skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cubicle with walls moved by hydraulic pistons to make your cubicle bigger when you exceed your quota. If you don't, they start to close in, Star Wars trash-compactor style.
I’ve personally found usb-c ports aren’t great longevity wise. They have a similar issue as I had with micro-USB: they stop clamping onto the plug and then you don’t get a reliable connection. I’ve found Lightning ports more reliable (with periodic lint cleaning) but it’s a shame that it’s a proprietary standard.
Well it's certainly not going to reform them.
Thanks. I appreciate the guidance.
we haven't 'voted' we aren't given any options and companies have figured out that not enough of us will rebel that they can maximize their profits by planned obsolescence and externalizing the problem of their electronic waste.
My home office of course!
So... AI can solve every problem, but not that one, because reasons.
Worth noting that the "tape recorder" was reel to reel not mainstream compact cassette.

Reel to reel usually ran the tape almost 4 times faster with over 3x wider tape vs mainstream compact cassette, so it was very high quality.
This comes up a lot and comes down to the fact that we overload the concept of a prison sentence with both punishment and reform. Sadly, they are typically not conducive to each other. Recidivism rates in the US are terrible because we have very little focus on reform despite the lip service it receives.

The thing that makes people emotionally happy is to punish wrongdoers, and while punishment has its place as a disincentive it does not provide a good framework for reform--none of the causes of the crime being punished are addressed and the prisoners are often in worse situations coming out of prison than they were going in.

At the end of the day, if we want punishment we shouldn't expect much in the way of reform.
I Bought a $500 RTX 3090
A current piece of legislation in the U.S. is "The Inflation Reduction Act". Whether or not the real-world result of the policy would achieve even a modicum the stated intent has little impact on the package's likelihood of passage into law.
The answer to your last question is basically “red state politicians are deep in the pockets of coal and oil interests”.

It’s not exclusively a GOP thing, Manchin is theoretically a D but he sure is holding back a lot of stuff in the Senate due to him being massively invested in dirty energy, but it’s more a Repub thing than a Dem thing.
Yeah, though on the other hand the title does not seem particularly taxing. "Shove it down to Unity" and then the big bulk of the work is cramming the game into a small screen.

The 'Auto Player Testing' is smart and a token of good design, as he must have completely decoupled IO from the main game logic. That seemed the most interesting to me.
Maybe I’m missing the point, but this (essentially random example) is multithreaded (asynchronous) and gracefully handles ctrl-c. Yes, it’s a high level language that makes it easy, I guess.

https://github.com/mlhpdx/SimplestLoadBalancer
Extra credit for being able to charge your laptop easily in the car. Before this, you needed either a power inverter or a special DC connector.
I’m going to just have to take your word on that one. That frankly sounds like a case of actual fraud that I’ve been unable to verify, despite finding plenty of other controversies around the title, and basically an unproductive outlier to this discussion.

I will note the DRM server shenanigans are something I think should be illegal (on the basis that’s it’s a kind of fraud, but different than what you wrote about) though, and I’m surprised you didn’t bring that up.
Good resource! Alas, the specifics really depend on the language.
Punishment is one thing. Doing labour for free that someone else profits from heavily is another.
I feel something similar, like I need to make sure my screen always ‘looks’ like work regardless of if its actually work, so it becomes performative
Working archive links to similar projects, referenced in the article:

Audio test and development box (2010), https://web.archive.org/web/20160625064608/http://www.supers...

Mobile electronic workbench (2011), https://web.archive.org/web/20120326183702/http://www.robove...

Brian Z (2014), https://web.archive.org/web/20140313053155/http://brianzawes...
Jawdropping music is produced by kids using laptops making sounds that were simply not possible a decade or two ago. If you don't enjoy the breakthroughs that are being made you are the one that's missing out.
I think it's a marketing problem. GraphQL can easily sound like "Give the entire schema to your users and let them decide what to query for". If you look at various GraphQL supportive websites, that is a common anthem. You don't get that marketing from REST. REST says "decide what's good for them".

Obviously you can do either in either. But i definitely think the marketing is world's apart.

So when people come to a problem, if they are not super strong in their understanding of what will be a good solution, they generally implement what the platform markets.
Ah, nice. I was thinking along the lines of the 1960s, as that's when the seeds in the algorithm above were created. So I assumed the comment was about the NSA messing with it back then. Didn't think about recent events.
Korean-born Sonya Thomas is the No. 1 ranked competitive eater in the USA
Nomad to crypto thieves: Please give us back 90%, keep 10% as a reward. Deal?
Yes that's what I thought too (which is why I found the complaint hard to understand until I thought of the alternative interpretation). But clearly at least the person I was replying to understood it differently, and it was also the top comment on this thread for a while at the time I posted my comment, so others may have thought the same too. Even at the question, on a comment on the answer the asker mentions "why these numbers are special" and comments about them being prime etc, so it's possible they didn't have a clear idea what they wanted either.
This page from 2020 has some details on Jltium batteries[0]

I don't know enough to compare to others' with it being proprietary and using less cobolt perhaps making it significant for GM.
His youtube[0] also has some very interesting behind the scenes content. If you haven't seen the Obra Dinn ship building timelapse[1] you're in for a treat! (Major spoilers - don't watch unless you've already beaten the game!)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/dukope1
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFoBvJf8Ug
I'm no food snob and enjoy a good burger as much as the next guy, but are you really calling a leaf of lettuce, 2 pickle slices and a squirt of HFCS-laden ketchup "some vegetables"? Ehh...
Strange to see "aesthetic" and "parking lot" mentioned in the same sentence. Well, if there really are rules against it, then (as the article also says) citizens and businesses should pressure their politicians to change those rules.
I am growing more disturbed in recent years by how true this statement is in our current society. While not all behavior is hereditary, genetics plays a massive role. I wish it were not taboo to talk about this more openly. While I have found few, at least there are some people attempting to give this subject more consideration: https://youtu.be/-4VCISnwE-k

https://youtu.be/62jZENi1ed8
The dirty little secret is that there is little payback for retailers to do so.

Walmart could do it at scale, but they already can put megawatts of solar on existing roofs for their stores. Article mentions several states where solar is discouraged to protect monopolies. Not to mention another article out saying Republican-led states are actively punishing corporations who reduce their emissions. Walmart isn’t going to see a realistic payback from that investment, and could even face backlash. They also sometimes get tax credits and incentives from the power company to build a Supercenter in a certain area. They do however buy into solar farms to offset their carbon.

Other retailers (Trader Joe’s or Starbucks) it wouldn’t make sense for, most lease their buildings and don’t have enough expertise to take this on. Commercial property owners wouldn’t care about this.
> man... that let you read command docs in a sane language

That would be nice. It is a pity most man pages are elitist and lack good useful examples.
With

300000002a00000041e00000

I get

e078387cb36ec4c0

your hash is

f11e7def9c2ec4c0

so I reversed 5 chars.

In line 39 it says "num*num" where num is the value of each 8 character block, so if I make each block a multiple of a power of 16, it will not modify the last character of the output. So I can discover each character one by one. I should be padding with \null instead of 0, but it somewhat works anyway.

Also, you use 0x428a2f98 as a magic constant, but you should use an odd numbers instead of an even one. If not, you lose the last bits. If you take a look at the output of your hash, the last character is always 0 or 8.
Most of the issue is around the funding model of developments.

Basically, the owners of these things are usually syndicated and are in the business of harvesting money from taxes via accelerated depreciation. Having an asset that is producing money breaks the business model… they want to lose money on paper for the first few years.

Usually when I see these types of things they are local businesses, banks or other entities that actually own their own property, or leaseholders making their own improvements to save opex. A few Targets near me have solar roofs, for example.
You're better off for it
Net-energy metering is such a bad deal in most places that it wouldn’t make economic sense to do it.
Hah I had the same experience, I thought some idiot had recorded it via their soundcard line in or something.

Eventually got the better mastered version which was leaked from guitar hero or something.
Regarding sealed: Does the light really outlast the battery? I have some LED lights that have lasted "forever," but my aquarium lights don't seem as durable and I think only will last 5-7 years. (Fluorescent bulbs only lasted a year, and each bulb cost almost as much as an LED version.)
Will add a little context to what others are saying. Born and largely raised in NYC, both renter and property owner, raising 3 kids as well. Have loved but been ambivalent about NYC too. My wife, also a NYer, and I left in 2000 for California, but when 9/11 happened we KNEW we had to move back.

The economics can be brutal. Have been reading an academic book, a study of rents in Manhattan from 1760-1850 (real book, written by Columbia U history professor). Fascinating, fascinating story but the distillation is a tale of property owners learning in the decades following the revolution how to make land income producing, and how the long series of flywheel-like incentive driven decisions made NYC the property owner dominated city it is today.

As a renter, literally no matter your income, you ARE second class. The interests of large commercial and residential rentiers drive nearly all critical city decisions. Predator/prey is an oft-used metaphor, and it is not wrong, but it is not the whole story. You are prey who are competing to be prey. It is sick.

So as a renter, you will FEEL it. Even if you are in a one of a kind 20k/mo penthouse with a celebrity as a neighbor, you are being used, and you will FEEL that. Beyond the economics, which will be forced upon you- especially right at this moment, because large owners took something of a hit during the pandemic and they are going for blood now, no joke- the status is a vibe you can never quite shake.

All kinds of things in the city are great experientially for all kinds of people, and there really isn't a better place in the US at least to raise autonomous savvy children. And strategically NYC will be fine with climate change- large owners plan 50-75-100 years out, and the city will wind up increasing its dominance as a center.

But if you don't own, you will feel it every day. And the economics make it incredibly difficult for almost all to own.

After all that, my advice is- be careful about your decision making. There are many wonderful energetic places in the US that have fundamentally better economics. If you feel you have to come to NY, come with your eyes open.

Hope that helps. Good luck.
Probably the cubicle. It doesn't seem as lonely as the private office but gives enough privacy one can more easily have a meeting with the remote/out-of-office people, to pick your nose, or to get work done without people constantly passing by you. Sadly they look like remnants of the past since everyone seems to do the open plan.
Four of the games on that list are Assassin's Creed games. AC is one of the best selling game franchises of all time. Ubisoft has sold something like 200 million copies of the various installments of AC.

We are talking about games that do like $150M+ in their first week of sales.

They have the money to put a dev on this for a week and shepherd it through legal or whatever. They could put a dev on it for a month.

There is no excuse, they're just being cheap and seeing if they can get away with it.
Offices exist for a variety of reasons: Supervision, access to information (paper files), equipment (phones, computers), status signaling, and moving information efficiently. The "collaboration" ruse seems like a recent invention. Managers collaborate just fine with private offices.

Collaboration is certainly valuable, but at the same time, I have a hunch that 90% of the time spent collaborating, is spent getting the stuff done that you agreed to do. Also, much of the communication involved in collaboration is not necessarily done best in front of an audience. These may be a couple of the reasons for reports that open-plan offices actually degrade collaboration.

A lot of the time I spent in libraries as a grad student was doing work that contributed to a collaboration. Likewise a lot of the coding that I do in isolation.
People are not working collaboratively in open-plan offices.

"Recent research shows that such offices result in 73 per cent less face-to-face interaction, and a 67 per cent increase in email interaction." https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325959
I took it as tongue-in-cheek but as a desktop loving dinosaur I couldn't help feel mildly personally attacked :)
It only seems ubiquitous because you read the internet in English. People talking in Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese, Indonesian, Yoruba are talking about other issues.

Even in English it's a highly controversial issue, that's why people like to talk about it so much. People rarely talk about things that everybody agrees on, there's less to say.
Okay, well I am totally and utterly confused as to how that could ever be possible, regardless of the hardware. You're confident that if not for the data validation the problem wouldn't have occurred?
1000% yes. After living in NYC for over a decade I find most other places to be intolerable for anything beyond a visit. Most of all, I absolutely could not ever again tolerate a living situation that requires cars. If I can't conveniently get around with walking, biking, bus, and subway, then that's not a place I'm willing to live for any significant amount of time.
Are there mods to silence vacuum cleaners? I wouldn't be surprised if the noise were amplified through a speaker inside the vacuum cleaner itself.
Orange County public schools all have these, but does it make any financial sense given the huge investment and the fact that the panels have less than 30 years of lifespan?
On hard drives and SSDs, yes, but has this been happening to RAM too?
>System rules can, and often are configured to prevent password reuse

How? And even if it's not verbatim password reuse, people often choose extremely similar passwords such that given one password, the other one can be guessed in a few guesses.

Password complexity requirements don't stop password reuse.

>Tying vital security to random, and often personal, mobile devices that aren't properly secured and registered is reckless.

I agree that SMS is the worst form of 2FA. There are others though.

>It's not logically sound to say 2FA creates additional security in any other sense but within the technical complexity added to authentication.

You're conflating SMS 2FA with all forms of 2FA. There are other forms. The biggest threat that people face today is phishing. That's stopped by U2F/WebAuthN. One of the next biggest threats is credential stuffing. That's stopped by all forms of 2FA, regardless of how weak SMS is.

>Social engineering alone from being able to call and text users and socially engineer access to their accounts through scams with the sheer amount of personal data that social sites and apps greedily and unnecessarily collect on them.

U2F and WebAuthN protect against these types of phishing attacks.

>A mobile device is not a footprint nor proof of ID, it can be physically lost or stolen, or even cloned, which has happened often.

So use a different type of 2FA than SMS.
In all fairness, there's a reason why Ted had a grudge against programmers, and he spelled it out in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. When he grew up, programmers were still generally the High Priests of the Machine, dressed in their business suits and working for the Man.

Also, Xanadu was always intended to be a federated network of individually owned backend servers, not a centralised network. So neither the Google nor the Elsevier model. The idea behind including micropayments was to attempt to encourage existing rightsholders to participate in the pre-granted permission transcoopyright ecosystem so that people can easily make remixes using the majority of our culture that is currently locked up, not just the portion of it available under permissive licences.
I'm not a fan of any racial discrimination, but if we are going to have it I would prefer to know the end date.
You can always save this kind of stuff until the next time you go visit an active volcano.
I'm with you. By far, the best outcome is to find a way for the global corporate elite to peacefully abdicate and allow a better world to emerge. However, there is unfortunately a nonzero chance of them defending what they have by harming human life, in which case they have surrendered theirs and one cannot be afraid to complete their decisions.
Maybe if the sound were more accurate, like in the linked simulation, fewer people would disable it?
Generally there are no huge parking lots in crowded city centers (or, if there were, they would be shaded by the highrise buildings producing the Venturi effect, so no good for solar panels), so the problem would take care of itself. But anyway, I don't think engineering a roof over a parking lot so it can support a solar panel and not fall over is an unsolvable problem.
AlphaClicker: Windows Autoclicker with a Modern UI
My starting in the bay area was $70k at a company nobody has heard of... all the way back in 2008. 100 now seems fairly doable for mortals that have a passion & interest in coding. I've heard the rich kids from elite schools are now getting 200 starting for FAANG tech companies. Unreal.
While I agree that the emerald mine stuff is overblown, I don’t buy the idea that Musk was self made and independent. He didn’t always have free capital, but he seems to have a solid network through his extended family from early on that helped him.

That meant he had a readily available set of investors, advisors, and partners. That ranged from Greg Kouri, pivotal in forming Zip2 and X.com, to Roelof Botha. Roelof is the grandson of Pik Botha, the last apartheid South African foreign minister who had built up extensive connections amongst the US elite.

Success is so much easier when you go to knock on doors and find them already opened for you.
What's the Hoboken downside?

I travel to work in NYC fairly often and I've found myself staying in Hoboken lately, easy to get into city via the tunnels or train depending on where you're going, certainly as convenient as Brooklyn or Queens.
There is definitely some truth to this, but he has never got into any fights with me over the last 40 years that I've been working with him.
Huh, those are suspiciously reasonable and well placed...
Gosh if I'd have known such a thing I surely would have mentioned buying four of them in the original post. Thanks for the tip Rowan.
I have 10 SATA HDDs (14-18TB each). I would like to build a TrueNAS box with ECC memory on a budget of less than $700 (used hardware is perfectly fine).

Any recommendations for what to look on ebay?
Informative video - "How To Dispose of a Skyscraper":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-H7E-KQgHQ (6.5 min.)

According to the video, they're built to last for 50 - 100 years.
> And fleecing audiophiles is just good clean fun anyway

My dad ran a small manufacturing business in the 80s, one guy he did a lot of work for wanted a small batch run of spikes with a top thread made from titanium.

My dad did the quotes and asked what's its for, they were spikes for putting under speakers.

Of course my dad mentioned it would make more sense and be much cheaper to make from stainless steel, to which the guy just responded "I'm selling to idiots with more money than brains who want a talking point, that's why its titanium."

He also machined a bunch of titanium inserts for wooden volume knobs that supposedly clarified the sound or some rubbish like that.
Interesting! I guess our approaches are linked by the fact that the size of our ears is connected to the wavelengths we want to pick up (or cancel out)… and to the size of headphones. :)
Walmart seemingly let SolarCity put panels on top of 240 of its buildings, then they started catching fire.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/walmart-settlem...
Ash: A modern terminal text editor
I believe the gauntlet has been thrown down here. The challenge is not merely to read it, but to write it fluently enough to develop nifty code. Just read the FAQ! And Paleo-Hebrew fluency may not be the foremost obstacle — the numbering system is arcane and downright hostile to Westerners!
The most significant information in this is the addendum where they discussed the changes to costs:

Solar and wind DRAMATICALLY fell in just three years (written 2015, updated figures from 2018 Lazard), which is the real challenge to any nuclear project: Already at an economic disadvantage, a nuclear project needs a decade to complete often, and while cost improvements to solar and wind will likely flatten at some point, it probably has 10 years of year-on-year 5-10% cost improvement ahead of it, and grid batteries are likely going to be even more dramatic in cost improvement.

"Worse, attempts to make them cheaper might end up exacerbating nuclear power's other problems: production of long-lived radioactive waste, linkage with nuclear weapons, and the occasional catastrophic accident."

All of which are fundamentally addressed by MSR/LFTRs if only they could work. Small scale may be the only way that LFTRs work because the difficulties with molten salts may require constant refabrication of the parts. At least the fuel is liquid, you could just pipe the fluid to the replacement plant.

ORNL's plant was small, but maybe its operation/scale was too small, or didn't actually perform in utility generation, so it didn't get included here.

Anyway, allegedly China is starting up a MSR planet next year.

And is it true that MSRs are forbidden from research by the federal grant foundations? That was a claim in some LFTR videos.
> Businesses hate the BSD license because any code derived does not have to be open at all. So that means anything they contribute can be taken by their competitors and used in closed-source software.

Isn't this why businesses love the BSD license?

They can take BSD-licensed code and do what they want with it and keep the end result closed.

This is why it powers the PlayStation.
This is horrible. A flood of boring, sterile books incoming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2pdvh4uiaM
I agree, DC is fantastic, but only if you're older than 30 and not in politics. I mean, it's great for the obverse, but for different reasons.

Also, the best deli I've ever been to is in Georgetown[0]!

0. https://goo.gl/maps/Sg6PRFSK4kkapCXJA