skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical economist.com view on the world: "This could have been a problem for the world's wealthy!!!"

Not that they would ever agreee to any kind of shared support for the free s/w projects that today's internet depends on, because... Elon needs more.

Also, I would argue, a good reasson not to be an update apostle.

Disable automatic updates, update when you need an updated version of something, or a new vuln directly affects your usage model, not just because an update is available...
There's a difference between "smart" TVs and TVs that make money from advertising, though.
#irony
non-paywall: https://archive.is/CbRJT
(2011)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728809
But they’re also legally speaking “people” (persons) just to add insult to injury.
At this point I would pay good money for Apple to make a television.
The climate impact of mining (for commodities other than fossil fuels) isn't trivial, but it's not a big deal in the greater scheme of things.

About 4-7% of global emissions are from mining (which doesn't include petroleum extraction), but the vast majority of that is fugitive methane emissions from coal mining. Excluding that, only 1% of global emissions are from mining [1].

Most of those emissions are from operating mining machinery, and these are addressable in the same way that emissions in other sectors are addressable - electrifying machinery, using zero emission sources for that electricity.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-ins...
Just to be clear, thats "less than 0.4%" of their global employee count which importantly includes retail workers at stores across the globe. The 161K is global "full time equivalent" headcount, not SF Bay Area or corporate employee count.

It's newsworthy only in that Apple avoided mass layoffs while their peers slashed headcount aggressively. But the affect should probably have guessed it was coming - it seems a lot of the employees affected have "car" related skills - eg. mechanists, and famously their car program was recently shut down.
Richard Branson's Cruise Line Launches Month-Long Cruise for Remote Workers
Run this on your personal internet connection, risk not being able to use a search engine.
In Minkowski spacetime, time is definitely special, the metric signature for it is reversed compared to the spatial dimensions.
> could have made the same argument about China, India, or South Korea in the 1960s

China, sure. They rapidly course corrected. India and Korea didn't have prominent anti-intellectual movements.

> Arab world was basically in a state of managed chaos from the mid-19th century to present due to colonialism

It would be fair to characterise the region that way going back to the Bronze Age.

> it's not Islam related based on Turkey and Malaysia's relatively decent R&D capacity

The article seems to go out of its way to restrict its arguments to the Arabic world, not Islam in general. (Its arguments are also strongest in the pre-modern world, proximate to Islam's Golden Age.)
I cringe every time I read this take. This guy is a craftsman, worthy of respect. Hundreds of years ago he'd be making watches or heirlooms or massive bridges and churches. To basically turn him into a parody of a man, like some kind of character in a marvel movie, is gross to me.

Calling him a 'nerd' is somewhat dismissive and disrespectful. Call him what he is - a professional.
Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage
I fell out of love with academia
Why are you being downvoted? Could you expand on this? Japan fought Catholic influence and traded with Portugal. Seems like there could be a good theory behind this point.
So, there’s no better way.
You can hold up fluorescent tubes under high voltage power lines and they will light up.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fluorescent+tubes+power+lines&iar=...

I've always wondered why drones didn't just come with qi charger landing pads.
Beginners," Edited: The transformation of a Raymond Carver classic (2007)
I've definitely seen a few "pouring rainstorms" this year where I'm at in the PNW. If you live in the Seattle area you're actually in the rain shadow of the Olympics, but when you get to about Mountlake Terrace to just south of Everett you're in a convergence zone and get all the weather that diverted around the northern half of the Olympics, so you can get a crazy amount of water there. I've also seen a LOT of rain just touring the Olympic coast(The Hoh rainforest is the wettest forest in the US), and also out on the San Juan islands and in the Bellingham area.

I've also been day hiking after work and gotten more than a few heavy rains. One of which almost gave me hypothermia because it snuck up on me while I was in the woods on top of something during one of those drizzles you're referring to.
Architect a redundant cluster and let a peer server take over as master?
> And a case could be made that the early (first generation) church was already pretty controlling and harsh. Take for instance the story of Ananais and Sapphira. It describes an incident in a church community led by Peter (the apostle), where the people practiced total communal ownership, and penalties for breaking the rules (or lying about breaking the rules, depending on your reading) were punished with summary execution.

Read literally, no execution is described in the story in question (Acts 5:1-11), just two people who both spontaneously drop dead. Peter is said to have explicitly (and immediately before it occurred) predict the second, but no one is described as taking any act to cause either of the deaths, the first of which is implicitly from guilt, the second could be argued as either from that or knowledge of the first.
...since then they will send you back a scan of a printed-out copy of said PDF in which they scribbled their comments and modifications with pen and marker?
Related, from yesterday:

How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways (206 votes, 546 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928913
> birth rates of migrants with low iqs

Do you have a source for this? If you're arguing for a genetic determination of IQ, it's odd to be making that in the comment thread of an article about why the Islamic Golden Age ended.
Democracy: Rule of the Mob. Pretty sure the above sentiment is why the US is a republic...
JavaScript native RPC added to Cloudflare workers
Did he specify the year? (Or, perhaps, decade?)
This is the funniest thing I saw this week. The idea that such a teensy drone could travel continental distances by hanging like a bat and recharge between runs. Sure solar gliders may keep aloft indefinitely too. But this one steals its juice!
When I began reading this I thought it would end in people hooking kiosks full of cash to the back of their pickup trucks and screeching away.
That is just the current instrument market. It hates most things that look new and super polished.

Also the classical world is super biased in their ways when it comes to equipment
So what? Did the lack of immediate notification impact anything?
Prototypes mean nothing.

I've tried to explain prototypes, draft/paper versions. People just nod and wonder why they can't use it yet. They live in their bubble and you live in yours

To be honest if you made 10 prototypes it just looks like you can't finish anything. Not that you're a genius problem solver.

Make something that barely works and then hand it over to them and don't look back. Ship it.
By not allowing me to run the full gamut of emulators - on the hardware I own - Apple is depriving me of my rights as an EU citizen.
> Why are you being downvoted? Could you expand on this?

Why were the Portuguese, a technologically inferior civilisation at the time of the Islamic Golden Age, able to take anything from them?

Going from the 9th century to 19th would be analogous to someone time travelling forward a millenium to find a world in which Haiti is the world's superpower. Like, cool. But what happened? How did that inversion take place?
By being generic and customizable it will have the potential to become a great new game in its own right. Let the community begin with something they already know and love (MtG) and watch them coming up with cool new stuff.
Is 'deep-sea mining' a euphemism for 'releasing methane hydrates'? Because that amounts to, releasing sequestered carbon with a potential to exceed the world's oil supplies by 6X. And a lot of it will be incidental methane, which is worse than simple CO2 by some multiple?
Roughly 15 years ago I worked for a large media company that was thinking about moving into the smart energy meter business.

I was late to join the team, but when I did, they'd already bought and branded thousands of meters that were boxed and ready to go in a nearby warehouse. The team had already built a number of APIs exposing controls for these meters as well as various monitoring and reporting interfaces. A UI already existed but it had issues, my job was to come in and fix that and get us ready for release.

We worked hard for a couple of months and whipped this thing into shape. Meanwhile a multi million budget was lined up for the marketing launch. Adverts where drafted, installation technicians where trained and merchandising was branded. All systems go.

It all drove towards a set in stone deadline and we busted our guts to get there... When the day arrived, there we sat. Ready. All features built, no bugs that we knew of. Ready to hit the 'go live' button. Honestly in 30 years working in the industry, that was the only time I think I've ever been in that situation.

Our product owner walks into the room and says, "erm, there's a couple of issues we need to discuss at board level. Hold tight guys I'll be back".

So we sit...

Two days later he returns, "erm, guys... the board aren't sure that this product is on brand. And they are concerned that if it fails it could be bad for reputation. So, we're not launching."

So we sat... for a month... working down our contracts whilst I taught myself Node.js
YMMV of course but Jellyfin supports manual tagging well enough for my uses. No need to change filenames and break folder structures you set up for easier navigation in file browsers (as I did), you can click the "Identify" option on a file/folder and search your enabled databases by title or IMDB number. Once you tell it what TV show a folder is for, all the episodes seem to get automagically recognized. It's just that first step that doesn't happen by itself when the folders aren't named "correctly", and you could probably get around it by using Tiny Media Manager to mass-write NFO files (which Jellyfin recognizes).
That really falls into "3) need to log some local context" which could be parameters, state, etc.

But generally, for the user, I posit that it should still be handled at the highest level of granularity and the message returned to the user on an error should be similarly high level.
In case anyone was curious, the 2011 Virginia earthquake was magnitude 5.8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
If you ran an RCT where you could directly make people to be male and then see what happened to them, you wouldn't need any further modelling to distinguish between which is causing which. The reason you need the model is if you can't randomize.
2 Kings 9:30-33

> And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

TIL Gaunt Belter may have been channeling a biblical reference with "Blood's on the wall, beratnas!"
Turkey, a relatively new country that is the successor of the Ottoman empire, was founded with secularism in mind. You can learn more about that by reading about the Ataturk reforms.

And the rest of the reply is just as equally uninformed.
The application is for drones doing work in the field and needed to recharge on that basis, it's actually a very good solution for coverage of a large, possible remote, area. The alternative is a large number of charging locations which is very expensive.

There's no need for alternate charging or parking in weather. Besides merely going into a hibernating state with a radio beacon and light in emergencies, recovery could be via a vehicle positioned in an optimal location relative to the drones where they can all converge and be collected. In the case of charging limitations you could execute more than one convergence location.

Also the drones could be used to remove failed drones stuck on lines.

Nope, this is fully clever.
Of course there are a lot of sources but after 3 minutes the comment got already flagged.

It's pointless to put energy into this discussion if people don't want to face the truth.
We have a direct comparison on the desktop be it Windows or macOS and it is definitely harder to sell software there.

The App Store and Play Store buying software a lot easier and increased the size of the market. Similar to Steam for PC games. But I also think that Apple should probably give developers better conditions.

As a customer of Apple I selfishly prefer Apple continuing to extract service revenue from developers. Because their shareholders expect growth and that has to come somewhere and I don’t want to pay for it.
Different but similar. I once wrote a trivial lotto number selector app, at the request of some colleagues. It just emitted a few unique random numbers. Silly but why not.

They hated it.

I added moderate, random delays before emitting each number. They loved it, and used it every week for quite some time :)
> Our team regularly faced the need to create almost identical charts, so when we had 14 identical microservices in one project

Has it come across your mind that helm charts may not be the right abstraction for your team?
> Picture a possessive ex peeping through your window with binoculars. Following you everywhere you go. Wiretapping your house.

Except they don't need to do that. I can individually set up an app and spy on users and then aggregate that with other apps and buy and sell the data. That's the problem.

Put the other way: if a corporation hired a private eye to follow you everywehere and physically peep through your windows with binoculars, there would be backlash.
Been running thieves the default on all my devices for the past year and I couldn't be happier. Have only had it choke twice and it just needed to be updated to be back in business.
Your IP address will get burned
Yes with loans that cannot be written off in bankruptcy, the lenders don't need to do due diligence and are incentivized to loan out as much money as possible. More money causes tuition to go up.
Field Resonance Propulsion Concept (1979) [pdf]
I was churning out prototypes, tools and complete in-house solutions for years. Worked as a main tech guy in a “fast-moving” company with ideas mostly related to let’s say less lit parts of the economy and strange tech involved. Having 4-6 projects per year that “we” could bury in few weeks for non-technical reasons was a norm. Sometimes I spent weekends to create something mvp very fast “to test the idea”, which then was left dormant for another week and/or abandoned due to new findings.

This was demotivating af. I wished I could go back 10-15 years into my consulting days when I helped real people to do understandable, healthy things.
I was in DC for the 2011 earthquake. We don’t get them here. When it was happening I had assumed a plane or something had hit the building.

If you are manhatten, I suspect the tremor is probably not dissimilar to the vibrations felt when the Towers fell.

So knowing it’s a natural earthquake and not… something worse… is useful when something worse has already happened in recent memory.
Jellyfin is compatible with the Infuse media player on Apple TV. I don't have one but have used it on other Apple things and love it, it's actually a bigger issue with Windows because I haven't found anything nearly as good on Windows as Infuse is on Mac.
> they’re also legally speaking “people” (persons) just to add insult to injury

Yes, collective rights exist.
I’m dead serious: a lot of navigation instruments and maths that enabled the Portuguese discoveries were learned from the Arabs next door.

Why I’m being downvoted, I would risk it’s because HN can’t handle the tiniest bit of tongue in cheek…
That doesn't really help unless you bundle the game code inside the app executable. Otherwise you still need a JIT entitlement in order to map code as executable.
Virtually all public search engine endpoints see an insane amount of bot activity, often several queries per second.

If you delegate queries to e.g. google or bing at that rate, you'll be ip blocked in a heartbeat.
> Of course there are a lot of sources but after 3 minutes the comment got already flagged

Lots of sources you can't produce. Got it.
It is a metasearch engine. So it uses other search engines. The point is to let multiple use it, so that Google et al. does not know who's using their service. Ie. it is a gloried proxy.

Honestly, I just use Kagi. Though I need to find some way to limit my searches to 300 per month.
> Calling him a 'nerd' is somewhat dismissive and disrespectful.

You must have missed that in the 2010s being a nerd became cool. It's not a derogatory term with the younger generations, it's a term of endearment and respect, an identity that is owned and aspired to.
So cliché. I dig the implied respect but it almost reads like a parody of respect.
Shaped 10g C4 charges
After observing who dates who for decades, I have concluded that seeing a black woman in a relationship with an asian man is far more unlikely than a white woman with an asian man.

It is so unlikely that people don’t even think of it to bring the example of AI bias, because people would just say the AI reflects what the statistics it actually sees.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/04/a-chilling-near...

> ... Other fixes are regulatory. America’s cyber strategy, published last year, makes clear that the responsibility for failures should lie not with open-source developers but “the stakeholders most capable of taking action to prevent bad outcomes”. In practice that means governments and tech giants, both of which benefit enormously from free software libraries. Both should expand funding for and co-operation with non-profit institutions, like the Open Source Initiative and the Linux Foundation, which support the open-source ecosystem. The New Responsibility Foundation, a German think-tank, suggests that governments might, for example, allow employees to contribute to open-source software in their spare time and ease laws that criminalise “white hat” or ethical hacking.
This is so painful. Kindle still after all these years cannot select a single word without a comma. So, dictionary does not work.
Such simple thing could be fixed, but you did all this bullshit work instead.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240404113916if_/https://fortun...
> But what is the value that they can derive from user data?

What, are the pictures and videos of people from the global south somehow not good enough to train AI due to their economic situation?
It seems like it will be the apocryphal take-away given just how frequently the "500ms longer" detail is mentioned. Apocryphal because:

> I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc. Profiled sshd, showing lots of cpu time in liblzma, with perf unable to attribute it to a symbol. Got suspicious.

from: https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180406142695845
Can’t wait for the inevitable book on this topic a few years from now, or at least a Darknet Diaries episode before that.

I do wonder when they’ll settle on a likely culprit. A few hours ahead of GMT and doesn’t work on Eastern European holidays? There’s probably more work to be done, but just going by the commit history, surely there’s a way to make a more granular assumption, because not all of those countries share all of the same holidays…
Agenda 10M sustainable digital jobs for Africa
Gideon Lamptey's Satetra Technologies Ltd's ongoing Agenda 10 million sustainable Digital Jobs for Africa trains 10 selected Youth for Ablekuma West Constituency for free as part of its effort to create digital jobs and reduce Youth unemployment in Ghana (Africa).
If you're referring to the ink scape / gimp comment, that's because it's not realistic to expect that of your graphic designers / artists. The FOSS editors lack many critical features these professionals want. Even if they don't need those features, you'll be hurting their career by making them learn a whole new program that won't be a transferable skill outside of this job. Imagine your job decided to use an old IBM mainframe, and made you learn PL/I and z/OS. It's not like LibreOffice to Office, which are nearly drop in replacements for most people.
> prominent anti-intellectual movements

Parts of India did.

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India's two poorest states today used to have relatively decent British built universities (Lucknow University, Allahabad University, Patna University) that stood toe-to-tow with top universities like Delhi University, Calcutta University, Osmania University, Panjab University etc.

But in the 1960s-70s, Ram Manohar Lohia [0] lead an anti-intellectual, pro-Hindi and anti-English [1],and anti-rich movement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar that lead to the rise of Lalu Prasad Yadav (Bihar) and Mulayam Singh Yadav (UP), both of whom were directly influenced and in some cases mentored by Lohia.

It was under those two CMs that Uttar Pradesh and Bihar began falling behind the rest of India in the 1980s-2000s period.

With Korea, I guess we can point to Juche but then again I said South Korea, and not North, though university purges were very common during the democracy movement of the 70s and 80s leading to events like the Gwangju Uprising.

> It would be fair to characterise the region that way going back to the Bronze Age

I mean you can characterize any region like that. For example, arguing that China was basically in a century long civil war from 1850-1950, along with the multiple other chaotic periods in between dynasties. For example, China didn't even catch up to Iraq's developmental indicators until the 2000s

> The article seems to go out of its way to restrict its arguments to the Arabic world, not Islam in general.

Fair enough.

[0] - https://theprint.in/opinion/great-speeches/when-ram-manohar-...

[1] - https://www.epw.in/journal/2009/48/discussion/lohia-and-lang...
If I remember correctly, their cards had a high compute rate even at double precision, but had tiny memory buffers and basically couldn’t do texturing at all in practice.

It turned out that double precision was a mistake that was sold as a “professional” feature. By sharing edges correctly and using the correct rounding modes, single precision provides pixel-perfect rendering. Efficiencies like this allowed the consumer GPUs to run circles around SGI hardware.
Yeah that would reign in tens of thousands of dollars for an arts degree immediately.
> a lot of navigation instruments and maths that enabled the Portuguese discoveries were learned from the Arabs next door

And a lot of Islamic mathematics and science were based on the work of the Greeks. Adapting knowledge isn't stealing it. Paritcularly when we're discussing two colonial powers, where "stealing" is a directly applicable term.

> because HN can’t handle the tiniest bit of tongue in cheek

HN upvotes jokes when they're good. Insubstantive and not funny, on the other hand, no.