie! Several big name stars.
I'm in the UK. I buy the cheapest t-shirts in bulk from Primark. They're still going.

I bought them about 7 years ago for 1 pound each. I think they're 2.5 pounds now.
Nobody would collect all this by accident, especially when considering the purpose of the product…
The typical software engineering employee at a company like Google will be L4 or L5. Staff-level (L6) and higher is a relatively small percentage of employees.

The base salary and bonus component will be in the ballpark of $200k/yr USD (base salary * 15% of base salary). Annual RSUs will often be $100k/yr.
The problem is this has happened more than once and, not 100% certain, it appears to be the same person doing it twice.

If that's the case they've repeatedly committed a crime and shown clear understanding they're breaking the law.
TikTok Loses First Court Challenge to EU's Big Tech Crackdown
Reverse engineering is often interesting independently of whether the actual device was interesting.
The idea is that while the newly trained junior could leave they would choose to stay to continue receiving the benefit of further training.

It pertains to the build vs exploit cycle of managing opportunities, it’s in the workers interest to stay in the build phase, it’s in the companies interest to stay in the exploit phase. A case could be made where the difference would be split where the worker on average spends some time in the build phase and some time in the exploit phase. Accepting a lower salary for continuing training is one way to do that.

Training isn't supposed to be one and done, with a single build phase followed by a constant exploitation.

What companies are trying to do now is even worse by starting in the exploration phase and staying there.
The n-gram Language Model
I'd argue some pants-on-head stupid declinations and arbitrary genders for every noun is a much more compelling reason to learn a language early than orthography.

English is probably one of the dead simplest languages of use to learn later in life.
> So, if you don't support one candidate, the only choice you have is to vote for the other one.

That is the old way of thinking that got us in this situation in the first place.

There has never been a better time than now to carve a new path. The two parties are dying.
Why do people care what others care about?
I think my perfect phone would be if Apple chopped an inch or an inch and a half off the bottom of the iPhone 12 mini and ran a slightly improved watchOS on it.
I think you underestimate both the value and importance of individual action by users.

The best tools for preventing tragedies of the commons are collective and individual desire to do so.
Taking action and paying personal costs are incredibly important.

On the flip side, it is extremely difficult to force change top down without people willing to lead by example.

Looks at any place with nice commons and they are maintained though widespread desire to do so by individuals. Japan isn't free a litter due to harsh fines, regulatory action, and policing.
Pragmatics of Formally Verified yet Efficient Static Analysis and Compilers
Poetry is a dependency manager for python projects (https://python-poetry.org/). A lockfile is a generic mechanism to serialize mutations to a resource, in this case, probably the file that stores the project's dependency configuration.
Possibly useful hardware components or package for cheap.
OP used swiped content to deliver this info.
This.

Most money is spent in manipulating English media. Only fractions for other languages. It makes a difference.
Sometimes you need to lead by example and bear costs if you want change.
OK, in this vein, why oh why did Lyft and Uber remove their apple watch apps? I just need an app that's a single "take me home now" button so I don't have to worry about my phone battery dying when I'm out and about. Pretty please?
i find myself mostly agreeing here. I am still very new into my carrier so trying to avoid being jaded. What's the solution for people like me that want a new position? Get good? Connect more?
That's absurd. Everything that civilized humans do, including producing renewable power, incurs non-zero environmental damage. It's just a question of how much damage we're willing to accept and what trade-offs we're willing to accept.
Because there are sometimes interesting things that get thrown in the garbage. The author clearly doesn't care about the product as a product (otherwise they'd have bought one new, and this article would be completely different), they care about it as a technical puzzle, with secrets to uncover.
Get your battery replaced?
I also record every package I open, but actually Amazon never asked for proof when I file a claim. Maybe it's because I only filed so few claims, or maybe a generous return/refund policy helps Amazon cover up any reputation damage they might incur, and they figured it's cheaper to just eat this cost than trying to sort out why they ship out so much junk.
I mean, given that he _caused_ these changes (they're a consequence of the 2017 Trump tax 'cuts'), probably not, though then again he's not noted for his consistency.
I agree. Despite high compensation and a hiring boom, or perhaps because of it, 2020-2022 was the worst time to work in tech. I knew interns in 2012 who could code circles around those bootcampers turned “staff engineers” in 2021. Everyone at my series B employer turned into a “manager” or “leader” overnight. Being a shitty B2B SaaS meant that sales ran the show and our product was absolute dogshit.

2023 was awful too because everyone stayed put — we somehow avoided layoffs — even though they were absolutely miserable.

Now in 2024, I’ve just started a job search and things seem much better. There’s actual innovation now and I feel a sense of optimism about the future of tech that I haven’t in 10 years.
Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge
Important to not get frustrated, but try to understand how things work and why they work that way.