skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blew my mind as a younger person who took an interest in repairing tube radios from the 30's & 40's. One of the first things I realized was how generally easy it was to find schematics of popular brands and models. Some were even pasted right inside the radio shell!

I also hack and repair modern stuff, and it is so common to open up a product just to end up staring at an epoxy blob. User manuals hold no mention of service tips, but instead are near-useless "quick start" guides that might review functionality, if the manufacturer is feeling generous.

Modern tech seems so remarkably spiteful toward the consumer and consumers themselves just seem to roll with it. Sometimes I hear them use arguments like "Company X doesn't want Company Z making knock-offs" as though these knock-off manufacturers aren't already expert reverse engineers. I feel the locking down of consumer tech is more about forcing the consumer into a state of dependancy on the manufacturer than it is about protecting any intellectual properties. They conflate "repeate business" with customers being forced to return for repairs or replacements instead of willfully returning because they trust the quality and brand.
Users always have the option of doing what they already do: use the Linux that was preinstalled on the computer.
HN titles can be edited by the submitter after submission. The automatic normalization only happens on the initial submit.

It would be nice if HN would display a message after submitting that the submitter should check the changed title.
OpenGOAL Progress Report – August 2023
https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/3rd-party-apps

https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/ppi-apps

These two links list all the approved UPI apps in the Indian fintech market. As you can see, the ecosystem is vibrant and ever-growing :)

We are the first ones to focus exclusively on serving foreigners and NRIs in India and have issued the most number of international wallets till date.

Fave app and First Rupi(from IDFC) are alternatives you can try if interested.
Same reason anyone would use a hosted service vs setting it up themselves, they don't want to deal with the hassle. For many of us, it's trivial, sometimes because we've done it before, but for others, it's a huge hill to climb, which seems unnecessary if all they want to do is publish some content.
For those of you with expensive watches (5000usd+):

Do you wear it every day?

Does it impact your plans ie "I shouldn't wear it today because I might be targeted for a robbery"?

What is the reason you bought an expensive watch when there are plenty not expensive watches that are good at "time"?

Would you consider yourself "well off?"

Thanks :)
I don't think that it's up to a person or even to a group of people to decide whether one protocol is strictly better than a different one. Only by providing a decent competitive environments can we really find out which one is better.

Federation (and fediverse) can run on different protocols, by deciding to implement ActivityPub only we are still living in a walled garden of sorts, only this time the bubble is not bounded by a single service provider, but by a protocol and its sphere of reach.

AP is certainly all the rage now, but email-based federation is older and it is already implemented in sourcehut. Do other software forges implement multiprotocol federation? Would they agree to implement email-based federation?
They're a little busy trying to shred their membership card of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
It is accepted in most restaurants and shops, but for transactions of lower amounts UPI is preferred due to the fee involved with visa and mastercard
It's so funny how the smoothness of the second hand has changed in desirability over time.

It started with mechanical watches that moved relatively smoothly at 3-6 beats per second. Then Quartz came along, and it became fashionable for seconds to move on the second (the "quartz crisis"). Then mechanical watches became fashionable again as quartz watches became commodities during the "Mechanical Renaissance", and it's now a sign of luxury for a "smooth sweeping" second hand again.

And then you have these modern outliers, like the F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain, which feature a "remontoire" that stores up energy before releasing it on the second for increased accuracy. So you can pay $250K for a watch that moves like a $10 quartz :)
>Bootloader locking and remote attestation don't stop you recycling devices or even repurposing them.

Not even close to true.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43jywd/why-tens-of-thousands...
Eleuther:

> Core Weave, HuggingFace, Google TRC, Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs

https://www.eleuther.ai/about
Long-term search will move inside the OS. "Where is my file?" or "What is the weather tomorrow?" -- The OS will fetch the result and even format and deliver it inside of the target application.
+1 for the Metaculus [1] reference. I came across the concept of calibration while reading “How to measure anything” (see the _equivalent bet test_ in this review [2]) and find it really powerful in theory and really hard in practice.

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/home/

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybYBCK9D7MZCcdArB/how-to-mea...
The microphone part of the jack provides a small amount of power to serve as a microphone bias. This can be used to power a few small analog electronics as needed. The mag stripe reader may not have needed anything but a reader coil, though, and the phone can probably decode the "sound" that comes from swiping the magnetic stripe.
Security researchers wanting to investigate what kinds of credentials other people are looking for, for example.

Or as another example, someone who wants to research how often people copy paste example config files without replacing things like credentials given in the example.

Probably a bunch of other reasons too.
I would love an Andrej video on this
Those aren’t BLM rangers; they’re the law enforcement of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
Submitters can re-edit the title after the fact.
That's $35 billion plus tip, please.
Similar to a situation in Sweden not long ago, slots for renewing passports and id were booked by bots and then sold on Facebook.

After some outrage in media they finally got their act together and now booking requires an electronic id from the applicant or a guardian.
> of course, if you take the QR codes out of the equation and replace with NFC then i see no issues.

There’s no reason p2p payments can’t operate over NFC. It’s just a short distance communication technology, it’s little more than an implementation detail in a payment network, and not significant to fundamental operation or economics of a payment network.

The fact Mastercard/Visa have a monopoly on NFC payments on phones is a big reason why the EU is investigating ApplePay and Apple NFC API restrictions.

> you are wrong. if anything the system is getting more widely used. europe for example has very advanced banking infra and is all in on nfc

I don’t think you appreciate the timeline here. Contactless payments have existed in Europe for over a decade, it basically at peak adoption already. Alternative P2P payments and technology like OpenBanking is only just getting started, and Mastercard/Visa are already worried, they’ve already made big acquisitions in Open Banking tech and alternative payment networks to ensure they don’t get cut out of the profits long term.

Ultimately payment technologies are chosen by merchants, not customers. If alternatives offer cheaper payments, and more importantly, faster merchant settlement, then merchants are going to start exploring those options. If companies like Apple are forced to open up their NFC stacks, and let others build alternative wallet and payment networks on them, then Mastercard/Visa current technical advantage will disappear very quickly.

That very advanced banking infra you speak off will forms the backbone of alternative payment technologies, why would anyone want to pay a middleman for a service their bank can provide directly, and provide much cheaper?
Drivers back then sat at half the height above the road compared to now, and their forward viewspace was about half again as big as it is now.

Big cars kill pedestrians.
The rangers in the video are actually a tribal police department.
Digital Show and Tell: Analysing digital audio processing [video]
I agree with you, I am just highlighting companies' thinking why they would wanna protect their source code. security by obscurity. Also having a copy of source could also mean the companies might have cut corners. Many leaks of future products are now guessed from source code. Also it is so easy to copy as well by other companies.
Nope - although the last line is sarcasm, if that's what you mean.
> > Why would we expect superpositions of quantum states to be encoded as a vector sum of the individual state vectors?

> Because that's what the word superposition means.

No, that's not what superposition means a priori. I can think of many other ways to implement (mathematically) the idea of a system being in "two states at the same time", apart from vector addition. Yes, if you do Stern-Gerlach often enough, you might convince yourself that the vector space structure is a sensible choice but I take issue with OP's statement that

> there are logically no other possibilities

as if things had been obvious right from the get-go.
If anything many seem super green with 1-2 years tech experience.
Ongoing Chialisp Development
Show HN: Useful Bash tool: Smart directories navigator
In the specific case of booking a UK driving test, you must already have a photocard 'provisional driving license' and you must be willing to provide it, for it to be exchanged for a full driving license.

So although mandatory proof of identity is problematic in many contexts, it's not a problem here.
> And keep sane having some sort of structure (when to wake up, when to go to bed, when to eat)

Without other people to coordinate with, the signals from the environment and your body are a more sound structure for these. The time of day is at best a good proxy.
Why can't you in modern languages just say n:0.. like in Pascal?

Why can't you narrow down numeric types to provide range checking?
would someone please flag this comment?
Practice meditation:

- Learn meditation

- Go to meditation retreat

- Keep practicing meditation. Use it as an exercise in focus.

- Sit and study. When you feel bored, close your eyes, take a deep breathe in and out, meditate for a bit. After a couple (or a few) minutes (maybe even get up for a stroll or a little break), then, continue work.

Re-Program your mind:

- Listen to motivational speeches & music daily on youtube and spotify

- Example Channels: Eric Thomas, David Goggins, Motiversity, Fearless Motivation.

Lastly: Exercise

If you're don't 1. have a focus practice, and if you aren't 2. actively programming your mind to create positive, optimistic though cycles, and aren't 3. exercising, then these are three important things that I recommend to you, which really helped me develop my discipline skill.
It's lazy requirements gathering and taking shortcuts that gave them this. Or: and I will use bad language here, some idiot developer stores this in a document DB and has a field for name & license number. Or: GDPR doesn't allow devs or makes them too scared to capture PII information on account sign-up.

We had this exact same crap in South Africa when the government went out on a tender and awarded a DEI company the project to do a license renewal booking system.
I wonder if gaming consoles had a big hand in this? Going back to Atari pong in the early/mid 70's and I don't recall if any of the major players (Magnavox, Atari, Coleco, Sears) included anything close to schematics.
What’s the problem here, it can’t be a technical one? Why is this taking more than a month to solve let alone years?
In my team, points and tickets are useful for knowing we’ve scheduled a solid - not overwhelming or underwhelming - amount of work.
That seems like an incredibly easy resolution, and one wonders why it wasn't part of the functional spec up front.

Weirdly, and I hope this was paraphrased poorly, TFA includes:

"Driving instructors are calling for a ban on excessive profits from the reselling of tests."

It's the 'excessive' bit that gives me the chills.

I feel the default position should be no profits from, and in fact no reselling of, driving tests.
Someone probably reported you, try appealing and explain, if you're actually able to reach a human, I've been on Discord for 8+ years without any issues.
limited number of expensive cars and expensive one-to-one examiners.
Not first-party, but calculators?
Expensive is relative to where you live.
True, but at the same time, if your grandma's identity was stolen you'd be more likely to be willing to discard some freedom for the sake of security.

There's a general willingness to trade incremental freedom for security in many arenas but ascending that gradient is a hard sell
See also: Faust, SOUL

- https://faust.grame.fr/

- https://soul.dev/
Hmm, where do I begin?

1. Bringing a mic and camera equipped device to the bathroom.

2. Accepting video calls from naked people.

3. Acting ashamed for having a naked person on screen.

I tried to make a joke because the premise sounds crazy and extremely hypocritical to me.
I have an Eco-Drive I've been wearing daily for over 17 years now. Earlier this year I had to have the capacitor replaced for the first time since it started to stop overnight, but now it's working without a hitch again.
One would think the author of the post would be very familiar with both uses.
Oh my! You buried the lede:

"In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them _after_ Euler."
Have you considered the military? Your background sounds a lot like mine and this was the path I ended up taking and am really happy I did. With a degree you can commission as an officer, you’ll learn a lot of discipline, time management and other really good habits.
It’s roughly 5000 x 5000 km, so 250 gigapixels. With 24-bit color, that would be about 700 GB uncompressed. Lossless compression can probably reduce that by a factor of ten or more.
> I wonder if there was a way we could take the other path. Keep manufacturing solid, long lasting products but also being financially sound.

Regulation.

Fun fact: this is still possible! It's a little harder – it'll have to be steadily introduced, in multiple countries at once (so we don't break international trade), starting in the areas where it's cheapest to produce lasting equipment (so enforcement doesn't take out entire sectors), and I don't yet know what the regulations would look like, but if it's possible to make lasting things, it's possible to require manufacturers to make things last.

We need to do this, sooner or later, anyway: we simply don't have the raw resources to continue as we are.
If I land on a desert island the very last thing I need is a watch. A watch is there to be able to synchronize with outside events, and those are in short supply on a desert island. If there are no other people that you need to meet, trains whose time tables matter or ships that need conning you don't need a watch. I'd trade you my watch for a book of matches or some canned food.
> 2025: Google removes the ability to install Android apps from outside the Play store, citing security concerns.

Ehm... This will be illegal in the EU very soon. A bit alarmist. Also not very fair to only include anti-piracy and anti-freedom legislation while ignoring milestones such as GDPR.
I got myself into a smaller version of this kind of project when I wondered about an old city building that sat in the middle of a parking lot. It took months but I discovered how to use plat maps, old records, and more that the city library had in its collection. It turned out it was part of a public bath house and pool that the city built in the early 20th century as part of a movement to ensure proper hygiene for the lower class. It was on a busy city street that got split in two when an interstate was built. Today the block the building is on is just a short dead-end street, all the activity is on the other side of the highway.

The building was sold by the city a while back and turned into apartments.
"My poverty, but not my will, consents." -Apothecary
If we're using the more formal/traditional definition of "type safe" of "won't crash or go into an undefined state due to runtime type errors", then I think that it doesn't actually change the type safety situation at all.

Assuming we're actually using the more common colloquial meaning of "helps prevent logical errors due to a failure of the program's types to properly convey semantic distinctions" rather than the more I actually think it's kind of the opposite. When you curry a function that takes multiple arguments of the same type but treats them differently (so, not something like +), it gets easier to lose track of which is which in code that makes heavy use of partial application. Without partial application, someone reading the code is more likely to see that it's being called with two arguments of the same type and think to double-check the documentation if they're unsure which is which.
Yes, for me it is better because if you do it your way you have to keep your ssh connection open until all of the git clones have been done, which in this case takes several hours.

(Or you could also run your way in tmux or screen.)

With task-spooler, it puts all of the commands (in this case, the individual git clone commands for each of the repos) in a queue and it runs the commands independently of my ssh session, so I can quickly add a bunch of jobs like this to the queue and immediately disconnect my ssh session.
I've been a fan of the powerdns project for many years. I have used it for authoritative, recursive and load balancing projects with great success. These days I use their dnsdist project to have fine grained control of DNS at my house to account for my various homelab shenanigans and provide that 99.99999% uptime the family demands.
>opens instantly

It's a probability distribution. I can get most residentials' + deadlock in 30 seconds total 25% of the time, just by raking (brute forcing) pin key combinations, 80% of most in under 3 minutes; switching to rake with a different wavelength shortens that, especially when a familiarity is developed, let alone picking.

But that's not even the issue -- especially moot since porcelain exists.

Similar to the (overly strong-handed) back-up camera mandate regulations, auto manufactures should be held to a higher standard for the most critical aspect of the vehicle: the authorization and authentication of its user is the intended operator.
Interesting aside, looking forwards, slipper slopes are a fallacy. Looking backwards, slippery slopes are a no-brainer.
They are profitable up to a point.

Once that point is crossed, they will have to compensate and adapt or risk losing their entire business.
> I can't remember the last time I encountered a library or program in my work that was even LGPL licensed, let alone GPLd

I don't know what line of work you're in but this seems quite unlikely. GTK and Qt are both LGPL (and GNOME and Plasma are GPL). WebKit's JavaScript engine is LGPL. MySQL is GPL. Blender is GPL. Arduino is AGPL. GCC is GPL. Bash is GPLv3. It's hard for me to believe you use the Linux kernel without touching any of these.

GPL is wildly popular. It's losing ground, yes, and you correctly identify a primary reason why: commercial software companies correctly see it as a threat, and are fighting it in earnest now. It is a threat. It was designed to be a threat. The purpose of the GPL is to create a self-reinforcing free ecosystem that outcompetes the balkanized proprietary hellscape that preceded the free software movement. At this, it succeeded beyond any reasonable imagining.

A lot of the revolutionary spirit has left the free software movement. We are currently in the "good times create weak men" stage of the cycle. People who grew up in the garden of Eden created by the free software movement, who take it for granted that the popular web browsers are open source and Microsoft releases cross-platform IDEs that run on Linux, don't appreciate that the current state of affairs was wrought over decades by the kind of people who spelled it Micro$oft and were willing to tolerate their computers only half working in order to avoid proprietary software of any kind, on principle.

But make no mistake, we are still at war. The big corpos know it, even if they've managed to fling enough bread and circuses to fool some into thinking we're all one big happy family now. Giving up on the GPL is how they win, and we lose.
In Switzerland I don't think there is any such thought. I see crazy expensive time pieces on people's wrists and no one give as hoot other than watch enthusiasts.

I don't currently own a watch over 5k but if I where to purchase such a piece it would be for the craftsmanship and the beauty of the mechanics. However you would never find me wearing a Rolex which is a mass produced status symbol IMO.
Swipe only is very rare in my neck of the woods (only one I can remember is someone at a craft fair in the past year who still only had the original square stripe reader). Perhaps you’re thinking of places that don’t support tap to pay but only chip (and thus don’t support Apple Pay)? Those I run into all the time (looking at you, Lowes and Home Depot).
Let's just say it out loud, so the children can hear:

Dr. Willie Soon is a fraud in the bag for the oil industry.
How good is VSCode support for .NET nowadays?
> We are the first ones to focus exclusively on serving foreigners and NRIs in India and have issued the most number of international wallets till date.

Awesome! I look forward to trying out your app!
Feeling is an individual thing, though. I think it's better to define safety and try and achieve it (e.g. we want an emergency button to push that pings a location-aware SOS out), rather than making people feel safer (e.g. self defence classes).
From what I understood from Blow, a specification at this point would only serve to have other people bike shed about syntax, features, etc.

Looking at the explanation you linked, I would say that the author uses the language in a very unidiomatic way (if idiomatic Jai would be a thing :D). It takes a very template focused mindset and uses the features of the language to bastardize and complicate things needlessly (IMHO, as a not game developer). I think my main take away from the language is that it focuses on the way memory is mapped (similarly to how C does it) and less on behaviour associated with that memory.

So for that example, instead of trying to overthink a container that uses a generic behaviour through templated types, it would implement different overloaded functions for each type as needed.
>a single battery can last 3 years! This is a big selling point for me, I don’t think they’re making consumer watches like this any more.

Well Casio surely does. Search "Casio MIP display".
I mean quite frankly so what?

My wife just read a thousand page fan fiction set in the Harry Potter world where the Death Eaters won, Harry Potter is dead, and Draco Malfoy has been assigned to Hermione for “breeding purposes”. The premise sounds like trash, but she was describing the intricacies of how wars are fought and political intrigues and a very personal and relatable story of standing up to power. She literally could not put it down, and said it was one of the most interesting and engaging pieces of literature she’s ever read.

Copyright just lets large corporations keep our shared cultural heritage under lock and key. These worlds are living rent free in our heads. We should be allowed to play around with them at our leisure and tell the stories we want to tell without the threat of financial ruin being brought down upon us.
Not without significant equity