skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall" [0] is a good book on the origins of the Berlin Techno scene. It's based on interviews and discussions by the people originally setting up the whole thing, making it a pretty breezy read that you don't necessarily have to go through chronologically.

No city can really replicate the absurd situation Berlin was in after the second world war. The absolute oppressive atmosphere, with one day the whole city getting flipped upside down. Anyone being able to take over a building on the East side and throw a party there. When before you could end up in a cell overnight for playing a boombox too loud on the street. The original location for Tresor (club) was the literal translation of the German word: A big old safe in a bank. That you had to climb down a ladder to get to.

An unexpected connection of cities is between Berlin and Detroit: Underground Resistance (a group of Detroit born Techno producers) among many others playing gigs in Tresor going back to the early nineties.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Klang-Familie-Felix-Denk/dp/373860429...
There appeared to be different apps for different countries last I looked in the App Store
I personally find this incredibly hard to believe. The further you go down the path of learning an art (say painting, photography, or sculpting), the more you realize it's not just technique - it's a way of thinking, seeing, and organizing an image in a way that viewers can understand it.

AI images can copy "composition rules," but without an understanding of what the "artist" is trying to achieve, it can only guess. And the artist themself, if untrained in art, does not know what they are trying to achieve.

If you haven't read "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain," it may help to get across exactly what I mean. Most non-artists cannot pre-visualize the image they want to create, even if it's the scene directly in front of them.
I use:

html {font-size: 16px;}

...and then use ems throughout the rest of the CSS in increments of 0.0625 as "virtual pixels." This, in practice, keeps everything proportional, scaling properly if the user zooms. Only rarely do I run into floating-point quirks, but they're never a big deal.
At this point, it's almost impossible to tell propaganda from news. Maybe this is related to forcing the divestiture of tiktok, maybe it's something else.
Clicking start leads to "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)." apart from Safari, which serves me up a frozen game. Console errors complain about

"THREE.WebGLRenderer: A WebGL context could not be created. Reason: WebGL creation failed:
* tryNativeGL (FEATURE_FAILURE_CGL_FBO)
* Exhausted GL driver options. (FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBGL_EXHAUSTED_DRIVERS)"

Any tips? Are there magical flags that should be set somewhere?
yes. just used Cody to get me on the right path with an obscure postgresql JSON query, it easily saved me an hour of fiddling around.
Lectric, Lexus, and Culdesac: the evolution of the ebike space
The difference is no one needs to be covert about it. Just take a monolithic corporation and let them blast it 24/7.
I'm vaguely mad at the hypocrisy here. We (Americans) complain that other nations try to influence our elections: [0]. But simultaneously, we're trying to influence their elections / political process!

[0]: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2024/us-braces-for-for...
Also by size of company. Things change a lot at 50+. And rules about giving recently terminated employees the first shot if there was a layoff.
I don't think they are denying being able to do any of those things, it just often won't be in the same league. You aren't going to be producing linux, llvm, or unreal, but instead very specific projects which may be remarkable or just a toy, templeos, tinyc, 64k demos. Not ChatGPT, but maybe autocomplete or an inferior llm using the same methods. For the hardware example they gave, while 3nm might be inaccessible, you can fabricate at 180nm, 130nm and 90nm process nodes [0] [1]. Even chemistry and nuclear science isn't beyond the home tinkerers grasp, but as complexity rises, the ability to acquire, control and synthesize diminishes rapidly.

[0] https://developers.google.com/silicon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Silicon_Initiative
Where I live those fridges and the cash box would both be empty in a matter of hours.
I found the killer app for me with AVP: working. I have my screens in front of me while I'm in front a roller-standing desk with really nice passthrough being able to see my garden outside. Everything looks crisp and the music quality is excellent
It's stored by your bank but your credit card or account id is never transferred to the retailer by the payment processors instead what happens is that McDonalds get an unique transaction ID that only your card provider knows was generated by your card.
Coming from the ops side of the fence, who should be opposed to this, it's also often the only way things get done.

I've worked a couple places that had an unspoken Catch-22 mantra: "ye shall not invest resources in apps that are not business critical".

So the only way to build something new was to skunkworks it until something major depended on it and you could get resources to actually productionize it.

A smart ops team should have a semi-standard "skunkworks to production" pipeline.
The IAEA is in fact the only institution that I can trust from that list, Iraq 2003 made me trust them, but I'd leave anything WHO-related as politically-tainted (this recent pandemic has proved it) and, as I've said, anything directly related to Japan itself is tainted by definition when it comes to Fukushima.

The question now is how much of a say the IAEA had in that study, i.e. it they only rubber-stamped it with their approval or if the data came directly from them?
Yes, although I'll forgive them that for using the 'We' ratio unironically.
Boeing's problems could soon become your problem
In much of modern America - 's/are afraid to/can be bothered, and have the resources to/'.
Many retail chains I've gone to have the capability to look up your entire purchase history via a credit card, or to refund a purchase to the card that was used.

I don't know if they store the card details directly or if they store a hash, but they certainly have a way to tie your credit card to the video of your face leaving the store and (most likely) a video of your license plate as you drive away.

Sell that to a data broker (as they certainly do in the US) and someone could potentially purchase a history of what you bought anywhere and when.
In the US it seems there's still a decent appetite to connect to the history of the genre. Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills, etc. still tour regularly. In NYC, DJ Assault is currently holding a residency at Market Hotel. Nowadays has been running a series of "Foundations Nights" where they book a group of DJs representing the lineage of a particular style, which have been great. The Dweller festival has also been running for a few years which is a wonderful initiative (the name paying homage to Drexciya).

I agree that it's worth considering why Berlin has been chosen without acknowledgement to its roots (no shade to Berlin, I love that city and much of the music it has produced).

I enjoyed reading you essay. Coincidentally, U Street Music Hall was one of the venues that shaped my teenage years and served as my gateway into the electronic music scene.
That's not a puzzle, though. It's just testing whether we agree on what "elegant" means.
Spot on re: learning curve, it absolutely requires a test run or two before you'll get it right
I'm not a gamer, but I found shooter games in VR to be extremely cool for procrastination. I can play Contractors for hours.

Last winter I had limited opportunities to excercise, so I tried FitXR and it turned out to be insanely engaging. Reality can't give that level of engagement and multisensory feedback. I did boxing and HIIT daily, and while I don't like to sweat like crazy in my living room, that was extremely positive experience that helped me get through the winter.
I found the intro video pacing and music a little unpleasant. It's going a little fast too, slow down, I gotta absorb what's going on and how it's going to make my life easier!
> Watching movies in Vision Pro is great at first but most people will stop doing it after the initial novelty excitement wears off
Watching TV/movies in virtual reality seemed like such an incredibly compelling idea that we (the Oculus team at Meta/Facebook) built an entire product around that idea — Oculus Go. Launched in 2018, Oculus Go was the biggest product failure I’ve ever been associated with for the simple reason that it had extremely low retention despite strong partnerships with Netflix and YouTube. Most users who bought Oculus Go completely abandoned the headset after a few weeks.

You can't possibly extrapolate the movie watching retention rate from Oculus Go to Apple Vision Pro. That's like saying most people won't use ipod based on the data we collected from our walkman.
Pretty cool! Thank you for the link!
Yes, very much so.

Basically, it's not Americans, even, but a vanishingly small subset of Americans who want things _their_ way. People in the "beltway" as they say.

Even in other countries. We complain about Russia, Iran or China interfering not only in US elections but we complain when they interfere with our interference in other countries, like Ukraine, Burma or Lebanon, etc. It's not like they are good, but we could be honest about it.

As if we have more of a right to interfere than they do.
This is a good list.

One to add to the list is that IAM conditions[0] are extremely powerful but there's no good way to know which conditions to use in which scenario and troubleshooting is very difficult.

For instance if you look at the EC2 CreateNetworkInterface action[1] you'll see that there are three possible resources (network-interface (required), security-group (not required), subnet (required)) and each of those resources have several possible condition keys associated.

What's not obvious is which condition keys will be available in any given request. I've run the same CreateNetworkInterface request with the same parameters and IAM role twice in a row and by looking in the "encoded authorization message" that was returned with the failure in each case I found that in one case the resource was a security group while in the other case it was a subnet. Depending on the resource type different condition keys are available in the context. So if you want to allow CreateNetworkInterface but only if the ec2:SecurityGroupID is 'abc' it might or might not work.

An extra challenge is the encoded authorization message is truncated in CloudTrail so if you're using CloudFormation you don't actually get to see what the context was if a call fails. Then you have to find a way to make the same call CloudFormation made using an SDK so you can get the full text of the encoded authorization message.

There's no easy way to just say "try this API call with this role and tell me exactly what the context would be and what part of the IAM policy hits it if any"

0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_p...
1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/ref...
Intuitively, regex or json grammar have a much lower "semantic dimension" than what today LLMs allow. Maybe the observed performance gains result from such lower dimensionality.
First of all, you are showing me anecdotal evidence, it's great it's worked for you and others but the source you give me is a biased one already.

I've seen people who went from no-meat -> meat and back to no-meat, so it's your anecdotal experience versus mine.

Give me an authoritative source and then we can have a discussion about the science behind it, if not we are just stuck in this discussion that won't lead anywhere, I've just challenged your anecdote, I have not said it's not true for some people, I have not diminished your experience but it's your experience...

> There is something to it.

There might be but I don't want to live in a world where anecdotes count as authoritative source for anything, it's a signal, not a conclusion.

Again, I'm glad for your experience, just don't try to peddle it as enlightenment.

And lastly, there's no way for the whole world to be able to support to eat as much meat as you are proposing, it's simply not possible, so perhaps understanding what mechanism might be behind these anecdotes so the people who can benefit from it have access to their necessities rather than pushing it into as a general truth that won't be sustainable with current technology, it's a disservice to you and others in your situation to push meat-eating as a cure-all for everyone, it is not.
Are you under the impression web pages can access the Win32 API?
>...and everything you mention doesn't help shit for mitigation of spam because all spamming domains have SPF entries meanwhile, too.

It does help stop false attribution of spam mail, though; spammer@example.net can't pretend to be sending mail from example.org.

It does lose its effectiveness when huge mail domains (e.g. GMail) can pump out so much spam, though, or when domains share email hosts (and therefore different tenants will be sending from the same IP addresses - another reason why IPv4 exhaustion is bad, isolation would work better with IPv6).
For someone who lives in a very small apartment, my WFH setup takes an annoyingly large part of my living space. If I can build a comfortable work environment in VR/AR, I can get rid of my work desk entirely and keep a strong separation between work and my personal life (take headset off and put it + keyboard + mouse away in the closet => done with work). I get to even take it with me so I could work at any desk (in a hotel room, at my parents', etc.)

Even now, I'd love a solution to easily put up and teardown a monitor on my dinner table so I can get rid of my desk.
It's gone through so much reshuffling and clearly been kicked around internally between managers/PMs.

The earlier versions were much easier to use and the later ones can become quite a nightmare to setup navigating the oculus/meta/facebook account silliness then ultimately it all feels a lot jankier than very early versions of the software both in Rift and Quest respectively.

Think if Zuck believes in this going forwards it would be wise to focus on removing some of this platform bureaucracy friction, took me 15-20 minutes to get my Quest up and running and logged in after not using it for 18 months.
It's pretty amazing at generating rust structs from yaml examples, and also at writing generic versions of rust functions.

Neither of those tasks are especially _difficult_, but they are _annoying_.
I'm pretty sure there are other ways of putting gun powder resedue on someone.
Profit. The question at hand is whether LLMs can produce profit, which is an extremely different question than the questions you're asking.
I remember an app that was a calculator where you could pen-in your calculations, so it was called Ink-ulator.

They later changed the name profusely apologizing to Italian users.
As a copyright attorney, Leonard French will likely be popping a bottle of champagne over this.
What do you mean by "semantic dimension"?
Rich, literally headed Oculus at Meta, extremely relevant to his career and interests, spends many hours writing at least one article about the device. But no, can't justify the purchase. If this guy can't justify the purchase who can??
Ask HN: Rescuing Trove of Floppy disks from the 80s
Hey.

I have been reassembling my book library from storage and came across a large box of disks from the 80s I thought was long lost and gone. TRS-80 game Crocket & Tubbs can finally be released! As well as MBs of angst-filled essays about the corruption of capitalism. Hopefully my non-fiction work with Oreo cookies is in there as well.

My question for you all, what are the best practices for recovering the data. The media ranges from a dozen 8" disks, about 200 5 1/4s, and maybe 750 3.5" discuits.

What have you learned from doing this?

Are there better drives to seek out?

Is there a risk of only getting one shot at reading them, as with some magnetic tape?

Any format or organizational strategy for the target drive?

And, of course, any stories of great finds or losses attempting this kind of thing?

Thanks!
I think this speaks to an important factor which is that most of us have little awareness of our posture and typical sofa designs reflect this. We want sofas to 'collapse' on rather than to sit comfortably. I became aware of this from learning the Alexander Technique to deal with another issue.

One hack you can perform on most sofas is to add some height to the rear legs using castors or wooden blocks or something. This tilts it forward a bit. Sitting back or reclining is fine in a dentist's chair because there's head support but it's no good on a sofa! There our head and spines need to be balanced.

Anyhow -- quality of materials and design are both important but the fact is that average bodily awareness is poor and this is a fundamental reason why our furniture is worse than it needs to be!
You call it the "core business", but is it? Isn't McDonald's core business real estate?

https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burg...
Great. Can you get a job at KCRA?
always seemed to me like McKinsey just provided hired brains, ones more clever than any the client could attract on their own.
are they training Gemini with this puzzle ?
You don't need to ferment plants to digest them, we are pretty able to digest plants as seen by all the anecdotes of people living healthily on plant-based diets their whole lives.

It doesn't track that we are not able to live like that. A cat can't, a dog can't, humans can and do.
You need compare Hololens 2 against this
You can manage your Palworld server via ssh using the Palworld Assistant, whether your server is installed on a cloud service or within a virtual machine (as long as it can be accessed via ssh). Just click a button and wait for it to complete.
Is Google Analytics really illegal in the EU? Opinions seem to differ. https://www.hiondigital.com/en/blog/is-google-analytics-4-il...
> The public already has a way to disapprove a business: don't buy from it. If nobody buys what the business is selling, it goes out of business.

This “let the market decide” approach is clearly not working. It assumes that only the direct customers of a business are the stakeholders that matter, because they have the wallets to vote with. There are many, many companies that the general public do not buy things from yet suffer their harms. There are a lot of terrible businesses, large and small, that I don’t purchase from which I’d vote in a heartbeat to get rid of if I had the opportunity.
I train my LLM to barf up my domain specific boilerplate code. I don't ask it to solve business problems.
Yes, I am showing anecdotal evidence, and labelling it a such, what's wrong with it?
Also, 'Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight' is a good read. This is more generic, but has good discussions about the role of humans in the system, including whether the crew or the computers control the flight, and who has the best data (crew or mission control) and how these issues evolved during the early space race.
Simplest Guide to Creating Your Own LLM Toy in 2024
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When I was a kid in the 90s, I would excitedly rant to my dad about what a life-and-death issue cybersecurity was. He said "but the computer only does the accounting, nothing is connected to it - business can continue for a while without it."

Interesting how you can't even get a hamburger without being connected now. I'm not sure if I'm happy about having been right.
Creating stack traces is expensive.
Correct, they lose little.

Because those art models don't need one individual artist.

There are existing art models already out there, and new models aren't going to be stopped because one artist didn't license their art.
This is old Windows. On Win11:

Settings

Network and Internet

Choose either your wifi or Ethernet

Click Edit next to DNS Server Assignment
> I also believe that the lack of firearms in the hands of everyday citizens encourages violent criminals to see them as a viable and relatively effective means of coercion.

In this story, who gets to play the US and who gets to play the USSR? Cause I want to be on the side that outspends the other on firearms.

Unlike those wussy nations who don't have gun violence.
It's not unheard of for programming books to affect a wacky style. See:

http://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html

https://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction
>If we want to shorten the name of City of London, the short form is the City, not London

This seems almost obnoxiously confusing when talking online to people from all over the world.
> And lastly, there's no way for the whole world to be able to support to eat as much meat as you are proposing, it's simply not possible, so perhaps understanding what mechanism might be behind these anecdotes so the people who can benefit from it have access to their necessities rather than pushing it into as a general truth that won't be sustainable with current technology, it's a disservice to you and others in your situation to push meat-eating as a cure-all for everyone, it is not.

ok so now I the agenda is clear, I'm discussing health, nothing else, "don't speak truth that's inconvenient"
Re-Imagining Platform Engineering with AI, Part 1
And that's not explicitly stated.

Had the same "problem" too. I would expect better from an adtech/software firm.
Zagreb. Seriously?
Hi folks, we’ve started this series of blogs as a scratchpad to keep track of our journey on how to incorporate AI into Platform Engineering. Would love to hear your thoughts!
basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

One neuron doesn't think. Three neurons don't think. Billions of neurons think. Somewhere between one neuron and billions of neurons, thinking starts happening. Probably also true for neural networks. The main problem is that people throw around terms like: "Thought", "Intelligence", "Will", "Reasoning", "Knowledge", "Consciousness", etc like they are very well defined and well understood terms and they very much are not.
Where and what exactly?

I entered "dog" as search term and each and every item I clicked on, that had a Download option, worked fantastically well: https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?page=1&view=grid&query=do...

Taxpayer money well spent indeed!
Kind of a good analogy for Google in the 2020s, isn't it?
I signed up for Open.AI’s monthly subscription. Its performance on non-trivial tasks is abysmal. It’s a regurgitation machine. One might mischievously argue the average tech worker isn’t much better than an LLM, thus the interest? On a related note, we are deluged daily with firms offering AI services. I see a bubble.
For me it’s more like brainstorming.

Even if half of it is garbage it’s a net win. At least in domains where I can distinguish the two.

There are also cases where the cost of failure is very low. Eg
I could spend half an hour reading an api spec or I could make an AI give me a curl command and test it out in 30 seconds. If it works great if not oh well time to read spec