skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and the GP are misremembering (also the abundant misinformation sticking around the web is of no help). CD-R are mostly obsolete but some of us still have working equipment and do continue to burn CD-R, so that era hasn't completely ended.

No idea exactly what you're referring to taking several times longer, perhaps software was misconfigured.
However what is more likely: The market was flooded with terrible quality media, combined with touting write speeds that were more for marketing than any concern for integrity, it was easy to burn discs just at the edge of readability, with marginal signal and numerous errors. This would cause effective read speed to be terrible, but this was more an indication that the discs were poor quality and/or poorly written then any inherent limitations in the process or how drives worked.

There are 48X "max" CD burners. But that maximum is no different than the maximum for reading. It's MAX because that speed is only attainable at the extreme outside of the disc. These higher speed drives operate with constant angular velocity (essentially a fixed RPM). In order to attain 52X at the inside of the disc would require a speed of around 30k RPM and no CD drive gets anywhere near that (though this was a common misconception). The top RPM for half height drives is around 10k - or about 50x the linear velocity of a CD at the outside.

Currently I usually use an Lite-On iHAS124 DVD/CD burner made in the last 6 years. It will write at up-to 48X and this speed is the maximum. The average burn speed for an entire disc when using "48x" is about 25x, or just about 3 minutes for the disc. For supported media it runs at a constant angular velocity around 10k RPM.

Exact Audio Copy / Red Book CD audio ripping is an entirely different subject. It can take longer due to cache busting and other issues that have nothing to do with the physical capabilities of the drive and more to do with the difficulty of directly streaming Red Book Audio, and issues with specific drives and their firmware. You can read at top speed though with a properly configured setup, I do it all the time.
Mikrotik is the way.
Surely enough people would have figured it out to result in bad ratings.
It really depends on workloads. Imagine you need massive spikes of compute for, say, flash sales, or people watching the superbowl in your streaming service. Buying all that hardware for just the spikes might not make sense vs just scaling up vms in a cloud provider and scale them down.

In the real world, for baseline load, the big advantage for many large companies isn't price, but the massive lack of alacrity of many inhouse ops teams. If it takes me 3+ months to provision compute for the simplest, lowest demand services (as is the custom in many large companies full of red tape and arguments about who bears costs), letting teams just spin up anything they want and get billed directly is often a winner, even if it's more expensive. Having entire teams waste months before they can put something in prod is a very different kind of expense in itself.
Lacks a Microsoft Fluid style for Windows 11.
Wow, this is egregious. It's a fairly clear sign of things to come. If a company like Writer.com, which brands itself as a B2B platform and has gotten all kinds of corporate and media attention, isn't handling prompt injections regarding external HTTP requests with any kind of seriousness, just imagine how common this kind of thing will be on much less scrutinized platforms.

And to let this blog post drop without any apparent concern for a fix. Just... worrying in a big way.
Thanks for putting together a far more academic and well-cited response than I did. Another thing of note was banned book sales -- ranging from 1984 to The King Never Smiles -- spiked during the 2020 protests (and COVID lockdowns). Couldn't find any "official" articles on that, so take that with a grain of salt. But lots of my Thai friends were passing around copies around that time.
Maybe I'm a bit contrarian on this one but once I saw data center, Azure, and the phrase "lift and shift" it filled in a lot of context for me. I spent a lot of my early to mid career participating in these strategies. They don't work. VM images almost always are different in some way, there's something one vendor provides that another doesn't - in general there's enough minute details that add up to make a series of mini-mountains in terms of blockers.
Anyone thinking that hard drives won't be made in 5 years is deluding themselves. As long as there is demand for a lot of space per dollar (without regards to performance), and SSDs aren't cheap as dirt yet, hard drives will be the answer.

Tape drives are even cheaper, but are more exotic with higher upfront costs. Yes, tapes are still around, so why does anyone think hard drives will be any different and die sooner?

Meanwhile, I'll keep reaching for my external hard drives to backup my stuff.
IBM has a fondness for complexity that makes the current situation with cloud offerings look like children's toys.

Their Global Services division could be summarized as a War on Kernighan's Law. Find clever people, and have them strain themselves to stand up a system so complex that you not only need to keep paying GS to show up and maintain it, but in fact you probably need to hire two more people just to keep the wheels on.

That has made them many enemies on the technical side of things. People like me go out of our ways to sabotage any inroads they try to make because we know what will happen if we don't. Presentations of systems so complex you get a headache trying to wrap your mind around it.

If we talk about it, it's not for long and with as few ears to overhear as possible. It's like guerilla warfare. Targeted attacks against a foe who could crush you like a bug if they knew where to find you.

Oracle sniffing around is merely an irritation compared to the spectre of IBM GS getting their hooks into your CTO.
It's the volume problem - I'm happy to read handwritten pages of my mom's diary from the 1960s, but the reams of laser printer out put from her master's degree in 2000s? Not so much.
> "protesters used their trucks as weapons"

I don't remember such an event. In some cases, other people (not demonstrators) who were trying to cross a blockade their cars.

> "Just the claim that French protests aren't notably violent."

Sorry I didn't understand that, you are indeed right.

There is often a level of violence (see farmers or docker unions) but the Gilets Jaunes were mostly ordinary people, not the smartest, not in their best health, and they were not aggressive in most cases. They were us, feeling things were falling apart and not knowing what to do.
You're describing a system in which the HR bot is worse than useless.

Well, it was worse than useless as described in the premise by someone else as spitting out verifiably wrong information.

If a company intends an HR bot to be relied on by employees, then its words should be legally binding.

No company would would intend this, and it would be fun to see this "legally binding" status tested, because as my previous post and sibling comment lays out, it would be pretty hard to construct a plausible situation where a reasonable person believes it to be.
What does learning assembly language mean?

So right now, learning CSS is pretty difficult. But luckily CSS specs have gotten pretty similar over different browsers, so its not terribly difficult even though some things are not exactly perfect.

But Assembly Language is rather straight forward, but the difficulty is that "assembly" is really a hundred different languages that depend on the specific processor architecture you are running on, and how that platform operates.

They are really orthogonal issues in the end, and comparing them is like comparing apples with automobiles.
Full stack web UI with Blazor in .NET 8 – .NET Conf 2023 [video]
Weeks after defcon, I saw they had a job listing asking for someone with Bluetooth experience and experience preventing denial of service attacks. Sounds like they finally hired someone that knew what was going on here.
For more general design patterns for water management, see Brad Landcaster's book series, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond".

In the pictures in the article, the roads form berms, and the fields are basins. It doesn't just have to be roads -- walkways threading through a smaller scale can act as berms as well. The two volume book contains many other water harvesting structures.

As a note, Andrew Millison has a youtube video about a river system that was developed in India over the course of centuries -- deliberately engineering a delta, with flood channels. They basically did what beavers have been doing in North America (slowing down and spreading out water) for ... longer than we humans have been around.

These ideas are not new. They have been around for a long time. It's not that we found new ways to progress, but rather, rediscovering old methods that had been dropped in our rush for modernity.
Or inviting injection attacks by concatenating user data as strings into sql queries in php.
If you don’t know beforehand what “Flipper Zero” is, you can also see it as disingenuous towards Apple (“Big Evil Apple harassed another small company”, rather than “Apple fixed a security issue”)
Yeah, I've authored assembly and CSS professionally (not at the same time) and would choose CSS all day long.
I still use ed - Ed formatted patches are great for retro computing, I would very rarely use it interactively, but scripting with it is surprisingly useful.
Interesting! What is the interstellar medium? Is it entirely the combined stellar winds of all the other stars, or are there other components?

My initial intuition was to wonder why the vectors of all the other stellar winds wouldn't be expected to nearly cancel each other out, but then it seems like the ones that would be pushing in the same direction as the sun's would have been blocked on the other side of the sphere, so it does seem to make sense that the net direction would be to point inward. But then I realized that I have no idea if any of that reflects an accurate mental model of what's going on :)
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For devices like smartphones, laptops, CPU/GPUs and so on
My five-year-old loves her complex enterprise system.
Fear of misuse of personal data is capable, of constituting non-material damage [pdf]
Is this something inherent in CGO implementation? If your dependency happened because the compiled library depended on it, do you know that that is probably avoidable (I haven't tried your use case, so I could be wrong) by using zig as a compiler as it can "cross compile" for lower glibc version and also to musl, avoiding glibc altogether?
IBM used to sell computers directly to consumers. They don't do that anymore so it's normal that IBM isn't on anyone's mind for a long time now. My mom knew IBM pretty well decades ago when she was a typist. Nowadays she wouldn't have a clue if IBM still exists or what it does.
Not a teenager today but I was ~13 when iMessages came out, and owned an iPhone since. Except for 3mo when I was 16.
Please provide an update on how challenging that is to deploy!
> licenses like this are necessary for any business offering a hosted version

That’s the argument you hear every time there’s a re-license of what used to be “open source software”, and it may very well be true, but I don’t really care. I care about open source software and I’d rather see half-baked tools that are open source than shiny, fully featured tools that restrict the users and use the “open” terminology to gain traction only as long as it suits their own interests.
> Even the assortment of pieces in the Classic 1000+ piece buckets doesn't allow you to build interesting custom creations resembling buildings

One of the more interesting experimentations was Lego Architecture Studio.

All white (well, some translucent for glass/windows), 1200+ pieces, no instructions, but a book discussing some general architecture and building principles particularly with respect to Lego:

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Architecture-Studio-Building-Blo...

One of my favorite sets, though architecture in general is a particularly interest/hobby of mine.
GoogleGroups strips all leading whitespace.
I love how cheap those CC1101 are! How come they are not more widespread?!

https://jlcpcb.com/partdetail/TexasInstruments-CC1101RGPR/C2...

Spamming at 2.4GHz is boring.
> you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations

Because you are paying someone else for them.

This is considered rational because those operators are presumably more productive in a pool of people using similar skills to support many customers rather than just one. It is similar to hiring a cleaning service rather than employing individual cleaners in a department of cleaning because cleaning things is not a core competency of business.

It might be less irrational if some amount of compute is part of the core competency of the business. Since "software is eating the world," compute is a core competency of all businesses except for the ones that don't realize it yet.
I read the commenter as referring to working on DB internals -- that is, building a database -- rather than working supporting workflows/queries on an existing DB product. But maybe I read wrong.
Here is a presentation by a team that did benchmarking of different runtimes:

https://youtu.be/sRCgu1ng6Bo?si=SV_Mcinuqh_c-nuX

JavaScript is ~8x slower and Python ~30x slower on average vs Java / Go / C++ that are all quite close.

A funny aside: I always believed that Java is slow because I heard it repeated so many times. I internalized that bit of age-old mythology. But lately as I’ve gotten more focused on performance, I’ve come across a lot of hints in various talks and articles that Java has become one of the go-to languages for high-performance programming (e.g. high frequency trading). So, I hear you about the mythology point.
I've been around the block with CBT and some other forms of therapy. My anxiety/depression is rooted in complex PTSD from complex childhood trauma, and over the many years I've gotten very intimate with the relationship between thought/emotion and their interplay.

One of the biggest "aha" moments for me was the day that I realized that other people around me interpreted certain events in a way that was entirely unlike my own thought process. There were pessimistic defaults hammered into me from a young age, and my interpretation of circumstances always happened through that lens. I knew that everyone had their own experience of things, but it didn't really dawn on me how drastically different those experiences can be, and how much they're colored by past experience.

> Feelings of, say, anxiety or depression can completely bypass rational thought.

I think this is a matter of framing. I'd say that feelings of anxiety and depression co-exist with rational thought, but often surface as stronger signals. They're brain processes that manifest in the same space of conscious awareness as siblings to each other. They also seem to interact and modulate each other.

Now that I have tools to reframe/manage my depressive episodes, I can observe my depression and anxiety while also having a rational conversation with myself about the experience. I can both feel the anxiety and understand that the anxiety is an echo of past experience that has no current purpose. So as much as the anxiety is "overriding" rational thought, it's also possible to override the anxiety with rational thought. It just takes intentional work, which is where the "it's how you look at things" comes into play.

Very early in the process, I couldn't see past the anxiety/depression. Someone could point out the irrationality of it, and all I could conclude was "that's nice, but what about the depression?". At some point, it became clear that this was itself a kind of fallacy. A false dichotomy. The depression can exist alongside higher order thinking, and that higher order thinking modulates the depression over time. What I'd fallen into was a form of learned helplessness, where I had convinced myself that doing something wouldn't matter. The equivalent of drowning in 2 feet of water because I didn't believe that standing up would make a difference, because I didn't know that it could make a difference.

This is why external intervention can be very effective. Someone outside your currently compromised brain helps you start to reframe things and see them from another perspective. This jump starts new modes of thinking, and eventually builds the core tools to counteract the depressive thinking. At some point, it dawned on me that I could choose other modes of thought.

Once I realized this, I was off to the races. There was a point when I realized that my experience of a thing was modulated by my own brain, and to whatever degree I could get involved in that process, I could change my experience of things. This isn't to say it's easy or automatic - it has been anything but that - but it has also transformed my life.
German companies are turning away from Elon Musk
Using Google Translate:

A Handelsblatt survey shows: German companies from Aldi to Volkswagen are stopping advertising on X, formerly Twitter. Only a few companies stick to the platform.
Although, it must be unusual, right? This is not one company porting their service to the cloud, this is Microsoft porting their LinkedIn service from whatever servers came along with LinkedIn, to their own servers, on which they also run a cloud business.

Which… isn’t to say anything about which way we should expect that to swing things. But it seems quite unusual, as most companies have not been bought by a cloud provider. Yet…
"So basically it has a document API like in MongoDB with leaderless replication like in Cassandra and thread-per-core architecture like in ScyllaDB."

Very cool design. And all in Rust!
Yah, just look at what remains of an airplane that caught fire on the ground.

Not much.

The reason the SST that caught fire crashed was the fire melted away large parts of the wing.

There's an enormous amount of energy in jet fuel, which is why it is used in jets.
How are you paying your premium? For individual plans, I suspect that a lot of people use a card.
If you search word2vec (paper published early 2010s IIRC) I believe you will find very good material.
This page presents Sugihara’s earlier work and provides 360 degree view:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project...
sorry for editing/shortening the title, it is supposed to be:

"Cybercrime: the fear of a possible misuse of personal data is capable, in itself, of constituting non-material damage"

This is a landmark ruling similar to Schrems I Schrems II.
And to avoid that (as well as to not pollute future AI scrapers), Adobe and other companies have created the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) [0] and are doing attestation on camera made photos versus those made in software.

[0] https://contentcredentials.org/
Elon often misuses the term "insane" to mean "very good." It's a colloquialism that not everyone embraces. I'm not surprised this got flagged by an AI although the reason in the context is indeed silly.
Interesting, why would adding an optimize this keyword to JavaScript be better?
And finding out shouldn't be like pulling teeth.
Thanks for linking the actual paper. Conversation is definitely the wrong word to use, agreed.

Still, when I make noises to my dog and he makes noises back there is definitely information being transmitted that's interpretable by both parties. So there should be some word that can be used to describe that exchange. Anyway, it's hard to tell from that paper (this is not my field, by any stretch of the imagination) if the Cetacean actually knew or understood that it was a human machine making those calls and not another Cetacean, which would probably be pretty confusing. In any case, this is still a step in the right direction so good luck indeed!
MrBeast's analytics platform ViewStats is out in beta
GUIs are nice to set up experiments, knowing what you can set up and changing stuff quickly. For example, setting up a network and a subnet from scratch, creating a VM, connecting to it from the browser and setting up stuff. Could you do that with PowerShell, the CLI, ARM templates or Terraform?

Yes, but it'd be slower since you'd have to go through the docs to find the name of what you're looking for and typing it. Then type another command to see if the changes were applied. Another one to test the result... A huge PITA for experimenting.

Of course, for actual production use, you should definitely have some sort of IaC set up and use that. But for testing or home use (see the tech guy that uses a storage container and Front Door for a static website) the GUI is good enough.
Better title: "Apple fixes BLE DOS attack".

I'm tired of media acting like the flipper is some kind of "super special hacking tool", it is very literally getting it banned in some places when all of it's internals are easy and common radios (Not to knock the flipper, it is conveniently well packaged).

You just needed to be able to send crafted BLE packets, this attack doesn't have anything specific to the flipper at all.

It didn't even originate on the flipper: https://github.com/ECTO-1A/AppleJuice

> To run these scripts you need a Linux machine with an internal Bluetooth card or a USB Bluetooth adapter.

Versions also exist that run on the ESP32, android, etc.
Hence all the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. People just cannot stand the idea that a single nut could destroy Camelot.
The network retains the same topology, and therefore the same matrix dimensions, but some elements are set to zero, removing their contribution.
I've never written assembly but would assume CSS has better tooling available? browser dev tools for example
I'll post it to the new instance and share

I'm leaning towards https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
I can't help but feel that Stability AI is pushing themselves to irrelevancy with their business model and new policy of "research-only" models. Part of what made the original stable diffusion models such a force was the ability and willingness of others to build on top of it. This is such a force multiplier. People built all sorts of abstractions around it that it became something much larger than just the original image generation.

Locking down your models so you can sell a mediocre api and web app is not the business model you want here as a mid-sized player. You just won't be able to keep up with the biggest players and their in-house models.

I think the open license they should try using should be something akin to GPL, where derivative models need to be shared and released under the same license. This gives you legal ammunition against companies building upon your models for their own private service, while allowing for a vibrant open-source ecosystem. Then you can offer more permissive licenses to those who who can pay.
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Article's paywalled, so apologies if this is out of context, but it seems like a legit point in this case. From the 1950's through the 90's IBM was familiar to consumers. You'd probably have used multiple IBM products at some point even if you didn't own one; you certainly knew about them. If nothing else, IBM typewriters and PCs were ubiquitous. That version of IBM is gone, and it seems reasonable to argue that this is a negative. (Whether or not you agree with it.)
comp.sys.raspberry-pi is active and well worth subscribing to.
And it's one of those opinions that (IMHO) is hard to hold for someone with sufficient history training.

The murder of one archduke kicked off a world war. Of course the action of one person in the worst place at the worst time can precipitate unspeakable horror. It's happened before.