skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, because supposedly "free speech" is a problem now. Sad state of affairs, such a childish nearsighted worldview to hold.
Huh, I learned a new word today! Doubt I'll use it, but at least it won't confuse me should I encounter that use in the future.
Here's the chart for California.[1] That's very similar.

[1] https://currentebikes.com/ebike-classes-california/
Maybe I've come off the wrong way here. I do not believe that either party can claim the moral high ground for their decision on raising children.

I DO however, get annoyed when I see people present themselves as some kind of martyr simply for being child free. Those same folks on this forum gladly spew out carbon in pursuit of building a new ML model, cryptocurrency, or unnecessary startup cash-grab.

> I'm 42. Married almost 20 years. No kids. Still no desire to have them. Amazing, right?

> Suggestion: Don't talk down to people about their reproductive choices. You might not agree with folks but you're no one's moral superior.

For the record, I am 26 and have also have no children. Your suggestion is exactly my point. Seems like we have some common ground!
I read that some percentage of homes have been paid for in full.
That's a good argument for punishing HSBC more than was done. In general in the USA we're really bad at holding the rich and powerful accountable. It's a serious issue.
You cannot neutralize and disable the PSP spying module in AMD processors, while in Intel ones you can do that with ME: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert....
None the less it is a shortage of fossil fuels that is at least part of the problem.
I may be mistaken, but I believe that's something that's currently in the works (fingers crossed). Or it's at least very requested by users.
CIA director “fuming” after Havana syndrome strikes team member in India
There are plenty of DRM unencumbered ebooks around if you look. But if you do find yourself dealing with DRM there are a number of methods of removing it.

Personally, if I already own the book in question I pirate the e-book, I don't see anything wrong with this as the author has already received equivalent royalties for the book. In the cases that I do not own a physical copy, I will generally buy a physical copy and then pirate the e-book. In some cases it is impossible to find a pirated e-book in which cases I will search for a DRM free option to buy. And in the event that I can't find the DRM free option I will resort to an Adobe Digital Editions DRM version (which I will promptly turn into a normal copy). This has worked out well for me and I have a pleasant library of books on my e-reader.

(Unlike the author, I find the idea of e-book "borrowing" to be completely ridiculous (as ridiculous as spotify or netflix). I would rather just check the book out of a library, or outright pirate it. At the end of the day, the author is not making any extra money out of my inconvenience of having a proprietary management software which stores a book locally on my device but doesn't give me direct access to the data.)
Cyclejs – A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code
This site uses GNU Terry Pratchett and I appreciate that.

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
Bob, with a net worth $1M lower than Alice, would probably disagree that she has not profited.
Yes. If you've ever seen No Country for Old Men, there is a tank of CO2 that Anton Chigurh is carrying alongside his captive-bolt pistol.
And yet here we are; despite the 446e6 strong market place the EU supposedly represents their regulatory power has not delivered what we see here. No, instead we have an American company motivated by only the belief that their product will succeed in the market kicking open the door.
At least until you do it at a scale large enough to make significant campaign contributions like, say, Bank of America or Wells Fargo. And those companies not only processed large relative amounts of criminal proceeds as companies they literally committed fraud themselves against their own customers.
> Snopes is a poor fact checker

Is there a single fact in the linked Snopes article that is incorrect?
It sounds like you've installed some sort of app with a low level keyboard hook that's discarding the input. The login screen is in a separate desktop and not subject to such meddling. If it was an accessibility tool it might be able to hook into the login screen, I forget.
> MacOS is nice, probably my favorite consumer operating system currently available, but Apple's walled garden approach is beyond annoying

What’s the walled garden on macOS? You can run anything you want on the Mac.
That's ok, they can switch off the damn metric system. Freedom ! (?)
Thanks

I got the gist that "We cannot support old SW for so long" but that action makes things more manageable to upgrade.

I have several SWs that are hard-depended on the OS version.
They're not totally proprietary, they've even released designs CC-BY that you can use to make your own: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
It might be getting flagged because the author of the PDF started out openly with the objective of linking deaths to vaccines. That or that it's not an objective document, it reads like a hit piece on vaccines with shaky evidence and random unsourced testimonials.

When you read PDF with that in mind, the author's repeated pointing to the massive jump in unverified self-report stats on VAERS (right after the president of the United States cast aspersions on vaccinations to boot) doesn't really feel that compelling.
francheses
I thoroughly appreciate when an author uses an extensive variety of sources that are particularly relevant to the topic.

I wonder how long this took to write.
Yes, op's title is scaremongering clickbait drivel.
The Kindle Paperwhite uses flattened fiber optics to bounce the light from the edges off of the epaper, so it is still more like indirect lighting than reading on a phone. In a darkened room, or when I am reading outside at night, it works pretty well. When I'm on a plane, or when I'm in a resturant, I don't have to fiddle with an external lighting device to read.
Fair enough! As I said, I don't know a ton about this stuff, so always good to have knowledge shed for me.

Out of curiosity, what do regular banks (e.g. BOA in my example) do to avoid this problem? Just basic background checks and reporting suspicious behavior to the FBI or SEC or something?
Federal Govt HHS Whistleblower Goes Public with Secret Recordings
> I really miss my Thinkpad Trackpoint

This is one of those comments I will never understand. Every single time I have tried to use one of those things the only thought that goes through my mind is, "This is the dumbest mouse interface I have ever seen. Why would anyone ever use this thing?"

And then I see comments like this. I don't get it. The ergonomics of those little nubs are awful.
I think Ravi (the author) is spot. The difficulty is the table stakes features for SaaS products have increased so much as the industry has grown and so have expectations.

That being said I think people have erred way too much away from the MVP concept and aren't fundamentally testing the biggest unknown with their MVPs. Of course you're going to need SSO at some point but you don't need it for a MVP.
The percentage doesn’t matter. I’m saying that HSBC has helped launder money for terrible people/organizations and the US government would stop more crime by appropriately punishing them vs a small exchange.

Edit: I can’t reply to the person who responded, but if you read my original comment, I say I think both should be punished instead of the government going hard against small fish while letting large-scale corruption thrive.
So use the userland version. The "obfuscating" VPNs you're talking about all tend to be userland as well.
Take a look at Nvidia's Isaac Simulator: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac-sim

It's exactly what the article is talking about. BMW used it to help automate a factory: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
If it's any consolation, I've bought a used Thinkpad every year since 2015.
One notable exception is the cover of every week’s New Yorker.
I'm impressed that they have managed to take this product to market, and I'm glad that people who value modularity will finally have a viable option.

at the same time, I personally don't see what all the fuss is about. you can upgrade both DIMMs, which is cool, but not exactly unheard of these days (I guess it's getting there in an ultraportable?). you're still stuck with DDR4, which is almost EOL, and the max capacity it entails. it's neat that you can customize your IO options, but how many people are going to do that more than once? being constrained by the chipset, it's not like you're going to be able to "upgrade" your IO in the future.

the most likely parts of a laptop to fail are the SSD and the battery, both of which are fairly easy to replace on almost all laptops. past that, you aren't really gaining that much when you're locked into whatever CPU/chipset was current when you bought the laptop.
What the author meant here is software is coming for mechanical hardware, like gears and motors. I.e., with more advanced software you will be able to use cheaper gears and motors. As far as electronic hardware, forget about it. You will need more and more of it. His vision of replacing super high precision in gears and motors with sensors and image recognition will require a lot of sensors and some pretty hefty processors for image recognition.
Expressing disagreement with someone's opinion with a single click is sooo easy though ...
I use to work at a place that included parking in rfid activated ramp. I always wanted to clone my badge into something sewn into the wrist of my motorcycle jacket so I didn't have to fumble for my badge while entering and leaving the ramp. In a watch would be perfect.
The lockdowns have gotten so extreme that there's a desire for black market fast food. Amazing.
They aren't being used for advertising in the case of PWAs we develop, they're being used to notify users of something that needs to be checked. Never assume.

Furthermore, it is simple enough to add a boolean that blocks all notifications from PWAs by default.
> (I'm also trying to fit a Li-Ion battery/UPS between the PSU and components)

This should totally be a thing. I wish it was a thing. It doesn't even have to provide hours of runtime, just needs to be enough to handle the occasional stupid California brownout.
That's not much different from being forced, really. If you dislike this sort of thing but are on a team that adopts it, it's not really optional no matter how much everyone says it is. It would be a bit like office parties in that respect -- technically optional, but bad for your career if you opt out.
I'm just waiting for an excuse to purchase a Framework laptop. My thinkpad is hanging in there (2014 model, purchased used) and I have a desktop that is more than powerful enough for the type of development I do on my own time. As soon as I get the chance, I'll be ordering one of these. Hopefully there's an AMD version out by then!
Damn. That's the exactly the type of long-term security vulnerability that I'm concerned about.

What you're describing is only today's present conditions. They're allowed to continue because adoption is low, and so businesses aren't trying to add even more "security". This is like IP before DPI, or when people considered Bitcoin anonymous.

Once FIDO keys become popular, and especially if software-only keys become popular, companies will most certainly restrict their services to only work with trusted brands.
Yeah — I get my ebooks DRM-free and manage the contents of my Kobo through Calibre. It works great; I'm happy using my Kobo as little more than a screen for Calibre.
St. Luke's (Idaho) Daily Covid Data
Yes. Denmark shows the power of the worker’s cartel. It’s smart business tactics, the kind that the employer would praise in their own management.
I laughed, I exclaimed... and then I had a moment of silence.
Sounds like giving up one addiction for another. But I guess buying laptops yearly is better for your health than smoking.
I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco
Seems like for this and maybe a few other products, it might be useful to set up a local wifi network that doesn't connect to the internet so you could at least use tools like ssh or even operate an iot home network without worrying about phoning home.
In a country with 3.3 TIMES as many people as 1918-19. So the death rate is still about 1/3 that of the Spanish Flu (to date).
I don't know about NYC, it varies state-to-state, but usually a citizen's arrest is limited to directly witnessed felonies. Illegal parking isn't a felony.
It is, however, I'm lucky enough to be in good health that carrying 200g extra in my backpack has no negative implications vs the added benefits.
This is a good point and ties into the whole funding trap. I imagine some founders find it difficult to show a shitty looking MVP when you have investors looking
> we need to force the rest of the industry

Or we could, you know, not force anything and just work together to solve problems instead.

Different industries, environments, and individuals all have vastly different requirements and _your particular_ mindset and methods do not fit all use cases.
If 12,000 of them were fired (all at once?), so they are not that critical to the economy and the safety of the country to the point that can't strike, right?
Well the question is do you want every laptop to have the customizability of Framework's laptops, or should there instead be a minimum bar set for warranty/repairability? I think the second is probably what's needed, and the EU has been better both at imposing standards and ensuring warranties and repairability.
Stripe introduces new Revenue Recognition product
Have you considered shipping this as a packaged application? I'm sure people would download this.
this might help https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e3ada1a6a2e8d6a131d1...

"The judgment of therapeutic proportionality must be made by the person who is the potential
recipient of the intervention in the concrete circumstances,6 not by public health authorities or by other
individuals who might judge differently in their own situations."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606907
This isn’t a laptop for me, I want different trade offs. But I’m really excited to see it enter the space, and hopefully they will become a viable market contender.

That might both satisfy the demand often expressed, by people like us, for more upgradability/repair ability and make other manufacturers steal some of their best ideas.
Salesforce is anything but "No Code", it was just a clever marketing ploy. Just look at job postings for Salesforce Developers.

I don't think BI analysts have to get worried quite yet.
Side note, @foone is a great account to follow on Twitter if you're looking for weird Hardware hacks and commentary on tech.
Right, but it gives you the most stable shot at braking because the point of rotation of the scooter is the front wheel, and if you can brake with your front leg up against the nook of the steering column, you can support your deceleration pretty much in a straight line against that point, which is approximately as good as it gets.

And even if you can't take that, you can still hipbrace the steering bar, which gives you almost as good a line - and even if you go flying, you'll probably be rotating around your feet which means you'll frontal facecheck the ground.

Which is bad, but: if you're standing upright, then it's your terribly angled arms against the handlebars that have to take approximately half the deceleration force, which means you rapidly cross the point where your mass is above that line through the point of rotation, and then the steering bar basically flips your head against the ground with bonus rotational velocity. At which point you will take spinal damage, helmet or not.

Effectively, the easiest way to check is if someone's front foot is either set well forward, or at an inward angle. Either is fine. If it's set forward, you can brake with a line through your foot (best case, but an exhausting pose); if it's at an inward angle, you automatically end up braking with your thigh against the steering column (second best case). If it's straight and upright, then you're in danger.

Effectively, I'm not disagreeing, I'm saying I think scooters are primarily dangerous because on top of what you're saying, people also ride them in a horrifyingly unsafe way.
To use a recent example, police have done exactly that. They're not even trying to pretend it isn't exactly what it is.
Not disagreeing, but sometimes there is quite literally no alternative, especially in the CAM space.
I hadn't checked it out in a while. Thanks. It satisfies some but not others, and is a bit more monolithic. I found a project called slickgrid-universal by one of the recent contributors. This looks neat except it takes a while to scroll: https://ghiscoding.github.io/slickgrid-universal/#/example11
I'm really hoping they come out with an option for a touchpad with separate mouse buttons. I've always found clickpads unusable.
> The last desktop build I made 5 years ago hasn't had a single component changed in that entire time.

My last desktop build is still going strong nine years later. Swapped out a broken motherboard, upgraded to OCed DDR3, and stuck in a PCIe card for NVMe: good as new.
M1 macs no longer run unsigned code. Apps now check stapled OCSP. There's now a permissions dance to do much of anything.
This happens ALL THE TIME. At first I thought I was touching the touchpad by mistake, but I now have no touchpad and it's definitely Gmail forgetting where I'm typing. Then I have to figure out what actions I may have triggered and undo.
The story of why Walmart Failed in Germany
Newer laptops are starting to come with soldered SSDs. Macbooks have had non-standard or soldered SSDs for the past 5+ years.

Framework is also proactively making documentation, schematics, etc etc available for repair shops.
OT: Does anyone know the state of the art is music visualization?
Dow Jones in 1906: 14

Dow Jones in 2022: 34,000

Maybe the Dow Jones is causing climate change!

Countries participating in the Olympics in 1896: 27

Countries participating in the Olympic in 2021: 197

No wait, the Olympics are what’s causing climate change!
Between Two Shades: ‘Gray’ and ‘Grey’
I think the problem is two fold.

1) a CSP can't make money off of cost tools and anything that doesn't generate revenue will always be de-prioritized. You could make an argument that having good cost tooling natively will prevent churn (which is probably true) but still this only retains revenue that other products generate rather than generate new revenue itself. I don't think there is a world where customers wouldn't be enraged if AWS started charging for Cost Explorer even if it meant a better version of CE.

2) All of the product teams that generate the cost data are not incentivized to make the cost data easy to understand or sensible from a billing perspective. They are incentivized to generate more revenue. It feels as if AWS billing is meant to be easy for the product teams to bill based on rather than for the customer to grok the bill.
It seems like there are a lot of people here who change their laptop almost every year or two. Is that common? I ask because I'm still using my mid-2014 MBP, and it's only really this year that it's started feeling underpowered with the fans running quite a bit. Apple laptops are expensive for sure, but compared to upgrading every year it seems like a good deal, not to mention the problem of electronic waste. (I'm not looking for an Apple / PC fight by the way, just haven't heard of people upgrading so regularly before).
YEAH the quality of NLP is not nuanced/fine-grained enough to be able to differentiate offensive text...its comprehension is nowhere near as nuanced as a human brain. One thing that gives me a little hope here is understanding the current state of the way we hire for, support, and value software engineering skills. Knowing how to communicate (ex: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8) is really important to being good at building software. Also, using strong communication and making SMEs (ie in this case, linguists, anthropologists, and other language specialists) an integral part of the development and learning process is really important. I'm not convinced that Google (and other shops trying to solve this problem) have really been leaning into this - getting the right people at the table and setting a standard for great communication during dev. Try that and get back to us?
Even if you mostly work at your desk, a desktop computer has just no option for mobility if you ever want to work somewhere else temporarily. It seems like many people value the option of mobility, even if they don't use it often.
> MFCC (mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients)

For anyone else who had never heard of "cepstrum" before, this is what I found on Wikipedia:

"The cepstrum is the result of computing the inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of the estimated signal spectrum. The method is a tool for investigating periodic structures in frequency spectra. The power cepstrum has applications in the analysis of human speech.

The term cepstrum was derived by reversing the first four letters of spectrum. Operations on cepstra are labelled quefrency analysis (or quefrency alanysis), liftering, or cepstral analysis."
Yeah, I care about the code that comes into the repository: charset, tab/spaces, style, etc. Who cares about the OS or IDE the developer used to commit or type? Unless you see a productivity/code issues problem...
I wouldn't say it is harmful (just like that). If you do you would have to apply the same to all tradition as repeating things regardless of whether you know the benefits of it.

In the past, tradition was one of ways to pass knowledge. There was no youtube or google available and people were generally were not able to read or attend classes.

Even today you teach your kids certain things they just have to do before they can have knowledge of why. For example brush their teeth.

Even then, repeating things like that is still one of the ways we cope with complexity of the world around you.

I am certain you are probably repeating some instructions from somebody on how to do something just because there is no time in the world for you to evaluate every single simple thing and decision.

On the other hand if somebody starts writing about it and discuss with other people, I expect them to put at least a little bit of effort into thinking about it if you are equipped for it (or shut up if you are not).

Repeating mindlessly on the Internet things you learned from somebody else is one way the world is broken today.
I bought a low end laptop back in 2005, and I used it for about 2-3 years until it started to fall apart. It just didn't hold up (hinges started to disintegrate). It's performance was terrible, too, and it couldn't be upgraded.

I got a business class laptop in 2007 for probably 3 times as much. That laptop lasted me until last month. I maxed out the RAM and replaced the HD with an SSD about 7 years ago, but it was ultimately the now-anemic CPU and graphics that got me to buy a replacement. I'd have replaced it last fall but laptop stocks were too low.
Tagging is required yes, but its a very simple practice. I worked in both small (3 accounts) and huge (200 accounts) orgs, and tagging, at least by name was never a problem regardless of tens of thousands of resources we manage.

Cost Explorer does all of what you mentioned. UI allows 1 level group by, API does 2. You can filter & group by API Operation (S3 put object), Service (S3), Usage Type (S3 Standard Storage GB/mo), (predefined) Tags and it works brilliantly over even 1 year of data, fast.

I'm really not convinced on what you can do additionally, since you work on the same data exactly (detailed dumps on S3) apart from nicer charts.