skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I read another analysis of what seems to be the same drive which tried to verify the real capacity, but the issue was that the drive was throttled to a low-speed connection so that validating it by writing and re-reading the full volume of data would take something like 250 days. So it's kind of obvious that it was bad, but you can't easily prove it in a reasonable time.
I'm kind of excited to see the return of The Corporation ngl
https://archive.ph/OtDJr
It's so untypically cumbersome and unintuitive for a smartphone UI that to me it doesn't feel like a feature intended for end users. The button combination isn't always consistent from one phone to the next and afaik there's no way to know the right one without googling it or trying out a few variants. If you get the combination or timing wrong you probably changed some audio setting or locked the screen. Sometimes it's easier but in general it feels more like trying to enter BIOS settings on a random computer - it's basically the same procedure as entering a smartphone's or Surface Pro's bootloader menu.
i register all my domains and especially those that belong to a community or a company with a registrar that allows anyone to pay the renewal fee. like gandi does.

for a community that means that any member of the community can pay the fee, and for small communities this is a nice way to make an effortless donation.

for a company it means that any office assistant can manage the payments without needing administrative access.
the unit of measurement is called a “cent”.

there are 100 cents between each 1/2 step in 12-tone equal temperament.
None of your 3 paragraphs make any sense to me.

1st paragraph: SOC are not upgradable, that’s the whole point of the trade of and most of what makes this tradition exciting. What will Apple do with the Mac Pro is the most important question in this industry for the last couple of years.

2nd: what? Apple Music what?

3rd: what does that movie, which was about Apple and Microsoft, had to do with any of the current chip industry and its many players?
If you've more money then sense then this doesn't work. Restrictors sounds like a win/win for everybody.
Show HN: Bed Side Box 3D Assembly made with SolveSpace [video]
I think this premise is sufficient in any scenario where there are disparities in the distribution of a plentiful resource, as is the case in countries with privatized water.

However, when the resource is no longer plentiful, it is unwise to try the "let the market fix it" route (always a popular one on HN), because the resource in question can be consumed much faster than the systems you are describing can combat it (or can even be gotten off the ground.)
A good leader is like a strict but loving parent. If you model yourself around that, you’ll know the answer.
Heey that's not very nice. I don't understand all this inflation stuff, but I don't think it's incorrect or misleading to say, at current prices (or 2020 prices), that giant metal space rock will be worth 70,000 times the world GDP. I mean, that's actually really fucking smart, to put it into perspective, make it concrete in a way that people can go, oh wow that must be a fucking big rock.

It's just a different side to it. And you're sharing a side as well. It doesn't mean it has to be "stupid" ( > Who writes these idiotic headlines. ) just because it's different to your perspective on it.

Maybe you feel good to say that, but it's just abusive really, because you're puffing yourself up by shitting on someone else's view. But you can have both views, really.

Anyway, I thought your comment would be much nicer without that first sentence. Anyway...

One thing that amazes me is that all the gold that's ever been mined, all the gold that exists on earth would fit into a cube 23 meters a side. For copper is 630 meters. I find that incredible. For silver 55 meters. Just fucking amazing!
Also: “sent it to a tech”
I somehow jumped to this fascinating article about the author of this piece, Jane Golley. She was cancelled -- from what I can tell -- for suggesting that the extent of the Uigher Muslim genocide might be less than generally assumed. But the article is more about her growing up years and how she developed a love for Chinese culture.

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/china-expert-...

So I ask an honest question: Is the fact that Golley got cancelled evidence that Uigher genocide is now a woke issue? Or that non-woke people are getting on the cancel culture bandwagon?
I trust scientific facts proportional to the evidence I have that these facts are true. This is not the case for faith, wherein disproportionately large amounts of trust are demanded without any evidence.

Our model of the atom allows us to accurately predict chemical reactions. Religion has no predictive power whatsoever, and none of its unique "truth" claims are provable or falsifiable.

People who uncritically trust "science" as regurgitated by pop-culture media are more akin to theists.
I have a very low opinion of twitter and certainly wish they'd do a better job. But the premise of twitter as a shield against state-sponsored kidnapping or murder seems flimsy at best.
Kindelia: A minimal peer-to-peer computer that isn't a cryptocurrency
And back to the damn laptop -- if there's compelling evidence how come there hasn't been actual charges?

What if the value of the laptop story is just the cloud of doubt itself? The lack of action about prosecuting it supports this.

Buttery Males? Clinton's email server was wrong but apparently a continuation of non-compliance by previous office holders (e.g., Colin Powell). Not cool but understandable.

The issue with the top secret documents that Trump has show zero good faith justification. He was famous for not being interested in being briefed (so why now?), and was not permitted to take the docs, then lied about returning them. All the time though keeping them in questionable security.

There's not a single valid reason for him to have those docs and plenty of very bad plausible ones (blackmail/extortion).

Trump shared intelligence with Russia that wasn't meant to be shared and did significant damage to the operation and trust of our partner: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-trump-shared-with-...

But out of all of this you're most bothered by the fact that a smear campaign was not amplified enough?
Thanks. That’s one of the reasons I’m not immediately selling the gaming PC. I have a few older games that may not play well. I might still sell most of the gaming PC but keep the GPU (GTX 1070) and see if I can put it in my Proxmox server and stream it via Moonlight to my Steam Deck. I can use the Windows license from the gaming PC for a Windows VM.
When I bought a Motorola cable modem from Best Buy it stopped working within 24 hours. At least I could return it and only lose time. Name brands and branded stores aren't safe either, though one would hope they're better on average.
That sounds like a workaround for a ridiculous & pathetic inquity that never should have been, that has metastasized into a societal scale suicide pact. The state forever paying people to give up an infinite right to natural resources the state didnt have may be a legal answer but it's immoral & this buying-out "solution" keeps the injustice going uncorrected.

Change the constitution.
Why not use Real-ESRGAN directly?

https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
OP claims that synthetic commentators are making claims about them that are demonstrably untrue. This can be (and in other locales is) moderated in a politically neutral way.
Great way to have leaks and create lousy hygiene around information security. Culture is most difficult to revert then. The default should always be on a need-to-know basis. Anything else should be justified.
Wasn’t debt slavery abolished quite in Roman history?

I don’t think there is much evidence that free citzens were often reduced to slavery. Slaves were almost exclusively war captives or imported from abroad.
is this a wales/whales joke?
Everything I can see has the UK abandoning whaling in the 60s.
In Clojure you're likely to use an arrow to do multiple compositions, eg. (-> foo foo->bar bar->baz)
Reading through Odin (very neat overall!) I am a bit confused on the additional boolean types. "bool" seems to be your standard boolean but then there are b8, b16, b32, and b64. Bitfields seem to be their own thing still so are these just boolean types with a wider backing for something like a data format that stores them that way?
> What it is interesting is that the comment never mentions memory safety, only memory management; you just added memory safety into the discuss.

Can’t speak for OP but I also assumed that you were alluding to being able to use unsafe memory management in this part

> > And for you, you clearly don't need manual memory management nor high control over memory, memory layout, and memory access.

Since high control usually means being able to do whatever you want (compilers always have to be a bit conservative).
Founder Paydays at IPO
Unthinkable because government control at that level of granularity is such a stupid and downright offensive idea to begin with, or because it just plain doesn't work?
So you work at Aerospike?
Yes I agree 100%. If Twitter is going to arbitrate then they better do so fairly and soundly across all peoples. My criticism is of the expectation that such fair arbitration can happen unilaterally in the first place especially in a politically charged environment. Twitter has not demonstrated an ability to be impartial and fair in the past. They are a US company partial to US politics. Specifically, they lean rather liberal in their moderation decisions. As you say, they want users, not justice (even though at certain times they have made small motions towards perceived “social” justice). They are simply not equip to replace the judicial systems of the world and expecting them to do so is a little bit crazy in my opinion. The reality is they have no legal authority anywhere.

I agree the author’s criticism is fair. My point was a reminder that the expectations here may not live up to reality and it might be best to seek other help. Even if Twitter removes this misinformation, the author will not be safe and will likely, if the story is to be believed, be detained and tortured the minute they step onto Pakistani soil, sadly. I think the reminder that “Twitter can’t make you safe” is a fair and practical one too, despite whether it should have to be that way or not.
If it is too good to be true... it definitely is... I stay away from buying storage devices from aliexpress for the same reason.
Assuming a perfect hash function...basically an intro to the birthday problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/quality-fade-chi...
That's also true. It's very easy to build traps, so make sure to know what she wants.

But I'd say dependence on the father is the bigger trap. If you haven't worked for a few years, you are fully dependent on your partner. At least the other options aren't nice.
> You don’t want to leave Pakistan

My read is that he's in New York, but has family still in Pakistan.
I can't comment regarding how you think is best to teach your students. This is now a popular blog post that has gone viral on HackerNews to a much wider audience of well-educated people, so you should expect people will clarify these things on here. I'm talking mostly about stuff like this:

> Five hundred years ago, however, it would have made a very big difference. Before the advent of temperament systems, D-sharp and E-flat were two different notes. They weren’t just written differently; they sounded different. You can compare the historical versions of these notes yourself in this track I made... My track is tuned in a system called five-limit just intonation

^ These are not the historical versions of those notes. 5-limit just intonation was not in widespread use in Western Europe 500 years ago. 500 years is not before the advent of temperament systems. And so on. Teach this to your students however you think is best, but people on here may be interested to know that.
In general, times get better. Where does that come from if humans don't mutate that fast? It's also visible in gymnastics and similar sports where routines become more advanced.

There are other factors, like a bigger global population and drugs. But that's secondary for sports where participants show off complex movements.
I was able to remove 2FA on one account without them verifying I'm the owner properly.
I don't think thats a fair characterization of PTI supporters. PML-N and PPP have literally created cults of personality around their families, in many ways their followers can be described as cult-like also.
It is possible to generate electricity from sources other than fossil fuels.

It is not possible to drive a combustion engine from sources other than fossil fuels (except in very rare circumstances).

Removing fossil-fuel burning cars from the road reduces the national fuel burden, making the generation of electricity cheaper.
True, but that's nothing special. If my next door neighbor is a jerk, he may try to pretend that the legal property boundary is 3' into my yard from where it really is, and that his say-so is what determines that boundary.

The types of "faking it" that very quickly separate the real governments from the corporations & pretenders are "make the laws", "collect the taxes", "run the courts", and "back it with force". If the FBI slaps handcuffs on a Twitter CxO and hauls him off to jail, do not expect Twitter to send in their Marine Corps.
Have you explored shifting that domain to a Domain Registrar who _does_ allow you to auto-renew via a topped-up account that you maintain with them?
That's not the premise. This kind of bullshit is exactly how disempowered groups get painted into a corner.

Sexual assault doesn't typically begin with violent rape. It ends there.

It begins with a million small forms of disrespect.

Political crap follows the same pattern.

If you think it doesn't fucking matter, what the hell do you care how this goes? It matters to him. If you don't care, what's wrong with saying "Twitter should simply do its job, man!"
Awesome, Walmart managed to copy Amazon's total lack of control over their inventory.
Interesting that Reddit's Subreddit Search[0] works with "CAD" query, but Subreddit Finder[1] just returns `Error 500`.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=CAD

[1] https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/CAD/
Anyone successfully convert their "I'm not into sci-fi" friend into a Stephenson fan? If so, with what book?

(Having read em all, I would not recommend Fall; Or Dodge in Hell as an entrypoint)
This post is gold. We are going through our journey of finding PMF. The points mentioned here are what we learned the hard way. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to build a startup or works for an early-stage company.
Not only that, I've also been bitten by cheaply made junk stamped "made in the USA." As another commenter said, at least with going in the store, there is usually some company attached to the product I can contact if really needed. Regardless of the cheaply made stuff's origin. Third party online retailers, much of the time end up ghosted or someone trying to play off as being incompetent.
There are very few startups that need to be in “stealth mode”. If anything, startups need to be more vocal to get themselves on the map and to do way way more customer development.
Life Is Not a Game
Yes and requiring moderation on internet forums is not one of them. It will stop 0.00001% of cases, while growing malpolicing (especially non useful police who demand more mircrojustice to keep their comfy pay coming in) proportionally with it.

This reminds me of HN. You get banned if you say a bad word. You get banned eventually no matter what unless you're a white collar self censored silicon valley drone with ultra-safe opinions like "the C language should be deprecated after a mere 70 years". You get rate limited if you get too many downvotes in the given time slot. Random IPs are blocked for no reason and the login screen is just a blank page. You get shadowbanned so you don't even know you're banned. All for basically nothing, as HN is basically like 2000s forums but with slightly better discourse and consistency of moderation (and worse in other ways).

This idea that we should have some sort of epidemiologically correct moderation policy on the internet is also bullshit. Moderation on the internet started off as, annoying, childish, 40 year old sysadmins who ban anyone they don't like, SJWs who ban anyone who is "the enemy", right wing equivalent of SJWs who do the same thing, rule fetishists (people in the UK who think insulting the queen or showing the middle finger should be illegal), etc. The idea started off with these selfish / idiotic reasons. Once questioned, they are forced into a corner where they can only rationalize moderation as an epidemiological tool. "Yeah, if we just delete these 1 million posts it's a net gain".

The only reason lack of moderation on big copmany's websites even come up is because they're big companies and they have egg on their face for any slight mishap (or what public perceives as a mishap). It's the most stupid fucking shit.
Someone else can pay for the domain, they just have to wait for it to lapse first. This seems perfectly fine to me, and if the original owner agreed to the GoDaddy TOS then I see no reason why they should make a magical fairy dust exception for this case.
We'll see when AGPL gets tested in court. Until then I suspect legal departments will continue to treat AGPL, and even GPL (because of on prem), as a viral license which could require disclosing all their source.
“Mainstream” by crypto and Twitter-mob standards. Actual mainstream reporters are not talking about ENS or eth.link.

> depend on another external third-party whom you have no control over

This is how current DNS works.

In ENS, you can run your own node, or choose your blockchain node provider. Any platform building their infrastructure by permalinking to and depending on eth.link or another web2 service is setting themselves up for failure, and antithetical to the goals of web3. Thankfully most web3 users and services are not dependent on eth.link and recognize it is a centralized service.
I’m going to make a “white label” metaverse RPG that is easily skinned. Then every crypto scammer who promises to build one can just buy it from me for $100K. That includes playing as any of their 10,000 ugly pixel-art NFTs. For an extra $100K I’ll include a few shitty play-to-earn mechanics.
You can often find them at a discount at the outlet store too.
Show HN: I made an interactive pandas cheat sheet using PyScript
I wanted to learn a bit more about PyScript, so this weekend I took on a small project. I used PyScript to create an interactive Pandas cheat sheet.

It was a fun project, and I thought that it might be useful for those learning Pandas.

You can check out the cheat sheet here: https://pandas.dylancastillo.co/

And the code is available here: https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/pandas-cheatsheet/

P.S. Right now the site isn't that mobile-friendly.
That was such a strange choice by Mozilla, I mean the plug-in was specifically for people who play the Mr Robot game. Even after Mozilla force-pushed it to their entire user base players still had to manually enable it to play. If the whole damn thing required manual intervention anyway why didn’t they just put it in the addon store to start with?!
If you use best buy's website it has the same problem as Amazon et al since it is a "marketplace" it is just the same sellers listing on both sites.
Ooh, I just did something with this, and I should finish the draft blog post for it:

* write encrypted zeroes

* decrypt it and count the zeroes

I think cbc mode is enough. I see a possible computational loophole, which I want to check before I post.
The premise seems more about how easily Twitter can be used to support a coup, suppress journalistic voice, oppress people, and push propaganda.

I don't know if without Twitter all this would be just as easy, through state controlled media, but what I do know is that Twitter could actually be a tool against this, but is failing to be.

Having a popular media outlet that cannot be coopted for propaganda and used for oppression or harm would be a great thing. Twitter clearly failed to be this, and maybe fails really bad at it where it seems like it could easily be a bit better at it.
I don't feel like owning a gaming rig anymore and that caused my sizeable Steam library to be locked away from me. Until I got the Steam Deck... The killer feature for me is the portability. I can take it with me on vacations and that's exactly when I have time to play games.
De-regulation of brewing took us from 90 breweries to over 8000. So at the very least at the local level brewing can thrive.

You're right that distribution inhibits smaller breweries from growing a national presence. But again, that is due to regulation. Alcohol distribution is heavily regulated, and there is tons of legacy regulatory capture, and larger distributors are constantly lobbying for more regulations to maintain their stranglehold on distribution.

Brewing - deregulated. Distribution - heavily regulated. Maybe you don't need to break up the brewing giants, just dismantle the captured regulation stranglehold they have on distribution.
Agreed. Insinuating "other developers are careless" sounds odd given how GIMP lost their own wiki.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-web/-/issues/25...

Years of docs gone because one unnamed maintainer forgot to update hosting. With no backups. The official roadmap https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap#GIMP_3.0 has been inaccessible for 3 months, which the blog glosses over as no big deal. This kind of amateurism is uncommon to Blender and Krita but rather common to GIMP; some of their maintainers have even been banned from twitter.
I assume this is done the same way products like YNAB and even QuickBooks Online access your banking info - through an API provided by the bank (or it's website partner). Your act of logging in is enough to allow a partner (like Plaid) access to endpoints that contain your information, including transaction history, account info, etc. I don't think any of it is done through scraping - the chances of that information being wrong then become Plaid's problem, not the bank's, and there's no way in hell that would be acceptable to Plaid.
> On the other hand, I'd never want a "what should I do?" person as an early startup hire.

This doesn't apply to tanks or healers, only dps. Playing tank as an infra person I would do my team a disservice if I didn't make myself available on a dime to unblock my team. Big picture is fine for the planning meetings but on small teams I'm usually the only one, I have a bunch of cooldowns to keep track of, and don't always have the context because I have a separate workstream that has to telegraph out ahead of the dev work.

I am always asking what I should do that has the most impact for my devs.
Diamond Age has been a hit with a lot of my friends, even ones not into scifi.

Agree with you re Fall. Terrible book.
The tradeoff is that the audiobooks are agonizingly slow and unpleasant to listen to if you speed them up.
I guess it's theoretically possible that labelling evidence "Salacious pics package" is a critical part of FBI investigative procedure they accidentally exposed to the press, if you want to believe enough.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the political organization that actually provided the copy of the drive to the media and whose electoral messaging around the emails the folders happened to perfectly align with might have had a little more to do with it...
Not even the first such high profile case (see also resierfs)