skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The irony of his mom being on the Board of Advisors of Stanford University’s Ethics is astounding.

Oh it's worse than that. She wrote people should learn to go "beyond blame".

They enriched themselves (the parents), buying properties worth $15m in the Bahamas.

Same as for the "effective altruist" guru of SBF: he got a $15m donation and bought a mansion in the UK for the "effective thieves" movement. Last I checked that guru tweeted that he needed some time to reflect on what happened and, last I checked, he didn't offer to give back the property acquired with stolen money. Thankfully that property may be clawed back at some point: decades (already) after the Enron scam, ill-acquired money is still being clawed back. So there's hope.

To me these people are despicable worms. That's why I cannot get along with people who want to pardon everyone... I'm loyal. I respect the law. But I've got zero compassion for the complete, total and utter scum of this earth.
Yes its a waste of time. Mostly because too many of the smartest people on the planet are already employed by a pathetic billionaire buffoon class, that will pervert whatever it is you produce. That buffoon class has had a free run for too long, and are so full of themselves, we are on the verge of some sort of King Louis moment. Until that happens, whatever you work on is not going to make any diff to anything.

The better option, since you have experience, is move abroad and do the same bean counting for higher pay. In S.Korea for example you will make 4-5x doing the same work, just cause of the smaller pool of experienced people there. And that changes how you look at all your dependencies. Similarly there are lot of spots on the planet where they have cash mountains but not enough people. Target them. Work for few years. Settle all your bills and then retire and work on whatever you want too.
> Just spitballing here but is it necessary to support every increment of octets?

Indeed CBOR does this, and that's another reason you should put continuation bits to the first byte: it allows for much greater control.
>there's some research on applying policies like "this text is a lie"

Of course there is, since there would be interest and grants for it.

I don't see it leading to anything however.
Is it though? I've not seen evidence of that.
I love Tom Waits, but I always just assumed he was doing an impression of the other raspy blues artists that came before like

Willie Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KV51qIdI0

Howlin Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

or Screamin Jay Hawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGPhpvqtOc

It surprises me a little because the Dorito commercial sounds like a fairly generic blues backing track and a raspy voiced singer. From the article, there's an indication that Doritos was looking to replicate the sound and feel of the song, and they were aware of the legal concern. But to me it kind of sounds like Tom Waits is doing an impersonation, the Doritos song is doing an impersonation, but it's not totally obvious from the song that the Doritos impersonation necessarily goes via Tom Waits rather than back to the original source material.
I'm usually in black and white. Can also get the accessibility icon to permanently show up in the bottom right corner of the bottom bar.
If anyone at Spotify is reading this, I just cancelled my account. You guys deserve considerably less money than you have now, but this is the best I can do.
I was about to write the same comment but you expressed it much better. I would also be happy if it could be both an android tablet but have a monitor mode where it just becomes a monitor.
This looks fantastic! Congratulations, really amazing work.

It's unfortunate it's twice the price of others in the field like remarkable, it's a little bit beyond what I'd buy for "that seems cool, I might use it from time to time"
>Intel for example (a hardware company!) has multiple telemetry tools force-installed with their drivers that spend > 10 minutes(!!) of CPU time daily on my laptop. I have to go and use NTFS ACLs to block execute permissions on those things because it "repairs" itself more aggressively than Bonzi Buddy. NVIDIA injects their telemetry into third-party processes, so about 20% of the startup time of the built-in Calculator App is NVIDIA telemetry. It's not a game! It just happens to use DirectX for graphing... so NVIDIA has to know about it. Etc...

Any more info on this? I now want to start looking into blocking these myself.

Thanks for the well written and informative post, I enjoyed reading it!
Russia is having quite a struggle against Ukraine with like a quarter of its population and mostly old western weapons that were on the way out. NATO with stealth fighters and the like would be quite different game.

I remember the US military vs Iraq with mostly Russian gear was almost embarrassingly one sided.
By way of an experiment - set your phone screen to black & white (in iOS, settings -> accessibility -> display -> color filters -> [on] -> grayscale, on android, settings -> accessibility -> color & motion -> color correction -> [on] -> grayscale), and leave it that way for a day of normal use. Then, turn it off, and note how you react to the change.

Folks aren't calling it calmer because they're trying to look erudite, they're calling it calmer because modern applications put a lot of work into capturing your attention, and color is one of the tools they use (quite aggressively) to do so. Disabling color on the device isn't some way to look snobbish, it's a way to reduce the number of ways the device and applications are attempting to grab your attention.
What're you working on in specific? Can help provide clarification if you're able to describe the use case.
Building Multi-Region Support for Linear
This very much happens to me. What has been so odd about understanding it is that I don't detect the sustained attention problem as dehydration or thirst. I detect it as hunger or a general malaise, a need to be woken up, for which the answer can feel like- should consume caffeine. Neither food nor caffeine help.

If my system 2 is able to intercept this processing and logically hypothesize- try plain water first- after starting to drink water I then realize I am very thirsty, and will consume 24-32 oz very quickly. Afterwards I feel great, re-energized.

But my body/autonomous system 1 still hasn't learned this, and it has now been a few years since first making this realization. So odd.
The point is it's poorly done by the standard you'd expect from top level no-expense-spared commercial graphic design. And that reflects poorly on the company and the product.

The Win XP field was the opposite. It was organic, calming, and oddly fascinating because you couldn't tell if it was a plain photo or an edit or... what. And it had an unexpected reference to the Windows branding in the composition.

Win 10 was more like meaningless window-shaped visual noise.
It depends. Fire guns and most controls? Yes. Self-destruct the ship? Hell no.

The whole point of having a release event is another UX usability principle: being able to undo a click or tap.

Having disabled players conducting real UAT to ensure UX is appropriate for a wide audience is also important.
"It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable."

-- Nick Cave, https://www.theredhandfiles.com/communication-dream-feeling/
There was a lot of contention when Cortana was being integrated into the start menu directly. They have very temperamental performance tests for first paint on the start menu open. Cortana caused their 250ms (or something to that number) first paint time limit to exceed to over 5 seconds for first paint. After enough grumbling, they eventually decoupled Cortana from the start menu directly. Thankfully.
QFTs are effective field theories: they describe interactions at a particular energy scale, smoothing over whatever unknown physics is going on at lower (or sometimes higher) length scales. This makes the strengths of interactions scale-dependent. So in QED, for instance, the fine structure "constant" is actually a few percent larger at the GeV scale than it is at zero energy. Fortunately for us, we only need to measure the fine-structure constant at finitely many energies to calculate its value at any energy scale we like. But this is just because QED happens to be well-behaved. When we try to apply the same techniques to the gravitational constant, we end up with infinitely many free parameters for reasons which are too technical to explain here. Any intro QFT textbook will probably have a rough heuristic argument (I used Srednicki), but we don't actually know with certainty that there's no clever way to get all those higher order terms to cancel - we just haven't found one and have no reason to expect one.
tripling capex vs. productivity, yes, but maybe if capex is small compared to opex, that's a worthwhile tradeoff. the one particular plant i was able to find the answer for does operate 24/7
2. The graphics are a lot more sophisticated. Animation and transparency and lots of good stuff.

Strong disagree. Borderless icons floating in a sea of flatness is not "more sophisticated" by any means than the fully-customisable UI which was common in the XP era, and the huge amount of "skinning" that was also very popular. Transparent/translucent effects became common with Vista and that was run on the GPU, which was in general much less powerful than the ones today.

I'll add a 5th point: Thanks to a low barrier to entry, the average developer now is much lower quality than the average 20 years ago.
There's a Vernor Vinge book Deepness in the Sky where the villains make their workers better at specialized tasks by basically using nanotechnology to give them autism.

I didn't think that would be one of his successful predictions.
FYI: goodereader has a bad reputation in the eink world. Their reviews are fair but their shop is borderline scam.
Windows 11 won't run most DOS or Windows 3.1 or Win16 Windows 95/98/ME programs.

XP does.
That just put the biggest smile on my face since an old 2009 vintage app to simulate the guzheng.
Yes, I agree! I did say "decent"... I remember getting a 486 in mid 1994 and it had 8 megs. My earlier 386SX box had 4, if I recall. 16 would've been higher end for sure.
> and laptop

Maybe start with a screen module for a Framework laptop: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tre..., before/instead of trying to engineer a laptop from scratch...
With adhd it’s virtually impossible to do something not extremely stimulating - regardless of consequences later on.

With meds it’s still possible to procrastinate etc, just not to the levels as before.
Just yesterday, I purchased a game from GOG where the Linux build cannot start, owing to who knows what expected platform profile. Maybe, technically, I could have fixed the problem. The Windows build worked without issue in Wine.
FWIW, the least ethical person I've ever known is a girl who's been making her career as an ethicist; philosophy degree, master in ethics and all that.

I was briefly involved with her in a nascent startup (I was leading the engineering side) until she just openly suggested to screw a business partner up, taking up its money and committing fraud, all that without the slightest hint of remorse in her body language. As if I just told you, "oh, it's sunny outside". gg and left that "project" immediately.

Later heard she had to move to Montreal because she had screwed so much people in our hometown that she couldn't find anyone even willing to sit down with her; she was stealing money from everyone she could, pretty much. I wonder what's the endgame for these people or if it's some sort of compulsive disorder, like people who literally can't resist to steal small things from stores.
Ask HN: What's your favorite everyday app or product?
Found The StoryGraph through a YouTube video and it has revolutionized my reading life. Made me curious about what other genuinely useful apps or software products I'm missing out on. What are your favorites?
In this article she pushes a navel gazing argument that, essentially, culpability can't exist because people lack free will: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blam...

If I assume that she authored the piece sincerely rather than as some navel gazing intellectual and virtue signaling exercise, then it isn't a shock that her child has a defective comprehension of right and wrong (or at least was atypically vulnerable to having one installed by others-- e.g. utilitarian consequentialism and 'effective altruism').

It's also not surprising that such a person would strive to get themselves placed in a position of authority on the subject-- not in spite of a psychopathic, ethically defective, or just overly rationalized worldview but specifically because of it.
comments here promise an unlocking tool in the future.

This is very different from shipping unlocked. Until the tool is available, I would not go anywhere near this.
Assuming you can go through the dependency hell, because you can't use old packages on a new distro - so in most cases you have to compile by source... I've tried to run XMMS and suffered a lot.
I often use ctrl-win-c shortcut for black and white mode in Windows, it's great to rest the eyes.
Yes, but that isn’t what I really use it for. An example recent use was to pull up a recording of a conversation I had on zoom to see a detail on one of the slides I couldn’t remember. Prior to that it was searching for a specific set of words I knew I had seen in a proprietary dataset (think Ipsos/Gartner) that their own search wasn’t finding.

I generally don’t need/recall those kinds of details after a certain time and will accept those losses.
"such as WiFi support, thread scheduling, and suspend modes that are worth a damn."

Thread scheduling has existed since NT 3.51.

Wifi is largely just another kind of network adapter.

XP supported the same suspend-to-RAM and hibernate-to-disk modes as todays systems.

"but I haven't forgotten how poorly my old XP two-thread laptop multitasked"

Despite what certain processor vendors tell you, the number of threads are determined by each running program. Whatever you mean by "poor multitasking", you were probably short on RAM.

The OS has made improvements that can help with battery life, but most of any perceived improvement has come from batteries that suck less.

"In the XP days, you were running Firefox 1.0, a 5MB program."

5 MB was never a realistic estimate of process RAM.
This sounds great, I would love to buy one!

Is there a static specs page? The site seems to have been hugged to near-death but even if not it would be great to know the basics not in a video form: size, weight, OS (e.g., can I run my favorite FB2 reader on it), interfaces, etc.

I am totally willing to lean forward and buy one, but from the current state of the site I cannot even figure out if the screen is 4" or 9" or something in between.
It was probably positive edge-level triggered (and debounced) without considering the second release event. It's a common failure of digital interfacing state machine design.
That should be probably resolved outside of the serialization. For example you can easily map -4n-1 to 2^(8+n), -4n-2 to 2^(8+n)-1, -4n-3 to 10^(3+n) and -4n-4 to 10^(3+n)-1 for all n >= 0.
Yes, take MS Teams for example. Takes around 1000MB or RAM. Older chat apps used way less. IRC used less than 1MB, sure it didn't do voice or video, but it could do things Teams still cannot do.
With edibles, taking the right dosage is notoriously difficult. They are very prone to accidental over-consumption (e.g. becoming "higher" than desired).

The feedback loop is very slow. It can easily take 30-60 minutes after ingestion before you can start gauging how strong the overall effect will be and how it might peak.
The sun giveth, the sun taketh away. Praise the sun!
I think Monoprice had one at one point. And I think boox makes a monitor. I looked into it last year but never pulled the trigger.
Oh my god I would buy this in a heartbeat (specifically the RLCD display - I've used enough kindle-style e-ink displays to find them basically unusable for anything I'm intending to actually interact with).
This goes with my theory that Melbourne is just Seattle.
Doesn't `all: unset` do this already? As in, it even removes all user-agent default styles.
Their #1 target should be credit reporting agencies, and other information brokers.
Yes, I did.

Sale-leasebacks are common and perfectly reasonable business strategies.

Generally speaking lease liabilities have a lower cost of capital than other types of debt, so making such a deal can help the company.

None of the decisions described in the post are either unusual or unreasonable from a management team trying to save a troubled company. They were just unsuccessful.
Are you looking at the 2 page abstract or 837 page full dissertation?

The latter is well documented with references and corroborating FOIA responses.

[0] https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/13...

See:

APPENDIX B: ST. LOUIS 1953 ZnCdS DISPERSION DATA

APPENDIX C: PENETRATION OF BUILDINGS IN ST. LOUIS

APPENDIX D: SYNOPSIS OF FINDINGS: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE'S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HUMAN TISSUE ANALYSIS

APPENDIX E: TIMELINE OF EVENTS

APPENDIX F: FOIA RESPONSE- ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND

APPENDIX G: FOIA RESPONSE- DUGWAY PROVING GROUND: BEHAVIOR OF AEROSOL
CLOUDS WITHIN CITIES & ST. LOUIS DISPERSION STUDY, VOL. II ANALYSIS
Yes, tried tunnels too. There is significant variability among individual requests, but when benchmarking at scale I found no meaningful difference in p50 and p90 between “Worker -> CF Tunnel -> EC2 -> backend app” and “Worker -> AWS Global Accelerator -> EC2 -> backend app”
For 30 years we had proportional scroll bars as a standard control. You could see how much of a document your current window is showing. You could click onto the bar to easily jump to a section relative to the document size. You could use the arrow buttons on the top and bottom of the scroll bar. You could tab to it and use the keyboard. If you were impaired in vision or motion, you could use your operating system settings to increase contrast or make them bigger.

And now it's 2024, and people on the web routinely cripple scroll bars to make them an UX nightmare.

The enshittification of UI/UX in browsers due to CSS allowing to completely ruin OS-provided standard controls that used to work just fine is a disgrace.

Please don't use this.
Sleep has become significantly worse in Windows. Many complaints of how a supposedly sleeping laptop cooked itself to death in a backpack overnight.

I also think it would be worth considering changes in underlying hardware. A modern laptop no longer has a spinning HDD, probably a much bigger battery, and a CPU that is better at entering low power modes when possible.
What is someone willing to pay is not known and different for different combanies. also too much invites action so they need to pe careful.
XP could be snappy, but I haven't forgotten how poorly my old XP two-thread laptop multitasked, how the battery didn't last more than an hour, and so on.

That is a hardware issue. XP can use far more cores, and I bet if you had the drivers, it would run much better than 10 or 11 on a recent laptop and give even better battery life.
>This all looks like snobbery to me, based on the association of monochrome paper with novels and writing and intellectual pursuits

You say it like it is a bad thing. It is associated with novels and writing and intellectual pursuits, because it's less suitable for video/graphics focused social media, videos, and games.

>but times have changed and now it's iPhones that are sinful, and monochrome displays are virtuous, apparently.

False analogy aside, we already know TVs and then smartphones are addictive in a way older media never were. We already have studies about that, and we already have statistics about the dire consequences on teenagers and adults in many metrics.

So, your argument is a little like saying:

"In the 1940s and 50s we were scared that weed would fry the brains of young kids, but times have changed and now it's meth that is dangerous, and weed is ok, apparently".

Well, meth is hella dangerous, and that's a fact, even if they overblew the danger of weed in the 1940s.
>the Debtors allege that Joseph Bankman directed “donations of more than $5.5 million” to Stanford University in an attempt to “curry favor with and enrich his employer at the FTX Group’s expense.”
Mind sharing which website builder you used so I can avoid them like the plague? I see other complaints here, but for me it completely fails to show anything, saying that a client-side error occurred (iOS 16.6.1), in a full-screen modal with text selection disabled.
> whatever america wants, it gets from countries subject to the monroe doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine has to do with preventing powers outside the western hemisphere interfering in Latin America, not the US imposing legal jurisdiction over the region which it obviously doesn’t especially given that Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela refuse to extradite despite having extradition treaties with the US. If you mean the US has outright hegemony in Latin America then that is easily falsified simply by pointing to the recent history of Cuba and Venezuela. Certainly the CIA has enormous reach and may have been involved but not necessarily, getting around passport confiscation could probably be handled by the State Department without too much hassle.
> [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461346

That's... this thread?
I pre-ordered! Huge fan and have been checking it out for a while.

My biggest question and use case is about handwritten notes. Like other paper tablets (Supernote, box, remarkable, etc) have custom drawing/writing apps that sync.

I understand y'all have a fancy custom Android OS, but can I expect to see my notes on other devices, and does it have cool features like handwriting to text auto translation, etc?

I'm very excited! I hope I get my daylight soon.
Most devices let you enable a monochrome filter and optionally invert the image somewhere in the accessibility settings, for what it's worth. You don't need a special device just for that.
A pen-tablet with a transflective display and a commodity OS is very compelling. I've been working for a few years on a "multimedia sketchpad"[0] application with a primarily grayscale UI that screams for a device like this. I imagine the browser port might already work acceptably, but perhaps I'll revisit a native Android port with the Daylight in mind...

[0] http://beyondloom.com/decker/
They aren't random people, in this example, they are pedestrian's who choose to cross public infrastructure without giving way to heavy machinery that has right of way.
I bet you could get pretty far with Universal Android Debloater: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

You can remove just about anything and everything, which is as much a warning as it is a recommendation. Don't use this if you're not ready to reinstall your OS.
It's hilarious how people think you can make a few donations and ride that good will for ever.

Once you stop being able to give future donations your political capital falls to nil.
I'd add to 4, having seen a bit of the Kernel code.
There's a lot of duplication of code, when new developers or teams come on board, they often just re-invent the wheel, rather than using existing Kernel funtions.

I would guess that most of the 15 NT developers from 30 years ago have long since left.
As a military rank, "general" is already a noun and you say "army generals", so why not "attorney generals"?
I'm not sure if it's mentioned on the site, but one thing I'd really love to see that could well nudge this into the "buy" category for me is some focus on repairability - I'd very much like to be able to swap the screen, battery, board, etc. in case the worst happens, rather than having to junk the whole device.