skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civilian GPS does this two ways, clock skew and how many digits of resolution the timestamp is.
Do these phones run mainline distros e.g. Debian? I'm thinking about getting one just for occasional ssh. Even a tty with the keyboard addon would be fine. Regular phones these days are such massive spyware that I'm not even willing to trust ssh keys inside them.
I really appreciate that in SQL Server we can just use query hints. I don't think I will ever see eye-to-eye with the PostgreSQL team on this. No query planner is perfect. SQL Server's planner certainly isn't. We have had the same sort of "query plan suddenly changes in production and everything breaks" incidents, but they are easily fixed with query hints and/or forced plans, and you can be sure that future statistics updates won't break them again.
I haven't had much use for plan locking even after MS SQL server got it, even though its a nice feature with being able save load plans from a file etc.

I just like good set of hints since they are part of source code and I can put comments and see why they are there in source history later.
And I think New Holland spun off from Ford at one point but I may be mistaken.
Zooming in on Zero-Click Exploits
I've recently started building a few Blurb books. I haven't had one printed yet, but I'm working on curating a "best of" collection from my photos (e.g. Best of 2020, 2019, trip to XYZ, etc...) and carefully arranging them all. It does take time, but I'm looking forward to the result. But as you said, not cheap.

I also use Adobe Lightroom, not just for editing, but for storing photos. It's a great way for me to look at, organize, and even publish-to-web, from either my desktop, laptop, or mobile. As for it being a cloud solution, I'm more comfortable with handing my photos to Adobe's cloud than to Google's (or Facebook's!) Although it contains far far more photos than I plan to put in my Blurb books, it too is a "best of" sort of thing.

My "source of truth" is a local hard drive dedicated to photo storage. When I shoot, my camera is set to RAW+JPEG, and I save both copies. The thinking is: RAW has the most data, but do I know for sure that someone digging through these photos in 100 years will have proper Sony RAW Codec to view them? Probably, just JPEG is a nice fall-back.... I organize photos using the following file structure

/{celestial_object}/{continent}/{country}/{state_or_province}/{city_or_locale}/YYYY.MM.DD__album_title
.. e.g. /earth/north_america/usa/california/los_angeles/2021.01.18__visiting_steve
.. e.g. /moon/mare_tranquillitatis/2021.01.18__first_shoot_with_new_celestron_lens
.. e.g. /jupiter/2021.01.18__galilean_moons

Once a year I plug in a second hard drive and use Macrium Reflect to mirror the image. Then unplug that second hard drive an put it somewhere "safe", which at the moment is a storage unit down the street.

I'm looking to get a NAS and set up RAID, but even then I'll still mirror the disk periodically and keep a copy in a safe place.

But I do encourage everyone to consider printing photo books.
I've recently started playing Morrowind again. I was pleasantly surprised to see a healthy modding community that's still adding lots of new content, fixing bugs, and improving graphics. The UI is still clunky, but better than it used to be (with these mods), and the story is still one of the best games ever. It came out in 2002.

I would argue that many gamers are wrong if they think they're never going to want to revisit one of their favorite games. In fact the primary market for D2: Resurrected seems to be gamers who want to revisit one of their favorite games from 20 years ago.
Losing market share on the desktop is by design to shrug off regulators while they flex into new growing markets. Their cloud has been a boon to their bottom line extending their reach into government/corporate clients while Xbox has kept Sony from dominating the living room/home.

Diversification is good for any large entity not just an investment firm.
LTE was not invented to create TikTok, it was created for other reasons, it just happens that TikTok could fill LTE with garbage.
Just all tech that depends on other tech does this.
I agree with this one, it's just like creating a new branch kind of lifestyle or something like that.
Receiving a payment may or may not be earning income.

A lot of people use these payment services to sell used personal goods for less than they paid (often, significantly less), which is not income. But now, they'll need to keep documentation of cost basis of their household goods, in case they sell them later.

Even if you're selling used goods for profit, only part of the sale is income.
Look at modern games. They are almost all bug-ridden until the second DLC (if ever) which is probably just base content they moved out to pad the cost. By that point, you've spent $120 on the game anyway.

As they say: Cheap, fast, and good -- pick two.

With a larger talent pool and all the hard problems already solved, you'd expect games to INCREASE in quality with fewer bugs and issues. If they threw cheap out the window and were charging $200, they could hire and retain experienced talent who would make far fewer mistakes and the quality would increase dramatically.

EDIT: To address number of people further, lets say there are 100x more talent now than in 1993. If 5 people developed Doom and 500 people are needed for a modern AAA title, then the effective supply to demand ratio hasn't changed.
Too late to edit my comment but regarding tachyons what I really meant was neutrinos. Clearly I've been watching too much Star Trek.
It should be worth noting that T-mobile + Sprint succeeded on the third try after the first two were more or less blocked by regulators in the same decade (it didn't actually get all the way to them, but they signaled there was no way they would approved.)

The only reason it got approved the third time was that regulators were convinced that either way, the US would only have three mobile operators because it did not look like Sprint could be a going concern.
Makes sense! Between chance of failure & rate of change, the odds looked pretty good.

I'm more flummoxed by the fact that a fundamentally social-native offering didn't disrupt the existing ecosystem, in the 2000 timeframe.

We had chat. We had basic web. Keyboards weren't that expensive, were they? Seems a killer feature for kids.

Not straight "the Web on your console", but something more like AOL, Prodigy, and the late 90s portals.

My only explanation is that the 3 big platform companies were still thinking in packaged software/games, sold retail, terms. Hence XBox Live, when it emerged, was essentially a way to get more value (multiplayer) out of the packaged software you bought.
I created my own calendar like this 2 days ago. You can mark all kinds of significant events you remember and see how they fit into your life so far. It's incredible how much things change over a few years time.

Tip: If you're from the EU, A4 paper pages with 0.5cm lines perfectly fit 52 weeks x 36 years. No printer needed.
I also found the older UIs of Tiger and Snow Leopard to be more intuitive. Modern flat UIs are difficult to discern what is presentation and what is intractable. Buttons used to look like buttons. It was obvious back then that you can click on them. Today, buttons are so flat that you have to think harder about whether what you are looking at is a button or a text label with a backdrop shape.
>Case in point: give out $1000 dollars in UBI, expect rents increase by about that amount within the next 2 years as current leases expire.

I see no evidence that this would be the case
> I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist

It's 451.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
But how does the IRS know what's what? What happens when you have both business and personal transactions with someone?
Not going to say they are the authoritative source or that their data point is sufficient enough. I would say that ever person I have talked to who runs a business or is a worker at a business has many people who are sick currently. I think the author probably used this example to paint a broader picture that resonates with probably most people who are connected to society at this point.

The reason they used "worker" is because its the largest class of individuals and it IS having real supply chain issues. It ISN'T because people aren't getting paid enough but because people are sick and shouldn't work so as not to infect other people.
I think vertical integration tends to win when the floor is built atop of commodities. The new consoles have similar hardware[0] and it really comes down to allocation of those hardware resources, which makes first party studios ways to differentiate your product from the competition, as you can justify the extra cost to make sure your first party console is optimized for in its unique ways, where cross publishing houses don't always do that, for example. This can differentiate gaming experience, even for titles that are cross platform, if one is optimized for say, the Xbox ecosystem, but its PlayStation port does not have the same kind of optimizations. How much this matters may remain to be seen, for now.

Having highly optimized flagship titles though is what makes these vertical integrations so appealing in this market, in my estimation.

[0]: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ps5-vs-xbox-series-x

FWIW I don't endorse everything in the link to toms guide, I just wanted a reliable source for hardware specs
> Workers and their families are getting sick in droves.

true. we were going to cancel a family birthday last weekend because people had covid but we found out each family currently has it so we kept it. Omicron is spreading like a flame on summer grass.
CyberChef is free though
Bug on the Moon by Vlopes
Ordering is super easy. I'm glad they're using USPS's existing infrastructure so we don't get a healthcare.gov 2.0. We'll see how actual shipping goes.
Why should a side hustle on etsy be taxed less than a side hustle working at the local coffee shop?
IMHO this is just Intel hiding rather than solving its problems. It gives the appearance of management doing something but it's the wrong thing.

If we've learned nothing else, the big winners are at the cutting edge and vertically integrated. Splitting design and fab seems like a good idea: force fab to compete for design business. But middle management will take over and create perverse incentives where neither fab nor design radically improves.

I've heard tales of Intel being rife with politics, fiefdoms and empire-building. This is classic middle management run amok in the absence of real leadership. I honestly think the best thing Intel could do is fire everyone above the director level and start over.

Intel dominated when their fab was cutting edge and no one else had access to it. Splitting this means if their fab improves then everyone has access to it.

There's clearly an organizational problem here but this split isn't going to solve it.
It’s true, our child care collapsed. A bunch folks folks are sick at work either for actual sickness, to care for kids or a sick family member. It’s a cascade of institutional failures.

Btw F-Npr they used to good but now it’s a New York Times like propaganda network.
In Elixir world jQuery was completely displaced by so called PETAL stack:

Phoenix
Elixir
Tailwind
Alpine.js
LiveView

In fact, LiveView alone probably replaced like 90% of what jQuery was ever needed for. The remaining 10% is done with Alpine.
> This made me think about how I tend to visualize code, and it’s a little hard to describe.

This tells me someone is good at imagining castles in the air and that they have difficulty describing their vision. I can't even tell if the castle is stable, shimmering, changing color or shape.

There is an analogy to at least some forms of meditation here: the vision is a distraction to suffer through (however pleasant the suffering) to return to the practice.

I recommend working on the problem and being able to articulate and understand the problem. Two people could see and enumerate a castle and a bridge (and little else) and agree on this vision. Then one could propose burning it down, while the other would propose a trebuchet or breaching mine. A breaching mine would be overkill for a castle made of wood, but stone don't burn. We don't even know if the bridge goes over the walls or even touches them.

I love interesting and entertaining mythologies and applaud them, but they're not to be conflated with The Problem. Listen carefully to the mythologies of the people you work with, and watch carefully if they're more interested in spinning a tale or working on the problem.
> On Steam if you don't like a game, or if it doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund no questions asked as long as it's within 14 days and with less than 2 hours playtime.

There's a hole here: that 14 days is from time of _purchase_ not _access_.

I preordered _Humankind_ a month or two before launch, because it was listed as supporting MacOS. At launch, it didn't. It didn't get Mac support until 3 weeks later, even though that functionality was barely alpha quality with huge graphics and playability bugs. (Even today, months later, Mac support is barely at beta quality. And if you're on M1 you've got to manually configure the app for being run on Rosetta.)

I waited 12 days after launch before giving up and requesting a refund. That refund was denied, because they had taken my money months before. Steam support was unmoved by my assertion that the developer was flat out lying about Mac playability, and that I literally had no way of playing the game as advertised.

Be careful with your preorders, y'all.
Precedent or not, they have no ability to enforce any of such ridiculous claim had it gone the other way, it's like certain governments trying to 'ban' encryption.
In general people don't care whether a game is a "AAA" or "indie" when they buy it, they look at reviews and whether their friends are playing it.

There are good AAA games and bad AAA games. The good ones do very well, the bad ones don't do as well. If we move the goalposts to say that the high-grossing/well-reviewed AAA games don't count then of course we're going to end up with a skewed picture of what the market looks like.
"Loophole" implies that these strategies are meant to circumvent the explicit purpose of the law, but these tax breaks are intended. There is no such thing as "closing a loophole", only purposefully and meaningfully deciding that raising tax on corporations is a thing to do.
Hmmm....

- reset: "blindly" load whatever commit you tell it into your working directory. This is the one if you add "--hard" will plow over your working directory in a way that cannot be undone. Actually I think without the "--hard" it won't make any changes to your working directory, it will treat whatever is in said directory as a change from the commit you told it to reset to. Dunno... have to look into it.

- revert: Creates a new commit that undoes whatever commit you pass in. Often times people mistakenly use this to "undo" a merge into a production branch that shouldn't have happened. The result is trouble when they want to push those changes back into production again.

- restore: I have no clue what this does.

All I really know is "--hard" is one of like two commands that you can do in git that you can't back out of. "git clean" is another one (I think).

Yeah... conceptually Git is kinda easy but the command line is pretty nuts.
UK, I think. Still a weird decision. Of all the stuff Facebook bought they blocked Giphy. Not Whatsapp, Instagram, etc.
That's not true. The system only triggers for commercial transactions.
North Korea Tried To Steal $1B [video]
That means Nintendo should be slapped "hard" too, since we're not getting hung up on legal definitions.
Wasn't this solved in Postgres 12?[0]

[0] https://www.depesz.com/2019/02/19/waiting-for-postgresql-12-...
The argument is that all of the bookkeeping and accounting required to adequately deduct expenses creates an undue burden on small businesses, especially when it comes to mandatory accounting paradigms like depreciation. This is effectively demonstrated by the conventional wisdom of "just hire an accountant", which will run you at least $500, in addition to needing to get up to speed on how to track expenses and what to track.

A single member LLC defaults to a "disregarded entity" for income tax purposes, meaning it has no bearing on taxation or this discussion. And opting into being taxed as an S-corp (or partnership) creates even more paperwork.

Having said that, one of the great inequalities of our tax code is that individuals are not allowed to take most deductions that business take. It's patently ridiculous that a W-2 employee driving their car to work every day cannot deduct that necessary expense to have worked. But really the whole filing process needs to be simplified, the IRS needs to release tax forms as executable programs (eg python) rather than this archaic "add the lesser of line 25 or line 27 to line 3 from form 1138", and the formulas need to be set and published ahead of the tax year as to stop being ex post-facto laws.
same idea for "non-essential" businesses
I was thinking of the third option. I don’t have anything intelligent to say about that option but posed it as a possibility. I imagine that believing in the third option would roughly be equivalent to a religious belief. That is, one believes that option because the alternative is unpalatable.
The difference is that a "patch" implies that it is added to exterior content which means that the question of copyright infringement passes to how that exterior content was obtained.

Patching pirated work is still piracy, but patching work you have purchased legitimately (or were given by the copyright holder, such as a web page) is not piracy.
They get away with that because it's a two-sided market and they have all the consumers. Microsoft tried to woo devs on Windows phone and it didn't work, because consumers didn't follow.
In the US, all new cars are required to have anti impaired driving tech installed by 2026, which I’m really certain will involve a camera… all cars come with microphones already built-in. So really they just need to get in your home - that’s what 802.11bf will do.
I've seen it. I have also seen a lot of disgruntled employees and it's not obvious to me that I should take anyone's word over senior management.

With the kind of success that WoW had it goes to your head. Some people get corrupted by it. It can bring the worst out of some people. That probably happened.
Microsoft already has id Software! Epic Games historical competitor. id Software has Quake, Epic Games has Unreal.

id Software is not the company it once was, but they still make engines. idTech 7 is their last one, powering Doom Eternal.
I use a desktop software program to organize and save data (Reunion for Mac) and export a backup GEDCOM from time to time which can be imported into other applications if need be:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/GEDCOM

GEDCOM has many drawbacks, but it's the de facto standard, it's been around for nearly 40 years, and it's plaintext.

Core data and pictures and family stories gets put into photo books and widely shared with relatives, including some cousins I barely know. I've done three so far for different branches, and will do some updated ones as well as new research is completed.
Which will be covered by fabs built on US soil which presumably are contractually obliged to manufacture chips for the military on demand. (And obliged to take the precautions to be able to do so.) Some of them can be (ex) Intel fabs, some TSMC or Samsung. I don't see any hard necessity for Intel to keep their fabs in house when there are other solutions.
You can dismiss them as “mental gymnastics” but defining the term is the heart of the discussion. Philosophers argued about gravity and heat a lot too before we settled on rigorous physical definitions that could be expressed mathematically.

At a first approximation there are obviously limits to our “free” will as no one has yet been able to will themselves to float through the air without support, go without food or water indefinitely, pop a pet dragon into existence, survive the physical destruction of their brain, etc.

So it’s hard to start from a position that anyone ever seriously thought “free will” meant no limits or dependencies.
What I like so much about using Arch and the AUR is there is a community who will do these fiddly processes for you. Of course not everything is in the AUR but the barrier to entry is much lower than typical Linux package distributions.
I still have nightmares of SQL servers optimizer taking down production systems at random times due to picking a bad plan, judicious use of hints has made my life much easier and allowed me as a developer to be in control and not have to ask the DB nicely and pray it listens.
And shooting on private property is what most people use their guns for. So you agree that the licensing situation for driving and shooting is different.
It's a MIDI controller, so in order for it to be useful it has to be connected to something that can accept MIDI inputs.
Question about your approach: are you able to partition your Backblaze back-up in order to maintain just a minimal set of photos on your local machine?

Would love to do this:
- Back-up local machine via Blackblaze
- Periodically delete all local photos, save somewhere in BB
- Turn on regular back-up again - keeping both the local stuff (now much smaller) but also the previous bulk save in BB.
Certs are used by the client to perform validation when initiating HTTP calls to APIs.
I once saw a calculation that Voyager's slingshot past Jupiter slowed the planet's motion by one foot per trillion years.

It's measurable, if you've got a long enough time scale.
Ransomware isn’t always about money. Sometimes it’s about manufacturing mayhem
> Let's be real, the anti-cryptocurrency arguments are something like this: It eats to much energy so we should ban it (just like gaming! Oh wait...)

The real argument is a bit more subtle: with gaming (and most other uses of power), the incentive is to lower the power usage for a given level of functionality. With cryptocurrency, the incentives are to increase the power usage. The idea behind PoW is to make it too costly (and a large part of the cost is power usage) to find an alternative longer chain. And for an individual miner, the incentive is to use more power than the competition, so that a larger fraction of the fixed amount of reward goes to that miner.
Activision Blizzard has been seriously mismanaged. They have very nice IP and a fanbase that is still somewhat loyal because of the glories of the past, but Microsoft would need to revitalize the management and the creativity.

- Overwatch hit the ground running to massive success, but hasn't materialized Overwatch 2 and has stagnated.

- Warcraft III Reforged is a total disaster and abandoned.

- WoW has a wide following of people in its vanilla form (i.e. taking things awy from what it has become), and the extensions aren't bringing a lot of value. There is speculation on whether it has hit its peak and is in decline.

- The Starcraft Remaster is basically the same game but with a bit nicer graphics.

- Diablo 3 seems to have done well.

I do hope it gets revitalized and the IP gets new life with better management, but Blizzard has been struggling.
In a rapidly-changing marketplace, a certain level of diversification helps increase the odds of survival (it can be overdone; too much diversification, and a company finds itself in charge of a host of projects in industries it doesn't know enough about to compete, which is what put Marvel on the rocks so badly that Disney was able to snap them up back in the day).

Not unlike in nature, a monoculture corporation lives and dies by their business being at all relevant in general, and the market (especially in the entertainment sector) is fickle.