skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eight years ago, when I bought my first Nissan Leaf, I was astonished to learn that the process of charging the car at a CHAdeMO station was entirely different from the process of filling a gasoline car. Eight years later, with a wallet full of different membership cards, and every charger with a different UI, the situation has actually gotten worse.

I, for one, welcome our new Tesla charging overlords.

Funny anecdote from two weeks ago: I had just finished a CHAdeMO session, stopped the charge, the UI said it was done (have a nice day!) but the charger refused to release the plug from the car. I spent ten minutes pulling and pulling, and talking to a clueless person on a customer service line, when the charger unlocked it all by itself. Imagine a system where a bug or glitch can lock the charging cable to your car for no reason whatsoever, completely immobilizing you in the middle of your trip!
I can see where the anger comes from.

It is the "distributedness". People like to split the world into clean zones: here is war, after this border, no more war. After all, the risk gradient jumps extremely when you cross the border from Poland into Ukraine.

An attack like this a) reveals that some people aren't what they perhaps pretended to be, e.g. civilians, b) shows that war can reach with very long fingers into places that considered themselves relatively safe.
What’s your opinion on the Hannibal Doctrine?
Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?
My network provider has turned off 3G and despite my current device supporting VoLTE appears to have blacklisted it on the basis of its model name and I cannot make calls any more.

I like running rooted Android because of systemwide adblocking, the ability to run things like Frida and inspect or modify applications, and _ideally_ be something where I can get CTS_BASIC_INTEGRETY – my main bank (Monzo) works with other OSes and rooted phones quite happily, but having the ability to play the highly irritating fun and games is a bonus point. I despise remote attestation and DRM and ideally would have something that fails from the start (!). I'm aware of the security issues with running a rooted Android device; I just frankly don't think that in my threat model that they are that severe. I'd much rather have the freedom to toggle on/off Secure DoH, change my SIP routing, and spoof settings such as my geolocation for legitimately good purposes (e.g. network-level VPN to a different country!).

I've experienced /e/ OS and CyanogenMod in the past and would like a privacy-focussed, ideally open source OS – linux would be perfect but unfortunately it just appears that the totally free Phone OSes aren't ready for prime-time just yet.

What is the best – or perhaps "least worst" – hardware to run something natively rooted on, or an OS like LineageOS? Is there a single manufacturer that supports this? At the moment I probably lean towards the Fairphone 5 but I honestly would love to know of the least worst option.
I've been messing with contrastive learning in the CLIP-like "minibatch" style for applications where correspondences between modalities within an example are a relevant source of information, and have been pleasantly surprised by how much this can actually in some cases speed up or otherwise aid with learning different objectives framed as decoding each modality's embedding for a different downstream objective. It seems that tying the representations together in this way can serve as a kind of semi-orthogonal correcting force on the embedding's ability to retain its original reconstructability while not constraining it too much to shift the representation for other goals, and many properties of the resulting models (like the obvious one of having interchangeable downstream decoding functionalities regardless of which modality is used to encode) suggest to me that it might be another tool to use when pursuing a better theory of objective balancing, as well as significant practical use in applications obviously. I'm surprised people aren't making more random contrastive embeddings for sets of "non-obvious" coupled representations

I really gotta find a job where they pay you but people won't freak out if you can't make a simple business case for every detail of what you're doing in a given week. Does that even exist anywhere without like a PhD from rich people schools? Aside from the moral issues this myopic mindset of businesses just refusing to trust or support their people in any sense sure makes it hard to believe they're actually capable of "innovating" anything. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but focusing on speedrunning exploiting will always leave exploring neglected
For most SMT repairs, we use a pair of these hot air guns[0] and one or two Hakko Omnivises[1].

A 3/4" copper pipe elbow JB Welded on one of them turns it into a 90 degree bottom-board heater and other is waved by hand over the top of the board.

Nearby parts can be protected with a little Kapton tape or other heat resistant shielding.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0752Z4165

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B61IHW
A dysfunction in regulation can result from a lower than ideal amount of neural activity in various areas. This is why stimulants are often effective.
These guys went on Shark Tank, and received no offers because their fine print says that it has “no medical benefits” and is not backed up by any peer-reviewed scientific evidence.

This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
You can absolutely walk in an have an MRI made at any time.

It's just not paid for by your health insurance.
Based. fuck semver.
This kind of snake oil stuff should be illegal as it only enables abuse of people with such condition.

I can easily picture this:

"concerned relative / partner"> You could be much better if only you tried this <insert name of magic cure / device>

person with condition> I have researched this, these things don't work, it is a waste of time and money.

"concerned relative / partner"> No, you just don't want to get better! I am really losing patience with you. Why don't you want to get help!?
It’d be very easy to programmatically check which files in a repo directory are unknown to git. Git status does indeed have a machine-parseable output mode.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for terrorists who's lives are spent working out how to murder and blow people up, then when they get blown up with minimal collateral damage caused, what?

Honestly, I'm surprised at how great these people are at invoking emotional responses in their favor. It's incredible. They're certainly smashing the information war.

When the 11 kids got actually blown up by a missile strike while attending a soccer game in Israel, where was all the sympathy then? Do people even know about this?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-tragedy-kids-killed-in...
A lot more people died in the rubble of German cities during WWII and, except some German nationalists, no one gives a f_ck. Heck, the German far left sometimes taunts the right-wingers by screaming "Bomber Harris, do it again!"

The reason is that they were our enemies.

Edit: Can any of you downvoters explain to me how this isn't a case of blatant double standards?

If someone hates the Nazis so much that civilians in Nazi-controlled cities are fair game, someone else is going to hate Hamas in the very same way.
You can guard the root certificate better than the leaf certificate. For example, you can keep it offline in an air-gapped environment.
Btw for better results (and manual correction) ScanTailor is a handy tool.

https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced

1DollarScan is the best option available currently in US so with bookfinder.com you can find/send directly to them and get the book reasonably well scanned.
I'm also going to stick to the meds, as they work very well for me, with that said tDCS seems to have some merit, according to research [0].
But there doesn't seem to be a lot of data with larger sample sizes yet. So this product doesn't completely strike me as snake oil, but i have my reservations until more data is available or at least FDA approved

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418073/
Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed display
That suggests a game in which to goal is to come up, for any two-word phrase, with a suitable romance novel title, eg

• Ultraviolet Catastrophe: A Band Gap, Single Quantum Romance

What about:

• Hacker News: ???
While there isn't ... clinical studies

Wouldn't one do studies with a prototype before building a polished product, a website, YouTube videos etc?
It's not, but it probably won't recognize it as nonsense. According to the paper,

> we construct a dataset named InstructS2S-200K by rewriting existing text instruction data and performing speech synthesis

It has only been trained on questions spoken by TTS, it has never seen (heard) nonsense. Most likely it'll just hallucinate that you asked some question and it'll generate some answer instead of asking if you're good. There's just not many audio datasets with real voices, there's no audio version of StackOverflow to be scraped
Haskell Weekly – Issue 438
I mean, the EU and the US have _extremely_ different views on competition regulation (or, at least, different enthusiasms for it; the actual philosophy isn't that different, but the FTC has been basically moribund since the late 90s, whereas the EC is if anything getting more aggressive lately).

> On most chargers you can just tap your payment card to start the charge

This will be mandatory as of next year.

> although I think you can get cheaper rates as a member too.

AIUI this will no longer be permitted as of next year.
I love how the entire free PKI ecosystem is now relying on one single company.
tDCS seems to have some merit, according to research https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418073/ So this product doesn't completely strike me as snake oil.
I am currently covered by GDPR and such, though that is something that could easily change (I'm a UKian so no longer an EUian).

But that isn't enforced with the teeth it really needs, and I really don't trust that companies like LinkedIn will do the right thing, nor the legally required thing where they differ, given how much effort it could be and the likelihood of anything being done about it if they don't and this isn't obviously detected (or a whistleblower speaks out). So my choice is to walkaway from the service (or never use it in the first place) or just accept that my stuff will get used that way.

That, and given it is public information that we've already agreed to let LinkedIn use however the hell it likes via signup and “by continuing to use this service”¹, so there would be the whole “is it even a privacy issue?” argument² to have before getting to that nitty-gritty.

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[1] again, maybe there are legal routes to stop that, though I don't know about you but I certainly can't afford the time or legal resources to investigate further

[2] I'm assuming “right to be forgotten” doesn't apply in this case, as we are talking about a particular use of the information not wanting the complete removal of it from all their services.
Do environmentalists fall into the Nirvana Fallacy when they demand an end to wind farms because they kill some birds?
This isn't FDA approved at all, it might as well be a supplement. Which is to say it likely doesn't help at all.
They are not living in space, they are temporary visitors on an unstable structure that requires constant resupply from Earth, absent of which they will all die and the structure falls back to Earth and is destroyed. Even with indefinite resupply, astronauts have to return to Earth for health reasons, because our bodies did not evolve / were not designed for space. Astronauts get irradiated and lose reproductive fertility.
I'm imagining the elevator pitch: "Like Juicero, but for your brain."
For those thinking any technology might be a "cure" for a specific disability, I highly recommend checking out the book Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew [1]. It really helps articulate the reasoning behind "nothing about us without us" in the context of "life changing" technology - including snakeoil bullshit like this.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Against-Technoableism-Rethinking-Impr...
Moar flux.

Really. Just add more flux than you think it could possibly need. The biggest failure mode I've seen with solder of all kinds is not enough flux.

This Amtech no-clean is really gooey[0], but pretty useful for rework.

This Kester water-soluble is incredible, but needs to be washed[1].

If you need to hand-clean PCBs, a small photography developing tub and a sonicare (or similar) toothbrush is a game changer.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Y7N6QHF

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DEDB5CM
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You'd have to manually trust the MITM cert again? Which you certainly would not do as you know you didn't create a new self-signed cert in that moment.
I understand what you mean but Test First Development by LLM's will solve lots of problems with hallucinations and soon LLM's will be much better at coding than humans. I am always surprised that so many highly intelligent people don't understand this.
Israel are the terrorists.

And linking to their propaganda, you're only showing how much you've been brainwashed by them.
Isn't it attacking a militant group who killed 11 children a few months ago? 11 children murdered by Hezbollah at a soccer game? Do you think anyone will actual sympathize with them ?

This is the nature of the game with these people, they're not an established military so what are you supposed to attack in order to stop your children being blown apart at a soccer game?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-28/golan-heights-strike-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-tragedy-kids-killed-in...

Edit: Added another source because I saw some cowardly accuse me of "spreading Israeli propaganda and then deleting their comment, there's a non-bias news outlets story too, the ABC".
How do we know that all of the thousands of people injured in the pager bombings are Hizbollah?
Assassin's Creed comes to mind
It's cringe when a bean-counter attempts to be an engineer, but it's pathetic when an engineer attempts to be a bean counter.
Novelty is not the same as understanding. I think it’s telling that one of the two probably works at least as well with something that’s the opposite of a bridge: gulf, chasm, wall. It just picked a pattern for an analogy and stuck your word in it, mad-libs style. Like, the fact that it’s kinda the opposite of what me would expect makes it a bit poetic in that one’s tempted to pursue what it might mean, but of course the LLM didn’t mean anything (though we still might find meaning).

Its patterns encoded two items and “between” being likely to occur, anyway.
I'm on mobile and this PDF is notoriously hard to navigate here. What did they spend the other $370m on!?
The 75 years of genocide in which the Palestinian population increased tenfold?
>More than 1/3 of the Tor servers are run by US Federal Govt

Source? People repeat this claim and nobody every provides evidence.
Overtly it has rules. Covertly it does not. You fund cells and terrorists to do it for you.
I know that there is a lot of research going into transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

For some diseases it has been shown to be effective.
However, for ADHD - as far as i can see - the studies don't agree and it is preliminary for any conclusions [1].

From [1]:
Finally, a PubMed search (keywords: tDCS AND attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) identified 24 papers, including 2 original clinical studies (single-session studies) and 80 patients. One study (60 patients) did not find significant differences between active and sham tDCS regarding the effect of bihemispheric tDCS of the DLFPC (left anode + right cathode) on behavioral performance in go/no-go tasks (Cosmo et al., 2015). Conversely, the other study (20 patients) showed that anodal tDCS of the left DLPFC (with right supraorbital cathode) increased the proportion of correct responses in go/no-go tasks, whereas cathodal tDCS of the left DLPFC increased the inhibition accuracy (Soltaninejad et al., 2016). Obviously, reported results are too preliminary to make any recommendation for the use of tDCS in all these psychiatric conditions.

[1] Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138824571...)
> The explosives were in devices whose only functionality and purpose is communication between terrorists and their leadership. With No civilian functionality

Those devices are used still extensively by Hospitals, ambulances and first aid teams. The red cross use walkies. The firefighters and police also. They pose several advantages over the phone net, specially when managing sensible information from victims private life that you still have to custody and protect from internet. Nobody wants to talk on whasap about "somebody is being raped somewhere and we are on route to help, tell the other units that join us there".

They still work after earthquakes or on wildfires, and common people use it extensively on places without phone coverage like mountainous areas or fisheries. None of those people are terrorists.

But this does not matter, because the brands will stop making and selling this products to everybody. The risk as a company to became collateral damage in this new operations is too high.
The hate for lead-free is wild.

Hey kids - don't listen to the old geezers (though I'm one too). Get lead-free and figure it out. It's really just about getting in reps, and caring about the results.

In my personal experience, leaded is maybe 5% easier.

If you're doing hobby level work, it is definitely not worth having lead around getting into and onto your other stuff and possibly being licked by kids or pets or whatever, and turning your projects into hazmat.
I watch youtube using mpv (with yt-dlp) so this doesn't affect me. I already hated that when you pause a youtube video, and a bunch of UI shows up.
> The management want return to office and that's it.

I believe this is the truth. I worked for a startup 20 years ago and the founder told us all to come in early in the morning and look as busy as possible, because key investors were touring the office. He told us that they wanted to see where their money was going and we need to play our part.

Normally we worked nights and weekends at home and in the office, but the management class actually want to see us sweat IRL.

Another part of this is the management class has a herd mentality. If they see another dominant manager with some modicum of success do something, they will mindlessly copy it.
Diatom Arrangements
I've been working on making a little website on diatom arrangements (single celled microscopic algae art pieces) over the last 2-3 days and felt like sharing it.

Here's the result :)
I think this can get very nuanced --

If you are providing a library, it's possible you are exporting a function that is meant to be used by downstream code, and that function is isolated from other parts of the code (so never used by other functions but only tests)

If you are writing "product" code, most likely this is just dead code. But there are also edge cases where a function is used as the entry point for other code outside the current repository etc.

Put it this way -- if you are given a codebase you have never seen before, and you see a function only imported by test on the first day. Would you remove it without hesitation? Probably not.

I feel this is likely something that must require human experience to be done "correctly".
Coincidently, I was just reading Bad Blood
There are a few reasons. Smaller ball size means more surface area. When the paste flows, the surface tension of the solder makes it cling to the part and pad, and moves the part to align with the pad. With more surface area, you can start to get solder that clings to itself, making solder balls outside of the pad, called balling. This wastes solder and makes conductive components that are effectively contamination, they now have to be cleaned off, you can't let them remain to roll around and potentially make a short. I had issues with smaller balls clinging to stencils; i think the price is also higher.

I think there is a rule of thumb for choosing solder ball size, and it was something along the line of 5-8 balls should fit in the width of the smallest solder aperture. This will give good performance according to the component size without too much balling or other flow issues.
That would still make it the least indiscriminate long-range attack in the history of warfare.

Give me another example of a military that injured/incapacitated over 1000 enemy combatants from hundreds of miles away with so few civilian casualties.
Perhaps I'm spoiled from working mostly with React Native nowadays and have forgotten the pain :)
Batteries are becoming obsolete, scientists have discovered a new way to store energy, so the whole frame and body of the car is able to store energy. So we might see cars and laptops without batteries in the future.
When you are pretty sure some investors will shower you in startup money because AI, why bother with the complications of the real world? You're building a money sink, not a product.
I cant and wont talk about blindness. I'll say a thing or two about living with disabilities though. My friend's kid and my own kid's.

My best friend's kid has some neurological thing that stumped his ability to control his left half of his body. Without therapy, this results in muscle atrophy from lack of use.

My friend very bummed out about it. But I told him not to worry [1]. Specifically, with the right therapy and proper attention from the parents, the kid was going to end up being the toughest of the three boys.

Long and behold that kid is eight, trying out for soccer for the nine year olds and my buddy told me that the kid is the toughest of three.

Lesson: you cant make the disability go away, but if you have the right support they can help mold you into someone better.

My kid is allergic to everything (including contact anaphalaxis). His diet is very specific.

I wield the threat of the ADA as a bludgeon against anyone who tries to exclude him by not being reasonably accommodating. Out if fear, my wife considered pulling him out of day care [1], but I refused. First we couldn't afford being on one income, second he needed peers and was turning two.

He's doing very well in day care. He's a social and charming little bugger. We worked out that he cannot have lunch with the other kids and he is aware.

Once a month my wife makes lunch for the whole class. Then he can sit w/ everyone and he comes back with a big smile ranting about how he sat next to his buddy or girlfriend.

He's only three but he's starting to understand that he has a personal challenge he has to manage and start taking responsibly (i.e. the day he stole a cheese puff he ended up vomiting and in the ER)

Lesson: always go for bat for the kid. Never accept that he's unreasonably excluded or accommodated. Don't be afraid. we've probably put in 100 hours of time just on accommodation for him thus far (last year and a half).

Lastly, we know a family that has twin, teenaged, severely autistic, boys. No matter how bad it gets, I always remember that I have it easy.

[1] Both my wife and friend are the real stoics roll with life's blows types. Im not at all stoic, but I learned a bit from them. I was only reminding them what they already knew. Difficulties can be opportunities to grow.