skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously. But I will avoid these at all cost. I mean it - all cost. I hope some investor's minds will click at this and offer me an expensive bullshit-free widget.

Apparently I'm not alone wanting it. I have little idea of the market potential but I believe there is some.

Apparently there are at least some investors and makers who believe the same. For example this is how they market Matic[1] (a cloud-free smart vacuum robot). Which I'm probably going to buy (unless I discover it's not bullshit-free enough) although it's expensive. I still have no robot vacuum just because every not-horribly-dumb model depends on a cloud (even though they don't have to - some are possible to uncloud but I have no time for this).

The same applies to social networks etc - they try to reach every person in the world by offering free service at a cost of the user being made a product. Let me pay money but respect me as a customer, not a zombie.

[1] https://maticrobots.com/
There are dangerous flaws within the case management software used by the UK justice system itself - https://csan149.substack.com/p/justice-at-risk
This is correct and should top the thread.
Firecracker is also the distro that makes assumptions (and therefore boot time wins) about being run inside the Firecracker VMM, as far as I understand it. You'd also need the OCI runtime, and a Docker-compatible socket would make tons of sense.
I wouldn't count out some sort of biological mechanisms that might be encouraging this decline.
You see similar things in California, billboards posted by farmers wailing about the state government raising water prices, when they are the ones subsidizing (to the nth degree) agricultural water to begin with.
It appears like rationalization to you (edit for context: the parent comment said it was rationalizing before it was edited) because you've already made up your mind about the malicious intent of companies who use this model. The reality is that companies can't know if they're "bleeding people for no services rendered" because of bingeing behavior. Someone watching a lot then staying off for a few months is difficult to distinguish from someone who has forgotten about their subscription for a few months.

The easiest and most efficient way for a company to know that you're not providing value to them is by cancelling your subscription. I agree that companies making this difficult is bad, but many services don't make this difficult. Instead, you're asking them to read the mind of their customers which is not easy. Netflix does treat extreme periods of inactivity (IIRC more than a year I think?) as a reasonable signal that you've forgotten about it.

> You get to exercise so much more Personal Responsibility when you aren't free-riding off other people, even.

I don't think you're really understanding the point. People who don't exercise any personal responsibility over their finances are the ones who are free-riding off people who do. That's because when you don't manage your finances and you refuse to shoulder the cost for that, the time & effort and complexity it costs to accommodate that has to be paid by someone who isn't you.

Edit: I'm not sure there's anything I can say to sway your mind about this since you've really honed in on the emotional angle to this but I think it's worth pointing out that this isn't really a moralizing thing to me, I have been and know many people who fall short, I don't treat it morally. It's largely about resource allocation and behavioral incentives. Asking central organizations like a corporation to infer the correct thing for lots of consumers is very difficult and costly, it's overall much more efficient to ask consumers to signal their desires themselves, it's why markets tend to be more efficient. Making consumers pay the cost of mismanaging their finances also discourages them from doing it, increasing efficiency.
What is attached to the back wheel in the Apple photo?
The article says this product uses wavelengths to detect abnormalities, DermAssist seems to be using pictures only. The latter seems like more of a toy and less a real diagnostic tool.
“And check whether the photo is of a bird”

https://xkcd.com/1425/

I also like the “uncrop” photo enhancement from Red Dwarf.
I checked this too. Alibaba is too busy selling newer, but related, technologies (laser cutters, t-shirt printers, 3d printers, medical devices, etc, etc) at what look like reasonable margins.

I'm sure the same factories could make zero-margin laser or inkjet printers, but why target a shrinking, obsolete market when you could use the same employee expertise to build things for growing, high margin markets?

I'm guessing buggy whip and carriage bolt manufacturers charged crazy markups for 10-20 years after the Model T came out. I think we're witnessing something similar (especially for inkjets that target document sized printouts).
$400 a month, in a reasonably busy dermatologists office, would probably come to about $20 "per use". A lot less if you have multiple patients use it a day.
So that when you do have to, you know how to do it.
You seem to be in agreement. Perhaps you responded to the wrong person? That's the same case law the parent cited (albeit indirectly - see their link up thread).
Probably worth checking your employment contract. There will often be a clauses about this kind of thing.
> Making a touchscreen phone had been the writing on the wall and pretty obvious to many.

Really.

This reminds of this discussion https://reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1wdp6n/what_makes_the_o... I opened a decade ago asking "What makes the Oculus different from previous VR?" and the winning answer was pointing out how much the 1994 IBM Simon Smartphone feature list resembled on the surface the iPhone feature list.

In other words, still watching the world through my own eyes, I have been a columnist of the largest computer monthly in Hungary from 1993 to 2001. Yes, the IBM Simon, the Nokia Communicator, the Palm, the Pocket PC, yes those were there

But none of that meant anyone could have foreseen the iPhone. Android history articles often mention how Google essentially needed to restart because of how revolutionary it was! https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d... if there was a prophet who could foretell the iPhone their words didn't register in Mountain View, that's for sure.

If you think anyone did, the Internet does not forget, link it.
That's just level-of-detail on top of mipmapping. Mipmapping requires strictly more textures for the same level of detail.
That xkcd is not demonstrating the amount of warming, it is demonstrating the velocity of warming. Historic temperatures on a time scale of millions of years are completely irrelevant to the current discussion of climate change, unless you think we have a chance to evolve into dinosaurs in the next few centuries (/s).
I made a little proof of concept that used whisper cpp and ChatGPT to take “command” requests and generate Apple scripts which I could then run in OS X

It actually works somewhat well. I think with some more work and thought, something like this, could actually be useful.

Just saw this was for linux and Windows only
I agree 100% that corn is a very inefficient fuel source, but

> If this land were repurposed with solar power, it could provide around three and a half times the electricity needs of the United States

Isn't really accurate. It could never provide that, simply because solar is too intermittent. With (theoretically huuuuuge batteries) it could perhaps, but those don't exist. So it couldn't.
Go steal some of their history then so you can preserve it for them.
> Being able to shoot straight up and fall back down isn't anywhere near as useful or hard as orbit.

Being able to reach space at all is the hard part: so many pieces have to be developed and work well together. Achieving orbit is more evolutionary than from going from 0 to 1. Orbit seems like a such an arbitrary line, amd I suspect once BO achieves it, the bar is going to be arbitrarily raised to "Heavy-lift rockets are the hard part, and only 2 organizations on Earth can achieve it"
It's normal in the US. Outside the US things are more competitive as companies chase fewer buyers/dollars and have to sell things cheaper. Sometimes this makes certain countries worthless in the eyes of a medical device manufacturer
I think the project is cool, but since a usb snes controller is, what 5$ on ebay (or more to have quality one), I find it too bad that you damage a working, vintage real snes controller that there will be less and less of.
The mounting/straps can make a huge difference, e.g. the strap going over the top of the head was a game-changer for me. It obviously can't fix everything, though.
It's also incredibly shortsighted, and one of those aspects of business in America that contributes to the problems it has. All that institutional knowledge lost that could have been helpful in the new project. I will say that it is usually the worse run companies that are guilty of such things. The startup crowd that largely makes (made) Hacker News was spared this because a startup couldn't survive doing that. America has been coming down off the Jack Welch school of business for the past decade and a half, which perpetuated the culture that birthed the hate for MBAs and complete lack of faith in any company.
File performance in itself isn’t bad per se, but keeping two file trees in sync is a mess with Docker because every file operation needs to be duplicated or something. There’s some async stuff as well but ultimately most programs meant for Linux assume file access to be super fast so any sort of intermediate steps end up being slow (see also: git on Windows being dog slow)

You want super speedy docker on Mac? Run docker _inside_ a Linux vm. Even better, just use Linux!
Being able to challenge the construction of transmission lines is a good thing, not a bad thing. The largest unfragmented forest east of the Mississippi was just carved in half by a new transmission line in Maine, when there were alternative options that would not have done so. It just so happened that the most environmentally harmful option was nevertheless the most profitable, so they rammed it through.

And while I don't like the outcome, I like that we had the ability to challenge it. An under-appreciated aspect of corridor construction has been utilities being able to use state level regulatory capture to ram through projects that contribute to forest fragmentation.

Being able to challenge these for legitimate purposes has to be balanced against the equally legitimate problem of NIMBY obstructionism of corridor construction. But my feeling is that utilities aren't interested in a balance, they are interested pushing the NIMBY narrative to achieve a complete blank checks to circumvent environmental reviews altogether.
Robbing a gas station with a sharpened katana makes me yawn. The US ha solved this with shotguns. In Europe I'd totally use the fire extingusher.

Actually I'm quite fond of Germany as boring as it is.
I was in open relationships in Berlin’s polyamorous community for nearly five years and I concur with everything you said.
Thank you for sharing the story! I hadn't heard of this before, since it was well before my time.
It’s all just multiplying ratios.
The problem with solar is that we will have destroyed the environment to create those solar panels. The return on energy invested (RoEI) on solar is less than 10x which, when you're dealing with an energy budget like climate change etc, makes it a non-solution. Nuclear RoEI is more like 100x
Indeed, some people misrepresent Hilbert's formalism [1] to say that mathematical statements have no intrinsic meaning but are rather just a "game of symbols". What he really said was that we could split mathematical statements into "real" ones, dealing with the finitary, and "ideal" statements, with infinitary terms. He said that the manipulation of ideal statements could be considered a possibly meaningless "game of symbols", but such a game can be used to help prove finitary, "real" statements that are meaningful. As long as you cannot arrive at a contradiction involving finitary statements, infinitary ones are useful. In that view, infinitary statements could be considered meaningless (in the sense that they don't themselves describe anything real) yet not nonsensical.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(philosophy_of_mathe...
Bbedit is a a lightweight editor compared to Intellij IDE. It is hard to compare both as they are on the same foot. But yes, if you can work with BBedit on a project go for it.

On the same note, sublime will still win editor performance competition on Mac and probably all platforms.
> I have no idea how to choose an address as there is always a risk of address layout randomization getting in your way.

Where are you using mmap(MAP_FIXED) without first calling mmap(PROT_NONE) to get the base address?
But are any of those in the same area of these 22M acres?
Take the square root and it becomes more comprehensible. 300km x 300km. Or 186mi x 186mi.
I am running Apache CloudStack with KVM in my homelab. Took me a couple of hours to set it up.

It might not have all of the features of VMWare but it just works.
> Most employee salaries are R&D.
> and they get tax breaks on it.

This isn’t true anymore. The tax break for engineers counting as R&D ended last year and this is cited as one reason for so many layoffs
Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great!

That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.

I'm glad these people are out there, getting these things working again. There's so many great animations and games that didn't deserve to disappear because Adobe decided it was a prudent business move to just drop all Flash support.

Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.

EDIT: Just realized Proximity is 20 years old this year. Huh. Probably needs a 20 year anniversary edition.

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024
>So if the controller came with XP, never expect to go to a new operating system.

That's not necessarily a bad thing!

In our industry, the idea of something using XP is ridiculous. Applying our experience to the medical field is a bad idea!

It's an appliance. It doesn't really matter what OS it runs as long as its stable and certified to do. It spits out imagery which you can then process and view on any compatible device - often a reasonably modern computer running some sort of health informatics platform.

For what it's worth, the "XP" OS is often licensed and supported for well longer than a consumer SKU. IIRC microsoft provided support and security updates for embedded/appliance applications until 2019!

These devices are often not openly networked, or if they are, they are through some sort of gateway that's appropriately locked down and updated.
If it's not a priority for people, and we understand that there is an incredibly wide range of circumstances that everyone is in, much of which don't allow for easy fiscal education, access to it, or time for it, it should be pretty darn obvious that it should be a part of our basic education system. Am I to take your response as a suggestion that we shouldn't bother introducing this subject matter as a requirement at the public school level?
That's just as true of the others. NeXTSTEP was the 90s but "Mac OS X" wasn't released until 2001. But if you asked someone in 2004 or 2014 if Apple had done anything interesting recently, you'd have been able to name what it was.
Privacy.com is awful. You forgo the credit card protections, they need full access to a checking account, you can't do chargebacks, you lose any cashback methods.

Use a virtual card from your credit card
Many banks offer these now a these days (Capital one does, with all cards, in app or in browser, no need for extension).
What's New with ML in Production
AI is the greatest threat to Apple’s dominance. They might be spending billions on creating an AI-centric iOS and iPhone, and that would be money well spent. If Android phones put a personal secretary in your pocket, fully integrated throughout the device, then iPhone users would be very tempted to switch without feature parity.
Note that you are currently making excuses for blatant dark patterns for some reason. I dunno why we're doing that. People should definitely push harder to not waste money, but entities should not abuse their position to try to push them into passively allowing it. There's so many things you need to take care of in life that I don't imagine most people ever really get to give as much attention to all of the facets of their lives as they need to, and finances are only one of them. The fact that someone is effectively stealing your money and forcing you to trade it for time and effort you could spend doing anything else is criminal. (I mean, literally, it should actually be criminal. If I don't want to be subscribed, fucking unsubscribe me. That means you Planet Fitness after I moved to California.)
Buddy Memory Allocation Algorithm
"the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
I live in the UK. And I agree. May as well.

You can put lipstick on pig. But it’s still a pig. Not sure if Cameron got that memo, mind you.
As much hate Microsoft gets these days they are doing a great job recovering from Ballmer. Satya's moonshot investment in OpenAI is probably going to be what cements them a place in the future despite Windows' mindshare eroding and Azure providing lukewarm service.
But docker on Linux doesn't involve any virtualization whatsoever so filesystem performance is 100% native
HAHAHA

If there was ever a red flag...

I'd be running from that company like in a Hana Barbera cartoon.
And what about the effects on the local ecosystems and habitat?
> However trying to add additional tasks to the system, like rehabilitation or empowerment or economic development of a disadvantaged class serves only to compromise the core function and result in societal breakdown.

Citation needed
Java is still ok. A lot of people use it. It's a good ecosystem and well hung technology, the tooling is very good.

However, I think Java is not very popular because of Oracle and the licensing. There is no good reason to avoid it technology-wise but it has kind of a bad smell.

Another reason could be that more and more modern languages are trying to prevent using a VM and are designed as or transition into a compiled language offering "best" performance by having native binaries without too many dependencies.

The last reason I can think of is productiveness / complexity and elegance. Java just does not feel very elegant or easy to learn with its enterprise background. Too many products / libraries / technologies for beginners. Because of it's strictly object oriented design you have to write much code to achieve the same thing you can do in a few lines or even one line in other languages (even when you are using modern Java features). Kotlin comes in handy here, but still feels a bit clunky from time to time.

I would still use it, if it is the right tool for the job... or even if I didn't have skills in another language and wanted to get things done. Still it may be a good idea to check out other languages to learn something new. Python is good for AI stuff, Go was very productive. TypeScript is... well a "better" JavaScript with interesting concepts. Currently I'm learning Dart / Flutter, because C# failed hard while building my first little audio player app :-)
There's a lot to unpack in this little comment!

First of all - HN is a website where many different people, with different views post comments and have discussions/debates. Declaring that there's one singular view while ignoring the dozens of debates in comment sections all over the front page is kind of absurd. Some people don't think prisons work, some do. The voices calling for prison reform or abolishment may not be the same voices calling for CEO imprisonment.

Second - The idea that the law should be applied to everyone with the same vigor is not at odds with wanting to change bad laws. If the law can send a peon to prison for years, it should just as well send a CEO to prison for years too. Hell, if I think a law is bad and needs to change, having a CEO face consequences for it might cause a rare circumstance where a CEO uses their position and influence to effect the change.

Third - wanting prisons that actually rehabilitate or deter or whatever is often advocating for prison reform, not consequence-free law-breaking. I can want a murderer sent to prison at the same time I want make prisons actually effective, in fact it's pretty consistent no?

Fourth a lot of voices are louder when a CEO or official is suspect of a crime since (as in this case) often they get away with crimes far worse than those committed by people who are severely punished. Even when the ceo/official is blatantly guilty. Even more so when the ceo and officials commit additional crimes and frame innocents for them.

Fifth, in the spirit of "turnabout is fair play" - (again as in this case) the CEOs and officials that wanted to stomp out the bad actors and be tough on the crime should not be hypocritical and accept that the crimes they committed need to be stomped out and have tough consequences.
This is why you should get various browser extensions that cut through this nonsense.
That Cyber-bear looks familiar...
I'd say that's too big, yes. You can get some much smaller inkjets, for example: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/canon-pixma-tr150-wireless-inkj...
It is a little more complicated for apples because apple seeds do not breed true. You get random crabapples on average, if you plant apple seeds, so all commercial apples are grafted. At least apples aren't in the same deadend that bananas are in..

ie, most of the time they won't be sweet eating apples- in the US in particular this used to be less of a problem, because apples were for cider / alcohol. During prohibition entrepreneurs got active in trying to save their industry (while others were just ploughing orchards over) and we get modern ideas like "an apple a day" and the whole modern sweet eating apple became very mainstream. Not that eating apples weren't a thing before that, but it helped explode their popularity in modern western eating habits.
Why does the data security industry seem to be so into obfuscated jargon? It’s like a new industry microcosm corporatespeak.

It’s ok to call them countries, hackers, and intrusions.

Microsoft got hacked by Russian government hackers.
20 years of IntelliJ IDEA
I just set up a three-node Proxmox+Ceph cluster a few weeks ago. Three Optiplex desktops 7040, 3060, and 7060 and 4x SSDs of 1TB and 2TB mix (was 5 until I noticed one of my scavenged SSDs was failed). Single 1gbps network on each so I am seeing 30-120MB/s disk performance depending on things. I think in a few months I will upgrade to 10gbps for about $400.

I'm about 1/2 through the process of moving my 15 virtual machines over. It is a little slow but tolerable. Not having to decide on RAIDs or a NAS ahead of time is amazing. I can throw disks and nodes at it whenever.
https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf (page 30)

The batteries exist of course. Tesla ships 40GWh a year of them, and they are scaling up the next Megapack manufacturing facility in China.

https://www.tesla.com/megafactory