skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something very enjoyable about seeing knowledgable people dissecting things. As someone who can do - and has done - both hardware and software work, I also understand why people like to share these experiences. Every step in reverse engineering is a huge success and a nice boost of you ego, confirming that your accumulated skillset is powerful.
The code updates are very limited, though. To the point that for one's own sanity it's better to assume userland is 4.3BSD unless marked otherwise (been burned by this myself in code that assumed every BSD had changes from ~1994 NetBSD)
You also have so many hiring tokens. Not every company can have market beating comp, or high likelihood of super profitable stock, or world class super nice offices. Having exciting tech can be an actually cheap way to attract top talent.
I do the same.

I avoid anything that ties me to the manufacturer. Once one of their MBAs decides that the product line is no longer profitable, the servers go offline, the software stops getting updates, the cartridges stop being produced.

I like self-contained products that I can repair myself (within reason). I have growing faith in my ability to repair things. However, manufacturers find it profitable to withhold the tools, parts and knowledge I need to do this.
I knew I saw this here! Very likely on that submission. Thanks for digging.
In the book Fields Medallists' Lectures by M. Atiyah, there is a short (4 pp.) article written by Jean Dieudonné where he succinctly explains the specific contributions that made Grothendieck so famous, after a brief background on the state of algebra and its problems before him.
What people are interested in is cheap TVs and the tradeoff they are making is they buy a smart TV that has a lower price because it's subsidized with advertising revenue.

Maybe people want internet connected TVs to attach to streaming services, but I doubt anyone really wants what we are calling "Smart" TVs
Its pretty old so maybe just useful for inspiration but the old Amiga/Atari game Dragon Lord / Dragon's Breath (Europe) has a very interesting custom magic system in which you can create unique spells using combinations of various alchemical reagants.

FWIW I think it's a very difficult thing to create such a system, without making it a tedious exercise in testing ingredient combinations.
If a person can play Factorio or Rimworld and put it down after 5 minutes, I envy them. that's basically impossible rofl
I mean you can get pretty comparable counter top dishwashers for a similar price or even less that just use regular dishwasher detergent with no DRM features.
Ilias: Readable aliases for core Ruby methods
A player is in offside when there's one or fewer opposing players in front of them (when looking towards the opposing goal). A player is not allowed to gain an advantage whilst they are offside.
Here’s a link to the “rules” document, which is basically all you need to understand the (3rd) satellite hacking CTF hosted by the US military:

https://hackasat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HAS3_Rules_V...

Prior HN comments on a prior event:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991947

Related HN post, “A crash course on hacking satellites”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072829
As far as I know almonds are a major water-guzzler of Californian crops, no?
If it could integrate a blocklist like what Reddit Enhancement Suite uses, then I'd definitely consider it. I've filtered about 200 subreddits. That sounds like a lot, but there are a ton of duplicate terrible meme/armchair politics/lazy content subreddits worth hiding.
Reddit is nearly unusable out of box. Use it for smaller specialized interests and it can be very valuable. I use it for the baseball and hiking communities and I have a radically different experience than I otherwise would going thru /all.
I don't get the message of your first three paragraphs.

Aside from that ..

> ... system of individual ownership of fixed resources (land, crypto, etc.) then the few there first owns everything, and hence, feudalism.

I doubt your claim here. Maybe there's some empirical evidence that these systems of individual ownership of fixed resources tend to lead to few individuals owning most of or "everthing", thus feudalism.
But for one, we do have very high concentration of wealth in the current fiat system. (So the alternative to the system of individual ownership of fixed resources apparently does not appear to have a clearly better outcome.) And two, this possibly existing empirical evidence may just reflect what happened until now, but the world is changing and new circumstances may very well lead to new outcomes.

> I dont take this sort of "moral economics" seriously ..

I don't follow, where you take the "moral" keyword from. To me, Austrian Economics is just a (heterodox) take on economic questions that differs in some key views from the majority of the economics field and what they are currently teaching, publishing, giving advice to governments about or implementing as economic/monetary policy.

> Its an attempt to deduce utopia from naive ridigid principles.

Fair enough, if that's your perception of what AE is, it's totally valid. Such vague counter position (that doesn't address concrete claims) is hardly valuable as an actual critique, though.
Steam games with decent replay value, but short rounds of gameplay:

One Finger Death Punch

One Finger Death Punch 2

Downwell

Superflight

Shattered

Race the Sun

Super Crate Box
As many have mentioned, microwaves are the ones I get the least. What is the urgency for opening the damn thing when it is done!?

For dishwashers, we now have one that just opens by itself when it is done (to dry) - no beeping or anything. Maybe a bit hyperbolic, but it was quite a life changer!
Yep. Check out their website in the sibling comment. The places around me tend to be for "luxury" homes -- surprisingly, the items at these shops tend to be quite low tech. Low tech == modern luxury?

We went with a lower end model that cost about 50% more than the similar sized models available at Lowes/Home Depot. Considering we'd already repaired the old unit a handful of times and it cost in that range, we only need it to last about 4 years before we break even.
what do you mean by metal stuff? Like hardware?
I bought a cheap black and white laser printer and it's been working great for me. I don't print that much, and if I do it's text anyway or things like plane tickets which don't need color. I don't have to worry about refilling four inks at once, I don't have to worry about ink spilling.
Generally spiritual traditions aren't concerned with the beautiful or magical parts of life though, but rather the darker and bleaker parts, such as suffering or the nature of life and death. I also wouldn't call love a spiritual experience in any way, it's just a normal experience like any other. Spiritual experiences are at a much deeper level than something like love. It is often more like waking up and seeing all of reality from the outside
> More likely it would turn into an exhausting game of twenty questions with the device narrowing my selection iteratively.

It's a recommendation engine at that point, so what I assume it will do is buy you the products that Amazon is pushing or that have paid to be recommended. Does Alexa handle the website's small print to the effect of "there may be other vendors selling this product for a lower price than the vendor we're recommending."
You're seriously trying to censor one of the most influential anarcho-primitivists in the world, on the basis that talking about his work somehow "glorifies random murders"? Talk about oversocialization.
heres a good resource https://carta.com/blog/exercising-stock-options/.
> These apps often require ridiculous invasions of privacy - refusing to work if you don't give them full access to location, running in the background[...]

The "full access to location" to that is likely because of Android's broken security model, which made asking for location the only way various apps had to bind to some physical device. It's apparently being fixed[1].

As for running in the background: Isn't that because it needs to poll for and receive the notification?

1. https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/19/android-12-apps-won...
Not really.

No 4K versions of most shows from the last month.
>But seems even the cheapest places to live in the world comes close to $500 a month for living costs.

I live in outskirts of a second-tier city in southern India. Spacious rented room and I employ a maid for washing needs. My average monthly cost is $150.
I don't know how relevant this point is specifically for this bill — but I've always wondered if politicans simply "supported" a bill or otherwise did not speak out in favour/against because they know it'll be a quiter death if they say one thing/vote another. Rather then begin a drawn-out and public campaign in support/against.

Easier to be disingenious than "make it my issue."
My bomann microwave is exactly that, and it's great
To be honest, for a problem that's only been around for 50 years and that requires major technological and economic disruption combined with global geopolitical cooperation to solve, I'd say we, as a species are doing pretty good at coming together to combat climate change.

Is it easy to imagine going faster, easily. Are we doing absolutely everything we can, assuredly not. Is there still going to be dramatic ecological fallout, definitely. But still... humanity's historical track record for these kinds of changes is on the order of centuries or millennia, not decades.
sure, but don't we put lawns on roofs in cities to try and cool them down in the summer?

i understand the notion of returning to existing vegetation, but these places are already irreversibly altered by the presence of humans anyway. buildings and parking lots and roads and sidewalks have been built.

it's pretty striking when you see what little soil remains being replaced with rocks.
As someone that doesn't have a strong understanding of american politics, can I check my understanding?

This means that a majority of senators voted to oppose the bill, (after it had been approved by the house). Is that correct?

Are there common websites where you can see exactly how individual senators vote on specific issues? (in the UK we have publicwhip.org.uk where you can search anything that you care about and see if your mp voted in a way you agree with).

What method do americans tend to use to check that their politicians are voting in their interest?
> I 100% disagree. I'm not an idiot. I can read a recipe, even a complicated recipe

This thread has shown me how many people think baby formula is just some complex recipe that requires pureeing the correct vegetables in the correct ratios.

Making infant formula is more akin to making medicine/drug than table food.

We have home drugs (meth, heroin, cocaine, etc). Yes, they can be made safely, but they often not.
> IMO, the upside of open-sourcing code may be moderate, but the downsides are huge.

>Every piece of code has vulnerabilities and bugs. Open-sourcing code will make Twitter vulnerable and easy to be exploited by hackers. So I am against open-sourcing the entire code-base.

The author loses credibility here.
I remember my grandfather in Vegas lamenting that allowing people to wear trashy street clothes or anything less than formal wear / suit and tie into the casinos, or on airplanes, would lead to more and more bad behavior. This seemed incredibly uncool and old-fashioned at the time, but it turns out he was right. Decades of increasingly lax social codes around how people present themselves in public have led to generations of people who don't know how to behave politely in public.

This struck me with full force when I was invited to the Magic Castle in LA, one of the last venues to require formal wear at all times. One of the most magical things about that place is how it transforms a whole range of everyday visitors who might be people you wouldn't want to hang out with at their local bar into highly civilized men and women on their tip-top behavior. Vegas and air travel both used to operate on this principle. Now we might call it "LARPing" but when it was a social norm it was called "going out".

I don't think it's my getting older that caused me to think more like my grandfather. I think time proved him right.
Wow, never heard of rnote before! Looks surprisingly slick! Now if only it supported my Supernote's .note files…
I don’t care for his beliefs at all but that is not what my petty protest is about.

He is an incarnation in the flesh of state corporatism and a anti-democracy activist. That I can not stomach
No Tricks: AYN Reveals Loki Range of Handheld Gaming PCs
> "My left shoe won't even reboot." writes another. One user offers a possible solution, saying, "You need to do a manual reset of both shoes per the instructions."

Obviously technology is being misapplied and misused here.
The total number of shares will be limited to 607,500,000
My house came in 2007 with a quite old fashioned GE washer [1] and GE dryer [2]. The washer was made in August 2003 and the dryer was made in April 2004.

They still work fine and have required no repairs in the 15 years I've had them.

[1] https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-3-2-Cu-Ft-Super-Pl...

[2] https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-7-0-Cu-Ft-Super-Ca...
I don't know about hte US, but here is a graph from Germany:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

In 2022, the last nuclear plants were shut down. I expect that capacity was replaced by either import or fossil fuels + any new renewable capacity since last year.

By inspecting the graph, it seems that their current consumption includes about 2000 PJ of renewables, which is maybe slightly more than the production from nuclear was 20 years ago.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

If you compare this to a graph of installed capacity you see how misleading it is to look at installed capacity, where you get the impression that more than half of Germany's power comes from renewables:

https://www.google.com/search?q=german+energy+consumption+by...

In reality, it looks like Germany gets about 15-20% of their energy from renewables.

Over the last 20 years, energy prices in Germany have roughly doubled, while the amount of energy produced by carbon-neutral sources is about the same (nuclear was replaced by renewables). Total greenhouse gas emissions have gone down a bit, due to reduced overall consumption and the replacement of coal with gas.
The supply of dogecoins is increasing but still strictly limited at any given time. They're not like artwork that can be copied and shared by anyone.
3D Print Glass with a Laser Cutter
I'm a C programmmer and I rarely call malloc() and free(). Most memory is allocated in more global contexts that comprises many smaller allocastions. Such contexts get freed at appropriate, more global points, if at all. Often the implicit releasing of memory on process exit, done by the OS, is sufficient. This way removes the need to do memory management on a small scale.

The problem I see personally with unique_ptr is that it's still doing small-scale memory management. It only removes some of the typing. (And for non memory management related tasks, it add significant amount of typing as well, compared to naked pointers).
My main usecase for Alexa is also multiple timers while cooking. It's very useful - prior, I would juggle multiple independent timers on microwaves/stoves/fridge.
Are you perhaps using tabs? Dishwashers need detergent in the rinse cycle, otherwise they don't rinse well, and tabs don't let you do that. I've had friends who have always pre-rinsed because of wrong dishwasher use. Once they switched to powder and put some in the rinse cycle their dishes don't need pre-rinsing.

See https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
MacOS X essentially started by updating the NeXT core to latest OSFMK distribution, which was hybrid system (bsd server integrated into kernel space) powering the BSD alternative to SystemV - OSF/1 (most famous of them being DEC OSF/1 aka Digital Unix aka Compaq Tru64). They applied bits of FreeBSD to the bsd server code and over time improved its concurrency, but considerable portion of XNU is code that is called by bsd server but not part of bsd server (IOKit, among other things)
There are a few real scientists who realize there is too little actual data on a geologic scale to do anything more than paint pretty but meaningless graphs.
Ahh, right. Nice.
Could be. It is a thing where I am from. The software industry doesn't even begin to end at US borders, that is for certain.
Maybe you haven't caught up with C best practices. I like C programming and I rarely do malloc()/free().
I don't like that Ruby offers aliases of its own stdlib members. Don't make me memorize TWO names for the same thing.
I would like to see them actually follow through on this absurd threat.
The problem is not the end state, it's the speed at which we are approaching that end state.

Think about a car moving down the highway, when you gradually apply the brake, you can safely decelerate to 0. When you hit a stationary barrier, getting to 0 is potentially deadly and also damages the car.

Rapid climate change kills species, disrupts supply chains, increases damaging weather like hurricanes, destroys agricultural lands, and erodes shorelines. All of which we could cope with over thousands or millions of years. But doing it over hundreds is going to be a catastrophe.
Does God answer prayers from robots?
75% of Californians are pro-right to repair when asked, but that doesn't mean that 75% really know what it means much less care about it. The legislature is probably assuming that the campaign money from the lobbyists will more than make up for the lost votes from the tiny minority that truly cares.
I'd settle for a number that wasn't previously used. I've had my current number for 8 years and the caller id still shows the previous owner. I still get all manner of calls for the previous owner too, everything from local politicians asking for money to old friends asking if he's in town and wants to hang out.
This again...

The problems with boring technology are twofold. One, it's about rejecting newer tech on a bet you don't need their features. And two, it's about choosing older tech because you assume it's good enough for the one year, two year, five year plan. And there are a few places that falls down.

The first is when the new tech features are really strategically relevant to where your company is right now. If you need rapid deployment of new infra as you roll out installations for new customers, choosing manual CloudFormation config over Terraform could be a bad call. If you don't know your target platform at this point, writing native code over something cross-platform like React Native or Electron could be an expensive mistake.

On the second, every time I've seen someone quote this essay at work, it has always been for a bet that has ended up problematic or at least mixed result. The first time I saw it was in a mildly heated debate about whether we should use React. I lost the argument and that org chose Knockout.js with JSPs instead. You can guess how expensive that "pragmatic" decision turned out.

The second time was at a startup where the "boring technology" was - ironically - MongoDB. Everyone there had worked with Mongo and our only prior RDBMS experience had been with Oracle and PL/SQL. The result was a mess because noSQL stores only work when you have inflexible query patterns, which is the opposite of product iteration at a startup.

So I am sceptical. If you know where your business should differentiate itself, and what pressures it will be under, choosing a technology should be - if not obvious, at least a process you can follow. Relying on proxies like "innovation tokens" feels to me like a mistake because it is, fundamentally, trying to replace strategic thinking with a points system.
> Oh, and a conversion chat is also somewhat horrible, because this one country uses volumetric measurements where the form a product is in changes how much X of that unit means.

If it’s so hard for you, then buy measuring cups in US sizes or stop using US recipes. These are trivially solved problems in a low tech way. You’re like an addict trying desperately to defend why they need a fix. Yeesh!
I love reverse engineering. I've done it a few times in software to pull the encryption keys out of proprietary vendor software to be able to decrypt the customer/consumer files they write on disk.

Has anyone put together a list of RE "use cases" like this one where people are looking for help solving the puzzle?
Playaway Audiobook Teardown
Become an expert COBOL programmer.

You will always be able to find paying work until you die, and it will only pay more over time as supply decreases (programmers die) but demand doesn't decrease at the same rate.

It's not sexy, but if you're looking to maximize earnings with the least amount of risk that the effort expended developing the skill loses its value over time, this is the way.
The bearing of my Whirlpool washing machine got corroded due to a leaking seal. So when the drying cycle started, the bearing started screeching so loud that my kids woke up.

I decided to replace the bearing and (after measuring) found the correct SKF bearing. After picking it up at the local dealer and paying 7 euro's, I started. But what did Whirlpool do? They made it impossible to remove only the bearing and seal. You had to replace the whole drum, which costs about half of the machine.

Why? I emailed Whirlpool and got a reply where I could buy the new drum..SIGH
>The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession. Before you tell me that is impossible, please study how the very same thing happened with electricity, planes, cranes, trains, ships, automobiles, lifts, food processing, buildings, and, for that matter, driving a car.

How will that solve the problem? Even if we were able to agree on a profession, that people could read and sign on to, would it help?

Everything is build on sand. There are zero operating systems that can stand for a year without patching in the face of contact with the internet.

Blaming system administrators, programmers, or users isn't going to help fix the fundamental design flaw at the root of our software.

We need operating systems that are provably secure upon which to build the rest. Then we can apply the principle of least privilege, and a series of security policies to build upon that.

In the mean while, there is one fundamental tool which is under utilized, the data diode.[1] With such a device, it would be possible to monitor a system from the outside world (via the internet, etc.). A polling loop sends data out in a continuous manner (with forward error correction), and a matching server receives the data, checks for errors, an then makes it available to the outside world.

You can also use data diodes to allow submission of information from the world, without the danger of exfiltration. Such a system might have helped prevent the OPM breach of 2015 if the database were only allowed to be added, and never queried via network.[2]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
It's very very useful when you're cooking, they explained that pretty clearly imo.
It’s disgusting that these types of devices have potentially an obvious use as a accessibility device, and yet, that’s completely being ignored in lieu of mass-market sales gimmicks.

We need an ADA that has teeth in the digital age. This is like a brick and mortar store building a ramp into their store for the convenience of people who can walk, and making it an inch too narrow for a wheelchair.

Real corporate social responsibility would be to tackle some of this low hanging fruit in their own area of expertise. But instead, everyone just promises to buy some carbon credits by 2030.