skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't like how this whole article is framed as how obvious it was that Intel made a huge mistake. Hindsight is 20/20, there was no such data available.

Intel is a big reason things are so great, but also so crap, in computing.

Try to remember, the computing revolution didn't start in the 21st century. It's just got incredibly insane, in the 30 years of personal computing.

>Why wasn't Intel interested to supply the CPU for the iPod?

Because Intel and Apple had beef, long-since, already. The iPod was just another mp3 device, until - suddenly - it wasn't.

The writing on the wall for personal computing has been there for all of the computing pioneer companies .. the fact that Intel and Apple didn't get connected, is as much about the fact that these people were really in competition with each other from the beginning.

Apple was always going to own its own fabrication capabilities. From the outside of the box, all the way in.

Intel wanted all the other boxes, not just Apples, too ..
About time. It always surprises me how long pandas has been able to hold on. Wes McKinney talked about pandas' limitations back in 2017 https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/
Excited to share a fun project my friend TK and I are building. We’ve been roadtripping together for 15+ years and are huge podcast listeners

One thing we’ve always wanted was the ability to “hear” the places we were driving through - to listen to undiscovered stories that you might overhear at a local pub. So we’re trying to build it.

Under the hood we’re using perplexity to research places ang generate transcripts, then passes to elevenlabs for the audio. Built with 100% with cursor, running on vercel

Would love the HN feedback, questions & ideas - this is an early prototype!
I don’t think it’s a case for switching from one to the other. It seems like an intro to rust from someone whose first language was Julia (which is used as the perspective to contrast with).
They were (are?) widely regarded and almost always based on costume dramas, which are very Chinese in cultural influence. It will be interesting to see how this wukong plays out and if it sets a new gaming direction for the mainland.
I feel the arbitrary split between code and weights makes little sense when discussing if these models are "open source" in the copyleft meaning of the term. If the average user can't meaningfully use your product without agreeing to non-free terms then it's morally closed source.

Anything else and you're just open-source-washing your proprietary technology.
As opposed to numerous other alternatives from EU/Switzerland maybe?
Hello HN!

I'm launching my personal project, TimeMaster.ai, today. TimeMaster is an automatic time and productivity tracker for Mac.

TimeMaster runs quietly in the background, automatically tracks and categorizes your activities, and shows you precisely how your time is spent. It tags projects, creates time logs, and provides insights to boost your focus and productivity.

All tracking data is stored locally on your device and is never transmitted anywhere.

I'd love to hear what you think
Curious minds: what's the best way to field heat-bond a needle onto a soldering iron?

I'm guessing mechanically secure it with something heat tolerant (steel wire) for most of the tip length + lube the interface with molten solder? Then crank it to 11 to get enough heat to the tip?
Top Chinese general tells US to stop colluding with Taiwan
ummm... someone is trying really hard to be a smartass and making himself looking like an ass.

> unceremoniously dumped in the Atlantic Ocean.

It wasnt ' unceremoniously dumped in the Atlantic Ocean' it was crashed into a designated area. Ensuring no, dmg to any property boat or people. They dont crash anything randomly somewhere in the ocean.
Nostr makes so much more sense to me than the fediverse because your account is not bound to a particular server, so if your admin gets bored you can simply use other relays or host your own instead of being kicked off. And with this you get pretty significant fediverse interop: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr
They found PMF in a niche (productivity-obsessed email-superusers), which is decent market in size, but raised money and got press coverage like a mainstream so in the end it feels like they kinda failed.

It reminds me of Peloton (though they did go mainstream-ish), or the Snoo (smart baby bassinet)... just because a ton of people email/exercise/have babies doesn't mean the bulk of them are in the market for the hyper-optimized and high-price solution.
EmuDeck announce the 'EmuDeck Machine', their first hardware product
Yes, personally I find the idea repugnant. I'd like to see international treaties that ban things like this - especially space based advertising.
I don't see a reason to use this over pairdrop hosted running on my server or local pc.

Nice work, but would be good to see more features.
I just watched a Youtube video of it and I DEFINITELY need to check this out. They seem to have captured the feel of the old web perfectly.
Not surprising. There are much better compute engines than pandas.

Folks then ask why not jump from pandas to [insert favorite tool]?

- Existing codebases. Lots of legacy pandas floating about.

- Third party integration. Everyone supports pandas. Lots of libraries work with tools like Polars, but everything works with pandas.

- YAGNI - For lots of small data tasks, pandas is perfectly fine.
> Looks like you can set a password on it now, which is cool

I wish they didn't support that. There's not actually a security boundary there since you can't just reattach to another user's session anyway, and a lot of security people make stupid rules like "if something supports a password, you always have to use one".
Those tariffs have were entirely worked around on the Chinese side before the ink was dry. One easy dodge: Manufacture in eg India for a little bit more, sell those to the US, transport Chinese solar panels for installation in India.

I bought a pallet just after the tariffs were announced and the price today is cheaper.
What are you using it for? Curious if there's any interesting purposes I haven't thought of
> It's only redeeming feature is that the same choices can serve as the input to a Condorcet decision process when the failures of IRV become apparent.

I think the concern raised by PaulHoule is very important. Assuming, for the sake of this particular digression, that it can be sufficiently satisfied by IRV in a context under consideration, BTR-IRV seems like an easy sell over IRV. It's like IRV, but instead of discarding the candidate with the least first place votes, you do a head-to-head runoff (looking at the rank ballots you already have) and discard the loser. Not much more complicated to understand or administer, and you can never discard a Condorcet winner (or a member of the Smith set, except in favor of another member of the Smith set).
content-addressed too, I think!
I don't see "Threads" on the list of "Core platform services", and I see no evidence of the services that are so designated becoming part of the fediverse.
I did the same, i recommend getting the moes or similar IR blaster (tyua under the plastic). Treat yourself and get a combo temp/humidity sensor + IR.

For one of the rooms i opted for a IR/RF transmitter and the RF covers any RF enabled devices in the house (433mhz + 315mhz[i think but haven’t tested])
This is, IMO, the better way to approach this problem. Minification applies rules to transform code, if we know the rules, we can reverse the process (but can't recover any lost information directly).

A nice, constrained, way to use a LLM here to enhance this solution is to ask it some variation of "what should this function be named?" and feed the output to a rename refactoring function.

You could do the same for variables, or be more holistic and ask it to rename variables and add comments (but risk the LLM changing what the code does).
A few decades ago an organization was founded specifically to address statements such as this one. That's why some early Microsoft attempts at competing with OS had to be called "shared source", not "open source".
Well, it could be liability related.

But, falls are basically the only way people get injured at DC's Metro so it seems to make sense to have significant signage about that. I'd have to imagine there's nothing unique about DC so it's probably the same story for the UK.

"96% of the customer injuries were related to slips and falls within rail
stations, and about 52% of those were on escalators." [1]. The stat for employees was 40% with being struck by an object in #2 at 25%.

[1]: https://wmata.com/about/calendar/events/upload/3A-Metro-s-Sa...
I'm sorry, but UK is positively devoid of road signs compared to some other countries lol, I've been driving here for well over a decade and it's really nice how few signs are here and it mostly relies on common sense.

Compare to your average road in Poland:

https://motofakty.pl/co-5-metrow-znak/ar/c4-16143839

67 road signs on a 360 metre long stretch of road - and to me, what's shown in the picture is very typical, especially in big cities. There are soooo many signs it's close to impossible to read all of them and still look at the road.
Curious if you could expand on this?
Looks like the end is here for security via obscurity.
Yes this website is mainly for aesthetics and art. I will however add a feature that will generate the relevant chars / line breaks of a given still image, so that it can be exported to notepad.
>decentralization does not work.

This is not quite true, because the vast majority of solar generation is consumed on site, avoiding the transmission and distribution costs of delivering electrons that would normally be necessary. Which is just one of a whole motley of dynamics working in favor of solar at larger scales: the arc of solar generation over a 24hr period almost perfectly coincides with actual market demand over the course of the day, with the exception of the afternoon/evening "duck curve", so it's actually relieving pressure on peaking generation.

The important fallacy here is assuming that counterbalancing for the cycles of solar generation requires new investments, when in fact it's relieving pressure on infrastructure that already exists and is already serving those exact counterbalancing purposes. This is in addition to the benefit of offsetting alternative forms of base load generation.

To be clear you are right in an important sense about a pretty fundamental thing. There is indeed a tipping point, and when we reach that tipping point of grid penetration all of the points you have raised will indeed become not merely relevant but crucial. And I forget the exact number, but my understanding is we're nowhere near that tipping point right now. I want to say around 20% of the overall grid being generated from solar power is the tipping point but I'm not sure if that's accurate.

It's kind of like the argument sometimes people want to make about taxes which is that if you overtax it is a drag on the economy, which is hypothetically true but it's true at a given tipping point and it's a tipping point that we're not anywhere near, which doesn't tend to stop the advocates from bringing it up all the time.
This puts the Hacker back in Hacker News! Love sticking it to the corporate man!!
We are there today: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling
I have similar in a backup directory on my NAS. Works pretty well in general for getting my home directory up and good.

WSL, I usually have to make a few adjustments, mostly so that I can use the git credential manager installed in windows from Linux git.
That predates email and is ... not really a counterpoint to federation sucking for end-users? There's so much spam/phishing and somehow it's no one's legal responsibility.
The wish of the lead developer is for Linux development to continue beyond the life of the current maintainers. Training to be a competent system programmer using C is unnecessary long and painful. There aren't enough C hackers coming up anymore. The Rust learning curve is a bit sharper than C for the first weeks but gets you to a competent and non-dangerous state much more quickly after that.

This problem is not expected to be solved by current maintainers. They're just asked to make room for the next generation. "It should hurt you like it hurt me" is not an acceptable response.
>My experience is the UK rail network targets truly patronising levels of safety.

It's clearly working, because the British railway network is the safest large network in Europe, despite some pretty dilapidated infrastructure.

https://international-railway-safety-council.com/safety-stat...
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
Seconded. You can do this on eBay by choosing specific CPU models, but it would be really helpful to filter more broadly. "Intel 8th gen" for sure, but it could also be useful to be able to combine that with, say, "Intel -T series" or "Intel i5".
Some units have a 5V UART port that's easy to connect to HomeAssistant and has two-way communication: https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/pioneer-mini-split...
It also neatly corresponds with the mass rollout of nuclear power so it's possible it's just the classic measurement issue of "primary energy" vs "useful energy", sometimes called the primary energy fallacy, which makes fossil fuel based systems appear 4x (or probably more going back in time) better than they actually are.
Yes but (as you already know):

Realpolitick, the political economy, remains important. The sausage factory. Tariffs are the hush money to secure the ongoing support for Bidenomics.

It's super important that every player has its own domestic production. Even if USA's (or EU's) total global market share < 5%, it's worthwhile. De-risk supply chains, national security, upkeep of domestic competency, etc.

Quid pro quo. China could liberalize their economy too. Allow foreign direct investment. Drop their own tarriffs. But they're not (yet?) willing to forfeit autonomy in exchange for "free trade".

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I get what you're saying. I too agree that fighting climate crisis is our top priority. These slap fights are infuriating. But, for better or worse, you and I aren't in charge.
I think it's still splitting hairs.

Even though I sent my prints out to be printed by shapeways or whatever, I still tell people "I made" those parts.
You may think this was clever, but it is a common literary technique to emphasize a point.

I'd suggest less snark, you're not doing yourself any favors.
> That's 48€/m2, I couldn't find a photovoltaic panel at that price.

Still apples to oranges but, $68 for > 2sqm at the factory, probably closer to $100 at retail:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/144cells-Jinko-Solar-...

And in Europe: https://venturama-solar.de/produkt/ja-solar-jam54s30-425w-lr...
There are multiple ways to define "private". Some of those can not be satisfied by any email service, but most don't, as email, by design, is not built for those use cases[0].
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[0] https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
I provided my explanation for why this is the case. A measurement device only collapses the wave function for itself, it does not collapse the wave function for every other observer/measurement device.

Of course, a second measurement device that's completely isolated from the first measurement device can eventually interact with the first measurement device and the two will converge and share the same wave function. However, until the second measurement device interacts with the first one or with the original quantum system being observed, then from the point of view of the second measurement device, the first measurement device is in a superposition of all the possible states that it could have observed.

This can continue on and on, with a third measurement device which is entirely isolated from the second measurement device having a wavefunction that's a superposition of all the possible observations that the second measurement device will observer...
This? https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/fine-for-network-rail-fol...
I believe the person you're responding to is saying that it's hard to do automated / programmatically. Yes a human can decode this trivial example without too much effort, but doing it via API in a fraction of the time and effort with a customizable amount of commentary/explanation is preferable in my opinion.
This is actually an open problem in QM. We don't understand what constitutes a measurement, and so we don't know if two perfectly isolated observers could disagree on the "state" of a system in this way (as in, collapsed or not collapsed). And given special relativity, it is definitely possible that two different observers could disagree on the order that two independent measurements of the same system happened.

Do note that the result of the experiments is not going to differ, it is guaranteed to be consistent by the fact that both experiments are measuring the same quantum system. It's just that one observer is unsure of what result they will get for a subsequent experiment, while the other observer can know it exactly.

And in the many worlds interpretation, it is indeed believed that apparent wave function collapse is a relative phenomenon, caused by entanglement with the classical environment, which spreads out at the speed of light.
New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
this is so weird because astroturfing is real, extremely prevalent, and people have pointed put “russian bots” on HNany times without being flagged or deleted. such a weird tging that you cant point it out
To be honest, I think you're badly misremembering that era. People were calling the iPhone "the Jesus Phone" after the original keynote announcement, the lines on launch day were around the block, and upon release, there were definitely tons of flame wars around physical vs. touchscreen keyboards but there was a widespread consensus that the iPhone's predictive typing correction was pretty good and that the touchscreen was miles ahead of any similar-equipped phone (many of which were still resistive, ugh!).

It definitely didn't get mainstream popularity until the 3GS/4 and the App Store, but people were definitely interested from day 1. Don't forget that early builds of Android looked much more like a Blackberry clone until the iPhone was announced, and then Google immediately scrapped everything and rewrote it from the ground up to be iPhone-like.
>I would say the USA is the main major country that gets the _most_ things wrong.

I would like to hear you expound on this.
Linux will run on basically any x86 box.

The question of "how well?" is mostly down to the fact that some GPUs and wifi chips have substandard support due to their manufacturers' refusal to document their driver interfaces.
I genuinely get the sense nobody there is capable of coming up with this on their own and are likely looking at this thread for ideas
I hadn’t heard of AAlib before, but just read the wiki for it, and yes this is a similar tool but for the browser.

This makes it easy to create video ascii art from any computer or phone
Meta is a gatekeeper, it applies to their services. This (or an alternative) will have to be rolled out to Instagram. I guess now the smaller Threads is testing ground.
> why would this have violated community standards? Is there some rule about not mentioning "un-persons" or something?

Flags may be cast by anyone, and this will eventually result in automatic hiding - flags on Discourse are weighted according to the "trust level" of those raising them.

My guess is that people perceived this as a passive-aggressive objection to Tim Peters' suspension. It has definitely been permitted up until now to refer to this (although everyone seemed to be avoiding the name on principle), but there seems to be an expectation that people should "read the air" now and stop talking about it - hence posts like https://discuss.python.org/t/moderated-posts-are-no-longer-p... and https://discuss.python.org/t/pr-disaster-surrounding-recent-... .

> and sparking a call for a vote of no confidence in the council which did not succeed

The call was retracted, which is not surprising. The Steering Council isn't the root of the problem, anyway. That would be the Code of Conduct Work Group (https://www.python.org/psf/workgroups/#code-of-conduct-work-...), which is not elected (https://wiki.python.org/psf/ConductWG/Charter#Membership), has membership overlapping other important groups (4 of them are on the PSF Board of Directors - https://www.python.org/psf/board/#id3 - and Brett Cannon and Łukasz Langa are Discourse forum moderators) and enforces the Code of Conduct according to hidden rules that betray the neutrality of that document (https://policies.python.org/python.org/code-of-conduct/Enfor...) counter to the wishes of one of the original drafters of said document (https://discuss.python.org/t/why-i-am-withdrawing-fellowship... ; https://discuss.python.org/t/why-im-leaving-discuss-python-o... etc.).

It's also noteworthy that the Steering Council - consisting of 5 core devs - apparently also now requires a "communications liaison" (https://www.notion.so/46aec24028fd4e8dbdba003097c18b5b?pvs=2...) who gets a glowing write-up in official updates on the forum (such as https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-updates-for-ju...) - which are not posted by said liaison. I have no idea why this should be necessary, nor is there anything in PEP 13 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/) about this position existing. It seems that this person was selected entirely out-of-process.
It's $1000. I would not expect that to effect even the most-impoverished family's life choices.
CDC warns against eating recalled deli meat as deadly listeria outbreak expands
I see your point but that specific analogy makes me wince. Google search was way better in the 2000s. It has become consistently dumber since then. Usefulness doesn't necessarily increase in a straight line over time.
> They just implemented authoritarian measures such as lockdowns that had little to no effect, but simply served those politicians' own self-serving purposes

Had all states had restrictions/"lockdowns" in 2020-2022 that were as strict as the strictest state's mitigation measures, we would have saved ~360k more lives[1].

1: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...
That is actually a good point - the fab process would turn out to become another weak point (besides the missing moat of ARM) of Intel. There is no way Apple would watch TSMCs leadership year after year and still stick with Intel fabs.
I use an HDMI to HDMI cable to connect my MBP to my 38" monitor (3840 x 1600, @ 85Hz). Would I get any benefit from using a USB-C to DP cable instead (e.g. running at the monitors maximum refresh rate)?
I don't give money to 501(c)3's categorically because they are corruption machines.
Did you know the homeless can also buy a ticket, even without a home?
HDMI uses a digitalized form of the traditional TV signals. The format of the transmitted data still depends on the parameters that defined traditional TV signals, like video frame frequency, video line frequency, vertical and horizontal retrace intervals and so on. Such parameters are no longer essential for digital television and there is no longer any need to constrain the transmission of video signals with them.

DisplayPort uses a typical communication protocol that can carry arbitrary data packets, not much different from the protocols used on USB or Ethernet.
Missed the opportunity to use a hot spherical cow in a vacuum..
still getting a blank page, browser is "links".
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AT&T just had another outage. Why does this keep happening to them?
In GMail, I just forward the email to myself. That way it stays in the thread in the exact position and doesn't clutter my Drafts folder.
when I worked in the embedded software industry long ago, I spent lots and lots of time connecting over serial ports to dev boards, using software like Minicom. Being able to do that in screen itself would be neat. Tmux does it.