skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife once bought a Burberry coat for 100 bucks off Poshmark and it came with a free gram of rather nice cocaine!
I see you keep ignoring my arguments so this is the last time I say it.

Again, only the first gen iPod was firewire exclusive and it was not yet a maisntream product since it was still Mac only, so avergae consumer demand at home computers for Firewire was lackluster and the iPod didn't change that.

Firewire was niche or non existent in the home PC space and it died completley with the launch of USB 2.0 remaining alive only in the pro-sumer space.

>Gigabit Ethernet was faster but WAY more expensive.

Please show me where I mentioned Gigabit ethernet as an argument. I said 100 Ethernet which was dirt cheap and almost every PC and Mac had it, as opposed to Firewire, so if you needed a fast cross platform transfer it was your best bet at the time in terms of cost and mass availability over firewire before USB 2.0 and gigabit hit the market.
He also had a bunch of thoughts on the CD burner I was buying.
There’s a local lumber yard near us with an operational rail line on site. They’ve survived the onslaught of big box stores and are thriving.

I imagine that rail line makes a big difference in being able to keep up with the logistics advantages of 6 big box stores within 30 minutes.
Water molecule discovery contradicts textbook models
The only thing I don’t really like about the “kind but not nice” formulation is that (as someone from the Northeast), it seems to give us, like, the obviously good trait. At least I read it as implying pretty heavily by separating out “kind” and “nice” that “kind” is the authentic and important thing and “nice” is some superficial and therefor not as good trait. So I would feel too self-congratulatory, using it.

I prefer to think we all just have different ways of showing that we care.
FWIW Israel did not denied the atrocities—nor any wrongdoings—at the trials. The only thing they have denied is the genocidal intent—specifically, the “special intent” required for the crime of genocide.

Israels defense mostly revolves around lack of jurisdiction (which even the Brookings institution says is nonsense), that is the UN has no authority to rule over matters in Gaza, and that the atrocities committed by the IDF in GAZA—which they don’t deny—are justified (which they are demonstrably not).

So basically the only real question for the court is whether Israel has the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. You probably don’t think so, but I, OP, the South African legal team, the Governments of Bangladesh, Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan, Brazil, Colombia, etc. and several human rights, NPO, and activist organizations all think that Israel does in fact intent to destroy Palestinians of Gaza as a group.

But regardless of that, even if the court fails to prove that Israel has the intent to destroy Palestinians of Gaza as a group, then—as none of the atrocities are being denied—we are basically left with that there is some reasonable probability that these atrocities were committed by carelessness.

As a human being, you must see that that is not OK, and not a defensible behavior.
It's extreme enough that I never willingly serve data directly from AWS without a caching proxy elsewhere in front unless the egress is tint.

It takes very low hitrates before it pays for itself several times over including management overheads.

Sometimes you can justify a complete replica outside AWS (one of the things I will gladly pay AWS for is durability)
Archivists in Germany will know how to read various forms of Kurrent.

And yeah, of course it might not be Hochdeutsch. But anyone who can read the script will know pretty quickly if it's Platt, Swiss German, or something else entirely.
Yeah, solar panels reduce albedo. But isn't the idea that this reduction in Albedo is far more than counterbalanced by the reduction of greenhouse effect it can bring?
Depending on what you want to do on what O/S, batteries may or may not be included. I use Moonlight on a Mac to control a Windows 10 PC running Sunshine--lower latency than Remote Desktop (which I don't have anyway in the Home edition), and nicer looking than Parsec.

When you connect a patch cable directly (no crossover cable needed in the 21st century), you'll likely find that each system has a self-assigned IP in the 169.254 network.
Solutions to manage runaway Snowflake costs?
My org's Snowflake bill has 2xed over the past year as the company has grown -- when I joined in 2021, we were spedning ~$30k / year and now we're spending at a rate of $67k / year.

As head of data, I have a few data / infra engineers on my team, but we're spread too thin to do all the optimization / management / policing work we'd need to do to get a handle on these costs.

Anyone else dealing with this problem? Any products on the market that seem effective for this? Or creative solutions I may not have thought of?
> like its predecessor, it’s only planned for release in China.

source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029647/oppo-find-x7-ultr...
It's interesting, isn't it. Jack Welch must have had very many superb characteristics, to be as revered as he was. Or is it an element that the profits of golden-goose-killing created the mystique?
The CompUSA that opened in Cambridge, MA, had a guard who insisted on checking your purchases after the registers, like you were a criminal, or implying it was a crime-heavy area.

Not the kind of insult or atmosphere anyone should have to put up with, and, further, the generally affluent people of Harvard and MIT, which the store was located right between, weren't accustomed to it.

I called this out in 2000, when I made Web page about assembling PCs, during the rise of Web ecommerce retail. https://www.neilvandyke.org/cheap-pc-2000/

> I actually spent a lot of time checking out the local vendors, but was generally dissatisfied, and used them only as a last resort. If you're in Cambridge, MA, USA, some vendors I looked at: PCs for Everyone (informative Web site, but long waits at their showroom, and they didn't have a floppy drive after I'd waited 30 minutes), MicroCenter (large superstore, mailorder generally has better prices, didn't have advertised CD-RW drives in stock, the three of the four things I bought there were somehow defective), BestBuy (very poor component selection, guards at the entryways), and CompUSA (smaller version of MicroCenter, guard at front door insists upon comparing every shopper's purchases to their receipt as they leave). So much for brick&mortar service.

> UPDATE 2018-12-10: MicroCenter brick&mortar has risen to the challenge, and is now my overall favorite source for PC parts.
OP might also find graduate students in history or literature departments who are willing to work for cheaper than a professional.
This. A good reliable basic car without features just isn't a thing anymore. It's triple sunroofs and built-in arm-rest massagers and whatever crap they are putting into the "info-tainment" system.
"But car buyers' preferences have also shifted dramatically to larger trucks and SUVs in the past 10 years or so, and even more towards high-tech and comfort amenities in the form of cameras, sensors, radars and large infotainment screens,"

Which buyers? Everyone in my circle does NOT want this exact list of features.

Where is the $5000 electric city car? Oh, in China. No wonder we need trade embargos...
Or frequently just `nix shell nixpkgs#foo` or even `nix run nixpkgs#bar -- --baz` (as opposed to `brew install foo; foo; brew uninstall (or it is it remove?) foo`

I still have both installed as the union of their packages is better than either in isolation, but I really like having a good idea of what I have permanently installed (and why) in my nix config files, as opposed to re-spending 5 minutes in the brew docs to remember the brew incantation that will give me a reverse dependency tree and try to sort out whether I can uninstall something without breaking something else.
> If you need more SFP+ ports you'll want to find a different switch

CRS309-1G-8S+IN, Suggested price $269.00

>> Desktop switch with one Gigabit Ethernet port and eight SFP+ 10Gbps ports

https://mikrotik.com/product/crs309_1g_8s_in
Using the very same numbers, Amazon's R&D would be 11% of all US R&D.

I suspect the numbers are wrong.
Maybe some sampling mechanism comes along and takes a snapshot once per hour.

Suppose you store the data there for 6 minutes. Then there's an 90% probability that the sampler misses it entirely and you pay $0. But there's a 10% probability that the sampler does catch it. Then you pay for a whole hour even though you used a fraction of that.

Over many events, it averages out close to actual usage[1]. In 9 out of 10 cases, you pay 0X actual usage. In 1 out of 10 cases, you pay 10X actual usage. (But you can't complain because you did agree to 1-hour increments.)

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[1] Assuming no correlation between your timing and the sampler's timing. If you can evade the sampler by guessing when it runs and carefully timing your access, then you can save a few pennies at the risk of a ban.
I had a girlfriend years ago who insisted that cold water worked just as fine as hot water. While I didn't write down any observations, I did do several loads of laundry over the next couple weeks where I adjusted water temp as a variable, and found that things typically smelled more fresh when they were washed in hotter water.

Maybe it's placebo, maybe it's my detergent, maybe it's something else, but for me, personally, I always wash non-delicate laundry with hot water because at the very least, I feel like I smell better, and that's worth it to me! :)
Is there any particular reason why retailers couldn't print both the total price and how much of it is sales tax on the same price tag? The legislative intent seems to me that they don't want taxes to be absorbed by retailers[0], not that they want to force people to multiply things by some percentage in their head.

[0] Read: subsidized by other places with lower tax rates
What successful games have been written in Rust?
Would this be with or without the consent of those devices’ owners?
> Also money is worthless

How do you live life if you think money is worthless?
"The art in the Fountain" is an interesting construction to describe the piece.
I still think that's an important question to answer, though. Yes, obviously we aren't going to pave an entire desert with PV, but it's worth asking what the consequences would be because we might someday, or might do something similar.
> get the majority of legitimate Mac and iOS devices banned. Apple will then have to consider other options.

Compromising others’ accounts and devices, without their permission, seems to clearly cross the line from civil fiddling to criminal behaviour. At the very least, if my device were impacted like this, I would point my finger at the perpetrator, not Apple.
Ah yes, the Daffy Duck fortune-cookie joke!

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-help-im-being-he...
Microsoft Debates What to Do with A.I. Lab in China
Later gens of iPod gained the ability to connect to USB but still supported FireWire. The majority of my usage of my 20GB 4th gen iPod was with the FireWire cable it shipped with.
Search for “murex Unix shell”.

Top hit for me is https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lmorg/murex
> the entire cryptosphere as a whole is a wretched hive of scum and villainy

COPE
https://archive.ph/fORkx
> job market for devs is on the down low and I think I will work on my idea later

meaning you think a new platform will have a hard time finding traction right now because there's an oversuppply of devs?
Looks like the numbers being described are here: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details...

This bit:

Cost of Sales: 272,344
Fulfillment: 75,111
Technology and Content: 73,213
Sales and Marketing: 32,551
General and Administrative: 8,823
Other Operating Expense (Income), Net: 62

So Technology and Content is the $73bn number.

I think Fulfillment covers warehouse and delivery costs.

"Technology and Content" presumably mixes in Amazon Prime studios, which apparently was $16bn in 2022: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/03/amazon-ramped-up-content-s...

My guess is that it covers AWS infrastructure too.
I wonder how this will affect people with both EU and non-EU iTunes/App Store accounts.

I have five accounts in five different countries, from a time in my life when I moved around more. Two of those accounts are in countries within the EU, but they're not "EU App Store," they're specific to the nation in which they were opened.

Maybe the two EU accounts will be merged into a new EU Store. Or maybe that's a bad idea since history has shown that nations and join and leave the EU a lot more often than anyone anticipated.
I do think about wind turbines slowing down earth’s rotation. I’ve not done any calculations but I’d guess even a gargantuan number of them would have no noticeable effect.
> White rice has one of the highest glycemic indexes.

This is correct, but do keep in mind the impact that cooling down has on starches.

A fresh bowl of rice is very high, but cool it for a couple of hours and the GI drops considerably.

Cool it overnight and it drops even more. Onigiri is usually in the cooled down to over-night range.

This never makes rice particularly good from a GI perspective, but preparation is a considerable factor.

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One study, but this is fairly well reproduced: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746

And a more general write up: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/car...
Yeah the irony of using a browser to post “a console MUST be a piece of hardware” when hitting F12 easily belies the statement is just mind boggling.
When researching washing machines recently, I was surprised to see that probably the most innovative mass-market systems available right now are from GE.

They’ve brought out a heat-pump based low-energy use combined washer/dryer* that supposedly performs great - something that can’t be said for existing combo or low energy systems.

I was surprised to see innovative appliances from GE! I thought they had been reduced to re-badging cheap, mediocre systems produced by other manufacturers. I hope this means the company is on the right track again.

*https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/GE-Profile-ENERGY-STA...
Shameless plug for my tool
https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve/

It can do sentence card creation, ereader imports, and vocab tracking, among other things.
But somehow nothing ever changes - when this article was written back in 2021, the financial analysts had a buy rating and the price per share was hovering around $10. Today it’s at $129, despite significant competition in all aspects of their business. Bill Gates can say he didn’t see it coming, but all that signals is business as usual - the giants of industry are so woven together they seldom see the train coming
https://web.archive.org/web/20240111093630/https://ihavenotv...

Doesn't archive the actual documentaries, but you can see this site if the live site isn't loading quickly.
Perhaps you should ask all of the talent wasted on tracking and advertising.
When young people seem to make threats on social media, do they mean it?
American, and I almost started a fight or maybe more like almost hurt my Filipina wife's feelings one time when I tried to complain about a certain, idk facial gesture? she does in certain cases, that just reads a certain way to me and is apparently not at all what she means.

I'll be saying something, and she'll raise her eyebrows up and down twice. To me it looks almost like Groucho Marx, and looks like someone thinks you are joking or saying something silly, and are responding with a non-verbal "oh really?" Or maybe like a suggestive flirting thing, except totally out of any flirting context, so wth does flirty suggestive eyes mean when you were talking about figuring out which outlets to plug the kitchen appliances into so that they don't trip the breakers? It just throws me right off the horse and all I can think is "WTF IS THAT?"

We're old enough and adult and frank enough that I can simply say everything I just said here and we tried to figure it out. It simply became the interesting thing we talked about for a while that day. But she could not explain it. So I never got an answer. It's just something she does unconsciously and apparently is not meant to deflate or derail or laugh at whatever I was talking about. It's apparently more like an actual "oh really?"

I never saw her even-more-filipina mom do it, nor her brother or sister or other family members, and she actually mostly grew up in the us and a few years in China but in a special place with all the other foreign people as her mom worked for the UN. So it may have nothing to do with the Philipines, or China.

So a little eye-waggle can be like that.

Update: I just told her I cited her in this conversation, and now she tells me her family and extended family does all do it, just I'm not around them enough to have seen it, and it is a phillipino thing, and it means I understand or agree like what I would do with a head nod.
> when, say, HP remotely bricks working printers because someone used unauthorized ink

There is evidence of intent and immutability, i.e. nobody has shown Apple won’t reverse the ban when shown the device is legitimately accessing iMessage.
The revenge of captain obvious. There is no free lunch. (Yes I know this will come at the cost of some downvotes). In general, we are not only bad but hilariously bad as a species in thinking in 2nd and 3rd order effects.

Next up: gigantic wind farms change weather.

Further up: we need to reduce our energy consumption, or vent excess heat directly into space. Give it another 10 years or so. CO² is a relevant and dominant factor in global warming, but I'd bet a lot of money that it isn't the only one, just the dominant one we know of right now.

By the way: the amount of surplus heating currently observed in the oceans exceeds the predicted amount by around two orders of magnitude. Too tired to provide (indirect) sources. At least this was my understanding by following the traces of for example this article¹.

¹ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/08/global-t...
> I don't care about cookies

That extension was bought by Avast.

There's a community fork called "I still don't care about cookies" available for Firefox and Chrome.
> IMGUI is just a different API design IMO.

There are so many issues about so called "power saving mode" and several open PRs like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/pull/5116.
If you do that, you have an event loop again (like in the OP), which your comment's grandparent was trying to get rid of (and your parent explained to them why they can't).
It differed quite a bit. There were a handful that put in the same effort as I did and the few I've kept contact with are doing quite well. I'd say that just over half of the students stuck to core hours and most of them didn't make it through the bootcamp at all. I recall that many of those that stuck to core hours and graduated had some programming knowledge already or were exceptionally smart.

About a quarter of those that graduated in my cohort are in the IT field, but are project managers or something similar.

The bootcamp was in 3 phases and you had 2 chances to test out of a phase or you'd be kicked out. Of my starting cohort of 16 people, 12 of us completed the bootcamp. Our cohort grew to 22 people though because there were people that had repeated phases to complete it.
A social option is to look around in ancestry study circles on facebook for your country. I know we have one or two pretty good groups in Swedish with mostly old folks helping younger decipher old handwriting.
> Hard to take this seriously outside the realm of academic curiosity.

Which is a fantastic realm
> That's only a good thing in dictatorships, not in democracies.

Yes, Bitcoin allows you to be a dictator of your personal finances, compared to fiat, a "democratic" system, where people you never voted into power get to press a button and print as much money as they deem necessary to "stimulate" the economy.
They not just waste space but at the same time break some of the UI. Recently it took me half a minute to drag a window into view on Mac OS because aside from a few pixels every single part of the window "title bar" was actually some button or widget. I wish mainstream operating systems implemented DWM's shortcuts for window dragging/resizing, those are amazing: holding the key and left mouse button makes the window draggable anywhere, and right mouse button instantly resizes the window so the bottom right corner is at the mouse cursor position.

And I hate auto-hiding, narrow scrollbars so much. Scrollbars have exactly two purposes: show the scroll progress and allow faster scrolling than with the wheel/gesture. Both are effectively prevented by it going invisible.

There was a time when I found the Windows 98 UI a bit "old", but honestly in the long run it aged better than almost everything that came after.
ChatGPT Mobile App Is the Command-Line
Good to know. In case Astrophage ever comes visiting us.
I know exactly what you mean. Felt like the world was opening up.

I don't know who it was, it might have been one of the guys my dad worked with, be they said "You won't be able to write a game with a book like that, but you might be able to write a phone directory." Didn't phase me.

I remember someone asking me later on if I was going to write a game. I just looked at them blankly and said: "I'm going to write a phone directory".

I just learned today that "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" was co-written by Jessee Liberty, one of my all-time favorite technical book writers. "Programming C#, 2nd Edition" was a great book.

I loved tech stores too. I still have all of the Apple pamphlets that CompUSA had sitting next to the display units.
Retirees built every long lasting technology we use everyday, and even invented some too. ;-)
Yeah- the license and single-source-of-developers mean that Fuchsia has looked like a Trojan horse to competitors.
My sarcastic comment was flagged but the point I was (poorly) trying to make is that this is an awesome extension but it goes against platforms' goals. If it gets popular the platforms will fight against it.
Isn't this only a problem if one of your devices trying to access these messages is a non-apple device?

For a while I was switching between an iPhone and Android (I was deving on both platforms and so would switch them out regularly).

Then I found out the Apple would think I was still using the iPhone, and would therefore would send my messages via iMessage, and I'd have no idea I wasn't getting them.

But what incentive does Apple have to change this? And realistically, how many people does it impact.

Do most apple people know that iMessage isn't using SMS? I think they just look at it as an app that sends messages to everyone.
Talked to a friend about this recently. However ChatGPT said it's unlikely we could do something about it

https://chat.openai.com/share/6816d55b-b018-495d-900d-7d2905...
While I can see that being interesting, almost like a photo booth that's a common addition to weddings, at the same time I also think it wouldn't replace an actual photographer for pretty much anyone, since they would capture what actually happened during that time period with proper composition.

If people wanted just any old pictures at their wedding, they'd put some disposable cameras on the tables and call it a day (and some do exactly that, to be fair, and save a lot of money. But most people don't).

A.I. is not likely going to provide authentic in the moment photos anytime soon, if ever, and if it ever does then it's basically just an motorized mechanical photographer anyway, that would need to be able to go over various terrain effectively or be a drone, probably. At that point it'd likely be about as expensive as just hiring a person, and a person would probably be more friendly and get better photos out of people.