skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree both the blind and others, including myself, listen to screen readers and audio at a higher rate, that’s not actually research that’s reviewable and shareable. Speaking for myself, 100% sure the noise-to-signal ratio increases when I do, but if needed, I just go back X-seconds in time to relisten to prior audio. I for sure never literally test my comprehension systematically when doing so relative to when I am not. The speakers, vocabulary, topic familiarity, etc — also make a huge difference; aka prior familiarity in general with the input.

On the flip side, I provided research on transmission rates, which to me seems reasonable, but another user shared research on reception rates, which to me is unreasonable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32160095

To me, I am interested in notable, reviewable progress in understanding the topic — not chatting about it around an internet campfire.
Global chip shortage is not over and the slowdown is ‘going to bite,’ IDC says
I often find myself in the position where I need to calculate the smallest subnet that fits a cluster of machines with fixed IPs, so I made a tool that does all the math for me. Hope you find it useful!
We weren't analyzing school shootings statistically, since the statistical incidence of that happening should be as close to zero as possible.

But since you walked down the statistical path anyway, the least you can do is not be completely wrong about it.
> the population faced a much poorer, more monotonous, and less free existence

That's an over simplification.

People could still have more free time than we do now[1], while their life could be more monotonous on some aspect, I believe an average office worker life today can be even more monotonous than what a serf life could be. You also have to consider labor alienation, which is a something that didn't exist so much before industrialization.

Most importantly, life commonly revolved around tight communities, while today most people live in individualist societies.

Individualism certainly has a larger impact on happiness than most modern convenience has.

- [1]: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
As a corollary: cheap branches are wonderful.

The workflow I teach the newbies at my job is to just do a quick `git checkout -b tempbranch` when trying out: complicated rebasing, cherry-picking commits, whatever.

Do your thing on that temporary branch. Did the thing work? Hell yeah. `git checkout - && git reset --hard tempbranch`. Presto magic, your old branch is now a perfect replica of tempbranch. It's as if you did the whole thing on your original branch to start.

Did it fail miserably? Oh well. `git checkout - && git branch --delete tempbranch`. It vanishes and no one has to know that the rebase fell apart. Your working branch is in pristine condition still.
>But as far as a gay-marriage-amendment, i'm against. I just don't think its up to the gov at all to dictate who can be married. Just honor the damn marriage contracts like you do all other contracts.

But the only way that government would honor all marriage contracts equally, treating them like any other contract, is through a Constitutional amendment declaring gay marriage equal to straight marriage. It only existed to begin with because it was implied to be a Constitutionally protected right.

Because the timeline we actually live in is the one in which the government already dictates who can't be married, precisely because the Constitution no longer forbids them from doing so.
The only Bluetooth issues I’v had are weird ones. Apparently I’m to tall for Bluetooth, at least the cheap headphones I bought. Place the phone in my left hand pocket and the headphones, which have the antenna on the right can barely pickup the signal.

The there’s the implementation, and I cannot figure out how they messed up this one: Concept2 have an iOS app for their rowing machines. The previous version would pair the second you asked the rowing machine to connect. The new versions three to five times slower. It’s the same bluetooth stack, why would pairing change?
Given how horrible DALL-E 2 is at rendering text provided by the prompt, I doubt it is as simple as what is being suggested.

Regardless, OpenAI has acknowledged the bias found in past results and that techniques have been applied to help address it:

https://openai.com/blog/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety-i...

This a good time for a reminder that biases in training data will produce biased results. Just because the data might contain hundreds of thousand of white male business people doesn't mean we want/need that bias to be reflected in the output.
EDIT: Had and have always had an awesome life? The fuck? Sounds counterfactual. Yeah a perfect life with no problems. Wouldn't the depression make it not awesome?

But to narrow down, shrinks dream of some like sweetener or artificial coloring they can add to all the shit the give someone to make it taste good. A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down! No it doesn't. It tastes bad because it's poison. That is the point of taste. And the best medicine tastes really good, Paltomiel, aspirin doesn't taste particularly bad, there's another one but it doesn't taste bad just really bitter, ah...alkaloids taste uh...well they reconfigure your notion of sweet=good bitter=bad, then there's dex, blood sugar, now sugar tastes like treacle. But the whole thing of medicine tasting bad is just like toothpaste tasting bad (sodium flouride), it tastes bad because it is bad for you, you should avoid it, get a toothpaste that doesn't have fluoride in it. Of course little children have no way of stopping their parents from forcing them to use this toothpaste, so they complain. And the parents say no complaints, backed by violence. Coercion.

To the shrinks that said that to me, I say, you take all the shit since it tastes so good, give me your pay for doing your job for you, and yeah the seasoning...you'll need it.
I'm Sardinian and I can confirm we are the opposite of vegetarian, big majority of typical Sardinian dishes are meat based, the most famous of them being "Porceddu" that is simply slow cooked on open fire baby big.

In the mountain areas is typical to eat sheep and on the costal area is typical to eat fish
Good, now enjoy the lack of a citizen's dividend as your hard work pays income taxes which improve the infrastructure around you and thereby increase the value of land which in turn must be paid to the owner of the land through higher rents and mortgage payments. Pay once for the infrastructure, pay again to be allowed to live near it.
Interesting since past printer threads highlighted Brother as a reliable brand. Anecdotally I've got a ~10 year old Brother laser printer+scanner and it still works great, but needs a Brother app to print from Apple devices since it doesn't support the new standard protocol.
> the spec is very complex

I once printed out the BT5 spec (just the core), for Ss and Gs (on my employer's dime).

I had a stack of 3-inch (large) 3-ring binders on my desk, reaching 2ft high (0.6m).

It was well over 2,000 pages. It would have been five times that, if I had printed out the various profiles, and whatnot.

BT is crazy. The difference between "Classic" and BLE is frustrating.

I suspect that soon, all BT devices will be cribbing from the BLE playbook. It is a lot more usable than BR/EDR, but the data rate sucks. I think that changes to that, are on the horizon.
Incentives matter, but it's not like early code written by founders/employees with equity doesn't need to be cleaned up later.
From another source:
https://www.engadget.com/micodus-mv720-vulnerabilities-discl...

>Notably, the firm found Ukraine had the most Micodus trackers of any European country.

This won’t be good…
You mean the graph where people surveyed are going to eat out less and buy fewer laptops/tech gadgets?

I dont really think that was meant to define cost of living, and honestly both those things don't exactly sound like core cost of living items.
Regulatory requirements and certification.
These big pharma and pesticide/herbicide/gmo producing companies ought to operate under a "one strike policy": you get caught lying/fabricating data once and the CEO goes to jail and the company gives all money away.

These companies keep getting sued all over the place and are being found guilty of lying and faking study and bribing officials and then people are suprised when they do it again.

Jailing CEOs should be a thing.

As long as a fine is the only problem they don't care, they'll still be rich, so they will get 150$M USD bonus instead of 170$M, big deal.

Incentives.
Click on the methodology, it adjusts for purchasing power.
The past twelve years of cryptocurrencies is clear evidence that we can have open source permissionless infrastructure that’s utterly inadequate to support actual banking transactions on a global scale, or we can have centralized architectures that pretend to be permissionless and decentralized through a series of shell games and vague lies thus delivering the worst imaginable hybrid of banking and multi-level marketing.

Faced with these choices, the status quo isn’t so bad after all. The other day I saw a news report that Wise (formerly Transferwise) does over $100 billion in money transfer volume annually. A classic startup seems to have been able to fix the problem of expensive international transfers much better than crypto-anything.
> What makes complex tech components like Bluetooth any different?

A hammer will be reliable if the user uses it correctly, which it's possible to do.

With bluetooth I have the most popular, widely sold smartphone and the most popular, widely sold sports watch. They both claim to be compatible. I'm using both precisely as instructed. And sometimes they just.... don't see one another.

This isn't user error.
No, because there were many other manufacturers.
Thank you for answering the question on the _severity_ of previous pandemics in the 20th century. Your insight and expertise, your attention to detail, and your understanding of what you reply to, has enriched us all.
> A few things can be lost forever!

> The dangerous commands are git-reset and git-checkout

Don't forget about `git clean`, which will happily gobble up all your important ignored files (API keys, IDE configurations, etc)
Agree. Some people say this is just another form of procrastination, and it is, but it's kind of a win-win. Either you do your work or you do some chores that needed doing anyway.
Something I’ve noticed is that Bluetooth breaks down around major construction sites, like infrastructure projects. It’s very strange, I wonder if they have some kind of high power BT transmitters for some reason.
I used to work for a small systems integrator. We used on-call mobile phones, the "hot potato" was carried by the on-call engineer. Any actual time worked outside of core-working hours was paid back in the form of time-off-in-lieu. The salary generously reflected the being on-call requirement.

The other factor was that a "call-out" was not completed until the root cause was fixed.

I believe the real reason for the compassionate arrangements was that the owners of the business were former engineers and were even available to escalate calls to them if you got stuck. Our personal phones had everybody else's personal numbers in the address book, but we were never permitted to give them out to clients. Clients only had access to the "hot potato" phone numbers, which also received the various paged alerts, etc.
"My child died but I can take comfort in the fact that his death was a statistical anomaly!"
Desalination is not without problems, producing 1 to 1.5 times the amount of brine (compared to fresh water) being one of them. How to dispose/use this brine. There are some options: https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-h...
The same holds for USB.
Is this potentially breaking apple's walled garden? I wonder wether they will comply at all. Besides, I'm glad to see interoperability mentioned there, perhaps one day we could text from one messenger to another one without being held back by the owner.
Right. What invalidate the claims is him being "aware of the effort to build proof-of-stake models", because they are already exist.
I don't know if it's for much better or much worse, but this allows me some freedom of thought now. Thank you, sir.
The answer to the latter is making the application plugin/module based. Same philosophy with a different front end.
Extremely useful source for Direct Kernel Object Manipulation. [0]

Say I am a Windows driver, and I am running on a system thread. I can do something like this:

PKTHREAD currentThread = KeGetCurrentThread();
PVOID win32ThreadPtr = (PVOID)((char*)currentThread + OFFSET_win32ThreadOffset);
memcpy(win32ThreadPtr, &newWin32Value, sizeof(PVOID));

PVOID processPtr = (PVOID)((char*)currentThread + OFFSET_processOffset);
memcpy(processPtr, &newProcess, sizeof(PEPROCESS));

PVOID clientIdPtr = (PVOID)((char*)currentThread + OFFSET_CID);
memcpy(clientIdPtr, &newClientId, sizeof(CLIENT_ID));

And "spoof" these values for my thread which would allow me to make calls to Win32 APIs and I can draw on screen from kernel.

PKTHREAD is a pointer to an opaque structure but not opaque to you if you look at Vergilius. Sometimes Microsoft only documents the first N bytes of a struct while the rest is left opaque to us as well. Vergilius where you'd most likely find yourself looking at to find the offsets at which a field is found in a struct for each Windows build.

Basically many of these structs are known to be inputs to and outputs of documented and undocumented Windows APIs. And the lesser known ones are inner fields or references from these, or used in unexported functions and discussed in circles interested in this niche.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_kernel_object_manipulat...
Is that a law?

There are ath9k wifi cards with open source firmware
https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
> I do like them in comparison to raw promises though.

Promises can get a little unwieldy raw - working on making that easier is a noble goal. But I'm never a fan of systems that actively obscure how something works. We now have plenty of people throwing asyncs and awaits around their code without a clue about how Promises work. It's significantly easier to learn how specific control flows work while writing raw Promises.
The litmus test: can you and a friend listen to a single music stream with two BT headphones at the same time?
Ha anyone been able to deploy a better behaving protocol over the same ASICs/SoCs in so many years? I mean, I'm pretty sure no hardware or software vendor is remotely happy with the current status quo.
I never tried any American meat, but I grew up in Sardinian and worked in UK and Lithuania. Quality of meat in Sardinia is vastly superior to the UK one but also more expensive, also we in Sardinia is almost impossible to find dry aged meat, I didn't knew aged meat existed until I did go out of the island ( we have Salami etc..., I'm talking about an aged steak ).
that's nice of him, i would have blocked all y'all electricity mooching mfrs to hell.
Brother printers have regressed as well. See this post:
Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
That explains a lot! I've noticed a lot of times posts seemed older than their date says.
I also have an alarm set up I cannot delete. It says "pick up Matt from school." It migrated all the way from iPhone 7 to this X. But he has grown up since and I don't need to pick him up anymore. I'll include this in my request.
Not a cryptophobe, but his rule seems reasonable: 'use it, but you won't get support if you use it for things I don't like'. Certainly better than the 'you may only use this product if you support/disavow $x' emerging trend in 'OSS' README's.
State Management for Web Applications
Has anyone wanted to work ever? Isn’t that why they have to pay you to work, generally?
> ...open source permissionless banking infrastructure

I sincerely hope cryptocurrency delivers on its promises, but right now, there are too many ponzi schems, pyramid schemes, pump and dump schemes, fraud funds, fragile funds (all riding the hype train) to really make a case for it. Someday, perhaps? Until then (and regardless of one's affiliations), the stance that due to the resources cryptocurrency drains, it is best avoided or even boycotted, sounds reasonable to me.
THIS, but even more so. Electric ships sound cool, but shipping is giga-scale global infrastructure. The mines, battery factories, electric motors, dockside equipment, etc. needed to do this at scale don't exist. If they did, the national power grids sitting behind most major ports could not reliably take the additional load.

So, yes, start small. As in: "Here is one self-contained, mostly self-managing battery, inside one cargo container. We'll modify the electrical system on one ship, so that this battery can connect to it, and looks (electrically, and to the ship's control systems) like one extra generator in the engine room. Once we see how well that works, and fix round 1 of bugs and crew training issues, then we'll try to scale up to 10 ships."
> What's your model?

HP DeskJet 2630, it's like 4 years old.
Infinity Family, community of inventors and creators
This is a community of inventors and creators powered by Django. It's currently hosted on Mindey's machine.

Mindey is HTTPS://mindey.com/ and I am Samuel Squire HTTPS://GitHub.com/samsquire

I can invite you. The site has built in project management and is a financial think tank of community projects. I am chronological on there.

The goal of the website is the forumla F(X) = Y where X is our question, F is an idea and project and Y is the goal. The site has a simple ontology of problems, ideas and projects. There's also a built in marketplace

We use the currency HURs to exchange value between projects which represents one hour of work.

You can be granted shares in return for work on a project. The idea is to produce independent cooperating organisations a bit like DAOs.

If you have a software, hackerspace or social improvement project and you want to share and get exposure, you would join the telegram channels and the site and post targets and updates of work. Telegram notifications are automatic when there is a comment or work on your project.
How to write .net based os so it starts in virtual box as seamlessly as possible?
I don't think that's quite accurate. We know first-order biochemical effects for a lot of drugs. There are always side effects, but they're side-effects, and those are largely understood as well.

Psych drugs have difficulties because they aren't used for their biochemical effects, they're used for their psychological effects, and psychological effects of biochemical processes are poorly understood.
Most of us treat our friends better than strangers. The closer we are, the more we want to spend time with them and give to them. When your close friend invites someone else to something like this -- long event, lots of time together, probably expensive -- it's understandable to ask whether they consider that person a better friend than you. You are probably wrong to jump to that as a conclusion, according to the article and my experience.

This person's reaction has nothing to do with the third person getting invited, and everything to do with them _not_ getting invited and what it says about their relationship with the gift giver.

Your statements seem orthogonal to what the author is actually thinking and concerned about.
McDonalds in Cagliari closed recently ( I'm talking about the most popular one, the one next to the train and bus stations )
Autocad[0], the emacs for CAD. Since 1982 and still the industry standard. You can even script it with lisp[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
That was my first association as well. This seems like a much much harder thing to regulate though...

For USB chargers industry had come up with a good solution but market failure meant there was no incentive to adopt it. That's text book regulation stuff. Here there doesn't seem to be a good proven solution out there that you could mandate...
In microtransit, passengers order a shuttle van instead of having to take a bus
And now the opposite happens with headlines that imply "your medication is suddenly revealed to be useless" when in fact we've been aware that we don't know how it works for a while, but we're still reasonably sure it helps, which perhaps explains the increase in prescription more than the "serotonin is the only thing that matters" theory which the experts ruled out a while ago.
>It means if you're at your mom's funeral giving a eulogy you leave mid-speech to address PagerDuty.

You should not be on-call while you're at your mom's funeral, period.
People love to talk as if the current situation is frozen in time, particularly when it comes to open source software.

I've seen people complain about certain open source software based on their experience in 2016, as if nothing might have changed in the intervening years.

There is continuous work being done on scaling. Things take time.

We didn't have broadband internet immediately, there was a very long period of dialup, then slow DSL, ADSL and then eventually fast broadband.

There was no way you could stream video on the early Internet. I wonder whether people back then also complained that it will never be able to replace television, actually... I'm pretty sure those people existed.
Heh, blue colour versions of Air products are cursed?

The blue iPad Air 2022 creaks and pops when holding it, the other colours don't.

The blue macbook air attracts fingerprints like a thinkpad and scuffs easily.
I bought a wireless HP printer.

Besides the fact that I never printed anything from my phone.

It literally required reinstallation (not restart!) to print again, every time, on Windows.

It needed an HP account to be able to scan. Locally.

I just chucked it out and got a USB Brother.
I would start with smaller ships and shorter distances and build from there.

https://zeroemissionservices.nl/en/homepage/ seems to work for short distance inland shipping (‘seems’ to because from what I can tell, they only have a single customer with a single ship, making it more like a demonstrator)
You shouldn't talk about drugs you have zero experience with either as a doctor or as a patient. SSRIs do work.
There are four main risks for most people:

- PTSD caused by bad trip. Bad trips are not uncommon, and it's not easy to let go. Part of the reason why psychedelics are so effective is that they basically force you to let go, otherwise you will have a bad trip. But some people can't do that, I couldn't, and you can end up causing long lasting psychological damage due to this. I had an existential crisis and became pretty suicidal for a few months after I had a couple of trips. I actually had to take up a religion to cope with it. The therapy services in the UK had no idea what to do to help me and made me feel alienated

- DP/DR (depersonalisation/derealisation). Can be short lasting, can be long lasting, can be flashbacks, can be constant

- HPPD (Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder). Described as anywhere between "visual snow" and "you never came down from the trip". No one knows why this happens or who it happens to, if it occurs differently with different psychs. Many people commit suicide over this one, since it can basically cause psychosis as some people never stop having intense hallucinatory effects for months or even years. If they can't come to terms with it it can be extremely disorientating and alienating. Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 news / All Gas No Brakes has this. Kind of frightening since it's most trippers' worst nightmare to never come down from the trip, but that's actually a thing that happens to some people

- Flashbacks, which I would say are different to the other three, in that they are a sudden return to the tripping state of mind randomly, but not necessarily visual or DP/DR. I think this one is the least explored and least well known about