skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually BITS is the old thing by now (it's been present in Windows since Windows XP), which only tries to download things in the background by using spare network bandwidth. I've never actively tested how well this "spare bandwidth detection" actually works, but on the other hand I've also never negatively noticed it, so I guess it might actually be doing its job quite well.

On the other hand there is in fact a newer (relatively speaking, given that it's a few years old by now, too) thingy specifically for Windows Update which also tries to use P2P distribution – that one is called DOS. Officially that stands for "Delivery Optimization Service", though personally I rather prefer "Denial of Service service", because when I first encountered I immediately noticed it in a negative way:

Even without any P2P features enabled, it spammed literally dozens of TCP connections to download stuff, and would thereby effectively monopolise the whole bandwidth of my internet connection. Until I figured out what was happening and disabled it (you can disable it and switch back to using BITS for downloading updates), every time my new (at the time) laptop was downloading updates, it would dramatically slow down Internet speeds for everything else in my whole home. Maybe by now that kind of issues have been fixed, but I've never tried it myself because BITS is, as I said, working perfectly fine and unobtrusively.
Plastics in the ocean, mass die offs, hunger around the world, health care around the world
Not convinced. Those UK regions are clearly defined current regions and used equally wrong in most languages. In the Germany case they are extinct people and different languages have picked different ones to name the current country. I would be surprised if any language named GB after Scotland or Wales.
They're also treating any app that's removed from sale as having been "censored" -- even though that includes apps which were removed by their own developer. (For example, it ends up including Facebook Lite, which Facebook discontinued in 2020.)

There's also a lot of apps listed under "Disappeared Apps" which look like legitimate removals for content issues, like scams or trademark infringement.
Ask someone from ArchiveTeam to run ArchiveBot against the site, the resulting WARC will eventually make its way into the Wayback Machine. After that, feel free to use the domain for your own purposes.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page

archiveteam@archiveteam.org or IRC at the channel #archiveteam (on hackint)
Mexico rattled by increasing violence against women
And if Z wins, we will be ruled by mafioso. You will not like it if/when Western Democracy falls.
This is not a great investment.

You can earn LIBOR + 7% on a BB rated CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligation) bond. Since you earning a floating rate (LIBOR) plus 7%, you would be far better protected against interest rate increases. The Listerine royalty is a perpetuity, which means that its value declines very rapidly when interest rates increase.

The value of the Listerine royalty has some natural immunity to inflation because the price of Listerine would increase with inflation, but it is difficult for manufacturers to pass on costs when it comes to retail consumer products like Listerine. The CLO bond is floating rate, so it is also protected somewhat against inflation.

You would need to dig into all the details of the Listerine mouthwash business before investing, and those granular details are unlikely to be available from the owner (Johnson & Johnson). The CLO bond will be backed by underwritten loans to 100+ large, private American companies across all different industries, so the commercial risk is far lower due to the diversification benefit of a CLO. The CLO structure itself also ensures that chances of the CLO BB bond defaulting are very low. The default risk can be reduced further by investing in multiple CLOs. You could also diversify beyond CLOs through other kinds of floating rate securities that have a similar LIBOR + 7% yield, for example Mortgage Backed Securities. With $1.5 million, you could construct a very nice structured credit securities portfolio for any target yield and risk level that you're looking for.

By the looks of this auction, the Listerine royalty is not easy at all to buy or sell. A BB rated CLO bond would be more liquid than this, and if you can afford to invest $1.5 million in a mouthwash royalty then you can also get an investment broker who can help you buy and sell structured credit bonds and perhaps even lend you money to increase your leverage if you want to.

The Listerine royalty belongs in a huge investment portfolio, such as a pension plan or hedge fund, where they have so much capital that needs to be deployed that they are forced to invest in highly obscure things like mouthwash royalties.
Unfortunate. I was going to use this to watch all of Parts Unknown.
I loved the old version before they took away all the features and just left profile manager.
Same here and it launched as I was making a transition from hard left to hard right and moving from an urban area to a suburban area so I should have been in pretty much every group you could possibly target (except maybe people who watch CNN?)
> Maybe he thinks an unmoderated cesspool is better than a moderated cesspool. Either way, you're swimming in shit.

I'm sure he thinks that. Apparently he's a "free speech absolutist."

> Twitter not being a cesspool is an appealing fantasy, but only that.

It's not a binary condition. Twitter can be a cesspool with relatively more or relatively less shit. I'm sure his preference will result in relatively more shit.

Personally, I've appreciated a having society that lacks the shit Donald Trump created on Twitter.
Sorry to respond to my own post, but after writing it I ran across and article in Bloomberg that basically confirms what I am saying. Apparently Musk is looking for equity partners to provide the 21 billion equity part of twitter's bid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-21/musk-is-s...
It a 5.5% cap with nothing backing it. Il take any random real estate deal (which has tons of tax benefits) over this any day of the week, plenty of which exist at the same cap or higher and come with actual assets (land, building, etc..)

Dont get me wrong, Listerine is definitely as strong a brand as there is (I cant even name a competitor off the top of my head) so im not that worried about this going to zero, but that said I would still expect a cap of ~8-10% to have this make sense over other options backed by assets.
and welcome to atonality
That sucks. I had the opposite experience, for those curious. I still have my firewire duet, I’ve been using over 10 years. Works great. It is unfortunate they stopped updating the software. My 2010 mac mini is running OS 10.11, and it works.
Did this just turn into a QANon board?
> the rush by major economies to onshore semiconductor production is "unrealistic" and that expanding capacity would not help alleviate the global chip shortage.

OR, maybe the countries are just using that as pretense because they think the CCP will make a move on Taiwan, and it’s easier to say this than say that out loud.
Fail fast(?)
there is a meta-problem that leads to this situation:

" It's not clear when—or even if—this legislation will come up for a vote. Traditionally, a bill like this would be considered by a Senate committee before making its way to the Senate floor. But as Congress has become more dysfunctional"

"it has become increasingly common for bills like this to get attached at the last minute to gargantuan "must-pass" spending bills."

This has to come to an end, no more dealing from the bottom of the deck.
> How is it that programmers are still discovering state-of-the-art algorithms? I just assumed Einstein-tier people had discovered all the optimal ways to do things by now.

Because it's a moving target. There isn't a fixed 'optimal' sorting algorithm.

We've had worst case O(n log n) sorting algorithms for decades, since at least the '50s, possibly the '40s. pdqsort isn't more 'optimal' in the algorithmic sense than merge sort is, they're both worst/expected O(n log n) algorithms.

If RAM is low-latency and your CPU isn't super scalar, heapsort is going to take less time than quicksort. With high-latency RAM and speculative executing CPUs, quicksort is going to take less time than heapsort. So every few hardware generations we need to sit down and benchmark everything.

pdqsort is based on the principal that the real world is different than the academic world. There are no frictionless spherical cows in a vacuum. In academic research, we assume that the data has been contrived to break your algorithm, or it's randomly distributed. In the real world, data is almost never randomly distributed. A lot of data that gets plugged into your standard library of choice's sorting algorithm is already sorted. Or is sorted in reversed. Or is sorted with one random element plopped onto the end. Or is sorted with one element randomly in the middle that's out of place. pdqsort is designed to account for that.
All the modern media formats are unsupported by Apple. We could be using avif for images and webm av1 streaming and video if not for Apple products.

Its intentional sabotage by Apple at this point on behalf of MPEG-LA, it seems.
There are hundreds of Louis Rossmann videos on YouTube that are variations of exactly this. Apple quotes hundreds/thousands for a fix, he opens up the device and unbends a pin in 30 seconds.
There are definitely ways out of this for Apple. Obviously they can go back to including the brick in certain jurisdictions like this. The other good solution, as you say, is to ask the customer if they need one, and offer them something else, like a 10% off coupon, if they reject the charger. Otherwise everyone will simply say "yes" even if they don't need it.
I'm just trying to give you perspective

Nearly every complex instrument still has critical bugs after 10 years because development moves on after 4-5 years. Hardware bugs are != software bugs in terms of complexity because the debugging and tools you have available are simply not even close to comparable. This is why you don't get a whole lot of complex instruments from small companies. I applaud anyone who gives it a shot, it isn't easy.
> The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices.

What's Fig's target audience? Developers.

Developers have been using a tried and tested way to keep configurations for decades -- dotfiles. We sync them across all our devices using git (or any of a thousand other ways). This is a solved problem and doesn't require email addresses or logins.
Recent and related:

Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31098822 - April 2022 (144 comments)
You can default on a loan regardless of your net worth; you can even default on a secured loan. The default is what triggers the civil proceedings for a judgement and forced liquidation of assets
There is one .DS_Store file per directory. It contains information like window size, icon position, folder background, thumbnails, etc. Deleting/vetoing .DS_Store files will not hurt anything of substance - other than discarding user preferences.

There are also AppleDouble (._) files, which are one-per-file. These contain the file's extended metadata and resource fork. Deleting these _may_ cause data loss if there's anything important stored in the resource fork. A better option is to enable vfs_streams on your Samba server to allow storing the additional forks natively on your filesystem (e.g. as xattrs).

(If you're using a modern Windows file server, I believe the resource fork is automatically mapped to an NTFS alternate data stream.)

See:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_stream...

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_stream...
I've seen red-tailed hawks, bald eagles, and peregrine falcons in downtown Boston. One of the coolest things I've seen was a hawk gliding down the bike path about 6 inches from the ground near a large playground, as it tried to sneak up on some squirrels. It did the nap of the earth flight for a couple hundred feet and then pounced on a squirrel. It was utterly unperturbed by the foot traffic around it.

I also lived in a high-rise, and a peregrine falcon used a ledge outside of my son's bedroom window as a perch to launch attacks on pigeons and seagulls.

And then there was that time a coyote was spotted in the North End: https://patch.com/massachusetts/charlestown/coyote-spotted-i...
This device has Dieter Rams' fingerprints all over it.
Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
It appears they use at least some amount of Super Micro hardware, possibly in very generic or custom cases (ie, they're not buying Dell.) That being said, I have to wonder how much datacenter space Apple really has. IIRC most of their iCloud services are hosted on various 3rd party cloud providers.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/23/apple-ends-relationship...

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/12/super-micro-spy-chip-story/
Whenever I see one of those on a site, I actually to the survey and fill it in with "it's annoying to be asked to do a survey before I even get to view the content." And hope that gets through to them.
Yeah I thought this was the same repost. It's very similar.
Your .prose class needs some width tuning for mobile. Just a friendly FYI.
It seems like Fig might not be solving a problem you have and that's totally okay.

We believe that there is a lot of room to improve developer experience in the terminal. That's why we build the products that we build.
Maybe he has 21 billion available in his margin account on Robinhood
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.13d-5 seems to indicate they have to be explicitly coordinating to be legally defined as a "group" for this purpose (and Twitter's filing highlights this definition), which seems hard to prove. Twitter can't issue a search warrant, the participants would presumably not write any such deal down on paper, and the action is readily explicable by "I think the acquisition is gonna go through and he's offering a premium, so I'd profit".
Interesting... I'll check if it can emulate 64 bits UEFI on a 32 bits one (yet 64 bits cpu): Finding anything to boot on my old tablet PC is becoming a pain.
Recent and related:

Go will use pdqsort in next release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31106157 - April 2022 (112 comments)
Whatever good points you are making are obscured by the overly aggressive tone of your comment.
Apple is not going to honor your warranty if you use a bad third party charging cable and it damages your device, so yes you are restricted to their exclusive one.
where does terminal lack user-experience in your opinion?

you really think your proprietary, VC-baked, telemetry-enabled product would improve developer experience?

a terminal is accessible as it gets and doesn’t need a web interface

this is just a pervert version of Electron
There is also the (evidently dying) principle of by default wanting control over my computer and filesystem. I know this is not compelling to most people anymore but I feel like if I want 25 files in a directory, I expect to see 25 there. Not 26 because the operating system really really really really wants to pollute it with one more file. I want 25 there. If I wanted that other file there, I would have explicitly commanded my computer to put it there.

I also object to my operating system running all these background processes on MY computer without me commanding it to, and it suggesting on its own that I do this or run that, again in absence of any command to do so. More and more, operating systems and applications are treating MY computer as a dumping ground and science experiment: for things it wants to do, instead of what I want it to do.

I should not have to go off and find a setting somewhere just to stop my operating system from doing things on its own I don’t ask for.
This sounds like you've found a bug in either the Rust standard library or the ReactOS API implementation. It might be worth looking into this!
I’m part of a team that makes low volume high priced electronics. Component costs don’t contribute that much: the price difference between qty 1 and qty 1k is usually much larger than between qty 1k and anything more. The things I see contributing to the cost of low quantity hardware are:

1. The need to amortize development costs over fewer units. This is not just software and hardware engineers, but office space, lab equipment, mechanical engineering for enclosures, prototype builds, emissions and compliance testing (FCC, CE, UL, TÜV, depending device and on target market)

2. Higher manufacturing costs. Low cost overseas manufacturing has fairly high fixed costs, especially if you want to maintain high quality.
Thanks stranger :)
The entire purpose of opinion news is for people to be fed back their own opinions. Every time someone’s opinion is challenged by “their side” they find another outlet.
I'm not sure wind and weather are solved. Planes, ships, and to a lesser extent cars/trains are still lost to weather quite frequently. Yes, we can track it better, but people still have to go about their lives in inclement weather. Knowing where it is does not mean we never have to deal with it.

Also, as others have noted elsewhere, hydrogen is still an absolute pain to work with. It's better than it was, but that doesn't make it safe. In-flight fires are still a nightmare on planes - it'd be much worse if the only thing keeping you in the air is a massive hydrogen balloon.

All this is apart from airships being slow, unwieldy, relatively low altitude, etc.
Ask HN: Examples of Well-Documented UIs?
As the developer of Mito [1], I rely heavily on Plotly [2] and pandas [3] documentation. They both have great documentation, IMO, because they have tons of examples with copy and pasteable code. Examples are great because:
1. they're easily parsable as the reader of the docs
2. they don't just tell me what to do, but they actually give me a starting place

I want to create docs for Mito that is as helpful as Plotly & Panda's docs. However, Mito is a spreadsheet, which means examples (screenshots) don't have the same characteristics as code examples:
1. they take up a lot of space on the page, making it difficult to scan through a page of docs for one that is relevant to the user's present problem.
2. you can't use the screenshot as a starting place, like you can with code examples. Instead, you need to replicate the screenshot in your own spreadsheet by following the same steps detailed in the screenshot.

Both 1 and 2 come together to additionally mean that what you can convey in a code example takes several screenshots to explain, especially when the user needs to pass through a sequence of clicks. For example, to create a graph in Mito, you need to first click on the graph button in the Mito toolbar, then click some more buttons in the taskpane that opens up. This makes using the documentation pretty frictiony.

In addition, screenshots are hard to maintain as we're constantly evolving our UI.

What are best practices for documenting a UI? What products do it best?

[1] https://www.trymito.io/
[2] https://plotly.com/python/bar-charts/
[3] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.pivot_table.html
Ask HN: If we commit to EV how much more solar power would we get in cities?
I.e. if we got rid of internal combustion engines how much cleaner would city air be (outside of personal health benefits) and would that provide an increase in solar production through more effective irradiance and less soilage?
I'm not sure I understand the absolute hate for snap that I see everywhere. Can you enlighten me? I use snap for emacs (the edge/28 version), slack, and (occasionally) Firefox on my daily driver laptop. They all work fine. I've not noticed what's wrong with them.
‘In the same article Grimes complains Musk wouldn't replace a broken mattress.’

That’s just a humble brag.
On the subject of (antiseptic) mouthwash, there have been studies linking it to diabetes in overweight adults [1] and mortality in hospitalized patients [2]. Nothing that conclusively proves causality AFAIK, but it does give one pause...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.1020

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33067640/
LTE Downlink: Synchronization Signals
I agree with you mostly about why it would be expensive, but Teenage Engineering doesn't have a reputation for building reliable devices. I own an OP-1, owned two POs and considered getting an OP-Z only to be scared away by all the reports about poor hardware quality and support.

The OP-Z plastic casing apparently bends. Sometimes it comes like that out of the factory (or more likely gets that way during storage and transport) often times it bends with use. This means that buttons will slide out of position, keys will trigger multiple times, etc.

The manufacturer doesn't have any solution to the above problem and returning it for a replacement may result in a straight case or more of the same. All signs indicate that it's a design defect, but TE haven't recognised this and they're getting punished in reviews.

The POs are flimsy, and the knobs tend to be imprecise and "jump" between values. One came with rust on a metal part because of TEs creative open packaging which exposes the devices to the surrounding environment.

The OP-1 itself seems solid as far as hardware goes so far, but it has other issues. It's noisy for one, which goes against claims of audio quality. The software's buggy and it records clicks together with the incoming audio, especially when recording external instruments. These are all well known problems.
And given that the OP-1 is supposed to be a synth, or at least a groovebox, it's surprisingly hard to create good sounding patches with it.
> You don't 'need the lights on.'

Hospitals do. Street lights do. Network operators do. Just think back to the beginning of the pandemic and how many industries were suddenly discovered to be "essential". You're thinking from the perspective of "can I, personally, suffer a power outage in my own home[1]" and imaginging that "running a civilization" works like that. There are many entities who simply can't stop buying power.

> Only a moron [...]

Please think harder here. It's not remotely as simple as you think it is.

[1] Knowing that you can use your phone to reach effective emergency services in the event of need, of course.
This sounds like Musk being a "eccentric" person.

I have a difficult time believing Telsa couldn't put him up in executive housing and cover a security detail. Or, he couldn't send out a tweet and get a $50 million line of credit, uncallable line of credit to live on. Especially given that he can at get 13 billion dollars to acquire another company.

I think he likes bragging about being a homeless couch surfer.
I write my stuff to /dev/null the databaseless database. Lightning fast, more space than S3.
Engineer at Column here! The difference between us and ALL banking as a service companies (Stripe Treasury, Unit, etc) is that we are the actual underlying bank in the transaction. BaaS companies usually wrap one or several banks (like us) to provide their API's.
Isn't there also the fseventsd file?
While I love the fact that there is a native RDP solution in Gnome 42 using Ubuntu[1], I did not manage to get it working... hopefully they fix it soon.

Besides including encrypted ZFS support in the installer that makes a pretty awesome release :-)

[1] https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/ubuntu-22-04-re...