skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I never committed to my high school's FRC team, the approximately half year I was in it was invaluable to me due to one of the senior students in charge of the electronics sub-team. They realized I was eager for anyone to teach me about advanced electronics and embedded systems. I think most people who joined were hardcore into mechanical or programming, and I was the only socially awkward freshman who wanted to join the seemingly "boring" electronics sub-team. That half-semester of after-school mentoring really added to my motivation and confidence for other pursuits I would later pursue in high school.

Suffice it to say, FRC and other precollegiate STEAM competitions like it are some of the best opportunities I've witnessed for younger people to get hands-on experience with engineering.
What exactly is your complaint? That Apple only uses standards that it contributes to? What other computer maker was going to move technology forward?

Should Apple have used the PS/2 connector instead?

> That said, they make moves away from it where they could for protocols they had some level of control and or steering of (FireWire, Thunderbolt, etc).

What were they going to use instead of FireWire? USB 1 was painfully slow. Again what other “standard” should they have used?

There was never a Mac that didn’t have USB after the iMac.

You can go back even further Nubus was licensed from Texas Instruments (used in the Mac II in 1987) and they moved to PCI with the second generation PowerMacs in 1996 (?)
> Instead they create this mechanism which basically lets the social media company walk away very narrowly if they don't like the economics

Every business can walk away if they don't like the economics.

How can Canada tax social media companies? They're not Canadian. I guess they can tax commerce that takes place on social media companies or ad sales, but that's really just taxing their own citizens.

If journalism is a public good whose supply is below an optimal level, why wouldn't the government just fund it regardless? Although I personally prefer as little state influence over media as possible.
Have you paid a utility bill? Signed up for a utility account? Had a credit check run for an apartment for made payments on a lease? You are probably in the system. Learn to play it before it plays you.
> bit off even more from the compiler cake after

Isn't the idea that bootstrapping the compiler let's people who only know zig contribute to the compiler? Might it be too premature to declare failure?
This isn’t about the CCD or sensor failing. It is about the OIS and AF systems failing from vibrations, both of which (to my knowledge) involve mechanical movement.
I’ve seen this provider used by bad actors to create accounts on one of the worlds largest social media platforms. That’s how I learned about skiff. Very hard problem to solve.
> Ironically, only living through this fear is what causes the bad trip in the first place

Where is the evidence for this? None.

> the fear of "never coming back"

Psychedelics sound like fun, but I have seen quite a few broken people on the streets, all because of them. It's not just fear, it is a serious concern.
Young people trolling journalists who ask them stupid questions is a long-standing tradition that Gen Z has not abandoned.
Done completely client side. We actually have multiple blogs on this - https://skiff.com/blog/private-search
They don’t remotely care about supporting a standards complaint graphics api. It’s an anti-feature, the opposite of what they want (I worked there for a bit on gpus). If I had to guess the two things they care about it’d be 1) their own ecosystem (ie metal) and 2) what’s popular for game devs (ie hlsl dx and windows). So far that’s seems to be what they’ve been working towards shipping.
Microsoft Excel to let you run Python scripts as formulas
On a totally orthogonal axis: My biggest problem with tackling math problems early in life was psychological. My inner critic would say nasty things to me when I didn't get the answer right away, making it impossible to stick with exploring the problem. Once I overcame that, I got lots better at math.

And working on yet another axis, the most useful tip I've gotten on how to think about problems is to "think in extremes". Perhaps more applicable to physics than math, but a classic example is the puzzle where a ship in a lock (closed system/giant bathtub) has an engine break down. As the engine is being hauled out for repairs, the chain breaks and the engine drops into the lock beside the ship and falls to the bottom of the lock. Does the water in the lock rise, fall or stay the same? The only person I ever told the problem to that solved it described his technique: Imagine the engine is the size of a pea and weighs 20 tons. Shazaam: The water in the lock falls because it is now displacing its volume, instead of its weight in water.
I tend to use Apple’s Time Machine incremental backup to a Synology spinning rust server. I also have an external SSD that I’ll mirror the internal drive to, if I’ll be doing anything dodgy, or upgrading my machine.

That works. TM restores can be quite slow, but almost all my important data is in Git (and hosted storage), so it’s not really been an issue. I just use TM every now and then, if I have a single file I want to backtrack.

I also have one of the notorious[0] SanDisk drives. I don’t use it for anything important. It just has some game storage. Since I’m a Mac user, games aren’t really much of a factor for me, and I won’t cry, if they croak.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds...
I don't think it's fair refer to "desktop linux" as a monolith. It's really lots of independent developers and teams offering a broad diversity of solutions to common compute problems. Having a pool of possible solutions means that some will innevitably be worse for a given use case, but this is a strength overall.

The other side of the coin is that commercial software also sucks in general, but users of commercial software often have no choice in the matter and are being held hostage by vendor lock-in.
ctrl-f "jew" no hits.
For long running stuff https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/app-dev-training/trans... should be straightforward to translate as well using ported on-device BERT models
Isn't there one of these every 6 months on here?

Dread it, run from it, SQL arrives all the same
I had this experience after the Equifax hack a while ago when something like 100M+ people's info was stolen. Until I froze my credit I was getting phone calls every few days asking if I had _really_ tried to open some line of credit I had never heard of. The people calling me explained that ever since the Equifax hack they had to do a bunch more due diligence because all they were getting was fraud. No lines of credit were successfully opened in my name, and the issue stopped completely once I froze all my credit.

I think the lesson is when bad stuff happens you really don't want to be in the small minority of people who it is happening to. Once it's happening to everyone then the problem actually gets solved.
Just before I exited the Linux world entirely, I was beginning to chip away at the iceberg known as btrfs, and it was fascinating. I saw so much promise in many of its features, for revolutionizing backups and organizing my disks and everything.

Now btrfs isn't ZFS, but it has some feature parity and perhaps the "poor man's ZFS". It's also much more reasonable to run on certain OS, due to the licensing, packaging, and in-kernel status of ZFS being kind of weird.

One memorable time I was encouraged to use ZFS was when I mentioned to the Linux User's Group that I'd had to pull the power cord to reboot my computer, and I was roundly scorned for this foolish maneuver. But you may change your mind about the wisdom of doing either one when you consider that the system in question was a Raspberry Pi. Heh.
I guess it could contribute somewhat, but I don't think it is that much additional work: for every new write (since the last snapshot), there is one additional read as the data is sent. It isn't reading the whole file system, just the incremental data.
In the West they give you money in someone's else name without an ID? Must be a paradise.
It's impossible to be sure, but I otherwise treated the battery well, and it wasn't an issue with previous or subsequent laptops transported with more care.
Yep, but Signal is still a potential adversary, and could roll out a backdoor.

A couple of things that are easier in a web-delivered tool is deliver a backdoor to a user or group of users (which Skiff can track), or deliver a backdoor over a particular window of time across many users to decrease the chance of detection.

I know Skiff uses IPFS in some of parts of their solutions, and there's something they could do with that for the first -- essentially making visiting a particular version of the code part of how it is accessed, but there's some real UI challenges, which maybe they're looking into (it's been a while since I checked them out: they have some great UX in other parts of their suite).

The other tactic I've seen is to bundle the page into a browser extension, which moves you closer to Signal's status.
That's two buttons, and different from how every single other program in my computer is configured, which is why I use Duck, instead.
I wonder how much he gained from entirely restoring the system versus simply reprovisioning (gasp, even manually reinstalling) and restoring needed files a will. I'm not sure there's a lot of value in snapshotting and restoring stuff in a lost ssd situation tthat's also available in mirrors across the world.
You don't need to give each individual employee double digit percentage (>10%) equity for it to be life changing. Let's say "life changing" for a normal worker-bee tech worker is ~$500K and the company is an average, run-of-the-mill $5B market cap company. We're talking about a 0.01% share for each employee. If you have 1000 employees, totaled up 10% represents life-changing equity for all 1000 of them. Hoping my math is not off by a factor of 10 or something.
Or it leads to a massive outbreak of "actually that's not really meditation, this is" discussions.
Right? I’ve written tens of thousands of sql queries, some of which were thousands of lines long. I can’t remember ever feeling overwhelmed. It’s just a tool. If you are feeling overwhelmed by a tool, just practice more.
Elevator tennis is really losing its shine, as is the soma. And the ladies aren't looking as pneumatic as they once did.
Unfortuantely they have become nothing more than snake oil. Huge bloated front-ends with 1000s of npm packages makes it very hard to trust anything like this. Add to this the lack of convenient search without having everything stored locally, and it becomes useless to go with an "encrypted" email provider over just a normal provider with emails stored locally encrypted on your device
It would be far more illogical to warp Matrix into an end-to-end encrypted calendar, note-taking product, file storage product, and email platform.
How much was Eric Schmidt a factor in the culture?

Ive read that a lot of the early days of Google being the Google we used to love were down to Schmidt.

We dont hear much about him, so I’ve always wondered.

Schmidt succeeded with Google where John Scully failed Apple!
There’s some information here about why this was chosen. Specifically it fulfills certain criteria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)...
Not unique to iPhones but the way I see it, mounting a phone in a vehicle is a common enough use-case that it should be designed for. Doesn't matter if it's a motorcycle or not.
Really? That makes it easier to swallow. I never knew of this. But seriously the CEO of Adobe was on CNN saying they're pivoting the day after Jobs made the commentary.
Its "backups" join "zfs makes snapshots easy" join "snapshots make incremental backups easy" join "backups on device aren't a backup" join "I had off-device backups"

which reduces to "I had backups" indeed.

3-2-1 forever!
AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
The top is a hotel, I think. For rich people, so yes.
>And no, using Errorf with '%w' to wrap error messages along the stack isn't exactly an elegant solution.

I don't think anyone has ever claimed otherwise. But I do think its a pretty good solution. Whats elegance worth, anyways?
Zrepl is a big part of why I feel secure doing the digital nomad thing. A script, run nightlyish, opens a separate-headered LUKS-protected ZFS pool and then copies all snapshots over. That NVME enclosure lives in my "purse" that never leaves me sight/body.

Between this and NixOS, I can provision a new identical laptop in about 10 minutes.

I recently added off-site replication as well, so even if I get completely devastatingly mugged, there's still about zero chance of serious data loss.

Zrepl is absolutely brilliant software. Easy to run with, but incredibly sophisticated and powerful if you need all the knobs. I can't praise it enough.
Go into any Bay Area coffee shop and you’ll see it’s filled to the brim with zoomer developers developing their apps and projects on a Mac. Doesnt matter at this point why or how but it’s more or less become the standard development platform for a lot of stuff, or at the very least the frontend for it.
We do it in a fairly straightforward manner right now. Check out the blog I linked to above - generate an in-memory index, end-to-end encrypt it, and store it browser storage. It's only decrypted in memory.
Exactly, and we have Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe as good examples of how to write this kind of thing. Zach Helfand isn't fit to clean their typewriter keys.
that sounds like a pretty good way!
> Everyone who offers advice is just telling you their life story, dressed up as a simple directive. "Work harder" often means they wished they worked harder in some part of their life.

I think both parts of these are wrong.

There are a lot of times that folks who will advise others to do the thing(s) they wished they'd done themselves, but it's definitely not everyone all the time, and I'm not even sure if it's most people most of the time.

As often, probably more often, folks advise others to do the thing(s) that they _did_ do.

Occasionally, folks are able to give advice that is specific to the recipient. It's definitely not the norm, but I've run into it often enough.

tl;dr Don't dismiss someone's advice because you think it's all about them, particularly because you think it's all about their mistakes.
There is a video of the water manager saying that he was going to restore the traditional Hawaiian reverence for water, that it was not to be simply used.
Optical image stabilization in modern phone camera sensors uses (very) small leaf springs along with small actuators to stabilize the sensor from shaking. Undampened vibrations from vehicles, especially motorcycles, can damage this springs as the vibration is enough force to cause the springs to snap.

Usually the result is that the camera tends to look kind of "smudgy" since the actuators can't correctly position the sensor with a broken spring.
ZFS is very special, and it is cheap to make snapshots with ZFS, because ZFS uses copy-on-write.

Intuitively I would think that the amount of extra writes is pretty low, even if you snapshot very frequently.

But scientific measurements would be nice.

I used to do snapshots every minute, every hour and every day with ZFS on some servers I administered. I’d purge the minute snapshots after 60 minutes. And I had cron jobs on other machines to backup the hourly and daily snapshots. I had it set up so that hourly snapshots were kept for something like 72 hours. And the daily snapshots were kept forever.

The idea with the every minute snapshots being that they were for undoing manually made mistakes during SQL migrations etc.

It worked well for me.

I still use ZFS on my FreeBSD servers. But at the moment my projects are low traffic and the data only changes in important ways some rare times. So with my current personal servers I manually snapshot about once a week and manually trigger a backup of that from another server.

Another thing I’ve changed is that now I only snapshot the parts of the file system where I store PostgreSQL databases and other application data. I no longer care so much about snapshotting the operating system data and such. If I have a serious hardware malfunction I will do a fresh install of the OS, and I have a log of what important config values are used and so on, that my backup scripts copy when I run them, without copying all of the other things.
Good to see the DJBway here.

So much could be learned in modern *nix distributions from this philosophy...
Goodbye Bathtub and Living Room. America’s Homes Are Shrinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Jahn#Parapsychology_...

Experiments under Jahn's purview also explored remote viewing and other topics in parapsychology. In 1982, at the invitation of the editors of Proceedings of the IEEE, Jahn published a comprehensive review of psychic phenomena from an engineering perspective.[8] A subsequent critique of this review by psychologist Ray Hyman, which was also invited by the journal's editors, discussed Jahn's work in the context of a long history of flawed psychic research.[9] Psychologist James Alcock carried out an extensive review of Jahn's research and found there to be "serious methodological problems".[10] Statistical flaws in Jahn's work have been proposed by physicist Stanley Jeffers.[11] Jahn closed the PEAR lab in 2007.[12]
OneDiffusion
Not likely.

The snapshot doesn't write much, and both SSDs and ZFS are copy on write. Which means the cost of writing after a snapshot is the same as before the snapshot.

On the other hand context is missing. Both SSDs and ZFS don't like being full or even close to full. The working set was ~650GB, of the drive was 1TB, then those snapshots could have easily made the drive over 90% full. This could have made ZFS unhappy all by itself.
I think I was focusing on the fact that identity fraud ruins your credit score, so you can’t get loans and the such for yourself.

To me that was akin to being ostracized because your reputation was ruined by an impersonation.
The biggest time save is in time spent recovering. It's so much faster to restore the entire system than to reinstall the OS, reconfigure the bootloader, resetup disk encryption, reconfigure user accounts, reinstall all software, manually reload configs, etc.

Or put it more directly, full disk backups are a great way to get RTO down.
Screen Time Linked to Delayed Development in Babies, Study Finds
I have lots of USB-C devices and never had that problem.

I'm careful with my stuff though.
The older I get, the more some paradoxes really tickle my brain in a way they never did when I was younger. It’s like they express some reality that transcends our understanding while still reaching out and grabbing us by our mind grapes to show us that something deeper is at hand.

It’s nearly impossible to describe this in English well.
Particular people can be utter cretins, they've crashed the world economy in 2008 and nearly caused global nicl3ar war by sheer stupidity:

> the Russian nuclear sub B-59, which had been running submerged for days, was cornered by 11 US destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph. The US ships began dropping depth charges around the sub.

Officers aboard had every reason to believe that their American counterparts were trying to sink them.

Cut off from outside contact, buffeted by depth charges, the most obvious conclusion for the officers of B-59 was that global war had already begun.

The submarine was armed with 10-kiloton nuclear torpedos and its officers had permission from their superiors to launch it without confirmation from Moscow.

Two out of three serior officers onboard agreed to launch, but unanimous vote was required.
If they start to care they'll shoot the messenger which in this case is you. Don't poke the bear.
Yet vehicle mortality rate has decreased [0] and pedestrian mortality rate is a bit trickier as over the past 40 years it dropped and then climbed back to where it was in absolute numbers [1]. So it’s definitely less dangerous based on the rate of drivers, passengers and pedestrians who die each year.

Please share any better metrics you like for showing increase in danger.

[0] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/06/23/pedestrian-deaths-cars-suvs...
Would you say you're worried of not finding any position at all with that level of experience or do you still have options / fallbacks that you're holding on to?
I'm not sure how I feel about this. What are the actual consequences of these apis being "ugly"? Like, why does that matter?
In the early days of software distribution, Microsoft shipped physical copies of their software on floppy discs and CDs, accompanied by hefty printed documentation. The largest piece of software they ever released was the Microsoft C/C++ compiler with the Windows SDK in 1992, weighing in at over 40 pounds. This behemoth package allowed developers to create applications for MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2.
Context Collapse with Beeper
If only their developer responds to CVEs.
Here you go:
https://blog.adaptiverisk.com/post/2023-08-22-dataslicer/
Calculations are local, not in the cloud.
RSA-1024 is also a rather aggressive / dangerous choice, even before a quantum computer arrives: NIST SP 800-131A rev2 Table 2 and 5 forbid use of anything below 2048-bit RSA. Academic teams have actually broken up to RSA-829: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

Don’t roll your own crypto - just select a TLS cipher suite using Mozilla’s recommendations - but for hobby purposes, prefer Curve25519 or NIST P-256. Or play around with Kyber, post-quantum crypto is neat.
C. run code in same environment in a local sandbox.

Linux can do this with containers (pick your implementation), I'm certain Windows has similar mechanics.
https://archive.ph/9eZC2
I hope you don’t mean literal toxins, because that would be total nonsense
Apple introduced battery charging limitation feature on MacBook in 2019 (or a few years ago?), while Windows laptops supported it in 2000s. That should be the reason for previous experience.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211094
Mastering Emacs
So if I have 15gb of email, I have to process all of that on every client bootstrap?

How do you plan on scaling your service with respect to this problem? once you have a non-trivial user base with non-trivial data volumes this is likely to become a substantial problem.
Some things are better done in private, because some people don't get what you're doing and feel fazed or threatened by it, for whatever reason, typically ignorance or intolerance.
There are two separate themes linked to soil in the article: the use of dirt for the shows; and the use of soil education in agriculture, that led to agriculture shows, that, in turn led to sideshows, that led to monster truck shows. I thought it was quite clever that they were unconnected, and yet both linked to monster trucks.

The pretentious tone seemed to gently mock the readers and the perceived elitist nature of the New Yorker, rather than the monster truck enthusiasts, so more like the show Frasier, rather than the self-awareness lacking titular character within the show.
We already carry a highly sophisticated camera in our pockets.

How long before we can leverage a smart phone to become the tricorder Star Trek had always promised?

Apple Watch looks to be promising, and I imagine a world where humans won’t have to visit a doctor for a diagnosis, but rather to confirm, and walk a patient through a successful treatment plan
3D-printed toilet is so slippery that nothing can leave a mark
You only describe the technology. It is currently like a parrot regurgitating the crap that it was fed. Such as in the article

There are currently great efforts underway to modify the technology to understand "truth". That training will be meaningless if "truth" doesn't include concepts such as "murder is wrong".