skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title seems a little misleading… the article is largely about how unclear the refund process is to customers.

Clearly Spotify sees Car Thing as a mistake. That’s ok, mistakes happen. But they should really be working to make sure customers aren’t paying the price for their mistake (as much as is feasible, anyway). It sure doesn’t sound like they are doing that.

BTW, there could be code in there they don’t have the right to open source, so I don’t know whether to judge them on that aspect of it or not.
I haven't read it, but judging by the title, I think it's in the same absurd spirit. I say all of this in jest to get reflection and a response.

Behind my post is a very slight elbow at the person suggesting more people write their representative. As if they'll just hop-to. Or succeed.

We skipped a lot of steps/pieces. Most don't even care or know who their rep is. More voting, less buying trash.

'Identity politics' in concert with the internet, dopamine, and rage have won.

The government serving the people doesn't seem to be a significant function. Otherwise we wouldn't have to hear about how well it does. We'd live it.

We probably won't claw back what we've lost - of it or ourselves. The incentive structure is ruined

There's more to this than I could ever write about, I'll stop there
I didn't know about this project but I'm really glad you're doing it.

How do you choose which books to do?
Fascinating topic. But as far as I know the patterns in cats are not related to skin. I think they are related to genes. After all what we see as patterns are individual hairs of different colors. Some animals like zebras have the same stripes through generations. This is not very interesting. In cats I'm sure there is a random process in effect. But this random process is also "aware" of the symmetry of the body, like having the same black patch on each ear. Or having a black tail in otherwise white cat.
The phone line simulator was very impressive.

I likely would have given up several times and just played the audio on the laptop and tried capturing it with another device (my phone) over the air.
>Not me

Everyone did; any experienced user had to seek lighter alternatives at some point.

>Why not spend

Tell that to a musician I know which uses a netbook and it can use Mastodon thru https://brutaldon.org under his old laptop he uses for music production, where audio software works but modern JS crawls it's machine lot.
For example, an email like

David.Calhoun@boeing.com

would be completely normal.

Yet the above regex would not match it. Whoops.

Likewise,

can_you_believe_it@hotmail.com

which is also completely normal and typical, would fail the regex as well.

But I guess if the only kind of customers you want are the

fred@hotstartup.com

and

jane@some-vc.com

people then sure, this otherwise wholly inadequate regex would serve you well.
The topic is inter corporate mudslinging, so it seems very on topic to point out that Lucid hasn't figured out how to not lose gobs of money yet.

Honestly, this whole post should probably be deleted, because it's not a constructive topic.
The decision to hide the virtual ethernet bridge on Windows 11 is a major WTF moment.

I burned a few hours trying to figure that one out, I need to disable/enable it each time I connect or disconnect to VPN.

Why Microsoft decided to hide that from the technical userbase of WSL2 I don't understand.
> Why disallow it, or use it to argue that the standard isn't good?

Because lots of folks fat finger their own e-mail addresses and then complain that a 'site sucks' because signing up doesn't work. Sanity checking to protect people against themselves may be treated as a form of UX: it's probably why some forms insist you type (not copy-paste) your e-mail twice.
4 day work week? Sure! And if the rich weren't allowed to weasel and corrupt their ways into 0% tax rates it'd be even better!
If you mean this article https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-all...

It clearly says:

A spokesperson from the Department of Home Affairs told the ABC it is "Working with Ticketmaster to understand the incident".

Which is more than they are aware of a rumour
Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, and most people who live in Western countries do enjoy their democracy.
I think I ran the search for the city name earlier on and immediately got a news article about the event

(yep just tried again and yep still shows the relevant article)
Engineering for slow CPUs next. No matter how fast our machines get these days, it's just never enough for the memory/CPU/battery hungry essential apps and operating systems we use nowadays.
“The SEC doesn’t care about users” is a a weird complaint. A bit like “The IRS doesn’t care about climate change”.
Throughout most of human history "taking" meant that the thing is now yours and not theirs. If you had a book, I read it all and wrote my own copy, nobody would call that taking your book, it's copying your book. You can try to change the definition, but depriving something of ownership/use of something is qualitatively very different from making a copy of it, so it doesn't follow that the former should necessarily be treated the same as the latter.
The emphasis in my questions above was on recommend.
I remember upgrading my ATI Radeon HD 6950 to a 6970 - it was just a simple firmware flash! Worked beautifully. The card did eventually die so it might not have been the best idea, but in the meantime it did mine enough Bitcoins to pay for itself.
If you have OCR in the loop anyway, you could have just taken a picture of the file as displayed on the original laptop, no need to do the fax transfer.
> The Zmachine it's far easier, but you are mostly limited to nswe, the corners, up and down. And, maybe, in/out, inside/outisde.

The Z-Machine was far more capable than that. It had a complicated LISP-inspired object system and a parser capable of a relatively huge vocabulary and you could map just about whatever "spatial relationships" you wanted between the vocabulary and objects. Even the original Zork itself you'd be unable to complete if you assumed the only available directions were compass directions/corners/up/down/in/out. There are some tricky shortcuts and couple places the Zork dungeon violates a strict grid. DOOM has the much more limited map structure than the Z-Machine (given the way its BSP worked it had a very strong Euclidean graph and lots of limits on how rooms connect; which its amazing MyHouse.WAD works at all, it would have been a lot easier to build on the Z-Machine).

Also, further the features of the Z-Machine depend on the version of the Z-Machine and some of the later Z-Machines got extremely complex. Versions 6, 7, and 8 even had modest graphics support. (It might be neat with the project here to try to screenshot DOOM rooms and include in Z6+ Z-Machine files.)
As soon as the indexed documents contain lingo of any kind you need hybrid search IMHO.

Additionally, if you can add conditional fuzzy matching into the mix so fat fingering something still yields a workable result is even better for UX (something along the lines of "the results from the tf-idf search are garbage, let's redo the search with fuzzy matching this time).
> It's not just a science. It's an art, too.

It was... I will miss that until retirement, too, but the artisan part of this craft has been gradually dying for over a decade. I think this change started when "popular kids" started confidently saying they wanted to work with computers when they grew up. The effect is the proliferation of normies throughout the trade, now many of them with 10+ years of experience. The average developer's appreciation for the elegant and the inspiring grew weaker, and the idea of putting more work into a task than absolutely necessary (like, for example, stopping for a moment to consider the context before deciding on a tool or technique to apply...) lost all appeal. There's a thin line between aggressively pragmatic and ignorant, and the newer generations seem to treat crossing that line as a non-issue as long as the ticket can be presented as resolved. This mindset used to be confined to cubicles and neckties, but now it's seemingly everywhere...

Don't mind me; I just feel unusually old and grumpy today...
Depends on how you interpret the word "screened".
I was gonna comment on the sorting being less than ideal too. Only sort by release date (not publication date), author, ease, and length. Can't even sort by title.
Just need to finally tax the rich, all major human affecting industries made publicly owned or heavily regulated; water, food, housing, internet, healthcare, etc.

I just wish people would vote for this.
Gutenberg.org is reporting the number of downloads; can't this be used?

Are these two organizations otherwise not on friendly terms, and able to exchange ebooks?
Why is it that this community of innovators can’t fathom other ways to fund cool things besides the false dichotomy of customer pays vs we shove ads down customer throat?

Some services seem like facebook and reddit seem ripe for a nonprofit model to use an example that doesn’t require any innovation.

Maybe because y’all are focused on winning big with your options? Maybe that’s the root cause of enshitification?
I'd try cracking open the laptop and intercepting the audio signal before it goes to the built-in speaker
Japanese exchange DMM loses $305M in Bitcoin via private key hack
This laptop has a serial port, I am pretty sure vanilla Mac is capable of transferring files over serial port. We did that on DOS all the the time.
Illegality and immorality are too often at odds.
This really hit close to home. Many years ago a project manager said the same thing to me. Unfortunately in that case, Sam's new deadline validator has much more simplified requirements than the developer's. The developer's deadline validator takes ten function arguments to customize its behavior in various ways. One of the arguments, a stringly typed argument allows the validator to match the fraction of the second against a string. Sam thought providing the empty string "" would ask the validator to accept all possible fractional values, but unfortunately it requires the magic string "*" to accept all possible fractional values and the empty string "" only allows zero fractional values, i.e. the deadline must be an integral number of seconds.

An outage happened because the system rejected every single deadline that's not an integral number of seconds.
It would appear the targets are all journalists. I think they're using this phrasing to denote that they're civilians.
Epigrams on Programming (1982) [pdf]
> useless "just switch OSes!" arguments

I'm a long-time Linux user and I would discourage people from switching to it on the desktop. Not anymore. It is a viable alternative and the irony is, often more things work out of the box than in Windows as the vast majority of drivers is shipped directly with the kernel.

At some point, when someone makes your life more and more miserable, you will have enough and you will switch. Looking at MS actions in the last decade, it's not the question of if, only when.
Did the laptop not have any kind of serial port to write to?
And they've lost their market value Dude's in cope mode
A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance
I clicked through on that post, and it's a real job. It's just that it's in SEK not USD, so the low end of the range is actually $79,446 not $837,000.
RapidAPI – The most advanced API tool for Mac
Yeah I heard that about letters like 20 years ago from a staffer so maybe I'm a bit out of touch, lol.
You should ask that question to yourself in a couple of years.
My experience agrees with this comment – I’m not sure why web browsers seem to frequently get hung up on only some Http requests at times, unrelated to the actual network conditions. Ie: in the browser the HTTP request is timing out or in a blocked state and hasn’t even reached the network layer when this occurs. (Not sure if I should be pointing the finger here at the browser or the underlying OS). However, when testing slow / stalled loading issues, this (the browser itself) is frequently one of the culprits- however, this issue I am referring to even further reinforces the article/sentiments on this HN thread (cut down on the number of requests / bloat, and this issue too can be avoided.)
Would love this if I could adjust the bottom of the range. $100k is quite a bit below what I'm looking for at this point in my career.
... and none of them allow people <18 years old to carry a handgun on their person to school.

Armed (and trained) adults are very different from "gun-toting high-school students", which is what seems to be implied here.
NethSecurity 8 Open Source Linux Firewall Released
Is a fax implicitly an analog transmission? Or is there a digital data stream somewhere beneath the layer sending the photo that could be used like a modem?
Thanks for the clarification!

I think it makes sense that there's some X% of Americans who fly "recreationally somewhat routinely" where X<100, but I'm not sure what X is. As a counterpoint to X=30, as of last Fall 48% of Americans had a passport [1] from which I think we can reasonably infer that nearly 48% of Americans have had an international trip in the last 10 years. The bar for recreationally flying in general is quite lower because it includes domestic flights. But also maybe the international trip was a once off.

[1] https://www.state.gov/return-to-pre-pandemic-passport-proces...
The problem is people talk about HOA like they are some monolithic thing. There are HOA that are only responsible for maintenance of the subdivision sign all the way up to ones responsible for multiple skyrise condo buildings.
You're correct in phone calls and letters counting way more than e-mails or online comments. Especially if the comment is thoughtful. If the issue is hot button, it won't do anything. But for marginal issues like these, a couple calls can easily swing votes.
I think I misunderstood your point before. I thought you wanted to show a regex that _intentionally_ disables it. It also happens to disable a lot more, making it a bad choice. Now I'm thinking that you might actually agree with that.
This is a specific Dell issue. You can see when comparing last quarter results, if somebody needs servers for serious business data center work they will get them from SuperMicro.

The run up in the share price of Dell, some days with percentages higher than NVIDIA just to at the be surprised with a 20% share price drop, shows there is a lot of dumb money and trend following in Wall Street. 20 days ago out of the 14 analysts covering DELL, 10 recommend “Strong Buy”...
Some might say the outfit responsible for the Santander break was Santander...
This kind of spying seems necessary and appropriate to me, provided it is done under the appropriate legal framework. The security concern with Russia and Belarus are self evident now, and the security concerns around hosting a large dissident population must be enormous. You don't want extremists within the dissident movements (it'd bad if the Putin assassination was planned on your soil), nor penetration of the dissident movement by foreign intelligence (it'd be a bad if the opposition leader got novichoked on your soil). I'm not sure how else to address these kinds of problems in society except with some kind of well regulated security apparatus (making the big assumption that it is well regulated here).
> Why? Windows is also not case-sensitive, so it's not like there's a near-universal convention that S3 is ignoring.

Not sure why what Windows does is relevant to this, honestly. Personally, I strongly prefer case sensitivity with filenames, but the lack of it isn't a dealbreaker or anything.
Must be only in europe then. Just tried here in france and theres not a single article of the event
What a weird, sad, pointless article. There's nothing new about "platform engineering" or "internal developer platforms". The only myth is that these labels represent new ideas or unique approaches. These are just not-particularly-new names for something software companies and IT organizations have been doing for decades. And GCP offers no particularly unique or innovative tools, services, or support for building an internal platform.

I used the exact phrase "internal development platform" for the automation infrastructure I was developing to provide resources, security, libraries, databases, web endpoints, etc for internal ASP.NET applications at a state university where I worked over 20 years ago. It ran on a half-dozen bare-metal physical servers in the datacenter across the hall from my office. And I knew at the time that we didn't come up with some brilliant new breakthrough idea for organizing application development, because the university's mainframe programmers on the other side of the building had built a similar automation platform over 20 years before that. We modeled a lot of our design on theirs.

And here I am in 2024, working for companies, building exactly the same sorts of solutions, with all the same parameters and components, just in a different computing environment. Templates, access, runtime, database, storage, sessions, load balancing, logging, security. Whether it's a mainframe in the 80s, a few Windows servers in the 00s, cloud VMs in the 10s, or Kubernetes in the 20s, it's all the same problem space, and guess what, Google or anyone else preaching "platform engineering" hasn't created or realized anything new.
This site works surprisingly poorly in Firefox (Mac). When I click a link, I usually get a blank page along with some CSP errors and have to refresh. No problems in Safari or Chrome.
Heavy funding from the government, too: https://www.racket.news/p/newsguard-case-highlights-the-pent...
Completed in 2 years. Impressive.
Arn't there a serial (COM) port available on that laptop ? It was kind of ubiquitous at those days. This website [1] says there were two of them. Solving the probem with Zmodem would be trivial. The software (terminal) is already there, it seems.

1. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/specs/mac_p...
the funny thing is that a Spießbürger is someone who in english could be described as having a stick up their rear.
I really like what https://datagolf.com/ has done to visualize and explore professional golf statistics.

A few interesting pages to check out:

- Scottie Scheffler's (Current Top Golder in the World) Player's Profile: https://datagolf.com/player-profiles?dg_id=18417

- Approach Skill Analysis: https://datagolf.com/approach-skill
Will that 90% model give you a more accurate answer after 3 tries?
Yeah, the site listing only seems to understand dollars, but some of the postings have (of course) different currencies.
Additional citation: https://apnews.com/article/record-heat-deadly-climate-change... ("AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat")
> and you can see it in its comments

I don’t see any comments on that article?

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You’re missing the picture.

All that LegacyFox looks to do is allow loading old-style extension manifests, by converting them to new-style, just with the difference that they’re given unfettered access to internals. This allows you to load the extensions, but doesn’t guarantee that they will work.

By the end of 2019, XUL Templates, XUL Overlays, XBL Stylesheets, XUL Documents, and XBL had been removed <https://groups.google.com/g/firefox-dev/c/24SH5R0AcC0/m/B6Sc...>.

Last year, XUL Layout was finally removed <https://crisal.io/words/2023/03/30/xul-layout-is-gone.html>.

I haven’t tried actually running any of this stuff, but I get the impression that this means that pretty much no extensions from the 56 era will work any more. Look at VimFx’s changelog <https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/blob/master/CHANGELOG...>, and yeah, regular fixes have been required, with more and more things breaking. This is a pretty good demonstration of what the problem with XPCOM extensions was, as the article pointed out: they had too much access to browser internals, which made it hard for the browser to change things without breaking extensions, and necessary changes just kept on breaking extensions again and again and again, and extension developers were tired of it. In the WebExtension era, extensions almost never break, despite major concrete improvements in the browser having been made that in the past would have broken at least every interesting extension out there.

XUL (by which I mean XUL, not XPCOM) isn’t completely gone yet, because it was such a core part of the browser that it takes a long time to kill it completely, but most of what made it it is gone.

XPCOM extensions made Firefox unmaintainable. Although they were a great thing, they had to die for Firefox to survive.
I haven't tested it, but this tool probably handles name collisions in .Trash gracefully:

https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash
Terminal over ssh? Hahaha don't tempt me :)

I really like this idea. It's not at all what I had in mind for the product, but that's because it had never occurred to me. I'm going to give this some serious thought and see what shakes out.
There are other fun "terminal capture tools" like https://asciinema.org/
Multi-Array Queue
No, introverts.
He says he tried multiple font sizes.
If you can fax I'm sure you can do some zmodem/ymodem.
I have it on good authority (twitter) that, in fact, 2024 is actually the worst period to be alive.
And that's just plain false. All the people in all of Britain taking a handful of pebbles from a beach, and you wouldn't be able to tell it happened.

"It all adds up" is where they mistake magnitudes of events by many zeroes. That's exactly the point I was making: they're clueless.
Very creative and interesting ie 'use whatever tools/knowledge you have' but:

> The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector.

This is literally never an issue as old connectors are easily obtainable (in particular 'in this day and age').

> Adapting it didn't seem straightforward, and we weren't confident the old file system (HFS) would be easy to read from a modern system.

Simple search pulled this up. Honestly that reason didn't make any sense to me at all. The other way might be interesting and fun but I don't think this is a reason not to attempt mounting the old file system.

https://www.matthewhughes.co.uk/how-to-mount-hfs-classic-dri...
In my younger years, I had to pull a dBase 2 database off a CP/M desktop into an MS-DOS portable.

I ended up configuring a serial cable, and running PROCOMM on the PC, set 9600/n/8/1 on both ports, then printed from dBase 2 and set PROCOMM to record the session to a file.

It would lose characters if I let it run too long without a pause to write to a floppy, so I would ctrl-s/q on the CP/M side.

I guess nobody else had ever figured out how to do this.
Even if there isn’t third party licensed software in this Thing, it still can take significant work to open-source an internal project that wasn’t intended to be public from the start.

And given the price of tech labor, most businesses are going to want to put their engineers on active projects.
> OA is mostly a public money sink, a big scheme to drain public money from European countries. Not only are we paying a ridiculous, ungodly amount of money for people to host PDFs on a website

This is a choice that European countries are making that has nothing to do with open access. You can always choose to overpay well-connected insider contractors to accomplish any of the functions of government.
To be fair I don't upgrade PC all that often (my 1080ti still going strooong!)

So when I do upgrade (every 6 years or so, it's currently been since 2018 and I still feel no need) then not only does the CPU technology need a bump, but the bridges on the mobo also need an update. Going from a 2018->2024 mobo is guaranteed to get you things like more/faster m.2 slots etc as well.

I suppose they could make compatible with old and new boards but I imagine it's much easier for them to design 1:1 new cpu + chipset than to design and test 1:* new cpu, new chipset, old chipset 1, old chipset 2, etc.