skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding may be incorrect, after all the freezing the drives trick is mostly something that was shared among sysadmins like an old wive's tale. Nonetheless, it does work (or did).

The way I had always understood it was that if you had a head crash (which was caused by the head physically contacting the platter, overcoming the resistance of the air gap between the head and platter, usually due to physical impact) that the magnetism of the head would prevent it from lifting back up on its own, and that freezing the drive would cause the metal in the platter to contract away from the head, which was restricted in movement by its armature, thereby restoring the air gap and lifting the head away. If you started the drive spinning before it heated, the head would stay out of contact and you could successfully read data (some of it, for awhile).

That said, my understanding may be incorrect.
is this mainly for packaging python GUI programs cross-platform? how is it different from pyinstaller with tkinter?
El Niño usually limits the development of tropical storms, so it could be a quiet hurricane season, but who knows.
Why not both? Capitalism for encouraging this behavior and the companies for engaging in it.
Not really.

So much of HIPAA is actually getting the administration right.
I remember upgrading from a 4.3 GB HD to a 20 GB HD around 2001. I had the old hard drive sitting on my desk, and the new hard drive sitting in the case, both attached to the motherboard via IDE ribbon cables.

Most of the way through backing up the 4.3 GB HD to the 20 GB HD, I heard a screech and the old hard drive twisted slightly on the desk... conservation of linear momentum. The drive was visible to the BIOS, but refused to spin up after that.

I put the hard drive in a ziplock bag, put it in the freezer to give the parts slightly more clearance from thermal contraction, and slammed the hard drive nice and hard on the desktop to free the stiction. That revived the drive long enough to finish my copy.

I did have backups of all of the really important information, but restoring from a stack of floppies is more tedious, slower, and less fun than percussive maintenance on a hard drive.

Back when I had an internship working on MEMS gyros for GPS guided mortar rounds, we had to sometimes perform similar percussive maintenance if static electricity had caused the moving parts to contact the substrate. We took the gyro, and smacked it hard on the desk in an "eyeballs out" orientation to give it something like 10 to 100 Gs of acceleration in an attempt to un-stick the MEMS gyro.
That sounds like a lot more work than just allowing <img src=“my image.jxl”>. Are you proposing that every website comes with their own set of WASM libraries to allow its content to be rendered (each with their own bugs)? Why stop there? Just have the browser manage the canvas and deliver your own HTML rendering engine via WASM?
"Conspiracy"? Who is theorized to be conspiring to create climate change?
The marginal tax brackets are not what makes our tax system complicated. You can write them on a single page.

It's all the deductions and exemptions and carve outs. It's important to have higher rates on higher income earners to put pressure against income in equality.
Oh good, we’re not the only ones. The rest of my time is spent saying I can’t help people fix problems with some old microservice my team “supports”
Do wheels not solve this? I know not everyone ships wheels, but are they not the answer?
I've been using Gravity Payments for 6 years because they are local to me (Seattle). I have 4 different reps within an hour drive, not that I'm going to drive to their house, but it saves so much useless back-and-forth via support channels, threads, emails, chats, etc when I can just call them individually instead. I know, I know, phones are old school, but it gets the job done in minutes, rather than days/weeks.

Good luck getting a hold of anyone at Stripe. Even when you do, you'll get a different support agent replying to each message, which means there is no continuity or context.

Also, they reach out to me if they notice any unusual activity on my client's gateways, rather than just block the entire account and wait for me to notice.
I use a TI SR-40 given to me by my grandpa. I put a 9V battery in it and use it at work.
Indeed, lots of progress was salvaged from failed attempts. In a way all of science is a continuous refinement of our model of how things really work by finding how it definitely doesn't work.
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google needs to clean up the whole QR code reader app category. they trick users by having a big button saying 'OPEN' that takes the user to a website asking them to enter their credit card to verify their ID.
Super happy, I think Polars is just an amazing tool! We are in the process of kicking Pandas out of our codebase to replace it with Polars, and I can't tell how satisfactory this has been. The API is so clean and nicely designed compared to Pandas... and with the extra speed/laziness, this is just a miracle ;-)
"We will abuse this but you should stop complaining because we sorely need this to pad the profit margins for our investors."
> That being said, there would have been no extended conflict for Ukraine without the West's assistance, they simply wouldn't exist without the international assistance

Don't underestimate Russia but don't overestimate them either:

Russia lost against Afghanistan already back when they were a superpower and had Ukraine on their side.

They will lose this time too even if they are even dumber this time and choose to waste all their conventional forces there.
Def not what the imperialist would wear. Good luck UK, the modern world is your fault.
The primary issue is that big houses and card-dependence aren't mutually exclusive in nature, only in law. We could quite literally have everything we wanted, if "we" refers to people living in communities instead of car manufacturers and dealers.
How much time did it take for you to be satisfied with what you had?
Or just use make, and rerun the command on failure once clearing the error to continue where you left off.

Make is one of the most versatile pipeline tools out there.
Your metal detector "that seems practically difficult" is exactly the issue: WEI does create a implicit whitelist (I believe the preferred term is allowlist). WEI will attest anything, but if you want it to be useful you have to already have some idea of what attestations you're going to trust.

Keeping a continuously-updated list of all attestations you're interested in trusting does indeed sound practically difficult. So it's quite likely that most sites will only trust attestations from Google about unmodified Google-supplied software (and perhaps some of the larger third parties).
Taking a wild guess – but is there a chance that people using Twilio as their personal phone provider are not their target customer group?

Sounds a bit like opening a merchant account and using credit card payments as a way to split bills and rent with friends, and then being annoyed about being treated like a business (i.e. getting tax forms, having to declare a business model etc.)

Don't get me wrong, I also use a Twilio account for my home automation setup, but I can kind of see how that's pushing the boundaries of the product a bit.
This reminds me, in a sad way, of a friend of mine who stayed on when a startup we worked at was acquired by a huge corporation. He has an amazing mind for technical detail, and at the startup, he planned and executed some hugely ambitious technical initiatives. But management at MegaCorp treat him as an obstructionist. They want to announce an initiative, launch it, declare it done, make up a big dollar figure for the "savings," and gather a promotion. They don't need the initiative to make sense or work in a technical sense. But he understands the immensely complicated legacy context, all the work required to accomplish anything, and all the things that will break if they leave out parts of the work, and he won't keep his mouth shut. He would love the challenge of running a big ambitious project, but the only way to get anything big approved is to drastically underestimate the effort, so he's stuck rearranging deck chairs until they inevitably eliminate the product and lay him off.
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The thesis of the article is that liberals are not "good" and conservative are not "bad", but that liberals are "educated" and conservatives are not.

And the article questions, "Maybe liberals are bad because we're the ones who made them so stupid?" (paraphrased).
Phoenix is obviously “the big thing” and no other language/framework combination has something as good as LiveView. Rails cannot compete there.
Other than that, building Livebook apps for our customer success team has been really great and easy.

There’s quite a big push for ML in Elixir right now, and then there’s also Nerves for embedded programming, which I’ve never dabbled in but it looks nice.
I'm just waiting to see which (non google of course) website will be the first that is "you must have WebIntegrityAPI enabled to use this website" ..
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FreeTaxUSA let's you file federal taxes completely for free. (They have paid add-ons and services of course. But the service is Actually free, unlike TurboTax 'free edition')
To me the most ironic part was calling CRUDController clever in the first place. There could have been clever solutions to reduce the code repetition, but using inheritance to force a naive abstraction on every future programmer isn't it.
Some ISPs like to redirect mistyped domains, which may be a reason to avoid using their DNS

Your router will probably let you specify a pair of IPs for DNS (sometimes it's in the DHCP settings)
I’m not new to this, and Vulkan isn’t targeted at game engine developers.
Disruptive open office plans are just as bad as they ever were. It's part of why we took to WFH so well. And the amount of time we can spend on chit-chat at the office is greater, many more opportunities.
> It means LK99 is about as good as the other materials, at minimum. However, its chemical composition is different than any of the other materials on the chart (i.e. it is lead based)

While what you say is correct, let's not forget that lead _is_ an elemental superconductor. With a Tc of 7K, it's only bested by niobium (9K) and diamond (11K) as an elemental superconductor.

Yes, cuprates and ceramics were ruling high-temperature SC so far, but it's not like lead was entirely unexpected in the superconducting world.
OpenDNS used to hijack DNS to show ads, which is one of the reasons Google launched the non-hijacking 8.8.8.8 in 2009. OpenDNS quickly followed suit. No one would attempt it today, seeing as it would instantly make you the worst DNS resolver on the Internet and switching away is trivial.
If you want one number there is the option of getting a SIM card and putting it in a cellular modem.

You can get an old Wavecom cellular modem for few dollars on ebay, from a software point of view you open the serial port and send text AT commands to say "list messages" "send me message 1" "delete message 1"

In some countries you would need to consider the 2G switch off, a 4G modem is going to be a bit more expensive
I feel like if you broke up the browser from search then the elimination of third party cookies will magically fall off the table because you break the browser's integration with the engine and the ad platform which made that elimination profitable for Alphabet (and a knife in the lungs for "open web" advertisers).

I hate web advertising but it's the model we've got so bear with me.

Once third party cookies are back on the table it helps level the playing field. Programmatic advertising becomes profitable again and all those small players can get back to competing. Only this time they're just competing with each other and doubleclick.

Maybe momentum carries forward and third party cookies are eliminated anyway (such faith in humanity). If that's the case then once again the playing field levels a bit more and everybody is working with the same blinders on.

Search will still be awful because of google.com's market share and its enablement of click bait and echo chambers, but search will always be awful and five years from now everybody will have their own LLM instead of search anyway (and five years after that LLMs will suck because there's no new data to train against but that's another rant).

Analytics will change a lot. Google not legally being able to integrate the data it scrapes from GA into its own products means that there's a lot less of a reason to stick just with their ecosystem. They'll still lag behind as far as privacy goes, so third party analytics providers will actually be able to get their toes in the door.

Anyway like you I agree that a breakup probably isn't going to happen. Most of the people who would legislate a break-up don't even understand the internet or what alphabet is, or what google does.
Still no support for IDN domains though..
Oh, one other thing: this was in 2019.
Just to underline this, after years of plague, war and uncertainty, I think this is a great, positive thing, whatever happens.

I'm annoyed with someone I was talking to about this, who either can't or won't stop ranting about past high-profile failures.

Yes, we all know. Old folks like me remember the cold fusion scam first hand. Your knowing cynicism displays deep scientific wisdom. Happy?

Great, now let's watch the fucking show, this is neat, even if it doesn't work out.
She's also fantastic. Their sense of humor is great and it makes digesting deep content a lot easier.

But Julia's concision in her Zines is what sets her apart, to me. So much great content in 3 or 4 panels. Incredible, it must be really hard and take a long time to achieve.

Gary is more of a prose guy, to me.
Both platforms scan apps for malware when you upload them to the store before they can be downloaded by users.
Use virtuabox and make a vm with ubuntu, install elixir and connect via ssh. This is what I did when I wanted to try it out but only had win8
Doesn't inflammation happen when building muscle? Isn't muscle building a healing process?
> Having a smartphone means signing your life (your location 24/7, your messages, your contacts, your everything) over to either Google or Apple.

True – but using SMS-OTP signs over your life to your phone provider.
Generally, no, ISPs provide DNS with generally the best locality of results.

Sometimes it can happen that you get a shit resolution, but it's hard to identify if DNS is the issue in home use since there are so many variables.

However, some ISPs have truly terrible DNS service, for example at my father's house, the first request to any not terribly mainstream website (say outside top 1000 most visited or whatever) always misses the first query while the provider goes look it up on whatever upstream they use. In this case it was really a case of using a different DNS provider that doesn't prune the cache so much or that stalls while querying upstream.
The race to protect us from a quantum computer that can break any password
>Am I the only one that basically gave up on the Appstore and Apps in general?

No, you're not alone, but I get the sense we're in a small group of users. Maybe there are more collected here on HN, but in the wild, most people will install an app without any consideration for possible reasons not to install.
Better yank all the skin cream off the shelves too.
This is where another one of your Pied Piper boxes would go. Okay. Let me show you the next location where we would install one of your Pied Piper boxes. ... okay
Seriously, the google generative AI actively suggests completely inaccurate things. It has no ability to say: "I don't know", which seems like a huge failing.

I just asked "what does the JS ** operator do" and it made up an answer about it being a bitwise XOR. 1 ** 2 === 3. The fact that all these LLMs will confidently suggest wrong information makes me feel like LLM is going to be a difficult path to AGI. It will be a big problem if an AI receptionist just confidently spews misinformation and is unable to tell customers they are wrong.
> Rails is going to be a better pick in some circumstances because of the huge number of libraries.

This isn't really as big a problem as many people think. I've been out of Rails for a while now but haven't really felt the pain of missing anything with Phoenix. I've noticed there aren't often Elixir wrappers around third party APIs, but those are really not a big deal to create a small version on your own with only what you need. I always used to wrap the wrappers anyway! As far as UI stuff goes, there are actually a lot of really nice vanilla JS libs out there which play really nicely with LiveView's JS hooks.

I would be interested to hear what people have been sorely missing, though.

EDIT: Said "are" when I meant "aren't"
Apple's settings and preferences are a blue-ribbon clusterf**k.

The other day, someone was complaining that they couldn't read their screen, and I (foolishly) indicated that I could fix it easily, because "I'm an expert."

I ended up searching through multiple pages of settings, in order to find the one they needed.

At least they got a good laugh out of it.

Zoom's settings are right up there, with Apple's.

Information architecture often tends to follow political and organizational structure, as opposed to good common sense usability structure.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/03/16/magnets
so shortly after WEI goes live in Chrome, Brave users won't be able to:

- use youtube
- watch "premium" video content (disney/netflix/...)
- use online banking
- visit sites with adwords

and will be presented with endless captchas on e.g. cloudflare sites
> That doesn’t make the correct usage in this context wrong

Well, it does if I'm being a bit snarky, and not using that snark as a way of dismissing a claim. I'm saying there is no justification for the claim, and that it's taken far more words to claim the thing than it would be to supply a simple disproving example.

> or more importantly prevent what you said from both being a logical fallacy

No, something being not ad hominem doesn't prevent it from being a logical fallacy, but that's not how reason works. You disprove. You don't say, "Well this criticism failed but that doesn't prove it's valid!"

> I personally would have apologized a while ago, but you do you.

But... this is also rude. More so than a little bit of snark.

Start again. What are you trying to achieve here?
> Starships

Where? Humanity does not have the capability to travel between planetary systems.
“You see, I’ve become a connoisseur of using VPNs at exotic locations. But pinky promise I’m home”
I'm also looking at Elixir and Phoenix (coming from Python/C++), and it looks cool. Doing realtime features with Python requires something like Tornado / asyncio, which isn't ideal IMO.

I'm all for the immutable / message-passing architecture in the large, but I wish that you could just write Python-style code within processes. The VM copies all data structures at process boundaries anyway.

I think that language would be very popular!

I wrote Lisp 20 years ago, before Python, but now it feels a little annoying to "invert" all my code, for what seems like no benefit

e.g. from https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/

defmodule Recursion do
def sum_list([head | tail], acc) do
sum_list(tail, acc + head)
end

def sum_list([], acc) do
acc
end
end

I would rather just write

def sum_list(L):
result = 0
for item in L:
result += item
return result

But then also have the Erlang VM to schedule processes and pass immutable messages.

There is obviously a builtin in Python that does this, and I'm sure there is a better way to do this in Elixir. But I think the general principle does hold.
Right, but that article mentions the workaround. Wipr gets you to enable a few "extensions" (Wipr Extra, and Wipr Parts 1-3) when you set it up. Each one grants an additional 150k rules
This is surprisingly low for a country known for its long vacation! Especially the men.

Here FAANG it ranges from 18 to 24 weeks for women, 12 to 18 weeks for "non birthing parent" (men, or adopting parents).

There's State-by-state paid family leaves laws, which makes it usually around 12 weeks (men or women).
Not really.

The challenge is that higher interest rates increase the total cost of buying. Standard demand curves tell us that the quantity demanded at a higher cost is lower.

In a typical market, an increased cost is balanced by sellers increasing the quantity they sell. However since housing is almost exclusively bought with loans, and the current increase in cost is driven by interest rates payed to mortgage brokers rather than the cost of the home passed onto the seller, we don't see the same increase in supply relative to the cost of buying that we would expect in a market not driven by loan dynamics.

Tl;Dr: Higher interest rates increase costs to buyers without increasing profits for sellers, reducing the total number of units selling at a given price.
For different definitions of "liability?" Losing access to media sorta sucks, but is honestly not that big of a deal for the vast majority of it folks have.

Consider that the vast majority of consumed media forever has been radio and broadcast/cable. And until very recently, you either saw the show live, or you missed it. Really isn't much different and you don't typically feel a loss that you can't watch last year's show.

Same goes for newspapers or any other physical thing you can get delivered. I have some magazines that I do keep in good condition as they made me happy to have them on a book shelf. I cannot justify that in any way that doesn't ultimately lead to hoarding, though. I think these should be available and preserved, but I see little benefit in having everyone preserve their own movie collection.

To get sad on it, go look at any estate sale and see how many VHS tapes many older generations collected.
And I have no clue what you just said. :D

It serves only as a further confusion. But yeah, Python is notorious for its numerous (and likely all sub-optimal) approaches to packaging.
How accurate do you think that leaderboard is?

It puts LLaMA2 Chat 70B at 92.66% and GPT-4 at 95.28%, only a ~3% difference.
There’s a very long way from “could impact climate” to “is a significant contributor”.