skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run Ceph on some Raspberry Pi 4s. It's super reliable, and with cephadm it's very easy[1] to install and maintain.

My household is already 100% on Linux, so having a native network filesystem that I can just mount from any laptop is very handy.

Works great over Tailscale too, so I don't even have to be at home.

[1] I run a large install of Ceph at work, so "easy" might be a bit relative.
I’m too young to understand how plugin architecture worked for old browsers (flash, java, what else am I forgetting).

I’m guessing it was some horrible unsafe C interrop mess with close ties to the kernel. Or maybe there was no samdboxing and security built in like there is these days.

Anyone able to shed some light on how it worked and why it was so easy to exploit flash and therefore the whole system? Was it the same for Java applets?
Building an advanced chip fab was much harder than just getting the money.

So something isn't very clear about this story.
Yeah, I was gonna say this as well. When you find that windows-free laptop be sure to compare price/specs with Windows laptops.

IME the hardware specs, and overall design/quality have a much bigger impact on price than whether it includes Windows or not.
We didn't invent it. We in this industry refer to this as the "razor - razorblade model". Nothing is ever new.
I too would like to participate in this bet on your side.

I read their first paragraph and thought to myself that it was a reasonable stance, only to then be followed up with ridiculous stuff that straight up slides off the other end of the spectrum.

Gotta admire the confidence though, however misplaced it might be.
Amazon's contracted logistics company refuses to pick up my return package
I'm asking here because I figure there might be Amazon employees who can explain to me if I have any recourse. I never thought this was something that could happen.

In late December I ordered an APC UPS via Amazon (Spain). It was an official order from the brand, however what I was delivered in early January was an old box. The UPS inside was dirty and not wrapped in plastic, had the stickers in the wrong places and both of the battery's poles had been plugged in during transportation (illegal). When I tried turning on the UPS it started making a loud metallic racket, so I turned it back off, unplugged a battery pole, put the thing somewhere non-flammable and requested a replacement from Amazon.

Amazon's replacement procedure seemed to work nicely as usual. They sent me a new unit via a good courier, which arrived a few days later. This one was definitely new and functioning properly. They also scheduled the pickup of my broken unit to a maximum of 3 business days later (time couldn't be scheduled, I just had to be available the whole three days, I guess), and claimed that if the broken unit wasn't returned within a month I'd be charged for the replacement.

Nobody showed up to pick up the replacement unit within 3 workdays. On the fourth day, in the morning, I received an e-mail from the logistics company in charge of the pickup saying they couldn't pick it up because: (blank). I called the logistics company, and the person I talked to located the pickup from the tracking number I gave them, said it was strange the reason was blank and also strange that I'd received the e-mail on that day, because apparently the issue was logged at a different time on their side. I clarified my details with them and they said the pickup would definitely happen on that day, the fourth day.

It didn't. It didn't happen on the fifth workday either. I called them again, and once again they located the pickup, confirmed my data and said they'd add a note saying the pickup had to be made.

Guess what? It wasn't. It has been two weeks now, and the pickup hasn't happened. The logistics company isn't contacting me, or visiting me, or notifying me, or scheduling anything. I tried sending a complaint through the local regulator of the transportation industry, but this is a slow process that can take up to three weeks to make progress. Meanwhile, I'm sure Amazon will happily double charge my credit card even though I only have one working UPS. I can't afford to pay for an extra, non functioning UPS.

There isn't much more I can do here since I'm not really the customer of the logistics company, Amazon is. But there is no way to actually contact Amazon and no process in their website to handle something like this. For some reason they have decided to contract with this company, even though they are - in my experience - pretty much always unreliable. Is there anything I can do? How can I get Amazon to collect my return package through other means, or at least not charge me again for the same UPS?
Kudos to team
I'm curious what the performance difference would be on a modern kernel.
Aleph 0 – The derivative isn't what you think it is. (2020) [video]
Yeah. Serving profiles for customized ad selection.
JPEG XL here is used in place of a traditional RAW format:

> Additionally, storage capacity has been reduced while maintaining image quality by providing JPEG XL format.
Good for hypersonic missiles reentering from staging in low Earth orbit.
Confirmed.

I tend to use my phone for personal research stuff mainly and Firefox on my desktop/laptop for work. I use bookmark syncing in Firefox, and that works great! But I generally don't need to synch from phone to desktop.

Having said this, I also had Firefox installed on my phone and on checking, see that ublock origin is available there!

Will give it a shot now. :-)
if we could add something like crowd-voted tags to submissions

the repetitive license threads already add too much noise to most submissions (there are already two in this one) - anyone interested in using this can just read the license that comes with the repo. Just about every submission has more interesting things to discuss than license stuff.
Does Lima only support Linux guests? The page seems to suggest so. Tart supports macOS guests too.
That was my first though as I read it. It would be disabled or removed the first day.
Show HN: YC for YC Rejects
Hey HN,

there are so many 10/10 ideas and people that never get into YC because of the sheer number of applicants.

I know that and want to do something about it so I built Stride.

We're a community of 650 (currently) founders building in a ton of different industries, sharing expertise and having weekly events with VC's, founders and angels.

We're in the process of raising a seed round to build out a physical / virtual startup studio similar to YC's offer but for all the entrepreneurs that won't / don't get into YC.

Let's talk about the SF move - YC is bringing back their need to be in SF to attend batches.

Staying put in SF is a miss for YC. The world's changed - talent is everywhere now, global.

But YC is sitting pretty as "Silicon Valley's most successful startup" and won't budge.

I believe in this thesis and I put my money where my mouth is.

I'll build YC for all those that didn't or won't get into YC.

Stay tuned
Completely uninformed take. Some of the most impressive update notification systems are built off of pass-as-immutable runtimes (for example: phoenix live view + phoenix pubsub). Try implementing that in just about a y other language. You will trip over yourself eight ways to hell

The whole idea of CQRS is to build separate (segregated) pathways for updates. Immutable passing plays extremely well with CQRS. The alternative is the complete clusterfuck that is two way data bindings (e.g. out of the box angularjs)
My guess: Flash required installing a native host and browser plugins, while this runs in the browser sandbox which is generally considered very safe (much safer than Flash)
The usual reason include: oversight; mistake; incompetence.
We do this with our recycling bins, it doesn't look like lego, but you can stack it a lot nicer than what they've got in their pictures.
A History of Chaos Theory
The article said the new startup would be located in Paris....
The Friday evening blog post also seems designed to brush this under the rug.

"We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes"

In other words: Microsoft will adopt their own security standards. Curious whether their SOC reports mention these are optional?
> what I found is dubious UL certificates shared by multiple "brands"

Have you reported it to UL?

https://www.ul.com/resources/market-surveillance-departments
I’ve had the same issue with async and await in JavaScript. These days I just err on the side of simplicity and make everything async
All services have permissible use clause in their terms & conditions. And if this is about cryptocurrencies and blockchain. It's absolutely a valid choice for a small service provider to block them. They are resource hungry and resource abusive. A small provider like SourceHut can't afford to take that unnecessary stress. VC funded or big players can. And they do that for easy, quick & short boost in money or marketing PR.

Also, I always have observed this. This reminds me. Not targeted at gray_-_wolf but a general observation which I just remembered...

There is a trend where people attack small actors/entities for smaller mistakes or opinions. But give free card to big players you cannot touch for atrocious BS. Because they are monopolies or filty rich.

Especially in tech, you don't talk shit about google or ms a lot publicly. Cos that makes you less hirable.
What powerlifting taught me about the virtues of maximalism
> Though of course that's not a problem if your security is up to par and the device continues to receive regular security updates

Just remember that the S in IoT stands for security :)
"usually people in the West are more reasonable than the average Chinese"

What makes you think that?
I loved the final touch where they leave a note in a text file. Feels much like the talos principle.
https://skiplagged.com/
It's not like we're anywhere close to short on Si though... not sure it's a relevant comparison
I've been using it for years and never been able to notice this.
I don't think this has any relevance (at least in its current state) for digital compute.
I guess it was his time. RIP.
What is ”actual HNer”?
What? How is the land getting “salted”? The small trace amounts of metals in the solar panels stay inside the solar panels. They don’t melt into the soil. And you just take the panels away when they reach EOL.
I think this pop science of the 1980s and 1990s might have something relevant to say with respect to the current day's AI craze (cf. for instance Poincaré and the issue with initial conditions viz predictability).
I don't understand how google can just be consistently on the back foot of the "tech world hivemind" for going on 7 (?) years now and have zero shakeup of not just culture but at least PR.
Deep Throat had at least a 600x multiple (a budget of $47,000 and a box office somewhere between 30 million and 50 million). Blair witch had over a 1000x multiple, with the same 200k budget as mad Max and a box office around 200 million. Paranormal Activity also seems to be close to the 1000x mark.
Name checks out? But thanks for the warning. I think my current usage patterns incidentally stop me from hitting that behaviour. I happen to know the sibling commenter contributes to the app, so hopefully it can be fixed.
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Yup, it's boring and works :)
That's what DNG is for.
A perfect vacuum conducts electricity as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit
I adore tart. I've used it over a year for work. It works very well with Cirrus Labs' images.
The main way Rust helps with security normally doesn't especially apply. The main feature of Rust that Ruffle takes advantage of is just that it can compile to WebAssembly. So it runs in the same browser VM other modern web content does. Thus inheriting all that sandboxing and security. So idt Rust deserves the credit here.
The Buick Riviera Had a Touchscreen Display Way Back in 1986
Yes it's a common form of abuse, it's common because it's easy, it's easy because the "victim" is asking for it.

Self improvement work is a better outcome than witch hunting.
do you have any idea on how the biodiversity of cheese is catalogued? i'd love to read more about that!
> Anyway, a binger whose usage is equivalent to a non-binge watcher, except concentrated rather than diffuse, is not actually underutilizing the service and isn’t really who we’re talking about here. I think.

I am actually talking about this here. It sounds like you understood my point but also think this is not what I'm talking about? I'm not saying I underutilize my service, I am actually talking about equivalent usage except concentrated rather than diffuse. When you ask companies to automatically omit fees for months of inactivity, you are punishing users who diffuse their use while rewarding users who concentrate their use.

> I mean, for starters this whole conversation is fantasy because streamers, or really, businesses in general, will never on their own initiative stop taking taking money from customers.

Literally false. Netflix did this because they're not trying to build a business on tricking people who don't want their product. But it's a fairly long period of inactivity because anything less and it's not clear if they actually forgot or not https://about.netflix.com/en/news/helping-members-who-havent...
I'm so glad the US government is keeping us safe from our own culinary decisions.
> Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/googles-decision-to-depr...
I don't have the gifts to be a freelancer, independent contractor, or consultant but periodically revisit this talk. It's a great business lesson for those of us on the customer side to get our stuff together before commissioning work. The old Clients From Hell site was also good for this.

Unfortunately, treating a supplier respectfully doesn't always pay off either. There are jerks everywhere. But, honest dealing is easier on the conscience.
I mean, JPEG XL is designed as an all-encompassing file format that also subsumes RAW and DNG. On the other hand, DNG 1.7.0.0 added JPEG XL as one of compression options back in 2022 (!), which might be what Samsung is actually using.
The company is literally run by a McKinsey consultant. How is anyone surprised?
I worked alongside the Google and Cloudinary teams who authored the JPEG XL spec and I'm glad their work's finally paying off.

It's really weird Google deprecated the format despite contributing engineers to help build JPEG XL. I guess it's office politics
As a small note, IP67 sealed connectors vary greatly in price, with excellent high pin count options like the Ecomate Aquarius line being in the low tens of dollars. The Deutsch/Amphenol AT automotive connectors are also very cheap yet provide a watertight seal.
Wait what? I thought Rosetta 2 only worked in MacOS? Where does aarch64 Linux fit in this picture?
I usually avoid religious discussions, but I really would appreciate a citation on this considering it is the exact opposite of what is actually attested to him:

https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-27.htm
> I mean, many others have used the same tactics with civil suits—being stripped of all of one’s money might be marginally better than being put in prison, but I’d argue it’s still on the same spectrum, so it makes for a hell of a lot of leverage.

So if one thing is terrible let's use that to justify something worse?
It is expensive to live where the jobs are. And young families need the income. And they usually don't have the time for a long commute.

"Tokyo is one of the most expensive cities in the world. It made the number 10 spot on Deutsche Bank’s annual Mapping the World’s Prices report in 2019 and is the third most expensive city for expatriates on Mercer’s 2020 Cost of Living Survey."

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/how-much-is-the-average-rent-in-t...
As we've seen, many of the cybersecurity teams have been pwned, so a large part of the breadcrumbs they'd pattern match are already out there. Additionally, if security is poor enough, there can be more than one hacker into a system, which is another way they could accumulate breadcrumbs. This has precedent - there has been malware that uninstalls other malware.
Perhaps an improved design would not matter which orientation it came to rest in. It could extend a rod to right itself, or simply work regardless of its orientation.

It would be a fun engineering challenge to built such.
EOS (https://cern.ch/eos, https://github.com/cern-eos/eos) is probably a bit more complicated than other solutions to setup and manage, but does allow to add/remove new disks and nodes serving data on the fly. This is essential to let us upgrade harware of the clusters serving experimental data with minimal to no downtime.
Yes, no doubt the supervisor(s) feared that if they let it happen their job would be on the line. But how warranted was that fear? Would Bezos actually fly up to YXU and personally fire the management team over a worker sitting in their car? Or was it completely imagined?

From my unattached outsider's perspective, I am almost certain Bezos would do no such thing. In fact, it is almost guaranteed that he would have never known about it, assuming it would have saved this person's life. In my experience with small business, I wouldn't even be able to keep track if any of the workers there were sitting in a car during a fire drill unless I watched it happen. There is no way someone in a business of millions of people is keeping such tabs.

I can appreciate the imagining, though. I'm guilty of such things myself, finding out later the person I thought would draw ire wasn't thinking about me at all. I'm not sure that is cultural. It seems to be a basic human trait. In fact, our culture tries to remind people that nobody is thinking about you.
> Also, oh, man, Jazelle. I'd forgotten about that. Hardware support for Java bytecode... that did not pan out well.

As someone who was too young to be paying any attention during this time, what were some of the reasons this didn’t pan out? Java seems so dominant looking back that I’m surprised something like this wouldn’t have been a success.
9th image on topic peen is currently dickbutt
B-b-b-b-but bUY amERiCa
*the classifiers
I use a service called Privacy [1] to generate virtual card numbers, which I than use with all of my subscriptions. All of the virtual cards are tied to a physical credit card used as the funding source. I get a notification every time a card is charged or a charge is denied (if it's above the set limit or no longer active). This has saved me from fraud where a single-use virtual card # I used to pay for airport parking was used to buy something online and promptly denied and multiple overcharges with random subscriptions. I even started using it for things like gym and utility payments. Highly recommended to keep a tab on subscriptions.

[1] https://privacy.com
After the IPO, the founders owned ~30% of the company. If you own that much equity:

- you don't need a salary, and

- it's already in your best interest to make the company more valuable

People who are hired from outside need to be paid a base salary, but should expect to make most of their money from increasing the value of the company, hence the need for equity grants or equity option grants.
See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
They want their awful webp format to win for some reason.
What does ROV stand for?
Oh god they're russian. That means they're evil!
Nothing changes with Crude Oil: even when Celsius rises with Crude Extraction
What are your speeds? Do you rub ceph FS too?

I'm trying to do similar.
Google, not content with existing image formats that support 10-bit like HEIC (used by Apple) and AVIF (based off of AV1, a codec that Google helped design and is better than JPEG), they decided in all their wisdom to make Ultra HDR for Android phones, which is an incompatible standard built on top of JPEG, which is separate from JPEG-XL.

Now Samsung has released Super HDR, without any information about that standard or if it relates to Google's Ultra HDR. Sigh.

Edit: I forgot about WebP/WebP2, which was also developed by Google as a JPEG replacement.
For those who haven't heard of it, the actual law governing this is the Ivention Secrecy Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
Not to get all correlation/causation [0] on this, but teen substance abuse is down globally across the board.

In the US, for example, alcohol use by 8th graders dropped from 45%+ in 1992 to below 25% in 2012 [1], the period described in this article.

Fairly sure middle schoolers in the US aren't getting natural highs...unless social media counts!

[0]: https://xkcd.com/552/

[1]: https://monitoringthefuture.org/data/bx-by/drug-prevalence/#...
I’m curious about multiple things!

- what kind of heat shrink was it? There’s the usual thin plastic type and the gooey double-layer type. I’m actually not sure which one would be worse for heat… the gooey type seems like it’d be a thermal insulator but maybe with that much close contact it might be a decent thermal conductor. The regular thin plastic type would probably have been trapping a bunch of air around the heatsink (dramatically reducing the surface area for convection)

- how big was the waterproof enclosure? The stagnant air inside there seems like it would probably heat up pretty well. If the enclosure was plastic it would probably conduct that heat into the water quite poorly.

If you end up in a similar situation down the road, you’re probably way better off making an aluminum plate with a raised pad that you can mount the CPU to directly and use a gasket to allow the outside of the aluminum to conduct the heat directly into the water. Assuming you’re not going to crazy depths I’d expect that to be viable and you’ll probably get “better than forced air” performance out of it
CPU-Z now works with ARM64 CPUs on Windows
Because some people are locked into certain exact models of hardware for all sorts of reasons. That's why there's still a market for PDP11 hardware decades after it became obsolete.

Simply storing something for decades has costs, which factor into the price.

As for the general upward trends in capacity and price, of WiFi gear, we're now at the point where they are using multipath and phased array antennas to get around the Shannon limit on Data transmission, effectively using the same channel more than once. It's fscking magic!
Order diapers and wipes online in bulk!
Indeed. Why do the engineers cope with that?
Powder and profits: the economics of ski resorts
I've seen some fairly generic looking many-pin connectors that are water tight. Is it just best practice to route everything through the 40+ pins and break out on the other side? Even power?
Clickbait implies a specific intent to mislead for clicks, whereas I think there’s a completely good-faith disagreement here about the meaning of the word “memory leak.”
Or more likely because your anecdote is conflating with no justification two different things.

Also, SHOUTING.
I'm guessing remote operated vehicle - e.g., remote controlled submarines.
Does the yield curve tell us a recession is coming soon?
Push requires a Pub/Sub client, which doesn't have a free tier (last time I checked).
Yep, the language is consistent! Although you can usually always get by with the later.
> It's oddly similar to seeing a flag at half-mast in real life. Sometimes you know who it's for, sometimes you don't.

Or, you figure out the central website for reporting half-staff announcements and you check it on a regular basis: https://halfstaff.org/
What is "release to select"?