skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It basically is at this point. Every time one of these companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter...etc get caught doing something dodgy they just say it was the algorithm's fault and call it a day. Like when Facebook was selling ads to anti-semites or Google just banning people from their services for undisclosed reasons.
I'm sick of people calling in the hall monitors. Let things burn.
Apparently you can officially just shut off the restriction that forces Windows 11 to only run on new CPUs and the newest TPM by just setting a registry key AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU on install.¹ But I never use Windows and don't plan to start anytime soon, so it's not something that I will try.

¹ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-...
Interesting to see where different peoples values lie. Living life like this sounds absolutely miserable to me, no matter how much money I would bring in. But hey I understand that some people enjoy the hustle.
Renewables do make electricity cheaper. Here is a highly simplified version of how rates are set:

Fixed price = (unit cost + a profit margin) * number of units

The fixed price is set for a period of time based on historical and forecasted costs. Which costs are allowed and the profit margin for regulated utilities serving fixed price load is determined by the public service commissions.

When their costs go down the regulators will say you can’t charge as much during the next period.

Utilities are a natural monopoly and their prices are controlled.
Of course the real thing to know here on Javascript is that they are related. Eich's crazy scripting language "Livescript" was going to exist independently, but then there was a chance to ride on the coattails of the Java enthusiasm, to do that it needed the inappropriate name, and it needed syntax that looks enough like a semicolon language even though it's a Lisp.

Some of the obvious defects in Javascript are (at least if you believe people who were there) excused because Brendan had a tight deadline to ship this or else Netscape would go with the plan where Sun's Java is more closely integrated instead of Eich's Lisp scripting. Every day spent making Javascript less awful is additional risk an executive says no, we are going with Sun on this, stop work on Javascript.

I don't know if there's an equivalently nuanced story for Brutalism.
You can add to that the allow notifications dialog, has anybody ever clicked yes on one of those?
This is true but it seems that CD is generally the most efficient method of maintaining this capability for large distributed systems.
>This is like implying Java and JavaScript are related.

Which they are. https://wiki.c2.com/?AlgolFamily
or... maybe there's so much volume at the top of washing machines (above the water, where the controls are) that you could place the board there, where chips:
- don't need waterproofing
- don't need to be tightly integrated
- can be fully COTS since the logic is relatively dead simple
Yes. Cities should build up instead of out. That means changing building codes and zoning laws to reduce restrictions on building heights. It also means investing in transportation that can move people around with less space, like light rail.

Refusing to build up will lead to sprawl. Car-centric transportation infrastructure will lead to sprawl and traffic jams. Sprawl a bad scenario for everyone, including car lovers.
And that is the point. Elon sent starlink terminals to the Ukraine because of the war.
Lots of stories coming up about netflix with the two stock drops this year, all with different reason for it and a lot of arm chair netflix board members. Netflix won in a market by being different and killing blockbuster with a simple concept of no brick and motor and mailing dvds. They correctly pivoted to streaming, and we can see it in the numbers the mail dvd business is much smaller and shrinking faster. Anyone remember when they thought about spinning it off? Now netflix has higher overhead with trying to get content, the costs of running their network, and lots of competitors. Fortnite is a competitor like tiktok is, as well as all the streaming services that have come up and is now competing with apple, amazon plus all the past large content members. Getting into video games somehow could help, but I can't see how netflix competes with nintendo, microsoft and playstation which has their own online systems and own hardware. Now to armchair what netflix should do: buy content studios, make better content, and if they really want to get into video games. Maybe netflix can buy sega.
Other OSes such as Windows do the latter. Linux "overcommit" is sometimes problematic, but has been the lay of the Linux land for quite some time. I don't love it.
I remember after I got older I eventually had some cubes next to mine that were perpetual "new college student hires" cubes.

I was / am by no means the best at my job technically, in fact some of those new guys were better out of the gate technically than I was in some ways. But I could get along with the new guys and enjoyed working with them. Over lunches and small talk I would quietly have discussions about "how to pick your battles" / "yeah that's absurd but here's an easy way to get around it rather than fight it" and more generally "amazingly easy things you can do to make your boss happy that cost you nothing at all". These lessons of course weren't me just telling them what to do, just planting ideas that they eventually would discover, hopefully sooner rather than later.

They were basically all the things I learned the hard way ;)
The article is about the benefits that the US intelligence agencies get from the censorship power of a centralized monopoly of tech companies.

For example, if your main form of communication online is through companies owned by Meta, it’s very easy to effectively censor a point of view or group of people through deplatforming, but if there are dozens of platforms that becomes more difficult.

While more authoritarian countries rely on direct censorship, the US instead promotes the viewpoints they want people to subscribe to: positive reinforcement. You can see this with the government’s involvement with the entertainment industry, or with the military paying sports leagues to promote patriotic displays.

Tech companies being private entities means that they can censor or at least stop the viral effects of social media on ideas that don’t fit the mold.

There’s a lot you can do to shape public opinion without violating the first amendment.

It’s kind of similar to the way local news stations will run “stories” that amount to advertisements for various products or local businesses. Or you might see a funny meme on Reddit where the joke mostly has to do with a company.

Not to say that there aren’t valid reasons to do stuff like this…there’s plenty of harmful speech out there that makes the world a worse place. Hateful, violent, or misleading speech is a legitimate problem. For example, there’s a report that claims most anti-vaccination online content comes from just 12 sources. [1]

It seems a little bit alarming that such a small group can amplify speech in a way that has cost perhaps thousands of lives.

[1] [PDF] https://f4d9b9d3-3d32-4f3a-afa6-49f8bf05279a.usrfiles.com/ug...
I don't see the square, FWIW. The colors are a match in Edge v100.
OpenBSD 7.1
We need someone who has done “it” before
Why do cities pay money without at least getting shares of the company they are subsidizing? They wouldn't even need publish shares, private shares of the local city branch could be more than enough.
The OLD machines from ASML (and others) make these chips.
Precautionary approach?: make a video now of your favorite washing machine cycle, analyze later.
It's Hanlon's razor, isn't it?
March 25, 2022 "Starlink, at least so far, has resisted all hacking & jamming attempts"

It even more impressive that SpaceX was able to update it that quickly as well as a huge selling point for the military markets they are targeting so I can't quite understand why Musk has to make such a false statement.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507505633259630599

Edited text below this line

"Some Starlink terminals near conflict areas were being jammed for several hours at a time. Our latest software update bypasses the jamming."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1500026380704178178
There was a trend if I remember correctly, over the 2000~2005 period. Back then, there was some futuristic UIs like gkrellm, some audio players like winamp and a few themes for Windows to make it look cooler.
AlphaGrip Keyboard and Trackball (2008)
Not sure how other headsets do IPD, but with eye tracking it's pretty hard to get it wrong. If the eye's off center it's easily noticeable in the image.
Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
So option 1 is expensive and gets stuff done, and option 2 is expensive and shitty. And we have to go the way of option 2 because...
Placemark: Create, edit, and convert the data that powers maps
Designing an update mechanism with no remote exploits is straightforward, cryptographically speaking. The hard part is implementing it correctly.
> Times are tough after your golden goose dies.

Which golden goose has died or is going to? Tech profits are through the roof and have never been better, while growth continues unabated. The only thing big tech is facing are speeding fines and regional constraints on growth, which it can trivially afford (it has been a decade of the same talk while big tech has gotten massively bigger).

Operating income: Apple $117 billion, Microsoft $78b, Google $78b, Facebook $46b, Amazon $25b, Intel $22b, Cisco $14b, Oracle $11b, Qualcomm $11b, Nvidia $10b, Micron $10b, Broadcom $10b, Texas Instruments $9b, Applied Materials $8b, Adobe $6b, Netflix $6b

For reference ASML is at $7b and SAP is at $5b.

The US tech golden goose is going to get bigger and richer yet. It should only take you a few moments to estimate reasonably where eg Microsoft is going this decade (~$140+ billion in operating income, probably the size of all of Europe's tech companies op income combined in one company).
Interesting. It might just be a Firefox thing.

I remember reading a Firefox bug report about this, and the response was that the person's monitor colour calibration must be wrong, which makes no sense to me since even if the monitor colour calibration was wrong, I'd except it to apply to both the page and the image equally.

EDIT: This one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621474 - from 12 years ago.
> While [diet, exercise, meditation, taking time off, etc] all have their place, at a certain point and a certain level of stress you stop being able to do it.

It certainly can feel like that, but it is not true. You are able to do it. The key is to recognize that you are overwhelmed, you no longer have control over your attention, and your first priority is to stop and recover that control.

If you operate without control over your attention, you will start making mistakes at higher frequency, and mistakes cause more mistakes, which cause more stress, in a cascade of mistakes. The brain is caught in a cycle of helpless reaction. It requires discipline to step away and regain your focus because every fiber of your being tells you "everything is important right now". This false belief is the root of much suffering.

The feeling of being overwhelmed is characterized by two things: a lack of clarity (a big picture where specific steps are unclear and who's relative importance is unclear), and a lack of focus (constantly thinking of the other steps when you're executing one). You are like a chef trying to do their job with a dull knife because they don't feel they have the time to sharpen it. This forces the chef to improvise ad hoc techniques to succeed with what is effectively a new, worse tool with which they have no practice. Improvisation is laudable and useful, but it's also stressful, high-risk.

Never accept that you are too stressed to deal with your stress - that's just the stress talking. :)
I'm not sure the difference is as obvious as you imply. Care to elaborate?
FWIW, Noob me assumed Netflix's streaming biz had plateaued once they entered the video games biz.

How'd that biz strategy meeting go? You're getting crowded out of the market for your core biz. So you decide to enter a more crowded, more competitive market, for which you have no history or culture.

Grow or die, right? Too bad there's not an option for "That was a fun ride. Thanks everyone. We're switching from being a growth stock to paying dividends."
The ability to deliver a critical fix on a timeline of minutes to hours is contingent on having well exercised infrastructure and processes in place to do so.

If you don’t do CD, it will either be more expensive because you have to maintain two processes or there is a good chance it will fail when you need it most because the critical delivery path wasn’t well exercised.
They had been trying to launch Starlink service there since before the war and the government was dragging their feet on regulatory approval. The war caused the government to rethink that.
Root cause analysis in software postmortems and in business is important, but knowing the root cause that initiated WWIII is only really useful to understand in hopes of preventing WWIV.

It's irrelevant whether a private corporation software update or the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand causes a world war to break out, it must be avoided.
Embedding information in text documents using glyph perturbation (2018) [pdf]
Not saying I agree with OP but Nagasaki and Hiroshima were never denied by the US. Actually, they made it extremely clear that those were American bombs, and that was the whole point (show that the US has insanely powerful weaponry and further resistance is futile). So that's quite different
> ...isn't due to mechanical failure of the engine (very common in old ass prop planes, just as your Hyundai might blow up, due to oil starvation, spun bearings, rods grenading itself, etc)

Unlike cars, even old aviation engines have strict rules for inspection, and for replacement of parts after a certain number of hours, rather than when they wear out or fail. You could get away with circumventing these for a while, but it is simply not true that it is "very common" for "old ass prop planes" to have engine failures, comparably to old cars.

> It was also strongly speculated that he filled one of the fuel tanks with water...

I would be interested in seeing how strong the evidence behind this speculation is, but if it were the case, it would be yet further evidence of his incompetence, as water is no help, and sometimes a problem, in preventing, containing and extinguishing a gasoline fire.
I believe we are sending heavy armaments to Ukraine now. Also for a reason, of course.

I don't really see the problem with having a foreign Starlink operating over your country. It just provides communication, doesn't it?
It's cool to see some commentary regarding how hunters and federal policy helped (and hurt).

The National Wild Turkey Foundation is solely responsible for the reintroduction of the turkey across most of the entire US. The entire purpose of the mission was to bring wild turkey populations up for hunting, and that hunters would be the best way to conserve and manage the population.

An excellent podcast done by Steve Rinella (another hunter/conservationist, famous for his Meat Eater TV Show) about the topic: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-104-turks.

From the episode: the way the NWTF and DOW people captured Wild Turkeys was to design a gun that could shoot webs, capture the turkeys, throw them into a van, and drive them out and drop them off in the woods in another state.
Exactly, this bizarre blaming the victim for provoking more violence from the aggressor is pernicious and ill conceived imo. But they might go nuclear or attack the NATO/US! Maniacs will do what maniacs do, that genie is out of the bottle. Countries have a right to control their airspace, countries have the right to acquire military equipment as they please. Invaders do not get to dictate that.
What If Fans Could Gather and Sequence Athletes' DNA?
Congratulations on building the thing. Best of luck.
I am actually for keeping the legacy scheme around for a good while, mostly because there's plenty of hardware even now that relies on it.

But UEFI is more sane. Bios systems map the first 512 bytes which are both code and partition table into ram. Into that you need to cram enough code to locate stage 2, which I think tended to be located in the alignment space between the MBR and the next sector. Stage 2 once loaded needed enough logic to find and load your boot partition, and load your config from it, parse the kernel list and finally load one of those kernels. I seem to remember grub hard coding where the stage2 actually was, although I might be wrong about that. Either way it was a kinda fragile mess.

Sure, every boot process needs to get enough logic loaded to do the next thing, but with efi this is all taken care of during efis various internal loading phases, nicely located in code on onboard flash where it probably should be. By the time it comes to look for what you want to load, you are already in long mode and we aren't hiding stuff in places not covered by a partition definition. It is kinda annoying they didn't consider a boot filesystem with large enough file storage for big images (exfat, udfs, other reasonable choice, we have the filesystems) but we can cope with that.

The process for detecting bootable partitions and updating boot entries is a lot, lot saner than BIOS systems tend to be. Sure there are details of the design I don't like, and I kinda agree with your points there too, but substitute those for better choices and you still have a reasonable overall framework.
Ok found it on the extended table here: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
I have always written cursive (in Indian schools in the 70's, teachers yelled at you if you wrote block), and with a fountain pen, no less. One of my English teachers threw away my favorite ballpoint pen and gave me her fountain pen to write notes that day in school. My grandfather, who was a school teacher, insisted that we write copy of at least 1 page everyday in a 4-line ruled handwriting practice notebook.

I still write all my notes in cursive with a fountain pen. According to graphology, handwriting is brain-writing and improves as you write more.
GAN lawyers: An online scam operation posing as a Boston law firm
Yes, 95 was a remarkable achievement. Both Mac OS 9 and 95 were top of the UX back then. But after that, Apple made OS X, which introduced a new paradigm, look, etc. Windows just crashed with rare translucid UI implementation, then, on the flat design introduction they did Metro, another failure because the need to be on the same train
We just gave up a machine from the 1950s. The installer for the new machine looked in amazement that the old unit had still been working until recently (a Kenmore).

Looking to legislate parts availability for ca 5 years is a step, but IMHO it isn't nearly enough for the long run.
>You dont get to make the comment 'twitter is private, free speech only applies to government' because twitter == government.

it's true, twitter == government but not twitter === government. Meaning that the conversion happens in the underlying JIT engine where government hacks twitter to do what it wants.

So the idea is that you could make a first amendment complaint against the government for hacking twitter if it infringed your free speech with that hack, but you could not say twitter cannot just turn off my account because while twitter == government it does not === government.
I've had 2 washing machines die in as many years, and the electronics were encased in silicone.

Of course, a repair involves replacing the entire proprietary electronics assembly (multiple PCBs, and plastic frame), and is just not economical, so the entire machine, valves, motor, steel drum and cabinet, are written-off because a mosfet failed, or whatever.

If the electronics were standardized and modular, even if encased in silicone, there would be an economic case to replace just failed modules.
Seemly ExFAT is specially unreliable... Nintendo Switch community first advice when you buy one is: If you buy a SD Card with ExFAT, reformat it to FAT, because ExFAT will eventually cause your files to be corrupted...
Hmm some elements of that TUI look vaguely familiar ... where have I seen them before?
Please provide a source.

What tanks specifically are they sending and how are they training the Ukrainians to operate them?

The Ukrainians do not own any US tanks and do not have any infrastructure to operate or maintain such tanks. If the US were to send such equipment it requires a lot more than just the tank. This is also why the US and others do not want to do this as it involves sending US personnel to train/coordinate etc.
> funding the recovery of the game species through the sale of licenses, tags, and stamps, as well as a 1937 federal law that placed an 11 percent excise tax on hunting weapons, including guns, ammunition, and archery equipment.

The Pittman-Robertson tax raises nearly a billion dollars a year for conservation and wildlife management.
If a Chinese / Russian company wants to sell internet access to US customers, why would I want the government to be able to tell me I don't have the right to connect to it.
Well the slope is simply, is this a group that you object to?

If not then you should defend them in the same way that you would want to be defended. If you object to basement dwelling troll groups then the saying will also have no impact on them.
I make my eights with two circles rather than a 'figure-eight'. I always wonder how prevalent either method is, or rather more bluntly, am I weird?
From the release notes:

> Support for Apple Silicon Macs has improved and is ready for general use

With a list of several drivers and compatibility improvements... Very cool to see such progress from a comparatively small project!
> It's not biased to moderate something like "vaccines cause autism".

It is biased. As is any and all moderation, inherently.

Biased toward science. A bias toward the rational is a positive, healthy bias.

Rather than cowering about bias, Twitter should very openly and very aggressively stake out a clear and biased position; ie, this is our ground: we're pro science, pro vaccines, and we're going to hold that ground, period (whether anyone else likes it or not, and our algorithms will bias this way accordingly).
Putting the “SEC” in DevSecOps
I guess people are reading the request as one for search engine technique. It is a reasonable interpretation, to be fair.
Cheap power and plentiful freshwater supply that can be utilized renewably (fabs don't capture water like say, agriculture).

There are multiple fabs in the US today making components for consumer electronics as well as multiple fabs under construction. Government incentives are a major factor in choosing sites for these projects, we know we need more of them domestically, and know we can make a buck off them for the taxpayer.
Are you saying it's more likely hate crimes are being perpetrated by people that identify as progressive?
Yeah, and most development houses would test and develop with -O2 on. The problems came if you ended up thinking you might need to switch near the end.