skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Puget Sound, there are areas where gray whales feed on buried prey in tidal zones specifically the beach at Langley) where they basically wind up liquefying the sand, sucking out the food, and letting it all settle back down.

Then, when the tide is out, there are these slightly depressed poorly consolidated areas that are effectively quicksand -- you can go from hard sand to knee deep in a few feet/seconds.
While it seems to be a business oriented move by MS, I can vividly imagine how such institutions wastefully neglect practically free storage...

Having to store data for five years seems to me to be a lame excuse.
They cut chargers so they wouldn’t have to change them for the EU. The environment, as usual, is for greenwashing the move.
If that was the genuine intent, they would have deducted the price to buy one from the device, but that never happens, so allow me to be skeptical of the reason.
A lot less software on linux without electron?

I have been using linux for 20 years and I've yet to use one electron based software.

There is no problem with LGPL. From your link: " QT is free to use as long as you release your code as GPL"

That is false. It is free as long as you don't statically link qt, and you distribute your eventual changes to qt itself (which aren't needed in most cases).

Of course if we spread misinformation, we might draw different conclusions, which is why it is important to start from correct non-made-up premises.
Fair, I have no experience with which approach is more likely to prevent naive users from blowing their own feet off in practice.
Microsoft did get me with their back-up your documents feature to OneDrive. It’s preposterous.

Something will come of it, particularly because of how much buy-in there is/was from academic institutions who jumped ship from Google Docs+Drive to Microsoft cloud offerings.
I will do everything in my power to pressure my university to migrate their email accounts to another service.

This is anti-competitive behavior designed to make it as hard as possible to use email client software. For example, check the procedures needed to set up oauth2 in my preferred client claws-mail.[1] That's insane.

[1] https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2
The salmon we are using is mostly from fish farms, not from wild salmon. Wild salmon is wildly expensive here so I don't think it is ever used for sushi.

https://www.marinefinland.fi/en-US/Humans_and_the_Baltic_Sea...

https://dyrevern.no/dyrevern/fish-farming-in-norway/
Broken or not depends on context and who you ask. In the end we are all HR and as many of us must function in society. Add to that that there's an abundance of jobs due to babyboomers quitting the workforce (though less in USA according to Peter Zeihan) and there is a large benefit having people in general function in society.

My daughter is 5 y.o. and has a best friend on school. Our daughter is undiagnosed for now, we both are. I get the feeling the mother of her best friend isn't happy with them being best friends. Why? Fear of being excluded, I suspect.

Right now I'm unemployed since December and the lack of employed role model for my kids is thus far more harmful than lack of income (though latter will become relevant again within time).
He left that shitty place early and lived happily ever after?
What surprised me the most was that a bluetooth smartwatch reduced my 2.4GHz home wifi speed to kilobytes per second whenever I tried to connect it to my phone app. It’s absolute trash technology in practice and I just don’t use BT anymore anywhere due to such problems.
I use Orthic to jot down notes. It has been perhaps two years since I implemented it. I view it as a tradeoff - it is way easier and faster to write… but harder and slower to read. This is why I use it for brief notes primarily. Perhaps the most consistent issue is mixing up the letters “e” and “u” but there are other ambiguities that creep up too, so sometimes you have to read a word a few times. I think I am getting better though.
https://github.com/smallstep/cli implements some OAuth flows from the CLI, it may be helpful for you.
What was the bloat you got rid of?
To commenters claiming this is nonsense, I can point at Firefox packaging for Linux, which is now on Snap, and it's like Docker container. A little version bump happens silently and eats up __extra__ ~500 MB (old versions are kept!), where it used to be (just ~5 years ago) like 50MB for the whole binary, and it was replaced upon update.

And recently, I've installed `clickhouse-client` (a new SQL database), which needs almost 900 MB for just a CLI client!!! Absolutely insane!

I use QGIS, which is an open source alternative to ArcGIS, and a non-IT friend asked something to draw maps and see imagery -- I recommended QGIS, and he wrote: "1 GIG download? WTF IS THAT?" Oops. We didn't notice the little alternative open-source app turned into such a behemoth. (https://download.osgeo.org/qgis/windows/weekly/?C=M&O=D -- actually, since last year, it grew by 20%!)

The reason for this kind of bloat to me seems the race for version updates. And it probably did make sense in late '00s, when you could claim Linux ecosystem be underdeveloped. But 15 years late, it's still here. Every package is updated at high pace, breaking stuff downstream, and now instead of settling on compatibility, everybody just started to ship docker containers.
I totally get the sentiment of your comment. They have pricing power, and they flex it. It doesn't feel great, I agree, especially when it comes from the largest company in the world.

Perhaps I was being too flippant in my original comment because I really miss the apple that cared a lot less about profitability and would give you a free new model year macbook when your old one broke (probably a lot worse for the environment too lol)
They are, at least on my car and many other here in Europe. Brake past a certain threshold of deceleration, and the brakes lights flash rapidly, indicating to motorists behind that rapid deceleration is occurring. I’m not sure what the threshold is.
Yes, the actual scientific data should be in a central storage location or ideally in an SDMS or similar system.
Professors don't make those decisions, I'm a professor at a university that uses the full MS suite and I hate it with all my heart.
30 processes of 100kb each are still less than 1 process of 500mb
After two years of using Fastmail as my primary account, in my effort to de-Google in 2022, spam recognition at Fastmail seems to me to be on a par with Gmail, if not better. I still use both.
> Honestly I don't feel the sacrifice. My house is flooded with old chargers. They're in a bin like old legos.

If only any USB-C cable was compatible with iPhone or Pixel it would be fine, but I have 4 USB-C cables that don't work with them.
Cool comment, it's great seeing people being supportive of their SO =)
Take a breather, nobody called OP a hypocrite.

> This article is a bit hyprocritical

Privacy in that sense is security. Never heard of OSINT? EXIF tags are of course security relevant.

/e: to make it more obvious: if I know your neighbourhood I can just blackmail you, I don't even have to hack you. I can gather information by maybe finding out your identity, getting insight into security questions and how you might answer them. I can find newspaper articles you were maybe part of etc. etc.
He has for thirty years.

At least he is straightforward about it.
Some of them require 2 batts to operate in series so effectively 36-40v. It's no different then what you have, most likely. They work for me pretty well on 4 acres. Amperage is more of an issue. But, I think the point of your generalized 'avoid 18v' comment is not great advice to take without further consideration. I actually like having everything the same voltage so I don't have to juggle multiple extra batteries on that plane.
Haier forces Home Assistant developer to take down smart appliance integrations
Developer Andre0512 has received a takedown request from Haier to take down an open source Home Assistant integration with many of their smart appliances, sold under the names such as Haier, Candy and Hoover.
The HA community as a response has already created many forks at the moment of writing (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/forks)

Announcement: I have to take the project down in the next few days

Dear User,

We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company. We take the protection of our intellectual property very seriously and demand that you immediately cease and desist all illegal activities related to the development and distribution of these plug-ins. We also request that you remove the plug-ins from all stores and code hosting platforms where they are currently available. Please be advised that we will take all necessary legal action to protect our interests if you fail to comply with this notice. We reserve the right to pursue all available remedies, including but not limited to monetary damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees. We strongly urge you to take immediate action to rectify this situation and avoid any further legal action. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Haier Europe Security and Governance Department
Yeah it’ll be O365 family next.

Then O365 business.
mesa is a shared library, electron isn't. That's a way to draw a line.
I think for "power users" or people who buy/receive devices often, it's easy to have way too many chargers. A lot of other people buy a new phone every 3-5 years, and by that point, your cables are probably worn out and your charger might even be broken and some of them lost. Older chargers also operate at a much lower wattage, and with batteries getting bigger, charging time will be dramatically longer for people still using old ones (assuming they're even compatible, since not everything used USB3 a few years ago).
Amazon tests a new AI assistant to answer your questions while you shop
That's plausible, and perhaps what Mr Zuckerberg had in mind?

But investors, or at least their opinion aggregated via the share price, had a different opinion at the time.

(Investors are often happy to bet on speculative things, as long as they have a positive expected value.)
(Edit: Above post originally read only “Microsoft did no such thing” before edit. Evidently updated their post after actually reading the thread).

Weird, you should tell Microsoft this, because I don’t know what it was before but the link in that thread says they are:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft...

Limiting to 100TB pooled and $30/TB/month for extra storage.

One of the reasons explicitly given being “Environmental Impact”
Just a philosophical question, that I think is on topic, I wonder how many cloud services will have to give people unpleasant experiences for those same people to stop going all in on cloud services, especially in the era of we reserve the right to change the terms and conditions without notice at our discretion

At this point I’m not even mad with Microsoft
Oh yes, and it takes up way less space, so it is very economical, you can cram a lot of notes into a single page of a pocket-sized notebook
Eh? That makes zero sense. The EU mandates the type of port on your device, not the type of charger bundled or not bundled with it. It makes even less sense given that the Apple chargers were always just dumb USB-A chargers with a separate cable - and apple still bundles the cable. So the actual charger part wouldn't have changed no matter what EU decided on this matter.
Discussed on HN back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33131195 (41 comments)
It is all about money.
Conspirology at its best. Better swap Saddam for Qaddafi, that would be even more believable.

First Iran-Iraqi war that resulted in a standstill, then invasion of Kuwait, and only then the second Iraqi war when he went totally nuts.

Other Arab nations are Saudis and Persian Gulf emirates, who had zero use for the deranged person. And were and still are quite happy with dollars.
Security Paper Notes: RetSpill
Then don't statically link? What's the problem?
> it's pretty clear that OpenAI are robber barons of data. It's totally justified to steal from a robber baron. How many people did they ask consent from before hoovering up their data?

Clear morally if you assume their stated goals are bad faith and just arse covering[0], not necessarily in law — by way of example, I have, sincerely, wondered how Google got away with crawling the web to create its search index. As this was before they were sued by newspapers for including snippets of search results, they ultimately didn't get away with it.

> We should be doing everything possible, including breaking ToS, to get as much value from ChatGPT

Generating additional and better models may be a tempting "screw the rich" option, but also the exact wrong option if you see their behaviour as IP theft that needs to be fixed — go to court, order the model to be destroyed, don't make more of them.

[0] I don't think they were originally, but (a) I generally look for the best in people, and (b) even if I'm right it is always possible they were/will be swayed by the presence of a huge pile of non-hypothetical money.

Does anyone besides the old board of directors even know why that board fired Altman a few months back?
>> and by that point, your cables are probably worn out

Apple(and everyone else, as far as I know) includes the cable though. And it's hard to wear out a power brick that just sits plugged into a socket all day.

>>assuming they're even compatible, since not everything used USB3 a few years ago

Apple chargers were always just AC to USB-A though, so all you need to change is the cable. Which....comes included with the device. It's a bit more of an issue if it's now a USB-C to USB-C cable, but a USB-A to USB-C cable is not exactly expensive.
> user who sacrifices for the environment.

It is saying like why should IC engine performance always suffer because for fuel efficiency.

Ultimately the supposed and alleged environmental harm *always* in every single case is a result of human consumption so some human has to suffer for these allegedly environmental moves if not the person buying iPhone then the Apple employee or Apple Shareholder or average tax payer.
> Sucks for me, yes. So what?

Keep living with attitude like that, eventually you’ll realize.
In Germany we also have that, but I'm British and in the UK there was nothing like this. People do full on loud drilling work on Sundays with no issue from their neighbours. There may be "officially" laws to restrict noise on Sunday in the UK, but it's not socially expected at all. Here in Germany everyone knows not do on Sunday, not so in UK. My wife is also British and she hates the Germany noise restriction, she wants to be able to make as much noise as she wants whatever day she wants. That's simply the British way. Though her mum is French and she prefers it the German way.
>pressure washing hobby. Imagine someone cleaning their driveway every weekend.

A neighbor of mine a few doors down does the same, it's baffling how they even have concrete left.
Brilliant. So this is how you could keep a client like mu/mu4e functional for Gmail and outlook365.
Wonderful. The reasons exposed by MS have been so naturalized that now no one even comments on them.
A win for them.
They're dumping billions of dollars into it because they see dollar signs at the end of the tunnel. Cost cutting, regardless of quality and ensuing enshittification. Stealing & laundering copyrighted works. Mass misinformation on a scale never seen before.
The post I replied to, was talking about founders that care about anything. As opposed to founders that do not care and are in it just for the money.

That's how I read it and you have the right to disagree. That's why we are on a discussion forum. To share ideas and speak our minds freely, regardless if we agree or not.

I hope you have fun tracking and counting my posts and it represents a good spending of your time.
Thankfully in Buddhism there is neither relinquishing desire nor agency. I think those are misconceptions.
Hm, you got me thinking about my parents, who still use the cube chargers for their newer iphones. So you do make a good point there.

For me, gallium nitride have changed the charger game for me and I refuse to use stock apple chargers on account of their ungainly largeness.

Charging a macbook with a tiny charger is so satisfying.
to the people in the comment, it's fine to use PNG.

There are advantages to use EXR as listed on the website, but imo they are more geared toward people working in 3D/CGI/VFX
> Fuck BAP and all these people with ASD who don't have it severe and end up being in denial, proposing masking and "getting over it" and other tough boy talk.

BAP is a construct developed by researchers, see e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30995078/ – we can debate its value as a scientific theory, but all this stuff about "being in denial" is irrelevant to its scientific status.

> If you got diagnosed with ASD, you have ASD

There's this MIT PhD thesis I really like, Phech Colatat's Essays in the sociology of autism diagnosis. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/90070 In the first half of his thesis, Colatat looked at three specialist clinics in the US, all run by Kaiser Permanente
(which in his thesis he refers to by the pseudonym "Allied Health") – management was already aware that three clinics had significantly different diagnosis rates, but those differences were being ascribed to patient characteristics and referral patterns. Based on statistical analysis of medical records, Colatat argues that neither of those explanations actually work, and instead the real explanation is differences in the professional culture of each clinic – an explanation he backs up by considering the organisational history of the clinics, and the different diagnostic philosophies which influenced their respective founders. He concludes that approximately one-third of the outcome of an autism diagnosis in those clinics is determined by the culture of the clinician – and he notes that, despite these significant differences in clinical culture, they were all specialist clinics which put great emphasis on diagnostic rigour, and many diagnoses are done in generalist clinics with significantly less rigour, so it is entirely possible the cultural contribution might turn out to be even bigger if one brought those diagnoses into the analysis. So, one third (maybe even more) of the time, whether you have ASD depends, not on you, but on which clinician you see.
I don't believe in selfless acts. All selfless acts are done for selfish reasons.
Sorry people, in this post I was mocking the conspiracy theorists, and you take it as a conspiracy theory itself and accuse me of being an antisemite? WTF? If that's the consensus, dang should delete the post.

Besides, you know that Khazars are not alone? They are supported by the Nazis from the dark side of the moon. "They" just don't want you to see this truth. But they are all just servants of the lizards from the Earth, who only leave their habitat when they show up masked as a royal family in Buckingham Palace.

Should I put a :) or a /s or some other sign to make it clear it's a joke or sarcasm?
> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

Yes, just don't hire MBAs with fetish for shareholder value
HN: AI is all clean energy from the clouds. Crypto uses coal and toxic waste for power. /s
>> the next question is what can be done?

Minimize the usage of JS-based libs/tools, perhaps?
Yes, I'm looking my daily tools like VSCode, Postman etc which are Electron-based. Perhaps rewriting it into Go/C++/Pascal could shrink the bloat.
What can they do now?
I really have no qualms about Fastmail spam handling either. It's fine; don't let that stop anyone from switching away from Google.
It doesn't have to be malicious, it can just be negligent. What he did was essentially digital trespass. He assumed the database only contained data for his client but he knew the database was hosted and operated by the vendor and did not ask for permission to access it. Instead he analyzed the software (in the most basic way, i.e. opening it in a text editor and looking for plaintext strings) to retrieve credentials and used those for accessing the third-party system without permission.

It's of course ridiculous that the police and prosecution called this "decompilation" but I agree with them to a point: the password didn't spontaneously fall in his lap, he deliberately went out to look for it in the software itself, even if he found it in the most trivial way possible. And then he decided to use those credentials to access an external system he must have known did not belong to his client without asking for permission. This rapidly enters grey hat territory and crosses a legal line.

I think it's right to be appalled by the mere act of opening the file in an editor being considered suspect by the prosecution but I also think it's important to understand that it wasn't just the software analysis that got him into trouble, it was the digital trespass that this enabled.
But of course they won't charge less to compensate for the reduced offering, will they?
Because those devices have lots and lots of users they can't lose.

Vision Pro has 0 users so far, will have a negligible amount for a while given the retail price, and almost certainly every single user of Vision Pro will have another device that these companies' apps already exist, so they aren't losing potential users.
I wrote a similar blog post a while ago using python [1]. I however attacked RSA using prime number factorization.

[1]: https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/
I have some experience with a German shorthand style (DEK) and it is more important to write clearly. Shorthand removes most of the redundant information that is present in regular alphabets and words. With regular writing, a small error somewhere can be error corrected using the surrounding context.
When I wasn't being careful, I could often read the text shortly after I wrote it, but after a few hours or days it became illegible to me.

There are multiple levels of shorthand, the faster ones drop more and more information from each word if it can be inferred from the context (for someone familiar with the topic, i.e. yourself mainly).

Shorthand never really stuck for me. Learning to write and read it wasn't that difficult actually, but I couldn't quickly scan shorthand notes like I could with regular writing. I suppose that's a matter of practice and I wasn't ready to sink hundreds of hours into just that.
One thing I learned from the experience was how frustrating of an experience it is if you're not good at reading. I have always been an above average reader and I couldn't understand how people struggled so much with it. Reading shorthand was effortful and slow, especially at the very beginning for me and that gave me some perspective of how some of my classmates must have felt.
I checked, and it was Win3.11 that came on 8 floppies! https://archive.org/download/dos-622-3

Windows 95 was almost 30: https://ia803207.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22...

Another fun article currently on the front page, diving into the insanity that is 8086/286/386 addressing modes: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/from-0-to-1-mb-in-dos

Even these "simple" operating systems managed to pack an incredible amount of complexity - again, just to deal with hardware, portability, different APIs, etc. Consumers - we, we demanded all of that.

If we really wanted/needed simpler software, OpenBSD is right around the corner. I've used it on&off as a daily driver for a bit, and it has an incredibly high ratio of code quality/readability vs how practical it is for everyday things (while remaining very portable). But simplicity is an uphill battle.