skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The articles thesis seems to be this:

> So why is it so bad now that games earned $10,000 when 30 years ago it was the norm? Because now there is a slim chance to become super rich because of the indie-utopia.

Which is an utter misdiagnosis of the problem. $10k 30 years ago was a decent chunk of an annual salary which included amenities like living indoors. $10k now is, in the bay area, 1 month's salary if you wish to live indoors.
Not really. They do it all the time.

Legislator votes for the right bills and her niece gets a cushy job somewhere in exchange. You can't prove anything wrong happened.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it. - George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
Sash and tassel Gwion Gwion rock paintings are ~ 12,000 years old and pretty detailed for "shadow drawings" *.

They're more than just stick figures, they detail ceremonial costumes quite well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings

* Dating the spectrum of paintings is broad.

Experimental OSL dates from a wasp nest overlaying a tassel Gwion Gwion figure has given a Pleistocene date of 17,500 ± 1,800 years BP. The academic community generally accepts 5,000 BP for the end of the artistic style. If the date ranges are correct, this may demonstrate that the Gwion Gwion tradition was produced for many millennia.
if the guy has had the account for 20 years without being banned then he's probably not a bot

its a data harvesting exercise
Great write up! At PeerDB, we’ve been using refinery https://github.com/rust-db/refinery to handle database migrations of our catalog Postgres database from Rust. It is easy, typesafe and gets the job done. Thought this would be useful for users building apps with Rust!
My electric vehicle insurance is free; it's included with my renters' insurance.

https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/hybrid-bikes/electr...
I have to imagine the availability of replacement parts and skilled mechanics are contributing factors.
Nothing. I only use safari to access LinkedIn via iOS and Mac OS.
Their car. For $14.20 a month.
You can also self-host Office: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeonlineserver/office-...

The protocol that connects the office suite to the file sharing platform is called WOPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Open_Platform_...). OneDrive/Dropbox/Nextcloud all seem to support it.

Seems like Collabora and OnlyOffice are the two big players right now.
I'm adding "hot nuclear garbage" to my maledictionary and will use it proudly (with attribution.)

I had an account in 2013 for about a month. I was old back then and quickly got sick of entry level jobs in unrelated fields "recommended" to me along with the gagworthy "Boosters-Pep!" corporate religion articles.
Right? Dude, please provide some additional context around your web browser stack because something you’re using is triggering their system. That or you’re click house neighbours are using your wifi.
All USB C MacBooks have always been able to be charged via USV C or MagSafe for the ones that come with it.

Was this the best you could do - worse performance, loud, poor battery life, poor display, poor audio?

The very first review I found

https://www.theverge.com/23674395/dell-xps-13-2022-intel-rev...

I’ll do the bottom line up front

In the past, the XPS 13 was a hands-down contender for the best laptop on the market. But the Apple-silicon MacBook has since barrelled onto the scene, and it wipes the floor with most of the ultraportable Windows laptops that cross my desk on a daily basis. This XPS is no exception. Compared to the M2 MacBook Air, battery life is worse. Benchmark performance is worse. Screen, while good, is worse. Port selection is worse.

And the rest.

So anyway, I’ve been using the regular XPS 13 for the past few weeks. And, like, it’s fine. It’s just fine. It’s worse than its 2020 predecessor in some ways and better in others. It continues to bring some of the best build quality in the 13-inch space. The display is fine. The speakers are fine. There’s an off-purple color option! It’s certainly one of the best Windows laptops you can buy, and it also doesn’t come close to the performance or efficiency that today’s MacBooks can provide, which says a thing or two about the current state of the Windows laptop space.

And the resolution is worse

Specifically, you’re limited to a 1920 x 1200 60Hz IPS panel

A similarly configured M2 MacBook Air is currently selling for $1,699, which makes Dell’s pricing attractive — though the performance benefits Apple delivers for that extra price aren’t insignificant, as we’ll soon discuss.

One thing to note about the XPS 13, though — the fans get going very easily. They were audible with a couple Chrome tabs and Slack open

Speaking of things that have improved: battery life. I averaged six hours and 42 minutes of consistent use around
just coming back a few later to say thanks, you tha real mvp.
Sorry for being a pessimist but it's easy for us old farts to have a limited perspective and think that if we just present a young person with a system similar to what we had they will figure it out.

The problem with that perspective is that we didn't have anything else. A c64 was literally all I had. It was either that, or go out and play in nature.

So we had a much greater incentive to figure things out.
So would I. An identify/human verification API provided by USPS would be awesome.
My music involves a lot of time sig changes. When I export REAPER project to midi and consume in Python, there are bugs such as note duration being wrong exactly where there is a time sig change.
GV numbers commonly don’t work. Somehow they are identified as a sort of virtual (VIOP) number.
So how does OnlyOffice's Excel replacement compare?
This isn't hard.

1) Either your identity is blocked or your identity must be validated when it comes up on the phone.

Problem solved.

Phone companies know when they are selling to scammers and spammers. Hold them liable for fraud when companies are making misrepresentations.

2) "Identity theft" should be a verboten term and it should be called "financial fraud" and the banks that enable it held liable

Holding the banks liable for financial scams would cause the banks to identify things properly and spend the appropriate amount of money to stop them.
Demanding a phone number will not help stop the fraud.

HR execs advertising for nonexistent positions have drawers full of burner phones.

I wish fraudulent job advertisements were prosecuted as felonies. The value is typically in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but there are no prosecutions.
America’s new print-only newspaper reinvents the art of reading slowly
Also it could be body biome related.
Nothing too major except I'm about 99% sure \after is buggy. I love LilyPond enough that I'll soon file a bug report. It's possible I'm missing something but I have ample evidence that \after in certain contexts mess up stuff.
The Dreamtime
I learned file systems by pirating games and having to find the cracked folder. Html from neopets. Port forwarding router stuff from hosting multiplayer games. Hotkeys from Starcraft. Etc etc. Give smart kids a fun goal and they will learn a surprising amount trying to achieve it.
I feel like making a rule for myself. Don't take anyone seriously who isn't in a position to get called on his own BS. Because you can usually find someone else who isn't a POS or an attention whore to argue a point.

So you don't need to listen to Musk on immigration, Thiel on the NHS, Chomsky about colonialism and US foreign policy.
>PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step

No, it's a lossy encoding step. Losing at least some of the information of a performance when you record it is unavoidable. For PCM to be a lossless, when you play it back it would have to transport you back in time to when the performance was recorded and you should be able to touch the performer. You're being silly.
this framing, in making no reference to the thermodynamics of transportation, or of the human economy in general, mistakes mythology for reality

pursuit of convenience and immediate utility with scarcely a thought for consequences propels us toward hard physical limits at speed
VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
> My own business is on the back burner. And who knows, I may not return to it any time soon. If ever. In this emerging season of life, I’m all-in on Foster. It’s work that brings me alive, and I’m doing it alongside a handful of my closest internet homies.

This reminds me of a philosophy a good friend of mine shared with me years ago; die broke.

When he first said this to me, my reaction was "that won't be too hard to do." But then my friend shared with me that it was not a trite phrase, but instead a unique (to me) way to think about one's career.

It turns out there is a book[0] dedicated to this topic and better still a four page synopsis is available[1].

What I would add to counterbalance the possible nihilistic flavour of the synopsis is to intersperse doing the things one wants to do between the gigs which pay for them. Much like using and then recharging batteries.

0 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45511.Die_Broke

1 - http://cbduncan.duncanheights.com/Books/DieBroke.pdf
Taking the bus is inconvenient, especially in Los Angeles. We do not have a great public transit system. However, it is far cheaper than car insurance. One bus ride is $1.75 these days, which is quite a bit--but it also includes transfers up to at least an hour after you get on. I usually get a ride to work, and I take the bus home daily, except on the rare occasion I manage to get a ride home with someone at work.
*I pay $0 in car insurance, gas, maintenance*. I pay $1.75 for the bus on most days, while others might have to pay $3.5/day; A day pass is $5 if you need to make a third trip during the day, or go backwards for shopping (taking the same line in the opposite direction doesn't count for a transfer)
Come on, let's get real. Sure, perhaps this can happen in limited individual instances, but the idea that a major rationale for execs pushing RTO is that they're feeling pressure from investors in their VC firms to spend more money to keep the commercial real estate market afloat is just plain silly. Even if I believed it all, it's not a conspiracy theory that even makes sense because the incentives it proposes are just dumb - business execs may care about a lot of things and may have to do a lot of juggling, but worrying about the other investments of their VC's investors is not exactly high on the list. It's like my favorite meme of "Anyone who believes in conspiracy theories has never been a project manager."

The RTO/WFH debate can be so infuriating because there is so much dishonesty on both sides. Yes, WFH has huge benefits in terms of flexibility, reduced commuting, better supporting those with disabilities, etc., but it also has downsides in terms of less in-person motivation/support, loss of in-person mentorship for younger/newer employees, worries about building knowledge networks, loss of serendipitous interactions, and more difficulty managing performance for remote workers. Simultaneously, while I can understand the corporate desire for RTO, the reality of the work world has changed, so I see these stories of these execs pushing for RTO, then everyone gets to the office and is on Zoom 80% of the time because their colleagues are spread all over the place.

Just wish there could be more of an honest debate about the pros/cons of BOTH WFH and RTO, and to see how some/either/combo may work better for different employees/companies, without resorting to silliness like "business execs are feeling a ton of pressure to save the corp real estate market".
> instead of having a closed system with full recirculation of water.

The water would need to be cooled before reuse, which could look like a car radiator and fan. It's about cost, and new water is likely cheaper when dumping heat from the fixed location of the data center.
I don't think this addresses the comment you're replying to. Sure evaporative is more effective, I don't see an argument against that, but I think the point of GP is that fully enclosed (like a dry cooling tower) is possible and we can be critical of these companies for not doing the arguably more responsible/moral thing.
Joplin is great, but AGPL is poison
Aliasing is also icky if you go from 44.1kHz to 8kHz (for phone systems), a 48kHz source would be better for that.

But 44.1kHz worked better in the lead up to CDs (works for modulating onto video tape in PAL and monochrome NTSC), so it won until DVD audio brought 48kHz to the masses.
Why is Little Snitch Network showing me in the middle of the Ocean
One would think LK-99 should have been enough to prevent yet another completely unfounded claim of superconductivity, but apparently not.
One, the Bolt and Volt are different cars.

Two, that article is old news as it was a short lived decision that GM reversed https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190569344/chevy-bolt-electri...
Note "pyrolysis" and "gasification" processes like this are the fast breeder reactor of non-nuclear energy. There are plenty of reports from the 1970s that pyrolysis could be a cheap way to create cheap electricity from "clean coal" or biomass or even create fuels.

There are numerous variations such as attempting to convert municipal waste to hydrogen-CO "syngas" with a plasma torch or attempting to cook plastic down to a toxic and carcinogenic mess of aromatic compounds that can be used as diesel fuel but the scenario is usually: (1) environmentalists tried to stop the project because of the toxics produced, (2) environmentalists fail to stop the project, they (3) build the machine, but (4) can't really get the machine to work and shut it down not long after it is put into operation.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification_commercial...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/02/clean-co...

It would be nice to see something succeed in this space but boy am I skeptical. Boosters make the point that it was a proven technology back in the 1910s, but a big coal gas factory they built in my hometown (Manchester, NH) became a big superfund site that is a huge gash in the area between the downtown and the river that I don't believe is fully remediated to this day.

Probably the most successful facility of this sort is

https://www.dakotagas.com/

but that project was really too big to fail and it took them about 25 years to get the bugs out and it get it financially sustainable after it went bankrupt. That project also has a big strip mine across the street that gives it quality feedstock that lets them run the process consistently. Throw in random plastic from municipal waste that will never be the same twice and getting production of any kind of product will be a struggle, never mind production of quality products.

The SASOL corporation of South Africa has long been using technology of this sort to make gasoline from coal when they were under embargo, it is proposed that they'll export the technology whenever oil prices spike, but they always seem to forgot what happened last time. SASOL was the worst performing major stock in the world in 2020.
Yes, whilst including full operational costs (e.g., dealing with waste).

There was a recent posting here about a company in this space using pyrolysis to break down the inputs but had serious issues in emissions from the plant.
> "They're giving all the good water to ChatGPT," wrote one Redditor.

Where "Critics" apparently includes some reddit posts they found.
Local hoons like to make clouds of tire smoke doing burnouts, I think that would count. I haven't noticed coatings of black sediments though.
Raspian Linux in a Raspberry Pi.

I wonder if there is a distro that locks the kid into the command line and offers a time of help?

Python and GPIO offer tons of cool embedded system possibilities.
Arm’s Cortex A510: Two Kids in a Trench Coat
What everyone following the stuff online seems to forget is that the replication attempts and samples so far are based on a leaked, apparently incomplete version of the LK99 paper.

Supposedly, a University in Taiwan is working to validate the full version of the paper and the material, and the authors of the paper say that once confirmation is complete (and is successful) they will release the full version of the paper... sometime in 2024.

We'll see what happens, I guess.
30 was not fine for the masses. 60p and 50p were too hard to make work at the dawn of tv, which is why we had 60i and 50i, but 60i is not the same as 30p, and also note the NES runs at 50p or 60p (as do similar systems) and it's darn hard to play most of its games with less.
Oh, I forgot to mention this, but I am already using std::tuple_size.
There is no reason not to handle/accept everything that has a valid `std::tuple_size` specialization.
(I am not a native speaker, so I might have misunderstood your reply.)
A huge part of this is target selection. They don’t want to waste time with anyone who isn’t going to buy it whole hog.
Sometimes I'll try to waste the time of the tech support scammer, just to keep them from calling someone else. ("Okay, I've got my credit card out now. Say, what city are you calling me from? Really? How's the weather there...")
If this is true and Apple's service does leave out a "from" header (it may just as well be a parse error somewhere on the website's side) that would definitely be on the mail forwarding service, not on this particular website.

RFC 5322 and RFC 2822 specify that at least and at most one From: header must be present. Mail services that don't add at least some kind of fake From header aren't spec compliant and should probably expect error and delivery problems. RFC 2822 is over 20 years old now.

In theory Apple's service could only be RFC 822 compliant, but this does pose a big interoperability problem for its customers.
Some will be literally driven to know everything about it though. But a smaller percentage than us.

I agree though that I learned programming mainly because it was so hard to find programs for my computer :)
(An easier way I've found is to compile an entire project with --save-temps, for c, objc, or c++. Makes it easy to instrument a lot of files at once.)
GenZ and younger are the people doing burnouts down my street.
No it isn’t, a “bank” calling to verify a transaction is a major vector for these sort of attacks.
I've seen a number of posts like this usually wanting a specific device that is good for kids that has the appeal of old computers. The answer is that any laptop loaded with creativity app works great if you have an attitude shift that it is a creative device rather than a consumption device. Choose your apps and get used to building things with it. Avoid social media, youtube, netflix, and the fun will come back.
This is a feature of Reviewable.io, there's a system file called Commits where you can comment on the commit titles and descriptions!
Doing something like this—add fault tolerance mechanism(s)—and your potential attack surface is exponentially reduced compared to “typical” microservice architectures.

There are also potential performance gains because there’s a lot less network hopping around.

I’ve done some big data processing using a single big box strategy in the past and it worked very well—as the saying goes, “distribute when you must.”
I like this reasoning.

Logical.
I have private relay enabled via iOS iCloud. I have no extensions installed. Preload top hit is enabled on safari by default. (Not sure if this is could be a factor). I only use safari across my devices. 2FA is enabled for LinkedIn and save password. That is it. I access LinkedIn frequently throughout the day.
Raw sour mangoes, chopped to eighths, with the seed taken out. (hard shell covering the seed is fine, but there's a thin film that is inedible on it, take care to scrape it to prevent choking hazard later).
Mustard powder. Seeds freshly ground is better.
Red chilli powder
Salt.
Methi seeds. (fenugreek seeds. You can find at asian spice stores usually).
Gingelly oil.

The most simple and basic aavakaya (andhra pradesh style mango pickle with mustard) is as follows:

1 cup heaped mustard powder, one cup heaped chilli powder, one cup (not heaped) salt. A handful of fenugreek seeds. Mix evenly. Toss the mango pieces in this. Add a little gingelly oil to wet the mixtute and help the mixture stick a bit. Place into clean jar. Glass or ceramic, avoid metal. Add a generous amount of gingelly oil. You don't need to top the vessel or make a layer.

Wait 2 days,then mix the entire jar once with a strong, deep spatula (or a clean hand, but beware the spice and wash very very very well afterwards).

This will taste good from day 2. It's a very distinct taste from a matured pickle, and I always eat a little when it is fresh. It will slowly mature over 6 months to a year to its final preserved taste.

Takealittle of it to a smaller vessel for daily use. Do not leave a metal spoon in or use a metal container.

This can be experimented with as little as 2-3 mangoes. About half a cup of salt chilli and mustard should be enough for this.

Also, this is just the simple recipe. There's a lot that depends on ingredient selection which can not be summarised as easily. Clean ingredients and avoiding introducing additional moisture will ensure it will stay good for atleast a couple of months. Well made pickles last multiple years.
Well, my OS lets me configure the output device and specify the sampling rate. I would think that if I configure it at 44.1 kHz and I'm playing back some ripped CD and the system tries to play a notification sound, that whatever that sound is sampled at it'll ensure to output it at 44.1 kHz. Otherwise what's the point of the setting?
> handwriting only

I'd have to see it. I'm not sure I believe it :)

It might just be a stylistic thing that distinguishes not diaeresis from umlaut so much as German handwriting from others'. That is, it might be that Germans don't distinguish between the two themselves, and then also the French, the Spanish, etc. If that's the case then I'd say there's zero difference between the two. A test of this would be to ask a German person (or several, including linguists as well as non-linguists) to handwrite a German word that uses umlauts and also a non-German word that uses diaeresis, and if they write it the same then I'd conclude that there is no difference.

And if it's handwriting only, then is there a difference as far as Unicode goes? No, there is not. In Unicode diaeresis and umlaut are the same (U+0308 Combining Diaeresis).
A) Water use and resource management is resource business. Water needs to be allocated in both a fair and humane way.

B) This headline and article is some classic modern-day repackaging "journalism".

It leans incredibly heavily on the original AP piece (at least it links liberally to them), adds a few semi constructive comments from 'actual critics' (thus just barely nudging them into the zone where they can use their headline with a straight face), adds some links to barely related things (the link for 'isn't fit for human consumption'? that link is mostly about nitrates and other agricultural run-offs), and the classic anonymous social media (Reddit) quotes.

And most egregiously, awhile cheerfully lifting right out the AP piece, they neglected to at least lift from probably the single most human scale and impactful snippet from the original AP piece - "In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season."
Says bloke rich enough to afford healthcare in the country with the most broken system in the western world
Why would kids go back to old platforms? That's for us nostalgics. They should look at the future.