skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you just use an HDMI input and attach some streaming box to it, Samsung TVs work just fine. Just never touch the remote and only interact with the source and everything works.
The last place we need this of all things.

I'd rather some adults be in the process than some opaque system that just does some word math on things and comes out with a huge hassle or worse for people...

>The agency will review a number of technology modernization initiatives that have been taken in recent years, including the new Direct File free filing system for tax returns that was launched last year under the Biden administration, the official told reporters.

Tax prep software folks got their bribe in to Trump & Co. I guess.
https://archive.ph/jnIV5
This doesn’t mean every app has to be fun. If I want to have fun, I’ll go play with something specifically built for fun. If I’m balls deep in an incident and suddenly my MDM security policy login TTL expires and I have to reauthenticate, the last thing I want to see is yet another interstitial with some cutesy BS to nuke my working memory.
Apple Intelligence: The Emperor's New Clothes
It's definitely a thing.

Just one example: I was working at Stanford in the Med School and one of the admin people was forced out simply for the crime of being "old" without any specific performance problem or inability.

Another anecdotal negative confirmation: When I was 19, I was constantly offered jobs. You don't hear me singing that tune anymore.
Are they also banning uBlock v2 though?
Being constrained to a ship makes things harder though. If it was simply very long (runway length), I reckon an abort would be fine. There are probably a lot of different ways to do it.

But yeah, much harder than a regular runway. Probably not economical.
https://github.com/shrinerb/shrine/discussions/665

I've never personally encountered this, but I've seen other HN contributors mention it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43189535

From what I can tell, unlike mongo, some postgres queries will try to update the entire JSONB data object vs a single field. This can lead to race conditions.
Your second condition practically guarantees proliferation of exploitable IoT devices.
Does CockroachdB already support ltree?
I think it hasn't even been a year since Samsung bricked bunch of their phones with firmware update. They really must have no proper engineering team behind update process.
They explain the iOS situation here: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-t...
No adblockers though. Edge for mobile does have a built-in adblocker, but there is no customizable blocklists or transparency on what is being blocked, so Microsoft could give blocklist exemptions to their own ad service while blocking Google's, for example.
Damn, that’s a chonky database. Have you written anything about the setup? I’d love to know more— is it running on a single machine? How many reader and writer DBs? What does the replication look like? What are the machine specs? Is it self-hosted or on AWS?

By the way, really cool website.
Oh wow - I met Alan back in 2012 when I was working on a project called WhichBus. How cool!

Thank you for your continued involvement and contributions to OneBusAway!
Or a classic selfish "I don't use it so noone else should have it".
I recently encountered a YouTube video talking about a related industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYup8chgkwM

It seems to be a similar idea, but with the scamming hidden in less-obviously-illegal places.
John Gruber also ripped Apple a new one: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

Personally, I don't really care if they ever ship a working AI feature as long as they don't neglect and shittify the rest of iOS/macOS in the process.
I don't like paying property tax any more than anyone, but it's necessary. Without property tax, there is no cost to holding property, which means land hoarding. With property tax, you own as much as you need and that's it. Besides that it's the main funding source for city infrastructure.
Graphics cards have finally converged on all using about the same small size for the PCB. The only thing varying is the size of the heatsink, and due to the inappropriate nature of the current legacy form factor (which was optimized for large PCBs) the heatsinks grow along the wrong dimension and are louder and less effective than they should be.
Yes, this would have been so much smarter. But in this case, they apparently sold extra large lots to the surrounding houses, and made no provisions for pedestrians. Welcome to the USA.
Do you need to replace your SFTP server? S3. Do you need to backup TB of db files? S3. Do you need a high performance web cache? S3. Host your SPA? S3 backs cloudfront. Shared filesystem between desktop computers? Probably a bad idea but you can do it with S3. Need a way for customers to securely drop files somewhere? Signed S3 URI. Need to store metrics? Logs? S3. Load balancer logs? S3. And it's cheaper than an EBS volume, and doesn't need resizing every couple of quarters. And there are various SLAs which make it cheaper (Glacier) or more expensive (High Performance). S3 makes a great storage backend for a lot of use cases especially when your data is coming in from multiple regions across the globe. There are some quibbles about eventual consistency but in general it is an easy backend to build for.
I didn't say the "same as" NPR, I said "like". Aspects.
Tell me what "getting access to a device" exactly means? Is it reading some data, all data, changing some state, etc?

Compare that with an api that asks "Are you ok to disclose your location to example.com?" or "Do you allow example.com to send you notifications?". This is night and day.
What's Happening in AI?
Almost as if we've got some kind of notification that asks you if you want to give a browser access to a certain device huh?
Same pain as with good old (native) partitioning, right? :)

As with partitioning, in my experience something like a common key (identifying data sets), tenant id and/or partial date (yyyy-mm) work pretty great
It’s the norm because people rather buy one single product that does it all.

The alternative to an all-in-one sound bar is having regular 5.1 speakers, a nice receiver, a nice streaming box, and maybe a dumber TV and you will have absolutely the best setup but it’s a lot of putting pieces together, more space usage, and either money (if you want it right away) or a lot of waiting (if you want to get it used).
They don't want us to block ads? Shocking.
Maybe the solution is to make tax liens non-foreclosing on primary residences.

They accrue with interest. And they automatically accelerate on sale or collateralisation. But if you and your heirs continue to live in the property, don’t sell it, and don’t borrow against it, it isn’t something the government goes after you for. (You could let local governments borrow against or even sell these claims.)
> Fitting 3 meals into an 8h window would be … tricky.

That's the main secret to time restricted eating, in my opinion: You don't have enough time to eat as much as you normally do so overall calorie intake tends to decrease. I think the other reason it's helpful for some people is that eating nothing for one meal takes less self control than restricting yourself to a small portion, leading to better adherence than normal calorie counting.
It does. Mozilla doesn't trust users to not be manipulated by malicious websites into doing so against their own interests. At GP link 2, Mozilla writes their rationale for concluding that WebUSB is bad:

> Because many USB devices are not designed to handle potentially-malicious interactions over the USB protocols and because those devices can have significant effects on the computer they're connected to, we believe that the security risks of exposing USB devices to the Web are too broad to risk exposing users to them or to explain properly to end users to obtain meaningful informed consent. It also poses risks that sites could use USB device identity or data stored on USB devices as tracking identifiers.

Personally, I'd be happy enough with an implementation of WebUSB that only worked with websites accessed over localhost or on the local network. I want to write data over USB to ESP32s and Teensys 3D printers and so on through an integrated local webserver.
My kids having been cycling a mile each way to school since they were 5 years old. It's definitely doable, although we're fortunate enough that we aren't both working long days, and are well off enough that school is that close.
No forward secrecy in 2025.

Lokinet is tiny compared to Tor's 9229 nodes https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/misc/all.html

The last time I checked, a lot of the nodes are just run in Hetzner's data centers meaning there's not too many actors. I can't even find that list anymore so if anyone has one, I'd like to update my knowledge.
I recently took a flight with family- on a budget airline that did not have Wifi, so we could not hop on WiFi and message each other using Signal. I wondered what other options there would be in the air- and remembered Bluetooth Communication apps- and had everyone install Briar- it came in haandy!

I like the built in Bridge option as well, (when the app communicates over the internet) to help avoid revealing the traffic is Tor traffic.

I have been impressed by the range of Briar- with a clear line of site, easily hundreds and hundreds of feet- i tested it to well over 500 outside- and on the plane , my family was scattered, but that was no issue at all. (More recently though i've detected my own Bluetooth MotoTag trackers from my luggage in Cargo holds while on planes, so Bluetooth indeed works well on planes.)

-I have heard of but have never used BridgeFy, which I know was a well known famous Bluetooth app that competed with Briar in the past. To my understanding it isn't quite as secure or open source.

There is a informative post here
https://old.reddit.com/r/Briar/comments/gxiffy/what_exactly_...
where a developer noted Briar's capabilities at that time- it seems due to some changes on the OS/phone Hardware end, and whatnot- and due to the phones only passing messages to contact nearby - Briar is not a true mesh networking app. It is a shame- i feel a true Bluetooth mesh networking app would be unstoppable in availability -though it might be a bit of a battery drain.

It is a shame Briar isn't on iOS also -

I also wish Signal would eventually consider communicating over any medium accessible- they would probably run into similar issue Briar has.

What will it take to get a Peer-to-Peer capable Bluetooth/Wifi/Celluar network using/(more possibly in the future)- proper optional mesh networking, Tor capable, VPN friendly, wholly end to end encrypted ,perfect forward secrecy including, fully open source App providing messaging (with the 'accounts' that Briar uses?), for Android and ios?(And Let's throw in PC Mac and Linux, so laptops could have a extremely user friendly user accessible way of doing this as well.)

Better yet, add Calling capability- i don't know how rough doing video calls would be over some methods like modern day Bluetooth- but even a rough capability would be used a little and be worth adding to the collection of things one could do(Briar is only Messaging at the time of this post- which is something notable for sure,as very few apps let you transmit solely thru Bluetooth<I have not heavily looked into the shared Wifi communication abilities of Briar at this point in time> - but more could be added in some form...I observe apps do exist that allow for Bluetooth calling or act like "Bluetooth" Walkie Talkies)
Curious what is the rationale for this rule. Not against or for it or anything, just interested in what historical precedent led to this logic.
>When you see the nests, it is amazing that doves / pigeons exist at all. They must survive out of spite and numbers.

They've basically evolved past the point of needing nests but still have some basic instinct to create them.
Im not opposed to expressing ones feelings, or advocating for unemotive speech.

Im opposed intentionally seeking heightened conflict via deceit and misrepresentation. It is the political metagaming for effect and attention, an intentional manipulation of the emotional equilibrium.

If you are a true believer in what you say, that is one thing. If you are intentionally being hyperbolic, overexpressing emotion, or omitting facts you know to be true, then you are engaging in political rhetoric. This is adversarial, not collaborative.

When the well is sufficiently poisoned, there is no point in outside discourse, or even truth-seeking.

Rhetoric is a good way to make short term gains on a topic, if you have an edge. Long term it is negative sum, as your community falls apart.

I see that your sibling comment explains your position, and was insightful. I have no problem with radical self expression, or radical transparency. What I have a problem with is placing conflict and effect above truth and transparency. This is how I interpreted your comments above.
Interesting. Makes me want to play around with an open diffusion LM. Do you have any recommendations?
Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car
- https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-s... - March 14th, 2025
> The sad part is everyone involved can turn around and claim

As a mandatory reporter if I don't report such a thing I can be put in prison. Many activities now make all adults mandatory reporters (only mandatory reporters are allowed to go camping with scouts). I'm specifically told not to think, if there is any possibility I must report it and let the experts figure out if there is a problem or not.

This of course means the experts have to spend a lot of time/effort investigating where it is obvious there is nothing but they have to get enough evidence of that to close the case. This time is taken away from all the kids that really need help. Note that I have no idea how many kids who need help are discovered this way.
It went pretty well!

https://bsky.app/profile/tinakotek.bsky.social/post/3lkea36k... - that's me on the left.
Sick of internet outages? How I easily set up a home office backup
> A failsafe firmware reset back to factory state.

Or perhaps to the very first released firmware version. This way they don't have to support updating from any version to the latest, just from the first one.
I think this is a bad idea and insecure. Obtaining a code needs to be an intentional effort and not just available to someone who happens to be screen surfing my phone at the right time. It's worse that it's on the lock screen as it seems the author does based on their screenshots. Lose your phone, and your passcode will not protect someone from using your codes.
yeah, this sounds to me like apparently some people think once again computer owners can't be trusted to grant a permission to anything because some clueless people can be tricked into shooting themselves in the foot.

IMHO I don't buy that this is worth nerfing everything. Without using the exact analogy from the above metaphor, what if we banned cooking appliances, because a bad actor might call people and trick them into turning the stove up to "High" and placing a roll of paper towels on the flame?

I use the WebUSB to manage my keyboard's configuration, and that popup is hard to misconstrue. Also what is even the overlap between users of USB security keys (the main attractive USB target I saw cited) and people who click mindlessly without reading anything?
> Also, if you invent something so novel it makes a new market

That's innovation, which is not the issue here. Creating new markets is usually win-win (initially), even with big tech leading the way.

The more damaging issue is in taking over existing markets in ways that do not benefit that market. e.g Big tech Moving into film and TV, it's not simply a buyout with massive capital, it's about burning money in one ancillary market to benefit their primary market, but usually at a detriment to the ancillary one. They are unfairly leveraging their primary market position, tying products together, even if they don't ever make any profit in the movies, they create more and more lock-in with their platforms, making it harder and harder to not use them. The overall affect, more profit, without a chance of competition.
Went to kiwi browser on my android phone and tablets, never looked back.
Then have them walk a few blocks to where their parent is parked. There's no reason to have a line of cars idling.
The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war
Yes it does work… with an A/B update system.

Android systems can do this today. After an orderly shutdown of new software, then it can mark the new stuff as good and not allow older software to boot.
A while back I was setting up some LD2410 radar sensors. Of course the shitty Chinese level of support is a shady exe that only runs on Windows.

Then I found this: https://github.com/albertnis/ld2410-configurator which did the job by just doing the whole process in a browser. I was really amazed that this was even a thing at the time, and it's certainly a great way to do multiplatform serial interfaces.
I didn't know it was "oddball". I had brochures, official Inmos datasheets, and reference books about it, along magazines articles citing it as the "faster processor in the world". I believed it was pretty popular until Internet put me down in Earth, and I discovered the transputer was pretty much dead since 1994.

I was already proficient in Z80 and 16-bit x86, so learning another instruction set was pretty welcome. The fun came from developing things for the first time and discovering how to actually do things, a 32-bit operating system, a K&R C compiler, and the assorted utilities.

Enforcing limitations was inspired by the IOCCC, and later by my boot sector programs. The type of things you do after work, just to test yourself and have some fun.
I'll try to get a blog post out soon!

> Damn, that’s a chonky database. Have you written anything about the setup? I’d love to know more— is it running on a single machine? How many reader and writer DBs? What does the replication look like? What are the machine specs? Is it self-hosted or on AWS?

It's self-hosted on bare metal, with standby replication, normal settings, nothing "weird" there.

6 NVMe drives in raidz-1, 1024GB of memory, a 96 core AMD EPYC cpu.

A single database with no partitioning (I avoid PostgreSQL partitioning as it complicates queries and weakens constraint enforcement, and IHMO is not providing much benefits outside of niche use-cases).

> By the way, really cool website.

Thank you!
How astronauts feel when they return to earth
In addition to Opire for short-term opportunities (aka bounties), there is Algora.

In fact, there are a few of such bounty platforms in my notes, but Algora seems to be the one with the most traction: in terms to new tasks to work on and the bounty amounts being competitively priced.

https://console.algora.io/

Here’s an example of a 2-3 month bounty offering up to $20,000 on Algora, for someone with React Native skills: https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi/issues/1944
F2A (Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents) isn't current. Even after you marry and your spouse files I-130, you'll likely be in for a wait before you can file I-485 to adjust status. You can and should maintain your E-3 status in the meantime.

Since E-3 is not dual intent, the safest option is to avoid international travel until I-485 is approved. Re-entering on approved advance parole is allowed, but not if your I-485 is suddenly denied.
This thread is the first I've heard of it. I had to look it up.

The scammer convinces the mark to put money into fake investments and escalates until the mark runs of of money or gets spooked, then disappears. It's often made more persuasive by engaging in a fake romance.
This describes essentially all Samsung products: really cool for the first few months then progressively accelerating slide straight into the trash.

I'm never buying any Samsung products again if I can avoid it. A forced update bricked my damn phone when it forcibly restarted while I was showing something to a client.

Samsung doesn't give a shit. They'll trash the device you paid for and tell you to suck it up and buy a new one.
1. The data absolutely does not show that midwestern tradesmen are wealthier than Bay Area engineers.

2. I agree that unions are useful, and you’re starting to see them (eg Alphabet Workers Union). There is definitely opportunity here.

3. I think your visions of non-grandeur are blinding you to the possibilities that others live life and advocate for themselves differently, without it being wrong. Sometimes change is ok and sometimes people being different from you and your beliefs is ok.

While I do think unions are important, Silicon Valley engineers are responding in-kind to their fungibility. It’s pretty common to see people jump around every few years, chasing opportunities instead of loyalty. Usually collecting a pay bump. It’s generally not looked down upon in hiring, because it’s increasingly normal, and the extra pay and corresponding savings protects against periods of unemployment. Regardless of people’s thoughts on the practice, “resume driven development” grew as a reaction to the fungibility - forcing their own self-growth upon a disloyal employer.

Big urban areas with lots of job opportunities are difference employment environments, and employee’s actions of self protection evolved differently. Is there room for learning? Always. But this entire comment seems to pass judgement upon a world that frankly doesn’t exist.

As a Bay Area resident who once lived in the Midwest, I can confidently say that people on the coast don’t have such a negative view of “corn lands” - this narrative is very much self imposed.
Briar runs a Tor Onion Service on your device. I'm unsure how well Tor supports having multiple devices acting as the server. One option could be to have a main program that's always on, to which your messages are received, and other clients can then use the Onion Service to fetch a copy of the conversation. It would add another link in the chain and increase latency so I'm not surprised if that's not being done.
Fingerprinting risks? Is there some device enumeration capability that I don't know about? I thought you had to explicitly grant access to the specific supported device in a browser popup window.
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults?
For reference: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/05/bartender-acquired-by-app...
Criticism feels harsh. Of course models don't know what they don't know. Reporters can have the same biases. They could have worded it better "lowers the probability of hallucinating", but it is correct it helps to guard against it. It's just that it's not a binary thing.