skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US and UK pints are different. The ounces used to weigh metals aren’t the same ounces as used to weigh pretty much everything else. Aside from that, I can deal; teaspoons and tablespoons are perfectly cromulent measurements for use in the kitchen, as long as you’re measuring something that’s actually ok to measure by volume.

Of course this is all in the kitchen, but IME most things that need to be measured precisely are already metric anyway. Except for fasteners and machining; the incongruity of my torque driver taking bits that are 3/8” square on the drive side and metric on the fastener side is amusing. What’s not amusing is finding the bits anywhere that’s not overpriced (and overseas)
With Google I have it set up to email me the Takeout download link every 2 months which I then download manually
I don't know; is it more energy inefficient than having a fresh air intake via a duct? Maybe they are comparable in the absence of a heat recovery ventilation system (mentioned by a sibling comment upthread)?
I logged out of the AppleTV and logged back in. When I did that I was prompted to accepts the terms.
Paul started his career designing cities for the early version of Grand Theft Auto! Now he's started his own game development company.
I think arenas could solve a weird need I sometimes have, the ability to say: “from now one this object should have no references” as a debugging tool.
Well, one year long invadion should give you a hint. Detaining people for calling it war instead of "special operation" is another one. Calling other neighbours "fake/artificial" countries is another bad sign that Russia's intentions are not good.
Absolutely, but building this sort of thing is easier said than done, especially when it comes to security and sandboxing. This is one of the wonderful things about Sparkle—this stuff has been battle tested.

They've done the work of finding which APIs actually work and handling all the edge cases. <rant> macOS's APIs in this area are a woeful mess of "deprecated, but the new APIs don't actually work". Sometimes the only way of reliably doing something is using Applescript... https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/04/20/privileged-operations-on-... </rant>
Actually, more than Climate Change, we face an energy problem. The more we use fossil fuels, the greater the climate problem. But even if we keep burning oil, it's not unlimited. So sooner or later we will have to decide what we do with the energy we have, and at that point it conflicts.

If the goal is to reach Mars in a hundred years, chances are that we run out of fossil fuel before that. Maybe we should start preparing for a world with less energy. And artistic performances like sending people on Mars don't sound like a constructive way to use that energy.
Shift -> right click a directory and you get a context menu item to open powershell. You can registry hack to make it cmd instead. Been part of my normal work flow since windows 7 I think?
While I will always be nostalgic for TI-Basic as my first language, I think it really stunted my programming understanding when I moved on to "real" languages.

I remember absolutely struggling to understand the idea of structs/classes, because in TI-Basic, everything is quite flat and global -- you get nearly no encapsulation.

You have 27 named variables that could hold a floating point number (A-Z and Theta), the Ans variable which was the result of the last computation (and was slightly faster to access than normal variables), 1-indexed lists with maximum length 999, and strings with length bounded only by RAM (something like 16KB or so).

If you wanted to represent any large/complicated data types, you often had to resort to encoding it in strings and doing lots of substring math to slice out the fields. Absolutely insane anti-patterns in any "real" programming language.

It did force you to learn to think outside the box to solve problems though!
I think the thing about aging is that you have less energy,
so you're less likely to make energetic mistakes,
and more likely to take some calm moments to think things thru.

also, if you have moderate ambitions and desires, with time you may reach a point where you've met them. Then you are less focused on those for happiness.

so I do think age has something to do with it
> Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform. I recently had a sobering realisation while standing waiting at the platform for the Waterloo & City Line: this had become my life.

He calls himself, and by implication those around him, rats in the rat race. Whether you agree with him or not, the clear implication is a negative one.
I was 12 and I liked dragons, but "red" was too strictly connected to a movie coming out at the time...

Kinda regret it, but can't really go back, lol
The issue is likely one of "how do you ensure the security of the other device?"

With Apple devices and the Secure Enclave ( https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec5... ), even Apple doesn't have the back doors to open it up and retrieve the keys from an arbitrary device.

If you had a third party android device that made it, if those eyes were compromised you would have passive tracking of that individual. Consider that for a dissident in an authoritarian country.

It's not a "can Apple design a protocol that does that?" but rather "if the device was compromised what would be the implications?"
Seems like there are vanishingly few security measures which prevent the held at gunpoint scenario but still allow the user to do things.
Reality is

Big Co buying 100's of Big name IP titles / options... BIg Co has no real plans for the IP

Big Co has lots of screenplays not attached to any Big Name IP

Big Co randomly pulls Screenplay Y, and tells screenwriter to make this "into a This big Name IP" and slaps the Big Name IP title on it...

So many of these movies and shows have soo little to do with the original source that they have to been imaged as wholly new properties, but then retro fitted with the name slapped on to an existing property because Hollywood is completely adverse to any new thing, it all has to be a reboot, squeal, or prequel at least in title.
I disagree with the way it's presented. It starts off making it sound like his brother was taking every precaution and a few paragraphs in it has him being phished with these URLs:

> https://apple.iforgot-ip.info and https://apple.located-maps.info
If it's pretty cold outside, then you're throwing all of the ostensible energy savings of a heat pump out the window the minute you open it to air out the house.

Following the thread of conversation, it just didn't compute to me:

>>>> Heat pumps are great for climate control
>>> Yeah, ducts are dead
>> What if you want to recirculate air in your house through your central air filter to eliminate smells?
> Just open the window

It's like we've hit a contraction: the premise is that we care about energy but the contractions is then that we don't and we open the window while climate controlling the house. So to me it does seem to prove that in some climates, duct work with a central blower and filter mat not be dead.
In upstate NY it gets a lot colder than that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York#/media/File...

the average temperature is below freezing for four months.
Looks awesome! You should submit it to ProductHunt!
yes, the squatters felt the knife at their throat...
Related:

Blaze: High Performance Vector/Matrix Arithmetic Library For C++ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493373 - Sept 2021 (28 comments)

Benchmarks for Blaze, A high-performance C++ math library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117971 - Aug 2015 (30 comments)
Exactly this. I have Google photos and I use it all the time, for every photo/video I take. But I also back up everything I can using the [gphotos-sync](https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync) python script. As it says, it's not the 100% quality in either photo or video, but it's still the memories.

Please if you aren't backing up your cloud storage photos/important files, stop reading HN and go and set it up now.

I can recommend backblaze for cheap reliable storage and the restic backup client which is brilliant (a single, small binary). There's also rclone, or even the backblaze cli client. [Sorry I sound like a Backblaze shill!]
> taking off my seat belt and running to the cockpit

People really don't like it when you do that, by the way.
Kind of a fun thought experiment. I suppose you could reason similarly about it if you just imagined plain old fiat US Dollar is fixed in cap and printed directly to whatever analog of a "miner" would be.

My armchair guess is that disaster wouldn't necessarily be around price fluctuations of goods, but rather the perpetual deflationary nature of the currency.
Interesting take. I believe that individuals should not have more money than entire countries.

One should simply not be allowed to have too much money. The fact that they are doesn't mean I should accept their polluting my sky.
Your experience with Chris has extended from you, to us, and I'm grateful to read about it. Thank you for sharing.
I love writing code and solving problems with it. Even if this job didn't pay well and didn't come with all the amazing benefits, I would still do it.

I think a lot of software engineers need to hang out with more people who are less well off than them. Befriend the grocery store clerk, talk to the mechanic fixing your car. If you're in a bubble of wealthy people, it gets really hard to appreciate the benefits that you have simply because you stop seeing them as benefits and see them instead as the status quo.
> 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.

That mostly doesn't match my experience in two ~5y stints at a FANG:

* Depersonalize: maybe; not sure what you mean by it here.

* Extremely long hours: not at all. Most people worked ~45hr/wk counting ~1hr/d of lunch. I averaged a bit less than that.

* Force them to be constantly on and available: no. One of my roles had an explicit oncall rotation where you were primary for about one week a quarter and secondary for another week. The other role had no oncall. When you were off no one expected you to be in contact, and several team members had configured their phones so that their work profile was completely deactivated outside of work hours. At times when I was excited enough about what I was doing that I wanted to work extra my manager pushed back hard, getting me to think about the impact on team culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329670

* Be pushed out of the company by design and get fired as disposable canon fodder at the slightest bump on the calendar: I worked closely with ~50 people and didn't see anyone fired. The people who got somewhat close to getting fired were ones who were having trouble getting things done, but in a sustained low output sort of way that was clear to everyone they worked with and not a "slight calendar bump" sort of way.
While I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, and I do like the neutral presentation of most of the information, one thing stood out to me. The “it’s not your fault, it’s the food” attitude seems dangerous. I think that mindset will lead to dietary learned helplessness if it becomes prevalent.

It reminds me of the pros and cons of the body positivity movement. On one hand, it’s important not to instill guilt related to food and demonize it. At the same time, being too accepting results in poor mental and physical health outcomes. It’s important to recognize that you hold control over what you do and who you are.
You don't necessarily need to take in fresh air to freshen air in certain ways. It might suffice to pass it though a good filter.
People in the UK are talking about the risk of heat pump installations being in the tens of thousands & not possible everywhere. This is mostly from anti-green MPs. Anyone know what the facts are there?
Well the first thing that we'll need to do is compute this in terms of actual resources, rather than money - which is a tokenised abstraction from value, and arguably an inflated one.

So the raw material and energy requirements to leave the planet carrying people and everything they'll need on the other side.

Things will be different once there's been a reasonable build up, but if it's an evacuation we won't have time for that.

And things on Earth will be falling apart evironmentally, politically and geopolitically.

And what of the political systems on the other side? Work 80 hours or get out of my bubble?
Except things like fresh kiwi or pineapple, those enzymes can be harsh.
In addition to that, not 'well rounded' by erosion like sahara sand, instead still very sharp edged, abrasive. And electrostatically charged by being bombarded with particles over long times. Creeping into every seam and seal. Not good to breathe in at all.

There was a scene in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series) S02E01 where a solar storm surprised some astronauts on the surface, where they couldn't make it into shelter in time. One got toasted, another barely made it into a cave, and watched from there.

It looked like invisible drops of torrential rain, splashing down hard, and stirring the dust up, like in slow-motion capture of a drop of water, impacting, and stirring things up.

I don't know how realistic that is, but I liked it as a conceptual visualization, at least.

Edit: Think of something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber at large scale. Where the medium is stirred up dust.

Edit: A there it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlP403rUGA
Because some banks are laundering risk you propose that we instead use a system that requires as much energy as medium sized countries to achieve 7 transactions per second?

And in the midst of an energy crisis?
psst...comedy
I don't know if all FAANG companies are the same, but your description of the job does not match my FAANG experience at all.

It was dehumanizing in its own way because you are such a small cog in a large machine, but nobody worked long hours, nobody was forced to be available all the time, nobody really needed to sacrifice for the company (because everybody was such a small cog) and even the lowest performers I worked with could basically not do anything to get fired. Many people there were also "lifers" because the job was so easy.

Most people left due to having ambitions for more impact, not due to being burnt out.
> Fight climate change by actually working towards it. How many of those hand gluing numpties have actually cleaned a beach or a woodland for once in their lives?

Cleaning a beach or a wwoodland is irrelevant to the climate change.
> Because people losing their data before the cloud was unheard of.

That's not true at all. There were entire businesses before "the cloud" that did very little more than service people who had lost their data and help them recover it.

I used to get billed out at near-lawyerly rates for recovering data in the mid 1990s. While I was in high school. Businesses like DriveSavers were even more lucrative.
I've really enjoyed watching various places transcribe the sound that DL1943 made after "Alright" there. I've seen "Uch", "Huff", "Phew", "Uew", and now "Woof"!
I looked into this on my motherboard, and the issue is that MSI's firmware measures in the TPM events saying "Secure Boot is On", even when it is in this insecure mode.

This means that even if Windows "checks" (via measured boot) that Secure Boot is on, they are still being lied to by the motherboard firmware.
Do you have some kind of citation for the uproar being from squatters? If memory serves, the uproar was that most folks felt like registrars were trying to squeeze ordinary folks for more cash for a resource that costs them next to nothing to manage.
Today, sure. In USSR, no apartment was privately owned, though. You were assigned one "according to your needs" - e.g. when I was a kid, my extended family of 5 (me, my parents, and my mom's parents) had a two-bedroom apartment of 48.5 m^2 total, 27.2 m^2 of which was the two bedrooms. To give an idea of the size, here's the floor layout of that exact series of apartment buildings:

https://i.imgur.com/ImxdsUG.jpeg

(Note that there are multiple apartments shown here - every "3K", "2K", or "1K" corresponds to one apartment with that many bedrooms. The "fraction" after that shows the total area and the combined bedroom area of each apartment in m^2.)

I think the best way to describe that arrangement was a "no-cost rent". You only had to pay utilities, and you couldn't have it taken away from you arbitrarily. But e.g. selling it or even renting it out would be impossible (legally; the black market existed regardless), nor could it be inherited.
Wow, that’s… shocking to me. Thanks for the note!
Google search results just search the web and return something already indexed. ChatGPT manipulates abstract thought. (Not always successfully, but more often than you do, based on our interaction so far.)

Yes, you can say "please solve this mathematical problem" and sometimes get a novel working solution that has never been published but is formulated on the spot. Rather than just output text, you can direct its behavior in profound ways, including successfully completing miracle, literally impossible tasks. That's right: ChatGPT can perform a miracle and successfully in one try complete a task that is by definition impossible, such that it breaks the very test itself.

You don't get that from a mere search engine.
Which is what's happening here.
I live in a cold climate
It helps having an active passcode lock.

And you can put your phone into Lost Mode with Find My turned on, right away by signing into https://icloud.com/find from any web-enabled device.
I work in tech(professional programmer) and I frankly don't know anyone who runs anything other than Windows. I guess it just depends what area of tech you're in. And yes, myself and all my friends built our PCs by hand and installed windows on them ourselves - I'm glad secure boot wasn't getting in the way of that.
The system is enabled, it just isn’t doing anything.

Secure boot is another solution seeking out a problem anyway.
Thanks for the note! I had no idea. And that makes it all the weirder that Google postponed things, especially because it seems the community is relying on Google to provide guidance on how to do a lot of things with MV3.
Works of St. Thomas Aquinas in English and Latin
I don't, no. Proper stage polymorphism is great, but running arbitrary code at compile time without a coherent model of how you're doing that (which ad-hoc const/constexpr/etc. isn't) is like substituting for generics by having dynamic types. If I'm just going to run arbitrary code at compile time I might as well do that with a make rule.
You do it on the iOS device you’re trying to set screen time limits on. If you don’t own an iOS device, you’re not going to be setting limitations on an iOS device.
Live boot cd or dvd. A finalised cd or dvd is pretty safe. They can switch back once their done all the important things that need logons.
Sooner or later the USA is going to look in the mirror and realize that 50% (perhaps more) of the problems with the healthcare system isn't the HCS but the general health of the population that the HCS has been tasked to care for.

We keep blaming the HCS and yet we also keep increasing demand - hello obesity, hello substance abuse*, hello suboptimal lifestyle choices - prices will increase. Supply and demand does apply to healthcare as well.

Covid is a disease. But it's also very much a symptom.

* Note: That's not disrespecting individuals for their addictions but noting how fond we are creating pain and suffering at a societal level. Why do we have so many that need so much relief?
cutlass is faster actually, in most cases where cutlass supports same stuff.
Excellent project!

When I run this, it succeeds fine but I get the message "This build of the DLL doesn’t implement the reference CPU-running Whisper model."

What does this mean?
Also very interested in the hybrid option, how do you get this working, and does this use both GPU and CPU simultaneously?
The one recommended by SwiftOnSecurity years ago. https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/12230876092216115...
> Looking to pin the blame on society at large and other people's choices is a convenient escape

Could you point to exactly where you think the author did that? I didn't see it.

At most there was, "Every storefront specifically engineered to attract me inside with gimics like flashing lights." Which may be true of London, though I can't say personally.

> don't call your fellow city dwellers rats

"The rat race" is a well-known, long-standing metaphor. "The term is commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment." "The earliest known occurrence is 1934." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_race
It's an excellent choice of name! (Signed, a kiwi)

Pleroma seems interesting too, though some drama in the community there turned me off a bit. I might keep an eye on Takahe too, I hadn't come across that one. Cheers!
Right, and also why would he care so much about grocery stores in America when he's in Russia and reviewing military and diplomatic intel about the US? "They have grocery stores that have more items than our stores" - boring. "A US diplomat was arrested and released in Latin America for something he did while drunk" - interesting.
In the Standard Electric Time Company slave clocks that I've got, the master sends about a 12ms pulse once a minute, which pulls in a solenoid and allows a lever to ratchet one tooth on the minute wheel and advance the movement. Then once every twelve hours, the master sends a longer pulse, which pulls in a stronger second solenoid that allows the wheel to turn freely. There's a weight on the hour wheel which will pull the wheel around until the weight is on the bottom because of gravity, which corresponds with 12 o'clock. So no matter where the clock is, it will fall back to twelve with the longer pulse, and then begin the ratcheting again with the once a minute shorter pulses.

(Sorry for the deprecated master/slave terminology, it's unfortunately what they used at the time)
Spammers will often register paid accounts with stolen credit cards, and opt for lower tier accounts because the small charge is much less likely to trigger fraud protection than, say, attempting to subscribe to Workspace Enterprise.

Google almost certainly has, and has consulted, internal analytics on where these spam campaigns are originating and which account tiers they are abusing most.
At one point, I would have agreed with you. But Microsoft and Intel have been strong-arming implementations to reduce or eliminate user freedom over the past few years.

It's been a sad state of affairs.
Or 1815, on the theory that Waterloo was a cusp that ended the Napoleonic wars, and freed enormous resources for infrastructure ... like rolling out the steam technology that was in vibrant development by Waterloo.
Having a "re-enter your password to confirm" step is bog standard for critical actions like that. It would be no serious burden for a legitimate user, and an extra hurdle for a thief.
That’s what I’m feeling, too… perhaps did they add extensions to iOS hoping they wouldn’t be too popular right away? Perhaps so they could watch what extensions get made, how they impact user experience, battery life, etc. ?
The rat race and BS jobs' are not that bad. You get paid good money to not have to expend much effort .many people would love such a privilege. Look how many applicants white collar companies get. Low paid jobs are just as tedious or worse, but obviously lower pay...having to death with 'Karen' customers and such. There are many stories of people on reddit (such as investing and 'FIRE' subs) and here doing their '4 & 10' and having a large nest egg to show for it,