skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if some cases can't be fixed by some epoxy..
I'm glad my joke landed!
The work here is just curation. The checkboxes were made by other people.
All true. Taxonomy is indeed hard. But, does it actually matter?

It seems what matters is not how files are stored/organized, but how one can find the files one is looking for. Taxonomy is mostly a search problem.

Yet, although one is usually capable of remembering specific or unique details about a file, it's still incredibly hard to search for a file or its contents effectively.

Dropbox, to pick just one example, ditched all its advanced search functionalities a couple of years ago and only allows to search for any keyword (not all of them), with forced stemming, and no filtering of the results.

I seem to remember there were startups a decade ago trying to address the search problem on the desktop but they all got acquired or folded; I don't understand why. The problem is real and seems quite solvable; yet it seems there's no actual market for it. It's a bit of a mystery.
No real-world application will sacrifice function for form. The web is an accessible platform, not a "beautiful" one.
Different countries have different networks of power.
I suggest you google 'networks of power', which is the academic term as far as I know.

English countries like UK and USA are shaped around 'clubs'.
You can only join one if you're appointed

Japan has a set of corporation leaders who exchange informations, who came from families.

And some countries like France are being weird.
There, your social status isn't decided that much by your family, but by which college alumni you belong to.

As an engineer, for example, you hit a glass ceiling if you don't come from a few specific schools that have a network.
Join Paris X to be in the board of a large company. Join The Mines to be a well paid engineer in these large companies. And graduate from the INSA to still be an engineer, but the proletarian kind in consulting firms, which is ironically not so bad to continue build a network.

You can't even really apply to phd either when you graduate, as you're recommended by your school researchers to other coworkers, as gifts of goodwill.

The most ridiculous is the standard to be a high ranking politicians like presidents, ministers, or CEOs.
In the 20 years before 2017, they used not only have studied at the same school, the ENA, but where mostly from the same prom : 1978-1980, the (in)famous Promotion Voltaire. News articles about them are all over, but in French, because the topic interested journalists at some point. They were giving each others formal orders of merit, and they are retiring and being replaced by the Senghor prom, from 2004.

So in various contexts, 'elite' is a club you can't join because of who you are at a specific moment in time, and not just skills. It makes decisions about you, and you can't influence them.

This reliance on networks is why I don't like current social media like LinkedIn or Twitter. It just emphasizes networks, instead of allowing everyone to join and publish. And I don't like 'federated' social media either, because they're the same. I feel like even mainstream media like radio or TV allow a better blend of news, made by journalists, who can invite whoever has something interesting to say.

So for me it's an open question ! I didn't like Twitter, and I don't know what I would prefer.

Maybe I would like one of these projects that aimed to build a platform for local citizens.

Let's check out what they do in Taiwan, the digital democracy.
Commentary: https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2022/11/01/1000
Interestingly enough the machines PICO-8 is inspired by can pull of way amazing things that are miles beyond what it offers.
(See demoscene.)
PICO-8 is on par with the old Tiger Electronics game.com "console" or even a bit worse, quite a lot inferior to NES.
Even then, with cleverness you can do a lot with it. Including proper raycasting. Picostein 3D. :) Or rather POOM.

Even with their quirky hardware choices and slow CPUs. The style was mostly due to speed wotg which the games were cranked out, plus lack of knowledge and skill of particular authors. Pooling knowledge leads to some amazing results.
I’ve been where you are. It’s a worrisome spot.

Cutting back is absolutely the right thing to do. You won’t regret it. Your mind will bounce back - the longer you’re sober, the better you’ll feel.

I’ve been mostly sober for 6 years, and 100% for 3. Things got rapidly better after 6 months of being mostly clean, and then improved again after going 100%.

I started to love my work again. Home life was happy again. Depression and guilt didn’t stalk me anymore. And my brain was working better than ever.

Don’t give up. The beginning is the hardest part. It’s worth it!
Plain old unix find with grep, locate or xapian help me navigate.
Remembering to run updatedb is the pain. I won't put it in cron
because grinding disks every night annoys the hell out of me.
Crazy. I have my laptop in "Suspend to Ram" all the time when I don't use it.

And I don't want it to be able to wake up from this or do anything unless I press a button.
> I don’t think people are smart enough generally.

This is the problem with the world today. We have decided that the average person is so dangerously stupid that we need to have governments protect us from 'average people'.
Phone companies should have banned SMS 2FA as an abusive use, or at least charged extra for senders. What it does is offloading KYC to mobile phone subscriber databases.
Paris, London and New York - the key points of comparison - aren’t exactly known for their spacious housing.

One other point that many of the Tokyo fans don’t acknowledge is how extraordinarily ugly the place is. Sure, it’s clean (more than you can say for New York) but clearly nobody in Tokyo cares about what their house looks like from the outside. And I’ve never seen more miserable public parks in a developed country.
Listening to their latest podcast right now. They definitely have a much more neutral tone than the others I've checked out.

Thanks.
False. Haiku has nightly builds since forever.
My understanding is that there is already court precedent that the government can’t do this (use private companies to do their censorship even if it’s not strictly guaranteed to happen).
> It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects.

I always wished they would offer a less affordable, substantially more powerful (sufficiently to handle the YouTube and similarly heavy websites without so much pain, also having more PCIe/USB3 lanes perhaps) model. I wouldn't even mind if it was overpriced i.e. extra premium billed to subsidize the budget version or other charitable projects. Unfortunately 3-rd party clones are not a perfect solution because they don't have the said community and are not perfectly compatible. Or is there already a clone capable of running the original Raspberry PI OS?
The ones with enough capital - may that be monetary, social, etc. - to influence the masses.
Did you never get to the forest where the Master Sword is? The entire area around it runs at about 10fps, on both the Switch and the Wii U.
Didn’t know that. Thanks
> assumption that the median members of society lack critical thinking skills.

That seems like a pretty valid position to hold.
RSV is overwhelming some hospitals:

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ydhvbs/how_are_my...

Although, the whole hospital volume thing is now wrapped up in pay shortages and rationing of healthcare, so do not really know how much the spread of virus is contributing and how much the lack of resources being put towards healthcare, and specifically pediatric healthcare is contributing.

> Seems like it would be prudent to keep infected individuals out of our public school systems for a few more years.

This is not possible unless you quarantine toddlers and young kids from each other for years, and I am not willing to pay the price of my kids’ development.

Not to mention that parents need to earn incomes to shelter and feed their kids.

Also, I have had 5 Covid vaccine injections, my kids have had 2, but there exists no RSV vaccine. And RSV is specifically bad for kids, causing a fever almost every time. Given the lack of voting power for those affected, I imagine there is not much political will to spend money on expediting R&D for an RSV vaccine. Just like how pediatric healthcare gets reimbursed at 60% to 75% of adult healthcare.
Would help if it explains which packages? NPM? Deb? Rpm?
Hydrogen is generally very hard to store.

Batteries have downsides but apart from them, they do work.

Hydrogen can either be stored cryogenically (which is problematic in a car), or compressed. In the latter case, hydrogen leaks out through the metal (because its atoms are so small) and worse still, causes embrittlement of the metal.

So while we know how to build a battery car today, which is safe and stable, it's much less the case for hydrogen. It's not like you can take eg LNG car tech and just fill it with hydrogen.
Telegram forced to crack down on paid posts because Apple wasn't getting a cut
That's because you're using the wrong measures. They have taken way more during first week than they have now.

Hitler's empire was far greater than just Germany at the beginning of 1945 and he was still sending V-2s to London and Antwerp at the end of March that year.
Don't modern battery charge control chips take care of this automatically?

I mean, many laptops spend 99% of their time on plugged in/docked, and that doesn't cause any battery problems.
It doesn't make a difference, even if you look at that particular crate itself. Every time you build version X of that crate, you will build the same Rust code. Cargo actually gets this part right. (Of course it doesn't mean building the same Rust code gives you the same binary every time - that's a separate problem)

Sure, _updating_ the crate might be a nightmare if the generation part is not stable - but that's unrelated to reproducibility.
Apologies; it turns out I was mistaken in believing the IEEE was working on a standard, it's actually the IETF. Abbreviations are hard :(

I believe this is the relevant draft: https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-mahy-mimi-identity-01.html

Edit: I should add that as far as I know, the working group hasn't done much as of yet. I heard about this on Matrix because some of the Matrix folks are trying to get (parts of) the federated Matrix protocol into the standard, or probably at least parts of it.
That’s not completely true; you would be anonymous towards everyone but the identity providers and any government or organization powerful enough to wield influence over the identity providers. Which completely defeats the most important reason people choose to remain anonymous.
UNICORN BI is a Business intelligent tool used for collecting, analyzing data, delivering actionable information that helps users to make informed business decisions in one place with the use of APIs (Application Programming Interface).
Not normal idiomatic Scheme, but I suppose some programs might have in-practice stack usage bounded not too high.

A Wasm target of the Chez/Racket compiler might be an easier way to get fast and proper evaluation in Web browsers.
My experience with working from home is that it removes a lot of the more stressful time wasting elements of an office job (the commutes, the need to look busy at all times, etc), but can create a feeling of emptiness and meaningfulness if the social aspects aren't taken care of elsewhere. Like, if you don't have much in the way of hobbies to fulfill the same social needs, it can become very easy to stay as a shut in 24/7. That may be okay to some people (especially those on the extreme introvert side of the introvert/extrovert spectrum), but can become a recipe for depression for those that aren't.

It also feels like it works better if your job gives you plenty of things to do everyday. Like, if I have 6-8 hours of tasks to take care of a day, then work from home makes me feel more productive than ever, since I don't have to stress about commuting and there's no context switching necessary for things like popping out to lunch or going to physical meetings. But if there's barely anything that day... well I'm kinda stuck. I can't really focus on my own projects, since there's a chance my actual work could come through at any moment. But because the work isn't there, I can't do anything productive for the company either.

So you end up in a situation where you have free time, but don't really have it, and you can't afford to focus on anything in case something more important pops up.
> I think the concept of federation being available to any software like Wordpress or Nextcloud is truly something we should treasure

I think federation will struggle because everyone will be allowed to participate regardless of the quality of their software. Nextcloud is a good example. They keep adding features and making releases, but can’t fix nasty sync bugs that have been around for a year [1,2].

What’s the use of a federated platform that’s unreliable and unusable?

1. https://syncloud.discourse.group/t/disaster-with-nexcloud-3-...

2. https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/4378
Show HN: I made an open-source code snippet manager
> will they be returning the cloak to the Maori people?

No, because it's not owned by the British Museum, but by the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
A little update:

This makes the noise even louder:

echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

This brings it back to the original, already too annoying, level:

echo powersave | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

So it seems somehow related to the CPUs.
I have a Yoga Flex 5 and an X1 Carbon that both exhibit this. The Yoga is particularly annoying because it also has some little crinkly noises from the left speaker that come with the whine and make me wonder if it has a spinning platter HDD sometimes, and the X1 is just inexcusable at that price point (but it is a company laptop, so I can't really return it).

The coil whine was (relatively) less of a nuisance than the X1's fans, though, which were ridiculously noisy until I set the thing to 80% CPU speed.

So yes, Lenovo, if you're reading this, your customers have to kneecap your hardware to use it. Way to go proving value here.
Governments that use corporations as their agents are strongly disincentivized from properly regulating and breaking up these same corporations.

Ending lobbying, closing the revolving door, and setting up strong boundaries between governments and corporations will be the key issue of the 21st century, as corporations continue to grow in power.
With the current power of Apple ecosystem, I still wonder how long will 30% fee exist.

It is monopoly, isn't it?
> > virtue signaling

> I despise this term. You don't know people's motivations. These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote.

Accusations of virtue signalling get misused a lot, especially by people opposed to those important issues. But it's absolutely a real thing. I think the most notable form of virtue signalling is public prayer on TV by politicians. They want to display their piety in public for all to see. They're not raising any kind of awareness by doing so, they're just fishing for approval from the right crowd. (And of course this is exactly the kind of behaviour that Jesus condemned.)
> coordination mechanism

And isn't that basically what social network is? I mean, including real-life social network of just people knowing one another and talking.
My fav is Who Wants to Kill Jessie? Not much sci-fi, more comics.

In fact all Lipský and Vorlíček films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Czech_science_fiction... and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Polish_science_fictio...
I don't think it was particularly related to the aluminium bodies, as much as general quality. I remember it being a thing on iBooks and on contemporary Powerbooks, but at some point early in the Intel era it seems to have gone away and not returned.
Actually it is not true, you can migrate from instances. You lost all messages but the followers are informed of the change:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on...
Correct, it was a tax exempt certificate. I wasn't trying to say they were related, but I can see how that would have been implied from the text. Thanks for the clarification!
So you're in such bubble. Maybe BB was primary sold for NA businessman.
In support of this, I want to mention that there are known and measurable biomarkers that connect reported symptoms to undeniable physical symptoms.

Low cortisol is very common. That’s just one example. With low cortisol it’s hard to feel good or function 100%.

One paper of many that show this kind of relationship (a preprint): “Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling” — https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.09.22278592

It’s also important to note that there was a study that seemed to show that Long COVID was just anxiety or in people’s imagination. Because people who said they had Long COVID didn’t have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The thing is that not everybody seroconverts. Not everybody actually produces antibodies after infection; We simply can’t exclude Long COVID diagnoses based on looking at those particular antibodies. So that study can’t show what it has been said to show. (I can provide sources for this but am out of time. It’s on my honor.)
IMO the main limitation preventing GDP from being a much better indicator of national success is due to its inability to show how growth - or more importantly - wealth is distributed. Obviously, wealth distribution is critical part of making progress and comfort more distributed and this is what in fact makes nations more successful than others in long term.
Okutama, Tokyo is part of "Tokyo Metropolis". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okutama,_Tokyo . The furthest I've been is Hachioji, which was about 1 hour by train from 23-ku. Hachioji is roughly half as far as Okutama. In New York City terms, getting to Hicksville, NY takes about 1 hour by train. For Bay Area folks, both Dublin / Pleasanton and Bay Point / Pittsburg ... or even Antioch are about an hour away by BART.
Which generation of the X1 Carbon?
We need to accept that tech companies that control the modern means of communications and commerce are defacto governments. And treat them as such.

Communication on these platforms is public, protected speech just as it was on your street corner. And commerce on these platforms should be protected in the same way as commerce on the street. Government is government and needs to be restrained in all of its forms or it will become a force of authoritarianism that either works on it's own or within the machinations of current government.

The EU is going the right direction with the Digital Markets Act. This act implicitly suggests that these gatekeepers have a special status though it does not outright call them what they are - governments. Speech protection should also be there as it is in all functional, modern governments. As should transparent legal process. Governments should have representation from their constituency.

Big tech is government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
being a night shift security guard might work
I mean, it's a reasonable question to ask? Some people find it irritating and would prefer to use computers which don't do it. I wouldn't personally buy a laptop which did it.
>I don't think so. AFAICT, people do hate parenthesis, no matter how long they use Lips/Scheme. They just simply get used to the clutter.

People see trees and not parens. People who complain about parens are still stuck in the "code is text" mind set rather than the "code is a tree" mind set.

>Also, when writing code, you can spam ")" to close functions/expressions. It takes only few brain cycles if the editor highlights matching parenthesis. This makes it easier to move code around. Copy-paste-))))))...

We've had editors since the 1970s that can take you to where a matching paren is closed. You then copy/paste the whole function without needing to add or remover parens.
> Digg has entered the chat.

Where the “vocal minority” turned out to be everyone. Lol.
Interesting - a less sour response from 2011 HN.
You can also see the negative comment that prompted the italicised update in the post - the modern counterpart of which now gets to the top.
That’s called an App Store, not the web.
As a counterpoint, Coil Whine can happen to any components...

I mainly have heard it happening to desktop GPUs, both nvidia and amd.

I have a Thinkpad T490s. No coil whine!

>Are any Lenovo models safe from Coil Whine?

Yes :)
Epoxy?

I have read that opening the laptop and putting superglue on the right parts might reduce the noise.
Photos suggest rhino horns have shrunk over past century, likely due to hunting
> putting the laptop under load makes the coil whine go away

Probably be sub-harmonic oscillation. Under light loads the control loop can 'hunt' at a much lower frequency then the loop frequency. Combine that with an unlucky inductor and you get a high pitched whine.

It's an annoying problem because in susceptible designs it'll show up in a small percentage of some but not all production lots.

Take your laptop back.
What immediately scares me is every post on the website by the link having a title. To me inventing a good title arguably almost seems the hardest part of writing at all. A microblog should let you dump a thought quickly without requiring you to name it first.

Also, individual post URL is hidden to deep. You apparently have to open the post, scroll down, click "share", click "copy link", and even that element is not a real link. As soon as I see a post/preview/listing I want to be able to middle-click it to open it in a background tab or Ctrl+click it to copy/whatever.
If it is truly a "coil whine" and not something else (case resonance, fan bearing whine, high pitched noise from the speakers, etc.), then you can't fix it.

The noise is caused by one of the many inductors in the various power supplies (DC-DC converters) used in the machine mechanically vibrating at an audible frequency due to magnetostriction. This happens because of the power converter running at too low frequency - or hitting some kind of mechanical resonance mode that amplifies the otherwise inaudible noise. BTW, even ceramic capacitors can whine due to piezoelectric effect.

In a desktop machine you could replace the offending part (GPU, power supply, motherboard, etc.) for a different model but in a laptop you don't have choice as everything is soldered into the motherboard.

Even desoldering the offending inductor and replacing it usually won't solve the problem because it is due to the circuit design/properties themselves and not the inductor itself. So a new one will have the same issue - the whining inductor isn't defective!

I wouldn't recommend adding any sort of sound dampening because in a laptop this is very likely to compromise the already poor cooling. You will likely only make the otherwise benign (albeit annoying if you can hear it) problem into a very expensive to fix failure due to something overheating.

If you have a laptop with this issue and the noise bothers you, then replacing the laptop is your only realistic option, really. Or wait until you get older and will naturally lose the ability to hear higher frequencies (past 40 years of age you will be hard pressed to hear anything above 15kHz anymore ...).

Either way, before attempting any sort of remediation, do make sure the noise is actually a "coil whine" and not e.g. the speakers emitting it because of some unused mixer input that is set to high gain and is picking up and amplifying internal machine noise.

And yeah, good luck with trying to return a machine for this reason - the computer is not defective, this is a normal behavior (in the sense it works as designed). So it is unlikely the seller will recognize it as a warranty issue of any sort.
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