skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confusing remark; I haven't sleuthed the standard in over a decade, but DDC/CI v1.1 (available for free here[1]) § 2.3 makes this abundantly clear:

>> The DDC/CI display is considered a fixed address display device at adddress 0x6Eh / 6Fh, and uses only I2C slave mode to communicate with the host.

...while § 3.3.1 specifies addresses for external display dependent devices.

[1] https://vesa.org/vesa-standards/
I appreciate the work in getting this open sourced but I find it telling that this had to be done through an outside motivator. There seems to be no internal "ticking clock" to get some of these things out in to the open. That's fine no one is owed the source code for this stuff or anything, but it would be nice if there was more interest on the side of the companies to get some of their formative history out so people can learn from it.
I just use a turkey fryer.
How does whatsapp make money? (At all, and how much?)

It's not possible it makes as much as the main Meta properties. It has no ads on anything people use.
The link does not work for me. I think this is the same discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1cad56g/the_toilet_p...
Tell that to John Perry Barlow:

> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Several years ago at a company I no longer work at, when we swapped from single-threaded pgdumps (from a replica) to multi-threaded pgdumps (-j flag), we occasionally saw some dumps which were "inconsistent". Not sure if that's the best term for it, but we would occasionally get duplicate foreign key errors on pg_restore or even if pg_restore succeeded, sometimes primary key sequences would be less than the maximum id of our table (so new inserts would fail). This was on standard postgres 13.3 (not aurora) on AWS RDS. Nothing really noteworthy about our setup either that I can remember.
I tried reporting it at the time on both the postgres mailing list and with AWS support and unfortunately both pointed fingers at the other and I eventually gave up since it was not easy to reproduce. We unfortunately ended up having to go back to single threaded dumps which never produced any of these "corrupt" dumps but was obviously much slower.
How do you think market research/consumer insights for your product/service?
Hi, everyone.

Please assist with some feedback if the question is applicable to you. As a startup, how do you currently go about doing market research or gather consumer insights for your product or service post revenue or before launch in markets or segments you have no visibility in? (outside of the primary customer data you already have access to)

For context, recently launched an MVP for a platform called Reaply(reply) that empowers research teams to collect valuable consumer insights through micro studies and in-person interviews conducted by a network of field agents in South Africa for now. The platform leverages AI-powered tools to ensure quality and relevance, delivering actionable data to drive informed decision-making.(sales pitch)

We've mostly been dealing with big brands/agencies with mega research projects, and we've just been thinking about the startup community for possible future iterations of the platform. I'd really appreciate your feedback on the above question, especially if you're from countries considered "emerging markets". You can checkout www.reaply.africa in the mean time. Please don't break it too much.
Challenges of Scaling RAG Applications
Yeah, but our backlog is pretty stacked already. Going to be quite a while before we can allocate any resources to it.
Local code completion in VS Code with Cody and Ollama
That applies equally when each party is the filibuster-sized minority in the Senate.

And: if Senate majorities really want to pass something, they can change the filibuster rules – and have, for some topics.

Otherwise, the filibuster is maintained out of tradition, courtesy, and its usefulness as a change-of-control 'debounce' mechanism – as well as providing a convenient excuse for posturing more and doing less, as Congress is wont.

Still, in other eras, Congress was able to move compromise legislation forward. Recently, Congress has been unable to – both parties, no matter the relative control. Any belief that it's only "the other guys" is partisan myside blindness.
What do you think workers can do about it, and why do you think it has anything at all to do with how they are treated. Take any locked up chain in the bay area, and you can drive 2 hours out of the metro and find the same stores, with the same employees, but no theft problem.

What have those employees figured out?
Don't worry, they fail to support legitimate crypto too. Legitimate cryptos being XMR, BTC, BCH, and ETH, predominantly.
There's a single fuse which disables the entire tracking capability. It's labelled "DCS" in the internal fuse block.

I absolutely LOVE my Camry hybrid — it is quick (not fast).
Seems like most of the optimizations were actually in 26.0.2 (not 27).
Standard Chartered Says Peak Oil Demand Is Not Imminent
This is the survey of people who have already retired. It might be that only 10% of people can afford retirement. This survey has no bearing on those who can not/will not retire.
Longtime Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley called for Microsoft to “stop selling security as a premium offering,” earlier this week. Foley highlights how certain security tools are only available as add-ons on top of Microsoft 365 subscriptions

Microsoft has had a problem with trust issues since the 1980s.

Anybody older than about 35 has extremely little trust in Microsoft, from long experience. At Microsoft it's always been money over principles, whether those principles being security, business ethics, or just straight-out looking after customers and their needs. At Microsoft, Microsoft always comes first, to Hell with the rest of the World.
What a weird way to think about it. I often wonder why I have to take those brain-dead ethics courses at work, then someone like you comes along and reminds me. Comcast can only fully take advantage of people who don't have the technical skills to not get fucked, that is what is happening.
It really pisses me off because sometimes I have numbers with 1,262,001 digits and erlang leaves me completely stranded!
Navi[1] is perfect for this! It's both a fuzzy finder of a personal collection of commands, but it's template syntax is flexible enough to be able to have "command builders"

I have a blog on doing exactly this for a subset of strace[2].

1: https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

2: https://kbknapp.dev/strace-navi/
How to teach your two-year-old to read
It's what happens after Ballmer exceeds the peak.
I could give more credibility to an argument for "stagnating" over "dying". A lot of mature companies are still hugely profitable.
Are you suggesting the subject line is inappropriate? I just thought spook meant spy (probably the only audience to whom strong encryption and anonymity actually matter) I guess there's an older more offensive meaning.
This. There should be a low level API to be able to do rarer more complicated cases, and a higher level simple API for common cases built on the lower-level API.

Just today I was working with the Web File System API, and e.g. just writing a string to a file requires seven function calls, most async. And this doesn't even handle errors. And has to be done in a worker, setting up of which is similar faff in itself. Similar horrors can be seen in e.g. IndexedDB, WebRTC and even plain old vanilla DOM manipulation. And things like Vulkan and DirectX and ffmpeg are even way worse.

The complexity can be largely justified to be able to handle all sorts of exotic cases, but vast majority of cases aren't these exotic ones.

API design should start first by sketching out how using the API looks for common cases, and those should be as simple as possible. E.g. the fetch API does this quite well. XMLHttpRequest definitely did not.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemS...

Edit: I've thought many a time that there should be some unified "porcelain" API for all the Web APIs. It would wrap all the (awesome) features in one coherent "standard library" wrapper, supporting at least the most common use cases. Modern browsers are very powerful and capable but a lot of this power and capability is largely unknown or underused because each API tends to have quite an idiosyncratic design and they are needlessly hard to learn and/or use.

Something like what jQuery did for DOM (but with less magic and no extra bells and whistles). E.g. node.js has somewhat coherent, but a bit outdated APIs (e.g. Promise support is spotty and inconsistent). Something like how Python strives for "pythonic" APIs (with varying success).
Raising HIV against prostitution is like bringing up animal cruelty for veganism: it's not really the most important of many overlapping concerns surrounding the issue. Anti-prostitution and anti-abortion laws in the US exist because evangelical Christian white supremacists are able to tell heathens what they can't do with their bodies and pass laws to force their views on other people. These come with the burdens of jail time in the case of prostitution or losing the ability to reproduce or one's life in the case of eliminating the possibility of emergency abortions. Most of America: "The Bible says..."
You really need to take a little internet break.
People do not want to leave the house they've been living in, whether they worked hard to get a big house or their family has been in the house for generations. Moving sucks worse when you're older and have to get used to new things after decades of nothing changing.

They don't want to let go of stuff they have collected, especially if they think it's valuable. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1btalt6/...
Amazing! At Cava Baja 10 there's a remnant of the wall... and I never knew, I stay at the hotel across the street whenever I'm in Madrid and face that building.

Ironically, my comment about ruins, rivers, etc, I lifted from a sign in the lobby of that very hotel. And here they are sitting on top of it ;)
Hey all! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-that-destroyed... if you wanna hear this instead of read this, check out the podcast version.
Thank you for linking. Very much appreciated.
>it just sounds like it provides a temporary feel good experience.

I think you're missing the point of optimizing for subjective experience over objective knowledge. The feel good experience is the point. Subjectively, life is like playing a video game; you do what _works_ to have good mental health.
Sure it's fun to wonder what the video game's code looks like, but that's not the point of playing the game.

You will never experience the BackEnd of your brain. We can affect it of course, with medication and surgery etc. I take medication for anxiety myself, but I also meditate, and it's the union of FrontEnd behaviors and BackEnd modification that gives you wellbeing.

Also, subjective experience is testable, it's just not testable by anyone but YOU. You try things out and you see how your subjective experience changes.

There are tests we've done (MRIs on meditators) that show the neural correlates of meditation etc, but again that's not the point: You are going to die and all your knowledge will be annihilated, so play the game to have the best life by optimizing your subjective experience of every moment of life.
Oh, Perplexity is great. It's an LLM that answers with links and explanations of what you'll find in them.

I don't find it useful as a main search engine, but some queries are obviously better handled by something like it.

Anyway, yeah, I guess I'm the only person I know in real life that does not use Google.
What if those taxes and fees pay for ATC which helped get a diverted flight to an alternate airport? Or for all the navigational aids along the way?
Sure, but why do both and why now?
> The bill does eventually come due. You pay for the interest and the debt, either through taxes or money printing (hidden tax of inflation.) There's no free lunch.

Stop with the "printing money" non-sense: it is private banks where money is created, not central banks or governments.

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

And if you think inflation is bad, try deflation. If you think a fixed money supply is good:

* https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/10/the-great-depression-...

* https://archive.ph/FWKcL / https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11482

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

> I agree with you that there's no magic number of debt to GDP where things just fall apart. But there is certainly a number where they do.

"Certainly". Sure. The South Sea Bubble was in the 1720s, it is now 2024. Somehow the UK has managed to muddle through for three hundred years.

> We don't know it, and it will be different for each country. Japan is sitting at 263% right now and doing OK (not great, but OK.)

So the US debt can double to reach the current levels of Japan (or past levels of the UK) and nothing happen.

> The US right now is spending more on interest than defense.

And yet, as a percentage of GDP, it's not even as high as it was in the recent past:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

> And that will keep rising.

Unless it drops. Like it has in the past.

> I think it will lose its status as a reserve currency.

There is nothing to replace it with, so I find this doubtful.
If I buy 2 gallons of gas, and my car gets 30 mpg, then I can go 60 miles. Doesn't seem that hard to me. Need the other way around? I need to go 100 miles. At 30 miles per gallon, that's a little over 3 gallons. This is simple mental math.
Things would start malfunctioning. The hardware is being used for various required safety stuff.

Automakers have decided that since it’s already there, they might as well use it for other things too. This is a problem that has to be fixed by regulation, not by yanking on stuff. Also, the antenna is never under the hood.
In order to better compete at GenAI, Google has fired the Python language team
I see friends' Meta activity in the Philippines and it's 10x what I see from friends elsewhere.
Eh in general sure. But if you're giving networking advice you definitely want to either opinionatedly not use TLS ('use case doesn't warrant it, so am against HTTPS all the things'), or have a valid cert.
Now you can't even say "sanity check", much less mention brain damage.
Here in New Zealand 4G has proved to work surprisely well for FWA (Fixed Wireless Access). I think the important thing is that the providers need to be very strict at limiting the number of customers they sell to. Here, the providers will proactively stop selling new FWA connection in a certain area the tower sector serving that area is getting close to capacity limits. They'll also check where the customer is located and ensure they can actually provide a decent service. This check is done automatically off coverage and capacity data.

Most of the major FWA providers are mobile phone carriers, so both mobile and FWA customers actually use the same tower/spectrum/etc so the general increase in demand (especially from mobile given they can't stop selling new mobile servcies) sometimes results in a good service in Year 1 degrading to poorer service in subsquent years. However the carriers can easily resolve that by adding more 4G carriers, deploying 5G, and even building new cell sites (which kills two birds with one stone -- better coverage for mobile users and more capacity for FWA users).

When FWA first came out I confess that I thought it was a silly idea until my eldery mother accepted an incentive from her provider (cheaper monthly fee) if she moved onto FWA (from ADSL previously). She's zero complaints. And sure enough it works well for a low-end user -- emails, Facebook, WhatsApp, Netflix, YouTube, etc all work just as good on FWA as it does on fibre/DSL/Cable/etc. She happens to be close enough to the tower and that tower has also been upgraded and has heaps of 4G carriers so the service is consisently good.

YMMV but when done well, 4G/5G FWA is a great option for low-end users.
The maximum speed limit of protons – GZK limit
Area man suckered into purchase of declining fake news website
And now we live in a world where “powerpoint presentations as dating profiles” are basically the norm
I actually had a similar thing happen to me, blazed thru a similar "design an API" type question flawlessly, but they didn't like that I didn't write up a lot of custom code for standard CRUD stuff...

It's like they wanted me to overcomplicate things for some reason
No problem! Come join us in the Self-Hosted pool! The water's amazing over here!!
Everyone on the planet? Even in China or Russia?
I wouldn't be surprised if your experience hadn't changed: Net neutrality rules were gutted at the same time as the internet has been largely consolidated, so major players paying for "fast lanes" and the ISPs throttling other kinds of traffic is, statistically, likely to have gone mostly unnoticed by you as an end user. If you have internet use cases beyond that which is endorsed by corporate tech, you will likely have noticed a stark difference. I've found that things like SSH tunnels have been less reliable, that there is noticeable slowdown when I find myself on a smaller website (Like those maintained by a shrinking minority of local vendors and artists who don't do everything on instagram). The most obnoxious thing about shady degradations of infrastructure in the name of profit is that these changes are often made in a way that's hard to specifically pinpoint, and by entities that make it somewhere between infuriating and futile to address any kind of complaint to.
Not OP but between Java and C# it's hard to not to lean Java for the absolutely massive lead in high quality libraries and ecosystem support. C# still feels like the new kid in open source circles though the languages are 90% the same.
The Kirkland brand, which is a Costco subsidiary, is actually named after the town. So I imagine not.
From a different article: https://www.businessinsider.com/twilio-founder-jeff-lawson-b...

> When asked whether he had purchased The Onion, Lawson played coy. "What's The Onion?" he replied. Then, "What's a Tetrahedron?"

> Business Insider was unsure how to respond to these questions.
After looking through a few links I don't have as good data as was in my retail training in 2004 or so, but https://www.businessinsider.com/stop-blaming-theft-shrink-ta... talks about them being fairly comparable, and that retail mismanagement is within 10% or so of the problems due to theft.

Overall my point is just that the retail theft story is blown way out of proportion, and many media and political outfits benefit from concern around crime.
Now there's a Google response, and a response to that response. I love it when journalists bring the receipt. Is it even deniable that Google search is terrible now? Remember a time when there was not anything close to Google search, and Bing! was a joke? I never thought I would switch, but my daily driver now is Bing+CoPilot. I've run the same search on both Google and Bing and the results are mostly better on Bing, with the majority of crud still in the result of both, but the better, more relevant results, are on Bing.
Bad Company is a staple at our LANs, you need a server emulator though. It's really fun when a few dozen people are playing.
You might as well ask to pay me for drinking poison.

Money isn't everything. No thank you.
> It's time to get your retinas scanned.

Well, they don't have your colonic map on file, do they.
If Congress stepped in to mandate it, the flip-flopping wouldn't happen.

You said it. This is a feature of the US government. It allows prototyping of policies before codifying them.
Is there anything useful that isn't already implemented in FreeDOS?
Let's bring back those DOS 4.0 period sayings.

Does this mean if you happen to be talking to BillG you could talk about brain damaged programs and he'd nod appreciatively?
Need more data to see the big picture.

The number of people who don't see their bottom line growing, but are spending on ads, getting views is not reported anywhere.

Would also be interesting to see if ad budgets of the largest spenders are increasing with time once market capture is complete.
How do you plan to handle customers who don't do anything illegal as far as you can tell but who do cause abuse reports, listings on RBLs or similar?

You might say I'm asking about the gap between "illegal activities" and "activities that visibly illegal to the hoster".
Agreed. But people hated 10 more than 8.1, so they labeled 10 as a bad release and 8.1 as a good release so that the pattern could fit. Now that people hate 11 more than 10, people say that 10 was good so that the pattern can fit.
If there was a world war 3 coming, what would you need?

Invest incthat, not VR headsets
FCC votes to restore net neutrality protections
Good point. it's not a problem with JSON. It's just that most of the JSON libraries by default parse numbers into floats.
And what has happened after the Trump FCC un-wound the previous net neutrality rules? Did the internet go to hell?
If you are still interested, try this: https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/

The idea is that quaternions are the wrong way to look at the problem and that a better approach would be to use geometric algebra, bivectors and rotors. The formulas are essentially the same as with quaternions, but at least for me, this approach make more intuitive sense. It also work in dimensions other than 3, which matter to the author as he is the author of "4D toys" and hopefully, Miegakure.

Here is another talk on the subject, by a different author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI
It is not specifically about quaternions, it is about multiplying vectors and what you get from that, and it includes quaternions.
> When asked whether he had purchased The Onion, Lawson played coy. "What's The Onion?" he replied. Then, "What's a Tetrahedron?" Business Insider was unsure how to respond to these questions.

Sounds like The Onion is in good hands.
If owning shares means having an, admittedly small when it comes to a firm the size of Boeing, part in the decision making process and a financial stake in the company, then yes, in principle. Shares aren't a vacuum-sealed number-go-up game, taking a share means an interest in supporting a company via investment or a desire to be involved in the decisions (which usually requires a substantial investment as a proof of stake).

It gets a bit murkier when it's all mashed and derived and packaged to death which results in things like the Church of England accidentally (or at least they divested when it was pointed out) having shares in things that it doesn't share philosophies with such as oil companies.
Yes, but the big ISPs would have a much harder time explaining the difference. Imagine them going into court or Congress having to explain why they needed to shakedown Netflix in NYC but not LA or explain why it suddenly became cost-prohibitive to run a network when you cross the border into Oregon or Arizona.
Does this have a how to on hacking AUTOEXEC.BAT to avoid TSRs and get enough of that sweet sweet 640KB to run whatever program you needed?
Good thing those old games are still just as fun today ;)
Nice part of that pain came when XP was released. Win 2000 drivers mostly all happily loaded into Win XP !
At that point, why not just switch to BOPIS-only? (Buy Online Pick-up In Store) You’ve already committed an employee to help every customer that needs those items. What’s the marginal cost to have them ring up the order and put it in a pickup locker too?