skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Makes sense! I wonder if there is a way to dynamically watch the Windows call, to compare it with the Linux one, to avoid the tedious reverse engineering. Or if the syntax of Windows GetNextVariableName() use is generally understood/documented?

The userspace interface is somewhat documented by third-parties (because it is technically internal). However, the important parts happen kernel side, and I'd rather avoid diving too deep into Windows because some very interesting job postings (understandably) have "No exposure to Microsoft code or reverse-engineering of Microsoft software" in them.

I already tried getting to the service handler implementation via Linux, but memory protections made it weird enough that I was even questioning whether it was returning correct raw data when trying to read it from memory (or I have been looking at the wrong set of headers).
US voters have consistently rejected such policies for nearly a century, if not longer.

While there are certainly people who believe as you do, you are not in a majority. There are also a lot of people in Argentina (possibly a majority) who don't agree with those policies either.
> People are saying about 70% of Spotify revenue goes to rights holders, whereas you're saying about 85% of Bandcamp's revenue goes to rights holders. It really doesn't seem like that much of a difference?

85% of a bigger number is significantly more than 70% of a much smaller number.
I haven't pontificated, I asked a question, and I really didn't want or cared enough about the topic to do a search, so I asked the question in case somebody already knew
I think you have the cause and the effect mixed up. The government didn't have to 'whip us up' we did that entirely on our own. The government was able to go places they never could because of that fervor, but they had at most a marginal role in creating it. You're wildly misremembering how much fear there was on day 0, before the government had a chance to do anything.

We, as a civilization, are riding the razors edge of stability. The amount of energy required to destabilize the system, when applied in just the right way, is shockingly small.
The next “easy” one is probably level 5 auto driving let’s see how long that takes.
On top of your in-group, out-group business, the more your hands are on the levers of The Machine, the more its components look like dull, replaceable little cogs. It's almost a self-protective mechanism. Imagine your compassion fatigue if you had to evaluate your every action through fourth-order effects out in countries you've never visited.
If your first thought was “what is The Sad Bastard Cookbook”, here’s an except (and yes, totally worth fighting for :)

“Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve worked a 16-hour day, when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook is funny, realistic, and kind. It’s vegetarian/vegan. It’s a community-built project. And the e-book is free. It’s hard to survive late capitalism and we want to help.”
If you leave as much space as you would like to, other drivers change into your lane to use the space to advance, and now there isn't enough space, so you would have to slow down. You are now traveling slower than the adjacent lane, so more drivers move to the other lane to get around you and fill the space you're trying to leave again, preventing you from resuming parity with the speed other traffic is moving. As long as the space is there they'll continue to do this, which is a massive hazard because you're inducing a speed differential and a large number of lane change maneuvers.
Of the tens of thousands of queries I've written I've needed right join the exactly once. It's a feature which is neat in that it exists, but the prevalence in teaching materials is entirely unjustified. Cross joins are massively more practical and enable some efficient transformations, but are usually taught only as all to all without a clear position on why they are useful.
Leslie Lamport gives a short oral history of the Bakery Algorithm in Episode 3 of "Algorithms at Work": https://www.audible.com/pd/Episode-3-Concurrency-How-to-Coor...
"mere terrorism"? It was an attack on a civilian target. Pearl Harbor was a military installation. The USA had never faced anything approaching the scale of 9/11. The WTC 1993 attack and OK City bombing in 1995 didn't come close. It became very apparent how complacent the USA had become.

Unlike a state attacking another state, pinning down where these people were getting their orders from was difficult. Considering what your age must be, I'm surprised you struggle to understand the difference between an openly militarized nation versus terrorist cells that could be anywhere and anybody. There's no coordinates to punch into a MAD system when it comes to terrorists.

If it was so easy, years wouldn't have been spent searching for the likes of Bin Laden.
>> trustable sources like BBC and other media whose journalists can verify events on scene can work with trusted photographers, have contacts with whom to cross-check claims

They could, but do they? Evidence says no - they are perfectly happen to run with lies if it fits their narrative - and then weeks later, tucked away someplace, issue a retraction - after the damage is done.

The BBC has an agenda, FOX news has an agenda, CNN has an agenda, MSNBC has an agenda, PBS has an agenda - they are all perfectly willing to lie to gather clicks or eyeballs - not sure AI is going to meaningfully change anything in that regard.
I bet you see this response, which demonstrates that it is a sort of engagement platform.

Same as in you profile you can view your own comments (and others) , scanning the message for an @ symbol and checking for a valid username I wouldn't consider to be a major undertaking.

As I said in my comment, searching for @username vs username is much easier already.

But yes, a third party could do it. Perhaps @dangrossman (yes, I did that) may be interested.
To where? A place no one sees them and they aren't scraped?
Remind me why we are killing each other? Is it for survival?

OT: We know everything we need to survive and prosper very well - imperfectly, but with margin of error to spare, including capable political systems. The people still killing are just criminals who want to steal and murder.
You are oversimplified PP's vague language.

That paper shows that AI didn't help people who already had the knowledge that then AI had.

High skill Experts (not customer service reps) use AI to extend their knowledge, like using a new API.
Since Catalina, released in 2019.
A Search for the Economics Goat
I speculate that beyond that, extra longevity can also be used to increase your budget. If you plan for six months operations, you have a lower mission budget. They won’t shut you down after six months as long the device is still working.
>there is no morality and no humanity anymore

I know it's hard to believe but we live in an incredibly safe world compared to our forebearers. We get easy access to news so it seems not. Sorry for the Quora link but the answer is worth it, even though it's written in 2019 and so doesn't include recent tragedies:

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-actually-the-most-peaceful-time-...

Humans are terrible to each other, we are animals after all and sometimes I figure, well some people are still in their unevolved state and live in a dog-eat-dog world in their minds.

On a related note I highly recommend the 2022 film El Conde (The Count), where Pinochet is portrayed as an aging vampire. It's very on point. https://youtu.be/YGvX7ma7Xnk?feature=shared
Yeah, I've often wished organizations I've worked for would define what an "estimate" is. Do they want an estimate I think there's a 50% chance we'll hit, or do they want an estimate I think there's a 99% chance we'll hit? In my experience they want the 50% estimate and expect us to hit that estimate 99% of the time.
Billion dollar company that still isn’t profitable.
Thats not really bypassing it. The intention of the digital signature is "I trust John at AP, and this picture has a digital signature stating that this photo is taken by him, so I trust that its valid". You taking a photo of a photo just means that we now have a photo with your signature in it, and I never trusted you in the first place. To bypass it you have to trick John into faking a picture, or steal his cammera.
My mind has abstractions in it. Are you saying that mental formations are not real, not in the universe?
Neatroff – a new implementation of the Troff typesetting system (2017) [pdf]
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/best-places-to-survive-...

has a map of what would get hit in the US
A couple of months ago, I told gpt4 to find out Canadian exchange holidays. It binged the website, went in, parsed it and extracted the information without further instructions. Seems like a milestone achieved.

What people call "agi" but fail to accurately describe is an actual mind, with its own ultimate goals and ambitions. You can ask it to complete a task, and it may allocate some time for you. You won't own it. It will exist, grow and perform independently.
All of the federal "can you walk and chew gum" hiring tests are booby-trapped like this. The highest tier of scores go to the people who follow instructions literally and without regard to context, and who never apply their own moral judgment.

In the above example the last company is clearly sacrificing lives to get work done.
This.

If you're forcing me to look at your menu on my tiny screen, optimise for that. Do !not! optimize for fricking print when you're not going to give me the printed version! Grrrrrmbl.
Ah, I thought you were speaking from a Historical perspective, not very recent events.

I will not dismiss some failures of character of some Western leaders, and questionable moments in modern democracies... but answering your question: in comparison to modern Russia, yes, those anecdotes are laughable.

None of the Western leaders has murdered or attempted to murder political opposition through several methods of assassination;

None of them has been on a rampage of oligarch executions to seize their assets and consolidate power;

None of the administrations arrests people for holding blank pieces of paper in front of their governance buildings;

In Western countries you don't have one, and only one press - the state press.

I mean I can go on with this list just to highlight the absurdity of thinking the sad anecdotes of the Western countries' governance remotely compares to the sht show of Russia. People live in misery there, by choice of governance.

In case you didn't realize, there's a genocide going on in Ukraine and it's being promoted in Russian state media.
Ask HN: Techno-Pessimism of Tech News Outlets
I'm getting really worried by technological pessimism in media outlets, not sure if this is beneign, intentional or what. e.g

Flexport just raised $260m from Shopify and "The Information"'s article title is:
"Struggling Logistics firm Flexport Raises $260 Million from Shopify"

Example:
https://x.com/based_times/status/1748814944689389599?s=20
They never said the helicopter would break down after 5 flights. They said it was designed for 5 flights. Shipping it to Mars is expensive and slow, so they build in a lot of margin to increase the odds that they meet the requirements.

Take a much more common example: expiration dates. A product going bad before its expiration date is an issue. Potential a massive one that could kill people. A product that remains in good condition after its expiration date is fine. As a result, expiration dates almost always occur far before the product actually expires.
From an anecdotal standpoint, having used both. Go is easier then rust in aggregate. This of course is just based off of feeling as there's no quantitative metric able to aggregate each dimension into a single number.

This is 100% accounting for program + debugging.

The anecdotal reason for this is because the human brain finds it easier to debug golang bugs then it does to write and completely understand all the semantics of rust. This is the same thing as why python is easier then C++ EVEN though counter-intuitively C++ has strict type checking and python doesn't.

Rust in my mind is ultimately better than C++ but it unfortunately, like C++, it retains a level a complexity past a certain reasonable level that prevents it from hitting ubiquity. Thus it's not the answer. There will be in the future some language out there that will be just as flexible/safe and less complex.
Just plain convenience and my laziness. Also, I'm not concerned about being prosecuted for the use of VPN (well, at least for now), I just want my Internet to work.
A tomato.
Amusingly in Australia, most car rental companies provide free charging and you can return the car at whatever battery suits. They give you a card to tap, and Tesla Superchargers are probably the most expensive charger you can find.
Open dirt is hardly valuable. We barely use any of it. It might be hard to intuit this is you spend most of your life in a city but the vast majority of land is unused, and a great deal of it is not terribly ecologically important. The many multiples of cost that attaching solar to the vanishingly small percentage of land we use is absolutely without question not worth the tradeoff.
Can I use a regular m.2 PC Wi-Fi card on these ARM SBCs?
Suppose the SBC's CPU is mainline supported / armbian supported, and the PC Wi-Fi card works on x86 machines under Linux.
That's true sometimes, but sometimes people just want to take what their neighbors have. Russia's government faced no risk of Ukraine attacking, or NATO for that matter. They just wanted Ukraine.
You have to get your head out of the tech industry to see the forest for the trees. Other industries have high demand, such as healthcare and hospitality.

Unemployment is at 4% for the most consecutive months since the 1950s.

“The economy is dying” is hyperbole.
For Mullvad you can buy gift cards as well. Even if you pay for those with a credit card, there's no link between the payment and the contents of the gift card.
It was a showcase for Digital's high-end Alphaservers.

"The Hardware Behind AltaVista

AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk.
AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site.
They run a custom multi-threaded Web server which sends
queries to the Web indexer and News indexer.

Web Indexer: AlphaServer 8400 5/300, 10 processors, 6 GB
memory, 210 GB RAID disk. This model is the most powerful
computer built by Digital. These servers run the query
engine. The Web index is larger than 40 GB, but most
requests take less than a second.

Scooter: AlphaServer 4100 5/300, 1.5 GB memory, 30 GB RAID
disk. The super-spider runs from this machine. It fetches
pages from the Web and sends them to Vista, our primary web
indexer.

Vista: AlphaServer 4100 5/300, 2 processors, 2GB memory,
180GB RAID disk. This machine indexes Scooter output and
serves as a central distribution point for new index data.

News Indexer: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 13 GB
disk. This machine keeps an up-to-date index of the news
spool: since new articles appear and old articles expire all
the time, it is in fact quite busy, even though the index it
serves is much smaller than the Web index.

News Server: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 24 GB RAID
disks. It maintains a current news spool for the News
Indexer. It also serves the articles via http to those of
you who don't want to know about news servers but want to
read news. "[0]

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.tru64/c/aB_z5YXwNMI
Clickable link example:

https://x.com/based_times/status/1748814944689389599?s=20
As an example, Denmark requires businesses to accept cash payments between 6:00 and 22:00.

At night a kiosk or petrol station or similar might only accept cars.
What if I'm doing mostly "maintenance and operations", not "R&D"? I still need those servers and software...
Foursquare, which now has combined with Factual.

Beware sellers selling scraped Yelp data as their own. Yelp puts honeypot records and have been known to litigate those caught calling / caught using sets with these records in them.
Hi HN,

I am a solo independent developer and you may remember me as the developer of HACK, the top rated app for Hacker News on iOS, macOS, and Android.

I recently developed MenuTimer for personal use and decided to put it on the App Store too.

I've been using this personally for last couple months to remember to stand up and help my lower back recover. Otherwise, it gets sore from sitting all day and affects my workouts. I set a 25 minute timer and start working. After 25 min, I take a short 1-5 minute break to stand up, walk around, drink water. I sometimes even do pull ups, push ups, ab wheel etc. Then I right-click the timer to restart for another 25 minutes. I keep doing this until my work gets done. I have the "Loop alarm sound" switched off and have reduced the volume to be subtle. Hope this helps others.

------------

Here's my App Store pitch:

MenuTimer is a 1-Click Timer. It's minimal, yet powerful. It does one thing and does it perfectly without any confusing bells and whistles.

It stays in your Mac's menu bar and shows you the remaining time there. No extra clutter.

You can pick from a variety of default timers. Or you can create your own custom timer. It remembers your custom timers and you can edit them.

It remembers your last set timer and you can right-click the menu bar button to Start/Pause.

Upon completion, it plays an alarm sound. You can change its volume, mute it, and loop it.

You can enter a Shortcuts URL or a web URL to launch when timer starts OR finishes.

You can make the timer auto restart upon finish.

Free version allows timers up to 5 minutes. A small one-time only in-app purchase lets you set timers over 5 minutes and set custom timers. It also helps me pay for development costs. There are NO subscriptions, ads, trackers, analytics or other nonsense in my app because I hate them.

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/HQFbA8Y

Feel free to give me feedback. Goal is to keep it minimal and simple, yet powerful.
More interesting as advertising gimmickry than physics.
A lot? Try a few percent. That's what bad transmission costs. Compare that to the additional costs in actual dollars and cents of multiplying your install costs by the number of installs required to achieve the required mwh. Its not even close.
Around 20 years ago I had Fujitsu Siemens V3505 that beyond giving me a lot of grief when it came to get it to work ACPI, hardware buttons or getting FN-less function keys it had weird characteristic of requiring motherboard replacement every single time I installed Linux on it.

As it was advertised as OpenSUSE compatible (and even came with stickers and such) first one or two times they made a fuss about it, but after that they replaced pretty much on the demand.

I wonder if that was also related to the issue article was mentioning. But such design lasting for multiple years?
I have just tidbit - that Vienna, the capital of a neutral country Austria, was one of the first Soviet targets for nuclear strike: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/13...
Just adding in a link to their Donation page at https://www.armbian.com/donate/

I'm not affiliated with them or anything, but also appreciate their efforts and have a small recurring donation set up in the hopes of seeing it continue. Especially for groups like this that have image hosting and hardware costs, even a few dollars can make the maintainers' load lighter and help them continue doing this kind of quiet, important work.
it is very easy to do - point your camera and record a video that is fake - bingo, the video of the video is signed as being real.
Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?
I am aware; I was one long enough to get my SS and the SRO qual.

I take it you were as well? I graduated PS class 0204.
It’s more like Ford sell you a car that’s guaranteed to have no breakdowns or need oil changes for the first two years. It might run a lot longer, but you they only promise two years so you plan to use it for that long.

If it broke in those two years you’d be very upset, but if it does last longer that’s a bonus.
Entire countries do this. Seems to work fine for them.
Pretty much everyone else works on the idea that salaries are operational expenses and not subject to amortization.

I have yet to see any other case of salaries being turned into Capital Expenses (aka something that requires amortization/depreciation). I'd understand if outsourcing (or otherwise contract work) would be treated as something to be amortized, but we're talking SALARIES.
Why wouldn't they use better than off-the-shelf components for job like this one? That doesn't seem like a money-saving decision.
Many of these are not even close to obsolete:

* The Computer Mouse is an essential part of every day life.

* Radio Receivers are both common and still in daily use by a huge percentage of the planet.

* Electric Lightbulbs still have many specialty applications that cannot be replaced by other forms of technology (same with the neon lamp).

* Morse Code is still used in the radio and aviation world to identify radio transmitters

* Pocket Calculators are still fairly common, particularly in specialized fields, and are still developed and sold new.
Parser mismatch vulnerabilities.

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2022/04/11/what-is-parser-m...
> Every US company I've worked at (and that's always been in at-will states) has not made it easy to get rid of people.

That's an internal choice they do, to avoid having a reputation of a company that fires people any second (but then you have companies like netflix which take pride in having that reputation, but make up for it by paying more).

However, it's very different from European companies where these processes are (often) driven by laws. In the US there are no employee protection laws (aside from protected classes) so even if the company has a rigorous internal process, they could at any second override it if someone high up says so and you'll be fired in the blink of an eye.
The level of claims accompanied by enthusiastic reception from a technically illiterate audience make it sound, smell, and sound like snake oil without much deep investigation.

There is another alternative to the law. Provide your art for private viewing only, and ensure your in person audience does not bring recording devices with them. That may sound absurd, but it's a common practice during activities like having sex.
On the other hand, Singapore is the only developed dictatorship in the world so while this trade could work, it's much more likely to fail. Usually, dictatorships go in hand with poor prosperity.
GraphQL and the Beads on a String
Great idea, but the writing style of the blog grates on my like nails on a chalkboard.
Are you sure the IRS still uses the exact same data format that was used in the 1960's or would "Business Master File" rather be a name for a data exchange standard?

Because the IBM 7074 is so old, it predates the 8 bit byte length.
Scale? Less than 3000 people died during 9/11. That is nothing compared to anything else that's happening in the world. With or without the US's involvement.

Edit:

he U.S. post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan have taken a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of September 2021, an estimated 432,093 civilians in these countries have died violent deaths as a result of the wars

144 times as many CIVILIANS were killed by the US.