skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess if one were wholly uninformed about LA Police forces, they’d ignorantly downvote your post. It’s a shame people are being reactionary instead of taking the opportunity to inform themselves.
> Firefox is by no means the "best" product, it's an average Chrome clone that's worse than competing Chromium derivatives (Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, etc)

This is software comedy gold. If Firefox is a clone of Chrome then what isn't a clone? Is Safari a clone of Chrome because it has the tabs that Chrome took from Firefox?
Yes it's great that we can Google/DDG most stuff at a whim. And there are often many great tutorials both written and video searchable online on a lot of software.

That does NOT solve the original discoverability problem.

>>I've been astonished at how often a feature was added 3 years ago to a program I've used for 8 years, or there's a secret swipe that avoids a bunch of menus, or an unofficial command-line flag.

THAT is the problem right there. You're a likely typical example of someone who is smart, knowledgeable, experienced, and motivated, probably beyond what used to be called a "power user". Yet great swaths of features, and the work of scores of designers, developers, & testers for years, simply escapes our notice.

The result is that vast amounts of productivity go squandered until we discover by chance accident or encounter with some "You didn't know this!" post.

I've occasionally seen some introduction wizards be somewhat helpful, but they are never in any kind of depth. It's like they are afraid to show you what the software can really do — but the real case is some marketing dude thinks (likely sometimes correctly) that if the intro is too long, people will think it's complicated and won't use it. If that's the case, we're again being dragged down by the lowest (of most ordinary) common denominator.

Solutions? How about the Quick Tour, and even the outline/TOC of a full manual, so we can at least skim it and see if some feature exists and then Google/DDG it...?
This is why I'm glad I don't do automation one-offs and remind myself to have respect for those that do. It's such a different solution space!
"Setting aside the fact for a second that our system requires us to vote strategically instead of based on our actual preferences"

You can band together to make lobbying illegal. What I feel like your saying is that you don't like that you have to vote for someone whose views don't always match yours but that's how it will always be. If I'm not understanding you correctly please let me know.

"But even if they were, there is so much corruption and money on the side of keeping it legal"

Then vote to make it illegal. What is the alternative? A monarchy in which the same corruption could occur? A revolution which causes massive suffering for a long period of time and then you form a new government that is a democracy which faces the same issues?
Wait until you hear about all the crimes committed by law enforcement at _every_ level…

The FBI is often involved in some of the most serious crimes (serial murderers, sex trafficking, organized crime), so getting rid of them sounds a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Without a doubt we should be wanting police reform, including better ways to discover criminal wrongdoing and more effective ways to deter it from happening and/or punish those who commit it.
I was thinking the same as implied here, and yes he said that in 1977 but it was taken out of context; he was referring to home automation and not personal computing. [2]

It seems, no, DEC did not miss the PC boat due to one person's nearsighted view.

Microvax was 1985 and yes it would have been interesting if they had a low-end personal product based on VAX at that time. They did have the Professional [0] around 1982 based on PDP-11 which I used at school to learn Macro-11 assembly, C and Pascal. It was blazing fast and ran RSX/11 which was years ahead of DOS. They also had the Rainbow [1] around 1982 (maybe marketed to officework) with a z80 and 8088. And then there was the VAXMate in 86 which we don't talk about :). So it seems these were all aiming at the new "PC" market in a scattergun manner but nobody really knew what that was at the time.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Professional_(computer)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100

2. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ken-olsen/
At that point you might as well put a code interpreter in your scheduler that just gets current date and returns next data of event, because whole code to cover that would take more code than cron itself.
Well, that screed I wrote, is a fairly typical "geeky conversation" that can be invaluable, in an interview.

I used to hire pretty senior-level engineers. They would be writing C++ image processing pipeline code, to some insanely exacting standards.

My technique was usually to get them relaxed and comfortable, then start asking them for stories about the projects they've worked on. It was always a joy, when I could get them to start chattering, like the post above. I would look at the enthusiasm, and the passion, as much as the technical detail. I'd love hearing them talk about discovering problems, and how they addressed them.
Police generally hate stolen car license plates. This means things are about to get serious. Most police departments wont even attempt a pull over with just one unit. But most scary for the cop they have no idea who this person is. In the US you want to take stolen cars seriously [guns out]:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=police+...
It does but it's always easier if you allocate/deallocate big blocks. Especially if you just put sub-block-size data on disk
Not to presume what the OP meant but I understood it as: answering questions by asking questions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
> Clinesmith was sentenced in January to one year of probation and 400 hours of community service.

In my opinion, this is lenient to the extent that it’s a miscarriage of justice.

> He doctored the email to mean the exact opposite of what the email was communicating.

s/He was a source/He was not a source/
Newly mobilized Russian men are showing the rusted AK's they were given
"it just works"
I think in general Linux users develop a tolerance for stuff not working so they say "This works perfect" when the reality is that a lot of the features are not working but they are still able to get day to day work done. Stuff like finger print readers and often web cams not working is borderline expected. On OLED monitors you can expect brightness adjustment and often sleep/wake to not work quite right if at all, etc.
I'm an older engineer too and I am very aware of how frustrating this can be for techs of all ages so I made our screening test less fizzbuzz, do my work for me and gotcha questions and more real world, challenging, engaging and most of all interesting.

Examples include: How would you solve this at a high level, here's some code we know is broken, how would you both fix and improve it etc.

After all, both parties are being screened.

The other upside is that we also get to gauge communication and analytical skills not just production line coding.

Even after doing this, over the years I have seen a good 30% refuse to do it or just ghost at this point for whatever reason. Afterall, I've done it myself a number of times.
I also use Enterprise, though they are not wholly without errors of course.

A few years ago I had an Enterprise rental car in Hawaii.

Mid-rental, I got a phone call from a concerned Enterprise manager in Pennsylvania. Trying to figure out the status and location of a car of theirs, which their system showed I had rented.

I assured them that I had not visited Pennsylvania nor driven their car from PA to Hawaii; they were able to track down a data entry error by a frazzled agent that had led to this confused state of affairs.
AI bot against phone scammers[video]
Well, kind of.

Safe deposit boxes are still subject to AML regulations. Banks are required by law to snoop around on their customers and to try to determine if the deposit boxes are being used for money laundering. Banks do regularly rifle through customer records to build profiles about what they think their customers are doing. Federal AML regulations require it!

Regulations or the threat of potential regulations are behind pretty much all of these types of privacy invasions. No one is claiming to own your data, money, or possessions -- but there will be scrutiny in all cases due to the law.

This is why banks don't let random unknown people open safe deposit boxes. They're required to profile their customers.
dude... it is not the cold war: one "side" has nukes, the other side nil.

And actually, there is so much disinformation, I am not even sure of the meaning of "sides" here.

I play dota2, mixed ukrainian-russian pro teams are from the best in the world and are _currently_ competing. All of them will be traitors in their respective country??? All that does not make any sense.

Hope a way out of this weird conflict is found soon.
That was just an example. I don’t eat frozen veggies, I don’t know about it. Almost all fresh produce is expensive, except bananas. Organic is even more expensive
I never understood the cliché about Ikea furniture being difficult to assemble. I always admired how they sidestepped the problem of producing directions in many languages by just using pictures. It's a marvel of clarity to me.
>The NPC meme resonates because it's true that a lot of people respond to keywords with the same phrases.

A popular example of the last six months being "Slava Ukraine".

Repeating the phrase like a 2022 rosary prayer isn't going to do a single thing toward causing Ukraine to defeat Russia, any more than adding a Ukrainian flag to one's social media profiles will.

>And they update The Current Thing in unison.

I saw a good description (on /r/4chan, no less) of this: People who constantly check in on each other to see what the latest things are to embrace/avoid. What a miserable way to live.
>Meteor Light & Sound’s Clubman line

Nice to see a shout-out for that, I spent a lot of money on one once, got good use out of it. (I was not a hip hop DJ)
Sure, the public doesn't benefit, but why wouldn't Andressen fund Neuman?

Neuman produced a cult that generated a beautiful pyramid scheme for those who got out early. From a VC point of view, the only issue was that VC's didn't have enough of a collar on Neuman to be able to shove him aside when he became a liability. I'm sure that mistake has been corrected.

Anyone who thinks VCs are anything other than self-interested sociopaths hasn't been paying attention.
GCP, AWS, and Azure ARM-based server performance comparison
remote means that you need to be closeby and in the US.
Well, it took a long time for all Windows programs to work somewhat decently, and even now the OS still does not have great multi-DPI support.

For example when I move my mouse from my 192 DPI screen to my 96 DPI screen, the mouse position translates in physical pixel, not in physical location. So at the bottom it matches but near the middle of the 192 DPI screen it stops going to the left (it already ends up on the top of the 96 DPI screen going from the middle of the 192 DPI screen) and becomes an 'invisible wall'. Even in Windows 11 they didn't bother to fix this :(

The only OS that had a good transition to multi-DPI capabilities was macOS and that's really because Apple doesn't care about legacy and forces app devs to update their stuff. But it's not just Linux that's having a hard time with this.

But I didn't know this was a specific problem. I'm not using Wayland yet and won't for the foreseeable future. I'm on FreeBSD and KDE on Wayland has been broken a long time. When I hear this it sounds like a good decision anyway :)
I don't expect it. Which is why I switched from buying Windows laptops to install Linux and now buy MacBooks where I can expect that absolutely everything will work on day one.
safe deposit boxes are not safe. invest in home security
Six MIT Lincoln Laboratory inventions win 2022 R&D 100 Awards
Okta Exposes Passwords in Clear Text for Possible Theft
Voice synthesis is also useful for people like Val Kilmer. The tracheotomy he underwent to treat his throat cancer wrecked his voice. Voice synthesis based on his own voice helps him sound like himself again:

https://www.sonantic.io/blog/helping-actor-val-kilmer-reclai...
New Rebrandings of Major Universities
I wonder if these classic patterns still hold now that everyone competent has read these 1990s era books.

I could be strongly biasing myself without realizing it but I think they've become less common except on really grand scales where no single industry player is big enough to really control things

Here's a few I see:

podcasts and YouTube are successfully attacking conventional television and radio

Home recording studio equipment improvements have seriously been eating into studio time.

Home audio improvements have made the high end less relevant

Display technology improvements have made affordable displays eat into the high end market.

I think transportation and energy are the next big ones; solar panels will be so cheap that they'll start to be integrated just about everywhere and smaller electric cars (under 1500lbs or so) will become so affordable that those who drive for pure function will start adopting them en masse
... touché!
RGB control is quite spotty. Finger print readers are almost entirely non functioning. Often webcams on brand new laptops do not work. Brightness control for OLED often doesn't work. Suspend and sleep still seems to be an issue, especially with something relating to "modern sleep" where the OS remains functional for things like internet access while sleeping.

I think largely these days people just plug less stuff in, printers, scanners, other odd gadgets are less common so its really just USB mass storage devices and video outputs getting physically plugged in. Otherwise everything else is controlled over wifi with a phone app.
this is even more ridiculous than the current leetcode situation. people should be offered jobs based on their previous projects and experience and degrees. not based on some timed coding test.
What do you propose as an alternative? History both old and new shows how irresponsible corporations across the planet have been
I've always felt that people working in law enforcement related fields should be required to carry their own liability insurance. Just like if you're in an at-fault accident your rates go up, the same should happen for law enforcement. If you're a repeat offender the rates go up sufficiently that it will no longer make financial sense for you to remain in the job.
> I also think about the category of things that aren’t intuitive and require some guidance, like... putting together IKEA furniture. Woe is the fool who tries to discover a complicated IKEA piece through action!

Do people try to do this? I've never considered not using the IKEA instructions.
Given the power required to replace a decent gas boiler, I hope Cali can afford to build 5x the current number of power stations and then have them sit idle for 22h a day...
Thank you for that comment! As a grad student trying to find my groove in life, I find myself always worried about the job market and the tradeoff I've to pay for imparting meaning to my future job. We definitely need to take care of ensuring a decent life for all professions instead of only software engineers.
Apple Pay vs. Google Pay: How They Work
Interesting.

What a great way for India government to gain insight on how aerospace industry works.

Much like Intel built fab factories in China, and lost their technological edge … against ARM and RISC.
I'm going to grab this opportunity to give the tiniest of shout outs to a random list of mostly Windows based software that I use every single day.

- Windows 10/11

- WSL

- Powertoys

- Windows Terminal

- VS Code

- Beyond Compare

- Filelocator Pro

- Plex / Plexamp

- Calibre

- Resilio

- Firefox

- Ublock Origin

- Bitwarden

- Pushbullet

- Pihole

- Notion

- Hangouts (RIP, Chat is not the same, buddy)
Is a "space heater" (the official term) the same thing as a "furnace" (from the headline)? IOW, are they saying that a typical legacy "central air" HVAC system in a single family residence (or multi-unit building for that matter) with a gas furnace cannot be replaced after the cut-off date?
Do Russia’s military setbacks increase the risk of nuclear conflict?
Aren't they building solar? Though that might be the wrong 2h...
Maybe U.S. Private Vaults had greater access? Instead of 0900-1700, maybe they're open later. Maybe they are open on Sundays?
I would also be more impressed if Mr Obama were to shine a light on the prevailing free speech violation of the left, viz., cancellation.
That kind of insurance is there to cover accidents. A doctor's malpractice insurance would be irrelevant if the doctor had been taking cash from people's wallets - that's not malpractice, it's just theft. Similarly, if you lie to trick a judge into letting you "legally" take money, that's fraud, theft, and armed robbery - not any kind of malpractice.

This article says that the FBI agents and US Attorney incorrectly accused a safe deposit company of being a criminal enterprise (case was later dropped, nobody convicted, no real evidence). The FBI then lied to a judge, disregarded their warrant they obtained under false pretenses, and stole money and valuable from hundreds of people, almost all of whom were entirely related to the crimes the FBI was ostensibly investigating. The problem here is not a lack of insurance, it's that the FBI is brazenly acting like a criminal gang and none of the people who perpetrated the crimes will face consequences.
After skimming that Wikipedia article, I think I understand better that your criticism is that these are inappropriate technologies & that we're increasing our complexity budget instead of making technologies that are more appropriate. And I do fully agree with that.

Thank you for mentioning this book, I look forward to reading it.
Why does tiktok seem to attract these dumb trends?

It really seems to be special to tiktok, were there any crazy trends/challenges from other social media recently?
A lower-tier Canadian university- Ryerson - actually changed its name to "Toronto Metropolitan University" because of "racism". That's a lot worse than just changing the former logos to something modern and boring.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Metropolitan_Univers...
Hm, can you describe what do you mean by "can't do this with templating"?

Do you mean that since React/JSX kind of a superset of JS you can do higher order stuff in it, whereas in a simple templating language like Jinja2 you can't?

Isn't that a false equivalence? I mean I regularly use patterns similar to HOCs in Angular. It's easy to wrap components[0] and it's just as possible to project components into other components programmatically[1] with complete dynamism.

[0] depending on the use case there are different preferred ways: directives, which have access to the wrapped component and its template, and can interact with it in many ways, or you can do it from raw TS ( https://github.com/abumuawiyah/ng-ivy/blob/master/src/app/ap... see the withTheme and withStyles functions )

[1] for simple things https://blog.angular-university.io/angular-ng-template-ng-co... ... see also the official working example from the docs https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-568wsw?file=src/app/ad.s...
>the internal voice when you think or read text

A normal conversational speaking rate for English speakers in the US is said to be about 150 wpm.

A typical novel is said to be about 95,000 words.

Therefore anyone who can read a novel in less than 10-11 hours must not have this "internal voice". A witch! Burn them!
Perhaps it comes from the Soviets' notorious ineptitude for mathematics and aeronautics.
Seems like an absurd objection. You could try to argue that someone could rape a woman when they say that they cannot, but they cannot because that is a gross violation of their ethics. I don’t see the issue with that language.
Right-wing has tried to portray them as politically biased against Republicans, but the evidence doesn’t bear this out. Since 1935 there have been 16 directors or acting directors. Only one of those was a registered Democrat and he only served in the position for 71 days.
I solved a lot of audio problems in my complex setup (multiple inputs into multiple outputs) with a Toslink switch. Which is essentially a beefed up optocoupler...
If you're a company sitting on a large mountain of cash, then your finance team isn't doing its job. Money is there to be used, unless you happen to have some sort of monopoly. And Mozilla obviously doesn't.

Competing with Google and Microsoft funded competitors ain't cheap. And requires more than developers. People don't play that nice, at least not when there's an advantage to playing dirty. And there is.
"Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe" (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...)

Covered at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545276
Everything you can find says the opposite? How odd! When I search “china usa life expectancy” on DDG I get a page that’s choc-a-bloc with headlines about the provisional CDC release that says all signs point toward US Covid death rates causing such a sharp drop in US median lifespans that China, already having shown stunning improvements this past few decades and recently nipping at the US’s heels, has now pulled ahead.

Whew. Hard work. You’re welcome!
His server runs 3 containers, so it should be just a generic Linux + apt install docker, and then a docker-compose file.
Chomsky: The US and Israel Are Standing in the Way of Iran Nuclear Agreement
If anyone needs an explanation for why the populous has little faith in both democratic government and its longstanding institutions then this abuse of power is a quintessential example.

Clearly, one of the biggest problems with government (and large corporations) is that individual employees can hide behind and be protected by the institutional infrastructure. Essentially they can make decisions with impunity knowing that the 'system' will protect them.

If we're to restore any faith in our governance then this protection must stop. Decisions made by government employees must be open to public scrutiny, similarly, the origins of government policy—laws, regulations etc.—must be traceable back to its source (those who initiated said policies).

Systems without accountability will always become corrupt.
Yes that's true. On the other hand, much of the helium we currently extract along with natural gas is currently being wasted and vented into the atmosphere. It could be captured but that would require some investment in additional equipment.
Do you remember numbers ? I'd guess somewhere in 0.5-1% THD range for simple single opamp servo ? I was kinda mildly interested into doing it for sensors altho just microprocessor blasting serial via optocoupler onto other side seems like easier solution...

Their application note (page 9) details circuits most audio people would just look at it and go "screw it, i will just buy audio transformer like rest of us"

https://www.vishay.com/docs/83708/appnote50.pdf

I don't doubt they achieved the claimed values but the circuit to do it had 4 precision opamps (bipolar one have 7) and a bunch of other components so I'm not surprised he didn't want to bother
You mean audiophool circles
From a few months ago, the same raid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267266
If you read TFA, you'd know that the headline on the link isn't the headline of the article itself, which has no question mark. Presumably the mark was added here to assuage blue-tribe people.
Can I ask what you're using Beyond Compare for, that you can't get from VScode etc?
"Something, something, RISC-V business"?
I wouldn't say it was "pretty quick". It took them two years IIRC. They introduced it with the Quest 2 as a requirement and only lifted it earlier this year.