skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite right. Similarly, speeding cameras are incapable of stopping speeding until _AFTER_ the speeding has occurred. Speeding cameras do not prevent crime, they cite people who are accused of speeding.

That's why when a speed camera is installed, it makes no difference whatsoever and everyone goes exactly the same speed they would have gone before.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20927736/
Because the price is not high enough to curb consumption.
It seems like it was just the other day that I was telling a friend:

You've got a great set of Kumho tires, do really want to risk wearing them out with those Dickass brakes?
> Steam Workshop is literally DRM as far as I'm concerned; there are plenty of games that are completely inaccessible

I think that the Steam Workshop would be at least partially fine IF they allowed all Workshop items to be downloaded without a steam account. And even if a game developer enables this option, steam randomly disables it occasionally and the game developer has to re enable it all over again (this happened with Terraria).

Furthermore, its really, really hard to download Workshop items for a lot of games. Short of buying the game (a good $30-70 down the drain), your only options are to:

- Download through steamcmd. this only works if the game has explicitly enabled the anonymous download thing I talked about earlier. steamcmd (like the name suggests) also has a CLI which a lot of gamers can't/won't navigate.

- Go through external services. These external services often charge you if you download Workshop items for popular games or if you download Workshop items that are new.

- As a player playing through steam to download the item and then send it to you. In the Terraria discord server you'll find plenty of these people (I'm one of them!). This also doesn't work for games without an active playerbase.
> If you build a browser with good HTML/CSS/Javascript handling, you'll be compatible with the large majority of the web.

Will you? I very much doubt this is the case.
I agree that remote is interestingly defined. Remote normally refers to somewhere away from where the population is found or away from where one is usually located. Home is where the population is found – where one is usually located. The office is what is remote.

It is bizarre that the companies without offices – with workers most likely to work from home – are the ones given the "remote" moniker. Technically, it is the companies with offices that are most likely to have remote workers.
This is a reasonable desperation setup for emergency power, but not a great off-grid solution.

Highway cruise for a compact car needs around 7 to 20HP, so a reasonable target output is in that range. That's 5 to 15 KWh. Seems small, but as others have pointed out, auto engines have peak outputs far beyond their continuous rating.

1800 RPM 60Hz generators are available, and larger generators tend to run at 1800 RPM.
Or you could do something with belts or gears to keep the engine RPM down, as others pointed out. Running at low RPM is good if you want to run for a long time.

Probably a good idea to have the system disconnect output power until the frequency reaches at least 50 Hz, because this thing needs quite a while to reach operating frequency. Bringing up something like a refrigeration compressor (a likely emergency load) from 0 Hz to 60 Hz over the course of a minute may burn it out. Under-frequency operation is very bad for AC motors; they draw way too much current and overheat, because the inductance of the motor isn't able to oppose the lower frequency. Put an ohmmeter across an AC motor and note how low the DC resistance is.
Ah, I didn't spot that they no longer require counting installs. But you're right; this is probably what "the number of new people" means. And the "2.5% revenue share" variant means no hurdles for freeware. So a real improvement indeed. Thanks for the corrections!
The mainstream was extremely socialist in the 1930s. I wonder what sort of conditions prefaced that shift...
Talked about here:

https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport
Barrier PEX (often referred to as PEX-Al-PEX) uses a layer of aluminum, not copper. A far more common type of barrier PEX uses a low-permeability polymer coating.
Well, sure, if they were happy to burn money with no tangible result they could probably keep going as long as people are buying other MS products.
U.S. fighter jet flew 100 km unpiloted, pilot explains to perplexed 911 operator
I think the debate reveals how flawed and entitled our thinking is.

A bit over-simplistic, we find a couple of bones in a cave and so a few pieces of evidence. From this, we patch up a full picture of the Neanderthals (flawed) and we do it in a way to convince ourselves how great we are (entitled).

With "our thinking" I'm talking about the not-so-scientific public. I guess the scientists get this right. They know about their unknowns. But these subtleties are lost on their way to the general public.
Author here. The single-node restriction for Litestream was one of the main reasons we started LiteFS. There isn't a way to handle streaming backup from multiple nodes with Litestream & S3 as SQLite is a single-writer system and there aren't any coordination primitives available with S3.

I agree that many of the SQLite cloud offerings introduce the same network overhead. With LiteFS, the goal is to have the data on the application node so you can avoid the network latency for most requests. Writes still need to go to the primary so that's unavoidable but read requests can be served directly from the replica. The LiteFS HTTP proxy was introduced as an easy way to have LiteFS manage consistency transparently so you can get read-your-writes consistency on replicas and strict serializability on the primary. That level of consistency works for a lot of applications but if you need stronger guarantees then there's usually trade-offs to be made.
It's impossible for an IPv4 endpoint to accept an IPv6 connection. Perhaps you have a dual-stack CDN with an unpublished IPv6 address that some users have found? Or your service is accepting third-party 'Forwarded' headers, which would allow HTTP clients to spoof their IP address.
User Training with Error Augmentation for EMG-Based Gesture Classification
> Expect a lot of libraries to start release versions that are java 21 baseline because of this feature alone.

Java has had multi-version jars since 11 I think... that allows library authors to ship code that benefits from new features in newer versions of the JDK while still supporting older ones as well. Hopefully library authors can leverage that, though I'm aware something like Virtual Threads may be very difficult to design around for older versions.
Did anybody try something like that: read/write to SQLite database file on backend, but also allow the database file to be downloaded at any time by rich JS frontend for read-only querying. I just wonder if the file is going to be (eventually-) consistent and not corrupted.
Can you clarify? Ads never crept into the premium channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Movie Channel. At least no third party ads beyond the internal promotions between uninterrupted movies/shows. I haven't had cable for ~5 years, so maybe things have changed?
Did they wait so long to release it on a Friday?
thanks for the reference. I mean i could have websearched around for a while, but i've been asking everyone that comments in my friends group, about this topic, and i'm getting "it was a trend" but not where or why it started.

when 1/8th of the planet knows about a trend and i'm out of the loop...
???

Are you sure you've responded to the correct comment? Or did you misunderstand my comment?

No where did I say I want an "all encompassing authoritarian provider" or to "narrow the periphery and extinguish the creative sparks of discovery". All I asked for is my device to "just work" when I want it to. You can have have your cake and eat it as well - it is possible to be friendly towards both novice and pro users, as I demonstrated with the Steam Deck example (whether they will continue this, is a separate discussion). Things can "just work" without a company deciding what's best for me.

I used to be able to plug my phone into my laptop and copy my Minecraft files. I can't do that any more.

I own the device. I decide what I want to do with it.

I myself have faced the brunt of "error reinforcement": my phone doesn't have expandable storage, lacks a headphone jack and didn't come with a charger in the box, - all to inconvenience me and raise Google's bottom line.

If you're up for constructive criticism, please don't come off so aggressive.
Insert: Zoidberg says: "Why not both"? meme
If you are using Rust, you should check out https://bevyengine.org which is a rust based game engine with a focus on ECS
I haven't seen any evidence that anyone smart was involved in this decision. There's been some hints that the actual smart people (devs, customer support folks) were screaming bloody murder that it was a terrible idea, but the execs pushed it through anyway. This is yet another entry in the enormous list of evidence that becoming the head of a company does not require any intelligence. Quite the opposite, apparently.
Oh no, far worse than that. Imagine some Game of Thrones character breaking into a three minute uninterrupted dialogue on how they’re protecting their communication throughout the kingdom with XVPN.
Right. I got a master's in CS with out a bachelors. I had to take 4 pre-reqs classes before I could start taking the graduate level classes. Anyway it was worth it.
Just your regular reminder that for the only security certification that Apple advertises on their website for iOS [1][2] Apple only achieved the lowest possible level of security assurance, EAL1. A level only fit for products where [3]: "some confidence in the correct operation is required, but the threats to security are not viewed as serious" which does not even require "demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a basic attack potential" [4]. This is four entire levels lower than "demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential" [5].

Apple has never once, over multiple decades of failed attempts, demonstrated "resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential" for any of their products. To be fair, neither has Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Crowdstrike, etc. It should be no surprise that the companies, processes, and people who lack the ability, knowledge, and experience to make systems resistant to moderate attackers despite nearly unlimited resources are regularly defeated by moderate attacks like commercial surveillance companies. They certify that they absolutely, 100% can not.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/certifications/ios-security-...

[2] https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/CE...

[3] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 14

[4] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 16

[5] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 20
Please source your nonsense.
you are absolutely right!
They don’t want to have their environments too open, that’s why we are at this point.

Those enterprise tools i know (like sonarqube for example) are mostly cli tools in their core. Can be integrated everywhere.
I know product placements have always been a bit controversial but I'm completely fine with product placements personally. I find the opposite -- sterilizing a movie of all brands -- a little more jarring even because things like coca cola or giant billboards DO exist in real life. Usually they are done in a non obtrusive (or at least satirical when they are obtrusive) way. I think my opinion would change if it was more in your face but otherwise if they can get some money from it I don't see the issue.
I wouldn't say HBO became "as terrible as the free channels". I would say perhaps HBO is now as bad as the free channels once were, and the free channels are worse than ever. The last time I visited my grandmother I saw a few minutes of daytime network TV out of the corner of my eye and good god, I don't have anything else to compare it to. It reminds me of an article I read a long time ago about the continual decay of pretty much any publishing organization. It showed magazines when they were new, and the same magazines the year before they went out of business. At the end, the magazines were 75% ads, 25% "content". TV is the same way. At some point in the future, some new competitor will come in promising all the things HBO used to deliver. And in time they'll decay as well.
What's the "AWS VPC Gateway Endpoint" support you refer to? Do you mean an S3 proxy? If so one of our PRs that just merged may be helpful. [0]

[0] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/51749
That's like saying "metal is strong". There are huge differences among different plastics.
All of those problems discouraged me from going to the movie theater but the issue that got me to quit going to movie theaters completely is increased volume without increased noise dampening. Thanks to the much advertised upgrades to the sound systems of the theaters you will hear your movie and the movie next to you. You'll hear the dialogue of your movie with a background of superhero explosions and revving car engines.

And no, there are no other movie theater chains available. And no, going to a matinee doesn't solve these problems. And there is no solution to these problems because they've become normalized so people will rush to defend them.
They did walk back charging per download/install.

There was no way they couldn't. Its literally not practical.
> Why wouldn’t we, given the ability, work from our own comfy homes instead of rolling into a crowded, stuffy office everyday?

Because a considerable part of our economy apparently relies on people getting out of the house, (mostly) driving somewhere, buying their lunch (and other stuff) and temporarily occupying some landlord's building.
only buy it when you need it and when its cheaper than regular shipping, which is rare if you hvae over $25 of stuff.

I rarely buy stuff, there are only like 1 or 2 times a year when I need something fast that I need Prime. I try to get from Walmart of other sites if possible.
> I dislike repeating "enshittification" so much, but behavior like this seems to be spreading at an exponential rate.

Modern-day capitalism optimizes for maximum enshittification, because there isn't enough competition to encourage any other result. Occasionally
you'll have a company that does what's "supposed" to happen: provide a generally better product to gain market share against competitors, but that's rare. Pretty quickly they start responding to the same incentives as the incumbents, and enshittify their products too.

Modern technology has also been a double-edge sword. It's provided consumer benefits, but has never really lived up to its potential, because "innovation" frequently means new consumer-hostile uses of the technology (e.g. pervasive communications technology means your car can now provide a middling navigation app; as well as can spy on you, sell your data, and show you ads).
It's good to get some more info, but it is a little disconcerting that they only mention patching Chrome. What was the sandbox escape on Android? Even if you had code execution inside the Chrome process on Android, that shouldn't be enough to enable persistence, so clearly there's another vulnerability.

Also in this case the attack vector was MITM of http and one time links as it was a targeted campaign, but it feels there's nothing preventing someone putting this in an ad campaign or sms/discord/matrix/whatever spam and spraying it everywhere to build a botnet or steal user credentials or whatever.
Original pricing scheme was the brainchild of John R and Tomar B. As far as I am concerned, this announcement changes nothing with those two still present.
emacs and vim work well in the terminal and are almost certainly customizable enough to mimic the VSCode keybindings, /but/ definitely not without a velocity drop while you get everything set up as you like it
Or just not put them in all caps all the time. I guess there is so little pushback from Amazon on this they don't even need to bother making names sound real.
I'm about as high a percentage of neanderthal dna as is possible (2 to 4 percent) (according to 23andme) - so they certainly were my ancestors.
For those that dont know about the project, check out Open Feature https://openfeature.dev/ which is sort of like Open Telemetry but for feature flags. Helps avoid vendor lock in. We're a young project and looking for help and to build the community!
That doesn't really add up. The core problem of GPL is that it's viral and takes away freedom from downstream developers in favor of upstream freedom.
I'm not sure it says anything about our culture specifically. It speaks to all cultures.

The future is always going to be what we have now, but sexier in some way. So replace cars with flying ones, and replace work we do with robotic servants.

The really interesting science fiction doesn't do a linear extrapolation, it looks at how we might really change. But that's not what we get from a kid's cartoon.
Matsushita trading under the name Panasonic is probably the biggest example I can think of that most people would recognize.
This is a great write-up.

As a former user of these (and many more expensive ones), I can tell you that the most problematic thing is ensuring calibration. We used to have a lot of very expensive stickers on our kit.

One of the advantages that digital has, is that calibration is pretty simple; an A/D step, and then everything after that is gravy.
Just buy Apple hardware.

They're currently bugging me about updating a 9 year old ipad I just use as a kindle. They flatly blow Google away on device updates, and will continue to do so even if Google isn't lying about their new / supposed 5 year update plan (and NB: that's 5 years from the release date, not 5 years from the last sale date, which could be reasonable.)
That is one of the great ironies of the meme…

Most people self-identifying that they think about the Roman Empire don’t seem to know the difference between the Roman Republic & Roman Empire (much less the period of Kings)…it’s all just the Roman Empire.
Well, it's not really any one thing. It's more the general sets of policies & ideologies that the various parts of our political spectrum hold, looked at from an objective (or at least more global) point of view.

Additionally, I did specifically mention that, at the same time as this has been going on, a second movement has been underway that counterbalances it to some extent, and that this is resulting in unprecedented(?) levels of political polarization.
No, often I don't check, because my managers rush me to produce results on tight timelines, so I don't have time to "do things right".

Slack message at 3pm asking for updates to be in a doc by 6pm. What do you expect?

I guess the problem is less serious on a corporate VPN, but still, the principle applies everywhere. If you want security, give your employees time to do things right. Usually that means at least double what you think it will take.
I'm still waiting for Intel CPUs with on-board FPGAs, like they announced in 2016. Apparently they exist, but only in the extremely high-end "don't call us we'll call you" sales pipeline.
If first party repairs are an option, my choice is clear. If my choice is between a third-party repair and death, I'm less principled.
I also think this will happen. Graphics cards with humongous RAM, etc.

But I don't see how that changes the advantages that companies such as OpenAI have. Consumers will have access to GPT4-level LLMs, OpenAI will have a next gen offering.
Google and Cloudflare Must Share Traffic Stats in Manga Piracy Case
I don't know about nowadays.

8 years ago we built our own ecommerce site + warehouse app (inventory tracking, fulfillment, receiving) for a few hundred orders per day. The goal was to be able to better see profit margins by product, track where the money was going/coming from in detail, along with cleaning up the inventory management part of the operation.

The warehouse people loved the change because it really streamlined the fulfillment process and it basically reduced their errors to zero. Owners loved it because of the all the cost/price tracking. It took about 6 months of work by 2 devs.

Before this they were on woocommerce. It was slow as shit. We looked at shopify but the integrations with 3rd party warehouse stuff was bad. The other solutions we looked at were overly complicated swiss army knives.
Why should caching in the cloud be any different than caching locally?
Yes, you're in for some disappointment there alas: many terminal applications, especially macOS terminal, will devour most cool combinations of the "meta" keys (shift, control, alt, command...) for themselves. This is why I had to make a slightly modal "select mode" entered with the escape key. I'm still trying to make it mostly familiar but 100% vscode keybindings isn't possible.
Survey: State of HTML 2023
Another company founded by ex-Israeli intelligence.

The funny thing about exploits is, once hundreds of employees or soldiers have access to the exploit, they don't need to physically copy the code. They just need to understand how it works, to then open 10 other companies that use the same exploit, or sell it to 20 other companies on the dark web.

Although the IDF is great at stopping people from copying files outside of their networks, it can't stop people from remembering what they did during their service
I went from VSCode back to emacs. I just stick with most of the emacs defaults, although I’m sure you could find a package for VSCode defaults.
But solving fatherlessness solves a lot of other problems besides stealing Kias and Hyundais too.
When the cars you sell are stolen so much more than other similar cars that they have caused a large rise in the theft rate and insurance companies stop issuing policies that cover theft of your car but still issue policies for those others, and you know that thieves are targeting your cars because you have decided to not include a simple anti-theft device that those other cars do include, then you are negligent, which means you should bear some of the responsibility for the predictable consequences of your negligence.

Thieves exist. Car makers need to be aware of that and design accordingly. By 2015 every car maker selling in the US except Kia and Hyundai was putting immobilizers in almost all of their new cars. The benefits of immobilizers were well known, with car theft rates declining dramatically in jurisdictions that mandated them.
Gas tax and car registrations cover a fair amount of what you're talking about.
You might appreciate this then https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmV0Xxae18
Author here. My goal in the comparison was only in terms of scope, not that Postgres folks should be penalized for having good documentation. I think Postgres is great and it makes sense to use it when it's called for. But I think it can be overkill for many projects.
Given that human organs can currently only be created inside humans, and not mechanically in factories like iphone components can be, I'm not sure that scenario really tells us anything. I can imagine reading a dystopian scifi novel about it though.

(making organs the human body can use, instead of harvesting them from a donor body is a fascinating area of research! https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/bladder-grown-from-3d-bi...)