skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there was also a period post 2015 MBP up until the new M1s now that the laptops were pretty bad and had a lot of points of failure. The current ones seem like a return to a more robust workhorse to me. I was lucky and and had a 2013 model that lasted me up until I replaced with an M1 recently.
Babylonbee is banned for posting a satire article about a transgender person.
Flash did not went away, thanks to the wonders of WebAssembly.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/
> Is hardware becoming more complicated without being more capable?

I don't think so. Every component on my system that runs firmware is significantly more complicated than the iterations that didn't. 802.11ax is much harder than 802.11b, for instance.

> But to an end-user, is there a difference between having a blob in ROM vs firmware, if both are closed source?

Yeah, bugs that are discovered after release can be fixed.
People should bother a second to think who benefits from their unexamined beliefs.

To be honest, a lot of people seem to want to kiss ass for the “prestigious” companies, too. You can see this phenomenon on all Apple threads, for example. They either don’t want their status symbols tainted, or they subconsciously believe that flattery will net them something.
Dr. Matrix Award for Science Excellence
I am crying look at this. We're lucky to get 50 Mbps here in Sydney,Australia :(. The "gigabit" speeds here seem to be in the 250 Mbps range [0]

[0]https://www.techradar.com/au/best/best-nbn-1000-plans
But then it almost sounds extremely simple: provide as much raw data as you can (spectrum, resolution, surface coverage) and the users will come. Of course, this is outrageously expensive to do unguided.
I guess other 99% of GTA V is just fine
Often called "retirement".
it seems after more than 30 years the stuff is still bloody expensive

Fluorinert is a super niche product. The price reflects that. I imagine the cost to produce it has dropped dramatically in 3 decades. 3M just make more profit from it now.

As products mature there's no reason to believe the production process and efficiency savings will always be passed on to the consumer.
It goes against the whole point of user freedom, which is kind of like starting a nonviolent movement and then pointing guns at people if they refuse to join.
> how do you protect against the corrupt actor manipulating every machine except the percent that will be checked?

According to this: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/count-vvpat-slips-...

India checks 5 machines randomly selected in each voting "segment", no clue what that is but it's smaller than a constituency so I guess it's a polling station

From what I understood that's done locally right away after polls close. So that means that you'd need a way for the conspirators to identify the non tampered machines and for them to randomly select exactly those machines and you'd need them to be present in almost all polling stations and no one to challenge the choice

At that point it's essentially the same level of trust needed for paper ballots

> Have people from opposing political parties count the vote and check each others result

Yeah, but apparently that particular attack vector was a problem in India and this feature helps mitigate it, electoral solutions need to account for the practical situation they're in. For instance I don't support any form of electronic voting machines in my polity because the electoral system works fine with paper ballots and there aren't issues of ballot stuffing

> There is no difference between a machine publishing the counted votes and the poll workers publishing the counted votes, is there?

Yeah, but I was talking, for lack of a better term, about non additive electoral systems, in which the information conveyed in multiple ballots cannot be easily compressed

For instance in the FPTP system you can compress all the information in a polling station by counting how many votes for X how many for Y etc. And you can simply add up these numbers to other stations

The complexity scales linearly with the number of candidates

In a system like, for instance, IRV, where the voter ranks the candidates and the rank is an important part of the ballot itself you can't easily transpose all this information into a single number

The most you could do is build a tree data structure where the first level nodes are the first preferences and each node points to other nodes based on the successive preferences.

In this case the complexity of the process is exponential/factorial because you need a field for every possible combination of preferences, including cases in which not all candidates are ranked

My point was that going from a ballot to that structure is probably more error prone and time consuming to do manually than having a machine do it and that could conceivably be a reasonable justification to use electronic voting machines

The auditing will still be time consuming but that's mitigated by the fact that you audit only a portion of voting machines

But to clarify, I'm of the opinion that paper ballots and manual counting are preferable in every electoral system used at the national level that I'm aware of

India's electronic system is just not worse than paper ballots, which for electronic voting systems is a huge success
According to Wikipedia: “Ä occurs as an independent letter in Finnish, Swedish, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Estonian, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Saterlandic, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Tatar, Gagauz, German, and Turkmen”

Æ is, according to Wikipedia, used in Latin, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Ossetic, Kawésqar, and Yaghan. (It is not used in French or English except in loanwords from Latin.)
Ah okay, thank you. In my book that still makes them hypocrites while their lawyers claim to protect customer privacy by not exposing such data. They should drop their claims and focus on improving the product.
The Cirrus Vision jet is a very different market, that's made for owners that want to fly it themselves.

They made it for hobby pilots that learn in the SR20/SR22 and then upgrade to the jet. It is designed to make that transition relatively easy and it is a single-engine jet so you don't need to get a multi-engine rating first.

Some of the smaller Citation jets can also be flown single pilot (like the 510), but they still require a multi-engine rating and the avionics are a bit more complex than the more straightforward switch from the SR22 to the Vision jet
Couldn’t tell either. I’m familiar with the conceptual building blocks, but I‘d have a hard time extracting a tl;dr.
I mean calling firefox (or other gui browser) from cli environment.
Is this something about how they don't handle wash sales across brokers for you, or do they actually screw up importing that one form from your stock broker somehow? If so, how do they screw it up? Would be nice for everyone to know so they can watch out.
> Installing a 3rd party agent that in some way permits shell access to a server and (I assume) needs to run constantly is definitely going to raise a few eyebrows especially when the benefit of using is actually fairly low.

You're already running sshd. Teleport is a drop-in open source replacement, which offers some interesting features like certificate-only auth (removing the need for pubic/private keys), SSO integration, RBAC over SSH, support for protocols other than SSH (Kubernetes API and major OSS databases), and syscall level authorization and audit, so quite a few security teams have appreciated it lately.

Disclaimer: I work at Teleport and have been a maintainer for the first 3 years.
Europe has been around for a hell of a lot longer than the US. Seen countless bloody wars, and almost dang near wiped itself off the map less than 100 years ago. On top of providing the source material for the US to begin its course as a proto-european country. Language, art, culture, engineering know-how, state-craft, law, even religion and guns.

The US is essentially a version 1.2 of Europe.
Hey, I'm the lead engineer at Picterra. Would be happy to answer any questions.

What we are trying to do is indeed allow customers to build algorithms tailored to their use cases. We often joke that the reason our ML works is because we are overfitting to customer datasets/use cases. But I think that's somewhat true in the sense that we are not going for "worldwide trees counting" but more for "reliably count cars on these 50 parcels".

It's also interesting to note that a sizeable chunk of our revenue is coming from companies with drone data where it makes even more sense to be specific to customer data (resolution, time of day, geo, etc...).
> Without more recent bones, we have no reason to believe that they still exist.

Eyewitness accounts aren’t bones but they are still evidence.
I'm just saying that it makes exactly as much sense as ctrl-E or any other control char, it has no special status.
I have only had bad experiences with the surface lineup and I really wanted to like them. I lost a lot of money to MS as they refused to repair saying it was my own fault that they broke. One came broken from the shop as in that I bought it in an Orlando MS shop, opened it up in front of the shop and it was broken. I thought I needed to charge it, so I went to the hotel; when it was still broken 48 hours later, I had to leave (fly back home) so I sent it in for warranty repair 4 days after I bought it. Got an email a few days later that ‘this damage is not covered by warranty’. The thing was broken straight out of the shop; sure my fault I did not walk back in and ask if this was a charging issue but how did they blame me for it? I had this 3 times in different warranty stages with Surface products; all 3 lost because they refused to honour the warranty. Never had any issues with Apple; they always replaced anything under warranty (even if it wasn’t covered officially).
Obviously if you don’t want your pool surveilled by low orbit satellites, you’re free to either raise your home to a higher altitude, or consider relocating to a more private and subterranean dwelling.
Nice euphemism you’ve got there. We didn’t leave paradise. We got thrown out on our bare behinds :)

(Good point though.)
I have always wondered with how prevalent dragons are in human myths did some kind of dinosaurs survived long enough for homo to have interacted with them.
When I saw the title I briefly thought this was a re-launch of Pownce, the Twitter competitor.
What happened to Evernote? Where to go next?
The app is slow as hell. Where to go next?

I’m using Evernote on my iPhone SE with software version 15.4.1. Evernote version 10.27. It’s extremely slow. I forget what I want to write by the time the app opens up, I click on new note, cancel the upgrade dialog box, click on the text area to type after accidentally clicking on the template icon and waiting for it to close. WTH Evernote!

Where to go next? I already use onenote at work and the stupid thing mixes my personal and work notes when I add my personal account.

I use a windows PC. So apple notes is out.

Google Keep is a fleeting product. The moment you feel settled in they’ll uproot it.
I'm not sure the analogy with types is at all helpful in explaining this.

If I understand the author right, the critique is that Kubernetes wants to present a unified, declarative model for arbitrary orchestration behavior. To do this, it uses controllers/operators/CRDs/etc, but the code within these controllers is often some of the imperativiest-imperativing stuff you've ever seen. This is "fine" for some core primitives, but as you demand more complex orchestrations out of k8s it's more likely you have to write these yourself, and it's messy and "hard", beyond what most teams can or want to invest, because of that.

(Up to this point, I agree fully.)

But then the "types" analogy comes to the fore, and we end up with a system that's even more complex, a kind of HKT for declarative behaviors.

I'm not sure it really solves the implementation problems to begin with, but even if it does - I predict the teams struggling to implement custom operators are going to slam into this new wall even harder trying to model their operational processes like this.

How long until we finally admit a lot of things an operator (human) does are imperative, and therefore the k8s "declarative only" model is fundamentally broken? What we need is more carefully-chosen imperative escape hatches, not more API options.
Thanks. That was really nice!
> someone unironically espousing this as a "solution" to a struggling creator

Nobody is, though, and if you see other replies with the “git gud” text you’ll see this is used as a way to attack anyone who cares about performance.
Some year ago on HN was a satellite imagery company offering free trial. I was curious about the construction site of my house, whether I can discern where trenches were and such. But their interface stumped me, took time to figure a way to search the dataset by coordinates, then got some zip dataset download and then had again to figure out how to open images. Nothing on them was recognizable.

If they really want new customers they should make this more accessible to laypeople.
Well of course, GP said 'positions of power' rather than 'politician'.

Controversially, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev has been ennobled and is now qualified to sit in the House of Lords, most definitely a position of power though he has not as yet chosen to appear there as far as I know. It turns out that Unelected Lords are also permitted to be ministers in the cabinet, so...
Screw the ACs needed( a bit less because the tournament was shifted to the winter when the temperatures would be more acceptable), most of the stadia built will have to be demolished afterwards because Qatar is a miniscule country that doesn't need that infrastructure and couldn't use it afterwards. It's one giant waste of everything, just to wash Qatar's image ( I'm not even sure it's working, before that most people wouldn't have heard of it, now there's decent chance it's known for bribery and slavery).
I believe there should be an official non-free repository (akin to Ubuntu's) which users can enable offline, meaning it needs to be stored on the official CD.

Enabling it should display a big scary warning about handing over partial control of your machine to greedy faceless megacorps who will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if that makes them money. Maybe add an illustration of a robot terminator, to really drive the point home.

Yes, I agree that a default Debian configuration should be clean. But I also know the reality of needing at least Atheros (Wifi), Intel (Ethernet), and NVIDIA firmware blobs to get my tower to boot correctly. Not including any firmware repository on the CD or on a fully installed system is just a recipe for users to get frustrated while they are trying to follow a half-outdated tutorial on one of those spammy tech support blogs.

So in my opinion, the most common blobs should be cached by default, but not activated by default. If the machine boots without them, they can be deleted upon first reboot. If not, we can let the user decide if they are willing to compromise their principles in order to boot the system ;)
Rainbow-colored spinning loading wheel; jumping menu bar icons, trying to grab your precious attention for whatever reason; minimize button triggering "sucking" animation; app installation where you have to needlessly drag an icon onto Applications folder; pop-up windows which appear, then momentarily shrink and expand again. Sometimes it gives certain 1960's Batman TV series vibes.
The amount of people capable of doing firmware work is extremely low, and the amount of documentation available that's needed to write firmware for highly embedded systems is even lower - not to mention that the stuff that is implemented in this kind of firmware is extremely complex and if anything RF is involved it gets even hairier because of compliance to standards and legal regulations. Last thing an open source dev wants is complaints from users that their home got raided by the FCC for operating a noisy transmitter that interrupts service for someone else.

There isn't even enough manpower to get the Raspberry Pi, the world's most used embedded system for tinkerers, a fully blob-free experience - it's madness to expect that for systems like GPUs that are orders of magnitude more complex than that.
As well as inconsistent and even self-contradictory.
The rocket is hundreds of kilometers away from land at that moment.
Inventing headlines isn't fine, though.

Real title: Rockstar edits out “transphobic” content from GTA V remasters
Isn't the theory that agriculture meant some book-keeping was needed, to keep track of the seasons and when to plant. This book-keeping then caused the development of writing in general. And writing caused the birth of inter-generational memory and the ability to accumulate knowledge. Of course oral histories can be cross-generational as well, but writing is much more efficient storage medium than human brain alone. Writing allows human brains to co-operate over vast geographical distances and time-scales.
I've not worked in the industry per se but I'm quite passionate about maps and online maps generally speaking, and I'm curious to find out if the good old way of identifying stuff on maps directly through human interaction (so, not using any ML-stuff) shouldn't be given a second (or a third) thought. Of course, all backed by better tools for said humans, so that they can annotate/label/identify the data better.

I've realised that that might still be a viable option once I started to map the forrest cover in my geographic area based on 150-years-old maps (these excellent maps [1] drawn by the Austrians in the 1860s). Some JS-code for the front-end that helped me "draw out" the forests, then send that data to a Django/Python backend and call it a day. It took me a while to draw those forests out but the job was very easily scalable in terms of human-power, i.e. 10 more me would have probably finished it 10 times faster with a little coordination (for anyone curious the data is in here [2], I'd say it was almost 90% done when I passed on to my next project, as I often do). I was first looking at using some heuristics in order to "automate" some part of the job, but both the false-positives and the false-negatives were just too high, the outputs would have been horrible in terms of accuracy.

[1] https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/secondsurvey-wallachia/?laye...

[2] https://github.com/mihaitc/forrests/tree/master/counties
> Fluorinert is a super niche product.

I mean, that goes both ways. At that price it will always be a super niche product, and never graduate to "plain niche".

Look at the enthusiast market, there's no lack of fancy water cooling gizmos out there. They're bought by a small segment, but there's still a market for fancy gizmos to provide the best cooling for overclocked high end hardware.

And that's exactly what I'm getting at -- it's not enough to make cool stuff. The cool stuff also has to reach the people interested in using it.
NSO isn't the equivalent of NSA. While NSA is part of the US government and actively spied on allied countries with no repercussions, NSO is a privately held company employing ex intelligence. With mandatory service at 18 and the private sector paying between 8 to 10 times more, it's common to find these intelligence boys leaving the service asap and working in different private companies.

Implying Israel has anything to do with NSO or that the government is behind it, coupled with the amount of attention this gets relative to a company like Italian based Hacking Team (which both the FBI and Russian government made business with) is cause for concern. Is this hacker news or culturally biased vent club?

I think the domain cyclonefront is nice for a new forum, don't you? You can be an admin there, grow a short mustache and do quarter jumping-jacks.
The 2022 follow-up also said "And by x86 I mean specifically x86-32." Also, I don't he was on the AMD64 team yet at that time (still Itanium) so probably that is something.
I remember reading somewhere about some explorer in like the 1600s or so describing a similar creature on I believe it was Flores. But I can't find the reference now.

It also mentioned some other accounts from around the same time that they were an unruly nuisance that couldn't be domesticated and would steal grain, pets and livestock so the locals killed them off.

I believe the ambiguity is whether the bones found on Flores are related to these stories (assuming they are accurate) or if they are describing say some irritating primate (the classic monkey causes very similar headaches for farmers, such as opening gates and letting an an entire herd of sheep wander on to a highway. In many places you can simply shoot troublesome monkeys without consequence)

People didn't really have vast zoological knowledge in the 17th century so it could have just been a fairly common regional creature that somehow made it to the island from a trading ship and was causing issues.

Of course more than the written word should be available as evidence here regardless of the integrity or intention of the source.

Also as an exercise, pretend some group of hominids were alive somewhere; wouldn't we expect them to come around and steal things? If you don't conceive of private property, a grove of evenly spaced easy to access fruit trees would look like an amazing find. I'd sure be excited to stumble across that.

I'd expect a farmer to shoot one of these creatures and a body to come up, right?

I wish I could find it. Google is being useless as usual
There are actually two stages of calibration in space. The first stage is aligning the mirrors, using direct measurement of the mirror alignment with the interferometer, after they are unfolded from their unaligned stowed positions.

> To measure the shape of the Webb telescope’s primary mirror, engineers use a test device called an interferometer, which shines a laser down onto the mirror.

The next phase you’re referring to also uses a laser, but this time it’s shone off the mirrors into the actual scientific observation sensors, hence they describe it as being used as a source of artificial starlight.
I would like to see the polished user interface that doesn’t lag on desktop switch, or the just works system, because neither of it is true of a last-intel MBP I use.
Endemic Pathogens Are Probably Killing You
> (like when he was surprised that the electrician who came to his house was black).

I think he joked that Morgan Freeman came to his house, but yes, it was a bit tonedeaf
Came here to complain that pinephone doesn't have a keyboard. Happy to be wrong. It's very clunky, I hope they'll develop a thinner version.
You probably shouldn't use tmate inside of most corps, your security team might be unhappy with bypassing network controls.
There are quite a few ASCII control characters [1] that could make more sense than EOT, e.g., \t, \n, \e, etc.

But yes, EOT is not the only nonsensical character that you could put in a file name, and I never claimed such.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character#In_ASCII
Yes, why would you? It has zero information content. What should users do there? Comment on old threads instead of the current one? That's ridiculous.

You may have noticed people linking older discussions and may try to emulate it, but they do it when the older discussion has multiple and relevant comments.

And you seem to do it all the time. Please stop.
> If nobody uses the standardized form

The problem is, the one tax code is made for the whole country to use. If there is one person who needs the full form to correctly report his tax situation, the tax code has to be that complicated. And the 99.99999% simple cases have to suffer. You have better idea?