skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good highlight. In commercial deployments absolutely, I'd even recommend going as far as hiding any SSID you don't explicitly want people to be manually clicking on with their own devices (i.e. only guest and/or byod should be visible). Not because of security (as the conversation often tangents into) but because the support tickets for "I can't connect to <wrong SSID>" just go away and it clutters screens less as you say.

For home it has its ups and downs depending how much the user cares about understanding Wi-Fi as part of their project vs just doing the minimum to make their project work. If you've already got a Wi-Fi scanner app you're well acquainted with reading (or are willing to spend a short bit of time reading about how to use one to troubleshoot an issue or select the best covering AP at a location) on one of your devices then you're probably the right crowd to hide the SSID at home as well.
Every time it happened, the kids got in the car and just stared at my wife until she called the teacher back.
Sonos Is Still Trying to Fix Its App
I’m feeding pdfs directly to Gemini to extract tables and so far the results are pretty good. There was a post on HN a few days ago about using Gemini for this task.
Outperform in what way? Reasoning models may be able to solve problems correctly a bigger percentage of time, but they burn many tokens to get there. So they’re much less efficient, both in latency and ultimately environmental cost.
I'm old enough to remember showing up to a new HS on a college campus in 1996 and our computer lab being on VAX.

We had official school pages on gopher (!!!) and the www browser was lynx.

To this day I install it on every new machine I get, especially laptops. Just in case I have to find some information on almost zero bandwidth. I don't recall having to use it, maybe once or twice in 25 years max.

But it's there if I need it.
I probably did! That's always a concern for our much loved natural treasures.

But IMHO the need for conservation and preservation should be balanced with providing public access. If nobody got to enjoy the outdoors for fear of damaging it, they'd never develop a love for it and want to protect it.

It's not a black and white thing. Different agencies, administrations, resource managers, parks, and individuals all have their opinions on that. Some are 100% pro conservation while others want to allow mixed uses. I'm somewhere in the middle.

PS That area is already a national and state park (weird co-managing situation). We'd go backpacking there with or without that specific tree being there. However, we did go off trail and trekked some short distances in search of the tree, being as careful as we could be, but still undoubtedly leaving some impacts.
This article is intentionally misleading:

The main problem with DNT was the lack of legal and regulatory backing it received. Website owners could decide if they'd observe the DNT signal and there were no legal repercussions if they chose not to. This is where GPC is different.

....

What to do when receiving a GPC signal

It's up to the developer/business to decide how to treat the signal, for example, removing the user's details from third-party tracking or marketing, following a similar procedure as to when users opt out of sharing data for marketing purposes. If in CCPA jurisdiction, the signal must be observed to avoid legal repercussions.

So what's the difference? Without regulations, which is the real issue here, all this is meaningless just like DNT was. The system is solely based on trusting the site to comply. CCPA only applies in Europe. None of this would apply to users in the US but the article disingenuously implies it would:

At the time of writing, the Attorney General for California has recommended observation of GPC to comply with CCPA

That is not legally binding in any way. This is just DNT with extra step being sold as something it's not. I fail to see how this will benefit the user while making it harder for users to block trackers and advertisers. A site can't prevent you from blocking it's cookies because cookies are stored locally through the context of the browser. Site's can't prevent users from blocking, deleting or modifying cookies.

But GPC signals are sent via HTTP headers. Sites could prevent users from accessing the site by detecting if GPC is disabled by the user in the browser just by checking the HTTP headers, forcing users into sharing information with the site to be allowed to access the site.
Talk about "toxic masculinity"…
The made the “difficult decision” to reduce headcount. It’s “not a reflection” on individual performer’s merits.
The RITE of Male Circumcision Among the Muslim Population in the Western Balkans [pdf]
Fossil companies hugely profit from the anti-nuclear green movement that solely focuses on wind and solar.

Because no matter how many wind and solar plants you build, they will never be able to provide baseload and hence you need fossil backup power plants.
Interesting: "entirely unconstitutional" according to whose judgement?
I think the parent comment exposes the obvious flaw of using plasma to drill:
Drilling with diamond bits uses fluid, which is uncompressible. Drilling with plasma uses gas, which is compressible. No matter how thick the obsidian layer get, there is a critical pressure differential between outside and inside and it will crack and collapse.
There’s another option for high contrast that makes things look more like old Macs. I think it looks better, regardless of accessibility considerations.
Look at the actual commit.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/85effead0a5df3742ebe29...

A document of this size will have typos, require clarification, get reorganized. It didn’t fundamentally change here.
I think 2008 set the stage that the government will bail out reckless economic activity for the top at the expense of the tax payer. Actions no longer have consequences and you better be big enough to hold the economy hostage to your scheme.
comments like this are giving me life lol

I feel like I'm living in an insane asylum but your experience largely matches mine, except I've been reluctant to open my wallet
Constructive feedback: every piece of design on this site screams I'm about to get scammed somehow.
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare. Healthcare is often cited as being part of the general welfare.

The same article also creates the foundation for Congress to create spending programs like Medicare and Medicaid as being "proper and necessary" to carry out its enumerated powers, which include providing for the general welfare.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of this interpretation as far back as 1937 with regards to the Social Security Act, and has not declared these programs unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court alone determines what is and isn't constitutional.

Try again.
That sounds dystopian to me - people are unwilling to keep living due to the costs?
Is this suffering from the same problems like Redis when trying to horizontally scale?
> I went to look up the information and couldn't find any of it

I'm surprised there isn't a constant archive of what news sites put into the "memory hole". Maybe Google being shit isn't them failing, but deliberate (I don't seriously believe this).

But I wonder how much of your story could've been the Mandela Effect. I remember looking back that I was at a busy European airport in December 2019 and thinking about "At that time, there must've been Chinese tourists there with the virus!", but I remember as well that when I was at the airport I wasn't worried if anyone was coughing or sneezing, i.e. Covid wasn't in my sphere of concern in December 2019.
Exploiting LLM Tools
> I believe, we are beyond the point of “bad software written, bad software deployed, business as usual” point long ago when AWS/GCP/Azure became an important requirement in job description.

> A bad piece of software can be decently hidden by burning more money in cloud bills, which gives the inflated sense to the leadership that their products are doing global scale ground breaking.

Doesn't this apply to almost all software out there nowadays?

Bloated enterprise frameworks (lots of reflection and dynamic class loading on the back end, wasteful memory usage; large bundles and very complicated SPA on the front end), sub optimal DB querying, bad architectures, inefficient desktop and mobile apps built on web technologies because of faster iteration speed, things like messing up OS package management where it's not easy to halt updates and they don't integrate well with the rest of the system (e.g. snap packages), messy situation with operating systems where you get things like ads in the start menu or multiple conflicting UI styles within it (Windows), game engines that are hard to use well to the point where people scoff just hearing UE5 and so on.

Essentially just Wirth's law, taken to the maximum of companies and individuals optimizing for shipping quickly and things that catch attention, instead of having good engineering underneath it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Not the end of the world, but definitely a lot of churn and I don't see things improving anytime soon. If anything, I fear that our craft will be cheapened a lot due to prevalence of LLMs and possible over-saturation of the field. I do use them as any other tool when it makes sense to do so... but so does everyone else.
The actual path is more indirect.

Low interest rates primarily means low interest rates for the government, which the central bank implements by simply buying their national bonds at rates much lower than the rest of the world would tolerate. This sucks up the supply of low-risk low-reward debt that would normally attract a lot of investors. With that supply all bought up those investors are then forced into higher risk instruments like equities, which pushes up the value of stocks (not coincidentally, the kind of investment that Congress tend to have a lot of). High valued equity means greater rewards for startup investing, and so capital diverts there.

So it's all based on pushing investors around against their will, more or less.
> a man who should be in prison for insurrection is the head of the executive

I'm no France-lover (hugs from north-east of Spain), but I think this sums up things pretty well. Someone who would have been jailed in any other democracy, is now the head of government, somehow.

Given France's experience with democracy and how hard it is to keep, and America's lack of experience (as a country and democracy), makes me trust France a lot more today.
Do you still have the drive? You might be able to recover the content. The level of difficulty might be anything from "plug it into an adapter and make an image with dd" to "find a working drive of the same type and start swapping parts other than the platters" though.
This is not correct. Look at steam, PC gamers overwhelmingly choosing paid DRM controlled games over free piracy, even for small indie games that have basically no protections

Ill say again what gabe newell said. Piracy isnt a price problem, but a service issue. Its convenient, if you can make a legit way to get the product thats as convenient for the user as piracy, then they will pay for it
I am European. I know who Macron is. I know what he does. If one sees Macron as something other than someone who is willing to sell out his country for his masters, that seems unreasonable to me. If the hope of Europe is put on someone like Macron we know that Europe is hopeless. (I think it is)
It’s been happening for some time. Look at how many touchscreens get used on things that shouldn’t have them.
Why would making a $5 shirt be eaten away by power looms and haute couture not?
A PostScript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman's Reporting
We'll know this is coming for realz when they first automate clueless marketroids saying things they don't understand and fire Kevin
Really fun to see this shared here! It is one of the most famous examples of rule-based reasoning in the field of AI & Law. The other option is case-based reasoning, where the starting point is cases - see e.g. HYPO [0].

Rule-based reasoning can be very powerful, as understanding and navigating legislation can be challenging and time-consuming. One limitation is overcoming a number of ambiguities, including:

- Unclear structure - sometimes, when reading legislation, the logical components of a legal article is not always entirely clear. Language is not like code, and even straightforward articles can have multiple possible interpretations [1].

- Open-textured legal terms - the law often has so-called open-textured terms (e.g. "reasonable"), which require an assessment on a case-by-case basis. Encoding such terms into logical rules is very hard, as they require a nuanced application. In my own work, I try to overcome this limitation by providing examples of how a specific term was applied from previous cases [2].

I am very interested to see how rule-based reasoning will evolve in light of generative AI. As you can imagine, mapping rules to a logical representation can be quite tedious, but LLM seems to be able to at least give a good draft as a starting point [3]. LLMs could also help reason with open-textured terms [4].

[0] Ashley, Kevin D, “Reasoning with cases and hypotheticals in HYPO” Crossref (1991) 34:6 International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 753–796.

[1] Ashley, Kevin D, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age, 1st ed (Cambridge University Press, 2017) p.45.

[2] Westermann, Hannes & Karim Benyekhlef, JusticeBot: A Methodology for Building Augmented Intelligence Tools for Laypeople to Increase Access to Justice (Braga Portugal: ACM, 2023). https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02032

[3] Janatian, Samyar et al, “From Text to Structure: Using Large Language Models to Support the Development of Legal Expert Systems” arXiv.org (2023), online: <http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04911>.

[4] Westermann, Hannes, “Dallma: Semi-Structured Legal Reasoning and Drafting with Large Language Models” (2024) 2nd Workshop on Generative AI and Law, colocated with the International Conference on Machine Learning, online: <https://blog.genlaw.org/pdfs/genlaw_icml2024/58.pdf>.
But this is just using the Model Context Protocol that Anthropic itself released to let Claude use tools in order to do actions outside the context of the conversation.
Wind and solar power heavily depend on fossil backup plants which is why oil companies have long been proponents of the energy transition.

The only technology that is actually able to get rid of fossil technology is nuclear power.
I wonder how human society would evolve if this were the case for us.
I love the "Follow on twitter" link with the old logo and everything, they probably used a template that hasn't been updated recently but I'm choosing to believe it's actually a subtle sign of protest or resistance.
https://archive.ph/GHV3i
Red hydrogen: produce hydrogen from a thermochemical reaction between water, iodine, and sulfur at a high temperature, around 900°C, using the thermal energy from a nuclear reactor.
Building this allows them to reduce the subsidy that is perpetual software license fees.
Being Spanish you know very well that our current president should also be in prison. So I will trust your word.
Simple Task Management
That and `elinks` were both viable and slightly more layout-focused.
I kind of despise that too, but in this case it kind of makes sense, the submitted project is a collaboration effort by German and French governments, so talking about various EU governments spending their time and effort on FOSS kind of makes sense, although I also disagree with most of the points parent brought up, FWIW.
> What is an "ad", and how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship?

This is solved. Crowdsourcing. Look up sponsorblock
Honestly it's a reasonable set of dependencies:

* Postgres for permanent storage

* an OIDC identity provider so you don't have to make your own password system

* Redis for caching

* S3-compatible object storage (so you don't have to reinvent file uploads)

* The app itself

What would you rather them do? Waste time reinventing the wheel for no reason? If you have the IDP and object storage setup already figured out you can get away with just the app, postgres, and redis.
Most EVs sold in China are hybrids and not BEVs. Hence they call them NEV = New Energy Vehicle.
it's a reference to Severance
Or you know, you can just change jobs. The average tenure for software developers at any one job is less than 3 years.

I do work in consulting. But it’s by far not the only way.
I think even in the EU and Canada, you don't have any copyright interest in work your perform as part of your employment. The copyright on the work you produce for your employer is entirely theirs, from the moment it is created.

Now, if you're a contractor performing work for a company, this may be quite different. But as an employee, I don't think you have any claim of authorship to the code you right as part of your job.
The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler (2023) [video]
I'm a bit confused here about the reaction. My understanding is that Amazon are turning off local processing of voice commands on three of their devices.

According to Verge [1], this was only available on 3 devices: Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15 – and only for customers in the U.S. with devices set to English.

So unless you have any of these devices, and are in the US, with English as the main language, ignore the news. This is not going to affect you. If you do, then your device commands NOT everything you say within reach of the Echo device will be processed remotely.

I'm happy to be corrected here, but this looks like it's no news dressed as Nasty-Tech-Oligarchs-Doing-More-Nasty-Things news.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/630049/amazon-echo-discontinue...
I thought that bill was tabled for a continuing resolution that maintained spending through Sept?

It seems like the moonshot is for doge to cut enough non ss/medicare/medicaid over the next several months so that end of summer can pass a bill that keeps welfare unchanged with much of the rest of the gov gutted. But maybe I'm wrong. In any case, I suspect the plan won't work out as the Republicans hope and midterms will put them into a lame duck situation.
Why “licence (sic)”? It’s the correct spelling.
I thought the medieval church was adept at funnelling money towards the church - that's why so many Roman Catholic churches are dripping in gold and jewels. There was also the racket of them selling "indulgences" - salvation for a price.
Microbial ecosystems and ecological driving forces in the deepest ocean sediment
Sophy – learn philosophy with thought experiments
Just tried accessing my personal website[1] with Lynx and it works pretty well. Granted Lynx is pretty crumb some compared to other browsers but like other commenters have said, it's a good tool to have in events where you need to access a particular website and have next to no internet connection.

EDIT: One thing I am curious about, is there documentation on how to make one's website "lynx friendly". Going through my website it's pretty clean but there are a few areas (like my recipes) that could use adjustment.

[1]: https://sunny.gg
Sure, but the same is true for unsigned commits as well, isn't it? Or can you modify the commit metadata without changing the commit hash in those cases?
I like to play both sides: I solve the problem I create. :)
If you mean that forced sex/rape is prevalent in nature, then yes, there are many species that use this method/approach. If you want to make humor about rape, I'll refer you to what Ricky Gervais said on the matter (look it up).
> we’re all going to be outsourced by Indians

Outsourcing has its place and a lot of gruntwork/ongoing maintenance is fine for it. Post-ZIRP it turns out the true value of software is a lot lower than previously thought, and for a lot of solutions, Indians is all they can afford (because the alternative might be to pay someone to do it by hand).

Where outsourcing fails is primarily when business & domain knowledge is required - outsourcers will obviously not be aware of internal company processes or even the target market for the required solution (just like we would be bad fits for trying to spec out a product targeting the Indian banking market for example).

So I see the industry and market readjusting to the true value of software, and as a result people will pick a mix of high-value implementation work (where local domain knowledge is required) and boring/maintenance gruntwork, or get outcompeted by those who can (and this is a global market, so you are competing with Indians(.

I'm not advocating for one way or the other btw, I have no skin in this game (technically trying to push people into freelancing and consultancy works against me). But I'm just trying to be realistic - the tech comp during the ZIRP era was never going to last, and even if ZIRP continued, more and more people entering tech means comp is still bound to decrease. You can either remain in denial hope those jobs come back, or plan for the worst.
> What a sad, sad way to view life.

It’s sad until one realises that this is what human nature is. It’s “us” or “them” regardless of how much we all wanted that it wasn’t so.
In almost every major city in the US, a regular old “senior” enterprise dev with 5-7 years of experience should be making at least twice the median wage for the city.
Key genes for corn architecture revealed, identifying future breeding targets
numerique.gouv is like digital.gov. Kind of a whole ministry.

La Suite Docs is better yes.
for some reason firefox wasnt saving my changes when i saving as html-only, but saving as complete web page it did.
No one cares about thermal efficiency. What matters is the economic efficiency.
Counterexample: steam

They seem to be the only ones who get how piracy can be fought. And its no secret either, gabe newell has that "piracy is a service issue" quote for anyone to read. Its just that these companies dont want to consider not squeezing the life out of their users for shareholder benefit
> throwing money at their software engineers (in the form of paid trips, in-house chefs, and huge comp packages)

That really was never that common, though, and reserved for a very small subset of programmers even where it did happen. I’ve been coding since 1992 and all the jobs I’ve had have been regular corporate type jobs, with a steadily (but not life changing) raising salary.
This is what I come to HN for. The perspective of OGs mean you can see patterns where the rest of us are too zoomed in to notice (or even know).