skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rufus has made multiple unbootable drives in the years that I've used it. Etcher has yet to made one and I used to flash drives constantly - multiple daily - until I switched to Ventoy which is the way forward now.
That's an interesting theory. Anecdotally, I occasionally pass by a lot where repossessed cars are stored. I've noticed there have considerably fewer cars in their lots of late, with whole sections completely empty. I'd guessed bad car loans just weren't being made with the pandemic, but this theory makes a lot more sense.
If the RAM can't be expanded then 16 should be the min. If there's an open slot that'll accept 8 or more then fine, start with 8.

But today's 8 soldered is tomorrow underpowered landfill fodder. It's irresponsible to intentionally manufacture technology that's that disposable.
I like Excalidraw very much. I even used it to create a game with the Godot game engine:
https://curious-games.itch.io/flight13
The framework laptop might be right up your alley!
The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism
So, even though Intel has been incredibly profitable for many years, they Gelsinger is asking for US and EU government support because... uh, uncertain times? That it?

How much did they ask Isreal for this 600 million investment? [0]

[0] https://www.israel21c.org/intel-announces-600-million-boost-...

The EU should invest in AMD and build fabs without Intel if we are to be "independent"
I think the assumption there is that these are running as efficient markets, but the reality likely is that these are negotiated contracts that have not caught up with supply and demand.
How Can Companies Cope with Ransomware?
This is masturbation. complaining about rich people doing rich things is a waste of time unless you're going to revoke the ability of corporations to exist and act like people.

Until then, shaddup.
> hour's in the day and not due to other factors.

I think the author’s framework is that most “other factors” would be fixed if the team had more slack. So increase the team’s head count, wait for them to gel, and then with the new slack they should be able to resolve the issues.

I agree that there could be other factors (eg a toxic employee, say a TL or manager that is holding everybody back, or an ill-defined mission/mandate). But this article is really just answering the question of where and in what order to add employees if you’re doing hiring, rather than giving you a reason to hire more people.
Wait a minute, so...

1. If he makes a dick joke, women drop out of engineering teams.

2. If he makes a breasts joke, women drop out of engineering teams.

So basically women in general prefer that human parts not be mentioned in jokes, but men like human parts. Interesting. I'm taking notes.
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant the toplevel window controls like close, minimize, maximize. There is currently no way to make all the widgets render using the Win32 API to look like Windows widgets. You probably don't want to do that anyway, it will start to look and act really inconsistent when an application uses custom widgets.

Somebody could definitely fake a theme that makes the widgets look like Windows, and ship that with their windows builds, if that was desired. That to me is a much more viable option. There are multiple themes like this for GTK3. [0] [1] I don't know if any have been ported to GTK4 yet, but they could.

[0] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-10 [1] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7
sniffles actually the opposite is true!

https://youtu.be/IgR6uaVqWsQ
Yeah, the size of these trucks has completely put me off ever wanting one. I miss the small ones from a few decades ago... great for surfing, hauling the ver occasional bit of stuff, just as useful as the ugly beasts of today but far cheaper and more maneuverable and safer.

I think we need to start requiring commercial drivers licenses on some of these beasts.

They are intentionally designed to be difficult to see out of, difficult to see around. And the high point of contact on a human body means that they are deadly. Definitely should not be allowed on a residential street without an explicit commercial purpose, IMHO.
Most 20-30 years old machines on the market are Japanese, ASML wasn't that dominant in the long tail market up until DUV era.

And Japanese almost as a rule have whack a good leasing, and service business, including replacement parts for close to 30 years old equipment.
Smaller trucks are available for those who want them. Most buyers prefer larger trucks.
Because they need to grow users and build a moat against competitors. If your product was made in 6 months by 5 engineers then a competitor can (and will) do the same. Users will generally want new features or capabilities or other such things. Boring but time consuming work not matter how well engineered your product is. This type of work is very different from a green field new product so it'd be odd if many people didn't leave during the shift.
Weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting [pdf]
I'm sure your government was also doing other stuff, like providing schooling, roads and other infrastructure to you. You are freeriding at the expense of other fellow citizens, who pay taxes.
Yeah, but a savings account? Interest rates for savings are abysmal, and auto-loans are themselves frequently near (or at) zero these days, so it's losing advice as-given.

Better advice: put the money in the market or other higher-yielding investment, then take a low or no interest loan on the vehicle when the time comes so those investments can continue to grow at the much higher clip. Money's just too cheap to give away your own cash. Obviously, if the interest rate environment changes, this should be re-evaluated.
Yeah if anything from watching Jobs talk over the years it's clear he is repeatedly reevaluating AND taking the input of those around him.

"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."

Steve would have changed his mind, so would people around him, as anyone would.
The thing is, if you use a web browser instead of a javascript engine designed for delivering DRM media (ie, chrome, modern FF), you can open as many tabs as you want without consequence. The problem is not tabs. The problem is multi-process and treating the browser like an operating system.

I regularly operate with 1000+ tabs on less than 3 GB of ram. This works because I disable javascript and look at web sites instead of run applications. I have extensions to full text search and switch between them and each tab stores it's path on the web, unlike bookmarks. And I've been saving my sessions every month since Opera 5 introduced tabs (I use a FF fork now). That covers 2003-2021.

Tabs are great. Modern browsers are bad.
U.S. Pipeline Shutdown Exposes Cyber Threat to Energy Sector
These headlines kept popping up an image of a comedy flick in which ...

A family of neanderthals vacationing to Rome ..

got lost on their tour bus ...

driven by Roberto Benigni ...

Silly I know.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/mediaviewer/rm261748787...
Another observation after reading the article again, reminds me of the explanation for vampires unable to stand crucifixes in Peter Watt's Blindsight:

"a cross-wiring of normally-distinct receptor arrays in the visual cortex, resulting in grand mal-like feedback seizures whenever the arrays processing vertical and horizontal stimuli fired simultaneously across a sufficiently large arc of the visual field. Since intersecting right angles are virtually nonexistent in nature, natural selection did not weed out the Glitch until H. sapiens sapiens developed Euclidean architecture; by then, the trait had become fixed across H. sapiens vampiris via genetic drift, and – suddenly denied access to its prey – the entire subspecies went extinct shortly after the dawn of recorded history."
Just the GPU surfaces for hardware acceleration will use a ton of memory. If your GPU has dedicated VRAM you might be OK, but often there needs to be a CPU-side buffer for the data as well.
I think there is a rule about humor on HN somewhere. /s
Color temp and dimming-without-buzz. And you can put the switch etc wherever you want, and change color temp and brightness automatically before bed.
The Economist keeps missing the point
Wow, this is such a harsh (but true) rebuttal to that story (which I've heard dozens of times before).

It is a bit Pollyannaish, but I guess, it comes from a good place
I’m super curious what you’re doing with 128GB RAM on a laptop!
Isn’t ransomware trivially preventable by backing up files, and having a completely different security procedure and credentials for modifying backups than doing anything else in the system?
I definitely agree that car size inflation is a real problem. Cars are too big and getting bigger every year.

That said, "good visibility" is not a replacement for safety tech. The sensors and cameras in a car are always going to be better at spotting danger than a human for things like blind spot monitoring and backup cameras.

You sound a bit like the teachers that would drill mental math because "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket". It's good to be able to do mental math, and it's good to be an alert driver, but let's not ignore the massive capabilities that technology allows.
I sure hope so. I think car culture is bad art.

But to defend the analogy, iPod Video was iPod gen 5. Apple did two more generations on that format with the minimum additional feature set.

That might take a while. And there will be many a Zune sold in the meantime.
While there obviously has been innovation over the last 40 years, the pace of innovation seems to have slowed.

We got lots of dubious things like bitcoin and twitter. Not a lot of things that required real world risk and engineering - maybe because that's a harder way to make money and the low hanging fruit has been picked.

That's what makes Elon Musk so interesting, he tackled two incredibly hard real engineering challenges and succeeded wildly at both. He changed the world and brought the future closer. That's impressive. I wish there were more entrepreneurs like him.
What kind of game? Working on a WebGL game hosting platform and distribution service and we’re on the hunt for promising indies to back.
I’m concerned about this. America has shown since Vietnam that we don’t win in unorthodox wars. The Taliban beat us.

The only analogy I can think of is if a smaller power constantly harasses a larger powers trade routes. Eventually America gets exhausted because we only know how to win a direct war.

They will exhaust us with this over time and continue building leverage. What are we seriously going to do? Goto war with Russia or China?
Do you need a git version? Or do you just need to be able to experience the development of a text?

If the latter, you can use Draftback (described: [1], download: [2]) to get an Etherpad-style time slider in the text.

If you needed to preserve that view, you could screen record the playback. You could also dissect the Chrome extension and turn its rendering output into something else, a text revision with each change, suitable for checking into version control? I'm not sure how Draftback handles rich formatting, images, tables, or the like; you'd have to figure that out, too. You'd also have to match the checkins to the time spent doing the writing, or you'd miss out on the cadence of the writing. And is there even a tool that lets you visually scrub through a document's changes in git with a time slider or equivalent?

[1]: http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/draftback/nnajoiem...
Enforcing and banning something is very different, especially in China.
TFA is basically right. In a The Boring Company presentation, one of the lead engineers started to answer a question technically, then Musk stepped in and built an inspiring context within which to frame the question.

His role in his conpmanies, that is visible from the outside, is that of a promoter. He also put money up in the first place. And for all I know, he is personally a brilliant engineer - but there's no evidence of that visible.

A Jobsian RDF. Jobs appreciated the technical aspects, inspired great work out of technical people - but didn't invent anything himself.
Sardine or mackerel balls. Just remove the spine add an egg, some lemon juice and spices and boom, no bones and still delicious.
Absolutely. Not all ransomware gangs do; like pirates of old, some have a strict ethical code. Some also hate that others are doing it because it attracts more negative international attention towards them. Some care purely about money, though, and see hospitals as easy paydays.

Here's a September 2020 interview with one operator: https://talos-intelligence-site.s3.amazonaws.com/production/...

>The actor appears to have a contradictory code of ethics, portraying a strong disdain for those who attack health care entities while displaying conflicting evidence about whether he targets them himself. This is probably representative of many adversaries engaged in illicit cyber activity.

>Hospitals are considered easy targets, making ransom payments 80 to 90 percent of the time during a ransomware attack.

When easy money's in front of you and there are no deterrents, the sole thing holding you back is your ethics, and given a large enough number of people, some are going to have very little in the way of ethics.

They're so brazen that many don't even care much about privacy. If there are no possible repercussions, why bother trying to conceal yourself?

>During our initial conversations, we shared what we believed to be Aleks’ identity and location based on our own research, which he confirmed.
MMM was making a different claim. “Adding people to a project that is late will make the project more late.”

This is taking about the best way to minimize growing pains, assuming you want to grow your org.

> To spread hiring equally across the teams in need, or to focus hiring on just one or two teams until their needs were fully staffed? That was the question.

It’s not claiming that adding people will make the current project ship faster. It’s claiming that focusing hiring people to underperforming teams will eventually buy them the slack they need to start fixing their issues and increase their velocity in the future, and that you get less total disruption by hiring many people into one team than by hiring one person onto many teams.
if you are in a developing nation, which most of users likely are, then seeding or downloading illegal torrents won't be any problem. But I don't know about others.
no one else knows how much useless time wasting boilerplate crap goes into programming. or how fragile these systems really are.

I'd be happy to lose my economic position as a possessor of arcane skills if we can stop trying to construct multistory buildings out of mud and learn to frame walls properly.
You hit the nail on the head for this particular example. It took YEARS for the industry to suck it up and make it as convenient as it needed to be, though.

The difference here is that TSLA is already accepting Bitcoin, and the financial sector is already building on Ethereum. So is it really going to be illegal or are there just going to be smoother experiences layered on top that the average user will flock to? Because I'm guessing, based on where we are, that it has to be the latter at this point.

Illegal use will be minimized by a new breed of middleman. It's not ideal, but it's right for the majority of people I think.
It’s not hard to see Intel struggling in the future as AMD has produced a better architecture and Apple is starting to compete in the space.
What Is Kava
Remote-first companies that actively hire
96% iOS 14.5 App Tracking Opt-Out Rate
I don't disagree, but there would be a political shitstorm if you tried to take away their trucks.
What insane predictions?

SpaceX landing rockets? It’s really cool, but no one reasonable said you cannot land rockets. People questioned if it’s worth it. And this question still remains - they massively overestimated size of the market (they were planning to have launches weekly or more often). Instead they have rare commercial launches and they use it for internal project, that has also lots of questions about profitability. But it successfully kicks can down the road.

Electric car wasn’t questioned if it’s possible (expect for some freaks). And first mass market EV wasn’t even from them. Leaf (with its many flaws) until not long ago was best selling EV combined.
It was questioned if you can make in a way that profit, range and scale can meet. And Tesla still struggles at all of them.

Boring tunnels? Look at the tunnel in Las Vegas and tell me with a straight face that this is a future of transportation.
What is the contribution of the bus to overall power consumption vs the CPU and DRAM chips themselves, let alone the screen? I find it hard to believe that that is really an important design consideration leading to soldered-in RAM.

I had a Lenovo Stinkpad Carbon X1. The soldered-in RAM started to fail, causing memory corruption. That machine is now a brick, and I am still pissed off about it.

Modular RAM is fixable RAM.
My Issues with Understanding by Design (UbD) – Mathematics for Teaching
I get that this is a potential big problem, but I had to stop reading when the dog washing company blamed needing to respin a new board on a chip being out of stock due to this.

I'm sorry, but if you aren't buying enough chips to build all the boards you want to build of a revision, this is just what happens, chip shortage or no. Stuff gets obsoleted all the time, it doesn't take a chip shortage.

Blaming a black swan shortage instead of your own poor planning for something as commonplace as needing to respin one board to make more new products is embarrassing.
understanding by design is overly hyped
Wait, Where Did All the Rental Cars Go?
Some key points in the article. It's worth clicking through to the references cited in the article (e.g. the research on contaminated plants):

- The Exclusion Zone covers an area of around 2,800 sq km - and seems to have undergone a rewilding transformation

- Some of the animals that have grown in population: lynx, bison, boar, elk, roe deer, and wolves

- Recent plant research shows that contamination of wheat, rye, oats and barley grown near the area are still above acceptable levels

- James Smith from the University of Portsmouth, who has conducted research on wildlife in the area, says: "Ukrainian and Belarussian researchers have recorded hundreds of plant and animal species in the zone, including more than 60 [rare] species"

- Ukraine's state authorities said in 2011 that the area could be occupied within 320 years, while Greenpeace and Chernobyl director both said more recently that it would likely be upwards of 20,000 years
The Toyota Tacoma is now the size of older F150s, there aren’t many or really any good options for buying a small truck currently.
Cross platform Node.js Utility to open URLs in browser with 0 dependencies
> there are some traits that distinctly separates humans from other animals

There clearly are distinct characteristics of what it means to be human, as opposed to not just other animals, but other hominin species as well. For instance, the mutation in prefrontal cortex development that allowed us to acquire a complete recursive language (a Turing-complete communication system), along with all of its benefits for large-scale coordination and strategy. This mutation is likely 70k year old and has caused a cascade of civilizational advances, from complex culture, to myths, to arts, etc.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/166520v9.full
Having started playing music again after a 10 year hiatus, I recently came to the same realization about my younger self's approach to musicianship. Hitting the right notes is table stakes. But going beyond that requires developing the ability to listen to yourself critically, recognize the difference in sound between talented musicians and yourself, caring to fix the difference, and taking steps to do so.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy

The "technosphere" is the thing with the lights that you see from orbit when the Sun is on the other side of the Earth.
> Eventually stuff breaks, and fabs have to offline these older processes.

Absolutely not. You just made this up.
Gummy Bears and Candy Bars Are Casualties of the Pandemic
Criticism of Machine Learning Culture
Some comments have mentioned memorising the piece which helps a great deal. One major difference I employ in my practice is this:

Instead of speeding up, I speed down. I play the section of notes as chords (which is the fastest you can go). Then I gradually slow down by rotation of my hand as I'm discovering the fingering dynamics. I find this to be considerably faster for me. I find it hard to speed up and never do so enough when starting slow.

I'm by no means an expert but this has helped me
Car sales have been through the roof this entire pandemic. Car sales people haven't had to listen to customers "negotiate" in over a year (because the answer is always to take the higher than MSRP offer or pound sand since 20 others will) . I couldn't get a single salesperson to budge even 500$ across no less than 10 Lexus dealerships on anything at all.

Car sales people are doing the best they have ever done during the pandemic. They don't need your sympathy.
The only thing holding me back from opnsense is that there's no pfblockerng...
This person made a mistake which was 1) more likely due to the design of the vehicle (ride height) and 2) more deadly (nose shape). That's something better addressed through legislation (or other incentives) than individual responsibility.

I'm all in favor of better bike lanes, etc. as well, but the victim was in a pedestrian crossing.
Used to be. Now they grab a copy of the data and threaten you with divulging it. That can be a huge problem.
YMMV but having the light turn on when my alarm goes off genuinely wakes me up.
this is in the context of Twilio as the new CRM — where a lot of current CRM functionality is merely one of many data inputs. ie biz logic and UI has moved to layers above. some exaggeration to make a point ;)
In a corporate env, you have to do time estimation.
The first iPhone had no App Store and limited messaging options. It was in many ways a downgrade for Blackberry users or users of Palm Pilot like PDAs.

Opening up the App Store is what gave it its real potential.
Why should I care what Steve Jobs thought?
PalmOS on x86: API Porting
Yes to this. Me: I want a easily upgradable, swappable computer. Also me: I want a fast 2 pound laptop with great battery life.

That said, I had to put a new battery in a 17" gaming laptop a while back. It's a huge machine and there was zero excuse for the battery not be easily swappable.
Taxation without representation causes wars. Tax evasion is civil disobedience.
Not everybody is clued in. Average random person on the street can’t even answer the question of how does money supply and inflation interact?
> The most ridiculous configuration maybe is this "Precision 3560" in its baseline configuration, which includes latest generation Core i5 CPU paired with 4 GB of RAM, with almost $1200 pricetag. I feel sorry for anyone who buys that..

Or maybe they're being smart by adding RAM themselves rather than paying dell an overpriced markup?