skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Azure Kinect was released as a successor for the research and business applications[1]. I know one roboticist who has used one, but no one aside from that. Definitely dead as a consumer gaming device, but a product evolving towards a discovered usecase is a surprisingly happy outcome from MS.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/kinect-dk/
The reconstruction of the city involved some of the first intentionally anti-seismic building methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombaline_style
It's a matter of degree, of course. Lots of military hardware and systems share components; the same engine is used on different planes, etc, or the same with some modifications, or different engines using the same components - a matter of degree.

The biggest(?) example of sharing development to a greater degree is the F-35 plane. Three models - themselves mostly the same - were developed for about a dozen countries and more services (e.g., in the US, F-35s are used by three services, the Navy, Air Force, and Marines). The idea was that by sharing development costs, they could all buy better planes and then standardize parts (creating economy of scale there), maintenance, training, and functionality - everyone's planes would work perfectly together in combat, you could land your plane anywhere and get parts and maintenance, one country's pilots could fly another's planes. That's all fantastic for a deep military alliance.

But a big challenge is making three variations on one design please so many customers, fit so many needs. Think of development or integration projects in IT: Understanding, defining and meeting the specs of customers is often the hardest part. Imagine doing that for organizations as large as one US military service, such as the US Navy with all their needs and users and powerful people who want their way - imagine the specs of a plane that lands and fights off aircraft carriers - and then the powers in government that funds them, people in Congress, the White House, etc. etc. Now expand that to a dozen countries and all their military services - with different sized carriers, or different fuels, different cultures, different approaches to air defense, different legislators, etc. By serving all these needs, you can end up with outcomes that please everybody and serve nobody.

The F-35 has great positives - it's widely considered the best plane in the world - and negatives and has been the target of much criticism (including by people who didn't get contracts or get their way). Nobody seems anxious to repeat the process to that degree, but that doesn't mean it has no value.
Platforms can have any arbitrary rule.

If I host a service for manchester city fans, why would I not be able to ban annoying united fans? Who cares if what they do is legal. What if I post NSFW content here on hn. It's not illegal so it's okay?

Just this month content creators from Russia or belarus have been banned from dozen of services, they did not violate any law.

It's ridiculous to think that yout platform isn't free to apply it's own rules.
In Spain, it's traditional for couples to give each other engagement presents, not just for the woman. The woman gets an expense ring and the man gets an expensive watch. (People will immediately ask you to show it off when they find out you're getting married, like they do with engagement rings, it's fun.) My ex-wife spent around 8,000€ like 20 years ago for my Omega Speedmaster because I grew up in the time when Astronaut moon watches were the pinnacle of cool.

In fact the first thing I did when I got an Android Wear watch was create a custom face which looked like a Moonwatch (Omega is twitchy about it, so you can't just buy one, apparently.)

Am I converting the price correctly? Are these less than $300!?! [Edit, Yep, $260] Wow. It sorta makes my watch - now owned by my son who has never worn a watch in his life - a little less special, but hey. If more people can own one, I'm all for it.

Here's an article in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/omega-and-swatch-moonswatch/
> and how unusual it was to find a complex compound like a lysergide in both a fungi and a completely unrelated plant.

And much has been learned in this area since 1984 as well. Hofmann's discovery was vindicated; symbiotic fungi of the genus Balansia are responsible for producing the ergot alkaloids found in Ipomoea and similar species' seeds. This chemical process is only known from fungi, and turns out NOT to have surprisingly arisen in plants as was apparent when he isolated it from said plants.
What happened to Numworks?
Last time I heard about them, they were supposed to be the open source calculators. That was their added value and reason to be. And now they are locked down?

So disappointed! I hesitated to buy one before but so now I'm happy that I never went through buying one.
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Note that a sandbox escape is often possible via TIOCSTI (CVE-2017-5226) [0] unless a special flag (--new-session) is used.

Bubblewrap is aware of this, yet their documentation gives no indication that this flag is necessary to produce a secure sandbox. In --help, the documentation of --new-session is simply "Create a new terminal session," which severely understates its importance.

It's frustrating to have such a useful tool be knowingly easy to misuse.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/issues/142
Or the first 3 digits, which denote which facility mail addressed to that zip code is sorted at.

The default when you open the page is an interesting one- "005 MID-ISLAND NY". Almost all New York zip codes start with a 1, but the Mid-Island facility in Melville, which serves codes beginning 117, 118 and 119, also sorts mail addressed to the IRS processing center in Holtsville with the zip code 00501- which happens to be the lowest zip code in current use.
Bing and Yahoo (who is pulling from Bing) are supposedly competitors. The problem is that Google is kicking their butt. Even if Bing became more of a true challenger, Microsoft is doing much of the same, so just replacing one name with another. Most would agree that Microsoft doesn't have any more respect for user privacy and would trample (ban, shadow ban, violate, spy, sell date of) users just as much.

Probably the only hope is some type of peer to peer search engine, that actually catches on and works well.
Azores, not Azov, not Arctic. This place is closer to New York than the
Russian Arctic. No sea ice. No drilling (which would be easy to detect).
Thank you so much! I finished about 10k words while on paternity leave (mostly during nap time).

Releasing early was mostly a choice to help motivate me. As well as to get early feedback and proofreaders.
New models of monitor have released with quantum dot OLED which are brighter than traditional OLEDs. This is not to be confused with QLED which is simply LED not OLED.
I wonder if something like TiBASIC is halfway there. All the keywords and function names are selected from menus instead of typed character by character so they cannot be misspelled. As a kid I found it way less frustrating than Python.
The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin.

Puts recent developments by SpaceX in context, and shows how we really are about to settle the cosmos in an economically sustainable way. A call to action to anyone who wants to participate to start making space companies now.

Radical Abundance by K. Eric Drexler.

Re-introduces the concept of atomically precise manufacturing (aka molecular nanotechnology) and shows how it can solve basically all major global problems from climate change to energy crisis to wars over resources.
Then let's not say it. Clearly you miss the point: any provisioned backbone bandwidth that does not carry a packet just goes to waste. Network backbone channels are not provisioned like your consumer-grade cable TV network endpoint hubs. Carriers pay for guaranteed capacity. When TCP fails to use bandwidth capacity, it is failing to use backbone bandwidth, not dodgy last-mile bandwidth.

Even moreso: when so configured, FASP is having exactly zero effect on the actual bit rate of the TCP connections. Another TCP connection would compete for the same packet slots, slowing them all down. The FASP traffic does not slow down any of the TCP connections, but only competes with other FASP (or similar) traffic.
I have a few quartz watches. I have a bunch of stuff from Apple as well but never could live with an Apple watch. For some weird reason I've always thought that I need to know the time reliably if I even get lost somewhere. I live in the city and there is almost 0% probability of that happening. hahahha..

So I went with a Garmin Instinct Solar watch that lasts nearly a month even with basic tracking. With all those smart features turned off it can theoretically run forever just with solar power. :)
Micro refers to microcomputers.
With rare exceptions, I read my-account-was-canceled stories and there’s something sketchy. Here it’s:

I became part of a company where we teach people to create their own applications and create their own app business.

Logically there’s nothing wrong with that. Empirically, in 2022 the reliable ways for random developers to make money by publishing apps involve gray areas at best.

I mean, what are the generically applicable methods this company teaches likely to look like?

How Google handles whack-a-mole accounts isn’t surprising.
RIP Deis
> Instead, share basic research and build prototypes and share the lessons from those. Have manufacturers form multiple co-operating international alliances to compete for each program. Sustain multiple programs, even if it means some duplicity. Competition and independent capabilities are more important.

Does this idea have any currency in military or industry circles, do you know?
To clarify, are you interested in shipping server or desktop applications as VMs?
The main question if you want to defend from technical issues or from legal, so measures extremely different.

For tech, just choose some big registar with good reputation, and use all measures, registar recommends, like 2FA, chrypto-keys, etc.
For example my friend register his domain on GoDaddy.

For legal issues, it depends on your jurisdiction. For example, in Ukraine we could bye 2nd level domain .ua, if have registered trademark, and process of registration lasts for 2 years.

Mean, you send request to government registration service, that you want to register some name, than they make checks, to ensure nobody use this name, and that not exists some names which very similar (so you will not look associated with Mercedes or some other well known brand), and if all ok, you will receive official registration rights, and after that you could ask to registar .ua name, and it will be associated with your legal entity (I'm not sure, most probably possible register as private person just to your name).

And after that procedure, nobody could steal your domain without stealing your entity.
Even if you will once forgot to pay for domain, it will just remain blocked, and nobody else could use it, until end official registration of trademark.

For other domains, like .com or local, things are slightly different, but all very similar, in that if you have registered trademark (same as domain name without suffix), you have legal power to defense.
And nearly all hostings respect this power, so in most cases you will not need to call judge, just send to hosting support photo of documents of registered trademark, and hosting will immediately remove site of person, who try to use your registered trademark name.
Right. What makes some less abusable than others? Do more of that.

You obviously can't eliminate all abuse but it can be managed to an acceptable degree with thoughtful design.

This is getting away from my larger point that the incentives here are screwed up. Why is that? Why doesn't Google fix their shit? What is blocking this from fixing itself? Usually there is an incentive like threat of lawsuit or people leaving the platform.
Basically everyone seems to be getting hacked. It's like all the hackers in the world snorted something and have been hacking nonstop all month.
It would have had a chance if they didn't screw up MSN and Skype which were both incredibly successful communication tools among teens and 20 something.
Everybody was on MSN. Everybody was on Skype.

Once whatsapp and facebook messenger mobile started taking place it was already N years too late. Now in 2022, they have no chance.
Every person should be able to afford to take care of their dead.

Poor people have feelings and deserve urns and remembrance.
> unpopular opinion but crossing over these brands only makes sense if you think youre capable of targeting a lower income customer without risk of damaging your existing luxury brand, or if your existing luxury brand is floundering. [...] I suspect its the latter, and i suspect its confirmation that the last decade of rennaisance for Rolex is starting to impact the bottom line at Swatch.

You've actually got it precisely backwards here. Omega, like most other Swiss luxury watch brands, has been absolutely killing it these past two years. Profits are up substantially. Omega is doing fantastic*. What isn't doing fantastic is Swatch -- their numbers are down substantially over the past decade. Smart watches are really killing them. An Apple Watch is not a replacement good for a $6k mechanical work of art, but it absolutely is a replacement good for a similarly priced quartz watch with fewer features, which is exactly what Swatch makes.

So I view this as a successful attempt at leveraging the brand value of Omega to prop up their lower-end brand.

> call me a cynic, but mark my words...in 10 years time youll see the same phenomenon with these watches as you saw with Timex. repair shops wont touch them, and they exist as a valueless testament to disposable faux luxury.

You're being over-dramatic here. And you don't generally repair cheap quartz watches like a Swatch anyway; you replace the battery as needed, and eventually in some number of decades they stop working entirely and that's that. You could do a movement swap at that point if you really wanted.

* See https://watchesbysjx.com/2022/03/morgan-stanley-watch-indust...
It's one of my smorgasbord search engines run from a script (which
collectively do so much better than Google or any of the legacy
"big-tech" engines)

Why it matters

One of the great American philosophical orators, Rick Roderick (a
Texan cowboy philosopher and academic twin of Bill Hicks), spoke about
the importance of "the margins":

Rick notices that in history certain people do not get a voice;

Women. The Poor. Old and young people. The "mad" and disabled. Race
minorities within any group. Thinkers more than a decade ahead of
their time.

There's even a thing called "marginal analysis" in hermeneutics - not
the economic concept - the analysis of things that have been left out
of history, and why, and by whom (victors writing and re-writing
history etc). Erasure leaves a trace that tells its own tale.

These things have become the grist of social justice today (with all
it's positive and negative sides). But "injustice" is not really
Roderick's point. It hardly needs mentioning that most people get a
bad deal, don't get heard, and their lives fade into obscure
irrelevance.

What matters is the enormous value and importance of marginal
contributions. These are lost. Almost every great discovery, it turns
out on deeper analysis, was made by an (or often, simultaneously
several) obscure nobody years earlier, who didn't provide a recognised
proof in the right journal, or didn't patent the thing. In Plato and
Shakespeare, Roderick says, "It is always the fool who delivers the
important news". Things don't start at the center, they begin on the
margins and diffuse in until they find legitimacy in an acceptable
voice.

A marginal search engine engine is, almost by definition, acting
counter to the status quo, as the Internet Archive stands in
opposition to fickle entropy of bitrot and ephemeral culture.

Well done on this project and good luck.
There is a litany of complaints I have with Teams...

However Teams has no more or less QA and other problems than ever other MS product I use... I dont know if that is good or bad but ......
> For the most part, retrocompting is a hobby, but I think that most people involved in the hobby actually work in the computing industry, or are training to.

I wonder if there's numbers about that, because it wouldn't have been my guess. Although maybe my impression is colored specifically from the gaming corner of things.
Web. Your app almost certainly doesn't actually need to be an app anyway.
We can count on EU for universal charging port on portable devices, right to repair, interoperability between platforms.... what else will they save us from?

They don't allow bribes in the EU? I don't understand why the US can't lead on this kind of issues.
How do I distinguish those libraries?
We did a wargame in 2017 where somebody shot the top of Trump Tower with one of those from the north side of Central Park (close enough to hit, far enough to survive...)

We figured the radiation field would kill somebody on the ground nearby but that's a very sturdy building and if it didn't collapse completely you might still be alive when they dig you out.
My concern is the hundreds of GB of photos I have saved with Google and Apple. I assume one day I will wake up and find I've lost access to them with no recourse, which means backing them up on a large hard drive is my only real option, exactly like 2010.
Not saying Google is in the right here by any means, but I'm a bit suspicious of these complaints where the party curiously omits the details of why they were banned, the nature of their previous earnings, etc.
I tried them first for quite a while, but they have a high contention ratio, that's why it's so cheap... although it may depend on where you are. I could pull 100Mbit in the middle of the night but it would go down to 3Mbit in the middle of the day (you can burst higher but the average even over 20 seconds was very low and not very usable).

I'm using it for work so 3Mbit in the middle of the day didn't cut it, vodafone/voxi gives me 30Mbit at that time so well worth the extra money. Only issue I have with vodafone is some weird MTU stuff going on. These LTE modems have some kind of end point MTU negotiation which is quite low on Three (1300 ish), on vodafone it starts on 1500 but then later the effective mtu changes to 1464 which is kinda maddening because the modem doesn't seem to detect this and your larger outbound packets will just vanish (doesn't even send back a fragmentation packet)... so now I have to manually set all the wifi interfaces to 1464, which is pretty silly (also silly that consumer LTE routers don't let you set this, but to be fair it's highly variable between networks and it makes sense that most people shouldn't be playing with it - if only it worked properly)... anyway other than that little issue it's pretty damn smooth.

Oh also I tried EE... which I recommend avoiding, I will never try them again unless they release a no-contract service, they couldn't even activate my sim, customer service is a nightmare, failed promise after failed promise, took me 6months to be rid of them and didn't get all my money back after they didn't deliver even 1 byte. Was a good reminder of why not to do contracts where possible.

I think these issues will work themselves out as more and more people start using this stuff for home broadband.
It’s obvious from the comments here that most of the HN population has never been poor.
I have no idea why my clients keep paying for it.

Maybe it's part of some Office / Outlook insane bundle from hell?

Free zoom with the 40m limit provides a better experience.
Definitely will have to give this a read, thanks for sharing
Except, wires are better than wireless at transmitting information. Yes they require maintenance, but that's why we pay a service fee. Internet is a utility, it's high time we start treating it like one. When was the last time your water supplier started offering "premium ultra-filtered water"?
No... Sorry just no

Nexus line was an Affordable/ value reference implantation of Android

Pixel is an overpriced atrocity marketing platform for Google.

Pixel IS NOT a replacement for Nexus
Because it’s a marketing stunt involving an investment I made; an investment I made with the implicit understanding there’ll be some protection for the brand’s dignity.
Here's the report which associated Clear Sky with NK, and it's not from Google:

https://www.clearskysec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Dream...
Two conditions have to be met for a deadman switch to work. Firstly, its armed. Secondly, a FAILURE TO CONTACT event of some kind. (my words). But, its not momentary fail. Its got trigger conditions and gates. It isn't an immediate response option. Its the "at the end..." logic in MAD.

So for an earthquake there would be a loud "boom" and there might be some initial failure to contact. But then there would be cell service, satellite, ultra-long wavelength comms, all kinds of alternate paths home. There would be a distinct lack of radiological problems. A complete absence of any sign of protracted single-strike attack at scale on your nation state, the continuance of evident non-nuclear life as normal (normal! I mean who had pandemics in their 2022 yearbook before 2020...)

Having a deadman switch which was capable of being triggered solely by a local geological event absent all other context would be very bad design.
Same thing, you will want to reuse existing code, and you do not want to split knowledge in your student group. There is no such thing as 'gradual' migration: I either have to support Python in my group, or Python and Julia -- until everything is migrated.

If I have a working ecosystem using Python, with students trained in Python, and all previous work in Python, there's a whole lot of opportunity cost associated with me deciding to have the next student use Julia. I'd rather have that student build on existing tools and knowledge and do something new with their time.
They are not mutually exclusive. It is unknowable using current techniques whether a teapot is in orbit between Earth and Mars, but I believe there is not. In exactly the same way, an agnostic would say it is unknowable whether there is a deity, but since no deity has made its presence known, it is perfectly logical (and consistent with agnosticism) to believe there is not.

It is unknowable in advance whether Magnus Carlsen would beat me at chess, but I believe that he would. There is exactly zero cognitive dissonance here.
All of engineering is a counter example. We have a fiendishly hard time replicating the precise lift mechanism of flying birds (this is still an active are or research), yet we have designed and built the Boeing 787 and SR-71.

Life is an existence proof that atomically precise nano machines are possible, but it is not in any way a demonstration of their limitations any more than birds represent the epitome of heavier than air flight.
It's the same situation with everything being a video now. I do better with diagrams and text, but now I have to sit through someone jabbering for 9 minutes for 1 minute of content to please the algorithm. And as someone who wants to make how-tos, getting any traffic to text these days is nearly impossible.
Thank you for the detail. If you don't mind me asking, what pushed you to make the switch?
This should be fine.

Assuming none of the tech stack is proprietary, patented, etc. you should be fine to continue using it as you see fit. And as you mentioned you're not creating a conflict of interest so that shouldn't be an issue either.
I'm fine with the ME, but if it ever did leak, it very well could be sold or dumped on a pastebin.

Hackers are unpredictable. They could throw the plans for a fusion reactor that saves the world in the ocean. They could launch a nuke for the lulz. They can be crazier than wallstreetbets people.
Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.