skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recall a project back in the days where the customer wanted to upgrade their workstations but also save money, so we designed a solution where they'd have a beefy NT4-based Citrix server and reusing their 486 desktop machines by running the RDP client on Windows 3.11.

To make deployment easy and smooth, it was decided to use network booting and running Windows from a RAM disk.

The machines had 8MB of memory and it was found we needed 4MB for Windows to be happy, so we had a 4MB RAM disk to squeeze everything into. A colleague spent a lot of time slimming Windows down, but got stuck on the printer drivers. They had 4-5 different HP printers which required different drivers, and including all of them took way too much space.

He came to me and asked if I had some solution, and after some back and forth we found that we could reliably detect which printer was connected by scanning for various strings in the BIOS memory area. While not hired as a programmer, I had several years experience by then, so I whipped up a tiny executable which scanned the BIOS for a given string. He then used that in the autoexec.bat file to selectively copy the correct printer driver.

Project rolled out to thousands of users across several hundred locations (one server per location) without a hitch, and worked quite well from what I recall.
It's not even externalized to future generations, just to other continents whose inhabitants produce crap for the West
What are you, a vim user? Just remap jj and leave caps lock for people who need to hold down a key with their pinkies :p
I don't know the exact procedures, but I imagine and would expect that they reopen the case if new substantial and substantive leads show up.
It depends on each EU country. For Italy: https://www.bancaditalia.it/compiti/sispaga-mercati/normativ...
Because they're actually the same thing. A team that thinks it's the right thing to build their own billing system lacks the experience and knowledge to do it correctly.
I doubt many "hard-core cli enthusiasts" desire some sort of digital self flagellation, but instead strive for efficiency. Full screen editors are efficient, and was very quickly adopted when made available.

Line editors prevailed for a long time, not because of user preferences but because they were tiny and was shipped by default. In PC-DOS/MS-DOS edlin.com/exe was what was available until the full screen editor edit.exe shipped some years into the 90s. Almost all home computers came with a variant of BASIC in ROM, which also used line editing (not even with a proper editor but by substitution of whole lines).
But it's refreshing to see them being open about it, instead of making up some fig leaf use case and claim that it will change the world forever.

What I do wonder, with microLED being as transparent as they are before you add a backdrop layer, is how much of its (daytime) energy consumption could be supplied by making the backdrop photovoltaic. If you only light up a tiny battery percentage number on a 17" screen, chances are it could run energy-positive forever, but if you do the same black-on-white the very battery consumption would likely be near-indistinguishable from a simple black backdrop. How many pixels at break-even? This could be a revolution for outdoor devices that still use transflective displays that are either low-resolution or low-contrast.

(I do suspect that resolution would be a limitation with microLED-on-photovoltaic as well, aiming that transparency is inversely proportional to resolution at a given manufacturing process)
// can't even afford any of that while being in the top 20% earners in Germany

I ask this as a sincere question - according to Google, 50% of germans live in a home they own, and obviously some Germans are having kids (although the birth rate is horrendous)

Who are the people that are buying home and having kids? Are these activities limited to the 1%?
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I really want one for physical goods. The global sales/vat network is a nightmare to navigate for a small business.
Not in all EU countries, but there's a new law in Spain that aims to address this

https://www.fonoa.com/blog/spain-publishes-draft-ordinance-r...
> I also notice that when raking leaves, or mopping a floor, I can never make up my mind which handedness feels more comfortable, and just switch between them.

I feel similarly. I think with a lot of these tasks, the stakes are low and the dominant hand can have an adequate effect in either placement.

On the other hand (ahem), I do not feel this way about shoveling snow. I have to use my dominant hand on the far end of a snow shovel because I can generate more power with more control that way (despite my right arm having less muscle -- per my other comment about my experience agreeing with this article, I hold my child with my left arm and now have more muscle on my left arm as a result). I think the aspect of being able to control the power feels more important because shoveling snow feels like, if I screw up the motion, I can potentially cause injury to myself.
Hmm used the links shared below but the picture of my home is at least 4-6 months out of date. What am I missing?
Let's be honest here. The main advantage is to make use of someone else his resources. Since it's potentially degrading critical infrastructure and increasing the cost of market entry: Unethical.
It makes me think of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. To be fair I never finished the book but one thing really stuck out.

He describes how scientific revolutions aren’t really incremental progress on previous theories. Think Galileo’s theory earth revolved around the sun - that destroyed the conventional understanding of astronomy (and maybe even physics?). After these revolutions there is a flood of “normal” science that fills in the gaps based on these new big axioms.

Now, blockchain nor AI are scientific revolutions by Kuhn’s meaning of the term. They are certainly “normal” operating within the established domains of statistics, computer science, cryptography etc. But I think they are an analogs . Major breakthroughs were made that gave us AI and blockchain and then afterwards there is a flood of (probably decreasingly small) extensions or applications of them.

I guess my point is that I don’t feel like anything is broken or there are bad incentives. Thats just how innovation works. You have massive progress followed by decreasingly useful work. And certainly in the case of AI there is more large scale progress to be made.
The incident count for very early onset Crohns is rapidly increasing [1]-- I wonder if they'll start to make these drugs available for younger children since today it's more or less forbidden for them to be used on kids under 16.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10....
VMwares biggest customers will be getting deals apropriate to their offerings.

It sounds like this was a (comparatively) PITA small-fry legal / law office.
Fuzz testing seems surprisingly powerful as part of an IDE and doesn't require any new annotation but seems to waste a ton of resources... I wonder if someone developed an algorithm for most efficiently breaking your assertions, perhaps even with a pre-fitted probabilistic heuristic guiding the search.
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I thought modern cars all had built-in immobilisers and chips in the keys?

A few years back I was reading reports saying that car theft had dropped substantially as it was nigh-impossible to move a car without the key, to the point thieves were even resorting to breaking into homes to get the car keys.
Beautiful hardware, but I do like my privacy. Maybe you could cover it with stickers?
My read on the utensil thing is that basically keeping the fork in the left hand feels more "rushed" and therefore less delicate/dignified. I'm from the UK and my wife is American, and when I'm over there I do notice that if I forget to adapt my technique I sort of feel a little undignified in the way I eat, comparatively. It's interesting.
My wife also gets 2 a month, on the same day, but I get to stab her in the gut. Good times!
That's a pretty interesting deal for something that doesn't need to transmit a lot of data, but will need to do it long term.

100MB/month attached to a Pi that has data for 5 years for only £16 looks to me like a great deal for an active monitoring site.
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Heh I had the same experience but with bun. Lots of subtle bugs on stream and crypto packages where I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong only to find that it's a known bug in bun. I would have understood that there'd be bugs in relatively new runtime that's undertaking this huge task but it's not drop-in replacement for node as it claims to be and I wouldn't say v1 is stable at all.
People aren’t wondering, they just don’t consider this an acceptable or effective way to protest.
There’s no need to invent some pro-crime society narrative, it just took time to investigate:

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/project-mamba-york-police...
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Converts normal SQL DML statements into prepared statements and type-safe wrappers. For Java, that means subclassing PreparedStatement and ResultSet.

No templates, maps, annotations, DSL. Just normal SQL.

Apologies, a few weeks ago, I started yak shaving while implementing the build stuff (eg maven plugin). I'll try to focus, ship something beta sooner than later.
In those systems you have to start from the bottom (weakest) influences. It will burn you out quick.
My problem with these unimportant analyses is they can never be right or wrong. Its anti-climatic; They are forming yet another opinion.
We looked into them. Unfortunately they’re very expensive.
It's not just car theft. Same happens in stores in specific states of the US.

Obviously there's no patterns to be recognized in there. Nothing whatsoever. Move along citizen.
AI calling the Prime Minister a fascist is a "direct violation of IT rules"
> Last fall, at the behest of the tech companies, a federal court struck down a California law meant to prevent social media platforms from profiling children. It did so by ruling that collecting data from children is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.

I had no idea that's the reason the California law was struck down. The idea that collecting data is speech seems dangerous.
And since all of crypto/"web3" is about manufacturing monetary incentives (for the duration of a pump-and-dump anyway), there's no reason to allow crypto in public spaces like open source.
I have yet to try an “installed” PWA on any device that actually worked correctly when I needed it most, so I will take a shitty electron or web view wrapper app over a PWA any day.
This has happened to me, except there was a couple looking at the same car on the lot, and they didn't try to negotiate, they just took the higher price, while I was negotiating. So by the time I got the lower price it had been sold. I ended up later buying a different car for a lot more money than even the sticker of the first car.
Who can also forget the venerable “nlite” for slipstreaming updates, drivers, third party software, and minimizing the foot print of Windows XP.

https://www.nliteos.com/index.html
The performance degradation is just my experience from a Galaxy Nexus, a Galaxy Tab 2, a Nexus 5 and most of the older Android phones friends & family have/had. I don't remember from the earlier Android days.

It's entirely possible this is "fixed" nowadays, because flash/UFS technology has progressed and/or device makers are finally using slightly less crappy components.
Key fob cloning attacks on many nicer cars, like say Ford Raptor. Cheaper cars with easy to physically defeat systems.
I'm old an immediately assumed this would link to historical retrospective of GEnie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie
What is the video resolution, 64x64? And even then it becomes blurry. Seems like another Google flag-plant-y paper filled with hot air that we will never see the source code or model for because it will expose how poor its capabilities are relative to competitors.

The internal politics at these places must be exhausting. Industry research was supposed to be free from the publish or perish mindset, but it seems like it just got replaced by a different kind of need for posturing.
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I’m surprised that this is what made the person lose trust in Google - not the years and years of ignoring privacy and treating users as the product.
I think it's regulated at the EU level: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/consumer-finance-and-payments/p...
You expect too much for free.

This looks amazing. Keep it installed, use it when I land (even if just to buy a better eSIM from Airalo). Don’t need to plan ahead, shop eBay, carry extra sims around. If I cross the border for an hour (live in Canada) might just use it for texts/slow web, or pay $2 for a day. Connivence factor is amazing.
It is just an standard eUICC card with an issuer certificate, which means you need issuer's app to access low-level eUICC functions on a rootless Android. This is how esim.me enforces the subscription.

This also means, you can use any LPA implementation to manage and install profiles on your own!

Some examples:

https://github.com/Truphone/LPAdesktop Needs a smart card reader and a pc to work

https://github.com/estkme-group/lpac Could either use a smart card reader or an actual modem with AT-support

https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC Needs a root on Android

Furthermore, I believe you could manage it via Windows settings if your window laptop has a WWAN card.
I might be in the minority but I love this feeling. Something about being in a casino and having no real difference between night and day intrigues me. I even looked into polyphasic sleeping (sleeping in small bursts) before I discovered it’s complete bullshit.
While I won't touch the sugar claim, private prison companies tend to think of themselves as real estate investors. They try to get desperate rural governments to give them land for pennies on the dollar.

They make empirically false claims for what the local economic impact is going to be by being obtuse.

I know this because I was involved with meetings with one trying to move into my home town.

I got them to admit the first in public meeting but they punted on the second.

And if you think there's a direct connection between crimes and prison terms, you are just under informed.

There are lots of people in prison who have long paid for their crimes but are still there because they are victims of their time (Cash)

Keeping people in prison is incentivized for private prisons.
Cool!

Anyone here from the crypto community -- how do you see QC's impact?
For example, this thread seems to imply that there's still some pretty significant risk for Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/JSmith_Crypto/status/1079123334586122240
> What happened to the shipping container? Who owned the rural property? Where was the shipping container going?

Everyone's going to feign ignorance. The container owner will say they didn't realize the container had been stolen from their property, or they rented it to someone who's responsible for whatever they do with it.

The property owner will say they didn't give anyone permission to put a container there, or that they rented it to someone else.

The destination can be just a port, and a moving company can be hired to pick up the container from the port.

(Source: my spouse shipped a lot of stuff from China, and I was horrified at how little security and documentation was involved. I can see how cars cross borders so easily.)
So 2 mistakes in the last 50 years, each wiping out a radius of 25km from being habitable for 1000 years. I won’t trust people for not making more mistakes.
Yeah I don't think Mr. Johnson foresaw TikTok.
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I don't have access to the article, but what makes them so pro-crime?

You may be over simplifying things. If you set up some bait cars and catch some thieves, they will probably just be replaced with other low level men. This is likely organized crime so the leaders aren't out there prowling the neighbourhoods. As for the rural property, it might not even be theirs. It could just be any rural property. Ontario, being the most populous of Canadian provinces is still very sparsely populated. A short drive from most big cities can put you in a rural area where owners haven't visited a property in decades.
I recommend reading "When Breath Becomes Air," my understanding of the author's perspective is that when faced with imminent death, one should do what one considers to be important.

The sneaky thing is, you are going to die, so the above statement should ALWAYS be how you're living your life.

If your work isn't important enough to you to be doing if you know you'll probably be dead in 1-3 years, you probably shouldn't be doing it now.

For me, my work is important to me and my values (I run a software co-op), and also enables me to live out my values in ways I'd like to do in the future (kicking off a global village construction kit project - for which I need money, lol).

Engineering certainly makes me a lot of money compared to when I was a teacher, but also it allows me to help build technology to liberate people, which is very important to me. In that way, I believe I'm successful, because I get to build things that make me better at building technology that liberates.

If I were to find out I would die in the next few years, I believe only thing I would change is shorten my long term plans by working my own contracts less, sell my stocks, and travel more, if I was healthy enough to. I believe I'd still run my co-op.
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Well, I've flown my (crappy) drone over the Greenland ice sheet. There are features in the ice sheet but they change regularly (once you're at an altitude high enough so there are no melt lakes). Nunatak and such aren't all that common away from the coasts. Antarctica would be worse on the plateau away from the transantarctic.

(There are other practical problems like how poorly drones do in the climate).
At least in EU, nope! Because it's not just "automation". It's more about dealing with other people's money, accounting, taxation, sensitive data collection etc.,etc. You should be first registered as a "payment processor" type.
> Most climatologist from 1950 till 1980ties predicted new ice age.

Not the scale of "by 2024" they didn't, and you're just flat out wrong to assert any of them thought any city, let alone all, would be under a mile of ice by now even the ones who ignored anthropogenic effects.

"A mile" requires continuous light to moderate precipitation for all 74 years from 1950. It should be obvious no scientist would have ever made such a claim.
I am confident that if you were given the option of toiling like someone had to do 100+ years ago, you'd run back crying to your 42 hours a week German tech sector job after like an hour.

I can't help but notice that you're basically broadcasting signs of depression all over this thread. It's like "the answer is: everything is horrible and worse than even, what was the question?" I don't mean to pick on that but do you know this about yourself?
NSIS..but if you are, all of that tech is circumvented if the key is cloned...which is increasingly easy to do (TFA mentions this when it talks about storing keys in a Faraday cage):
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/security-experts-police...
I had to laugh at the photos of "high end luxury vehicles" - Subarus.
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> this is a multi decade project

Yes as Exxon report suggested:

"Thus, even if solar or nuclear technologies were to be considered viable alternatives, they would not really displace fossil fuel energy for next 40 to 50 years, and CO2 growth would have to be estimated based on realistic market displacement of the fossil fuel technologies."

This was 42 years ago. Maybe it is time for “Non-Populist anger” now.
Barely familiar with Nix but I'm very interested in geography, weather, satellite data. I'm definitely looking for a stable platform that integrates geospatial data in a consistent way.
what does snazzy d mean?
No, there are also "concerning" subjects and concerns in this world, like false medical information, but apparently people don't suddenly write thousand-words screeds against google when that crops up (except when it was about hydroxychloriquine - but of course it is not really about "ethics in evidence-based medicine"...)
Some DA's are absolutely pro crime and you find out its the same small number of ppl stealing cars and getting released after charges are dropped or reduced after they've gotten caught.
> I have Go for the backend now, and using Typescript on the backend feels like a serious disservice to my productivity and happiness

Interesting, I feel the opposite. To me, Go is cumbersome and missing a lot of the nice APIs that Deno provides. I've switched from Go to Typescript (Node, for now, but considering Deno for better tooling and better APIs) and feel way more productive.

But I'm curious about what your experience with Deno itself was, apart from Typescript.
I recently slimmed down Windows 3.0 to run it from a 1MB SRAM card on a MS-DOS 5.0 palmtop. I just did it by trial and error, and I think I can slim it down further from this guide, though they're using Double Space, which I won't have.

I'm always sort of amazed how well Windows 3.x runs on hardware that would have been a bit old even when 3.0 was released.
That's some answers. It's surprising that the NYtimes article didn't at least say they ultimately arrested 11 people and recovered almost 100 vehicles. Though it's also surprising they don't give an idea of the scale, either (over 11,000 carjackings a year, not mentioned in either article).
1. You increase plasticity in your brain

2. You learn harder that there's no hope for the future

3. ???

Depression is (usually) a erogenous state of thought, not a chemical issue, and I don't see how increased plasticity could help in this case.
I’m confused. Is this supposed to be a startup landscape or tool landscape? If the latter then I’d include cloud providers, BigQuery and compute providers.
> Traffic, according to Salit, is better today than it was 30 years ago, except that he has a plan which would make city driving a “thriving pleasure.”

> “The trouble is the law. They’ve got no teeth in them. What they should do is make every fourth street an express street cross town and localize it in the afternoon for deliveries. That way you wouldn’t get bottle necks.” Before he could explain “localize” Salit saw a woman walking toward his parked cab.

I imagine that "local" is the negation of "express", as with Subway services. So to localize an express street is to make it not an express street. Perhaps a sensible thing to do in the afternoon, when there is not so much traffic, but a lot of deliveries.

I don't know what he meant by an express street, though!
For housing to be affordable, the rule of thumb is the monthly cost needs to be about 1/3 of your (net? gross?) income. so either housing costs need to come down or your income needs to go up.

We get screwed when we have no real leverage to increase income. You can grow it somewhat by job hopping, but even that has limits as you age. Even if you save and invest, divorce and medical bankruptcy will fuck you over.
The financialization of everything is why we can't have nice things.
> and entire companies springing up that are essentially just thin wrappers around chatGPT doesn’t help

instant frat-guy funding.. they have networks of insta-money. There is a cult in SF connected to Seattle..

meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of competent coders are looking for a work gig.. the price for skilled coders is dropping in almost all categories..