skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language is, as described, intentionally vague and people with varying degrees of “affiliation” have been hit by the consequences.

Matt also refuses to provide any elaboration on intent and instead says “you should talk to a lawyer”.

This has the chilling effect he is looking for. No-one is “talking to a lawyer” to create or use a Wordpress.org account. Anyone who has sniffed the same air as WPE knows the intent.
I miss the old small MacBook Air https://support.apple.com/en-ca/112441
But it would have been nice to get a device more like the mini Sony Vaio device of old with tons of ports, so you have a mini workstation to add a large display and inputs
Who's "We're" ?

I only see a single name?

Is this just some dude with a blog?
There are different types of standards. Car design teams are big organizations; internal standards can help reduce the development effort. Tesla needs to coordinate with their suppliers, so sharing this helps even if it isn't used by other companies.

I think we should give Tesla the benefit of the doubt for now. Harmful use of patents could cause issues, but this has potential. We will simply see if other companies are interested, and if they are it can go from internal standard to de facto standard to formalized standard.
Maybe you don’t, but for some people, it’s lethal.

https://www.justsecurity.org/10318/video-clip-director-nsa-c...
https://flutter.dev/showcase has a few examples. Flutter is everywhere at this point. TikTok in China (Douyin), PUBG Mobile, MGM Resorts, eBay Motors, Kijiji.com, Grab are a few off the top of my head. And of course a whole bunch of Google apps (GPay, Earth, Classroom, etc.), Toyota cars, LG TVs, Google's own hardware devices, etc. Tonal is probably the app I used most often that's Flutter. Caribou Coffee, Betterment, Norwegian Cruise Lines, NuBank, Realtor.com are other random apps I've used that are Flutter.
I agree. Flutter is a project I like, but the numbers given regarding statistics remind me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
I wonder why that is? the UN is poorly structured but the largest use of Security Council vetos is by the US.
The map that they produced is very easy to unintentionally misread. The map shows the predicted contamination of groundwater locations based on the models. It does not show the locations where the actual tap water source is predicted or known to be contaminated.

For example, many large cities (San Francisco, Seattle, Portland) either do not use groundwater sources from within city limits, or only use it as a secondary source. Unless you use a private well, this map is therefore not super useful for understanding whether PFAS contamination of tap water should be a concern for you. The map likewise doesn't take into account water treatment or filtering.
Analytics for Voice AI Agents
Voice AI is eating the world. It's a fun space because a) it still feels like a community, and b) it's growing fast.

The use of LLM to power Voice AI is still nascent. The community is missing lots of tooling. We built this to help our friends who are building Voice AI agents.

Would love to hear what the HN community thinks of it!
This reminds me of storing equipment and supplies at the platoon level in the Army. The Army owns a huge number of shipping containers, like they're pervasive on any Army base, just part of the landscape. Basically every platoon keeps most of its stuff in these containers instead of proper buildings (minus weapons and ammunition, unless deployed somewhere, and then the shipping containers become arms rooms too). It also just makes it easier to deploy all the stuff, because it's already loaded up to go. Anyway, they're all "secured" with padlocks. Because of personnel turnover and poor bookkeeping, the right keys always seemed to be missing, so every platoon also had a set of bolt cutters. The padlocks were constantly being chopped off whenever people needed to look for things, conduct an inventory, etc. and then replaced with new padlocks. Taking a step back, it was crazy and didn't instill much confidence.
> That's 50 people serving the needs of 1,000,000.

The SQLite developers must find this rationale hilarious.
"We kill people based on metadata."

https://www.justsecurity.org/10318/video-clip-director-nsa-c...
They tend to color-code connectors in vehicles by voltage for safety reasons.

Light blue is used for 48V.
This looks really cool, ill definitely be keeping track of it :)
Is it specific to English speaking countries (or maybe just USA) ? I never saw gothic buildings as spooky.
We hate the tech industry even though we love tech
There is no real train station in San Francisco: you're insane if you think that the Caltrain station could move significant fractions of the traffic that SFO does. SFO is more convenient to a much larger percentage of the people who live in the area (sure, not the strict city limits of SF proper) than a hypothetical station in downtown SF would be.

Like, this is pure fantasy. It's just people who have some kind of weird identity built up out of "liking trains" ignoring the actual world.

I said, "there's about a 20-40 minute advantage to train stations" and you're like trying to go to bat for the idea that an intracity commuter station which is 12 minutes from the airport somehow disproves that.
The Moon moves not in circles but rather along a straight line in curved spacetime. It doesn't require any force to stay on this path — it is in free fall.
Nobody said perjury. Violating contracts is actually illegal though, FYI.
Any specific fresh examples? Or how do you know it’s not you who is in the echo chamber? )
You're also missing that the lawsuit alleges mullenweg lied to the employee about the nature of the job, and rather than being a personal assistant it was nearly 24/7 caretaking of his mother under constant abuse (including, but not limited to, having sleep disturbed by calls from the mother, being denied meal breaks, and being forced to work during thanksgiving without meals.)
> But we should not block people based on political views or skepticism about science or anything else that is controversial. The censorship regime of big social media platforms should be viewed as an editorial choice, under law and in principle.

> Lastly - large social media platforms are utility communication services and public squares. They need to be regulated and treated like a government agency, restricting their ability to ban users and content. After all, so much of today’s speech is on these platforms. Not being able to share your ideas there is similar to not having free speech rights at all.

This is all well and good, but maybe the place to rehash a debate about whether vaccines work is not in fact, the center town square. I would say that a person who has no idea about any of the underlying science and evidence, but is spreading doubt about it anyway (especially while benefiting financially), is not in fact, 'sharing their ideas', because they don't meet the minimum standard to actually have an opinion on the topic.
From [1]:

> The agricultural sector in the United States relies on foreign workers; 86 percent of agricultural workers [3] in the United States are foreign-born and 45 percent of all US agricultural workers are undocumented.

This is particularly rife in the meatpacking and agricultural industries. The employers themselves call in ICE raids when their workers start demanding fair wages with little to no consequence.

[1]: https://cmsny.org/agricultural-workers-rosenbloom-083022/
50 developers can do an awful lot - if they aren’t trapped in a feature factory environment.

The constant pressure to ship new features instead of only widely desired features overtaxes a team quickly.
If he can't answer such a question, he shouldn't get to ask.
> . That’s not much time for a model that (hopefully) understands all of HN!

this is dangerous talk.

it doesn't understand anything at all.

Reminder: We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans.
I haven’t done the research to know if that’s true or not, so I will assume it is.

But it is such a non-issue to me that I really don’t care that it exists. I also would not care if they made it possible. But as an actual user of multiple of them, it really, truly is a non-issue for me.

My issue is that mine are all lightning and I have fewer and fewer lightning devices, so I’ll have to keep around a lightning cable (regardless of whether I can charge while using it or not). But that was bound to happen.
Hi David. Would you be open to chatting for a few minutes about this? I've been considering bringing Rust into our organization and having someone with experience would be helpful toward that. Not trying to interview you, more just understand what type of people to look for, what types of projects fit well, etc. My email is in my profile. Thank you for your consideration David.
Didn't Google suddenly kill GWT, which is a bit like flutter?
why not use the Chinese standard, GB/T?

china has the most electric cars, the largest manufacturers, and the most advanced battery production on the planet. their experience with electric vehicles and charging would be a valuable leap forward.
Yes exactly, we're talking about Jeff Bezos here.
> (maybe) take more time to engineer

Apple, the richest company in the world, who spends millions in money and engineering hours on stuff like making sure the packaging having the right neutral smell, and the box sliding out with the right amount of friction when you open it, and on security teams/mercenaries able to pull family members of workers from warzones, and you're telling me they have to nickel and dime their HW team for routing an NVME slot on the board instead of soldering the NAND chips because that would cost some more engineering time?

Thanks for the chuckle, I loved it. I think Apple spends more on toilet paper or hand soap in a month than the effort would cost their HW engineers to do that.
I’m not sad they didn’t work with a hundred companies and take tens of years and still have nothing to show for it.

They are doing what they need done for their business and then inviting others to join. And way earlier than they did with NACS: https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...
Flutter Founder here. I'm very pro open-source, and pro taking-action, so hopefully good things will come out of it. I think this particular author is mostly stirring up a bunch of noise and does not represent a significant chunk of the community, but we'll see. :shrug:
Too late for edit... But rereading the blog and references... I suspect if this was on real hardware, with a real 16550 UART, you'd have the same issue, but without the message about too many interrupts.

You'd just have your logs backing up because you're writing more than 115kbaud, and then things that write logs become blocking. You'd need to figure that out by seeing what processes are blocked on what, rather than getting a hint because the irq behavior is weird.
You believe that. I believe that. I'm sure my lawyer believes that. I'm sure Matt's does, too. I'd prefer not to have to convince a judge or jury to see it our way. If I were in the author's shoes, I don't know if I'd expose my company to that much of a legal risk with someone who's been acting "interestingly" recently.

I'm not involved in any of this except as a spectator. I don't even use Wordpress. Just saying, I could see why someone might not want to split legal hairs with their leadership right now, even where it's very likely you'd win such an argument in court.
Central bus instead of many point to point connections. Look at how much fewer cabling the cybertruck has.
How about an argument for millions of dollars due to a missing punctuation mark: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/missing-oxford-com...
Other people already mentioned safety. But you can actually go to 96V if needed by running a cable with -48V if you need extra power.

One another advantage of the new 48V architecture is that it doesn't depend on the car body for the current return path. This opens up possibilities of adding sensors that detect current leakage, to pinpoint areas with defective wiring and/or components.
As mentioned in another comment, it’s also close to the safety limit for low voltage systems.

IMO solar pioneered (in recent history) 48V DC systems, which is an easy multiple of 12V to stay below the 50V “high voltage” safety threshold.

It allowed people to use smaller gauge wire and chain together multiple 12V batteries that are readily available.
Incidentally, this article on Debian tooling reminded me of a CICD experiment I did a couple of years ago.

I worked on a Debian-based product which had a three stage Jenkins -> OBS (Debian packaging) -> OBS (images) CI pipeline that required modernization for various reasons. One option I submitted was to create a Jenkins plugin that exposed a Debian source repository as a multibranch pipeline, as a replacement for the second stage.

The idea was to encode both a Debian source package's version and its binary build dependencies into the SCM revision seen by Jenkins. If either changed, Jenkins would've triggered a build automatically and if the binary package built was pushed back onto the source repository, the tree of dependent packages would be iteratively rebuilt.

I made both a plugin prototype and a Jenkins test instance, using Aptly as a repository manager and a dead-simple Jenkinsfile as build instructions. It was quite an elegant setup that allowed one orchestrator to oversee all the stages of building that product, but it wasn't selected at the end due to too much uncertainty when compared to off-the-shelf solutions. Maybe I should write a blog article about it...
> The categorical imperative roughly says that something is moral only if its universal adoption would benefit society.

Really? I actually don’t think that’s right at all. For example: nobody should be a philosopher, because if I everyone were, society would collapse. Surely, Kant did not believe that.

My understanding is that the categorical imperative is more like: it’s only moral if you would accept a random roll of the dice into any of society’s roles. In this case, I’m not sure society would be better off if passive income did not exist, but perhaps it should be “earned” passive income, in the entrepreneurial sense, rather than just pure rents for high status people.
he is legit having a mental breakdown
Rental income doesn't need any work if you are just an investor though.

I don't do a single thing. The people who are managing the deal are the ones who do the work and hire the workers to work on site and such. They of course get an even better return during the sale, but I am happy with what I get for doing nothing.

My rental properties are paying me a decent passive income of about 6%, and additionally the total investment about doubles in roughly 5 years. Also the tax advantages are pretty huge with the depreciation and the ability to take the money from a sale and put it into a new property with no tax.

So say you start with an initial $100K investment. That pays back about 6K a year for 5 years and then turns into about 200K after 5 years which you then put into a new property and make 12K a year, and so on and so on.

So if you start with 100K when you are say 25, then when you are 50, you will have around 1.6M in property assets making you about 96K a year in passive income, where the depreciation on the property value and the assets in the property outweigh the tax on the income, so that income is all tax free. And that calculation is assuming you don't put even more capital in from some other source. Of course it's a roughly average return assumption. Some properties will do better and others will do worse, but it's been my experience that it's about right.

Of course this is only one of my investment baskets. I allocate roughly half of the income that I can invest into real-estate like this and the other half into low cost index funds.
Bandwidth?
How is this better than all the other 48V connectors out there (MX150, MCON, PP, etc.)?

Surely it isn't just that they reduced the number of connectors since one could have just standardized on a subset of mass-produced connectors by molex, te, etc. instead.
GaN semiconductors are heavily used in military and space applications like Radar, Lasers, and Power ICs.

The US has recently been subsidizing the development of an alternative supply chain for GaN and other similar semiconductor in Japan (eg. the TI announcement), India [0], Phillipines [1], Australia [2], etc

[0] - https://www.state.gov/new-partnership-with-india-to-explore-...

[1] - https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-trilateral-chapter-united-...

[2] - https://www.ussc.edu.au/expanding-the-national-security-inno...
WhatsApp once had just 50 engineers with 900M users: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
I agree that the iMac needs to be usable as a monitor. Both Dell and HP all-in-ones that I looked at do this (I did not do an exhaustive search, so it may not be as common as my 'look at two' makes it sound, but it's not UN-common)

However, let's be real clear, iMac is not a mid-range desktop, price-wise. Amazon's all-in-one category's HIGHEST non-apple price in the top-10 is $599. There are three non-apple all-in-ones over $1k in the top-50. [1]

Obviously, once we separate the pieces out, things become even more clear cut. You can buy the beefiest "mini-pc" from amazon and pair it with a 28" or 32", flat or curved 4k monitor for $200-400 and still have money left over.

The iMac is NOT high-end, but it is luxury, and that's an important distinction.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-All-in-One-C...
Flutter Founder here. If you ever have any concerns re: Flutter, please don't ever hesitate to reach out. eric@shorebird.dev
>But, sadly, trying to work with the Flutter team delivers a different reality. While some developers have had success working with the Flutter team, many other developers have found it frustrating, if not unworkable.

I'd love to see some examples. I've had my pull request merged in a fairly quick amount of time - less than one release cycle, which is what matters here.

Also frankly, nobody forking Flutter will be nearly skilled enough to work on the Flutter engine (Impeller). So it's hard to take this announcement seriously.
I have a non-technical friend that runs a vending machine business. He targets exclusively small locations like gas stations, bodegas, etc. He makes a great living, but he's also started farming out filling and collection to employees now because it's a lot of driving and work to do it.
I think "passive income" is ambiguous, and people will sell it one way, and buy it another.

wikipedia seems to have a broad definition of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_income

I see people saying passive income is not always hands off.

I wonder if they are right or the "hands off" definition
doesn't fit their situation.
Living in a climate (Wisconsin) that has extreme highs and lows my understanding is this is typically intended to smooth-out a gas bill (as one example) moving from $10/mo in the summer to $400/mo in the winter.

It’s a budgeting thing.
This apparently is a custom Android runtime that uses GTK for its widgets and drawing to get native rendering on Linux.

That's quite impressive, but a massive undertaking compared to just running Android in a container.
these are also 50 google devs (that may or may not be at the company anymore) by this estimate. They could have just said there were critical tickets not addressed by Gooogle and their PR's ignored, and would have gotten a much more sympathetic response.
> Am I the only one

Definitely not. Relatedly, the best advice I ever got about taking pictures of not-people is to put people in them. There are countless pictures, many of them better than I will ever get, of almost every mountain/building/whatever in the world. Put yourself, friends, and family in the shot, or it will be forgettable.

We just went through my late mother's albums of pictures a few months ago, and ultimately we ended up discarding a rather large number of them because they were just random pictures of landscapes.
All the good Chinese speed cubes these days are sticker-less, so thankfully no more ugly cubes with grody stickers.
"There is no centrifugal force" is often found together with "centrifugal forces appear as a term when using the frame of reference of the object going around", and this implicitly says that some reference frames are more privileged than others which -in a world that accepts the principle of Relativity- is just not acceptable.

So of course gravity is a force, and of course centrifugal forces are real. These dogmas serve to do nothing more than to scare away students, and to make the dogmatic seem like geniuses because only they can understand these things.
After 6831 (give or take) hours, I'm pretty sure the answer is "no"
How important is prompt engineering?
I think the definition of "ruin your life" is different now than it was in the 80s. Stakes are higher for kids now, and one little mistake can put you on the road to the have-nots instead of the haves.

Back when I was in high school, you could make mistakes and still end up successful. You could get a few B's in your grades, you could decide not to do so many sports and extracurriculars, you could get detention, you could even get in light trouble with the police for horsing around--and still make it into a good University and move on to a good career. I know because I made all of those mistakes. Plus, the consequences for being mediocre were not too severe. B students had community college, C and D students had decent jobs at the mill and the factory or could learn a trade, and so on.

Today, the bar for entry into a comfortable, middle class career is so high, that my kid needs to make zero mistakes. She has to get straight As, she has to stay out of any kind of trouble, she has to have the right polished "profile" for all the various career- and life-gatekeepers she will meet and need to pass. And if she doesn't pass the gatekeepers, where is she going to end up? There is no safety net and no real humane jobs left for lower-performers. Life is so much more bifurcated now, the kids know it, and they stress about not making a mis-step.

In the 80s I was competing with my small town. Now, kids are competing with the entire world.
> What is ethernet bringing to the picture?

Over 3 orders of magnitude faster datarates.

CAN FD: up to 5Mb/s

Automotive Ethernet: up to 10 Gb/s
Displayport 1.3 which supports 5k 60fps became widely available with the NVIDIA 900 series just 5 months after the 5K iMac released. AMD followed suit 1 year after.

They could have very soon added support for it, maybe even launched with DP 1.3 support if they worked something out with AMD.
Because it’s a) scripting language b) not even a good one.

Even if modern versions somehow overcome those limitations - nobody would bet an expensive project while there are plenty of more relevant alternatives
The problem with any sort of external storage device is how easy it is to accidentally unplug it while something is using it.
Depending on the country you live in, the laws might allow you to do work on equipment that is below 50 volts, but require you to be a certified electrician for anything above that.