skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mute non-priority channels. If it isn't a Prod alert, my team's private channel, or a customer-facing channel where they have been directed to in order to request help (Cloud DevOps team that does all the things, people constantly ask us for help with their work), it's muted.

I've been using the "Hummus" notification for some years because the dings are triggering and hummus is yummy. But in the past couple of months, I leave my audio muted.

"Lofi beats to study to" is actually a really great genre of music to put on in the background as it gives my brain stimulation but is not detracting. It can help me start getting focused on my task rather than looking for something interested in the muted channels.

I don't look at email but a few times a day to hit the "delete" button and ponder how to make a rule to filter out the email I delete on a daily/weekly basis.

Direct people who want your help to your team's public Slack channel. Do not help people in your DMs. This gives the whole team a chance to help and not put it all on you. We went further and the primary on-call person is responsible for being the first contact to our customers in our public channel. The idea is to make it so people not on-call don't get distracted. It's worked.

Now, if you can get your customers to stop asking for help (For my team, this has come down to training them on the things we get repeat questions about, and directing them back to their own team to ask for help before coming to us), and get your team to quit asking for help, you'll be golden.

Edit: Tell people to use threads. It helps reduce pings.

Also tell people not to use @here. Send them an article about why not to use it. Also use passive-aggressive emojis like :pingsock: when they continue to do it in channels with 900 people in them.
Maybe. However, the situation itself is so special, I'm not sure how you would "generalize it" to others. And there is really nothing esoteric about the deep trauma. It is widely documented.
Trafigura Tanker Carrying Russian Fuel Struck by Houthis
This is intentional. It is a piece of a type of cultural warfare that extends from residential schools to the naming of sports teams. It is the reason the US military uses names of tribal groups for machines of war. It is the reason popular media refers to indigenous people exclusively in the past tense.
You can also use Kde Connect for file sharing using sshfs if you don't want to configure it manually. The feature is called "Filesystem Expose".
>Because they're angry and they're being stupid and reacting emotionally. Please understand, they raped our women, tortured them and then murdered them. They did the same to our men, old people and children.

I have to point out that you are holding soldiers of a wealthy country to the same standards as a terrorist organization in one of the poorest parts of the world. It contradicts the claim that Israel is a bastion of civilization in the region. The behavior of the Israeli soldiers is despicable and your explanation seems to downplay and rationalize it.
> How many hedge funds are there? A few thousand? How many beat the s&p?

The average index fund fails to outperform the S&P.

How many passive index funds are there worldwide? Thousands? How many beat VTI or S&P500? Answer: QQQ and small cap.

> Of those how much can be attributed statistically to skill rather than luck?

If you are picking S&P as your champion, then I am allowed to pick a hedge fund as my champion.

And Citadel outperforms S&P over 20+ year horizon. Citadel 19% vs S&P 10%.
Generally agree, but unfortunately the EU screwed up informed tracking consent. By giving control of the consent UI to the website owner, it's as painful as possible to use (incentives!). Make the requirement an API so the browser controls the UI and there's a competition to make users happy.
https://elfstead.com/archive/oasis-qemu.tar.xz
I have only NanoVNAs, up to the 6 GHz one ( https://nanorfe.com/vna6000.html ). But the TinySA at the frequencies of interest seems about the same?

I guess what I'm asking: What features of the NanoVNA make it the "way to go"?

FOR ME: It's the PC SW that allows a big-screen, which converts the fundamental "R+jX" measurement into many different views. https://nanovna.com/?page_id=90 Awesome.
Are younger generations, at least in the US, interested that much in negotiating?

I'm kind of in that age gap where the world started converting to barcodes and computer driven prices and at least to me it seems a lot less haggling occurs now. Again, a lot more of our purchases occur with corporate entities where this haggling doesn't occur. Transactions now are more based on smoothness and speed of transaction. You have X for $Y. Here is $Y. Good day.
Common sense passive solar design
I studied architecture in the late 70 and early 80s and was introduced to passive solar design - everything in the article was predictibale - earthships always (95% always) have too much south facing glass (only need about 10% of floor area) and rarely a roof overhang - the 10' overhang in Montana will prevent overheating - 10' is more than you need. simple to desing the roof overhang by using noon sun angle in the fall and spring so roof starts to shade glass as tempreture rises. Socrates wrote about this in 400bc - passive solar design is really very simple if one bothers to learn the basics. Curtains and blinds inside the glass does not prevent overheating. Overheating is managed with roof overhangs or vegetation (trees or vine covered trellis for example).
> Or that you refuse to empathize with any company that pays well?

That pays well? That's an indecent salary. I'm sure many people would love to have that position for a fraction of it, and they would not do a worse job.

And that's only the CEO, not all the employees.
Iirc, some of the hate comes from the fact they were paying popular chess streamers not to play/stream on lichess.
Once my girlfriend's apple watch became a $300 bracelet after an iOS update broke the watch app on her Iphone (wouldn't open). Without the app, the watch was completely unusable. And, after looking into it, this issue had been reported to Apple 4-5 months prior where Apple supposedly immediately fixed it with another update. However, my gf and multiple forums online still had the issue and Apple refused to address it (I assume they quietly fixed it in a later update).

The only way to fix it was to back up her phone and factory reset, and if we hadn't done that who knows how long it would have been before she could use the watch.
> How many of you are proving your programs correct before entering them into the computer?

Not enough of us, that's how many.

Also, if he said this back when the majority of programs were written in assembly I think it makes a lot more sense.
you're the one making a strawman from my argument. I obviously did not imply Apple giving away iOS devices. I was talking about forcing Apple to support a 3rd party developer ecosystem, providing the tools to develop for that ecosystem and eating the costs.

And even then, it is not much different from forcing them to give away iPhones. So what, producing iPhones has a cost so giving them away is "obviously" not tenable, but making tools to develop for it has no cost? Forcing a security model where they have to be ready for "anything, anytime" instead of having a gate where they check things right at the gate has no cost? Especially when if their security fails, they will be the ones to be held responsible?

the rest of the things you say you support is a sure-fire way to make sure no company would risk anything to make devices / inventions so valuable that they become an integral part of your lives. at least not in your jurisdiction.
Why do you mention long range flight? I don't see anything in the article saying batteries will take 100% of the airplane market.

It does say batteries will start to take market share in 2030. That's almost certainly true. It's a high priority for the Norwegian company to electrify the short distance airplane network in the next coming years. There are already battery electric planes coming out. And battery chemistries suitable for short range planes are starting early production.

I suspect battery electric plane will get a surprisingly good range once we start to get highly optimized battery chemistries and optimized airplane designs for that market. The hardest part is to get the first few products to mass market.

They might creep into the medium range market by 2050.

But long range? It might never happen. Unless we get something like aluminum-air batteries that can exploit oxygen in the air somehow. But it doesn't matter. Long range flights are not the majority of flights. It's a small enough market that e-fuels could cover it.

Since flying battery electric will be so much cheaper it's also possible people will have to switch planes multiple times on a journey. Maybe there will be some innovations/optimizations that make that faster and easier.
Can't tell if this comment is supposed to be griping from dour conservative or praise from a communist lichess fan
I guess the same goes for comments :)
They bought VMware for $61B in Nov of last year. Hard to think TPUs are driving much of this at Broadcom.
> They just want Palestinians to have full human rights on their land, from the river to the sea.

What's the word for word translation of the original slogan again? "From the river to the sea, all land shall be Arab" if my dictionary doesn't fail me...
You sound like the perfect Nix cult memb… erm, user. It’s everything you describe and more (plus the language is incredibly powerful compared with starlark).

But you speak from sufficient experience that I presume Nix is a “been there, done that” thing for you. What gives?
They could follow the DNT header. Non intrusive. Automatic.

They could also... not track you?

It's crazy that we have to explain that every time a thread about the cookie banner comes in.

Isn't HN supposed to be a forum full of tech saavy people?

What kind of blind spot people have to not be able to reach this conclusion themself and instead blame a protective law for what clearly is an abusive move from companies that have a long track record of abuses?

Or do they just repeat what the PR of those companies tell them?

I mean in what world have you been living in the past 30 years with companies lying, trying to escape all possible constraining laws, spying on users and generally bullying at every occasion they could? And your first conclusion is that they did the annoying banners because they are the good guys and took the best solution possible because they like you?
Two things matter at cloud-scale:

Compatability - does using a tpu require reworking significant parts of your software stack and application stack? If so, that sucks for most companies who's researchers are used to using nvidia libraries, tooling and hardware to get their models running, and reworking the entire bottom end of that to work on an esoteric platform needs to equate to a huge cost savings at scale to be worth it.

Cost per tensor flop delivered - likely very low if google has optimized the silicon, memory, voltage, power and temperature envelope, networking, boards and chassis for the server running it, as well as optimizing for optimal process node efficiency/cost. They're probably not on bleeding edge tsmc process, but instead optimizing for total deployed running cost per pflop over 2-3 years.

It's also now public (as of November) that microsoft/azure have been working for many years on their own ai chip, dubbed "Maia" [1], and appliance with the obvious goal of taking some of that nvidia margin in-house (and with openai/bing/copilot being a massive consumer of capacity). I think this will become even more commonplace with cloud vendors - even medium size ones - than it already is. The knowledge and complexity barrier to designing a tile processor unit seems pretty low and it looks like most of the hard stuff is in the drivers and software - something cloud providers designing and integrating internally can bypass and control to a great degree.

It's also very hard to benchmark side by side on these since I'm sure cuda/nvidia hardware can do compute that a TPU cannot. AMD's machine learning accelerators look good on paper too, as do the tensor processors in the apple silicon, but on real world applications and use cases they don't often measure up save for a few optimal workflows.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2023/microsoft-unveils-custom-ai-ch...
So a subpoena is just a request to appear or produce something. The requirements for it depend on what kind of something it is.

Also, in many cases the person who receives the subpoena is the person who doesn't want to do it, and just because it was issued doesn't mean they can't still go to the court and object to it.

The problem here is that the party with both the incentive and the information necessary to object to it isn't Twitter, even though the subpoena was sent to them. So they're kind of saying "we object to this because we aren't in a position to know if we should object to this and we shouldn't be put in that position."
That’s not a privacy risk under any normal definition of the term.
Classic RuneScape Fonts for Fun
The Font used in RuneScape Classic is a bitmap variant of Arial without anti-aliasing. The game uses bold variants of font sizes 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 24, as well as regular variants for sizes 11 and 12.
For most of the game interface, size 12 bold Arial is used. However, for certain components that need to be small and unassuming, such as the chat tabs, size 11 regular Arial is used instead.
Trader Joe's Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional
C/C++ has the dangerous goto under the guise of longjmp().
As I investigated this field, the more I realize that the cellular phone has a lot of similarities to the always on NAS+SERVER+UPS combo. Makes me wonder if Apple will ever enter this space. They used to have pretty polished interfaces for their AirPort Extreme brand, and they were selling Xserve products in the past. Personally I think the home router space will grow for self hosted AI, storage, etc. which is somewhat at odds with Apples focus on subscription service and iCloud.
"If you have nothing to hide, no problem" --- said lots people who hide their identity here.
Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use
Is this cool animation worth the scrolljacking?
Just launched a new marketing site with fun animation that requires scrolljacking.

Do you think it's worth it?
Individuals tends to lack the data sources, low latency access, strats, controls, deep bench, and deep pockets to make serious money. It's less risky to pool money with other smart rich bastards at shops that perform. Division of labor, specialization of trade.
Plus it has ECC RAM support!
Are you suggesting that the crime in question is driven by the fact that some 5000km away there are now fewer poor? Yes, there are countries with less poverty than the US. You might want to check out what else they have less of.
> How do you deal with superiors at your organisation that appear to be without direction, strategy, awareness and action?

Supply direction, strategy, awareness, and action.
>The idea that 5 out 9 people nominating judges aren't elected, directly or indirectly, is AFAIK a fairly unique Israeli invention.

Judges in England and Wales (including supreme court judges) are selected entirely by unelected officials; The government is explicitly prohibited from interfering with their decision. Given the influential nature of English law, I would be very surprised if this was unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Appointments_Commissi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_o...
Sure, lots of people disagree with things but the law is what matters, not vibes. There’s a long-running precedent that investigating accidents makes it reasonable to ask what the operator of the vehicle was doing immediately before the crash.
> there are plenty of backyard barbecuers that would rather do their grilling over hot coals, specifically charcoal briquets.

Better yet, lump charcoal. My kamodo-style grill has a porous ceramic body, and using briquets does nothing but ensure that everything you cook on it afterwards will taste of lighter fluid -- but even on the weber, lump's far nicer.
The appeal of this instrument is that you can take it somewhere that doesn't have outlets to recharge it. Same reason there's a speaker, even though you wouldn't use that for recording. The Omnichord is a nostalgia buy, not the cutting edge (to the point that it doesn't even have corners).
You are allowed under international law to lead war with significant amounts of civilian casualties. The issue being judged is claims of Israel committing a genocide. This is just a preliminary order while the full case is considered, and it might be bad PR to disregard it, but nothing else will come of it.

When hearing 'genocide', most people immediately jump to the Holocaust, but the definition used by the ICC and IL in general is far more permissible:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

A to E are horrible acts by themselves, but what makes a genocide is intent, and intent is very hard to prove. Personally, I think SA brought a very strong case forward, the genocidal tendencies of key Israeli decision makers and exeters are well published. In the US and Europe, the political class and general public just ignore the evidence currently, and a ruling of the ICC might help people 'wake up', but not much tangible consequences will result from it otherwise.
What a coincidence, I was thinking of the same concept pictorially reading the comment you replied to, but I did not remember its name.

Panopticon it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Generally, there is plenty of reasons to be worried:

- Firmware-wise (e.g., Intel Management Engine, Coreboot, Libreboot, system on a chip)
- Hardware-wise (i.e., Von Neumann architecture - Code + Data)
- Operating System-wise
(e.g., 0-click exploits, remote code execution to manipulate the CPU's instruction pointer,
stack overflow, Pegasus)
- Facility-wise (e.g., electromagnetic waves, cell towers, Faraday cloth)
- You (making mistakes)

What you can ultimately do is: rely on randomness (e.g., rolling casino-grade dice), Diceware, one-time pad, no computers of any kind.
Further, hope that time traveling backwards remains impossible.
Otherwise officers will travel back in time and can see what you wrote (e.g., unencrypted message) back then.

If you need some electronics go with analogue electronic devices.
Or, make your own computer systems from scratch with transistors etc.:

jdh, I built my own computer. by hand., https://youtu.be/vaGZapAGvwM?si=lGQuskkFxZ7FHe1h
>I also understand that our immigration system is hopelessly broken, and oftentimes the best one can hope to do is "hack" the system.

Just because something is difficult/time-consuming != "hopelessly broken". (No, kids, the Reason magazine "What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?" flowchart is not ipso facto proof of this, either.)

There is no obligation for the US, or any country, to turn something as important as determining whether someone is eligible to enter the country into a one-click online process. One might say that the country would benefit by making the process easier, and that may or may not be correct, but that is not the same argument.
Yes we are: we know now which companies that are assholes instead of it being a secret.

We know:

- the ones that track you

- the ones that track you and use a cookie banner but no allow DNT, annoying you for no good reason

- the ones that track you and use a dark pattern

That's a good way to avoid their product.

Let the bastards self identify loud and clear.

Have you noticed that HN doesn't have a cookie banner?
> Israel can be disbanded just like South Africa was disbanded.

South Africa wasn't disbanded, not even close. Apartheid ended more-or-less peacefully; non-whites were given the vote; and more-or-less democratic elections have been held ever since.
For Slack specifically, the US agencies could probably also ask Slack themselves to enforce the "don't delete stuff for company XYZ".

Signal though would be a different matter entirely.
You install the games directly from the iOS App Store. Then you log in via your Netflix account and can play them.

If you already have the Netflix app on your iPhone and you are already signed in, you can go into the Netflix app and see a list of all available Netflix games. Just pick one and it will download in the background. You also won’t have to sign in again when you open the game this way.

Also the iOS App Store sometimes has paid versions of the Netflix games. Don’t get those by accident. Make sure to download the free Netflix versions because otherwise you’ll have to give money to Apple lol
I'm not sure what point are you trying to make here.

Nobody, including Israelis, will argue about the status of Palestinians living outside of Israel's border, in areas that are occupied (a terminology of international law that Israel also agrees to, https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/occupation ) do not enjoy equal rights to Israelis (Arabs, Jews, Christians and other) living within Israel's borders. During the US occupation of Japan or Germany post WW-II could the Japanese or Germans travel freely to the US? Vote in the US elections? It's true that Americans didn't settle those regions (they built military bases they still maintain so maybe a little).

"often built on demolished Palestinian villages" - I think this isn't generally true in the west bank, if that was what this statement was about. There are certainly demolished villages within Israel's borders (going back to the 1948 war).
To be fair, QubesOS does not really solve the problem of bad libraries creating dependency hell. If you need to ship every app with its own rootfs because you can't handle dependencies, then you will have to do that on QubesOS as well (you don't want one VM per app).

Also the biggest problem I had with QubesOS is that it doesn't support GPU (for security reasons). It feels like that was a big cause for the reduced performance. I wish there was a solution for the GPU, and then I would love to daily-drive QubesOS.
Medallion was open to external investors. They closed it because Medallion has an approximate $10 billion cap before it moves the market too much and starts losing money and thus they just keep it to themselves. So they no longer need capital from outside investors. And why make others money when you can make yourself money?

Their other funds can't just do what Medallion does, otherwise you are just increasing the cap of Medallion and thus hurting it, which is why they aren't as successful.
>All correct and yet, what should happen? Israel stops their campaign. And then?

And then everyone who wants peace invests lots of money and expertise over a long time to build a modern, prosperous, stable Palestinian society, despite whatever setbacks, attacks, and sabotage occur from within and without.

The only way to have peace is to give people a better option than becoming terrorists.
There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.