skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know this, and it blows a pretty big hole in arguing for WhatsApp as some kind of E2E paradise.
There were more peripherals to worry about, and fewer generic drivers.

It's not like people are trying to individually purchase PCI sound/ethernet/modem/graphics; they just get these components from the south bridge and they don't think about it at all. This makes things much easier, and gives a clear target for community notes/contributions.

I suspect that the reason he is describing this systems admin work as exhausting is because we've moved on. Personally, I only care about the thing I'm doing with the computer I happen to be sitting at, as opposed to computer itself.

Separately, power management is not a new detail: https://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pentiumII.pdf
The Pentium II processor supplies a STPCLK# pin to enable the processor to enter a low power state. When STPCLK# is asserted, the processor puts itself into the Stop-Grant state. The processor continues to snoop bus transactions while in Stop-Grant state. When STPCLK# is deasserted, the processor restarts its internal clock to all units and resumes execution. The assertion of STPCLK# has no effect on the bus clock.
Fair enough point.
The real problem is setting "hard but not so hard as to be impossible" goals at any level is really more of an art than a science. If leadership has a strong vision and their finger on the pulse - OKRs will work great, as will any other framework (eg. simply sending an email to everyone stating that the goal is X by Y date). If nobody has any clue what they're trying to accomplish and no shared vision - following the OKR method won't save you.
It is exactly embrace, extend, extinguish.
Right. However, traditional pre-WWII greaseproof paper didn't contain them (as that was before organo-fluorine chemistry was commonplace), and it worked pretty well. Why not simply revert to that?

It may not be as efficient as paper laced with PFAS but it would certainly be good enough.
No one needs more than… 8gb of ram.
Can someone explain the leading and lagging indicator in this paragraph?

> OKRs, given they typically focus on change are usually leading indicators focused on shorter time windows and KPIs, which represent the health of what the organisation seeks to sustain, are usually lagging indicators focused on longer timeframes.
The complaint was that a Spotify subscription is more expensive due to Apple taking a 30% cut. Which they don’t do, because Spotify elected to not use IAP at all. I don’t understand this complaint either, since it’s fictional.
Nerd here who started on MS-DOS and later spent nearly a decade running Linux on a laptop as my main computing device. Gentoo, for about half that time. Various other stuff in between, developed software targeting probably a seven or eight different operating systems and/or platforms, et c., et c. I've got a reasonable amount of computer-dork cred, is the point, though around these parts, nothing all that remarkable.

Very nearly every halfway serious computer-involved activity I do these days (=last seven or eight years) that matters in my actual, real life takes place on my phone, including approximately all banking. All the other computers—even the "real" ones—in my life are basically toys. 90% of my real-life important or meaningful stuff I do with computers happens on my phone, 9% on a tablet, and at-most 1% on everything else.

(in my personal life, I mean—unfortunately I still have to try to use "real" computers to accomplish allegedly-important things at work)
I wonder how much of this heat pump argument was miscommunication. My personal experience is that heat pumps don't work worth a damn in below-freezing weather, and always need to resort to resistance ("emergency") heating, which is extremely inefficient and expensive. Of course, my experience is with frequently decades-old units, or at best whatever cheap-o unit the landlord bought, not the very latest state-of-the-art system from the best manufacturer.

The other thing I've found with heat pumps is that, even when they are "heating" the air, it feels cold. The problem is they're efficiently heating the air only by a few degrees and blowing it around, but when slightly warmer-than-ambient air blows in your face, it feels cold. Gas-fired furnaces don't do this: they heat the air much, much more than ambient temperature, so it actually feels quite warm when blown in your face. (The problem here is frequently poor placement of vents, but this is common with homes and also offices.)
This is incredible, thank you for sharing
That may well be what the law currently says, but if so, the law is wrong and needs to be changed.
But, if you had a good non-winmodem (external or more expensive internals), it was very easy to get working. Same as now... some peripherals are better supported than others. The more standard, the better. And this is true regardless of the OS.
If i want to buy a smartphone that can talk to satellites, which 5G band do i need?
WebAssembly Language Support Matrix
I haven't tried vscode forwarding. What features does it have that are missing from most of the options on the list[0]?

If you want a nice GUI for remote managing maybe check out one of my tools, boringproxy

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Could you not participate in the auction?
Pretty much. Last time I was there it was a lot of personal posts about family member's birthdays, childhood pictures, pets, etc. All of which seem better suited for Facebook, not a public forum for a world full of anonymous strangers.
If you think your media is biased, you should see the kind of bias that comes from media funded only by unregulated capital markets.
> ... server source code contains a feature ... I would only use the self-hosted version.

You shouldn't assume that a server which is ostensibly running code you can see is actually running that code without modifications.

That said, there is a difference between someone claiming (explicitly or implicitly) that they're not doing something, versus not making a claim, versus admitting they are doing it.
Yeah. But because it’s not explicitly illegal it is a very easy rejection from the employer. A chronic illness is zero upside and only downside from the employers perspective, so if they aren’t legally obligated to ignore it it’s a very easy no from their perspective. So as the candidate there is basically no reason to ever share that information up front because all it will do is get you basically instantly rejected
Have you tried running Linux natively on a secureboot Surface?

If you are running Linux in a vm, both are fine.

Most people want battery life, and if someone can afford to get either of these devices, they would be better off renting their heavy compute somewhere else.
One of the stranger behaviours for me is that R allows you to combine infix operators with assignments, even thou there are no implemented instances of it in R itself. For example:

`%in%<-` <- function(x, y, value) { x[x %in% y] <- value; x}

x <- c("a", "b", "c", "d")
x %in% c("a", "c") <- "o"
x
[1] "o" "b" "o" "d"

Or slightly crazier:

`<-<-` <- function(x, y, value) paste0(y, "_", value)

"a" -> x <- "b"
x
[1] "a_b"

We with Antoine Fabri created a package that uses this behaviour for some clever replacement operators [1], but beyond that I don't see where this could be useful in real practice.

[1]: https://github.com/moodymudskipper/inops
if it's good for blackhat hackers, it's gonna get banned or censored. it's a fairly consistent litmus test.
Not sure what country you're in but in the US at least ISP options are rather limited in any given area. The two widest reaching (geographically) options, cell and Starlink, both use CGNAT as far as I know. Plus they're more limited in data usage.
Other anecdote, I cycle-toured for a year camping in all kind of uncomfortable places, and my Surface Pro 7 survived. The screen is cracked in a million places from getting smashed around with all my other kit, but it still works. The Type Cover is a bit crap, though. After going through one of them while on the road (PowerToys Keyboard Manager is your friend) now I've been living in an apartment with a roof and everything, and another one died from what I can only assume to be humidity. I gave up and switched to a cheap bluetooth keyboard instead, which kinda feels more cool and futuristic anyway.
Timeline:

ChatGPT had ai.com

X.ai had ai.com

Now Gemini has ai.com
> And it slowly snowballed to the point where reddit is now the place to get genuine human text content on any topic.

That's what was interesting about the CEO's statement about their IPO, talking about how the future of Reddit is AI. Umm... I think what makes reddit great is you can actual get genuine humans discussing things they are passionate about. AI generated text seems like the opposite of this.
> Which iPad owner ever thinks "oh I wish my iPad were even less capable"?

Me, kinda. I've disliked most of the moves to make it more like a general purpose computing platform and less like a slab of glass that becomes different tools (but mostly one at a time!). I have other options for that other crap, the iPad was (still is... barely) a distinct different category that I liked also having. iOS 6 is peak-iOS to me.
Great achievement, congratulations!

This reminds me of flying saucer, a CSS render written in pure Java. Successfully used it in multiple projects for rendering PDFs in the past. It has some great features to handle paged media. For example, it can repeat table headers on a new page, if there is a page-break within the table.

Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't get much active development anymore.

https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
Not to cast doubt on your friend's story, I worked on both the SQL Server team and later on the Windows kernel team in the early 2000s (the bad years). I came from "outside" meaning I had already had a career at non-Microsoft-related companies (mostly startups using linux on the server). I was continually shocked at how _little_ the MSFT employees seemed to know about the industry, or how their customers used their own products.

As an example, this was the era of the J2EE App Server. Almost none of the people I worked with knew what an App Server was, despite the #1 database in use by App Server customers being MSFT SQL Server.
I’m not an OKR advocate, but I can’t help but point out that this is exactly the framework that OKRs provide.
Old versions of Reddit (in Python IIRC) were open source. They just stopped updating it.
Apple charges $200 more for 8GB to 16GB RAM.
The new surface laptop is charging $300 to go from 8GB to 16GB :)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/Surface-Lapt...
I don't understand why there is so much variance on AGI timelines
I am quite puzzled by this. I am just a junior software engineer so forgive me for not understanding the full scope of AI or software engineering as a whole. But lately, with all the hype about Q* and a few AI experts claiming that programmers will be out of a job soon, I just find it remarkable that there are so many variances/differences in people's opinions on the capabilities of these models.

A lot of the models are open-source now. I have watched software engineering YouTubers like the primeagen talk about a lot of the current state of the models not being good enough (I have tried them myself and they are terrible).

On the other hand, there are people like Ilya or David Shapiro (on YouTube) who claim that AGI is a couple of months away and will automate most of the software engineering.

This is not a thread on whether software engineering is gonna be rendered obsolete. I just don't understand why experts cannot come to a concrete realization quicker given the amount of money are pumping into this industry right now, and the number of open-source models we have.
Video: Unitree H1 is first humanoid to nail a backflip without hydraulics
> EDIT: And to be perfectly clear: I am not against cities building themselves toward car-freeness. I support citydwellers making their cities bikeable and walkable! I just don’t want to live there.

Are you willing to pay to account for the externalities that your preferences create? If so, I'm all for it, but let's be real: most folks aren't.
This is true. You can get a similar effect by asking the model to plan its path first without writing any code, then asking it to review its plan for deficiencies, and finally asking it to enact the plan and write the code.
I use a 4K 43" Samsung TV as a monitor.

I can just get the whole width in my lateral field of vision, but I really need to move my head slightly to gain sharp visual focus all over the screen.

Wit a vertical 'resolution' of 2160, it gives me lots of lines of text.
I found this in an HN comment https://metadatafixer.com/ I haven't used it but it looks pretty promising
To be clear, I am fine delaying my personal use of E2EE for several years as the GSMA and Apple work together on adding it to the spec.

If you are a political dissident or in a vulnerable position, I don't know your situation and my advice may not apply.

In the meantime, my texts have been unencrypted since I've owned my first phone. If continuing the status quo for 2-4 more years means that Meta does not become even more entrenched and powerful, so be it.

My emphasis on "international protocols" was to highlight how big an advantage that is when we're seeing countries including the US building up their own Great Firewalls and tightening export controls. If WhatsApp came from China we might be talking about banning that instead of (or in addition to) TikTok right now. Regardless of the merits, that's just the direction countries are moving in now.

It's a bit harder to just ban SMS. You can try, but it's a hell of a lot harder and there's going to be more holes to drive vulnerabilities through.
Last I checked it was mostly solar-powered too. That's pipe-dream stuff.
Gandalf Network
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The Controlled Detonation of My Anonymity
I had a similar situation at the apartment I used to rent. Unfortunately they didn't care to correct it, so I removed the battery from my lock and only used the physical key.

My fob copy still works there last I checked...
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Um no, if the powers that be who control the LTE and 5G (and soon 6G) standards would improve or replace MMS, apple would be forced to improve their ability to send images/videos because they must comply with the standards to have their phone allowed on the carrier networks.

This is a dumb complaint honestly. The carriers and Qualcomm closely control the standards bodies and could address this problem. Instead they focused on the bag-of-garbage that is RCS, which Apple has finally said they will support. But because RCS is a bag-of-garbage, Apple plans to support a different flavor (the basic standard) from Google's. $0.50 says Google will magically start supporting the basic standard too once Apple ships it.
I'd rather one of the many open source alternatives to that ecosystem.
It's worth noting that if Tunnelmole becomes popular enough, you will also likely end up with people using it for phishing attacks, and your users will start getting phishing warnings. I recommend getting tunnelmole.net added to the Public Suffix List[0] which may help with this.

IMO it's not worth running a free tunneling service.

[0]: https://publicsuffix.org/

EDIT: I see in another thread that you've already gotten hit with phishing. I have some follow up questions I'll ask in that thread.
This is untrue, the US carriers had a "cross-carrier" consortium that had built most of its own RCS stack, complete with animating dots when the other party was typing, and good image and video support. But Samsung refused to use it (not sure if Google was bribing them in the background) so it got killed in favor of supporting Google's flavor of RCS.
I don't know about every company, those that I have seen focused too much on the "R" of OKRs.
What about latest sci-fi show 3 Body Problem? The year is 2024 in it.
The shared secret is that fraternizing with colleagues after work is forbidden but people do it anyway.
Brush & floss your teeth. Eat healthy. Sleep enough. Exercise.
This. By far the worst part of Surface is 3D. Each time they show the improvements in the latest Intel range I get excited and hope finally I can just impulse buy a new game, but even if in theory the chip could handle it, the industry gives the middle finger to anything not AMD or Nvidia, to the point some recent games just refuse to start up at all.

Now I check https://old.reddit.com/r/SurfaceGaming/ before buying anything, and the results are always disappointing. I don't know whether to blame the game developers or Intel, because there are games that run perfectly fine in reduced quality, but it's such a crapshoot.
Advancing the new era of work with Copilot
more info: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3255603/chin...
uxn is awesome, and the implementations I have looked at seem to be MIT licensed.
prospect

Something expected; a possibility

Chances.

Financial expectations, especially of success.

I'm confused what is objectifying about that. You think the term 'marriage prospect' is objectifying?
Short domains change many hands over the years. Only the companies with deep pockets can afford them, us lowly plebs can't afford them.
I used GMT for map making in my dissertation in 2008-2009. It was fascinating to be able to make great-looking maps with reliefs, shades and legends using publicly available terrain and border data.
I know what the X-Forwarded-For is, but I'm confused by what you mean here. Can you go into a bit more detail as to what you implemented and how it prevents phishing?
This was before that, early to mid 90's era
is there something actually AI related hardware wise or is everyone just jumping on the buzzword train to sell their PCs nowadays?
I mean he explicitly said go elsewhere for dates... So no the women in that class are not there for dates. That's literally what he said to avoid.
You know all the incredible inventions that came out of Bell Labs (eg the telephone, the transistor, the C programming language)?

Yup, all those happened when they were an uber-monopoly and had the resources and breathing space to fund such bets!
You can definitely tell who has and has not done some for of tech support sort of job interacting with the general public, in these kinds of discussions. "But the user would NEVER do..." oh my god, not only would they, they would in large numbers, it wouldn't even be some super-rare occurrence. Nobody who's done that kind of work would type those words in that order.

I was in such a role in the exact time period you're writing about. At the time, most computer users were still at least kinda enthusiasts, if not particularly well-educated on their new toy. It's no accident that ordinary people got seriously interested using computers for important things in their lives when smartphones came around, and especially the iPhone—phones are like computers that are 80% less rage-inducing utter shit, as far as normal folks are concerned. "Real" computers are horrible for a majority of people. Notoriously horrible, like, listen to people talk about how they interact with "real" computers and their attitudes toward them; they don't trust them at all and often hate them, to them they're like expensive bulky frustration-machines that barely make any sense, don't do very much (the pieces of crap can't even replace a pocket camera, what a joke), and break entirely at random and frequently.
Yeah they covet those three letter 'OG' usernames. To be safe, turn on 2FA.
Lenovo Thinkpad X12 is also a good option of "work" Tablet. A refresh is coming. Having been using it for SolidWorks, Altium, C development for a few years now.
>I haven't yet seen an organization that benefited from OKRs.

Same. But, I think it's a symptom of a bigger problem: lack of coherent strategy. And, I think a lot of companies suffer from this.

So OKRs frequently act as a suboptimal stand-in for strategy. This, instead of flowing from sound strategy and concrete tactics.

I'm not sure how well they'd work even if that was in place. But, without it, they don't stand a chance.
looks delicious. just bought one. Mac binary is not signed, is it intentional? (I'm fine w it not signed but just ask
A leading indicator predicts something about the future, e.g. an OKR of cutting spend predicts that you will indeed cut spend. When you set a new OKR it will take a while before it shows results—it leafs ahead of them.

A lagging indicator is the result of something that took place in the past; 99.99% uptime over the last year indicates you probably had some good practices in place (redundancy etc). If those practices were to change, it would take some time for the kpi to actually change—it lags behind.
Relicensing and Rug Pulls
That's more a commentary on the inefficiency of Teams rather than software in general. Slack and discord both open pretty much instantaneously, and rarely show up in the top 10 resource consumers on my laptop.
Quite right. I have a longstanding interest in Japanese Budo and hence count myself as somewhat knowledgeable on certain ancient aspects of that culture. There is always a tendency by westerners to read/invent more than what is in the culture itself. And then the charlatans/hucksters/shysters (both japanese and non-japanese) get on the act and ruin everything.

This "Ikigai" hype reminds me of the earlier hype about "Naikan Therapy", "Morita Therapy" etc.
Because its stupid and annoying
The Indian startup I work for (mentioning Indian because the higher-ups are Indian and it may be related to their culture - I don't know as we're based in the UK and the higher-ups are nice people I think) used to do this. Was asked to record Zoom meetings I had with a junior colleague for some reason (we were discussing implementation work). I think it's a more relaxed/trusted environment for them now.
Yep, and fireside chats with Carter wearing a cardigan sweater next to a fireplace.
US lockpicking enthusiasts tend to know their states' laws (see e.g. https://www.toool.us/lockpicking-laws.php)

In general it's probably okay to bring your picks somewhere in most parts of the country if you're a hobbyist.

In general it's a bad idea to carry picks if you're doing anything that a prosecutor could construe as breaking into a building to steal things. This is an area to be particularly aware of for urban exploration, where trespassing is bad but burglary with burglarious tools is like felony bad.
This might help: https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ - section 4 has handy links to find projects
Leading is an imperfect predictor for the change we actually care about. Lagging is a late confirmer.

Hours worked is an imperfect predictor of output in a factory. Widgets delivered is a late confirmer. Leading and lagging indicators for productivity.
Surface Pro 4 had broken OpenGL driver. Every software that requires OpenGL (basically all CAD software) crashes on it. Microsoft has all the incentive to cripple OpenGL. A generic Intel graphic driver cannot even be installed on surface. You have to use the Microsoft supplied one. Never bought a single surface again.
https://archive.is/2024.03.21-151103/https://www.chronicle.c...
Pinboard was a clone with a different business model: users actually paid for it.

Fast forward, and delicious died, only to be acquired by — you guessed it — Pinboard [1]. Because Pinboard was actually serving its paying customers, it just kept trucking along.

[1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
lol. true. I was wondering the same.