skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the US Postal Inspection Service is the only police agency with jurisdiction over this. I did report it via their website immediately[1], which said that there would be a later opportunity to provide documentation if and when a criminal investigation were actually opened -- but that did not happen.

I will try to report it to the local police as well, I suppose. I will stop by later today.

[1] Immediately, meaning immediately upon learning of the fraud, which, thanks to PayPal's negligence and incompetence, was about 4 weeks after the fraud actually occurred.
Yes but we are talking about bulbs (with Edison base) here not all-in-one fixtures. Yes, the same could be said about ceiling fans with built in remote receiver. The problem with these of course is you need the remote, and if you lose it you're out of luck. Some manufacturers make a little dock for the remote that would go in place of the light switch but I happen to think those are silly.
If you don't listen to the radio, how could you hear them? I'm probably in the only demographic that doesn't have swifties, most people my age streams movies and uses adblockers so I honestly couldn't identify a song by her if I didn't write her name in Youtube just to see what the deal is.

Music is so fragmented these days that there's no comparison to Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones days.

M/30+/not the US
Already happened, my dude. I would run away into the forest, never to be seen again, but I got that idea from the Internet, too
> Can we stop pretending that this is mozilla's fault

Clearly it is Mozilla fault: the world is not fair, if they are where they are they should crunch their resources and win. Google haven't started being the home of most computers. It is the nature of competition. Is it hard? Sure.
Comics were popular but even behind Iron Curtain we had all the Disney stuff, starting from the Snow White ending on Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Donald and Mickey shorts. It was as common as dirt for kids in Poland.
why checking for specific browser rather than using feature detection to properly handle different browser capabilities? ( Good docs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_tes... )
Most ways of doing that won't be to code. It would be better to add it as a separate circuit.
We had weekly scene reports that ranked the FTP sites and groups. It also covered the drama, politics, group mergers or closures, and personal stories (under anonymity though). You got ranked by your performance on the sites that counted towards points. In order to upload files to a top 5 site, you would have to get into release groups and get the "pre", in other words, you get first dibs at uploading the files. Europe had the fastest internet connections especially Swedish and Finnish universities. Top 5 EU FTP sites were the most important. Followed by the top 5 US which were primarily hosted at Internet2 universities such as CMU, Georgia Tech, MIT, and Virginia Tech. These FTP sites were the first place any cracked release would be uploaded to. Almost like the root DNS servers for internet.
The connection with Disney in the title seemed weird but it makes sense. The nut of his thesis is that we don't actually want to live our whole lives online, though things that are easier there (say buying singles) won't return to the real world.

Two two revenue moat opportunities: 1 - physical experiences and 2 - customer "investment" drives enthusiasm, as a kind of brand-fueled sunk cost fallacy.

Successful b2c businesses understand point 2, but the cool thing is that it can be supercharged through point 1 (if you have such a business...doordash is out of luck on this one; WeWork pretended that they were trying it).

Disney is interesting - the business is a survivor. Iger was smart to come back and turn around the Chapek disaster, but I get the feeling he doesn't know where to go from there. But even under Chapek they didn't forget the importance of IRL:

I have an extended family relative who works in film distribution with Disney. Even during Covid when they furloughed or laid off lots of people and focused on streaming, they didn't lay him off, which seemed odd to me (it's not like he is a VP, and theatres were closed). A few times we talked about the film business and his belief was straightforward: streaming doesn't make meaningful money while a film in a cinema can do hundreds of millions of dollars. I was dubious (I hate the cinema and the whole "movie" experience) but Barbenheimer is a good example of why I'm probably wrong.

So then when you look at Walt Disney's drawing included in the article, you see a semicircle of "experiences": parks, films, and (underexploited by Disney) concerts, and semicircle of "reinforcement" so your brand remains front of mind: streaming, toys and other in-home products. That's where you can get the pushme-pullyou. So streaming can be a winner even if it's run at a loss.

Meanwhile what's dying is ESPN, ABC, and the general TV business, dragging Disney down.
>If scientists said that there was a correlation between temperature and Sun activity, they would be cancelled because it doesn't fit the narrative that climate change is caused by humans.

While I don’t agree with your previous point, this is a very important point I agree with.

We see this cross-domain/in many areas, certain topics are taboo and therefore proper science is not attempted by anyone out of self-preservation.

One of the best examples of this is the UFO phenomenon, the stigma has been so strong for nearly a century now that a lot of otherwise-intelligent people are completely blinded to the objective reality.
The real impact of traffic tickets has always been the increased insurance rates, and after enough points you lose your license.

The fine is practically meaningless compared to what it does to your insurance rates.
The answer varies according to study fields.

In Computational Linguistics (disclaimer: I'm a member of the ACL, the association that organizes the bigger conferences) you only pay the conference fee for at least one author to present your results. You pay ~$700 (students and virtual attendees pay less, but depends heavily on the location of the conference), your paper is published online for free, and you also get a conference out of it.

The main problem are Universities: when applying for a position, each University will rank you based on which conferences you've published. CL conferences used to be ranked lower than CL journals, so if you want to have a chance at tenure then you have to aim for the well-established ones. Why are they well-established? I can't say for sure but my best guess would be "look at all the marketing a $10k publication fee can buy".
Hi all, I’m looking for early contributors to our LLM testing framework. Please star and contribute :)
> does she understand privilege? she's a music slaver, she's advocating that music remain a limited experience accessible for a few

She's advocating that artists get paid for their work and not sell themselves short. Whatever means our society permits that allows artists to capture the value of their work should be taken. If you want music to be "open access" and effectively patronage that's fine but it doesn't change her point.

We're in a golden era right now where the art itself is so cheap it might as well be free and paid for by scarce goods sold to fans who can afford them. If you squint it's almost pay-what-you-want. My $10/mo Spotify subscription cost me $0.00002/hr last year.
No, I meant the built in one... Not sure why is it confusing always just worked for me. Thought vim undo was similar, maybe I was mistaken.
> scientists

Using that as a term to imply consensus is bad science communication and just fuels climate change denial.
> Not crazy enough for an insanity defence.

Just as a point of interest, in terms of a legal defense in the US, "insanity" isn't what a lot of people think. It's not a medical term, and whether or not you're considered "insane" by the medical community doesn't enter into it.

All it means is that the person is unable to discern between right and wrong. That's it.

And if you successfully employ the defense (which very rarely succeeds), it doesn't mean you go free. It more likely means that you'll be institutionalized differently.
Maybe "major media" should include tech media like The Register, Ars Technica, Tech Dirt, etc.. Unlike with media like the NYT, Bloomberg or Reuters, I've never seen a story for which these sites were the best source and much of what they publish is blogspam summarizing stories that have already been posted on HN, usually with a votebait title.
Flywheel are efficient for high power in short duration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

Usually used during a short period of time before the diesel generator can be fully operational.
There is likely truth to what you're saying, but isn't it possible that the alternatives (to what they vote for) would make people even worse off? If you look around the world, there is a looooong way down from the standard of living in West Virginia (which people in some countries would dream to have).
If a 30 second build can be cut to 15 seconds, for 20 engineers, assuming a conservative 10 save-file commands per workday (HMR!): this change converts ~216 engineer-hours per year from non-productive to potentially-productive. Given an average 40 hour work week, you could task one engineer on this change for five weeks and still come out ahead.

This is the calculus. Vite isn't built for the "lone ex-C++ dev" shop. Its built for teams that can run this calculus and realize that, 80% of the time, investments in speeding up the software development lifecycle are among the highest leverage, most direct correlates to productive output a software shop can make.
I assume you mean QM, but the noble gasses are distinguished by their lack of interaction.
I remember that time & feeling the absolute need to run Minefield (for Fx v4.x) over stable since the next gen features/performance were too important even without add-on compatibility. The 4.0 release took forever in testing & Chrome flew out like a rocket. And even thru the lulls, Fx performance has always been good enough to stick around (tho eventually I moved to LibreWolf due to management of the new browser feature defaults).
>It’s my opinion that music should not be free

Music is only ever free when it's forbidden. It's one of them paradox thingies.

Sad to see generations grow up on music being a spectator sport and not a communal, participatory activity.
And hexes are only one of the tile sets. They're the easiest. Squares are a bit more difficult. Triangles can get crazy. Infinite triangles can get most confusing.
I think that he is wrong here. For a long time Tesla was the only game in town if you wanted to buy an EV. People were willing to overlook panel gaps to be able to purchase an EV. Moving forward with real competition Tesla will be judged on panel gaps just like any other car company.

But Tesla has built an incredible moat with their charging stations. Apparently no one else has been able to build a nationwide network of fast and reliable chargers which explains why both Ford and GM have paid to join.
Yep. Use a mandated Windows corporate distribution where Office is required. "Snip&Sketch" is atrocious. Much faster to open Powerpoint and doink with images there.

As a note taking tool it offers alignment and other things that OneNote doesn't. In exchange, OneNote offers a lot of things I don't give a damn about.
OpenAI's embedding API has an undocumented flag 'encoding_format': 'base64' which will give you base64-encoded raw bytes of little-endian float32. As it is used by the official python client, it is unlikely to go away.
Htmx defers almost all logic to server side. That's the tradeoff, and it's a major shift from what we've become accustomed to in the last decade (unless you've been writing PHP or something similar).

You provide listening points to various parts of your app, and when something changes, all points listening to that key also make the corresponding call to the server for refresh. It sounds hokey, but it's very effective, very efficient, and pretty easy to wrap your head around.
The graph shows a cliff, presumably there's a specific code change associated, anyone have a link?
Ruby on Rails as a career choice in 2023
This was solved from beginning of systemd with different directories for files mananged by package managers (under /lib), and files managed by you (under /etc). This is documented in `man systemd.unit`:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.uni...

The same doc also describes a "drop-in" file format, where you can override just the details you want from a system file.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JsM8jNcc
> Terraform doesn't have a test suite

Patently false. Terraform has had an excellent test suite since 2014.
Can they filter the target compound out first?
That never stopped Phoenix in the early days, or Chrome itself in its early days. Firefox just offers nothing substantial over Chrome and breaks a lot of sites. And over the last decade it kept pushing crapware and spam on you, right in the browser.

Mozilla mismanaged it to hell. They don't even really care about the browser anymore.
I mean, sure they talk big, but isn't one of the largest complaints against crypto the fact that transaction fees are high [0,1,2] and processing times are long [3]?

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-and-its-many-fees-what-t...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-much-does-it-cost-buy-...

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/crypto-exchange-fees-explained/
That's usually not the case. You work on existing code base and you want your editor to be able to explore it efficiently. Changing language is rarely an option unless you happen to enter a project at the very start.
Have you given Sidebery a try? Also for firefox.
> What file systems support transparent tape loading?

In the enterprise/HPC space, GPFS and Lustre.
Where I live you had to be home to receive packages. If you weren't, you had to go to a distribution centre to collect them. During the pandemic it seemed to change, so now they just leave them at your front door, and it hasn't gone back.
I have been looking to migrate to something else but my fear with iocage is that I'm going to be in the same situation a few years from now.

What's the current hotness? Bastille?
Surprisingly, law enforcement without compromise and expansion of the surveillance state aren't universal engineering values.
Note that in the Phoronix post it also mentions in the modern and demanding Jetstream benchmark, Firefox is still way behind. While seeing improvements is good, Sunspider is a very old microbenchmark not sure how relevant it is.
Astrobotic Building a 3D Lunar Surface for Testing and Research
Mojave, CA, August 15, 2023 – Astrobotic announced today it has begun work on a 100mx100m high-fidelity 3D test field that will mimic the topography and optical properties of the Moon’s surface. This lunar surface analogue test site called the Lunar Surface Proving Ground (LSPG) will be used for a variety of test campaigns, from precise lunar landing technologies like LiDAR scanners and navigation algorithms to lunar rovers and other robotic systems. In addition to providing a realistic lunar topography for spacecraft and rover sensors and systems, this test field will offer a facility for simulating the extreme lighting conditions encountered at the lunar poles.

LSPG will first enhance Astrobotic’s capabilities for testing innovative Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) technologies aboard Xodiac, its suborbital rocket lander. Xodiac is currently scheduled to fly four test campaigns over the next year that will demonstrate high-priority EDL systems that could support government and commercial lunar landings. The LSPG will enhance terrestrial testing for planetary landings and further technology development before spaceflight.

The LSPG will debut as the test site for NASA’s Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge, part of the TechLeap Prize, later this year. In that challenge, three winning teams will fly their sensing payloads aboard Xodiac to simulate landing on the Moon during the lunar night. TechLeap is sponsored by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program.

“The accuracy of the LSPG’s terrain will allow our customers to test their technologies using the closest physical copy of lunar terrain available on Earth. We already have four Xodiac campaigns booked to fly their payloads over the test field, and we’re excited to see how else we can leverage the LSPG to advance the readiness of other critical technologies,” says Jenna Edwards, Director of Propulsion & Test for Astrobotic.

Astrobotic designed the LSPG to simulate a region of the Moon’s South Pole because the area has attracted great scientific interest within the lunar community. The terrain for the LSPG, which will be excavated and covered in a layer of solid, unfinished stucco, is modeled after an actual map of the lunar surface scanned by Astrobotic’s LunaRay system. Maps of the region have already been used to inform flight plans and detect hazards for Griffin’s mission to the Moon, and the LSPG will serve as another dynamic verification method for flight systems.

“LunaRay is an industry-leading capability that Astrobotic has been perfecting for about a decade. LunaRay produces some of the highest fidelity maps of the Moon we’ve seen to date and we’re using it to construct the LSPG. LunaRay will model the LSPG after the South Pole landing site for Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One, carrying NASA’s water-hunting VIPER rover to the lunar surface in late 2024,” says Dan Hendrickson, Vice President of Business Development for Astrobotic.

Astrobotic plans to unveil the completed LSPG later this year at Astrobotic’s Propulsion & Test facility in Mojave, California.
It is in Svelte. Take a look. You write normal CSS as you always have, and Svelte takes care of scoping it to just your component by default.

React really made people think they couldn't expect any better.
You don't need a mega stack to attach an event listener to an element. PHP can't do that.
One could use bc for this [1] commonly installed on Linux and may also be on Mac I believe. Unsure if WSL installs it.

[1] - https://superuser.com/questions/377492/how-to-do-division-wi...
I believe the fees were in fact low back when they used that argument, many years ago.
It’s All Your Fault (2015)
How to Salt [video]
Yeah, this does seem to line up more with the Windows8/Windows phone failure more than anything.

Despite people having a better opinion about Edge Chromium it didn't seem to stem the decline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa#Child_sexual_...
no, it would obviously be written in ocaml
I would say so (not the same as a recipe). In this way a recipe and the ten commandments look the same. Reductionist comparisons are pretty easy to make. Sometimes code and recipes look the same, if the codebase is small enough and both omit the deployment/build chain/tooling in favor of implied requirements.
They have about the same share of the responsibility as they do of the consequences.

(actually greater share of the responsibility and lesser of the consequences, but still)
Double Dee and Steinski mixes - their existence is due to pirates
My approach for taking notes digitally has been using a Remarkable2, but it's a) yet another pricey electronic gadget to have/own, b) niche c) often prohibited in the corporate setting due to data privacy reasons, which means it's not a general solution, but it's a digital piece of paper, which is what I want for taking notes that need diagrams drawn inline.

PowerPoint is a fairly decent mainstream app for taking notes. It lets you draw diagrams, which for the right class is indispensable. Visio is great at diagramming, but less good for taking notes. Docs/Word, to draw new diagrams around text that often gains new content as the lecture goes on, is terrible for this. If the professor shows a picture, and then just talks about it, that would be fine, but usually, the professor draws a few shapes, then talks some, then draws in arrows and more text. Having to got in and out of drawing mode, is so much worse.
> Give me a hard drive with a connector I can plug into a hub or switch […]

So basically a storage area network (SAN):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network
The Secret History of the 20th Century [video][41 mins]
Deferring all logic and state management to some mystery and messy server-side black hole? Sounds like a monumental fustercluck.
> If Google goes evil and turns into a bad steward, we know already that Microsoft et. al. won't be impacted

I suspect that's not OP's fear. Google is powerful enough that they can do whatever they want with Chrome. They could even close source the thing and implement a load of proprietary APIs if they wanted and the bulk of users would continue to use it.

One of the things holding them back from doing so is the fact that Chromium can't run on the most popular mobile platform in the US. I'm no defender of Safari but I can see the logic at work.
Alleged computer crimes figure into latest indictment of Trump, allies
I have to disagree. If the goal is to reduce pedestrian deaths… just make it harder to drive fast. Narrow lanes, speed bumps, continuous sidewalks… all the technology is there and CA is insanely wealthy. Why wire up a surveillance panopticon?
I think the results would be better as all practitioners would be well-versed in theory and practice. And of someone pitched a very novel approach, it would get more scrutiny. Of course we should be open to new approaches - just not for the sake of it being new.
It would be amazing if speeding was enforced 100%, and then the official limits were pushed up where needed. This business where everyone drives above the limit and cops enforce when they feel like it is annoying and is a big enabler of bias in policing.
The CDC (charge-discharge controller) of many BMS (battery management system) devices can already communicate the charge state. My home built e-bike uses a one-wire protocol, newer ones use a serial protocol. Even the plugs have become standardized these days. There are so many manufacturers selling components and kits, and 99.9% of them interoperate with components and kits from other manufacturers. Pick the bike computer you like, the form factor of the battery pack, size of battery pack (they all use 18650 cells anyway), BMS, CDC, wiring harness, motor. It is no more complicated today, and actually far easier so long as you size the motor to the bike frame and the battery to the motor, than assembling a desktop computer.
I've had half a dozen or more SSDs die in my lab.

Without access to vendor tools (like a JTAG debugger and source for the controller) I'm not sure it's possible to tell whether the controller itself failed, or it just decided not to wake up because the flash was dead.

But yeah, it sucks.

Finally, I'd note that a lot of earlier SSD vendors came out of the USB device market, where they were used to making things that had the reliability requirements of your average Happy Meal toy. There are only 2.5 hard drive vendors or so at present, in large part because the ones who weren't fairly good at reliability are dead now.
Prego! If your LEDs are WS2812, they're much easier to build for, but a high-amperage 5V power supply is harder to find.
It's not so much about JS somehow being a language like no other, it's more about the web: HTTP, HTML, DOM. And XHR/fetch - JS wasn't exciting before them.
Typically the `User=` directive is used to specify what the user the service runs in.

There is still a benefit to requiring root to create the service file though: If the service is compromised when it's running as `User=`, it can't modify the systemd service file itself, which is owned by root.