skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The README more or less describes the "what" but there's no "why".

Why is this needed, who is this for (target audience), why did you build it, which gap is it closing, which problems does it solve in a homelab, or startup, or enterprise, i.e. "what's in it for me", how is it different than alternatives?
Near the tail end of WinNT 3.1 development, I read an article (possibly from Usenet) about someone creating a screensaver that showed a bluescreen.

I had never created a screensaver before.

I could reliably cause my WinNT dev box to bluescreen due to a bug in an internal Microsoft network driver.

So I read the docs for writing a Windows screensaver. After writing down the values shown for my bluescreen, I cobbled together my first and only Windows screensaver.

I sent an email to the Windows NT group announcing my creation for laughs and giggles.

A few weeks later, the NT build group decided to play a prank on Dave Cutler.

They installed my bluescreen screensaver on one of their build servers.

They also unplugged the mouse and keyboard from the build server.

Then they waited...

Dave Cutler comes in to check on the status of the latest NT build.

He turns on the monitor and sees a bluescreen.

He tries moving the mouse.

Nothing.

He tries typing on the keyboard.

Nothing.

Then the unanticipated happens.

He reaches over and pushes the power button on the build server to reboot the build server.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I never heard about the aftermath/any fallout from their prank.

With great power comes great responsibility.
> cheap chinesium has other tracking/spying nonsense built in at levels lower than the android os,

I have only found apps calling home.

If you think some malware is baked into the wifi firmware, I can't disprove that.

> I think that's much less likely on pixel devices, especially with the grapheneos guys watching those devices.

More eyeballs is better, but if we're talking about malware in the wifi firmware, I don't think graphene team can catch that either.
> Multiple studies have “confirmed” that the product has no harmful effect [...] said a spokesperson for GreenLight Biosciences.“

What would you fear has even less objectivity about safety, than a novel pesticide company?

One where they even named the company "greenlight".
> The dev experience for building/debugging/troubleshooting distributed functions/lambdas is atrocious.

From my own personal experience, Google Cloud Functions, and everything around it, is fantastic. Had 25k "worker" computers hitting GCF 24/7 (~50 rps) reporting their status. New status message went onto Cloud Tasks, which just hits GCF again, and stored into a Cloud SQL Postgres. Cost was about $200/mo. It ran perfectly with zero downtime for over a year.

Super easy to develop, test, and deployments were done with github actions. Very little actual code is dependent on anything GC, so vendor lockin was minimal.
It seems a bit too big. I love my inkpalm too, especially how light it is!
2 Sides of Data Science
I bang on regularly about "software literacy" - that software is another form of literacy and will impact how companies orgise as much as actual literacy did.

And one important slightly snarky point I make is that often you will hear people say "I used to code before I got into management but now ...". Yet no one says "I used to read and write before I got into management..."

The editor of the new york times will be able to read every part of todays print. He will have sun editors who in total have read every part of the paper going out today. And checked it.

Do we think that every engineering manager has read every changeset going out the door today?

This checklist is good for people management - but has sod all to do with software management
> his suggestion that Israel's response constitutes a war crime, less than 1 week after Hamas' brutal slaughter of at least 1400 innocents, may be interpreted as insensitive and biased.

His comments came around the same time as Israel announced their blockade of all food, water and electricity into Gaza.

Dont use the deaths of innocent Israelis to silence legitimate critique of the Israeli government and the war crimes they’re committing.
> The team used existing tooling to move services between zones in order to ensure they were portable. Firstly, they allowed services to be moved back to the original zone to resolve any portability issues, but once resolved, services would be moved periodically to validate portability and prevent regressions.

This is something that most companies don’t do when they say they want to do $x to “prevent lock in”.

Uber actually is testing for portability along the way.
The muzzle is outside the enclosed space, so I don't think it should be particulatly bad.
The article mentions she was an inspiration for the 22 year old and that she says of him he has taken her work to the next level.

I'm curious, what work were you doing that was stymied by your parents lack of funding?
> these devices need an internet connection or even a registered account with the vendor in order to unlock the bootloader.

That's for Xiaomi. Others don't need that.
I had to search "developer edition"

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-dev...
I had a (really creative) buddy growing up who figured out that you could do the wallpaper function in Mario Paint (which filled the canvas with repeating icons) and then stamp over some of the icons but slightly offset, and when you crossed your eyes funny they’d pop out of the screen. Very easy DIY Magic Eye.
Hobbyist particle accelerator?
Is something like that possible?
I must have missed p-adics in school. This was a fun, interesting, and clear read.
Excellent choice.

Asimov in the 1950's was quite a visionary. I always liked this.

But I never heard him referred to as "shorty" before ;)

Don't want to be a spoiler but in his visions for an increasingly advanced technological future once the 21st century would arrive, here the dystopian elements that had unfortunately accrued had to be fed to an increasingly conformist society as a utopia instead. No surprise considering the attitude during the Cold War. While the outliers having the true creative potential were subjected to an artificially dystopian environment by comparison, from which only the most-ambitious few would have to break out of on their own accord, against all odds, motivated only by their own committment, to take their rightful place as professionals.

Didn't have to wait until the 65th century to make significant progress in this direction.

>It is pretty clear from the photos that this young man is very fortunate to have well off and supportive parents.

Good observation, and maybe that's about all that's going to be having such an early start for some time to come now. But we don't need photos to be well aware he is vastly outnumbered by tons of more fortunate youngsters who have accomplished absolutely nothing at that age, if not perpetrated destructive efforts instead. Photos of their "accomplishments" outnumber this type of posting a million to one.
For components to work OOTB with Linux yes, but perform well is a different story. There's plenty of parts that technically work with Linux but in practice have sub-par performance and it's easy to wind up with them if one isn't careful.
And also certain states and localities have different requirements for ride share. I noticed this in NYC and Seattle
Worth getting a bit specific about terminology here... The article states that _insurance_ profits are capped, but that PBMs and other stages of care are not. That's why they're all vertically integrating - so they can steer margin to the un-regulated entities. Can't help but feel like this is a simple anti-trust issue just like you'd see in other industries. If they were truly separate companies with robust competition, we could see a lot more efficiency and less rent seeking.
The article makes a lot of reference to class.

Wigs, stockings and heels were associated with being of the aristocrat class. Which, as the article states, could make one wearing such things a target.
'A new lens' into the universe's most energetic particles
I’ll suggest again to read Guns, Gerns, and Steel. An agricultural revolution is predicated on fertile lands, high yield crops, domestication of docile animals (both for consumption and as beasts of burden), etc. then if those environmental factors are aligned, tools can be made to exploit them. Australia is a mostly arid country, it took the import of overseas animals and crops before western agriculture emerged, but up to that point indigenous Australians had the means to provide for themselves.

From our best understanding of pre colonial life, famine wasn’t a feature of it. Funnily enough it’s post agricultural societies that often died of famine because they enabled huge populations in cities and shifting climate would cause several years of floods and droughts at infrequent and irregular intervals, and at such scale that it couldn’t be planned for by early societies (and maybe we might find out our modern global one still has this flaw)
"I guess you could always cap off the exponential interval increases at some max interval, making it basically a repeating timer."

No you MUST have a max interval cap. Exponentials and all, you'll soon be waiting days or months for a retry.
Not a high end device (Dell Vostro 15 3515), but it comes with preinstalled Ubuntu as well. It has some serious problems with wireless (10ec:c821). The default driver frequently loses connection on some wifi networks (it has issue with many networks though surprisingly not all of them). Sometimes reloading the driver helps, sometimes it just hangs my system. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 seems to work a bit better though still has the same problem sometimes. It turns out that rfkill block wlan && sleep 3 && rfkill unblock wlan works better than reloading the driver. At least this way I haven't hanged my system yet. And wifi does not seem to be able to work at the same time as bluetooth.

Otherwise a fine device.
In California you could totally build an advanced New piece of technology like a new IC machine or process in way less time than you could build a simple permitted barn.
Would you mind posting your twitter thread here? I believe one needs an account to read any replies to a tweet, and since the tweet is in the format of a multi-post thread, it's unreadable to me. From some of the comments here, it seems like it would be quite interesting.

EDIT: found it. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1216491216356823040.html

> I wouldn't take any of this guide as sacrosanct

That goes without saying, doesn't it? None of this thought leader stuff should be taken literally. The book is literally an advertisement:

>> I'm also happy to discuss advising, coaching, and mentorship opportunities at the same address.
Sounds like another kernel maintainer we all know.
I see, thanks. I think it would be useful in the docs to describe both some less technical as well as some technical examples of useful applications of your work.

Do you have some examples of _concrete problems_ that would be easily solved with this? If so, mention them.

Telling folks about technical aspects doesn’t help advertise your work unless you can help a new reader relate it with their own experiences or problems.
Whichever distro you use, there will be a selection of kernels to choose from. Even Arch has an elderly LTS option. Gentoo obviously offers all kernels since 0.97 (dig out egcs) including several that haven't been released and a couple that will never exist outside of a parallel reality!

I've owned several Inspirons and have no issues but then I use Arch (actually). Have a look into what kernels are on offer and consider a different one. However you may have another issue because I seem to recall that cams are now all basically standards based.

Try grabbing a couple of live "CDs" of other distros and boot them. See if your camera works. Try something like OpenSuSE "tumbleweed".
Its probably a lot easier to do a better job of covering your tracks with cash than with bitcoin.
The microscope recommendations are a bit problematic, except for the mantis. When you can afford it, get yourself a binocular stereo microscope with sufficient viewing distance from the work piece. In contrast to USB microscopes, those will have no image delay, which can make hand-eye coordination difficult, allow for depth perception and have way superior image quality.

When buying a trinocular it should be a simul-focal one where the stereo microscope and the camera are focused and available all at the same time (no switching of the light path to the camera). Example for such a trinocular microscope: AmScope SM-4NTP. A bincular microscope with matching specs will be slightly cheaper.

Louis Rossmann explaining in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_eQrbop-J4
This is probably true for most/all aging related conditions. Obviously, people can and do get such conditions while young - but for many, it's just a question of which condition becomes untreatable first.

I'm cautiously hopeful that anti-aging related treatments will help improve this situation.
All concerns of safety notwithstanding, which is generally fucked in the industry and government, it's pretty cool that a RNAi product was developed to be literally sprayed on fields -- Things have probably progressed in the 15 years since I was active in lab work, but the general consensus was RNA would fall apart if you even talked too loudly, and the people regularly working with RNA all developed weird rituals and got all twitchy and paranoid (from stress, not poisoning!)
I know Australia would provide a psuedo-natural experiment, because of the family laws effectively making de-facto relationships legally more or less equivalent of actual marriage.
This is not really a good argument, there are many things that kill a lot of people , The manner and type of lives lost is important also the nature of impact.

People aren’t dying very young with tobacco addiction for the most part. There is cancer in youth sure , but tobacco is not the leading cause of that .

People who die of tobacco related illnesses are functioning adults and contributing members of society for the vast majority of their lives .

The disruption to the lives of drug addicts and their friends and family far exceeds those faced by tobacco addicts.

Not everything is a conspiracy or corruption people only react to what they see, the impact of drugs is far more visceral and immediate than tobacco or say obesity which kills even more, so pressure for legislation is higher

If tobacco killed because the of one wrongly cut cigarette you smoked , it would require prescription too
Education education and education.

Good one of course.

It's not hard. Really
Deploy C2 Redirectors at Scale with WolfPack
But in the POC link, they have state=1 as a parameter for the authorization server, there is another state parameter encoded into the value for the redirect_uri, which makes me wonder why that even matches the registered redirect_uri.
Nagging
Wow, this is an awesome list. Some of the links point to some indepth articles.
>and on average forcing a marriage to "work" might still be better.

For the children yes, and in a time when you had little information and were told it was your purpose in life to have children this might have worked.

Today this is just going to lead people to say "Well, fuck having children", and with the US child fertility rate at 1.64 this seems to be the 'average' decision that has been taken.
Can anyone else not see the image?
I can unfocus my eyes a little, but what I think is mostly happening is that I’m just slightly crossing my eyes so it doesn’t work.

Is it better on a non-phone screen?
The point was being made in the text I quoted
> Car crash -> automobile accident --- a softening

It's not. Accident is actually the older term. Cars have had accidents since their inception. Using the "crash" sound to refer to the accident itself didn't catch on until the 1940s (might be a war thing, I'm not sure).
My parents, doctors in their 60s treated people through the pandemic and wrote to prioritize the lives of the young over the old.

I hope to be like they are and make room for our coming generation when my I am their age. My parents prioritized me and my generation. I will do so as well.

Other cultures will vampirically parasitize their children but mine will not.
This was written to a target audience who had all read Cyberpunk novels and imagined it as the future. See the references:

[2] Gibson, William (1984), Neuromancer, Ace Books, New York.

[3] Bruce Sterling, ed. (1986), Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Arbor House, New York.
Long nails gross me out on a very base level. I have no idea why. But anything longer than just at the finger tip just gives me the jeebies.
yeah, but...

It's not as much _fun_ as making an obvious circuit board do Stuff (tm). There's a very tactile satisfaction about making an RPi or similar go. YMMV, of course
Price resilience? It’s lost 50% of its value in the last 2 years. Its as volatile as $AMC or $GME and is talked about in the same circles. Its a meme investment like many others.
Don't drive at night and don't look like a soft target solves most issues with traveling in Mexico.

I've driven the entire Baja peninsula many times and done a road trip across much of central Mexico.
I have to ask the question "What is an entreneur?"

How do people define it?

Are young "sneakerheads" who collect and trade shoes "entrenprenuers"
Does the effect work with an animated depth image?

I always have a hard time with these. I get the 3d effect but can never figure out the image. I suspect based on reading some theory that I am viewing them cross eyed instead of slack eyed. But have no idea how to do it the other way around.

Update: it does, I found a youtube video, still cant resolve it however. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZpsbQMQFBs
5 days. This is very short imo.
> Otherwise a fine device.

> It's a nice laptop otherwise.

These have always reminded me of:

Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise,

Tout va très bien, tout va très bien,

Pourtant, il faut, il faut que l’on vous dise,

On déplore un tout petit rien:

Un incident, une bêtise,

La mort de votre jument grise,

Mais, à part ça, Madame la Marquise,

Tout va très bien, tout va très bien!
And then every time you had a change, you would have to deploy everything and your surface of failure is greater.

What would a monolith buy you?
My brief introduction to military pillboxes came by playing Bolo.
> I thought it was clear there were also untold numbers of ordinary women who were also completely in charge of their own households from ancient times till modern age.

I don't think that's clear.

As for recent history, here's some US labor force participation data from 1948 to the present. Notice the stark contrast at the beginning. https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/03/women-in-the-labor-f...
I wonder how much of it had to do with the rise in pollution due to coal dust and soot?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32157759
Is there any wrapper for mister cores that allows them to work on a PCIe FPGA card? It would be cool to have an N64 inside my PC.
> I feel sorry for Jake. This post is titled "The patient's perspective" but the only part that referred to his view was him saying he was too worn out to do more than a couple of flights.
I'm not on the inside of the family but I wonder if the author is pushing the trial much more than the patient. I hope not.

You needn’t wonder too much, you can satisfy your desire to know by simply reading Jake’s blog if you like.

Not sure if there was a link to it on the posted article, or if it was linked from one of the other parts in the series.

https://jakeseliger.com/
Imagine training for years in medicine, microbiology, biochemistry, statistical methods and so forth, then obtaining many more years of painstaking, mostly fruitless, and occasionally fruitful experience in designing and executing research and even entire research programs, correlating and validating results, sharing process improvement findings with equally capable peers, attending to ever more stringent regulation, worrying frequently over how to properly and carefully eliminate error and bias and the myriad sources thereof, only for some rando on the internet to dismiss your hard-won and nuanced understanding of how protocol and technique can lead to results that genuinely, in gestalt, improve the human condition, with "probably overestimated".
The great manila bay silver operation
Because some videos are commonly rewatched, like music videos.
The difference between deliberate and accidental civilian casualties is not clear cut. For instance, what do you call it when you intend to attack the enemies soldiers with a bunch of bombs but you know a certain percentage will fall on civilians and you accept that inevitability and proceed anyway? Is that deliberate? Not quite, because it wasn't your intention. Was it an accident? Not really, because you knew it was going to happen and did it anyway.

Or what do you call it when you are deliberately targeting some civilians (factory workers perhaps) but you know they share their homes with children? Do all of the civilians killed count as deliberate, or only some portion of them?

Also, how do you determine intent? Suppose the official paperwork says "we're going to target this residential neighborhood because they have military-relevant cottage industry blended in with the population", but the men actually carrying out these orders are saying and thinking "burn them all, this is payback." Do you go by the intents stated on official records, or do the intents and feelings not committed to official records change the matter? It's the kind of thing that ends up getting debated by historians for decades.
I don't think it matters quite so much how many; the question is more about what everyone wanted to be. What their aspirations were.

The point would be that a mainstream man in 1750 wanted to be wearing colorful frilly things with high heels, even if he couldn't afford any of it because he was just a servant. Whereas starting in the 1800's, that stopped being an aspiration, whether you had money or not.

Also, while this clothing wasn't accessible to servants and laborers, some of it would have been to the growing middle class that consisted of merchants, professors, lawyers, and so forth. Just look at paintings depicting coffeeshop culture in the 1700's:

https://www.sylviaprincebooks.com/blog-list/2021/coffee-hous...

And coffeehouses were not reserved for the 0.1%, not at all.
Have you tried a USB based WiFi adapter? Last time I checked (unfortunately many years ago), these were quite small.
Trying to make sense of the logic of an alcoholic is pointless, so I don't recommend it. I will never FIRE, because I'm afraid of the future.

I also don't make nearly as much money as other people in this industry. I only managed to crack 100k CAD this year and I'm on the verge of being laid off for "economic reasons".
Somewhere in a book Plato himself laments that texts are not interactive enough, when one interacts with them one has the desire for advice on action. So if essays aren't cutting it in schools and books aren't the pinnacle of learning then we should respectfully move on.

I disagree that experts will be the starting point for the next "medium" after books, they still have too much cruft to blast away if you are going to benefit anywhere near as much as they did from the concepts. The new knowledge will be much more synthetic and symbiotic.
Same here. Linux was $100 cheaper. Which makes me wonder ... why is an OEM Windows license still ~$100? And not only that, you'd think Dell could negotiate a lower rate.
I did google it and while there are many stories about dead batteries all seem to talk about a problem after leaving the car parked for an extended period and no talk about a problem when driven daily.