skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And what is it that will make it possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon?

Tom Lehrer
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Was he not involved in GoF research at the Wuhan lab? This is common knowledge now, no?

I am confused which part is the lie
The conversion is not fake, that is a pretty common trajectory. BTW, he was scheduled for execution, brought to the gallows and pardoned at the last second. That alone changed him.
What is "diapason"? I looked it up and the closest definition was "a burst of sound", the rest pertained to pipe organs.
This is an increasingly pressing concern with any hosted content platform, commercial or otherwise.

Glynn Moody is among those who've already been through this rodeo on Google+ (as was I). A fair portion of that content was preserve through the work of the Archive Team (which works with, though is independent of, the Internet Archive). Libraries can preserve such content.

As someone active on Mastodon (and having seen several instances there go down), I'm of mixed minds of preservation vs. desertation. I do see the value in preserving some content, though not all, though the process of curation is a challenging one, especially in the time-crunch of a shutdown announced with little lead time, on a service whose reliability is already declining and whose operators may be opposed to archival efforts. That last is not uncommon, and was one of the challenges encountered in the G+ shutdown, amongst others.

The legal issues Glynn addresses also deserve consideration, which should address both the interests of archivists and of those who would prefer to see their content die with a given platform. I've made some abortive efforts to discuss this with organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, without much progress to date (far more my own fault than theirs).
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Want to have some fun?

Happened to me back in the days of blogging.

Posted an image of me mocking them on my blog.
Sure enough they published it and they didn't notice for a while.
They stopped it soon after :)
One way to dim the screen without activating PWM is to leave brightness at 100%, but in the monitor's panels change the custom preset for the RGB channels to a lower value like 50%. It basically has the presentation of a neutral overlay filter. There is technically some dynamic range compression, but it's a perfectly serviceable solution for systems where you have no ability to install software like f.lux, or when you don't want the overlay to be warm.
Seems to me that until we can do it with a mammoth—which is way easier for a ton of reasons—bringing back any kind of dinosaur is about as sci-fi as faster-than-light travel.

Maybe as biology hacking becomes the new frontier in the coming decades we'll be able to work back from a bird to something impressively dinosaur-like, but I'm not optimistic about growing one from DNA fragments or whatever. Even with a complete genome I think it'd be damn difficult.
The video of the booing could have a copyright claim, by the one who filmed it.
lol… I think you forgot the sarcasm tags.
> Yeah, it's a bit old fashioned

That sums up Fedora and Red Hat's other stuff pretty well.
Tend not to parse all the generated content for meaning. Back into the analog, happy time!
Had the same problem. They used a scraper which runs on Amazon AWS ... so I blocked all Amazon AWS IPs (google for the list of IPs ... and than for a script which creates you NGINX rules for all IPs).
Works quite well.
Emphasis on said versus acts like
I saw Hateful 8 here at home, and was often the only person in the theatre laughing. If one hasn't grown up with the racist framework, how is one supposed to get all of Tarantino's gallows humour references to it?
> There's no concrete criticisms in the blog post other than vaugarities around "big Spotify".

Simply not true. He describes and discusses several concrete problems, all of which are related: Spotify is trying to control his experience in favor of their goals and counter to his. You may not agree with his goals, but they’re plainly stated.

> “… the consumer has a perception of control, but almost everything is controlled by the app-masters and faceless algorithms.”

> “I got tired of the dealing with an app (and a platform) that shoved podcasts and audio books in my face, despite having no interest in them.”

> “… dowdy app that exists not to delight its customers but instead meet the growth objectives of its stock market masters.“
Clicking a button from the tool bar that shows a popup of some type (e.g. color chooser) doesn't display the popup. I'm not asking for an exotic behavior. No it's not NVIDIA's fault because I have no such hardware.
At the bottom of the article:

"Negative views on crypto come at the same time as the public has soured on stocks. Just 26% say now is a good time to invest in equities, down two points from last quarter's survey and the most pessimistic level registered in the 15-year history of the survey. 51% say it's a bad time to invest, the third highest in the survey's history, bested only by the downbeat results of the prior two surveys."

It's an example of Base-Rate neglect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

Often done in media due to a bias they are attempting to confirm. Almost all financial assets are down, and not appealing to retail investors. Negative news gets clicks.
I feel like this really is for like a small percentage of companies. If you're already significantly investing in developers to build out a customized front end and infrastructure dev ops, eventually you might move to invest in the back end as well.
Coat makes wearers invisible to AI security cameras
The good news is that he doesn't (there no way he'd have time) run Tesla and SpaceX day-to-day other than at a very high level
what issues do you have with rewinding? long press and drag will seek forward and back.

the classical issue is one i’ve heard a few times, i’ve heard from a few different places that apple has been doing a ton of work in integrating whatever tech they got from the primephonic buyout — i don’t know enough about classical, but classical lovers are rabid about how great primephonic was.

between the upcoming windows apple music player and the work they’ve been doing to integrate the primephonic stuff, i suspect apple has been playing the long game.
My wife has a PhD. She told me that universities are reluctant to hire their own PhDs because they'd rather have the cross-pollination of ideas from other institutions, in order to avoid an institutional echo-chamber.
Imagenet (arguably the most used image dataset of the last 10 years) is the same, it's a list of URLs with full archives of the downloaded images available under some conditions.
So? Every other kernel ever designed also has critical kernel-mode vulnerabilities. The difference is, on Linux, they get fixed.
I’d put the starting point at the iPhone, but not for technical reasons and with a heavy American focus.

At the turn of the century I had a PDA with unlimited wireless data (Handspring Prism + Ricochet). I used that a lot for email and web browsing but stopped when those companies failed.

There continued to be PDAs on the market but the chokepoint as needing $100/month or more for an unlimited data plan. This especially toxic for the web where you have no idea how much data the link you are thinking about clicking on will use. Also, the phone carriers charged App Store fees which would’ve made Steve Jobs blush and had to be individually negotiated with every phone company so few developers even worked on apps seriously since the market was so limited.

The iPhone was a huge improvement in the device but equally big for Americans was the cheap unlimited data plan meaning you weren’t having to think about the cost before sharing photos or sending an email with an attachment.
China ironically follows a purer form of capitalism where they pretty much keep it strictly business. They don't try to push cultural change on countries they are trading with, it's just economics and things that benefit China the most
This is definitely one of those little trivia factoids that is surprising to me:

Apparently, WinME actually introduced at least one evolutionary improvement that stuck around, and wasn't a complete dead-end.
During the pandemic in America, it was nearly impossible for me to buy rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer for about a year or two. The belief that rubbing alcohol is effective against viruses seems widespread here too.
> Which is why it is not engineering.

I think using that as a basis for this conclusion is wrong. Software changes a lot because it’s possible and “CHEAP” to do so compared to engineering in the meat world. This is a business pressure/decision. If companies can easily and cheaply modify bridges arbitrarily, I believe they will; and this wouldn’t have any bearing on whether it’s engineering.

> Software that was running space shuttles was famously engineered.

This is exactly my point: Most swans are white, doesn’t mean all swans are white.
It amazes me how far down a dark road folks will travel without taking the time to look around and evaluate if they are indeed heading in the correct direction.
I feel Chris was a very intelligent human, who conveyed complex information, in a human-digestable manner, that many others of us struggle with.

I saw him present in Manchester at our ruby meetup, and later online.

We interacted a little about jobs at Shopify. But there didn't seem to be a part-time option for me. Something I need due to some health issues of my own.

I wonder if we as a group of ruby loving people, and the wider tech industry, can learn from this? I don't know.

It seems no matter what was said, the outcome would have been the same? I guess we'll never know. It's likely that those who worked with him, and were trusted, will perhaps say more intime. I hope they do not feel bad in any way. But perhaps there's aspects his family and close colleagues will be able to share intime, when things are less hurtful so we can learn a little from how to help others in this situation?

Big hugs to those close to Chris. And big respect to those writing amazing blogs in his memory.

Hugs to all.
Evidently it is not priced high enough (yet).

If the batteries have some life left, repurposing them for "static" usage such as solar, grid buffer and similar makes a lot of sense, well before attempting to recover the lithium.

AFAIK there are very few plants actually attempting to recover lithium and other precious materials from batteries and they are still - I believe - experimental/low capacity only.

The one in France (by Veolia[1]):

https://www.veolia.com/en/pollution/hazardous-waste/recyclin...

has only a video animation showing the process.

A new plant has been announced in the UK:

https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/veolia-announces-it...

[1] who seemingly is partnering with Li-Cycle for a new plant in Rochester:

https://www.veoliawatertechnologies.com/en/press/veolia-to-p...
Tough to make that case from the same historical perspective and era the author has used. In today's environment, sure, Apple's OS can be a Unix-like workstation, but back in the day...

In my own experience, rarely was a Macintosh even considered for Unix workstation replacement, although in the early OS X era we once brought in a brand new G3 purely for testing of portability but it was not a success for our needs so it was eventually used only for light office-related workloads. We never got around to trying a NeXT workstation.

EDITED to add:
IMHO only a lot of setup work i.e. Homebrew can make a modern macOS machine comparable to a classic Unix-like workstation for traditional UNIX capabilities.
Okay? Who's taking that away from you?
Wayland RDP Server with audio using Microsoft's WSLg stack
If anyone is wondering why it's called that

In the 17th century, the first French explorers approached the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron; they referred to their discovery as le lac supérieur (the upper lake, i.e. above Lake Huron). Some 17th-century Jesuit missionaries referred to it as Lac Tracy (for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy).[16] After taking control of the region from the French in the 1760s following their defeat in the French and Indian War, the British anglicized the lake's name to Superior, "on account of its being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent".[17]

(wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior)

It is still the largest lake by surface area.

While we're at it, Ontario used to be "Upper Canada" (from the POV of the Saint Lawrence river) and Quebec "Lower Canada". I.e. the naming scheme is even somewhat consistent.
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Tests demonstrate the current behavior of the software. If you don't have tests then all you'd need to do is manually run through millions of test cases manually, hardly better. What you've done is be the first person to go through a test case. Once there's a test that behavior will be documented, which I would much prefer to having to wait yet again for someone to find this test case.
> Only the government issues those.

Just wait when your neighbor repeats the packet at night, locally and undetected

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts#Se...
"They don't try to push cultural change on countries they are trading with, it's just economics"

Umm, what?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-univer...

among other things...
Gotcha. I'll just draft a law saying all devices must automatically unencrypt themselves when they enter my country's borders.

Hey, it's the law! You must comply, and for your convenience, your phone will do that automatically for you!

Good grief.
Being in the same department as your faculty advisor can also be politically challenging.
If Substack uses Ghost, why not just use Ghost itself? I'm thinking about doing that instead of Substack for my newsletter.
Source? In cycling those numbers are elite level if not beyond. Numbers for rowing are hard to come by but lower[1], probably drag lowering efficiency (bicycle drivetrains are 90+% efficient).

To put it into perspective, 250Wh translates to 800~900 calories burned in a half hour[2]. That's not something most people around me can do.

[1] https://rowinglevel.com/rowing-times/10000m-times

250Wh = 900kJ = 215 kcal at 100% efficiency; humans are ~25% efficient at turning food into mechanical work so ~860 with error bars
> Post installation the system will be fully upgraded and rebooted

While most users will use OS like this, the results become not easily reproducible, as new updates sometimes improve or worsen performance. Why not take release image and test without updates?
Peter Thiel has talked extensively about globalization and was ahead of the trend it seems[1]. Despite what feels like the majority of people on HN being pro-globalization, Covid and the War in Ukraine hopefully taught countries a good lesson in the power of domestic first and domestic focused production.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/03/08/thiel-globalization-is-o...
I'd forgotten about those mini-CDs. Part of the unboxing process was making sure you didn't scratch the driver disk.
That's an interesting excuse but isn't most PhD level academia at least in the United States a pretty big echo-chamber?
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No the problem with fingers is that they resemble hotdogs and the AI really likes hotdogs so you get a lot of fingers.

I can make things up too!
I think you don’t comprehend what is written. You are stuck on a narrative and go with it regardless of what is written. An example of this.

Clearly I brought supply chain issues as a way of demonstrating fragility in the global system. It was obviously used as an example to demonstrate that it doesn’t take much disruption to cause shocks to the system. The obvious reason for mentioning this is to show that it is quite plausible for climate change to cause major disruptions in how societies work. Your response is: This has nothing to do with climate change…. You failed to understand the clearly made point.

Another example. You mention that throughout human history migrations have happened and humans built societies where they migrated. I point out that the scale that this would have to be done under scenarios envisioned being a consequence or global warming is unprecedented. There 8 billion people now and mass migrations on the scale that would be needed have never happened before. Also, very few people actually grow food these days and so mass migrations would need massive amounts of new infrastructure in conditions that are not conducive to building said infrastructure. Your response to this is a non sequitor.

You haven’t thought through the implications and clearly you don’t have the slightest idea of what you are talking about.
For me, it's crazy they were able to stay that long time with the engine noise. Also, there's no that much space to stretch and doing some exercise. As the article says, most likely there aren't more people who want to try to beat it.
> Can the mouse scroll speed be configured in KDE, nowadays?

> (hint: the reasonable expectation, IMHO, would be to "open System Settings, go to Mouse Settings, and change a slider")

Yes. This is more or less what KDE does everywhere the upstream software stack supports it, and probably also what it already did the last time you tried it. This comes down to your distro's display server configuration.

On Xorg, mouse scroll speed is up to your X11 input driver, not your desktop environment. If the X11 input driver you're using for your mouse supports setting the scroll speed, that setting shows up in System Settings in your Plasma session. Libinput doesn't support this feature, so if you're on Xorg and you want it, don't use libinput as your mouse driver.

Under Wayland (which also uses libinput), the compositor mediates all input and so the KDE folks have worked around the issue and implemented the feature themselves.

See the upstream issue in libinput here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/74...
Your writing makes me think you're a bot.
Sure... regardless calling a Tesla self driving is blasphemous at best, though personally I find is criminally negligent.
GPT-J is a self-hosted open-source analog of GPT-3: how to run in Docker
Flutter Web exists. While it's not quite a JS framework (technically Dart compiles to JS but that's not what usually people mean), its web support is passable.
every department produces more PhDs than it has openings every year. they'll all hire the best they can. most universities don't produce the best.
For all the complaining I do about USB's naming standards—"Full Speed" is not in fact "full", it's slower than "High Speed"—I don't remember having the same gripes about Double Density vs. High Density :)
Another factor is that if your department's area is hiring for a new position that you might be a good fit for, your P.I. or advisor is likely on the hiring committee. Thus the committee then has to be wary of nepotism and conflicts of interest. When everyone is so incredibly specialized, it turns out that the sub-field you are working in is small.
> although I would love to hear that I’m wrong.

You'd be wrong there: https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/development/debugger.h...
If you want to keep the hype in check, do it with facts like /acidburnNSA did above. Let people debate. You don’t even know what will be announced. Repeating the same joke in every single fusion article is tiresome and has long past its funny expiration date.
Can you give an example where a Western player explicitly pushed a culture change and its Chinese counterpart didn't?
People I trust who caucus with Musk fans tell me they really like him because he thinks like they do and acts like they do or would. Isn't acting smarter or more goody than them.

Under that theory, being a normal guy would be bad for business in some places (and probably excellent for business in other places). Guess what? This is normal for business, not just tech. For some reason we're past "big business", "conglomerates", "industrialists", etc as the boogeyman archetype and now it's "tech".
It had others like System Restore.
China will demand, for example, that only Chinese companies can work on a certain infrastructure project, and then that company will migrate workers from China to Africa, which has no shortage of cheap labor, to do the work instead of allowing its companies to hire people locally. There's nothing "capitalistic" about that.
If someone has a direct contact to someone from the committee please forward them this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_jPzBZSIo
What were they thinking? Am I supposed to feel bad?
They helped an alleged criminal to escape from his prosecution.
Then they returned to a country which basically has no incentives not to extradite them to their ally. What were they expecting?
How do we know they start from nothing?
It was the same here - fluid dynamics was an elective at my university as well (one I took, but still not core syllabus). I guess amount of funding for a domain depends strongly on impact, and in the earth sciences output is much more immediately tangible than uncovering another supremely true but at-the-time inapplicable pattern of physical behaviour in the quantum, or context to humanity in the astronomical or cosmological domains.
I learnt my lesson 20 years ago when WiFi was a thing at first, that if you buy cheap crappy no-name WiFi cards, nothing is going to support them right, not even the manufacturer's drivers.
I really appreciated this blog.

I walked away with a lot more insight (no pun intended) on what is being considered as leading now of days. I admittedly started to become numb when it started to feel like a race to the bottom on who has the biggest pockets and largest datasets.
everything is a tradeoff, look at what happened during the Pandemic when we couldn't get ANY chips because of the supply chain issues.

For economics the tradeoff is between efficiency and resiliency. Global supply chains taking advantage of comparative advantage are efficient but can collapse from a single link in the chain failing. In this case the US is sacrificing cost efficiency for reliability.

Following your strategy is how you end up with Europe relying on Russia for energy, huge long term Black Swan potential in return for marginal savings in the short term
You could look at it as trying to get them blocked by search engines. Can you detect when they're proxying a search bot as opposed to a user? As for punish, you don't have to make it eye-bleach, just enough to make it firmly NSFW so nobody can get any business value from it, or even use it safely at work.

A little soft NSFW would also greatly accelerate them being added to a block list, especially if you were to submit their site to the blocklists as soon as you started including it. You can include literally anything that won't get you arrested. Terrorist manifestos, the anarchists cookbook, insane hentai porn... Use all those block categories - gore/extreme, terrorist, adult, etc.
Back in 1988 we used a Toshiba ‘286 laptop for programming something on the manufacturing plant floor. That laptop came with the useful Multisoft PC-Kwik Power Pak on 3.5” floppy disk.

I owned a generic ‘286 12 MHz DOS computer at the time. Since PC-Kwik was the Toshiba edition it would not run on generic ‘286. So I used DOS program Codeview, also on floppy, to find and successfully patch the code in the executable program that checked for identification as a Toshiba product. My very first reverse engineering experience.
Is that what their censors keep telling Hollywood?

"Guys, we want to keep this strictly business, that's why you have to change your movie the way Chinese state insists - puuuuuuure business."