skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't lose signal when the receiver tips (which would make it useless for planes). They use antenna arrays to filter signals coming from directions they don't expect, too strong, etc.

These systems have been used used in military aircraft for a long time.
I use Firefox on desktop.

Firefox on Android is sadly not great either -- it regularly drops frames on my 120Hz Pixel 9 Pro. Firefox on iOS doesn't have extension support.

I hear Edge Canary on Android has extension support.
Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG 'Bio Lab' project
"Maurten, the Swedish company, has found a way to encase small tablets of bicarbonate into a gooey, soup-like hydrogel that guides them through the stomach and into the intestine, where the bicarbonate is dissolved and absorbed with less potential nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, according to the company."

Not exactly a household item.
Is he working for Tesla at all anymore?

Whats the current stance on remote work? Is it now OK because he wants to do it? Such a hypocrite.
It's actually improved a lot since I started using it in 2016, but yes. Your session breaks if you use your browser's "Back" button. It used to require you to enter your password by clicking around on an on-page keyboard, I would always open dev tools, "edit as HTML" the read-only password input and paste the password right in from my password manager.
I've come at this from a slightly different angle. I've seen many clients running k8s on expensive cloud instances, but to me that is solving the same problems twice. Both k8s and cloud instances solve a highly related and overlapping set of problems.

Instead you can take k8s, deploy it to bare metal, and have a much much more power for a much lower cost. Of course this requires some technical knowledge, but the benefits are significant (lower costs, stable costs, no vendor lock-in, all the postgres extensions you want, response times halved, etc).

k8s smoothes over the vagaries of bare-metal very nicely.

If you'll excuse a quick plug for my work: We [1] offer a middle ground for this, whereby we do and manage all this for you. We take over all DevOps and infrastructure responsibility while also cutting spend by around 50%. (cloud hardware really is that expensive in comparison).

[1]: https://lithus.eu
NVIDIA stock is up 1,677.08% from 5 years ago. What's your point? What stock picker is holding those positions for that long in this day and age?

The S&P500 is up 100% from 5 years ago. If you want a long term investment, that's way less volatile than Tesla or Nvidia
I doubt that's what parent was getting at. Probably something more along the lines of the central thesis of the book Essence of Decision by Graham T. Allison.

The gist of the book is that organizational behavior never makes sense if you anthropomorphize it as if it were a single entity with its own goals and motivations. Nor does it make sense if you think of it as a corporate machine that behaves mechanistically. It really is a bunch of individual humans with their own goals and motives interacting within a bureaucratic structure.

It's a pretty interesting book because its ideas actually got a pretty decent test. He used the Cuban missle crisis to evaluate these three theories of organizational behavior, and showed how publicly knowable facts didn't make sense under the first two models. He then showed that the third model fit them better, and went on to make some hypotheses about what really happened that couldn't be verified at the time. Decades later the relevant information was declassified and it turned out that, while many of his guesses were incorrect, an impressive number of them were spot on.
> You should always have 2-3 years of runway in cash or other safe liquid savings (CDs, Bonds) as you get older (6 months minimum when you’re in 20s and 30s).

Just before and just after retirement it's considered a good idea to go bond heavy to help mitigate sequence of returns risk:

* https://www.kitces.com/blog/managing-portfolio-size-effect-w...

* https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/timing-matters-understand...

* https://www.td.com/content/dam/tdgis/document/ca/en/pdf/insi...
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776
If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.
I'm not sure how not being able to use websites without Chrome is unreasonable, though. If it hasn't come to that already, it will soon.

One can find reasonable use cases for every security measure that takes away freedom. That doesn't mean that all such decisions are balanced, and I'm advocating that the user be the one deciding their level of security, knowingly. That's the most important part being taken away, actually. Until there's palpable resistance (or even doubt or endless debate), those taking things away have no reason to stop.
I've had one for almost 10 years, but I didn't have a dryer at all before that so I can't compare it to a 'normal' dryer. My only comparison is commercial-grade dryers on trips outside Europe, where I've been astounded at the thickness of the power cables or even natural gas connections.

The default programme, which I almost always use, takes a relatively long time. Clothes have a slightly-damp feeling when it's finished, but it quickly disappears in the time I take to fold them.
Man I have to pick this up again. I was a top CTF, Arena, and duel player. I played through college competitively (2008)
I have Firefox for normal use and then Chrome for Web development. Simple enough.
Just curious, has google solved the ads-as-malware-vector of infection?
Could you share some of this research. I haven’t seen it, but I’d be happy to learn.
Do companies like Canon manufacture these motors or actuators themselves? Or is there some other company that specializes in this sort of thing?
Third time's the charm? EU considers fining Apple over DMA yet again
The S&P500 has increased since the election. Tesla is now down nearly 10% since election day's valuation.
Jason Scott and others all the way to the top have been saying "Just upload! We'll figure it out later!" for a decade. That turned out to be a bad strategy.

They're also infamous for ignoring DMCA requests. Requiring a driver's license or passport before they'll even talk to you. Then they leaked those, ugh.

Archiving stuff is Fair Use, but where's the fun in that, I guess. People should be able to upload things and say "Yes, this is a bootleg mix of a Prince song. Archive it but don't publish it, please."

A combination of bizarre policies and subverting their own DMCA protections is why they're in this mess. Again.

Musk showed up for lunch looking to vacuum things up. I hope that's not how this story ends. But it's starting to look like it.
CD audio is unencrypted, so nothing needs to be broken in order to copy it, unlike even the extremely weak encryption on DVDs. Is there any legal issue with making a personal copy of unencrypted media?
I think this is an under appreciated comment. Almost all of our market data is predicated on a US government that places a huge emphasis on repaying its debts.

The current government is full of people who think it's clever, rather than short-sighted, to fuck people over.

It's not a joke that our credit ratings as a nation are slipping. It's real risk that those federal bonds may stop paying out.
I'm almost at the point where I consider any type of firmware update for anything to be actively hostile and to be avoided if at all possible with the sole exception of patches for specific, significant security bugs.

In 2017, Apple put out a new iPhone, and in the same week, made my 1 year old iPhone unusable on purpose overnight to make me buy a new one.

My S23 Ultra got a software update that removed features and now I can't use YouTube. I can't just not install updates, because it will nag me constantly and leave a permanent notification at all times that I cannot remove.

Sony famously removed OtherOS from existing PS3s.

I'm not sure what the solution is but letting companies destroy their old product so you go buy a new one, whether carelessness or malice is unacceptable.
Most recent discussion on printer DRM firmware update jerkiness:

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges (tomshardware.com) 536 points by m463 5 days ago | 336 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261933
https://travel.stackexchange.com/ came to my mind.
This to me is the ultimate sign that Mozilla has zero values or principles.

They've long advocated that Big Tech is a problem, but as soon as somebody tries to actually address it and this coincidentally impacting Mozilla, they abandon any and all principles.
> American taxpayers do not want to waste money on a conflict that is going nowhere, that is not America’s concern.

By wasting money you mean selling weapons and giving away old military equipment that it more expensive to destroy than to ship away?

Also, the conflict is in America's concern since the United States has pledged to guarantee Ukraine's security in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. A pledge is a pledge, no matter if you like it or not.
I inherited a HackRF One from a friend and this thread reminded me about it. Does anyone have any cool projects they recommend doing just to gain some experience in SDR / have fun?
It depends on the country, but my understanding is if you're in Canada, then what you're doing is legal.
x seems to be down lol
His point is that many shareholders, at least the most vocal ones, are in for >5 years, and hence are sitting on huge gains. From their perspective, recent year is just normal volatility.

As for stock pickers holding positions, well a lot of people do. As they should.
Show HN: Futurist Image Deconstructor
Fun little app I made over the weekend. Buggy but I'm happy with how close it comes to replicating Futurist compositions of the masters. Added a manifesto as well ( which i dont necessarily agree with ) as a fun creative exercise.

Link explaining the process - https://labs.galleri5.com/futurist-composition-tutorial

It refers to an older version of code where I generate everything from scratch instead of using an image.

Edit: Updated explanation link
> Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist

How are those 2 offices "DEI architects?"
Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.

Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer
The surprising impact of QR code menus on diminishing customer loyalty
I don't think Git itself is a revolution or new technology. It took what people were trying to do (but with extremely frustrating bad user experience, like taking an hour to change branches locally) and just did it very well by focusing on what is important and throwing away what isn't. It's an achievement of fitting a solution to a problem .

I don't think they DID build a modern computing environment at all. They built something that kindof aped one, but unlike Git they missed the parts that made a computing environment useful for users. It's more like one of those demo-scene demos where you say "Wow how did they get a commodore 64 to do that!?"

If they did build a modern computing environment with 20k LOC, that is a trillion dollar technology. Imagine how much faster Microsoft or Apple would be able to introduce features and build new products if they could do the same work with 2 orders of magnitude less code! That is strong evidence that this wasn't actually the result.
Basically yes, so they are a bit slow to send. We reset quite a few passwords so the system is overloaded a bit. More details from our CISO on our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1j67bte/comment/....
Part of the reason Europeans want to shun the USA is that it is sidling up with Russia.
Are you going to post in the future when your panic is shown to be irrational?
Absolutely. Rarely do I need a device to have access to the internet. Printers, speakers, sensors, vacuum cleaners, dishwasher. Nothing gets to talk to the outside world.

They are appliances, and if they work they work. Unless something is broken, I leave them alone.

The only exception so far has been the robot lawn mower, that supposedly adapts to weather forecast. But it will be jailed soon, too.
Musk claims it was a massive attack. That's a world apart from "confirming" it. Confirming it would require something like evidence, especially from a prolific liar like Musk.

To be fair, it may very well be what he claims. I'm just saying that nobody should assume that's the case just because he said it is.
"Tracing" a DDoS?
Uh, do Brave users need to sideload now? What about updates? Any official guidance from Brave on this?
My first computer was an Acorn System One. I spent a summer picking fruit at an orchard to pay for it.

1k of RAM, 512 bytes of ROM, a seven segment calculator display and hex keyboard.

I spent hours hand assembling 6502 code for it. I even created a stack based language for it in an attempt to teach my younger brother how to program.
The last item, "Topics that have received widespread or critical media attention", might as well include everything RFK mentions.
> Many have been proposing "move 37" as evidence that AI has already reached Einstein-level intelligence

I don’t think this example applies in the ways we care about. Sure, in the domain of go we have incredibly powerful engines. Poker too, which is an imperfect information game which you could argue is more similar to life in that regard.

But life has far more degrees of freedom than go or poker, and the “value” of any one action is impossible to calculate due to imperfect information. And unlike in poker, where probabilities can be calculated, we don’t even have the probability distribution for most events, even if we could enumerate them.
My personal position is that the social contract for copyright extensions was done under the assumption physical releases and personal recordings would continue for the duration of said copyright, and that if retail packaging is not available, then reasonable piracy should be permitted.

Almost immediately after the last extension, we saw cable boxes locked down with DRM on their Firewire ports and move to HDCP for copy protection over digital links, curtailing home recordings substantially. Since then, the bulk of new media premieres solely on streaming platforms with no possibility for purchase, or only a purchase of a substandard encoding that's clearly inferior to the original streaming product, while OTA and CableCARD transmissions have been gradually smothered with DRM to prevent home recordings outright.

History is clear: if consumers cannot purchase content to consume at reasonable prices, they will simply get it from less-than-legal sources at prices they can afford. Piracy is not a problem of enforcement, it is a problem of consumer cost.
DEC had a similar problem when porting VMS from VAX to Alpha - significant chunks of it were written in VAX assembly.

They came up with a rather ingenious solution - a compiler from VAX assembly to Alpha. And that was carried forward into the Itanium and now x86-64 ports, so even latest OpenVMS for x86-64 still contains some VAX assembly code, but it is compiled into LLVM IR and then the LLVM backend converts it to x86-64 ELF binaries.

No reason in principle why someone could not do the same thing with the 32-bit ARM assembly code in RISC OS. Likely would be easier than rewriting it all in a high-level language
I almost never do firmware update, even for security reasons. You never know what's in the patch, and your data is already sold left and right anyway. I consider myself fully hacked 10 times, and every social media company knows me better than my wife.
I was fully expecting to be triggered by this article. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was not.

I think there is definitely something to it, if there is far more begging of the question that we can strictly define any field. Something that is largely not true. Our categories and topics in schools are affordances made to make it easier to teach and to learn.

To that end, what is it to write, but to have imaginary conversations with others about a topic. Communication through written material, then, is largely sharing of these imaginary communications with others. Some of the sharing is so that others can take part in the conversation. Some is so that they can critique the conversation itself, regardless of how imaginary it was.

Math easily fits there. The critiques go over not just if the idea was communicated, but expands to offer if it agrees with a lot of other rules we have added. And note that sometimes it doesn't, necessarily, while still being valuable!
I don’t understand the significance of performing tests like these.

To me it’s literally the same as testing one Markov chain against another.
Lets hope this will discourage many other oligarchs from tying themselves to one political party.

There was a time these people kept quiet when their person became president, all we need now is a law that lists who contributed to which politician. That means unraveling companies owned by other companies.
Be sure to use "Report broken site" in the main menu on that handful of sites. Often there are things folks can do to fix it for you, if many people are running into it - but only if it's known.

More info: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_f...
Okay but you are saying the exact opposite of what the comment I replied to is saying.
I have an EcoTank printer. It keeps telling me it has a firmware update available, but I won't let it update.
Not all accelerators take equity. Some are pure grant funded such as one I used.
Enforcing the law is one thing. If they refused entry or forced her to fly back immediately, nobody would care much. Detaining is all of: cruel, expensive, unnecessary.
> Not debatable because as long as calculators exist and are available, nothing is lost.

This is a vacuous argument. Of course nothing is lost if we are never in the situation where the downsides of calculator reliance are apparent. Nobody said otherwise. The point is that people do find themselves in those situations, and then struggle to do math because they've never developed the skill.
DNS Validator Written with AI
I "wrote" this DNS validator to help me migrate DNS from one service to another and make sure I didn't miss anything. I didn't write any code (or even the README or example BIND file) and just used AI (Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to write the initial version and iterate until I got all the features I think are needed. I have not reviewed the code (so there may be bugs) but it seems to work properly. For me this is a super eye-opener with what is going to happen next in the tech industry.
It's varied a lot in that time period. When people claim that "wages have been stagnant," they're usually referencing this dataset:

https://www.ibtimes.com/infographic-real-wages-production-no...

Which is "real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees," and is the source of the graph that purports to show stagnation between 1973 and 2017 (it has in fact grown higher than 1973 since then).

Why that particular graph? Well, it excludes wages for "the bosses" and such, so perhaps it shows something more like the average person's experience. But also, I think it's cherry-picked because it shows a particularly grim view. For example, here's the real median household income chart instead:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

And you see that it's by no means stagnant.

If you want, you can find income by quintiles. In like the 90's and 2000's, the rise of inequality, top quintile earnings growth was much higher than bottom four. But that largely stopped in the 2010's and has actually reversed in the 2020's, with bottom quintile growth now the strongest.

Long story short: income is complicated, there are a lot of ways to dice everything. But if you look into the claim that "wages have stagnated," you will overwhelmingly see the "real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees" data line. And regardless of how good or bad that particular choice of data is, it doesn't actually show stagnation -- it shows a big drop in the 70s and 80s, largely stagnant 90s, and then growth since then.
I guess it's possible that holds, I'm not familiar with AACS enough. Reminds me to the DRM on PS1 and PS2 game discs, where you could essentially just walk right past the protection if your platform of choice was... PC. Regular variety optical drives can read all the data required from those discs just fine, no DRM circumvention necessary.

According to our lawyer, the "effectively controls access" bit in the DMCA is meant to be interpreted as whether it provides a "speedbump" or not, not in the sense whether there's a published method for cracking it, or if there are layman-accessible tools for doing so (unsure about the commonality of the practice aspect). But in the aforementioned case, there's no speedbump. The way that AACS idea is presented, it suggests to me that given the right circumstances this should be true for AACS as well, although I'd be surprised if that's a thing. I thought VLC and others rely on the keystores that ship with CPU microcode updates.

Edit: how long does ripping usually take for you? Maybe it's not a straight dumping process (where the AACS protection is actually circumvented) but a decrypt (using your CPU's keystores) and reencode? This would explain things pretty well. You'd also be magically in the legally green again :)

Edit #2: apparently not, not sure why I thought that CPU microcode was relevant here, apparently they don't ship keystores of any kind. Upon further interrogation, it just seems that the method of operation is different: libaacs will simply expect to be provided the decryption keys, and then how you got those keys becomes the problem (in the United States at least).
The technical term for the "stickiness" you're referring to, where a system is resistant to change or has a memory, is hysteresis.
I have yet to find an actual web site that breaks with Firefox and works with Chrome.

Closest would be Google's Android Flash Tool that uses WebUSB to image an Android phone. But that is more like a browser extensions versus a HTML5 application.

I have had numerous experiences with ZScaler, corporate man-in-the service, breaking web sites with Firefox. I need to use Chromium to upload to Virus Total. ZScaler even likes to brake web sites on Chromium and requires multiple reloads with minutes or hours between refresh.

Microsoft services with ZScaler break easily with Firefox and Chromium but work fine with Edge or MS Teams. Don't know if this intent to push users to Edge or just a correlation with ZScaler.

ZScaler developers, thanks for making my work life living hell with 30s or more latency and lack of ability to properly connect to web services and handle cross-VM HTTP testing.
Ukraine had the most technologically advanced rocket industry in late USSR and a pretty good aviation industry. Alumni of Ukrainian aerospace schools are showing up in Europe and Americas. We all witnessing the work of current technological pace in Ukrainian defence capabilities.
Sure. You are free to modify your browser.

But chrome is free to choose not to distribute that plugin. If you want you can download it elsewhere.
> Don't they have a vetting process for extensions?

No.

> Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire.

It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say "eh ok".

Browser extensions are a particularly dangerous case because they auto-update by default. It is very common for popular extensions to get sold to bad actors who then update them to inject ads into everything you view, or worse.

If you make it impossible for extensions to do that, then they can no longer make it a condition of installation.