skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> background image in settings (but you can do it other ways trivially

Just select a picture file in the Explorer (or a picture in the most browsers), right click, set as desktop wallpaper. Yes, the only thing blocked is the official settings menu.

> watermark that indicates it hasn't been activated yet (someone has probably already figured out how to remove that

Which is quite amusing because it's really easier to install non-home version and use KMS activation than patch (and maintain) the anti-watermark patches.

Still, there is a difference between running an illegal copy and legal and free copy.
This was pretty much inevitable ever since 2016, when they expanded from a few (mostly English-speaking) countries to basically the whole world, with a few exceptions.
So the question is: how do we change it? How do we break out of that? What are the better alternatives?
Well no that's not the answer. There are about 7 people in the world that have the ability to double the amount of cash that exists - in the matter of seconds. Those people rule the money.
I always found it interesting that the Norwegian pension fund, which has $1.47 trillion AUM, paid its CEO approximately $650k in salary. No management fee, no "beat the market" bonuses, just a regular salary.

Now, some will say that he, the CEO, is already independently wealthy (having owned a hedge fund and being worth around $700m) and just took the job for the prestige, but it's been the same with the previous directors - only they weren't loaded.

Others will also argue that, hey, it's just a pension fund - their goal is not to innovate, or beat competitors, they just manage the money in a way that keeps up with the market, and mainly manage risk.

$650k a year is what, VP salary in some no-name hedge fund or private equity firm? Small business CEOs are making more than that.

But some people are taking that job, and doing it just as well as their competitors at fund with 0.01% of the AUM, but at 1%-0.1% of the salary.
ha, simple enough. thx
Yea. Even if not officially approved by the FCC etc, the signals are still being broadcast. So there may be interference, but the signals are there and often receivable.

The problem is really just that while premiums consumer devices support basically all GNSS providers, that's not true of a lot of devices. There is a lot of cheap/old/specialized systems out there that are still GPS only.

In the case of a GPS shutdown, I'm not worried about my iPhone 15. However, what is currently in place and certified for flight in a 30 year old 757? Have they gotten around to generic GNSS support or is it just GPS? I honestly don't know and would rather we didn't have to find out the hard way.
via the state department, they know which emails in outlook for the state dept were compromised by their access patterns.

That's the access patterns of a single application for a single user. They know absolutely nothing about what's happened to their infrastructure.
I have been doing a lot of work with AWS StepFunctions lately, everything from replacing cron jobs to implementing HTMX backends. I think StepFunctions is an interesting case study (I'm not really familiar with other offerings, other than spending some time with the block-based programming like Scratch and MakeCode).

To build solutions I have to use the Amazon States Language, which is a learning curve and being as charitable as I can a royal pain in the ass. Ultimately I end up with a JSON file that is a "giant, flexible config file" for their runtime.

On the plus side, solutions using it are very nearly zero maintenance. No runtime updates, no package updates, no manual scaling, etc.

Another plus, it's zero cost when not in use. No VMs I have to pay for hourly or monthly.

The downsides (for me) are obvious: It's difficult to learn; It's very restrictive, and solutions often end-up needing some aspect of more flexible services like Lambda or Fargate (containers) when end-up adding cost and maintenance; It's proprietary and there is nothing I can use elsewhere (no other company support ASL as far as I know).

Overall, though, I love it. Why? I despise having to choose between unpatched systems and the drudgery of constant patching. With StepFuctions I don't have to choose.
> You definitely should not send your kids to public school; that's crazy.

The private schools, supplementary education and home school resources I know of all operate web sites, including online registration, emails with parents, and so on. The Amish fought this battle in the 1950's and lost badly. The compromise was that Amish kids don't have to go to high school (whether that's private, public, or home-schooling):

https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/social-organization/ed...

> Anyway, as for the rest, you can pay mortgage by check in the US. No software required.

To process the check, my bank has to have an ACH backend. That's a software service. I can't run my own, and it's likely using GPL software.

> You can also file your taxes by paper.

The IRS does not accept cash unless you call them first (requires a phone, which is a service), or pay at a retail partner (likely also requires use of some sort of service or agreement to a ToS. Plus, payments are limited to $1000.): https://web.archive.org/web/20230514105205/https://www.irs.g...

Also, I don't think there's any way to get them to mail you your refund in cash.

How do you suggest downloading and printing IRS forms and reading the directions explaining how to fill them out (and which forms you need) without using their website (and therefore third-party services)?

> As far as connecting to the internet, Stallman somehow manages it, I'm sure you can sort it out.

The last time I checked, he borrowed internet access from universities and strangers. He slept on couches to avoid agreeing to hotel contracts, but I think ultimately ended up compromising his principles by purchasing commercial airline tickets.

Also, I'm not a celebrity, so it would be harder for me to get random people to let me sleep on their couch.
Previous discussion/nostalgia for Byte:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21772529
Ay sailor, I seem to have lost my map, and I can't find your post address. Maybe you can post me with the location of the treasure.
Show HN: Can your GPU run this LLM?
And Binance's CZ.
also check if it's just alphabetically sorted - "a" comes before the other options, and people being lazy just pick that
Well, doing that sort of thing is fraud. You'd have to be OK with that.
I’m not convinced that would be possible. It’s almost by definition: prod is the ultimate testing, and especially in case of such a complex product and massive user base, there is simply no way that a few won’t have issues, no matter how much testing was done by apple.
The age of ReactOS is less relevant than the development velocity; they're chasing a moving target, albeit with the advantage of only needing to implement the features that end users and third-party software actually need.
Microsoft did at least:

> Benefit-eligible U.S. employees are to receive severance, six months of health care and stock vesting, and 60 days of notice, Nadella wrote.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/google-amazon-microsoft-meta...
thanks, yes i saw that link in the video linked in OP. I am absolutely dumbounded swift concurrency and actors don't offer a trivial solution to that problem.
As someone who has worked at big social media companies, I can say the conventional wisdom about content moderation being a carefully planned process is off-base.

The reality is that moderation relies heavily on imperfect machine learning models and overworked human reviewers making rushed judgments on hundreds of cases per day. There's no meticulous strategy document mapping out the pros and cons before banning accounts that upset the company.

Mistakes inevitably happen when relying on this combination of flawed automation and human reviewers who are stretched too thin. The moderation policies may seem arbitrary or politically motivated from the outside, but much of it comes down to hasty human error and buggy algorithms rather than some malicious scheme.
Haven't we be trying since the beginning?
I'd rather five day workweeks but with shorter days, to be honest. I feel I have about 3 hours of peak mental acuity each day that I'd like to spend on my work. It seems like a better time-for-value trade for my employer.

To be fair I work more remotely than not these. If I had to commute in more often I'd almost certainly prefer 4-day workweeks.
Naive question, In 2023 how does DNS-over-HTTP (DoH) affect things like the Cisco Distributed Director / F5 3-DNS where DNS is used to control which datacenters customer traffic is going to? Is this still a technology smaller sites can use?
it wouldn't just disrupt planes, it would crash planes if this were not even planned as a contingency. as a senior operations manager for a global logistics company, I was actually not even aware of this being a possibility until TIL here
cough Ginni Rometty cough

Absolute joke of a CEO. Drove IBM to the ground during her tenure [0], gets $20M [1] for her service. What an absolute disaster to watch.

A quote from [1]:

> Rometty has previously attracted criticism over executive compensation bonuses, espicially amid all the staff layoffs, outsourcing and revenue decline that IBM has experienced over the years.

> Indeed, under her leadership IBM posted over 24 consecutive quarters of revenue decline.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/ibm-was-worst-performing-lar...

[1] https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/ibm-ginni-rometty-20m-33...
You watching the ad is not what gets money to transfer. The person wanting to show an ad pays for someone to show the ad. In theory, the larger number of eyes available to view the ad can demand a higher price for the privilege of showing the ad. The per-click concept of paying for ads is very disingenuous. You provide a monthly budget, and the ad provider will show you charts of how you got exactly that many clicks, regardless of budget.
All the grifters and dilettantes moved on to AI :)
Last years macOS release added support for rosetta within linux vms.
Crime is ok if its top text bottom text? Crime is ok if lots of people join in and crime with you?
The article I took that from discusses the communist answer to that question at length.

https://redsails.org/communist-self-confidence/
Young people are two years behind because schools were unnecessarily closed. That should be a lawsuit right there.
Sad to see it go away, but for starters they could sell the remaining reflector tiles and make some money for other science related uses.
Thats a nice one!!!
> But in the realm of emotion and psychology, I stand by what I said: treats others as they wish to be treated (to the extent possible).

How do you deal with narcissists, who feel entitled to praise and adoration beyond what they can reasonably be entitled? Do you humor them to the extent possible? And if you don't humor narcissists like that, what is your process for determining what is or isn't reasonable? Probably, that process involves you imagining yourself in their shoes and thinking about what you might reasonably feel entitled to in their position, e.g. applying the golden rule.
Tyranny of old
sure, how ?

One actor per queue, then one actor per operation ?
Imagine being in a meeting of like 12 floating torsos, you are position locked, but your boss enabled X-Y position for himself so he floats in front of you to express his concern of how you are not a team player. If I were at meta I would backdoor a sub-routine that increases gaussian blur if the boss gets too close.
Are you sure? I recall that the dish was spherical, not parabolic, and had a movable receiver mounted on cables; moving the receiver adjusts the direction from which signals can be received. Indeed, Wikipedia claims that it was steerable [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
Ask HN: Do you have a framework for coming up with content ideas for your blog?
I want to start a blog, twitter and generally start putting out content on some platform so I can build an audience.

The problem is that I have a hard time coming up with ideas. I have some ideas for blog posts, but they're quite different from each other. And even if I don't take that into account they're really not a lot, like a single digit number.

I don't think I'm not creative, it's just that for me creativity works in a totally misterious way.

I wonder what's been your journey for your blog, twitter, etc. Did you read some book which helped you with that? Or did a lightning strike that made you realize how to get content ideas?

Most importantly I want to develop a framework with which I can come up with ideas consistently so I can produce content in a consistent manner. I'd like to think I'm decent at writing, in fact I actually love it, so that won't be an issue.

Best,
calculated
I did not want to say that they invented or improved nothing, just that a lot of the building blocks already existed. I just looked this up, non-interactive zero-knowledge proof also seem to have a history back to the late 80s, but if cryptocurrencies gave us some improvements and new ideas that made them more practical, fine, I am not going to complain about that.
I think by insisting to view it only as a boolean thing is very limiting. By that measure, are the type safety hints of Python not really giving any type safety? Just give up and go home, as it were? :D

I'm sympathetic to the points, I think. But I also don't have a problem with someone pushing for some type safety as long as you avoid actively trying to go against it.
They would have to rent for longer than that, per the SLA:

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSVentura.pdf

> 3. Leasing for Permitted Developer Services.

(ii) each lease period must be for a minimum period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours;

It also depends on whether auto-signing qualifies as a Permitted Developer Service, which sounds like it might-

> (B) Permitted Developer Services means continuous integration services, including but not limited to software development, building software from source, automated testing during software development, and running necessary developer tools to support such activities.
I was expecting this to validate the configuration files are also valid for their use cases, not just valid JSON, TOML, etc.

If you're looking for that and Python is your jam, the library cerberus[0] is very good at it.

[0]: https://github.com/pyeve/cerberus
Yep, when you need people to start taking action to stop the world from literally burning then it's important to publicize that it's happening and people are likely to get scared
Do you not see the irony of the outrage here being precisely against one the social media outlets that generates attention-grabbing outrage culture?
An easy way to get that is when you use a third-party library, update that to get some new feature, and get a new enum value for free, say because the html parser library started supporting a new node type or added a new error type (the latter will be rare in go because of its lack of sum types).

Ideally, of course, the release notes of the library would spell out the issue, and you’d read them, but even then, making sure you fix this everywhere is way easier if the compiler refuses to compile your code if it doesn’t handle the new case.
Nobody can talk about their life and experience without a supporting meta-analysis of a hundred studies
Well, at least we have common ground in our opposition to right-wing politics and the behaviour of its acolytes.

I urge you to read, with an open mind, what gender-critical and radical feminist women have to say, both on this issue and more broadly.

It is my hope that you find these female-centred perspectives to be more enlightening than what either of the male-dominated progressive or conservative political blocs exclaim.
No, not at all.

I believe your error stems from looking at my comment regarding what implications it would have on your position. Those assumed implications are however erroneous.

I am telling you initial cause blame attribution is open ended and thus dangerous. Thats why it cant be used. Because there is some stuff that cant be justified. If you go down the path of Russia is to blame not because they did it, but because they started it, you are writing a blank check for anything that happens afterwards.

This statement says nothing about removing any blame from Russia, its just the statement that some stuff is unjustifiable. Which is why those lines of reasoning are not a good idea.

As i pointed out in another post, it also shifts the narrative from Russia blew up a dam to Ukraine would have been allowed to do that. Thats cognitive warfare, straight out of GRUs active measures. Which is also why my other post wasnt concern trolling. They are actively doing that and attention needs to be paid unless you want GRU dictating how you think about Ukraine.
I don't think that working with proprietary piece of code which is not even allowed to be used for anything but proprietary virtualization.framework is very interesting for those who can pull that kind of implementation.

Theoretically: why not? Kernel is not something drastically different from userspace. Sure, some rules are different, but I don't think that it's completely impossible to adapt Rosetta to the kernel.

But practically: I doubt it. qemu is not supporting even ordinary Rosetta, last time I checked, despite that fact that it should be pretty trivial to implement.
"If you’re in the Silicon Valley area and want to chat in person, email me at redblobgames@gmail.com. "
It needs energy to be expended continuously in mining it, if it uses PoW. So it might end one day.
When I watched Goldfinger as a kid I really did not understand the plot at all. It was only when I was a bit older and heard about some of these things did it actually make sense.
And yet, we can't have side loaded apps because somehow that would make the App Store worse. Phooey!
Because I'm not arguing in that discussion: I would support ads that inform without manipulating. But since they statistically don't exist, pointing to them in an argument about real ads is just a motte-and-bailey.
Clickhouse + Custom Reranker
The Greeks. They're the first known group to explicitly represent vowels, unlike the older Egyptian derived systems which only represented consonants and thus were abjads rather than alphabets.
I feel like I comprehend, I just disagree. It's fine to be an absolutist about these sorts of things but I have to put dinner on the table and my customers run the kit they run and I don't get to declare if it's "free enough" for me to interface with.
This video brings back lots of nostalgia. I had the chance to tour the shipping facility in Fremont, and see all those machines in action. It was amazing how many disks they could process, and how much innovation was there.

They had machines that could verify the checksum of the disk in three seconds by reading the entire thing with multiple laser heads. They had machines that would OCR the sleeve and mark it for replacement if it was too dirty.

They had printers that could print the entire address on the envelope in about 300ms using multiple offset print heads, so that the sorters could run at full speed.

I wonder what will happen to all those machines. I know that sometimes they allowed bulk mailers to rent the envelope printers/sorters in the afternoons, I wonder if they'll just sell those to bulk mailers.
I take it all Functors are runnable if you see (1) map as generalised function application and (2) functors as lifted map.

The concepts, at the level of abstraction i just use there, are confusing. Thinking this abstractly about programs actively impairs programming in many cases.

This level of 'unification of syntax via abstraction' is relevant only really to language designers.
There are a couple of german words which made it into mainstream english like angst, zeitgeist, abseil. Based on your comment I would suggest a new one: brandrede. Look it up, afaik there is no english equivalent.
I've been predicting the return of blockbuster for a couple of years for this very reason
No, thank YOU. This is an awesome resource for learning game algorithms, and it's a lot of fun to just play around with the interactive explanations.

Definitely one of the best websites I know. Cheers!
Did it use Star Lisp as well?
Really, mysql is much less work.

I haven't used psql in a while, but there are lots of little things with psql that are aggravating...like case sensitivity/insensitivity and the fact that you need to actually manage it. The whole idea of vacuuming irritates me.
I don't know how to pull it off, but somehow we've got to figure out a way to correct the system that only awards power after decades in office. About the time that members of Congress should be retiring is when they gain actual committee leadership and seniority, and thus the incentives are for a gerontocracy. It also means that those who understand the system are incentivized to vote for and keep incumbents who otherwise may not be the best candidate choice. I wish RGB and Feinstein (and plenty of others still in power) would have had the courage to step aside gracefully, but the incentives for them to stay are just too perverse and stretch far beyond them as individuals.
Usually. But only if they offer you an intetest rate dramatically above the short-term rate on the corresponding govt bill/bond - e.g USD 2yr.
One really interesting question there, how much of the work is really don't by the elected official?

If a lot of the "real" work is done by the staffers, career government workers, etc then the politician really is the public face and occasionally redirecting the ship. I'd say there is less risk there and more to gain from fresh faces and opinions in that spot, again if that's how the workload shakes out behind the scenes
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/get-windows-10-free-or-...

https://www.kinguin.net/category/67756/windows-10-profession...

Kinguin is one of the largest key reseller portals. It's a legal business. The catch is that some keys don't work and some of the sellers are unreliable. It's not illegal to sell Windows keys however, so Microsoft has been unable to shut down the reseller market (if they could they would, and they certainly have the financial & legal muscle to stop a site like Kinguin instantly if it were illegal).

The Tom's Hardware link covers some of that ground. And note that if you buy a key from one of Kinguin's resellers, make sure you buy the online activation version of Windows (otherwise you'll end up on the phone with Microsoft and they'll have to assist you in activation, which they may or may not be inclined to do).
The intentional nature of the disaster is not an established and proven fact. It suits Ukrainian narrative of painting everything that Russia does as yet another heinous genocidal act, but at least in some cases (including this one) negligence is also a plausible explanation (i.e. it could happen because of not paying enough attention to maintenance and stocking ammunition where it should not be) [1]. This of course does not remove responsibility from Russia: even if in a very unlikely scenario it was sabotaged by Ukraine as Russia claims, it would not happen if Russia has not invaded Ukraine. Still it is important to have an objective view on the events to make sure that real crimes get enough attention from the public and that proper investigation of the events is done.
That said, given that we do not have yet a better understanding of what has happened, the headline is accurate enough and complaints about it look like pro-Ukrainian propaganda rather than an attempt to share the truth.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230608002006/https://www.nytim...