skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they pass on the risk to merchants now. If you let fraud through, $30 per incident or whatever. So typically things like 3DS are turned on because that cost got too high, and the banks assure you that it will fix everything.
> a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me

This is what I crave for in good articles and books. There's some big insight just thrown in in the middle of the sentence because that pattern is already obvious to the author. It's also what AI-generated content is currently lacking because it sticks to the task at hand (but I believe it will change).

Also, your critique applies just as much to human-generated summaries.

My issue with it is that I don't want my browser to send home what I read and view although I guess that ship has sailed some time ago.
Since many years (like 15 or more) the PCB of a hard disk contains a chip (essentially an eeprom or flash device) containing so-called "adaptive data", a set of data written in the factory that are specific to the disk drive (head/platters) the PCB is mounted on.

There is specialized hardware (and software) to be able to extract the data and save on another board's memory, but the poorman's way is that of transferring the actual chip from the old board to the new (identical) one.

This, commonly referred to as "ROM swap" is not particularly difficult[1] as the chip is usually a rather simple 8 pin one, if you are not into this kind of things a hardware repair shop (like a phone repair one) will normally make this work for you.

However newish hard disks may have not this separate chip, it has to be seen which model yours is.

Here is a site with some more info:

https://hddpcb.eu/gb/content/how-to-swap-hdd-pcb

[1] meaning that it can be done DIY if you are familiar enough with soldering/desoldering components
Which problems do we need to solve before you would deem our species worthy of survival?
I’ve ordered something (flipper zero) from west coast to east coast recently, and was shipped with “usps ground advantage”. Item was received by usps Jul 31st, left a depot in west coast on Aug 1st, and radio silence since then on the tracking, it’s “in transit to next facility”.

I don’t know if usps has gotten worse recently, but I never had this kind of issue with Amazon shipping (whichever carrier they use, even usps).
I can’t find the source, but I think this practice was mentioned in the recent Fulton County, Georgia indictment of former president Trump and his associates. It was also employed extensively by the now-disgraced General Petraeus to facilitate his extramarital affair [1]. It’s a pretty popular tactic used by people who aren’t very wise to the fact that their cleverness does not equate to actual privacy.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/petraeus-reportedly-used-d...
On those timescales plenty of natural resources would be replenished, but not all. 500 million years is a long, long time.
ROCm doesn't support old GPUs.

That said, people are finding hacks...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/15t0lsm/i_turned_a_95_...
How are your worries over LE being down for 3 months any different from another provider being down when you try to renew?

LE's setup for automation - if you've got your renewals schedule properly, you should "never" miss a renewal (you can renew several days (I forget how many) before expiration)
I've noticed a trend of diagnosing "troublesome" people in the tech community, or people whom the tech community likes, with neurodivergent conditions when they find themselves in a scandal. It seems like a strategy to imply such people shouldn't be held responsible for their behavior. The same thing happened with RMS. All of a sudden he was a delicate autistic flower incapable of comprehending the effect his actions on others, and everyone was just being spitefully cruel to someone who didn't fit in (the monsters!)

I'm just waiting for people to start accusing anyone who criticizes Musk of ableist bigotry, now.
Luck is a part of life. I guess the key takeaway here to focus on your craft and showcase your work.
For sheer shock value, little can beat the texting-while-driving one. No direct link but you can google "british texting while driving ad". The NZ safe driving ads are also really something. "new zealand safe driving shock ads" brings up one that really triggers, but then again, both the above particularly work if you're a parent.
I am currently developing an open-source (MIT) database that can be directly accessed from the frontend (browser and apps) , that is distributed, and capable to deliver data in real-time. The primary goal is to provide support for any use-case that requires close proximity to users and, most importantly, it is entirely free to use and run by yourself if desired.

If you would like to view it, please visit: https://github.com/mateusfreira/nun-db

Feedback is always welcome, especially if you have a use-case in mind that you believe it may be suitable for but are unsure. I have already utilized it in many of my personal projects and for a few clients with a small number of users, but I am hopeful that it will soon be ready for larger-scale implementation.
Comments here, issues on GH or emails are welcome
You mean the My Computer that rebooted for update whenever it wanted even if I had unsaved documents open?
The issue with system design is that it doesn't always have a perfect answer and a lot of things are arbitrary about it. This leaves a lot of bias with the interviewers as to how to interpret the answer and question. This is less the case with Leetcode where there is usually only one or two optimal ways to solve a problem and you can just argue over time and space complexity as a means of what "optimal" is.

System design has a ton of bias in it and it's my least favorite type of interview because of it.
As of latest iOS 17 Beta it is not yet supported, unfortunately.
I agree, as of right now all my CLI tools are in $HOME/.config. Do you have some that are not?
Thought to be formed as a result of lithospheric flexure during the Trans-Hudson orogeny, apparently.
> Most projections suggest coal use is going to plummet over the next 50 years, both because we have better options and because we have little choice.

Sure. Already industrialized civilizations have better options. But if you're starting from scratch, you don't get to jump immediately to photovoltaics or whatever.

> and we’re running into environmental issues by burning ~1/1,000th of it.

But which 1/1000th? We didn't dig out the deepest coal first. "Economically viable coal" by 21st century standards isn't the same "economically viable coal" by the standards at the dawn of the industrial revolution.
Carbon sink? (instead of source...) Depends on your perspective I guess.
This is such a tired and simplistic take. The space program has been helpful in tidying our home. It’s not an either or choice.
I'm building https://www.markix.com, a transactional email service that's meant to be boring and reliable.

At this stage, I'm primarily targeting small senders that need great reputation. There are no dedicated IPs. Emails are delivered from a pool of shared IPs that have great time-to-inbox and deliverability.

In contrast to other providers, I do not plan to support click and open tracking to protect recipients privacy. I'd appreciate feedback on that though.

Always happy to chat about email in general if there are any questions.
We can and should do both. Our emphasis should indeed be on not shitting the bed. But we should also look for new beds. The big problem is that Mars at its best is worse than Earth at its worst. The Earth in "The Road", or almost any post-apocalyptic story, is still infinitely more livable than Mars!
Last I checked QAT was limited to 64KB backreferences and independent 128KB blocks.

Now you know why they are comparing 16KB payloads only.
Interesting. I guess camera movement on 3d scenes would make the video more dynamic. That will put the focus more the "video aspect" as opposed to "Avatar" aspect of the product. I might explore that feature a little bit.
Yeah. If anything, not having our house in order is even more motivation to create offsite backups.
This is where Starbucks shines and is impressive. Their coffee isn't all objectively bad and they have options for different tastes. But their best feature is consistency. If you like a particular bean/blend in a particular format it's going to be consistent at pretty much any Starbucks you go to.

I've found Indy hipster coffee shops can rarely deliver a consistent cup at their single location on any two days. I don't know what I actually like from those places. Sure Monday's cup made by Alex in the morning was good but Sam's cup of the same roast on Wednesday was a waste of money.

It's impressive that a chain with thousands of locations can provide such a consistent experience. It's definitely not as bad as most people claim provided you like a roast they sell.
It almost as if housing is a human right and not an investment opportunity for the wealthy to exploit.
Currently working on a site that allows you to use your data from run/bike apps to visualize your data on a map, make it look neat, and order a print.

I have an early version of it hosted on https://ridemapper.henrygrant.dev and add features as I think of them/when I have time.

https://github.com/henrygrant/ridemapper-svelte
It's become a philosophical kind of question, eh? What is Hawaii, what should Hawaii be in the future. One vision is that it stays the way it is forever, becoming a "nature preserve" of a human settlement. Another vision which I suspect they're trying to avoid is "a limited resource monopolized entirely by the rich". The 2nd vision may well have happened over a longer time scale as families slowly get priced out and sell their land one by one. People would've noticed and grumbled about it, but it would've happened organically. Now with a big disaster, there's the potential it could happen suddenly all at once and that is unpalatable. So what's the problem, the process or the end result?
Yeah, I pointed that out to someone the other day. "Hunh, I didn't notice that" is what I got back.
Is the end of the 'particle era' of physics upon us?
The whole games development has been a wild ride so far, we spent 9 months learning it without bringing out any game. We threw away a lot of prototypes though. Our background is in open source and server side stuff, so we needed to let go of a lot of concepts to be efficient.

Research-wise we did a whole lot of reading and a bunch of work building games we threw away. Here's what we found and I can share publicly:

- Unreal Engine: pain and suffering for awesome results. You must love debugging. You get source code access to help with that. Have a Rider subscription to lessen the pain of C++. (I'm not joking.) Loves to crash a LOT, but at least you get a stack trace. C++ has garbage collection here, which is neat. Did I mention to get Rider? Not web friendly though.

- Unity: works, relatively easy to get good results, lots of tutorials, but no source code access unless you fork out a lot of cash up front. Didn't crash on us.

- Godot: Free, open source, easy to start, stupidly hard to master. Needs a lot of fine tuning to make look good. Random weird bugs pop up with no stack trace. Has a custom DSL called GDScript which has some weiiiiird design decisions. (E.g. a Vector2 is not an object, but a data type.) GDExtension takes some experience to set up. I like C++ with UE a lot more.

- Phaser: It's a toy, lacks too much to do anything serious with. Love it though. Might be wrong on this one, only built one small game.

- BabylonJS: Built our website with it (see my bio), sturdy workhorse but you need to optimize your stuff a lot beforehand. Love it. Forums/community are awesome.

The ones we didn't test:

- Three.js: didn't try, but the API is apparently not very stable.

- Bevy: The community is very small, lots of parts seem to be still missing to build larger stuff. Didn't try it out in the end.

- OGRE3D: Couldn't get it to build, but it looks very robust. Would love to try again some day.

- PyGame: Good to learn the basics, but like Phaser, it seems to lack a lot to build more serious projects with it.

Keep in mind, opinions can be very subjective, it can be very hit and miss. We had fans of either comment on our YouTube videos and we have a feeling that getting into game engine discussions is similar to JS framework discussions.

One thing we learned for ourselves though, since we are trying to make money: stop wasting time. There are 20 year olds out there who release on Steam for a chance to become successful while we spent lots of months learning stuff. Technical prowess does not a good game make. It's all about the gameplay and the vibes.

Regarding Steam being a sit-down thing: both my wife and son love the Steam Deck and they often jump into a few short rounds of something. (Brotato is pretty good for that.) It is what you make of it, but the audience does seem to expect a gameplay loop that works over longer periods of time indeed

I hope this helps. ;)
Are you literally making up a guy to get mad at here? There are still intense and even gruesome safety PSAs all over the world.
> They achieved this fusion by creating a container of material that produced massive amounts of xrays when it was bombarded by a high powered laser. These xrays caused another container's surface to ablate at such a rate it compressed its interior to the point that fusion was achieved.

You are telling me that a US weapons lab just announced a successful path to a laser triggered pure fusion bomb? Yikes!

Not actually sure if it can be used to ignite more fusion fuel, but if they using this to test secondaries then it sounds like it might.

I really hope we get fusion reactors before pure fusion bombs, as pure fusion bombs are going to be a nuclear non-proliferation nightmare. While it might not be easier to built pure fusion bombs than bombs with a fission trigger, controlling the precursors and knowledge is going to be very difficult.

> "Fusion power is here! All we need to do is engineering!".

I agree with this statement and it has been true of fusion since at least the early 2000s. Don't underestimate the difficulty of engineering. Safe fission breeder reactors are an engineering problem as well, one which humanity has largely abandoned due to repeated failures.
It's not all that dystopian to ask teenagers / 20 year olds to donate blood for grandma time to time.
Depends on the market. In Australia it’s definitely the lower quality end of the market (however consistently), while at the same time your chance of getting a very good quality coffee at any nearby independent cafe is extremely high.

Starbucks completely failed the first time they tried here, and are having a second shot (there must be at least a dozen stores in my 2.5M population city now). They seem to be relying mostly on fashion (seeing people with Starbucks cups in the media) - while I don’t like to stereotype, there do seem to be fairly clear demographics of people I see in the one I go past a bit - apart from some that look like tourists, you mostly see the late teens to just below middle age female crowd and a few of their partners there.
Will that scale fit under the robot?
Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
(2022)

Lots of discussion about this then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30763945
For those without a subscription: https://web.archive.org/web/20230817161027/https://www.nytim...
Vulgar computation.

The vulgus in Latin were the common folks, the non elite, hence referring to cussing ass “vulgarity,” as in “we nobles do not talk that way, that is how the common folk talk!”. And if I do my job right most professional programmers should be offended by the result? But that's a really awful thing to have as your north star.

The basic idea is that computation should be something that does not require a degree and work experience and other markers of professionalism... Computation is just an intellectual amplifier. I was shocked some 5 to 10 years ago to have gone to a guy’s “Excel Tips” meeting at the advertising firm I worked for—all the other programmers skipped—and saw a bunch of non-technical folks excitedly sitting down to learn what I rapidly realized was... programming! They were volunteering to run and sit at a programming class!!

But Excel is a shitty language, but it is also vulgar. When you go to learn it, there is no compiler step, the interpreter step is a repl of sorts, everything is being automatically printf-debugged for you by default, and helpful colorful boxes point to the data dependencies of the cell you're working on while you're working on it.

But it's also like, why isn't everything like that. If I give you a UI that is written this way, you should expect to be able to long press on a button and see the button disassemble before your very eyes, you can track the pipeline for its clicks, and if that button doesn't do what you want it to do, you just change what it does. Everybody on this planet should be able to do that, it shouldn't require ivy league ivory tower education bullshit.

So I have these prototype languages that are fundamentally graphical, and kind of amount to a sort of XSLT (of all things!) being compiled to WASM?. A bit of inspiration from hypercard here and there. And it's weird because the decision to WASM is kind of its own shit decision? Like, I wanted the ability to just text you an app that I am working on and you can run it on your phone and feel safe that I am not stealing all your secrets, was why I started compiling to WASM. But as far as I can tell there is nothing I can do with WASM other than to define a function library, so the resulting language such as it is, is mostly a bunch of conventions operating on a WASM function library, and it gets really elaborate and complicated and I am 90% sure that you could just exploit the conventions in the state that it is right now, so like “why am I writing XSLT-to-WASM who the fuck cares” sometimes.

Nothing fully worth showing off right now though.
Debian was my first Linux. Since then I mostly use OpenBSD—love its simplicity—but whenever I need to take full advantage of modern hardware I head back to Debian (usually the Testing release).
this discovery will create an entire new genre of vampire movies, can't wait
As long as they dont own a product in that field, yeah.
Silicon Valley wasn't joking with the "blood bag" gag, was it?
People don't think! It never occurs to engineers to put themselves in the shoes of the user.

Engineers are developing these products in well-lit rooms with HVAC and that insulates them from the actual usage environment. I see it all the time and I do what I can to counter it.

I've seen the case where I had to caution one of my team members that the product he was coding was going to be used in a dangerous, chaotic environment that was nothing like the quiet, calm office he was demoing it in. And that taking a few seconds to figure out a setting (like he was proposing) could literally be the difference between life and death in actual operation.

In safety-critical industries we have FMEAs and UI reviews to prevent usage errors, but in "normal" development? Nope. No one thinks of these problems unless they have specific experience and that 10x dev you just hired may be a C++ genius, but he's never been a firefighter.

I'll say it again: people don't think!
Read the citation [N 1] and you'll figure it out pdq
Those are all true! And they are important to remember. It is also important to remember that if you are driving a car to a brick wall, almost every metric will be perfect right until you hit it.
The problem is with their usage as mains power. I think they are considered a fire hazard in older German homes.
Same thing about "halting problem". The fact that it's unsolvable in general case, doesn't mean we can't solve it easily for 99.99999999% of all problems in the category
Where I live it's normal to live in apartments. Entire houses are pretty much inaccessible to anyone except the richest - and they are all split into apartments anyways. This is normal, I don't know why this would be an indicator of anything.
> 1. how long they will continue to remain rechargable; and if they begin to hold less and less of a charge. if they are still recharging fine for you after 8 years, that seems pretty good.

My first generation AA Eneloops, which I bought sometime in 2008 or earlier (I know this because I bought them at Circuit City which closed in March 2009 and I bought them at least several months before then), are still working fine.

Their specs say minimum 1900 mAh capacity, typical 2000 mAh. Most of them have fallen to slightly below that, in the 1850-1900 mAh range.

My first generation AAA Eneloops, purchased at the same time, are all in the 790-840 mAh range. Spec is min 750 typical 800.

My 4th generation AA Eneloops, bought almost 9 years ago (their 9th anniversary is in 3 days), which I've used more heavily than the first generation ones because they have a lower self discharge (1st gen is 80% after one year, 4th gen is 90%/80%/70% after 1/3/5 years), are mostly still in the 1900-2000 range, with one at 1880 and one at 2055.

I've had 2 (out of 21) first gen AAs and 4 (out of 16) first gen AAAs die. None of my 4th gen AAs have died. By "die" I mean my PowerEx MH-C9000 charger says they fail an impedence check that it does before charging and refused to charge them, and no attempts to revive them worked.

> 2. what happens if the rechargable battery is left inside a forgotten toy or device for 7 years?

I don't know but someday I'll maybe find out, because I have 3 first gen AAs that I've lost track of. They are probably in something in my junk pile, like a remote for a VCR.
> If it made money, it was a good design

I disagree. If it made money, it was a successful product, but there are tons of products that are successful despite them being the embodiment of terrible design.
False headline, it says the protein only partially reversed aging in move brains, whatever that means.
You can't build a bomb using this technology. Period.

But you can achieve plasmas of equivalent density and temperature to those you get in an H-bomb explosion, which is invaluable to weapons researchers if they're not allowed to actually detonate any bombs.
And reading this thread it doesn't look as if there is much awareness of that.
I dunno it’s actually not too atypical. My team is half graduates and half drop outs.
They didn't ban journalists, and classifying people they reinstated as "white nationalists" without any further distinction is an extremely disingenuous take. Twitter restored tens of thousands of accounts, and the reasons for bans were extremely varied, so there's no way you could know every single one of those (62000 just at one reinstatement) are "white nationalists" and that's why they were reinstated. Among those restored were Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, satirical site "Babylon Bee", Kathy Griffin and tens of thousands of others. You are just throwing it out to smear them all because of political hate, because pre-Musk twitter mostly (though not only) banned people leaning to the right.

Which makes me think your intent is not to understand what I said but to maliciously misinterpret it to accuse me of some political sin that appears heinous to you. I have little interest in that, goodbye.
Hiring should be a team level decision. Product roadmap should be an exec level decision. Google has it completely backwards. That's how you end up with hoards people gaming the hiring process by spending months on leetcode. And 3 chat apps from Google competing against each other.
Yes, they (the PCB's) cannot be swapped unless you also swap the chip containing the adaptive data.
Being the governor of a state should not confer the right to suspend property rights, which is what this is. Owning something means being able to sell it.
I do think it's pretty consistent in extraction times. I probably just need to clean it :)