skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed."

I'm doing pretty great, thank you very much. Haven't seen an ad in decades, my spam folder is empty and on average, I get one annoying call a year. What bothers me is the declining quality of Google Search results.
Music just plays with the signals in our brains, just like drugs, food, feelings and pretty much all input does.

One day, an AI invented a new song, one that could never be heard, for it was outside the range of human hearing. But all who heard it wept with anger, sadness and finally joy; for the song pulled levers and pressed buttons inside our brains, and made us want to buy Coca Cola.
That reminds me of Jira Software and Jira Work Management. Can’t wait for them to merge it back into “Jira”.
Well, there are two types of game engines from what I've seen:

- One where most things are done out of the box, and you can mostly GUI visual code to success - these are your Unreals, your Unitys and Godots.

- Second, where most things need to be built piecemeal, and many things are missing, and need to be built - Bevy falls into this category, along with stuff like PyGame and what not.

I mean, Bevy is a fine engine for small things, but I can't admit I've seen any indie game of more renown succeed with it. OTOH, doesn't mean you can't make it, but it's definitely more effort.
Many engineering interviews include literal "solve this problem on leetcode" sections.
Apple certainly has figured out how to make a lot of money from their market, and it’s by selling radically under-specced machines and charging radically inflated prices to upgrade them.

The low-end models should have better specs, at the same price. Regulation is needed, IMHO.
No, it does the same thing as selecting Tools > [All results >] Verbatim.

Putting quotes in addition is still necessary when searching for a phrase, or when you have multiple search terms you want all to appear in every hit (though that's still not 100% reliable).
If you want portability, then you can use HW security keys that support passkeys.
US regulators seize troubled lender Republic First Bancorp
Growing up in St Louis, it was traditional for neighbors to bring food to your house when there was a death in the family. I thought that tradition faded away until a few years ago when my wife had a relative pass and a neighbor brought us a dish.
The problem is that the existing financial system also allows all these things. I have personally known many people who have lost money from a scam that their bank allowed them to transfer ridiculous amounts of money to. I also know people who have had their bank accounts arbitrarily frozen without prior notice.

If I have the risk of running into both these problems with the existing financial system, why not use Bitcoin? The problem is if I'm using Bitcoin, and want dollars to buy something from a vendor who doesn't accept it, I have to use a potentially hackable exchange that will then have my on-chain and personal information.

If I want a separation from the rest of my on-chain funds from those I send to an exchange, it's only logical to use a mixer. Even if I were Bitcoin only, I'd still want this level of privacy (unless all my transactions were digital and my on-chain identity was pseudonymous to all).
>> entitlements

I really hate that word. People apply it in a derogatory way to social security, which is funded through a separate tax, and has its own pile of money. The only way it really affects the federal budget is when they borrow from that fund or have to pay back into it.
I currently don’t use Fedora but Arch and FreeBSD besides from a number of Apple and Android devices, does that mean - in your simple world view - that I’m not in love with a single company but polyarmorous?
I have some professional experience with Solaris, HP-UX and Domain/OS, which of them is the kinkiest? I bet it was Domain/OS, but nobody does it anymore, it’s way too weird and smells funny. Necrophilia it would be, I guess. (And I’m not even sure about the MacOSX Developer Preview CD that I found in some box the other day, using Apple must be some resurrection fetish…)

Pseudo psychological analytics of OS choices, coming from people who have neither an idea on other people’s use cases nor on their experiences are so disappointing and boring.
Can we please invent a “-splaining” term for it?
Lab-made diamonds are common in jewelry these days, and generally cheaper than mined diamonds. I bought some from Belk recently.
It's time to make WaylandX, for running Wayland applications on X. Well, I happily use Wayland so I won't use it, but maybe you would.
> expect the law to be changed

There's tons of loopholes everywhere allowing companies to get away with ridiculous stuff, getting it fixed is the last thing I'd expect
> Is there something about the EU that would prevent government spying?

Presumably you mean laws and treaties; those exist. But I wouldn't expect government spies to pay excessive attention to the law.

The problem is the clauses about requiring distributors to get state clearance before deploying an update [ahem - nooo, that disables our backdoor], and increased costs and obligations on ISPs. Thwy won't ever try to enforce the law against the spooks, but for big tech companies, it's just regulatory clutter. They have staff lawyers out the wazoo, all specializing in regulatory clutter.

Not good for small ISPs and tech companies.
> You paid property taxes

Sure, back them out of the appreciation.

> you participated civically

...by voting to block development that might have reduced your appreciation. Lol.
No.

Many people work their entire lives trying to keep on top of bills; others spend their entire lives saving for a retirement they may not live to see. So if income was no longer a concern, I'd quit tomorrow & focus on what to do with the rest of my life. Some of that time would be spent pursuing interests & hobbies that I never had time for. And if the amount of money I won was more than I could reasonably expect to spend in one lifetime, I'd also be spending time on how to make that money work best for local charitable institutions.

Also, you said "when you remove financial motivation what else is left?". If you're only motivated to improve your own situation then, yeah, sure, I can see one's motivation evaporating by winning the lottery. But if you see it as an opportunity to help not only yourself, but others as well... well, there's a lot of people out there that could use a helping hand.
"Uncool"?! That thing was a 32-bit home computer with a GUI and a real multitasking operating system!

When it was released, it had some of the most sophisticated graphics of any personal computer twice its price. At that time, PCs had 286s and EGA graphics at best (and most had CGA, or the little better Tandy models).
Flows to European ESG exchange traded funds halve in first quarter
Dallas, which isn’t quite as bad Houston in this regard, I could almost see the restaurant I wanted to eat at from my hotel, and I had to get in my car and drive there because there was no real way to walk. Mind you it’s not always great in more pedestrian friendly areas but some are worse than others.
Yip. It always bugs me that so many fundamental things aren't implemented; no native calendar in the taskbar (well top/status bar) so I gotta use an app.

Finder fucking sucks, it doesn't remember which sort order I've set for which folder and I constantly have to change it between alphabetical and created date, mostly for the file open dialog (alphabet for vscode folder open, created date for slack or browser file upload).

For all of Apple's bluster they're really only as good as any other company when it comes to the "it just works" experience, often worse.
Or that at least maintains value so you don't take a massive loss in the case you have to move.
There are 7,920,000 telephone numbers per area code and 335 area codes. See https://www.puc.texas.gov/industry/maps/areacodes/txareacode... and https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/north-american-area-cod.... I don't know much about VOIP and how many of those numbers are allocated. So that over 2.5 billion total #s.

Still I think you'd need extensions or something which probably would not work with texting, etc.
Not sure. Anyone who used it for a mere hour would understand its limitations immediately.

Otherwise - all systems can be abused.
The super high clinical trial costs also mean problems for any drug that isn't expected to have a large effect size, because it's hard to get statistical significance.

Some trials have been controversially going for a surrogate endpoint, which makes the stats easier since you can get a continuous variable instead of a binary one, but that's also how you get aducanumab, which reduces amyloid plaque, but it's unclear if it actually helps in alzheimers. Despite this they charge $56k a year.
Woah. A blast from the past from the era of l0pht, shmoo, and w00w00.

I'm wondering how they defend against tor's problem where large % of nodes are malicious.

More doc:

https://veilid.gitlab.io/developer-book/index.html
Which makes it the same as every password manager except KeepassXC which the passkey community seems to be upset to allow exporting. So commiting to the Apple solution is no different than any other. Passwords are exportable.
Debian Image for SG200x-Based Boards: Milk-V Duo256/DuoS and Sipeed LicheeRVNano
The freight system is great, the passenger train system in the U.S., not so much.
Umm it was something hotel were actively doing https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=fcc+hot... ... you don't think some are still doing so using the whole it's a big building issue argument along the way.

Also why when walking right up to those gates at the Keseya center outside and still outside getting right up to the gate to speak to the attendant did my service with full bars suddenly not work?

It maybe illegal but what are the profits reaped vs the potential fines?

Im usually downvoted for things I say (im sure you dont care to read all my thoughts all over the years on HN) but a LOT of them come true ... most recently about how much i hated Cruise cause they were startup bros trying to do the whole fake it before you make it with technology that can kills..fortunately it didnt kill anyone just unfortunately mangled a pedestrian. Let's see in a year if places start getting fined for this B.S.!
> I have a pole in front of my house that just serves me and my neighbor

Hah. We live in veeeeery different housing densities I guess. I was thinking this was NYC, which would be closer to mine. If it's the whole state then probably somewhere in between.
Maybe, infrastructure. But having spent time in both the US and in Europe, I cannot begin to even describe how much better average customer service in America is compared to Europe.

But I think that is also what holds up the adoption of public services - the difference between typical customer service in the US and say, the Post Office or DMV, turns a lot of people off from the idea of public ISPs or etc.

(Although, based on some time spent in Munich makes me think the quality/availability of broadband in Europe is also not all that).
The list is growing and everything looks normal, what are we missing?
I’ve been doing this with an eSIM and two VoIP lines doing call forwarding.

So I have a line for:

- my personal line for friends and family (primary eSIM)

- utilities/banking (secondary eSIM because these seem to hate voip numbers)

- store programs and shopping

- what I give out to people I don’t consider family or close friends

I initially ignore everything but the personal line.
It's possible that we no longer remember ALL of the evidence we had when we drafted this letter, but the letter links to two first hand accounts of wrongdoing. I also have also talked to multiple other women in the community that say that Jon was someone that women generally knew to warn each other about since there were enough believable accounts of his wrongdoing.
and they benefit from safe harbor laws allowing them to remove the link as they are notified of its illegality
I immediately went to ChatGPT to generate an image of a rapper observing neutrinos. Sigh.
> Municipalities only care about cost cutting - so there was no investment in wiring infrastructure or customer service.

Well, there's two aspects at play here.

For starters, you do need to be a certain size as an ISP to really offer cheap services. Imagine, for example, being a town of 500 with a municipal ISP. You'd end up with a lot of equipment to store and maintain and to really be effective, you'd have to employ a bunch of people that spend most of their time doing nothing. (After all, how often would the customer service rep for a small town ACTUALLY be answering any calls?).

That's why a state, county, or national? run ISP would probably make more sense, especially in more rural locations.

That being said, in the UK with BT and the line rentals I described earlier those worked unreasonably well. ISPs could complain to BT to fix problems which ultimately left the various ISPs in a region to compete on tech and price. That was a win for the customer.
Well, I don't call the second ones "game engines", I call them game libraries, or game frameworks. RayLib also is a nice one. But they don't claim to be "engines" (or at least, they are mostly described with the aforementioned terms)
I’m old enough to remember when it was a black and white paper you could only get at UW Madison.

They had an issue with a banner headline: W A R

And when you unfolded it, the subhead was “C’mon! Let’s have one!”
A crash of an actor in BEAM is incomparable to a crash of a video game.
Seppo Linnainmaa, the man who invented modern backpropagation
If the new installer didn’t crash on me every couple of minutes I could see for myself.
The internet was explicitly privatized and deregulated in 1995 by the Clinton Administration.

It has flourished under private sector control without net neutrality. A 30 year track record of success, yet people are still clambering to have it back under government control.
If i signed up for a membership to the "stick an url on my car club" then yea
they are also better for industrial purpose if I remember correctly. And better from n ethical pov.
The Amiga was never uncool - it startled the entire industry with it unbelievable graphics and sound far, far ahead of the rest.

I had undying love for vintage computers for a long time and have accumulated so many of them I literally don't know how many I own. I bought them from eBay for a long time and never even opened the boxes. Thus my garage has lots of unopened boxes in it sent from eBay sellers with unknown vintage machines in them.

I have found however that my urge to collect them was very different to my desire to own them. I loved finding and buying them and never used any of my vintage machines except for I used one once.

I now plan to sell them all. Vintage machines need to be cared for, loved and recapped and I can't be bothered to do that.
> Except that I have more choices for power providers than I do for internet

I've lived in over 15 different places in the US, and I have never, ever had more than 1 option for power provider.
Houston is practically a state, size and population wise.
> My current favorite Texas city is Houston which is much larger, more affordable and more diverse.

I really feel Houston is one of the most underrated cities in the US. Even if you're left leaning, most of the cities in Texas are too. So if Austin is a consideration it seems reasonable to consider Houston too. I used to live in Dallas and enjoyed my time there. It's also never too far away from any city in the US in terms of flying time. Those three Texas cities are very livable/affordable and people are quite nice.
The “load_verify_locations” also causes a segfault sometimes: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/114653
Physical systems that can learn by themselves: UCB 2024 Oppenheimer Lecture [video]
If your utopia requires changing the laws of physics or human nature, as Star Trek's society would, then it can't happen.

Maybe we can get a lot closer than we are now (I hope so) but the part where people evolve beyond their "base instincts and vices" and choose to work as though they lived in a capitalist society, just without caring about personal gain, is a fantasy.
> For example, the Model Y is one of five cars that achieved the highest rating in its size class, not one of 16. You are grouping their highest and second-highest tiers together.

Who said I was talking about the Y? (I also specifically said that I was grouping them ("they're still in the top or top two safety levels"), because IIHS has "Top Safety Pick+", "Top Safety Pick" and "Others". Though I have been looking at 2023. But let's break it down:

Tesla Model 3: Didn't make the cut.

Model S: Didn't make the cut.

> So, yes. If you consider a car to be classified by size and price, I think it is a very reasonable way to classify a car, the Model Y is very clearly the best in its class.

"So yes" implies a logical conclusion. But your initial point was "IIHS says Tesla has the best airbags in class", which it does not.

For one model of car it says that it is in the top five of that segment.

But then somehow you blow that out to be "clearly, best in class, because it's cheapest".

Like, no. The other cars in the category could have better safety than the Model Y. And if your argument is "its best because its cheapest" when it comes to safety? Wow. Huh. I suppose we all know the safest components are the cheapest?
(I decided to post the article when I realized that searching for "Linnainmaa" surprisingly didn't bring any result)
Diamonds thermodynamically want to turn into graphite under normal conditions, so I'm guessing that they inherently require more energy to create than glass. Sapphire is more shatter resistant than diamond anyways, so it would be more appropriate to use for something like a window.
Can you name such a vehicle? My personal car with lane keeping and TACC insists that you keep your hands on the wheel.
Ubuntu dist is consistent and getting better every release, did you try the ubuntu 24.04 server?

We're using 22.04 and it's pretty good
This is a ridiculous claim. Vegans and vegetarians on average have lower BMI. Most diet intervention studies demonstrate a drop in BMI on vegetarian or vegan diets.

Sure, avoid the highly refined carbs, like white flour and sugar, but substituting dairy and meat for nuts and legumes is going to only be an improvement for your health and the health of the planet.
I have over 300 in my password manager, and I know there is no way for me to remember all do that, but when I travel I do like to have enough with me so if something happens I can get up and running again.

Once on vacation I shattered my phone. Only time that’s ever happened and I happens to be away from home. I was able to get a new phone at the local Apple Store, but the only reason I was able to get setup and running again was I happened to bring my iPad, by sheer dumb luck. Other than using it for 2FA to get my new phone setup, I didn’t use it at all.

In my most recent trip I brought my recovery key with me, and know my password for that 1 account. As long as I can get into that, I can get everything else setup from there. But I need someplace to start to make myself whole again. It seems like PassKeys make that more risky.
Lecture description:

Physical systems that can learn by themselves
Andrea Liu

Brains learn and perform an enormous variety of tasks on their own, using relatively little energy. Brains are able to accomplish this without an external computer because their analog constituent parts (neurons) update their connections without knowing what all the other neurons are doing using local rules. We have developed an approach to learning that shares the property that analog constituent parts update their properties via a local rule, but does not otherwise emulate the brain. Instead, we exploit physics to learn in a far simpler way. Our collaborators have implemented this approach in the lab, developing physical systems that learn and perform machine learning tasks on their own with little energy cost. These systems should open up the opportunity to study how many more is different within a new paradigm for scalable learning.
The company could persist, it would just have to look different. Apple's growth was not natural, enabled by high-margin hardware sales and high-volume service revenue. If both of those are going away, they need a pivot towards low-risk products that customers actually want to buy. More iPod and less Vision Pro.

It would be remarkably sad if America's largest tech company was rendered non-functional without Chinese labor to exploit. If Apple's fate is to close up shop without anticompetitive levels of market control, I guess they deserve what's coming to them.
“Leetcode grind” means solving Leetcode problems. Interviewing for many software engineering positions in Silicon Valley these days require doing well on Leetcode-style coding exercises where one has a limited amount of time to solve a problem.

What makes software engineering interviews a grind these days is that many employers don’t care about your thinking process; they want an optimal solution to the problem within the time limit without errors, since chances are high that an applicant will come up with the optimal solution. In addition, the high compensation for many Silicon Valley employers has made these positions very desirable and thus ultra-competitive. The same type of applicants who grinded for high SAT and AP scores in high school and who grinded in college for 3.7+ GPAs don’t feel discouraged grinding some more for a six-figure job with life-changing amounts of RSUs once vested and other perks. You can grind hard, but chances are high that somebody else spent even more time studying than you. These types of interviews are similar in spirit to the employment exams that some companies have in Japan during job-hunting season for upper-level college students.

So, aiming for a FAANG position, as well as software engineering positions at many other companies in Silicon Valley, essentially require studying not unlike preparing for a GRE subject test for graduate school admissions.
> Thank Scott Weiner for the builder’s remedy.

Scott Wiener did not create the builder’s remedy; it was created in 1990 and rediscovered by Chris Elmendorf https://twitter.com/CSElmendorf/status/1474286606982934528 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38x5760j. But Wiener did make the builder’s remedy apply to more jurisdictions by increasing the RHNA quota (SB 828).
After decades of decriminalized drug use, people are finally fed up with it, see through the limitations of compassion that is largely driven by political ideology and are voting for stronger laws.

Yet I question whether we will see actual enforcement.
They died out in the 1980s in East London.
> PS: I can't currently afford semaglutide but require it to offset the side-effects of mirtazapine

What side-effects? I take the same medication.
300 sq ft of land and a used RV to park on it might be affordable. People might not like some the implications but it's probably cheaper and more sanitary than the alternative of those people in tents.
I thought the parent made some good points that I hadn’t considered before. Why are you “Lol”-ing (I assume derisively)? Did they disrespect you in a way which justifies rudeness?
Definitely not to detract from using Marginalia directly, but I think it's worth noting that Kagi actually uses them as one of several external sources[0]. I think the Small Web filter leans on their results.

[0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...