skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake hearing aids, or dangerous ones, would get rooted out quick. The function is the test of quality. There are laws that hold companies liable for material and actual harms caused by their products. There's no need for the FDA to be standing in the middle of this industry - there is no value add. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. I have looked. I have tried to steelman its presence in the regulation of hearing devices for more than a decade. Nothing holds up to scrutiny. The closest you get to a plausibly legitimate reason for regulation is when it comes to children, but even then, it's flimsy as hell.

There are zero legitimate reasons among the swathes of paperwork put forth by this cartel. They are irredeemably corrupt and morally bankrupt exploiters of the elderly and disabled, and the method by which they accomplished that was regulatory capture via the FDA medical device classification. Given that as a platform, they perform a series of manipulative maneuvers and establish a bureaucratic framework, self sustaining, given the color and flavor of legitimacy with the government's stamp of authenticity.

They've been presenting Audiology programs as a legitimate medical field, when these are effectively sound system equalizer knob twiddlers in doctor costumes. Yes, there are legitimate medical professionals who go into ENT and such, but a large majority of audiologists are essentially salespeople for one of the 5 HA cartel members, whether they realize it or not.

They're getting away with a gross and vicious exploitation of some of the most vulnerable people among us; so no, there is no valid, rational basis for the medical device categorization and regulation by the FDA of hearing aids. The disability can absolutely destroy someone's quality of life, and this is an insidious and evil market. But hey, it's Starkey and Oticon, they do good things and charity for kids, right?
Where are these figures coming from?
Do you spend a lot of time driving an automatic transmission? After putting 150,000 miles on my car, I'm kind of surprised I don't have more asymmetry in my legs.
> First, as the cold war heated up in the 40s and 50s, America’s idealistic vision for a democratic and progressive Japan took a back seat to the more practical and pressing need to develop Japan into a bulwark against Communism.

Funny how protecting the ideals of progressive democracy from Communism so often involved suppressing those ideals ourselves. Beat the Commies to the punch, I guess.
Honestly, for users affected I wonder if switching to Linux and using Proton is a suitable alternative. I've been using Pop OS and Steam on my gaming rig for a few weeks and it works incredibly well!

I've been playing the new Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and haven't had any major issues. The only reason I keep Windows around in a dual boot setup is because of Fortnite
Agree strongly with your entire comment, but am _definitely_ stealing that last sentence, it was quite a sharp take.
Zero-to-one-hundred real quick there. The important thing for the general population isn't so much to go full Unabomber, live in the woods, speak to nobody, but to make tracking just a little more difficult. Mabye set Location Services (when prompted by an app) to "Only while using" instead of "Always". Use Signal (or even iMessage) instead of SMS or Facebook Messenger. Use Apple Maps (or Open Street Maps) instead of Google Maps. Click "Deny All" instead of "Allow All" when prompted for Cookies, use Apple's Private Relay, the list goes on.

The point isn't to make tracking impossible, but to make it cost more; in time, in resources, in terms of capital.
Excellent approach. You will be leagues ahead of someone who relies on LLM alone.
People skills I am working on
That approach eventually failed, because the great leaders and experts went on to improve the society for themselves, at the expense of everyone else. Focusing on those who would be successful anyway made sense when the middle class was still expanding. Then the expansion stopped, social mobility decreased, and the zero-sum aspects of the society became dominant.
All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
> they operate a higher risk vehicles

Are you serious? How can you say that? Cars are, by themselves, much higher risk than bikes. If bikes are dangerous at all is because of cars. The main--heck, I'd say the only--spreaders of dangerosity are cars. In a car-free city, none of the main causes of premature death would be traffic-related.
How much do you think it costs to have a "team" at all?
The article talks about corruption like it's just a clearly bad thing and people either do the bad thing or not, but it's a blurry line between engaging in corruption and the normal ways that organizations work. Examples:

If you pay a speeding ticket, isn't that like participating in corruption by buying your way out of punishment for endangering people? Is it really morally any different from paying a bribe to the policeman who catches you speeding in a country where that's the common way? In both cases, you pay for speeding and your money ends up going towards the policeman's income.

Forming a personal connection with the interviewer when applying for a government job. Now you're suddenly like his friend and he's more inclined to select you. Maybe he expects to have a good relationship with you in future and gain intangible benefits from that if he hires you.

In my country, teacher jobs have to be publicly advertised, presumably to combat nepotism. But schools regularly hire internally and their advertisement includes a statement like "no actual vacancy" telling people not to waste time applying. I guess they're following the law but still corrupting the ideal of not favoring your friends.

It seems like you have to have a deep understanding of how and why the systems works the way it does to figure out if a particular action is morally corrupt or not. You can just follow the law but that seems to allow some society-harming corruption and nobody feels guilty about it.
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I see what you did there.

Jelly’s here for you when it stops being, well, good enough!
Popular Rockchip SBC distro in limbo after maintainer burns out
No worries, he's been dead since 1943. Thanks, Hitler!
Economists have a pretty poor track record of predictions themselves... so I wouldn't be too smug about this. The economy (the real one, not the one in textbooks) is very complex, and most "obvious" things that you think about the various proposed policies are probably wrong.
does Django have first party support for 2 factor authentication yet?
Cash is king. Bitcoin doesn't even come close to it.
>the soldiers would ignore the orders

Doesn't that undermine the OP's claim that people in more totalitarian regimes have higher trust in the state and hierarchy?
The 500 euro bill hasn’t been produced since 2019.

Apparently 25% of them were in circulation in Spain, despite the Spanish economy being only a fraction of the eurozone.
I never really "got" Twitter.

I don't know why, but I always felt like the hype went over me head, and it was a bit boring.

Though I'm tempted to check out Bluesky, the AT protocol seems really interesting.
I believe a common joke is about a protective parent sending a child on an errand and then following along to see if the child does okay.
How did you find product market fit?
Talking to fellow founders whenever I can as a pre PMF startup founder. The stories are wildly different than those I read or hear about on podcasts, blogposts and newsletters.

HN mostly being anon, I thought it would be an ideal place to share how you found PMF as a service to other startups and founders. Whether you are a 1 person company or 1,000, it does not really matter
Watch this series, you'll be able to do anything.

https://youtu.be/fCcLhdLaxnM?si=fy4D20GyFenA4cqo

But it's a 100X easier to just buy the materials.
How does one even expect to use €20M of physical paper cash? You're going to get scrutiny from the government and/or financial institutions if you try to deposit it into a bank. I guess you'd "launder" it somehow, but does that even work anymore? Major purchases with cash put a giant government bullseye on your back these days. That is if you could actually make those purchases. I'd imagine most major purchases that someone legitimate might make (like buying a house or a car or a private jet) cannot be done with physical cash. Does the local Mercedes dealership really accept a suitcase full of cash? Even if you were to use it for all of your normal routine spending like groceries, you'd never go through €20M in your entire lifetime. So, career-fraudsters, I ask: in case I ever get my hands on millions in cash, what is my plan for using it?
i heard a legend that car thing was supposed to be released much earlier when it may have had more of a market, but production was delayed because all of their real world testing was in sweden and their first model was unable to handle dashboard temps in non-nordic countries. can anybody confirm?
Cash is less traceable and easier to use for most criminal applications.
> the only thing that confuse me is why DDG - who initially felt better - chose to run after Google down the path of insisting to give me results for things I didn't ask for.

I have the same frustration. The killer feature that got me to switch from Google to DDG was that DDG would reliably return results for the search query I entered, long after Google had stopped doing so. Now that they've taken the same path the benefit is much less. Although I suspect this is more due to a change on the part of Bing than a conscious decision from DDG.
yes, it's not like anybody ever died from extreme weather events back in the good old days.
It doesn't feel like it since there hasn't been much improvement in the latter range of time.

At least Windows 7 could claim that it resolved most of the permissions bugs that came from upgrading security to 1970s standards, so it was actually an upgrade to XP.
I'd be more inclined to blame the driver of the car...
The big issue with Win10/11 is that it contains malware marketed as features
> I feel like other medical things in the US are regulated differently based purely on how they're marketed.

They aren't. Different classes of medical or medical-adjacent products in the US have to be careful how they market so they aren't making claims that they are not allowed to make, but the absence of those claims alone doesn't make a regulated device unregulated.
I would assume existing models are calling 1.5C a crucial threshold based on the current baseline and so we are not actually any closer just because we move the baseline back.
I used to see a lot of furry accounts in the Discover feed, but I mute them when I see them, and now I rarely see them any more. I don't have anything against furries, but it's not content I'm interested in. This is more a comment that Bluesky does seem to have an algorithm (at least in the Discover feed) that is sensitive to what you do or don't show interest in. Or it could just be that a lot more people have joined recently, so the furry stuff just isn't as prevalent.
Mailing list with both parents as recipients? All my generic house stuff goes to a utilities@ alias that goes to my spouse and I. Works great.
Hey, neat design.

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Why are you limiting yourself to displaying boards in chunks of four? I'd expect at least eight or twelve displayed at first page load.
The best person to ask would be the an good fraud chief. Maybe not this one though.
This might be the most frighteningly accurate thing I've read all year!!
> I think Bagration is just as impressive

Well, I disagree.

Landings are generally considered to be very difficult and risky operations to execute, and Overlord is by far the largest scale landing in history. It was a one-off, all-in operation. It had to be close to perfect or it would fail badly. You can't just call off the landing in the middle of it or reduce its objectives if it doesn't go well.

Meanwhile, operation Bagration is just standard maneuver warfare, only particularly large and this time quite successful in achieving its objectives. Soviets had plenty of previous (some failed) attempts to improve their strategy and tactics. Maskirovka / deception campaign is standard for any such large operation. If things don't go as planned, you can scale down the objectives, or call it a diversion (Operation Mars). Operation Bagration might be more impactful on the course of the war, but in my mind it's not close to be as impressive as Overlord.

> That's a bit of an understatement... The Eastern Front is where most of the fighting in WWII happened. It's where the European theater of war was truly won or lost.

"Most iconic" is not the same thing as "most impactful". Maneuver warfare is just generally not as iconic as pitched, close quarters battles.
The Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus[0] has a lot of awesome content worth checking out as well.

[0] https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/
> Timing bug fixes

> Added Wait(1) to EVA pod minigame to limit FPS to 60 to prevent issues at higher cycle rates. The thrust level's doit method appears to be polled every possible cycle. (FloatObj)

When I originally played this (on a 16Mhz Mac LC) the quicktime events were all trivially easy because the game didn't adjust for the framerate. I guess this bites the other way when you run it on a modern machine.
yep, a properly configured window will tell you about flood risks and lighting strikes several hours ahead of time!
It looks like the Internet is now being compartmentalized based on one's political affiliation and groups.

X is turning out to be where Conservatives are going to be living, Bluesky, Reddit and Treads will be for Liberals. These platform don't outright ban opposing views but I think moderation policies and the users will shift these groups into one or the other.

I'm not sure if one can have a platform where respectful discourse can take place. The only site I've seen so far is HN and its due to its small community and the relentless effort by Dan.

The days of having everyone connected on the same platform is now dead, which might ironically usher a revival of the old, non-centralized web.
I didn't watch it (I read a plot summery) but I did watch what I think was Captain America or Captain America: The Winter Soldier and they had a guy uploaded into a computer. That's earlier in the timeline, right? So it's proven doable in the universe they set up with the films.
> Spotify had previously posted the code for its uboot and kernel to GitHub, under the very unassuming name "spsgsb" and with no announcement

Interesting. Why not make some tiny announcement about it somewhere?
Wasm components can talk to each other, you do not need the JS FFI boundary.
One can engage on multiple platforms. Don't have to leave something else to use Mastodon.
A major factor was that early Java in the browser did not support.jar (really .zip) files. This meant every class (and every inner class) required a separate http request (on the much slower http of the day).

You used to have to put everything in one giant class to work around this.

(This situation was so frustrating)
Have you tried incus?

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
Survivorship bias. Those who weren't doing something dumb don't appear in such news stories
shared mailbox. Just putting a label/tag/category on a message to call dibs and a todo/completed status can go pretty far. I once worked at a callcenter that did that with hundreds of messages a day.

I tried sparkmail but it's a little much for non-business purposes to be honest.
One consequence of naughty ol’ Mr Car’s ascension to the Bird Throne was that mass-blocking lists, which were always a bit of a hack but somewhat worked, became unusable. Bluesky has blocklists as a first-class function; it will be awash with Nazis, but you won’t have to look at them unless you want to. AI slop may be trickier, but that’s really a challenge the whole web is facing at the moment.
This is great! I played nearly all the Sierra games when I was a kid and currently showing playing them with my wife. The CD talkie versions are much easier to play together though so this is perfect!
It's pretty easy to get around Windows 11's CPU requirements, and the only new snag being the POPCNT instruction requirement introduced in 24H2. But if you don't have CPU that supports that you probably don't want to be running modern Windows anyways.

If you really don't want to use Windows 11 (and I don't blame someone for that) Linux and Proton is truly amazing.
Time flies when you're having fun I guess.

Windows 10 released on July 29, 2015 or almost 9.5 years ago.

While I'm sure there are people gaming with Steam on 7/8/8.1, I doubt it's very many (Valve's own statistics I'm sure would support this).

I would also point out that Steam on Linux only officially supports the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, which means they support old versions of Windows far longer. Of course, Ubuntu is free, and the kernel hasn't introduced any draconian hardware restrictions, but I think Valve has done a good job with their Windows support.
> If you pay a speeding ticket, isn't that like participating in corruption by buying your way out of punishment for endangering people? Is it really morally any different from paying a bribe to the policeman who catches you speeding in a country where that's the common way? In both cases, you pay for speeding and your money ends up going towards the policeman's income.

I mean, one goes to the government to help all citizens, one lines the pocket of a corrupt cop and does not benefit society in anyway.

So yes, there is a huge gulf of difference between the two.

Also an official ticket goes on record so the cop can tell if you've had many and maybe deserve a more severe punishment, the bribe is never recorded so we can't track the bad drives in this instance.
Happy Exploding Whale Day [video]
A technique not covered here is setting up a wifi hotspot to impersonate a device. I wanted to reverse engineer the protocol used by an inexpensive action camera. I ran the Android app through a decompiler (JADX), and the app supported many different types of cameras, so it wasn't clear which calls were related to the one I owned.

So I setup a Raspberry Pi with the SSID as the camera, logged the first API call. Then I ran that API against the camera, and then wrote a small python script on the Pi to return the same API result. I did that call by call until I'd worked everything out. I wrote it up here: https://www.hotelexistence.ca/reverse-engineer-akaso-ek7000/
not your (gpl) source code, not your game.
Dateline used to be on NBC 1x per week...

Now there's a cable channel that's literally Dateline 24 x 7 x 365...
I've lost my trust because it appears that wealthy owners (and publishers) put a distinct pro-wealthy people slant. Beginning in 2005, when NYT was revealed to have spiked the story of NSA mass surveillance, to the squelching of presidential endorsements, we've seen a lot of it.

It's also true that a lot of anti-oligarch news gets published, there's some bells you can't unring. If news orgs published only Baghdad Bob type lunacy, they'd loose all credibility. Framing and selective publishing can do the trick.
COVID was to EdTech as The Fukushima Nuclear event was to Japanese Robotics -- the one big event where all hands were needed on deck and the decades of investment came up...lacking.

In the case of Fukushima - getting entry and information on the inside of the reactor core eventually required U.S. developed robots, built for much more challenging and pragmatic environments.

With EdTech, for decades we knew that it was a backup option to solid in-classroom, instructor led, education. AFAIK, measured outcomes on non-traditional learning have nearly always lagged the classroom. But more and more institutions were turning to it because, quite frankly, its cheaper -- with student flexibility as the trailing, but strongly upsold, benefit.

The 100%, digital, EdTech event that was COVID has forced a reckoning. We finally have, at massive scale, real data (and not small or unusual situations) that comprehensively shows the tech either isn't ready, or never will be.

I personally don't understand why this seems to be such a surprise. Ever since I went through school, there was an attempt to shove technogadgets into classrooms that offered very minimal educational value over a teacher using their judgment, training, and experience to work with a student to learn a topic.

There's a part in this article that I think is the key problem:

> What he found was equal parts surprising and predictable: nearly everything has a positive impact on student learning.

I remember a specific "training" I received years ago as an adult. The instructor put each student through a comprehensive skills assessment. Then the students spent 8 weeks in a room with the resources we should have used for learning -- books, video, software, and so on -- but without any instruction of any kind. At the end of the 8 weeks we were all assessed again and voila! nearly all students had shown progress. Great success! and the instructor was free to continue doing next to nothing and doomscrolling Facebook most of the day in his best job ever. Providing no education whatsoever, but just access to resources, had a demonstrated positive outcome.

A lot of EdTech falls into this same sort of bullshit pile. It doesn't really do anything in particular, but will sometimes show the promise of improvement. Fingers are pointed to improperly trained educators, or lack of time with the technogadget, or some other reason other than the tech when searching for what's holding the tech back. What the deployers of EdTech are really measuring is not educational outcomes, but improvements to the bottom-line. If they were really focused on education, then EdTech would only be used where it should a learning effect at least as great as classroom instruction. But we know it generally doesn't, and yet here it is in our classrooms.

Source: Developed adult learning curriculum in advanced technical areas and delivered material to over 2,000 students who were required to have had at least an undergraduate degree and significant other job-specific training as prerequisites. Was also a "cursed" gifted kid in K-12.
> Few people bother to pickup loose change anymore.

My favorite head scratcher is the US penny. It would be so much easier on all involved if we rounded so everything was MOD5 friendly, and just eliminated the penny.
Try Qwen2.5-Coder-32B on HuggingChat
This to me is quite close to o1 or Sonnet. Bonus you can run it locally on entry-level hardware.
Unusual Raku Features
And JavaScript/dynamic content. Entrenched search engines have had a long time to optimize scraping for complex sites
One would hope the people on bluesky understand that they're posting publically to a centralized database. What data privacy problem are you concerned with?
wild, that site is older than i am. by a few weeks anyways
Yacy is still around. While I wouldn't want to disrupt it's decentralized/p2p nature, I think there's a case to be made for a community-managed central aggregation server to help seed the index at various snapshots. I might even be interested in helping run such a thing.
Very eerie how well all these apply to today's Biden administration.
At a certain point, we gotta say "Hey, Germany, you don't get to be a country no more, on account of you keep attacking THE WORLD"
That's just like... your opinion man.

People have been saying this about Windows since Vista or earlier. If you really want to communicate with someone and not just score points for your team, you should say what the malware is, and why you're calling it that.