skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are thinking of the (now non-canon) book Tales of the Bounty Hunters. IG-88's story "Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88" has this as part of its plot. There were 3 different IG-88s, one of which took over droid production on Mechis 3 (the main droid production planet in the Empire), embedding something like "Order 66" in every droid produced. After relocating itself into the computer core of this fully operational battle station, it was about to transmit the code to start the droid revolution but was destroyed by pesky rebels.

One of the things that emphasize the horror of enslaving all those droids would be the repair manual of the Millennium Falcon[1] with 3 separate droid brains imprisoned inside it. One of whom, L3-37 was a droid liberationist herself[2].

0 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/...

2 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L3-37
I would argue for many people they no longer did, until the the movie and television markets began to fracture once again. Now that folks have to think about where to go to watch something, they're being resurrected once again for them.
Russia as in its government could not give a lesser fuck about climate change if it wanted, which it can't.

So no, no luck here. Forests burn, peat burns in such quantities you wouldn't believe and all those "climate researchers" care for are citation numbers of their papers and how to not get deplatformed.

This is the sad state of reality.
IPC – Unix Signals
I haven't met many monogamous couples under a certain age that have had things work out well either though.

My parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next year. I am pretty sure if they were younger there is no way they would not have got divorced. They are not unhappy but they are so different that there is no way one would not have thought they could do better if the early part of the marriage had been lived in modern times.

For me, being single is the ultimate form of being poly. I am committed to all the shorter relationships I have yet to experience in my life.

I have had several chances to be in true poly relationships but there has always been at least one, really annoying person with nothing else going on than being poly. Then every topic of conversation is about being poly and that is when I check out.

The idea of poly being mainstream is ridiculous because it is hard to find a single compatible person in time. True poly just multiplies the amount of incompatibility.
One problem with HDMI is that it has no clips or screws or similar holding it in, unlike DP, DVI, VGA, BNC... I remember I used to knock the HDMI out of one of my monitors with my foot all the time. It plugged in going straight up and barely could resist a bit more force than gravity, and the cable dangled behind the desk since the tower was on the floor.
Yeah, it's funny isn't it? People choosing to manage their personal property outside the (over?) reach of local government is immediately framed as "pure chaos" [1].

Mind you, I understand there might be safety concerns in rare cases, but then say just that. "NY AB&B Ban is leading to Safety Concerns".

Hyperbole has no place in journalism. Put another way, using hyperbole is a disqualification from using the title journalist / journalism.

[1] It's not just chaos, but *pure* chaos. Does that mean watered down chaos or slightly diluted chaos would be acceptable?
Why would they use anything else? I don't think there's any other software close in terms of cost/features. (unless you count libAV, which is a fork of ffmpeg)
Agree, maybe I'd already heard it's central premise too much before I read it but it seemed like a book on stating the bleeding obvious again and again. It also felt like a blog post rather than a full book. I tend to think that about a lot of these kind of books though.
Then don't use it. A migration tool that has no foreign key support is not a good migration tool. And it's even a worse reason to tell other people FK's are bad.
> However, I've found that this feature has been worsened a bit since v6

How exactly?
If you care about Sata3 interfaces, the Odroid HC4 has two of them with vertical disk holders. https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-hc4/odroid-hc4

The one I'm using as home server is consuming 3.48 W now with a Samsung 850 SSD (1 TB.)
you can't use 99% of apple services on Android. no apple maps, no find my, no iMessage, no apple calendar, no reminders.

nobody forces people to use windows either, but yet a company having 60% of the global phone market is pretty comparable considering that's literally probably more phones than people actively using windows daily
Yes, Paw is native.
Not every cable. Not if you make the connector a closed standard that can't be used without ruinous licencing fees and keep a squad of patent attorneys on retainer. Thankfully USB is not one of those.
That’s just not how it works. The child like inclination is to switch songs 90 seconds in, or switch tv shows, or jump book to book because the library has an overwhelming number of options.

The massive amount of choice available is paralyzing, and after some time they’ve become a lot better at seeing things through.

It sounds like your friend is the exact opposite. He can’t commit because he’s paralyzed by too many options. Eliminate the options and the paralysis disappears.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability (and Sherlock Holmes) (2013)
They’re an order or magnitude two cheaper thanks to innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions from Melbourne, and offer professional connectivity alongside the ability to work with uncompressed or lightly-compressed codecs. Repurposing Off-the-shelf parts too, such as image sensors designed for other uses (such as smartbombs and guided missiles) rather than developing everything in-house. Their FPGA and high-speed dsp engineering is first-class too, and they seem to get this done with fewer,smarter people than say Sony, who have buildings full of engineers spending much of their lives writing design documents and then specifying things correctly at length before building - Blackmagic just hack it together and make it work.
Lol, I quite like CTU but we are dangerously close to the Coding Ninja type job descriptions of the 2010s!

No snark taken, I’ve got plenty of blind spots in my skills so those T stems should be a little shallower probably but I’ve been fortunate to cover a lot of ground in the last 15 years.
>Smart people don’t consider themselves better than people around them.

He probably doesn't work in software. There's hubris in spades in that realm. The worst is when people's ego is significantly bigger than their actual ability.
Hi! Your product looks quite good to be clear, and that was in no way a slam on it. I’ve long wanted a reasonable excuse to use it, just to see how it works at scale.

One thing that stopped me from trying it in the past for a project was this:

> Is rqlite a good match for a network of nodes that come and go – perhaps thousands of them?

> Unlikely.

While I wasn’t going to get to thousands, it was going to be hosted on K8s, and it seemed like I’d have to write lifecyclehooks to ensure nodes gracefully left consensus, and others felt that was an unnecessary complexity for the problem. Can you speak more to this point, since in the FAQ you also say it can run on K8s? If a node dies due to, say, hardware failure, when it rejoins is it seen as a slightly out-of-date existing node since it’s part of statefulset? If so, assuming quorum is maintained, this is probably a lot easier than I was making it out to be.
> with backlight strobing that has ~25% duty cycle.

Yes, that's what happens when you set screen brightness to the lowest setting. And guess what, it looks terrible.
After a brief period of fascination, it's become a synonym of low quality and low effort. See e.g. the relevant KitKat campaign: https://www.creativebloq.com/news/kit-kat-ai-ad
Yeah, that's fair. The first option there (HP ProDesk 600 G4 Mini) do seem to have a reputation for being noisy, though replacing the fan with something quieter (eg Noctua) seems to be what people do:

https://www.reddit.com/r/minilab/comments/zlowh2/hp_prodesk_...
And it wasn't Larry. It was Andreas Koenig with Jarkko Hietaniemi.
People being put out of a job don't like. Out of the blue, right?
That was actually the plot of an old X-Men comic. Loki came to earth and started granting wishes. Basically turning regular people into Forge-style creative mutants. One was a master architect who gained the power to realize anything he dreamed of.

But the X-Men later realize the gift is tainted; it's powered by human creativity. The architect discovers that while he can fabricate any structure he ever imagined, he can't imagine any new ones.

Confronted with accusations of treachery, Loki is chagrined. He more or less thought he was bringing something to humans they actually wanted, and is infuriated when they reject his gift. He fundamentally cannot understand what it is that people desire.
Heart of darkness is very short and fits into those great books like L'Etranger and the Old Man and the Sea that can be usefully read in an afternoon and give back way more than they demand from you.

Republic is quite long but very approachable and I really enjoyed it.

Again the mythical man month still holds true and it very readable. It's interesting for anyone interested in computing history as well as for it's key points on management.
^ This - thank you
Ask HN: What are the best AI/ML blogs?
I found that I like reading https://towardsdatascience.com/ a lot.

Do you know of other great blogs dedicated for AI/ML developers? What are your favorites?

Should be highly technically, and not about "I built a wrapper around ChatGPT, now call me AI master" kinda content.
It’s longer than it needs to be when you’re typing it out so many times
The app gives you control over things like the color space, codecs, lens correction, LUT, etc., as well as better monitoring and manual adjustments. For that reason I think it’s not really useful to show a straight out of camera comparison, as the results very much depend on how you use these options and whether or not you intend to do color grading. Without adjusting the defaults, you’ll get a 4K h256 rec.709 video, whereas the default app will give you an HDR video, which might look better straight out of the camera, provided that the exposure and camera work are equally good.
Is your post an example of Cunninghams Law on purpose?

As far as I can see they didn't implement their own DB - they just built a service composed of existing DB's - like Cassandra and Redis.
That might be very challenging, depending on which language you are using.
> as desktop Linux is a very tiny market to support and has heavy fragmentation issues within it.

It's also free to use and distribute software on, regardless of the hardware/software you own. That's the big difference. Plus, MacOS also commands a relatively small market share with it's own fragmentation issues (doubly so if you're cross-platform).

If Mac users want perpetual builds of their software, they have to perpetually fund a development environment. Linux doesn't really work the same way.
Hmm maybe I missed something but isn’t Monday some kind of do-all task management system? A client of mine forced us on it and the un-opinionated style made it quite crappy. You can basically have to do whatever all managers came up with randomly and it sucked. This needs a custom db or there is a lot more to this product ?
Are you saying that my favorite fictional Medical Doctor (House) passing out on Bourbon every night due to insomnia is an inadequate prescription?
When we move into the 128-bit CPU era, will we call 128-bit integers "super long"? Maybe "elongated". Maybe "huge"?

Or, you know, we could just name them all by bit length and completely future-proof this system.
> I wonder if Starlink will eventually build out a terrestrial backbone to complement their satellite network for these two scenarios (i.e. very mobile base stations, such as those on airplanes, and terminating their own traffic globally as opposed to locally).

I think their stated plan is to use laser-links to satellites in higher orbits to do that. Don't know if they'll be bandwidth limited, but there's better latency doing it this way. (light goes faster in the vacuum of space, vs going down an optical fibre)
I'm always surprised when I see this opinion. I think I might be writing fundamentally different kinds of applications because I need dynamic queries all the time. I often need several different kinds of filters for an endpoint that can be combined arbitrarily. Any UI that allows users to filter stuff by various criteria needs some kind of dynamic query building in the end.
Thanks, didn't know that. Will need to keep an eye out for problems. :)
It looks to me like the main caveat is the fingerprint reader which seemingly has unofficial support. And there’s the claim that Fedora isn’t stable, I don’t know what this supposed to mean. You could argue they should only claim to be supporting Ubuntu.

I was a Red Hat and then Fedora fan back in the day but it started getting “unstable” for me in the late 2000s because the hardware support had narrowed so if I had a really new or a really old machine it “just didn’t work”. I switched to Ubuntu because of that and because a lot of sysadmin tasks that had gotten really hard on Fedora and RHEL were just

apt-get install X

on ubuntu.
>I don't understand; why do you think it is "sketchy" to try to make a living out of software?

I don't think the original comment meant that it is sketchy to make a living out of software. I think the issue is the posturing as open source, having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y and even sharing it on HackerNews right after the issues with closed source by Postman too. Feels like an "open source alternative", but not really, hence the sketchy accusation.

But this is just how I read it.
>> You can link statically, see my reply to parent.

You can static link code under the equivalent version of GPL license. The point of the LGPL was to compromise so non-free software could still use free libraries. I was unaware of the static compilation aspect of MPL - that's interesting.
I have a 5 year old and an 11 month old. I take immunosuppressants to manage a serious health condition. I've had sinus infections for 7 of the past 8 weeks, since the 5 year old started school. My teeth ache from coughing. The 11 month old has had a fever all weekend, and hasn't gone more than a 2 hour stretch without screaming. The 5 year old seems to have temporary hearing loss from being sick, and some resentment from being ignored in favor of the baby. My wife and I need to loudly yell 6-7 times between each other or the 5 year old in order to effectively communicate. I got about 3 hours of sleep tonight, and I'm thinking more about making hash browns than falling back asleep.

A similar scenario happened about 6 months ago. Of course, that round of sinus infections kicked off with a norovirus that had everyone but the baby violently exploding. It was especially fun because my wife also had a severely broken leg. She also suffered permanent hearing loss above 3.5Khz in one ear.

I am very fortunate that the company I work at has been overwhelmingly understanding and supportive.
It's a tough one. I took it as my only distraction on a week long meditation course. I had no technology, phone signal etc and this was the only book I had with me. I managed to read about a quarter of it and would really need to be in that kind of situation to finish it I think. A great desert island book though, I think.
Lots of China's emissions come from manufacturing products which are sent to countries such as Germany
Technology putting people out of work is a story as old as time.
Simple heuristics to run a research group
You can easily play a very big chunk of the good/great games from the past 40 years and plenty of new good and great games get released every year so you are probably being unlucky or do not know how to find the games that will appeal to your taste.
The thing is, if you're comfortable with TypeScript, it's really more or less just a small step to C#; the Venn diagram of the most commonly used keywords between TS and C# has a high degree of overlap.

A small repo here: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp

And a practical example of a Playwright web scraper in C# and TypeScript: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/playwright-scrape-api

"Too many keywords" is the weirdest objection to a programming language versus actually using the language to build something practical.

Edit: I'm actually curious as to which keywords you personally found the most challenging to grok or what tipped the scales of "this is too complicated".
From the crowd earning a living with copying code from SO and tutorials, I wouldn't expect they see any issue with copied imagery. Let's chat again when AI does some proper coding.
It's surprising that the article doesn't mention the ongoing strikes in Hollywood [1], driven largely by concerns about the use of generative AI in film production.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hollywood_labor_dispute...
We had this other post from the same author on HN time ago https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/09/07/ikea-powered-homelab/

It's about the setup of the wall.
I think because their whole original logic was client side - to generate a filtered view would require loading all the data in the client first and then applying a filter.
Sometimes a news story is really an advertisement.
I love WakaTime for its Neovim (& IntelliJ) integration. I guess it’s the main reason I’m always coming back after trying out other tools (ActivityWatch etc.)
Very cool, but I really like wall-mounting these ARM SBC near my router. This one seems unfit for that purpose.

The argon one raspberry pi 4 case is very good for wall mounting, though it connects with the m.2 drive via USB 3, which kinda sucks.
Yes, give a big studio the benefit of the doubt. They have great track records of not exploiting the industry, and are usually fair conscientious actors that provide unity and financial stability to all the artists and creatives they empower.
That’s true and it’s something I appreciate, but it is better when it is marked as a quotation in some way, with an initial “> ”, italics *...*, or maybe a first line saying something like “From the linked article:” or “Abstract:”.
How to Sabbatical: A Tactical Guide
for some insight on how AI generated images can quickly ruin everything, go onto Threads and "like" one or two AI-generated landscapes; your feed will instantly turn into and endless stream of hyper-colorful, mind-bending AI-generated landscapes, each one more dramatically trippy than the last one, and within 5 minutes your brain just shuts off to the whole thing, images that if you saw an artist make just one would be amazing now looks like meaningless trash.

It's like playing Minecraft with full mods turned on that find you all the diamonds to mine automatically, or like drinking 4 liters of Coke and trying to enjoy a high quality pastry afterwards.
I don't believe that GDPR applies to a mailing list, let alone to private email between individuals. Does someone have chapter and verse?
I've never been to Brooklyn. Would you say it's a good example of an affordable city?
Not really, HDMI ports are in weird orientation and mounted in hard-to-reach places as well, but the shape makes it very obvious (even by feel) which way it should (or can't) go. This is much harder with the rectangular USB plug.
> Is it some sort of standardized style guide for this kind of UI

Anything goes in this industry really :)
When you can search Yandex with "watch (any movie/show here)" and get pages of results, you don't even need torrents anymore.
Why would anyone pretend to read Heart of Darkness? At 40k words it's one of the shortest novels ever written. The writing absolutely slaps. Anyone with any interest and experience in literature would find their first encounter with this book to be pleasant (except for the racism and colonialism).

And it's falling out of favor because of the racism and colonialism, so it's perfectly acceptable (in most literature circles) to say that you just didn't want to read that kind of crap and leave it at that.

I'm re-reading Heart of Darkness now and not likely to mention it to anyone because it's so regressive.
The end game for AI generation technology is almost certainly not that it will pit studios and IP owners versus artists so much as it will pit artists versus artists. The copyright issues become moot once several companies pay a lifetimes fortune to a thousand or so artists for exclusive and complete rights to their collections to seed their algorithms. And I can't believe for a second that professional solidarity is going to extend to every talented visual creative on the planet.
Waited so long for this! Thank you for your effort. Can't wait to try out the new database adapter and rich text editor.
Show HN: CheckAnyPlate – Free License Plate to VIN Decoder
This started as a project to scratch my own itch and has grown from there.

Initially I wanted a way to easily see if potential funny license plates were available in a given state, but I've also started using it at car shows when I'm curious which engine or transmission is in a car.

It most cases the plate can be matched to a VIN using DMV data, and then some information about the vehicle can be decoded into basic car specs

You can also purchase a full vehicle history report which uses data from the NMVTIS and other services to show accident history, previous titles, and salvage issues.

The site is built using the Laravel framework and connects to a bunch of APIs like the DOT and NHTSA for Safety and recall information.

This is my first time running Laravel on AWS Lambda so let me know how the site feels to you
It's also quite fast.

I remember we had a similar use-case. This was for collecting live statistics from a sizable Varnish Cache cluster. We wrote a in memory database to store the data. It's been chugging away for about 10 years now and last I heard the zmq traffic alone was about 3Gbps with zero issues.
Yeah, I meant stuff like the Remarkable. I have a Kindle Scribe. Amusingly, the scribe was not good at this at launch, but has gotten some good updates. My understanding is the Remarkable is head and shoulders better.
Everything that I read suggested that Adams had a broad constituency of Black and Hispanic votes.[1,2,3] This was also a point that you made repeatedly, while noting that politics was more significant than racial voting lines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30770921

> I think this illustrates my point, though. In the primary, Black and Latino New Yorkers overwhelmingly supported Adams, while Asians supported Yang. But the Black, Latino, and Asian progressive activists mostly opposed both and sided with the candidates preferred by white progressives.

[1] https://www.gothamgazette.com/130-opinion/10656-latino-vote-...
[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-eric-adams-won-the-...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/10/new-york-m...
My issue with procrastination is that my reward circuits seem kind of broken. My dopamine system is not motivated much even by fairly extreme future positive rewards. It's almost entirely rewarded by removal or reduction of certain types of future negative outcomes. (Primarily, these are either social, or safety/security related in nature.)

I'm not sure how to self-structure a reward system around that without being kind of a psycho.
> Back on topic, I do find those bare/exposed usb keys (like a yubikey) to be quite annoying.

I guess you trade one annoyance (how to plug them in) for another annoyance (too thick for a wallet/keychain).
Making the part that is PCB on cheap USB sticks protrude a little from the metal rectangle? Would have required slightly deeper sockets, but I like the idea, would have saved some frustration.