skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have anything critical on the Windows partition? If not, just wipe it from Linux and reinstall Windows from scratch? But before you do that, if the partition isn't encrypted, you might want to look for a key extractor to pull the old product key from. Sometimes it's also on a sticker on your computer, but if memory serves, that might not be a real one that you can actually activate with (Google it, I can't remember the details, sorry).

Hopefully after a reinstall, the old key + your hardware signature should let you activate it for real. Otherwise, maybe you can use a temporary activation key (Google one from the piracy sites) but then activate by phone using the old product key you pulled. You have a legitimate install from your OEM, you just have to convince Microsoft of it, and phone activation is usually the way to do that...

Otherwise you can always buy another Windows license (either legitimately or from one of many shady places...). It's probably easier than trying to disable the password, IMO. Costs more though =/
Why do all the executives talking with office backdrops look composited in (i.e., not actually there in that office)?
Maybe it’s people like me who fled Reddit. I’m sorry!
As it's not clear from the title, it's this company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands (most famous brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMD). They operate "online media, community, e-commerce, and SaaS businesses" but don't seem to believe in it that much.
1) Huth lab and Gallant lab are extremely highly regarding in fMRI encoding/decoding, plus their code and models are released as open source; much admiration for that.

There were some follow up studies to the visual decoding thing which is getting more sophisticated w/ diffusion models and other ML techniques improving the accuracy of semantic and visual coding - I think a few were presented at NEURIPS this year

spooky thought - using the output from a Huth-style semantic decoder into the Eddie Chang-lab/UCSF vocal synthesizer?

2) I would say, the neuroethical part of things is growing in importance. What's available in the lab still is way more sophisticated than the devices out in the field - DBS, rTMS, ambulatory EEG, but it's worth having that discussion.

3) Given the above - almost a decade after Obama BRAIN - the lab demonstrations are getting better and better...but none of them have joined DBS, rTMS, ambulatory EEG as something in routine use - i.e. I cannot order an fMRI decoder on a patient in any practical shape or form, or get it covered by Medicare....
The airplane blowout came from our rotten Big Tech economy
Climate Central: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk Maps
We call them hunter-gatherers. What were they hunting, tofurkey?

Edit to respond to edit: Yep! Persistence hunting (and tool use in combination) was our huge advantage over literally every animal. We're the apex predator through unconventional means.
Everything about databases is terrible and there is no problem any of their restrictions solve. Everything about Rama’s model is revolutionary, dramatic, very this, extremely that.

The hyperbolic nature of every claim combined with the very thin evidence makes it hard to take any of it seriously.

It’s like speaking to a proselytiser for a cult.
it's a strip of moulded timber that you fix at the top of your wall, say a foot down, and then using a picture hook you can hang whatever pictures you like and replace them as many times as you like without doing any more drilling

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cc/9b/33/cc9b33d99a962a0830ad...
Unctad: Productive Capacities Index
The video seems fine to me:

https://vimeo.com/866052086/7d7781e9ea

The tag line at the end could be interpreted different ways and is slightly awkward, but not enough that I'd give it a second thought.

IMHO this article is just people yet again trying flex the power of shame and contempt, against something they dislike (returning to in-person work). Before you join in, just watch the video!
For me, it’s the explicit political messaging in almost every show that has ruined entertainment.

If I want someone to tell me what to think, I’ll watch CNN or Fox News.
So far, nothing else exists.

Communism/socialism failed like Chernobyl reactor number 4.

Adopting a new socio-economic system some young cocky pal imagines in his head? Nope, thank you. I'm too old and experienced for that. Not in a million of years.
Are all standard text controls getting a copilot tie-in? If so, that's insane. Windows just continues to degrade.
"Being charitable I'm sure tons of people just have an extremely bad intuitive yardstick for what actually matters"

People on average just have very bad physic knowledge. No understanding of basic science at all. I actually think that we cannot solve climate change without fixing those knowledge holes - otherwise we just get more pointless activism (like the ones you mention) and ignorance.
I also love it. But for me I think FaceGramTok rolls easier.
Personally, having worked remotely since 2014, I feel quite secure in the fact the remote work is here long term.

The economics of it make sense on both sides (Office costs, salary costs, commutes, hiring pool access)

And the organization impacts work well (for knowledge based businesses) if Leadership is able to adapt to measuring outputs instead of inputs and fostering clarity of goals.
And The Wire had a notable hiatus between seasons 4 & 5 as the final fifth season wasn’t guaranteed. The show only really was lauded at a popular level after it'd already completed. No way a show like that gets past its first season in today's climate.
Linguistic transformations are the feature that I trust LLMs the most with. It requires relatively little encoding of knowledge outside of language. Parsing jargon to convey novel ideas is absolutely a doable task for a language model.
See sibling comment for a good definition. OODA is the repetitive loop of observing, understanding, planning and executing. The military talk about getting inside the enemy's OODA loop, by which they mean having a faster decision-making cycle.

But back in the network-enabled-capability day, they also used to talk about self-synchronising units operating on the cusp of tactical anarchy, but then Afghanistan happened and they had a collective sense-of-humour failure regarding these future operational concepts.
> Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports

Why stop here. Next detect also the type of liquid. Bonus points for body fluids. /s
I consider a DSL something that has its own lexer/parser, like SQL. Since Rama's dataflow API is just Java (there's also a Clojure API, btw), that means you never leave the realm of a general purpose programming language. So you can do things higher-order things like generate dataflow code dynamically, factor reusable code into normal Java functions, and so on. And all these are done without the complexity and risks of doing so by generating strings for a separate DSL, like you get when generating SQL (e.g. injection attacks).
Exploiting Undocumented API to Regenerate Google Service Cookies
In fact I have made some orders from vendors of natural medicine, and I believe they may be legally bound to lie and falsify instructions for use, lest they run afoul of the FDA.

For example, my potassium iodide specifically instructs the user to consume it orally, which is dangerously incorrect. I believe that if they put the correct instructions on the bottle, the product would be so efficacious that it'd demand removal from the market.
> recursion is now possible in Vulkan, and control-flow is no longer limited.

If you care about mobile devices (even modern android phones) I suspect this is not true
These return to office movements pair suspiciously well with the recent layoffs, but with a smarter touch and a little more forethought. Bravo, so it looks like this strategy works, but at what cost?
You (we) are getting old and cranky. Sopranos was 25 years ago.

> I'm hard-pressed to find any shows on streaming now that I like more than the ones I was watching back then…

Recent shows I've seen (some of which are masterpieces) off the top of my head: Beef. For All Mankind. What We Do in The Shadows. Midnight Mass. Invincible. Reservation Dogs. Foundation. Cunk on Earth. Blue Eye Samurai. The Bear. The Boys/Gen V. Succession. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The Last of Us. Barry. Fargo. I Think You Should Leave. Slow Horses. Shrinking. Welcome to Wrexham. Star Wars: Ahsoka. The Mandalorian. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Ted Lasso. Loki. Arcane.
Shoelace: A library of web components
I’m gonna miss these blog posts, they’ve been so fun. Dear author if you’re reading, please write some more blogs in the future. Maybe you’ll take a cargo ship across the ocean as a passenger or something else unique and mysterious.
The course looks really interesting, but in my experience of "performance engineering" you very rarely need to know this stuff.

If you want to improve the performance of some random software system you encounter at work, there is normally much lower-hanging fruit available.

First profile the application on as representative a workload as possible. Then fix the accidentally-quadratic loops, stop it from hitting the disk every iteration, add indexes for the worst database queries. If that doesn't at least double your throughput, you are working on an unusually-good application.
This is why I am on HN :)
Astronomers believe they have witnessed the birth of a black hole
> even if a streaming show starts with promise, you can almost guarantee now that it will be cancelled

I was sad that Amazon's Night Sky with Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons didn't find an audience big enough for a season 2.
Right, cave paintings of animal hunts were just an early form of fake news. /s
Probably working out legal and tax considerations. It's a first step. They either start up in the US first or wait too long working out the whole world and allow competitors to get a leg up.
Type what it's like to work in WebMD's office... into WebMD search... and it'll say that you have cancer?
This is going to be a sore point for all workplaces going forward. Naturally each company is different, but from my experience, I have worked for years in a manufacturing company and I personally know people who will jump on remote work only to st around watching netflix all day. These folks have to be reminded daily what their job is and will find any excuse to not work. On the flip side You also have conscientious people (often knowledge workers) who want remote work to save on commute time and distractions, and who will actually have increased productivity working remotely. I believe there is room for multiple opinions without demonizing either side.
“Magic” isn’t a rigorously defined term, so let’s ignore it. Support for macros is a huge philosophical difference between Rust and Go.
Yeah, this is very neat. Keep going!
Lots more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38933315
Bureaucrats, there are too much of them almost everywhere so they could probably cut their own numbers. Instead they choose to cut the workers, which is why it is so hard to do anything about them and why we have too many of them everywhere.
I would argue the video is trying to flex the executive power of a company using shame and contempt, against something they don't like (or understand?): remote work.

I would agree with your final statement and would go further: Share with any people considering work at WebMD: Better to cringe now instead of after you accept an offer.
This isn’t true. I’m reminded of this interview with some women who lived through Victorian era England (before any phones existed)[0]. Towards the middle of the interview she talks about the mud in the streets and how they spent hours brushing mud off their dresses. She even makes a quip and says, “of course now those hours are spent looking at the television”. If the interview happened today, I’m sure she would have said cell phone instead of television.

I think many of us romanticize the past.

[0]: https://www.upworthy.com/amp/unearthed-bbc-interview-feature...
The question is misleading because computation is not an objective phenomenon in nature (save in the minds of observers). You can interpret natural phenomena computationally, sure, and there may well be a way to do this with DNA (in fact, some have done that). But there's no computation "out there". Even the computer in front of you isn't objectively computing. It behaves in a way that corresponds with a computational interpretation, but nothing going on inside of it is a computation operation per se.
Where do you see shame and contempt in the video? It's pretty friendly.
For what it's worth, The Intercept has not been able to verify what this group is claiming.

>A SMALL GROUP of volunteers from Israel’s tech sector is working tirelessly to remove content it says doesn’t belong on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, tapping personal connections at those and other Big Tech companies to have posts deleted outside official channels, the project’s founder told The Intercept.

>The Intercept was unable to independently confirm that sympathetic workers at Big Tech firms are responding to the group’s complaints or verify that the group was behind the removal of the content it has taken credit for having deleted.
Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)
Maybe it's that the services themselves do not know how to market their own shows. When I log into Netflix all I see is endless trash. Amazon at least tries to show off their marquee shows (Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, Reacher - it doesn't help they are all mediocre).
> However, low leptin levels causes the body to enter starvation mode, and hardcore dieting causes leptin levels to drop further.

What about fasting? Dr Jason Fung wrote a book about fasting that IIRC says that it does not cause starvation mode.
Apple kind of an outlier here, they're purposefully trying to take over HBO's former role in media landscape as a prestige content brand and aren't as focused on ROI.
This is quite literally the dumbest thing I've seen all day and an insult to anyone with half a brain cell.

I would quit over just the existence of this video if it had been authored by the company I work at.
Nice job, styling Rails in always so painful, at least for me. Been doing it for 10+ years.
Positive interactions trump negative interactions when your goal is to encourage lasting change.
There were great shows then and great shows now. The problem now is the good ones get lost in the sea of a million streaming services dishing out whatever they can to justify their cost, so it may just seem like it used to be better.
"eh, this isn't so bad, heavy handed use of the fact they're not negotiating apparently but fair enough"

*CEO stops talking... extremely cringe workers dancing with a greenscreen backdrop... google meet "no one else is here; because we are all in person now!" and... their interpretation of the lyrics to the background song*.

Wow. What a close, awful.

Truly awful.

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However to defend them a little, I personally have noticed that the people who routinely come to the office tend to be better informed and have more realistic expectations of what is possible.

It's true that being in-person can paper over communication gaps, and you can argue that those gaps shouldn't exist; but they do. Additionally, while I am CTO of a remote-first company there starts becoming a knowledge and culture imbalance with the people who are capable of going to the office from time-to-time.

It's also true that we need a lot of positive interactions as humans, and we tend to have micro-positive interactions more often in person, usually when we reach out to someone over text chat or have a meeting it's somewhat negative. My psychologist once told me it takes 9 good interactions to offset 1 bad one, which is probably not grounded in science but I think the proportions are something like that; and it seems like we are more prone to communicate more often negatively if there is any friction in making that communication.

I would like us to have some form of strongly flexible work, but I am not certain that this is possible... it's essentially "worst of both worlds" where we have an expensive office that is barely used and people can't live where they really want to.

I guess co-working is the way to solve the former, but it doesn't help with the latter. Though co-working spaces can be as expensive for 1 week as taking a whole month anyway. :(
It seems overly simplistic to boil this down to sexism. You're really going to tell me that I'm sexist because I think emailing a paying customer with multiple sentences ending in multiple exclamation marks comes off as unprofessional? I should be able to have an opinion about messaging and tone without involving that person's gender.
I’m not sure I agree with that. If you’re a technical person, like say a “Senior Software Engineer”, you should pretty much know that’s not what’s happening with something like this. Rate limiting is server-side. “Getting around it” means making fewer requests than what would trigger the rate limiting/temporary blacklisting.

You could distribute the requests amongst multiple IP addresses via say a proxy, but that isn’t necessarily going to work, like if the rate limiting is done by bearer token or API key rather than IP address (they should be doing it by the token rather than the IP address), but I made no mention of that so I don’t think anybody would think that’s what I was doing.
One of the things I do like about Apple is that even if a big budget show like See doesn't prove to be a hit, they don't immediately kill it and you get a conclusion to the story.
Yes. And then answer to your shareholders.

Also: Good luck filling those positions (especially after that video)
I also have similar blockage going on when trying to learn front end technology. My theory is: I know beforehand how impossibly much it is. If you printed and stacked the CSS, JS and HTML specs (not sure they all have one), it’d reach into space. And that’s not even talking about the technology built on top of these (TypeScript, React, Tailwind, …). Simply insurmountable, and while quite interested, I am more interested in other topics. Such are the limitations of time I guess.
>Before you join in, just watch the video!

I watched the video. It was even worse than I expected.
Heard someone say 'consuming radio'. As in, listening to it. I hate humanity sometimes.
If you're serious, read the Guidelines (link at bottom of the page) for submissions. HN is for intellectual curiousity - table formatting basics don't qualify, IMHO, but I speak only for me.
> That assumes rapid deceleration.

Sure, but my understanding is that the only time a rear facing seat has an advantage is when decelerating rapidly. The seat back can support your body better than a lap belt.
There was definitely a problem: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news
Exactly what I was wondering as well.
Tell HN: Iranian users have no longer access to Hacker News
Since yesterday, Iranian users' access to Hacker News has been cut off. Iranian users encountered the message "Sorry, you have been blocked." This should be due to US sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Conditional Git Configuration
If he thought that was funny, that's even more reason to not work there.
We are the AGI :)
Ask HN: DigitalOcean Down?
Their cloud dashboard is not working, nor can I connect to my Droplet or any of the websites it is hosting.

Their status page doesn't report any issues.
I don't think the problems are intentional, rather they are the unforeseen outcomes of rapid technological and societal evolution, of man leaving faith behind and discovering themselves insufficient. This only seems to be accelerating.
Thank you for TA'ing the class! I took it in 2015 and TAs really made the class for myself and most of my friends.

Is the end of semester Leisserchess competition still going? I believe I heard that the year you TA'd it (might have been a year before or after) a group finally compiled an opening playbook and beat everyone in the class
> this article is just people yet again trying flex the power of shame and contempt

Exactly. Who amongst us can say that they’ve never quoted Iko Iko lyrics in a threat to employees? It is a common and normal thing that happens all the time
No way in hell I would ever install a computer in my body, not even a pacemaker. I would rather shrivel up and return to nature than get rekt by a hardware/software mistake.
This is nice to see. However, one aspect of the green energy push that puzzles/irks me is the tendency to outsource carbon pollution. Citizens of Hawaii might be carbon neutral for energy production, but they are importing goods and services produced by carbon emitting countries/states.
We are lucky that economics of green energy vs fossil fuel-based energy are continuing to look better and better.
A climate change win is a climate change win. But I guess we just can’t let ourselves become complacent and say that we’ve already done our part because we let other countries do our polluting for us.

Edit: to clarify, I was not referring specifically about the provenance of the battery with my comment about exporting pollution. For example, Hawaii imports cars, electronics, building materials, and has a large tourism industry that relies on airlines.
"Come back or else! Management roles are at stake!" This video is coping mechanism for managers who just realized employees work better without them.
Two days ago there was a storm that damaged some generators and left the batteries very low that they resorted to rolling blackouts, as there was not enough electricity for the island.

https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/update-rolling-oahu-outages...
R31 exterior foam will rather outperform the WikiHouse blocks due to reduced thermal bridging. And you get a structure that is essentially immune to condensation damage, so you can skip the annoying interior vapor barrier and all the problems that it can cause all by itself.
An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems
Just ignore them and let them fire you. Lawsuit.
"Cringe. There's no other word for it. This makes me cringe. It's embarrassing."
Mandatory naming systems are pretty common around the world. Many countries, for example, have a list of permitted given names, and requirements around what family name can be used (e.g father's name, if father is known).
In this case the server would be POSTing a status to you ("I'm not ok!"), not responding to a ping.
> The utility also requested “black-start capability.” If a disaster, like a cyclone or earthquake, knocks out the grid completely, Hawaiian Electric needs a power source to restart it. The Kapolei batteries are programmed to hold some energy in reserve for that purpose. Plus Power located the project near a substation connected to three other power plants so the battery “can be AAA to jump-start those other plants,” Keefe said.

Anyone who has played enough Factorio knows just how important that can be.
The economics of it make sense on both sides

It's mostly about inflating commercial real estate valuations (many companies heavily invested) and exerting control over the workforce.

Smart companies don't care about either but many (usually larger) corps have vested interest in both.
The case for better watch typography (2021)
I think right now is a great time in TV but not if your idea of good TV is "a traditional style show where you can watch it over 5+ seasons as it rolls out for the remainder of the decade". Bingeworthy show drops of 3 or less seasons (think Westworld, The Queen's Gambit, or Chernobyl) are great it's just a matter of finding the ones you like. E.g. if you're not in the mood for a dark story then those are probably not great picks for you, but I'm hard pressed to say the ones you say you liked were any more cheery.
Hey! You know what! In 2022 I am using exclamation points at the end of every email sentence! I don’t care if it looks like I’m unhinged! I am! Warmest regards!!!

https://twitter.com/kaitfeldmann/status/1480629739542888451?...