skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot recall the specifics but I remember that there were some issues with eSIMs for certain use cases (possible that those were teething troubles that have been resolved).

Also, I like the flexibility of using the physical SIM because I can easily use them with both smart and feature phones without issues.
> Having a unified tool set works wonders for group productivity, no more messing around with some employees not having a certain package and others needing to customize their vim configs.

Completely agree: the entire company should be on a common, future-proof, extensible, free platform: Emacs!

I honestly don’t understand why anyone bothers wasting effort on any other editor.
Settlement of the building it's housed in, temperature variations (things contract and expand as temperature changes), random impacts and vibrations (e.g., road traffic, heavy construction nearby), and so on. All of these contribute to fatigue.
Wish Umberto Eco were still with us to write a witty essay about this (and/or a mystery novel about a wild conspiracy spawned by this a la Foucault's Pendulum)
> while the EU has threatened sanctions

sanctions against a privately owned website eh? I've seen sites blocked because of illegal content etc but never because a website banned certain users
Do you even know what an OS is? How can you ask this question? Who will communicate with the hardware?
Not a bad idea. Imagine an AI where you give it a book like For Whom the Bell Tolls and it can then answer questions like "What happens to Fernando at the bridge?"
As user I would just return the device back and purchase a reliable USB based device.

As a Mac-user would do?

I guess a Windows-User would just rate [1/5] stars and don't even research.

We should keep in mind:

Linux users care a lot and do research. Most other will just say "nope" and leave it a issue for the manufacturer or keep turning it off and on again. What I don't know is if the initial situation is to blame upon Linux, Intel (Thunderbolt), device manufacturer or all of them. We have valuable post a the top explaining PCIe-Pause on MacOS and that Linux tries to apply a similar mitigation?

Apple:

Because Thunderbolt allows the addition and removal of arbitrary numbers of peripherals connected in arbitrary topologies, the task of dividing up the PCI tree’s address space can be challenging. Sometimes, particularly when large numbers of devices are attached, it is possible to exhaust portions of that address space. When this happens, a new device cannot be enabled without moving existing devices.

To solve this problem, OS X v10.9 supports PCIe Pause—a special power management state in which all driver and device operations are temporarily suspended. Whenever address space exhaustion occurs, OS X may ask drivers to pause operations. After the drivers are paused, OS X changes the address space layout of the paused devices to make room for new devices, and then tells the drivers to resume normal operation

Oh.

If your driver does not explicitly declare support for pausing, your driver will never receive pause requests. As a result, devices may fail to appear when the user plugs in additional devices, particularly on hardware with multiple Thunderbolt ports. For this reason, you are strongly encouraged to support this functionality as soon as possible.

Ouch. On Linux this shouldn't be an big issue because the kernel provides them.

From the mentioned Linux patches:

Currently PCI hotplug works on top of resources which are usually reserved:
by BIOS, bootloader, firmware, or by the kernel (pci=hpmemsize=XM). These resources are gaps in the address space where BARs of new devices may fit, and extra bus number per port, so bridges can be hot-added. This series aim the BARs problem: it shows the kernel how to redistribute them on the run, so the hotplug becomes predictable and cross-platform.

Fits into what Apple describes. The patch for Linux would be helpful. And I've the feeling that the approach Intel has chosen to add TB upon PCIE isn't bulletproof?
Diplomatic preface:
I think Oracle is a pretty darn good database just so thats said.

Opinion:
Why would you say there is no open source analog to the Oracle DWH setup? CitusDB has been able to replicate the mix and match of OLAP and OLTP for quite a while now. In my time as an architect in MSFT we were competing (and successfully too) with CitusDB and Postgres against bespoke complex Exadata setups already a few years ago, and CitusDB just keeps getting better as they integrate more and more options for working with columnar data.

Oracle just straight up ignores all the goodness that has come out of modern operating systems and still tries to peddle Exadata setups with custom hardware nodes and whatnot when a large swathe of those problems can be solved horizontally instead of vertically.

If your business is a thin layer around a finely tuned Oracle setup then ofc it becomes pretty stupid to suggest moving off that and into Postgres in any kind of less-than-five-years project. I would say though that for new projects it is most likely cheaper to either hire postgres experts to replace your oracle experts or just let your Oracle gurus forget all the vendor specific tuning you don't really focus that much on in Postgres than it is to pay for Oracle.
I think it's important to point out that ChatGPT would do a terrible job here.

The whole problem with ChatGPT is that there's no underlying system of reasoning. For instance, it doesn't know how to weight the trustworthiness of the NYT versus CIA documents versus some random person writing screeds online.

You'd be much better off loading all the relevant documents into a traditional search engine, and trying to find the most salient bits yourself.
I agree 100% with the "100s of TB" comment. More: If you find a bug in the database, they will fix it ASAP -- sometimes 24 hours or less then will send a patch. (I have seen it more than once in my career, and I am not a super databasey person.) Of course, you pay dearly, but that part is good value for businesses where "the DB is the biz". Businesses that come to mind are telco, utilities (elec, water, gas, etc.), retail/commercial banks, insurance, hospitals, pharma, universities, gov't. In the extreme, they can generate TBs of data per day.
This article is pretty shallow, but I agree with the broad strokes. I'm personally betting on Godot reaching an inflection point (I have $$$ personally invested in a startup betting on this), but I think it's totally a great outcome if the market is shared between Godot, Unity, and Unreal. I think the most likely scenario is that Godot enters in the indie/low-end market and moves up the ladder, Epic continues to dominate the AAA market, and Unity is squeezed somewhere between.

With that said, none of this is guaranteed and will require significant commercial support to make Godot remotely competitive. Some problems are immediately obvious like the lack of tutorials and an asset store (that's what we're working on in the near-term), but it also involves more sophisticated multiplayer options, a better asset pipeline, and much much more, so it's going to be a long road.

But I'm optimistic about Godot's future. I'm currently putting together a simple 2D RTS game with Godot 4 beta to use as a tutorial and template and it's been such a joy. Despite the bugs and the warts, I've gotten so much done in just two weeks. If you squint really hard, you can see an army of indies in the future making simple, but great games with Godot in half the time they do today and that gets me really excited.
The Enduring Value of an Analogue Technology
From an engineering perspective these sorts of acrylic tanks are a nightmare to ensure they are safe. The seams are impossible to inspect rigorously so the only real way of checking that they are safe is to load them with an excess pressure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_test ). This can't be done with a tank of this size so the engineers can only real fall back on giving the tank excessive safety margins. But those safety margins cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a tank this big so maybe they were reduced.

All it takes is one incorrect application of a seam bond and a small crack will form. The crack may take decades to propagate with no way of detecting it. When the seam opens up a bit the crack will then propagate the entire length of the seam extremely rapidly and the whole tank will fail. Ideally failures would be slow and predictable but this is impossible with acrylic.

These sorts of failures have occurred before https://www.plasticstoday.com/materials/when-acrylic-aquariu... and will keep occurring as long as this type of construction is used.
Sass/SCSS Security Alert: Tar Permissions
As a quick clarification, Forgejo is a soft fork, not hard.

They will still benefit from upstream contributions.
I'm fascinated by old document templates, including handwritten notes and marks on them.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...

They played such important roles pre-computer days, and to this date still do.

1960s office environment was so different watching old footages like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zUQD1p9bXY
Survival Ball: Making the Game [video]
It was positive enough for people to use it for a long time, while having the ability to change it and not doing so. Surely that means something?
And most forums break down into toxic fights since the dawn of time. What’s the problem with his view?

On a forum it really is much better when you give your 2c and then forget about the thread than hovering over it intercepting every new utterance. Time to close the browser tab.
> Not sure I fully understand your second point: are you implying that I don't really know what programming is?

What search algorithms have you developed?

What non-trivial, non-Flask/Django/React, non-plugin/non-API tool, or library, or frameworks, have you written?

What actual percentage of your work output comprises computationally hard problems?

If we're talking programming, that's real programming, the kind you should be comparing 'hard' art to.
Can someone comment on Barrier vs input-leap? (https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap?)

It looks like input-leap has drag-drop in the works, but apart from that I have no clue which one is the blessed one right now.
I'm kind of surprised that anybody bought Musk's pledged commitment to free speech enough to be upset when he started violating it.
Yeah, I manage Windows and Linux computers at the same time, and Win machines have their fair share of WTFs too. Update is horrible for example, I had two cases over the years where it just borked itself, on systems that have the least amount of tinkering possible - one was even a preinstall by the manufacturer. After many hours or struggle, I found and downloaded the Windows Update Troubleshooter, which fixed the first PC in a short time. But the second time I had this issue, even the troubleshooter gave up, and the system just wouldn't update. Tough luck. Linux at least doesn't treat me like a child that broke a vase in the living room.
It's still a lot. Mastodon has grown enormously. If Twitter keeps burning and Mastodon can handle the influx (the latter is the bigger 'if' here), that it may continue to grow.
Hi friends!

I've been working my whole life pretty much with being more consistent with things/having solid habits: this led me to do a deep dive into that and end up deciding to tackle the problem of habit-building at scale by supercharging the experience with social accountability and gamification.

I've gathered the result of most of my research and what I've discovered for free on that website (2023resolutions.me), i.e. 300 pages of notes on the behavioural psychology of habit-building, a tool to find accountability partners and discuss about consistency tricks/habit-building hacks, the ability to join gamified accountability games to build habits, and much more!

To boost the number of people who register for the accountability challenges, I added a referral system (Harry's style) - it will be very apparent after you enter your email address.

This is the first time I built something like that. Could you guys have a look and let me know what you think of it as well as what I should improve or beware of? I'd also be very grateful if you could share literature that speaks about referral system in general (podcasts, articles, books)

Looking forward to interacting with your comments and suggestions! :)
But I don't want to click (or not even click) and install random stuff from the internet. It's a security, performance and stability risk. My editor should do what I tell it to, not go solo. While I understand your viewpoints, my priorities are just not aligned.
I own a Sublime Merge license and I've been using it as my only Git client for the past year, at least.

It is faster and exposes what I want to do better than any other Git client I've tried. It's easier than the CLI to use, and so far I've found minimal things it cannot do.

I would recommend it to anyone (unless they're obsessed with all-CLI tools for efficiency, then I guess not)
U.S. Intel Community Dropped the Ball on Covid-19, Congress Finds
By now, any Google social product is DOA. After Wave/Plus/etc, a new site won't gain significant early adopter attention. They're better off buying an existing thing or spinning up their own improved AP/Masto service, taking a page from the gmail playbook.
IMHO the most stunning scene in "Devs" was the on-screen re-creation in real "time" of the Crucifixion by their quantum computer/AI/ML model.
I am very interested in this idea. Has anyone used postgres_fwd in RDS to connect to their own postgres instance where they run custom extensions?
>I'm not sure what I learned.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
[1] explains: "the EU's Digital Services Act requires the respect of media freedom". Claiming that the suspended journalists are somehow doxxing Ol' Muskie by reporting on the elonjet fiasco isn't going to get past many bullshit filters.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63996061
Face recognition on broadcast of Finnish independence day
> It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics.

I think it’s you that’s missing the point here. It’s only abuse of power if the rule against doxxing is invalid. So it does come down to the rule and whether or not doxxing is acceptable. If we decide that doxxing is acceptable and posting anybody’s real-time location data is acceptable (without their consent), then he is abusing powers. If that is your conclusion, then you don’t have the right to complain should it happen to you. If you believe the opposite, that doxxing is unacceptable, then the rule should apply equally to everybody. Critics and journalists do not get a free pass to break the rules.
This is the second time in a month now that Elon has justified actions which go directly against his previous statements by using his children as props (not to mention we have no idea if the events that he claims happened with said children even happened).
> are unlikely to allow me to completely delete it

They're legally obliged to do so for European customers, if requested, no?
They'll lose a lot of customers if they don't support deleting all data.
Google Dev Library Letters: 16th Issue
It's not. If it wasn't his personal plane but a chartered plane or one out of a pool of company planes, this wouldn't be an issue.
Yeah, I’m talking a good few years ago now.

The patent would have long since expired — never mind any deals between patent holders.
Yep, the future of SWE is debugging AI.
Also, it's not like OP haven't learnt about kernel parameters. Often not just the dicrete knowledge itself, but also the way of arriving at it is just as useful.
Does any commit to forgejo benefit gitea ltd also? What about other way around (while gitea is still opensource - is it, btw?)

Or how does a soft fork work?
[I wrote a comment about my half-remembered experiences writing C code for Z80 back in the 1980s, and how compilers didn't do very well, but deleted it because these links summarise the situation much better. In particular it looks like Z88DK solves the problems I was having (if only it existed back then ...)]

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/why-...

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/4924
Wait a minute, so did they dox him or not? One side says yes, the other says no, but no one produces the actual tweets.

I find it hard to believe a tech journalist would waste his time to report on Elon's whereabouts on twitter. His pals at the newspaper claim "he was reporting on the story". So perhaps he attached a screenshot of the doxing tweet? Seriously, this whole story is worthless without seeing the relevant tweets.
Inverse Cramer Strategy is interesting but it's not exactly an inverse strategy. From the description:

This strategy takes a short position in Cramer's 10 most-recommended tickers (whether bullish or bearish) over the previous 30 days, and hedges it with a long position in the market index.

A true inverse strategy will go short on his bullish tickers and long on his bearish tickers. Also, value-weighting will be more appropriate rather than equal-weighting.
> Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.

Why would I limit myself here in any way? I think that's a terrible idea. But then again, maybe I'm using my social networks wrong and the difference (to my blog for example, which has technical content) is exactly that I don't want to send my "I've discovered a nice brand of coffee today" message to a 10 person coffee circle (I don't care enough), but to the people who follow me. This only makes sense because I've been successfully using Twitter for 13ish years with <200 followers and following.
Twitter Press Suspensions Become Media Flashpoint
DIY Pen Plotter with Automatic Tool Changer – Arduino Based CNC Drawing Machine
I always wondered, what is the rationale behind pricing certain software as
"per-CPU"? Why not per machine? I'm guessing it's something to do with the size of datacenters and their use of virtualization?
Look at Life – Rising to high office, 1963
We must go deeper: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...

This source article contains the key information that the heavy metals are not contaminants introduced by the processors, they are present in the beans.
Dude are you ok
Yes. Take it a step further. If an AI writes a book which experts cannot distinguish as not by a given author, does that mean the book is really by the author?
Goldman Sachs Considers Eliminating as Many as 4,000 Jobs
1. The PD in question couldn't confirm that Musk even filed a report about this incident (but that they were reaching out to Musk) according to a journalist who send an inquiry. We have no proof that this happened to begin with beyond claims by Musk and a blurry picture of a car. Musk banned the journalist who send the inquiry to the PD from Twitter. I would note that the journalist did not mention ElonJet in any form, just that there was no verifiable proof that it had happened.

2. Said picture of a car was location-traced by someone involved with Bellingcat to be extremely far away from any nearby airports; Musk suggests that someone was tailgating the car in question from the airport if I recall, but this would be absurd and not really possible given the distance. If the incident happened to begin with, it was most likely unrelated to ElonJet. He's blatantly using an incident with his child to ban an account he personally doesn't like.

To be clear, it's his full right to do this, but there's some irony in how the guy bloviating about free speech absolutism for weeks on end changes tune to "only the speech I like" the second he finds an excuse to do so.

Also going after journalists reporting on this is pathetic, not to mention shows a blatant disregard for freedom of the press, and as history has shown us time and time again, getting a journalist to shut up tends to just make them more vocal because of the Streisand Effect. More people than ever know about ElonJet than before he banned it and his repeated attempts to prevent people from linking to Mastodon.social and other big Mastodon instances because that's where the ElonJet guy went have only caused more reporting on it.
I've been supporting my father's computer for about 15 years now. It's the only machine he uses. He doesn't have root. He doesn't use a command line. I used to have an autossh connection for his machine to talk to one of my servers, and now we use Wireguard instead, for the rare occasions (about once a year) that he needs something looked at.

Support is basically zero these days. He uses Chrome and Firefox and LibreOffice. He occasionally fires up the Simon Tatham Portable Puzzles collection. I have uBlock Origin installed on both browsers. I installed XFCE on day one, spent a couple of hours demonstrating things, and then left.

Every five or six years I buy a new tiny, NUC-like machine, configure it up, pull his home directory across, and then send him the replacement. There's more work on the phone getting him to plug the cables in properly than anything else.

Year of the Linux desktop? It's been more than a decade.
Hong Kong Launches First Crypto ETFs
Wow… that was… bad. Worse than I expected and I have low expectations. That’s toddler level behavior.

One wonders why someone let him do that in the first place if that’s his state of mind. He’s clearly not surrounded himself with competent people.
While Trump promised to do this, he unfortunately later agreed with the Intelligence Community to continue hiding certain information, which Biden has now done as well.
For some historical context, there’s been at least one serious proposal from a significant US politician along these lines:

https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php

In the interests of full context, Huey Long was an authoritarian populist and the Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith was a white supremacist by any meaning of those words. (Long wasn’t, but he was certainly happy to work with Smith.)
Might be a good application of Embeddings at least to be able to search for relevant snippets / information on a more free-text query: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-text-and-code-embeddings...
If OP used Windows exclusively, he'd have Windows evenings. There's tools that people complain about, and tools that people don't use.
Sauce: <https://nitter.net/ben_schachterle/status/158989325534039244...>
Pacifist Japan unveils biggest military build-up since World War Two
Google Nest and Android devices are now Matter controllers (for future devices)
To be clear, (1) we are discussing a hypothetical about the future, where things are different than how they are today, and (2) the hypothetical is only a clarification and the further argument does not rely on it.

So, I still have difficulty reading your comment and extracting a meaningful point from it. Any reply to you would be regurgitating things that have already been said.

More importantly, I've been trying to interpret your comments as made in good faith, but I don't think you're arguing with the contiguity of the thread in mind. It really seems like you're here to defend Tesla, and that "Tesla might buy Waymo tech" might sound like an insult to Tesla? (To this extent, I'm worried this might actually be another proxy Musk argument, which I really have no interest in.)

With all this, out of courtesy, I don't get HN notifications and I won't be navigating back to this comment thread to check for further replies.
Input Leap is an active fork of Barrier. It looks like Barrier is unmaintained.

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/1414
Exactly. My tendency is to jump in and try to root cause problems but nowadays the most productive solution is almost always some kind of a restart.