skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised that the XPS gets so much love. Everything about it felt sub-par to me.

I was pretty happy with my surface, while it lasted anyway. Ended up with a defective touch screen that couldn't be replaced, so I just got a full refund (thank you extended warranty).
One point: the machines aren't "broken" per se; typically the maintenance cycle does not complete and the machine only shows a very cryptic error message. The franchisee then needs to call out a Taylor service rep, wait for them and pay an expensive call-out charge. THe underlying issue is typically easily resolved; something like the hopper was too full of product so the heating cycle didn't get to the required temp; remove some and run it again".

So the reason they're always broken is they're not broken but the restauranteur has no way of knowing or resolving the issue.
The problem is that email is store-and-forward, and there's no standard for MUAs to independently interact and perform key exchanges via PGP or anything, so end-to-end encrypted email will always be a much worse experience than end-to-end encrypted IM.

Also, the heterogeneous MUA world, and the fact that users expect to be able to search their email even if encrypted, just makes end-to-end encrypted email a really tough proposition.

I could see something like OTR+PGP for email that could work, but the MUAs would have to get updates, and MUAs are "a solved problem". There's just no real work ongoing on MUAs.
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
You can also remotely wipe any Apple device registered under your Apple ID.
> If the rules say to abort, the software aborts. Humans get to say "I think we'll be fine", and put lives on the line.

But logic errors and bugs in "thoroughly-tested" (subjective, determined by humans/corporations) software-controlled systems kills too. Interesting thought experiment: How many humans will die in 2031, across all industries, because of bad software?

https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-race-condition-therac-2...
I had a similar realization after reading Radical Compassion by Tara Brach. The concept of the two darts of suffering in Buddhism has also been extremely valuable to me. The first dart is the immediate pain (laundry didn't get done) and the second dart is the self-inflicted pain caused by the stories we tell to ourselves ("I can't even get a simple load of laundry done, I am a terrible person who will never accomplish anything.") It's usually the second dart that causes the most suffering despite being entirely created in our own heads and self inflicted.
But the work done is Fd so 2Fd is double the work, and hence mv^2 is double energy.

Why do you think work is given by 2Fd? Do you want it to be that? Do you want to define work as two times the force times the distance the force acted over?

You can, if you like, but you'll be plagued by a factor of 2 in every place where you will talk about any work.

It's way easier to keep this factor of 1/2 just in definition of kinetic energy instead.

You can name mv^2 kinetic energy, and 2Fd work. But then you can name (mv^2)/2 kinetic half-energy and Fd half-work and physicist will still prefer to do calculations for half-work and half-energy because there will be less places where this factor of 2 will crop up in calculations.
Unfortunately ThinkPads have a design flaw. On mine, if I use the LAN adapter that came with the device, I won't be able to use the adjacent USB-C port!
How would you figure out whether the conditions are because of 'banksters' colluding or because of something else?
Ah yes, "Dark Patterns". I recently came across this twitter feed from @darkpatterns where some of these atrocities are being reported.

https://www.darkpatterns.org/hall-of-shame
They’ve degraded the core experience so much that at this point they could charge users for the ability to stop their likes, follows or comments being randomly pushed to other people’s TL.
"After all, the average attention span of an adult American"

Note the last word quoted above. When you are criticizing people, please try to be equinanimous. Why are you so hard on Americans? (Some of my best friends ... etc)
In order to qualify for this definition, the singular purpose of the app must to be provide access to "reader content" or non-interactive material like streaming media and magazines.

A highly interactive video game rendering natively on the device cannot be a "reader" app.
Does Apple deserve a piece of the action for every instruction executed on iPhone?

They've allowed web to go untaxed. Kind of.

There are web standards for accessing more of the device that they've ignored and have chosen to treat differently. Maybe a judge should tell them they're not allowed to have a browser if they're going to treat apps differently.

They've corralled 50% of Americans into their bubble, and they're telling businesses to get in the correct lane to access them.
Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898
This stays local to your device, it doesn't get sent to Apple...
So that you suggest it was useful only because other opiates had been "stigmatized" is telling.

But anyway, they could have done all that good without the despicable practices they used to ensure that it got over-prescribed with under-awareness of it's dangers. Those were in no way necessary for supplying a useful pain relief drug. Those things were only about greed and lack of concern for who it hurt, not some kind of necessary collateral damage of trying to do good.

Nobody that does harm is without some redeeming qualities. (Not anyone we send to prison either). But those who do serious harm need to make restitution and repair for it. That starts, just starts, with giving up the fruits of that harm.
From VS2015 so 7
>branded Clevo's

I think it's a bit unfair to simply say they are "branded Clevo's". There was an interview about "right to repair" that I can't find right now where one of the founders of System76 addressed this and it sounds like they put a bit more effort into their hardware (and specifically, the accompanying middleware/firmware) than slapping some stickers on a Clevo.

Edit: I still can't find the interview, which was a good one, but I found this [1] earlier comment from someone who works there.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refr...
> I don't know if Walmart has the same extent of 3rd party fulfillment that Amazon does, which seems to be the source & cause of the commingling issues.

This reads weirdly to me; I'd describe Amazon's situation as "they provide first-party fulfillment of 3rd-party sales.
> But a bunch of B&Bs/Inns and transportation for a walking trip in England

Is this something travel agents actually have any sort of exclusive access to? I thought travel agents were just resellers for existing travel packages. So if some tourism bureau has gone to the effort of assembling a package deal for a bunch of b&B's or inns to do a walking tour, the travel agent can book it for you. Or you can go to the tourism bureau's website and book it yourself. The travel agent isn't doing the work, they're just connecting you with a different middleman.
The Canadian system I talked about had no government propping up of banks.

See also https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can...
Won't any system as valuable as national ID be vulnerable to similar attacks as SSN?

The problem seems to be that American ID is extremely valuable; it will suffer more attacks than almost any other national ID, just because of the sheer amount of money involved.
I'm not sure why I got the ones I did, but I got Cast Away, Space Jam, Willy Wonka, National Treasure, Being John Malkovich, and Star Wars. Not sure if they got easier toward the bottom or if I started catching on after viewing the answers as I went down the page.

These images make me wonder what the "brief text description" is for each.
Speaking in Whistles
"I’m a perfectionist"

What the blazes is that fount?
Øyvind Thorsby also published a similar (somewhat easier) quiz a couple weeks ago:

https://thorsbyprojects.tumblr.com/post/660029925870518272/a...
See eg https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can...

Well, 'centuries' interpreted as an integer multiply of 100s of years was probably overstating things a bit.
McDonalds franchisees are required to purchase specific equipment, and required to use Taylor for servicing and repairs. The reason this is now on the Fed's radar is because there is strong support that McDonalds corporate is colluding with Taylor to continue this process and promote a system that makes them both money at the cost of the franchisee.
The Bias in Core Web Vitals
Yes, from the US side, I agree entirely. I think it relates to our Puritanical heritage. Parties / drinking are illicit, and most Americans live with their parents and kept in a sort of forced continued adolescence / stunted adulthood, until they “go off to school,” where they suddenly are free to do whatever they like.

And so there is an explosion of exploration, and only some of it is intellectual.
I'm not sure I want to pay $3 a month, per person, just for some extra tweets. I don't think the value of a tweet is nearly as great as the value of a Substack post. Super follows seem wildly expensive to me. Seems more like a $0.99/month subscription (or lower).
Same at Google, the most important thing is that the main documentation source internally is just markdown files checked in alongside code that is automatically served on the documentation site. Freshness is encouraged by owners periodically getting bugs to review pages and update a tag indicating the page was fresh as of X date.

There's support for writing out diagrams in graphviz dot but people usually just draw them in google docs or some other external program and check a screenshot of that in to be embedded in the page.

I'm sure some systems had more automation building documentation out of code directly but usually it's just the simple markdown written manually.

There's also google docs which is nicer for quickly iterating and getting reviews but it's much less discoverable and falls out of sync with the system much more easily.
New Tool Shows Geology Behind Kidney Stone Crystallization
I'd say I got ~%20 of them right. Some really interesting images out of them. The one for mad max is beautiful.
Why does Amazon feel it’s their job to check compliance to the FCCs rules?
At first sight, this seems to be a common-sense response, but things get more nuanced when you consider it in depth.

Electronic media are a viable business as things stand, so you must be considering whether they would continue to be viable without the sort of laws being discussed here.

Whether any business model is viable is relative to the laws in effect. Without laws governing issues like property and contracts, a great deal of today's commerce would be infeasible. Without labor and fraud laws, all sorts of exploitation would be the norm. Without either, exploitative practices would be the only viable ones, but they would not be particularly productive - that is how things have been through most of human history, and continue to be so in parts of the world. There is a lot more at risk here than TV.

On the other hand, the current law in this case strikes me as excessive, reflecting the anti-democratic influence businesses have over legislation. My point is that there are no simple answers; the sort of economy that has brought a previously-unimaginable standard of living to a subset of the human race is a battleground of competing interests and trade-offs.
So what did we learn today?

You can build a massive fortune by:

1) creating addictive painkillers
2) push the company to promote the drug to sales reps
3) cause an epidemic responsible for killing 50,000 Americans
4) blame it on the company
6) get granted immunity from the problem you created if you decide to donate a fraction of your fortune (John Oliver explained how the spackler family can donate periodically based on surplus from investments)

At the same time I think this is unbelievable but I'm also not surprised.
Deterrence Dispensed – Print Freedom
Plug: if you want to obtain wireguard configurations for use with Mozilla VPN: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/
Streamers are boycotting Twitch today to protest inaction on ‘Hate Raids’
> Most highly industrialised, wealthy countries would have much less income inequality with vastly higher inheritance taxes.

It's true that extremely tax-heavy countries generally have poorer populations with a more even wealth distribution, but that's more or less the result of "nobody will get rich if you take everyone's money".

The vast majority of millionaires in the US are self made, so inheritance taxes couldn't possibly change that?
Eh, what happened goes beyond simple piracy. They were defrauding wholesale distributors so they could rip and share prerelease dvds. To me this crosses the threshold into reasonable prosecution and extradition isnt a crazy abuse.
I read this as user & profile are two separate resources. With a standard REST API, calls are tied to a specific resource.

> Nothing stops you building another layer of endpoints to service your frontend.

They could've added a new endpoint for that specific usecase but I'm assuming they've simplified their actual needs to this one example.
Japan launches Digital Agency to push ahead with long-overdue reforms
Thanks, and good question!

Ideologically, I think Anki and Podsie are pretty aligned in our beliefs that personalized spaced retrieval (often referred to as spaced repetition) is a much more efficient and effective way to learn and retain information compared to other traditional review practices (eg. reading textbooks or going over notes).

Learning-wise, perhaps the key difference is that while Anki is very focused on the individual-learner, we're much more focused on empowering each teacher. This means that we've needed to build features like having different autogradable question types (eg. short answer and multiple choice), ensuring that teachers have easy-to-follow data reports on how students and classes are doing, and also providing teachers with tools to incentivize their students to regularly review on Podsie.
Kratom Witdrawal/ the Truth
If you found this post odds are your probably going through some shit. You probably have tons of responsibilities but can barely muster up enough energy to make it through the day. Nothing is done and your wondering who the fuck you are, because this is not like you. What ever your situation is Kratom cause. If your trying to quit, you need to do it cold turkey. You cannot taper it’s a joke you will either cheat or find yourself in a constant state of withdrawal. Ya I know about the suicidal thoughts your poisoning your body it’s looking for a way out. It gets dark you think no one understands how dark it gets. Your not alone. You need to go 7 days!!! Fuck what they say about your time of use, body fat, type or strain. Go seven days!! When it’s at its worst and your ready to give in, understand it’s at its worst when you have almost escaped its grasp. When your puking, pacing around the house, can’t control your body jerking at night and feel like all hope is lost. If your feeling that it’s your body trying to rid itself of what you have done. Go seven days!!! If you can’t find the gumption to make it seven days your probably fucked, but if you can then you will reach a point that you tell yourself I will
Never put it in my body again. Seven days is not easy it’s fucking hell!! I’m not promoting other drug use but find some Xanax or drink but what ever you do don’t put Kratom back into your system. Days 1-4 are the hardest you will feel defeated, but your body is resilient it doesn’t want to die!! Even if you feel like you have destroyed it with your use. Ya and the kidney/liver back pain you think is kidney or liver failure it goes away. You have over worked them and they are screaming for you to stop. I don’t care how you get there go seven days!!!

PS: Fuck the Kratom community there is no place for it. If your in need go see a doctor and take suboxone and let them taper you off. By the way it’s just as bad and harder to quit then Kratom.

Dig deep go seven days!! It will change your life or what you are calling life. With Kratom you have no life. It steals your soul.

It will get better but your going to have to pay the piper. In ways you would have never imagined. Once you escape never look back RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

GOD bless you and your fight. It’s a real one.

-Rusty
I would consider "broken" and "SOP doesn't produce expected result" to be synonymous in most cases including this one.
Finley (YC W21) is hiring full-stack engineers to reimagine the capital markets
People on both sides of the political spectrum seem to very much want authoritarianism to enforce their viewpoints. You can’t have utopia without dealing with these people first.
Never underestimate how long a bad tutorial can float around:

https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_generate_an_ssh_key_on_...

This site isn't where I first saw this. This isn't the top hit for any search term I can come up with, but it is often on the first page of hits. So people do silly things without understanding what they're doing.

(To give somewhat of a feeling for age here, the exact wording from that tutorial is at least 5 years out of date. Putty changed the UI a bit in 0.68)
SOFR risk now accounts for 30% of USD Rates markets
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it's not doubling "someone's" work. it's avoidance software doing avoidance software.

and starlink is in low LEO
Yes, the red light is supposed to mean that they failed to boost enough to be able to glide back to their target runway. But... they did anyway? Apparently? Something is missing from this account.
How can we tell apart 'dismissive' from 'There is hell ahead. Alas the only way is through it. Might as well keep some dignity, knowing fully well that some of us will not make it.'
I believe Microsoft acquires Docker, Inc before that, like npm, Inc.
aliexpress seems to be pretty much the same, except cheaper and you know you will be getting a knockoff (instead of maybe)
This post makes no sense, at all.

1) UniFi devices just recently had a massive security vulnerability. Also not a good idea to be letting third party servers, access your home network, directly via your router

2) Instead of CloudFlare, use something like Unbound. I have mine setup to fetch directly from the Root servers. Why send your DNS queries upstream?

3) Caddy is the one decent thing suggested, however I am skeptical of the benefits of having HTTPS internally in your LAN. If an attacker is in your LAN, then it is already Game Over
That's a very interesting point of view! I wonder if maybe you're describing a Canadian point of view? I've heard the government screwed up / over-regulated (not sure about the details) distribution of Cannabis in Canada and people still had to use the black market to buy cannabis.

We don't need a black market, we just governments not to get in the way in what they consider legal or not. I think you're advocating for small independent producers vs big monolithic ones (which sounds great, I'm in!). In a world where licenses don't cost half a million, that can be a legal market as well.

> The black market can have higher standards
From my anecdotal European experience this hasn't been the case.
Eg. If I think about cannabis in Netherland, what you can buy in a coffee shop is generally much better than any black market deal you can find in all of Europe. You can get cannabis from Amsterdam in the rest of Europe as well (amongst the dozen fakes) but it will cost much more.

In a black market you have a higher risk of getting scammed, lower quality and no controls.
Online marketplace with reputation systems help a lot but it's still not like buying on Amazon.

The barrier to entry is higher because you have to setup the tools to act anonymously (eg. Tor, cryptocurrencies), you have to worry about stealth and you're running the risk of going to jail.
The quality / price ratio goes down pretty quickly.
Sure, you're not paying taxes and you don't have to do accounting, but I think the negatives are more expensive than that.
There's no doubt that SPARKS pre-releases cost the studios millions. When you release a terrible movie ahead of the opening weekend, the rumor spreads quickly that the movie is terrible. Normally, that effect would be part of (and swamped by) the 2nd weekend drop, but now it's part of your opening weekend.

For good movies it probably doesn't make much of a difference. But most movies are not good. There's a huge gambling element to seeing a movie, and a leak gives away the outcome.
I'm arguing against regulation; before VATMOSS was there small businesses didn't need to comply.

The question I'm hinting at is: is Amazon using the money they earned in their first phase by being a useful middleman to push the narrative in a certain direction (eg. lobbying, owning a newspaper, etc) and influence governmental bodies so that they introduce more regulation which Amazon benefit from?

If the capital we're giving to Amazon gets reinvested to make everyone's life more complicated so that we need more Amazon and Amazon can grow more, then it's not something I want to spend my money on.
Your co-founder sounded overwhelmed with work. I don't understand what the author contributed to the company if he had no technical skill

Edit: I was mistaken. Author says responsibilities were balanced
Richard Dawkins calls out universities allowing Flat Earth theorists to thrive
Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address
The counterfactual here is that without the government back-stopped insurance, customers would have had an incentive to push back against the banking behaviours that led to these mass failures.

The Savings and Loan crisis also didn't happen in a vacuum. See https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SavingsandLoanCrisis.htm... for some background. A short excerpt from the start:

> Federal deposit insurance, which was extended to S&Ls in 1934, was the root cause of the S&L crisis. Deposit insurance was actuarially unsound from its inception, primarily because all S&Ls were charged the same Insurance premium rate regardless of how safe or risky they were. That is, deposit insurance provided by the federal government tolerated the unsound financial structure of S&Ls for decades. No sound insurance program would have done that. Congress tried to rectify this problem in 1991 when it directed the FDIC to begin charging risk-sensitive deposit-insurance premiums. However, because those who should pay the most would scream the loudest to Congress, the FDIC’s premium structure still does not charge the riskiest banks and S&Ls enough. Much of the time, the “drunk drivers” of the S&L and banking world pay no more for their deposit insurance than do their sober siblings. Those who do pay more still do not pay enough.

The article goes on to talk about regulation Q and other regulatory choices that contributed to the crises.