skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy systems
It wasn't LEGO's decision. Retailers required toys self-identify as "boy" or "girl" toys.
Sure, but $20’s? $100’s? Strippers and blow?

We need the answers for the documentaries!
Yes. This is a common theme with yachts.
You can use Calibre to convert your ebooks to MOBI/AZW3, which Kindle accepts, and if you put your Kindle in airplane mode (so it stops getting OTA updates) and wait log enough it'll probably get a jailbreak at some point. At which point you can install KOReader for superior PDF/DjVu reading experience. Last jailbreak covers Kindle software <= 5.14.2; so Kindle Voyage and earlier all should be supported. (See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346037 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220553)
> It's long term utterly and unfathomably destructive.

That has never happened.

> Your insistence that hoarding money and spending egotistically are mutually exclusive is kinda weird

How do I spend it and yet stuff it in a mattress? That's a neat trick.
Hence my comment about needing a backup strategy.

If I go to a library to read a trade paperback from 1995, it's going to have been re-bound. And that's if the paper has survived. Trade-bound paperback books - which are usually price equivalent to ebooks - require intervention to remain usable for more than a few years.

As for my own collection, I have no books from 1995 left. They've mostly fallen apart or been replaced with ebooks (which are still in great condition).
I was trying to figure out how to run the mythtv commercial flagging code w/o running an entire mythtv-backend. It doesn't look particularly straight-forward, if I recall correctly, because mythtv wants to store the cutlist in a database table.
Somehow, the one-time cost of buying a portable unit + materials for an antenna is less prohibitive than paying for something with recurring costs :)
> because it keeps SAR as inexpensive as possible

"Hurry, but please hold the helicopter, I won't make enough money for the rest of my life to pay for it, whether I survive or not."
>Question: Who?

>Answer: John

What beauty
Well, I think libraries getting shafted is humanity at large getting shafted. We've gone so far into monetization and privatization that academic knowledge is now gate kept, bartered and sold - I know that a century ago there would be other gate keeping issues around gender and skin color but while we've made good progress on those fronts we've also allowed both research and literature to become much more commoditized and that is bad for society as a whole.
What do you think animals use memory for? Mapping terrain & connecting it with life preserving data.
That's why best memorising technics are sequences and memory palace.
Walking you add spacing splitting materiał binding it with other locatin and when you repeat the same walk path
repeat learnt material in sequence memorising it stronger by retrieving/recall.
Also while walking you use slow thinking system and balanced regular breathing improving cognition. Plato was walking, guy who wrote thinking fast and slow too while working with collaborator. this should help:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5780548/
>Not really. The paper's acidic, which means that the paper degrades to the point of not being usable without a huge amount of intervention. I have trade paperbacks which are under 20 years old whose paper are downright brittle.

I thought modern books were made with acid-free paper? I know this is a huge problem for books made in, for instance, the 1970s. Is it only the nicer books that are made with acid-free paper?
Digital books under DRM fit what you're saying, but not all digital books are under DRM.
That happened before too, and has been (at lower frequency) for all of recorded history, near as we can tell. As noted, not an outright catastrophe right now.

The discussion is about avoiding it becoming one, and relative impacts. Humanity isn’t going to be dead tomorrow because of this, but may be in more pain in a decade or two, and longer term even more so.
Hundred people waiting for a 5-10MB file to become "available".

You'll eventually get it, and you might even like it so much that you purchase the physical copy, but that purchase won't happen for months because of some artificial constraint like this.
My intent was not to identify a viable channel for spamming the fediverse, but more to point out that permitting messages from random new nodes happens in at least one standard interaction on an activitypub server - an ‘existence proof’ of a sort for a message channel that doesn’t get solved by follow-based whitelisting.
As a much younger person I used to dream of a day I would be able to hold a whole library in the palm of my hand. That dream was technically realized a long time ago ( a lot of useful books and papers are in epub and pdf formats ). But now that I am older and recognize certain dangers coming from DRM corners that is already all too present in gaming, my dream changing to something akin of my own personal physical library. I am not there yet. I need to be able to justify its own substantial room, but.. the more I think about it, the more I think about it is a worthwhile goal. It actually may be a good thing for the little one as well ( come to think of it, my parents' shelves were creaking under all those books; maybe there is something about recreating the imprint of your parents after all ).

I absolutely agree that for immediate research nothing beats electronic version short of a personal librarian.
Artemis I: Times and steps to liftoff and after launch
A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan
The newer kindle stuff is crack able too just a little bit more painful
/r/Superstonk - Read through the sources on the sidebar. If you disagree with OP, keep reading.
Seems kind of irresponsible to release something like this that gives so many wrong answers. Some of the HN crowd's good at catching it but I'm concerned for the confidently incorrect that populate the world.
IPFS, torrents
Yeah, Euro English is a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
but doing bureaucracy in it on the local level isn't easy, mainly because legalese is often untranslatable
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Very affordable at a price of 16 milliNEOMs!
Actual paper @ https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~barisk/public/pcspoof.pdf about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTEthernet

Deliberate link-layer electrical misbehavior. Provides only a short window of disruption - far less than cable integrity or other physical attacks would provide, which require similar access.

Superior protection against this class of attack would be: (1) Redundant physical routes between critical systems with independent routers/middleware infrastructure. This is literally the intended use case for IP. However, it does not match the real time expectations people are now heaping on local IP networks in these faux-real-time segments. (2) TTE-based software systems encompassing untimely multi-frame synchronization loss as a standard class of edge-case to consider.

The root cause of the problem could be said to be novel expectations for special case performance being heaped upon infrastructure designed for a more general and certainly differing use case. In aggregate it performed very well regardless. Interesting that we are today building spacecraft based on 50 year old link-layer technology.
> If I ask you something nicely

Asking nicely is when you submit a PR as well IMHO.
There are still countries where the Apple TV app hasn't even been released. Summing up the Wikipedia numbers, about 100 countries have access to this app. Even in Europe, Apple TV+ isn't available everywhere (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411). In countries like Albania they don't even seem to make iTunes Movies available.

According to this community post (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253966277) that implies that DRM'd content is not available in those countries, and that you'll need to download your movies and for them to work depending on the country you're visiting.

If you're coming over for a temporary visit, setting up a VPN on your home network may be a good idea. Many American services are not available in other countries, even if you're a paying customer.
> Libraries are getting shafted - humanity at large is not.

I'm picturing someone in the crowd saying this while the Library of Alexandria burns.
>Question: Will artificial intelligence become sentient in the future?

>Answer: To explain, the question is not whether AI will become sentient, but whether it will be sentient.

>The question is not whether AI will become sentient, but whether it will be sentient.

Philosophy departments may be the first victims of this technology... (or not!)
Historically, yes. Today? No. The internet has, in many ways, supplanted it. And where Libraries are hobbled by following the laws, the internet community has found ways around this particular damage.

And that's cool.

Now then, should Libraries be getting shafted like this? Fuck no. Can any actions I take - short of running for office and making my way up to the federal government in charge of interstate commerce - effect that? Also, sadly, no. I will continue to support librarians seeking change while facing reality.
They’re cheap though. I’ve accumulated quite a collection via kindle daily 0.99 sales. Takes a Bit of patience but they do have quality in there occasionally
Companies sell shares in order to raise cash. At some point Google had to sell shares in order to receive liquidity from the public markets. The people who bought those shares are investors in Google. Buying a share from another investor still represents the same equity ownership from which the original share was purchased.
I think certain types of teams are well suited for this when your customers are technical staff members.

"Operations" is kind of a loaded title because it could be 10 different things but I'm guessing in your context it's at least related to tech because the VP of engineering was put in charge.

If your job is to make the lives of your engineers easier by setting up infra and workflows to let them ship things faster and safer then you're kind of the perfect person to figure out what to work on because you're at ground zero experiencing everything first hand. Every bottleneck and problem you encounter is prime pickings for something to work on. Then you as a team (or as a solo person in this role) can figure out what to take on next.

This is the type of role I'm in now as a 1 person team with mostly free reign to pick what to work on and it's great. All of the devs basically treat me as a consultant, then I help identify ways to improve things and implement those solutions. I mostly focus on infra and deployment related topics. I regularly bounce ideas off the person I report to and we figure out long term goals together (a very positive experience), but day to day or week to week I self regulate my tasks to move towards the high level goals.
Your god emperor literally pulled the plug on 2fa because he didn't know what he was doing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/ywa5f2/musk_shut_...
The article isn't clear, but in the conclusion, the author is asking for libraries to have the legal right to remove ebook DRM, and to make copies of ebooks in the course of routine maintenance.

IMO, the article's title should say, "DRMed ebooks wear out faster than physical books."

And that's clearly correct: digital data that you don't make copies of is quite physically fragile, and even if the physical media survives, it may be difficult or impossible to read it. (Reading data off an old IDE hard drive or Jazz drive, for example.)
I billed by the quarter hour and came to consider those as units of attention.
Nice documentary.

FYI, it is pronounced "kay-dee" (kde) and cute (Qt).
coming from SVN, the biggest thing about is it's distributed nature making everything local and fast. yeah there are a lot of other concepts along with that too, but just being able to work on my laptop,
commiting and making branches to my heart's content, without talking to a server until I'm ready for that step was the killer feature for me.

SVN branches were this doofy copy procedure that made sense once you drank the Kool aid, but they were so unwieldy compared to git
I'm sure Meta will rename their project to accommodate the choo-choo train
Sure. Nicer - more expensive - books. Not those whose costs on par with ebooks typically.
Distrusting a whole technology simply because you happened to hear about it first from Elon Musk is pretty silly IMO. Anyway, there's nothing impossible about it. AST Spacemobile has already demonstrated a satellite to ground link with regular cell phone hardware on one end (the space end, since it's easier to launch a phone than a giant phased array antenna, but they also did just launch a giant phased array and will demonstrate that in the next few weeks). The technology works. And T-Mobile obviously believes that too. You don't have to take Elon Musk's word for it.

Apple isn't introducing unnecessary limitations. They launched the best thing that's possible today. But what I'm saying is that it's very likely that in just a few years it will be essentially obsolete.
I recently observed med students using iPads for study and coursework. The iPads seemed like a nice step beyond traditional textbooks and notebooks because of the imaging and 3D visualization capabilities for anatomy and physiology, and the seamless way students could manipulate and annotate images, diagrams, and graphs.

Lecture and lab notes also seemed nicely integrated.
High-level synthesis for packet processing pipelines
The website linked in this very post doesn’t mean “hate speech according to local laws”. It just means toxicity, and yes, transphobia like “you’ll never be a woman” is clearly it. I obviously don’t mean accidental misgendering or the like.
They can work again... like everybody
I logged my time in quarter-hour increments and came to consider those as units of attention.
I'd love to hear more about using scientific language models profesionally. Is this for data curation and annotation?
> I think libraries getting shafted is humanity at large getting shafted.

I agree, mostly. But humanity is, thankfully, routing around that damage while the librarians and politicians fight that battle.
There is zero benefit in crypto without exchanges
> but libraries cannot

Why don't they try it and find out? Seems like if anyone should have the legal right to do so from purchased books it should be them.

Internet Archive is trying something similar in court right now with their "controlled digital lending" concept. The ReDigi case was a true shame, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be willing to propose other concepts and try to legalize some case here.
> trade-bound paperbacks which tend to fall apart after (sometimes during, grrr) a single read

I'm sorry for probabbly a stupid question, but what is "trade-bound paperbacks"? I have tried to google it but I can't figure out which binding method is meant here..? Cheap glued paperback books? Sewn books? Something else? :/
That is so meta
I didn't know about the devtools protocol snapshots, pretty cool! I takes ~5 ms to generate an SVG for google.com (not including loading the page).

For your use-case I'd recommend doing something similar but using the SkPicture structure instead. It would cut the conversion overhead, should support every Skia features, and with some tuning it would allow you to efficiently split bitmaps from vectors (allowing you to send the bitmaps once, and only vector changes after that).

Something I like about using Skia for this use-case is that it allows for zero-latency scrolling.
I used it like I would an encyclopedia and it provided some interesting info. The results were sparse but still informative.
Bit smaller and much less of a net-negative for society, IMO
What happens when you watch Fight Club?
I remember reading that they are in fact using n53 2.4Ghz. Remember this is a fallback for areas without cell service, and a satellite signal is much weaker on the ground than any terrestrial signal.
And that's why it's great that the internet exists. A very large number of libraries can burn and no knowledge will be lost. Just copies of that knowledge.

Those Alexandrians' should have focused more on their tech game. :)
There’s also https://pinafore.social.

Much nicer than Mastodon’s default web front-end.
"Stanisław Jerzy Lec said that it's shameful to suspect when you're certain."

But there is no certainty here, just speculation.

"we can safely assume it's Russian rockets"

It's dangerous to assume anything when it could lead to WW3.
Not if they are stored in the cloud, where the bits are constantly being shuffled around various media. It is never the case that a bit stays on the same sector of the same media indefinitely.

A personal library is effed, tho, because some flash fails if the blocks are not cycled. E.g., multi-level cell flash requires at least a refresh, of I think, 36 months (don't quote me)? Basically: the blocks need to be copied and erased periodically (this isn't wear leveling it is something else and I'm now out of my depth). Probably not an issue with lower density, thicker oxide single-bit-cell flash.

I still keep my favorite books in paper format. All of my digital books are loans from my library. If I really like it, I buy a physical copy.

As for libraries and DRM, well, that's a horse of a different color.
Do you feel the same way about Alt+Tab window switching?

There is a deterministic way: look at the pop-up that shows the thumbnail in the most-recently used (MRU) order. Just like Alt+Tab.

If you're tabbing through more than five tabs, it's probably faster to click, whichever method is used. But at least MRU ordering lets you easily switch between any two or three tabs. That is impossible with visual ordering.
Kobo reader with Plato installed
Public Benefit Corporations are one solution to this dilemma and they can be publicly traded.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/public-benefit-corporat...
For actively used files: Seafile on my vps which is encrypted by clients locally. You can access online and enter the decryption passphrase but I try to avoid this. I don't use the real time backup feature to a second running server as I prefer a snapshot back home to my nas to restore if needed. I really dig seadrive with subst as everything is just on drive z: on all our machines.

For a read only archive of pdfs and scanned papers, mail, receipts, etc: I use paperless-ngx on a nas. I'd run it on the vps but don't want that unencrypted data there. It does ocr, tags, and some learning to autotag stuff. My printer duplex scans straight into it with a few button presses, I save to a watched folder, or I email the pdf to scan@mydomain.tld. A backup is pushed out with cron encrypted to the VPS via borgbackup and sshfs along with my photos and nightly phone DCIM folder backups into \owner\yyyy\mm.
"Working artists" (lol) are gonna be just as subservient with or without 2D typewriters, because the "creative industries" are to art basically what porn is to sex. (Anglophones have this linguisic quirk where half of the time "art" is synonymous with "graphics", which to other languages sounds like trying to tie your shoelaces with one hand fused to your face.)

Truth be told, I'm yet to see an AI-generated or AI-assisted work that provokes any internal experience other than thinking "hey, cool pixels/sounds/sentences/whatever". Not even the usual "somebody paid a lot of money to make this thing, so I better pay attention" which is the official function of commercial art.

It's certainly a very interesting academic exercise, and possibly a lucrative line of business. But if the value proposition is supposed to be "now it's easier for more people to create more complex stuff" (i.e. operate at a higher level of abstraction), why do I keep finding many "manually produced" works that speak to me on some level, even among the shitfountain of mass culture - while no AI-made thing has yet got me thinking anything other than "hey, cool tech?"

I'll start worrying when an AI chooses to ignore its incentives and, instead of doing something more rewarding, goes on to create a work of art just because. I'll also start worrying when people start becoming unreceptive to non-AI art, which I think is more likely to happen within our lifetimes.

Because what I see here is some cool tech for creating some ersatz sensory stimuli. And obviously, with enough compute you can make this advanced enough to confidently supplant the previous generation of tech for creating ersatz sensory stimuli. Somewhat less obviously, this reduces the risk of a spontaneous transcendental experience when perceiving AI art to a safe margin. Which is... probably good for business somehow?

At the end of the day, the human sensory system has a finite complexity, so you can create more and more compelling simulacra. Have at it. What'll happen is the next generation of humans will grow up awfully prone to Wile E. Coyote moments - tragic as well as comic.
Thank you! I will check these out.

Yeah, for 2) I was really looking for some simple rules to set. Let me see!
This is like a poorly templated LLM to make fake Wikipedia articles… nothing I put in provides accurate or realistic information
Effectively hot glue bound paperbacks filled with low quality, poorly printed pages.

EDIT: I have probably confused Mass Market paperbacks with Trade paperbacks. The former is the main target of my ire, the latter is purportedly of higher quality in general.
they seem more focused on the code review part of the process, while this is more of a platform level change.
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[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay#Reinventing_programmi...

[5] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006002_nsfprop.pdf
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