skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I run quite a few systems/sites that have multiple internet connections - deciding whether the internet is available is quite a nuanced thing and that Windows internet detector is bloody stupid, naive and a fucking hindrance.

I'm not following this, where is the nuance? What problems does this cause and why are they so difficult to solve? Even if behind a strict firewall that allows only a few IPs or ranges (arguable that would still be the "internet" as commonly understood), couldn't you just override DNS to return the same file from your server?

I've been annoyed by iOS disconnecting from wifi when no access is detected and I'm just trying to stream something from local network, but not Windows.
>The baby would choose to be alive in any case

This struck a nerve.

Maybe you've never experienced what it's like to wish to have never been born, but having fucked up parents makes it very likely for a person to end in a situation where they feel like that about their lives. I think that if your child feels like that even once, you've been wrong to be a parent. (I realize that's a pretty high bar and it's unreasonable to expect the majority people to live up to it. But that goes for any moral standard.)

Of course anyone who is born chooses to stay alive, that's hard-wired into our biology, but that's exactly the reason you have no right to make this argument. Of course every human being has the right to parenthood, but this does not automatically make it right from the perspective of the child. I wish more people understood that and did not see their children as property.

Since we obviously can't ask our children whether they want to be born, it's our responsibility to make that decision for them. Primary caretakers determine the initial psychological makeup of a person, and the sad truth is that a lot of people from all walks of life have children because of irresponsibility, desperation, or plain egotistical reasons. This is cruel and abusive.

Best of wishes to the kid. I hope it grows up to be a happy person. Since it'll grow up in an affluent environment removed from the hardships that most of the world faces every day, there's a chance that happens. But evil people having kids is just cruel to the kids. I'd wager that once she's out of the slammer she'll endeavour to either raise it to be a psychopath, or make its life hell until she's eroded its grip on reality.

I hope in the future people get a better grip on the ethics of creating a new human being, and what you just said is understood for the fallacious reasoning that it is.
TIL about Jefferson Golden Hour Clocks. Thanks for sharing - these are amazing.
> 5 days, 6 hours

Many remote salary workers regularly work 6 hour days. Getting more recognition for this seems like a good first step in getting acceptance for 4 days, 8 hours.
I know you're getting downvoted, but I must admit that I hadn't even considered that. She knew she'd likely go to jail for a pretty long time so if she wanted kids it _would_ actually be best if she had them beforehand.

I mean, it definitely also garners sympathy with the judge, but it'd be totally reasonable for her to do it just because she wanted kids.

Thanks for bringing up that perspective.
> take away their money via fines/restitution

And how does that work when her husband is incredibly wealthy? She will still live in absolute luxury.
Also no guarantee the computer's clock is set ballpark accurately (which TLS requires), which can be relevant if Windows is checking for Internet connectivity before (for example) using NTP to update the computer's clock.
excepting?
It's all stereotypes. As I've done more therapy though I just realize that all the people that I know from the midwest really /really/ don't want to open up about how they are feeling. It isn't about swearing or being a part of 'polite society', it's about not addressing perceived issues interpersonally or in a group dynamic.

Like I just see from my hometown near Minneapolis that people would rather just act like uncomfortable things aren't happening or don't exist. They put on a smile and act all nice to each other but secretly there's all this shit that they harbor against one another. It is definitely a small-town thing too though. In a small town the people you are around have been there for a long time and they are going to be there for a long time in the future, so one way to cope with disagreement is to paper it over. Just not my personally favorite interaction style.
That is completely a mind game. Salient according to what criteria? Is he going to be happy to see wonderful high level distributed designs? Great coding practices at the micro level? Unit tests? Performance-oriented code? Ops greatness? CRUD boilerplate that any junior IC could jump into without much understanding (seems like this might be a stealth winner if he’s gearing up to build a skeleton crew of low-seniority devs that don’t have a lot of career options). Is feature work sexy to him or does he want to see work that is oriented around KTLO cost minimization? Improvements on usability (decreases support costs)? Reliability? Scalability? Security mindset? (obviously kidding about that last one) There are so many things that are “salient” depending on his priorities and attitudes that this is a fool’s errand.
In place and just as arbitrary as ever. Just this morning someone I follow had an 18+-only alt account of theirs suspended when they blocked a minor who was following that account.
Yes, but not every logger, db, etc is going to include the timezone. What they did was the right call for the situation.
I actually like that idea a lot. I've done a few in the past on various topics and even applied for CBT Nuggets once (training company). I convinced myself after a while I hated video editing but with all this new free time it doesn't seem like that much of a pain xD
If buildings could be built the way software is built, then most buildings would be built like software is built.
I too would like to see a source. Making claims without backing them up with evidence is a poor way to defend said claim.
agree but it did make me smile
If you abandon your ideals when it conflicts with your own self-interest, it is not ideology at all, just self-interest. You are criticizing integrity here. such as it is..
http://example.com will forever be http.
> If we say to someone '99 hundred', they'd immediately understand it as 9,900.

That's definitely untrue. In my native language we never mix tens and hundreds, and it always takes me a moment to parse that "thirteen hundred" means one thousand and three hundred.
In Iceland—until recently—there wasn’t even an option to take the driving test—nor the required driving lessons—on an automatic. You had to take it on a manual. Also most people bought a manual as their first car (as manuals were always cheaper and more available). However among my age some (wealthier) people bought automatic as their first car, and promptly forgot how to drive a manual. It is rear, but I’ve met a couple of people that simply don’t know how to drive a manual (as if they were American) even though they took the driving test and lessons on one a decade and a half ago.

EDIT: Unrelated, but there is also a common myth in Iceland that manual transmission is illegal in San Francisco. I have no idea where it comes from, but after having lived in SF and returning to Iceland I’ve had more then one people ask me about this. (I even owned a manual 4-speed VW bus [known as VW Ryebread in Iceland] while living there).
Yes, can confirm I was installing Win11 on my brother-in-law's new PC that I built last week and there were no default drivers for the USB wifi adapter I had attempted to reuse from his old machine. The entire process was roadblocked wanting me to plug into Ethernet until I researched the secret keyboard combination that allows you to shell out and then restart with the ability to do a network-free install.
Looking different and having different customs does mean having different psychologies. If anything i believe it’s you who hasnt been working with people of diverse backgrounds, otherwise you’d know personality traits are shared among cultures and ethnicities. Otherwise you’d have a different psychology manual for each nation and ethnicity. The question original question is asking about why some people are beating the bush when discussing topics, not how it’s customary to express disagreement. But even that is shared between cultures and the more you work with people of different backgrounds the more you know its the same.
As someone in Tech, are you neurotypical? Is the other person? Are you sure, in either case?

Neurodiverse brains communicate differently. Some of the patterns that you described could be ADHD, for instance.*

*Labeling the other person won't help.
Good, I'm glad it wasn't SBF or another insider.
Execution would be an appropriate punishment for sociopathic lying at this scale. Beyond defrauding investors of millions, she gave patients and doctors fake test results that she knew were fake. She knew that could have led to people dying of perfectly treatable conditions. That none did, as best as we can tell, is a lucky accident. This is an evil person. Off with her head.
– Success can be a non-event that goes unnoticed (”everything worked and no money went missing”)

And yet, there are still Y2K deniers (to be fair some people have exaggerated it to the point that they're promoting it as the end of the world).
This is sort of a nightmare since, at least on Windows 10, this is determined differently for different facilities.

I'm in a situation where I needed to modify my Registry https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov... in order to convince the Metro UI that I was actually connected, whereas everything else was working fine.

I can't remember exactly what I did now, but it's been working great.
In 1995 I (and a few others) designed and built the first WiFi node [1]. At the time there was only one WiFi unit in the world, and it was the one on our bench. It now has about 20 billion descendants.

[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1109/40.566198
Yeah I apologize, the queue is a little messed up. It's not showing your progress properly and it's not stopping people's processing if they left (their websocket dies). I'm going to fix these and reboot the server and the experience will be a lot better, sorry. It is working properly though and transcribing all this stuff but the queue needs some TLC, brb.
solid advice honestly
Can you elaborate a little bit more about how you partitioned it?
I wouldn't call my company reasonably technical and we frequently hit barriers in AWS. Twitter has no chance on AWS.
It broke when I tried to feed it an entire podcast file, but still, I took this as a push to try out Whisper AI for myself, turns out it's easier to use than I thought. Long story short, I used it to transcriptify a podcast:

https://scotts-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/temp/whisper/Intern...

Not sure if there's a use for this that's not me, but I like the idea of having subtitles for a podcast I'm listening to.
You choose the browser with the device.
I want to clarify two points given the language used in your response:

1. I used the possessive “my” in reference to nursing staff for simplicity in writing and clarity to the reader rather than to indicate ownership, we are on a team. This is akin to saying “my goalkeeper wears Nike soccer cleats”.

2. I do not “order nurses around.” I verbally communicate and leave medical orders in the chart that nurses act on. It is not about a power struggle, we are all trying to do our jobs and do what’s right by the patient. I’m grateful when nurses question my medical orders (as long as it’s a positive/educational discussion, which it is 99% of the time) as they catch my mistakes and we all learn together.

If you are concerned that you can’t order nurses around, I strongly suggest reflecting on whether this leadership style is the most conducive to providing quality patient care as this can increase barriers and hostilities in the workplace resulting in communication breakdown and adverse events.
I'm not sure if it's still in use but iPhones used to hit http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to test connectivity.

I used to use it to test connectivity on my own apps because Apple is probably better at making sure a url reachable than I am.
How to sell tickets fairly
I can see this making sense for type signatures and data structures—or class definitions, interface definitions. Not so sure about "entry points". Contracts, abstractions. Typical Haskell code would really lend itself to being summarized like this—typeclass instances, etc.
I’m not upset about anything.

But a datapoint of one is meaningless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
When she was first convicted in, I actually figured the sentencing guidelines dictated life-in-prison, my math was:

- wire fraud (3 counts): 7

- victims (10+): 2

- damages ($140M): 24 (!!)

- sophisticated means: 2

- leading role: 4

- abuse of public trust: 2

- obstruction of justice: 2

TOTAL: 43

And here's[1] the chart. Even for first time offenders, penalty can be life.

[1] https://supernotes-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/direct-uploads...
Two things I’ve always wanted to do is figure out how to cache windows updates on my local network without an enterprise windows install, and how to block windows updates by sinkholing domains and/or ip addresses (I work in IT security).

Can anyone give any tips on either of these?
Not lost, but I've had a lot of trouble with information being captured incorrectly.

Things like date are pretty commonly messed up. I've also had doctors and nurses put their own, incorrect, interpretation on information I've given them when they repeat it to others. When I say "my child wasn't eating and drinking normally and had half of what they normally do throughout the day", it's incorrect to say "the patient didn't eat or drink all day". That's the type of shit that can look really bad if it's recorded and looked at later. But it's like nobody cares if they record things correctly.

I've also had trouble with people not doing anything with important information. Like maybe you should slow down on the morphine and oxy if the patient is answering fewer basic questions correctly than when they came out of surgery. But it's OK if they can't tell you their own birth date - just give them more and later order a CT ro check for a stroke. Sorry guys, but it should be pretty obvious you're putting them into a opium stupor...
Whenever I encounter the "Robb Report" I am reminded of an occasion in college when some friends and I noticed one of its issues on the newsstand in a grocery store. It came in a special plastic bag with an opaque rectangle printed over most of the cover, presumably to obscure the luxury products advertised therein from proles like us, but by pulling the plastic away from the cover we could clearly see that it was dominated by an image of some kind of miniature recreational submarine.

Since then it has been difficult for me to take anything about the Robb Report seriously. Maybe that's unfair of me.

Anyway, it would be weird if the uber wealthy didn't keep the stick shift around in some form or other, but on EVs it will be nothing but an affectation, like the way modern "sport" luxury cars pipe fake engine noise into the cabin. Just another way for folks who have too much money to waste some more of it.
Not a large org, but I dabbled with managing k8s with Terraform for a while and... did not have a great time. There were a few minor issues with state management and consistency between Terraform and k8s, but my main complaint was just that the k8s provider is very awkward to use. It for the most part works, but:

- It isn't an autogenerated wrapper around the k8s API, so not 100% of features are supported. E.g. there has been an open issue to implement setting runtimeClass on workload resources for three years.

- All of the options on the Terraform resources have been converted from camel-case to snake-case, which is fine except that I always forget to do that conversion when working off of the k8s API reference or an example. Some of them have also been converted from plural to singular.

- Because of the heavy use of Terraform blocks for configuring resources, it's often annoying to reuse chunks of configuration across resources or use non-trivial variables in the configuration -- and that's the big reason I wanted to use something like Terraform (versus flux or similar) in the first place.

- The k8s provider does actually have a way to manage custom resources now, the kubernetes_manifest resource type, but it requires writing the whole resource manifest out in HCL.

In short, there are better approaches and I would recommend against it. But hey, I'm just some guy on the internet.
It's very difficult for me to see how Waymo could actually become a profitable company. Trying to be an actual taxi company (using custom low volume, high cost cars) seems capital intensive and low profit-margin (you're competing against every other form of transportation, along with uber and lyft with their low-paid employees that provide their own cars), and it seems like the number of major car companies that could license their software is rapidly falling (Tesla and GM definitely have their own in-house competitors, and other major car companies probably do as well). So how do they actually make money? They're billions of dollars into this project, and it just seems like they've missed their market window.
Exactly 1 Solar mass.
What's really nuts about this fiasco is the amount of (US taxpayer) money from Ukraine that got funneled back into FTX.
> Twitter provides reach to speech. You cannot remove reach from Twitter without rendering Twitter useless.

You absolutely can.

The way that it is still useful, is if instead of being perma-banned for a bad tweet, instead an account just has that tweet only prioritized.

That way, the bad stuff is stopped, without draconian ban policies destroying your account.
Do you write web applications in Haskell? It’s not clear where the community is, and that’s troublesome because for those not well oriented with Haskell, the adventure is solitary.

MS seems to be doing a bit of Rust these days, so I kind of wonder if the spiritual successor is another, albeit less hardcore, language.

For me, it’s been difficult because I don’t know where the false starts are, and don’t have the unlimited time I once had to wallow and grow without any community support. Other languages are just more approachable, but something eats at me that Haskell is worth it.
I have had multiple manual cars and do not understand what you mean when you say you enjoy a 2-4-6 shift when driving hard. I skip gears when I’m driving slow and some cars, like the Corvette, have gates to force a 1 -> 4 under a certain RPM.

IMO, the best part of a manual performance car is chirping tires (or fully breaking them loose!) on a 2nd to 3rd shift in a turbo car with no-lift-shift.
Please read the definition of the word race and try not to make everything about it. Try and work with more diverse people so you can observe there are strong similarities regardless of race, instead of shutting yourself in a small bubble that explains everything around based on that.
This is a misconception. ISO8601 has six versions, is 14 pages long, and defines way to many ways to represent dates and times.

Everyone should follow RFC 3339.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339#section-5.6
You mean yours.

My human dignity does depend on whether I have to endure the rest of my life pooping my pants, not remembering my own name, and hooked up to some noisy machine telling my lungs to breathe and my heart to beat.
FTX exec Ryan Salame donated $23 million to Republicans. FTX buttered both sides of their bread and people in the dark keep wanting to make this a political issue, when it is a fraud issue. Sam donated 27 million to the Protect Our Future organization that supports candidates who take a long term view on policy planning and $10 million to Democrats, is the numbers I've seen.
howdy y'all,

was looking for a simple way to explore and play with signal generation, and think that creating wav files is the most straightforward and robust way to go about doing just that. in order to scratch that itch i've implemented a function that takes a sample rate and channels data (mono or stereo), and returns an ArrayBuffer of the corresponding structured wav file.

implementing this package was a quick and fun process, which gave me the opportunity to learn about packing bits in the browser. whenever time allows in the future (some amount of years, hopefully not decades), i look forward to implementing a similar function for png files
Eh. I see the downsides of a lot of that HFT stuff, but there are upsides too. Yes a lot of it is zero sum, but not all of it is. Lowering spreads between currencies, say, does materially help non-finance actors. There are other areas of the stock market that are useful too. Ingesting financials and other non-manipulated data to better reflect a company's true worth at any time helps, for example, employee option holders that seek to have a fair renumeration for their labour.
That it's common does not make it right. We just hit the 8 billion mark, and unimaginable numbers of people across all social strata really don't do anything much but make each other miserable. Do they have the right to live and hope for happines? Definitely. Would it have been better if their parents had used that little miracle called "consciousness" to prevent their children's misery? Also yes.
Pretty difficult but not impossible.

Spent nuclear fuel rods are among the most dangerous and difficult to handle materials available, and ones that have been sitting in a power reactor for years are far more radioactive than ones that spend a day or two in a bomb production reactor. So reprocessing the fuel rods would be a considerable challenge and would require not insubstantial industrial facilities, which would likely be blindingly obvious to superpower intelligence agencies.

Then you'd have to fabricate the plutonium into a weapon. Weapons made from reactor-grade plutonium would be a real pain to handle and store because they would be exceedingly radioactive and would require a lot of shielding. But my understanding is that a nation-state with Ukraine's resources would probably be able to manage it if sufficiently determined. But, again, the idea that you'd be able to do it in secret is highly unlikely.

And then you'd have to deliver it. The resulting weapon would probably be extremely large, unlike the more sophisticated weapons that established nation-states have, and implausible to mount on a missile. So delivery would probably have to be with an aircraft, and then you've got the question of how likely it would be to get shot down before it reached its target.

And finally, you have to consider whether a few small nuclear weapons with not-great delivery systems would be a useful deterrent. It's not hard to imagine Russia's response if a few small nuclear weapons landed on its territory - and whatever else you might say about their military, they have a lot of nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Ukraine would be a radioactive crater by the time Putin was finished with it.
It will be roughly like Mastodon, but for large files, I will use ipfs or BitTorrent.

I like the idea of bluesky where user data stay in version-controlled repos and can be migrated between servers. But I guess I will use crdt for that.

I will use rust for the backend, VUE for the frontend.