skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Windows as my main OS. In Windows 10 and 11, there is a feature called Unified Write Filter that essentially resets your computer after every reboot.

When I first got my laptop, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10, installed all my commonly used applications, configured all my settings, and then enabled UWF. On every reboot, it goes back to this clean snapshot, no matter what I do - And reboots are quick too (~10 seconds).

I'm never worried about making changes to my laptop to try them out (installing a new program, configuring obscure settings, etc). If I don't like it, I can get back to my clean state with a simple reboot.

Still vulnerable to BIOS-level malware though, I suppose.

(Note: I repeated most of this from a previous hackernews comment of mine)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29374928
But we need civilisation to survive on Earth for those hundred years first. And right now it's not looking good.
I said “warm climate”, Canberra does not qualify. Also, plenty of Queensland is single digit C at times in winter, even zero.

Then you put on a jumper, or use a bit of radiant heat if really soft.
After playing guitar for 40 years as a self-taught, non-reading musician, I started using a key that is not usually discussed in books about music theory.

My key is like C Major, but with an added G#, and the tonic can be either EM or Am. It gets used in "gypsy" jazz music.

I encourage you to invent your own theory.
The mountain stuff and diving into ice water doesn’t resonate with me at all, but the burnout at the industry generally does. I’m glad you’ve found something to make you happy.
In what way does AlphaZero use evolution?
My undergrad prof didn't call out moms specifically, but was very negative towards any sort of mention of hobby/amateur electronics. For him, it was specifically because he thought that the only way to learn the basics was to have the calc & physics underpinning first before even knowing what the components actually do. This was in reference to overhearing a classmate explaining to someone why anyone would care about a capacitor. It was typical undergrad physics material discussing the mathematics behind a capacitor, and this person was mentioning some of the real-world uses like filtering. I clearly remember the prof saying "oh, you're one of those hobbyists" followed by something to the effect of that we were there to learn, not play around.

Basically, just an elitist attitude that the proper way to learn about electronics is to start with the math, and anything else wasn't proper engineering. Which is sad, b/c from what I remember Forrest Mims' books are actually some of the best intro electronics info available, since he doesn't gloss over the complexity but still writes in a way that doesn't require 2 semesters of calculus to understand.
Personally, I haven't had any issues using the i18n-embed-fl crate [0], with a wrapper over the fl!() macro that passes a lazily-initialized global loader. (I did have to add `loader.set_use_isolating(false)` to my initialization function to keep it from outputting invisible Unicode characters; you only really need it to be `true` if you're planning on outputting RTL text in an LTR context, or vice versa.)

[0] https://crates.io/crates/i18n-embed-fl
As someone fairly mentally unstable who's recently been laid off I'm basically just trying to prep my family and friends for what's to come.

The thing I find hard is when I know that my life is objectively having a negative impact on those I love and society generally. That tends to be when I spiral because at that point I know I'm better off not being here. I'm not there yet, but given the economic backdrop and my personal situation I think it's 50/50 whether I get there.

Not writing this because I'm looking for help or sympathy. I don't feel depressed. I'm a happy person and I smile a lot. For me it's a bit like sleep in that it's not something I choose or seek, but I get tired of being awake sometimes. Something like that anyway.

But I guess what I want to say is that if someone you know is being laid off and you want to help, then actually help or don't say anything at all. Don't tell them some BS about how it will be alright and how they'll get through it because when it's clearly not alright and when they're not pulling through (which I promise you is how they're seeing it) then it those words will only make them feel like more of a failure. Instead actually make sure they're alright. Give them somewhere to stay. Give them a hot meal. Don't tell them they're wanted, make them feel it, you know?
It's super expensive though! What would you really need this for that you couldn't use a $35 Raspberry Pi 4 for (and slap in a cheap SD card)?
I am shocked that Windows isn't using a TPM Measurement for verification, as the TPM can be used to prove that Secure Boot was enabled. Instead... Windows just seems happy trusting the UEFI and letting any apps that want to ask the TPM. Which... why? I mean, I suppose it's a holdover from Windows 10 where Secure Boot existed without TPM but there's no reason in Windows 11 where both should be present.
At least in my experience this is nonsense.

The circumstances of my work make a large difference to my happiness. I know because I've been in a number of different circumstances and my happiness has varied greatly.
If you have an immutable structure, you can't just modify the leaf of it. Unless you're arguing that deep, immutable structures are an issue in themselves?
It is you who do not understand. You're conflating quantitative easing with cryptocurrency hard forks. Those are completely separate processes.
CAMM: The future of laptop memory has arrived
It still feels insane that a CPU can draw that much power. I mean that's like over 8 amps at 12 volts for doing... well nothing really. It's 100 watts of pointless resistance losses.

Something that could've powered like half of an electric scooter at top speed. And GPUs are like 3-4 times worse.
> But a lot of people around me just haven't gotten around to it because of the holidays

Amazon's the tick was canceled, based on views, before I even got around to seeing it. Media companies need to get it through their heads that we're done watching TV and movies on their schedule. I've got far to much competing for my time and I'll get to things when it's good for me. That's what drove people to VCRs, then DVDs, then DVRs, then streaming.

They're still trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. They often withhold episodes, choosing to dole them out once a week so they can longer maintain and better control social media coverage/adverting. I already wait until a season is fully released before I start watching (it's saved me from a lot of disappointment already).

> I just wish everybody and their mom would put on that show now even if they don't actually watch it, so maybe the numbers change and they reverse their decision.

Streaming services need to accept that the times and their viewers have changed. I'm not going to let them make me feel pressured to jump on every episode of something I enjoy the moment they release it, and I'm not going to spend my time trying to manipulate their numbers and hope that somehow that gets me what I want. Time is short and I've got plenty of better things to do than play games for the sake of clueless streaming companies.
Forgive me for sounding like an idiot but how can two properties be different, yet unsortable?
Of course, yes. And I merely "suspect" rather than have some concrete statistics to back this up.

I have this suspicion based on a few anecdotal data points plus the fact that digital watchfaces are becoming more and more common (phones and computers specifically), and people love to do things in an uniform manner.

But I'm very biased here (and thus could be wrong), because I strongly dislike classic analog watchfaces. I'm certainly for novel approaches - I do like Apple Watch's "Solar" watchface (the digital version), as it has a digital reading centered in essentially a gauge that shows the Sun's motion, allowing to see the time relative to the daylight. Similarly, I enjoy calendar and weather widgets that show the day as a timeline, so I can see how events or weather conditions approach. But I'm always asking myself "what time is it now?" first (and "ok, how long until...?" only comes after, even if it was the original intent) - it was my mental model for as long as I remember myself - so I strongly prefer digital 24-hour displays.
Is it? To be it sounds absurd to care about preserving the human species, and completely forgetting about biodiversity. Yet it really feels like some seemingly rational people think that sending a few humans to Mars matters, "to preserve the species"...
General Availability of Azure OpenAI Service
I thought this was going to be about the video game :)
Ffs if you don’t want an http uri anon accessible, apply authzn. Has the world gone mad?
And allocating O(N) extra memory isn't expensive?
It’s Time for Some Hard Truth
I, for one, believe that technology is the problem, not the solution.
I’ve always had bad insomnia, and back in the days when Lyft was still mustaches and fist bumps and front seats, I was all in - I would work at/on my startup during the day, and when I couldn’t sleep for a few hours at night (genuinely not tired, so not at particular risk of driving) I would drive for Lyft to meet some people.

The people I met were absolutely fascinating. Some were the usual “get me to my place” and whatnot, but because Lyft had the vibe of “we aren’t Uber, we’re your friend with a car” at the time, I really got to chat with some incredible people. Plenty of kids done with partying for the night, but also the executive chef at Michael Mina at the 49ers stadium, some old folks with lots of crazy stories, etc.

When Lyft turned into “also Uber” all of that was lost; introverts were thrilled at the ability to sit in the back and be chauffeured without ever having to say a word, but the vibe of what made me so interested in driving for Lyft was gone, so after a few rides in “the new system,” I quit doing it and started busking with my music instead. Then the pandemic happened and I’m still seeking a new outlet for that sort of “intentional” chance encounter.

But I do miss those days.
> Why would you double down at this point?

Because the thesis holds [1][2]. It’s far from a controversial theory in medieval and developmental economics.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=EUoCBAAAQBAJ&oi=...

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C51&q=Bla...
"CoPilot reads my mind way more often than it ought to"

yeah this just means you've picked a trash job where you work on solved problems
Rust's format! macro only wants actual literals, because you get a compile error if the format is wrong, which would not be possible for a non-literal. C++ does this for a constant even if it's not literal, which is fancier, but Rust doesn't have a way to achieve that today.

However, you don't have to use format! to format stuff, you would presumably want an API which better reflects the runtime errors you can now encounter, such as wrong number of arguments, wrong order of arguments, incompatible formats.
Works fine under proton for me - have you turned on the steam option to use a compatibility layer for games that haven't been tested?
i believe this is in cpp23
Contraceptive advice from social media influencers could lead to pregnancy
Age can have a lot to do with it, depending on your path through life.

The adage is generally that wisdom comes with age, and there are some things in life that are difficult to internalize until you’ve gone though the experience.

To me, it’s just another way of saying “the more life experience I gain…”.
And this is why I don’t like digital Vernier callipers. :P
They're also creating a constitutional crisis in Scotland, and brandishing Scottish Trans rights reform as the weapon. This is the first time they've tried to use powers to block Scottish democracy since the inception of the Scottish parliament. There's a lot of anger and fear here right now.
...then they sort? What am I missing?
But is that very different from code with logic bugs despite correct syntax? The solution for code is unit tests. Maybe the css needs that also.
Public service announcement: receiving a salary != being exempt from overtime, depending on where you live. In, for example, California, exempt status depends on the actual tasks you perform and the percentage of your hours each week you spend doing exempt vs non-exempt tasks. Thus, even a C-level executive can be owed overtime if they aren’t performing truly managerial work at least 50% of the time.
There's actually an interesting reason for this! Capsaicin evolved primarily* to keep mammals from eating pepper seeds, since mammalian digestive systems destroy the seeds, but birds' systems do not. Birds use a different protein complex for detecting heat than mammals, so capsaicin binds to the mammalian protein complex and activates it, but does not bind to the avian complex.

* excuse the short hand anthropomorphizing of evolution here - I know.
> I would be more concerned about this if the competition in this space was not so disappointing this far.

Why does less competition make you less concerned about anti-competitive behavior? Such behavior is never good, but it's self-correcting in a market with lots of choice, and not so in a market where there's only one great option (a judgment for which I have to take your word—a Casio F-91W is the right level of watch technology for me).
> Bluntly, every person I know who's expressed these kinds of sentiments is guilty of the same mistake: externalizing their happiness.

I don't believe this take is fair or correct. FANG-like jobs are designed to depersonalize workers, compell them to work extremely long hours, force them to be constantly on and available, and basically live for the company, only to be pushed out of the company by design and get fired as disposable canon fodder at the slightest bump on the calendar.

The pay might be good, but it resembles a deal with the devil.

Have you ever wondered why the average tenure at some top tech companies is measured in months, and reaching a milestone like 4 or 5 years is lauded as a major achievement? I seriously doubt that so many people is just "externalizing their happiness". Sometimes it's really the job that kills you inside and does so by design, don't you think?
>$35 Raspberry Pi 4

It's more like $100 for an rpi4 currently. Also, an rpi doesn't really replace an actual microcontroller in terms of I/O.

I tried looking up more on the "ATSAMD21 ARM® Cortex®-M0+" but didn't find out exactly what it means for this to be a co-processor. Does it share system RAM? Like... an arduino with GB of ram? That doesn't seem possible. So I suppose it's more likely it's just a arduino capable chip thrown in on the same board and same power without much beyond a built in serial interface...
Research out of VPRI: http://www.vpri.org/

The "writings" page has a long list of publications you can check out.
There is a soviet joke. Two workers in France discuss, one really wants to move to the soviet union, the paradise for workers, the land of plenty. The other is more hesitant, he also heard stories of famine and repression. All capitalist propaganda, says the first one, and I made up my mind, I am going. Well, says the other one, I might join you, but first you go, and you tell me how it is, and if it is what you say it is, I go too. But if it is what those capitalists say it is, you might not be free to write your mind so let's devise a code: if you can write freely, write in black ink, if you are coerced, use red ink, and I will know I shouldn't come.

A month later, he receives a letter, in black ink, saying "the soviet union is fantastic, workers are really cared for here, we have freedom, food, prosperity, everyone is happy. The only inconvenience is that I really cannot find any red ink anywhere".
AFAIK, you can't run pfSense on a raspberry pi
You are seriously overrating world leaders.

They are just guys who happened to find themselves there

Maybe he did get the intelligence reports but he needed to go and see for himself in order to internalize them as opposed to just absentmindedly skim through them
May I ask what type of work you’re doing?

I think there’s a huge difference in the value we feel ourselves contributing based on our own interests and what our company does.

I am working in the world of peer reviewed research now, and I think that’s one of the best places I can contribute to. I’m proud every day to start working because I know I’m helping, even in a small way, the many researchers around the world moving human knowledge forward.

I used to work in avionics development, mostly for defense purposes. Some people would hate it. I liked it for awhile, and then I reached the end of learning new things there. I left shortly after that to start my own company, the peer review research-focused one.

I never want to work for ad tech. That’s not the right answer for everyone, but I’d I was working in ad tech, I’d probably feel similar to you.

What do you work on, and how does that sync with your world view?
Alder Lake MSI Pro Z690-A WiFi DDR5 Support Upstreamed to Coreboot
This is a significantly different implication by far, to the point that the two statements do not even say (or imply the same thing). The symptoms of anxiety and depression are indeed mental health issues, but changing it to the broader category changes the message enough to be a False/unproven statement.

@dang, could we enlist your help in title-smithing for accuracy? Something along the lines of "ADHD traits a more reliable indicator of depression/anxiety vs ASD" or the like.
> Claiming they are best because they survive is survivorship bias

No, it’s not. Only measuring survivors is survivorship bias.
Would you prefer not being able to remove your own old phone from Find My?

There is a lot of disappointment expressed in the comments here but we need level-headed solutions, not just rage against things that are actually useful in 99.9999……% situations.
society/civilization[/state/government] was meant to collectively make it better for the next generation in general. But society is not on that path anymore, it seems like there is serious decline happening in terms of quality of life all around the world. Everywhere seems to be converging to a consumerist, busier, fast, urban, sickly lifestyle.

On the flip side, it has never been easier for parents to ensure prosperity to their children. For some people, if your parents [and or spouse's parents when applicable] have saved enough to de-risk your [and your siblings'] financial situation; are there anecdotes of how to leverage that to exit the rat race [or probably not enter at all]?
RPM $1, basically garbage collector.
> What exactly led you to believe that absurdity?

The fact that the standards committee simply chose to just add every feature every other language has.
The Google File System [pdf] (2003)
i've done something similar but different. when i get to the absolute breaking point of cannot stand to look at code any longer, i switch industries altogether and go back to a lower paying but much more creative field. once i get tired of essentially being a broke artist, i find a tech job again to start the process over. i also try to stave off the hatred of tech by having creative hobbies, and when i'm being a broke artist i keep up with coding trends to the best of my interest. the staving off of the hatred of tech is getting harder though. the pervasiveness of ad tech and privacy invading tech is just got me just under red lined.
Good luck Sean. Hope it all works out for you. I would derive pleasure by transitive closure if you make it out of this hell hole we call work.
I think the things you listed are reasonable expectations to make someone happy for any job, but it's not what the original article seems to get at. At least from my perspective, he's dismissing software engineering as a fruitful career, humble bragging he's working at a "top investment bank" (?), and implying he's just somehow "better" than others for escaping the "matrix" despite being more "accomplished" (lol) than others.
I could put some caesar dressing on this and enjoy it, but I am unsure as to the relevance to the article at hand. Could you please clarify the point you are trying to make here?
You can already have states and this game can be implemented in CSS and HTML without a single line of JS, but it would be extremely ugly and hard to follow, IMO.
Bandwidth costs way less than $0.003/GB. Even cheaper for Netflix because ISPs are willing to host cache servers for free.
More Airbnb Problems
Is there any recourse against Airbnb when they don't refund your money as promised, or when they don't refund in accordance with their policies? I've had two situations in the past year where Airbnb Support passes me from person to person and then never refunds my money.

Short of opening a dispute with the bank, is there any process to have a well-trained person take a look at a reservation? Or is the only solution to let them steal my money and stop using the platform...
I'm a junior developer in senior developer's clothing and asking for help is one of the hardest things. That strong feeling of "I should be able to do this by now" often spirals out of control. "I'm stuck" --> "I should ask for help" --> "It's been a week and I've done nothing" --> "This feels so bad I'm just gonna futz around on the internet". It's a hell of a cycle.
So Cas-9 and 13 are hitmen for DNA and RNA sequences respectively.

And Cas-12a2 is a berserker with a hair trigger.

Whereas the others clear the cell of invaders, this guy pulls a Samson and brings the walls down.
Complete Knowledge
There is not a single tech company out there that wishes to get into the business of checking people's physical IDs or wanting to invite use of IDs (or making judgements about such authenticity) to manage their accounts.

How would this work? You provide a certain number of photos to corroborate who you are? How would that not be vulnerable to hacking as well?
Vitamin D and brain health: an observational and Mendelian randomization study
100%. The guy is leaving something behind that doesn't fulfil him in pursuit of something that does, and what do the best minds of HN have to offer? "Well actually"
> The web session is untrusted, and they have a trusted connection to the OS known to belong you.

Known to belong to me, yes. Known to be in my possession, no.

You'd still need one further thing to go on as far as I can figure - I'd need the password to type into my browser first - but treating "browser session" and "machine the browser is running on" as separate levels of trust seems naive in terms of what someone who steals the machine can do.
“Modern block sizes” will vary where you live, and you can build smaller of course.

Obviously this is location dependent advice. If you live in a lifeless suburban wasteland, then outside is no better than inside. If, on the other hand, there is nature around you, and it doesn’t get too cold in winter, then insulation is a pointless exercise! Get a ceiling fan and learn to tolerate a bit of heat.

I, personally, need nature to stay mentally healthy, and having nature wander inside from time to time helps greatly.