skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My Windows machine has a lot more of the weird issues I used to see on Linux like 6-7 years ago. Like nothing showstopping. More like quality of life reducing stuff, like the volume in one headphone will be far louder than in the other

A while back I installed a Windows update that permanently prevented my existing Bose headphones from being able to connect to my laptop over bluetooth.
If evolution is just nature throwing dice, then it would take many, many generations to evolve something that complex.

I think we see more of these interesting finds in the world of small animals because they have a much higher frequency of turnover. Therefore a higher statistical probability to produce interesting adaptations.

I'm just a layperson so I'm using my own terminology here.

Then there's the other interesting possibility, that there is some way to consciously influence the evolution of DNA. I mean it's pretty freaky that this beetle evolved an exact replica of a termite, a creature it presumably spends a lot of time around. How did its DNA "know" to evolve in that diretion? Are there thousands of beetles out there with half assed copies of termites on their backs?
Yes, I use a portable sundial to become more aware of the positions/orbit of the sun and the possibility of measuring time with it. I also rely on my apple watch which I have in sun position mode.

I am interested in the passing of time in a psychological sense, 'when having fun', in meditation, after meditation, in flow state.
https://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/on-b...

When I was younger I experimented with polyphasic sleep, 6x23 minutes of sleep for a yar. Whenever I'm napping I sync the napping time up to the sun position, with current local astronomical midnight as 0 (1.37 am), and the next phases at 5.37 (1), 9.37 (2), 13.37 (3), 17.37 (4) and 21.37 (5). I'm not doing the 6x23 minute schedule for a long period due to health and social concerns, only for occasional napping, but use it also for prayer or meditation anchors, similar as to muslims or christian monastaries schedule their prayers. About the potential issues with polyphasic sleeping (which I have once maintained a year):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235272182...
Should be suing themselves. Voting for Brexit has had a far bigger impact on the prices Brits pay for things than Google.
If it weren't for sanctions, ESA would still be flying soyuz rockets. I wonder if they're considering buying any hardware from rocketlab.
Being complicated and involving many AWS services benefits Amazon in a few ways, lock in and revenue being the big ones.
All the mechanicals are expensive and unreliable.
Apart from the Cordyceps fungi genus, another fascinating/terrifying insect fungal infection makes cicadas hypersexual "flying salters of death" [1] that - in zombie-like fashion as well - fly around releasing spores from their decomposing abdomens, trying to bang other cicadas.

[1] https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2019/06/25/-flying-salt-sha...

[1] https://phys.org/news/2019-06-salt-shakers-death-fungal-infe...

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190625173456.h...
In my opinion (potentially nor popular) JQ has this appeal to nerds the same way that stuff like Perl does. I say this as someone who did Perl for 20years but now prefers python or JS…

For many people regexes are as bad as the jq queries… and vice versa. I would not recommend to write python script instead of regexp, but indeed it may work the same for small data and be more readable.

I love régex and been mastering it since 1999. So much that in 2013 I used it in production to parse binary protocol with dynamic sized fields. I believe the project is still talking 10k plus devices. Google must’ve just released protocol buffers… I would love to finally see regexes which can work over custom flow of objects and also on trees.

I also loved XPath which is very powerful and very comprehensible, then there is CSS1/2/3 which are again for queries to structures tree like data.

The prospect of now learning jq does not appeal me that much even though I appreciate its ingenuity. I may recommend it to dev/ops colleagues now and then, but for me this syntax is a lot of additional cognitive pressure which does not necessarily pay up. Of course if there is large amount of JSON data - it is the Swiss knife.

But nowadays I’ll likely use some LLm to generate the jq query for me. Also would joke with my bash-diehard colleagues who would love one more DSL…
This was the initial problem. It wasn’t possible to restore the firmware, so components were replaced until it worked again. Initially they tried new ports, then something I’ve forgotten, and then a new logic board. Once it was possible to restore it, the panel was no longer working. This is why a new panel is being ordered.

My suspicion is that the panel was fine, but either component compatibility was upset by introducing new parts (perhaps some need to be paired at the factory? Or when the firmware is first restored?) or the panel was damaged during repairs.

It’s a total mess. I believe 5 components have been swapped so far, the panel will be 6.

I appreciate that it’s all under warranty and Apple is making an effort to repair it, but I think this thing should be repaired as a refurb, and not on my time.
Linux user here I am not sure what kind of limitations I even face today (based on the fact that I don't use Adobe either way)

Nearly all games on steam just work, most modern software just works and the alternative tools never stopped getting better either.
I heard a theory that domestic cats mimic human babies.
Clubhouse is pivoting from live audio to group messaging
For an intentionally terrible book, there's Atlanta Nights (https://archive.org/details/atlantanights0000teat ). A bunch of authors got together to write the worst book possible. It has pretty much every kind of awful prose in existence, including an early case of AI generation.

For awful but readable books:

Most anything by Dan Brown, but for the audience here, Digital Fortress will make you tear your hair out in frustration if you know anything at all about cryptography. The climax of the book seems to be made for a movie and is a completely nonsensical sequence in which people stare at a screen showing attackers breaking through a firewall, as if it were a wall that can be slowly drilled through.

For me that was the book that did it. If Dan Brown couldn't take 10 minutes to research the simplest basics of the subject he based his book around, imagine what the quality of the rest of the work is like.

Ender's Game I rate as a fairly enjoyable but puerile teenage power fantasy. But after that comes Speaker for the Dead, which to me is absolutely awful. Ender turns into this insufferably saintly martyr, who acts as some sort of Gordon Ramsay, only fixing an awful colony instead of a restaurant. Everyone in the book is insufferable and a complete moron, except for Ender of course who knows how to fix all those awful people. Oh, and it justifies domestic abuse.

And maybe Battlefield Earth. I've never read the entire thing, but here's a quote:

“His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children.”
Not since John Paul 2.
About time to crush Google. I'm still glad we just had luck with their AMP stuff and it quietly died down. That would've been a problem.
Do you have more information about that? If you average the power over a month, then yes it might be true in the plot, but I suspect it's less smooth in real-time.
But Quantum entanglement seems to be traveling in God's channel, how does that happen if God is using linked lists?
I noticed this last night too
A blockchain doesn't have to be public at all... It's just a tool that anyone can use internally in their project among trusted peers.
Or you can flip that and say; humans domesticated cats because they sound similar to human babies.
Actually, not. Thwy do have physical meaning, it's just different from what pop science tries to relay.
> I have never seen any evidence that lazy evaluation by default is better instead of worse

With lazy-by-default: if you want strictness, you can simply 'evaluate something now'.

With strict-by-default: if you want laziness, you have to rewrite your code, and all the libraries that your code calls.

> psychological advantage for programmers who find it easier to understand programs with lazy evaluation

This is entirely based what you're used to. If you can be OK with executing either the true-branch or the false-branch of an if-statement (but not both), you can be OK with lazy evaluation. Same with boolean short circuiting.

Why should

true || error()

return true, but

any [true, error(), error()]

return error?
Sun did it much more recently than that.
I thought gmail enforces SPF for gmail emails. I'd try it myself, but I don't want the few machines I have with port 25 unblocked to get a worse spam rating.

Is this documented anywhere?
ddos as a service providers (aka booters/stressers) proxy L7 request floods via VPN providers. At some point the VPN providers might actually care to kill off those accounts / better tighten up their free tiers, but they don't care at the moment.
Crime pays but botany and entomology don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFScyio4lwI&t=752s
It is never a waste of time if you're enjoying it and learning from it. What a sad mindset
don't understimate the ability of a 15yo that wants to learn something with passion. It outperforms seniors
Sorry, I'm normally pretty good at these but I'm completely baffled by this. I'm on the homepage, don't see a chat bot and can't find a passphrase for the employee login. Can someone give me a hint please?

EDIT: nevermind, I'm in. If I was a dev, I might have figured it out sooner :D
Presumably you're referring to ChatGPT?
You should spend your dollars how you like. Talking about the best way to spend dollars extracted forcibly (aka stealing) is a different question. It is stealing, if I don't want to pay, right? And it's ~40% of most people's income - far more than when one was expected to tithe 10% to the church.

Re seeing a government narrative - how would you know? Do you see any films in support of trump, against the military, against government, promoting traditional Arab values, castigating Israel for taking no refugees, etc? These aren't causes I agree with btw, I mention them as blindspots in the presentation of reality that is provided, and that is a type of propaganda for the long game.

Canadians especially (though Scandinavians are similar) have high level of trust and tolerance in government - where any external authority of your money, actions, etc is unwarranted. There is no agreement that we signed to allow for such unfettered control.
> take comfort that Jesus was a carpenter and didn't die of respiratory illness/failure

No, but it was an unfortunate incident involving some nails.
Curious fact: wonderful Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada took their name with inspiration from the national film board of Canada and the soundtracks their heard on its movies productions as kids growing up in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_Canada
https://artifact.news/ This platform is only available as a mobile app and provides daily quality content.
> Even if it was an absolute crap bicycle.

I'm surprised you bring that up at all.

I've always ridden all kinds of crappy bikes. Recently I borrowed an expensive bike. Yes it goes a little faster and is a little more comfortable. It isn't more "fun" for sure. The main difference is that the expensive one you need to keep an eye on because it's so expensive. Not worth it imo...
Its hard to understand explicitly given the light level of detail in the article, but it seemed like they had a redundant system to take over in case of hardware failure.

Unfortunately due to the nature of the underlying issue, the hot spare suffered an identical problem (ran out of drive space) given it was identically spec'd.

Good example lesson to show that simple redundancy doesn't make all problems go away in the case of failure.
I would like to suggest anyone already into Boards of Canada to check out their demo tapes ("Old Tunes" and "Random 35 Tracks") which are on YouTube.

They are some of the earliest BoC tracks and probably sound the most like the namesake.
To be fair, had Germany not become unified, the next big war would likely have been between Russia and A-H, earlier than 1914. It's hard to imagine what history would have become after that, especially whether a WW1 would have happened.
Is that from the link by user Weathervane? Any idea why the rest of their comment it total gibberish? “gjryir frpgvbaf qb abg znxr na rknpg pvepyr, gurer vf n fznyy bireync, naq fb znxr n pv” etc.?
It points to the question of why they would go for something so meek when they have the power to be effective. If the FCC displays submissiveness to the markets they're supposed to regulate then I want a reason for it, because I'm worried they're in some guy's pockets

Second issue is a cybersecurity label from a trusted source is already something that can be issued, by, say, the ISO consortium. You don't need the FCC to do that.

Third issue is while the FCC is doing that, they're not doing something else.

Fourth issue is while they're not doing something that works, the consumer still faces the issues that this was supposed to solve!
How Konspire2B Works (2003)
It is possible to combin a hybrid drive line with manual transmission, as Toyota is developing:

https://www.topspeed.com/toyota-manual-for-hybrids-game-chan...
You can even do induction hardening. Used for complex parts, of if you want hardening with a very well defined penetration depth.

The place I used to go had a gas furnace to heat the metal. A pitty I didn't find time to go there for ages now... Only downside of gas furnace, closed on on end, is the limited length of the stuff you can put in. I have an idea I want to try to forge longer things, but again, it is months now I didn't have time to get back to it...
Right?

Even if you wanted to be pedantic and say the state monad is only 'simulated' state, you've still got ST, IO, and the glorious, glorious STM. Not to mention the purity and type-system that lets these things flourish, while other language designers try to implement STM and give up on it.
The term I've seen most often is "diagonal argument".
Let's see: it takes 9.8 joules to lift 1 kg by 1m. Let's say the tower is 100m high. The video says the blocks are 30 tons. 1 joule is 0.000278 watt hours.

9.8 * 30000 * 100 * 0.000278 * 0.0001 = 0.81732 kilowatt hours per 30 ton brick.

They claim they can store 100 mwh of energy. So, that's
100000 / 0.81732 = about 122,351 bricks.

From the top of the building it looks like it stores about 22x24 cubes per level, assuming the parts that aren't following the grid pattern are the lifts. So, 528 cubes per level. That would mean they need 231 levels of upper cube storage at an average height of 100 meters above the lower cube storage area, and it looks like they've only got about 29 total so far.

The math seems suspicious, but maybe my assumptions are wrong, or I made a calculation error. The structure might continue underground quite some distance, or the 30 ton cubes in the video aren't what they're using on the actual structure, or what looks like a single cube in the images are actually 8 or 27 cubes stacked into a bigger cube.

I'd be curious how this compares to the cost of LFP batteries, which are somewhere around $100 per kwh or so (in China). My guess is it's probably a lot more expensive than batteries or pumped hydroelectric storage.
I thought the same thing (though you could do it without anchors as long as the static content server used a glob for routing all traffic to the same web page). It would really simplify hosting.
"Improving in non backwards compatible way" sounds like "deteriorate"
Interesting thought. Not a different species, but think (highly intelligent) sociopaths...
Open Interpreter – Let language models run code on your computer
My TL;DR is really, just have an open mind because until we really truly understand how the brain works then you don't really know what type of "magic" is involved in producing the wonderful ability to enjoy life and experience.

My definition of magic is: mysteriously enchanting; magical: magic beauty. That's from dictionary.com btw.

Something can be explainable through words or scientific study and still be mysterious, enchanting and having magic beauty.
I've had a headphone balancing issue on MacOS as well, probably my previous one (intel, 2016 model I believe), ended up installing a tool whose sole purpose was to rebalance the audio every once in a while if it detected it went skewed. I have zero clue how that would happen, I can't see any practical purpose for any application or subsystem to be adjusting the audio balance.
> A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay

I just read that one, bought straight from Amazon. It's so bad that it made me chuckle.

> Which actually turned out to be a big crowd pleaser

Crowds are weird.
> Cheap prismatic batteries from China baby.

Cheap, slave made batteries from China baby... but we'll just skip over that part, eh?

They're cheap because some bugger ain't getting paid. Then there's the added bonus that that artificial cheapness drives everybody else out of the market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/business/economy/forced-l...
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
This was an early, somewhat underground, federated peer-to-peer file sharing system. It's similar to BitTorrent in that distribution is shared across nodes, but it also has 'channels' which can be subscribed to in order to stay up to date with content. This aspect of it is more like modern Fediverse. Shame it never took off, I find the architecture very interesting!
Of you use dedicated equipment, instead of doing all the BS people try on youtube, you are fine. Get someone to show and explain the machinery to you, and you are good to go.
Microsoft fired their entire QA team.

They also fired their entire technical documentation team.

They now treat Windows like freeware/shareware, and monetise it the same way -- selling ads, collecting telemetry, bundling, and being pushy.

Windows Server is abandonware, Microsoft only cares about Azure now. As far as they are concerned, hosting software yourself on-premises is a strange aberration and will eventually just go away.

Entire categories of their products are no longer available for on-prem installation, such as: CosmosDB, Data Factory, Purview, Logic Apps, etc...
I would think that the evolution of the human mind (and with that technology) has been to fast for any such parasite to keep up. At least for hiding as a human-sized non-human organism.
Not surprised. These models are inherently stochastic and will therefore happily say A and ¬A when prompted multiple times. A fundamental difference to how humans operate. (You could say that humans are stochastic, too, but they're stochastic in different ways.)
> The class action is funded by Hereford Litigation, a global commercial litigation funder.

I am a UK user over the age of 16. I did not ask for this to be done in my name. I am not defending Google here, but for-profit litigation by investment funds scares me more than Google does.
The ridiculous thing is that the Britons didn’t do that but a “litigation fund” filed the lawsuit “on behalf of every U.K. consumer”. I wonder whether the company had asked anybody in the U.K. about their stance on this matter.
It says that most Haitians are young (see the population pyramid for example to get an idea how young) and were not affected much by the virus and they don't care (about their old) that much because they have their own difficulty to stay alive and not starving.

But it for sure affected them https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN?location...
I agree. I’ve had failed Apple products in the past (butterfly keyboard and AirPods Pro were especially bad), but otherwise they tend to be great. Those failures were catastrophic, though. Kind of like this display.

In both cases before I had to really work to get help. When I got it, it was excellent. Prior to that, I was treated bizarrely coldly and like an inconvenience. You really do have to push.

With that in mind I’ve tried quite a bit to get better help with the display, but for some reason it isn’t panning out. I suppose because it’s being repaired, no one at Apple thinks it’s all that urgent to deal with. Surely it’ll just get fixed soon, right? Why rush to do anything?

I don’t think anyone expected it to take this long.
Just shows that have to be careful when working with others.

And I promise, I'll try to scale to my sarcasm.
Show HN: KRS – K8s runtime health scan utility
Hey HN!

I run a small k8s cluster and found myself running the same set of `kubectl` commands frequently to execute my troubleshooting decision tree! That's why I created the Kubernetes Runtime Scanner (KRS) - a pro-active, rule-based health assessment.

Why KRS?

- Automated Health Checks: Quick assessments of nodes, pods, and services (and others)

- Log Aggregation: Extracts and organizes relevant error logs.

- Resource Snapshots: View resource states at a glance.

- Open-Source & Extensible: let me know your troubleshooting workflow and I can try to incorporate it as pro-active checks!

I'm eager for feedback and collaboration. Try KRS, suggest features, or dive into the code. Your insights will make KRS an invaluable tool for every k8s user!

Here is a quick start guide on how to run a scan and get a report with about ~150 checks in a few minutes:

docker run -it -p 8888:8888 --user root unskript/awesome-runbooks:latest

CONTAINER_ID=`docker ps | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`; docker cp <KUBECONFIG.YAML> $CONTAINER_ID:/tmp/kubeconfig.yaml

docker exec -it $CONTAINER_ID bash

unskript-ctl.sh -cc -k8s /tmp/kubeconfig.yaml; unskript-ctl.sh -rc k8s
As someone who grew up during the first tamagochi wave I think a lot of what made games like these fascinating is that they were so simple and the graphics so barren — as a kid you just fill in the blanks with your fantasy. So the outcome can be much more personal than whatever high polished graphics thing of the day.
Just a note - naming something related to HTTP Express might cause some confusion.
Thanks, I hadn’t considered escalating it through Apple Care! I’ll try that tomorrow morning.
Nothing that sounds immediately impressive, just the small things that made an impact.

I learned to notice when I interrupted my deep work, for example while waiting for the build to finish I'd browse HN, or watch YouTube videos while working, listening to podcasts in the background, etc. I no longer forced myself to work with the pomodoro technique as it intentionally interrupts your focus (it's still good if you struggle to get anything done at all).

I also learned that the relatively small work needed to uplevel from being average to good (so that people in my field know me) is worth it, so organized meetups, gave talks and had a podcast.

Another important point of his book (so good they can't ignore you) was that, paraphrasing, passion is BS, so I learned to push through the initial phase of learning something new and work hard enough to enjoy basically anything as I got better and better.

It's not perfect, I'm not perfect, but it really helped me to stop being a scatterbrain, slightly below average developer.
I thought businesses had been moving away from imposing arbitration because it became too expensive?
I do not consent to bring re-presented - I present myself. The whole thing is a slight of hand illusion, without consent or agreement. It is simply the tyranny we are born into, but we think it is fine, as this is what we have been told. It's quite self-serving when you think about it.

'You want to take 40% of my life's efforts? Take 60%, but make sure you give tax exemptions to the film studios with some of that money!'