skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My laptop is compatible with USB-C, as is my toothbrush.

Stop being needlessly and incorrectly pedantic about a highly context dependent and loosely defined word like “compatible”.
The description, since many commentators are not clicking though but asking questions this answers:

Comprehensive Gradio WebUI for audio processing, powered by Whisper engines (Whisper, Faster-Whisper, Whisper-Timestamped). Features Voice Changer, zero-shot Voice Cloning (E2, F5-TTS), YouTube downloading, vocal isolation(UVR5), Text-to-Speech (Edge-TTS), and multi-language translation. Perfect for content creators and developers.
They're the same insane murder monkeys that all other humans are. This hippy "we're all the same people" shit isn't working, and rather than realize that and move on to solutions that do work, you people just want to double down on it and insist everyone's not trying hard enough.

Clinton fucked up. He was a bad president more concerned with getting his dick sucked by interns than doing things correctly. Ukraine should have kept its nukes (some of them, don't need 6000), and if they had none of this would be happening. Maybe Putin would've called the bluff and Moscow would be a glowing crater, but then it would have ended. But I guess he "felt your pain" so that was good right? Enlightened self-interest, and rational strategy. These things save more lives than compassion ever have.
Similarly to Python Tkinter, it actually embeds Tcl/Tk and provides a Go interface to it.
Sim City isn't a bad way to spend $20 in fairness
Chinese Nintendo Switch users in limbo as Tencent winds down online services
By penalizing those that abuse their market position to crush competition. And I feel I'm stating something obvious.
Is there some way to help someone who has been defrauded by a pig butchering / romance scam to see if the individuals involved were part of this group? My hope would be to assist them in collecting some of the funds that were taken.
Looks fantastic. I was thinking about doing something in a separate industry.

Was this done by a solo developer? How long did it take, and had you ever done a RAG-type application before?
At that point, what if parents just let their kids borrow their driver's licenses to use social media? There's no technical solution to bad parenting.

The only reasonable solution that doesn't infringe on privacy is to give parents the tools to limit their children's internet use, and presume, outside those bounds, that people are adults.
From the UN PDF:

>These well-established and time-honoured rules allow nations and peoples from a wide range of cultures and values to conduct their activities with dignity in an environment devoid of frictions. Such animosity can easily arise when one of the parties concerned does not feel treated with respect.

>...

>Current protocol practices are rooted in history but evolve continuously. There is always a legitimate reason behind a protocol rule or practice.

Makes a lot of sense to me. Training your diplomats in protocol is very cheap compared with going to war.
Ask HN: How do you conduct technical interviews in the LLM era?
The Corporation of London own the land Billingsgate is on. They've been looking to redevelop this for over a decade since the land's value is now magnitudes more than when it was built because of Canary Wharf and the new Canary Wharf Crossrail station.

It's prime real estate land, possibly the best plot in London right now. And so is Smithfield, or at least the land that Museum of London is on, and they're moving to Smithfield. For a while I expect.

The whole thing is just short term profiteering over tradition and a rich history. Some things need preserving.
FTA

"One also suggested we take a look at social media on its own because it’s a source of worry for many and we did not find anything special about this form of online engagement.”

It's a subset of what they studied. Surely a lot of screen time is spent on social media. They did not observe anything special about time spent on social media. A more in-depth study may yield more insight but there is no thread to pull on from this study. Only parents' misgivings.
I have resorted to using separate physical computers + vlan network separation when exploring untrusted AI workloads. Yes, it costs, but so does a breach.

Thanks for raising this aspect.

Btw https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch helps a lot.
If it's that important for you, contact the dev and pay them the 99$.
I wouldn't use either of them.

You only have to spend a few minutes poking around any of these corporations' custom Linux distros to see they are almost universally fucking awful. Consider, Synology ship many of their NAS type devices with BTRFS as the default/only option, as if that were a perfectly reasonable thing to do. And QNAP's engineers might be dangerously overconfident in their understanding of ZFS, implementing basic features in ways that seem more cargo-cult driven than informed by actual ZFS mechanics—and as if that isn't enough, recklessly extending it at a low level while continuing to call it ZFS because who wouldn't want to ride those coattails?

I suppose this is probably obvious, but I believe meaningful quality and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible—especially security, as in the real (i.e. non-theatre) version, because it tends to be obnoxious when done correctly, and the moment the marketing department gets to veto boring nerd shit, well, good luck. Just look at the so-called enterprise network security vendors like Fortinet and SonicWall, it's honestly mind-blowing what they get away with.
I went down a rabbit hole on the history of the US civil service, after reading a Teddy Roosevelt biography.

It was surprising to see just how corrupt/archaic the then system was, by modern standards.

But yet the country still functioned.

My takeaway was that the existence of the civil service at all, rather than its particular virtue, dominated value. There's benefit from even a pretty corrupt one!
FPGAs vs. Microcontrollers vs. ASICs
Glad we've finally figured out how to do peer review without the need to read the paper. It's a huge time saver!
So, you say you can know things that others have verified, but not you personally. This is belief, surely?
I meant pre-buyout. I guess I hadn't heard much about his personal antics before then; mostly just knew of his achievements with Tesla, SpaceX, and admired him pushing the auto industry towards EVs (kicking and screaming, but they had no choice because Tesla posed an actual threat where no EV company had ever done before).
Educating a person is materially different from getting them to act against their incentives. Doing so with a population is even more so.

The average American is overweight and doesn’t exercise. They are almost certainly aware they need to reduce their calorie intake and spend at least a couple of hours a week engaging in physical activity. Knowing you ought to change you behavior and actually doing it are completely different issues.

I actually happen to think that both are basically losing battles these days, but the underlying reasons aren’t the same.
Edit: CORRECTION! This is a person that used to use the cznic nickname, maybe because they worked in CZNIC for a while, but now goes by "modernc"

Seems like they've been involved in transpiling C projects, like TCK, to Go.

Some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33197603

==previous message before my edit==

Oh, seems like this is made by CZNIC, the org that admins .cz TLD.

They've also done the Omnia Turris routers, KNOT DNS server or BIRD routing daemon...
Seems like a good way to keep the peace in a world where rule-of-law is weak.
> Calling every storm a once in a century storm or saying how once a century events now happen every year (you'll hear both of these claims often) does nothing but discredit climate change.

Isn't it the other way? If climate change makes storms more intense, then "(previously) once-a-century storm happening more often than once a century" is precisely what you would expect to see.

I agree that there are too many breathless headlines and not enough scientific rigor, but that happens with any topic, not just climate change.

* Also, nothing can really "discredit climate change" in the same sense nothing can discredit covid-19 or the war in Ukraine. It's happening, we all know it's happening, the most we could argue about is how it would impact the world.
Then they can chop the trees down and make furniture or building materials and sell them to pay for agricultural re-expansion..
AI will change everything. Especially disrupting pharma, Hollywood, law and lawyers, and medicine. Only question right now is who will win the race and be authoritative?
The same happened to the Twitter API, so it's not a surprise.
I understand what you mean about spatial understanding, and personally do love the the comforting reference value of having actual books on your shelves and being able to go back to specific parts of them no matter what.

However, it's not hard to compensate for this with digital books, through bookmarking options, copy-pasting specific parts and storing them elsewhere (with tiny notes on page number and book title) and other options.

I keep all of my own digital books DRM-stripped in my own device folders and back those up too. This to at least partly replicate the possession security that physical books give. I also absolutely never trust storing large collections of them on something as absurdly untrustworthy as, for example, "Kindle on Demand", which is on-demand right until your access demand arbitrarily gets ignored no matter how much money you spent on what were supposedly owned purchases.
> Complete horseshit.

Wonderful brand of rationality you have on display here.

> This sort of nonsense is what I’m talking about.

https://www.newsweek.com/science-fact-check-definition-vacci...

> and we’re expected to take it seriously

You have refused to take any of this seriously. You have a preconceived idea of the world and you are absolutely unwilling to accept any debate or challenge over it. You are acting as a bully and not as a scientist. No wonder you constantly appeal to authority.
Movie ratings are voluntary in the US. Restrictions on selling porn to minors are orthogonal to movie ratings. It's generally legal for a theatre to sell a ticket for a PG-13 movie intended for 15-year-olds to a 12-year-old who hasn't received parental permission. Most theatres would refuse to sell the ticket, and most parents wouldn't let their 12-year-old child go to a movie theatre alone, but the bulk of the responsibility of preventing children from watching inappropriate movies falls on parents and guardians.

Banning children from social media is like banning children from movie theatres. A ban should consider that (1) different restrictions are appropriate for different ages of children (e.g. 12 vs 15), (2) depending on the country (e.g. the US with the First Amendment to the Constitution), children may have information access rights that parents can take away but governments can't, and (3) children in unhealthy relationships with parents or guardians (e.g. transphobic/homophobic parents of LGBTQ+ kids) should be able to access some kinds of social media without letting their parents/guardians know.
You're not counting the energy outflows from France to neighboring countries.

Also, France gets 70% of its energy from nuclear, not 40%.
We record all rear-ending automobile accidents as the fault of the car behind. We record all auto accidents where someone has blood alcohol above a certain percentage as "drunk driving" or some synonym. The distinction of "from" and "with" here is one of those. The other examples may be better or worse, and the point stands.
There have never been past instances. We had a much higher fertility rate, then it just plummeted. It hit 2.1 and plunged below that moments later.

Increased lifespans will soon come to an end, but even if magically they could remain you'd just end up on a planet where everyone's too old to have children anymore, and human extinction is locked in. Every second fertility rate's below 2.1, there are fewer people of reproductive age and within your own lifetime there won't even be enough of those to sustain a world population in the tens of millions if suddenly they switched back to 2.1 (and they won't). This is doomsday. But be sure to have fewer children to reduce your carbon footprint.
You literally can shove three incrementing numbers into a version and call it compatible, as long as the numbers increment. That’s the only compatibility requirement.
The comments in this thread are such a fantastic demonstration of the dire need for tools and technology like this....and a good learning experience for the devs!!
"It was just to keep people from installing something other than Windows" seems very counter-indicated by it taking ~7 years for a Windows UEFI bootkit to come out, and 13 years for one for Linux.

...and this bootkit is not able to work if Secure Boot is set up.

UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap
> Pakistan comes to mind,

Interesting story - in pakistan, PV is an arbitrage/loophole.

Pakistan exporters are under capital controls, so they get a very bad exchange rate when they convert to ruppee. Instead, they buy panels (getting 100% worth of their dollars), which they ship into pakistan, and sell.

On the other side of the trade, home owners get a very generous feed in tarrif, due to pressure by wealthier constituents. This hits the local utility thrice (lost revenue, paying the feed in, AND massive duck curve)

Sigh. Humans will human...

(PV is still great and we need more of it)
Sox and POU transcription factors predate the origins of animal stem cells
You've taken this ubiquitous phenomenon into account in the design I hope?
Conway’s law works both ways: if you want a system to be designed in a certain way, you create an organization who is building it in that way.

So, if you want a data mesh, build a mesh org. Not the easiest job.
Also see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268194

If you are a local resident, is this true?
I read the entire thing. My point was that mental capacity and acuity (including the ability to resist panic scamming) go down especially after 80, and gullibility goes up. No matter how smart you were prior. And that this is a vulnerability for everyone. In 2023, Americans aged 60 and older reported losses exceeding $3.4 billion due to scams, marking an 11% increase from the previous year. The median loss in a romance scam for ages 70 and older is $9,000. And now there's also pig-butchering. When combined with isolation and a lack of digital literacy, everyone's older family members are vulnerable.
https://screego.net/#/

Just want to give it a shout out in this context, same tech and quite mature. Been using it successfully at work for remote pair programming and it feels like your looking at your co workers screen
Ask HN: Alphabet Sale of Chrome Browser?
Alphabet faces antitrust scrutiny, with potential outcome the sale of its Chrome browser.

The Chrome browser is free and open source software.

How does Alphabet sell Chrome as a free and open source browser?
Can Alphabet fork Chrome (or Firefox) again, and start a new browser project again?

I imagine that the Alphabet stock benefits from the strong browser integration with Google. If Chrome is sold, they could still get the same Google integration?
You only need disable it until you've got that OS installed, and then you can re-enable it. All the major linux distros have supported Secure Boot for years (which I was not aware of, and will now look into setting up!)
Been looking for something like this myself and surprisingly not that many options out there especially self hosted. All of the new ones are trying to chase after AI. Older ones don’t support object storage.

Using Google for my photos is a no go though so hopefully OP will come up with a solution for that.
Yeah, my price just changed from €7.05 to €8.99—in the name of fairness to low impact users? It’s brazenly nonsensical.

It would be so much better if they’d just said “sorry but we need to raise prices”. The attempt to sugarcoat it is insulting to begin with, and it’s only made worse that their backwards excuse comes across as thoughtlessly trampling us.
someone could calculate the savings in CO2 emissions over all the power generated by nuclear energy each year in France, since the power stations were built, vs coal plants (which would have been the alternative at the time)
The ship was not driven by China, the media reported it incorrectly first.
You're welcome to stick to the free speech loving site where you're not allowed on the network at all if you post parodies or ADS-B location data if the boss man notices, but on the other hand if you tweet racist enough stuff you might get a pat on the back and a retweet.
Because if you aren’t writing in python or JS/TS then it is gibberish. Not like Perl is used all throughout Linux system…
The data suggest that animal stem cells likely evolved through the adaptation (exaptation) of pre-existing transcription factors found in unicellular ancestors - a notion that (if true) rewrites the timeline of molecular evolution, pushing back the origins of these factors to before the emergence of multicellular animals.
I think the main issue with this line of reasoning is that before all of these internet based forms of content, did many people actually read literature, like is mentioned in the article? I am not sure, but I would expect that the books that were read were probably not some high form of art but entertainment - which is fine of course, and it is different to a large extent from scrolling tiktok, but does it like up with the authors thesis about reading providing some deeper form of enlightenment? Maybe it still does, since it's still the same act of reading, but maybe not as much, since it's not normal "intellectual content"
> Because by the time an attack can write to /boot, they can also write to /etc/init.d . And the later is not protected by "secure boot".

Bootkits are to make the infection both more difficult to detect and remove, so whether /etc/init.d is writable is pretty irrelevant.
You could get uncloudy and go with a provider with unmetered bandwidth and then use their storage slabs which present as block devices up to 10TB. So you could string together a PV/VG with eight 10TB slabs on a single server.

I’d suspect the storage cost of this approach might even be similar or less than AWS glacier storage..

BuyVM has been around for a long time and very stable and excellent reputation. You’ll find that your costs would be much lower if you’d “uncloud” (I’m obviously assuming that you are using AWS or a cloud, but maybe not!)

https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/
Really? Would love to see a binding for Powershell. Just for cross-platform shell scripts to be able to disable a pop-up for input etc. Just makes them more accessible.
When my IoT geiger counter starts going off, I do what the in-home PA system's voice to be Admiral Adama warning my family of an imminent radiological threat, and preparing the Vipers for launch.

Edward James Olmos if you're reading this, I'm willing to pay a license fee, but then I expect actual recordings and not just AI bullshit. I'm not pirating your voice, you're refusing to let me hire it.
"Lollipop" Brings Taste to Virtual Reality
This looks fantastic! But…

I love emojis, I hate to be _that guy_ about this, but the emojis on the introduction page make it hard to read. Like, I don’t notmally associate the radar emoji with sharing or the twinkle emoji with features, so my brain read “screen monitor sharing radar dish”.
Scientists just used genes from a microorganism and created a mouse
I've watched that, and don't think it's great. I've also watched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevation_(film) , and in the end titles you can see her pointing a telescope ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_telescope ) with the backside into the sky.

WTFF!? That's like the stock pictures for electronics assembly snd repair, where you can see people holding a soldering iron at the hot tip.
This tells you a lot about Lenovo's engineering.

They fail to develop a reliable webcam indicator, and patch that with some half-assed attempt at physical view obstruction. The whole approach is a demonstration of bad engineering and unreliability. And that's just the part that became public.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268197
Why unexpected visitors are in danger of extinction
Relevant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
> pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.

So like the already existing VOR/DME network?

> The idea is to use these alternative signals to calculate a vehicle’s position and velocity.

All commercial planes have an IMU/ADIRU in them. Most are doubly if not triply redundant.

> There is no question GPS is still the gold standard for navigation

Not for flight. There are plenty of areas in Europe where it is compromised to the point of being useless.

> Scientists refer to it as “signals of opportunity”

Way back in the day pilots would use FM radio stations in the same way. If you were really lost out somewhere over a dark patch.

> If these signals are clean enough for navigation,

The bigger problem you have is while these are "fixed location" services our database of the locations isn't exactly awesome or well maintained in the face of maintenance or physical changes.

"Signals of opportunity" for flight is a bizarre regime to even consider.
Apple News+ is kind of that, but has the basic issue that paid articles are still stuffed with ads, which makes it pretty pointless.
This happens with all forms of art, it's not unique to the written word. With movies and TV you're imagining the world outside the frame borders. With paintings you're imagining the whole scene or story depending on the piece.

So there's a point here that TikTok is competing for leisure time that in its absence has a better chance of being imaginative but I think that undersells the creativity of social media to a degree.
It suppresses outgoing links, which is like, the whole reason for many content creators to be on a website like it.
I received a phishing email from this campaign or a similar one several months ago.
The email opened with my name and contained a Google Maps photo of a house where I'd lived 8 years before.
The author claimed to have hacked my laptop and captured videos of me doing embarrassing things. They would release the videos unless I paid them $1000 in Bitcoin.
I searched and it's an extremely common scam, but I did panic for a few minutes.
In reality, those engineering faults are more stupidity than malice.
Why do you think they are “often criminal”? How often?
No because we don't actually know any of the coefficients. It's not supposed to be a real measure, it's just a fun thought exercise. Guessing at a many variables is still just guessing.
Strategies for Learning
> How does Alphabet sell Chrome as a free and open source browser?

Chrome is not Open Source - Chromium is. My interpretation is that Google may continue the employment of Chromium developers but may not sell or offer the Chrome product that is made using Chromium's components. Someone else will own the Chrome brand and browser, and could even change it to another browser engine if they wanted.

Now, why this is a smart remediation is beyond me. But the actual implications seem to be pretty well-drawn here.

> If Chrome is sold, they could still get the same Google integration?

Even without Chrome being sold, Google already integrates as default for millions of non-Chrome users. It's the default search engine on Firefox and the default Spotlight provider on Apple platforms. Google's profitability will be fine if the DOJ won't go after AdSense - Chrome itself is probably a net loss for Google anyhow. Selling Chrome just helps cement Google's future as a services company.