skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just being facetious. I've used powerline in the past, but it's proven to be an impossibility in this house as it was wired multiple times over the years and there's like 8 different circuits between 5 rooms.

I'll have to live with my dodgy mesh network.
I’m not sure if it is a matter of perspective or what. But I definitely wouldn’t look back at 90’s internet too nostalgically. It was legitimately hard to find things. People made these quirky collections of websites because that was the only way to find interesting stuff. I didn’t know about websites until I heard about them IRL. I was a kid, and scared of all the weirdos on the internet, so maybe it felt harder to explore for me, but I think that was not so uncommon.

Decades tend to smear forward a bit, I think. I wonder if people are remembering, like, 200X-201X internet when they think of the 90’s? Google was really good before SEO fully figured it out (or maybe somebody really good at SEO in 200X was actually probably clever enough that you wanted to go to their site anyway).
Recently read a description of 1960's ideology. The claim being that its all propaganda, and what we know as 60s ideology (peace love etc) actually never really happened for a real duration of time. What did happen was that those that prescribed to that line of thinking either moved to communes, or they dropped so much acid they were societally irrelevant. There werent many people actually out and about that were pushing those lines of thinking, the ideology died within a year or two, but mass media keeps it alive.

Weird to think about how media can amplify a set of ideas, that itself didnt last very long. We keep having this renewed consciousness of ideas, like a microphone blowing it into everyones ears. Even funnier is to think that an ideology that hates mass media (anti corporate 60s culture) may actually just be a product of mass media, much like mickey mouse.
Another side effect is that when you do get one they are so packed with patients that you have to wait months for a low priority appointment or see the doctor after hours.
Was going to say the exact same thing about /r/flipperzero. It feels more like a fan subreddit full of kids, which.... ain't my scene at all. People on that subreddit make it seem like it is this amazing thing that will get you in jail or something for posessing.

... But after owning one? I dunno. It's a neat gadget but to be honest about the only practical thing I've got out of it is cloning our apartment keyfobs and duplicating hotel cardkeys. Otherwise it's kinda fun opening up tesla charge doors and messing with iphones using Bluetooth LE. Somebody somewhere was starting a project to add CANbus support, which would be a perfect fit for the device.

I feel like the ecosystem needs a better way to add "apps" to the device. I might be missing something but it doesn't really have any official app registry or anything. Something like you'd see for npm, pypi, or platformio.
>Literally 90% of what I could find was furry porn and rage-bait.

I feel like this is a recognizable genre of comment. I consider myself a big time Mastodon supporter and am proud to be an evangelist for it. One thing you would see in HN comment threads were these first time users claiming all the content was X where X was something very unusual, extreme, and the claims regarding what that extreme thing was would be completely all over the map. They would also be subjective, hard to prove or disprove, but also way out of line with my personal experience and the experience of others who had used Mastodon for anything beyond a trial period.

It looks like we're getting the same version of this type of comment now, except it's for Blue Sky. I've used the app on my phone and computer, followed a few people, followed a handful of discovery feeds. I can't really prove anything here, but I think whether it's Mastodon, whether it's Blue Sky, whether it's Lemmy, I feel like the most outrageous and unreliable comments have tended to be the genre of "skeptical new user sharing their first impression" style comments, which make broad brush claims as to what "most" of the content is on a given platform.

I'm not even a fan of Blue Sky for numerous reasons I won't get into here, but I've had an account for, perhaps a few months now, but, as I often find myself saying when it comes to new platforms, it is not at all my experience that I'm seeing furry porn and rage bait. If there's any one thing noticeably unique in my experience so far, it's the general lowered temperature you feel in your feed compared to Twitter.
Ah, would have liked to have read this one, but it's now 404. Anyone managed to capture it or have a link to an archive?
"Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation" per wiki
The convention is the precise rule that _ is italics, so no, you aquire no knowledge, you need to already possess that knowledge and remember that precise rule.

On the other hand, if you know that _ is __underline__, - is --strikethrough--, then you can acquire knowledge (guess) that / is /italics/ because the principle is the same - formatting text follows symbol's shape (though it's not a perfect mach since / transforms text, not adds new symbols unlike _ or - ). But that's still intuition (* for bold would not fit here)

The other bad analogies don't help resolve it, so best stick to the topic
> In crowded spaces

I'm not talking about a single wireless access point.
I think this is how most git stuff goes as well.

> fwiw, I think they're pretty much right.

Is 'they' the strong posters or the head scratchers?
Yeah, I’m not averse to things like critical information being on a screen, but the software powering that screen needs to be ridiculously stable and well-built, which is unfortunately unlikely as long as big car companies continue to contract out dash/infotainment software rather than develop it in-house.
An excellent summary/distillation of all that's wrong with tech today.

The post is chock full of good supporting arguments of the decline — loaded with links to other posts that reinforce the same notion.

I sometimes wonder if I'm just getting old, perhaps becoming a Luddite, and I just am unable to get it. But then a post like this comes along and reaffirms what I already knew.

If it "rings true" for you it's because we're feeling it.
Hands on Plugin System Design Experiment – Blazor Build Series
Part of the reason is anytime a specialized hardware is found that works, the generalized hardware steals the feature that makes it faster - basically the story of all the extensions to x86 like SSE, etc.
Well the largest seller is Meta, naturally, since theirs are the cheapest and they've supposedly moved 20 million headsets. The second most popular (on Steam anyway which skews in it's favor) is the Valve Index, which has moved 149 thousand units.

I mention that because I have a feeling a venn diagram of the purchasers of both the Vision Pro and Index have a lot of overlap. I don't have data for that beyond the numbers being kind of similar, but:

- VR is a niche technology

- Index and Vision Pro are both quite pricey and unlikely to be someone's first go into the tech, so you're talking true VR enthusiasts. Casual wanna-tryers are going to go for a used Vive or a Meta Quest

That being said I wouldn't die on the hill of this analysis, because while the Index is expensive (full kit is about $1k) there's still a steep increase for Vision Pro, which runs $3,600 if memory serves.
Too slow for... what?

For beginners, whose main concern is implementing basic data structures/algorithms, Python is fine.

I still use Python for daily scripting (sorry, don't get along with Bash) and it's runs pretty fast.
Don't projects using Nix modules typically list all the available options in their documentation? For example,

https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml

I find it good practice to actually read the modules though. So personally, I think grepping is fine.
If the police doesn't have such rights to stop filming anyone. I guess we can imagine a CCP rando probably don't have more permission than police.

Apart from that, it's sensible to understand if you're just background on somebody's recording in a public space and don't want to appear, just walk away.
Was with you until the ignorant diversity comment

Diversity actually tends to IMPROVE results — including corporate financial results — by bringing aboard different points of view. And if you somehow still think that some races are more intrinsically intelligent than others, you're simply ignorant of the fact that the supposed racial results disparity in tests like the SAT measures more accurately disparity in opportunity [2]. There are many more references for both, and I'll stop at ignorance, but you really should get more educated before posting ignorance like that.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2018/01/25/more-...

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/03/when-and-why-diversity-improves-your...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...
Last I checked, in Quebec specifically, 25%+ of the population is 65 and up, and it's trending upward. Immigration rates definitely have to do with the shorter-term issues, but this has been going on for decades at this point.
From 2000-2022, Canada's average age increased from 36.8 to 41. Older population consumes more health services.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/444844/canada-median-age...
No one denies our prophet pbuh was the ruler of the Islamic state. As are the caliphates after him. It’s Christianity which has no doctrine regarding governance of people, or modern Christians who have weird ideas like religion should not be involved in governance. Someone needs to rule and spread the religion through territorial expansion, as it is the only way people can be saved. Say what you like, but it’s coherent.
Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down game
This is the “both sides”/“race horse” mentality in political reporting.

A race isn’t interesting if isn’t competitive. But beyond that, the centrist impulse is definitely to bolster the weaker side, especially if that side is unattractive and feckless.
> IIRC, the biggest thing to fall out of that is the US government banned scanners that could pick up the frequencies commonly used by cordless phones.

I recall that. I think the age of SDR's made such a ban (law?) almost impossible to enforce.
I think planes can still fly with the rudder loose? If the bolt falls out and it loses control, wind will push it into the neutral position and then flying will still be possible with other control surfaces? But I guess if the pilots don't know and it happens suddenly at a critical moment or if the bolt causes the rudder to get jammed, then that would be really bad. But I assume it falling out would result in the rudder loosely returning to neutral...
It also takes ages to see any specialists, so it's not like there is a glut of cardiologists running around.
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Totally agree. I'm naturally BS-averse so it took awhile to figure out how to deal with it.
Um, yes? For the majority of Congressvermin, looking like they believe in Aliens and Govt. Conspiracies seems like their best re-election strategy.

Worth comparing: How many of 'em would be willing to go on record as saying that neither God nor Santa Claus are real? Or even speaking ill of zealous Star Wars fans?
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They aren't my stats. Just pointing out using one stat from source A and another stat from source B to draw a conclusion when source A has both stats seems like hunting for stats that support a predetermined conclusion.
Are you familiar with what a monopoly is? It's not about controlling what's on your shelf, it's about not letting other stores have the monopolized products on theirs.
BC changed its primary care billing model dramatically in 2023 to address the problem. The new model pays doctors based on a combination of their patient load and the complexity of their cases. The typical family doctor pay rises as a result from C$250K to C$385K - in line with what many specialists earn.

As a result, doctors are moving to BC from other provinces and countries and, as an anecdote, my small community now has 3x as many doctors as it had before. Money works.
Not necessarily. My 200 year old house is wood. Although the plaster still there attenuates a bit.

But I agree with your basic point. An access point in one corner of the 1800 sq. ft. house mostly covers the whole place. I was just at a friend's 2BR Europen apartment and one access point only covered about half the place.
Cool.

In case you're not aware, NASA released several thousand hours of Apollo 11 audio which is similarly noisy. You might have a good time messing with some of those recordings.
Please qualify 'serious accident' in the wake of 2 crashes and a decompression event forcing landing.
Until there’s a mechanical issue last minute and they put you on another airline to get you a seat home.
I have an SRX1400 cluster with nearly 11 years of uptime. But this is the bare metal BSD-based firewall. When later, Juniper started adding a hypervisor layer on SRX platforms, and I started having problems.
That's right - all energy used during the off-peak hours is at the cheaper rate - the Economy 7 "white meter" timeswitch was just a convenience for storage heater circuits.
> you decided not to quote for some reason

No nefarious reason. Just didn't think it is worth getting into the relative risk debate, because that tends to go sideways.
They should add a list of passwords already used, you know, for security.
It is estimated that it will be supply constrained all year by the screens for each eye, to about 1 million total units for in 2024. So, selling nearly 20% on the first weekend? Sounds like a lot.
TNZ was one of my regular interactions. I regularly connected with some really competent, lovely folks over there. Especially compared to some (only some!) of the more "claws out" US customers, they were an absolute pleasure to work with.
https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?hl=en&project=nps-...
I smoke weed so it’s always been easy to find acid or shrooms, but now people openly advertise it (I’m Canadian)
But I don't want to have to rely on Google Assistant as the default voice controls in the vehicle and then rely on that requiring a connection to the Internet to use.

And I still don't want to sign in with a Google Account to my vehicle. What happens in those horseshit "my Google account got yeeted by someone in Mountain View with no warning" situations we see every now and then? Then I just... can't use parts of my car I paid for because another company says so?
The latest version of CarPlay does support something like that.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/23/all-new-carplay-late-20...
I use ChatGPT daily (scientist/coder perspective)
Probably yes. But if you want me to shell more than 3K dollars you can't give me the battery life of a Meta Quest 3, way cheaper.
“Open the payload hatch, ChatGPT.”

“I’m sorry, Taylor. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

AI will keep everyone safe. /s
So I'm a stage 4 cancer patient and now there's a real fire under my ass to do a heroic dose. I talked to my therapist about it and he was like yea, here's this website where you can order some chocolate bars. My jaw hit the floor. I thought he was referencing the darkweb, but nope just a typical site in Canada I think.

I'm still incredibly new to it all and would love to grow my own at one point. I'd also love to know where ahem folks are sourcing their stuff.
> This wasn’t some clickwrap thing you have to click through to play Angry Birds, it was the agreement for signing up for the developer program.

Both of these operate under precisely the same principle. The same principle is applied when you sign up for a gym membership, a credit card, or install software on your computer. The validity of the shrinkwrap contract is not something I’m challenging here even if I happen to believe they go against the spirit of contracts.

My point is that there are limits as to what you are able to consent to, legally speaking. You can’t typically sue a company for including something in the ToS that you haven’t yet signed which you believe is unenforceable because you suffered no damage and have no standing in the matter. The way to go about this is to agree to the ToS and challenge its enforceability when, specifically, the target stipulations(s) were enforced by the company you made the agreement with. If this stipulation was not legal for them enforce, then it’s perfectly within the rights of the signer to challenge it.

The other dynamic is that the signer is taking on risk by challenging the validity of the contract either as a whole or in part, therefore it’s not necessary asymmetrical.

There are other situations where a “legal contract” can be thrown out, such as being forced to sign one under duress/threat, or even if someone who cannot consent legally signs it.
This is concerning and upsetting. The DRM doesn't just break SD support (despite being verified), it prevents the use of mods. This is a game with no PvP of any kind, where most mods are either skins or gameplay/QoL improvements. MHW for example has a mod that adds New Game+.

Also, I already own the game, so it's not like I can choose to not buy it.
I remember when I used to think only one party destroyed public lands for a paycheck....

^^ Change republican to politician

Biden granted more oil and gas drilling permits than Trump in his first 2 years in office
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-granted-more-oil-and-gas-drilli...
Say what you will about ChatGPT, it got me looking first time at Hesse in German
I'm fine with it. My digital dash is a screen above the center console, and it shows me the actual driving data I need right next to the steering wheel: speed, cruise control set point, and blinkers. The lack of physical buttons is also fine for me; the touch screen controls aren't settings I need while driving (those are handled with the controls on the wheel), with the exception of needing to bump HVAC by a few degrees maybe once a month. Obviously YMMV with both the user and the vehicle, but the way I use the UI in my car just gets the car out of my way so I can keep my hands on the wheel.

> Where is the pro-digital-control constituency hiding out?

Like so many debates online, this one gets polarizing and hyperbolic really fast. Communities around specific car models are more likely to have fans of the UI, and they're unlikely to venture out into other forums discussing the stuff because of how adamant people are that they're wrong.
> Pointer masking: you can fit a lot in the unused higher bits of an address. Some GCs use them to annotate memory (refered-to/visited/unvisited/etc.), but you have to mask them. A hardware assisted mask could help a lot.

If you're building hardware masking, it should be viable for low bits too. If you define all your objects to be n-byte aligned, it frees up low bits for things too, and might not be an imposition, things like to be aligned.
This seems nitpicky. You can't appeal to the fact that something is not yet settled law during a discussion of whether it will become settled law later.
Yes, because why would anyone have a child when they can’t be sure of finding housing or childcare?
Imagine a life where your office could be anywhere, from a serene beach to a bustling city café. That's the life I was dreaming of when I transitioned from a traditional CTO to a Nomad CTO. This journey has been about more than just a career change.
They should call it a new concurrent version system, not a git alternative.
My Renault Megane e-Tech has a digital display instead of "regular" speed/rpm gauges. I really like it, as I can easily select what I want to see.

This is especially handy if I'm navigating new places, where I can get the map right there in front of me. No need to look to the side, so can keep my eyes on the road more.

That said I think Renault has struck a nice balance between digital and physical. AC controls are physical, as is volume/mute and a few more.

All the physical buttons are still available via voice commands, which I also like. If a lot is happening on the road it's sometimes better to be able to keep both eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.

And as much as I dislike touch, at least it works well and the hardware driving the screens is snappy and responsive, like a good tablet.
The Apple Vision Pro's Missing Apps
Chronosphere acquires Calyptia to extend its observability platform
I'm Canadian, immigrated as a child from Taiwan.

It's pretty scary that the powers that be want more immigration yet don't actually have a real implementation for it. This goes against everything engineers value, obviously for many of us here. The likely consequence is a lot of harm and disruption to people in the future.

I mean, I guess the real plan is the Canadian 1% exploiting a booming immigrant society.
Useful tool to reason about this. Thanks!
Is it fair to assume that access to doctors is even worse for immigrants than it is for citizens? Assuming that citizens are the country's top priority, like they usually are in most countries.

(I know some Canadian immigrants on the path to citizenship who are planning to have their first baby but have not been able to see a doctor for a year plus. Just curious if they're situation is worse than citizens, the same, or better.)
Those two accidents didn't "happen here" and our news is very isolated from the rest of the world. Maybe that's what he means?
I have a slightly smaller flat and the same problem as mentioned.

I DO have metal in the walls... reinforced concrete is a thing.
Also: middle-aged white British guy talking about the CCP is a bit of a British alt-right trope; it's a term that is flung around in any context where rights, authority or infringements are discussed.

So it's not remotely surprising to see it applied to actual Chinese people, whether there's justification or not.
> So he cut overseer's head with his scythe, became a village hero and founded a church there

do go on, sounds like quite a story in there.
The patent office or Texas in general?
The 20M figure includes Quest 1, 2, and Pro, and spans several years [0].

[0: https://skarredghost.com/2023/03/03/quest-20-million-mainstr...]
The article mentions Apple has 1.2 billion active users. They need 0.014% of those to buy one to hit that number.

The bigger question, also mentioned in the article, is how many of those preorders are scalpers.
I believe it's a similar thing.
Semi-educated guess based on historical facts:
Because of various (not least religious) reasons, Czech-speaking intelligentsia pretty much ceased to exist mid-17th century (fact, replaced by German/Latin) and only actual serfs spoke Czech, work and robota became defacto synonym (speculation). And when it became fashionable and cool to speak Czech 100-200 years later for the city-dwellers (fact), they probably felt the need to differentiate whatever they were doing as a job from the definitely uncool farmers of the countryside (speculation).
Availability is cultural

If you grew up around cattle country in Texas they are literally growing out of cow shit everywhere

It’s effectively decriminalized in the US at this point

Now that people realize that it’s better medicine than what pharmaceutical companies are producing they are adjusting their consumption
Unless we are defining that “ideology” very narrowly, the sheer volume of cultural output (fashion, music, cinema, etc) would be a clear counterpoint.
How do I download that stuff?
I did not expect to read hantec on HN today. Enough internet and about time for a škopek I guess.