skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something along those lines.

The laptop in question is an Acer Nitro 5 (older model), with an internal M.2 and SATA connector running OpenSUSE Leap 15.2.

The system is set to boot from the SATA connector. It has a SATA extension cable connected, with the end hanging out the side of the laptop for easy access. eg:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/15-7-Pin-SATA-HDD-Extension-Cable-D...
<-- I don't know the seller at all

The laptop itself is setup and "ready to go" (eg external monitor, keyboard, mouse plugged in), and doesn't get moved. All it needs is the appropriate SATA drive to be connected then powered on.

Been using it this way, swapping over drives as needed (while powered off of course) for a few months now. Works perfectly.

This kind of setup would probably work ok for you if you're using Linux, as most distributions include the common hardware drivers. So even differences in hardware between the laptops (within reason) generally won't be a problem.

If you're using Windows though, no idea. Even with identical laptops in all locations it'll probably notice different serial numbers on devices. Not sure how that would play out.
Sure.

Apple could not release a new iPhone in time for the holidays.

That's a thing they could do.

Why would they ever do that though? Like ever.
Which is silly because even most 4G networks (LTE) don’t technically fall within the original standard of 4G. ITU actually lowered the standard of 4G to meet the limitations of LTE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)).
Check it out OP -- I used that little search box at the bottom of the news.ycombinator.com website--

Just click here-- I searched for you: "how to learn"

--> https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+learn

You owe me $500 ;) ill PM you my venmo

I also recommend variations on that query, such as:

- "how to teach yourself"

- "how do you teach yourself"

- "systems for learning"

- "learning systems"

- "how to self-study"

etc.

that'll be $2000 ;)
A grocers apostrophe walk's into a bar.
This is super interesting, I'd love to hear more about the systems you were using if you're up for discussing. briancpotter@gmail.com
and the surface contacts lower the weather resistance

Relative to USB-C or Lightning? I think the question was "why do a Lightning port AND fake-wireless instead of just flush surface contact?"
Fun, but that's a lot of sugar and tooth decay when a pill would do.
Alas, it's actually using the U1 ultra-wideband chip for position finding. That means this only works on the iPhone 11 and above. My guess is that bluetooth signal strength just isn't accurate enough.

You can see that this documented [1] in a footnote [2].

[1] https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#overview-sound-handoff-1...

[2] https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#footnote-2:~:text=speake...

(text fragment highlighting links only work in Chrome)
They're incredibly scummy but a super thin veneer. I don't know how anyone buys their BS. On one hand they feature grease monkeys talking about people hacking your car, I'm not sure people should be using their local mechanic for cybersecurity advice. More important, the fine print at the end makes it clear that it's the auto manufacturers sponsoring those ads, and their bias is obvious.

I'll lose some faith in humanity if it doesn't pass.
Is that where uuencode came from?
i believe that inteface is called 'miller columns.' didn't realize what i was missing til i used the OSX Finder.
If you're not in a place of privilege life is politics.

A old co-worker of mine couldn't get permanent residency for their legal partner. As a result rather than staying in the US they both moved back to Canada.

Honestly I don't blame them, sometimes I wonder if the US survives in spite of our political policies instead of because of them.
I don’t think that’s sloppy if everyone’s watch says 10:09 for the entire duration of the event. That sounds entirely intentional.
If there was no debate about the legality it wouldn’t have made it to SCOTUS
Ask HN: Bored working on same things as a software engineer
Hi HN Community,

I am feeling bored as an engineer building API's, writing backend, front-end. As a software engineer, my job is mostly the same stuff. There are new frameworks and tech stacks but I feel I have been doing the same thing one way or the other since a long time. What are some exciting areas for a software engineer to learn. Something which is not tangential(a new programming language, tech-stack or a framework) but something really niche and exciting to learn? Something ground-up innovation which is happening right now and is exciting to learn?
Acting as a gatekeeper every 5TB isn't the solution. That's half or less of a single hard drive you might get at best buy.
depends on your usecases or what throughput you need in your system
I think the key bit is where "my" is in that second sentence. At the time, the main server (or your hosting service) would, indeed, have the full list of messages for all the groups they carried, with a lookback of a certain number of days (the "retention"). The retention and the groups that a hosting service subscribed to would be part of how you would pick which to sign up with.

Your disk, however, would only have the messages you'd specifically requested and pulled down over your modem. (Or, if you went way back to the vt100 days, "your disk" was the central server which had it all.)
That’s not enough. It needs to get to 60%. In NYC, 70%. Time to be realistic.
I remember hearing that YouTube would store bit-for-bit copies of whatever you uploaded, allow you to download it, and wouldn’t check that it was a valid video file.
re: on-device computation, you'll note from the presentation that they said that no data is sent to Apple _until you say "Hey Siri"_. They're still doing transcription in the cloud which requires sending your voice for Apple to process and store.

I have no issues personally with using cloud services like this but they very much used weasley language in the presentation and website to obscure the fact that Apple's cloud absolutely will get access to your unencrypted raw utterances following their wakeword detection, and cause people to conclude that that wasn't happening.

As a side-note I find it a bit surprising that with all the history Apple has with Siri and the meaningfully powerful on-device ML acceleration that they still can't download and run a recognition model on-device that wouldn't require streaming your speech to Apple's servers...
That's valid, but of course everyone is different. It took me a while. Others get lucky and feel comfortable right away.

I wasn't meaning to imply that most people take as long as I do.

DC and NYC are geared towards different people, and that's OK. pg has written nice food for thought on this topic. http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
google are now offering beyond corp as a product too it seems
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/beyondcorp-remote-access
Yeah, the other issue with Soma is that most of the appeal is that it’s in/next to the areas with all the big tech offices, which has been made obsolete. That (in addition to being new construction) commanded a large premium that’s erased. And the homeless situation in parts of Soma has got worse to boot.
Namely, please see the NEJM editorial:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?source=ne...
Even if this thing were to respect one's privacy, it still normalises the intrusion by other smart speakers.
Considering a trove of personal information FB has amassed over the years, a more appropriate retribution would be to selectively target anti-vaxxers with vaccination / pro-vaccination ads across the entire net and turn the invasiveness of the pro-vaccination ads into an exponential function depending on how invasive the anti-vaxxer being targeted are in real life.
Is anyone else surprised that stitchfix has been successful for long enough that they can keep such a skilled and productive data science team around? Especially considering how much churn subscription box companies have, I'm shocked that they're apparently doing so well.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Plex eventually supported the HomePod now that there’s an API
....Further incentivizing the fascists to figure out how to either force Apple to give them a wireless backdoor or figure out a wireless backdoor for themselves...
Doesn’t this only work when it’s done on a global scale?

Otherwise I feel like it would just crater non-Chinese businesses. You’re already fighting an uphill battle when it comes to labor costs. How can your steel mill stay competitive when one country taxes negative externalities while another doesn’t?
The bill only requires the auto manufacturer to make the data available to a third party if they have consent from the vehicle owner to do so.

https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...
Split tunneling is only simple if you can control the IPs everything is hosted at. If your SaaS uses generic EC2/Azure IPs, do you want to split tunnel ALL traffic to those providers? Probably not.
This is not true anymore. One can stream up to 4k on Twitch.
In my experience with scientists/mathematicians a lot of them look down on software as an easy and unimportant detail of their work.

Certainly not all of course.
It turns out that there are consequences when Google has a manual penalty in place against a website for almost a decade.

Technology moves on and the site owner may not have the financial resources to dedicate to the treadmill. If you’d like to learn something about the situation, then read http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/ . Financial donations are, of course, always welcome.

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FWIW, Face ID started to work for me with a mask on after iOS 14 update. Apparently, it requires a lot of training by failed attempts with a mask before it starts working. It doesn't work if you have your mask all the way up to cover your nose completely, but a little space is enough.
The ones that want that already do.
it's pretty amazing to see how literally "software is eating the world".
This story sounds quite ridiculous, and I'd be reserving skepticism for his version of the events rather than for Google/Amazon
In the PNW walking in the afternoon probably wont do the trick. You should use the Dminder app and get outside at solar noon (1pm).

Sadly there is only a couple of weeks left in the PNW where you can get any useful level of vitamin D (not because of rain but because of the suns position in the sky). However if you try again next summer and get to a high level, it takes sometime to drop over winter.
Some of them are though.

e.g. the big audit firms. They've got 100,000+ people working from client sites so the tech was ready to roll. They just had to jack up their capacity a bit for mixed to full WFH.

Even with 10s of thousands of people extra on VPN nothing broke.
I don't understand why people get upset at people using 'literal' incorrectly.... it is almost always used as a form of hyperbole, which seems like a totally valid linguistic use.

If I say "oh man, I literally die every time someone complains about people using literally wrong", I am clearly using hyperbole... no one is being confused, and I am not changing the meaning of a word.

Do people think we are going to ruin accurate measurements when I say something like, "this thing weighs a ton!" when the item clearly weighs a lot less than 2000 pounds?
That would be really nice, but for that to happen we need to build a ton more housing (or lose a lot of population, which personally I do not find appealing). And since decreasing rental values means that property owners and landlords are making less money or seeing their investments rise in value more slowly, and since such property owners control city governments, it’s unlikely to happen unless control can be wrested from those hands.

Such housing abundance would be good for everybody, but change is scary, and nearly all factions in SF oppose change of all varieties, even when it would benefit them materially. Don’t know as much about why NYC has not produced enough housing to support the number of people that would prefer to live in NYC.
I think it's more because people are a bit annoyed at 5 different posts effectively discussing the Apple event.
Hmm, this still doesn't quite answer my question at the level of concreteness I was looking for. But thank you for clarifying.

The thing is, you can only define predictive accuracy relative to some experimental design. Otherwise you can always claim that there is some unknown, unperformed experiment where the predictions of the model and your actual behaviour would diverge to a greater degree than is permissible by your accuracy threshold, no matter how many successful experiments have already been done in constrained conditions.

Imagine a task where you have to classify images as being of dogs or non-dogs. We can already train a model that can almost perfectly predict the choices you would make during the runs of such an experiment. But we obviously wouldn't call such a model a "model of your brain"!

My question is this: what would be a sufficient experimental design or empirical criterion to decide that some program is a model of you? The loosest criterion I could imagine would be something like "can successfully deceive your loved ones into believing they are you in a single text chat of unbounded duration with some extremely high success rate." Recent advances in NLP lead me to believe that we'll be able to reach at least this level of fidelity quite soon.
I would be curious to hear if the parent to your comment was talking about politics. They might instead be talking about the response to Covid-19, and the much larger death toll per million people in the US compared to Canada: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/9/9/21428769/covid-1...

Which, to be fair, is partially due to US politics. In that sense, making the choice to live in the US is letting one's life be run by politics, just in a different direction.
Feb 17 -> Oct 22 you can get vitamin D from the sun in the PNW, although for a chunk of that its not going to be enough to get you to 8000 IU.
Portland is really nice, I've enjoyed my trips up there. I was positing an answer to the somewhat open question of why someone wouldn't leave SF for Portland. I think there are compelling reasons why someone would prefer to stay in SF, but nobody would need to explain to me why they prefer Portland! I can see all kinds of reasons someone would prefer it.
Any idea if RA Guard will block unicast RAs? -- it wouldn't need to for the ordinary purpose of blocking misconfigured devices.
That, plus kill files, plus probably a more university-educated and often affiliated population (.edu employees and student, and white collar business population).
Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either.

Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving

Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types.

The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling.

Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions.

Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.
There are single hard drives that store 16TB, and most pre made NAS boxes have at least two drive bays.
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Thanks! I just did it. Very interesting.
I think it will pass,but I am pretty sure that such ballot initiatives are not binding. It might pass only to be quickly forgotten.
My actual type was ranked as my fifth by this analysis. I wonder if this says more about how I portray myself online, how I think of myself when I take the test, or if it's just plain wrong.
That domain doesn't seem to exist. Textfiles.com, maybe?
Backblaze B2
Apologies in advance, but how many of you used Larry Wall’s rn to read usenet news ?
the flip side to your statement:smaller companies (like where I am) are not interested in maintaining our own servers and do all the un-differentiated heavy lifting related to maintaining servers. I want my small team to work on things that make us stand out. Running our own servers does not.

Vendor lock-in is not a big consideration for us. I increasingly think about cloud vendors like Operating systems. I really dont care which Linux distro we are on. Pick a vendor and run 'natively' on it to go as fast as possible.

I'm happy paying AWS for maintaining the servers and getting out of that messy business. There are other concerns about serverless around observability and managability, but vendor lockin and cost is not part of my equation
Here are two rando ideas from an occasionally burned out fellow coder:

1. FPGAs. Get your software turned into sorta-hardware. Very fast, and now, very cheap.

2. Reinforcement learning. Teaching a machine to optimally play a game - any game. Very complex rabbit hole, but surprisingly easy to dip your toe in. See my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24693277
I just want to say thank you to you and everyone involved! I ran a little mini project a while ago to archive my old Usenet posts by using puppeteer to scrape the content from Google groups, knowing full well that they could shut it down by fiat any time.

I've frankly never trusted them as a steward for this and I'm glad to see someone stepping in.

Do you have any plans to team up with the Internet Archive on this?
It can explain quantum entanglement, seems to be a version of superdeterminism.

In QM, experiments show us that entangled particle spin probabilities vary non-linearly with the angle between detectors (even if those detectors are far apart).

This means that either: 1) locality is broken.. state is somehow transmitted faster than the speed of light between particles. 2) realism is broken.. god plays dice with the universe

But there's also a 3rd, which is: the choice of detector angle is not an independent variable (a necessary assumption for Bell's inequalities to hold).. instead the state of the universe is pre-determined and the experimenter's choice of detector angle is known beforehand so there is no need for spooky action at a distance. This isn't a very popular explanation since it provides no reason as to why we don't see this weird lack of independence elsewhere.
I'm Gen Z too and for my whole life the advice has been "Don't put your real info on the internet". The only thing that comes up when you search my name is my gitlab profile and a technical blog. All of my cringy forum posts still exist but they are all under random usernames and would be very difficult to link back to me.
It’s a double edged escape hatch. In practice the vast majority of voters know little to nothing about what’s being decided.

On the other hand many third rail political views have a great deal of popular support. So, IMO the trick is to require a very large number of signatures to get on the ballot.
Maybe i had low expectations, but i was impressed with homepod siri's understanding and how much it could do. I don't know why Apple doesn't just publish a list of all the commands. I documented what i found if anyone is interested:

https://xinsight.ca/homepod/
It mostly works fine on a Raspberry Pi even for video. Though I'm not streaming 8k stuff, I've only got a 1080p TV.
Does this mean the 4TB of storage I'm using through my university Drive account is going away?
There doesn't seem to be a set term for these types of maps. searching for terms like "economy maps" or "industry maps" may also help.
My internet coming-of-age was between 2000 and 2008, and I was happy to learn that all the forums I used to frequent are now kaput, with no public archives. It's always a bit of a shame to lose historical documents, but who knows what embarrassing comments I'm now free of forever. (And don't worry, my mortifying preteen Super Mario RPG fanfiction yet survives in personal backups.)
The Pro is made from stainless steel, and the regular is made from aluminum.
Others have covered what Usenet was. To further give you an idea of how different those times were, here is my email address from the signature on one of my Usenet posts from the '80s:

ihnp4!{cithep,wlbr!callan}!tim

What that meant was that to get an email to me, your computer should arrange to deliver it to ihnp4. That was the name of a machine at a Bell Labs office at a place named "Indian Hill" in Naperville, IL. It stood for "Indian Hill Network Processor 4".

ihnp4 was very well connected, so it was reasonable for me to expect that you could find a way to get the email to it.

The rest of my email address is saying that ihnp4 should deliver the mail to cithep (Caltech High Energy Physics) or wlbr (a machine at the Westlake Village, CA offices of Bunker Ramo). If it goes to wlbr, wlbr should send it to callan (a machine at Callan Data Systems). I had accounts on cithep and callan, both with user name tim.

You didn't have to start at ihnp4, of course. As long as you could find a way to get it to one of {ihnp4, cithep, wlbr, callan} you could get it to me.

Periodically there was a posting on Usenet giving a list of machines that would publicly relay mail and their interconnections. (I want to say this was monthly and in net.general, but I'm not sure).

Given that and a list of machines that your site connected to, you could find a path from your site to me. Let's say you were in Boston, and you knew your company exchanged mail with decvax (a machine at Digital Equipment Corporation). You could see from the connection list that decvax connected to trwrb (a machine at TRW Redondo Beach, CA, I believe), and trwrb connected to wlbr, so from your machine the email address decvax!trwrb!wlbr!callan!tim would work to reach me.
earlier version of gorilla glass used to be very hard to scratch but easy to shatter, now, the glass is easy to scratch but hard to shatter. I forget the actual references, but from corning spokeperson, they focus more on shattering for recent version
If you work at Google then that clause protects you much less than you'd think.
I vaguely wonder sometimes as to what happened to cybernetics. It seems to have been in vogue in the 70s, and sci-fi authors that were able to read stuff on it (like Lem) placed high hopes in it. Then, poof, gone.

Though, to my uninformed self it seems that other more specific and down-to-earth disciplines just stepped up and remade the field into a dozen different specialized topics that are easier to reason about technically.
Agreed, I feel like SF restaurants are relatively pricey, so in order to get the good stuff you'll have to pay a lot more than in many other places in the world.
The main downside to deep archive is the insane amount of money you will have to pay to get data out of it. They are not very transparent about how much it costs, the retrieval fees aren't bad but the egress fees are killer.