skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a young buck who's parents didn't want him tying up the only phone line in the house to get on the internet whenever he wanted, I was limited to an hour of internet time a day. I also would pick up free trial discs from local stores, even though I couldn't sign up for a free trial without a credit card or checking account, of which teenage me had neither. One day, however, late at night on a weekend, I tossed in a PeoplePC disc into my machine and ran it through the trial setup to see what I could do.

PeoplePC's sign up was completely online, which was pretty new for the day. The trial setup would first dial a toll-free number to get local POP numbers, and then dial the local number to complete the registration. Well, after poking around to see if I could get around the dialup procedure for the temporary Dial Up Networking account (young me at the time wouldn't know that those creds were in the registry for my perusal), I popped open a web browser, and to my surprise, the local pop account had full internet access. Unfortunately, the trial had a timebomb, so after 10 minutes of inactivity in the setup app, it would close the connection, and remove the DUN account.

Young me however was a wannabe hacker, and had among other tools, a hex editor at my disposal. Finding the temporary setup directory, I copied the contents into another folder that would persist beyond the setup, and started scanning through various files. Eventually, I found what looked like a username and password cleartext in a binary, and copied them out. Tossed them into a fresh DUN entry, and discovered that the account... just worked. Like that, I had free dial-up networking, effectively whenever and wherever PeoplePC had a POP. I rode that for a good couple years until we eventually got our first DSL modem.

Honestly not the hardest or most impressive hack in the world. For all I know, PeoplePC was aware of my usage of it, but because the password was etched into hundreds of thousands of setup discs, it's not like they could rotate the creds. But for a teenage me that just wanted access to the unfettered internet, it was pretty neat.
Note that economics doesn't work even with Korean nuclear plants: Korean nuclear is cheaper than Korean gas, but more expensive than European gas, because European gas is pipelined, Korean gas is liquified, and liquified gas is so much more expensive than pipelined gas.

European nuclear initiatives are mostly about strategic concerns to get out of Russian gas. Economically, even the cheapest nuclear power on Earth can't compete with gas, if it is pipelined. (It can compete if it is liquified.) Or you need to penalize gas to unreasonable degrees for carbon emission.
The new (and IMHO horrible) context menu in Explorer is exactly that.

You can even see the old one show up for a fraction of a second before the new one takes its place, and as further evidence, the trick to revert to the old one is to prevent the COM object of the new one from loading and replacing it:

https://pureinfotech.com/bring-back-classic-context-menu-win...

(For some inexplicable reason, many of the sites that show you how to revert it say the new one is an "improved experience". If it was, why would people be reading articles about how to revert it?)
I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. Nor am I trying to say "MySQL sucks". I'm commiserating with you, or at least trying to, at your level.

You're the one bursting in here shouting "Postgres sucks!" "based entirely" on a lack of features added more than "a decade ago". You have your choices, we have ours. You'd rather have the convenience of features, even at the risk of losing your data; we'd rather have the peace of mind of knowing our data is safe, and build features that don't exist out of whatever else we have, however we can.

It's not always about what bugs or features exist or don't exist now. It's also about the nature of a project and how it's developed, and how it's going to evolve or otherwise behave in the future. After all, we're talking about databases here; we trust our data to them.
What kind of weird social gathering was this? A group of die-hard Linux fanatics? (And I say that as one myself) In most circles, especially "progressive" Americans, Apple is the tech darling. They *all* have iPhones and refuse to even look at Android phones because they don't want to have the wrong color circle in their SMS chats (SMS... how quaint).
It has long been a tradition of Wall Street to hire Ivy grads with name-your-social-studies major (History, Government, English, Philosophy) into investment banking analyst roles. These kids then proceed to live in Excel and Powerpoint for 2+ years. They get hired for the reasons that the parent commenter stated. It's different out here in the tech/startup world - you truly need the skillset beforehand to step into the role, but I imagine there are plenty of other industries similar to Wall St where they just want someone young and smart who they can train to do the job. The core curriculum gets thrown out the window - it's about time management, self motivation to be successful, smart enough to deal with ambiguity, etc.
Pressure would be bad for most lifeforms but since the bread doesn’t need to stay alive it is probably fine. Since it will be soggy anyway the pressure is coming outside in and from inside out. There is no overall inward pressure to crush it like a junkyard car.
Using traditional RAID (or moderate improvements on it, such as provided by btrfs and zfs) to provide drive-level redundancy seems like a waste of time when you also have to worry about redundancy between servers, racks, datacenters and regions.

All of the arguments for why it's better to have something like zfs handle RAID rather than layering something on top of a traditional hardware RAID controller also work for explaining why you should prefer managing storage more globally rather than layering on top of something like zfs—if you have the resources to develop and maintain a true "full stack" storage solution. Which Facebook/Meta obviously does, when they can do things like publish their own spec documents that SSD vendors design around.
> Would you pay for Ritz Carlton out of your own pocket for a business trip?

Yes. I would and have. Your personal means and current state in life shouldn't be part of company policy.

Policies like this are simply terrible for everyone. Those who would spend trip over some unspoken convention and upset others without knowing. Those who would not spend are left with a worse experience for no reason. No one has a clue about what is or isn't allowed, so everyone suffers.

It's nonsense.
Twitter's now on the hook for a $13 billion dollar loan, they've lost advertisers hand over fist and they've now got potential legal issues on the horizon due to the way some employees were let go. They're worth considerably less now no matter how you look at it.
It's also when you can start iterating effectively.
My proudest hack would have to be when I figured out how to bypass the administrator password on my parent's computer. I had been trying to access certain programs and files that were restricted, and after some research and trial and error, I was able to successfully hack into the administrator account without them knowing. It was a satisfying feeling to finally have access to everything on the computer. It was the Windows XP era.
This is in some ways deliberate from management. They’re often not really needed and are making busy work for themselves at the expense of the company’s goals
Some of those funds were legitimate though? A $1B loan would have been fine, probably a fair bit more. How would she know where that line was?
Individual freedom is incompatible with individual freedom. If I want to kill you, then one of us is going to experience a lack of individual freedom.
Sure, but what do you do about it? I've never been able to formulate any rules that wouldn't have worse, unintended consequences. Running for a political office is essentially advertising yourself, and that takes gobs of money, existing fame, connections, or all of the above.

Trying to limit 'who' can contribute is fraught with violations of free speech or picking and choosing the definition of what a 'company' vs an 'organization' is.
In other words, it seems they removed the UI to change it but left the underlying code alone, presumably because it's an easier change and they want to judge how much people would complain first (before, possibly, later re-enabling the UI to do it and praising themselves for how much better they've made things.)
Yes, it's possible with inf-ruby-mode in Emacs; C-x C-e at the end of a definition works the way it does for Clojure, though the actual REPL implementation in Emacs never feels seamless the way CIDER does (i.e. it generally requires fiddling around with various config settings whereas CIDER basically Just Works™; it feels more like GUD than a proper REPL).
My uncle was in a similar situation: bought a granola bar, price was wrong, free granola bar. He went back a few days later and the price was still wrong. He’s a lawyer, and he sued the store and won (false advertising or something) to get them to fix the price. Pretty awkward because it’s the closest store to his family’s house. His son said it best one day, “dad, are you bored at work?”
ETA: I would assume this is an isolated incident of calling people at 3am until given more evidence to the contrary.

Agreed (and the GitLab person in a sibling thread said this as well), but I'm just saying, being a remote-first company should make you less likely to do this, not more. It'd be more understandable to me if they generally hired from a narrow window of timezones and recently expanded to hire from anywhere.
Did well in what context? RAID5? There were enough people with motivation to spend time on it rather than other things for mdadm/zfs. It's not like btrfs devs wouldn't know how to implement it if you paid them to work full time on it.
Reread the comment you replied to. Slowly.
The author speaks of "brand" but what does that really mean? Is the content filtering mechanism a key part of a "brand"? What content filtering does the author prefer? What is the author's brand preference? It wasn't stated.
Gravity storage is an absolute joke. About the cheapest substance you can use is iron ore because it reduces the size and cost of the frame, and if you had everything else for free it would still cost you over $70/kWh for a box of it to store 1kWh in a 500m high tower.

Renewables with straight gas backup and no other storage are already lower carbon than any other option, and batteries and off river PHES have only just started getting cheap.

The breakthroughs we need to cover the final gap have already been made if you're paying any attention at all.

Stop concern trolling
Some people, self included, may find that dark mode is easier on their eyes because it reduces the amount of blue light that is emitted by the screen. Blue light can cause eye strain and fatigue, so reducing the amount of blue light can help to make your screen more comfortable to look at.
Large Fisher Price Picnic/Play Table
I had something like this happen once -- a company I was at had these old RAID arrays that we kept limping along while we waited for budget to buy ones from a company that hadn't ceased to exist, and at some point a disk failed in some way that caused the RAID system to lose its internal partition table information (to my recollection... it's been awhile).

I could still access the block devices, but couldn't instantiate the logical volumes, and dumping dd chunks showed that there was data there... so I wrote some code to scan the disk for ext2 magic numbers, and once I found them did some math on paper to find the partition boundaries and very... carefully... recreate them. I have a photo of the piece of paper here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jedwards/4494268626/
Been playing around with this and honestly so far it's not even 10% of what ChatGPT is. "Up to date" is a cool novelty, but in practice it doesn't hold a candle (yet).
Because all the training is made on a proprietary system (and the prices are high), the MCU is just running the model.
This one is so silly but also, was one of the first hacks I ever executed.

I was a kid, trying to play the game "Thief" on a newer computer. The game would never boot, always crashing when it tried to load video. I found all the video files, and deleted them, and the game worked. I felt like a god.
"a Californian accent"

FWIW, Hickey has hardcore east coast accent, sounds nothing like any Californian who hadn't recently moved from New York or Massachusetts.
Imagine putting esports into the Olympics, lol

IOC is well known to be super-dooper corrupt and that was icing on the cake.
This is the issue with companies forcing 2FA on people. I don't see why it's so controversial that people should be able to make their own security decisions on their own accounts.

Yes, I know 2FA is more secure, but sometimes, I just don't care that much.
"Spend money like it's your own." It isn't and you can't put savings from enduring discomfort in your retirement account or forgo your holiday for additional comfort now.

There is a reason we like rules, policies and principles written down and enforced as written.

"There are no rules" With suggestions of "values" or whatever in place means you can't know in advance what an infraction is and you can be punished in an entirely unjust fashion with no recourse beyond appeal to those higher castes. This is a normal course of events in humans organised under a regime known as a dictatorship. Be it a smallish company or a country.

In a small organisation it really can work with little to no abuse. The larger the organisation gets the more horrible it generally becomes. At the country level it is essentially universally horrific for those who have to live subject to it. (Debate Singapore elsewhere, it's not interesting here).

The rule of law is a good thing. Being friends with the right people making what one person can do wildly different to another sucks very hard.

The flip side to note is that you can't make a bad employee (usually a manager) a good one by making policy pronouncements. You can't make (necessary) social norms accepted and socially enforced and adhered to by passing rules.

"We have no rules" presented as a positive for any community is a statement one should immediately be concerned about and consider its implications. It's up there with "There is no set amount of annual leave - take what you need" It just isn't at all likely to work in your favour unless you've decided you're short term and game it and even then it miraculously probably won't be approved or paid before you are cut for trying to actually take a reasonable amount.

Does anyone like HR and think of the HR dept. as a positive who doesn't work in HR? They're the pointy end of nastiness who are absolutely not on the side of anyone who is abused by someone senior. How's Harvey Weinstein's HR dept doing?
I think that's because the libraries it uses are non-free (I haven't checked though). If I'm correct, that's more like a license key in that regard.
On mobile so I'll let other ppl sezrch. My $0.02: atmos pressure is a resultant of gravity, which is a result of mass.

The mass has reduced over time, due to solar wind blowing away our atmosphere. But compared with the mass of the friggin' earth, my intuition says atmos pressure has reduced only slightly
Why? In the US program the government pays for them. What kind of business would turn that down?

Looks like the CRTC mandates cheap plans the mobile companies offer free phone and plans too.

https://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-release...
Free money no longer available. People stop throwing free money at anything and anyone. More at 11.
From their pricing FAQ[1]:

19. Why do Picovoice engines require an internet connection?

While data is processed offline, locally on-device, Picovoice engines call home servers to stay active and report the consumption for billing purposes only.

[1] https://picovoice.ai/pricing/
I thought it was interesting, but I took particular note of your experience because I own a Therm App Pro. It’s an amazing device. I only wish there was an easy way of powering it directly.

Related, do you know of a source for other lenses? I have the standard (19mm?) and 35mm lenses, but I’d love to have some larger lenses that are compatible with the imager.
Very nice and succinct!

Thanks for sharing.
No western governments have enough money
There are many, all of Asia. Large parts of Europe are also much more conservative than this reductionist view of politics.

Additionally the view of American conservatism that requires implicit racism ignores that there are a whole host of Republican voting Hispanic folks, Vietnamese people, etc.
I'd ask if you kept a list of files that caused Windows to fail to boot, but this was a drinking game...
Thank you for the charitable take and insightful response.
Do the same with Linux!

Much easier these days with virtualization and COW images.
This is just an advertisement from an account posting only about this product, in the form of an article showing a demonstration of a free-tier of their offering only working on that specific board. So it is a demo you are allowed to reproduce yourself at home.

Good luck for your company, it sure is hard to make one grow.

Edit: removed the word misleading before advertisent. And explained what i meant after the word product.
I know FreeBSD is used by Sony on its console, by Netflix and by WhatsApp. Everyone knows because they are pretty much the sole serious contributors to it. I don’t think it’s particularly relevant nor do I think it’s particularly good to be honest but we are getting far from the initial discussion about ZFS.
Thanks, I will give it a try. I am going to build a cascading approach where I will use inhouse tools to check first, and then when necessary or unclear, you other tools to verify. This would come in handy!
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> which is, in and of itself, insane because FTT worked more like a stock of FTX itself - a company doesn't put its own stock on the asset side of the balance sheet

Thinking about it, it makes sense. But I never did before. So where does a company’s own stock normally end up at, balance-wise?
Maybe they don't need a cooprerating witness or special deals. Apparently the companies were really badly run, with lots of clear-cut violations, making it very easy to file charges.

From The Verge article about the arrest of Bankman-Fried (
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23506483/sam-bankman-fri... ) :

John J. Ray III, who has taken over for Bankman-Fried as CEO of FTX and whose credentials include supervising the corporate cleanup after Enron imploded, has already said, 'Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.'
For anyone else worried about this, print off your backup codes and put them in multiple places. A friend's house, a fire safe, a safety deposit box, etc.

I nearly had the same issue. My phone died and I couldn't get my new phone on Google Fi without receiving a text message but I couldn't get text messages until I was on Google Fi. My backup codes saved me.
The extra UI eye candy on modern systems is as near as matters "free" now, as long as you have plenty of RAM.

I'm not sure there's much "eye candy" in modern UI anymore, given the regression to completely flat, sometimes even borderless UI elements starting in Win8.
Not if fusion would cost orders of magnitude more than storage.

"All the problems associated with" what? Modern batteries don't burst into flame. Anyway the overwhelming bulk of storage is not and will not be chemical batteries.
If you would like things to be explained in more detail (and take you to the next level); i highly recommend Embedded Systems Architecture: Explore architectural concepts, pragmatic design patterns, and best practices to produce robust systems by Daniele Lacamera. The name is a bit of a misnomer; it is basically a ground up introduction to bare-metal programming all the way up to writing your own Task scheduler/OS.
Yes, we had a neurosurgeon run for the Presidency who, according to experts, had some foolish tax policies he wanted to implement. You don’t hear me making pronouncements on tax policy, because I don’t know enough about it. Nor should a “harm reduction counselor” try to make authoritative statements about neurological pharmacokinetics and the like.

Seems like you didn’t quite think that analogy through.
The explanation is that the story has been made up. You don't need to pass a second factor for "Find my Device". You can confirm that by visiting https://www.google.com/android/find in an incognito window.
It's not justice, but the same phenomenon. If certain group has a larger tendency to commit crimes, and you have limited time and resource to look for crimes, it's overall more effective (arrest more people and perhaps prevent more crime) to disproportionately target that certain group. Men and blacks do in fact proportionally commit more crime than women and other races, but less so than the rate of incarceration suggests. There are only two ways to prevent this: being super effective and checking everything (police state), or being less effective and arrest less criminals for taking extra steps to arrest in just proportion (there are legit reasons to want this, e.g. it'd be terrible for society if for example white women had the sensation they could commit any crime without punishment. But to what degree is that extra effort worth it?).
New industries come from crazy people (2021)
Obviously not advertising here, just on a nostalgic trip and wondering how many of us had this table as children and enjoyed meals on it with our siblings/friends.
Blind Smartphone Camera Test
This is incredible. I'm learning so much by just reading the source code and trying it out.
> Also really surprised the laser colors are only 4.5nm apart!

Sounds tiny when you are talking about wavelengths, but convert to frequency and it's 3THz in near-IR.
They are, however, secret codes, and should be regarded as confidential. Just because you can divulge them without direct harm does not mean you should publish them on billboards and Facebook for safekeeping.
OK, then the policy should be, “Have common sense, understand how expenses work, and what reasonable expenses are.” But their policy is “Spend our money like you are spending your own money.”
The examples of strong opinions are really poor in the article. The one you've quoted isn't an opinion at all - nobody would prefer a nuisance over collaborative scheduling!

It's a shame because I do agree with the premise. Opinionated software is easy to use and therefore quickly carves out a niche with like-minded users.

We often hear about unpopular opinionated product decisions, but would love to read some good real examples where the PM has gone out on limb and it paid off.
Ask HN: Launch before Christmas or wait till next year?
I have an early beta product that's almost ready for consumption. Should I do a soft launch before the holidays and gather feedback or polish some more and wait until people are back to work?

For context: The product is for a niche audience, mostly free and is an opener for more products along similar lines.
What does any of this mean? In what way is Popehat (a law blog and accompanying Twitter account) a “petty dictator”? What “filth and corruption” are we talking about?

I get that these are all things that feel good to say but I don’t think it’s out of line to ask for actual substance here.
Can I boycott thing I was probably never going to buy anyway?
How have they (China, Russia, US) solved the thermal issues of travelling multiple times the speed of sound through air and keep their electronics working in "mass manufactured" vehicles (ie. keeping a bespoke shuttle from burning up is one thing --it's has lots of hangar repair time)
The era of network TV was tightly controlled and ideologically narrow. It's not a mediascape anyone should want to return to.