skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X usage at all-time high, record for single day
Outrage culture.
Yes, I fully understand the reason for tracking: profit maximization. Isn't it interesting, though, that enormous swaths of the advertising world manage to be profitable without engaging in tracking (because it's not possible, but that's beside the point)?

> This product from Mozilla can be seen as a step in this direction, leveling the field at a “less tracking” level…

Sure, that's a reasonable view. It's certainly Mozilla's. My view, though, is that it instantly transforms the browser away from being a "user agent". It means that instead of an ad company tracking me, my browser is, which means that the browser itself has become an agent for others rather than for me.

It's just moving the tracking out of the hands of ad companies directly and into the browser. You could argue that's better, but it's still tracking me. It puts the browser into a position where it is adversarial.

That, at heart, is why I will be sure this stays disabled. To do otherwise means that I can't really trust the browser and will make the web even smaller for me than it has already become.
Samsung had a point-and-shoot with an android phone stuck to the back about 10 years ago as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Camera
I don’t care what you believe
After a while they start flowing off screen. Perhaps make them an inline list, or a grid, or a list that fills from the top.
>kind of wish we could just pass a law that says you have to validate email addresses before attaching them to accounts at all.

We did, the government can only collect the data it needs to complete it's stated objective. fedramp compliance. This exact exploit has happened at nearly every Fortune500 company.

> otherwise, competitive pressure will keep pushing people towards not doing it and aiming this gun at their foot in the name of conversions

Market forces, people should be pressured to use more secured services.
> No. They're advocating for what we've had since at least 1984 in the US.

Are you suggesting this element of our governance has been well received by the population? Have you been satisfied with the government during that period?

Just because a system managed to become the status quo for a period of time doesn’t mean it wasn’t technocratic. Because that is absolutely a technocratic way to legislate.

The system described in the patent comment is also far more technocratic than chevron deference ever was. Allowing regulators some room to interpret legislation is completely different from giving them some high level objectives and carte blanch to implement them however they see fit.

> Even the smartest and most well-intentioned lawmakers still have to function at a high level. They are not capable of getting down into the weeds on the breadth of issues applicable to an entire country of 350M people.

They have never had to be, because that’s not how laws are written. Laws are written by teams of lawyers and subject matter experts, and then voted on by legislators. If you want to remove the legislators from this process, or distance them from it to some degree, then you’re removing/distancing the democracy from it.
Thusly proving that Twitter is nothing without outrage politics to fuel it.
There are more problems with being fat than just stigma. I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to sleep without something like a space helmet on, for instance.
I think I may be missing the point of a lot of the comments, but could someone explain what this does that a smartphone does not?
> Negative caloric delta requires no capitalism.

But it does require a lot of effort and self-control.
> I don't generally assume that you can get quality healthcare, housing, and food in Europe with no source of income outside of government programs.

And what's the issue with government programs? If someone without employment or revenues can get healthcare or food, that's good.

> And certainly many countries have lower salaries and higher unemployment that the US does in general

Higher unemployment yes, absolutely. Lower salaries you can't really compare because you need to adjust for a lot of things (quality of life, cost of living, things like the safety cushion one needs, etc.)
When I was doing more hardcore dev instead of SRE'ing I settled on git branchless[1], was well worth the experimenting you have to do to get it into your mental model.

now that I hardly ever have 2 layer deep stacks I just settle on my go-to git client which is magit. It just takes a couple of keystrokes to do a couple of stacked rebases.

I do wish that the stacked commits approach was universally used instead of the approach that github enforced on us. It just makes everything a bit less arcane. The whole 'branch-dance' gets really old real fast.
[1]: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless
Whatever IP related issues they’d want to sue over. Sorry I don’t know specifics about what this would specifically infringe but I’m sure expensive legal brains could come up with something
A word about private attribution in Firefox
Singapore, as well as South Korea and in part China and Japan have a few things in common. A work yourself to death culture, paired with the expectation to forever take care of your parents/in-laws.

Not exactly a fertile ground to start a family on. And that doesn't even go into gender expectations.

My take on this is that the current performance culture we've been living since the 80s where we worship the economy over anything else is biting us in the ass. We value work over family and children. We even dare to call them an "opportunity cost".

We should return to a single income society. A modern version of it that is not gendered. A single full-time income should be enough to run the basics of a family. Fail to deliver this and there will be no families. In general we should work less and enjoy life more. Otherwise, what is the point?

The point of technical progress should be less labor needed. But this progress is never paid out because we keep using that room to make up new bullshit jobs to produce garbage products we don't need.

A dutch economist once calculated that about 40-50% of the world economy is bullshit. Busy-keep, non-essential, a replacement for boredom.

Anyway, a system that advocates for dual incomes, job insecurity and high retirement ages that sees children as a distraction to optimal performance will cease to exist. Children are the most valuable "product" in society, yet we care about it the least.
I'm a huge fan of the NX mini and they are fully supported by the SNS API bridge.

I have a bunch of them, one converted to infrared. Usually I have the mini with me when the NX500 is too bulky. It's a pity that the lenses are so rare on the used market. The image quality is just awesome for the form factor!
Especially when, if that were possible, it would be hard to get people enrolled in trials to show any new drug actually did work.
Yes, but actually no. If the DEA or local LEOs actually wanted to crack down, there is plenty enough wiggle room in the scheduled substances act and all the related add-on laws (esp. Federal Analogue Act), there is enough molecular similarity between the various cannabinoids, and insufficient sensitivity in most chemical tests, plus the tendency of THC-A to decarb (eject a carbon dioxide molecule to give THC) under heating, that these agencies could absolutely give you a hard time and make your life hell for a while. Even if charges didn't stick, you'd still have a bad time and be out thousands in legal feels.

What's actually happened is de facto, not de jure, legalization (in effect, but not in law), because of the unpopularity of cannabis prohibition. It's just not worth it in most situations to go after these products at this point.

There's still a strong need for actual legalization at this point.
Sony RX100 line is very portable...
So add a cheap NVidia card alongside grunty AMD ones, and check for its existence. It doesn't seem to say it needs to run on NVidia GPUs.
Tell Meta: Don't Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool
The judge might not be a coder next time.
Yeah, and you can cheat in Minesweeper by inspecting the memory content of the game.
Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract (2021)
Let's aggregate all of society into a single thing and make everything equivalent. This cannot help but enable accurate understanding!
I have a pair of (different) 8TB drives in the mirror: one Seagate, one Western Digital, both NAS-oriented models.

The offsite drives are both Seagate 16TB. As the content on the live mirror changes they slowly fill up with snapshots.

I’m getting close to needing new drives, but I haven’t decided what to buy yet. The mirror has about 1TB left. I’ll probably change it to 16TB, and the backups to 24 or maybe 28? Not cheap though.
> it will always play catch up

That's not important if the goal is to run existing CUDA code on AMD GPUs. All you have to do is write portable CUDA code in the future regardless of what Nvidia does if you want to keep writing CUDA.

I don't know the economics here, but if the AMD provides a significant cost saving, companies are going to make it work.

> Nvidia can always add things to make it difficult

Sounds like Microsoft embedding the browser in the OS. It's hard to see how doing something like that wouldn't trigger an antitrust case.
Going by the showdead comments here when the news broke, a good chunk of that traffic is probably people trying to provoke a civil war before the identity of the shooter was revealed to be more like a boringly common school shooter than an elite antifa commando.
> I can remember my parents sitting down with a cheque book which had a transaction log at the back, and all of their receipts and logging those so that they knew their exact balance at a given time and knew how much they'd got left to spend from the account.

Nothing about being cashless prevents them doing this, of cause if feels silly since you also have all this information instantly available without the work.
I had't considered that angle. Is your point that Intel was the creator of x86, but software chose to support it, then AMD had nothing else but to play catch up in x86 support to be part of the software target market? If so and factual (I've no idea), fair point, I didn't know.
> SCALE accepts CUDA programs as-is. [...] This is true even if your program uses inline PTX asm
Isn't cuDNN a much better case for reimplementing than CUDA? It has much more choice in how things actually happen and cuDNN itself chooses different implementations at runtime + does fusing. It seems way more generic and the reimplementation would allow using the best AMD-targeted kernel rather than one the original has.
Meh. About as useless as blockchain, I guess.
Lots of candidates, but my vote would go to <figcaption>.

Its sole purpose is to attach a caption to an image in <figure> - which basically no one uses.
> This way of remote collaboration reduces confusion and maximizes productivity.

[citation needed]
For-Loops should be something like

[n] GOOD REASONS WHY [i =< n]

[thing] HATES THIS THING <----- exception handling

ITS TIME WE TALK ABOUT [x] <----- while-loop
Appeals court halts return of net neutrality
Someone once related a story from working in a 3M factory that made tape dispensers from bulk tape in the factory. The rolling machines to unroll the tape from the bulk rolls generated so much static electricity that walking through the aisle underneath would make your hair stand on end.
The key misconception here is that people want a single-income household and to have kids, and they've been Shanghaied out of this idyllic state of affairs by The Economy.

No. It's revealed preference, reflected worldwide. People think being single-income sucks. People think having kids sucks. They'll tell you they want to have kids and this and that if only it were "affordable", even when it's more affordable than it ever was for their parents. What their parent really had was a lack of contraception and other options; otherwise, they wouldn't've had kids and blamed it on something else the way you'd explain why you don't go to the gym more often. The way the world used to work has been a Ponzi scheme, and we've only now unlocked the ability to change the channel.

So no. There is no going back. And, even if there was, we'd only roll forward again since the fate of that lifestyle is to be defeated by your Bullshit Economy. It's a dead end. The only way is forward: growing posthumans in pods. We're only like 100 or 200 years away from that, and we'll make it there easily under a widening demographic pyramid.
Football likely was also part of this.
And even one with interchangeable lenses: https://op-co.de/blog/posts/galaxy_nx/
Makes sense to expect this kind of thing to be open source. The whole point of providing improved compatibility is to make people’s lives easier, and open source is usually an important feature to ensure wide compatibility. It also means projects can live on after the creators move to other things, people can submit patches for important features or bug fixes, and generally makes the system much more useful.
I got the Fig Pi version, it has a lot going on for it. Fig Pi is a minifigure-sized development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040, a built-in LED around back, a 3×3 matrix of RGB addressable LEDs on the front, two buttons; RESET and a BOOT/Programmable user button, and an extra 2MB of memory.

Connectors on the back give you power, UART, 2-I2C ports and a SPI port. Important to note these are the JST 1.0 / JST SH connectors. So they fit the Adafruit/Sparkfun/Pimoroni sets of sensors. And the USB mini port for programming.

I really like the 3x3 matrix, it makes the "blink a led" a little more fun. We wrote some code to read the thermometer and output it as tens dots -> ones dots -> blank pause -> repeat. Then added color to say if over 85F then dots are red then in ranges (orange, green, purple) down to less than 40F is blue. Fun exercise.

The battery is the small connection also, not a standard Amazon thing. If you don't want to roll your own connectors, try https://tinycircuits.com/collections/lipos (not associated with them, just a happy customer)

Well made board, cool design, nice collection of connectors to make more projects.
Don't try to play games with customs in the mail. It's a terrible idea.

If you get caught, you and the person you're shipping to will both end up having your name flagged in the CBP database. You'll be scrutinized at the border for all future international travel.

You'll also both be ineligible for trusted traveler programs going forward. There are threads on Reddit where somebody bought an item online from overseas, the seller lied on the customs form, the USPS noticed and seized it... and the unwitting buyer had their Global Entry membership permanently revoked because it counted as a customs import violation.

Just don't.
Nope, have yet to find a deepseek v2 provider which doesn’t log my prompts
There's a rule I often ignore at my own peril: don't deploy version .0 of a software, ever. It needs 2-3 versions for all the bugs to be ironed out. Unless you like playing beta tester (which is a lot of fun sometimes).

Same goes for all these frameworks and tools. Let them mature a bit before you commit.

If you're worried about getting a job in the future, know that job posts are full of lies. They will ask for all and everything, even that obscure tool nobody is really using but showed up in some search a hiring manager did. Don't steer your career based on that alone.
Being a big corporation is also an unfair advantage. They can afford all kinds of inefficiencies because they have some kind of monopoly to part of their market.
Nikon had an Android camera, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBL_FKY4Qzo
Why? Do you have some sources I could dig in to?
In this particular case, there may be a burning-hot political need for the FBI to be publicly perceived as making very fast progress.
The US law is highly dependent on precedents. The Google-Oracle case has set one fortunately, so anything following it won't start from scratch. Fortunately we may not need a closer judge.
I find this strange to believe. Every big company has levels, unless your existing L7+ IC is below market, you can just pull L7+ salaried ML engineers with some secret signing bonus like literally everyone else.
I guess I don't fully believe the story about the single review causing such disproportionate harm. The entrepreneurs were said to be scaling up their business (was it too quickly, did they overproduce?) and if they were so successful, they were presumably drawing attention from competitors (what's the moat for a contract-made swim diaper with snaps)?

There aren't any hard numbers for the business in the Ars Technica story or the Bloomberg story it links to, Bloomberg just says "Sales plummeted".

If I search Amazon for "swim diaper snaps", the brand from the article (Beau & Belle Littles) is in the second row of results - the first row is all sponsored results.

This just feels like a case of folks having too many of their eggs in a single precarious basket.
Null terminated strings have a footer, so it is the exact same problem, just on the other end of the string. It is inherently impossible to substring an arbitrary string without copying and using the same memory layout for the full string and the substring(s).

Of course, if your string type is a struct containing a size and a pointer, you can easily have multiple substrings pointing into the same byte array.
It was just an example. In practice, you're right.
Scaling Up Malware Analysis with Gemini 1.5 Flash
That is also of course a great novel but Mrs Dalloway was the thing that really made me realise how special she was as a writer, so that's what I would personally recommend. It may be that had such an impact on me because I read it before To the Lighthouse and if I read them in the opposite order perhaps I would feel differently.
I thought it was a joke at first. Can you imagine Google SSO on a Win32 app in the 9x era?
Imagine if we made these arguments in the past:

"No we can't have a transcontinental railroad because the US is gigantic and mostly empty" (which is the entire reason we wanted a damn railroad across the US!)

"No we can't build an interstate transport system because the US is mostly empty"

"No we can't dam nearly every mid sized river in the country because the US is too spread out"

It's just fundamentally wrong on all levels. We can build a Burger King in the middle east in a week, we can build a system of levees around a swampland that is actively under the waterline that, when they failed due to design deficiencies, we decided to build even stronger ones.

We fucking COULD do massive amounts of high speed rail criscrossing the country and connecting all of us for reasonable prices without even taking your shoes off. It would be even easier if we just stop it at the Californian border
Not sure why it isn't mentioned in the article, but it looks to have washed ashore around Taieri Mouth.
How do I run it?
Could you please stop using HN primarily for promotion? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You've been doing it a great deal and have basically crossed into spamming HN, though I'm sure that was not your intention.
Oh that will be interesting to understand, as PTX gets to more about trickier hw-arch-specific phenomena that diff brands disagree on, like memory models. Neat!
The late 70s was way too late for this… null terminated strings were already adopted by C and UNIX by then, and the rest is history.
Usually you do pre-tests before doing the expensive ones.

Recently on HN was a link to https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/low-cost-emi-pre-... that allows you to do your own pre-tests.

Also there are companies to do these pre-test measurements as a service which has the same result but is _way_ cheaper than a "certification" test.
I get the why we in a ideal experiment would like to have a control group but these are human livesvnot rats in lab, so why does every trial need a new control group? If we already know what a baseline untreated group looks like why cant we just compare new drug test to a know control from previous trials thus reducing the need for more dying?
A cure is something that solves a health condition 100% of the time. A treatment is a prolonged procedure with only a chance of success. One is a profit generating machine, the other loses customers.

You know, a cure - like what they pretended the vaccine was that somehow was forced through the almost impossible system of medical approvals that has stalled real cancer research for decades.
Why sign in?
"Sign In With Google" -- nope! Not drinking the verification can for your novelty toy. That's how people's data got scraped off Facebook by Cambridge Analytica.
User-level implementations of RCU (read copy update) [pdf]
This ignores the lower marginal utility of money as wealth increases (and increased marginal tax burden), and probably greater marginal "utility" of having children at higher levels of wealth (as you have more ability to spend time with them/don't need to be preoccupied with economic worries. e.g. my wife is a stay-at-home mom and I can work from home, so we get to spend a lot of time with our kids).
pay to play?
Fixed-point also has guaranteed imprecision for many operations, because you only have a finite number of digits after the decimal point.

e.g, with two decimal digits: (2.83 * 0.10) = 0.283, which is stored as 0.28.
This is a massive deal if a big company like Apple or Samsung produced the Phone.

Modern "secure enclaves" found in nearly every phone and computer should be impossible to brute-force or leak secrets.

Unless, of course, the phone allowed fingerprint / face-id and the corpse was used. I believe on Android, you still have to use a PIN with every restart. Presumably, Apple is the same. Unsure if time since last unlock is also a factor.
>Humanity consists of the few who own all the boxes, living in opulent luxury, and the many who don't and barely subsist

To me that represents lingering inhumanity.

There are still plenty of people around the world who have maintained this high lifestyle proudly since their early ancestors first got into opulent condition. But there are even more descendants who have not been able to maintain a previous level of opulence at all and would do anything to get it back.

Then you've got a whole bigger group who never came close and are even more envious than those who once had luxury. So much of the time it's easy to recognize that improved wealth is a result of fortune one way or another. When you get an aggregate amount of greed focused on manipulating fortunes, the best they can do for themselves is when everyone else ends up barely subsisting.

IIRC, civilization was supposed to bring an end to the barely subsistence thing.

Doesn't look too civil when things trend backward toward medieval.
That's not really odd is it? If it runs cooler thanks to the under-clocking, then it's pretty much explained right?
Why does this need a Google sign in? I know it's been mentioned by others but hard pass.

Landing page nailed it, aesthetically.
Jean-Marie Hullot, visionary computer scientist and tech expert (2019)
Timing, He could have got off a few more rounds that could have killed more people. It's better to be sure he couldn't.
Thanks for further clarification - I got downvoted initially, was a bit confusing, and I only made this parent comment because after reading the title I was hoping it would be about the impact of improvements to voice-to-text technology has had on the profession of court stenographers (the ones typing on those weird machines that look like they're straight out of the 80's). This was also an interesting read though.
Someone has probably wanted, planned or tried to kill most American Presidents since at least Lincoln. Most such attempts don't make the news, much less happen on camera.