skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, I was pointing out the commit message itself rather than the contents of the commit, it's indeed full of magic numbers. It's reverse engineered, there are no docs from Qualcomm.

This is commit is plumbing work fixing GPIO support, which indirectly makes the keyboard work. I don't have any boot logs for the machine, but as I understand they have standard Microsoft-compatible HID keyboards/touchpads that work with OpenBSD's existing drivers.

https://man.openbsd.org/qcgpio

https://man.openbsd.org/qciic
As a default assumption, this may be a bit conspiratorial. Inserting something like this into a git repo is relatively easy to track, and a given "contributor" could not do many such things without being caught. Not saying we should ignore the possibility, though...

But there are plenty of ways for such agencies to gain similar access, including any kind of closed code in BIOSes, drivers, firmware etc. Or by taking control of select infra, and injecting MITM features there (that would remain stealthy, and only activate for very select targets.)
> This wasn't about if he started those companies, it's about the why. And the why is: There's tons of money to be made.

Yes, the question is indeed why: so why did he just so happen to invest in the only ventures where humanity is facing existential risk, when there are so many other ventures that could also have yielded great returns with less risk? Are you suggesting it's merely coincidence? Or is it simply more plausible that Musk recognized the problems that needed solving and found a way to make lots of money from them?
Why Scientists Are Sending Radio Signals to the Moon and Jupiter
I first learned what 'no doc' loans where in 2004. I worked inside a mortgage company for a while, and was a bit shocked by some of the numbers I saw. BUT... I don't think a housing bubble/crash was a foregone conclusion in 2003/2004, but warning signs were there and got louder over time.
You get what you give. I don't think I need to send emails to the one who has no problem calling others out in public.

It's pretty simple, I requested that concerns about conflict of interest are taken offline. But, here you are, making snide remarks in public at another person. Zero for two.

For what it's worth, I spoke up on this because I would be quite annoyed if someone did not give me the courtesy of correcting a mistake in private before broadcasting publicly about it. It doesn't matter if it comes from a stranger or a trusted friend. I can tell you aren't picking this up, but I'm happy to explain it ad nauseum so you can be a better individual to your peers.

>It's a courteous social more of the HN community

From what I can tell, the "norm" is to gang up on new folks without thinking critically about it. It's reddit with less complexity and more ego.

You get what you give.

> why not practice what you preach

From your profile: "I subscribe to the ideology of live and let live."

...
90 Hours A Week And Loving It!
Advertisers that care what content their ads can be shown around are pretty much all of them. Image management isn’t incidental to advertising, it is the whole point.
The reality is that Twitter makes money through ads and no other social media platform has found another way to monetize their platform using a different strategy.

As long as Twitter makes its money through ads, it has to be a place where companies feel comfortable placing ads. If Elon wants to ramp down its moderation and expose more risky content, they should expect some companies to pull out.

Just a few days ago Elon shared a wild and cartoonishly ridiculous conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi. Advertisers don’t want their brands next to and associated with that sort of content. That’s advertising 101.

This is the free market at play, it's only business.
Complete darkness? O no, not the dark ages before 2006, when we had walk uphill to school and uphill to go back home. Or I could try to more direct and say: that's utter crap.

> Twitter is/was the only remaining news medium

And twitter is an important reason that other, more reliable and informative news outlets went under.
News site could fetch the tweet markup using the API at publication time, save it locally, and publish a static version along with the article.
Yeah, I've gone years at a time with no soda, although in my teens I drank so much I'll likely never be able to kick it completely. When I go years without, it does seem super-super-sweet. But also very familiar, and tastes "normal" by the time I finish a single can.
Atlassian crashes more than 20% due to weak earnings reports
Tech’s been that way primarily due to a shortage of labor.

Once layoffs begin in earnest across tech, there will be no more shortage.
"Musk" and "failed to deliver" in one sentence without negative qualifier?

Regardless of what he claimed in those public brainstorming sessions, and what opinions he communicates, business-wise the man has accomplished more than probably any human in history. Without him internet payments would have come later, and we probably wouldn't really have electric cars, vertically landing rockets and saffordable global satellite internet. The nerve to take on any of these fields and build innovative companies on that level boggles the mind.

I mean I might be missing someone. We have many whose life's work was to build one innovative major business. Some built a conglomerates, but usually on existing technologies.

I think people are writing him off a little early with regards to Twitter. Turning it around and making it work according to his will and possibly leveraging it for something even bigger isn't too unlikely.
The former owners of Twitter got 44 billion. Why don't they care about their ex-employees? It's a bit cheap to blame Musk (only).
I wasn't being that pedantic.

Your list didn't include federated systems like Mastadon or IRC. It didn't include open source systems like Zulip that you can host yourself.

I don't use one of the big email providers, so I do get bounces when an organization thinks my ISP is untrusted. But that's not "can't even send e-mails if private companies don't like your 'sender reputation'" only "can't send e-mails to some people". And those people decided to use that system in part because they want the email provider to filter out some of their email.

We are not in a world where "all Radio and TV channels, newspapers and billboards are owned by private corporations." Member-supported radio and TV, and college radio, are still things, as is community/public-access cable.

Further, how do you want to change it? Do you want a government station which is required to be open access so anyone can broadcast anything?

Universities and similar venues for public speaking have always had the right to choose who they invite to speak. This is what freedom of association means.

Also, they are not a "law unto themselves". There are limits on the types of speech they can prohibit - a public university is restricted by civil rights laws, as is a private/non-publicly funded school which allows public rental of a space.

How do you want to change it? Do you want them colleges to be forced to accept any speaker on any topic, whatsoever?

We see events like the Gathering of the Juggalos, with 20,000 people, and wonder what you mean by 'only the absolute richest people could hold an event of any scale on land they own themselves.'

And I already commented on your "As it's private land" in my "fantasy libertarian future where everything has been privatized" - as something we aren't close to doing.

Yes, I totally agree that privatization of public spaces is something I don't like, though I'll point out the oddity of how the privately-owned public space at Zuccotti Park was a better site for the Occupy Wall Street protest than a public park, because the latter had curfews.
The question I would ask - is that foundation just a tax haven for the family profits, or is it actually doing positive things (could also be both)? Same with Patagonia listed in a child comment - a lot of positive press came from the recent moves, but they were also incredibly self-serving for the family from a monetary point of view.
Yep. I had a stand-up row with Steve in the elevator in IL1. We stepped out to continue it, so others could use the elevator.

At no time did I think there'd be any retribution or problems because of this. We both had strong (and in this case, contrary) opinions, and Steve respected you a lot more if you voiced those opinions rather than just accept whatever he told you. He was also perfectly happy to over-rule you if you didn't persuade him, but he didn't want Yes-(wo)men around him.

I don't get that vibe from Musk. It's like he read some stories about how a maverick CEO can be an asshole and get away with it in some trashy red-top newspaper, and modeled his entire character around that.
Consider: the number of available volunteers to count votes scales directly with the number of voters in a given electorate.
The trouble is that while it's a logical fallacy, it's not so clearly a moral fallacy.
> Tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they'll be productive".

Maybe that was what the field was letting visible, but in reality that has never been the case. There is everyday news about unicorns where employees complain that the culture is toxic, and that the CEO is impossible to work with. Only need to read Glassdoor pages.
Your response reads the same as "the solution to global warming is stopping fossil fuel use". Sure, you aren't technically wrong, but there are billion dollar corporations out there whose sole existence relies on your "solution" not catching on.
Just seems like an egotistical nutcase to me. Born into wealth and thought he hit a home run, even though he was already halfway past 3rd base with no chance of not being able to score from day 1.

Keep in mind he didn't start Tesla, he bought it. His whole "pedo guy" comment about rescue divers really irked me too. While I dislike his political stances, it doesn't cloud my judgement as much as it does for others....The only real thing that bothers me is how much he makes from government subsidies yet people claim he's some sort of business savant. He's not. I don't like anyone with a cult of personality around them.
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Run a low power spark gap transmitter nearby to prevent snooping lol
Unregulated social media platforms are inversely related to advertising revenue. 4Chan struggles to sell ad space while Facebook and YouTube generate a shit ton of ad revenue.
Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
Yep.. I'd have used an esp8266 for this, and kept the rpi in the box, for when I "really need it".

And it truly is a sad time for rpi-based projects... it really plugs a gap between cheap microcontrollers and power-hungry servers/PCs,...
Salted butter doesn't even need to be refrigerated if you're eating it regularly and keep it covered.
I don't think it will be, as the intention is for this to be used across Mac, phone and tablet, synced via iCloud.
Those methods are good and already in use, and this is one more additional energy storage method for places where those are expensive or impractical. This method also has the additional benefit of directly providing heat, so if you need heat more than you need power then this seems like a great choice.
I think this is a misunderstanding. I've said secure boot is much more difficult in case kernel and initrd are separate.

In case of a UKI it's very simple of course. Just sign the boot image.

That's why I love the UKI. :-)
Or, some of us are getting older and remember things a younger crowd never experienced.
Whatever happened to “information wants to be free”? There is a post on the front page right now about how it’s totally okay to post copyrighted books online.
Of course there is a chance the pessimists are correct. After all, that is largely the consensus view.
I think this comment above clarifies what actually happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467505
Add NRGV ("Energy Vault", once well over $2B, now $0.4B and still badly overvalued) to the Theranos pile. And all but one of the fusion startups. (Maybe them too.)

Kyoto Fusioneering has realized that there is lots of money to be made selling parts for phony demos to fusion startups.

BTW there will not be any Mars colony in this century. Or Tesla office-robot.
This is very true!

Another benefit to interactivity is when exploring/using bad code. In academia, you'll often be importing the worst and least-well-documented code you've ever seen.

Being able to interactively experiment with someones 500-line 0-documentation function is often a better path to understanding than directly reading the code.
It's probably not even that good a heat storage system. And that's for two reasons.

1. Sand has a lower heat capacity than water. Water is much cheaper than sand. Yes, you can't heat water to 600C, but that's not a problem if you're just wanting to heat houses with it. The only reason I can see that they want to use sand is so that they can deliver higher temperatures, which are necessary for some fairly rare demands, or so they can generate electricity, which their system is going to suck at anyway.

2. There are more efficient ways to get hold of heat. They're using electricity to heat it, using a resistive element. A heat pump (for example) can give you 3-5 times as much heat as the electricity you put in, so why not just heat the houses directly with much less electricity used? They are using solar electricity to heat the sand, but PV panels are typically only 21% efficient, and they're expensive. A concentrating solar water heater is very cheap and simple, and will give you your heat with a much greater efficiency.
This is a great article. Thoughtful and substantive.

Nothing in this article has anything to do with why all the platforms banned Alex Jones.

Which is the part no one seems to be addressing.

Once we accepted banning Alex Jones, which was relatively easy to accept because he is so hated, we opened the door to deplatforming as something distinct from moderation.

But the distinction isn’t made, and it all gets conflated instead.

That is how the platforms lost all of our trust. This must be directly addressed.
Haven't been new? It is absolutely true. Linux has a great community compared to Windows. I think Windows users prefer ignorance over reality.
Ask HN: What's stopping AI from optimizing electronic hardware?
I understand that we use generative ai on structures. When can we use it on hardware? What are the obstructions preventing that from happening?
That's not obviously unreasonable to me. "Half" is a suspiciously round number, but coming out of an era of very easy money, it'd surprise me if any large company doesn't have some double digit percentage of infra spending that's not really necessary.
It's worrying how little he understands about advertising if he sees this as a problem with activist groups.

If you overly simplify politics to be a spectrum from left to right, most people (on left or right) can live with the 70% of views around the middle ground but are scared and repulsed by the 15% at the far ends. Advertisers don't want to be associated with it and don't want to risk being on a platform where the policy is unknown and could change depending on how Musk is feeling.
Yeah bizarre and i suspect from the young bratty stage, pre attitude adjustment from being fired. Way before my time though
Or withholding Woz’s bonus from the Atari job.
> "freedom of speech" (I know that the first amendment only applies to government censorship, but Musk likes to pretend not to)

Freedom of speech is not the first amendment and vice versa. Freedom of speech is an ideal that applies to all people and all spaces, public and private, while the First Amendment only applies in America and to the government.

People think they sound smart when they say freedom of speech only applies to government censorship, but they actually sound ignorant of the concept's millennia-long history pre-dating the discovery of America entirely.
I've been at Apple for 20 years now, and I've received stock every single year. A fair amount of it, actually.

If you don't accept that people new to something will make mistakes, then you're not going to get very far. Steve changed as much as Apple did over the years, and mostly for the better.
Yes. To solve global warming, we have to greatly reduce our reliance on cars, and come up with other solutions in as many places as possible - replacing all ICE cars with EVs will not be anywhere near enough.
What happened ?

Why about ex presidents obama and clinton ?
We don't actually know the situation. If he wants people to work 84 hour work weeks regularly - yeah that's a problem. I looked at it charitably. Twitter is in such bad shape the only choice is to burn out engineers in order to fix it. This points to terrible product management, which points to terrible engineering leadership, which points to a terrible C-suite. It sucks, but once you pass the point of no return you can't hire more people (they take months to ramp up), and you're gutting the low performers (they will slow you down), so unfortunately the work has to be foisted onto the rest. It's not a fun time, it will cause more people to quit, but it's also the only solution to fix a trainwreck if you notice the speeding freight train too late.
I have a huge problem with people looking at the world through the lens of "privilege". Seems like "privilege" is what they're looking for all the time.

Also, you watered down the term "privilege" to such an extent that it has lost any practical meaning. I came to the US as it is the land of opportunity, and still believe that is the case. In my view, anyone born here, including black and brown people, has sort of won the lottery already. But they're so concerned with "fairness" that they miss taking advantage of the opportunities right in front of them.
My statement is clear with no implications at all.
Lisp and vim goes quite well. And you can even use Common Lisp in iOS.
Just spoke to a company with a booth at a conference a few days ago.

"We've got 1000 job openings right now! What are you looking for?"

Yet... I don't actually think even if they found 1000 perfect fits tomorrow they'd all be hired.
It feels as though the online community is about to circle back in a cyclical way, to semi-private forum-like communities. Atleast that's my wishful thinking. I remember being involved in a local bowmaking (archery) forum almost a decade back. The quality of posts there was something I remember fondly to this day.
>Tech is a bastion of one thing in my opinion. It's a place where employees hold disproportionate power over the company. It's the one place where there is such a labor shortage, and enough smart people, that the companies will do what the employee wants in order to keep them happy.

On the other hand employees hold the power to also enable the company. I'm not accusing you of personally holding the "the company must do what I want" mindset, but at least for me what motivates is the idea of solving problems and helping people rather than lording some kind of power of them. IT has always felt powerful to me (and I'll be honest made me feel powerful in some small way) because it let me automate away things or make them measurably better. Hopefully I'm not alone in that.
I mean as far as not delivering musk is in the bottom 0.1% of humans. His companies accomplishments are immense and he’s
Built multiple billion dollar companies. I think most take issue with his ego/politics/demeanor
Now if someone can build something to track ghost trains. I’m looking at you CTA!
That to me sounds like moving the problem from a privileged binary to a privileged daemon and putting a network stack in the middle. I don’t see how it solves anything. Any way you can secure sshd you can probably apply to the suid binary as well.
>Nix is 99.77% reproducible, so come on. It’s not marketing, nix just properly solves the problem for the first time ever.

You haven't read r13y properly.

>1733 out of 1737 (99.77%) paths in the nixos.iso_minimal.x86_64-linux installation image are reproducible!

600 packages becomes 1737 paths which are the inputs used to generate the image. Several of the compared paths are just static files which doesn't change, so the "path to package" comparison doesn't work either.

EDIT:
An example set of stuff it attempts to compare can be found here:

https://paste.xinu.at/TmVM0y5FBDWX/

Taken from the build here: https://buildkite.com/grahamc/r13y-dot-com/builds/1149#01813...
They have not solved the problem.
> I imagine the last man is dying 500 years from now and thinking

Women inherit the earth.
Interesting article but it completely ignores what was going on outside of the USA. the title should have had "in the USA" added to it
I agree, I'm assuming their engineering teams are the biggest in size like my company which is of a very comparable size with legal, hr, ops and business counterparts.

But coming to Twitter engineering teams, what are they doing actually? their primary technical product is tweet timelines and trends, their mobile apps are kind of okay, the user experience hasn't changed much except getting slower and slower. If all they do is rewrites, they are simply wasting the talent.

There could be SRE, Security, Datacenter admins running 24x7 but other than that, I see no useful idea out of them in a long long while. See instagram, snapchat and others for example, they've explored the unknown and brought us some quite good and plenty bad social media. Twitter at least should've been masters in content moderation by now, but they're far from it.

For an outsider they seem to have lost their way and are being a couch potato munching on the junk food.
The scroll bar is great. It allows you to exactly where you want to go in a way you no other option permits.

To scroll through a document the size of this thread, I need to paw at the scroll wheel 10 times. It's at the same time slow and imprecise. With the scroll bar, it's a single gesture, it's quick and immediate with pixel precision.

Neither paging, search or expanding/collapsing elements permit this level of control. They're all much slower, and to make matters worse, often implementation defined.

Scroll bars always work the same in every window and every application. Overshooting the mark is a non-issue because scrolling is so fast correction is trivial and immediate.

The alternatives also have a big problem with focus-ambiguity. If I page-down in the text box I'm typing this into, it will page the text input, and not the document. Using the scroll bar to adjust the view, there is no such ambiguity, since the mouse cursor uniquely identifies which element I want to scroll.
Agree, I like vlime quite a lot
Voter id voter id voter id, that’s it.

It is ridiculous that we are still debating on that , which shows how messed up we are now.
How does it compare with intel's quick sync video in terms of performance and supported codecs?
This is already widely done in Nordic countries and well understood. I went to a geothermal plant about 25km outside Reykjavik. It also supplies much of the communal hot water for the city. Between the plant and the city, in the depths of winter, it loses 1deg C.
Creating and shipping a UKI means that people can just write it to a USB drive that has a vfat partition marked as an ESP. As long as the filename is BOOTX64.EFI, modern x86_64 hardware will automatically find and boot that if no other working EFI entries can be found. Since the kernel commandline is embedded in the UKI, there's no manual/error prone setup to be able to boot the file with any required/extra arguments.

https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/wiki/Portable-ZFSBoot...
Good thing we have people developing technology towards terraforming, then.
Can't wait for the world to admit that based on stock prices and corresponding average TC, companies like Oracle have more of a justification for being in the "FAANG" than Facebook, at least right at this moment...
OK, I think I can see that. "Malice" is too strong; it implies too much intent and/or too much long-term. Hostility? Bile? Venom?