skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think sometimes these 'hobbyists' border on patterns of addiction and escapism. I know that when I am anxious or depressed in my life I put my focus on one of these rabbitholes to escape - while I am researching the next thing to buy I can ignore everything else in my life. And it doesn't take any considerable effort or practice to buy stuff unlike learning new skills (therefore it's more depression-friendly). So I keep doing it. Pens, keyboards, knives, whatever. And then I move onto the next rabbithole. It's better than booze and drugs, but is an unproductive use of money that does not bring lasting happiness.

Luckily now I am better at recognizing and stopping this pattern, asking myself what the hell I am buying this stuff to accomplish and focusing back on that - writing, programming, the actual act of photography, etc. And recognizing if there are unhealthy mental patterns underlying the behavior that need to be tackled head-on.
For your first experiment with them? I would go with a pilot varsity. It is a disposable fountain pen. They cost a couple of bucks each, so it is cheap enough to make it an impulse buy or a regular buy if like me you lose your pens regularly.

Another option at the impulse buy level is pilot Petit1, it is a short pen you can throw in a pocket. It is refillable, not disposable.
The holocaust was past when the Germans started, but… let's say that the problems, the attitudes, receded while Germany faced them, they weren't a thing of the past when German started facing them. They still aren't.

I don't think one can wait until that kind of attitude disappears on its own. It has to be faced down.
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That's a neat way to think about it. I think a lot of the hype about AI or whatever is just because so many techies have tried these substances and realized that the brain is such a weird thing, and now they think they can emulate it, commodify it, and sell it for a monthly subscription fee. The truth is, we have no idea how the brain _actually_ works.

In "The Doors of Perception", Aldous Huxley describes it very well: it's like these drugs remove a sensory filter we normally have in place which makes the world feel like...well...reality. When you remove that filter, you're suddenly flooded with the sense that there's so much more to the universe, but in actual fact it's all just in your head. It's just your brain cells doing a lot of communication with each other in a way that is most likely nonsensical.

Some people come out the other side thinking they've found some magic, but more likely they've just experienced what was always there without the filter, and once it wears off you're the same person you were but perhaps with a sense of feeling like you're part of a big system (which we all are, called biology).

From a strictly biological perspective it makes sense, given that most life is based on DNA and we share a lot of DNA with things that we are very different from. We share about 60% of our DNA with bananas.
And whenever the union loses, they say the election wasn't fair to them. It's almost like both sides refuse to believe anyone can have an opposing opinion and everything is rigged
While it will benefit travelers, it’s likely to be used by a large number of people as an economic necessity - travel for work, study , selling and buying goods and services. The combined net economic impact is what I assume the govt hopes will offset the inflation burden to some extent. Covid transmission on the other hand is essentially endemic at this time and we have to manage it, rather than try to prevent it, especially in such a globalised world as ours
> the increasing acceptance of authoritarianism

That's right, and with the remote attestation capabilities of Secure Boot implementations, governments will finally be able to demand that every device sold has to be running an up-to-date version of an "approved" OS in order for ISPs to allow the device to access the internet.

The only limit is how incrementally they can introduce these rules so that the frog doesn't jump out of the boiling water. For example, the rules wouldn't initially apply to businesses, and maybe hobbyists would be allowed to use a special ISP that provides a custom CA certificate to do TLS interception.

I predict that within 5 years, a G7/EU/FVEY country will have passed a law that at least starts this process of making it illegal to run programs (or have VPN connections) that are blacklisted by the government. A major cyberattack (especially a false flag) will only speed up that timeline.
Amazon.com is likely the most a/b tested piece of software on the planet. It is ugly and clunky because that's what _works_ - same with Alibaba and Yahoo JP.
A lot of projects just don't state tracking explicitly
Ever try making franken-pens? I made one with the cheapest... Jinhao I think and a friend's unmarked, broken pen; a brass nib iirc. Works better than the expensive pelikans I've tried, and was interchangeable, weirdly enough. No leaks. What you say about polymer pens could still be really expensive if they leaned into the prestige of carbon fiber or something. Weird.
Correct. The persistent surveillance comes in the form of PRISM compliance and covert warrants that we, the general public, don't get to see.

You'd have to be crazy to think the most popular American phone is free from government surveillance.
Can you overclock your Android phone? Force it to run faster at a cost to battery life and overall stability, just by changing a setting in the UI?

Assuming the answer is "no", then Android doesn't actually grant you meaningfully greater freedom in this regard than Apple does: you're just upset about the communication around a particular feature/bug-workaround that requires underclocking the phone temporarily in certain situations.
His book is very approachable. It's wild, but apparently he just started writing the Drake Equation out at a (the first?) SETI discussion/meeting without much prior deliberation.

The world definitely needs more Frank Drakes. He will be missed.
It's not. It's a full diagnostic interface. Someone with the right software and my serial number could reconfigure it from across the room.

BLE replaces the previous diagnostic interface, which was some form of near-field. You had to have a puck resting within a few inches, going to a several decade old toughbook. My device supports both. It's just in the last couple years that UCLA got the BLE equipment, and sometimes a doctor will whip out the old gear if they feel more confident with it.

When I had the pacemaker first implanted, there was a reliability problem they had to do a second operation to fix it. The pacemaker failed to "capture" my ventricle a few times when it should have. It turned out to be a loose lead connection, but the device's impedance diagnostics didn't make the issue immediately obvious. My overall case was weird enough that UCLA did a case study about it, so for the revision procedure they had a vendor rep in the room to help out just in case. She was holding a tablet and pushing buttons that would make my heart temporarily stop.

Now my AV nerves mostly work again, so the pacemaker can't stop my heart if it wanted to. It can only increase my heart rate, and report unusual patterns to my doctor. Also, if someone did somehow mess with it, holding a strong magnet near it will force it into safe mode.
What a delightful slice of history!
My 2 cents :

In an ecosystem like this you may want to have businesses build extensions or plugins that they'd sell. GPL has this reputation of spreading to everything it touches, and as such would scare them away.
This seems like a reseller's dream. If you're lucky enough to find an untapped resource on Etsy, Shopify, eBay, etc and you think you can market it better and flip it for a profit - create your own stores, route the orders through OpenShip and have the lesser-known seller fulfill them for you.

I didn't dig in, but in that above scenario, does the "supplier" dropship directly to my buyer or does it come to me and I reship it?
Frank Drake 1930-2022
You're not wrong, but not every problem needs to be solved and there are 8 billion people. In my experience it's usually better to align yourself with those you communicate well with, and avoid the ones you don't.
Why Is Mac's Firewall Disabled by Default?
On each new Mac I need to manually enable firewall. It's no big deal but makes me wonder why Apple doesn't do it by default (Given their attention to privacy and security.)

I've never had any issues with the firewall on.
Is “cofounder coaching" all that different from a service a management consultant might typically perform? In any event, getting in the same room together and listening without interrupting seems like a pretty fundamental part of improving a relationship, no matter what that's called.
I worked at Switzerland's biggest online retailer whose USP was that it actually did strongly typed attributes really really well.

To date, it's still incredibly searchable. Want to find a 5.5" phone running Android 10+ and at least a 12MP back-facing camera for below $350? You can filter for it.

It was an absolute nightmare on the (normalized, backend) technical level, but a real pleasure to consume on the denormalized, frontend level.
[Ben rushes up to Paul's room after Jelly throws a hit man off the balcony onto the wedding party]

Boss Paul Vitti : Hey, people get depressed, they jump. But that ain't my fault.

Dr. Ben Sobel : Oh, so you're telling me it was suicide?

Boss Paul Vitti : I don't know, he probably left a note. Jelly, did they find that note?

Jelly : [taking out a pen] Uh no, but they will in a minute.

Dr. Ben Sobel : Oh, and let me guess what it says? "Life is bullshit, I can't fucking take it no more! Signed, the Dead Guy."

Jelly : Hey, that's good, Doc.
There's usually more than one server per minigame. You could see it in the url you were redirected to; they had more servers running the more popular minigames.
Each minigame has a player limit, so the maximum load on any given minigame server is known (within the bounds of the minecraft sub-superset that makes up that minigame- but usually the minigames are deliberately limited/bounded in how much computation they need, as opposed to vanilla Minecraft). Extra players get sent to the next available server. If there's consistent overflow, at that point you might turn on a whole new server, or change a server's gamemode (I don't know to what degree Hypixel actually did/does this, or how often it's actually necessary).
that is a foot-nightmare-inducing piece, wow
>How can that system be justified?

The 'bad guy' is whoever is the aggressor. Everyone has a right to life; if someone starts shooting at you, or swinging a bat at you, you have the right to defend yourself, and if you kill the aggressor in self-defence, so be it.

I've heard from an internet lawyer that it's possible in principle for two people attacking each other to both have grounds for self-defence, too, if both were in reasonable fear for their lives. Whether A kills B, or B kills A, either may be able to argue self-defence given the right (wrong) circumstances. But that's just some internet theorycrafting I heard.
Can you specify precisely what you think is wrong with this article, rather than making a general ad-hominem against the author?
There was some work done on XOM (eXecute-only-memory) for arm64, but on at least x86 there isn't a separate page table bit for just read permissions, so there's no way[0][1] to express R^X, PROT_EXEC without PROT_READ is not possible.

Amusingly the 80286 supported execute-only segments, but this was dropped from 32-bit x86.

[0] It is possible on Intel in VM guests using EPT (Extended Page Tables), mlarkin@ experimented with protecting the host kernel in a special VM, called "Underjack". AMD SVM supports nothing like this.

[1] The custom AMD APU SoC in Sony's PS5 console supports "xotext" via NDA'd extensions, but there's no public documentation. (If _anyone_ knows details, pls share)

... btw, PROT_WRITE-only mappings are also impossible on x86 as well, so PROT_WRITE implicitly means PROT_READ. Not that I'm aware of any valid reason anyone might want this.
This happens to already exist on macOS as VM_FLAGS_PERMANENT when setting up the mapping.
That is a whole bucket of vaguery right there.

But even if you can substantiate "vanishing likes" as a problem, that doesn't prove much. Likes vanish all the time as Twitter rolls up bot networks. You'd first have to demonstrate that this was happening, and then show it was happening disproportionately to some accounts and not others.

And then once you had that, you'd have to show that the problem wasn't just excess fake engagement supporting right-wing narratives, as that's a very plausible explanation here.
> persistent surveillance comes in the form of PRISM compliance and covert warrants

You've moved the goalposts. We're talking about warrantless surveillance. FISA courts are flawed. But they're subject to investigation, deliberation and reform in a way police buying commercial data is not. (The warrant process is first and foremost a gate. When it fails at that, as it appears to have with FISC, it serves as a judicial record.)
Imho text editing speed is not an issue for programmers.
I would not read into it much more than international policy for internal propaganda. They know it's not gonna succeed.

Why do they come up with this right now? Their poll ratings are slipping, following Odra river ecological disaster and huge inflation - and these are only their latest screwups. Many social groups traditionally in favor of PiS are becoming mad at the government. They have their "iron electorate" that will vote them no matter what, but this does not give them majority.
On your deployment page[0], it says you can deploy the entire thing to Vercel or Netlify and pass in the postgres connection string to the frontend directly. Am I understanding this correctly? Is the connection string for the database readable from the front end?

[0]https://docs.openship.org/deployment
No, there is a political party that has put this forward as part of its campaign preparations. There is no broad or publicly demonstrated support for reparations demands in Poland.
This forum post is from 2018?????
The best pen is the humble Platinum Preppy, especially when converted to an eye-dropper https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/platinum-preppy-fount...).

I also strongly recommend using an iron gall ink (Platinum makes a few; another very good one is http://www.registrarsink.co.uk). Those inks are very easy to work with, even on the crappiest paper, and are quite resistant to UV, water, and other hasards.
This is why frameworks like Micronaut exist.
This is good news. EU should put forth some legislation preventing NS1/2 from being turned on ever again and move on with financing new sources of gas.
A sadly prevalent line of rhetoric here on HN. We could be living on venusian Earth and some HN pedant would be splitting hairs
In fact, this is most recruiter inquiries.
Seems fairly likely the FSB is behind this. What better way to fracture unity for the two European states most involved in the Ukraine war?
There's a first time for everything (goes to IMDB to leave a low star but realizes this is LOTR we're talking about, so leaves the website).
RIP.

Some may see the Drake Equation as reductive, and that's kind of the point. Its simplicity makes it compelling: presenting the enormousness and diversity of the universe as a near infinitude that seems incapable of supporting only one planet full of life. It's also easily understood by anybody who can do basic math, with a 30-second explanation. You can make anyone think and make an informed guess on one of the most profound questions of all.

Here's hoping we prove his intuition right one day, I'm glad he lived to see so many advances in astronomy and physics, it must surely have felt like an unfolding of possibility to him.
> I don’t think it’s a bad impulse to want to optimize the visual/tactile/ergonomic/auditory experience of peripherals

Are you optimizing? Do you have a measurable fitness function and know what will slide you up or down that surface? How do you know you're not just conjuring faults with old setups to juice novelty?

> limited edition group buys also creates massive FOMO

I've been here. I recently spent some time looking at new vehicles, trying to decide which one was "best", agonizing over minor ergonomic details, how clean each company's color would be in 10 years, etc. After a little too much of this I came to the conclusion that that was exactly what manufacturers wanted me to do so I would be susceptible to any and all advertising. Ultimately I looked at the two vehicles I spent the most time thinking about, said "Which of these is most comfortable immediately after getting in", and pulled the trigger. I'm infinitely happier for having finalized something and freeing up bandwidth for other things I truly enjoy than for having spent six more months agonizing over where a switch was located.
It can get worse than a bad satisfaction score. Look up "Saint Francis Health System shooting".
Being pragmatic, that sounds way worse than just having a little ceramic 2.4ghz antenna and some extra silicon potted into the device!
For a bit of context, one might want to look at the history of governments exerting control over newspapers, telegraph offices, telephone exchanges, radio stations, TV stations, etc. during the century or few before the internet became popular.

"Freedom of the Press" is in the United States Bill of Rights (c.1789) because government control of information and mass media was a really old & familiar tactic even back then.
I'm saying that capitalism is designed to enrich the owning class at the expense of the working class. It's just a system to transfer wealth toward those who already have it.

The "rising tide lifts all boats" reaganomics argument is not wrong, but if it reaches the point (where it has now) where the working class is not seeing an inflation-adjusted increase in wealth, then they are (by definition) becoming poorer over time.
For example, if you search through the whole globe for people holding extreme anti-science views denying climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence, you'll find literally millions of them.
There's also the folk tradition of just cutting off an angled piece of scrap lumber to use.
Photopea has been ongoing for quite some time. I've thought the same but maybe adobe doesn't care
You forgor the /sarcasm
The funny thing is that everyone agrees that it explicitly is a problem - it's impacting everyone else at the business negatively - the definition of a problem. It's also explicitly unfair in that there's no corresponding benefit for someone that is either unable to or chooses not to have a child. But we're all going to pretend that it's 100% OK.
A private surgery business that specialised in pacemakers would surely care, because those 10yr repeat customers would be part of the valuation (valued like SaaS with long duration and high churn?). That would matter to a surgeon with an ownership stake on retirement.

I agree that a surgeon at a general hospital probably wouldn’t care (little financial incentive).
This is "hacker" news, since when is an appropriate answer "that's now how it's usually done."
None of the younger balding guys I know have any problems in the dating department. They shave it before they end up with nothing but tufts on the sides, and they own it.
> put both their warrantless dragnets and their racist violence under that umbrella

Which is a politically worthless coalition if you want to actually get something done.
There's another online photo editor which has got a very similar GUI once you get past the rather garish and awful looking title screen: https://pixlr.com/e/
> I’m betting there are more Android users in this dataset than the general population

Is this distinct from the dataset of iCloud users that the NSA maintains, or the same one?
Eating less also neatly falls into the headline title.
I don't think they call 1920x1080 2K, I think they call 2560x1080 2K which is a odd resolution as well.
But they did. They pay 2-3c/kW for excess electricity generated during the day. Their own generation costs are 6x that. PGE so far hasn’t been losing money on residential solar installations. And rise of EVs augurs well for their future demand. So far renewable energy generation during the day rarely touched 100% of consumption. It has to go beyond that couple of times over, before it makes a dent in PGE revenue
Only with Universe Standard and above
I used to work in semi. Pay and opportunities are way better in software.
You're correct about the testing not being a concern. Testing for psilocybin is very expensive and unreliable. Really only one major drug testing lab in the country will even try to test for psilocybin, and that's because you can, for the right price, try to get them to test for just about anything in a mass spec sample. I won't go so far as to say that nobody can ever successfully test you for psilocybin, but it's about as close to never as you can get.
Lightly “Sandboxed” Homebrew on macOS
> Maybe my cardiologist is just trying to make me feel good, but he says my leads will likely last 30-50 years. Intuitively that seems unlikely, but we'll see. It's got to be one of the most engineered cables in existence.

One of my favorite learnings in school was about the "Endurance limit".

Some materials, like aluminum, will eventually fail under cyclic loading even at tiny, tiny loads. This was a big problem when they built the first passenger jets. Other materials, like steel, have a threshold at which they can be cycled indefinitely without issue.

For something like a pacemaker, I like to imagine they dialed the materials and forces to be within such a threshold so you can keep on ticking!
So they've already embraced "you will own nothing, and you will be happy."

Although the "happy" part is looking more and more unlikely.
Is It Possible For USB Keyboard To Send Strokes To Remote Server? (2019)
I hope this goes the way of RedHat/SUSE. i.e. The corporate side of a FOSS project so that contracts can be signed for appropriate purposes, etc.
U.S. Army approves order for thousands of Microsoft combat goggles
Why Ubuntu 22.04 is so fast (and how to make it faster)
>The issues run deeper. Court orders are widely rubberstamped.

I wrote the following to try and address that. I agree it's a big problem.
> Also there should be accountability for the reasonable expectation aspect of warrants. A realistic threshold should be enforced... If an officer or judge starts to dip below the threshold they should be seen as incompetent.