skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony sold its Trinitron manufacturing line to a plant in India but they were only using it to recycle CRT tubes for the local market a couple of years ago and I think they shut down too since COVID.

Making CRT tubes is art and skill and a lot of the technology would have to be literally redeveloped as there aren't the skilled hands left on the planet to produce the tubes we were producing in the early '00s.

I have a huge desire for this kind of equipment due to my arcade/gaming hobby but it's a long-term losing play to try and maintain this stuff.
Holiday Reminder to Change Your Keyboard Layout and Self-Improve [video]
Oldie but a goodie. More people should check out Ben Vallack, who takes working ergonomics hacking to an extreme degree. He inspires lots of modifications that I make to my own work+keyboarding habits.

The extended vacation periods that people tend to take at the end of the year (and the start of New Years Resolutions) is a good reminder as any that you can take advantage of this time to improve your personal productivity by switching away from QWERTY to a new keyboard layout, as well as changing your keyboard switch type and physical board.

Is it time to learn how to use layers (and put those programming symbols under your faster fingers)? QMK/ZMK firmware perhaps? What about programming your keyboard for combos+macros to speed up your work?

A big reward in doing all this is, of course why else: comfort and the promotion of lazyness. Maybe a combo to pop up a terminal and reattach to a tmux sesh, or a digital dashboard or to tail -f a log that you have to stare at often?

Switching layouts to better ones that lower your hand stress allow you to type for far longer before feeling tension. There's also many more layouts than just Dvorak and Colemak. Canary is a very good high-rolling layout that feels butter-smooth and flowy when typing at high speeds.
They started working on a bridge. I have endlessly begged them to make one.

https://github.com/beeper/googlevoice

If I knew Go I would roll up my shelves and work on this myself.
You're controlling the flow of water through the steam generator.
No, that's not what pricing in externalities is. It'd be taxing at whatever level is necessary to pay for the damages caused, not at the level that forces people not to do the damage.
A lot of console and arcade games up through roughly the first Playstation arguably look better on a CRT than with any amount of upscaling or smoothing or whatever, even without factoring in nostalgia.

But of course we have shaders for that, now, that can get one pretty damn close and take up zero extra space in one's house.
... That’s because William Shockley was more or less a Nazi.

... (“The Treacherous Eight,” in tech lore)

This whole section is just a bit off, I feel like cory's political agenda is bending the story. They would have stayed and worked with him but not for him, they tried... They weren't "treacherous" they were traitorous.

As for the whole non compete MA vs CA... well the boston area is loaded with all sorts of labs, doing all sorts of drug dev still. The non competes make more sense in that industry, where projects take years, and you dont want anything to slip out before your patent is filed. Bad for one kind of tech, good for another kind... it was a choice.

Cory used to be great, he was fresh and pithy. Hes got a Stalman like zelosy now, without the monotonic message.
While it is possible they throw it all away:

1. If a third-party does their link-shortening, which gets the program text, then - it doesn't matter how nice they are. And if that party is Google then, well...

2. The language you quoted still allows them to keep effectively all information through mining aspects of it rather than keeping the entire code as a stretch of plain text.

3. If GodBolt or its servers are subject to US law, then there might be National Security Letters which compel it to pass information on to the US government, and keep that secret. And this is not a conspiracy theory, this what Snowden has exposed about Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo etc.

So - I respect and like the GodBolt'ers, but you don't have a good guarantee of your data being kept private.
TikTok Shop sells $7M of product a day in US
But then you might as well get a real CRT to go along with your real consoles, and get the actual childhood experience of zero-lag inputs and CRT blur smoothing out the image.

Why spend more money on an inferior experience? CRTs might be out of production, but there's still plenty floating on ebay.
This is not what they are protecting against. They are worried about it leaking personal information or copyrighted material.
I, personally, hate those features. Tab groups were just added to my browser, and my first thought was how to turn it off.

Firefox initially won users by being the fastest. And then lost users when it wasn't the fastest.
> And its not even CRT, that would actually make sense

> Size also way to small

These statements are a bit of a contradiction since these old systems were commonly run on 14" CRTs.
The implied joke is they're talking about regular employees. Seems like you're thinking of CEOs?
As an Android user who texts with other Android users, RCS works just fine. Automatic e2e encryption whenever it's available, reactions work (and support every unicode emoji, not just the 6 Apple supports), threading works perfectly, photos and videos come through in full quality.

Recently Google Messages started automatically translating the shitty little 'So-and-so hearted "<previous message>"' SMS messages Apple sends out from iMessage into reactions as well.

It's genuinely quite good. I prefer it over Signal when I know the other person has an Android too.
> I don't find it that confusing, to be honest.

I would say it's not all that complicated what is going on. I would say that you can figure it out if you have experience reading queries.

I would never say it's not confusing. Just because the query engine can parse and generate an execution plan and you can understand how and why it's doing what it decides to do doesn't mean it's not confusing. "Confusing" doesn't mean "incomprehensible." It is confusing. It's confusing in almost the same way that "6÷2(1+2) = ?" viral equation is confusing [0] or the Fast Inverse Square Root is confusing. This query is unconventional.

Not "unconventional" in the sense that it's uncommon (although it is also that). It's unconventional in the sense that it goes against established conventions. Humans don't write queries that way. This query violates the collective query conventions of the SQL community. People don't write queries like this or teach writing queries like this because it's not a particularly useful or portable pattern to put the aggregate value of the outside query in the SELECT clause of an inside correlated subquery. There are better ways to write this query. Because of that, it's not clear what the author's intent was or why they would choose to write it thus instead of, well, nearly any other way that a human would actually choose beforehand. It's so unconventional that the intent is uncertain, and "uncertainty of intent" is another way to say "confusing."

Code is not valuable because it executes. Code is valuable because the programmer, the computer, and any future programmer agree on the intent with no uncertainty. That's why over the long term clarity is often more potent than cleverness.

[0]: https://youtu.be/4x-BcYCiKCk
Stupid show. I watched the entire first season waiting for the guy to turn out to be an alien and then I find out it's in the second season and it's just a UFO sighting.
This piece does seem incomplete, starting off with a big grammar issue

> [...], so much so that when it turned out that one of the books had “at least 95 separate passages” of plagiarism, including “long sections of a chapter on the cardiac health of giraffes.”

"so much so that when ..." what?!

meta commentary?
The creator of this is screwing things up for everyone. If it was an obscure, open source project Apple would probably let it slide and we’d be able to enjoy this indefinitely. This has been the case for Hackintosh stuff and the like.

But no, the author had to make a dumb, flashy looking website that looks like they’re advertising a product built around reverse engineered Apple tech. I bet they get a Cease and Desist by the end of the week and the hole is patched shortly after.
We Translated Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham in French
Wine is not a relevant comparison in this situation, since it cannot be more repairable or have longevity compared to other wine.

For a product you can use over and over and/or repair, a percentage tax would make it so buying the low quality version 5 times is more expensive than buying the high quality version 1 time.

For example, right now I buy a pair of shoes every 6 months or so from Costco for $25/$30.

With a 100% excise tax, these shoes would cost me $100 or more, and a higher quality pair of $100 shoes that lasts 2 years would interest me instead.
Bridging the blue bubble moat.
Filters like that would look cool, but would introduce at least 1 frame of latency, which isn't great, especially if the input is 30i or similar.
Mastodon devs admit some endpoints should be CORS enabled, and did so. Whatever you do to make this fact "fit" your logic should be extended to the other endpoints. Glitch already extended it.
The question here IMAO is if they escaped by their own means or received external help.

Similar history happened in other zoos subject to animalist harassment (with "free the chimps" campaigns for months if I remember correctly). Finally the chimps escaped somehow in 2015. One was shooted and the other died drowned not much later. Maybe somebody naively expected a different outcome or even still regret to participate in that campaigns. We'll never know.

Chimps are known to be furry Houdinis in any case, but yes, they can be very dangerous.
False equivalence. GP complained about a specific behavior, not about specific people.
Desktops, I'd agree. My experience with most Windows laptops, non-Thinkpad class, is that they physically haven't been able to survive that long. Like, people rag rightly on the butterfly keyboard era of Macbook Pros, but until recently you'd see pretty drastic hinge or keyboard or touchpad or case failures on even fairly expensive laptops. Especially as you get into more slimline/ultrabook form factors; I've seen some really bludgeoned Dells and HPs in particular. (Though I liked my Spectre x360 aside from the party where it fell apart in normal everyday use.)

I recently took a 2012 rMBP out of rotation (~five years dedicated use, the last five intermittently as a Logic Pro workstation) and now it's a Kubernetes homelab node. But I took it out because Thunderbolt 3 now means I can just slot my M1 Max into my workspace and don't need a dedicated box; the keyboard, touchpad, hinge, screen, and case are all pristine, I didn't remove it due to hardware expiry.
Sounds like fantasy
I could write Spotify in like a weekend or two tops! I don't see the need for all that dead weight. Personally, I don't like coding mobile apps, so idk maybe hire like 2 people (1 Android and 1 iOS) dev for that. I'll do the backend. Easy savings really.
I'd say failed cover up is 100% damage, but "don't bother" is under 100%. A failed cover up is always worse than the initial screw up. E.g. this exact case, which went from civil penalties (loss of pilot's license) to criminal (jail time) AND civil penalties due to the failed cover up.
I feel you, got the mail today saying I need 2FA by January 19th. So bye bye github and thanks for all the fish.

Codeberg looks interesting. (I have most git stuff also on a private server.)

I don't mind 2FA if it is password and email, but github's 2FA requires an app (but I have no smartphone) or a GSM number and they ain't getting that.
I simply refuse to work with code written by people who have had a hundred such harebrained ideas. No luck needed, but thanks!
Who needs Deno? When you have https://github.com/oven-sh/bun
Nice.

You could use open data from Congress, and do this to present a "who introduced / co sponsored which bill" web. Probably get some commercial users of that if you wanted.
There was a guy who helped his daughter build a computer in an ADM3A-styled case (except pink because preteen girl).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PpshgGD0aac

I think the case is available on Thingiverse or similar. Go nuts and print your own!
I mean… yes, that is generally how subscriptions work. Google and Apple make it relatively easy to cancel in-app subscriptions.
There are some user-submitted levels in The Powder Toy that cover a subset of your requirements: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=5170
In his defense, the new composition API is really good. At the level of react hooks vs class components good
Cost is one factor, but so is visibility. If we replaced humans following people around with cheap human-sized robots following people around, it would still be noticeable if everybody had a robot following them around.

Instead we track people passively, often with privately owned personal devices (cell phones, ring doorbells) so the tracking ability has become pervasive without any of the overt signs of a police state.
Although English is the most-contributed language, one of the goals of Common Voice is to support languages that wouldn’t normally receive attention from commercial providers.
I appreciate that they’re trying to build something with the form (4:3) and input selection of a retro display. Unfortunately, most people interested in a CRT will not be interested in this. The whole reason to get a CRT is because you’re interested in the specific look of glowing phosphors as well as the extremely low latency of the raster scan which produces a responsiveness and fluidity for retro games (which were designed for these monitors) that is tough to match.

There’s also the softness of CRTs which have an anti-aliasing effect that increases the perception of detail in retro games (by interpolating colours between adjacent pixels). This effect was really important for game designers because they were working with both very limited colour palettes and resolution (so both dithering and antialiasing were at a premium on the asset end).
NANOG relevant talk (PDF): https://archive.nanog.org/sites/default/files/10_Roisman_Tra...
It's starting to happen now.

Here is one example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot

"AI for everything you do"

"Work smarter, be more productive, boost creativity, and stay connected to the people and things in your life with Copilot—an AI companion that works everywhere you do and intelligently adapts to your needs."

If Microsoft builds them, then Google, Apple, and Samsung will too. How else will they stay competitive and relevant?
Really interesting, thanks for writing this up. I'd love to see this applied to actually playing the game, provided that you could fit a (long) game state in the context window.
I assume the average person does not care about what Rus’ means versus Russian, Belarusian, and so on?

Is there a tendency to group them together? As Russians or as Rus’?

There is a lot of cultural context that Western Europeans (inc myself) are not aware of.
> I didn't seem to miss out on a social life and I had no burn out or resentment to speak of from those days

Correction: you don't really know what you missed out on or don't value those things.
Fundraisers and waiting lists aren't really on topic for HN. There's nothing wrong with them—they just don't fit the mandate of this site, which is intellectually curious conversation. For that, it's much better when the thing exists and is available, and then there's more interesting and specific information for discussion to get into.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Certainly, this is true; but it's not really relevant to this conversation. Taxes are necessary and this is pretty solid, settled law.
A note from the pro-starvation lobby. Welcome, welcome!
Sure the customers decided, but what about their relatives? If any of my relatives uploaded their genetic info to this, it by extension has a huge part of my genetic info too, and my consent was decided without my knowlegde...

What I'm trying to say is: I don't think comparing it to equifax is reasonable in that regard.
> possibly an enlightened parent or a role model

This is typically the 'secret sauce'.
I don't believe they actually did any reverse engineering for Windows Phone Link. iOS makes SMS/iMessages available over Bluetooth as part of its support for the Message Access Profile [1], intended for sending messages using a car infotainment system. This requires a physical iOS device to be located in proximity of the Windows device.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102842
They're the government. They can create a spec or standard for browsers to be able to use government supplied digital services. It's done all the time.

This would be beneficial guidance for browser developers, but also for anyone developing government sites. Saying "whatever chrome is doing is our standard" is a cop out.
I run Firefox with uBlock Origin enabled and set the Firefox enhanced privacy settings to the strictest settings. I haven't done anything special to get Xero working - never had any issues.
He has time to post about the Roman empire on him but not time to deliver my pizza apparently
until DNA sequences having features allowing cellular transfection [entry], and integration [inserting into host DNA] is found in vaccine, there is no basis for concern.

specific modification of a sequence of DNA is required for transfection, and integration. this is not a random occurance, and even best case outcome, is less than 10% success, and requires supportive conditions.
Receiving videos which aren't crunched down to 320x240 resolution would be nice.
You're kidding, right? YT Music is like a 20 songs playlist. It's not worth anybody's time even if it's free.
> so it adds almost nothing to the CPU time.

If two threads go to CAS-sort at the same time, the cache coherency overhead would be apocalyptically bad. I'm assuming that's not what you meant?
It's not too hard to think through -

They would need to accept and verify a flag from messages that the copycats can't reproduce. At the very least that would require a client update from anyone using official iMessage clients, which covers many millions of devices.

Unless they're able to hook into already existing flags/keys on the devices since they already verify application signatures and a whole other host of things.

Apple can probably do it, but much like jailbreaking how fast can they release breaking changes?
It's some two dozen passenger trains.
I think it's a few bucks, relative to the cost of a house. If you're paying for an electrician, you probably own the house. Compared to the cost of a house, a one-time visit by an electrician is a small amount.

And running wire in a house as it's being constructed is going to be far less expensive than doing it after the fact. I'd much rather add, for e.g., the ability to charge a car in the garage while the house is getting built, than after.
A quick look at Mozilla's product page with 12 products of which five are different browsers, explains why the decline has happened:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/

That's a lot of products to support. Add to that this list of 27 discontinued products:

https://killedbymozilla.com/

And you can understand why the struggle is real for firefox. It should be the best, bar none at this point.
I wouldn't be surprised if they in fact do have a list of serial numbers for all the mac, ios, tvos devices they have ever sold, linked with some corresponding device-unique public key data?
I agree it seems overblown. I haven't encountered a site that doesn't work. Even google meet and zoom's web client work great.

Not sure what all the fuss is about. It's a great browser. Chrome got very, very aggravating and I've had no problems since switching maybe 4 years ago. Even FF mobile works well.
Ask HN: Best Approach to Appraise a .ai Domain?
How can I accurately determine the value of my domain, ninja.ai, in the current market conditions?

I was planning to use it for my own AI related project (and am reluctant to part with it), but multiple folks have reached out about the domain.
> "so much so that when ..."

This is a common enough turn of phrase, at least in my corner of the world. What's your problem with it?

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/sentences/english/so-much-...
That would make sense: because Apple have deeply coupled iMessage to the OS they can’t simply roll out a new version of the app with protocol changes that would block Beeper, they’d have to release entire OS updates.

No matter the method it would be a scorched earth approach. I suspect the number of people actually using Beeper will be far below a rounding error for Apple.
Fully agree, but you're even burying the lede here. He didn't just write the blog post, he wrote pypush itself.
> how they only want the best candidates and how hard their interviewing process is

I sometimes feel like those algorithmic challenges at interviews are more for making developers feel they work at the "top team" than filtering the candidates. I am not salty about it - I am very good at those, did lots of Topcoder back in the day.

Most of the people in the industry agree that they have a terrible signal-to-noise ratio (or any other standardized interview method for developers). Any method that works doesn't scale, but large IT corps don't want to hear that.
Some links (and more alt keyboard layout propaganda)

*Discord Servers*
Alt Keyboard Layouts- <https://discord.gg/2qq8qmDtFf>
Same but on matrix - <https://matrix.to/#/!iZdsjIZXWPXnohYGdD:matrix.org>
Dvorak - <https://discord.gg/yHydf7FWTp>
Colemak - <https://discord.gg/3VsHDG86hM>
Monkeytype - <https://discord.gg/FcjrA7pBpG>
Rus Keyboard Layouts - <https://discord.gg/QmAbR3tGpz>
Babymak (not a joke) - <https://discord.gg/frtQHGrNwm>
sounds like you have a plan! go for it!
It's been around for ages, and Apple has taken no action so far.
EU court lowers requirements for imposing fines for data protection breaches
How's it working out for you? I have similar plans and have most of the big pieces budgeted / ideated. But realistically I'm still 1 to 2 years out.
Some interesting legal interpretations, among these the strengthening of the negligence liability doctrine, the conclusion that fines can be imposed also to processors and jointly to joint controllers, and the instruction that the amount of fines should be determined according to the total worldwide annual turnover.

A press release from the court:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
I didn't know ColdFusion was still a thing.
Do CRT filters actually need to buffer an entire frame, or is that just commonplace because it's the easy way to do things when you're implementing them in software? It seems like if FPGA based upscaling with CRT emulation is in scope, it shouldn't need to delay the signal by more than a few scanlines.
> I know of several similar idioms in other languages. I don't understand why the article makes it our to be unique.

“Add oil” is such a common phrase for encouragement among Cantonese speakers that it featured prominently in the last two major Hong Kong protests in 2014 and 2019.

As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, the Lennon Wall (protest message board) was called “add oil machine” in 2014. And the “Hong Kong Add Oil” ambigram was extremely popular among protesters in 2019, and is now banned under the National Security Law [1].

I doubt “add oil” in other languages enjoys such a unique cultural status as in Cantonese.

[1] https://hongkongfp.com/2021/01/10/skin-in-the-game-hong-kong... :

> his first protest-related tattoo, which is an ambigram combining the Chinese characters for “Hong Kong” and “Add oil,” was intended as proof he was not an undercover police officer.
Philosophy of Biff