skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
badass. way to cut loose an old anchor. i love this trend: build well for the new thing, use open-source compatibility layers to make the old not-good microsoft apis work.

that said, intel arc has been slow as dirt for old games. they seem to have, through hard work, turned the corner. im curious how much of that improvement has gotten upstream to the public, to others. versus how much intel has done only for themselves, after putting all their eggs in this open source community project.
As far as I know, that's not a federal law. I can walk past someone violating every human right and constitutional amendment in broad daylight and it's my right to tell nobody about it ever. Apple has the same right, it seems. Amend the Constitution if you don't like it.
That's in no way an "American" policy. The employer is generally not required to provide any severance at all in the US. For some cases of mass layoffs they need to give 60 days notice or severance.
> NAT punching does require cooperation of programs on the protected machines

As does listening to a port.

> And is it any different from a stateful firewall on IPv6?

Hum, not much. And that's the point, all of those are basically the same. NAT doesn't give you much security, and NAT without a firewall usually gives you less security than a firewall, since NAT usually is configured for connectivity, and a firewall for protection.
Agree. Second system effect in action -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect.
No kidding - they got rid of dhcp and more but it’s a nightmare getting networks to work with just ipv6 concepts- everything from provisioning phones (dhcp options to push config / NetBoot stuff) and more. Layer in privacy extensions, renumbering on uplink wan flapping (slow too - the failover is pathetic compared to NAT wan failover) - icmp traffic differences - firewalls need to be much more careful with ipv6 and related protocols because things can easy break (it’s fragile) or you create risks. Even min subnet sizes mean crazy 2 node subnet sizes (think isp and cpe management subnet for a customer). Also curious why not 48 or 64 bits or 96 bits? 128 bits is ludicrous
Oh come on, that's over-sensitive. The person made a lightweight remark, complete with wink at its conclusion. It was on topic and conveyed information.

Your reaction is derailment because you grabbed the wheel and steered the topic down a road about you and your expectations of discussion standards.

Part of respectable human interaction includes humorous, short and sharp casual responses on occasion. In this case, the post was replying to someone who called Apple's storage limit "pretty useless"... so we're well and truly in the fun zone of casual conversation. Not sure what you're seeking, the equivalent of a formal meeting with diplomats and official representatives?
here I found 17 reports from users and some say it is amazon driver and some say it is scam https://scamdialer.com/lookup/206-453-2329/
You aren't addressing whether they'd be better off or worse off, with one less option for employment. A handful of complaints and controversies as linked doesn't actually provide the information necessary to draw the conclusion you claim.

Wouldn't you expect workers to be better off in treatment when the end customer has high margins, as Apple did, compared to low margins, as the next best employer would have?

> Employees took the profits?

Yes, that's why they got jobs -- the money.

And they took more at other companies, too, because having Apple do manufacturing in China also drives up wages at competing employers.
The sloth actually supplements their diet with photosynthetic algae that live on their fur. But their metabolism is very very slow.
The first season of True Detective was in my opinion the greatest single season of tv I've ever seen
Would this move the needle on layoffs or the business or merely satisfy a desire for moral dessert?

One team of engineers costs between one and three million dollars a year.
Ghosn, a Lebanese/French citizen, used American mercenaries to help him abscond from Japan for Lebanon, with at least an narrative (rightly or wrongly) that he wasn't allowed due process in Japan.

It's probably 2 orders of magnitude harder, in the long-term, to arrange for a high-profile American fugitive to use American mercenaries to abscond to another country.
I recently wanted to run some Python benchmarks, and was surprised to find that some major Python packages (i.e. Numba) didn't work on the latest Python release.

In Julia, all open source packages that pass tests on the latest release are confirmed to also pass on a release candidate before that candidate can become the next release.

A major package being incompatible with a new Julia version just doesn't happen.

Julia takes its stability guarantees seriously.
Faculty member issues dire warning to grad students about jobs
The Finder on macOS Ventura can't be used to flash firmware onto a Raspberry Pi Pico anymore. The ecosystem is fine.

> If you pass the -X flag to the cp command you can successfully copy a UF2 onto your board

> Alternatively, if the errors bother you, you can use the rsync command rsync blink.uf2 /Volumes/RPI-RP2/ which will also copy your UF2 to the board.

> we offer something called picotool (...) it can be used to load binaries onto your Raspberry Pi Pico

I was expecting some integral part of the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem to be dependent on the current version of macOS because that's what the title implies. We regularly read stories about crazy dependencies here. "macOS Ventura is incompatible with the Raspberry Pi Pico" would not imply the crazy dependency I expected.

But then after reading the submission I think "Oh no, the Raspberry Pi Pico can't currently be used with macOS - will they have to patch the bootloader? Do mac users need to use special programmers now? Will they sell a new version that's compatible again?"

Nope, wrong again. It looks like the Finder on macOS can't be used for flashing firmware anymore. The workaround is almost trivial. Sure, it's a bit annoying and should somehow be fixed, but it's not the end of the world at all. The ecosystem hasn't been broken.
In case you haven't seen the UF2 file format, it's specifically designed to be robust w.r.t ensuring that the content makes it to the target intact despite common OS quirks.

https://github.com/microsoft/uf2

- Data is divided into 512 byte blocks, which lines up with the mass storage transfer size.
- Each block has an identifying magic sequence, a payload address, and size, which can be used to identify the destination.
- This allows the emulated storage to ignore metadata blocks and to handle out-of-order and repeated blocks.
On a network that hosts CSAM and drug markets, the worst thing is a gossip forum.
I wonder why they haven't merged them together yet.
> FTX paid for this mansion.

"I was the person who owned the early development of the project idea, and fundraised for it. (The funding comes from a grant specifically for this project, and is not FTX-related.) ..." https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/...

Also, if you believe your link, the first FTX donation to CEA was in 2022, and this was purchased in 2021. But eyeballing the numbers at the link I don't think it's complete.
Cargo is pulling a metric fork-ton (300+) of dependencies - is that normal?
There is freelance thread on HN. You could also apply to regular jobs, but make a note you are looking to work as a freelancer. Smaller companies, where engineers are the first screeners not HR/recruiter might receptive. A "burstable" resource who does 20h but might do 40h occasionally when needed might be an attractive concept to many companies.
I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
The writer of the poem, or short story, when you beat the ender dragon in Minecraft, never signed the contract releasing his copyright on it. That means Microsoft doesn't actually own the ending to Minecraft.
It is all heat, except for the light from your monitor which then turns into heat when it's absorbed.

Computing isn't doing work in the physical sense. An HDD of ordered data doesn't have more potential energy than an HDD of data in a different order.
Isn’t this literally done in most office buildings in the US and probably a lot of apartment buildings already? There are CCTV cameras everywhere in the US (and other countries).
Maybe he’s admitting defeat with an ironic insult. I say, “shut up, nerd,” to coworkers when I’m wrong in a technical debate. We’re all nerds to some extent, so it’s funny.

On the other hand, maybe he was playing the guy who lashes out when his feelings get hurt after his work was publicly eviscerated.
This may have been a case of what I call the contrarian dynamic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...): threads tend to fill up quickly with lazy and dismissive objections because those are the easiest and fastest to write. Then a second wave of "I can't believe how bad the comments are" comments inevitably shows up.

Things eventually balance out as thoughtful users add more interesting comments—they just take longer to appear because they're more work to produce. That's what happened in the current thread.

> Shame on you dang, where the fuck are you?

Don't assume that we see the same things you do. Like other false assumptions, that can lead to mistaken conclusions! In reality, we only see a small portion of what gets posted to HN. There are far too many posts for us to read them all. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

p.s. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? You've unfortunately been breaking them a lot.
It's a cycle of the price rising, and rising until it's above the threshold for many of "this is so much money I can't sit on it". At which point many sell, and everybody remaining wait for the next cycle to start, which is huge swaths of people purchasing a now smaller part of the pie, but that can still double in value in a single cycle. Also anybody can wait a few cycles to sell, which is why I think the price will not collapse from market forces.
I guess my point is what efficacy do any of those programs have - especially the AI safety workshop? It seems extremely unproven to me and frankly I'm a bit cynical about it. Even if you do think that's very important, why not just have video lectures on it for the public?
Yup, runs Anki. It does have a camera, fingerprint sensor, and SD card slot. It's a decently capable Android device: haven't ran into any stutter or lag. The only issue is the occasional UI glitch with apps that aren't designed for small screen sizes, but I haven't ran into any show-stoppers yet. Still worth it to me

I was concerned by the battery at first, but turns out it's more than enough to last a day or two since I'm no longer constantly pulling up twitter at every free moment.
We have known for years that erosion is far greater from tilled soil than from ungrazed or wildlife grazed rough native pastures. The evidence comes from many erosion plots around the world where you mark off a plot of maybe 20 yards by 20 yards and put a V shaped funnel arrangement at the lower end and weigh what you catch washed out over say a year.

But there are lots of other questions. We don’t have much data on rates of soil formation from underlying rock and moisture. And the problem is that actually many of the world’s best soils are the product of erosion. Often, when fields get eroded, the soil just moves downhill to another location. The Nile delta in Egypt and the Ganges plains in India are excellent soils that came from erosion in other places over millions of years.

They are right that zero till usually somewhat reduces erosion. But this technology is under threat because people claim that the herbicide Roundup used before direct seeding causes cancer. ( The evidence for that is very shaky. A large US study of about 40,000 professional Roundup applicators contracted by farmers, who must have had a high level of contact with it, had no higher cancer rates including lymphoma than the average.) Also, farmers, who use a lot themselves, are probably the healthiest demographic in the world.

It’s a complex story.
They need a $15 million estate to run workshops?
Some distros wrote config files so the assignment would remain stable.

Which also was wrong when switching hardware around, but that's a different issue.
What kind of problems do you see with too much organic matter? I really like to garden and often find myself going overboard on mulch and compost and paradoxically seem to notice slower growth sometimes when I use them. I wonder if it is too much organic matter?
The solution to being poor: a $400 iPhone instead of a $600 one!
I love f droid and wish there was some way that all those apps could get links for iOS too (an iOS index?) - given an option I go for f droid and any iOS equivalent available always
When I was about ten, Chi Corp., which was associated with Case Western, had an open house. I keypunched my name on a card and fed it to a Univac 1108, which output a large image of my name on a line printer. I think an image of Snoopy was also output. I was hooked.

In middle school wrote Basic code on an HP-2000E. High school summer job writing C code on a PDP-11/70? running Version 6 or 7 Unix. Later, spent a summer at Bell Labs. Bjarne was working down the hall on C with objects. Rob Pike demoed a wire-wrapped Blit prototype. I wrote an assembler for an Ikonas frame buffer in Turner Whitted's graphics group for a C compiler port.
Really? I'd be driven crazy by a 1.3 second delay. 300ms is bad enough.

You'd be continually talking over the other person.
Good point, I was only thinking of myself. Might end up picking this up for a friend :))
How Scammers get your gift card information
That is shockingly good. It almost seems too good to be true.
I think this really demonstrates how companies aren't monolithic, even ones that take pains to present a unified front like Apple.

One group wanted to implement a tool to improve child safety, another team wanted to enforce user privacy. At one point, the former was about to complete their project, but was stymied by the second. Of course, it's surely more complicated than "one team" vs "another team", but the concept of conflicting goals within the same entity applies. It's not some top-down dictat.
Piss weak posting.

> Why would the kid want to be canoeing with boring people when there was a whole world of smart, interesting, beautiful people in 30-second, filtered, buzzing, sing-song videos that snap-crackle-and-pop and make all your senses light up?! ...

> TikTok? No way!

> These apps themselves are weaponized to the point adults have trouble putting them down. They hire marketing geniuses and psychologists to design the games and user experience in such a way that it becomes physically addictive. We know this already!

Author thinks they are way smart & has all the answers & has already fore-decided the villian and all problems are definitely the pre-determined villian and the so smart author obviously knows better.

Gross article from gross person. Thankfully now flagged.

There may be some real material here perhaps but the constant cock-sure sermonizing attitude & willingness to lay blame at probably fairly side-show factors as the source of all problems... it's embarassingly awful.
Key quote IMO:

> He did send Science a document containing what he says are McKinney’s data. It features what appear to be scanned printouts of manually typed tables containing the isotopic data from the fish fossils. These tables are not the same as raw data produced by the mass spectrometer named in the paper’s methods section, but DePalma noted the data’s credibility had been verified by two outside researchers...

This sounds consistent with honest mistakes on all sides. DePalma and/or Curtis most likely made mistakes transcribing and processing the data; if they were collaborating, DePalma would have implicitly trusted Curtis to be giving him good data, even if he genuinely didn't know where the isotope analysis happened. I don't buy the claim that there "must" have been a digital record of the isotope analysis: we'd all like to live in that world, but I get the impression that a lot of labs work on, shall we say, a less formal basis. And it's really easy to lose track of where an idea came from; both parties could honestly believe it was theirs.

The main thing that's still suspicious is where it seems DePalma must have known During was working on something very similar to him/his team, and didn't tell her. That's a bit of a dick move, to say the least, even if it was just negligence. He should have been looking out for something like that.

We should also hold open the possibility that Curtis was making stuff up, and DePalma and During are caught in his mess. Not especially likely, but as long as we're throwing around fraud accusations, let's be thorough.
that's because both directions will get you to the train you're trying to get to. Example: From JR either west exit (then turn right) or the east exit (then turn left) will lead to the Marunouchi line. Pick one and follow the signs. That's no different than a subway with multiple exits on to the same street at both ends of the station

Similarly there's at least 3 perpendicular corridors connecting the JR tracks themselves so the exit to each corridor (of which there are 2 each so 6 exits) will all be labeled as leading to the other tracks because all of them actually do lead to the other tracks.
He correctly predicted the Russia-Ukraine war 8 years ago. The idea is that Russia will lose around 20% of its young male demographic (20-35y) between 2020 and 2030, so it’s the only time window they can start a major war.

The outlook of Russian and Chinese demographics isn’t just worst than the US. It’s one of the worst in the world with a sudden decline in working age population in the upcoming 1-2 decades, while at the same time not having first world economies.
This is laughably absurd. The last few decades have seen a massive reduction in poverty in China. China has had a huge trade surplus with the US for decades, and probably the rest of the world too. How on earth is that exploitation?
That's why they're introducing No-SIM signup, so that they don't have to give away data that can be tracked.

IPs are a bit tricky to handle though, because they're required to be stored for session management since Telegram is cross-platform and has independent multi-device login.
> What I'm trying to say is that anyone is free to say they're crap, but that is not an objective opinion.

Heh. As a total aside, "objective opinion" is the kind of oxymoron that fits HN "rationalism" oh so well.
I Created the Anti-SJW Genre, and Almost Destroyed the World [video]
Two historical examples: The Weather Underground regularly and the IRA occasionally called in their bombs in advance order to reduce/remove civilian casualties. They tried to give enough time to evacuate an area but not enough time to find and defuse the device.
The world of phones is based on free software. Android is based on the Linux kernel and AOSP - iOS is based on XNU, which is a combination of GNU implementations and BSD patches.
Just to clarify, item 1 is exactly the same for RF.
The UF2 format is a hack that can be made to generally work (e.g. it relies on things like per-block beginning and ending magic numbers to identify blocks that should be written to flash, which means isn't dependent on seeing FAT table writes in a particular order).

UF2 is just the file format, though. The mechanism for reading/writing UF2 files is via the emulated USB mass storage, which is fundamentally broken.

The USB storage device responds to SCSI write commands with a success status, but actually throws away data, such that a successive read does not return the previously written blocks.

To an OS or filesystem, that's just a failing drive. You might get lucky and things might work.
Just fair warning. 99% of the time, ncdu is great at intuitively finding what is taking up space. Know that unlinked, but in-use files still take up "physical" disk space.

Be weary on machines that have not been restarted I'm a while. The free space reported on the file system layer may not be the same as the amount of space taken up by files.

i.e. It's possible that delete files may still be referenced by processes still running since the space will not be reclaimed until they are killed or close the fd. This commonly happens with GB of log files you deleted but at still `open()`.

That seems to be the greatest difference between Windows and Linux from an OS & file system perspective.
- Windows treats files similar to a row in adl database with locking behavior: "This file entry must be deleted from the system. Tell me if I'd be locked out by another process".
- Linux treats files as reference counted resources: "I no longer need this file in this directory. The underlying data can still be referenced. You can unlink it."
But all of that is a complete waste of time, so why bother?
For whatever it's worth, it was a Saturday Night Live reference -- and I absolutely regret it.[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/comment/cq3e4y...
Video lectures for the public seem like they're trying to do a very different thing than a workshop? In general, the goal in a workshop is to get a group of people together to think about a problem and a collaborative way, while the goal of public lectures is to spread information.
That was absolutely my take when I read this, but reading the comments it sounds like there's some background to the character study that isn't elaborated on here. The criticisms in the article itself felt petty to me, but apparently Charlotte Fang has said some really terrible things in the past, and if I had to guess I'd say that's where the tone of disgust in this article is coming from, rather than them being a boring person.
It's also worth noting that biological photosynthesis is very inefficient. A human consumes on average about 150 watts. The earth gets about 1400 watts of sunlight per square meter. It's not completely impossible to one day have bio-engineered solar powered animals.
Soil fertility is similar to irrigation. As fertility decreases, it can be compensated (to a point) by fertilizer, but at an increased cost. As the aquifers are pumped faster than they are replenished, water can be pumped from deeper depths, but also at an increased cost. Both impact the economics of farming. And for many communities where agriculture is the economic foundation, decades of non-sustainable practices have created economic headwinds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer (primary aquifer in the midwest)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optima_Lake (lake never filled due to decrease in aquifer depth)
The Array limitation is easy to deal with (in my opinion). If you're needing arrays larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE, then you're probably doing something wrong to begin with. Usually you want to partition your data and maintain multiple arrays in some reasonable way hiearchical way, if you're getting that big. Or more likely, at that point, you're building your own memory structures using a ByteBuffer (and possibly in the future, MemorySegment).

Point is, your reply is exactly right. Arrays can't be 64-bit large? Yeah, I guess.