skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't understand why people don't apologize when they are wrong. It's not like people forget what you have said if you never admit your fault. Especially when you are a leader, admitting fault only makes people like you more.
Yes, the UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive. It was on IA for a while but has been forced underground for legal reasons. You can still find copies pretty easily.

https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive
I'm such a third party, could do it.

I could't care less about restoring BBC history if BBC themselves don't care enough to lay down a legal way for this to happen without my help.
In the last year or so they sold Domains from underneath without warning. They also apparently changed the settings on two older Gmail accounts to make them inaccessible.

I kept those accounts around because they had a maiden name and other services tied to them, I know for a fact at least one of them has an alternative contact email. There's no information on recovery and no way to contact anybody.

Maybe it's just timing, but, it feels like in the last year or so, things have especially been going downhill with them and there have been more Google related fires to fight.

As a result, I've moved my team off Workspaces and I'm winding down that Google org. And no, Google, I'm not signing up for YouTube Premium. I previously thought things were decoupled decently from Google and enough fallbacks were in place, but now I see the company as a clear risk and am doing everything I can to avoid it.
> But the flip side of this story is one of risk. Each of these companies represents an important micro pinch point in the global economy. If we are now living through a new Cold War, and if that Cold War begins to affect global trade (this might already be happening) then

He missed an even more important point. That is, globalization's foundation is ultra-inexpensive shipping of raw goods, parts, and then finished product.

Long to short, globalization is dependent on the status quo fuel. That is oil. Lots of cheap oil. So the risk isn't simply from the bottlenecks and lack of economic diversity. It that globalization perpetuates a status quo that favors climate change.
One example: A farmer might choose to sell his produce at cost so it won't rot, so he can pay his bills and so the surrounding population can eat.

A profit would be nice, but there's more to it than profit, e.g. paying the bills and social stability.
The authors won the 2020 materials science ignobel.

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
I have been using impulse responses on Linux via EasyEffects for a while now. This is not new to Linux.
Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated
For our region that limit is set to 1000. That might sound like a lot when you start, but you quickly realise it’s easy to reach once you have enough Lambdas and you scale up. We found ourselves hitting that limit a lot once our traffic and therefore our demands from our system started scaling.

You can file a support ticket to have that limit raised.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/r...
the paradox of the internet era
It isn't blaming the victim. I think they meant something else but worded it that way. What they meant was 'redefining the victim'. The victim is the bank, who got defrauded. They then call it 'identity theft' instead of 'bank fraud'.
https://wanderinginn.com/ Warning: there's quite a lot to read and it's not finished yet
They're trying to prevent scalpers from buying the trucks just to resell them at a profit. Not sure how well that will work or if it's legal but Tesla is acknowledging that they're leaving money on the table or at least trying to create the perception that they are.
Yumi Arai took her husband last name after marrying him and started releasing under her new name Yumi Matsutoya.

Taking your spouse name is so ordinary I’m surprised no example of it made the list in TFA.

On Apple Music they note she changed name in the bio of Yuki Arai and then in their list of similar artists they link to Yumu Matsutoya.
Umm, yes?

If I have a lock on my door that successfully prevented 99 people from breaking in, but one skilled lockpicker subverted it, then my lock has failed.
Let's assume good intent here. Whether you realize it or not, you've basically derived the 1350 racist symbol [1].

But I want you to think about something in case this wasn't an intentionally racist statement: if the black population is overrepresented in crime statistics ask yourself why. The answer will fall into one of two buckets:

1. Intrinsic factors. This includes "culture", which is just a very thin veneer on racism. Believing any of these is just racism whether you realize it or not; or

2. Extrinsic factors: this is something in the environment, something external to the people involved. A big one here is socioeconomic status (ie poverty). The link between poverty and crime and has been known for thousands of years. Aristotle wrote "Poverty is the parent of crime".

[1]: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1352-1390
I’m curious how adding this layer of additional flow analysis will impact compilation times. The article sort of glosses over this risk with worrying phrases like “hopefully efficient enough” and “harder to do efficiently”. The scope of what’s still left to do and even undesigned also makes the goal of incorporating this into the 2024 edition seem quite optimistic.
I bought a bunch of the 16Mbit flash variant for an embedded project but sadly it looks like the firmware always gets corrupted on write, and have gotten no reply from Bouffalo

https://github.com/bouffalolab/bouffalo_sdk/issues/92
I mean a vendor-specific DSP/speakersafetyd/hardware chain being exposed as the onboard speaker device for certain laptops, instead of the raw device.

This has never existed as an OOTB experience. In Apple's case, it's absolutely necessary to avoid blowing up the speakers - hence why they disabled speaker output before the audio chain was done.
I keep thinking about why we’re going through this effort rather that using trees, which can also be harvested for lumber and the sequester that carbon in construction.

My super rough math, from quick Google searches, this unit 1,000 tons per year. A mature tree is estimated to capture 48 pounds per year. That would be about 42,000 trees. At roughly, 100-200 trees per acre. Let’s just say 150, so that’s 280 acres of forest/trees to roughly match to performance of the system. Granted, it’s on much less land, but still.

That doesn’t seem like a lot of land when you consider that large protected parks like Yosemite are 759,620 acres.
I've started tracking an index of projects and their status in Notion. Then I create an extra page based on a template to put things on hold but make them resumable in the future.

In my index, I track: name, status (active, paused, inactive), description, goal and a link to the archive doc if it exist.

My archive doc looks like this (I generally delete any sections that aren't relevant to keep these easy to create):

# <TITLE>
### *Handoff to Future Me: <project name>*
### *Snapshot Date*: <date>
---
### *Project Summary*
- *Objective*: Briefly state what you're trying to achieve.
- *Motivation*: What drove you to start this project?
- *Current State*: Is it in the ideation phase, research phase, or have you already built something?
---
### *Essential Context*
- *Related Projects or Dependencies*: Are there any other projects or tasks that are connected to this one?
- *Technical Specs*: For example, in your lamp project, what type of metal, what voltage for the lamp, etc.
- *Non-Standard Tools & Environment*: Any unique or specific tools you're using. For example, a specific code IDE or a special type of screwdriver.
---
### *Progress and Milestones*
- *Last Completed Milestone*: What was the last significant thing you accomplished?
- *Next Steps*: Like you said, for your lamp: research, clean metal, buff, etc.
- *Stumbling Blocks*: Any challenges you foresee or have encountered?
- *Any Experiments/Tests Conducted*: Brief on what you've tried and the outcomes.
---
### *Resources*
- *Important Files & Locations*: Where are the project assets or codebase stored?
- *Reference Material*: Links to guides, tutorials, or papers that are crucial.
- *Key Contacts*: Who can you consult about this? Even if it's an online community.
---
### *Handoff Summary*
- *Why Stopping*: Why are you pausing this project?
---
### *Notes to Future Me*
- Personal notes, reminders, or advice to your future self about the project.
By forking the dependencies, I meant having a copy of them in my namespace, not cloning them in my project...
There's already largely cashless societies such as Sweden, where less than 2% of transactions are in cash. All these hypothesis are testable.

We can do material analysis. Observable reality matters, right?
Sometimes you see the same song rank twice in most played list on streaming services because there is both a single and an album version of the song.
It massively limits human creativity and productivity all for protectionism under the guise of safety
I wouldn’t say it’s about forcing yourself to bend the elbows at 90 degrees rather than being in a position in which your elbows are naturally relaxed at approximately 90 degrees, give or take. It’s definitely worse if the angle is sharper, but I haven’t been comfortable with my arms straightened much further beyond that either. I suspect gravity’s impact on blood flow, perhaps it’s individual.

Split keyboards are definitely a rabbit hole one might want to explore, but it’s just logistically difficult to find a good unit that Just Works(tm), is configured or easily configurable as one would expect, doesn’t incur extra latency, is compact enough if you want to work from somewhere else, has key caps you want, is in stock, etc. Meanwhile, external mechanical wireless keyboards with good Cherry switches are available from the usual retailers these days and they take you 90% of the way if you’re currently working with a laptop as is (where your screen cannot be anywhere other than at the level of your hands and vice-versa). Thus, to me the returns of split keyboards are diminishing—to anyone who has wrist or other working posture-related issues and works on a laptop without a dedicated keyboard, I’d say fix that ASAP before starting to geek out on splits.

PS. To be honest, based on my experience, on some of those photos people’s positions look very uncomfortable for every other reason besides the split.
And Black Swan events do happen, it’s like the fact that growing up my town got hit by a 100 year flood. Twice.

But in the wake of Covid when it comes to business analysis I think that we now have a different outlook on why is variable and what is not. We might have gotten a little too high and mighty with our assumptions.

There are still things that will never change about the base relationship you have with your customers if you have a viable business model though.
If the promises of small modular nuclear reactors comes to pass[0], we can have hydrocarbon-free shipping without much difficulty.

Even without that, there are solutions.

[0] I'm not holding my breath but I'll be happy if it does work out. IMO the biggest problem isn't even making them work, it's making them safe against deliberate tampering by highly motivated people with a lot of time on their hands.
Why did you pick bootloaders instead of the more obvious example of battery replacement that any average person can understand - it's cheaper if it's not locked/less controlled by Apple via various means? Also don't see the connection with Apple Store - their implied ability to fix it isn't impugned in this case
> These surfaces at scale will be a game changer for fighting climate change.

Aren’t the materials just reflecting heat into the atmosphere, which due to human activity has greater heat carrying capacity?

The materials would be good for reducing energy consumption (cost-benefit ratio tbd).
This is done so that the programmer doesn't have to reason about it. Polonius makes the compiler accept code that's obviously valid, but the current borrow checker isn't sophisticated enough to declare it as safe.

I've bumped into this kind of problem when writing rust, at first it was hard to understand why the compiler doesn't accept my code.
I don't know if you have some bizarre scroll library implemeted on your link or if you just absolutely overloaded the page with resources but scroll is extremely sluggish and laggy.
Brian Chesky's Framework for Product Management, Inspired by Steve Jobs
Developer Tools – dupkey
This year I finally assembled my collection of developer tools. Code beautifiers, converters, calculators ++

https://dupkey.com

Originally, I set out to make single-purpose tools, but there ended up being some overlap and an excessive amount of color model converters.
I wish I had started building these a long time ago but the second best time is now.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A Beautiful TikZ (LaTeX) Calendar by Overleaf Community TeXpert Lian Tze
> compiled .exe files

> Not sure what to do with these besides deleting

I was recently digging through some old backups for fun, and have so many little exe's I built in highschool and college just laying around.

I moved to Mac shortly after college and made the questionable decision to back up my old hard drives as Mac .dmg files before getting rid of the computers, so getting the exe's into a running version of Windows to even test is a pain.

A lot of the older ones are pretty neat little games and graphics demos made for DOS. Be neat to get a little VM up on my site running some of these but I suspect it might be a pretty large undertaking.
So the brain uses floating-point with only two bits for the mantissa. ;)
Oh boy, here we go. The endless excuses. Excuses instead of accountability just perpetuates situations like this and actually prevents any change.
I saw that and it's like...take my money!
I don't want to be the stereotypical HN negative Nancy but I am not holding my breath for Cybertruck's success. It seems quite a crowded market already and so far I have not read anything that would make Cybertruck stand out from its competitors. Other than its appeareance - which many have opinions about. Bulletproof chassis seems rather low-impact advantage. The roller cover seemed nice but apparently nothing unique.

Especially as a thrifty consumer the 200$ a month subscription seems insane. That's more than the electricity you use! But maybe I just don't understand it. From European perspective, it seems rather ill-fitted at least. A working man would still buy a van and a city-dweller something sleeker.
If I understand the article correctly (and I'm not a Rust programmer), the above is an optimization that permits the programmer to write code that is correct with regard to object lifetimes, but currently rejected by the compiler. This is because the current borrowing model is too simple to account for that particular case, and hence, a new model is being developed that makes compiling this code possible without sacrificing correctness.

But, still, the whole selling point of Rust is "flow-sensitive analysis (...) for a language feature that affects whether code is accepted or rejected". Accepting or rejecting some code based on whether it fits the memory model of that language is the main advantage that Rust has over other strongly typed statically compiled languages.
That’s not a tautology: understanding the root cause of a problem is necessary to implement a beneficial response.

In this particular case, we need to intervene at the cultural, familial, etc levels rather than harassing police for responding to crime as it happens — or blaming them for treating groups disproportionately when those groups act disproportionately.

“De-policing” stems from ignorance (or intentional denial) of that root cause, and thus amounts to blaming the police/courts/etc for doing their job — stopping crime.
My entire neighbourhood was mostly an empty field at that point.
It is exactly like that on the Nokia Internet tablets. Speaker protection is literally the role of xprot, which is integrated into pulseaudio -- "necessary to prevent the speakers from blowing out". It even depends on things like the ambient temperature.
Since scarcity is false, can you get me some white rhino horn? Supply and demand work because scarcity exists. Note: I don't actually want endangered species parts.
I do use DSP under Linux with easyeffects. I found a preset called "Laptop Unsuck" which works ok-ish, but I can't find the original URL after a quick search. It works OK for my needs, but easyeffects does add some latency, which isn't great for videoconferencing for example.

However, most people will probably not go out of their way to use this, and also, having a DSP tailored to the specific speakers and enclosure is nice. But I agree there should be a way to completely disable this, at least when using the line out jack, be it for headphones or an external audio system.

> But I guess tiny speakers are occasionally useful.

They are to me. My laptop is much easier to carry on planes than my audio system, and I don't always like having headphones on, for example when watching a movie in bed.
The universe recycles itself and has no feelings.
I also think of pudding guy every time something like this comes up.
I think the idea is that targetted ads and the whole "manipulation" industry can profile you so well, nowadays that you are coerced into buying products you might not have wanted to buy, however by abusing your emotions and interests, they successfully manage to scam you into buying.
This is a consequence on the individual, hence why the briefing come into play.
It's a huge thing because you can't really fit all the big speakers and audio stuff in tiny laptops and make them sound good. So we use extra steps (the DSP for example) to adjust how the speakers and amplifiers are controlled. Doing it this way allows us to have much better sound from tiny micro speakers. This is important because the alternatives are:

- Bad sound and nothing you can do about it
- No sound at all
- Carry external speakers with you all the time

Where in the past it was impossible to both have physically small devices and good sound, technological advances have enabled us to do more with less. So adding that technology means we can now have better sound than in the past.
> What I am trying to say is that since there is no guarantee that the next president will be good it would be wise never to accept intrusive spying. No I don't think spy agencies should wiretap the phones of their allies leaders, if they are allies. That would be dishonorable and shameful

Criminals are not usually ashamed, I think the part you don't get is that clandestine arms of spy agencies are essentially state sponsored criminal agencies. Like APT hackers for example, every country hacks other countries (major ones anyways), and of course that is criminal and dishonorable but it is the norm and you have consented to it by your votes.

> Yeah which I think reflects really unfavorably on the politicians in both the EU and the US.

In my experience it is also the people. Most regular people don't care or it is at least not a big deal so long as their economy and security is improving. Politicians are merely representing the people.

> Diplomacy can still be based on threats of violence, so that doesn't really impress me very much

Yes, but people don't bleed or die when threatened, so point still stands.

> People in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, Yemen and many more, might not agree with that. Furthermore Europe is being overrun by refuges created by the turmoil which also seem to point to the fact that things aren't that stable

Yes, but speaking of Ukraine, who is the main military support preventing a russian invasion? And do you recall trump being impeached over not helping Ukraine? Did the US owe them that? Who drew the maps in palestine? Brits! Who left sudan in shambles mixing christians and muslims in one country? That's right.. brits. The world is a complex place, my point is not to blame europe or morally justify the CIA. The point is history, context and intentions are plenty and the norm of spying and world relations now has resulted in peace, improvement of poverty by an insane margin and much less wars and death. Despite nukes being a thing, they so far have only been used once! That's not an accident. Wars were very common and frequent. Maybe things can improve but only if we don't forget history. Europe is being overrun because of immigration policy, similar to the US.

> You could also argue that during the USSR all the countries in that sphere where living in peace, others would say that they where living in fear of the secret police.

I would say in relative peace but with little liberty and quality of life. Stalin and Mak were arguably on the same murderous level as hitler and the japanese emperor.
That's exactly what I've been saying.

This "cloud controlled shit" is a rental with no terms and unlimited claw-back. These aren't sales.

If I had a computer, installed remote controlling malware on it, sold it, and then started exerting remote control over it, I'd be arrested and likely sentenced to fraud or hacking.

This is fraud for Apple etm to call this a "sale", and should be prosecuted as such.
But remember rule #1 of data security: if there is a way to access the data legitimately, there is a way to access it illegitimately. The only question is the amount of time and effort required to do so.
The difference between Intel and lock manufacturers is honesty.

Lock manufacturers will tell you how resistant their products are to particular attacks, eg being drilled out.

I wouldn’t say Intel sold defective products if they were honest — and said that speed ups came at the cost of chip level security. But they didn’t.

Do you believe that Intel would have sold as many chips if they’d been honest — “our products are faster than before by trading your security for speed”?
I think it's supposed to be a kind of in-kernel equivalent to Pulseaudio and Pipewire, meant to keep the sound output below the limit where it would risk blowing the speakers. That's a nice idea, and you could even pick a cool name for it, like Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It could even support things like the hardware mixing channels, filter chains, sample-based synthesizers etc. that some soundcards have, instead of leaving it all to software.
My father did enormous panoramic photography. Fully down the path you’re going. They are very cool - but most of them live rolled up in tubes. They’re simply too hard to display outside of a gallery.

Edit: they really are beautiful. This was not meant to dissuade.
In many places, it's a crime according to the law, but if nothing happens with thieves or reported theft, then in terms of consequences it's not a crime.
DIY passive radiative cooling paint [video]
I completely agree with you. Too many CEOs and board members view their companies as numbers on a spreadsheet without understanding what they do in a practical sense or knowing what it's like to be a customer.
> but in my ~15 years of owning non-apple phones and laptops

> I've never had one stolen

> Have I just been very lucky?

No you’re not lucky. Your items aren’t worth stealing. Rarely does anyone steal android devices, or windows laptops the resale value isn’t there. Which should be obvious to the most casual observer.
We're talking days of downtime.
A closed source app like that seems like the worst choice for an "archive". Better to use a format that you can easily backup and that will still be readable in many years like a simple text file.
Their decision not to fix is not the problem, their decision to keep the flaw a secret and sell products with a performance expectation set and then release patches that slow down that paid for performance is.
What a waste, than just stick with C.
> without much difficulty

This may be a underestimate of what would actually be involved with this change.
Only URLs are unique identifiers by construction so I think you're right.
Wouldn't work.