skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's really important you'd have multiple copies in different regions and regularly check integrity and the storage medium isn't a large concern.
Acupuncture versus western medicine, we saw how that worked out for Steve Jobs. Were his western medicine doctors who he pushed off until it was too late, extremists in your book?

I wonder if anyone has done a study about why some people just cling to apathy as a life philosophy. Not talking about Steve Jobs, but about people who pose questions like yours.

It’s like… it’s almost as though there are reasons for different positions. Remarkable but true.
Sure but for how long and in what contexts?

Is it really reasonable to come out and say your company utterly failed a pretty basic security practice when faced with a compromise but that it was really some other company's problem originally?

Of course it's not. It's still your company's failure. Own it.
That seems pretty fair given the work put in to make what appears to be a much better experience than having to use it in the browser in VisionOS
You can still buy an Apple USB “SuperDrive” today. Getting a large, rarely used part out of the laptop chassis is a good thing.
Yes effectively immune to missiles. SpaceX launches a new batch of 22 satellites on average every 4-5 days right now and if needed can launch a new batch every 3 days. You'd have to shoot down thousands of satellites to create enough of a service gap, and keep shooting down the new ones. And the problem is only getting harder with time. Unless you're building up an armada of thousands of anti-satellite missiles that you need to maintain at the ready to do this task, you're not really taking the system down.

I should add that anti-satellite missiles are _large_ missiles. The missiles of this size in the US arsenal are SM-3 missiles (or larger). The number even the US has is only in the high hundreds to possibly low thousands. That's completely out of the ability of Russia. It's maybe possible for China but not in their current stockpiles.
Haha, I’m definitely more of an early Weezer lover, but I find it sad how unappreciated the Green Album is. Might be their best melodies, but the overall vibe is not as good as Pinkerton (especially without Matt Sharp).

Which reminds me of this legendary SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM
Whose pocket?
A HN trope is that software engineers are slipshod and real engineers are licensed craftsmen. Let me tell you this, I haven't killed anyone and if software I'm about to write would, I just wouldn't.

The standards of these industries have a long way to go before they catch up to us.
> You started it.

Are you actually 12?
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Found this website many years ago while still in undergrad, while frantically googling solutions to math problems in college.

~8 years later still think it's a really good reference.
How is Cloudflare ($384M in revenue, q3 2023) punching down at Okta ($584M in revenue, q3 2023) by stating exactly what happened.

If anything Okta is a bigger company (by revenue, by employee count) and they were founded a year earlier.
It's an accounting measure, to help people evaluate the use of land and whether it makes sense or not.

For example, if a public surface parking lot in a downtown area is owned by a city, and brings in $1M in revenue, but is taxed at $3M for its land values it's very clear what the subisidt is and who the beneficiaries are. And perhaps that might motivate the city to make better use of the lot, decide that there would be more public value as a park, or to build offices or housing on it.
https://archive.is/uL2ZP

The real story from Rick Beato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8R43E4Ax8
> Fun (but possibly apocryphal) fact: more than a decade ago in a social gathering of SREs at Google, several admitted to being on the payroll of some national intelligence bureaus.

They had government engagements with Google's consent, and all those various engagements could be disclosed to each other?

If not, what kind of drugs were flowing at this social gathering, to cause such an orgy of bad OPSEC?
https://archive.ph/sospe
I remember an Energizer battery game coming on one of these disks - the only time I'd ever seen one.
Anabolic steroids is not the line though.

Entirely natural substances, such as "blood doping," injecting your own stored red blood cells, is also prohibited. I'm not sure I could come up with something more natural.

Meanwhile Codeine, a synthetic drug, is permitted.
I think there’s only one real reason they removed the audio jack.

This is so gross:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/n5m2xp/oc_...
A large chunk of the remainder who still keep an optical drive around do so for personal media archival, in which case they’d want specific drives known to be well suited to that purpose (feature support, high accuracy[0], etc), and the drives built into laptops usually aren’t amazing in this regard.

[0]: https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-A...
Tech has less of a competency crisis than other industries. Even though they have better ISO standards supposedly.
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Hardly a singular obsession of one person when we have both Vigil and Matins as standards of the canonical hours for much of the past two thousand years of church records.

The article outlines multiple examples of references to first and second sleep periods in official court documents, and points to sleep studies of farmers in rural areas who still 'almost wake' not long after midnight.

As a pre industrial habit it makes sense - in colder areas fires don't last all night and rising after midnight to stoke fires, check animals, etc. fits right in with rural life.
Using percents rather than absolute figures would make the comparison much easier. Great work though, this is basically skill gaps and “arbitrage” opportunities!
This situation reminds me of the opening scene in office space where Michael is rapping in his car but turns the music down and pauses when the guy selling flowers walks past.

Of course, that wasn't public and Michael wasn't a CEO. Whoops.
You're already an enormously complex device and your heart beat is triggered by many tiny batteries inside of you.
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I cured mine using tirzepatide once a week and fluticasone propionate nightly. Could never really get used to the CPAP.
Wow, he has a better commit graph than me. Very impressive, especially considering that Weezer is still active. Time to step up my game.
I'm not sure what your point is. Should they not charge anything?
All: somehow the URL changed without any notice... See https://meta.company/go/makex/ until it's fixed.
Bookstores and restaurants are profit-seeking entities. If they were nonprofits then we wouldn't tax them.
I hate that Twitter is a walled garden but I understand why it is like that today as the well has been poisoned. To be honest I gave it try and it looks like today Mastodon/Bluesky are worse and Twitter better due to the migrations.
The fascinating story of Ambani’s rise to the top, and how he transformed Reliance from a small textile business into a global conglomerate.
I don’t know how exactly we got on this topic, but there’s also an excellent Weezer song called “Suzanne.”

Edit: I guess it’s actually spelled “Susanne.”
If he did then additional tax would occur from his spending and that induced downstream in the spending chain which would eliminate the debt that was previously his savings.

Debt and savings are two sides of the same coin. If the savings disappear via spending and taxing then so does the debt.

Remember money doesn’t stop at its first use. Spending and taxing work like a stone skipping across a pond. Saving and debt is like videoing that skip and pressing pause half way through. Once you unpause by spending the savings the stone skip continues.

What you’ll note is that the stone always sinks - taxation will always match spending in the long run.
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Of course, that is partially my point: if OpenAI et al wants to make the argument anything online is fair game, then they should release the weights. If not, they have no leg to stand on.
Does anybody have a recommendation for a slightly newer laptop (obviously not Apple) with an integrated DVD drive? My SO uses her 2012 MBP13 daily and a big advantage of that computer is that it's compact and can comfortably watch DVDs anywhere while she's working on her computer. We do have an external drive which works fine on a table but it's really cumbersome when trying to hold the computer on your lap, on a chair, on the couch, etc... you know, normal places where one might try to use a portable computer.

I've been contemplating a Thinkpad T440p but I do realize that's only two years newer (though almost infinitely more upgradable). Is there anything else with a 13-14” screen, DVD drive, and decent build quality? Or are we the only people who ever watch DVDs any more?
Which seems weird, if I'm not misunderstanding this.

So if you make profit and donate it to a charity, you can deduct it and they don't pay tax on it either. But if the charity makes a profit, effectively donating the money to itself, it does? What?
So nice to see a YouTube client that makes sense on the platform it’s on. Compare to the official YT client for iPad, for example, which bizarrely uses the same tiny Material touch targets as on phones.
This is something commonly misunderstood. Kessler syndrome is a statistical process that happens over many years. It is not a sudden cascade like is seen in movies like Gravity. Statistical processes are not what militaries are interested in.

It's actually thought that Kessler syndrome is kind of already happening right now, which is why there's a lot of push right now to try to de-orbit the very large pieces of debris, so they can't act to form further debris.
Not by default. It’s not inherent to it at all. I’m honestly not sure how it does, given the idea would be to restrict FS access to only files the user grants permissions to read / write, so they can’t write arbitrary things to the file system. There’s other techniques they can use to make it blind / privacy focused as well
No, this is very different. Google will link you to the NYT, you read there, and see ads. If GPT eats the web and pay walls it, they are 100% free riding.

Now, I also think the Google model is proven at this point to be a bad model since the web is 90% ads and SEO dogshit. They strip mined the value, took them a while, but its nearly decimated.
This is likely for references on the resumes of the people involved. Also being somewhat open about what they're doing. But disappointing to anyone else that actually wants to try it out themselves.
“Those responsible” is a rather nebulous group in this case.
It's about time the State started taxing the Church's land. Seriously, imagine if that money were invested in creating value instead of hoarding inelastic goods. We would all get to see just that much more prosperity.
Not at all! Quite the opposite. I encourage people to write tests that make sense, are readable, and are a good use of their time. I encourage people to NOT write tests if they don't actually believe that it improves their belief the code actually works in prod, and also if they think it's not worth the LOC.
And it feels bad as well. I have polyphasic periods and I'm always relieved when they end. Not sure why I don't feel too good, because I have ways to cope now, but good monophasic sleep makes me wake up rested and without a headache.
Happily. I have more access to content now than I have ever had before; we live in a golden age of access to video content. I can't imagine a rational argument for going back to the era of physical media.

The weirder thing to me is "owning" a particular movie. There are so many movies, why would I want to lock myself into a particular library of them? I read an article about John Carpenter's Lovecraft influences the other day, and that night watched The Thing for the first time. Didn't have to burn a moment's thought about whether it was likely to be worth the investment and a slot on my shelves.

If I feel like watching The Thing again next year (probably with friends and some kind of drinking game attached), I'll just pay to "rent" it again. I have paid to watch episodes of The Office that I already own simply to avoid the hassle of clicking over to the other app on my Apple TV, and while I might be one of the few people to think that's funny enough to brag about, I'm confident I'm not the only person ever to have done that.

Meanwhile: we're talking about... a laptop?

Come on. Apple should not be selling a laptop with an optical drive in 2024.
Wow, that read made me feel a little sad. It works for them obviously, but sounds a bit like everyone besides Rivers may as well be a session musician that he happen to be predictable enough for him to work with.
Presumably you can still plug in an external usb HDD. That's a spinning disk, that can store movies.
... you can still buy most stuff outright? Blu-ray exists?
Oral appliance worked for me. It was sufficient to get my jaw in the right position.
Spending $10 one time with one of many companies that sold likes, follows, retweets, etc. for peanuts.
I can't imagine why anyone cares what a CEO says in a few tweets? I was under the understanding that people actually work in this industry instead of playing these cliquey games of reputation or scraping through social media. (which is meaningless)

Only real valuable piece of information that I can glean from any of this is further evidence of the amount of vultures in this community who will publicly lambast another for the crime of "going off" (drunk or not) and calling for them to resign. History shows these types to be narcissists; I for one hope whatever is going on with Garry, that he can get some help and continue on doing what he does best, and I don't care what he said if he was really drunk, the content doesn't really matter too much when you are hammered.
What if you had racing VR inside your car? Your windshield turns into a screen in "fun mode".
Your argument has several flaws. First, we prescribe drugs based on expected risk and reward. The likelihood of successful treatment absolutely matters. Otherwise, we'd require a trial of a homeopathic placebo for every mental health condition, before prescribing something that's clinically proven to work. Homeopathy is 100% safe, and 100% useless. But hey, sometimes the placebo effect works, right? That manic guy who thinks he can fly? Let's give him sugar pills for a year before lithium, just to be safe! Natural solutions and "alternative medicine" are always best, after all. The stuff that actually works is a last resort only! Just look at Steve Jobs, he's doing so well these days! His cancer was completely cured by his weird diet. /s

Second, you assume there's a significant difference between the risk of amphetamines at low doses and the alternatives -- usually off-label anti-depressants with a slew of nasty side effects. Do you really believe the science is unbiased when the DEA has been meddling in it for decades now? Come on now. These are the people that still insist cannabis is more dangerous than fentanyl. They're thugs, not scientists. Every 1960s housewife in America was microdosing speed in the form of diet pills, and it was mostly fine, until Nixon's alcoholic ass started a war on other drugs that broke everyone's brains. Then on the other end, you have Big Pharma corrupting FDA officials to make their newer, more dangerous, and less effective drugs look better than they really are.

More importantly, you assume there's no risk to delaying treatment. It's no big deal that someone loses a job and their health insurance because the "safer" drug you made them trial first did nothing or made things worse. It's probably already taken you months, if not years, to get the diagnosis and an appointment with a psychiatrist. The status quo probably isn't going great for you. Relationships, school, career, etc are suffering. Oh, not to mention the significantly increased risk of death of dying in a car crash when we're unmedicated. But sure, giving us some shitty placebo for three months, that's totally safer for everyone! Including you, right?

Can you people please stop peddling this anti-intellectual nonsense about a disorder you know absolutely fuck-all about, outside of stigmatizing pop culture memes? You're not a doctor. And get your damn vaccines too, while you're at it.
Seems like a lot of the motivation was just recouping lost revenue from his existing YouTube player integration code.
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> I could never endorse violent rhetoric in politics

In literally the next sentence:

> the level of avoidable human misery caused by the dysfunction of politics [...] sickening [...] utterly enraged [...] there's a piece of your soul missing

So you'll deploy extreme emotional hyperbole, but not "violent rhetoric"? Seems like those are two rather nearby points on the same spectrum, no? Tan just slipped a bit off the edge. If you're going to deny someone's soul, it's not that big a leap to wish them dead.
Correct, the SuperDrive requires 5V at 1.6A while most hubs only provide the standard 5V at 1A. Any fast-charging USB-A port will work though and that are hubs that support that.
Christian isn’t charging enough! This could easily be $10 or more.

I still grumble every time I use the Reddit app. RIP Apollo.
> It is rumered that AWS S3 glacier is mostly optical storage, for example.

Really? I heard that about a decade ago, the analysis barely made sense then but it seems even less sensible now.
At Amazon scale tape is 0.5 cent/GB or less, hard drives are more expensive but easier to work with. Data storage on Blu-ray is tiny, still needs robotics.
I’m sure that removal of the headphone jack helped drive sales, but it’s worth remembering that AirPods were also some of the first bluetooth earbuds that were good enough for mass market appeal, and for usage with phones especially wires can get pretty irritating. A lot more people probably would’ve switched years earlier had other companies released bluetooth headphones on par with first gen AirPods.
I always go to news.ycombinator.com/active. That’s the “real” front page as far as I’m concerned.
Starlink satellites use inter-satellite lasers and can send those signals arbitrary distances via multiple satellites. Taking out a ground station will just require routing changes and the constellation will continue to perform.

And you can't just wave around "hacking the control plane". Russia's been trying to interfere with Starlink for a while and they haven't had any long term success. And finally, even if the did somehow get access to the control systems at SpaceX, the satellites can't de-orbit quickly. It takes weeks to de-orbit, over which time they could be commanded to reverse course.
Literally just get a NAS if this is such a big deal for you. For everyone else, spinning disks are an absurd antiquity
You don't need third-party APIs to make a YouTube viewer. There's a bunch of 3rd-party YouTube viewers like SmartTube, ReVanced, etc. that bypass ads and don't use the official API, plus of course the yt-dlp downloader.

I'd say the lesson here is NOT to rely on official APIs.

However, upon reading this blog post, it does seem he's using the official API so I guess he thinks he'll be fine as long as he doesn't block ads. Time will tell.
But what is a "real thing"? I would argue that photography is a medium for understanding a deeper underlying reality - just like our own brains and sense-perceptions are, but with different mechanics. The angle with which you take a photo, or the optics which the camera uses, or the post-processing that camera software applies are just as much a mechanism for interpreting the "thing itself" as the vagaries of our own sense-perceptions when we "see" something. In addition, these multiple representations (our senses and the images we create) interact - for example, we sometimes think a photo is "bad" because it doesn't match the representation in our brain, and sometimes we find that "hyperreal" photos (to use Baudrillard's term) override our perceptions. So I think it's silly to worry that Generative AI might make photos less representative of "objective" reality. Perhaps it's even a good thing if more folks accept the inherent subjectivity of any media.
Yes, a better headline would be something like: Behaviors, drugs, and even foods rewire your brain via the epigenome

But modern science is all about what's in vogue and securing funding. This study was funded by the national institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism and the institute on drug abuse, so we all know what conclusion must be found.

The spice must flow.
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You can buy Blu-rays but your Mac won't play them because it doesn't have a drive.
>$10 "inching" timer plug

Thanks, I didn't know these existed. Another useful "midwit" device to add to the list.

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/midwit-home

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859437
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Self-Illusion and Medical Expertise in the Era of Covid
Why not just rip the DVDs to files and watch them whenever from wherever. DVDs are cumbersome and dated.
I basically just stopped using Reddit after that whole fiasco. I had already been drifting away for years. The site has changed. It was time to move on.
Hi, you have your links backward. The Director role links to the Data Eng role, and vice versa.
>Which I was honestly kind of bummed about, as I wanted some way to give back to the creators of the tutorials I was rendering.

I'm sure they'd be happy to take direct donations. Many have Patreon accounts you can subscribe to. Those creators aren't getting any meaningful revenue from ads; that's why they all added those annoying sponsor segments.
Like this is just a tier below 9/11 level of disaster... I'm sure we'll see an appropriate response.