skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Most people” don’t buy laptops. That’s a terrible measure of whether a business is attractive.
Technically, yes, but it is quite difficult to perform a realistic emulation of an OS with shell facilities, as evidenced by all the system emulation issues on SSH honeypots e.g. cowrie[1].

[1] https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues
New York has solved this by keeping the offices valued at the same price but just letting them sit empty.
Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support for Reporting Liquid Cooling System Leaks
Morally wrong?

- but there's a crisis!

- made up statistics

- think of the children
Where do you find the files? Do you pay for an indexer too?
Too bad we can’t convert any into housing or even have mixed use skyscrapers with residential and office floors. But that would mean building housing in California which is strictly forbidden.

Personally I think a mixed use skyscraper with residences, offices, shops, restaurants, etc would be totally cool.
... since July 2022 for "new types" vehicles and starting 2024 for all.

https://askoto.be/en/article/a-black-box-in-your-car-for-who...
> but its primary purpose was to lock people out of actually using software licensed under it, unless they happen to be running Solaris.

And yet here we are, with DTrace (CDDL) shipping in macOS, ZFS having shipped in OS X for several releases, and FreeBSD shipping both. Even Windows (on the "insider" builds) has DTrace [1] _shipped by Microsoft_.

That makes any argument that you can't use any of this stuff unless using Solaris looking rather... wrong - and the idea that Sun lawyers would have overlooked FreeBSD, macOS or Windows if the goal were to restrict the software to be used in Solaris is laughable.

In the case of CDDL specifically, even RMS [2] refers to it as a "free software license", though not one which is GPL-compatible.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CDDL
I mean, most people who like tactile have forgotten how a snappy rubber dome feels.

The only one making keyboard for typists these days seems to be Matias, and they DO feel like a snappy rubber dome.
> Hi Tycho. I was The Guy at LSS who tested positive for COVID about 12 hours after we sat next to each other at that Japanese restaurant in Vancouver the week before last. I really hope you didn't catch it. So far, to my knowledge, my "blast radius" is just me.

Hi Mike. So far so good for me.

> It looks like you were able to figure things out through some combination of /proc poking, code inspection, and LKML querying. Out of curiosity, would it be feasible for you to have tried enabling some of the kernel hacking options such as WQ_WATCHDOG or DETECT_HUNG_TASK? Do you think that would have sped up your investigation?

We do have these both enabled, and have alerts to log them in the fleet. I have found it very useful for saying "there's a bug", but not generally applicable in debugging it. However, we wouldn't catch these things without user reports if we didn't have those tools.

Something that might (?) be useful is something like lockdep when there's hung tasks. It wouldn't have helped in this case, since it was a bug in signals wakeup, but I e.g. in the xfs case I cited at the bottom maybe it would.
The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular.

If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.
Ah the rich people chasing their fantasies as usual. Because the man who has everything wants what he can't have, and the man who can buy anything wants what can't be bought. In this case, immortality.

Simply not going to happen. And if it did, some other aging process would kick in that we don't know about yet. Who knows, maybe it's even faster, because the old one was keeping it at bay somehow.

And even if it does work, all it will ever do is make the privileged even more so.
The canary islands
> The museum also promised a total rehang of its collection, as well as more “phygital” experiences (offered in physical or virtual format) and a refurbished library.

“phygital” is one of the more ridiculous conjugated neologisms I’ve come across.
I haven't read any of the Bobiverse books, but I recall reading a review that stated something like "I realise this isn't going into what's so bad about it, but I honestly don't know where to start. It would be like explaining why murder was bad." :D

Annoyingly I can't find the original any more, but I do note that most of the 1 star reviewers are angry about anti-religious tone, so perhaps that was the bee in their bonnet?

I've read and enjoyed the other two as amusing romps (albeit of otherwise quite different tone). So you might possibly enjoy the Lady Astronaut Universe Series by Mary Robinette Kowal. Just a thought.
Please note I am not the same poster. Lots of content is in books offline and not available online.

Again, plenty having been written does not mean some specific book is guaranteed to be there.

I do not know about chess, but I can suggest Princeton companion to mathematics to find in commoncrawl.
Tech companies != Tech employees
This is really fun. I have an experimental branch of my sqlite-utils CLI tool (which has dozens of sub-commands) running with this now and it really did only take 6 lines of code - I'm treating Trogon as an optional dependency because people using my package as a Python library rather than a CLI tool may not want the extra installed components:

https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/commit/ec12b780d5dcd6...

There's an animated GIF demo of the result here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/545#issuecomme...
Compared to which other industries? Not aware of any other industries pushing for remote

Yes some bigger tech companies are pushing back, but others are going all in. This industry is the prime example of remote working, even if some are going back
I'm not sure the author has established the test is watered down, or that the current test produces competent lawyers. Looking at the cadre of lawyers who were the principal architects of the 2020 legislative-coup (separate from the insurrection, the legislative coup involved lawyers interpreting the constitution to mean that the VP could choose from a slate of electors, all illegal), it occurs to me that maybe we should focus more on creating ethical, socially conscious lawyers rather than the kind we've been producing for decades, who have failed the legal profession.
This metaverse 'vision' from Zuck IS more focused around AR based vision, than it will be all around based on VR. Apple is merely a single platform competitor, but Zuckerberg already has Oculus products on multiple platforms with AI-based vision research to continue to be ahead with AR,VR and XR (mixed reality).

It would be incredibly ridiculous of Apple for their XR headset to work only on Macs. But we will see what Apple announces, but the same mistakes of the repeated under estimation of Meta's performance is repeated again since almost everyone forgot that they were also in AI as well as XR, and Apple is weaker in their footprint in AI. I expect Apple to announce some breakthroughs in AI to compete against Meta but overall...

The death of Meta Platforms Inc. (Formerly Facebook Inc.) has been greatly exaggerated. The same outlets that were screaming of Meta 'dying' over its stock price hitting $88 [0] are now the same ones that didn't buy in its recovery [1] and many listened to the nonsense and complete FUD pieces like this one.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/26/meta-earn...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/26/meta-q1-e...
How do you suggest keeping your database in sync between your desktop and mobile device? I use Keepass2Android and I'm 100% happy with it, because it has incredibly good Dropbox sync support. I don't think throwing out every single networked feature just because of one malicious app is a reasonable or proportionate response.

Besides, I'm sure some clever attackers could think long and hard and come up with plenty of covert exfiltration channels without even needing direct network access. For example, adding a "safety redirect" every time you open your web browser, like t.co does.
> in fact, based on the Windows Server 2003 codebase rather than XP per se

For a while in the 1990s, Microsoft tried to pretend that "Server" and "Workstation" NT were substantially different. At some point somebody actually worked out which registry key actually matters, and then (though obviously it's unsupported) you could turn a "Workstation" into a "Server" or vice versa, because in fact, just like Linux it turns out an operating system kernel is an operating system kernel, marketing is bullshit, the difference is always just tuning.

After that, Microsoft didn't ship "Server" and "Workstation" variants of the exact same code. Instead they'd branch the "Server" and "Workstation" products, under different names, from the same tree at different intervals. Thus this difference is purely about the badge, and presumably they felt that the XP badge was appropriate for this product whereas a "Server" badge would give the wrong impression.
Nova Scotia, Canada. We get hurricanes but they're not usually too bad. Not at risk of anything like earthquakes tornados etc
Show HN: Loadable – Simplifying Async Data Handling in React
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I don’t disagree with you, though personally I’ve called out two people on Reddit using ChatGPT to farm karma by pretending to be an expert on some topic… and an hour later they deleted all of their GPT generated replies from their profiles.

There’s definitely a pattern for some prompts, where the model uses an obvious format of:

- Make generalized statement answering prompt question
- Support that statement with 3 or 4 discrete paragraphs that don’t exhibit any personal experience, give examples, or cite statistics
- Finish off with a high-school essay style conclusion statement reiterating the introduction with different phrasing, generally beginning with “Overall” or “In conclusion”

It’s also comically obvious when suddenly someone who has a reply history full of low-effort juvenile, zero grammar, curse laden posts on video game and meme subs is suddenly writing mini-theses on topics ranging from Swedish forestry management to the chemistry of dyes used in Cambodian textile manufacturing.
Making a chessboard highlight moves like it does online
Maybe it feels that way in the Bay area because the only companies are tech companies?

In NYC, it seems that tech is the only industry that allows remote work. Finance in particular is requiring employees to show up.
I'm honestly kind of boggled by the HN comments so far, all seem to be various forms "I can't see how wearable displays can offer any value unless they're cheap". To me the use case is obvious: getting rid of the fucking screen. There is no inherent law of physics reason I can't have a full size desktop 10k 40" or whatever max is "display" for every single system I interact with, anywhere. The current paradigm of lots of different screens for different computers (desktop/notebook/tablet/phone/watch/appliances) is because nobody has yet been able to sufficiently directly project photons into retina via something good enough and wearable. Products like the RETISSA II demonstrate direct retinal projection working but without enough resolution, too clunky, etc. But the fundamentals work. The killer app IMO for a wearable display is replacing every other display. I can sit down at my desk or anywhere else and have whatever screen size/config I want, the only difference being how much local compute I have available and at what latency. No more need for "headless servers", just have the right display key pairs and you can pull up a screen/console just from what you're wearing. Same with anything from network switches to printers, can have augmented local display tech using a full size screen vs some tiny little LED thing at best. On a plane or a train and want to watch a movie, or pull up SSH sessions or whatever else? Full screen, and in total privacy. NV/FLIR, or digital [LMH]VPOs could all just feed into my worn display too. Which would be perfectly crisp even for those of us with bad eyes.

And on and on and on. It's so obvious. All the challenges involved are engineering/polish/politics (in terms of agreeing on some level of industry standards at least for a minimal level of universal interaction). Which doesn't mean it couldn't be mucked up but the promise is clear. I've spent many many thousands of dollars on displays of all sorts. When one wearable one can replace them all I'd cheerfully pay $5k let alone $3k. It'll also open up entire new realms of form factors for computers.

Apple may or may not manage it, and certainly probably not the first go around, but it's pretty clear why they'd want to be getting going on real experience with it even if it's mostly for devs and such to start. It's the definition of a looming disruption, a huge amount of their current visual product design is about "very nice screens, with stuff on them". Something that eventually obsoletes the "screens" bit would be one obvious way someone else could pull the rug out from under most of Apple's current offerings, and conversely is a big new opportunity for them too long term. It might take them 5-10 years, but if they think now is the time to get iterating I don't see why they shouldn't get going even if it's a touch aggressive.
That could be. Or some other super light solution. Thinking about it more, copper is probably too heavy for head mounted cooling.
Yes I know, I'm just pointing out that you need additional tool to check that.
I read Snow Crash growing up. It is a wonderful weird cyberpunk novel that (metaverse aside, unfortunately) turned out to be kind of Nostradamusly. Easy read. Higly recommended!
Oddly enough - a lot of PS3 games are running on PC pretty well, but there's no PS4 emulator despite the fact that the PS4 is x64 based.
Once one moves to dragonfly cloud, I guess the "performant" part of the value prop falls by the wayside. i.e. you need your in-memory data store on the same machine (or on the same rack) otherwise really un-peformant solutions can out-perform dragonfly cloud.
A small city in a building would be awesome, if legalized.

Do they exist anywhere else?
There are some custom ROMs that'll work for the cheap Amazon crap. These boxes often come rooted out of the box (useful for the malware they ship with) so if you find a good ROM and buy a box for that, you should be golden. DRM support will probably be broken, though. 480p will be all you get, so you'll need to expand your Jellyfin library.

The easiest method I can think of is to just get one of those Android TV Chromecasts. They're not much more expensive than the Amazon TV boxes and the software actually works and gets updated.
I used to run mu4e with my gmail accounts, those were fun times. That unfortunately no longer seems to be possible since Gmail, Outlook and others no longer provide SMTP service in the name of two factor authentication. Keeps my blood boiling as now every email provider has its own API.

Anyway, what email providers do people use today? One I found with SMTP support tends to be directed to spambox by Gmail.
I wish there was a standard label for roasted coffee beans. Something that clearly specified the origin, process, roasting date, etc. I love natural processed brews but so many bags never mention it and just have fluffy words like 'fruity, citrus'.
Perhaps Mossad are good enough to sneak surveillance into open protocols and software but they would have to be really good.
I'll add a self-hosted option that no one ever mentions – PasswordWallet:

https://www.passwordwallet.com/

I use iCloud Keychain for most of my passwords these days, but my critical passwords I continue to keep in PW as well.

PW also has an occasionally very useful feature that I have not seen in any other password manager: auto type. Sometimes I just need to point my cursor somewhere and have the password typed for me (e.g. into a login screen on a VNC/RDP connection).

PW uses Blowfish with 448-bit keys.

There is also "pass" (from the author of Wireguard) which is essentially a shell script wrapper around gpg and git:

https://www.passwordstore.org/
Feersum Endjinn isn't a culture novel, so "other" doesn't really apply. I like the rest of his works, but this is my actual favourite of his SF genre stuff. Plus it's relatively short and self-contained which is often a plus for someone new to an author.

Of the Culture novels, my favourite is Excession - but I can't see it appealing to someone who hasn't already read any of the others.
Western Europe, at least. Possibly Australia expect for the forest fires, but that might just be availability bias in the news I see as it's the other side of the planet and hardly anyone (in relative terms) lives there.
That’s the kind of writing you are supposed to have learned in grade school. Not good writing, just clear enough to pass.

Good writing only comes from writing lots of things that other people actually want to read. Course work is poorly structured for that, it isn’t peer review.
Mid west and north east basically have no natural disasters. But cold winters and hot summers. Depends on your definition of livable. I don’t mind wearing winter clothes in winter and AC in the summer.
Good point. I use Kagi like it was Google and I'm so used to unrelated spam that it doesn't bother me much (sadly). I cannot tell if it is more or less on Kagi.

I only realized after reading your comment that I can block and boost results in Kagi and I will definitely start using that. I think I did injustice to Kagi in my previous comment, because it does more or less what I wished for without me noticing. (The fact that I pay for it makes it even more embarrassing;-)
To be clear, the *arr suite of apps don’t just download things randomly. You still only get what you request. You just don’t have to go download a new TV show episode every week or keep an eye on exactly when the new movie hits the shelves.

You just tell the apps ‘follow this tv show/movie/whatever’ and it grabs it when it becomes available.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21899491

Samsung, Google, and Microsoft are spyware companies.

Just because a large sum of people are "okay" with it, doesn't mean it isn't spyware.
Try to write a pure, classical, UNIX application and sell it on the Play Store.

Without rooting devices.

Likewise, try the same on iOS/iPad OS/watchOS.

Only C and UNIX/POSIX APIs, nothing else.

"Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?"

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending...

"POSIX has become outdated"

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis
SF commercial real estate genuinely feels like it's a slow-motion trainwreck that nobody can stop. As leases end, there's just no way that owners will be able to re-rent those buildings at anything close to the same price.

That seems like it's going to have two major consequences - when the values on those buildings fall, SF is going to lose a lot if income at a time when the quality of life is already greatly suffering there. On top of that, a lot of those buildings have large loans against them that may well become greater than the value of the buildings. The latter certainly feels like the sort of thing that could ripple through the economy as building owners have to sell off assets to make loan payments.
Let's not pretend that stuff like software development or finance, some of the best paying careers there are, are "hard, disgusting or dangerous". Jobs are simply paid on the value they create vs the supply of workers available to do those jobs.
One could have spoke similarly about the Apple Watch, but it’s still tethered to a phone. I’d love to just have the watch.
This has Embassytown vibes and I don't like it.
Rupert Murdoch owns/controls both Wall Street Journal and Fox News.

Both have significant ethical problems in smearing "just the facts" with terrible propaganda op-ed's disguised as "news", like this article.
It's so bad it makes me yearn for people to just say they're metaverse experiences.
Midwest and northeast have flooding, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, etc. Maybe not earthquakes (or wildfires), but I worry about earthquakes and wildfires much less than I used to worry and have to deal with frozen pipes and snow removal and humidity.
Looking at some examples of GPT Code Interpreter that people have posted, you can see that you can e.g. without knowing much about Python generate a great data analysis from just a dataframe using AI.
Wow, they apparently cleaned up 80% bullshit off IBM.com and then he posts all about it in a page where the content is interrupted with 80% bullshit UI...
> Maybe some mention of quantum information science ...

Not quite "quantum information science" per se, but Feynman's "Lectures on Computation" (1996) provides fascinating insights into information theory as well as quantum physics in micro-chips. Again, as it is always the case with Richard Feynman, you will find lots of interesting non-trivial ideas in his books whether you are novice or expert.
No mention of COVID, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a big city in the US where COVID hysteria was more intense and longer lived than SF. SF has many compounding problems, but the failure to do any sort of cost / benefit analysis with respect to COVID harsh measures really did the city no favors.
I disagree wrt to Data science being on the chopping block. I do not see any hard evidence of this automation happening anytime soon.
You can tell if it’s vanilla ChatGPT but the second you tell it to write in another style and tone, it changes completely. It’s very interesting that it sounds like a generic high school essay by default, but that’s without any extra instruction.

For example, ask it to write in the style of Christopher Hitchens, Charles Bukowski, or Hunter S Thompson, let alone more extreme examples like Shakespeare or Dante
There are so few public market transactions for commercial buildings that each one is an important data point. An auction as well so there are no backend side deals that would make the value uncertain. This is a good data point.
St Louis, Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, albequerque.

None of these have the climate of San Francisco, but certainly livable.
Hehe exactly the same number I have in KeePassXC, 479. I'm pretty sure many of these services have shut down years ago.
"will integrate Taiwan"

Title should be changed.

One more instance of Elon talking about something he very clearly knows absolutely nothing about. Stick to what you know, Elon.
I suspect you're being downvoted not because of your message, but because of your aggressive attitude, at least, that's why I downvoted you :)

No one wants to deal with that.

Lets test.

Hey HN! If you don't mind piracy, these books are freely available at ThePirateBay and OceanOfPDF:

The Linux Command Line - https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=60092203

How Linux Works - https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/brian-ward/pdf-epub-how-linux...

The others are easily searchable.