skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait until your learn what a country or local government/police can do remotely to the baseband firmware of your phone with a court order...

10-20 years ago the FBI was regularly remotely programming firmware to listen in and record cell phone microphones to capture conversations of suspects. IIRC a mafia case hinged on data gathered in this way so it is not some abstract theoretical or crackpot theory (https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as...).

It's only gotten worse as phones have gotten more capable. You don't own squat about the device in your pocket at all times.
There are a lot of grumpy people who see a headline like this and say "good". From their perspective globalization is just a way for companies to export jobs to countries with looser labor standards that allow the corporations to treat them like slave labor and avoid environmental and ethical regulations in the host country while also killing off a whole job segment of honest union factory jobs that support a robust middle class.
Low dose of DXM and codeine is the best cough suppressant
> The Iomega Zip Drive, called a “superfloppy” drive and introduced in 1994, could store up to 750 MB of data and was writable, but it never gained widespread popularity, partly due to competition from cheaper and higher-capacity hard drives.

I've heard or read a few stories about the Zip Drive recently and they all seem to compress the 10ish years of existence and completely downplay it's impact or significance.

In 1994 a 1 GB SCSI drive cost over $1000 the largest IDE drives were about 250 MB, new PCs were shipping with 130 MB drives and 486 CPUs. If you need more than 1.44 MB of removable storage you chose between a tape backup and the rarer more expensive Bernolli drives; both requiring a SCSI interface. Tape drives were relatively inexpensive, slow and didn't do random access; reading or wring everything serially and it took hours to restore files. Bernolli drives were expensive and unreliable; the fail state was a damaged drive head.

I remember having an Irwin 40 MB tape drive that I used to backup games from my 100 MB Western Digital HDD. While tape was slow, it was still faster than installing Wing Commander or Papyrus Nascar Racing from 2 dozen floppy disks. It was also unattended unlike floppy.

When the Zip Drive arrived in 1994 it offered 100 MB of external storage in similar capacities to comparably priced tape drives for similar prices. It was random access like a floppy disk and you could read off of it rather than having to copy the files to your HDD like with Tape. It was also much faster and the parallel port version could be hot swapped without rebooting.

CD-Rs wouldn't be a thing for a couple years, they wouldn't be affordable for a couple more, and they wouldn't be reliable for a couple more. Initial drives didn't come with buffers and needed high performance machines, later buffered drives could still underflow if your PC couldn't keep the buffer filled. Burning disks was a ceremony where you carefully shutdown anything running and defragged your HDD to ensure nothing would interrupt the burning process. Everyone had a spindle of failed burns. Even when CD-Rs and CD-RWs finally arrived, they were slow. The ZIP drive was comparable to an 8x CD-ROM and those speeds for R/RW were still years away.

For a 6 year period after the initial 100 MB drive launched, the Zip drive was a big deal. I don't know what their definition of "widespread popularity" was but Iomega was huge for a time and quietly died off in the early 2000s.

When Iomega launched the Zip 250 in 1999, ZDNet wrote [0]:

> "...Iomega is poised to expand its already massive share of the removable storage market."

> "The biggest name in removable storage just got bigger thanks to the Zip drive's increased capacity--it now holds a generous 250MB of data."

The 750 MB version wouldn't arrive until 2002 as a last dying gasp from Iomega in an attempt to compete with CD-R/RW.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20001119014500/http://www8.zdnet...
Underrated point here. Floppies at least usually came with sticky labels so you could tell them apart.

With flash drives, If you're lucky, you get a colour assortment in the box.

I bought a packet of 5x16Gb drives, and I can't tell which ones are the "partitioned strange for use with a vintage machine" versus "my brother's backups".
on my website i used to have the opposite: a prominent line at the top stating that "this page is not under construction" along with one of those (not animated) workers with a shovel signs crossed out.
Restricting ICE use in a fuel crisis could happen just as easily. In fact, the IEA made such suggestions in March.

Actually it's very often easier to charge an EV from your own solar, wind or microhydro than it is to prepare your own petrochemicals.
I find myself regularly trying to talk my clients out of going headless on Shopify. The benefits are so hyped (and potentially real) but the cost/maintenance is significant.

I’ve come into working on multiple different headless sites developed by others who then walked away and left an entirely non-technical team to sort it out.

A well-built Shopify theme works great and plenty fast for even medium sized companies.
3 times per day: look at work inbox, read any emails that look important, create followup items in your todo list, mark all as read once none of the subject lines spark joy.
boondoggles

You should know that using words like that taints the rest of your comment. While you are welcome to your opinion, and expressing it is perfectly fine, you should be aware that other people may not take the remainder of what you write seriously.

$1,000,000,000/launch

A microwave oven used to cost more than a car.

We learn, we innovate, we iterate, and eventually the cost comes down. But we have to start somewhere.
The copyright notice and license is referenced in the JS library, that's enough.

This is literally no different from any reason person using bootstrap on their site in terms of license. Does every site powered by bootstrap have a link or attribution to Twitter?
Guess all that drinking water we have is just a waste then.

Highways too.

Airlines are unique in that they're essentially a public good that we've allowed to be a private market (look at how often the government intervenes in the industry).

That doesn't mean that airplanes are pointless.
Thank you for reminding me that it's time to install xsnow again.
> Wat. Is this the new NAFTA currency conspiracy?

That's not a conspiracy, central banks in both the US / EU are preparing for their digital fiat [1]

It's the FED and CIA's job to prepare the country for the future with research, intelligence and planning, i don't understand why people are afraid to mention them, they did it with SWIFT [2], they did it with Google and the hyper-text [3]

They anticipated and prepared for the digitization of the society and economy ahead of time decades ago already, there is no "conspiracy"

> This is disingenuous framing. Was the run-up to FTX’s dissolution similarly FUD?

I don't think that's disingenuous, when you look at the origins of FTX [4] (ties with US government), how it grew, and how it managed to approach Binance for a possible acquisition + the conjuncture and the climate of the market right before the acquisition are strange, specially after Binance's findings [5]

[1] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/

[2] - https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[3] - https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[4] - https://twitter.com/mgnr_io/status/1598978315913940994

[5] - https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/51123
Heat pumps should be paired with rooftop solar and batteries whenever possible for resiliency. I admit the use of natural gas will decline in my lifetime, but probably won’t be fully deprecated.
People in the developed world usually point to the Internet and mobile phones as the most prominent example of big societal changes in their lifetime, and those are obvious picks, but I think the end of rock as the dominant (super-)genre of popular music is overlooked.
I try! :-D

Isn't the moon tidally locked and that's why we never see the "far side" of the moon?

And the lagrange points are between us and the moon?

If so, I don't understand why the anchor on the moon can't be fixed.
Looks like it just went online: https://youtu.be/832JF1o7Ck8
They don't have "paid gigs" there. They bring in tons of subscription revenue, and Substack gave them advances against that subscription revenue. In each case, they quickly earned out the advance.
Here [1] is a low quality clip of the event.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbA3Y_hDh5w
All the music you want right now until the day they fall out with a record label, or some artist challenges their music on the platform, and so on.

Just remember, everything about Spotify is ephemeral.
Nitpick - both OLED and regular LED monitors emit less light when the screen is dark/black. The LED monitor is doing it less efficiently (because the LCD screen is blocking the backlight), but it's not "dark coloured light."
But then how can a manager meet OKRs/KPIs and get promoted?
Breast Cancer Foundation of Alabama invests $1.3M in breast cancer research
A less benevolent take is that VC money is primarily used to buy market share by selling below cost until other competitors exit and the company is left with a monopoly.
> maybe javascript to reload the progress page once per minute

Not even that, as there is meta refresh :)
> We seem to be getting to the point that CPUs are no longer I/O bound.

These memory modules are for server and HPC use, where memory bandwidth is still a major limitation for many workloads.

Your desktop CPU may not be memory I/O bound for your average single-task desktop use case, but a 128-core server running intense workloads or doing HPC can definitely be I/O bound.

Even desktop gaming applications show benefits from memory overclocking in most cases, so it’s not something that can be dismissed.
This feels silly. Not a single one of my userland tools does this, but they are clearly all GNU...
Interestingly, there's nothing "rural" about bad engineering solutions.

For example I live in a big city where they built an interstate spur that was essentially unneeded in the 60s because nobody expected the cities to start decaying in the late 60s, so they demolished the unused spur a couple decades later when it was apparent the city was permanently blighted and would never grow in that direction.

Insert a zillion "bridge to nowhere" stories here for a similar transportation infrastructure fail.

Another big city story: A local hotel/condo development wanted the entire city to pay for a light rail system for bragging purposes. They got it. It connects to very little and very few people ride it, but paying off the politicians to get it was less expense than the marketing bragging increased the sales price. Admittedly this is a corruption story not a civ-eng transpo engineering failure.

I mean, yeah, its sad whenever a "solution" makes things worse, but it's not specifically a rural problem. Reformers usually make money off making things worse, its a very old human story.
What are the core issues you see, and what about the workforce is being found out?
>As I am sure you have realized, language is a weapon for the Left, not a tool intended to help people communicate. As a weapon it is extremely useful, since most people still believe in reality.

What a breathtaking line; I literally gasped. This is a pristine example of reality building that could have be pulled straight from The Social Construction of Reality as an example, while also simultaneously doing precisely what it accuses its opponents of doing. What a rare gem.
globalization is dead long live globalization.
I remember really struggling to travel just a year ago when the UK ran out of fuel and the EV owners were laughing. I used one-way car hires from airports.

No doubt that was to block protests

In the real world though protesters don't use cars - they instead block roads to prevent cars from driving on them.
Moreover, some of these settings restrictions are encouraged or mandatory for the FCC/Ofcom/your-local-radio-regulator to certify your device. This is to prevent people from doing naughty things with the spectrum.
ok, that seems appropriate, is there an angle here?
I barely use Spotify at this point and I've been meaning to go through it and export lists of my playlists but alas, laziness...

My two biggest gripes with Spotify is how poorly it runs on every platform I use it on (web, Android, desktop), and the pushing of podcasts. It constantly has weird glitching and missing UI elements that show up a few seconds later. As much as I listen to podcasts every single day, that's not what I want to use Spotify for, as the podcast player is also atrocious. It has lost my position in my podcasts so many times. The only reason I no longer listen to the JRE podcast is because it's now only on the Spotify platform and Spotify is a terrible experience.

I've also run into the issue where songs in my playlists are removed for whatever reason. Why would I ever indefinitely pay money to some service when basic elements of it can be removed at any moment? Same thing happens for YouTube playlists, but at least Spotify has the grace to leave the song info there so you actually know what got removed...
And the price is...?
I would look into GTD - Getting things Done - which espouses creating a 'system' for time management.

To that end I recently started using Tick-Tick as my TODO app, and reconfigured it to match how I impliment my GTD system.

It's been great; I have it split at the top between work / home and I'm making great progress on both fronts, and rarely losing track of stuff now.

This is a good video that covers both Tick-Tick and GTD; I used this as a rough guide to setup my Tick-Tick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTjYWvumZ5M
Ask HN: Best macOS Apps for (9 YO) kids
My 9yo needed a laptop for school so we sucked it up and bought him a MacBook Air (M1). I've installed a couple of apps (Epistory for typing, Rocksmith for jamming on the guitar) but am looking for the best educational apps that money or free can buy. Gamification is good, but not strictly necessary. Can any other HN parents provide suggestions? Would greatly appreciate it!
Each Apollo launch cost on the order of 3 billion dollars inflation adjusted, 1 billion seems like a bargain.
But how else are they going to advertise that horribly full of themselves writers with subjects as interesting as How The Silicob Valley Accepted Me As Its Child And How I Made My First Million (contents: a load of self serving crap oh and also my dad is a millionaire and used his connections for me) are now writing on Substack?

It's just another Medium, except for some reason the writers there are _even more_ pompous and full of themselves.
That is not idiomatic C++. The author is showing off esoterica.
I just started on Lion’s mane (1:1 hot water extract, 450mg/day) and I already notice the effects on memory improvement. How long have you took it for the benefits to last? And what would your advice be about the ideal dosage? I am already taking fish oil, combined with a good diet and workout thrice a week. After taking lion’s mane I could feel what mentioned about the “great working memory when I was younger”. I just want this to last long.
I agree with the cash option. Just an Amazon gift card and everyone is happy. Otherwise you will always (secretly) anger someone and the budget thrown away without being used.
FWIW, https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/bit_field doesn’t mention that.

It does say bitfields of size zero are allowed (that forces padding to the size of the allocation unit), and also, curiously, says that, in C, “whether int bit-fields that are not explicitly signed or unsigned are signed or unsigned is implementation-defined.”
> It galls me that music went from radio's payola to the celestial jukebox of Napster to an algorithm pushing corporate recommendations.

The music business did, not music. Music is more accessible and shareable than it has ever been in the history of mankind.

> Worse, people (well, consumers, at any rate) seem to believe not being allowed to cultivate their own taste represents an improvement or added value.

No one is not allowing people to cultivate their own taste. People prefer others to narrow down the selection for them. For example, I like music, but I have no interest in seeking out new music I may or may not like. I am content with having others do that for me and just going with the flow of whatever ends up being popular.
That's because your country chose to make themselves completely reliant on a crazy mass murderer 3 countries over for its electricity production. But hey, it was cheaper (but not that much) than building solar and wind for a few decades!
Do they have good camera angles for Counter-Strike? Showing the game through a series of first person perspectives seems like a waste vs some kind of isometric or even interactive camera. I also don't really know of a game that has been designed to look good from the perspective of a spectator instead of just for the players.
The school that grants your PhD thinks it’s too good to hire you
you want to look for things that have alternative firmware options like tasmota
Something that's a common trope in intelligence/security industries - If you know a vulnerability, you're only going to be able to execute it publicly once. This will be denylisted shortly, not to mention that it costs like nothing for a person to do it themselves anyway...
why?

Because as a society, we decided long ago that everyone should be treated as equally as possible.

We don't throw people into the garbage dump because they're not as good at certain things as others.

We've encoded this into our laws, our norms, our education, and our society as a whole. We've even fought world wars because of it.

That you could even ask the question makes me think that you're just being provocative.
People in Ukraine print small props. But conventional design. For small electric engines good enough.
Than some. Will be nice to see some benchmarks. R-Pi 1 was not exactly flying. (R-Pi 4 is out of stock)
They said the attacker was passing through the client's user agent. If they get a user agent that is GoogleBot, they could check if the requesting IP is actually a valid Google data centre (there is a published list of IPs). If the IP is not Google directly, they could return a blank page therefore causing Google to index nothing through the mirrored site.
One word of caution with CBD's. If you are on any medications that are metabolized by the liver, CBD's can slow the metabolic process in the liver of your RX drugs and in effect amplify them. Quite a large number of people have ended up in the ER due to overdosing on their prescription drugs without actually changing the dose as a result of combining with CBD's. Making this worse is that some doctors do not know this which can prolong the time to stabilize the patient.

Here is one of the many discussions on this topic. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYCkVjdgDqQ [video] [58 minutes]
The size of the Equator is zero. But getting around the earth requires a lot of time!
> The Daily Beast has pretty much admitted that “White Supremacist” is a made up term.

Thank god such an established, authoritative, trustworthy institution has decided this for world.
This is a game of cat and mouse; although engineering approaches are fun, it's primarily an organizational/legal challenge, not a red/blue team exercise.

The first line of defense is contacting the relevant authorities. This means search engines, the hosting provider, and the owner of the domain (who may not be the abuser). Be polite and provide relevant evidence. Make it easy for them to act on it. There'll be some turnaround time and it's not always successful, but it's the best way to get a meaningful resolution to the issue.

What about in the meantime? If all the source IPs are from one ASN, just temporarily block all IPs originating from that ASN. There'll be some collateral damage, but most of your users won't be affected.
No required. In iOS can be disabled.
You can turn it off. Shouldn’t be too inconvenient if it’s important to you.
In my case it helped as a topical treatment for itching/pain caused by severe sunburn/sun poisoning.
I've been a Spotify user since 2009 and I've never seen something I used to listen to removed from the Spotify library.
Rostov-on-Don. It was kind of founded 1749 on decree of the Empress Elizabeth so it couldn't get even more Russian. But we have many different ethnicities there https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWD2Kkrd_bo (german filmmaker 1918)
>Is it only a lack of imagination that keeps them from retreating to gravel?

I think the chance of the feds paying for the replacement is doing a lot.
No required. In iOS can be disabled. Also in Germany.
Norway assisted in rescue efforts for the sailors abord the Kursk:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20110101161935/http://nucnews.ne...>

The Dutch completed the recovery of the submarine itself.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20031122015529/https://www.smit....>

Different roles.

Links via Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_(K-141...>
LastFM circa ~2010 is one of the most wonderful apps I've ever used. Spotify feels like a cheap knockoff while ironically being much more expensive. However LastFM was so good that even a cheap knockoff is enough to get me to pay my monthly fee.
Black Hat Europe redux: The top web hacking talks for 2022
https://archive.vn/VvzOE
They didn't ask ChatGPT to find flaws in the proposal.

Not saying it could, just pointing out that it wasn't asked to do so.
Just because another country has a law does not mean my phone should disregard what I told it to do.

This absolutely is a user setting.

How far we've fallen from sharing the DeCSS flag, to arguing that users shouldn't have control over their devices, and governments and carriers should.
If someone published code as MIT then use by commercial entities is hardly preying on it.
I live in a Spanish speaking country where some people take issue with the fact that groups of people are male by default, unless they are all female. Using "e" is preferred to "x" since you can actually pronounce it. Anyway, the clue that this is an American thing is not the fact that they try to make the language inclusive, it's that they don't even think about getting rid of the racist term "Latino" in the first place. A businessman from Ciudad de Mexico and a farmhand from northern Chile have so little in common that it's senseless to lump them together for most purposes, yet as soon as they step into the US they become part of this group labeled "Latino" and treated as as single unit (for "Asians" it's even worse). Most Americans, even many that self-define as "progressive" are so used to this racist framework that they don't see anything wrong with it
Your lecturer did you a disservice; clearly he only knew C, and didn't want to learn any more.

The more your C++ code resembles C, the worse it is.
As social media took off, the track of reason ran out
The market for treasuries would exist exist without theed, since they're issued by the treasury. Why not set a limited quantity of dollars and have that be that, or a quantity that strictly grows at some pre-defined and predictable rate?

I'm familiar with the argument that people would theoretically hoard deflationary currency, I'd counter that people will always spend to eat and purchase shelter.

Calling shots like we are obviously isn't working and the only 'stability' seems to be a nominal one in asset prices. Everyone is otherwise bemoaning how broken the economy is. Great, we kept boomer pensions safe and quietly watched wage/salary earners' purchasing power erode. Seems like a false 'stability' to me.
The price was a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, not marijuana. (source: interviews with Musk himself)