skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You generally don't want RPi for general purpose computing. It's power is the simplicity of all the embedded devices to hook to the GPIO pinout port.
Sucky, sure, but entirely within the moral and legal rights of the owners to do so.
Somebody accidentally checks in an AWS private key and it gets found out much later.
I'm not sure how this is better than asking ChatGPT to generate something like "spooky y2k names". I tried both ChatGPT and your site and the results from ChatGPT are pretty similar. It's easier to prompt chatGPT than it is to go to this site, too.
Well yeah, I'm a capitalist. A good capitalist wants centralized control of the means of production, like the communists.

They're just honest in their intentions
> We are hardly living in a golden age of safety for kids—during the pandemic, there was a spike in crime, especially gun violence. But a big part of why gun violence became the biggest cause of deaths of people under 18 is partially because they were a lot less likely to die from other causes, notably motor vehicle accidents:

Well, that’s an excellent point. Our cars have become so good at crumpling to protect us that the old crash test videos that leaked to tv news in the 90s seem archaic by comparison. I remember many of them showed the dummies falling out of the cars when they slammed into a wall and shocked everyone.

My father took me to a junkyard to see all the windshields that people had smashed into to emphasize why I should wear a seatbelt. Now the car will basically sacrifice itself to absorb the shock as much as possible. Plus airbags are everywhere and rearview cameras are in all new cars.

I frequently think about how these days you can get shot anywhere in the USA. It was nice being reminded that I have very little fear of dying in an auto crash. And though many people drunk drive every day, societal tolerance for it is at an all time low.
You're saying "the state", but what that really means is that taxpayers who chose to live in places insurers can underwrite will subsidize the homes of people who chose to live in places so dangerous insurers literally can't underwrite. There's no bogeyman you can isolate and punish here; when the state subsidizes things, redistributive policy occurs. This seems like a deeply broken redistribution!

How about a simpler response: let insurers underwrite.
I don't. Anything worth saving is not on my phone.
> I think "if the training pool is large enough" is a real issue here.

It would be really neat to set up something like a wiki populated with the existing translations and machine translations done via LLM, and to periodically re-train the LLM on all the newly manually verified translations and automatically re-run the machine translations after. The whole thing could move incrementally toward high quality output.
Ayup. The only downside of jujutsu is that it exposes how many places have become welded to the specifics of Git and Github.
Tending the Wild: Native American Management of California's Natural Resources
Title is slightly modified for length.

This is one of the most insightful books I've ever read on the topic of anthrogenesis and the human footprint.

It has several wonderful interviews specifically on the topic of wildfires in California, that are very timely right now.
Honda could tap Nissan for short-term benefits in U.S. pickups, SUVs, capacity
So you test it with sides = 1. Result: hypotenuse is some number n where n*n = 2.

So far so good. How does this lead you to the obvious conclusion that n is irrational?

(I’m familiar with the standard proof that it is, but that’s not something that just naturally falls out of this.)
Big fan of Hack Club and everything you guys are doing! Such a phenomenal initiative
Glad it works for you with your use case. But you have to recognize that you are much more knowledgable than most in this realm. The majority of people expect these smart devices to be accessible from the internet, and do not have the ability or knowledge to configure remote access VPNs.

> You're going to open your garage while you're at the store?

One would mostly likely want to close it then :)

But really, I have an IoT garage door opener so that I can check to make sure it is closed if I forget. This is a common use case. Also, opening it for others when you are away.

> Honestly I don't see the use-case for almost any IoT thing though.

Okay, here's a few: Cameras are useful to see when people are at your house, when packages arrive, etc. Security sensors (or the aforementioned cameras) are also useful to check on the security of your home while you are away and respond if something unordinary happens. People like automatic pet feeders and automatic vacuums to perform tasks while they are away. People like thermostats that can be changed to more economical settings while away, and returned to comfortable settings when (or shortly before) they arrive. AirBnB hosts like being able to change the door code on their properties between visitors, and to monitor and secure their property while not physically there.

If you want some more, just read the reviews of these devices on a site like Amazon, and you'll see what people use them for.

People buy them because they find them useful. That doesn't mean you have to like them or want them. But an initiative to encourage manufacturers to implement basic best-practices is a good idea for other people regardless of whether you personally want them or not.
Deleted mine after they refused to let me make a comment on an unrelated group that Gatwick Airport is horrible on a Monday morning. Figured the algorithmic moderation was terrible and likely to waste my time conforming to some narrow and undefined form of speech. Not allowed to make a rational criticism.

Then two days later, rather than fix that, they announce the change to moderation methodology which has benefits to the highest bidder rather than the community.

Smells like another cesspit like X in the making.

Gone! Both are bad. The problem is the platform existing at this point.
RK3588S has been available for several years and supports 32GB RAM. OrangePi 5 and NanoPi M6 each use it. The later sells with 32GB RAM for $192. I'm still using a BCM2835 RPi with 512MB RAM. Boots to RAM-based root filesystem; .profile automatically chroots to a large external drive.
One person's anti-social responsibilities are another person's way of getting a lot done without as many people bugging them ;)
90%: I'll get a tech gig that makes me significantly more money than I make in my regular Job that I can quit.
It wasn't the god they tricking, it was the populace (and the next in line to the throne).
This posterization-vectorization approach is what the Flash "Trace Bitmap" tool implemented (I'm not sure if Animate still has it?), but if your image isn't originally clipart/vector art, it gives the resulting vector art a very early 2000s look...
Interested in the manufacturing process itself
Soldering the Tek way
Ok, I kinda knew it was possible (I guess, anybody did), but this should be a very illustrative example. And unfortunately it doesn't seem like PDFs are gonna go away (though, really, why the hell there isn't any alternative?!) So it raises the question: is there any way to handle this garbage safely? I.e. in a way it couldn't run JS? I'm pretty sure it is not really necessary to read 99.999% PDFs out there.
> but I don't think it's ever as simple as "older drugs == better, newer drugs == worse".

I don't think anyone here was making that assertion. As far as there is a broad, common experience, it is Dr's who won't consider older meds, even if they come with less baggage than their newer counterparts.
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My device is rooted and I use NeoBackup to backup apps with all their data (including what the app developer marked as "should not be backed up", often data that they would like you to backup on their own cloud instead).

Syncthing synchronises these backups to my home server automatically, as well as the phone's user data (photos, mainly).

The photos are additionally sent to Photoprism.

I avoid Google's cloud as much as I can.
or the shorter `git switch -d`
This may be informative...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-cancer-...
That apt-get install never actuay worked properly - what if packageA uses version A of a dependency, but packageB uses version B of that same dependency? Sure, debian/Ubuntu maintainers did the painstaking job of making an environment where most packages can happily live together, but that only worked until you had to use this new version of program C that requires a newer dependency for this and that and that.

Also, it always left behind orphaned packages, a good test was/is to install the whole of gnome, then the whole of plasma, and remove them both. Ideally, nothing should be left alone.

The only package manager capable of that is Nix (and those that use the same fundamental model). A second best option is to simply ship your whole work machine, a la docker.
It's a short movie from Future of Life institute, a non profit researching Ai. The movie is of course over the top but it catches really well that "the algorithm says so, it must be right"

Another short movie I linked from the same channel is Slaughterbots: if human: kill()

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42511342
Yes .

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fires-set-by-firefig...

I'm honestly surprised at the downvotes. I thought this was common knowledge.
>I think I (and maybe others) understood 'drone' to mean something closer to quad-copters. Sounds like you're actually proposing something closer to water-filled cruise missiles?

as i said in original post - "not small quadcopters, more like WWII size bombers". I use V1 as a close and real existing example of a drone wrt. size and simplicity/cheapness of construction. Though i think 2x-4x of that size would be more suitable and convenient.

>how to make the vehicle recoverable/reusable

just regular software for a plane type drone. The drone comes, drops the water and returns. Can do it GPS/inertial, AI targeted or remote controlled (like say put a Starlink on it how Ukrainians do it sometimes).

>else how to avoid causing more fire than you're putting out when the vehicle splatters against terrain

while normally the drone would return back, accidental crashes of course unavoidable. You don't have to carry much fuel as the drones can be spread around the state on say a 200km grid. The fuel tank can be made with automatic foam generator or something like this triggered if/when the drone goes down crashing.
> Actually it's the opposite [...], they're having trouble tarnishing his public perception and it scares them.

Isn't this basically the same thing I wrote?
I backup photos onto external drives every few months when I remember too. Is there anything else to backup?
How do you know? Occam's razor suggest that the fact checkers did indeed veer too far left of the American public.
Coyote Time: What Games Can Teach Us About Forgiveness in Learning (2023)
And it’s not “overwhelmingly likely” as in there’s a 99% chance or whatever. If you choose a random point on the line, the probability of choosing a rational is zero.
100 years ago they sure as heck didn't care about British IP rights in the United States.
For anyone hoping that meant it would be open source, that is not the case.
Who the hell cares what some climate change denying Republican says? Ca is run by democrats and they categorically refuse to do forest management..

If hearing we need to manage the forest makes you more upset at your fellow Americans rather than more concerned about the viability of your community, you are the problem.
Maybe you're just getting your sleep stages confused, but REM sleep, while considered important, is not the vital function of sleep related to memory, dementia, and other health outcomes - from everything I understand, and I work in the sleep/neurotech space.

N3, also known as deep sleep is when the glymphatic system flushes toxins from the brain, consolidates memories, increases HGH secretion, along with other hormonal changes, primes the immune system, drives parasympathetic response, etc etc.

REM sleep is related to emotional processing, and some memory, but I also recently heard a theory that REM may also be necessary to prevent the elasticity of the brain from over-writing the visual system with other inputs, which was an interesting theory, as sight is the only sense which is turned off during sleep.
Will a picture from a wide angle lens actually show the planets? I thought planets just show up as a bright dot in the sky.
I didn't downvote you, but only because I can't downvote.

This comment is so out of touch with human family norms and morals that I do think it detracts from the overall discussion.

Totally fine to say "uh guys, it's the kid's dad, not exactly an unbiased party", but to suggest that a father using his resources to raise his son is an indication of a lack of integrity shows that you have a poor or distorted grasp on how the human world works (and should work).
"freedom of speech, but only if it's statistically common" is a very strange take.
Does this exist for adults/non-teens? And not in the professional, career sense but a chiller, more human sense.
Yes. I simply hope the commenter reflects and doesn’t use a gender next time if there is no evidence of gender. That’s simply it. In 2025 I don’t feel it is appropriate for a commenter to use the pronoun “him” when there is no evidence of gender, and there isn’t at the time of comment.

I called someone out recently for the same, incurring -4 karma, and it turned out the gender pronoun was wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514127#42520946
Interesting: not Donovan, but Indy. And my first reaction was "mehhh" but then I told my brain to quit being a smartass, would my 15-year-old self have been impressed? Damn straight they would've.
I’m still shaken by this, two days later.

It’s not a mistake or some kind of ambiguous rule that could be misread. Following is the direct quote from Meta’s new guidelines. You can’t insult people based on:

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

They’re carving out specific minorities to exclude them from protections afforded to everybody else.

It’s exactly like saying: “You can’t doxx anyone on our platform, except Jews because that’s political and religious discourse about where heathens live.”

So here we are in 2025, and this barely gets a mention in the press because they’re so overwhelmed by the president-elect pretending to invade Denmark and whatever.

I’m a middle-aged bisexual man. My childhood and early teenage years coincided with the darkest times of the HIV epidemic. At 13 I was deadly afraid of AIDS, and I’m still trying to overcome the internalized homophobia from those times. For years I just tried to blend in, dated women, eventually got married, had children. I thought society had made real progress, but now it’s starting to dawn on me that it’s a mirage like Roe vs Wade or 1920s Berlin, and it can be stripped away at any time. And I feel like a miserable coward for all these years “just minding my own business” and never stepping up to support the community in any way, letting somebody else do the work. That needs to change. I’ll rather be mentally ill than hide in the shadows.
Install adb then:

adb pull /sdcard/ /path/to/backup
The US law most at play in criminal prosecution of computer usage is CFAA, and a clear CFAA predicate is intentional access to a protected computer (18 USC 1030(a)(2)). This distinction is what makes vulnerability research on things like Chrome vulnerabilities generally safe (as long as you don't knowingly spirit exploits to people who are actually attacking people), while vulnerability research on other people's websites (looking for SQLI and SSRF) is risky.

The CFAA has a clause about "trafficing in passwords or similar information" (18 USC 1030(a)(6)), but the mental state requirements are very high: that trafficking has to be knowing and with intent to defraud (that intent will be something prosecutors will have to prove at trial).

There might be some state law somewhere that makes this risky, but virtually every hacking prosecution in the US anyone has heard of happens under CFAA. I'm not a lawyer, but I've spent a lot of time with CFAA, and I think cracking DKIM keys is pretty safe.
I've heard so many on twitter claim there's no forest around LA in some kind of attempt to seem smart. As someone who grew up there i am honestly kind of shocked that these are the same intelligentsia that want us to listen to their pontifications on climate change
If you work on a multi-disciplinary team, the consequence of not making your tools simple enough for others to use, is that you are forced to use other tools, which is why we have to use a horrible mix of sharepoint, teamforge, and github.
You can build mupdf with -javascript on Gentoo (I also bwrap it to hell, personally).
Unfortunately in recent years, and particularly in the US, cars have been getting more dangerous again - especially to those not in the car.
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

Describes how Maurice Hilleman invented 40 vaccines, including for eight of the most common diseases in the US, over a 36 year career at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Merck & Co. His vaccines are estimated to save 8 million lives each year.
I think I would be OK with demonetizing all prisoner labor and stipulating that any particularly risky work must be voluntary.

I dont think it is unreasonable to expect non-voluntary labor to be included as part of a normal sentence. Ideally this non-voluntary work would be limited to supporting prison operations (e.g. cooking, cleaning, upkeep, ect). This work offsets the substantial costs of their incarceration to society and is part of the punishment.

I think it is also reasonable to offer fully voluntary service outside of the prison if it benefits society at large. I think it is reasonable to view this as accelerated restitution to society for their crimes, and reward it with earlier release and additional benefits.

I think the main area where we might agree is preventing the prison (or state) from selling their labor for the benefit of a 3rd party.

Overall, I would like to see the expansion of productive prison labor where possible to provide social benefit (for example cleaning up litter, ect.)
Syncthing for files (music, photos, videos, noted), DAVx5 for contacts+calendar. Everything else is either a client app (email) or ephemeral (text messages).
I get it but really, we eat food to retain its nutrients while we read books to retain knowledge(sometimes).
There's a disaster going on today, this very hour, and your suggestions are absurdly impractical.

There's a time for "just spitballing here", or "divergent thought, no bad ideas". And you can probably find some folks today who want to think about this tragedy in that frame of mind.

But. There's a disaster going on today, this very hour, and your suggestions are absurdly impractical.

I did not downvote you, but I suspect the others who did are conveying a distaste for such abstract thought about this extremely visceral ongoing disaster.
>It is wild to me that the bulk of responses here seem to take how this is being described by the poster at face value.

Because it squared with just about how everyone expects universities to behave based on their own experience
Thank you for sharing! It’s interesting how much self-confidence and stability, whether internal or external, play a role in shaping our paths
Interesting project. Not something I'd do myself! If you look at your past, did anything foreshadow that you'd one day do this? Like you played a game with a modified character or something like that? Also, one semi-serious question: what does your mom think of it?
I would heavily endorse raindrop.io as a paid user. I was looking for an alternative to Pinboard; after witnessing the founder's behavior/attitude on HN, I didn't want to funnel any more money to them.
Yeah if you don't toe the line of the more senior people in the speciality, next thing you know you're outcast from your institution and no one will talk to you.

This is why I do mathematics. Most of it is impossible to argue against once there's a solid proof :)

(also everyone is really nice in the field!)
Then removing it from history doesn’t do anything because you already need to rotate the key
These fires happened (at least originally) in the hills of LA where lots of rich people live. You aren't getting them in dense urban areas where more normal people can afford to live.

I don't think we should be subsidizing that. Yes, if you want to live in LA foothills like Bel Air (not affected by the current fire, but hit by fires before), you are going to have to pay more for fire insurance. It just goes with the price of the view.
I use Nextcloud to backup images or potentially other files. Other than that, there is nothing important to backup.
I never meant to imply that athletics wasn't a serious pursuit. I agree that physical capability is part of being a well-rounded person. It's certainly common here (Aus) for schools and universities to have sports teams and to strongly encourage participation.

What I find strange in the US context is the emphasis on it as a (revenue generating!) spectator sport. I understand that amateur (for want of a better word) sports can be highly entertaining; what I don't understand is why you'd go to university teams to find the best amateurs. I've played and watched enough sport to know that it's common for academic and physical abilities to be not particularly well correlated, particularly at tails of the distributions.
This is literally the core tenet of OOP, and arguably Java and friends did a decent enough job of that via encapsulation and visibility modifiers.
I know that there is some kind of background story with motives like revenge, justice, etc, but I don't buy it.

Example: Without googling, do you know who was Thomas Matthew? Why nobody remembers him?
This is the only thing keeping me from deleting my Facebook account. I recently moved and wanted to sell some things. Listed about 8 things on Craigslist and got some shady replies.

I listed the same 8 things on Facebook Marketplace and sold everything within days...