skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern is over e-waste. If it becomes impossible to install custom firmware on a device then a lot of electronics will just become garbage when support ends or the company disappears.
Maybe just lessons learned from SolarWinds
Scientists reveal how sensory protein changes shape with nanometer resolution
I realize at the time it wasn't very easy for most people but a computer that often receives upgrades via ROM is the Atari ST. I (sort of) recently upgraded my 1040. I bet one could produce DOS 6.22 replacement ROMs for the Tandy!
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thank you, I learned nice trick today.

re windows1252 - this could be driven by system encoding settings, for most people it is 1252, but for eastern europe it is windows-1251.

when viewed from IBM z mainframe - encoding will be something like IBM EBCDIC
Good to know but FYI, defcon/blackhat US are the same dates every year i can remeber
This is it precisely.
Poor people don't own assets. Rich people own assets.
Inflation makes assets go up.

Poor people experience the downsides of inflation (risings costs of everyday goods) without the upsides (assets they own also going up increasing their wealth).

That is - if you are barely making ends meet and spend 80% of your income on housing/food/transport/energy, then 10% inflation is a huge problem for you.
If you spend 20% on the same, and have 2x your income in the stock market, inflation might be awesome for you.
Well that’s precisely my point. Whether or not an innovation sticks isn’t just a function of how innovative it is. The entrenchment of personal habits and the entrenchment of industry mean that there is a threshold which needs to be cleared. In the case of banking and payments, that threshold is pretty high.
I agree, but it's worth mentioning explicitly that the main driver of accessibility has been generalizability. The fact that LLMs are so effective at zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks is what made out-of-the-box API access practical for a wide range of use cases. Products like SageMaker tried to automate away some of the complexity of training bespoke models, but they're still way more complicated than using an off-the-shelf model.
lol. SoundSource looks identical to `pavucontrol` which I've been using for close to a decade, without ever touching a single bit of configuration, ever, for PulseAudio or PipeWire.

Or a single line to install EasyEffects which adds effects in the mix, also with zero configuration.

I'm not exaggerating. Tell me something you think SoundSource can do, and I'll show you me doing the same thing with Pavucontrol or EasyEffects in my entirely stock setup.

But sure. You found a screenshot of the ultimate Pipewire power tool that allows you to do things I guarantee SoundSource doesn't, and ran with it.

>They look great and there are a LOT of them that do pretty unique things that I haven't seen in Windows or Linux.

Oh?
It's probably a lot safer to reintroduce a species that was previosuly there than introduce a novel one, particularly if it hasn;t been gone all that long. Reintroduce the wooly mammoth, nothing can go wrong. Reintroduce the velociraptor, something might go wrong.
So...make sure all of my voting machines are hard-wired Cat6 to a router that has no radio transmitters? I mean, how hard did they think about...oh...nevermind.

I sometimes wish I had the lack of integrity to look for opportunities like this and exploit them. Sell snake oil to those who are actively looking for snake oil. OTOH, a life lived with some degree of integrity (hey, I'm not perfect) has served me well enough so far.
Web dev frontend has a thousand quirks but has a billion more hours of human hours development time spent on it. CSS is annoying but way better than trying to jiggle random attributes and subclassing stock components to do something basic like right align a label.

You'll notice that a lot of GUI toolkits have already adopted something like CSS (Qt Style Sheets, JavaFX CSS, etc.). Yet they will never become as good, just because there are much fewer people working on it.
Storing a music library in git? No, no, no. A thousand times no. The tool for this is rsync, or something similar with a friendlier UI like syncthing or Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac only).

Git is a terrible solution for big binary files that never change.
Svelte 5 puts on a hoodie, grins, and watches Vue flex in front of the mirror.
Just because Disney can stop you from commercializing something does not mean they own the copyright of the entire work.

Suppose you make a Yoda painting. You do not own the rights of _Yoda_, but Disney does not own rights of your painting, either. If you make a painting of Yoda, Disney can't commercialize and sell it either.

In this case, Disney owns some rights, and you the artist have rights. But it doesn't mean Disney "owns the copyright" to your work. They cannot publish/commercialize your exact Yoda painting and put it on t-shirts to sell.
There's a reason you have to requalify every three years.
The US is named America. The United States of America.

Just as Brazil is named República Federativa do Brasil.
It used to be that anything about 71F was unbearable to work in.

I have since moved to a drier climate and have found the thermometer can creep up to 77F without noticing.

Even subtle changes in humidity can have huge impacts.
could you elaborate please? any interesting experience you made because of that?
I think it’s more that two times wrong doesn’t make something right.
For Delphi it is a combo of the Indy project (IdHttp), and superobject (probably other json parsers too but superobject is quick and fairly solid).

However, given I've yet to find Delphi code that straight up compiles in Lazarus/FreePascal, you probably have your work cut out for you, but if you google for [superobject/indy] for Lazarus, others have started those hikes, and you may find there are working versions of one, or possibly both of them. I've never looked.
Quick Malware Triage with Inotify Tools
Lots to criticize here about the difference between theory and practice.

But even in theory, he's still advocating democracy right, like a leader is randomly selected (we take it in turn to act as a sort of executive officer of the week) but the randomly selected leader is still enacting the will of the population (each decision of that officer must be ratified by a simple majority...)

So isn't it just transfering the problem from presidential elections etc to plebiscites? Or is he advocating we randomly select a dictator? And who actually makes policy proposals and how does that process become less partisan? I don't think this is a viable solution to anything.

Liberal democracy is about being able to turf the incumbents, the rest is just people jockeying for a system that would short term favor their preferences.
I personally use Ultrasonic. It doesn't look as good as Symfonium, but it's usable and open source: https://gitlab.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic
And some motivation and main goals.
Many people feel those things are better than tolerable. And older macOS felt good to them seemingly.
lol cool. This app looks like complete trash, and I guarantee isn't as feature filled out of the box, like I said.

But sure.

pavucontrol https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol//scr...
soundsource https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/images/hero@2x.png

I love those of you who think an OSX user wouldn't know linux/linux apps.

edit: Yeah, this does nothing that soundsource does. I wish some of you would actually read the features and stop posting these volume control apps. Not to mention Soundsource was just a quick example. I could name 50 more apps that don't have a Linux alternative or one that is of any quality.

Literally - "A simple volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server."
I think I'm basically doing what you are doing.

I have a 2 step process for this. The first is an Automator script that lets me transfer files from my Mac to my Debian server very easily—right click a file (or group of selected files) in Finder and my script shows up under 'Quick Actions' "Copy to <my-server>::tmp". [1]

The second step is an "import" script on my server that unpacks the zip, grabs the meta data from the songs (including the cover art which Bandcamp provides), and shoves it all into the correct place. There's not much to share here because it pretty bespoke (and also kind of ugly internally since I wrote the first version almost 20 years ago--though the years of debugging have made most of the end-user experience pretty smooth). It sounds a lot like what beets does.

[1] https://porkrind.org/missives/automator-is-pretty-sweet/
Did you read my comment in the parenthetical?
You can already install any addon by creating a collection but its a pain in the ass...
Yeah I have cerebral palsy. My one request for accommodation is that I be allowed to 'whiteboard' seated with pen and paper. This is often ignored. In the past, I didn't push the issue until I found myself solving a hard problem at a whiteboard in front of a panel of 7 people who peppered me with questions for the better part of an hour. Stress makes my spasticity worse, so by the end I was literally shaking. Afterward they provided feedback to the recruiter that while my solution worked, I didn't seem confident enough or cool under pressure.

These days, I've done well enough for myself that I can push back. Remote interviews are especially nice. My current boss didn't even know I had a disability until we met in person months after I started.
Yet 12,000 years ago there existed cultures who were similar enough to have sequin ornaments for decoration. Sure, we are not the same as them, that’s fine, but also, we kinda were in terms of common societal things. We were putting sequins on stuff 12k years ago which means they had customs, traditions, ceremonies, organization, tools, knowledge retention and exchange. That’s stuff we still do today, so what caused 12k years to go by before we blasted into being an advanced species in 200 odd years? It’s interesting because every answer I get to explain it just makes me wonder why even more because the sudden progress just doesn’t plot, it should be earlier and we keep digging up more evidence we were more advanced long ago, and often before we thought too, then things seemingly just stalled and went nowhere for millennia

I can’t remember what culture it was but there’s evidence of primitive batteries in pottery. Long before electric. That is odd no?
Would be interested to try it but on some trial basis. Jumping immediately to a recurring charge means I have to set a reminder to cancel if the initial experience isn’t what I thought. Consider a 30 day plan for $9.99 flat one time.
Virtual Cloud Provider Startup
interesting concept, looking for feedback
Brain expanded, thanks
Because they see the lawsuits and shifts in public perception. Now that they've "cheated" their way to the top, they can play by the rules to entrench themselves so others can't catch up.
> Registry agreements don't allow registries to retroactively reclassify domains as "premium".

On what do you base this? Registration agreements allow quite a lot in favor of registrars and registries.
Headphones is a pretty good self hosted app that lets you know when artists in your library have something new coming out . It’s made for snagging music but I use it for discovery mostly
The jury is still out on how useful these additional capabilities provided by transformers are. The question is what is the degree to which it’s possible to reduce the frequency and severity of hallucinations. If that degree is limited without major changes in architecture or major new breakthroughs, then usefulness of gpt-4 style models will be limited. And we just don’t know the answer yet. So far, usefulness of gpt-4 is real but extremely limited. Another issue is this approach means models are costly to train and don’t easily incorporate latest info about the world. In short, it’s way too early to hype this up.
oxycotton.com and oxyloo.com are taken unfortunately

washluv.com is still available though
I'm still not clear, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

I thought that it wasn't really going to be the new OS, it was just taking the Tao elate and putting Amiga branding on it - ie. it couldn't run any existing Amiga software. It existed, you could buy games to run on it but it wasn't anything to do with the existing Amiga OS. There was supposed to (eventually) be some way to run Amiga software emulated or something.

AmigaDE was the 'full developer' thing that you used to develop tao/intent apps. And AmigaEverywhere was the sort of portable runtime.

"Amiga DE is an updated version of Tao Group's Elate operating system. As part of the agreement, Tao Group provided the embedded OS, while Amiga Inc. develop the 'Usability Layer', drivers, and codecs required for a consumer market. "[0]

[0] http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/amigade.html
The real question is about contingency planning. Open source means you have the option to host yourself, but like you say that could be a lot of hassle, or more work than just switching to another closed source SaaS.

There are a few factors. If the space is competitive and there is an established API/protocol, it probably doesn't matter. Think Wordpress hosting, Email, renting VMs etc.

If it is open source and widely adopted - e.g. Linux, Redis, Kubernetes etc. then you know that thing is going to be supported forever. Although with the slight risk of a Terraform/Moq type issue.

But then you have open source and widely adopted with shifting APIs that generate more work - e.g. React.

Then you have these small companies that open source on YC with a 1-1 mapping between repo and corporation. If the corp goes under, the repo may go stale.

The decision as to the expected longevity and migration pain depends on a lot of factors. It is sort of intuitive. But open sourceness (and license freeness) is just one factor.
Then you would name a feature that SoundSource does that Pavucontrol doesn't. But you don't actually know what you're talking about.

For all the talk, it should be trivial for you to make me look foolish right now. Like, so easy, right?
This isn’t true at all…
https://p2panda.org/specification/data-types/documents

> A document is made up of operations published by one or many authors

> Every operation has a previous field containing a document_view_id which refers to document state at the moment the operation was encoded

> DO3: An operation which refers to the current operation in its previous field MUST be sorted next.

As far as I understand, it would be up to the client to present potential conflicts and won't be a valid document until it has been resolved.
This last search I had one like that. I wish I had done the bare minimum like you did. Instead I spent a weekish on this thing. They were suitably impressed and wanted to do an interview, after which I could expect on offer. A day before the interview I was told the pay for the position was about half what I was asking. Insanely for the skill set they were looking for. Mind you in the HR screen they had asked about expected compensation and I had been direct and upfront in my expectations, so it's not like they didn't know. Just decided to waste my time because they could.
Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power
Well there you go. I’m not intimately versed in the specifics. Thanks for clarifying.
collisions in the US only have a "mandatory" report because your insurance company requires it. And you have like three days to go into the police station and file one, and the police don't really pay attention to them.

Many drivers think that the police will get involved in every car accident, and when two cars have a little bump, people will stop and get out to "preserve the evidence" for the investigation into "who is at fault" that they expect will soon commence, but when the cops get there (because of the traffic jam) they just confirm that nobody is injured and tell the people to get their cars out of the street, and exchange license and insurance information.
With all due respect, a project being open source means nothing for trust. There's a litany of open source projects that I have used that have been completely abandoned.

Trust comes from building a healthy ecosystem of users, which ultimately comes from building a good product.
Damn that’s a deep cut. Mad props
You’re saying the conscious or minds eye is an invention or do you mean something different. To me, everyone is born with the notion of “self”.
I've been in favor of sortition over elections for many years. It's really the best way to get the most representative representatives. After all, members are Congress and other high-ranking officials tend to be quite unlike the people they're supposed to represent. They're typically much wealthier, often obscenely wealthy nowadays, and they're also often more politically extreme, due to the way they're selected by their parties in primaries. Indeed, sortition could effectively do away with political parties altogether, which is another great bonus!
Monads are a concept in types and a specific theory but if you throw the rigid definition away can't they be done anywhere? For example, if I have three RaspberryPi's, isn't there a way I could compose them as monads?

That is what I mean - it isn't a fair thing for me to say - but I feel like they would be so much more tangible if we could think about them as literal Things like this. Which is why my original example was composition of Programs instead of composition in a specific Programming Language.
that would be deep if producers anticipated future remasterings and wanted to keep their options open for downstream derivatives that could bump royalties and revenue all along the way. That's some deep thinking if they actively rejected state of the art recording tech that precluded that sort of option.
I've been using and pitching datasette at my employer for a long time now. It's just so useful for so many ad-hoc tasks in my work.
People have certainly tried.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mona-lisa-smeared-cake...
Very cool! I wonder how much performance might improve if you provided the FEN[0] for the game’s position after each move instead of, or in addition to, the move list.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth–Edwards_Notation
My grandfather owns an RSA decryption tool. He calls it a wrench
Because it’s gonna occasionally spit out direct uncredited quotes from AP articles, and they know it. There’s gonna be a whole new field of law cropping up around this stuff; getting the big players appeased will be important.

DALL-E helpfully slaps a ShutterStock logo on some creations, for example. https://twitter.com/amoebadesign/status/1534542037814591490
Apple’s “post-PC” marketing line became reality for many individuals. Not because they bought Macs and iPhones but because many Windows problems were avoided on mobile operating systems. Mobile browsers and apps have the majority of mindshare.

Mobile devices wake instantly. Official app stores are much safer from malware than the Windows software acquisition ecosystem of running an Internet search, the first search result being malware, he website having fake download buttons, and downloading often unsigned .exe files. There’s no anti-virus software bogging down I/O. There’s less maintenance like disk defragmentation, Windows Updates that take an hour and require a forced restart. Users can’t get lost opening a file they downloaded because files are hidden away through the abstraction of apps. If you’re just consuming content you might not even own a PC.
I’ve seen this.

Speeding up X isn’t on their roadmap/plan.

Even though someone did the work, even with full tests/etc, integrating it will steal time from the testers. Even if it’s only 2h.

That means they might not hit the existing plan, even if it’s a 0.5% chance. So they won’t take the risk. After all, it’s not part of the plan.

So it goes on the backlog for when the roadmap is smaller than capacity (read: never). Because no one is going to push hard enough. That would waste capital needed to get the Blorp team to do the thing needed to complete stuff on your committed roadmap on time so you don’t get screwed and left holding the ball.

And all that is when operating in good faith, assuming the receiving team isn’t pulling NIH or some other nonsense.
Unfortunately, the AIs were all trained on Reddit, so we're basically doomed.
> I've heard people suggest you should split registrar and dns solution, but I don't really understand why that would be best practice.

Simplifies migration. If your DNS records are tied to the registrar, and you need to move the record (maybe selling or moving to another registrar), then you can run into a problem where the DNS records are not accessible while the name is being transferred. Not an issue if the nameserver record points somewhere else.

Anecdotally, many registrars I have worked with (including Namecheap/GoDaddy) have terrible DNS management consoles/APIs, and limited options for access control. I have also had issues with certain TLDs not being available to move to better registrars, though I'm not sure if that is still an issue. Either way, moving DNS to a separate, standard provider definitely makes things easier to manage, especially if you are working with a lot of domains across different registrars.
I think there may be a bit of sequencing problem here
And Turbo Pascal was CHEAP, I think in terms of what you got for your $50? I can't remember the original retail price, you couldn't beat it. Hell, if you kept your eye out you could get copies of Delphi, / Delphi 3 for the cost of a "introduction to Delphi" book which almost always came with a standard license of Delphi.

Hobbyist Borland was the best Borland. A really amazing company that fully embraced those original tinkerers... Enterprise <X>, full vomit, but hey, that's where they got to charge many thousands per seat, so you can't really blame them.
It's definitely jankier without cosmetic filters. You end up with content holes and weird layouts when trackers or ads don't load -- much like browsing on bad wifi. You still avoid (most) ads.

The new method will almost certainly allow site/ad network operators to work around the block filters more easily than they could uBlock Origin.
Yeah that advice is the worst if you actually live it.

Prepare for the worst (as in planning), but never take it to heart or you’ll drown.
More Than 800 Missing Nearly Two Weeks After Lahaina Wildfire
That's interesting. I'd never thought of it before. I just tried to find images, but can't find any example credit cards with non "Roman" lettering, just like passports.

It sucks because the transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations.