skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Ring doorbell absolutely works as a mechanical doorbell if it's hard-wired into the doorbell system in the house...if there is one.

When the ring doorbell lost wifi, because we changed ISPs, it no longer functioned as a doorbell. When pressed, it would only make the chime outside at the button, it would not ring inside the house. Yes it's hard wired to a doorbell inside the house.

When connected to wifi and active, when the ring doorbell button is pressed, it will ring inside the house one single time. Then it starts recording, by default for 2 minutes. During the time it's recording, if the button is pressed again, the button press is completely ignored. So by default you can ring the doorbell 1 time every 2 minutes -- anything more often gets ignored. There is a huge bug report / thread about this on ring's site and they just say it's by design.

When the ring doorbell is completely disconnected from wifi and reset back to factory settings, it indeed functions as a regular doorbell. But it also has a spinning light that notifies everybody that it's not set up and is not recording.

My brother in law works for a home builder that installs Ring doorbell buttons by default on all their homes. He said he noticed that about half of them get replaced with a regular doorbell button or a different "smart/camera" doorbell within a few weeks of initial move-in.
The blood sacrifice the Vikings did for the good Frey in Uppsala were quite a bit grimmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala

Remember kids correlation does not imply causation.
I think the reasonable person standard is used for evaluating whether someone's behavior is okay. Like, if you tased someone because they were suspicious, the question would be whether a reasonable person would conclude they were suspicious based on what they did.

I think you're thinking of reasonable doubt?
For clarification, “NET -NN” and “NET NN” are common shorthand for describing cash flow, where the minus signifies that the customer pays before receiving the product or service, and a positive number signifies that they receive the product or service before paying.

Freelancers are typically paid after providing a service.
Surely _some_ came from ransomware, but I feel the article overstates this. Presumably, the hackers also exchange it as soon as they have the chance and they wouldn't have used this as an environment if it didn't have value in the first place.

I think a much better case can be made that early crypto liquidity came from darknet markets.
Did you know that they were the technology leader in digital? A Kodak engineer invented the digital camera[1]. They were first to market with a self-contained digital camera. Kodak had the best inventors in the business and numerous foundational patents on digital photography. You sound like someone repeating a just so story you heard nth hand for some large n. My information comes directly from the participants. It was absolutely managerial corruption and not a lack of technical ability that tanked them. And that's where the real lesson is to be learned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson
I think it's very common for developers to overestimate the value of their own code. You see this in the video game community, where people are afraid to open-source their Minecraft plugin because they think it'll be "stolen". They choose the future where nobody builds on their plugin (and no amount of attribution will ever feel like enough, so there's some level of "theft" felt by the original author).

Most open-source projects are not valuable, and even if they are popular, they could be easily replaced in a few days by another programmer. And usually the license doesn't matter, because nobody forks the project anyway, all development is done in a central repository and the project owner signs off on all of it
NeXT Computers
I'll bite, which law enshrines "corporations must deliver maximum return on investment" or whatever roughly equivalent idea?
This requires a browser with a passkey-providing plugin right? There is no way to use a passkey without browser support, like there is for password managers (copy/paste, or copy it from your phone screen)?
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> because the nix view is that it's absurd having 7 different package managers fighting for control of the same system

And addresses that by becoming the 8th different package manager fighting for control of the same system, a la https://xkcd.com/927/
Or you can read it straight from the horse's mouth: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

Discussed four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480479
My partner and I now half-jokingly refer to all legitimate pictures, footage, etc. as "legacy".
> The best is a senior engineer who can spit out the skeleton of B for junior engineers to work on

That's what person A does.

Agreed that having a super senior engineers is bad for the bus factor (FYI people are calling it the lottery factor now, as in "what if they won the lottery and retired") but sometimes you don't have the luxury of having backup people.
Nato is arming the state of Ukraine. The state armed forces have integrated remnants of those splinter factions under a unified command.
In this case it's relatively easy to prove the legitimacy of the video. It was published by a real news organization 6 years ago, is a video of an interview conducted by two well known and respected reporters (Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg), was filmed in front of a live audience (additional witnesses), and it's being hosted on a 3rd party's website for 6 years. There should be piles of evidence that the video is real.

There should be higher degree of burden on the defense than claiming "fake news" and waving your hand.
> YouTube is almost unusable nowadays.

Ads aren't the only problem. The YouTube recommendation algorithm works a little too well. I'll watch one video on a topic and then YouTube thinks I'm in love with it and floods my feed with 100 other related videos. It's terrible for discovering new content.
What features are you imagining that would otherwise be impossible in userspace?
Even if the two you offer theories for are correct, it doesn't really apply to my overall point which is: Big health shifts have happened in unforeseeable ways before and we have no reason to think there won't be any more of them.
Wat Florida has snowplows?

(is that the joke?)
Going to be extremely hard to quantify, ransomware peddlers aren't famous for their meticulous public record-keeping. You could try to sift through all the transactions on the public blockchain and try to classify the ransomware ones, but that's going to be challenging at best I imagine.

Overall I'm skeptical of the claim. It could be true, or partially true, but demonstrating that would probably require some work. Alternatively, someone could demonstrate that liquidity came from speculators or some other source, which seems potentially less doable but still not easy.
The "easy" optimization targets I have mentioned (tokens/memory/etc.) seem to confuse you. Ignore them for the main point - how do you create good tests for a more advanced AI than you yourself are (or have control of)? For so many human fields of knowledge and ability it is already extremely hard to find meaningful tests to rank humans. No amount of letting an AI optimize on games with fixed and limited rules will automatically improve them on all the other abilities, which are not easily testable or even measurable. And that difficulty pertains for human intelligence trying to measure or test human intelligence. How much more difficult would it be for humans to measure or test super-human intelligence?
Yep that's sort of what I mean. Cruelty is something inflicted on the enemy and the other. Cruelty inflicted on the citizen is systematized or justified, and does not read as cruelty in the "view from within". And especially in the "view from the top".

But most of them are very cruel, within and without.
> Please describe how the statement you quoted is untrue

One we're arming Kyiv. That they've incorporated members with a problematic past is known and, frankly, rational. (Can't be choosy when an actual fascist neighbor is invading.) Characterizing aid to the entire Ukrainian military as "arming literal nazi corps" is selectively, misleadingly and incorrectly reductive.

Two, the Azov Brigade was destroyed (after fighting bravely) at Mariupol [1]. We can't be literally arming them because they've been dead or captured for a year.

Finally, the the Congress literally banned arming the Azov regimen inter alia in 2018 [2]. War is messy, so results won't be perfect, but there is a clearly-understood consensus across NATO and in Kyiv about what will and won't be tolerated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms...
Intel's designs are basically competitive on performance, even when they were stuck on 14nm against TSMC 7nm, at the cost of higher power consumption. Which is down to the better power efficiency of TSMC's process.

Their reputation has taken quite a hit because they're used to charging a premium, so they've been selling hardware with similar performance and worse power consumption for higher prices than AMD. Which isn't a good look. But it's not because they have a bad design, it's because AMD's design is just as good with a superior fab.

A lot of people credit AMD with chiplets, which really was a clever way to deal with fulfilling their contract with GF, and has a major advantage for server chips where they have a large number of compute dice. But the mobile chips and some of the desktop APUs are a single die and don't seem to be suffering for it. It's not the reason the Ryzen 7 5800X uses so much less power than the equivalent Core i7.
This could be it. I'm on a Pixel 5, which I suppose is ancient in phone years.
They did add a bunch of achievements for each gamr, collectables and in game purchases along with a plattform to trade those. But it is not on the nose, and mostly cosmetic stuff like skins as far as I can tell. All of that is offset by Steams drive to get more and more games playable under Linux so.
Uh. I shudder to remember all the problems I had with 10Base2. And the electric shocks. I think I still have PTSD from all the electroshocks.
So computers alone will burn down the planet? Well good to know.
No one and I mean NO ONE had any clue how widely deployed IPv4 would end up being. It went literally beyond everyone's wildest expectations who was alive at the time of its inception.
I maintain a library (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy) that implements both Flexbox and CSS Grid and is designed to be easily embedded (similar to Yoga, which Ink is using), if anyone wants add CSS Grid support to their app/framework.
Sorry. This is the only paper I wrote on the topic, and my coauthors had already constructed the data when they brought me aboard.
For Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3].

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[2] https://github.com/textualize/textual

[3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
I think it's more of an ideological issue than the journalist or headline being inaccurate.

To oversimplify: If you buy into the idea that a corporation is there for its shareholders, then there's little to be outraged about. If you believe a corporation is there for both its employees and shareholders, then there may be some outrage to be had.

There is no universal truth there. The mainstream perception right now is the shareholder-oriented view, and the more I understand capitalist incentive structures, and the fact that buying into the market is pretty much the underpinning behind our retirement structure, the more I personally subscribe to that view. But not everyone does, and there are many good reasons to not!

Even within the shareholder-oriented view, there's also a question of short term vs long term thinking. Does the slump that's causing the job cuts justify losing the domain knowledge, momentum, etc. that might come alongside job cuts? Is Intel making a bad call here? Even as a shareholder I might think Intel's being too drastic.

The headline, while potentially outrage-baiting, does carry important information.
If Intel were losing so much money that it was unable to pay dividends, then the job cuts would be almost universally justifiable. I certainly would have some sour grapes if I were laid off in the midst of an organization that can still pass value to its shareholders, especially if I felt that I were a part of that success and effort.
Steam seems to suffer from the issues of discovery of great content among the sea of average stuff. That's a different, common and hard to overcome variant of enshitification.
I think half a cow is like ~250lbs of beef, so with an 8oz serving sizer per person that’s 125 meals for a family of four so maybe a year eating beef every third dinner?
I too have been trying to think of a more civil version of this word lately. Entrashment? Crudification?
The war started with the 2014 invasion, not the 2022 escalation.
Facebook literally fired people they hired a week prior.

Why do you feel the urge to make excuses for managerial incompetence.

Like when you are a worker, they must be scruitinised to make sure they arent lazy or incompetent, but the day you get promoted to executive you gain godlike immunity from criticism
> they have all the power to do it. Trained forces, modern weaponry, popular support

You're ignoring the entire rest of the Ukrainian military and state we've upgraded in the process.
Semantically, sure, they are giving money back but the OP has a reasonable point that a dollar given back today may ultimately cost far more than a dollar in lost future returns.
I've always disliked Steam cause I view it as just an extra DRM/adware/forced-update step to run Steam-exclusive games, but don't see how it's gotten worse over time. It's gotten a little more stable if anything.
This isn't a direct answer to your question (it's not a computational geometry codebase), but one option for
implementing geometry might be to use MAGICL. [1] It is optionally and transparently accelerated by BLAS/LAPACK.

[1] https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl/blob/master/doc/high-lev...
Not me but terminally negative people usually repeating that:

- it's not open source

- games are expensive (even though it's set by the publishers not Valve)

- DRM (even though the Steam launcher is not a DRM itself which people mistaking with the SteamWorks DRM system which is optional)

- monopoly (even though you can use GOG, Uplay, EA, Humble, BattleNet, Amazon Prime, MS Store and the countless other options on PC if you wish unlike on iOS and consoles) etc.
It appears to be NextSTEP 2.0.

NeXTDPS - NeXT display postscript server.

NeXTDimension - next dimension rom/kernel code.

NeXTMach - NeXT Mach kernel (not sure which version exactly)

NeXTSrc - Various NeXT source pieces including Appkit, GNU sources, NetInfo libNeXT, and others.

NeXTDSP - NeXT DSP code. Midi libraries, soundkit, and others.

NeXTEmacs - NeXT version of GNU emacs.

NeXTROM. - NeXT Firmware rom code.
Web Environment Integrity – Google locking down on browsers
Nice! To me this is a small but meaningful differentiator for OpenBSD. It is similar to the "random" feature in my favorite cron, fcron: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrontab.5.html#FCRONTAB.5.RANDO....

In crons that do not support something like this, you can introduce a random delay with a Perl oneliner. For example,

# Start within the first 10 minutes of a matching hour.
0 */8 * * * perl -e 'sleep rand 10*60' && ~/.config/jobs/fetch-tcl-logs
Friend I believe you may have played too much C&C: Red Alert
It’s been in existence for 20 years now, so I‘m rather amazed by how little it has changed, while obviously the background work (scaling, security) has always kept up.
It's one of those "grass is greener on the other side" situations.

I'm currently bouncing back and forth between VB6 and HTML/CSS and yeah sometimes it is nice to just quickly drag something into place, but other times I really wish I could just use a layout system like CSS Grid (or Flexbox) and give it all the items I need and let it figure out how to lay it out.

For instance, recently I had to edit some "tables" in VB6 that turned out to have been hand-drawn with pixel-perfect lines and changes were incredibly slow and I would have murdered for that to be in HTML/CSS.

Sometimes I like (and miss) the best of both worlds in XAML where it has drag-and-drop design tools, but also the copy-and-paste and handwrite support of XML, and it has modern layout tools like Grids for auto-layouts/responsive layouts.
Yup, the Elon circus wore off, so he suspiciously stopped bragging about engagement and daily active users in recent months.
Fun fact: with the german prefix Ent- the meaning would be the opposite.
They covered a few products and techniques. Which one specifically are you talking about?

The CarbiCrete one for example uses CO2 to cure the concrete, but doesn't use cement.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596...

> steel slag has shown the potential to replace cement as an alternative binder if carbonation activation is performed.
There is a market for ancient coins. Hence experts can give an estimate in the same way experts can estimate the value of antiques or art pieces.
May be because they're a private company, so there's no pressure from shareholders to "extract the value from the brand"
The dividends of switching to Fastmail just keep piling up. Gmail is so far back in the rear view mirror I can barely see it.
>They did add a bunch of achievements for each gamr

That's done by the game developers not Valve. It's not obligatory to have achievements unlike on the PlayStation
[EPA] Interim Decision to Artificial Intelligence Tools
Heck, just adding another byte to it to make it 2^40 would have given us 1,099,511,627,776 or 1 trillion+ possible addresses.
Anyone ever noticed how it’s almost always the worst bot tier software engineers on the team who push for scrum over kanban?
Great comments, thanks for the feedback! Pretty much all your points are fair. I will just say that this post is just a personal reflection and not meant to degrade NixOS as a system for others, as I wrote near the end of the post. 100% agree with the point that it just required more tinkering than I was willing to work with. As for your specific points:

1. This is a bit off, Nix does not exactly let me continue using existing tools. NixOS' dependency system means that the R dependency management system I was using (renv) would not work on its own. renv would try to compile R libraries but would fail because it could not find dependencies

I accept that Nix provides a way to handle this problem through buildFHSUserEnv, but the point I raised in the post was that buildFHSUserEnv feels hacky and unparadigmatic. I conceded, through additional NixOS configuration, that I couldn't use NixOS' store or use the NixOS recommended way of installing R libraries

2. Yep, not surprising at all, definitely to be expected. The point I wanted to make in the post was that NixOS makes it harder to tell whether it is a Linux or game-specific issue or if it is because of NixOS

Also, even though it wasn't surprising in the least, it was still a major annoyance/frustration

3. Not all captive portals, most just used a 302 HTTP redirect which works without trouble, but some were weirder -- although I'm beginning to think that this was because I didn't have `networking.useDHCP = true` enabled, as I wrote in another comment
Ok, so this answer, and the other answers in this comment thread thoroughly convince me you're all batshit insane.

How can you get any work done like this?

Are you all working at massive corps that develop at a glacial pace?

Sounds like you all spend your time shuffling papers rather than doing anything meaningful.
Pretty sure that early crypto liquidity came from VCs, hedge funds, and speculators on Mt.Gox and other early fiat-crypto exchanges and OTC desks. To the extent crypto ransomware contributed, it was a small portion of that.
I hate to ask but is this ChatGPT?
Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai
Kind of early but the UX has been insane. Incredibly responsive feel, intuitive commands, and just generally a warm fuzzy feeling.
> How do you do that? By supporting the factions that are. What are those factions? Hypernationalists, which in Ukraine's case means Banderites & other Nazi-aligned factions

You're describing a tiny fraction of Ukraine's armed forces and source of popular support, much of which has been destroyed or captured in the last year of war. It's simply untrue that Ukraine is being sustained by neo-Nazi elements.
At least this, unlike solar freakin' roadways, isn't a completely crazy and nonsensical idea. But it's still a terrible idea, if only because it wastes so much electricity.
Is it even attention grabbing anymore? Everyone I know from teenagers to 60-year-old county employees use it now. From my experience, the shock value is now minimal. Instead of shock value, it just makes me take whoever uses it less seriously because I mentally associate them with a high-school-level of maturity.
> Notice how his immediate train of thought on AI is conflict - a battle between us and them. Why? At worst an AI will be indifferent.

I'm not a Yuddite I lean more to the Paul Christiano side of the AI debate but still... An indifferent but very powerful AI pursuing its own orthogonal goals would absolutely lead to conflict. This is essentially the "orthogonality thesis" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...) in AI risk theory. Maybe you disagree with it for some good reason, but it's not so convincing to just say "at worst an AI will be indifferent" as a reason to disregard the probability of conflict.
Sure, this is true for tabacco companies and oil companies that are milking cashcows in a stagnant market.

This should not be true for microchip manufacturer during global computerisation. We now have microchips in sofas and handbags.
Note that the examples of non-code output are ultimately still code - just not code written by the senior engineer. Part of what an effective senior person does is to take their own knowledge and wisdom, and externalise it in ways that let their colleagues take advantage of it without having to learn it from scratch.

One of the most obvious ways of doing this is writing reusable code. Maybe you know the ins and outs of reliably spawning a child process in OS/2; you write a spawn_child_process_os2 function which does it, so others can take advantage of it.

But there are less obvious, and sometimes more powerful ways to do this.

The example of an RFC process externalises the engineer's understanding of how to rigorously think through and effectively communicate large changes.

The example of security check-ins externalises the engineer's understanding of how to write secure code.

The example of a platform team externalises the engineer's understanding of all sorts of code and build details particular to the organisation.
How to know you've made it big as a corporation: Your take any action, and mainstream media finds a way to link that action to the company literally dying. Ideally they use a credible blogger or economist, but it's hardly required.
Hmm from my experience the Software IDD is pretty good, but ultimately it's not designed as a consumer part. (I am the author of flirpy which is aimed at more end user applications but I've not added low level support for the Lepton yet)
This is also how I see it, even though I've only done relatively simple work with plain old TCP. It's just a stream of bytes, you then interpret it however your protocol on top of TCP requires.