skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for MacBooks: you can't buy extra power adapter and MagSafe cable as a combo. You need to buy power brick and then cable separately. And of course they sell cable itself for $50!

While generally I'm against unnecessary regulations, I think we need laws for providing repair manuals and parts for cars and devices, and then for controlling prices for parts and proprietary accessories.

While MagSafe cable is a benign example, this gets ridiculous for medical devices. People use them for life, but necessary parts, batteries, etc are completely overprices.
Online banking does count but it isn't a service provided by the US government, it is a service provided by private banks.
Anyone got any information on sysclean? It doesn't seem to be installed with my 7.1 and there wasn't a manual page for it?
That's an incredible amount of money to burn. Thanks for looking that up!
Great article, seems like a really useful tool and good time to market
I read this as a tongue in cheek jab at people who like to use "free speech absolutist" as a negative descriptor.
Nah, it's just wishful thinking. I've knocked on doors, done the calling campaigns, ran the emails and texts. I don't think it'll happen, and I don't try so much anymore. I just vote nowadays.
I’m saying that for 95% of journeys currently done with cars, bicycles would be perfectly fine. I mean that both litterally and figuratively. More importantly, both for transport and for digital services, if we don’t switch to bicyles, there won’t be a planet to run those services for.

You are advocating for the end of the world as we know it within ten years.
I see you mention this in your docs, but do you provide any tools for the compliance side that would be required to use your API? E.g. if opening accounts on behalf of customers, all of those customers need to go through KYC. Do you monitor transactions for BSA/AML, or is that up to the user of the API?

Thanks very much!
I've been a SWE and Seceng. Interviews are extremely similar and extremely easy in both cases. The bar for both is kind of a joke, and it's very much made up.
I’m in that exact situation and am running Ubuntu for the past year after a year of PopOS and ten years of Max before that.

I’m happy with the setup for what its worth. I’ve been containerising my dev environments the past few years with a mix of VSCode devcontainers, GitHub Codespaces and recently LXD.

In short I’d recommend giving it a spin and see how you feel with it. Ubuntu is a pretty gentle transition from MacOS
I typically play on public servers to avoid any save game temptations, or the reverse, removing terrifying bones infested with rogue pet vampires and cursed artifacts...

I'm disappointed that DJB didn't automate polypiling until he got what he wanted, rather than just rolling new characters until getting the desired combination of resources. At that point, I'd just say that save game editing and RNG grinding are comparable...

If you're reading this, DJB, thanks for all the awesome and weird tools! Perhaps you're not as widely attributed as you should be but I see your influences everywhere in modern unix.

(edited to change "fingerprints" to "influences" -- things like systemd or the later solaris init replacement are clearly a funhouse mirror re-imagning of daemontools and family -- but fingerprints implies that DJB touched these things which I'm pretty confident he didn't)
"But whether a condo building can find residents isn't really in question."

That wasn't questioned. It was questioned if zoning will actually prevent development of natural lands. Unless everyone want to live in high density housing, there would be a point where additional condos would not find willing tenants (much higher than current levels for some localities).

The point is there are a significant portion of the population that want low density housing and the sprawl will continue.

And on the overall population side, increasing resource demand will continue to tax the natural world. We will need more land for feeding/clothing/etc the increasing population.
"Which windows package managers build from source? I thought they were all binary package managers."

Gentoo's package manager mostly builds from source (though there are some binary packages available for Gentoo -- usually of huge binaries like Firefox, which take forever to build and which you have to update pretty frequently).

Guix can also build from source.
I suggest you too read into Jobs' history before making that claim, lol.
Because "series of tubes" and "series of pipes" are both a dumbed-down inaccuracy.

The Internet is a mesh of millions of computers that happen to be connected by wire or fiber optics or some other transmission medium. Fiber optic cables are the closest to "tubes" one could analogize, since it has a thing (light) being pushed through a cylindrical device, but it does a complete disservice to the technological advancements to dumb the whole of the Internet down to "series of tubes".

The attacks on Stephens were very justified in that as a leader of the committee, he should have been much more well-versed in the actual technologies used. He should have wanted to be more well-versed. And if lobbyists had that much pull and sway over him and what he "knows" and how he presents it, then the ridicule was even more justified.

You can try to sugar coat his ineptitude all you like with a plethora of excuses, but, in my opinion, he got what he deserved with the ridicule.
PBS seems to do pretty well! As best I can tell, they have virtually no captured income streams (other than people forgetting to cancel their donations).
Sourceforge also suffered because it was project oriented and not code oriented. On Github everything revolves around the repo (No repo, no project.)

The proportion of projects on Sourceforge that didn't have single commit was staggering and made it really hard to discover legitimate projects.

There certainly are plenty of immature and barely started projects on Github, but Sourceforge had devolved into a wasteland for people to post ideas in hopes that developers would flock to their aid.
FWIW it's not a big deal for semi-technical folks to install, and some tools (like macOS SMART monitor DriveDx) include it: https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support
It might be nice as a consumer, but I don't think I've seen anyone doing daily. Perhaps the flat rate on the credit card transaction is prohibitive.

I don't think going from monthly to daily subscriptions really benefits the business in a meaningful way.

I've seen some personal apps, like the major dating apps, offer weekly subscriptions but at a much higher rate vs a prorated month.
Awesome, right?
There's No Need to Wear a Mask on This Flight
Is there a geriatric engineering company?
Around 3,800 years ago, an earthquake of 9.5 magnitudes hit Chile, that gave rise to waves as high as 66 feet and came crashing down on Chile’s Atacama desert, which also happens to be the world’s driest desert.According to a new study led by University of Chile academics, a collision between Nazca and South American tectonic plates was behind the earthquake, resulting in 49 to 66 feet high tsunami waves.

Geologist Gabriel Easton, one of the study's leaders in a conversation with Reuters explains, "At various points along the coast of the regions of Antofagasta and northern Chile, in general, there are paleobeaches or ancient beaches located between 4 and 7 meters (13 and 23 feet) above current sea level, whose formation cannot be explained by global changes in sea level, but by tectonic uplift as a result of large earthquakes."
If you actually build one yourself (not just limited to this particular mixer, but also e.g. analog synthesizers, FM synthesizers, samplers, …), you'll be surprised by how ridiculously overpriced almost all of the available audio hardware really is. The sad part is that in many cases your prototype will be cheaper than the commercially available audio hardware.

In practice you'll probably skip the "and bring it to market" step though, because usually you'll start such a project because you wanted to have a specific mixer/synthesizer/sampler/…, and once you have it on your desk, the next project usually looks more interesting than spending the extra time to sell whatever you just developed.
I don't get these "usable for 500 years" approaches.

If you have an overflow condition you want to encounter (i.e. test) it often.

32bit miliseconds + 96 bit of real entropy is brute force resistant, and has a ~50 day overflow period.

That's plenty for eyeball statistics and to make DB indices happy.

Any more sophisticated analytics will require larger precision and timezoning anyways, so don't cram it into the ID and give it it's own field.

Also don't muck with entropy.
All these smart counter schemes are potential attack vectors and have a much higher collision probability.

You're more likely to get a collision due to but flips in such a counting scheme than from two randomly colliding full entropy bitstrings.
If he needs $21bn in cash, how does $21bn in short exposure to Tesla through swaps help?
At some point in the next 10 years Taiwan will be surrounded by half a dozen Chinese aircraft carriers[1].

The rest of the world knows that continuing to rely so heavily on Taiwan for crucial components is not viable.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/china/china-aircraft-carrier-...
Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito (2013)
Replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles is potentially part of combating climate change, but this depends a lot on the specifics of manufacturing etc. [1]

Regardless, "helping combat climate change" is at best an incomplete description of Tesla, in the same way that Nestle is not perfectly captured by "Good food, good life" ; these are potential side-effects, rather than inarguable core missions.

We should be wary of accepting the slogans of profit-driven organisations as the truth. Wendy's is focused a lot more on selling than locating beef, for example.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2021/05/13/how-green...
> One thing I'm curious about is how you define "critical manufacturing"?

It’s a good question. For me, critical means you can’t walk away from a deal because you need the product, meaning you end up being extorted. Food and energy meet this criteria. Do chips? Maybe. And if so, then yes, you’re absolutely right that you would need to secure the supply chain/graph too. Maybe not the whole graph if you work back to the point where there is a diversity of competitive sources.
Ask HN: Was this a phishing attempt?
I got this email nominally from inmail-hit-reply@linkedin.com with a reply-to directing to <gobbledygook@reply.linkedin.com>

This email I pasted below says it's an inmail and at the bottom says they made a connection request but I don't see a message in my linkedin inbox. The person who supposedly sent it has a linkedin profile listing themselves as a recruiter for AWS. GMail didn't say "Be careful with this message" or anything like that. I am a data engineer and from what I can tell that's the right level for me, and I get pinged by AWS or Amazon to apply around once a month

Was this a phishing attempt or just LinkedIn weirdness?

Here's the Email:

Hello,

My name is <seemingly real AWS recruiter name> and I am a Recruiter with Amazon Web Services. My Hiring Manager and I recently reviewed your profile and we believe your background and skills could be a good fit for our L5 Data Engineer role. I wanted to gauge your interest in the position and its location to see if this is something you would want to pursue. Please note, we have other positions available, so if this role doesn’t pique your interest, let me know what you are interested in and I may be able to find a more suitable opportunity.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As a Data Engineer, you will work on our Science team and partner closely with other Data Engineers, Data Scientists, BIEs, Technical Program Managers, and Software teams to create data pipelines that are used to optimize power, cooling, and supply chain decisions for AWS Infrastructure. You will be responsible for synthesizing data across our organization in a data warehouse environment. This job is able to be located in Seattle, WA.

You have a passion for Excellence. You have a proven track record of building the right Data Engineering solutions that scale, provide high availability, and require minimal maintenance. You write code that is clean, readable, and straight forward.

LINK:

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/<yada yada yada>

I look forward to your response after you have reviewed the job description. Thank you for your time!

<seemingly real AWS recruiter name>

AWS Recruiter

You received an invitation to connect. LinkedIn will use your email address to make suggestions to our members in features like People You May Know.
Well to be fair america is also pulling double duty as the continent and the offhand for a specific country , I feel like that makes it a little less weird.
> All mergers and acquisitions of companies above some size are automatically blocked, and they have to make a compelling case in a court of law to have the block lifted

Something like this is already a thing, though the review is performed by the DoJ and FTC.

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/hart-scott...

> This Act, amending the Clayton Act, requires companies to file premerger notifications with the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department for certain acquisitions. The Act establishes waiting periods that must elapse before such acquisitions may be consummated and authorizes the enforcement agencies to stay those periods until the companies provide certain additional information about the likelihood that the proposed transaction would substantially lessen competition in violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart%E2%80%93Scott%E2%80%93Rod...
"This is not a decision about quality; we appreciate all of the work, ambition and creativity that went into building CNN+, an organization with terrific talent and compelling programming"

That is pure comedy.

The reason why consumers said 'no thanks' is because CNN's propaganda is known partisan trash and not journalism, nor is it even remotely compelling for anyone short of those who sit to the left of Chairman Mao.
I'm not sure even Google has abandoned something so quickly. Impressive.

The end of this sort of "news" is near, I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWV5fSaUB8

Jim Browning is an expert in this area and is sort of famous for his "scamming the scammers" videos where he hacks, tricks, annoys, or otherwise scams scammers.

In the linked video he talks about how he was tricked into deleting his account. These things can happen to anyone, even experts.
Well this is about unit tests - you should probably write an integration test for that.
WarnerMedia to shut down CNN Plus just a month after launch
Imagine you are young, and you've went out to buy your first phone only to find out that you can't actually use it without buying a second thing.

I'm going to guess that apple's products warn about the danger in using non-apple products - risks of damage and all that. Not wanting to ruin your new, expensive phone, you play it safe and just buy the matching charger, even though you feel like you should have been able to use the phone with everything that was in the box. For some years, Apple has warned about the dangers of third party accessories possibly ruining your stuff, after all. And I'm guessing the apple store employees aren't exactly going to recommend you buy other brand's stuff.
> this effectively means every country needs to manufacture everything.

depending on your exact goals, it could be worthwhile to bring a little bit of every node on the graph onshore. you retain critical experience, and have at least some hope of ramping up. getting a bunch of functioning, complicated businesses to expand is way easier than creating them from scratch.
"each one of them is one less house in the sprawl."

Sure, maybe it slows it. But that's also less competition, which means the supply-demand equilibrium will shift so that when people who want to live in low density areas can have larger lots and houses. Pretty much offsetting the choices of the others.

Not to mention any increase in population will lead to increase in resource utilization, thus increase in natural resource exploitation.
I don't think this is true.

You really only have to focus on parts of the supply chain that are required to produce, fuel, food, medical, and military equipment that also are not produced anywhere in the world except by a potential a adversary or next to a potential adversary.

It's a big undertaking sure, but it's really only onshoring pieces that are produced exclusively in China or next to it.
Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
Elon Musk unveils $46bn financing package to fund Twitter bid
They all come out millionaires if they survive a few terms.
> Axis of Awesome video (which is about specifically using 4-chord-long progressions that repeat in a cycle)

Well yes the Axis of Awesome thesis is a bit disingenuous and the critique at the beginning of Patricia Taxxon's video is justified; just because the chords are the same doesn't mean the songs are the same! And the analogy is quite true that in visual arts all colors can be formed from the three primary colors.

Actually, I'm currently trying to make songs based on this simple 1465 progression, in that order; here are my first two attempts (the titles are a hint ;-)

Alp 1465
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TxVfIf9JUAhCEL3O5cWXT?si=86c...

Bet 1465
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ghJN1EtQwXAZZj91B5yqs?si=f16...
In general, banking customer service sucks. I try to buy everything on my AMEX. Their service is excellent. I've never had to fill out a dispute form or give them any kind of proof when disputing a transaction, just a short call and they take care of it.
I am not a lawyer, but restricting Musk from being able to speak publicly seems an overly-broad way of restricting him from lying about market-related things, given that the latter is a small subset of his overall speech.
For countries that want to maintain a high degree of sovereignty and have the resources to do so, it’s probably the way to go. 100% is impossible of course but directionally the smart move.
This looks really cool, but can someone help me understand more about where it fits in the market?

Is this for me, as a developer to just make my own bank accounts? Does this allow me to create a bank frontend SaaS and use column as the backend? Can I originate loans with this platform for myself, or maybe to others somehow?

tl;dr Who is the customer?
Not a site, but clojurians slack.

Occasionally eurogamer for game reviews.

Arstechnica.

I too try and avoid sites like twitter, reddit etc.

Never use Facebook.

Be nice if their was a site where you can say I'm interested in closure, lisp, type theory etc and get recommendations on curated blogs to follow.
Any experts in this field weigh in? It seems very impressive to a layman
> Without enforcement, no amount of infrastructure will stop that.

And that's never going to happen either. What are you going to do, have a police officer for every bike path next to a sidewalk?
The recent surge in spam texts that show as having been sent by the recipient[0] has driven this point home for a lot of mobile phone users. For me, the fact that caller ID is fake was made evident when a spammer used my number as their origin ID for a wave of spam calls and texts, and I got ~100 voice mails and texts the next day kindly asking me to eat shit and die. Verizon support said that there was nothing they could do, that it was happening left and right, and that I was in no way legally or financially responsible for any of the messages purporting to be from me. This was in 2020, and the unreliability of long code origin ID numbers has come up frequently in my work as a security engineer for the past few years.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/business/spam-texts-veriz...
Well the market has spoken, you're right, Anderson Cooper (as far as I know) is a very popular show. It just also spoke in this specific context.

I don't really care for CNN much either way, but every once in awhile somehow I get the "right" CNN International channel/vibe/show and it feels like what I thought international journalism should be.
Isn’t there someone suing Apple over this in California? Apple turned off their Apple ID for whatever reason and the person lost access to thousands and thousands of dollars of purchases?
Forgive my ignorance, but rich people routinely get access to cash secured with their assets though, so why can't he do that, pledging his huge equity ownership?
You know... I have a feeling you might be the most right in this discussion.
It's indeed possible that we kill ourselves. But we are getting closer and closer to space travel. I would say a few more centuries.

Once we reach that point, humanity will spread wide, exploration will start all over again. It will then be fairly hard for our species to disappear.
Is it? Or is it because their best show features a guy who killed himself years ago?

I honestly don't understand the charges that CNN is left leaning. The way people talk about it you'd think it was mother Jones or the young Turks or something.
If we can at least make sure "the west" has it covered that's a great start, and the US is definitely capable if the will is there. Probably unrealistic for every tiny South American or European country to do literally everything.
Ha ha, just finished reading "Laserwriter II" [1] by Tamara Shopsin last night and it reminds me of this. It was a fun little book if only for the trip down memory lane before Apple stores and Genius Bars when ma and pa shops would repair Macs. Book was fun (not amazing) — easy to read in one day.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269270-laserwriter-ii
First off, this has little to nothing to do with the issue of CNN+ closing, so it smells a lot like flamebait to me... but, assuming this comment was made in good faith:

> Journalism is about reporting events, not interpreting them.

This is a description of an idyllic fantasy world that's never existed.

One can (I think reasonably) argue that the current generation of for-profit news is far more likely to spin the facts according to a predetermined agenda in their never-ending pursuit of viewership and associated profits.

But journalism has never, ever, involved simply "reporting events". Just the decision as to which events to report on is an editorial decision.
They're not genii, they're sales assistants now.
> Then, tax 100% of the distribution for people without student loan balances.

No one is proposing this.
Your comment, though sarcastic, underlines some points I thought about myself and I would like to discuss it!

We are both well aware that there is no risk-free investment.
Governments bonds that are considered less risky that ETFs usually return 1-2% per year.

The ETF I'm talking about maps a market index covering a big chunk of the US market or several stable international markets.
They are still a risk, your house is also an asset and is also a risk.
I think if you only have your mortgage as an asset then probably buying some ETFs would help diversify your assets.
But if you already have a lot ETFs then maybe would be better to finish up earlier the mortgage...
Oh, I just heard of this company and thought to myself that why are music instruments so expensive, but after reading the comments I have realised it's the Apple of it's kind.
> Doesn't mean CNN+ was a roaring success, but it's just not enough time to tell if it was a flop.

The service CNN+ shutdown quicker than Quibi did and lost even more money per day than them. That is enough time and money to call it a flop. They gave up and called it a month.

It is one of the worst product launches in history since Quibi.
Yes, if Founder is still in management/board we marked it as Founder-led.