skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We already have very high quality tiny sound drivers, they’re used in IEMs

Also in mobile phones.
> increasing wages does not increase quality of life

That's a whopper of a statement. What are you basing that on? As someone whose increased wages allowed for home ownership and breathing room for emergencies, this seems intuitively incorrect, but we don't have to rely on intuition: there are solid studies that found the same, as well as pointing out the broader societal impacts of wealth inequality related to low wages, e.g. https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I've played around with GPT-J for some time and collected bits of it here: https://www.buttercookie.de/AI/

I think my favourite bits so far are this list of "facts" about garden gnomes (https://www.buttercookie.de/AI/garden_gnome_facts.html#garde...), the strange tale of the Werkstofflimousine (https://www.buttercookie.de/AI/the_burkiss_way.html#werkstof...) and The Chronicles of the Orbital Railroad (https://www.buttercookie.de/AI/orbital_railroad.html).

(There's also more stuff which I haven't had the time to edit properly hidden under https://www.buttercookie.de/temp/AI/)
Kinda strange that Apple has not used the time-and-customers-tested (and with a nice website) ifixit.com for the task. I only hope that iFixit will not die as a result - it’s always nice to have an alternative.
How to turn DDoS attacks into a business opportunity
It's not about a particular company it's about global/international companies in general. Plus imposing a global revenue fine for this kind of issue would be absurd. It only needs to be enough for their bottom line to look better by complying rather than making the change.
Foreign exchange doesn't work like that.

If you have a small economy, and you want to boost local production, you intentionally want to print more of the local currency, have higher inflation, and thus make your currency cheaper compared to foreign currency. This makes your exports cheaper for other countries to buy, thus boosting demand and exports, making the country wealthier.

Literally the biggest economic problem the US had with China is that China kept its currency devalued for so long, thus making Chinese products cheaper for export markets, specifically for China to overcome the effects of Japanese and Western imperialism and build a large, developed domestic market. And they succeeded.
The kit includes a complete heating device to release the display glass adhesive. You want to fix your own display? This is what you need. Not sure why people expected a small set of tools.
> The top networks included the German provider Hetzner Online GmbH (Autonomous System Number 24940), Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia (ASN 262186), OVH in France (ASN 16276), as well as other cloud providers.

It's interesting that Cloudflare is doing public shaming here. That's a good thing in this case, isn't it?
It used to be the case. The energy cost of production was massively higher in their early days and if the waste heat was used, there wasn't a net energy savings. Not so much anymore, especially when increased lifespan is taken into account (it's at least at parity at this point).
> factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation.

That's simply not a statement of fact. It's a subjective opinion.

> are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter?

Yes. In my opinion, Elon Musk's ownership could conceivably make Twitter worse.

> Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened.

This seems, honestly, like a ludicrous claim. _Everything_ that _everyone_ is worried about has already happened? Come on now...
Both @ IPO prices. In a recession both of their main offerings drop as people don't use the service - to keep their share prices up they need to up their rev share combined with equity prices dropping as a hole. Strongly disagree with this opinion.

If the argument is for working at them - I think any large tech corp with a voluminous employee size is probably relatively safe (layoff risk always abound).
Even with several such examples, it can still be cumulative.
Does standby for the sky box, the lan switch and the hub just mean normal operation?
> Automotive has a very strong track record of 3rd party parts being available shortly after genuine parts become hard to obtain or not-affordable

With the exception that the car doesn't throw error codes and disable the power windows if I use a third-party brake pad.
Reminds me of the story of the LED traffic lights that freeze in winter, thus needing an additional heating solution (making them more expensive / error-prone and even less energy-efficient during cold weather): https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
> (but I don’t buy the argument that “real” macros are only able in s-exprs)

There are macros in non-s-expr languages. Usually then one needs to manipulate an AST data structure. That has consequences in those cases:

a) the macro forms need to be parsed according to a syntax, usually a predefined syntax

b) the AST data structure adds some complexity, which makes simple things more complex, but can also be a help

For Common Lisp a) means that the code enclosed in a macro does not need to conform to a predefined syntax and the macro is responsible to parse it. A typical example is the LOOP macro: (LOOP for i from a to b by 2 when (> a (foo b)) maximize (sin b)). That's a whole different sublanguage, which does not look like the typical nested lists based notation. It uses symbols as syntactic words in a complex syntax, which otherwise would not be valid Lisp.

You can see what it does: one can add arbitrary syntax. Which is good and bad at the same time.

b) means for Common Lisp that there is certain meta-level model, where the language can be used to program itself via procedural macros. Now one has to deal with code, where one can program on a meta-level which looks like the normal level. That's also good and bad. Good because one can apply all the knowledge and tools on the meta-level, too. Bad because it means that a programmer may see in a debugger code-generating code and the programmer sees code constructs which have code generators behind it. In a Lisp interpreter (one which processes Lisp source code at runtime), this will also be visible at runtime. In a language which uses AST data structures, the code in AST representation looks very different from the written code. In Lisp the code as data looks the same as the written code.

The experience is widely different from programming in other programming languages and not that easy to learn: programming a language on a meta-level in itself.

Most programming we see seems to happen without that self-programmability capability.
A family friend was talking to a doctor who was considering quitting.

The reason why, at least for that doctor, wasn't really the stress from patients. It was all the damned paperwork and the stress that created.
Wait... So Facebook not competing with Spotify is good?
Usually it's defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth which we haven't seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
I work at a startup currently and am wondering if it’s time to start job hunting at the big companies because I worry about stability. There will be some flood of labor soon I can feel it in the air and I want to get in before that
Food for Thought: Was Cooking a Pivotal Step in Human Evolution? (2018)
I'm in a similar boat, but have a slightly different conclusion: if you started 20 years ago, you'll have a much easier time today than if you started six months ago.

I think it's also fair to say that personal mail for a small domain is much easier than even a small amount of transactional email and don't even try sending newsletters beyond your friend group.

I have run mail off three different IPs over the ~20 years I've been hosting, switching IP address didn't affect me all that much.

Another thing to note is that receiving mail is really easy. Sending it is hard, filtering out the spam (and only the spam) from your inbound email is harder.
Definitely. Electricity at the current UK price cap is pretty much bang on £2.50 per watt-year, so there are some eye watering annual standby costs in that spreadsheet.
If you go to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota you'll see people from all over the world for a reason. It feels like the UN, where everyone has some sort of debilitating disease.

They have a system where you get evaluated by a general practitioner (or someone more relevant), and then they schedule you to see however many specialists you might need to see - all within a day or two.

It's not perfect, and I've found it's still hard to get them to drill deep on anything not life threatening or obviously testable. That said, I very much doubt that system exists anywhere with socialized medicine. You don't need a referral or anything else to go. You just call and make an appointment.
Thanks for all this info.

It took me a couple minutes but I found the booklet print mode under Print > Layout > Two-Sided > Booklet. It makes more sense after I printed a few pages out and folded them. What a delightful little feature— much better size for taking on the go.

Right now I work with a 32" 4K monitor with the UI scaled and siting about 6 feet away. You've inspired me to get a bigger monitor, mount it, and sit across the room from it. I can also commiserate with being fussy. Sometimes I don't know if it's easier to satisfy or to push back against my own inclinations.

Your colored laser printer and stapler sound amazing as well.

When you say keel-stapled, is that to staple across what would be the spine of a book(let)?
I would interpret these devices as being in a low-power usage mode where we wouldn't expect high power draws, rather than literally a 'standby mode'. A clock certainly falls in this category. A fridge if it hasn't been opened in hours and has good insulation could even fall here as well overnight, etc. Sure there are power spikes but the important thing is the amortized consumption.
And the ability to tokenise assets
I have been dealing with "mysterious" pelvic pain (cpps) for about 8 months or so. No doctor has been able to figure out what is wrong with me. The process of working with doctors has been traumatizing to say the least. I once had trust in our medical system, but my perspective has changed.

I now have little faith in most doctors ability to solve my medical problems. I recall someone on HN saying they are basically "chat bots", and sadly, I find that to be an accurate description. I've turned mostly to the internet for help. The internet has both helped and harmed me, though I would say overall has been less harmful than the experiences I've had with doctors.

Doing my own research on the internet does make me feel like a "kook", but I would not even have a label for my condition if I had not done so. I can live with some discomfort if I can at least put a label on what I am feeling. It's also comforting to know there's people out there with the same condition as you.

I have access to research and studies online, but if the doctor was not aware of it, they are quick to discredit it.

The one thing I am grateful for about seeing doctors is their ability to rule out the common/serious conditions. That has been helpful, although I have found that simply "getting permission" for a procedure, or to see some specialist, is way too difficult. Often times specialists are booked out for months. It's so discouraging.
> we just now also have these new things which are tiny very portable computers which are locked down and very closed

...and that need replacing every couple years not because they don't work but because we have been disallowed from replacing parts, thus generating e-waste made up of rare earths and toxic metals and at great cost to people.
Any company that is pre-revenue or is subsidizing growth by under charging for their services will be in a bad spot (unless they have a long run way).
Was the Great Scientist E. O. Wilson a Racist? No
The article isn't about controlling inflation or floating currencies, but access to new technology.
Prompt: "She loves sex, because"

Generated text:
"She loves sex, because anal is really extreme pleasure for her, with it she cums really fast. She is a pretty horny girl and her partner just needs a hand. So the dude puts her on all fours, takes off her panties and starts analing her! Her butt gets a nice pounding and the dude puts his dick in her mouth. Now she has got a great opportunity for real anal orgasm!"

Interesting that it focused on anal sex in particular?!
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I obviously concede that stuff like applying kNN over ginormous datasets to find TV shows people like, or doing some matrix decomposition to correlate ('recognise') objects in photographs, is obviously useful in the trivial sense. It has uses. It wouldn't exist otherwise. I was more thinking on a higher level, about whether it has led to any truly epochal technological advances, which it hasn't.

Machine learning / neural nets also (like I said) get to claim credit for a hell of a lot of things which are just products of colossal advances in hardware – simply of its becoming possible to run statistical methods over very very large '1:1 scale' sample sets – and not due to a specific statistical technique (NN) which is not remotely new and has been heavily researched for about 40-50 years now.
> (1 + .999...)/2 = .5 + .499... = .999..

Why is .999.../2 = .499... ?
The survey sample was 200 RNs in the USA.
> System design, though, is the actual point of SW ENGINEERING

Software Engineering is about problem solving using software and hardware (we'll just say computers for simplicity). Whatever solution system you propose has inherent constraints and tradeoffs. That's the Engineering. System design is a catchall phrase for a subjective problem scale.
My experience with professors and the concept of "study skills" is that there is often a skewed perception of how students should learn that is colored by their own experience. Many of my classmates did not regularly go to lectures, and most of them did very well. When they struggled in a class or the teacher was a good lecturer, they went. Professors who cared were often the ones who never missed a lecture themselves. This could be an indication that the traditional yardsticks of who is a "good student" are breaking down.

I would also chalk up the students generally being less organized to the stress of the situation, rather than a degeneration of study skills.
> they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state could not do what legislators were doing — unless the district’s bond debt was paid off

> In essence, the state had a contractual obligation not to interfere with the district until the bond debt is paid off

If it was written into the contract, yes, and maybe the state can't just break the contract willy-nilly. If, however, the bond matter was written into the law that made these special districts possible rather than into the contract, then no, it's not part of the contract, and no legislature can be bound by statutes passed by past legislatures.
Amazon's stores are infamously thin on profit compared to AWS.
I‘ve been doing exactly that for roughly 10 years and never had a problem with Gmail. You just have to set everything up to latest best practices (DKIM etc.). I‘ve even changed IP addresses a couple of times.
Just because having plaque on your teeth will block acids doesn't mean it's actually a good idea not to clean your teeth.

I guess if you could show a study showing that leaving plaque/tartar on teeth leads to better health outcomes I might be interested.
I used to be really grumpy about SELinux until I learned about audit2why and audit2how. With those two utilities SELinux is just as easy if not easier to configure than any systemd process.

Every job is hard when you are using the wrong tools. Don't change your oil with pliers, and don't setenforce 0.
This seems like a problem with the kernel development model. In the Linux kernel, unlike other open-source projects, every part of the kernel needs a "maintainer" who decides what gets merged, and does the merging. Sort of a "build master" (from the olden corporate waterfall days of yesteryear).

If the "maintainer" retires or becomes unavailable, the module is put on ice. Nothing can be added because there's no "maintainer" to do it.

Meanwhile, in other open-source projects, when something is broken, you just fix it, and don't necessarily wait for the approved individual to give you the green light.
I also self host but on a VPS. Incoming mail works great. Outgoing mail not so much unless I send it to a trusted third party SMTP server. No outgoing mail fees if low traffic. Might be an option to consider while building up reputation?
It's the forward march of progress. As things get more complex they also get more fragile and inscrutable, and harder to solve problems for.

Containers are a reaction to the flaws in the system. Fixing the root cause of those flaws is hard, because they're systemic. We would need to re-design everything to fix those flaws. Containers are a stop-gap measure that makes things easier to deal with.

The thing that I've learned about systems is they are all crap, but humans constantly munge them to keep them working. We don't end up with the best systems, we end up with systems easiest to munge. Every once in a while, a spasm of collective organization redesigns the system, and then we keep going with that one. It's evolution. So however crap our current system is, eventually it will change, probably for the better. It just takes a really long time.
They can - but they can also be so loaded with debt that a slight downturn flips them over.

The company then goes bankrupt and continues as if nothing happened, but the shareholders are wiped out and the debtors own the company. Happens in airlines all the time.

So "essentials" companies that have a low debt load may be interesting, especially if boring.

Berkshire Hathaway may do decently well.
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In the past I’ve done third-party web work for Apple.

They were beyond demanding that everything had to be pixel perfect at all resolutions. Far more then any other client I’ve had.

Was good in that it upped my game, and attention to detail. So I’m grateful for that. But wow was it annoying at the time.

Surprised they let others get away with low quality.
Pay them $50/hour and you'll have a line of applicants. Pay them $10 and you'll get crickets. Somewhere in between, you'll get some applicants, but not hundreds. That's what you need to pay them if you want to fill the position.
> and probably over a dozen cases where it was the gold standard that was lost.

This doesn't prove that the gold standard was bad for the people.

Governments grow until they collapse. That growth eventually is constrained by the inability to print gold.

This is particularly obvious if you consider that dropping gold and silver from currency is near the first thing to happen when war starts. Inflation is a hidden tax. Governments use it to continue their largess beyond what would be possible with direct taxation.

> I can think of a single case in history where policymakers decided to reverse

Everyone knows politicians are liars and cheats. Why would the actions of politicians or those appointed by them be a signal of virtue or correctness?
I have run my own mail server since maybe 1995? As is the case with most things I have learned how to do with computers, there are a few guidelines to follow (SPF, PTR record, etc.) and it helps to have a static IP from your ISP, although not necessary - I have several clients still hosting email using DDNS.

You may wish to consider using something like a Synology NAS where a stripped down mail server is a free feature for 5 mailboxes or less. They also support DDNS...

And when spam levels get high, a quick analysis of source IP addresses gives me new entries for a block list at my firewall. I wrote a simplistic visual basic script to harvest the IP addresses, since I still use Outlook as my PIM.
a.k.a container.
I was looking for this recently but as a Web3 service (so emailing other Ethereum addresses) and found one that let you host an email account but you had to stake X amount of money to use it to avoid spam (spam gets too expensive /awkward to do when you have to hold $100 for a week before you can use it). Didn't sign up but seemed promising that there could be some cool self-hosting options in the future that somewhat mitigate spam and avoids the whole current email issue. Obvious giant caveat that you can only email other people who have Ethereum wallets but still, thought it was pretty cool to avoid the blacklist problem.
You could also argue that Google is actually doing a good job here.

Simple heuristic: All results from the first two search result pages don't provide much/any evidence that LBR is helpful or worth is -> it is not.

This simple heuristic is often quite good.

If it would have been a useful method, I would expect to find some good serious pages, or maybe Wikipedia page on it.
Zuck is absolutely a better presentation speaker than Elon. I don't know how you calculate charisma but Elon is a great leader despite his inability to give an presentation that is interesting vocally.
I've hosted my own email since, at least 1993 (that's on the Internet: I was on UUCP at least some years prior to that).

If you have a static IPv4 in a range that is not actively hostile, and you have proper SFF/DMARC records, things should generally work out?

And otherwise, services like https://www.mailchannels.com/ should help? (Still, you will need proper SPF records.)

I've literally had a 95+% delivery rate from users in actual Lagos Nigeria using the strategy outlined above.
The list of products covered is very small -- just recent phones).

But the parts available for the covered products looks good to me -- parts and all the tools needed to install them. And prices are good too.

They've even got some really nice features, like tool kit rental and battery return credits.
I host my own email. I'm not permanently marked as spam/blacklisted. Although it takes a fair bit of tedious setup and configuration to get it to work right. And every now and again a blacklist site will mark my domain temporarily when it detects that some server in my IP block is acting suspicious. This mainly happens because I host on a VPS.

The only problem with email self-hosting is just how many moving parts are involved in a typical setup if you're using tools from unix-land. You need many different programs to work together in a typical setup:

- postfix

- dovecot

- spamassassin

- fail2ban

- kerberos

- ssl+tls

- etc..

And you have to know about how unix account security works because some of the older programs haven't been updated to use modern authentication mechanisms and so they need to be isolated and carefully managed, etc.

The other problem is DNS/verification. You have to set up your DNS records with arcane configuration options that are not well documented in order to play along nicely with the email community and not get blacklisted/blocked.

Some projects have popped up to try and offer containers that have everything pre-configured. ymmv.
I've heard a lot of the same from teachers.
That's the technical definition - though with our robust demand for labor participation right now we will blow though any technical recession back to growth unless global macroeonomic situation deteriorates heavily
> 1) the more nodes, the higher probability of failure

I may be misreading your comment, but how is this true?