skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows Embedded was promoted as a way to use Windows in environments were "windows-isms" (update hijacking, nags, ads, spontaneous deactivation, etc) could have catastrophic consequences due to downtime and difficulty of mouse+keyboard access. Microsoft broke the contract. Informally, at least, I'm sure their lawyers made sure the fine print was on their side.

One day I turned on my Windows 7 Embedded oscilloscope and got hit with a full-screen ad for Windows 11 that could only be dismissed by mouse. In my case I was able to just attach a mouse, but I've seen Windows Embedded used in environments where that would have been difficult and time-consuming (USB ports hidden or even glued to prevent physical access).

Point is: Microsoft will happily sell you a special anti-abuse pass and then abuse you anyway. Be warned.
Matt walker appeared on the Huberman Lab podcast and it’s definitely worth a lid if you like the book.
do not underestimate the agendas for centralization of power and control

do not underestimate the sticky pull of collecting ̶r̶e̶n̶t̶^C ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶subscriptions from people
I'm not sure why the article's author is dumping on Apple's breathing LED.

For a laptop it made perfect sense. Either the laptop is awake, or it's "sleeping". If I close the lid I want to know it's asleep and not running 100% generating all kinds of heat. The animation conveys this perfectly.
Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
When I first got introduced to email development, I remember I wanted to throw myself off a cliff. I couldn't believe how nonsensical everything was. I kept track of everything in a little text document, which I've now turned into a post.

If you happen to be starting out with emails, I hope this can get you up to speed with exactly how everything is fucked. And if you're an Outlook survivor, I hope you'll find something you can relate to…
some of these asteroids we only have days warning. that's the scary part. To divert an asteroid you need to do it before it comes near so it has a long path to begin drifting in a new direction. ie it's only gonna nudge it slightly. Slightly adds up over many millions of miles, not so much when its a week out.
BarcodeDetector (currently) has pretty poor performance. I'm sure that will eventually be fixed, though. I've had great success with qr-scanner and a web worker, though....
The story behind HTTP 200 “OK”
22% of US power is generated via nuclear. Is that not significant? More than renewables, almost as much as coal.
French press does allow caffenol (I think it is?) to be in the coffee it makes for a silky mouthfeel like someone put glycerine in it.

French press as pure and basic as you can get coarse ground coffee a bit of water wait 5 minutes and pour.

But yes it all depends on your taste and what you like.
Unless I've missed it and not found it, the silence from Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Bing) is deafening. Do they actually welcome these measures? If not, two of them for sure will have lobbied behind closed doors, so have they rolled over and thus have no public opposition to express? Since the measure will have little impact on their revenues, why would they care?
So now if they dig them up and essentially freed, there will be vampire plague in Poland?
I am fairly sure this is due to the necessity of having pressurized cylindrical storage for the hydrogen. Fitting that kind of tank into the wings is going to be hard.
Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something because they want to do it, if I might steal from Eisenhower.

As a college instructor, I've spent a of time thinking about how to get students to not want to cheat versus detecting cheating. (I feel the latter is a losing game for me.)

One online school I worked for initially had no grades, back in their early days. There was literally zero incentive to cheat. You had to do the hard work or you couldn't get a job, end of story. It was beautiful, and worked great.

Where I work now requires grades, and I don't have handy job interviewers to act as my graduation gate.

It's a struggle, for sure.
Great question. Going to assume you mean English language and share my own findings:

- CBC: Propagandic, unoriginal, unimportant

- Global News: Clickbait, gossip, unoriginal, unimportant

- Toronto Star: Hyperbolic, propagandic

- The Globe and Mail: Unoriginal, unimportant

- The National Post / Postmedia network: Hyperbolic, propagandic

- CTV News: Clickbait, gossip, unoriginal, unimportant

Anything I missed?

I have found the best strategy is to take the sum of multiple sources to get a slightly less awful whole.
> I'm tempted to try to permanently fix the SSD using my SMD hot air blower. But maybe I should just replace it at this point.

Ah, a man after my own heart <3

With the modern widespread trend in tech of treating the owner/user as a security threat, it's easy to feel like the hacker spirit is dead or dying, and then posts like this rekindle my hope for humanity
It’s exploitation of vulnerable disaster victims. A pause on land transfers is warranted.
Non-log-scale graphs?

The 1970s were not an era of flat prices. They were an era of very high inflation. (14% a year, anyone? I was there. I'm pretty sure that people who are talking like the last year or two are the worst were not there in the 1970s.)

What changed was 1979-1981. The Fed pushed interest rates to the stratosphere. Inflation came down and stayed on a downward path from 1981 to 2020.
> So nuclear (including hypothetical nuclear fusion) will probably not acquire significant market share. Unless you can somehow make it cost competitive.

Ontario is a great counter example.

We have something like 60-70% of our power from nuclear, representing most of the base load. We're building more plants soon too.

Electricity is cheap, and used to be even cheaper before it was privatized.

And we have no nuclear weapons program supporting these plants.
HN moment.

Software jobs, especially at the kinds of FAANG companies largely being discussed here, are quite a stretch for the term "wageslave."

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, even those who've tried it before.
On the bright side, if it's fine serverside I wonder if it'll bypass paywalls?
Wait, didn't iOS recently introduce torch control? I could have sworn that was in the last few months...
Coal and fissile fuels are stored energy. My point is that if we can store energy at scale we can just grab the free energy that falls from the sky.
SAFEs by Mercury, for fundraising integrated with your banking
Why do you believe it will be freight first? Historically, the new aircraft go to pax service, then get converted after 20 or 30 years.
> return of pen and paper and non-digital

Sounds good to me, we just need to start teaching handwriting better. Have you seen handwriting from kids these days? They can't even read their own writing.
Solving the puzzle is only of the requirement to getting past captchas. For better or worse most captchas use IP(subnet) based rate limiting and cross site tracking as well, so the physical body argument holds in captchas as well. Try using the web inside free VPN or Tor and see if you can break captchas.
Because with infinite hardware I'd be able to do neural architecture search and find the optimal model architecture.

And I'd be able to train a learned optimizer to replace gradient descent as the training process.

Even without either of those, performance improves in a predictable way with more compute thanks to scaling laws.
Docs in a browser window, next to an editor window, while working with a library that isn't very familiar. Granted, this works better on a display of meaningful size, but I do it a lot and vertical tabs would waste noticeable space.

On the other hand, I have good tab discipline in general, so vertical tabs would waste even more space by virtue of dedicating a lot of real estate for displaying next to nothing. But who needs all those tabs anyway?
FIRM! I KNOW WHAT I HAVE! I yell, trying to sell my stereo from the mid-2000s at MSRP.
Tech glitch let people with empty bank accounts withdraw hundreds in cash
I'm seeing a pattern on HN. Whenever Apple comes up it's "they don't allow it to protect me and I'm so thankful", whenever Microsoft comes up it's "they don't allow it, fuck them".

Probably from different people, but nevertheless.
The farmers boosting crops with electricity
It sounds like retention is your problem, less so acquisition. Have you talked with customers to understand why they are leaving your product?
The World Is in a Climate Emergency
Oops, it seems that I had hit a youtube API rate limit last night. Should be okay now.
you clearly do not understand what he was writing
> this basically just fueled my anxiety

As per CBT, you fuel your own anxiety. This book is not empowered the ability to fuel people's anxiety. It is more easily exacerbated when we are sleep deprived, but ultimately you have to address it as just about any abrasive information then can equally kick off insomnia.

I think the book did lean too heavily on proselytizing that insufficient sleep is not healthy, and not heavily enough on advice, but it was mostly decent. One thing Huberman mentions in his podcast that is typically understated is the impact of sunlight (get some in the morning/day, limit blue light at night). In the main, though, being solid with the head game and limiting total time in bed to 8h strengthen sleep pressure / adenosine will do most of the work. But conditioning is such that it can take time to recover in a sustainable way.
How far to the center does ChatGPT need to move before it changes from an unequivocal statement that Hitler's actions were a grave and undeniable injustice to merely labeling them as 'his choice'?
I do, I work with Rust templates and worked with C++ templates. Obviously, people aren't asking for such a granular level of metaprogramming.
Essentially, anybody with stuff in space (earth orbit) is contributing, about equally?
Oops, it seems that I had hit a youtube API rate limit last night. Should be okay now. :)
Yes, and it's restricted in the case of providers of infrastructure deemed essential to the operation of a civil society. Electricity and landline providers can't decline to serve either the KKK or the Black Panthers.

Twitter, being the de facto modern public square, should soon be covered by this type of legislation.
Yes, it is pretty common now (although, I guess it depends on your definition of common!):

https://www.quora.com/I-just-arrived-home-from-a-beautiful-v...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLegsj31Pp8

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/07/03/squatters-...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-resident-squatters-bedro...

It has happened in Seattle already, enough for me to be worried about it. Everyone should think about it before leaving on vacation, since it is a real thing that you need to protect yourself against. Even if you rent, someone could break in to your place, change the locks, and then have a scrawled out fraudulent lease document. You would eventually get your place back, but being homeless for 3-6 months sucks. This just isn't a rich house speculator problem (though they are more at risk, of course).
Hi! Someday, I feared Pocket [1] would disapear and I would suddenly lose all links I saved there. So I made pouch [2]. It let's you save links and, if possible, automatically saves the text, for a reading mode.

I never showed it publicaly, so I'm the only user. Fell free to use it and I'm open to any feedback.

Mind you I'm a backend dev, so in terms of design and overall frontend quality it is definitely lacking.

[1] https://getpocket.com/pt/

[2] https://pouch.lucashmsilva.com/
Yeah, I was reading the article thinking they mean others will somehow take pieces of land they don’t own, start building on it, and then get to keep the land due to some obscure laws. But no, like you say it’s literally about voluntary sale of land.
I am working on an experiment called UltraStrong, completing an Open Strongman Competition, and running a 50 miler Ultramarathon over a single weekend. I have done each separately but can you do both simultaneously? During the process I am keeping a journal, documenting everything, with the idea of writing a book at the end in a similar style to Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
There’s also the Picopresso which is (I believe) generally regarded to produce a better result - https://www.wacaco.com/products/picopresso

Still hand pumped, looks a bit less like a bike pump though!
if kids couldn't get loans, they would have to compete on price.

as it stands now, there is no economic incentive to compete on price.
The cheapest housing in a lot of places is low-rise apartments because they're still cheap to build, and use land very efficiently.

But they're illegal in huge swathes of most cities in the US.

Having better transit systems would help a lot in the US, and frankly is pretty necessary in a lot of places. You just can't squeeze that many cars around. Transit is vastly more efficient in terms of the amount of people it can carry.
What if I need the money and want to sell?
> A messy and imperfect measure is the best we can do, which is definitely better than no measure at all.

Not sure I agree. I think it leads to fundamentally misunderstanding the economy and an excessive focus on financial measures of the economy where other measures are available.
Team dependent hiring is not “unique” to Apple, as the author posits. This used to be the norm before Google. It is fairly well known that Apple has a “hire different” approach that heavily values specific experience, which frustrates the Leetcode monkeys on Blind
Related science fiction novel: The Ice People (La Nuit des Temps) by Barjavel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel...
I don't see why suffering from a natural disaster leaves you unable to make rational financial decisions.
1) Agreed. I wish more of these systems had code nodes that you can just write expressions in. Sadly the big contenders are tuning for a subset of functionality so expression nodes are often an after thought or a mismatch because the graph system doesn't mix with the compiled language underneath.

2) I think this is both unsolvable but can be mitigated with more tooling. The advantage of the graph systems is exactly because they are non-linear. But code is easier to read and understand linearly. I hope one of these graph systems adds an "unrolled" debug view. It would be nice to read the execution of the past n nodes linearly in a transient visual log. The common "highlighted path" view is good but incomplete.

3) I disagree. We're all just used to doing the scoping passively when reading functions. I think the explicit scoping of the dependency graph is often much more clear. Buuut... the explicit graphs edges make branches tedious as you have duplicated dependencies drawn all through the branch. Perhaps a branch paradigm where the many deps enter the branch node and are then forwarded to the branches or even some kind of implicit scoping would make this better.

4) Yes, loops are a challenge because of the common UX used. The hot path highlighting falls apart when you loop over the same set of nodes. Again, an unrolled view might be useful. There's also the concept of dropping some loop types and focusing on for-each and batch/collection processing. I think passing lists or iterating over them solves some of the loop issues. ...buuuttt, many graph systems don't seamlessly handle both lists and single items. Maybe some Lisp influence would help. Graph systems could use something as simple and easy as mapcar.

5) I don't know...most graph systems I've played with had an easier grasp of state because dependencies were so clear. Still, many graphs I see resort to graph scope and global scope. Would be interesting to see state scoped to some group of nodes.
That touch interface is awful. I've had an XM3 for several years and it's an amazing pair of headphones but I can't even count how many times I had pauses, skips or other interactions because I was stretching my neck or arms and accidentally touched the can.
The wasm-based polyfill I posted works great for me, I use a <video> element to continously scan for QR codes (didn't test with other barcodes, but it is supported by the polyfill). Currently sampling 4 times per second (every 250ms) and it feels no different than a native scanner on the same device.

Edit: Just updated my post with the codepen from the polyfill author: https://codepen.io/undecaf/pen/LYzXXzg

It is butter smooth with EAN barcode when using the builtin webcam on my Macbook (720p on a 2019 MBP16)
Note that at time of writing the “ask the code” plug-in does well with describing repo structure, but hallucinates file contents (I tested it on one of my own repos)
Efficiency matters little given a natural surplus, as will be the case when most of power comes from massively over-provisioned solar, similarly as is seen with hydro power in certain very wet places.

Utility-scale users of solar will naturally install electrolysers for the additional revenue stream, using generation in excess of immediate need after local storage is charged up. They will favor the cheapest equipment, disregarding efficiency, because of their intermittent utilization. Nobody will be able to compete with them, because the power they use will be wholly free (i.e. "zero marginal cost"). The market for electrolysed H2, and NH3 produced from it, will be unlimited.

Solar farms not producing H2 will find themselves undercut by those that are.

Long-term energy storage will not be a thing, because any need beyond a few days will be satisfied by shipments of LNH3 from tropical producers.

It will take time for all this to settle out. Expect to see a lot of short-term adaptations.
> What does masking specifically mean?

Here's a complete list of settings and modifications:

https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts
Which is why the governor of Hawaii makes the decision and not you.
We can probably just isolate the protein and manufacture it. Bonus: no risk of getting HIV or CJD or any number of other awful things.
> everyone else is "difficult."

Programmers find themselves in the position of "managing" the most difficult possible sort of subordinate - the computer itself. It doesn't care what you want. It doesn't care about your deadlines. It does _exactly_ what you told it to do, and if you told it the wrong thing, it will do that anyway and it's entirely your problem to figure out which part was wrong.

No "people manager" could put up with such an obstinate employee, but doing so is literally our job description, and occasionally we have to report back up that we still haven't figured out why the computer is being "difficult" - and then we get blamed for that difficulty.
The “trust the science” crowd were the ones advocating for masks, no?
Can you give some examples and point out the subtleties?
How much does the enterprise license cost?
Apple recruiters HATE him! Get in with this 1 weird trick!
Some users are just clueless and need to vent on something they hate rather than on the thing that's actually causing the issue. If their car doesn't start in the morning it's Window's fault.
The LED on my Kindle wireless charger is so bright, I had to put several layers of tape over it.
It seems like the EU DSA and DMA would also apply to Microsoft.

Could this be in preparation for when the laws come into force in early 2024?
I wish Apple would let me uninstall Messages, News, and iTunes, and all their other first party software that I never use. Heck, I'd settle for them not running on their own. Apparently they are all load-bearing software, and removing them would cripple the OS.
there's also another compromise, my stove will remember the last time it had AC power but it "loses" however many minutes it was out of power. And that can be implemented purely in non-volatile RAM (some kind of non-volatile CMOS register probably) without the actual piezo timing circuit (the clock itself can run off 60 hz utility frequency timebase). Just update the nvram once a minute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Time_error_c...

somehow it's way less frustrating to only have to adjust the clock 30 minutes or whatever. you're not gonna be standing there for five minutes holding the button, you know? even though in practice it's not that big a deal and doesn't happen that often, it's a little human nicety.

and if you don't have time to adjust the clock at that exact moment, you can just mentally correct "I was out of power for 30 minutes so it's 30 minutes slow right now" rather than having to remember "I lost power at 3pm so that's 12:00...".
It is so interesting to me how the marketing of flair and ROK (but mostly flair) drive the amount of coverage they get online in terms of reviews and discussions whereas the Cafelat gets almost nothing. It sure has flaws (the lever hands and the awkwardly positioned pressure gauge) but not needing to preheat the brew chamber is such a big win, it is clearly the better product.

To this day James Hoffman has only one crappy video about the Cafelat, which is not even a polished review and rather a first look. But he has a few highly polished flair videos and discusses their ridiculous electricly preheated pro versions to death. (Without ever really seriously comparing it against the Cafelat)
I guess it serves as a reminder that anything is possible, however (extremely) unlikely.
To be fair BPI were pretty good at scaring the absolute shit out of the general British public in the seventies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g&t=2s
Also, 100% renewables isn’t the only option. We can build more capacity than we need. Research shows that 300% mix of solar and wind will cover all but the worst days. It also gives lots of extra capacity on most days to produce fuel and capture carbon. The fuel provides long-term storage for bad days.
I do something like this. I run wireguard in a container along with dante-server (a socks proxy daemon). I then configured a Firefox profile to connect to the socks daemon running in the container.

This way I have a single browser profile that is routed through Mullvad while everything else works normally.
For a house, you probably just want wireless range repeaters/extenders, or mesh APs like these (https://www.wired.com/story/best-mesh-wifi-routers/). Their key advantage being that the backhaul is wireless — you don't have to wire them back to the switch.

If you really want to do an "enterprise" wireless setup, and you want it to be cheap, well... you can buy the relevant equipment (802.11 enterprise wireless APs) used, often in bulk. Sometimes computer recyclers even have them!

Make sure you buy the stuff intended for office buildings, though, not the conference-hall open-plenum equipment. The conference-hall stuff is like studio lighting: powerful at a distance (five-storey hall ceiling down to you on the floor) at the expense of guzzling power and dumping tons of heat.

Also, obviously, unlike the home stuff, with the enterprise hardware, you do need to be able to run an Ethernet backhaul back to a switch somewhere, to join all these APs' L1 collision-domains into a common link-layer network segment. And that switch has to understand what it's doing, so you'd probably need something enterprise-y there, too, unless the state of open-source consumer router firmware has really caught up with enterprise.
State of the Climate – Summer 2023
The billion dollar question here is how to use the HSA feature in APU to avoid needing to split the RAM between GPU and CPU; in theory at least they both should be able to access same memory.
In a way, C and G are the same letter!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#History
Idea: deplane by row. Each row leaves when a light in that row turns on. An algorithm decides when to turn them on based on several factors: keeping large groups together, expected speed of deplaning (eg. elderly may be slower), current occupancy of the aisle. Advantage: should be very fast, easy to follow, groups stay together.