skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he gave managers a heads up, it would have been immediately leaked to the press.
No, you're stuck with handoff or airplay.
What I love about the O365 admin panel, is that it lets me administrate O365.
There were way more than 23 blogs in 1999. I can't even imagine how you get to that number.

If blog means, updated page that moves in reverse chronological order. I would have called it a diary in 1999, but many of my friends from IRC had these.
Legit question, don't EU have by law, very generous unemployment benefits compared to the US?
I have the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II. It's pretty good, feels … plasticky but good travel and has a Trackpoint.

However, for me I use the Thinkpad as a "controller" for a desktop, so I get two (well, three, the desktop has two) independant screens and kvm functionality via Barrier (derived from Synergy).

Maybe I'd never want to go back if I tried a mechanical (I got my partner one, but haven't touched it), but I could not go back (way back) to a mouse.
I was a backend software engineer and I became a teacher 10 years ago. Don't know if that counts as a down though :-) I am very happy and there is no stress in my life anymore.
I'm sure their premise that academics study something in isolation and extrapolate possibilities from there is problematic.

But the author also focuses on papers that study 100% renewables grid.

I find it pretty annoying that people want to scuttle the first 80% renewable grid because of the problems of the last 5%. Smells like good old fossil FUD.
The VTOL part obviously isn't Mach 0.8
Here is a thought experiment for you:
Right now, I have a 45 year old rotary telephone working fine in my living room, hooked up to VOIP with an adaptor.

In 40 years time, how will anyone be able to make use of my "antique Internet Radio / Amazon Alexa"?

Virtually zero appliances / embedded systems sold today allow you to configure the CA bundle. Even Android is locking this down bit by bit as they don't want anyone peeking at all the surveillance traffic their Apps are sending to the internet.
> If you do consider switching, one warning about Mac is this: Window management is utter garbage.

It didn't used to be this way, a lot of things about the UX has gotten worse in Mac OS. The nice thing is there is common, well written software in the community to resolve most of the quirks. BetterTouchTool is a REQUIRED install on every Mac I touch and while it is very powerful and has many capabilities, its two most important features for me are rather mundane: Dragging to grid and switching the behavior of the green button back to maximizing the window instead of going full screen (does anyone actually want /full screen/ for a normal application that is not watching a long video?)

If you have the right mix of community written software (much of which is free, but some is paid), Macs become a truly lovely experience. I can't stand Windows these days, when I used to feel very positively about it. Granted, there are great community written programs for Windows to improve its UX as well.
As a now old PC gamer who wanted a casual and inexpensive modern console experience I'll miss Stadia or rather, what they tried to accomplish.
The company making this clearly doesn't want to open up development, this code was released because the government was forced to. They stripped the commit history and some hard coded details and I don't think they'll develop on this repo either.

Some extra eyes on the current code might fix some small issues, but I doubt this is going to improve the app much.
The air that you’re breathing right now is also a fluid.

It’s not a liquid, but it’s a fluid.
I said this in another comment, but I feel like they're missing an opportunity not reaching out to Valve / Steam to work on Proton and integrating that instead. Steam will pay people to work on Proton fixes, so it seems like a no brainer to me.
Your preaching to the choir Simon.

...But the tenor ...whose pitch is a little off... up the back, Is listening even though he's heard it before :-)

I think the ability to so quickly create and consume an SQLite DB is one of the big advantages here. I need to use bigger DBs like PostGres and MSSQL (in previous roles) for bigger tasks, but SQLite is down there with fopen in terms of time to create a DB.

I find myself imagining schemas for problems that I'd like to put into SQLite and possibly DataSette.

Thanks for making DataSette Simon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy...

> We now know (as of 2013) that the universe is flat with only a 0.4% margin of error. This suggests that the Universe is infinite in extent; however, since the Universe has a finite age, we can only observe a finite volume of the Universe. All we can truly conclude is that the Universe is much larger than the volume we can directly observe.

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html
If you had a good idea that you wanted to get traction instead of trying to make money on some opinion you would realize that going through that set of interviewers means you lost your credibility to the majority of people who are critical thinkers.

'Impressive list of disqualifications there.' < couldn't be truer.
20 percent means, literally, 20 per hundred; it's equivalent to 0.2 or 2/10 or 1/5 or whatever, of course, but if `percentage==0.2` then that fairly clearly, on the face of it, should mean "0.2 per hundred", ie 0.2% or 0.002.
The Federal Reserve wants to tame inflation by cooling the economy. I don't believe that historically that has ever been achieved without causing unemployment to rise.

These large companies are ultimately doing what the Fed wants them to do, no point blaming the c-suite for that?
there is also mu: https://codewith.mu/
My brother-in-law works at Sandia. He likes the pension, the work, and the quiet atmosphere. He doesn’t like the commute, and you still get a weird performance review culture, at least in his experience. He described a PIP process that sounded unpleasant.
> My hands are large and the positioning of the nub is incredibly awkward and uncomfortable to use for any extended duration without moving my hands just like for a trackpad, and the nub doesn't allow real multipoint input or navigational gestures.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417750
Tech, Tyrants and Us, a new podcast series
Inevitable entropy increasing is a red-herring in the presence of free-energy, no? What you point out though is very interesting, what would it take to inject energy into conserving this information? And what would its effects actually be? Could you pause aging, reverse it? Now this gets hairy, what happens to society? I dare say not everyone can live forever. What are the consequences of having a select few continuing to live youthfully and reproducing? Can we wind up with a loss of genetic diversity in our species? Entropy strikes again!
Nah, I was half-joking. This one is a really common bit of confusing naming in English, as well.
Aye, I have some history in software development as a UI designer. Including for something with natural language processing. So I have some heuristics for what and how to ask. But I feel like “add [x] to my Shopping list” where [x] is a fairly common would should be doable.

But also I didn’t know about named timers. So I appreciate that, that’s actually really useful. Huh, something I didn’t know about a voice assistant, it’s almost like there are issues with discoverability, who would have thought…
If so, why have teachers at all? Give those freshmen adults a syllabus in the beginning of the semester and conduct exams at the end.
”Those who are smart and motivated will get it, and heck with the rest.”
This project is a boon to all reverse engineers, especially when reversing malware that uses undocumented features of windows.
I posted it mainly because not everyone on HN is always aware that ReactOS exists, the thread shows up every year or so, and you always find someone learned something new. I also love the engagement around the subject, sometimes you learn something new about the project.
> The potato gun girl and gerbil genetics guy found they didn’t want to write updates. It didn’t make sense. Their sites should have remained a table of contents, a reference tool, an odd and slightly musty personal library… the new “posts” format simply didn’t work for what they wanted to do. It felt demanding, and oppressive.

> But they’d already switched. They’d already spent all that time and energy and optimism. To switch back, they’d have to go through that process all over again. Only worse, of course, because they’d have to build the new (old) site completely from scratch. They had no tool to give it shape.

except there was. Wikipedia and other wikilike software. the start of this essay was very strong but ignoring the facts to push a point of view is a really poor end to an otherwise strong piece
You can ask voice assistants to play playlists or albums as well, not just a single track.
> literally nothing at stake if somebody is able to read my traffic to or from this unimportant site.

> There's even less at stake when it comes to the cryptographic security of some blog.

This would only be the case if ISPs were not adversarial. In the US - for most people - They are, though.
Sounds reasonable, but what if the page that you are interested is not in cross-heirs of archive.org, what if is niche?
Archive.org provides API to store the pages you are interested in, it is like that by design. I think they decide what to store after all, by checking how many requests are made.
I suspect the most vile and graphic content was confidently classified by the AI.

The difficult part, where you'd get the most out of human labeling of data, is the grey area where the models diverge or are uncertain.
They're spreading it out over the full year. Interesting that they would announce it up front like this?

What does this do to morale and retention?
That's hard to argue against, especially when targeting and tracking is taken into account.
> It's not slavery though, since nobody is forced to take the job.

Yes they are, that's what borders are: rent-seeking in the labor market.
He had other colorful pronouncements:

1991 "Microsoft is abusing its monopoly"

1993 "Wireless computing will flop permanently"

1994 "What the Internet needs now is more competition among greedy entrepreneurs"

1995 "I predict the Internet's catastrophic collapse in 1996"

1996 "Everything on the Internet should be strongly encrypted all the time"

1997 "E-postage is a good thing"

1998 "The skunk is, like Microsoft, an exquisite survival machine"

1999 "Linux will fizzle against Windows"
I've followed the project for years, and I assume not literally everyone on HN is aware of it, maybe the power users, but the casual HN reader might find it interesting.
Ask HN: What's Neat in Your Field?
It's amazing what science and engineering have accomplished. But unless you are in a field, you may not know what is possible. What's neat in your field that might make someone else go, "Wow, I didn't know we could do that."?

Prompted by the Ultra Sonic Lens cleaning article submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426600
I grew up somewhere economically similar to Venice (i.e. tourist place)

By "lacks the infrastructure" they mean that the local business and regulatory environment is too hostile to the kind of business that would dispose of such things for said business to exist within the distance this waste can economically be transported, so the locals just dump stuff because what's the other option?

You can't "just run a boat dismantling business" on the outskirts of somewhere like Venice even if the economic need is obvious because a large part of that kind of business involves regional competition (selling parts over the internet and whatnot, fixing and reselling stuff) and the concessions your local government will demand in order to make your business in line with whatever quaint image their tourism empire is built on and the realities of the local economy (inflated cost of literally everything you need to buy, including labor) will make you noncompetitive.
What happens when a ship sinks? A step-by-step guide to averting disaster
You can get real far with the Rust Playground https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> In the past 20 years, all of the critical failures in PKI systems that I have seen [...] None were due to [...] use of plain HTTP.

Not sure how a PKI failure specifically can be due to use of plain HTTP, but I assure you there's been plenty of other very real security failures over the past 20 years due to use of HTTP.

> That legacy baggage is the only thing that allows older hardware to connect to the modern network.

This sounds like legacy baggage, yes. The term "legacy" is not a value judgement. It doesn't mean "bad", it just means "old".
"The mini has shockingly good sound for $100 and what it is. "

It's really something, isn't it? I mean, I'm an audio nut with genuine crazy-person speakers in my living room, but goddamn if that single mini Homepod in our bedroom isn't stupid good.
Speak recognition on Siri is horribly bad.

They need to license/acquire Nuance Dragon, or do something to improve it.

https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html
DCGs are an awesome way to specify a format but a poor way to implement it?
Web Slider
Web Slider is an animation platform for the web that gives you a wide range of possibilities to create and publish visually rich content. It allows integration with any website through HTML and JS. Responsive configuration has a rich set of options that allow you to fine-tune the visual experience on different devices.
They could all take massive pay cuts to preserve jobs. They have agency and they have chosen to enrich their stock price at the expense of people’s lives and well being.
Object Pascal is considered obsolete because it is. Like C, it has failed to evolve to pick up features that would make it usefully powerful.
If I had to show a progress bar for less than a second in a screen the user will only open up once per 10 years (it's NFC code for scanning passports/ID cards), I wouldn't bother writing a reusable custom progress bar component either.

Sure, you can do it better, but why would you? There are other, more pressing issues in this code (that probably also don't warrant spending extra time on refactoring).

Those redundant checks are highlighted in every IDE I can think of. I can only assume they're there for readability.
Sweet!! I ordered one(tho I live in Europe) and waiting for it to arrive.

Meanwhile I can Google places where I can buy the order pieces. Thank you!
It depends on what you understand with very generous unemployment benefits. Te me just the fact that there is universal healthcare makes the unemployment benefits way better.

I am a EU citizen having lived in the US for almost a decade and I still can't overcome the stress of losing my job because of this.
I was in the same boat - symmetrical features, visible abdominals, decent career. Couldn't put it together describes the problem very well.

I found the book 'Models' by Mark Manson to be a big help. Sometimes, the right advice really does make a difference.
I am very happy to see the bigger HomePod come back. I have a several big ones and a few of the small ones and they just don't compare for sound so I put off putting them everywhere I really wanted.

Will for sure be getting a few of these.

As far as Siri being "Stupid", idk it does exactly what I need it to do for playing music, controlling my home, measurement conversations, timers, and the occasional ask about if someplace is open or not.

I have long been wondering if Apple would expand the stereo audio for TV to more than 2. If they were to introduce a generic receiver (or actually make the Apple TV able to have inputs and not just use eARC) and allow me to have 4 or more HomePods for my stereo setup. I seriously wonder how that would compare to my current Atmos 5.1.2 setup. It would sure as hell be cheaper to buy 4 or 5 HomePods than this setup was.

Edit: Also the addition of the H1 chip was seriously the best thing to be added to the Mini and unsurprisingly it is coming here to make sending music from my phone to my HomePod easer when I get home. Not enough to replace the big ones I have but likely over time.
> for next to nothing.

The point of the OP comment is that it's not "next to nothing". The cost of living differs from place to place and a small amount of USD can be worth a _lot_ in many developing nations.
That’s the downside - and beauty - of federalism. EU is very diverse with different cultures, language, and behaviours.
I have contacted next cloud 'News' plugin developer https://github.com/nextcloud/news/discussions/2066 to request automated call to archive.org.

I have received a response:

I don't think archive.org would be very happy if every nextcloud/news install would request they store the CNN frontpage every hour for example. I think this is better suited in feed creation software since that would know exactly when a feed is updated.
Sir. I need. Full information. On my sky7yahoo.in. Ide. Bcz. I. Hack 5 ide to. Request. Peeeio.
Where are you getting this idea from?

As a resident Indian, as far as I know (a) children have a guaranteed right to education which keeps them in school until 14 (b) children in fabric sweatshops was never an Indian thing. Children in brick kilns and beedi factories rolling beedis because of their nimble fingers used to be a thing.
https://archive.is/PPSfr
Janitors at that company make $200k?
Becoming a manager in large enterprise companies is basically an entry-level position all over again..

Except people care even less about your job experience since you're "leadership" now and are expected to toe the line no matter what.
> I was so confused by the saltiness

I was confused by what you thought was salty. I don't see it remotely.
People with health issues should still be able to purchase their existing insurance through COBRA, and, once that expires, through the public exchanges that are guaranteed to cover their existing condition. Thanks ACA.
That what confuses me about the market fit here.

It’s not an amazing voice assistant. It’s OK as a wireless speaker, but Sonos is almost assuredly better, and similar aesthetics and ease of use.

So this is targeting…uh?
When are we going to learn?

Uber did Greyball and nothing happened. Its corporate charter should've been revoked and the executives jailed. A very clear message has been sent to the tech companies by this: do whatever you want, the law doesn't apply to you.

OpenAI did this and nothing happened.

At the next pandemic, some sort of this generative AI will be used to write the anti scientific articles and woe upon to you then. This time it was bad but that will be a thousand times worse.

Can't find who said OpenAI basically released a zero day on human cognition without a patch. Outlaw it already until we find one. This is no joke here.
IIRC, Salesforce also did the same thing. Announced layoffs that would happen over the course of a year, with some effective immediately.

It feels like it would demoralize workers; everyone was already on eggshells leading up to such an announcement and it would suck to continue working while stepping on eggshells for a full year, wondering if tomorrow is your day.
> The Federal Reserve wants to reduce wages by cooling the economy

There. Corrected.

https://mronline.org/2022/05/26/u-s-federal-reserve-says-its...
Nonsense. European families get healthcare for life.
The description of the tweeters has changed on the spec page as well. I wonder if they're still using balanced mode radiators (BMRs) like the first gen HomePods? Perhaps these use a newer generation BMR?
Ransomware Diaries: Volume 1
Rust is in the same language space as C++. Object Pascal competes with C.
How did the Fed force the companies to over-hire?
I was recently looking through WordPress themes. I remember some years ago, it was easy to find all kinds of quirky themes that were easy to quirk up even further.

Today, there are lots of well prepared themes, but they’re all fundamentally the same: designed to “monetize” “content” with the broadest possible “reach” for someone’s “brand,” in service to modern “creator” culture.

And just as you say, the more of it there is, the less any of it seems to mean.
Depends on the EU country. Where I live you get 60% of your pay for something like 6 months, plus the public healthcare coverage.

Though, it's not exactly a vacation, as you're expected to prove to the unemployment office you are actively looking for a job and interviewing and you're not allowed to leave the country during that period. I mean you can leave the country, nobody will stop you, but you'll not receive unemployment or healthcare coverage for the period you're out of the country.

You can make it a vacation if you're system savvy enough and know how to game the system and aren't risk averse.
I think 1 is due to some MS protocols which the browser needs to support to open these items. Brave supports them already apparently (just did a quick search out of curiosity).
> Seems like Apple executed the way Google should have with their Google Home Max

Google properly executing on Google TV would require them to not build hardware with 1/12th the single core performance of an Apple TV. (Seriously, it has single core performance around that of a 2011 Intel Atom while the Apple TV has an A15 throwing 12th gen Intel laptop numbers. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19594628)

Seriously, what is with The Chromecast with Google TV? People are like "It's laggy!" and Google is like "We do update!" and people are like "Now it's laggy AND crashes!" My entire experience with my three of them. Software is great, hardware is pure eWaste and they should feel bad about that.
I'd say the following factors added up:

1. A reason to create coal-driven machines in the first place (to pump water from mines, when labor and other fuel sources like timer were low), to kick-start the process of mechanical innovation

2. Enough technical/scientific knowhow + conditions for entrepreneurialism (inventor gets to actually make a profit) leading to progressive mechanical innovations, spreading to other sectors like textile manufacturing

3. Easy access to coal (near the surface, in Britain itself) to provide energy for the new machines

4. Access to raw materials to drive textile factories, namely cotton produced by slaves in the Americas

5. An market for low-cost textiles produced using machines, to a great extent India (Indian textile imports were taxed, and exports were encouraged)

6. Capital for new machines/factories, often derived from excess capital from slave-plantations + re-invested profits from industry

It's going to require quite a lot of expertise to tease out the relative importance of these factors, so us laymen should be okay with a general picture. It's okay to admit that.
Ah yes, the “let’s force companies to become unprofitable” theory. I think Venezuela and Argentina are good places for you.
People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them.

Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.