skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't care for the system spying on your every move, (and doing who knows what else) just record the screen. There are various ways to do that. And then turn it off.

Or wear a dashcam, for air-gap isolation.
Made an account to say yes, this would be awesome to watch. I’ve been trying to accumulate esoteric reversing knowledge like this but it’s hard to know where to even look!
I'm another outlier too. If I had to choose between proper public school resources and privately schooling my child, I'd do the former 100%. Not everyone has the funding to do the latter, and public schooling shouldn't be a "punishment" for being poor (I was raised in public schools. Albeit my closest high school was a charter school, so there's quirks I admittedly dodged around ).

But yeah, "individualism culture".
> I'm convinced that QA at Apple is run by primate apes.

If you yourself is not a primate ape I would be surprised and call every news agency available to tell them a new species is using written language and the internet.
Most of them are sequenced. Around 6:10 the video goes through a series of buttons, most of which are called "Backup switch to do X" because when everything goes as planned, no button push is needed to perform the action.
Some folks prefer the LispWorks IDE.
Obviously, some of this branching, etc. is not differentiable. Is it doing finite differences?
How does a switch to nuclear help fossil fuel companies?
Does the Russian part of Svalbard depend on the cable for Internet?
Oil companies know they are going to join the original oil suppliers, the dinosaurs, soon enough and they need to invest and build IP in renewables to be able to transition over to the green side.

Nobody wants to be the next Kodak.
>No mainstream politicians are pushing for “open borders.”

Ever hear of Angela Merkel and her Willkommenskultur which upset a lot of people and countries? And various EU politicians promoting the same policy.
Does anyone have more examples of articles written in this perspective? Regardless of my experience level I love diving through “ELI(a mediocre engineer)” type explanations as I either learn another piece that wasn’t completely clear, or gives me another set of examples to help explain it to other people. Either way they’re generally very helpful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_wi...
I had the opportunity to try this last month, it worked really well!
> especially for creative work

There you go. That has always been their strong point, everything else is secondary, including their own development tools. MacOS Developers have to hoop through multiple hoops periodically, and some will tell you they're very intuitive hoops but you're using them wrong(TM).
As kevin_thibedeau noted, the bit twiddling instructions available were limited. The Intellivision used a GI 1600. Here's a copy of the manual [1] and a Wikipedia article about it [2]. It can shift or rotate by 1 or 2.

But you are right--a game might not need 16 bits for velocity. Suppose a game needed a maximum of just under 4 pixels/frame X velocity and needed a minimum of 1/64 pixel/frame.

It could have stored velocity in one byte like this FFFFFFII where the Fs are the bits of the fractional part of the velocity in units of 1/64 pixels/frame and the Is are the integer part in pixels/frame. By putting the fractional part in the upper bits and the integer part in the lower bits no shifting will be required--just AND and OR.

Then updating X would be something like this:

X += Vx % 0x0003
if Vx > (random_unsigned_byte() | 0x0003)
X += 1

You probably could even skip the OR. It makes no difference if the integer portion of velocity is 0. If the integer part is 1 skipping the OR in effect increases the velocity by 1/256 pixels/frame. Similarly if the integer velocity is 2 or 3 skipping the OR increase it by 2/256 or 3/256 pixels/frame, respectively.

I don't think anyone would notice. For two objects in a race all the way across the screen with the same Vx, with one including the OR and one not, my back of the envelope calculation says that the speed boost would only get that one to the finish line less than half a millisecond earlier.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/components/gi/CP1600/CP-1600_Microp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_CP1600#Inst...
> You can whitelist apps.

There was 1 app in their question.
If this works, I really hope it comes to both Teams & Zoom as well.
> E.g. consider the hemming and hawing about a 64-bit time_t.

I had received a compiler warning about this when trying to compile a program on Raspberry Pi (it was a old version; I did this a few days before they implemented 64-bit time_t on Raspberry Pi). Fortunately I was able to add a macro to allow it to work on computers without 64-bit time_t. Other than that, the program I compiled worked perfectly, although I wrote the program on PC and did not specifically try to make it work with Raspberry Pi. So, a C code is portable, although sometimes a few changes are required to make the program to work.

But I think that 64-bit time_t is a good idea.
there's really no evidence of that (in the article or otherwise)
Historically, there's been a lot of mischief with the cables.

https://asiatimes.com/2023/04/new-us-spy-sub-built-for-seabe...
You could also just waste the power. Why not?
Are the instruments a simulation or actual footage?!
They will bash anything that’s a viable competitor and promote anything that will take a long time to build momentum.

Then they’ll attack nuclear and, maybe, promote deep water thermal differential ammonia generators or geothermal sources.
By itself a carbon tax in the US would be extremely regressive as the vast majority of poor people here still need to drive to work, and they would immediately see the price increase at the pump.

It would have to be offset with some kind of tax rebate, but it’s harder to explain a more complex program like traffic to the voters.
Agreed. You can forgive some of his other less than upstanding activities but the dude hired a hitman. I hope that’s a bridge too far for everybody.
We got quite some problems at the Asse, former salt mine. with water leaking in in unconsidered ways and amounts.
The regular apple watch has some bugs that have been around for years, too.

One of my favorite features is on the mickey/minnie watch face, they verbally tell you the time if you tap them..... except when they don't. Sometimes they just stop working until you power cycle the watch lol.

Also phone calls to/from the watch seem to go through fits of random failure. Like at least once a week it'll inexplicably fail to get notifications or fail to answer phone calls. And then once a month I'll have to power cycle both the watch and the phone because they fall into a trap where any call in/out fails.

I first noticed these bugs on my s4 and iphone xs. I'm currently using an s8 and iphone 13. Still got those bugs lol.

Oh I thought of one more. Any iOS device with a home button and an alphanumeric password won't show you the keyboard when it first starts up. You have to hit the power button and then wake it with the home button to see the keyboard lol.
> That doesn't really make sense, does it? These issues have been going on for centuries; how does that explain a rising trend?

I think basically this is just a visibility issue: the problems always existed, we just used to accept them as inevitable. We just demand more of life today, and actually pay attention, and that's a good thing.

There was a notion in the past that suffering was normal, and unusual behavior that very distressed people exhibit was just people being people. Like if you survived hunger in the great depression and a few decades later during boom times you still hid money in the seat cushion and wore rags and and went into fits when someone suggested you ought to spend the money you saved a bit more for your own good, no one thought that that was a form of suffering a doctor should help with. Not for poor people anyway. Or if you had been assaulted a woman who was assaulted by their husband and couldn't tell anyone about it, or if you were harmed by the clergy, or if you're a veteran who has a breakdown every time a loud noise happens, and all these other scenarios. Any unusual response to all that wasn't seen as a medical problem to be named and treated at a mass scale, I personally think because learning more about these things medically and making societal adjustments to prevent these things from happening required that society face some extremely uncomfortable truths, which did not happen easily or on its own.

And in fact I feel like the opposite even happened: I read, for example, about how shell shock was purposely not considered a real medical issue in WWI in the UK, to be able to return soldiers to the front as fast as possible even though more than a quarter of soldiers in the hospital were considered shell shocked. Eventually, the diagnosis was banned by the brits. Official shell shock rate at 0%. If you don't look, there's no problem, right?

So instead it was said that there's nothing wrong with you, you just need some rest. And if you had a really severe case and were not better, you were just weak or a coward, and you need to man up and get back out there. Then you get a court martial or electric shocks. It's no wonder that people pretended that they had nothing wrong with them - nothing good happened otherwise anyway. And so no wonder it took so long for society at large to accept this as a problem.

So now we finally have a more accurate pulse on these types of problems, and we see that unsurprisingly they rise as people have problems in their lives. Makes perfect sense to me.

> I'd rather assume that the lack of a framework to understand the harshness of the world is what makes people go crazy.

The framework is realism: it is very much that people do understand that the world is harsh and that hurts you, but then you now get to recognize that it hurt you and do something about it maybe.
I've written something similar in python — a script that renames documents based on their contents using Ollama. It's very easy to write things like that, I recommend anyone interested in local LLMs try a fun project such as that.

My first question was why would this be a file system rather than an app or a script, but I see it's actually an Electron app and python scripts, which I think is the right approach.

I think that something that would have a UI for automatically tagging, renaming, and moving files on request but not constantly would be very handy. Also, if you could somehow steer files into binning directories ("if X, put it in bin ~/X, if Y, put the file in bin ~/Y", "if it's an invoice or deals with payment, put it in ~/Documents/Finance"), that would be cool. Finally, Windows support would be amazing.
"Best" is relative to how you're measuring, and cheapest doesn't mean that's where you want to put all your investment. The cheapest option that can work for some small about of the time can be best by one measurement and not by another.

There are other problems with solar that make it beneficial to offset with other energy sources. For example, lack of ability to generate any energy for 50% of the year, and reduced efficiency depending on weather.

Wind has its own problems as well, but are map to somewhat different circumstances than solar, so is a good supplement for some of the power.

Nuclear has its own problems as well, but unlike wind and solar, many of those aren't inherent to the source, but to how we've developed methods to harness it and deal with produced byproduct (waste). I suspect a first principles approach to nuclear energy might eventually be a very useful source of energy. I think it would be beneficial if we still kept some nuclear around to keep developing it towards a better source. It does well to offset some of the requirements of other systems, which are limited by time, geography or climate.
It would make sense for an oil company to buy SMR IP just to bury it.
Sure there will be corrective behaviour in the market, and the better product with more outreach, better experience will win over suboptimal products with overlapping offerings, but does that mean that the current generative AI momentum is hollow or there is a sticky use case behind the promises? And if so, in your opinion, how overstated is the Total Addressable Market compared to what’s claimed by an aggregate of startups across the VC space?
Agreed. This is the playlist I recommend for beginners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YYXdXT2l-Gg&list...
Oh come now no need to be grumpy. We need to just accept that this is somewhere between managing your files using an algorithm that integrates a roulette wheel and a system that instead has Russian roulette built in. In either case its going to get messy.
Where do experienced founders hang out, either offline or online?
What are some of the highest signal groups for repeat founders? Could be anything from a group chat to a physical members only space.
I tried to report issues with a broken VP9 decoder causing system instability in MediaToolBox on my Mac Mini but I need to pay 100$ to even get a chance for an Apple tech to see this issue in their developer forums (not that they engage much with their developer community at all).

Apple is shipping broken software left and right ever since the ARM transition and it's become noticeable.
It's about reducing latency between input and output more than improving emulation precision.
I don't think you get it.

You get to keep the hardware. $900 gets you the hardware forever. You don't send it back after a year to buy a similarly equipped model with a credit from the deposit you put down. You just get a 32GB 512GB roughly M2 Pro performing machine for $900. Apple wants $1700 for that!
Given the date and that it's a Saturn-1B, that would make it AS-202, one of the early test flights. So instruments probably real, but not final hardware.
I agree that it would be useful. I wouldn’t trust a traditional laptop OS to keep this data secure though. I would rather do without.
It's perfect for organizing people's /tmp folder
Yes, that means OP probably can't sue them. My comment is about customer trust.
It has been many years since I've seen a Compuserve ID.
OS2 single mode fibre is pretty future proof. The transceivers may change, but the underlying cable should last a looong time and can be sliced and diced considerably with WDM (16+ channels AFAIK).
It might be reasonable to have regulations here, but I shudder to think what form they would take, given the typical government level of technological expertise and understanding.
For the curious - google “tanker Minerva Julie Nord Stream”. While officially the tanker is Greek, it is tightly connected to Russia.

I’d be looking for the key places in international waters and the likes needed to be cut simultaneously to say paralyze Europe banking and other infrastructure and would be checking whether there are Russian (and affiliated like that Minerva company) “trawlers” with a habit of hanging around those places.
it's very low on both the "social" side and "media" side. It's mostly text, it's largely technical topics, there's commenting but it's effectively anonymous aside from a couple really well known usernames if you're a regular. no engagement algos, no following, no avatars, no obvious rampant bot activity, no fake content for views
Does any of the competition have a trackpad that compares to those on MacBooks?
Renewables still need fossil fuel generators as a backstop as battery technology still isn’t good enough to meet the full electric demand when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. Nuclear fills this need as an always available electricity source cheaper than fossil fuels without the carbon pollution.
I would be very happy to hear Cloudflare's actual side of this. (Or - it would have been great if they had given their side to us before getting into this mess). The only critical information from our side that I'm aware of is that we're a casino with multiple domains - which is why I put that right at the top. But most of the info should be relevant to any business interacting with CF.

I do admit that I originally drafted this article as a "customer support of last resort", since that seems to work well for CF specifically. But it's too late for that anyways by now - the problem is "resolved" by fire and we don't plan to move back.

I purely posted it now as a precautionary tale for other people because of all the pain it has caused us. So the audience is tech people in most companies of small size that will hit more traffic at some point in the future.
Electric furnaces introduce carbon using graphite electrodes which is enough for the carbon that gets embedded in the alloy but to convert the iron oxide in raw ore to pure iron in a blast furnace, you need a lot more carbon as a reducing agent to bind to oxygen, preventing it from oxidizing the working material as the metal cools. The coke also serves a dual purpose as a semi-permeable solid that allows the hot gasses to escape from the furnace without collapsing under the weight of the molten metal.
I just got a regular mouse ear alarm clock. The phone one has bugged out on me before, can't trust it now.
I’m not at my machine to whip up an example but this is an ideal use case for pandas. You can read or stream the excel file and split it in probably <20 lines of python.
I have to point out that if you're the consistent factor over all these seemingly mediocre engineers, then that really might say more about the manager roasting their own employees on a public forum than them?
No, it's what governments are for.
No one is fully trustworthy.
I would also add /r/whatisthisthing to your list of subreddits as well. I subscribe to it just to learn about all kinds of obscure tools and utensils.
How the Sausage Is Made
> (The extension of "DIZ" actually stands for "Description In Zip")

Ah, finally, another puzzlement from my childhood explained.
yeh its a nonsense reply to take the attention of the food industry and big corp using sugar, chemicals to create processed foods, pesticides, mass intensive farming etc and instead blame it on someone else
Interesting read. I don't think this came up in my stats classes:

> Gosset solved many problems at the brewery with his new technique. The self-taught statistician published his t-test under the pseudonym “Student” because Guinness didn’t want to tip off competitors to its research. Although Gosset pioneered industrial quality control and contributed loads of other ideas to quantitative research, most textbooks still call his great achievement the “Student’s t-test.”
Found it cool that this has the real sound of the master alarm in it; the movie version from Apollo 13 was dramatised.
The problem here is people seldomly get paid rewriting existing C code into memory safe lamguages. While once in a while someone would be annoyed enough and pay for a fixing-C effort for a little.

Do you have suggestions on how to fix the incentive?
Is it possible to tap fiber-optic cables without the owner getting wise? Even if you could tap modern cables, I assume everything is now encrypted and carries so much bandwidth that it becomes possible to sample the interesting intelligence.
out of curiosity, do you make money from your blog or recommending apps?
Arrays are a separate data type than pointers, although in many contexts you can use an array where a pointer is expected and it will work, and this feature is useful.

Bounds-checking can sometimes be useful, and can perhaps have a switch to control its working.

Some instruction sets (such as Flex) have tagged memory. In Flex, a pointer contains the address of a block (and a pointer can also be designated is read-only, disallowing writing through the pointer). There is also a "reference" consisting of a pointer and a displacement; I suppose this "reference" can be used to implement C pointers. If you use this, then the computer will automatically do bounds-checking and will result in an error if you make an access that is out of bounds.

Tagged memory also allows to easily find the pointers in memory without needing to know the types of variables, which can be helpful for some uses, e.g. to detect improper use of realloc/free. Furthermore, null pointer can be zero (without the tag bits), which is automatically an error when used as a pointer because it is not a pointer.
It's worse than medical devices, at least for the final machines and software.

For components in the path of money flow (payment processors, RNGs, hosting, etc.), it's similar.
I believe it's more awareness of these issues, and engagement-driven algorithms presenting them over and over (because they're engaging).

The world has always been filled with negativity, but for most of history, most people only really knew what was around them. Now people are online more than ever before, which means they are exposed to more non-local content than ever before. People seek out engaging content, and negativity, especially fear, turns out to be particularly attention-grabbing due to human instinct formed through natural selection.

You can blame currently social media (Facebook, Tiktok, etc.) on this. But I believe even if it were replaced by the Fediverse and IRC, the current generation would still form a more negative outlook than previous ones. It's human nature to seek out negative content, so an algorithm would need to hide this content to prevent people from finding it.

Personally I still believe it's a good thing overall that people know about bad things in the world. I think it's better than the alternative, where most people are blissful and ignorant, and other people suffer with no-one to save or support them. Some negativity is important: just enough to motivate the feeler to do something and make a positive impact on the world.

I agree that part of a solution is "a framework to understand the harshness of the world". The world has a lot of bad but it also has a lot of good, and the massive amount of exposure is only an issue because negativity affects people and grabs their attention more than positivity. It would help people to understand this, so when they catch themselves hyper-focusing on something negative, they can take a step back and realize that e.g. it only affects a small percentage of the population.
As a kid, I always assumed that it was "description" but in some other language which I was unfamiliar with.