skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would conceed that keeping drivers awake is understated, though, the speed limits are too slow for modern cars. I comfortably do 15 mph over (freeway driving when road conditions support, I dont speed on surface streets), and id do 20-25 if it didnt move the penalty to jailtime.

I do this to save time, it cuts ~25% from my commute. My only recommendations are that slow traffic keep right (which is still me, traffic moves fast here), and be mindful of the flow of traffic. The most dangerous aspect of speeding is the speed limit, some people are inclined to follow the speed limit whatever it is, and become a serious hazzard when people are trying to cut through traffic at twice (or faster) that speed.
Honestly I don't think most people need a "fixer" - just any local friend. Either they will know the expected bribe amount or they can figure it out. Also you might be able to get them to do stuff for you where all of the sudden the bribe is 1/10 the amount because they are local.

Maybe if you are doing more serious stuff like business or real estate it makes sense.
In northern Ontario an acre truly in the middle of nowhere costs just a few hundred dollars. An acre next to a road with year-round access to the highway system is more like $10,000.

Most of the value of land is derived from how close it is to the rest of civilization.
The image isn’t of an Enigma but of a Lorenz teleprinter encryption system. It was would be referred to now as a “stream cipher”.
Economics <cough>
36bits for lisp was specific to PDP-6/10 not anything else.

And Lisp in turn took its "memory word is a cons cell because you can fit two addresses in one word" from a 36bit IBM scientific computer with 15 bit addressing.
Who's to say we can't get a little retro?

Little late for the new year's stuff, but let's party like it's 499!
Sounds like the zx spectrum was almost built perfectly for that.
I was wondering whether anyone would point out the Python pickle, which is often used for saving trained ML models in .pkl files.

I mean, at this point almost every memorable 3 letter file extension probably already has some claim to it, but still, it would have been nice if Apple had done some research and made this more unique.
> Sorting out technicalities is the job of regulators and government. It shouldn't matter a damn if the situation is different. What's common and ongoing is that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are still in place and small and medium businesses are still being hurt, and users are still being taken advantage of.

It should matter in this context because this entire thread chain was started with a reference to the 90s era monopoly challenges against MS. If the situation isn't the same then the old monopoly challenge really doesn't matter, sure it was the same corporation but it was different leadership with different employees working in entirely different industry and time.

We won't fix big tech with regulations and laws. That's hard enough when you're going after large corporations with massive legal and lobbying teams, see the cigarette and oil industries for example. When its a tech industry that changes on the order or months or years rather than decades, regulators have no chance of predicting what coning innovations they need to plan for or closing loopholes in regulation written for a fairly unique industry.

Sometimes it doesn't work for us to go crawling to big governments to drop the hammer and save us with yet more regulation that no one has time to read or comprehend. Big tech only has the power it does because we all choose to use their products. If we really cared, consumers could make real change without regulators by simply telling big tech to screw off and opting our of using their products.
Workers can have shares in a business, which is the hypothetical I was going for originally.
Association of long-term exposure to air pollution w retinal neurodegeneration
The House of Requirements
Sure. I should have been more specific.

However, much of the abundance in western nations, need the cheap production of those countries. Trading wheat for Rolex clocks might be a bad deal for them (hyperbolic point, I know).

E.g. countries like Nigeria have a simultaneous obesity and malnutrition (low bmi) problem.

I am not claiming I know what needs to be done.
Well, Microsoft did hire Susan Kare to design the Windows 3 icons. Kare previously and famously did a lot of early Macintosh GUI design work for Apple. But while Apple saw GUI design as a holistic effort, at Microsoft, the good stuff (e.g. Kare's icons) and the bad stuff (e.g. the sloppily designed mouse cursor) just went hand in hand. Which adds to your point.
The Spotify part though, isn't part of cleaning, if that makes sense? It happened that she has found an enjoyable aspect to the tasks due to its nature, but not that she specifically searched for that job because it lets her listen to Spotify.
Not so much plausible deniability, as a clear First Amendment argument. If you’re forbidden from exporting computer code, that was some new-fangled magic thing that nobody could possibly understand. If you’re banned from exporting a book, well that has some clear and obvious precedent as a restriction of free speech.
My understanding is that before mouse pointer there was a light pen aka light gun pointer. It was used perpendicularly to the screen, literally pointing at the desired location.

Then, when implementing a more 'remote' on-screen pointer, the notion of pointing perpendicularly at the site was best projected by a tilted 2D marker.

Think of the mouse pointer kinda sticking out of the screen as a dart.

I can't imagine the arm strain the users of the light pen had to endure back in time ... Though the workflow was probably still more keyboard-bound.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen
You're talking as though tax is a right of some sort. You shouldn't have to justify keeping your money. Government should justify why it needs to take it, or it's even less different to the mafia knocking on your door.
He probably means one of the wonderfully crafted talks by Chris Seaton.

Here is one of the many:
https://youtu.be/bf5pQVgux3c?si=S8Dm5d_GXYXgJtnY

If you go looking for more you will find many more marbles.
We have a nuclear power plant which was completely finished yet never went to grid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Pl...
What’s the longest streak of commits you’ve had?

I’m three weeks away from 365 straight days of commits!

I missed only 2 days in 2023 (in March) because I was traveling.
It was not a purchase, it was a money transfer. They converted it to EUR for me at really bad rates. It was not an explicit fee.
Ironically emptying the bins and picking fruits might be more directly meaningful for people then building the new generation ad platform/social media/saas tool.
Tiger moth jams bat sonar (2009)
> If you don’t know what you love, try playing with a couple of things.

I have a theory that what you love is what you can experience bad versions of. If you're picky about something, you don't really like it. Connoisseurs and fanatics aren't picky, they're voracious.

If you can only drink the very best wines, you don't like wine. I can eat very very bad, even stinky Chinese food, because I love all versions of it.

I can tolerate bad books much more than bad movies. I can't stand a bad movie, it makes me upset and impatient: I don't really like movies. People who do, watch everything they can, the good and the bad alike. Etc.

If you truly don't know what you love, see if you can get interested in bad instances of things; if you like something when it's bad, you'll love the good version of it.
Highland hermit makes surprise film festival visit (2022)
It is worth pointing out that (at least according to the corporate training I have to take every year) this is considered illegal by the US government for a US citizen to do even not on US soil; if the Feds get wind of it and feel like making a point they could throw you in jail, even with an intermediary "fixer".
LLM bots are active on Twitter
Humans? Recommend any good slice of life comic books? Or comic book set in VR or Reality?
World time. Any country or timeline may appear.
Very few people have heard of them. That is exactly the reason why I mention them as often as I can. They are a great entry into the world of meta compilers.
The idea was in the air for long, it just needed money and power to detonate. It is incredible what money and power do to human brains. [1] [2].

I really wonder why to restrict to drugs and not putting propulsion jets over your bike... or run together with your dog or a cheetah (without harming them).

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41881472

[2] https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/a-megalomaniacs-lu...
6 bits was used to represent alphanumeric characters prior to ASCII as well.
I suppose it makes more sense for left to right text interfaces?
I think the point here is

> wasn't always done with as much thought

While Apple cared a lot about perfecting UX, Microsoft had other priorities.
In the Prisoner's dilemma, defecting is "worth it" to both, but neither wants to be in a situation where the other will. It is easy to create equivalent scenarios — one does not even need to intend to do so, though of course the scenario from which the name comes, the situation was constructed to get an outcome that a powerful person wanted.

I think it is an important part of government, now that we know about Nash equilibria, to make sure that social and economic incentives are such that the collective good is aligned with the personal good. Neither Adam Smith and Karl Marx knew about these when they wrote their famous works, and (I think) just assumed these would be aligned.

This is not to say that Bezos did or didn't do anything in particular; while there are things I'd criticise Amazon for, I think roughly half the usual talking points are misunderstandings.
I get my supplies from illegitimate sellers on amazon precisely because of this.

I also learned how to adjust my machine manually because it was taking way too long to schedule new sleep doctor appointments and then appointments with the DME provider…I shouldn’t have to wait 6 months to a year in order to to get quality sleep.

I will never understand why a prescription for my BiPAP or my glasses is required. It is all pointless bureaucracy.
Strange, I would have expected WISPs to have different regulations than consumers.
I've never found the job to be all that important; especially once I saw how quickly my work was discarded for some new, fashionably different way of doing things. Honestly it's scary to imagine that some child's health insurance would depend on me staying on the treadmill of ever-changing tech nonsense. I doubt my ability to keep pace for a couple decades.
I call your payroll software and raise you working on device drivers for Nokia’s Symbian OS phones.
> It was found that, given the low resolution of the screens in those days, drawing a straight line (left edge of arrow) and a line at a 45 degree angle (right edge of arrow) was easier to do and more recognizable than the straight cursor.

Ockham's Razor. It really is that simple. Having had to do a lot of "dot art," in The Days of Yore, I understand perfectly, why this choice was made. Some systems did an "unfilled" arrow, with just the outer barbs. Same angle of the shaft, but the barbs were at 90 degrees. Leaning left was chosen, because of the prevalence of righties. The "unfilled" arrow was easier to confuse with the background.

I suspect that many of today's programmers would be absolutely aghast, at the resolution of our screens, back then.

ResEdit FTW!
Show HN: GuessMyName – daily game where you guess history figures with 5 hints
Any git host, though the integrations for eg “show pull-request code-review status” are configured for github by default
Meta-backed case seeks high court ruling on Bitcoin founder's identity
Not only we have a compiler but we have a full blown IDE in the browser: try.moonbitlang.com
>pass a Constitutional amendment allowing every human the unlimited and absolute right to buy, make, modify, and sell medical things including importing and exporting those items.

I'm pretty sure I've never heard of a worse idea for a law. Removing any possibility of regulating the quality or efficacy of medicines and medical devices will injure and kill far more people than any resulting improved access would help.
How would a regulation like that actually be enforced?

Whenever a regulation compares against what you "know" it is usually pretty easy to just not look, or claim that you numbers were inaccurate, or that team A knew but team B which implemented feature didn't (potentially even claiming that's a privacy feature by protecting user data).

Even more difficult, the stats needed would be owned by the same party. I.e. Microsoft would be the one collecting and owning data of what apps a user already installed, and Google would be doing the same for any pertinent data related to Chrome use and advertising. Its effectively a black box to regulators, they would be asking MS for their own internal data that both sides already know must fit a very specifically defined legal requirement. This is exactly how VW got away with fudging the numbers on diesel regulations for so long.
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Its a car. You turn the wheel and press the two buttons.

I've beaten spelunky 1, and 2. Im also sporty and coordinated. I know what good motor skills look and feel like, and what being bad at something feels like.

If there is a suspicion of skill loss in the population, i dont know why so many people in this thread would blindly accept that. We should all put our good boy skeptic scientist hats on.

Are the changes in chrash severity and frequency even for all types of people? Doubtful. In what age ranges and occupations are the biggest changes in.

"People crash more now because sudden population wide skill loss" doesnt even pass the basic sanity test. Im gonna need some evidence.
There is a heck of a lot to be said for making it a painless process. Yes, you can cross compile C and C++. No, it is not at all simple to set up. I've used rust for projects for similar reasons: if I want to cross compile from windows to linux it is ridiculously less painful to compile pure rust than C or C++ (especially if I want to set up a new machine for it).
You are what you love, but until you don't have a family (specially kids) you don
t know what love is, and its definitely not work. So I am what I love, but I'm not my work neither my job. You neither. So don't judge people based by what they demonstrate at work. Most majority of people are there for the money.

Fun fact that I became a much better developer when I started to think like that. I dont slack around. I work 10 hours day, happy and concentrated. I see the results of my work impacting my personal life in a positive way. And the problems that I have at work, are not my problem, but companies problem. I am there to solve them, but after day is over, I just keep them at work.
Duncan Campbell – Investigative journalist and forensic expert
The U.S. economy is booming, so why are there so many tech layoffs?
The unseen side effect of increasing car insurance coverage across the board would be the hospital would charge $360k for a single day of trauma care instead of $180k.

I have to admit that I stopped reading the article after this line "The day after the crash, Seamus died. The hospital charged the couple’s insurance $180,000 for his care."

One day of care added up to $180k. Their actual costs could not have been a tenth of that. How can the author seriously say that car insurance is the issue in this situation.
Challenges with data – Modeling is hard
Fishing is not the phrase I'd used. Insisting on, maybe.
https://archive.is/20240204070758/https://www.washingtonpost...
Another possibility: a naming conflict with, and potential confusion around the already existing Python serialisation library 'pickle'?
I mouse left-handed and wrote software for Windows to flip the mouse cursors, because it felt more natural
> it's hard to understand why anyone outside of the respective orgs would adopt

Personally I don’t care about the backend at all - I’m loving sapling just as an alternative git frontend with considerably better UX :)
I would qualify this. If you like movies, you like all sorts of movies. You can enjoy well-done schlock horror as much as experimental Thai drama. But you still have a sense of good and bad, and you don't want to sit through something done badly in terms of what it's trying to achieve. Same with food: if you like Chinese food you maybe like all sorts of tastes, and high-end to low-end, but you don't need to like it when it's bad. Someone who likes all movies or Chinese food that they encounter doesn't actually like that thing - they just don't care enough about it.
I recently had a conversation about this, and someone said this:

"The graveyard is full of people who knew what they're doing"
Minorities get PIPped too in Amazon.
So the path of a small nation in the shadow of petro dictatorships seems to be getting that petro dictatorship to build you a nuclear plant and supply fuel, so that you can continue to badmouth them from warmth and safety.
i believe the cryptomuseum has a more extensive list than the one in the link: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/intel/nsa/backdoor.htm particularly one is interesting as i have reverse engineered and proven its existence: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/px1000/nsa.htm
Foxconn sees 'slightly better' 2024, warns on AI chip shortage
Why this article and people in the comments refer to 32-bit words as one byte? One byte is 8 bits. If you have a hex representation of ‘42’ these are 4 bytes, 32 bits. NOT ONE BYTE.
Yes and no.

A benefit of those same restrictions means TSMC is building foundries in the US for a change.

GaAs sensors are awesome. Combine those chips with ML optimized compute on a silicon interposer and drone warfare gets a hockey stick in adoption.

As civilians we get functional self driving cars via trickle down.
LN2 is 77 K (-196 ºc) and dirt cheap -- cents/pence per litre. Most electronics works surprisingly well in it, at least until it warms up and the condensation starts to be a problem ;-).
Yeah, living in the Netherlands for a few months (Haarlem) and traveling some there really shifted my perspective. The Dutch have demonstrated that you can have your cake and earth it too. They actually transformed some car first cities to human scale - forget the name.
Is enough still enough? Sweden reckons with its culture of 'lagom.'
They are, but the basic idea works pretty much everywhere.

In general, small claims courts aren't very strict on the correct procedure being followed - they are explicitly designed to be accessible to non-experts.
Taiwan became a model for beating election disinformation
You can press the Byte values on the left and get an explanation in the black area on the right
Not really. Having taste doesn’t mean you don’t like it. You can really like subsets of things that suit your taste. “You don’t like interior design unless you get lit by prison cell decor”
Further testing shows deletion does happen when I close Focus normally. The files are all there until I delete tab history or choose the last open ta, whereupon they are deleted. This did not happen, previously. Browser history would disappear, but not downloaded files.

If I instead go into app info (long press its laugh icon and select from the pop up menu), and then force stop the app, the downloaded files remain and are not deleted.

I have some choice words for the developers about this silent change in behavior.
Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper
Exchange is not email server. It is groupware server. Thunderbird will not support all features of Exchange, ever, as it requires much more than e-mail (and even calendar) support.

And, yes, Exchange supports IMAP for people who want to use it as bad and feature-limited email server ;-)

I want Thunderbird to be best e-mail client, not mediocre groupware client.
I have terrible news about systems built on private health insurance (USA): it will still take 666 days to see a specialist, and you will need a referral from your PCP who may also decide they want to see you in person first. This may be its own scheduling nightmare. Then you may find out that your preferred specialist is out of network for your private insurance. The waits are a generally a supply and demand issue more than a beurocracies issue, but I can assure you that multiplying the number of beurocracies involved in getting healthcare doesn't speed anything up.
Some DE solved that by having an inverse outline.
I don't know whether it relates to your case or not, but I have a similar issue which I "fixed" with a workaround.

I would open a PDF file in browser and when the Downloads window would open, I would right-click on it to clear the downloaded files from download list, not to permanently erase them!

As soon as I do so and close the entire window, it would delete the files from Downloads too!

My workaround was to change the default Action to Save File and that would be it; the same aforementioned steps do not erase the files from Download folder.
Amiga forever!
You are using cuda for some reason?
cuda is for general gpu computing, not the same as using the dedicated hardware enc/dec engines.

See ffmpeg docs for the hw decoding name, like nvdec iirc for nvidia cards.
Hey, thanks for chiming in! I appreciate the correction.

You and Boris seem to have identified the pain-point and got to a similar place independently
As said, I'm fully in favor of timers for pressure cooking. I love my InstantPot. It solves an actual problem. No more turned-to-sludge potatoes!

And I think we can agree that if you don't want to watch the pot, having the timer spatially over it makes little sense, and that little phone in your pocket is probably better suited to remind you...

BTW, guys, a large part of cooking is actually pipelining: for instance, while the pasta is cooking, you can cook other stuff in parallel!
As long as HLS is more open than Flash was, why not? It could be both of those things.
SciWalker – bringing together fragmented literature
If you need to do this again, fly to Bangkok, they have ResMed and Philips authorised resellers with machines already in country, although incredibly enough you can also just order them off Lazada
Too be fair, specific phobias like that are easily treated with the right therapy(exposure therapy). If your job depends on it, it seems like a poor excuse.
Never found that person to be accurate or actually informative. Go watch something he has made about something you already know a lot and ask yourself if you want his view on matters where you do not.
Maybe it would be more practical MITMing near the CPU. Some plastic "extender" routing the relevant pins through an external device but still allowing for cooling?

But could the communication be authenticated? Like in CPU having a public cert, self signed. TPM then can authenticate the CPU that generates the key and later sends it only over an authenticated TLS session to the same CPU.
Just finished reading, for the first time, the short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener" by Melville.

I have also been reading the essays in David Foster Wallace in Context[1], published in November of 2022.

And I'm looking forward to reading here soon the seemingly first ever English translation of Philipp Mainländer's The Philosophy of Redemption[2], just published several weeks ago.

1: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/david-foster-wallace-in...

2: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Redemption-Philipp-Mainl%C...
So many things to remember and potentially screw up. I am glad that modern languages come with fewer footguns.