skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite being disabled in BIOS the touchpad in my T440 still works, it just doesn't move the mouse cursor. And no amount of tweaking in Synaptic drivers allowed me to disable "side actions".

Thankfully I don't use it much nowadays, but there could be people with borked touchpads too.
I can literally set up a blockchain that says I own the Mona Lisa. Me saying so, or me putting it on a blockchain doesn't make it so.

A blockchain solves the specific problem of how to track ownership of some piece of data in a decentralized fashion where multiple parties do not trust each other.

This, however is not the hard problem when we talk about ownership databases. The hard problem is ensuring the data entered into that database represents actual real world ownership and having the database universally recognized by everybody as a representation of ownership.

What purpose does a database like that serve, when the actual place where the rubber of ownership hits the road is somwhere else?
I tired myself, but it seems Alpaca can't provide contextual conversation.
So it's just very simple Q&A.
This limit makes Alpaca far away from ChatGPT ability.
They're not selling it, the app is free.
>How can audiophiles continue to exist with knowledge being so easily available?

You ever discussed religion with anyone?
Also I just wanted to add to this - MKBHD has just posted his video about this, and he wasn't able to reproduce what the reddit user did. Samsung did improve the photo of the blurry moon, but nowhere near as much as that guy on Reddit shows. That's not saying that he's lying of course - it's just that maybe we need to take it with a grain of salt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1afpDuTb-P0
Lead toxicity was limited due to it not being sprayed about with fumes out of the exhaust of every vehicle, and then number of those vehicles being low.
It got quickly somewhat regulated away. (But not 100%.)

AI toxicity... We don't even know the risks. There's potentially no limit to the damage.
We have some examples (metrics making echo chambers, automated classifiers giving people wolf ticket for no reason, amplified evil biases in conversational AI, fake news and deepfake generation) and some guesses for now.
We do not even know how to begin to regulate it.

It's not even the same ballpark.
Internet would be a closer comparison and it's still wild west.
At first glance this looks very cool.

For me to be able to write a cool test app I'd need a working date picker and some kind of radio button feature (so that I could ask you to select a date and then display a list of offers on screen to select.)

I checked the docs and it seems there's a radio button, but no date picker yet.

Plus maybe the option to push a pdf result.

(My usecase: I'm a backend dev for a booking api and it would be fun to quickly build a frontend to test the API on my phone)
I do not believe russians will want or need to get into space until 2050, because the economy of this country is screwed and electronics tech-stack is dependent on global market to deliver required chips... Needless to say the window of opportunity to receive the electronic components is closing. They can't run a space program on gray market deliveries.
> it is part of the explanation that YC is good at early stage investing.

no, they are good at giving money to people

investing implies ROI
US (attempted) buyers of air-to-water look with envy to the Nordics, Northern EU, and the UK. My quote in the US was almost double that figure (for an installed system). The parts prices you’re looking at are indeed cheap. The labor is moderate. The profit margins are high.
I have the opposite problem. I acquired a Surface Pro 8 together with the keyboard. It does "disable touch-pad while typing" automatically and by default, and I haven't found a way of disabling it in Windows 11. On gnome I can disable that functionality easily, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware thing in the keyboard/touchpad, but on Windows 11 there doesn't seem to be any way of disabling it, built in or 3rd party.

Makes it kind of difficult to play certain strategy games and using 3d/animation software when you want to be able to pan with the keyboard at the same time as you're selecting/moving the mouse around.
Oh we instantly did know how bad it could get. General Motors,Standard Oil and DuPont knew for sure, they had industrial incidents and lied about them! US Surgeon General was bought, people with opposing opinions were sued.

It was instantly obvious to anyone that using leaded gas esp. in agriculture would be deadly and toxic. The risk was ignored for profit, PR handled, underplayed. Even the chronic effects were known!

We even had an early alternative of just adding more ethanol to the pettol. But no...

It took 50 years of scientists trying to convince public how deadly this thing is, with varied success. And 30 more years for the bulk of the phaseout.
All that can be good advice and yet helping layed off workers still be win-win for employers and employees.

A reputation for sticking with employees, even through a layoff, makes a company more attractive.

It increases trust between employer & employees. Trust increases the efficiency of any collaboration.
These guys will get themselves killed or worse kill someone. Here's hoping the Mexican Army arrests them before that happens.
That's the crux with Apple, for me at least. Hardware is excellent and I love it, but the software is so bad that it makes it really hard to justify purchasing the hardware. At least on the computers I can chose what OS I run, no such luck on other devices from them.
(I should probably blog about this).

At my first software developer job (small company of about 400 people in a country in Asia), there was a company wide requirement that our working hours should be logged into OpenProject.

Logging the hours turned out to be painful because the UI was clunky. Too many clicks and page loads were needed. You probably see where this is going.

Iteration #1:

After working there for a year, one evening I checked out the API for OpenProject. The web interface itself includes a place to set an access token, and examining the browser network tab gave me additional information that I needed.

In about a couple of hours, I wrote a quick and dirty python script that would read a text file formatted this way:

<task-id-A> <comment> <hours>
<task-id-B> <comment> <hours>
etc

My script when invoked read the file line by line and pushed each entry to OpenProject via API calls.

What took 15 minutes every evening now only took 30 seconds!

Having said that, this was a quick and dirty script, and although it worked fine I didn't want to spend time cleaning things up.

Iteration #2:

30 seconds was too long!

This was because for every line in my input text file it would establish a new API connection. So if there was 5 lines of input, it would make essentially the same 5 API calls.

(There's probably a proper way to bundle all input into a single API call, but that's not the approach I took.)

I realised that my workload is embarrassingly parallel. I altered my script to process each line in parallel.

What took 30 seconds on a typical day now only took like 5 seconds! (Depending on input size of course).

(My dirty script became dirtier in terms of code quality.)

Iteration #3:

Even though it took literally just 5 seconds, manually running the script every evening was a chore!

So I setup a cronjob to run at 6:05 pm everyday to run this automatically. 6 pm is when I usually call it a day.

On the occasional day that I stay a little bit longer, I just had to log in manually to OpenProject and do the necessary adjustments. No big deal.

Iteration #4:

Before the aforementioned cronjob ran I'd like to review what it's going to push. I discovered the notify-send utility in Linux that I can use to display a popup.

Wrote a crontab entry to show me the contents of the input file in a popup a few minutes before my other script ran.

Iteration #5:

(By this time I've been relying on this python script for over a year).

OCD finally became unbearable about the crappy code quality (even though I never actually had to look into the code at all for like 9 months by this point).

One weekend I rewrote everything in Go (to take advantage of goroutines, since my program could readily use those — and because parallel programming in other languages I knew felt like an afterthought, though that's a topic for another day). My keys and such things were now in a proper config file.

The Go program also ran without hiccups.

I left the place about 6 months later though.

It was fun!
Was excited when I learned about Bitcoin, how it's 'cash you can email'.

Struggled to ever see the point of NFT's - at least as anything beyond 'trading cards' (which granted have their place).

No problem with the hype moving on. Leaves a cleaner space behind for more compelling innovations to gain some limelight.
"hack" or "workaround", in this context, have the same meaning.

So the comment is correct: you can't install (specific versions of) Windows without internet.
Ah, interesting. The reason I ask is because I’ve spent most of the past 7 years doing the same, and my perception has been very different.

I know many of the accelerators, most my friends are startup founders or early employees and only one is focused on anything crypto-related at work (and even then, it’s tangential).
While this is a workaround, I would not call it "straightforward" because there is no world where I can explain this to my family members :)

Straightforward would be a small text-based link at the bottom saying "skip this step"...
Yes, but certain models are on a fire sale now, keep an eye on Newegg!
Depends on the content/ amount of sound recorded.
Memory: Frank Zappa used to go for 22 mins a side on lps to allow the quality to remain constant throughout the playing of his plastic releases.

Sorry, no source/ link atm.
I've met some elderly people who weren't happy they received free senior passes for travel and wanted to pay like everyone else
> Google Lambda and Bing/Sydney are not at least incrementally closer to evidence?

No, in the same way that boiling water in a kettle is not incrementally closer to inventing the fuel for a rocket ship.

You can, in hidsight do a linear connection of water boiling -> steam engine -> fuel engine -> aeronautics -> space travel

But the first time someone boiled water, if you said that got you closer to being on the moon I think you would be mad. There is a non trivial chance that all our current work in AI is functionally useless in terms of creating AGI, it might take a complete breakthrough in ML, tech not invented yet, or it might not be possible at all.
> I doubt that many people particularly care if property records are available 24/7, or are demanding the ability to update records outside of business hours. Individual pieces of property aren't bought and sold frequently enough to need to be able to be done instantaneously or at any time. Governments have a vested interest in being able to verify that transactions are legal and that identities are known so as to be able collect taxes.

Cryptographic signatures paired with identity information makes all transactions easily verifiable for tax collection purposes. There are purposes such as proving ownership of a record anytime someone needs to that would be convenient if the records are accessible 24/7.

> Ransomware or other attacks are always going to be a risk, and the more municipalities that use a single system, the bigger a target it becomes, so smaller but properly secured and backed up systems have advantages.

If the past is any indication, local governments and small businesses have had a heck of time securing their IT systems. I would much prefer a hardened blockchain system to secure my property ownership record, than the current situation.
I haven't read any of your books, but looking at the "allbooks" link on Amazon, I find it funny that the English title is "The Mom Test" and is has the same title in other languages, "El Mom Test", "Der Mom Test", "Le Mom Test" and so on, while the Swedish title seems to be "How To Talk To Customers To Find Out If Your Business Idea Is True, When Everyone Is Lying To You?". Maybe Swedish people like their titles more explicit?
>On gnome I can disable that functionality easily

My problem with Gnome (on Ubuntu 22.04 at least) is I can't set it to disable the touchpad if an external mouse is plunged in. WHY?! There seem to be some Gnome extensions for that but they never worked for me most likely since I'm on Wayland. Such a basic setting should be available by default, or at least through a cfg file.

I guess such a setting is not necessary because my workflow is different than the ones the Gnome devs want me to have. I must be holding it wrong. /s
Indeed, your professor was starting under the assumption that our civilization will not collapse. If you want to know what happens when the resources your civilization is built on run out, you're probably better off asking a historian than an economist.
Hmm, what's this note all about, from the bottom of the side-bar in the linked article?

"EDIT: I’ve restored this version now that I’ve figured out Other Methods to dissuade Hacker News. I remain trans and hating you, orange site."
Most GPUs have some degree of coil whine, often under high or specific load. Even my PS5's has it in the menu of a particular game, I suspect they haven't capped the framerate for that menu.
For some people, yes. Daniel Vassallo and Gergely Orosz are two people who I respect that started with a similar thing and have now turned writing/products into their full time job.

However, it feels like OP is just visiting. A lot of talk about "I could do this next" and a focus on FatFIRE. Daniel and Gergely just went all in and created a lot of high quality content.
IMO, some blogs are of better quality than most magazines.

E.g.

History related:
acoup.blog

Physics:
backreaction.blogspot.com
It's comical being downvoted for this without comment. Having actually analyzed terminal performance, and optimized terminal code, this is based on first hand experience. The vast performance difference between terminals is almost entirely unrelated to rendering the final glyphs.
When buses stop every 200 meters, as an able-bodied person, this tips the scales just enough for me to not consider the price of the ticket to be economically viable.
It would be also great to see this with a map overlay. I'm not familiar with London transport network.
You mean `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events disabled-on-external-mouse` doesn't work for you? Seems like it's just missing Wayland support if so, file a issue if you haven't already.

You might not want to complain about customizability in gnome if you have ever used Windows before, they are on two whole different levels. That `gsettings` even is available is a godsend compared to Windows and macOS.
I hate that trackpad with a passion. My X240 had the same one.

Those machines don't have dedicated mouse buttons for the trackpoint and use the trackpad instead. For some reason the mouse clicks became unreliable every so often, registering presses on the wrong side or straight up moving my mouse cursor to the edge of the screen - even if it was disabled in the BIOS.

The issue was persistent across operating systems, so I returned the machine and got an X250 with dedicated buttons.
Well, I'd argue if the first two high penalties did not have an effect, the company is likely rotten from within and can not really be fixed, so close it.

Also, I find your "but you have to think about the children^WJobs" argument pretty hollow. Nothing can be changed, because some gay lesbian from a foreign country might loose their already precarious job. Come on, is this really an argument for something?
India plans crackdown on pre-installed apps
That's really interesting, I hadn't considered the case of the compiler caching the address of errno. Obviously it can't cache the value across a function call (with or without a yield point), but caching the address does make sense, and I see how that would blow up if the coroutine was scheduled on a different thread.

I'd argue that the problem here is that you should obviously not use TLS with corutines, since they can be scheduled on any thread. The concept of thread-local storage just doesn't make much sense for coroutines. The issue isn't necessarily that there's anything wrong with coroutines, it's rather with APIs that use TLS as an information side-channel. errno is just a bad idea, basically.

But point taken.
Hopefully I can make you feel a little better about that project: Saudi Arabia alone extracts 10 million barrels of oil every day.
If you found The Guns of August interesting, you should have a look at The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Caldwell: 1914 read not through WW II but through the 1990s Balkan wars and Serbian irrendentism.
one part of the circuit may age faster than another because it gets used more

I wonder if there's another option here akin to the route SSD's have taken - build more redundancy into the chip and wear-level the aging.
My maternal grandparents are in their mid 90s, and they're both generally upset whenever it turns out they can't do something which was not a problem in their 80s - by that I mean e.g. cooking for ten people and organizing a family get-together.
My wife paid 4000 euros for a heatpump in Finland, last year. Mostly to be used for cooling during the summer, rather than for heating in the winters (since there is "district heating" available for that).

Seemed pretty cheap, and the installation only took a day.
Well the concept of something to be non-fungible was pretty cool to me. I was just thinking about tokens being interchangeable until the concept of NFTs was explained.

The fact that they've mostly been made to create bored apes and all that was a bit mind boggling unimaginative :')
No, that is wrong. At least in Finland, Wolt drivers are independent contractors. Their entire delivery fleet is composed of third world immigrants who are willing to work for peanuts for no benefits. It is exploitative and the current government doesn't want to do anything to change it.

Whenever I see a post on HN that says "In Europe, blah blah blah" it is bullshit 80% of the time. Sometimes the poster is extrapolating laws from his country to the other 43 countries on the continent, but usually it is just completely made up bullshit based on wishful thinking. I've learned to never trust these comments unless they provide a source.

https://wolt.com/pages/en/fin/courier-center-faq-finland#lin...

>Are Courier Partners employees of Wolt?

>No. Courier Partners are not employees of Wolt, they don’t have a boss or predetermined work shifts. Wolt Courier Partners are contractors, Wolt pays for each task a Courier Partner has committed to deliver and has completed.

>Like all entrepreneurs, Courier Partners are in charge of their own: taxes, driving log, insurances, compulsory motor vehicle insurance (if they make deliveries with a car or a scooter), pension security, and financial security during periods of illness and unemployment.

>Like all entrepreneurs/independent contractors, Courier Partners are in charge of their own financial security during periods of illness and unemployment. In practice, this means that Wolt does not provide compensation for sick leave or health services on days when Courier Partners are not able to make deliveries.

>Everyone who has a municipality of residence in Finland is entitled to use public healthcare services. As an entrepreneur, Courier Partners are encouraged to consider arranging occupational health care coverage for themselves. Public medical centers and private hospitals can help Courier Partners with matters regarding occupational health care.
Is this really a problem for windows users? My macbook has a massive touch pad and I don't recall my palm ever triggering it once.
It is amazing to think how wild the nft craze was, definitely history will look back at it as peak zero interest rate phenomena. My favourite stories:

- BBC: Twelve-year-old boy makes £290,000 from whale NFTs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58343062

- Guardian: Rishi Sunak asks Royal Mint to create NFT (note 11 months later, it seems this project has quietly died)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/rishi-sun...
Great idea. I've read some people's comments. There are a lot of companies in the UK that sell their equipment, and use contractors to install them (Worcester Bosch for boilers, even Tesla uses external contractors to install the chargers). I think you can do it. There was a heat pump company with similar approach in the UK that went bust recently, so maybe research what they did wrong.
Interesting, despite living in Croatia I had never heard of this rebellion, neither in school or in my spare time history reading.

On the other hand, the rugged eastern Adriatic coast and interior, with its many isolated islands and hills, was apparently a pirate sanctuary since records began so not too surprising.

Still, I would've thought that by Caesar's and Octavian's time the immediate vicinity of Italy would've been firmly under Roman control.
Speaking here from New Zealand, where central heating/thermostats are basically unheard of, outside of offices and schools. Heatpumps are very common in homes, usually high-wall mounted ones like this:

https://www.mitsubishi-electric.co.nz/heatpump/i/69337B/stan...

We have the approx 12 year old variant of the above heatpump in our current house, and in our previous house paid to install a similar thing.

The hardware cost for one of those is $2900 NZD, plus another few for install, leading to a total cost of around $5000-6000 NZD ($3000 - $3700) USD approx. While that is still a fair chunk of change, it's less than a quarter of the cost of the $14,000 USD that Electric Air is launching with.

It's not ideal, you end up with a single climate controlled part of your house, and the rest relies on leaving the doors open. The fully ducted electric air system (which I assume lets you heat/cool individual rooms) would certainly be a lot nicer, but the massive price differential means that only the really super rich elite level houses would ever install one. The other 99% of the market is happy with the "good enough" solution of a wall-mounted heatpump.

One other thing - Water drainage from a heatpump in cooling mode is a common problem. Installers need to run pipes out through walls to drain away condensed water, and while they ideally can use gravity, sometimes install location means a water pump is required. We have one of those; some years ago the pump failed leading to a lot of soaked carpet in our living room. Hopefully electric air has a good reliable solution there!

Finally: When installing heatpumps, this requires the indoor unit (source of cold/hot air) to be connected via heatpipe to the outdoor unit. This almost always involves drilling holes through interior and exterior walls (often brick). Because of the potential for things to go wrong, I'd never recommend a DIY / home contractor to install such a thing. You want a reputable company that warranties their work, has something at stake, and that you can have recourse against, if they screw it up.

Good luck!
No. I live at the borders of 3 EU states (PL, CZ, SK) where in each the drivers/couriers are contractors (self-employed).
Problem is, unless it has been tried in court, you can't be certain. And if you're building something, you might not want to spend time in court having to fight it in the first place. So even if it's 50/50 enforceable/not enforceable, do you really want to spend the time testing if it is?

Patents really have a chilling effect, even if a particular one might not be enforceable.