skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's done some time in embedded, that sounds like they needed a repair menu and didn't want to add a dedicated number pad. It's a fairly typical solution. Similarly, these expensive industrial machines with lots of moving parts often have a whole bunch of tunable parameters somewhere. Setting these parameters incorrectly can sometimes make the product unsafe or self-destructive, so it's often a good idea to secure access.

There may very well be obfuscation here, but the technician menu doesn't really demonstrate it to me. The lack of repair franchising/certification is more problematic, but that's the most of the industry at this point.
How to sneak misinformation in the back door: 1. claim a source that is stating facts to correct misinformation is false and misleading 2. link to a not-very-authoritative and easily manipulated source that has been edited very recently to promote uncertainty and doubt 3. follow up with additional confusing and poorly-sourced claims that boil down "but maybe there are some things we don't know, we should study it more"

This is how the tobacco industry avoided liability for decades after research conclusively demonstrated the hazards of smoking and other forms of tobacco use.
All McD equipment like this has a manager or service password to adjust things like temperature calibration values, diagnostic routines, or error logs but keep the kitchen staff from fucking with it. Or causing a health or safety issue.

The C602 doesn't have a keyboard, so this is how you enter the password.
I haven’t read the whole thing but the premise and how its summarized by you is something Marx predicted and observed thoroughly hundreds of years ago.
Problem being the degree of penalty is irrelevant because most of the perpetrators either have no idea it's illegal or don't know it's possible to be caught.
After a purchase the app developer is the one providing content, customer service, app updates and bug fixes, etc. It stands to reason that a customer is doing business with the App developer not Apple. In all of your examples, they are products where the company setting the rules of the transaction is the same one that is standing by the product itself.

It seems completely reasonable to me that the provider of a good or service should be able to communicate freely and directly with their customer about something as core to the transaction as their options for paying for the service.
I’ve seen most of the movies and could only guess a few, usually by identifying some specific image in the poster and then deducing the movie, like the ghosts and library for Ghostbusters. Some did a better job of getting the look and feel down, for example I said Forest Gump for Field of Dreams, which are pretty similar.
I think some philosophy is useful and enlightening, but I'd like to see a more thorough advocacy of it (not necessarily in this article, but maybe a link). This feels pretty thin:

There is great satisfaction in thinking through fundamental, important things deeply, and I promise you that studying philosophy will completely change your life.

Also this strikes me as uncritical:

The purpose of this guide is to provide a roadmap so that anyone who follows and completes it will walk away with the knowledge equivalent to an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

I'd like to hear an "experience report" from people who got an undergrad degree in philosophy more than 10 years ago. From what I can see the outcomes are very bimodal, not just in terms of future employment, but also as to whether they found it worthwhile, etc.

I guess what rubs me slightly the wrong way about this list is it seems focused on "who said what, and when" and not necessarily what's true.
An Algorithm Has Created Every Possible Musical Melody So No One Can Ever Sue
For those unfamiliar with this product (such as I), here is a brief paraphrased history from Wikipedia:

In 2007 openDesktop.org was established as an umbrella page for content from the sites such as Xfce-Look.org, GNOME-Look.org or Linux-Apps.com, which now continue under pling.com

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Does anyone here use it? How's the mobile sync?
This basically sounds like Scott Alexander’s ‘thrive—survive’ distinction: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory...
I got 5 right. Harold and Kumar, Space Jam, Cast Away, Willy Wonka, and Fear and Loathing. I feel like the prompts were generated off of movie frames? Space Jam for example was very obviously containing cartoons wearing Space Jam jerseys
Netflix is funding TV and movies through massive amounts of debt; not subscription revenues. It’s unclear if Netflix will ever make that money back since they can’t stop making content.
Ask people that live in towns where Walmart has cleared out all of the other stores to see what choices are.

When people sell items through big box stores, those stores buy the items at wholesale. What happens if Apple changes from the 30% structure to a 50% wholesale/retail?
The problem seems to be that, most non-Western philosophy I've heard is either from Chinese Confucianism (which personally I don't really like as a Korean, Korea has a long history of dealing with the problems of Confucianism for centuries), or from Buddhist/Zoroastianist/Islam religious literature (which I'm hesitant to read, since I don't have much of a religious background and think it's kind of superfluous, although I get why its existence is necessary) Maybe I just need to open my mind more, but as others have said I don't have much time left to cram other things into my (already very slow) hobby of reading continental philosophy.

Hell, even most philosophers outside of Western countries doesn't really seem to look at non-Western philosophy that seriously. (Maybe it's because it's a Western thing to be a philsopher as a profession?) Chinese philosophers like Yuk Hui might be currently trying the synthesis of Western and Eastern thought, but it still seems like a long way to go (plus my objections on Confucianism).
I used Ubuntu LTM as a daily driver at work for about 5 years. Most of the time it was fine, but several times I’ve had Ubuntu totally fail to boot after an update. Kernel issues or some such. This was in a work environment. I don’t know if it was a combination of hardware that the update didn’t like, or a random software package.

Once I could forgive, once a year is unacceptable.

I do have an Apple bias, as I grew up on Macs. I’m competent enough on Linux to use it, but I don’t want to play IT while I'm also trying to do my regular job. When one became available, I switched to a Mac. It’s not a perfect experience, but it is reliable.
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Usually austerity is coupled with drastic reductions in expenditures, both for infrastructure and things like social welfare. This kind of stuff regularly drives ruling parties out of power and leads to protest and revolt.

Not a good choice if you can avoid it!
There is a website for the lessons too: https://madewithml.com/

Disclosure: I'm a contributor in their open-source community activities and also in the ML space. Feel open to reach out to me if you have any questions.
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AFAIK USB4 now mandates Thunderbolt's Type C altmode.

That was Intel's concession on blocking PCI-E 4.0: they wanted to mandate Thunderbolt over Type C as the official external PCI-E interface in enterprise, when the entire industry went with OCuLink instead, due to actually being enterprise-grade (it uses the replacement of the SFF-8644 (multiuse, commonly called MiniSAS HD), the SFF-8611; some mobos use SFF-8644, and SF-8644<->SFF-8611 cables exist) whereas Type C is not.

When they got their way with USB4 mandating Thunderbolt, PCI-E 4.0 finally was ratified several years late.... PCI-E 4.0 is now so late because of Intel's ridiculous tantrum that only two generations of PC will use it, and the world is proceeding directly to 5.0. Some products have already only exist in 3.0 and (soon to be) 5.0, skipping 4.0 entirely.
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No strong opinion, but I’m a bit skeptical.
> they stay orbiting indefinitely

Not quite true. For example quite a few orbits around the moon are unstable and you will end up crashing into the surface. This is due to essentially all celestial objects not being spherical.
IMO it looks like a booth with ads for iphones on them. It just has no idea what a phone booth is.
>Why jump to an assumption that there's a dark profit motive here?

Total legal immunity + gov mandates to buy your product. Thats probably the largest single profit motive that could possibly exist...I mean can you reasonably imagine a greater profit scenario?
The reason I heard is that it took a long time to take a shot and was expensive. So you did not want to mess up a shoot with a smile. Better go for the safe option and put on your RBF.
My 2014 personal laptop continues to work really well, in spite of some drops and liquid spills. I do want to move to an Apple Silicon machine but I’m not sure I have a decent reason to.
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Pulse width modulation. Instead of sending less power to lower the brightness, it turns the power on and off rapidly.
Also, Peripheral described a dark, dilapidated countryside / suburbia which was a new landscape for Gibson. While Agency's stub differs significantly from ours but because it is closer chronologically maybe it felt uncanny?
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I once read that it was because the norms of that time were to appear more seriously. Smiling in photos is apparently a new(er) norm.
So now that the McFlurry "Konami code" has been revealed, any MD employee can proceed to wreck havoc!
I remember proposing this sort of idea about a decade ago (and I assume plenty of other people have too) - I brushed it off because I assumed it really wouldn't hold any legal weight.

Does this collection of melodies actually have any real world legal value?
More than a few tabs of Chrome will do it.
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Smiling makes me think it was later, along with the white woman, and baby.
Stainless steel? Wait until the people scared of vaccines find out what's in tattoo ink. What's the overlap between tattooed and vaccine hesitant?
Thanks for sharing that - very enjoyable :)
I've come across this before. Have never been able to find out what you get with a "free account" or why someone is giving away free accounts.
I think our wires have been crossed. My issue isn't that food safety hasn't been an issue for humanity, it is the idea that corporations are the party that have lead the charge for stricter food safery standards (other than CYA) and that we should defer to them.

If the FDA wants to audit kytch to ensure their software and hardware is compliant, by all means. I am however not going to trust mcdonalds or taylor to do that.
You should look at Netflix engineering blog/usenix papers about their CDN appliances. In the latest instance types their main bottleneck is physical memory bandwidth. I'm fairly sure they mention profiling tools which would be useful for you to verify your assumptions (assuming they work in your environment) as well as hardware details if you want to build a similar system.

I think Epyc 7313 processors are likey a good fit if you are ram bandwidth limited though. Zen3, lowest core count, but still has all the ram channels. There's a lower cost single socket version too.

Can you tell us more about the data dependencies between threads? If there's contention on the shared memory, that's a more likely bottleneck than raw bandwidth.
Jeff Kinney has a net worth of $70 million. Dan Brown has a net worth of $160 million. Rowling is no longer a billionaire after giving hundreds of millions to charity. Patrick Mahomes' net worth is $30 million. Jordan is a raging homophobe who refuses to tip waiters and a billionaire, and almost all of it came from conning kids and teenagers into wasting their money on overpriced shoes.

I believe my point stands.
From a Bloomberg article I read, approximately $200 million will come from a family foundation, $3 billion will come from a forced sale of some international companies they own, and the remainder of the settlement from their vast array of trusts and other investments worth...approximately $8-9 billion dollars. So while the settlement is a large amount, it amounts to no practical impact for the family, which is why so many people think it's unjust. They will still have a huge amount of dynastic wealth and will not need to make any changes to their extravagant lifestyles whatsoever. Boohoo, the dynastic wealth will only enable the next 6 generations of Sacklers to be entitled pieces of shit instead of the next 8.
Get off your high horse and shove your accusations of complicity and ignorance, and you educate yourself before you start throwing stones: Re-read my post and don't bother replying unless you can understand and accept that I never once suggested hardware was not complex.

I said the software interfaces to them have not exploded in complexity, i.e., specifically refuting the suggestion that we don't "have the resources to cope with the monstrous complexity of hardware now", from the point of view of driving them with software. You utterly failed to refute anything that I actually wrote, but after your tantrum is over feel free to have an attempt.

And I work at the line and on both sides of it logic, architecture, and software, so don't bother with the vapid appeals to authority.
That Bedouin nomad never imagined you watching him this day, on your couch, using your glowing pocket screen. Or being used to sell tennis shoes.

Imagine what will become of our memories?

Maybe future us can simulate the past so well that we can recreate it. Maybe we're just echoes of the past in this very moment, playing out for dwellers of an advanced future.

Maybe they're omnipotent. They can capture all the radiation that gets emitted and reverse calculate everything. Our brain states. No simulation at all, but a recreation.

We could be in a mundane No Mouth Cannot Scream or Roko's Basilisk scenario this very moment. Implausible, but just maybe...

Maybe we're ads for a fancier metaverse platform.
>It's the view that the defense is going to argue and the prosecution will have to disprove.

The defense is getting paid millions to carry water for the Shacklers, you don't have to.

>You can't convict people on "rare" behavior.

You absolutely can, what are you talking about? The entire basis of criminal negligence is based on what an reasonable actor would do. I find it hard to believe that a "reasonable" CEO would effectively dial R&D spending to 0. At the very least other shareholders could sue for securities fraud.

>Yeah, the flip side is going after them jack ma style.

I'm not sure your what the problem with this is? I have no problem with the state going after billionaires who act criminally negligent nor do I have any problem with the state going after anyone else who breaks the law. Why would I sacrifice millions of Americans and the potential future of the country for a couple of bad actors. If I take your "China bad" argument at face value, why should America cripple it's own population during the critical moment when it will need to answer to Chinese hegemony? I guess it would be a sick just desserts for China to exercise power over an opiod addicted west.

>Should companies that are currently being sued be prevented from paying out dividends? What about companies that are being sued all the time, or frivolous lawsuits?

You are talking hypotheticals, but the law isn't C++ code. Intent matters, which is why we have judges. It's my belief the prosecution should be able to show that the Sacklers intentionally sabotaged Purdue pharma in an effort to extract as much capital as possible before the federal government and other litigious parties sued Purdue Pharma. That would be fraudulent transfer - they weren't paying themselves massive dividends to "diversify their portfolio", they were doing it to prevent their assets from being frozen. The most vile part about it is the fact they knowingly engaged in what should be a criminal enterprise and got away with it - this is something that simply shouldn't be allowed to happen in future. Again, the economic burden from opiod misuse costs us a cool $80B according to the CDC. That's your tax dollars cleaning up the mess of this criminal enterprise. Those are families destroyed that now have to depend on the welfare state.
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That’s one way to self promote. Cool repo.
"Helps keeping android free" is just another cons of this i guess
Religion likes to try and corner the market on the human condition. To be fair even the Greek philosophers had some religious beliefs attached to Stoicism, but what survived of their works that is of use to us here and now was their more generic life philosophy, which is quite practical and beautiful in places.
The disturbing thing is that instead of breaking monopolistic behemoths who are feeding their empires from our data, governments are offloading more power to them. If some form of Digital ID is required it must be done on government level with proper public oversight and always available analogue procedures and backup.

But this is convenient, you say.
What is this? Because you have a digital gizmo, knowing all about you, you cannot comprehend the magnitude of situation? You trust a private corporation more than actual laws and government procedures and you feel right and cool?

You have nothing to hide and everyone is having your data anyway?
The Minority Report version of the future is building in front of you and you don't care, because is convenient?
Are you not informed? Are you technically uneducated? Or are you blind? CCP Social rating is working in China. In the next two years will work globally, under different "democratic" branding.

What is a logical response? The logical response is simple. It is time to balance convenience with privacy and some form of "realistic" view of the world.
This corporate power will be abused. The question is how soon.
Why’s California not on the list, sigh…
No. To be copyrighted it must have been a creative endeavor. IIRC courts ruled that this was not a creative process so the music isn't copyrighted but still can be by a creator.

Regardless of the specific logic used to refute the attack on their established legal systems, governments essentially never allow breaking changes to come from outside the established power centers.

That's a fast shortcut you can use with 99% accuracy.
That's nice! hopefully LXC is supported next!
Can't believe I agree with a political opinion in HN for once.
Thanks for a great answer.
> ...cut to ads 15 seconds before the break... HDCP is a PITA...

You know what really grinds my gears? This! It's not that hard to find a suitable splice point, most TV shows even have a natural break as part of the episode! Youtube sometimes does it during Colbert at a point which ruins the comedic rhythm.

> ...A-Team, Knight Rider, and MacGuyver...

I have similar taste; I swore there was a period of time I watched all 3 of these on the same streaming network, but I checked again and see only MacGuyver on Paramount/CBS. Which is an example of another poor user experience -- shows hop between platforms, so you're never actually sure that you have access, until you go to watch, and it's gone.
Rejecting cookies, No I Don't want 20% off instead of an X on email modals, etc. etc
I mean you have a choice where to buy "reader apps" as well.
I agree on the later books of the first trilogy (last one's Mona Lisa Overdrive) - they didn't leave as much an impression on me as Neuromancer did. Following trilogies were probably much more pre-organized than the first.
I really don't care what's happening outside the borders. It's pretty irrelevant. All I care about is a certain party here organized a coup and now threatening private players of dire consequences if they followed through with the subpoena.

(Laughably, they did the same thing 4 years back to try to bury a political opponent. Nothing happened. https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/143307082899280281... )
In this case the human pilots were right. The red light was mostly a bureaucratic instrument that wasn't really a safety risk for the mission beyond getting in trouble with the authorities by going over an arbitrary line. The spaceship and crew landed safely and even the article points out that they were never in any real danger.
This comment is top rated yet misconstrues – in order to advance the author's values – both the argument and the context. Topically, Wenger is a partner at USV (Manhattan) and _The World After Capital_ was published as a Gitbook in order to be open source.

It is not intended to describe nor comment, politically, on the day to day of capital flows. Attacking it as such is a straw man argument at best and intellectually lazy at worst.
Developer tools have always been a tough business to be in. On one hand, you have tools that people love to use that pay the bills. I’m thinking about tools like IntelliJ. But for each of these, there is an Eclipse project that is right there trying to keep pace. And many companies choose Eclipse because it’s free, but others choose IntelliJ because of the quality. I use Eclipse for Kava projects because it’s “good enough” and when I started programming Java, paying for IntelliJ wasn’t something I could afford.

On the other hand, we’re developers… so many of us like building our own tools. Why are there so many options for text editors? Depending on the type of tool, it might just be easier/fun to build your own tool.

It is possible to make money in FOSS, but you really have to get the business plan right from the beginning. It’s a hard business to be in.

If you haven’t read it, “Dreaming in Code” by Scott Rosenberg is a great story about just how hard it is to make a successful FOSS project, even for experienced teams. It details all of the ups and downs of the Chandler project from the early 2000’s.