skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're cheap but rechargable lithium-ion batteries, as well as a blob of electronics to make it heat an element when a button or microphone sensor activates to vape, and a lot of times, also a fancy screen with animations.

Some disposable vapes even include a USB port to recharge that battery, which is why it's certain that they're rechargable.
how will they wine and dine you? i guess they could use door-dash.

or give you that big, wide, very fake smile and proudly remember your name almost correctly.

will they ever actually tell you the prices of what you are asking for at the quantities you ask instead of a confusing impenetrable bundle of whatever they want to sell?

will they still be such transparently psychopathic compulsive pathological liars?

will they only call you back at the end of the quarter when they need a sale or two?

will they nervously shush their AI FAE if some engineering detail he presents works against selling you something you don't need?

honestly, i can't imagine why this wouldn't work other than the high-five.
I’ve been saying for a while that I expect the next big “veganeque” movement to be some kind of modern luddites. Maybe not as detached from modern society as the Amish, but a more 90s-like tech scene.

No cell phone on them at all times (but maybe some equivalent to a car phone/pay phone), placing the restriction to consciously “log on” to the internet, no (at least ad-based) social media, and maybe keep their online persona to appearances on mostly decentralized forums.

Personally, I know it would benefit me to detach from the one social media platform I have left and am fully addicted to (YouTube), but it’s hard when that is the platform that videos are stored on (though if I really cared, I would only subscribe to channels via RSS and watch them or individually search for things I wish to see instead of infinitely scrolling.) It’s also hard to keep up with group activities or the best classifieds listings or local music/arts events without Facebook.

I don’t believe that there will ever be a true competitor for services that can operate at scale like Facebook and YouTube (especially the latter), but I expect these modern luddites to accept this and reject those platforms even if it is socially ostracizing (much like veganism). To fill the void, they’ll create platforms and devices for them specifically. I imagine the goal of the platforms will be to avoid unnecessary bloat and keep hosting/maintenance costs low, which seems relatively easy if sucking every last second of retention out the user is not financially incentivized like it is in ad-based platforms. I expect the hardware to prioritize cost-efficiency, repairability, and a minimal feature set that doesn’t require frequent upgrades.

Then I imagine for a time, the movement will become trendy and people will begin flooding those platforms. The challenge then becomes to avoid capitalizing on the influx and keep the initial morals in mind and not start showing ads/trying to increase retention time. I think those projects may need to be decentralized and/or established as nonprofits with stated non-retractable tenets from their creation (“We shall never serve advertisements”, “We shall prioritize the distribution of useful information above all else”, etc.)

It’s a utopian view of the future, but I think it is possible. I think we’ll hit a day when we realize that spending 10+ hours a day staring at glowing rectangles is not bringing us closer to real fulfillment. I expect that as long as capitalism is the dominant economic force, businesses will always embrace the newest technology to avoid a massive gap in their output when compared to competitors, and the tech companies will always be pushing new addictive technology as long as it isn’t globally regulated, but after work, the people will wake up to the fact that they at least have a choice on whether or not they spend the rest of their leisure time staring at glowing rectangles.

Yet I still haven’t woken up myself.
We call this treason, ok sure. Cant say, I am confused by the word treason these days. You cannot deny the oligarchy thats present, When citizens united is being so aggressively embraced by the big corps, is that not treason?

Disclaimer: Compleete neutral. Only alliance is with a MOSFET
This seems like a good argument for the US government to re-invest in building its own infrastructure and communication systems. It is bonkers that we are susceptible to being compromised like this.
The cost savings for this are going to be a rounding error. I imagine this is a broader push to be able to have Claude pilot your browser (and other applications) in the future. This is the right way to go about it versus having a headless agent: users can be in the loop and you can bootstrap and existing environment.

Otoh it’s going to be a security nightmare.
That's the model Chicago converted to ("problem people" jab aside). It's fine. But the expensive areas are still expensive. It's hard to see schematically why rents would stay cheap in this model.
What if it wasn't the ethanol that caused so many horrible health problems in alcoholics, but rather all the nasty additives in the stuff they drank?

Imagine how much adulteration goes on, especially with bargain basement liquors and beers. Surely, pure ethanol is not our lone enemy in this fight.
I use social media merely for distraction. Over the years I gained nearly zero benefit from using it. Shallow connections, useful looking useless content.
Extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb(2017)
Organizations such as the ACLU and the American Red Cross are registered organizations and I doubt you'd advocate for restricting or redefining their civil rights. Perhaps you'd draw the line at for-profit organizations, but that doesn't make it better. Should Ben & Jerry's or Patagonia or other corporations with notable positions on social issues not enjoy the protection of civil rights from those who oppose them?

The bottom line is that any restriction or redefinition of civil rights is fraught with negative unintended consequences. It should be an option chosen with extreme care.
I submitted it with a normal Reddit link. @dang did some mechanism automatically replace the Reddit link with old.?
Pete is a great guy, also on the OpenFeature governance board :)
It's also possibly to do with the fact that disposables are almost universally nic salts, where as mod juices are usually freebase nic, and that can affect the flavor.

(Of course, I might be wrong, since it's been nearly a decade since I paid attention to the vape scene)
Hezbollah's presence might not be illegal under Lebanese law, but it is illegal under UNSC 1701.

Israel's current presence might technically also be illegal under UNSC 1701, but Israel has a very strong casus belli from self-defense, having been bombarded for the past year.
The people I know that would be affected by this just get duty free from corner shops under the table now. Last I heard it's around 8 quid for 50g of rolling tobacco instead of £38 buying legit.

Wouldn't be surprised to find out they smoke more than they used to with it being less scarce.
> If you’re mostly scrolling and consuming

Imagine an AI that popped up when you are reading something and warned you that information is false.

For instance, imagine something like https://theconversation.com/can-ai-talk-us-out-of-conspiracy... helping people discern about news and propaganda.
#1 reason I use proxy cards to pay for subscriptions, all I have to do is pause or delete the proxy card and then I won’t have to worry about complicated cancellation processes
Biggest problem with Dacia Spring might be its 1-star safety rating.
This doesn't work for me on Firefox Mobile on Android at 10x10 or above. It's as if the touch targets get too small to select: I can click on the numbers to turn them red, but I can't seem to select any square.

Works well on smaller sizes and on Chrome on the same device.
Is there any similar guarantee that an employee can respond by sharing their contrary opinion without consequences? If not this seems less like freedom of speech and more like an implied threat.
> Headline is misleading. Amazon is claiming it has a First Amendment Right not to disseminate NLRB materials.

Amazon has made multiple claims--not just that one--and the headline is referring to the group.

In any case, that claim is weak because there's no confusion of authorship or endorsement, employees can tell that the company is delivering something on the behalf of someone else. (Ironically, It's also what the company is known for generally.)

I wonder what would happen if Amazon refused to print out W-2 tax forms and made the same argument.
Depending on the puzzle there is “actual effort”, a lot of these puzzles are not generated.

If you’re experienced with solving you can also generally distinguish generated from constructed puzzles.

[Edit: Are you looking specifically for battleship puzzles? or just variant sudoku?]
> smart computer agent doing the transaction

None of these agents are smart.

And if purchases become agentic, fine print or other shady tricks hidden in business terms will be how businesses draw consumers in.

Also, none of this will be existential, earth-shattering or enourmous until compute power per watt comes to a degree where all of this is economical at scale.
I hate to be the one to say this (especially as phthalates are horrible) but it needs a suffix:

"......in worms."
It's one thing to say these things. I'm sure Amazon has a website somewhere saying such things, for anybody who wants to read them, that's fine. It's another to obligate people to listen or to threaten them, explicitly or implicitly, about things you might do if they vote a certain way.

Illustrating this difference is why I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947141.
Fe(III) ions exist in all the cells of all aerobic living beings, for instance in the molecules of the so-called cytochromes, which are used in the cellular respiration.

Nevertheless, the amount of Fe(III) that exists in almost all cells is extremely small in comparison with the amount of Fe(III) that exists in the blood of any vertebrate, where it is used to transport dioxygen in the entire body. The "red" muscles also contain a similar protein to that of the red blood cells, which is used to store dioxygen.

Therefore any kind of food that contains either blood or muscles rich in myoglobin will contain much more Fe(III) than anything else.
Well, great, then!
Former OpenAI Employee Condemns the Company's Data Scraping Practices
Denmark's bottle return system receives 92% of bottles and cans.
Based on the flow diagram, that doesn't seem to be the same thing. Webwright seems to be a shell as a tool for me, enhanced with AI features. I'm suggesting the shell as a tool for AI.

Webwright is a front-end shell that presents to me; I'm suggesting a back-end shell that presents to Claude.

It doesn't appear that Webwright enables tool-use. In other words, there's no task-oriented feedback loop between AI-provided shell commands and the results of those shell commands. Please correct me if that's not right.
I'm not sure what protection you could expect on any system where the kernel has been replaced by the attacker. Sure they can bypass mseal, but they are also bypassing all other security on the box.
Do try it. I've been running it ever since it got integrated into the core, mostly to control A/C units around our flat, and it's the best voice assistant experience I had to date.

I mean honestly, how is it possible Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft[0] all keep screwing this up for over a decade now? I literally spent 15 minutes hooking up GPT-4 to the Home Assistant integration, and I was able to semi-reliably[1] control actual devices[2] like air conditioners and smart lights, in a completely natural and ad-hoc way, by talking to my smartwatch on the go, or to a phone, whatever was more convenient at the moment.

It's a really magical experience, a step closer to Star Trek reality. And what makes it possible is not just LLMs being able to deal with natural language, but more importantly, "bring your own API key" model allowing to cut away all the bullshit that FAANG assistants are stuck in.

--

[0] - Ever since they dropped MS Speech API in Windows, and did the Cortana thing. Some 15 years passed, at this point, and I'd still prefer to work with the Speech API than to touch any of the FAANGs' voice assistant - it worked, and worked off-line!

[1] - Works ~90% of the time; some 5% of the time the voice model (from Home Assistant Cloud) misunderstands me, and 5% of the time the LLM gets confused. It's still worth it, because I can actually talk to it like to a person, without thinking of style or grammar or magic keywords.

[2] - Which, given the level of integration of Home Assistant companion app with the phone, can be easily turned into an equivalent of on-phone voice assistant that can do more than the one I got from Google. Critically, there are ways to couple Home Assistant app and Tasker, so it's not hard to make it do arbitrary things on your phone. And, if you don't like low-ish code Tasker experience, you can trivially shell out from Tasker to Termux, at which point sky is the limit. Point being, an enthusiastic non-developer with minimal tech aptitude can beat Google and Apple at the voice assistant game today.
When it has adverse effects (and no benefits), then of course it’s too much. But GP seemed to be saying they find it terrifying even assuming no adverse effects, which I found curious.

A huge number of people have implements in their bodies (in their teeth, most often), and much more than seven grams of “foreign stuff” in their stomach and intestines all the time, so that by itself doesn’t seem anything to be terrified of.
> Even camera improvements are overblown.

I would love to take a photo using my smartphone that doesn't look pixelated, blurry and or over-processed. Maybe asking too much considering smartphone sensors can't compete with DSLRs in some situations, but I'm always baffled with how dark and desaturated some of my photos turn out on my smartphone, as well.
I am not sure if Bezos really planned to overtake the union, but is an excellent suggestion, mr Burns. Excellent!
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iOS has been doing this for a bit too. I don't use it enough to really know how good it is but I can definitely look for cats or people I know. Haven't used Apple Intelligence yet so maybe that's better as well?
That simply isn't true, and even if it was there's no system by which trained people can be certified to carry any form of self defense tool.
Reformulating something you already understanding in a more general framework can give more insight into what it really means, isolate the essence from messy details. From my very limited understanding of it, characterising an object with universal properties is an important part of category theory.

Another practical utility of category theory is providing a common language for computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists to speak. You can imagine collaboration is not easy when everyone calls the same pattern with different names with slightly incompatible definitions that requires you to understand unfamiliar theories.
Let me guess, you have plans that to mine that helium by working at night?
As an American, I'm still often baffled by American Exceptionalism. Often people who say stuff like this have zero actual clue about how things are done in other countries. And it's laughable to call out the right to bear arms when just being suspected of having a weapon is enough to justify an execution by the police.
What confuses me about tardigrades is how they are resistant to so many things. Like it would make sense to have resistance to one or two things, but all those things? Why is that even needed? Do they keep ending up in bad situations?
No one cares. The people profit from this don't care. Virtually everyone who buys these products doesn't care either. If you care and you want to do something about it get on the next spaceship, leave the earth and abandon this unintelligent human species.
Oh man, this is incredible!
Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers
> I am missing the most important thing when it comes to CSV which is configuration of the input.

1. Given that their stated use-case for this tool is generation of data for testing purposes, why would input configuration be relevant?

2. It doesn't have any CSV-associated features to begin with. If for some reason you wanted to use this for that, you would interact with your own bound Go functions to facilitate working with CSV, just as demonstrated in the article. Within those functions, you can setup any configuration your heart desires.
Hey there! Andrew here, Community Manager for OpenFeature and DevRel lead at DevCycle. We (DevCycle) have worked hard to ensure an OpenFeature Provider is available for every language supported by OpenFeature and for which we have an SDK (https://docs.devcycle.com/integrations/openfeature)
No I'm very specifically talking about the right to self defense actually.
How is it a scam? They are running a service to connect you to other people looking for a relationship. The service works - I found my last 3 girlfriends through dating apps.

I'm not going to message random people's Instagram unsolicited, I would find it annoying to on the receiving end of that. My mother and girlfriend have both complained about receiving unwanted attention from unknown men through social media.

Honestly trying to understand your point of view, do you think dating apps should be free? They definitely aren't free to run.
There are lots and lots of use cases for good AI.

Those LLMs we have around just aren't that.
Amazon seizes domains used in rogue Remote Desktop campaign to steal data
iOS already has all of the API required to integrate a password manager with the OS. Third party password managers can already integrate with both browsers and apps to provide passwords and password generation
People living in Israel are not going to up and leave.

Which is fine, because the parent isn't suggesting that they do anything of the sort.
Much easier in the browser that has V8 isolate, however even with webworkers you still want to control CPU/network hijacking which is not ideal.

If it's only the user's own code it's fine but if they can run code from others it's a massive pain indeed.

On the server it's still not easy in 2024, even with Firecracker (doesn't work on mac), Workerd (is a subset of NodeJS), isolated-vm (only pre-compiled code, no modules).
OpenAI whisper runs on iOS native on device, can't be just costs.
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/407
Defining it legally would require careful consideration, but there is an obvious intuitive difference between telling employees unions are bad and mandating that they watch safety training.

The latter at least has legitimate business value as well as value for the employee themselves. The former benefits only the corporation, at the expense of the employees. Safety training is collectively good, union busting is adversarial.

It should not be impossible to make this a legal distinction.
We don’t know long-term effects yet. Interfering with hormones and their receptors can change the amount of the hormone the body produces and the sensitivity of the receptor.
If it’s applied carefully then it shouldn’t be a problem though and the body would re-regulate later itself for the trade of many positive effects immediately.
yes, and it'll be very easy to capture in commercial quantities, I'm sure.
https://archive.is/tLaw3
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

It’s only misleading if you don’t read the article though I guess that’s likely 9 of ten people who see the headline.
If you attach some sort of rebate to it, I guarantee there will be people who collect them off the ground who don't even vape, like how some do with bottles and cans and scrap metal.
Stores implemented limits per person/household, but you could easily work around those if you really wanted to. It wasn’t rationing on a federal or even just state level.
I get what you mean but tardigrades don't photosynthesize, so you still have the problem of what they should eat.
From that article: "Telegrams between the Mossad agents in Baghdad and their superiors in Tel Aviv give the impression that neither group knew who was responsible for the attack." Also, "by 13 January 1951, nearly 86,000 Jews had already registered to immigrate, and 23,000 had already left for Israel".

And anyway, the Iraqi government had already begun and, after the bombings, accelerated a program of expulsion. Unless you're going to disavow Nuri as-Said as a "Zionist", the actual causes are Iraqi state policy.

(Pre-1948 Iraq was also, despite your insinuation, not exactly friendly to Jews. cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawud_Pasha_of_Baghdad.)

Anyway, I'm done with this side tangent. Enjoy your fantasies about how 99% of Jews left Iraq and Egypt and Yemen, and 90% left Tunisia and Morocco, because of evil foreigners and the local Jews' disloyalty.
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This may help a bit:
https://lwn.net/Articles/948129/
Ask HN: How do you manage your paper receipts?
Am completely swamped with paper receipts. Can't find one when I need it.

I've been involved with construction projects where it can be especially costly to lose a receipt, and some parties don't have electronic receipts. Taking photos of receipts works but I often forget.

How do y'all manage your paper receipts?
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I calculated and found almost no correlation (r=0.2) between battery life and price. Which is quite sad considering it's the most important feature to consumers.

Here's my write-up alongside some interesting dataviz : https://picked.arnaud.at/news/smartphone-data-science
What does this mean? Sure, if generative AI is filling in features that weren't present, anyone would call that doctored or fake. But computational photography is mostly about recognizing patterns and filling in assumed detail... which is also how your visual cortex works.
But the C++20 code doesn't have this issue. That's my point. C++20 is 4 years old by this point.
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I can see both policies you suggested working out fantastically, if followed through. Legacy American automakers would panic at first before they get to work. But, if these automakers can lobby for tariffs in the first place, why would they hobble themselves by giving these tariffs a deadline?

They can simply maintain these tariffs till forever, effectively doubling the price of any car out of China. The US population is essentially a captive audience.

Also, judging by America's antagonistic politics, any Party that opens the market to Chinese cars would be branded traitors & enemies of the working man and they'd likely do poorly in state and national elections.
Docs are aging (and so are you)
(2017) Past discussion (143 points, 7 years ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194422
That doesn't actually refute any of the points in the comment you are replying to.
I just wish it had an "open new tab beside this one" option instead of Firefox' default behaviour of only opening a tab at the very end.

That said despite some quirks and bugs it works better for me than Brave's vertical tab bar, in which all tabs are simply invisible (I can see the mouse hover highlight but nothing else).