skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. An example out of top of my head, where this still might be useful are login nodes (used in many research clusters to allow users to enter and sumbit jobs) or shared web-hosting servers (few of those definitely still exist). There legitimate non-privileged users can run their programs and the end goal is to prevent them from getting root.
This is kind of an interesting twist on a Turing test. If you can't tell by examining the work whether it was created by a human or an AI, then how can we say that a human is creative an an AI is not?
Database of Spurious Correlations
Yeah it’s different.

They used to offer discs in the mail from an absolutely huge library of content that just kept growing.

It’s the only time I used them. As soon as they stopped that I canceled.

Now they just stream from a much smaller library of content where stuff disappears over time. No interest in that.
Thanks! I liked the inductive sensor, because it meant I didn't have to change the physical clock in any way. And they were only like 5 CAD each.
It doesn't really matter if the US would benefit from forced military service because that's not the kind of values the country was founded on. Drafts may sometimes be necessary in wartime, but during peace it's an awful idea to force military training on everyone.
A really nice example. I tracked the data acquisition and fit an ordinary charging curve. For anyone interested, a 25 line script w/ data is here: https://pastebin.com/R0b1XSV0

Some insights:

- The peak DC voltage seems to be around 1.15 kV.

- The time constant is around 440 s. If you were to assume a simple RC-circuit with a constant voltage source (which it probably isnt), you would end at around 100 Ohm for the resistor.

- The start of the charging curve is not at the same time as in the video indicating that some voltage was already present from experiments before the video

Also, I am pretty sure it is not inductive coupling but capacitive because of several reasons:

- It doesn't look like a coax cable but more like an ordinary thick wire.

- I am pretty sure he didn't ground the cable at the far end and thus did not create a loop necessary for induction. And if he were, inductive coupling with ground in between would result in a very large voltage drop
- If it were inductive: A single loop covering that little area would need way more turns than just one.
Yeah I personally thought their crackdown on account sharing might backfire, but there has been no sign of that at all, and I guess as long as most people don't end up hopping between services, as long as they can be the best streaming service they may continue to succeed as other services falter.

Plus, if they can outlast the other streaming services (which are losing money) and those fail, it might get cheaper for them to license non-original content again.

So they may actually be in a pretty good position.
UNRWA probes employees over suspected involvement in October 7 attack
Perhaps this is one job that shouldn't be remote... those Windows 3.11 boxes shouldn't be anywhere near a network.
I was thinking about the same thing as I read the game description.

The best option I could think of:

- Create 4 piles of 12 cards for each suit

- Turn the piles face down and shuffle the piles so that the piles stay together but you no longer know which pile is which suit

- Remove 2 cards from 2 piles and 4 cards from one pile

- You now have suit piles of 12, 10, 10, and 8 cards

- Shuffle them all together and deal

- You’ll know what the target suit was by looking at the cards at the end of the round

Slow, but I think it would work.
Reminds me exactly of this every time I go to an Apple Store. And Netflix will have a few Apple Store shows, but they’re far between.
Yesterdays commentary -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160956
Wow, people are still working on the problem of the Apple II not having an RTC, in some shape? :)

Say, weren't there some issues with interrupts on the Apple II, due to both the 6502 as well as buggy ROMs? Basically, none of the I/O in the stock system with Apple parts used interrupts whatsoever. Not disks, not serial communication.
> To me, the switch occurred when I stopped considering this time "wasted" and instead consider it fulfilling.

This is how it works for me also. We involved our children from a very early age, so they can also perform basic tasks like watch a pan or cut soft things into pieces (with only a little supervision), which frees up even more time.
No, it's just text, like so: https://i.imgur.com/3NMzyDf.png
I left Microsoft to focus on my startup
> And not only the hierarchy is never mentioned

That's absurd. The entire essay describes the hierarchy.
Radio buttons:

Microphone Status:
( ) Muted
( ) Unmuted

Unambigious. Add icons if you like.
They are still offering fully remote engineering roles, so that's a huge plus. Not sure if it's bait and switch like Meta's advertised "remote" roles though.
> I'm far less creative, less excited about work, less interested in challenging topics, and less capable of solving complex problems.

So, just to point this out: none of those symptoms are remotely unique to Long Covid, or any other disorder. They correlate with real/known/unsurprising conditions like depression, alcoholism, aging and even stuff like poor diet even more strongly than with covid; and of course they're the kind of thing we all deal with as we go through life. No one works at peak performance through their whole career. Everyone has rough patches.

Does that invalidate your covid experience? No. I'm just saying this is the kind of thing you (and I, and all of us) were going to deal with at some point anyway.
Now that we’re past the prestige TV era and back to regular 90’s TV writing quality, it isn’t like there are must-see-tv events on streaming services, like a shared societal experience a la Game of Thrones. It is so easy to switch and catch up later.

I’ve canceled most of my streaming services other than Hulu with Disney at this point. The reason I haven’t canceled Hulu with Disney is that I’ve shared the password with a family member who likes it. “I have to coordinate pulse-width-modulation on my subscriptions” is the only stickiness that these services actually have at this point, I think.

OTOH, Netflix is still in business, so maybe I’m wrong. Shrug.
I wonder does anyone even know how to exploit them anymore? Must be more secure that more recent, but forgotten Linux.
aspartame is one of the most studied substances in human history. It's fine, it's safe. It's not healthy per se unless it helps you kick the sugar habit, but it's a neutral substance.
I expected a side to win or score a point once it hit the ‘goal line’ of its opponent.

Would make a nice game if there was a way for players to have some control over the ball. Could be as easy as standard pong paddles, with some time delay whenever your ball passes your own goal line.
In a sense Socrates was right. It's always better to be able to recall something from your memory rather than having to look it up in a book. The classic example is the multiplication table. The problem is that humans have rather limited capacity for such a 'recallable on demand' memory.
The missing letter in R&D is E (experimentation). You have to validate assumptions and ideas and bridge the gap.
There's something eerily true about TFA's observation that data centers have a big footprint but really low headcount. I work in the Atlanta area, and it's amazing how long you can work in tech without ever setting foot in a data center or even seeing one from the outside. They are truly highly invisible infrastructure, hidden behind more and more layers of abstraction. I'm all for abstractions that don't leak, but I'm not sure it's a purely good thing to get so disconnected from the hardware layer.

I used to tag along with our sysadmin sometimes, back when I worked in a place that ran its own data centers - a decade ago - and they aren't really enjoyable places (noisy, not built for human inhabitants), but there's something nice about seeing the actual hardware that runs your applications. It kind of keeps things grounded.
Oh cool I didn't know that existed. In my case I don't have to re-energize it because I use an existing mechanical clock.
Such a great list. Thanks for writing.

I full agree these things matter us. These endless paper cuts tatter us as we go.

Still I think the real suffering is less about these little indignities, & more a cosmic sense that the business doesn't get it, doesn't see the real work, doesn't care. It doesn't seem like businesses fundamentally believe in us, our craft, or our talents. Performance review even when going great tends to recognizes us only in blunt vague generalizations.

As craftsmen we all too often feel alone & separated from the org when we are doing are best acts. Hard finicky stuff pulled together by hook, crook, and a couple dashes of wit. Finding excellent libraries and tools to offload hard aspects of the task.

The company can then be merry that they've built a great product, hopefully. But it feels like camaraderie - through good times & bad! - would come from sharing such incredible work & time, but the organization doesn't fully see. The faint distributed sensory network of the discorporal org miss the best parts of truth our code wroughts out.
I wasn’t aware that Africa was a country, seems like I need to do some flashcard learning myself
> By the way this argumentation is great to sabotage any argument to keep the statusquo.

Exactly. The direction we need to head is obvious: Stop treating cities like wanna rural areas for poor people and turn them into actual cities, where everything is right there and travel isn't necessary – not by car, not by train, not by bike, not by anything.

But, indeed, a move from the status quo is uncomfortable, so we get silly things like "But, but, my bike is better than a car!", completely missing the forest for the trees.
-"Chemistry lab creates new molecule, potentially a cure for cancer"

-"Man finds 1000 of ants in kitchen, potentially new species"
It's true though, as human (+ tool) gets smarter, human (without tool) tends to get dumber in the domain the tool augments.

The question is will we one day have tools so powerful, that the human is vestigial, and tool (without human) is just as powerful and cheaper than tool (+ human)?
We'd have to define "dumber" because adult literacy and numeracy rates have largely increased globally since the 1990's.

https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
The Performance Management Formula
It's mostly wasted time but I feel it's slightly more beneficial than playing video games (which I also do) so I do it for fun sometimes. [1] [2]

[1] https://infosec.exchange/@gnyman/109318464878274206

[2] https://nyman.re/super-simple-ssh-tarpit/
Nah,

> I wonder, if they managed to alienate people without a car and very low CO2 footprint, what demographic is actually left to cater to?

With climate deniers and conspiracists I always suppose they hide their real stance and it is revealed through small hints they let out. I strongly believe these small hints are baits to see if the other party has the same beliefs. They will be lying until they think there are in like-minded company (or are too drunk and let it out).

Yeah, I have been burned hard before by climate and covid deniers who lied right out to my face. They are dishonest and advance in disguise (with loaded questions and fake scepticism and the whole arsenal of arguments coming from fabricated doubt factories).
I definitely agree that to absolutely maximize learning you should write the cards yourself but I think it really depends on the value of the content, say it may be 2x as effective for learning but take 5x the amount of effort.

For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolingo (+ friends/time in germany) because using Duolingo was pretty low effort, even if it wasn't the fastest most effective way of learning.

I think this is probably true for most things you may want to learn about outside of your job, school, or really strong reasoning behind it. Perfect is the enemy of good as they say

(Shameless plug: I made a tool that makes spaced repetition questions for educational YouTube videos/podcasts that you watch, usually I was forgetting everything and wasn't really that invested to spend the time making decks for everything I watch, so I landed on this! https://www.platoedu.org)
suppose the hardest part for the contractor is doing this gig remotely:

*"It will connect to a remote computer running Windows NT RAS Server, or Windows 95/98 with the Dial-up server. Because it only supports the NetBeui protocol, it will not connect you to the Internet. Windows For Workgroups also included several application to take advantage of the built-in networking system." -- http://toastytech.com/guis/win311.html
> I don't have kids but that just makes it a little less enjoyable because I don't have a large family to share my cooking with.

If you're planning to have children at some point, you should know that some days they will do their utmost to ruin your cooking time and when you finally pull through anyway they will ask to eat something else. ;)
Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton

"Here we provide evidence for intrinsic charm by exploiting a high-precision determination of the quark–gluon content of the nucleon3 based on machine learning and a large experimental dataset."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04998-2

this is a tentative model of a Machine Learning "thought experiment".
physical observation of the phenomenon must be confirmed before this is cannonized as scientific fact.
An electronjs based advance terminal for 2024
IDEs have changed so much in last decade, now terminals should also improve!
The problem here is that the customer is not the passenger.
Developer scratchpad: https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop

Outbound firewall: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

Stop working as admin all the time (but switch easily): https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges
I love that I can always count on the internet to tell me why cool new things are dumb and not useful.
Looks really cool!

You know what I would like to see?

First, I'd love Anki / Anki Flashcards to work as a smartphone Android app.

Second, I'd love to see some way to for users to globally share their flash card decks with other users.

Third, I'd love to see a site where someone could search for the decks created by other users.

Forth, it should be permissible for users to charge very smallish amounts of money for their flash decks, and/or share them for free. Their choice!

Anyway, looks really cool and I wish Anki a lot of luck!
I have Anki to thank for helping me study a language I now speak in every day. What an insanely well scoped, well made, simple tool.
Thanks! And I forgot I still had that site linked there. I'll remove it.
And the UI completely changes every year or three, because progress or something.
Still works for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 "I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am."
I was momentarily confused by the mismatch between the title and the article. The author means "de-evolution" (going backwards with respect to progress) not "devolution" (more power to the people).
The correct pattern is to use the platform’s native video player because the user is already familiar with how it operates instead of reinventing the wheel with web jank.
These cheaper products are also far more wasteful and taxing on natural resources. This is the “growth at any cost” mindset. It’s been great for us in the last 100 years, but I’m not convinced it’s actually sustainable in the long run.
> The take-away is, secure your new stuff as early as possible, ideally even before the service is exposed to the Internet.

Honestly it feels like you'll need at least something like basicauth in front of your stuff from the first minutes it's publicly exposed. Well, either that, or run on your own CA and use self-signed certs (with mTLS) before switching over.

For example, when some software still has initial install/setup screens where you create the admin user, connect to the DB and so on, as opposed to specifying everything initially in the environment variables, config files, or other more specialized secret management solutions.
Sometimes "true" wholly original creativity can only blossom after people cut their teeth by experimenting with fanworks. Few people truly start with their magnum opus.

It's also the case that most successful mass market "original" works are thoroughly inspired by other work and exist as careful synthesis of influences with bits of inspiration and new ideas worked in.
There is already a global agreement that the US keeps getting out of.

China has already solved their problem and significantly improved air quality in its cities, and is the world biggest builder of nuclear power plants. They ceased being a problem already.
In earlier coverage, I missed the $1 million letter of credit required. And that the app has to be exactly the same. Sigh. What a shame.
Self-imposed limitations are absolutely key to being effective in life. You cannot go everywhere, do everything and memorize everything.
Wow there's so much I have no idea of.

I just watched the video from the Guardian about Russia claming their own territory based on ECS.

If both Russia and the US intend to exploit these resources, while the public make the switch to more renewable sources of energy, then this is clearly intended for military use primarily.

I remember reading somewhere that the DoD collectively is the largest producer of pollution in the world.
The submitted title was "Nitter Is Dead". We changed it to the article title overnight, but I've since changed it to a representative sentence from the text.
Didn't it?
Apple can get away with this because it doesn't (directly) affect their users, only the developers.

Even with all the racketeering, the developers don't really have a choice; choosing to leave the Apple platform and their racketeering ring means losing out on a huge user base and (potential) profits.

At this stage it would take a "union" of sorts, a bunch of developers of big/popular apps and services to collectively boycott Apple in order for them to loosen their iron grip, but that will never happen because of the aforementioned reasons.
> It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that "hesitating at the angles of stairs" the realisation came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs — JMVW
What exactly is unclear about the title?

“New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life”

The word “potentially” setup my expectations perfectly.
I suspect in coming years pulling weeds may become feasible with AI, better robotics and vision systems, but it'll be a while before that would be feasible on a grand scale like industrial farming. Maybe it could be used for organic in the beginning as a test bed in a higher profit industry.
Law for Computer Scientists (2020)
Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip
There is no problem mining oil for tires and roads. The carbon is sequestered. The problem is burning fossil fuels and producing CO2. Also, tires and roads are a byproduct of refining, and much less is produced than gasoline.

Mining lithium doesn't require gasoline. Mining can be electrified like many other things. Probably easier to electrify than long distance transport since it is short distances.

Nuclear waste is not a danger in the far future. The radioactive products decay on short time scale. Most of them are gone in century, but they want to store them for.

Lithium batteries aren't a problem if they did decay. Lithium is a common, non-toxic metal. Some batteries, like lead acid in every car, have toxic metals but is small scale overall and not that dangerous.
> swat it down

I don't know what you're imagining by "it", but my remarks are only about memorizing all countries by border shape, not the use of spaced repetition as a whole.

That's the "it" I have swatted down.

Memorizing names of countries -> continent, I could swallow. That is useful. Or even latitude and longitude (rounded off to nearest ten degrees, say). Or some general indication: is it to the north, south; landlocked or coastal.

So if someone talks about Venezuela, the kid knows it's a coastal country in South America's north.

If you can't tell me that, what's the use of recognizing the shape of Venezuela and mapping it to a name?
The purpose of a Michael Lewis book is not to tell you who the good guys & bad guys are. He has a way with storytelling and manages to get access to some serious players sometimes in fringes of the market that are not being written about elsewhere.

He has a bias for scrappy little guys vs big guys across his books, but the little guy, on balance, is not always the "good guy".

Often in the type of tales he writes, there is no good guy.. Sometimes it's just a bunch of guys at a poker table and one of them is going to go home with the money. I'd try not to derive any moral lessons from that.

I also do wonder why everyone wants to be told who is good & bad now rather than deciding on their own.

It is also an unrealistic ask that an author get close access to still living characters and then manage to write a book to tell you how bad that person is. They are unlikely to be able to find a subject willing to give them access on another book again.
Moto E6. It looks like Lineage OS is available for it. As I don't know what installing a new OS will do to compatibility with my service I think I'll first try installing an alternate app from F-droid and see if it will transfer my SMS/MMS history.
I have ADHD myself, but I can’t stand the sobs the ADHD people leave everywhere, makes me despise them. Learn to work with your impulses instead of whining all over the place about it.

‘I can’t write longer than a tweet.’ Here is a hundred tweets for you. Yeah, thank you very much.
Websites shouldn't reject passwords generated by browsers
Internet made us dumber but also made a lot of things easier. Just like industrial machines made us weaker (or rather, not as rugged as we used to be) but also allowed us to get much more work done.
Autho here for all your CMOS questions :-)
Well, you submitted this [1] last April. The piece comes straight from a conspiracy theory website.

[1] https://www.techcounsellor.com/2017/04/albert-einstein-plagi...
Kubernetes makes everything slow and complicated.

Why do you even need to have proxies or load balancers in between? Another invention of the web cloud people.
You got my George W. Bush reference!

"Africa is a nation that suffers from terrible disease ..."
This would make a good trivia question.

"In 2023, which country used the Mariana Islands to infringe on territory claimed by Japan? A) China B) Russia C) The United Statea of America or D) Taiwan"
I am not arguing against biking, just pointing out that with current materials, there is still pollution emitted. As you said, cars are likely exponentially worse.

Shoes have the same problem, except for some very expensive artisan brands. They may actually be worse per mile than biking.
Recent and related:

Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037425 - Jan 2024 (23 comments)
In the same vein Flash Boys is mostly about Brad Katsuyama starting IEX, and the evils of HFT. I wondered while reading it if there was another side to the story.
Do you have any proof that there are large amounts of round up left on wheat after it's processed and before it's sold to be used for things like flour or that round up is present all through the current food chain?