skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He should've been banned from Twitter for his own mental health years ago. Dude should've just stuck to building rockets and stopped trying to get into the culture war.
The Tk GUI toolkit dates back to 1991.

This style of GUI predates Figma by decades.
i tried that with some sugru on an old phone (samsung s10e) and it does a really good job of blocking the microphone.

if you have a case on your phone its a lot less destructive too since you can just stuff the sugru into the microphone hole in the case. the case i was using was soft rubber so it was easy enough to pop out the corner of the case to be able to use the microphone for a call.

that wasnt my daily phone at the time though so im not sure how well it would work in reality. i could see myself forgetting to pop out the case when i get a call and the other person just handing up before i realised what was going on.

it also doesnt work on every phone. i tried the same thing on a pixel 5 but blocking the mic hole did nothing, but that phone uses an under screen speaker so maybe there is something similar going on with the mic
It's 2024.

Cheap access to powerful FPGAs is available now.

Either go with this Sipheed GoWin FPGA boards or get one of these recycled Bitcoin miner controller boards (Zynq 7010) or reverse engineered LED controllers from ColorLight/Linsn which use a Spartan/Lattice.
Sad. Why not revamp, renew and reinvent rather than close it down.

Loads of examples of markets turned to food and culture markets both in London and other places.. Lisbon, Stockholm, etc.. and they are thriving!
Did you not notice that your Newsweek article rates this claim as false?

Definitions are always imprecise anyway. The CDC’s pre-2015 definition of a vaccine wouldn’t have covered the tetanus vaccine, even though it’s a century old and there’s no dispute over whether or not it should qualify as a “vaccine” or not.

I’ve seen two somewhat different complaints around this definition nonsense.

First, there’s the complaint that the original definition used to require that a vaccine contain a dead or inactivated infectious organism, and it was changed because mRNA stuff is the first time something didn’t work that way, and thus it’s not really a vaccine. This is of course completely false. Tetanus doesn’t work this way and there are others from well before the mRNA era.

The other is that the definition used to require a “vaccine” to provide total immunity from infection and now it doesn’t, and this is because the covid vaccines don’t provide total immunity. This is obviously wrong because no vaccine provides total immunity. There are vaccines that provide a lot better immunity than the covid vaccines do, but none that are 100%.

So yes, horseshit. This doesn’t come from preconceived notions of the world, it comes from knowing basic facts about the world. When you read that “they” changed “the” definition in order to push something, your first thought should be to look up what the old one said and see if it was actually an accurate definition. And you should have the basic knowledge to be able to understand when it was clearly deficient.
Delicious Library (2004)
Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability
I cannot recommend volunteering enough.

It's not just for old folks. Many of the skills that I used in my career, were honed doing volunteer work.

I've been doing this kind of work, all my life, and retiring just gave me more time to devote to it.

> NOTE: Not a bed of roses, unless you count all the thorns.
giving? let's say they "gave" but that was a long time ago. What have they done as of late? "stolen, spies, espionage, artificial islands to claim territory, threats to Taiwan, conflicts with India, Uyghurs, helping Russia against Ukraine, attacking babies in AU" comes to mind.
this is a comment worthy of a wat? emoji
If you stick to just following, twitter 2 months ago was fine, as long as you also didn't read the comments or click on your notifications (which was inevitable follows by cryptoshills). At this point the people I was following have all left, because they had to put up with way more shit than I did.
Randy Travis also used AI on his last album after losing his voice.
Social media ban delivers enshittification that rises to cultural moment
The extent to which China "does not have a blanket VPN ban" is of no help to people who want to bypass the Great Firewall.
This has nothing to do with legacy media, that's not a threat for this age group.

This has everything to do with the mental damage inflicted by social media on developing minds, many of which end in suicide.
> People won't even pay for most of these pocket distractions

If someone is paying, the transaction, by construction reinforces the psychological boundaries that obliteration eliminates. So I think not paying is part of it, just like addicts ignore the (perhaps partially non monetary) price of their behavior.
Someone is taking a haircut on that debt, that is the stranding. Whether it’s Pakistan, the World Bank, or institutional investors, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. They could forgive the debt instead, but humans gonna human.

Sovereign defaults are a thing, and sometimes necessary. It’s just numbers in a spreadsheet or database after all.
I agree. This has "secondary military goal" written all over it. For commercial flight these are just weird ideas.
The analysis of real-life interfaces is quite interesting, and as a novice in the field I had never reflected much on the by-feature / by-operation / by-technology / by-use case distinction.
There is stuff you cant talk about everywhere. if it finds its way into the dataset something has to be done. The scope and what it is of course varies wildly.
I remember hearing Callum Skinner talk about the British track team preparing for the Olympics, and how the biggest problem they had was strength - I remember the number 2400 for their best track sprinters, I forget if that was in watts or newtons but either way it's a massive force and they were snapping frames.

The discipline of cycling that's the most weight-motivated is hill climbing. Track cycling really doesn't have that as an issue, and definitely does have a materials strength issue, so I'm not shocked they're not building to a weight limit.
I'm really impressed that it can render math from TeX input. Is this a common thing in GUI toolkits? My graphics experience is mostly limited to Java's Swing and OpenGL from my college days.
Kotlin to lose scripting features
What do you use anki for?
There are companies trying to address this right? Have you seen biorce and other new ventures? Hopefully it can bring some innovation and reform to old processes.

That being said, we're talking about human lives either way so it needs to be thought through and avoid unintended disasters through lack of care.
Writing the book is still a political action, reading and following the book are still political actions.

This is just a nonsense excuse for cowards to hide behind.
I've never really done much leetcode. Might have done a problem here and there for fun but probably less than 10 total.

I'm not sure whether people literally mean leetcode when they say leetcode, but I should probably clarify that I'm not specifically talking about problems from the leetcode website. I did once get a sort of quiz from codingame to complete at home(took like 15 minutes or so), but other than that I think my interviewers have made up their own problems.

One was a class responsible for storing car data, being able to get them by plate number and stuff like that. Recently I did one where I basically implemented a tax calculator, calculating bracket tax and stuff like that. The general format has been a class with method stubs, and a corresponding test class. The assignment is basically make the tests pass.

I think that's a good format. Allows you to write some real logic, sort of similar to what we do in daily work. The tax calculator was a bit math-heavy but still required some logic and some creative use of data structures to store tax brackets without hardcoding everything etc.
Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)
The trade companies were in fact companies. They were licensed by their respective governments, but they were companies. The Dutch East India company was in fact the first stock company.

However, that's not what I am referring to when I am saying capitalism lifted people out of poverty. We don't have to go that far back. Simply look at any chart of life expectancy, infant mortality or any other indicator of quality of life during Soviet times and after. It starts going up after they got rid of communism. Same in China after it opened itself to market forces and now that Xi is messing with it they growth is running into issues. Every country that has made the jump from low to middle-income country has done so by initially doing cheap, low-value-add manufacturing. At that initial stage everyone is whining about "exploitation" but subsistence farmers are happy to take the factory jobs and over time they wages rise and if the government doe sit right, their kids get better education and eventually the country becomes high-income. Take a look at the Asian tiger states for more recent examples of this. (the big exception are of course tiny tax havens or oil countries which are not reproducible or scalable.). Which country is seeing the biggest growth in Africa? Botswana which took the approach of liberalizing its economy.

Of course, anarcho-capitalism doesn't work either. I agree that the free market must be protected from manipulation by players in that market as well. I am also in favor of wealth-redistribution that avoids dead-weight-loss.

However, none of that changes the fact that trying to do "good" has done incredible amounts of harm directly and indirectly, especially if it involves punishing individuals or groups or trying to suppress the free market.

If an existing company sucks, start a competitor! Their suck is your opportunity
"Hey guys, it's time to talk about our sponsor, Surf shark VPN"
Funnily enough, that's exactly the debate (whether or not natural numbers start at 0 or 1). There is no universally right or wrong answer, is comp sci nerds just tend to like 0 :p.
Number two but in book form is "beach reads" which can include your favorite trash romance or the latest "dad book" Vince Flynn / Clive Cussler / Tom Clancy thing. And given the huge popularity of the two genres folks are reaching for books to turn off plenty.
I often see articles posted simultaneously to Medium and the author's own site. I imagine it helps with visibility.

It would be nice if there was a common practice of including a link to the alternative version as the first line of a Medium article.
Electricity transmission is a bit like water pressure and distribution. You're not going to get the same electrons (or water molecules) that you subscribed to from various producers in the distribution network put in, the flow causality and the physical embodiments of production are different though related things.
I'm unashamedly singing Prot's praises below there, but I must say, there are many, many people who've done amazing things to bring people in to Emacs over the last few years. Singling one person out as doing "the most" is in my opinion not sensible or fair.

Without reflecting much at all or trawling through various resources, Mike Zamansky, Sacha Chu, Mickey Peterson, etc etc. Not to mention all the maintainers, Eli Zaretskii, Lars Ingebrigsten, and however many others I don't know about, loads probably.
There are also a lot of peoples who’s wealth comes from continuing the way things are, and changing over to greener technologies would mean they might end up less wealthy
In the Rockets' Red Glare: The past and future of hot-rodding in America
Thanks for the valuable linguistic advice, but perhaps you should read how that discussion started.
I still have the handheld scanner that I bought to catalogue our many DVD / CD collection. I forget why I did - insurance probably - but the way the app displayed was perfect.
Bury me on the moon, preferably on the far side
That's quite impressive! But I've also have to admit that it would not solve the issue I was having when pairing: showing my driver exactly where I was looking at.

This can be done in Bananas via remote Cursors.
I think their complexity is very different

C++ the language is exceptionally complicated, but the ecosystem is relatively simple

Java is the opposite, the language itself is simple enough but the ecosystem is humongous (spring/J2EE, maven/gradle, n^2 logging frameworks/adapters, application servers, anything involving classloaders/annotation processing/dynamic bytecode manipulation, ...)

syntactically they look similar, but other than that there's not much in the way of transferable skills between the two
The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
I've been working really hard on implementing a GUI Config Editor for my Mini Macro Pad project.

Mini Macro Pad (go-mmp) is a tool for creating and running macros, shortcuts, and other automated actions at the press of a button.

It works with hardware like Arduino-based macro pads or directly through a desktop GUI, making it versatile for various workflows.
Rivian products are rapidly becoming more attractive.
My concern is that a lot of people getting added to those lists for being "offensive people" or "trolls" are actually just people who civilly express viewpoints that the list maintainer disagrees with.
EU High-Level Group: access to data for effective law enforcement [pdf]
Background on the High-Level-Group: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/high-level-group-...

From the document it seems they want to be able to intercept and decrypt all communication (even complaining that car manufacturers don't retain enough data).
And my point is that coming up with ways for a fully calm, collected, reasonable person to detect a scammer is a waste of time, because that’s the easy part. The hard part is being calm, collected, and reasonable enough to actually consider that you might be getting scammed.

And that is hard. For most people, extremely hard. For people who lived most of their lives before the era of cheap and fast worldwide communication, it’s even worse. For people with declining mental abilities, it’s worse yet. Saying “oh you can expose the scam just by saying you’ll call them back” is looking at the wrong thing.

So yeah, you’re making a great point that meshes well with my own and definitely does not deserve to be wrapped in snideness.
A long time ago I interviewed at an Andy Rubin company building something similar for telepresence.

I asked, why wouldn't the user just mount a few iPads on the wall? It would be cheaper.

Their answer made no sense, and the product never launched.
Who can claim Aristotle?
Ask yourself: What were the last 5 reels you watched?
Discussed at the time:

The Success and Failure of Ninja - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157783 - May 2020 (38 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so! links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
That and radar... mode S can transmit data packets, uplink and downlink. Never seen it in use but it's in the European Mode S standard so any compliant radar has tested and qualified its use... data rate is very low but enough for some chat.
Vasopressin boosts sociability in solitary monkeys
>Are you working for Apple by any chance?

No, my background is in aerospace and I'm currently in grad school planning to pivot into a different field.
It’s sad for the traders being evicted but the fact is that these markets have been dwindling in importance for decades. Restaurants and shops don’t get up before dawn to go to market to see what’s fresh, they order from wholesalers online or direct from the farms and get food delivered (often with fresh veg from the same supplier)

Smithfield’s in particular is better as a new home for the London museum and probably more office/retail buildings than a poorly located commercial meat market
if you can add keys and sign things on the fly secure boot doesn't matter. it only protects you from downward payloads. if the one above the one that cares about secureboot is compromised its useless. you're confused because it's sold differently from this.
Vulnerability-Lookup 2.2.0 released with observations about vulnerabilities
Covid was a great example of how the natural world returns to harmony when human antagonism via noise/sound pollution and so forth is suddenly halted. I think a lot of dolphins in the sea rejoiced.
I have some of the Tilt5 glasses. They're pretty cool, albeit I wish I had more to actually use them for. They've mostly sat in their case.

They work very well in moderate light-- like the kind of lighting that you might have in a living room to watch television. I feel like they're a little washed-out in light bright enough to read by.
I think that its easier to compare the shutter to airplane windows.

The windows are there just to make the humans inside more comfortable, similar to how many people would be more comfortable without a camera pointed at them.

Flashing firmware is a big hill to climb for bad guys in most peoples worlds.
For gnutls? I believe it was this one: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13777

It was not a "downgrade attack", it was passive cleartext recovery.
His GH contains a bunch of cool CC-BY-SA 4.0 and MIT licensed content https://github.com/hendricius?tab=repositories

It must be that these submissions are coming from the Ars article <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264983> because there's another one for the GH repo <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268221> which was, itself, discussed in depth 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961590
Oh absolutely - I don’t excuse people the consequences of their actions because they were dumb, but this very much reads like Pras was the one guy without a good lawyer in the room.
Since the franchise hasn't been rebooted like so many others, it hasn't seem the $$$ marketing that would introduce it to new generations.

Like The Princess Bride or Labyrinth, BTTF currently remains a phenomenom of the 80's and 90's -- familiar to most from that time and deeply treasured by some, but not refreshed and sustained the way the Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel/DC, etc brands have been.
The Broom Method – How NASA detects hydrogen leaks
You realize that video slots, financial software, HR software, legal software, educational software and MANY more all have some amount of regulatory compliance, right? Do you think social media is special somehow and should just get a free pass when aspects of it have been shown to be potentially dangerous?
> and this bootkit is not able to work if Secure Boot is set up.

wrong.

> UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap

that's like saying cutting the baby in half to end the dispute also solved the crying
Quoting:

"In spite of the dangers of hydrogen, NASA lacked a comprehensive system for detecting a leak for much of its career. Part of hydrogen's danger is that it gives off low radiant heat, meaning its flame is invisible in daylight. NASA came up with a rather creative solution for the issue.

"During the Apollo missions, scientists and engineers would simply walk through the facilities with a long broom held out in front of them. When the broom touched the invisible burning hydrogen, the end would suddenly combust and they could mark another area which had dangerous gas within it."
Before commenting on this, please read "Final Report of the GPS Spoofing Group", from Ops Group.[1] This is a group for international pilots and flight planners who have to deal with GPS spoofing routinely. They are not happy about it, for multiple reasons. Newer avionics trusts GPS too much. Bad GPS data can affect other flight systems, mis-calibrate the inertial reference systems, and even change the aircraft clock.

GPS spoofing confuses the Ground Collision Avoidance System, which uses GPS position and elevation maps to report nearness to the ground. The false alarm rate is now so high that such systems are useless in parts of the world.

There's a lot of this spoofing going on. Look at the maps in the report.

[1] https://ops.group/blog/gps-spoofing-final-report/
I made a fake CRT TV with a LASER [video]
Of course there are legitimate uses, which means everyone should have completely unfettered access and nobody selling it should be responsible for irresponsible users. Personally, I’m sick of the government limiting my artistic freedom because the mediums I use might be misused by a tiny group of bad actors. For example, it’s unnecessarily difficult to source pineapple grenades for my large scale abstract punched tin crafts. The other people who live in my apartment building haven’t complained when I asked if they had a problem with it, so what’s the problem? And when I can get ahold of it, white phosphorous makes a great addition to my annual deep-woods pyrotechnic light shows. I just don’t understand this nanny state garbage.
I hear you and agree there's benefit in that; it's just that the cost (what it does to the thread) is larger than the benefit.
They subsidise that from other parts of the business though.

Also they don't technically pay artists aside from the self-released ones, most artists with bigger payouts aren't self-released so Apple Music just like Spotify is filling major labels coffers more than the artists' pockets

That's all relevant on the comparison of why Apple Music can pay more than Spotify, unsure what you didn't get but willing to clarify.
Almost all 2024 hurricanes went up one point on the Saffir-Simpson scale due to climate change.

Wow.
for the programming part, I ask them to get the answer from the LLM and then code review the solution as part of the interview.
> Seems like they've been involved in transpiling C projects, like TCK, to Go.

Probably best known for their port of SQLite: https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite
That probably happens, but most cases are combatting the trend of right wingers creating throw away accounts to say the most offensive things they can for the reactions and getting blocked

I'd invite you to check out the options this labeller provides as an example. You can also see who is on the list, so anyone can audit the list. Transparency is built in

https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue | https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3lbckxhgu3r2v (list of trolls)

The thing to notice here is how much control you get as an individual. The moderation source code backing this(https://github.com/bluesky-social/ozone) has features for the subject of a label to contest as well.

What is most powerful about the labeller ecosystem is that it is an ecosystem where competition can occur. There are an ever expanding set of choices, people can make their own choices, and they can stack them together

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

The number 1 thing users like about Bluesky is that they are put back into the drivers seat of their social media experience
> The whole thing is just short term profiteering over tradition and a rich history. Some things need preserving.

Some things do. But is this one of them? The article doesn't make a great case.

And building something new here won't necessarily be short-term.
2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252396
and identity. most of the world now replaced your credit card and government id with apps that rely on the OS assurences to prove you're yourself with vendor keys, mandatory selfies and such.
Indeed, the US legal system has many assumptions that may not be applicable to other countries. Violating the US First Amendment right to access information is unconstitutional even if the only people having their rights violated are in the corner cases.
I don’t know if she was deliberately trying to fake a disability but that uncharismatic, low monotone was classic autism and you see that a lot in Silicon Valley: people faking attributes of disability to make themselves seem distinctive or to gain power in situations, which is something real disabled people almost never do.
I like this new normal of politicians randomly summoning tech company CEOs in order to look tough or important.