skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only this was true!

I have a bunch of Makita cordless tools (and IME, Makita was #1 for pros 10-15 years ago, not a niche brand).

Several years ago (2015-ish?) they changed up the battery shape a little bit so newer batteries wouldn't fit on older tools. It was to add another pin so the battery could tell the tool it was dead and quit drawing power (why the battery couldn't just cut power is beyond me). So (at the time) I had a drawer full of year-old tools that wouldn't work with the extra batteries I just bought.

As it turns out, you can file down part of the tool body and the new batteries fit old tools, but without the power protection. So they didn't end up in the landfill, but it's still hugely annoying.
Same with a friend‘s re-implementation of Battle Isle 2
(https://www.kitana.org/arena/bi2/bi2.html)

You would need the original or the GOG version.
they'd just have to bite one of a number of bullets to verify that the person who made the reservation is the person who showed up to the restaurant

Once someone shows up for a reservation, it's too late to really do anything about it. No restaurant is going to turn away money like that. Popular enough spots may have a line at the door, but you also don't want to risk a commotion turning away hungry people with money and some evidence of a reservation.

Plus, fine dining places like some of these are as much about the atmosphere and service as the meal. Being treated with such suspicion would put a bad taste in my mouth before my first bite of food...
Personally my main motivation is I don't want anyone to snoop what sites I visit and then sell that data, my ISP included, but there are other issues too. To quote Cloudflare [0]:

> Queries could be directed to a resolver that performs DNS hijacking. For example, in the UK, Virgin Media and BT return a fake response for domains that do not exist, redirecting users to a search page. This redirection is possible because the computer/phone blindly trusts the DNS resolver that was advertised using DHCP by the ISP-provided gateway router.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-encryption-explained/
> Try and imagine the same pandemic

It would be the same only lockdowns would be rejected even more than they were. The only reason people complied with lockdowns as much as they did is because they had the warm glowing warming glow of a screen in front of them supplying endless entertainment, information, and distraction. Take that away and people wouldn't comply with lockdowns the way they did.
Your quote suggests Cantrell thinks he's smart, not that he's technically competent, let alone competent enough to actually understand the nuances of the technology.

Getting the powers-that-be to understand technical intricacies is as much about having someone able to explain concepts well to someone who is not a domain expert as it is about having someone who is not a domain expert able to reason about problems with an incomplete understanding. That you can explain technology to Musk and get him to ask relevant questions or that he can pick up enough jargon and specific concepts to hold his own in a casual technical conversation doesn't mean he's an omni-genius let alone that he understands the technology.

Yes, "ideas guy" is an extremely uncharitable way to put it, but that's why I said "at worst" that's what he is. The Tesla cybertruck and the Hyperloop are certainly ideas guy products (the latter literally because what he envisioned is so nonsensical none of the so-called implementations actually have anything to do with it and those that try obviously underperform even moderate expectations). Clearly many things he's heading have worked out better than that. But if you look at the actual things he's done himself and his actual biography (rather than the hagiography he has created for himself) he is a lot more underwhelming and his success much more a product of being in the right place at the right time and hanging onto the right coat tails (e.g. Peter Thiel, who is equally despicable as a human being but clearly more technologically competent).
Yeah, I was disappointed by this move

Fortunately, much like the HashiCorp hoopla, there is a group taking part of the project forward in an independent org. I'm looking to deploy an MRTK demo to the Q3, hoping Immersed will pick it up for the next iteration of their app
> In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.
I agree it seems very relaxing. He's the kind of person whose ambition always seems to slightly exceed the domain he's working in. This leads to great products but very protracted deadlines.
$1.49? I dunno. I might wait a few months til the hype wears off and the price drops :P

Honestly, at that price it’s cheaper to just buy it again than to spend the time digging the CD spool of ancient games out of the box in my basement.
Not unless your toolchain is highly specialized.

There's not even a good way to benchmark language models at the moment.
Current AI reminds me of when Bart Simpson is sitting in the back seat of a rental car and leaves the car running on Cruise Control thinking it will drive itself. It's just good enough to make you think it's doing it's job before it drives you off a cliff.
I generally agree - I recommend friends get at least 16gb - but I also know many non-technical people who just don't value "high performance" as much as I do. I would never put up with the way their computers perform, but they are totally disinterested in spending any more money on a computer. They are happy, even if by some metric they have bought a dumb configuration.
From the article: "software is still pretty dumb". I would prefer my software remain dumb. Every time technology is made to be "smart", it seems to get much worse.
Cool idea.
I need to know what the advantages of this. (vs me using ChatGPT to generate code?). Maybe you want to explain more about the process and values customers will get for the price. Also, I don't think new customers are willing to spend 400 euros/week to try out a new service.
I agree with your first statement. I don't think self-flagellation is useful though and the West is pulling more than their share in global welfare. Your vitriol would be better directed towards, say, Arabian wealthy dictatorships.
> old cars won't last forever

Depends how old. Older cars have better survivability than newer ones, almost exclusively due to the simplicity[0] of the design and parts. If you want a car that can last forever (with maintenance and from an odysseus ship perspective) then an old car with a diesel engine and manual transmission is the way to go.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSNT1bmEQY&t=75s
Right, his mind was first rate but in a dog-eat-dog life, so much more goes into it. I find them all very interesting characters and I'd like other people's thoughts on the narrative I've crafted of their lives and interactions.
My Amiga 500, I learned unix, tcp and scripting.
Much the same as pushing shopping carts.
It would be cool if there was like an interactive and facillitated way to filter all the stuff for that which is local and that they can seek out, like Pokemon Go or whatever
The Nazi party was one of many on-the-fringe parties formed in Germany's post-WWI chaos, and it initially combined socialist and nationalist ideas. The opportunity of funding from big business lured it rightwards, and the nationalism, as it often does, turned towards racialism and antisemitism. From late 1919, Hitler was a significant player in driving that move.
+100°C (relative to some other temperature not clearly explained, probably the rock) vs 90°C absolute temperature.
Dirt cheap too!
Not really, because the population growth rate also includes adults dying later.

If someone dies at 75 instead of 80, their mother isn't going to consider giving birth another time to maintain the family size, but that person still gets counted in the total population size for five extra years.

I'm wondering how we could separate out these two situations.
I think things are moving a fair bit quicker, we'll see a tethered device before long. The major holdup right now is FOV, stuck at 45-50deg. The form factor is close with XReal and similar

https://vr-compare.com/ar
Just like the old joke: "I'm already 90 percent done, now I'm going for the other 90 percent."
Cities hate cars, and cities dominate the legislative process at the state and federal regulatory levels. Cars are a constant problem for cities, it makes sense that they'd rather spend their time and money on things other than fixing congestion and maintaining existing roads.

They can't attack cars directly, it would be political suicide, but they can boil the frog by making them increasingly expensive. That's what they're doing.
Good tip about bribing the host, never tried that

I would say you are missing out on very good experiences by doing noncommittal things with noncommittal friends
Your suitcase isn't required to have a built-in X-ray machine.
Possible Auction of Pristine Wyoming State Land
The Reddit commenter who said "Everyone is charging for IPv4, except AWS (until now)" is uninformed or lying. I've been on Oracle Cloud Always Free selfhosting my mail and web services for months now including free IPv4 public addresses.
I read POS as something angry before I read Point Of Sale!
>intellectual safety

That isn't what it means. It implies that you have no right to be protected from speech you don't want to hear, as long as it is outside the realm of stalking, harassment and defamation. Therefore you can turn away or plug your ears, but you have no right to expect the government to censor the speech you don't like.
Isn't this already a thing in Germany for I don't know how many years?
The personalization feature is a nice differentiator. Good bot!
Your 8-bit system is a weird PDP-11
I think 'intelligence and character' in this context, can be interpreted as the knowledge of and ability to control world events. All of the wars are started by the 'in the know' few that have their own goals, have power, influence, access to information, etc. But the people that actually fall for the war propaganda and sign up to fight and die (or cheer it on from the sidelines) are largely entirely excluded from having any influence over the decision to start a war, and unaware of the machinations that go on behind the scenes. If we didn't have 'stupid' people willing to die for the goals of a few psychopathic parasites, I'm sure we'd have a lot few wars/conflicts.
https://archive.is/pVN3I
I was going to wait a week or so to upgrade anyway. But thanks for the clarification.
If you read the article, it speculates that the most likely mechanism will be IR cameras that detect distracted driving/sleep. This technology is already widely used in commercial truck driving.
"The data" doesn't really mean much to me, especially without context. By all metrics, I'm pretty well off now. 3 bedroom house, stable job with better income than anyone in my family ever dreamt of. But I spent the last 10-12 years digging myself out of poverty from homelessness. My wife and I don't have kids because we see them as a potential anchor back into poverty and the scare of going back literally haunts us. So I'm curious about your data, but I'm an anecdotal example of someone with money that is not having kids due to the cost.

Besides that, haven't you ever heard before that the richer you get, the more parsimonious you become?
The more on-point sarcasm is, the harder it is to distinguish from the actual proponents' views.
Isn't this just kerning but with extra steps?
Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds
To set an example for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
> Telling people to go to "192.168.2.1" to log in on their router is easy. Telling them to punch in a long IPv6 address that includes the A-F range isn't.

I think you're off base here. The direct equivalent of 192.168.0.1 is FEC0::1 and that's not harder to remember or type. The difference is that those addresses, site-local, got deprecated.

For link-local addresses, nothing stops a home router from using FE80::1. It doesn't have to be a pain to type.

> And that's without getting into colon collapsing 0000 ranges which just reeks of "did anyone run this past a human being", because this makes even less sense to people who barely get "I need to type the address on the ISP router sticker in my browser"

Is FE80:0000:0000:0000:E3B0:C442:98FC:1C14 better than FE80::E3B0:C442:98FC:1C14? I wouldn't say so.

And FE80:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 is definitely not better than FE80::1.

And I don't share your preference for digits either. If you formatted your average link-local IPv6 address as digits, it would have 30-36 of them. No normal person would memorize it or enjoy typing it. Doing 4 characters at a time, 5 times, is much better than 254.128.0.0.0.0.0.0.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Even with the hassle of the double colon. I'd rather have an extra colon than make sure I counted exactly 6 0s in a row.
I wonder if this is being downvoted because it's

a) off topic
b) low quality
c) true
Technically old cars can last forever if you simply keep repairing and replacing parts.

Got an engine with 200k miles on it? Swap it with a new one!

Obviously it’s not easy and can be very expensive (and many mechanics will look at you weird if asking them to do $20k of maintenance on a 20 year old car, but they won’t say no!)
How else could Microsoft guarantee that they get to read your email like Google does?
> nearly 80% in the last election

You forgot to put the quotes around the term "election". Elections in authoritarian states are just a mockery of the term. It was repeatedly mathematically proven that every recent election in Russia was rigged.
Well, what I do is disable ipv6. I don't want the possibility that this is misconfigured, especially if the defaults tend to be wrong. Maybe my router doesn't even respect my firewall settings, like this: https://community.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet-and-High-Spee... Maybe the customer is wrong, but this shouldn't even be a question.

The rare times I want something publicly accessible, I use DMZ or port forwarding.
I wonder if this can be resolved with:

* Real names on restaurant, just verify their ID. Then ban them from opentable/resy (might be harsh, but will disincentivize behavior)

* No transferring reservations, if rez is cancelled, hold the rez and release at a random time later

I know for ticketmaster, they have no incentive to put these guards up because they take a % cut for every resale, but for these apps; I think you can put some reasonable defenses, especially since most of the restaurants that face these issues have bills of a few hundred dollars anyway.
> This is just game theory in practice.

Maybe the model didn't take all parameters into account - a primary characteristic of all models? Such arguments may first seem like a plausible description of the world only to become arguments for a course of action.

In short I would not rely too much on a theory that says "we must go to war and kill thousands if not millions of civilians otherwise the opponent will" as a lame excuse to leave other options unexplored. We're getting close to that phase in history where other such options seem ever more realistic IMO.
It makes sense from a plot perspective, especially if you believe the theory that the honoured matres were a team-up of the bene geserit, the fish speakers, and the tleilaxu axolotl tanks.
Do you recommend a brand/model?
This is a subject that I have always been confused by. For instance, my WindowServer is currently shown to have 3.26gb, which is a "VM Compressed" amount of 1.96GB, but a "Real Mem" amount of 223.1 megs. This is on a machine with 32GB of physical memory so there would be no problem having it all in physical memory.

I am not sufficiently clear on the relationship between the total virtual allocation a particular service and how much physical ram is required to service that in practice. I don't think it's true that you can simply jump from the total allocation to physical memory numbers.
Many bars and such already basically do this - they call it "happy hour" and it's often a whole afternoon until the rush.
Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) is a business model between ransomware operators and affiliates in which affiliates pay to launch ransomware attacks developed by operators. Think of ransomware as a service as a variation of software as a service (SaaS) business model.
Their corrosive brine is natural and all year. Maritime environments are hell on cars.
Yes you're right. I should have said "it's impossible to create a program that, in general, for all input programs, determines whether it halts or not (in finite time)."

The whole of mathematics and computer science is, in some sense, analyzing those programs which we can prove to halt.
I would say making a midi controller is relatively easy.

Keybeds are a bit commodified. See http://www.fatar.com/

Making a case is low tech manufacturing.

And everything else - displays, silicon pads, circuit boards, etc - is clearly commodified.

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Relatively easy versus manufacturing anything that requires more than light manufacturing where all components can be jobbed out.

I mean we are talking single sided PCB’s with a handful of switches, pots, and encoders plus a microcontroller and display.
Right! Right! Also, we can't require railings on stairs or prohibit electrical wiring from being attached to doorknobs as a trick, or stop people from driving on sidewalks.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds and this commenter exhibits the smallest of them all.
> We should not divert resources from vaccines to immortality

Is there any risk of that? Probably the biggest challenge vaccination faces is uptake, there's no shortage of funding.
If you've worked food service or retail those are interchangeable.
I got to this late but thank you for sharing Jake, a beautiful read. Here's to hoping on the extraordinarily unlikeliness you'll still be with us in your 50s.
From your friends in event ticketing: welcome to the struggle, and we're sorry.

I hope Resy figures this out, and I hope we're able to learn from (or license) their solution.

I expect their approach will look similar to our path: fight the secondary market with every legal tool, work with them when you can't, improve pricing algorithms to reduce arbitrage opportunity.

Customers on both sides of their market will probably be frustrated with each effort. They want to cook and eat, not "be in a marketplace". They will probably blame Resy.

The secondary market will probably engage legislative resources, attempting to tailor the law to protect their practices. They will probably do this "in the interest of diners". It will probably become illegal to restrict transfer of reservations, among other things.

Good luck y'all. Reach out if you need support. Love, Broadway
1. 2 laptops and quite a few servers, some remote, some local

2. While I prefer FreeBSD, I use Linux too. I think it's important to know more than one OS. Also my employer standardized on RHEL, not much choice there

3. It seems to be the one where most of the (non-strictly-security-related) innovation takes place, and many of the OpenBSD security related innovation trickle down reasonably soon.

4. Docker (hate it, love it, but so much software is distributed in this way now), recent WiFi adapters/standards

5. ZFS (I know it's possible on Linux too now, but good luck convincing my employer, anything not covered by support is a tough cookie there), ZFS, ZFS, dtrace, its very nice update/upgrade process, a sane and quite rich base system, the Ports collection, its very nice handbook and documentation.
Which is an ipad use case, I think people aren't so offended by the air, which could be viewed as "ipad with keyboard" but by the macbook pro with 8G, because presumably a person using it for "pro" work would be doing some heavy lifting to justify the "pro" bit.

But, I think pretty much everyone understands apple tends to have a social signaling aspect tied to it, too. This is why you see plenty of PowerPoint warriors/middle mgmt toting them around too, because "pro" even though their use case for the machine is frequently little more than light office work (ppt/word/excel). So, why not offer it with 8G, they get their social signalling for cheap, and everyone else gets to pay $$$$ for the real configuration.
There's literally one monopoly where I live and that is the state alcohol monopoly
I have never been able to fathom how people put so much effort into remakes of old games instead of, say, creating new games. It doesn't mean you have to do commercial "indie" games. Old games are cool, but what would be cooler is new old games.
Thank you, this is precisely what sort of conversation I was trying to elicit. If anything, realizing that Einstein's intellect, while tremendous, is something we can wrap our heads around. He always seemed like a quality, if a bit unfocused, academic who managed to put himself in the right places at the right times and accomplished tremendous things as a result. A testament to the fact that one doesn't have to be a von Neumann level genius to affect science in earth shattering ways.
My impression is that the more ambitious and intellectually demanding the less of a chance you will see it succeed in Sweden, at least if its software. So sure, if you want to build a consumer app that plays music or lets you talk to friends then Sweden is great. If you want to build OpenAI, then not so much.
Migrating SecureDrop's PGP Back End from GnuPG to Sequoia
Commodore 64 around $600. My first computer and my mom bought it for me (we were struggling). We drove to a barn computer store like 30 miles away. Now I earn a great living through things I type into a computer.
We already have the third amendment.
And sometimes, entire nations. Qatar used to share a single IPv4 address, which I found out when news articles started reporting that the entire country could no longer edit Wikipedia without an account, which at the time, was also restricted if your IP was banned from anonymous edits. If you didn't create an account prior to the ban, you were completely blocked from editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69

https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/01/wikipedia-bans-qatar/
This is a cool project, and I'm sure it has many benefits beyond just carbon savings. But 21,000 tonnes per year is surprisingly little in the scheme of things. Equivalent of about 150 or so long-haul 777 flights?