skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that products shouldn't be unsafe. And value engineering does not mean making products unsafe.

> Poor people could always purchase used appliances.

The reality in mid 20th century US demonstrates this isn't the case. Most went without the modern appliances that are commonplace today.
Don't make it public then.
In the "Covariates" section it mentions they're controlling for "self-reported sleep problems" such as insomnia. I imagine a relationship between stress and sleep regularity would most likely be mediated by insomnia?
As someone reading this while taking a shower, I'm questioning how this could be redesigned to work today. How are you supposed to use your phone if your head is sticking out?
Risk factor doesn't mean causative, only that there's enough signal to use it in considering what interventions to pursue. Made-up example, maybe slightly elevated blood lipids by itself wouldn't merit lipid lowering agents, but in combination with other risk factors like high blood pressure or poor sleep regularity, they are merited.

The field of medicine in general understands the concept of a condition being secondary to another, underlying cause and might treat it as a comfort thing but doesn't consider that with fixing the underlying.
I also left the page early. I enjoy reading, and wasn't able to do that as effectively on this website.
The only evidence we have is a single anecdote on Mastodon sparse on details and nothing you said can be validated.

For all we know, the failure was in his employer's proxy server and the corrupt file was cached.

Let's not wait for facts though, proceed immediately to the crucifixion of Dell.

With everyone quick on the trigger to throw someone under the bus, imagine being a coworker in such a toxic environment.
I didn't bother to watch, but I did skip ahead several times and it sounded like a sales pitch. Only one video at Ed's youtube. "Build companies that matter to customers that solve real problems."

If you need more Ed, you can try

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/
The data is public by default. You know this when you sign up and use the service. This should inform your expectations of how the data will be used.
Shift workers deserve more hazard pay and or health care coverage.
Yeah, specifically http://learnxinyminutes.com/ style.
I can see why this didn't catch on, but on the other hand, I kinda want one.
Wouldn't that give an advantage to any copyright assigned to a company, or subsidiary thereof?

Or lead to lengthy licencing deals rather than outright sales?
Is it more entitled to observe public data than to willingly put data in the public and then expect to control the actions of others?
The drone rangers: Trump world declares war on fighter pilots
I did:

This site can’t provide a secure connection
www.lukasmoro.com uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

It is a cloudflare site but the SSL is Google Trust Services (https://pki.goog/).

It is likely cloudflare SSL mode (full/strict/flexible) might be screwing up the site SSL. It usually happens to me when I launch a brand new site with freshly migrated DNS. I won't waste more time, also www version of the site points at somewhere else. Well...
Cerebras or Groq should jump on this.
Remember, no one is actually in favor of free speech. Everyone, and I mean everyone, regardless of their personal political views, wants to silence people they disagree with. I suspect this is some kind of trait inherent to human psychology.

Often, they’ll do so hiding behind complex philosophical rationales, but in the end the result is the same.
PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc
For the Python people, it seems a matter of habit and culture. When a person has gone down a certain direction for so long, it can be really hard to change. Think that's why it is a good idea to be exposed to other languages earlier on, where the person would have seen other type systems and other ways of doing things. There wouldn't be so much trauma and drama, when confronted with types or differences.
If it works anything like a modern dishwasher, it would use less water than a normal bath or shower.
But does this prevent usage of cluster or consumer GPUs to be used in training? Or does it just make it slower and less efficient?

Those are real questions and not argumentative questions.
> Apple lied about it before, claiming the LED was hard-wired in blah blah same thing, except it turned out it was software controlled by the camera module's firmware.

Source?
I remember the repair book "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive for the Complete Idiot". On some beetles the battery light would flicker dimly, though nothing seemed to be wrong. The recommended fix was to put enough tape over it to block the flicker, but not the full on.

Black electrical tape was also the solution for the blinking 12:00 on consumer VCRs.
My point is that the threat model is backwards. The threat associated with a camera is the least severe compared to anything else a malicious person could do with access to your computer. Recored conversations, chats and email, browsing history, etc are all much more likely to result in harm if leaked than a recording of you innocently in your home.

> Nobody but Abby and Ben care if Ben is caught admitting he cheated on Abby.

That destroys families, standing within a community, and very often careers.
If good faith weren't a prerequisite for reasoned debate, perhaps.
I disagree with this post not because it is completely wrong but because of its dismissive tone. Many important aspects are not mentioned or detailed. Dependencies of subsidies from gov, price pressure from large supermarket chains, large farms are corporates VS small family farms, responsibility regarding soil conservation, Methan emissions, dependencies or lock in from Monsanto and similar grain and fertilizer suppliers, inability to repair modern tractors due to DRM and so on.
At what point will it be universally understood that "free speech" is only legally binding when a person is speaking with the government. The government cannot limit a person from speaking outside of libel and slander. (Note the successful Dominion lawsuits against Fox News, you can't say _anything_ you want if it materially harms a person or a legal entity).

A private corporation like Twitter/X, Facebook, and now Bluesky can implement any moderation policies they want, and it will never violate "free speech" laws. Elon Musk can filter and restrain the speech he doesn't like (mostly liberal speech and external links that he can't monetize) and Zuck can do the same. Bluesky only moderates illegal activity itself like CSAM. All other moderation is done by the community, and each person chooses who to follow, block, or mute who they wish.

The government could enact regulation to limit corporate moderation (debatable, but a given with the current SC) but it would be a very extreme step to restrict the individual from moderating their own timelines on Bluesky.

It's hinted that Carr might try to regulate Bluesky, but the outcome wouldn't match his expectations. You see, Bluesky is an open network. It would be simple for every user to implement their own data server and only communicate on the open network. The government would have no way to control that network outside of radical national firewall filtering like China's Great Firewall.
I think you can just load (require ?) a python module and not run it and it will execute the python code.

I don't think that this is exclusive to python either.
I used to live in the US and use voice as my primary number for everything. I don't think there is a better option.
Mount the phone on the top in front of your head. Every day alternate which arm you wash, and which one you scroll with.
I write a lot of typescript and rust. In those languages, when I want to understand some code I haven’t seen before, I always start by reading the types. Understanding what and how the data moves through a system is usually key to understanding everything. And usually I lean heavily on my editor for this - in typescript there’s a lot of value in the simple act of hovering over values to see what type they are.

I’m working with a medium size python program at the moment. It’s mostly written by someone smart but early career, and they’ve made a rabbit warren of classes and mixins that get combined in complex ways. I’ve been encouraging him to add types - and wherever those types exist, the code becomes 100% more legible to my code editor - and ultimately to me.

I don’t think I’d bother with types in Python for small programs. But my experience is that good type hints lay out a welcome mat to anyone who comes along later to figure the code out. And honestly, a lot of the time that person is the original author, just months or years after the code was written.
> That is its technical superiority.

I know. I never said otherwise. The fact that it doesn't do what Forge does literally is the benefit. Sorry if that wasn't already clear. It should've been.

Back before I knew Fabric, I constantly cursed Forge because (before they added Mixin as well) a mod could not modify the game in any way Forge hadn't already thought of. On Fabric I could do anything at all.

You're completely missing my point btw, the point was that the reason I didn't mention Fabric is because Forge is the one that adds a bunch of stuff to Minecraft and Fabric just lets mods do whatever they want any way they want. Forge is the one that adds a capability system just intrinsically. Fabric lets you do that if you want (e.g. Cardinal Components API) but it also lets you do anything else you want and doesn't force you to use that architecture if you don't want to.

Also hi Immibis, didn't notice your username the first time :)
Oh, so they made an autistic LLM
Yeah I pretty much grew up (unknowingly) playing in an illegal unmarked chemical waste dump so it takes a lot to get my attention, but I opened up an old fluorescent desk lamp from the 60s I had that fried itself to see if it was fixable — and found a small piece of crumbly asbestos shielding about the size of a business card stuck to a big leaky ballast. Pretty solid toxic waste combo. City hazmat got a sweet vintage lamp that day, sadly.
Yeah, on Linux you get all of the same firmware issues, but with no vendor software support to update it!

I dual boot windows so that I can download all of my PC's firmware updaters.
I respectfully disagree. Sure, we may have been on our way, but I think the contrast between Jeff Sessions and Matt Gaetz/Pam Bondi really just shows how we're truly off the rails now.

Jeff Sessions appropriately recused himself from investigations into the Trump campaign, because 8 years ago we still expected the Justice Department to act impartially. In doing that, Sessions got nothing but the deep ire of Trump, solely because he wasn't willing to act as the President's personal lawyer.

Now, though, both Gaetz and Bondi have basically fallen over backward saying they'll do whatever Trump asks. The only reason Gaetz wasn't confirmed wasn't because he said flatly that he would weaponize the Justice department, but it was because he's basically loathed by everyone on Capitol Hill (IMO the sex and drug allegations were more of a convenient out to not confirm him rather than the true reason for his withdrawal). The current situation is completely without precedent in my lifetime.
Do you mean Inflection's Pi?
They have high forward voltage /drop/ which is a useful property. You drive them with constant current for constant brightness and improved lifespan which is most pertinent for LED light bulb replacements than it is for a simple signal status light. Fixed delay before standby isn't hard to enforce either.

Even so this whole attack vector isn't solved with this. How long should the light stay on for after the camera is put in standby before a user considers it a nuisance? 5 seconds? So if I turn my back for longer than that I'm out of luck anyways.

The anti-TSO means would be a hardware serial counter with a display on the camera. Each time the camera is activated the number is incremented effectively forming a camera odometer. Then if my previous value does not match the current value I know it's been activated outside of my control.
Is you reading my comment on HN also entitlement? I certainly didn't give you permission to do it. It may have some personal details that I don't want you to see. Why do you think that is okay?
Big acts grossing colossal figures can continue that for a longer time. But the growth of the fee is exponential, while sales never grow exponentially for indefinite time. I can agree that the base of 2 may be too low; let's take 4 instead.

Let's assume that Dreamworks are so good that they get $500M a year for a particular IP. For 10 years they enjoy free coverage.

But even if on year 25 of coverage they would still have been making some money on the franchise, next year they go badly into the red.

The code:

def fee(y):
return 0 if y <= 10 else 10 * 4 ** (y - 11)

def total_fee(y):
return sum(fee(yy) for yy in range(1, y + 1))

def total_revenue(years, yearly_revenue=500_000_000):
return yearly_revenue * years

def balance(y):
f = total_fee(y) / 1_000_000
r = total_revenue(y) / 1_000_000
return "%2d %8.1fM %8.1fM %6.1fM" % (y, f, r, r - f)

for y in range(21, 27):
print(balance(y))

Output:

21 14.0M 10500.0M 10486.0M
22 55.9M 11000.0M 10944.1M
23 223.7M 11500.0M 11276.3M
24 894.8M 12000.0M 11105.2M
25 3579.1M 12500.0M 8920.9M
26 14316.6M 13000.0M -1316.6M

As we see, the optimum total revenue is achieved after 23 years of protection, and then it goes down fast, turning negative on year 26.

And this is for a mega-popular franchise, that makes half a billion every year in a row for more than two decades. It's a very rare hit, comparable to Star Wars maybe, or the Mickey Mouse. Most IPs don't stay so staunchly popular for this long.

You can try playing with the parameters and check outcomes for different revenue shapes and fee bases.
I don’t care and neither should you what consumer electronics and other durable goods cost. That’s not even remotely standard of living.

Housing, energy, healthcare, education. All off the charts inaccessible relative to 60 years ago. The Boomers are the Worst. Generation. Ever. Full stop.

When the LAPD beat Rodney King half to death on camera and all of the officers wielding the batons were acquitted?

Los Angeles burned.

Detroit. Watts. Harvey Milk was assassinated for a reason.

I will always strongly prefer a negotiated settlement between classes of society.

But one guy self-immolation in Tunisia kicked off regime change in 11 countries.

I abhor violence but I make no difference between violence in person and violence by economic or policy proxy.

I grew up in San Diego, half the guys I grew up with are former JSOC and even angrier than I am. Private equity people operate at our pleasure if it really came to it.
I'm not a physician and not in the medical field, but I would hazard a guess that a lot of the expense comes from just doing the work. What specific doctor will administer the vitamin C and monitor the patients? How do you isolate that the vitamin C dosage increase is effective? Who is going to create the vitamin C in the proper dosages? Who is going to write about it to make sure that it's legally approved? The human body is very sophisticated. The trials have to be done in a scientific way, following the established procedures of ethical medical treatment, peer reviewed, etc. And let's say you start giving vitamin C to some of these patients and they start having bad reactions and it makes their disease worse? Who covers the hospital stay? Who pays for their care?

Just looking at a few things there I'm guessing that's a few million dollars at the very least.. and even so you have to look at opportunity cost. Is this the best and most promising path of research for the physicians and researchers? Are there more promising compounds? Etc.
That looks really hard to use.
Just focusing on this portion:

> Finally, and perhaps most importantly, private companies making editorial decisions about what content they allow on their own private property is not (and cannot be!) taking away First Amendment rights. The First Amendment restricts the government, not private property owners from making their own editorial decisions.

That's really the whole debate when it comes to social media. Is it ok that they are governed like private property where the owners can make whatever moderation decisions they want or is it more like a modern "public square" where it should be possible to say anything you can shout on the street without being moderated for it.

Personally, I don't know if there's a right answer. Perhaps the best approach is encouraging more competition among social media companies so there are alternatives to the dominant platforms - but the network effects of something like Facebook are very strong even if competitors existed.

Treating social media like a private space is the status quo, but it rubs me the wrong way that there's not really an equivalent of public spaces in the online world.

Edit: I find it weird how many people are happy to defend unchecked corporate power when it comes to this issue. The lack of any guardrails on moderation is why YouTube has slowly transformed into a baby-talk version of itself. Now people talk about "unaliving yourself" and "PDF files" instead of using the normal English words for these concepts.
Yep, I've watched Andor—it's great sci-fi, but not hard sci-fi.
They want the culture to die. Then from the rubble they will build their brave new socialist utopia.
Except as any student of history knows, what we actually get is Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot...
Filtering out trolls, passive aggressive jerkoffs, and outright verbal abuse is everyone's right. Musk (and Dorsey) believe those people have a "right" to do those things without being muted.

Right.
You’ll never get it, Marx.
I think there is another overlooked factor: some languages’ type systems suck and your opinion of types depends more on your first experience rather than a true comparison.
I honestly don't understand why #2 is bad. Can you please explain the logic and values behind your reasoning? No irony here, just a desire to learn.
Yeah, both are relatively insane choices by modern lights. You see some other track bikes of that era with fork-mounted handlebars (it's not unique) but I believe conventional stem + bars were more popular.
These tools make it very easy to scam vulnerable people, and have pretty limited use otherwise.
Not just subsidies, even without them, this factory couldn't operate. The main issue is that there are too few educated workers to support a modern factory. I saw a comment from one of their suppliers on Chinese social media, and I use GPT to translate part of it:

- We, as the supplier, provide battery forming equipment, which includes a series of cells for storage. It's common sense for engineers that nothing except batteries should be placed in these cells. However, they used it to store clutter and notebooks, causing the production line to report errors and stop. Our project manager urgently responded to debug the issue, and their workers even asked where they could put all this mess?

- Regarding explosions. Dust explosion is a common knowledge for engineers. Their explosion happened because they used a regular vacuum cleaner to collect dust from the dust box (which contained metal dust from battery cutting), resulting in a dust explosion. No one knows what their maintenance team was doing. They were also looking for documentation from us, just to shift the blame. There was also another explosion with the oven purchased from a Korean supplier due to management issues that allowed air into the baking equipment.

- Their battery process and technology responsible person knows nothing as well. After we weld batteries, there's a leak testing process for ammonia. This person always asked us if we could use hydrogen because it's cheaper. He had no idea that hydrogen is an explosive gas. I wrote back a response of thousands of words explaining the principles, saying that this was absolutely not suitable because hydrogen itself is flammable and mixed with air would be a highly explosive mixture. He finally gave up on the idea.

Although these are just comments from social media, at least regarding the explosion, there have been other media reports on the issue.
The first that we know of does not mean they were the first.
Chat now: https://app.chathub.gg/chat/cloud-qwq-32b
Given how little the US invests in public education, probably never
Sure, but that relies on you being able to do so by yourself. If you are trying to hide the jews in a barn with fifteen others and one of them talks, you may have done a good thing, but it was ultimately meaningless.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t take that stand anyway, it’s just frustrating and doesn’t bring any actual benefit to the people impacted by the thing you refuse to do.
Would it make a difference if we were talking about articles on a news website? I'm kind of on the fence on this one but I can see the point of view that just posting something online doesn't necessarily grant the end user an unlimited license to use the data. Source code is another example; open-sourcing a project doesn't automatically give someone else the right to use that code in their own projects.

Does Bluesky explicitly state the license the user will be publishing under (Creative Commons or whatever), or allow them to choose one?
Bulldozing grandma is just the cost of technological progress /s
The idea in the paper is really cool.

People who enjoyed this might also like to read how Apple used tagged pointers for short strings in Objective-C [0]. I think that's when I first learned about tagged pointers. NaN-boxing was mindblowing for me. I love this kind of stuff.

[0] https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-07-31-tagged-point...
I exaggerate alot but even by my standards this is ridiculous hyperbole. Rust just isn't supported on alot of platforms and libraries.
How are you browsing HN in the shower?
OK, person A invented something, patented it, and sits on it for 20 years, unable to find an useful application.

Person B invents the same thing, and immediately sees a way to make it a big hit, with lots of demand. Should person A be blocking person B for 20 years? Why do you think person A should be entitled to that? What do you think would be more beneficial for the society?
I'll probably be tarred and feathered for this opinion, but "everything works out of the box" Mac feels like wishful thinking

Every time Apple pushes an update that causes some bizarre issue, people talk about it at length

On the one hand, software is written by humans. Humans make mistakes

On the other hand, Apple by design supports such a tiny set of hardware (that they largely build themselves and tightly couple to their software) that it's strange they're unable to iron out the issues in test before pushing the updates and ending making the tech news cycle when something goes wrong
I don't know what's in the database, so I don't know what to search for.

How about a browse feature?
Right, so this is all defense in depth. That LED is sort of the last line of defense if all others have failed, like:

The exploit mitigations to prevent you from getting an initial foothold.

The sandboxing preventing you from going from a low-privileged to a privileged process.

The permissions model preventing unauthorized camera access in the first place.

The kernel hardening to stop you from poking at the co-processor registers.

etc. etc.

If all those things have failed, the last thing to at least give you a chance of noticing the compromise, that's that LED. And that's why it stays on for 3 seconds, all to increase the chances of you noticing something is off. But things had to have gone pretty sideways before that particular hail-mary kicks in.