skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm doing some trash dump diving in a swiss university where I'm studying at and got some nice stuff. For example, now I own a small collection of more than 15 photomultiplier tubes. Some nice (frequently in fully working condition) test equipment like a HP modulation domain analyzer (53310A) and some NI DAQ cards also appears seldomly. The 53310A survived like a miracle. Its front panel was buried beneath a CTI compressor that weighs more than 40kg, but it only suffered from minor damage of the case. The CRT is intact!

However I'm not entirely sure if this is legal and will not bring me trouble. Does these stuff still count as university property even if carelessly dumped into the SBB buckets in the recycling center (usually fenced and locked, but can be opened with student cards)?
Honestly, $1K/h is a rounding error compared to how much they will lose otherwise. It's that instance where the ad should say "money is no object, we want the best, name your price".
I would be interested in how good "looks like a cat to me" would be. It's trivial to generate 100,000 SSH keys and automatically select the most visually similar one. But would you notice the mismatch.
It's pretty hard to find a name that isn't already _something else_. Not impossible, but hard. Your tome.app at least isn't an editor, so...
It’s kind of amazing that 500 watts could blanket most of the USA.
Called in for support huh? Sorry if there were any hurt feelings.
Strong disagree. On many instruments there is a strong memory association between the place of the note on the staff and the physical movement to play that note, Wether it be a fingering, valve combination or lip tension or whatever.
I don’t know about the method of application, but the restaurant industry, in particular, has almost always operated on hiring bodies that actually walk in the door versus applications from someone online. Especially true for entry-level stuff in my experience (10 years in the service industry).
the argument is not that they are useless, but that they are a dead end
This framework might seem nice and organized but glosses over the extreme complexity and messiness in the "recipes" layer.

I work on a very large product that has 100+ product teams using my core team's design system. The number of "recipes" that are created is enormous. The number of duplicate recipes that are created is enormous (teams creating the same combination of components over and over and over). The number of recipes shared between product teams is enormous. It's a massive, chaotic web of componentry.

There's no way to control the chaos. And you wouldn't want to - that would stifle product team independence, creativity, and speed. The only thing you can do is try to have the right system and incentives in place to nudge people in the right direction to improve the overall health of the ecosystem. Oh and you also need to figure out how to measure the health of this ecosystem...

I was hoping this post would have a cute framework for that, but it doesn't.
i never implied communism is the answer. the world is not black and white.
In most of America, that's not feasible whatsoever.
I'm fortunate that worrying about 25 minute builds just doesn't matter. The long pole on all builds is still the code review that goes with it, such that I just don't care about getting that time too low here.

That is, I am assuming that a CI build is not on the immediate dev loop, such that the person pushing it doesn't have to wait for the build before they prepare a review on it.
Whitehouse.gov: Building Digital Experiences for the American People
I always assumed racket was built on twobit/larceny.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larceny_(Scheme_implementati...
You act like there wasn’t a full decade and more of history where 3rd party repair existed en masse for electronics and the situation that he’s describing was exactly the result.

There’s no scam here. Most of us find the official repair stuff to be a feature, not a crutch.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/M-23-2...
I’m trying to help this guy not hit a wall after six months.
This is simply a non-starter. I have not witnessed a single work environment where long-term remote workers don’t effectively become second-class citizens against in-person workers on the same team, in a way that materially harms productivity.
They also refuse to update their privacy policy, which lies when they say that signal is designed to "never collect and store any sensitive information". They're collecting and forever storing a list of all your contacts in the cloud, along with your name, phone number, and photo.

Considering too their very sketchy communication about that data collection and the confusion it's caused, I suspect that lie to be a canary warning people away from Signal.

If it isn't, and they're just misleading people about the risks of using their service while also advertising it to vulnerable people like activists and whistleblowers, I guess they failed to live up to my "high standard" of having ethics. In either case, all I can do is recommend that people stay the hell away from Signal.

If you want a Mozilla of secure messaging, try Jitsi or Jami
> You don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons.

Hostile othering of populations doesn't stop interbreeding among anatomically modern human subpopulations, so I doubt it would between other interfertile parts of the human family.
I'm using brave search and digging it. I _really_ love the goggles feature. They have popular ones such as "Hacker News 1k short". Really makes the old web come alive. Also a fan of the "lk short" one.

https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover?goggles_id=https%3...
i didn't buy it. I got it as a hand me down.
That isn't a natural monopoly, that is the quality of the service increasing with market share. The cost of competitors entering the market could be anything (it could easily be quite small, there are a lot of search engines, many small 1-man projects). The issue here is the quality of the product scales with market share.

With a natural monopoly, if you built 2 of them in defiance of the economics of the situation they'd have similar quality of service to the single operator.
It's interesting that this is all on the "term limits in the US page" and not the general "term limits" page
Electronic Tiny TRS-80 Model III
You seem to imply that novel things are not statistically highly probable as a chain of thought in a specific context. That's a significant claim and I'm not sure we'd all agree on.
What is an ancestral right?
I don’t live in America. How cold the world is that you lot resign yourselves to the expectation that you’ll resent your coworkers and employer.
And is faster than SBCL.
TLDR: Amazon prime video is introducing ads. Ad free will be $2.99 extra per month.
‘More optimal' is oxymoronic; ‘better’ is just that.
I can’t stop you from continuing to engage combatively, but I’ll ask you to kindly stop doing so with me. Thanks.
You don’t even get the two day anymore, it’s basically worthless for shipping anymore.
they missed a decimal point. Average US household consumption over a year is approx 1.25KW.
Thanks! I wouldn't have found that myself. I'll keep an eye on that ticket.
Mods, I suggest a title change to something like, “Ads coming to Prime Video”
This is false, interacting with public APIs that are not under your control is allowed under AGPL3, the only thing you may have to do is release any code you may add to connect with those APIs. Source https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/8201/if-i-use...
I’m glad that the nerd porn exists because I do care about sustainability but operating on Apple’s scale means those devices are a fantasy for the majority of people. Apple’s approach seems more sustainable considering how many claims they can continue to make. Maybe it’s all marketing but I can’t find anyone that invalidates their claims without mischaracterizing them (as this article does a ton).
SQLite appeals to the hacker because it is simple on the surface, complex beneath the surface, easy-to-use, and does its job well. however, replacing a traditional MySQL or PostgreSQL database with it, takes a bit of work, because it's not a drop-in replacement. so you see this push and pull between people of different strata advocating for SQLite, disparaging it in favor of PostreSQL, and some who try to engineer stuff around SQLite to make it a better fit for traditionally PostgreSQL-type situations.

if you've never tried SQLite on your own and you're comfortable with C, I'd recommend giving it a try, it's pretty dang cool.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611191 (231 comments)
Ads completely detract from the user experience watching movies. Amazon should know this.
> However, there is also controversy over whether 1 is a number.

What?
I loved Newsvine. It seemed so innovative and inviting.
The Vue ecosystem is incredible, and I still haven't even tried Vue itself. First I got hooked by Vitest, which solved every problem I had with Jest. Then I made a new project with Vite, which solved all the problems I had with my toolchain. And I've yet to use Vuepress, but I look longingly at it every time I cringe about my home-rolled docs sites. The quality of all these tools, combined with my exasperation at the React ecosystem (and my opinion it's jumped the shark with RSC) convinced me to build my next frontend project with Vue.

What's interesting about Vite is that it's mostly a wrapper around a bunch of other tools, but it adds some intangible secret sauce to the developer experience that makes it enjoyable to use and configure. You don't need to think about ESBuild or Rollup; just focus on vite.config.ts, which (like the rest of the Vue ecosystem) follows a philosophy of instantiating a config object with a pluggable interface. This makes it easy and maintainable to add complexity, and also encourages people to contribute back to the ecosystem by shipping third-party plugins that do one thing well.

Another cultural trait of the Vue/Vite ecosystem is an emphasis on performance, and a willingness to accept complex PRs that shave off milliseconds of build time, as long as the changes don't compromise developer experience.

The best thing I can say about this software is that "it just works." And that's one of the hardest traits to foster in software developed by an increasingly disparate community of developers. I don't know how much of this is attributable to Evan You himself, but it certainly seems like much of it has been an outgrowth of his philosophy. Kudos to him and the developers that work on this software. Now, time to watch the interview...
I stopped using prime probably five years ago precisely because it became a bunch of stuff I didn't want and the shipping options got eroded. Most stuff seemed to be "add on" or "not available for prime" and without prime you get free shipping if you order enough anyway. I value the other stuff at zero.

Amazon has become garbage anyway, I buy stuff at retail stores now. What all this really means is that the "disruption" from free money is over and new economy businesses are resorting to the same legacy business crap in order to try and make money.
I've been really surprised lately how often I go to a product page, see "Prime 2-day shipping, fulfilled by Amazon" and when I order it often takes ~5 days to get my order. Definitely picking the shipped/sold by Amazon listings too, not third party marketplace ones. I'm in the Bay Area, so not a remote area either. Also if I check the tracking, it's not that it gets stuck in the Bay, like if it's just a busy week of deliveries and they couldn't move mine; the order will get stuck in some random state in the country and not move, or sometimes it ends up in some other hub like in Florida or something despite starting in the Midwest. Or it just takes 3-4 days to ship from the warehouse.

I wonder if some products just don't get marked as backordered and so it's a matter of Amazon needing to wait for stock to come in. Or they're just not guaranteeing 2-day delivery anymore.
I wish they had an option for me to always exclude certain sites from the resulrs
It's just Bing reskinned. With some other sources for the instant answers.
"There is no such thing as too much horsepower...just not enough traction" ~ Carroll Shelby
Backups? Do you want to share your idea about how you'd do backups? Especially to a distributed database?

Here are some of the questions you'll have to answer and some options you will have to consider before you go there:

Let's start with the heavy stuff: consistency groups. I.e. groups of bulk storage that underlines your entire infrastructure that ensure that your application and database(s) all recover to the shared state once they crash. To better explain this concept, consider this: you have an application that works with two databases, let's say a document database to store documents uploaded by users (which are later parsed by the application and transformed into records in a relational database). Now, each database provides best consistency guarantees... but they still can fail independently and subsequently recover to different state, where, for example, the document database can be ahead of the relational one (and lose some data). Similar problems face sharded databases.

How geographically far are you going to send your backups? You see, the closer to the working server they are, the higher is the chance you'll lose them together. But, here's the problem: the further away the backups are, the lower is your ability to keep the backup up-to-date with the database, and, subsequently, more data to lose.

Well, backups inherently lose data (for the time between the last backup and the time of the crash). So, if you don't want to lose data at all, you probably want replication rather than backups. And you probably want online replication (but then the distance between the replicas is even more important than in the case with backups).

Also, backups are huge. If you want to ship them outside of the facilities of the storage vendor... that's going to be expensive.

Another point to consider: databases provide consistency guarantees, but does your database provide consistency guarantees you want? Is every relation encoded by using foreign keys, or does the application have some knowledge of how to interpret pieces of data and stitch them together into relationships unknown to your database? Are you sure that every operation that requires atomicity is implemented in a database rather than application (which doesn't enforce atomicity)? What if you stick a backup (recovery point) in a precise moment when your application was doing something that was meant to be atomic, but the application author didn't know how to express in SQL (because in their fear of technology they chose to use Hybernate or SQLAlchemy etc.)? And if you do so, it spoils your backup...
It has a free tier.
You mean you don't have faith in elons cyber truck
If you actually run it at that power constantly it's not going to last long though. It's peak power. You're not going to drag race your car, most of the time it's just cruising.

This is a big difference to (piston) airplane engines because those are designed to give near 100% a lot of the time.
In nearly every case this has been claimed, it’s a part that has some security functionality or a part like a display or battery that requires some kind of calibration. Maybe they should put more effort into making that calibration easier but I don’t think anyone that currently uses their devices would trade that if it means the quality of the calibration or the security of the device goes down.
What're You Lookin' At, ChatGPT?
I wrote this post, intended for more of a lay audience, about how ChatGPT learned to do what it does, and how easy it is to write terrible prompts. Thought y'all might enjoy it, or know other folks that could benefit from it.

(I do take a swipe at the "compressed prompt" nonsense out there, if that's your thing)
The scope in the article actually does measurements. That's what the junk in the "SETUP" block of switches on the far upper right of the control panel is for. It can readout time, frequency, and phase. These were the ultimate analog scopes, and they have surprisingly advanced features.
A well made video can be far better than a blog post.
Windows 98 SE was the peak of the Win16/32 kernel versions.
One of the major pain points with FIPS is how long it takes to get through the backlog to start being evaluated and validated. Lots of sitting around for a year+ twiddling fingers waiting for them to get back to you. Once they're looking at your stuff, it's a nice and fast, comprehensive and positive experience, as I understand it.
I, too, had the G1 from about the time it came out. It was a pretty cool phone.

For me, my all-time favorite was the Danger Hiptop II/SideKick II. No phone since then has ever been so much fun.
That's #8.

> 8. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events.

Pirahã are an example, they change their names at whim and everyone else accepts this.
For yourself? Of course. For a hospital or anyone that would realistically be buying that for use? Absolutely not.
Because essentially you’re paying for the free users as well.
Was interested in the concept because weirdly i'm an ok average+ piano player but just suck at sheet reading.
Just downloaded it on my M2 mac.
It doesn't work?
Clicking on a track just show a picture of the track.
Clicking on a composer just show a picture of the composer.
Clicking on View All just show a page with View All written in the middle.
Any instrument in an ISO 9001 production line will need calibration.
That's insane. And it's indicative of the Apple approach to computing: do things exactly the way Apple wants and you'll have a brilliant time. (This is my approach when it comes to providing tech support for family. I steer them towards being model Apple citizens and they get great outcomes.)
> Drag scales with the square of the velocity

Drag force scales with the square of velocity. Drag power (rate of work or rate of energy consumption) scales with the cube of velocity.
"It's time to stop looking backwards, and start figuring out how to move forwards together as one."

This is a much easier perspective to have if you are raised in a society that predominantly thinks of indigenous people as extinct and a thing of the past.
It is a much harder perspective to have if you live with the understanding that these issues dont originate in the past but in the modern consequences of historical events.

I too would like a world in which we dont really need to worry about how indigenous peoples are treated. Unfortunately we live in a world where the dominant power structure is all too willing to trample over indigenous rights while certain parts of society appear in droves to defend said trampling.

This may also not be the context of whats being discussed in the article but we are touching on the broader topic of indigenous rights and sovereignty.
Quotes is different than verbatim mode. Compare:

[verbatim mode] https://www.google.com/search?q=unexpected+newline+in+compos...

[quotes] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unexpected+newline+in+com...

The top two results are the same, but besides that verbatim mode seems way better to me.
> 2) a large, open community moderated to a high standard of civility.

I tried quite a few sites when the reddit issues surfaced a few months ago.

tildes.net easily passes the civility test. Great place for respectful discussion, with the userbase protecting this aspect of the site (much like HN users).
Related discussion about a blog post about this article (posted a few minutes later) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37617863 (34 points | 2 hours ago | 57 comments)
America’s states are trying to set rules for the internet
I don't mind the free Twitch subscription once a month. But yeah, I think there's a world where every large company doesn't have to be in every area of business, and in that world, Amazon doesn't need to be making TV shows. I'm not even sure what benefits Amazon derives from AWS and Amazon.com being the same company anymore.

I used to be a huge fan of vertical integration, but like it less and less as I get older. What I've seen with vertical integration is that if one part of the company blows up, then all the other parts go away too. Meanwhile, a good standard lasts forever. I have used seemingly millions of proprietary chat apps over the years, but the one that has kept working for decades is plain old email. It always works. The PSTN is also great. I can call anyone in the world, no matter what service provider I have or what service provider they have. You just type the numbers and it works. Sure, there's spam. I think I can deal with the spam better than "sorry, we need to cut costs this quarter so X is gone".

Something else I was thinking about is the advantage for the company itself. Imagine you're a software engineer on AWS, but really want to work on Twitch. Easy, it's just an internal transfer! You show up at a new desk tomorrow with the same compensation and benefits as you had before. But if they were separate companies, you'd interview with Twitch, they'd call back and say "we loved you, when can you start" and then you get the chance to negotiate a higher salary. With internal transfers, you get "that's impossible, there is nothing we can do if you want more". Good for the shareholders, bad for software engineers.
So I asked my friend who knows things about marine microbiology and she was actually pretty optimistic about free floating chemoautotrophs as the base of a food web. You just need enough chemicals dissolved in the water (which I guess is how they grow them in the lab). Some other ideas we discussed were bacteria growing on suspended particles and as endosymbiotes in larger animals like the aforementioned tube worms. So yeah, leviathans are on the table.
I feel this pain. So much that now, when I need to set up new GitHub actions pipeline, I always create a new branch to push there until it's working. And then squash merge as a single commit.
Then use Java without agreeing to an Oracle EULA. You can get a GPLv2 open source build from https://jdk.java.net/21/

If you don't trust the Oracle based open source builds then just wait a bit for Microsoft, Redhat, and others to release their version 21 OpenJDK builds that will be found under https://adoptium.net/marketplace/
Perhaps you've never cycled up a hill.
Yeah but they're basically always derated.
Feel free to vote yourself off the island or, perhaps, simply choose not to engage in topics that you don't care about.
I think I'm closer to the target audience as I usually learn either by "ear" or by watching someone play the song. Actually, what I prefer is looking/finding the chords first, and then I fill up the melody and everything in-between. So, an app like this is very helpful. My only feedback is I find the UI piano at the bottom of the screen hard to read without black keys
They definitely can and do scrape Signal logs and use them in court. The protocol doesn’t help them prove the validity of the log, but they don’t need it to: it’s already not plausible to claim that you and your contact falsified your logs, something few people know how to do, in sync, in order to frame yourselves. I think Signal’s approach to deniability is just not making it even more hopeless, while the real protection against future compromise of a currently trusted contact or your own device lies in a different strategy that does work, ephemerality.
I never ran postgres in prod in k8s, but i used cloudnative-pg for some light, non-critical loads, dev/stg stuff. It works and it's fast, recovery just works (unlike zalando, which refuses to operate with anything but AWS s3). I also reported few minor bugs to cnpg team and they fixed them in no time.