skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A desktop computer that you leave at the office in 2022 is the height of status and luxury.

My first job out of college was for a government agency where everyone had an assigned desk with a desktop PC. The people at the top of the org chart all had laptops with docking stations so they could be mobile. Of course they almost never were mobile, but their laptop was a physical reminder that they were more important than the rank and file, because they could be off to meetings in D.C. any time!

Years later, I have a corporate laptop that I am forced to schlepp back and forth to work if I choose to go into the office. I usually don't choose to go to the office, because the office is an open plan, hot-desk model. Pack it in, pack it out. There are no pictures, desk toys, ergonomic keyboards, or anything personal—just a standing desk with the same generic keyboard, mouse, docking station, and monitor that are magically reverted to their standard position within minutes of you leaving the area.

Packing up for the day and leaving the factors of production at the office along with any expectation of telepresence sounds... opulent. I maintain that a desktop isn't a computing form factor, but is instead a place and a lifestyle.
Cognitive Apprenticeships
/Off topic

I was going to ask how to test these things as I need to do some housekeeping too. I just found out about (and bought) a digital USB volt/amp meters. Here's an example. [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Eversame-Multimeter-Voltmeter-Indicat...

edit:

I just read this write-up [1], which clearly explained why the 65W USB C charging hub I bought doesn't necessarily enable "super fast charging" on my Samsung phone. Chargers and cables need to meet PD3.0 standard with PPS support to dynamically negotiate the volts and amps to maximize power throughput safely. Otherwise, you get auto-downgraded due to sticky default voltages.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/dont_just_buy_any_45w_pd_charger_fo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxu4IqwKw0w
This is just a rewrite of https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64003237 from last week.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34081516
Phones do receive data from GPS satellites.
Search-And-Rescue, not Synthetic Aperture Radar.
The article also makes the bizarre assumption that you can't plug a mouse into a laptop, or an external keyboard, or even a docking station with all your favorite full-size accessories and multiple large monitors.
Cue the mad rush of a hundred thousand counterfeit cables within the week.
It still amazes me that in the 21st century no computer can use a couple of extra monitors reliably without sometimes not detecting them, getting in the wrong resolution, or other strange issues.
I tried to use this in production, but it ended up breaking some random GTM tags our marketing firm added to the site, so I had to roll it back. God, I wish I could use it though. I hate the whole idea of GTM. It’s such a crap ecosystem. I’d love to just put it in a sandbox and tell it not to touch anything.
Ya know I am now realizing that I always assumed that I thought the link was phone -> tower -> satellite, and I’m just now realizing that that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

They are often off in the woods, though! Do some connect to satellites?

Edit: apparently satellite backhaul is a thing but kinda rare.
> Rudeness is just a normal part of America culture now.

I have a backpack that has a phone holder on the shoulder strap. When you click your phone in it, the camera is visible. I've had many a situation where someone was about to go full New York on me, but noticed the camera staring at them and toned it down. I've never once been recording.
Cell phones can supposedly connect to towers up to 25 miles away (presumably at the slowest supported data rate.) Starlink is about 350 miles up. Let's round up to 400 to allow for satellites not being directly overhead. That's 2^4 times farther away, or 24dB of signal difference.

It seems like a sufficiently fancy phased antenna array on the satellite could compensate for that. Also, the atmosphere is 99% gone at 20 miles up, so that probably helps. Also, with the goal of only supporting SMS, a modern software defined radio chipset could probably be made to use an incredibly low data rate that adds more signal margin than currently used by any cell network.
I've been using it for a while now getting the password from a file.
That should be evident by reading my comment, a comment that addressed the gospel of Jesus rather than Jesus himself.
Niall Ferguson on reading, remembering and shared culture
Messages gives me a spinning ball every time I try to search. It’s maddening!
Trump, like Bush, made a lot of insane comments and deliberately cultivates a public persona that is designed to alternatively relate to (and be found endearing) his supporters, while simultaneously completely infuriating his detractors.

You may not have been around for his presidency, which is why you’re choosing to focus on substantiative policy choices rather than the public style I am talking about, but Bush was well criticized for appearing to be a brash and foolishly pugnacious figure. Not all that different from Trump, except Bush’s ranch owner shtick made him more rural coded- a cowboy. Both also liked to lambaste so-called experts and make use of anti-intellectual sentiment. They are more stylistically similar to each other than to say, Romney, McCain, Jeb Bush, or even Ted Cruz.
The real meat is here [1]. The linked website has really obscure cookie policies; if you care about such things, avoid them.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/b...
*Zero knowledge crypto acceleration with FPGA
To be fair, the situation in the story truly does happen in a variety of jobs and businesses.

What you are highlighting is the countervailing lesson, kind of a specialization of Chesterton's fence: if highly experienced people are doing a process in what seems to be an inefficient manner, consider that it might actually be the most efficient manner, given constraints that you do not fully understand or are not aware of.
I’m probably an atypical case here, but the article lost me at the very first line:

> Don't get hung up on a laptop for software development, even if you work best from the couch

It’s not that I work best from the couch, but it’s that it’s refreshing to get away from the (standing) desk occasionally. When I need to be highly focused on what I’m doing, I appreciate my desk setup, but if there’s some light architectural design (read: diagramming) work or if I’m just drafting emails, I’m not hindered by being on the couch on a 16” display. In truth, I find it helps me decompress after standing got a few hours dealing with a problem with some intensity.

I’m aware that the article doesn’t make the point against working from a couch specifically, but ignoring potential employee benefit when thinking about what kind of machine to issue to employees does kind of miss the mark.
You can still do it, but it’s not exposed in the UI anymore.
What Is the Secret of Chernivtsi?: A Conversation with Ihor Pomerantsev
Very interesting. I should look for a backpack like this, so I can be prepared the next time I travel to America.
It’s a truly evil genius hack. XHR has a legacy synchronous API. So what they do is make a fake window object and any time something touches it, they do an async call out to the real window, but they make it look synchronous by doing the call via XHR to itself. Such a crazy hack!
ClerkieCLI: A tool to help you debug code errors in your terminal
The tool does the follow:
1. Detects errors on your terminal
2. Identifies the programming language
3. Explains the error and suggests a fix right on your terminal Check it out at

Repo: https://github.com/ishaan-jaff/clerkie-cli
If your specialist employees are spending their time doing non-specialist work, then perhaps you have not set them up to work efficiently.
Yeah, this is one of the ways that entire spare units come in. Something on an old workstation breaks, you always have a spare of every part, tested together. (I actually just move the SSD/HDD to the spare, and then worry about repairing dead machine.)

Other than that, I can only guess. PSU and HDD is good idea. If you have an old industrial device that really needs floppies, buy them now, and also be looking into the retrofit options. For laptops, right now I've guessed at stockpiling keyboards, fans (but not the whole heatsink assembly FRU, just the fan part), backlight tubes, display inverter boards, AC adapters, the laptop-side AC adapter connector, HDD caddies and doors (often left out of replacements), upgrades for RAM and for faster/cooler CPUs.
I've abstained from alcohol for a year or so now, and have seen dramatic improvements in health/overall well-being. Helps loads with mental health
One problem is the preferred basis. Why decoherence selects a particular basis?

Another is that decoherence still does not explain the origin of probabilities. I.e. there are models that shows how a pure classical system may arise. But we still have no explanation how a classical device interacting with a quantum system gets the value it measures.
HTML5 is strict too. But it is strict in a pragmatic way, which makes it much nicer to write and read. Instead of forcing authors to write verbose code to an exacting spec without errors, they allowed authors to take shortcuts and make errors. But crucially, then they rigorously specified how those shortcuts and errors must be handled in all cases.

It doesn't matter if all your angle brackets are in the right place or all your attributes are quoted. What matters is that all implementations do the same thing given the same input. You can be strict and achieve interoperability without punitive error handling.
Don't know what happened with iOS 16, but Spotlight has been painfully slow. Results used to be nearly instant, now it can take 6+ seconds to show an app I searched for
MWI is equivalent to a simpler interpretation that doesn’t require split universes

Under aforementioned requirement, of course. If some sort of MWI is true, there may be just no way to confirm it, and that’s it.
Good luck getting a ladder big enough to clear a huge fence
Public data is public, but actions are a different story.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uxwbo7bhebMnLrpn8

(For the bystanders: There is no other included letter or note, just this unsolicited package containing a bare, although apparently new and unused, surgical mask with no explaination and no known-to-me sender. The string was cut unwittingly while cutting open the envelope.)

This conversation: 12-18

Sent: 12-18

Origin: anonymous fulfillment service

https://branchwarehousing.com/

So you have uncovered some never-was-covered public data from my full-real-name-middle-initial-and-all handle, and proved that some people out there are willing to mis-use public data, and that you are one of them, and I am not.

Strange point to want to make.

I wonder if HN has any sort of official stance on that sort of action @dang ?
was there ever a setting for this? I always used gSwitch or gfxCardStatus to varying degrees of success
Thanks for this and the couple other comments in this thread. I get where you are coming from. First, I agree on the level that, let's say, "non-glamorous" work is important. So I didn't mean that the work of lifting bumpers to the station is stupid itself (it's necessary and someone has to do it) but that it's stupid for the welding specialists to do it.

But I am not sure the other axes you have to grind here. A surgeon and a janitor are both necessary to the functioning of a hospital, but obviously and not-controversially the surgeon is a lot less fungible. Like, in a pinch, you could ask patient's families to clean the toilet in the hospital room, but you wouldn't ask them to do the surgery.

And more obviously, if people were dying in the ER because the surgeons were busy cleaning the toilets, that would indeed be stupid.
> Freeloaders have a right to be worried: It’s also been reported that Netflix will potentially block IP addresses that don’t match the IP address of the main account holder.

Couldn't someone just set up a proxy for family with a different WAN addr?
I have a note to look for a good book about the American Indian Movement, it isn't something we were taught in school.

Earlier today I was looking for some information about geology in British Columbia and clicked a link about an abandoned town. The last line of the wikipedia entry was enough to give me a pause and look up more. The entire entry is:

> Kimsquit is a former village of the Nuxalk[1] at the mouth of the Dean River on the northeast side of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada.[2] Kemsquit Indian Reserve No. 1 is nearby at 52°49′00″N 126°58′00″W,[3] which is on Kimsquit Bay; Kimsquit Mountain is nearby.

> The village was shelled by the Royal Navy in 1877.[4]

The BC Geographical Names site includes a little more information:

> Kimsquit was the site of one of the last gunboat actions on the BC coast when, in 1877, HMS Rocket, under Lt Cdr Charles Harris, shelled and burned the Nut’l village. Several of its residents had allegedly murdered the survivors of the wreck of the George S Wright in Queen Charlotte Sound in 1873 – though his charge was never proven.
It's not like every job came with a pension before 401ks (apparently it peaked at about 50%). And partially vested pensions have their own issues (deferring compensation and then not receiving it).

I'm not actually arguing that 401ks are a solution to retirement though. I'm arguing that they weren't initially designed as a tax shelter for the wealthy.

I'm not sure what an improved system looks like. Probably something like a pension where the employer is not allowed to be the entity responsible for paying out the benefit (so that present day promises can't be funded with future contributions).
> Southwest has had a complete operational failure and is simply incapable of determining where their crews are, what flights they are eligible for, and associating them with flights on the schedule.

This has to be really hard as most systems were probably built assuming something that smelled like full staffing. Pilots can only fly X hours, and flight attendants usually can't be forced to take overtime ... there have to be similar constraints on ground crew, maintenance and gate workers, too. So when you are planning for an understaffed airline, it has to be extremely difficult to optimize where the failures will occur.
Ah, that makes sense. FWIW I'm one state over in PA, philly suburbs, and the per capita income here I think is the highest in the state or close to it. My SALT alone is $5K. Marketplace health plan is nearly $4.5K just for premiums and the government is kicking in even more than what I pay, but its a PPO so more of a "luxury" plan. The HMO plans here, which I used for a while, are just too much red tape to actually use effectively and they limit you to some, shall we say, budget providers.

I had noted before that WV seems cheaper, though I think if I move out of PA I'll head someplace warmer.
Me too. Sometimes it's even just one monitor.

I don't know whether to blame the monitor or the KVM, but one of my desktops on Windows will try to feed my monitor an unsupported resolution at boot.

Not if I switch to another KVM input and back. Not if I wake it after suspend. Not if I boot the Linux install. Just Windows on a fresh boot.

Don't get me started on the mess that seems to be HDMI.
So we've still got high inflation, and the fed seems like it's only got so long until it'll resume pumping money into the economy.
I don’t think you can make the “temporary” argument in good faith anymore. The man is completely erratic.
Like I try not to get hung up on language but "value/productivity" and "leeches" are essentially antonyms.
Well lock me up, and throw away the key.
From the autror of Simple Mobile Tools suite of Android apps: https://www.simplemobiletools.com/
Conversely, were the global economy collapse completely, Earth will barely support human life for even one lifetime.

Obligatory reminder: unless you're Sentinelese, it's highly unlikely you or your community is actually self-sufficient. For most people, everything they eat, everything they wear, everything they live in and live with, is a product of, or is directly dependent on, international manufacturing and shipping. If that goes, billions of people starve.
I... you remap those to DHTN because they're positional and not a neumonic.
Also a long time keepass user.

The db file on my Mac is shared with iCloud and is acted as the master file. All updates happen on the mac and the rest of the clients just sync and do read only. It has been working well.

All my website passwords are saved in firefox account so I rarely need to update the db file.
Yeah, how about this: when I get a gift card, I a) discount the gift about 50% based on EV and b) consider the giver kind of stupid for wasting money like this. It's like the opposite of being impressed with someone for getting a good deal. "You spent $5 and this is worth $100 to me, awesome!" versus, "You spent $25 on this and it's worth $10 to me. Yay." Everyone just fucking loses. (Like you, I am surprised at my vehemence - perhaps pg is right that writing and thinking are one and the same, and I'm just late to the epiphany that I absolutely loath gift cards. So much so I wouldn't even mind being known as "that guy who hates gift cards so much".)
ChatGPT writes much better than this though
You are correct - two things happening here:
1. Picking up RF energy from far away. This is the easy part - cell phone antennas are already a big compromise and can be improved on if you increase size or cost. Instead of omni-directional antennas and low-power amplifiers, a directional antenna and low noise amp will work wonders. Cell phones already have extra power to get through buildings and trees; in this case that power would be used to go extra distance (because there won't be these obstacles).

2. Many users seen at once. Each beam is only a 15-mile-diameter circle. In the really remote areas where this coverage would be needed, I don't suspect that there would be too many cell phones - maybe a few hundred at most.

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698
Can someone shed a little explanatory light on this joke please?
Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time (2017)
Make it part of the standard. If you license the standard, and you say you're implementing it, that requires you to actually implement it. Done.
Like the recent physicists who made the breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Or the chemists, biologists and virologists who made or contributed to the mRNA breakthroughs and development of the Covid vaccine, or really any vaccines in recent decades.
I'll admit, I totally fell for the propaganda around House of Cards. I was convinced that Netflix had found a way to leverage their big data into "formulas" to produce awesome shows and would be unstoppable. When I look back at the garbage they have produced over the past few years I just don't understand how they f-ed it up so much.

At this point Netflix feels so irrelevant.
Apple on a good day does just enough to get the basics right. Beyond the basics it's a matter of luck whether something will work and continue to work reliably.

The thing is even Microsoft in the post Win 10 era is reliant on insiders to test Windows releases nowadays so there's not really much competition for desktop market nor is there anything huge at stake.

At this point I as a regular non-enterprise customer can't even pay for a churn free, ads free, forced apps free security updates only OS like Windows 7 - unexpectedly fast descent into sadness.

(Where possible I run Linux and thankfully it has worked fine so far but some work things still require Windows or Mac.)
I installed a few apps since upgrading to iOS 16 when it came out, and those apps never show up in Spotlight. I've updated with patches, restarted the phone, deleted and re-installed since then; still broken. The main one is Slack but I've seen it with others, too.
> Well that's a great question. If you think Tesla is close to bankruptcy than the answer is: all the way down.

Exactly. And what is that value? $0.

If you're someone who has short-sold at $300, that means you've already achieved over 60% of the possible value you can extract (even if TSLA goes _completely_ bankrupt). Or in other words, you've made $200, and the worst it could _possibly_ be for TSLA is a decline to $0, the remaining $110 or so of the stock price.

Its... a bit of an unfavorable odds, don't you think?

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Don't get me wrong. I think there's some sketchy as hell things going on to TSLA's books. CFOs were running away from this company for years. I do think that a long-term, hidden fraud case, could be possible... which would lead to a bankruptcy-like $0 (or maybe $1 to $2) valuation.

But I have no such evidence on this. Its purely speculative, based on how the CFOs of TSLA have acted, as well as the weird nepotism moves of Elon Musk + Solar City (Kimball Musk).

A lot of smoke, but without proof, its a rather risky trade.
Probably beyond the abilities of the average user
Apple’s solution is to have you find the signal and manually point to it to send a very small payload on a very slow link.

If we’re looking for existing technology, current actually working GPS phones would be a better showcase of what’s possible.
I admit it's been a few years since I've dug really deep into Anki - you are right, I could probably fix the problems with the algorithm by tweaking the advanced options. Still, it'd be nice to have something that works out of the box.

Yes - I'm aware that Anki cards can include images and audio, and I've used those features extensively enough to know they are definitely lacking for my use case! Mostly, I'd like to make it easier to add the images and audio. The way I've done it in the past was googling for a stock image, downloading Forvo/Wiktionary audio files, and then dropping them into the Anki app. I'd appreciate an easier way to add these audio files and images when I add new vocabulary to my decks.
For ZFS snapshots with restic I don't use the timed snapshots and instead create a new specially named one. There's a code snippet at https://medium.com/@cyounkins/correct-backups-require-filesy...
> This is just bureaucracy, which has existed long before AI.

It's not inherent to bureaucracy. It's inherent to bureaucracy that's starved of resources and forced to implement policies which are contrary to the supposed purpose of the organization the bureaucracy manages. More to the point, blaming it on bureaucracy absolves the people in charge who are really responsible for things like idiotic means-testing punishing people for getting jobs, or C-levels who see customer support as a loss center.
Hey that was really good! Took me a minute to figure out the concept and then suddenly 20min was gone, a sign of a good puzzle!

You should totally try expanding on this
Parent post was talking about algorithms. I linked to the site containing articles and research written by the person who created the algorithms.

It’s completely separate from supermemo the app.

If you’re looking at SRS algorithms, it’s worth looking through, for no other reason than to see what the flaws of the SM2 algorithm (used by Anki) are.
I don't see the problem. They really are acting like orcs, maybe worse even.
No it's worse, he asked the dude if he's in business hahaha

Imagine if the prime minister was LARPing a role in the service industry asked you that when you're living in a cardboard box
There's this guy called Karl Rock who busts such scam call centres. You can find the playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMhislZnB_6e0G4Qo1pcZD0Qb...
Yea, I can finally get my credit report!