skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems contradictory to care immensely about traffic safety but lament the idea of wearing a vest to cross the street. It seems like something that logically we should probably already be doing. Self driving cars are just making it more obvious.
Your information is incorrect.

Flame retardants were introduced into everything because of CA and Federal laws requiring items to smolder and not catch fire. While I don't believe flame retardants should be as prevalent as they are today, I also think its unfair to say they don't prevent house fires. They absolutely have done some saving but I don't think across the entire population its a net positive. These rules were originally put into place because of a number of high profile cases where kids died, the biggest vector were beds, people smoked and dropped the butt on their mattress and poof.

That rule in CA is in the right direction, glad they are helping right some of the wrong they did but it is still in everything. I think its more helpful to paint the accurate historical picture as opposed to yours which is using hyperbole to generate a reaction.
What's you point? You think DJs don't have large collections of vinyl? Tell that to the 15 crates sitting in my room. You think that doing needle drops looking for breaks is any different than doing needle drops for the chorus? You can look at the grooves in the record and read the track. You can easily see where the breaks are, and you can see where the chorus would be. So I'm at a total loss on what you think is different
For problems that require multi-step reasoning, standard LLMs seem to be stuck. The field is increasingly interested in models like o1 that output many "guesses" to find the right one. Currently open-source does not know how to do this, but we are reimplementing several possible directions to try. This replicates one important path using search and a verifier model.
Stratification of fluoride uptake among enamel crystals
Take note of the conclusion; fluoride makes teeth more brittle as we age:

"Findings reveal that the concentration of fluorine is elevated in the shells of senior nanocrystals relative to young, with less significant differences between the cores or intergranular phases. It is proposed that the embrittlement of enamel is driven, at least in part, by the infusion of fluorine into the nanocrystals and that the principal mechanism is de- and re-mineralization cycles that preferentially erode and rebuild the nanocrystals shells."
> the carcinogen

I love how threat inflation turns chemicals from innocuous to deadly in the absence of any strong evidence.

No, we cannot say this chemical is a carcinogen. Read the wikipedia page.

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

> In 2004, ATSDR wrote "Nothing definite is known about the health effects of PBDEs in people. Practically all of the available information is from studies of laboratory animals. Animal studies indicate that commercial decaBDE mixtures are generally much less toxic than the products containing lower brominated PBDEs. DecaBDE is expected to have relatively little effect on the health of humans."
Optimize Your Shell Experience
Don't worry, the AA cells will deteriorate far before the 10 years necessary to deplete their charge.
It is exclusive to JuliaSim. But the tools generate MTK compatible component models so, once built, they can be used with MTK.
Yeah, it's a bit tricky when the code you are documenting is copyright, and you aren't the copyright owner. Website is one thing, but publishing a book? I suspect that is asking for trouble.

Also, books can't be updated, and I update this stuff all the time...
We think about Threads' iOS performance
Apple pushed hard by EU to make iOS and iPadOS more interoperable
Energy Cheat Sheet
Fill what space? I just a want a search engine that returns good results "above the fold". If I want an AI, I'll use an AI. I don't see how mixing the two benefits me at all.
Its truly hideous. Old City Hall is beautiful. Why can't we build nice things anymore?
I wouldn't say it's revenge, but this meant to cause a stir, so that the few people who don't know about this unfortunate legal battle will hear about it. I wouldn't be surprised if he was so delusional that he thinks this will gain him and his web of companies more sympathy.

He slaps the WordPress community in the face, out of nowhere, then he points at WP Engine, and says: "Isn't it a shame that these a*holes made me slap you... again?".

I'm just speculating in this whole comment, but this is how I interpret this current chapter of the drama.
Well at the time, I do know that the vast majority of complaints I heard from colleagues was that it breaks too easily and wouldn't render after that.
Please see my response to a sibling commenter.

Nearly everything above is also true of ethanol.

Drinking too much water is also lethal.

I take care of plenty of patients that drink IPA. It is not uncommon in both people that think it will kill them and do it as a suicide attempt, as well as people that are desperate for a buzz but can't access ethanol (I work on the Navajo nation where ethanol is illegal and more difficult to obtain).

In general, these patients sober up and go home, just like patients that drink ethanol. Compared to ethanol, patients are much more intoxicated, take much longer to get sober, and are more likely to exhibit symptoms of gastritis or esophagitis. But there is nothing about caring for them that is categorically different than caring for a patient with a significant alcohol ingestion -- in both cases, it is dose dependent.
If you spot a bot then let the moderators know. I sometimes see sockpuppet accounts (trying to boost their own submission) and I've spotted an account where clearly all comments were ChatGPT generated. Those get blocked.

https://meet.hn/ lists some users.
Well that’s the second half of the issue with clearances, they cost the company a fortune to sponsor.
On a tangential topic, I'm surprised Waymo don't self-insure. Is there an advantage to Waymo of outsourcing insurance? Is it a legal thing?
I feel cheated, will definitely look into curated playlists by users rather than the generated garbage.
More data? Seriously? What has more data than YouTube?
From net/RPC to gRPC in Go Applications
or it won't like how uber etc at least here only operate in cities, and not where people actually really need cards.
I’m on the west coast. I was talking to a neighbor about their barking dog and exclaimed “dude!” when she lied directly to my face (her dog was barking and she said it wasn’t her dog). Her reaction? Angrily saying she was a woman. Dude has been gender neutral for many decades around these parts.
Definitely: he radiates someone who hasn’t had to defend his decisions for years.
“”” Flame retardants were widely adopted in the 1970s, when in-home smoking was more prevalent and electronics frequently overheated. New research, however, shows that flame retardants are not very effective at slowing or preventing fires. “””

https://www.sfenvironment.org/how-can-i-avoid-flame-retardan...
Do you mean you wouldn't only use y'all for singular? I assume you would say "how y'all doing" to one person or multiple people.
Very interesting article. It also illustrates how dangerous unit conversions are especially combined with thousands separators: 20000km (GNSS satellite altitude) is NOT 12.4 miles.

Does anyone know if it would be feasible nowadays to just use starlink (or other LEO satellites) as a GNSS constellation? Even without precise onboard-clocks, would it not be possible to just bounce clock signals from earth as long as latency is known?
> even in business code which does not want to maintain its worker pool or spool up a new BEAM process every time it needs to send two HTTP requests at the same time.

Just... no. First off, I'll bet a vanishingly small number of application developers on BEAM languages do anything to manage their own worker pools. The BEAM does it for them: it's one of its core strengths. You also imply that "spinning up a new BEAM process" has significant overhead, either computationally or cognitively. That, again, is false. Spinning up processes is intrinsic to Erlang/Elixir/Gleam and other BEAM languages. It's encouraged, and the BEAM has been refined over the years to make it fast and reliable. There are mature, robust facilities for doing so - as well as communicating among concurrent processes during their execution and/or retrieving results at termination.

You've made clear before that you believe async/await is a superior concurrency model to the BEAM process-based approach. Or, more specifically, async/await as implemented in .Net [1]. Concurrent programming is still in its infancy, and it's not yet clear which model(s) will win out. Your posts describing .Net's async approach are helpful contributions to the discussion. Statements such as that quoted above are not.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427935

--

EDIT: fixed typo.
The moment I've been waiting for: for a topic on HN to devolve into Barrens chat. This is going to be a great day. Zug zug.
Multiple visualizations. A seed, a sprout, a tree. A baby, a child, an adult, an elder. And so on.

I am still a fan of vitrification and dumping the end results along the subduction zone of a tectonic plate, myself.
It's well known Jobs policy and strategy. "One standard port, two proprietary ports" is the version I've seen, the standard port is for ingestion and export, proprietary ports are for sharing within tight knit Apple circles.

Variants of this principle is seen everywhere throughout their systems and architectural designs, thankfully backfiring often enough that Apple isn't taking over PC any time soon.
No I don't think that's it either. Home assistant runs on a server somewhere still.

What the top level comment is asking for, completely unrelated to the article mind you, is to have a smart device in the form factor of a light switch that you can hook into your home assistant system.

The problem they likely have (I have it too) is that you set HA up and it can control smart plugs, smart thermostats, etc, but it can't control 99% of the existing lights in your house because they are wired to dumb lightswitches. Instead of some mechanical finger flicking a switch or something, why not uninstall the existing light switch and replace it with a smart one.
I ended up moddng the s3 yaml to turn off the internal speaker and to forward all voice responses to a google hub.
It’s an easy way to tell that someone isn’t a ham tho.
CAGED is descriptive, ie it's the result of someone noticing "we all know these chord shapes, and they have some useful properties which can contribute to your fretboard knowledge". Those properties are:

- those 5 chords are the first you learn, and mechanically easy to play in open position, so you know them by heart

See this diagram (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...):

- the CAGED 'order' (C then A then G etc) matches the order in which octaves of the same root appear as you go up the neck, therefore CAGED is a good way of visualising octaves (see how in the 'C-shapes' column the chords 'share' root notes when played in that order up the neck)

- each chord matches a root note position (C: top part of the neck box on the 5th string, A: bottom part of the neck box on the 5th string, etc), therefore if you're playing a scale, no matter what position you're playing it in, you can choose a CAGED chord to overlay on it and easily find the root, third, and fifths (see how in the 'C major scale' column, you can overlay each chord onto one way of playing the C major scale)

- learning these mnemonics should eventually help you 'unlock' the guitar neck, ie have an intuitive knowledge of what intervals you're playing and how to build melodic lines with them

Generally, music theory 'works' because it describes why things sound good. It's not theory that informs what sounds good, rather theory attempts to describe what sounds good and build patterns which will help theory learners, in turn, make music which sounds good.
Linked pic is from 2010, but article says they still use the C64s. I'd love for someone to go there and get a new pic, maybe a quick interview on how it's going using C64 in today's age. Can they link to modern payment systems, f.ex.?
Why Senegal and Martinique sought Federation with their former Colonizer
What's been decommissioned for 20 years now? I'm not really sure where you get your information from, but it's clearly not correct.

Decommissioned Announced November 19, 2020
Collapsed December 1, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope
Well if you are interested in the intersection of software engineering and technical computing, I'd recommend Julia. I'm currently working on JuliaSim which is a Modelica like system built on top of Julia. So Julia might interest you as a programming language and then you could pick and choose what aspects of things like ModelingToolkit if you are interested in the engineering, math and physics aspect or you can just stick to the software/programming aspects of Julia.
> How is the score calculated? Oh man, this was harder than I thought.

Color is such a deceptively dangerous rabbit hole. A few months ago I entered a game jam intending to make a small pokemon-like where you collect colors rather than creatures. E.g. instead of fire>grass>water it would be red>green>blue, with randomly generated colors of any shade and about half a dozen 'types'. Trying to figure out the math of that nerd sniped me for a couple weeks, didn't even get started on the rest of the game before the jam ended.
A CD8180 on a raspberry pi form factor would be nice
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
Not the home assistant controller, but a peripheral. A light switch you can toggle manually or through the assistant.

I think the problem with this setup is that it needs to be wifi connected, and if you embed an esp32 inside a wall it will get exactly zero signal. Maybe with external antennas hidden in the switch outer case.
"Anything that provides information makes a market run smoother."

Depends. If the information provider is also a middle man that profits from manipulating the information, then that can unbalance the market.

E.g: if renters pay through realpage, then the incentive for realpage is to increase the prices to collect more fees.
They don't, really.

Trans shitposting is an art form, and it often involves silly names.

This is why it's a problem when platforms get too big. Context collapses because they can't have enough moderators to understand and appropriately handle every little niche goof. It looks a certain way from a naive analysis, but is obviously not (necessarily) what it looks like to that analysis with the tiniest bit of extra information.
I didn’t have the -3 version. Learned the hard way after loading up that alt framework last week and the screen went blank I did end up implementing that same solution on my hardware though.
In the future we’ll tell our kids, “try to make eye contact with the driver’s sensors before crossing the street”
Not OP but if I have to have a CPU and microphone for voice commands anyway it doesn’t sound crazy to throw a whole pi/relay node into every room of the house that I want to have control of. Pi zero 2 is fifteen bucks and can run Whisper speech2text iirc, throw ChatScript on there for local command decoding and call it a day. I think I’d pay 50 to 100 per room for the convenience, paying a premium to not have my voice surveilled by Alexa just to set timers.
yep.
For Wireshark/Tshark, display filters (including "frame.comment contains ...") can be used as usual.
Of course, if your pcap file contains only frames with the same comment, that expression is not particularly useful, but you can merge multiple files with e.g. mergecap.

The pcap subcommand, though, will be extended to allow extracting packets from multiple probes in a single run.
I know it isn't necessarily hacker news standard, but I greatly appreciate when submitters summarize the actual content rather than post vague titles like "What's Next" or "The Real Story" or whatever.
I dunno, Gaza (on per-sqkm basis) still looks nothing like Hamburg '43. Until it looks at least like that everywhere, I'd say Israel is being too soft given the historical precedent on dealing with these kinds of movements.
That would be the distinction between "fine art" and "decorative art". Jazz as GP meant it is "fine art", the smooth jazz you hear in the elevator could be classified as decorative art.
Arrow lake has had quite a messy launch on Windows.
Intel, Microsoft, and motherboard makers have made a few changes to prevent crashes and increase performance and performance consistency, especially with regards to single threaded performance.

I wish phoronix did more to evaluate Arrow lake in that context: Are the problems merely Windows problems? If comparing an old windows 11 copy to one with fixes, and both to Linux, then maybe something interesting happens.

I just get the feeling that Windows is a mess with regards to getting expected performance, lately. Because Zen 5 had surprises with Windows too.

And, in the end for Zen 5, the performance fixes for Windows 11 got it to about the level of performance that Zen 5 had on Windows 10 all along.

Intel's fixes have been for Windows 11, so I don't know if Arrow Lake is good on Windows 10 or not, and what to make of them vs Linux for this CPU.
Build Composable Apps with AI
Amazon also fired a large number of people from the Alexa team last year. I don't really think Alexa is a major priority for Amazon at this point.

I don't blame them, sure there are millions of devices out there, but some people might own five device. So there aren't as many users as there are devices and they aren't making them any money once bought, not like the Kindle.

Frankly I know shockingly few people who uses Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant/Bixby. It's not that voice assistants don't have a use, be it is a much much small use case than initially envisioned and there's no longer the money to found the development, the funds went into blockchain and LLMs. Partly the decline is because it's not as natural an interface as we expected, secondly: to be actually useful, the assistants need access to control things that we may not be comfortable with, or which may pose a liability to the manufacturers.
Isn't that already the status quo?
I certainly hope so, and soon. I hate driving. Micro-managing a 1 ton machine where any slip-up could kill someone.
for those interested, Chinese laws forbid the export of recommendation systems, unless ByteDance is challenging the Chinese laws here, which is highly unlikely, this simple can not be the recommendation system used in their production.

will be far more interesting to know say what is the difference, what got changed/removed to make them feel comfortable that such an open source variant won't get them into troubles with some 3-letters-acronym agencies back home.
If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments.

On my old account, I noticed sometimes I'd get no replies to something, but enough downvotes to hide something... then it seems some algo noticed those votes were odd and the comment is back, but by then discussion has moved on.

But conversely I have not seen the Reddit style bad faith arguments.
You’d be surprised how dumb people are, many don’t even know what they are or look like.

Air Tags are also concealable, and on my backpack I have one inside the strap. You can’t tell it is there.
Maybe DUI's should be included, but a paper drawing the conclusion that "Waymo is safer because its computer drivers aren't drunk" suggests very different policy actions.
>As for window management - what do you mean? The window management to me is good

What's good about it? The fact it doesn't exist?
? I have my house packed to the brim with tplink Wi-Fi smart switches, they work fine.

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/smart-switch/
Emerging Architectures of LLM Applications
Google Home's Nest integration is recent and top-notch though.

Hopefully in a year they'll have rolled out the Gemini integration and things will be back on track.
But does this absolve Google for killing Reader?
Frankfurt of all places!
This engine uses a Redux-like architecture. You have a State type (containing data like "the position of the black kingside rook") and a stream of in-game actions (like "knight to F3"). Each action is handled by a pure function which converts the current State to a new State. You can either transmit State deltas from the server to the client, or just transmit the actions themselves (https://longwelwind.net/blog/networking-turn-based-game/).

This design makes it easy to implement optimistic updates, rollback, replays, automated testing, and recovery after a disconnection. It's a surprisingly good fit for UI, too; you can render simple games as a React component which takes the current State as one of its props.

However, a stream of context-free actions can be a really inconvenient representation for some games. The rules of a board game are often like the control flow of a computer program: you'll see branching, iteration, local variables, function calls, structured concurrency, and sometimes even race conditions and reentrancy. When you try to represent all of this logic as a State object, you're basically maintaining a snapshot of a "call stack" as plain data, and manually resuming that "program" whenever you handle an action. It doesn't seem ideal.

I've been sketching a board game engine which would represent the game logic as normal code instead. It seems promising, but it really needs a couple of language features which don't exist in the mainstream yet, like serialisation of suspended async functions.
Holding $500k in hot wallet, this man is braindead...
jazz is what you can get away with.
This doesn’t work on iPhone Safari for dragging things
The switches I linked are esp32. They live inside the wall. They get great signal.
I very much doubt this is the TikTok algorithm.

1. It doesn't even claim to be that.

2. It's over a year old - so even if it was, this is no longer it.

3. There's zero incentive for them to release it, but every incentive to release a fake one.

4. TikTok is too much of a national asset, I doubt the Chinese government would not use it to their advantage (and transparency would be counter to that).

Edit: there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42471278
> My time is very valuable.

Same that's why I don't use Windows in a professional setting. Programming in it is slower and doing office work in it is 'fun' when things change for the sake of it.
> LLMs don't write code like that. Many people have tried with many prompts. It's mostly good for just generating stuff once and maybe do little modifications while convincingly arguing the code has no bugs (and it has).

You have to make them write code like that. I TDD by telling the LLM what I want a test for, verify it is red, then ask it to implement. I ask it to write another test for an edge case that isn’t covered, and it will.

Not for 100% of the code, but for production code for sure. And it certainly speeds me up. Especially in dreadful refactoring where I just need to flip from one data structure to another, where my IDE can’t help much.