skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have to be popular for the keyword poisoning to work, but it probably won't get popular with a weird name..

"Yeah in my last project I developed a web app based on BinLaden Framework and IsisDB"..
The Power of Elon Musk, the Meme-Stock Lord
> The resulting coverup by a POTUS who got his position after another POTUS was assassinated is one of the most egregious coverups in the last century.

Yeah... um... you sound like a conspiracy-theory nutcase when you write like this. How is Kennedy's assassination relevant here? What are you darkly hinting at, but not coming out and saying?

Writing like this is called "vagueposting", and it's really shoddy. Don't make us guess what your point is. Either make a clear claim, or don't bother.
In Word, if you paste something, it will show a little tooltip menu beside the pasted content that allows you to change if it keeps source formatting, adopts destination formatting, or has no formatting.
It reminded me of my days in college where professors encouraged us to use Matlab. A variety of reasons made me not like it but one of them for sure was the realization that the moment I left college Matlab would no longer be "free" to me.

Yes, I know Octave exists, no it can't do everything Matlab can do and a lot of the programs I saw used needed Matlab specific things.
They are not currently, because they are forced by current reality to use things like that. But they create the market demand to make open CPUs in the first place. If you become a big enough customer, Intel and AMD start becoming interested in making open versions of their firmware or CPUs, like they do with game consoles today, making custom models just for them. Framework is already interested in making an ARM laptop for example too, and I could foresee them getting AMD to make an open firmware version their CPUs just for the high assurance / open hardware segment that is starting to get created by valve and framework.

Create market demand, and companies start providing market solutions.
When suspected necromancy is afoot, of course you'd need to see a wizard about it.
Washington sent an army to squash the Whiskey Rebellion, and John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law. They were quite happy to go after threats to their power.
Try booking a flight with diacritics in your name. Same situation.
Some other interesting things about the Amish:

Perhaps also contrary to popular belief is that the Amish drink alcohol and love to celebrate with their friends and family. They do not have any specific prohibition against getting drunk.

They also have one convenient technology the rest of us still dream of: self-driving “cars.” After a night of merriment they need to get home safely but that’s no problem at all because the horse knows the way home! They simply climb in their buggy and let the horse take them back, so they can tuck in bed and rest up for another day of work the next morning!
Is this a case of Gell-Mann amnesia in where the commenters usually lament how the US judicial system is fucked up in overcharging to force a plea deal but in this case the litany of charges is convenient proof of the extreme dangerousness of the Jan 6th protesters?
So Christopher is an interesting case because it's the longest common English first name at 11 characters. There are names that seem longer but aren't, like Maximilian.

My first son is named Christopher, and we realized right away that there is a 10 character first name limit in a ton of systems almost from day 1 - calling my insurance company, the automated system asked "Are you calling about... Christophe?"... in a French accent, which was hilarious.
IOPS (I/O operations per second) are dumb
>But it was certainly possible for a Linux vendor to have got a key into the kek and dB lists: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html

Your text is written in past tense. But if there is a maintained list why is nobody working to get linux vendor keys in now? Yeah, it'll take a while for the hardware cycle to refresh, but it's better than nothing.
It's not bad or good. Just a fact.
It’s just feeding the troll to reply to that account. “Taiwan is China” etc in comment history.
This sounds like the type of justification of why other people who get shot by police might have been at more fault. We have way too many police shootings when other disarming methods exist.
> For books and similar long docs

Weirdly enough I know someone with a book published by a big programming book company, and they accept manuscripts in Word only.
No, though the person I got this from probably does.

No room for more podcasts until I finish Revolutions, so probably 2025.
Office has OneDrive (IIRC some are cloud-only, OneNote I think) and many of Adobe's apps save to Adobe's cloud.
> but for every other sort of note, shorter pieces of writing etc., Markdown is more than enough

Oh, yeah, not go adding formating that one doesn't need is a great way to avoid a lot of pain.

Markdown if more than enough for nearly all the writing people do. (But it's not enough for all the writing that most people do.)
PayPal Abandons Pinterest Takeover After Its Shareholders Balk
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986557
I watched the abridged intro video an I swear I thought it was a parody... Everything introduced seemed like a joke.
CDs and DVDs are a good example of this. I used to have a wall of my apartment dedicated to media, all completely immaterial now.
I’ll admit I’m coming from a biased perspective. I’ve almost been hit as a pedestrian by cars that ran a red light or tried to intimidate me from exercising my right of way. Less maliciously, I see cars that try to beat pedestrians to the cross walk or straight up don’t look when turning left on green. I’ve also seen cars in an intersection near me speed through a gas station parking lot to circumvent a red light. The police in my area do not ticket any of these infractions.

What I’m getting at is that there’s a million instances of drivers blatantly disobeying the law and people get hurt. Recently in my city a woman lost her leg after being struck by a car when walking across the street with her kids. And in my state, if the driver wasn’t drunk or intent can’t be proven, the driver is given a slap on the wrist.

The lack of consequences trains people that these laws do not need to be followed. Look at some of the recent high profile cases. Teen strikes 6 cyclists trying to coal roll them - no charges filed yet. Man swerved into bike lane killing NFL coach - no charges. Dakota DA kills man drunk with his car and flees - no charges.

Even speeding we’ve normalized to a crazy degree. It’s insanely dangerous but people joke about it like it’s nothing. When someone gets a speeding ticket we commiserate with them instead of showing disapproval. It’s no accident our roads are so dangerous. Our society is completely complacent to the human suffering caused by car violence.

The problem with just giving people a pass is that it forces the victims to pay the full cost of the externalities. Someone’s got to pay. Yes it sucks for the driver who made a mistake, but it also sucks for the family who lost a breadwinner or caregiver or the company who lost an employee. When people have to share the cost, people will price in the cost of their actions when they decide to drive.
> The second slide seems rather suspicous in its placement of "CAST members are not qualified to testify after reading this"; almost as if they were not speaking to an audience of CAST members, but rather, the public.

Sounds like they are doing advance witness tampering by trying to get CAST members to evade calls to testify on material facts known to them should they receive such, not lobbying the public via anticipated future leak.

(I’m not even sure how the statement about testimony would be expected to manipulate the public.)
Grand Prix Legends, Rowan's Mig Alley and Battle of Britain, Falcon 4. Brings back the memories. Great to see these old sims running on linux.
Funny how the pg was rooting for him by calling Allred "relentlessly resourceful" while it was clear even to naive ears and eyes that it was the lies that were relentless and the resources were mostly talking a great game, but with no results to back it up.
> The theoretical energy expended to move an object is zero.

The theoretical energy expended to keep an object moving is zero. The theoretical energy transferred to the object to get it moving is deeply non-zero, even as the energy transferred from the object to get it to stop moving is also nonzero. If you have a finite energy budget, even under theoretical conditions, you can only have a finite number of objects moving up to speed at any given time.

I know you acknowledge this in the rest of your message, but I don't think the original example is poor for the reason you give.
Petition urging Missouri governor to apologize to journalists who reported leak
I worked on a team that built an "ephemeral" system. Part of that was to ensure that no state was logged. They were so proud of it being built that way.

Problem was, the system failed constantly and we had no way of knowing what the issue was without ssh'ing directly into a machine and retrying the steps by hand.

I get what they were going for, but at the end of the day, their opinions on how ideal systems "should be" ended up destroying their project and ignored fundamentals.

Example: one of the main deployment hosts was constantly crashing from disk space issues for over a year. Turns out when they provisioned the host with 4GB of storage and 64GB of RAM. They never troubleshot the host and just restarted its services whenever it crashed!
It's amazing the level of defensive outrage this event generates 50 plus years on. If we can't have an open discussion about shady events in the past then maybe we need to investigate the current interests preventing that open discussion.
And I retrained on smaller numbers and got that job at that start-up.

Folks are probably much more likely to tell you why you didn't make it the first time you applied...
It's difficult to win in an SEC governed market that is corrupt by design. You'd need a competitive advantage large enough to bridge the SECs designed corruption in the market.
This made me think of the last timeless test!

> The last timeless Test was the Fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939,[13] which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless_Test
Great question and great answers! Interesting topic.
I still see significant issues with using the threat of finicial repercussions and criminal charges to force dirty executives to comply with illegal efforts to spy on their customers.

This is problematic not just because of the violations of those customers' rights, but also because it creates perverse incentives for the government to encourage the success of dirty tech companies as means to circumvent constitutional protections.

Thus while I don't doubt Nacchio's guilt, I absolutely think that he should have atleast been allowed to use that argument as a defense in his court case so that the Government is somewhat discouraged from using such tactics by the knowledge that it can come to light in court.
OMG is there a way to make this some kind of skin for Spotify?

I, too, loved the iPod UI, and would love to have something like this again.
It looks that they want to partially use inflatable modules. The last organisation that tried that is the late Bigalow Aerospace. Has any of these companies purchased the intellectual property or will they be redeveloping it?
Related post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28973802
I don’t think this comment should be hidden. It’s an interesting example of the effect of disinformation on dialogue. Lies always travel so fast…
Not letting a Facebook competitor get ahold of it has value in itself.
It became so popular, especially after it was officially available on Windows in 2003. And it remained THE thing until the iPhone really exploded when unleashed from AT&T around 2011.

It’s heyday was only about 8 years but it had such a MASSIVE effect on the technology and music industries.

Has any other product been so important but only been around for a relatively short amount of time?
Some past threads:

Menuet – A pre-emptive, real-time and multiprocessor OS written in assembly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15427848 - Oct 2017 (71 comments)

MenuetOS 0.85C released: an OS written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309696 - Sept 2013 (15 comments)

MenuetOS: an OS that fits on a floppy, written entirely in assembly, has GUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477868 - July 2010 (8 comments)

MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776381 - Aug 2009 (45 comments)
I very much doubt it's exclusively "natural ability" (whatever that means exactly. I suspect that most people who are really motivated to finish and can set aside the time to do so can get the certificate even if they don't have the whatever to become really good developers.
I only count 7 Pis where are the missing 2?
This article is about technological progress enabling doing more with less. I’ve been having a tangentially related thought about general project planning as it pertains to technological progress.

The thesis is: Unless you can create an optimistic project plan that results in the project’s completion within 5 years, the money would be better spent on doing basic research.

The thesis is informed by the ITER fusion reactor project, which was started in 2007 and whose current target date is 2025 (but will likely slip, as it has before), but that date is for first plasma formation and not actual deuterium-tritium fusion, which won’t happen until 2035.

Meanwhile, during this timeline, advances in materials science, namely higher temperature superconductors, have opened the possibility of significantly smaller and simpler designs, some of which are being plausibly pursued by startups (eg SPARC).

So I wonder if a general heuristic to guide science funding would be something like “if the optimistic timeline is > 10 years, invest instead in basic research that could potentially develop technologies that would shorten that timeline”.

This thesis is also generally informed by the relative success of New Space (eg SpaceX) companies compared to Old Space (eg Boeing) companies. Elon has famously said “if the plan is long, the plan is wrong”, and I think that philosophy has demonstrably worked out well for SpaceX.
Frankly, I still smell a rat. Islamic terrorism is a problem, therefore everyone in the UK must use their real name when calling their MP a wanker on Twitter? Even if you acknowledge that the problem is real, the proposed solution does not follow.

No, it seems far better targeted at getting people to stop saying mean things about them on Twitter more than anything else.
For me, I recognize that historical issue, but saying that the worst current charge is illegal parading is just patently untrue. There's even video proof of at least misdemeanor assault/theft/etc, so there's not much to debate.

I do recognize there's plenty of room to argue whether it was an insurrection or not. I'd personally call it a riot.
Who signs your cheques, out of interest?
Navigate on autopilot = FSD for highways. It's actually pretty useful in a new city etc and trying to navigate on highways
> DNSCryptProxy -> Great for ensuring all DNS requests on the network via DNS over HTTPS. Kind of useful because frankly ISPs are sniffing DNS traffic. Also useful for bypassing DNS based ISP filters.

If you're using PiHole, you can just use cloudflared to do DoH. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

On a different note, biggest reason I've never installed a VPN at home is because I just prefer a deny-everything home network and worry I'll misconfigure something and cause a security issue.
I wanted to support Firefox as well, and would still prefer to do nothing related to my job on a browser that may be sharing it all because some some click-through EULA gave it permission.

But I can't use it anymore, because it swaps.

My work laptop has only 8GB, soldered. One day I was shocked to find the NVME had only 50% useful life left. Digging further, FF memory demand was causing paging, on a drive that was so fast I wasn't really bothered by it. Who knows how long that had gone on....

Edge doesn't appear to do this.
Is the original poster sure the extra size wasn't to accommodate a 2.5" or 3.5" for testing purposes. There doesn't appear to be a physical HDD. In the 2nd prototype picture (not much for scale) it looks like a board with control logic, and maybe the decoder IC, and MCU, then a connection to a battery and lcd screen with it's controller circuit. I don't see an HDD, and solid state drives with capacity corresponding to the original ipod weren't on the market yet.
Startpage.com uses Google results, which besides having become kinda useless, have their own issue with censorship [0]

[0] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html
https://frame.work is getting good reviews and seems very reputable. Of course its just a laptop, so you have to figure out the rest of your computing world then.
The GitLens VSCode plugin is nice, but

(1) Very annoying that the default is to show blame all the time when the cursor moves to a new line. Who would want that? It just made me strongly dislike the plugin at first encounter, until I'd turned that behavior off.

(2) It also has a massively over-engineered `git rebase --interactive` buffer IIRC. That thing is fine as plain text with nice keyboard shortcuts, as in magit.
I don’t have a physics background but I’ve always seen “c” as the speed of causality. The light happens to go at that speed in the absence of gravitational disturbances. Gravity and others fields should also move at this maximum speed.

That said, I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that breaking this speed limit just means that causality would be potentially broken. Isn’t that just something we axiomatically believed based on experience and we just haven’t observed otherwise?
This is so weird as a support for the FTC complaint.

My own read. Facebook is fighting for - and likely losing - the attention of younger users.

Tiktok and others are doing relatively well.

This is the problem with these networks, they become your parents network. Myspace gone, friendster gone.

The FTC claims of monopoly are laughable?

Tiktok seems to be crushing Facebook in downloads and in time in app, and now I heard was even crushing youtube (all of these folks are competing, youtube has youtube community and patreon style features now with chat etc as well).

is facebook huge? For sure. Is it a monopoly? Have folks not heard of things like tiktok.

Will be interesting if China goes after tiktok the way the US is going after facebook.
That seems like a sufficiently different scenario to me (as a non-expert) that I think a court could reasonably reach a different conclusion.

Firstly, if a government decides to "comply" with the GDPR by just seizing and revoking your passport, you might not have a case against them as the granting of passports could be considered a Royal Prerogative (or an equivalent under other systems of government) and thus non-justiciable. You might try to claim this is discrimination, but I don't think that "non-ASCII characters in name" is a legally protected class, and of course anyone could change their name to have or avoid non-ASCII characters.

Also, if the format is designed to be machine-readable, then arguably the "accuracy" of your name on the passport has to be judged by the machine, not by you as the holder of that name. Moreover, the format is agreed as a consequence of an international treaty, which again might put it beyond the jurisdiction of a domestic court, and if your passport was declared invalid by a nation you were attempting to enter because it contained non-standard characters, that is not something that a domestic court could provide a remedy to.
Pimax announces 12K resolution 200fov 200Hz VR headset
Sounds like those numbers have been “fixed” as the narrative has evolved over the intervening years.
Or AOL, but maybe it died out too soon?
I remember often hearing pundits claim that "17 intelligence agencies had confirmed Russian meddling in the 2016 election"

Now, it turned out that "meddling" amounted to buying facebook ads. Not really a huge deal.

But more importantly, since you brought up the founders - what would they say about the fact that we apparently have at least 17 federal agencies dedicated to spying.
I was at Google, and I didn't see anyone using it with superiority complex.
Good developers are often average designers. And the UI changes are often isolated independent from backend changes. To me, a clean API layer with a static SPA style frontend makes it much easier to iterate both UI and backend changes in parallel, without risk of one impacting the other. Development, testing and deployments can be separate and be independent of each other. That decoupling enables faster iterations. Sometimes, SSR seems to take us back to the days of JSP/ASP where view generation is tightly coupled with control/backend layer.
I've never understood why they try to "disguise" these things. They always stick out like a sore thumb. How would anyone know the difference from a normal cell tower?
NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962168 - Oct 2021 (137 comments)
In Rec Room you can build games, environments, and events using an in-game NoCode tool called circuits: https://recroom.com/

Disclaimer: I work on circuits.
It was and it wasn't. On the consumer level it wasn't that big of a deal. 8bit 8080, Z80 and 6502 based machines were being sold right up to the end of the 80's. Even though 16 and then 32bit cpus were introduced surprisingly early. 386's and equivalents were considered high end in 1990-91.

That had more to do with cost than it did the advance of tech. But it did mean that competitors had a chance to catch up and get into the market before they were blown away.

In the case of professional workstations and up, midrange, big iron etc the difference was felt far more. This was especially true in military tech where NATO forces we able to become fully digital sooner than the Warsaw pact.
that works even if location is turned off in the OS itself?
Also not without instrumentalizing Sicknick's death to further the 'orange man bad' narrative.

"Neutral" NPR reporting on this:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963336791/brian-sicknick-capi...
As I recall, that was the gist of Obama's excuse to not follow through on that particular campaign promise.
On Starting and Scaling Lambda School (2019)
Like, 5 engineers never huddled together to figure out how to solve a problem?
I am exclusively an index fund investor (VTSAX and VTIAX). I go into the stock market without the arrogance of thinking I can do analysis on individual stocks. I will always just copy whatever the market is doing.

That being said... there is no way Tesla should have a market cap of $1T.
> if you succeed with "agile", you would have succeeded as well or better without it. It's never why you were successful, but is often why projects fail.

I would love to see some counter examples where companies succeeded writing business/application software using a well-defined process that wasn't 'Agile'. So please, let me know the counter example, what process is the alternative?
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I think this probably just approximates a description of the neurobiology of vision, from the retina to the occipital cortex. For example, newborns prefer high contrast images, but I presume no-one would consider them to have any understanding of art. The same for things like red / green preferences, which are likely to have their roots in the red / green cones in the retina. I'd argue it's not just useless, but lacks any meaningful insight into art.