skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most VCRs were preset to output to UHF channel 36 (at least that's the UK numbering, it may be slightly different in the US), and so while recording different channels would be fine with multiple VCRs without a TV, watching the output from multiple VCRs wouldn't have been as easy. Maybe she wanted to be easily able to check what a particular VCR was recording without having to swap wires at the back of the TV. You could probably have made a giant coax switch box too, but it's unlikely they'd have been available commercially with more than just an A/B switch.

There also used to be tuning screw accessible via a very small hole on most models in the UK, and you could re-tune it to output on a different channel that way, but sometimes you had to open up the VCR to get to that. Or maybe she just didn't know that was even possible. In any case, there would only have been so many spare channels for her to use before she started interfering with the broadcasts she was trying to capture.

Maybe she just liked having a bank of screens that all had a different channel. I know my younger self would have thought that was pretty cool!
Chrome extension to fight copyright infringement on Etsy
Hi everyone,

Art theft runs rampant on Etsy (e-commerce site focused on homemade or vintage products with over 7 million sellers). Copyright infringers post stolen content as their own and persistently re-post it despite removal efforts.

The stolen artwork is uploaded on many platforms, posing a challenge for Etsy sellers, who often spend hours each week manually searching the internet and filing DMCA takedown reports.

CopyCat aims to help reduce the impact of this problem by scanning the web for stolen content and notifying sellers when it gets published online. The app also provides sellers with a comprehensive toolkit for filing DMCA violations, which can be a cumbersome process.

Here are some resources for those interested in this problem!

https://artrepreneur.com/journal/etsy-copyright-infringement...

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/comments/19cpu09/someon...

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/15awi72/copyrig...

Please don't hesitate to reach out with any comments or comments - all feedback is welcome :)
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Which type of ad homimen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Types_of_ad_hominem... ) argument is it, to say "An expert in commercial nuclear power reactors sees a number of serious & fundamental problems with a proposed type of commercial nuclear power reactors"?
When extensions such as Scribix are integrated in my Chrome, its always faster to rely on professional, specialized models ;)
Yes but the top priced MBA consultants at very expensive "big 4" companies would have never thought of that
I would prefer jobs like burger flipping getting automated instead, because when the ordering lacks human touch it feels like getting served at the animal feeder. Although I use the kiosk often, I'm not happy about it.

Automating the jobs that humans are good at and pushing people to do repetitive soul wrenching jobs that machines should de better is the wrong path IMHO.

The human at the counter sets the tone and the mood, which is part of the eating. That's true even at fast food mega chains even when the order taking employees follow a script and do it time after time.
You find them unrefrigerated on the shop floor, but the supermarket - if their JIT delivery is efficient - are probably having them on the shop floor for less than a day. Do they refrigerate in transport, in the back-of-house?

In the UK the whole supermarket might be temperature controlled (cooled) where the domestic environment isn't.

Seems like it's probably pretty complex to work out

There's probably a mean indoor temperature above which refrigeration makes sense, for example.
Apparently they are no longer called 'small claims' officially, but everyone I know still calls them that.

The N1 form is to be sent by post[1] and there is also an online version which can be used in some cases[2].

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65eb13af62ff4...

[2]: https://www1.moneyclaims.service.gov.uk/eligibility
The Predictably Irrational Manager
yeah room temperature is very dependent on the location. For all but 2 months a year, mine is above 20°C and can raise up to the 30s during the day from late may/early june.
$80 in NZ while fibre cost around $110.

VDSL is being phased out.
Housing cooperatives.

Anyone who prefers democracy would probably also prefer housing cooperatives and worker cooperatives.
Garbage Collections destroys any real-time guarantees you might need, since the GC can be triggered at any time. So for some classes of applications a GC is not an option (e.g. in 3D-video games you don't want your rendered frames per second to drop under 60 frames per second).
Is the same for fruits?
If a state actor has access to your LAN you're all kinds of fucked already. They really don't need this crummy exploit for crummy home routers. It's pretty far-fetched to suspect a state actor, and outright ridiculously conspiratorial to say we can "safely assume" this.
Supercronching videos for embedding in websites with FFmpeg
No; that'll make them feel limp and taste bland. Most want a crunch and flavor out of theirs.
Don’t leave mystery backdoors exposed internet side isn’t exactly advanced knowledge though
https://nitter.poast.org/el_sleightholm/status/1802620561144...

Not seeing anything novel here, tests should have compared with multishot.
I was under the impression that was the much less reliable implementation of ZFS but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.
Then play Monopoly. The game was designed to teach people the flaws of capitalism. Imagine playing Monopoly without buying any properties and only collecting $200 every round. You wouldn't last long.
More details on the ProductHunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/copycat-4
At this iPhone with sat messaging provides same functionality and is free.
OAuth Working Group Specifications
StreamSpeech: "All in One" model for simultaneous ASR, translation and TTS
> D-Link will not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, or consequential loss suffered by any party due to their use of the beta firmware, beta software, or hit-fix release.

We have a hardcoded password...but take the fix at your own risk.
Isn't that basically the distinction in HTTP error codes? The 4xx range indicates the user did something wrong, the 5xx indicates the program did something wrong.
Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine
This seems like a meaningless criticism when it comes to immutability in Clojure. You can have mutability in Haskell too. That doesn’t make it as unsafe as memory management in C++.
A Retrospective Look at U.S. Education Statistics
Mutable global state isn't a problem, only shared mutable global state may be (for instance when the global state is writable from unexpected places in the code base or from other threads).

There's a lot of problems that can be solved just fine with an upfront defined fixed memory layout in a global static variable.

Dismissing globals is basically the same problem as sweeping generalizations like "goto considered harmful", "avoid for-loops" or "almost always auto" - such statements can serve as advice for newbies, but following the advice blindly can also lead to less elegant and less maintainable solutions.
Isn't D-Link Chinese? Why would they compromise their firmware for a US agency?
It's unfortunately a learned behavior.
Looking at the state of most drive though electronics this is pointless and won't matter.

Keeping that system working is already difficult enough with a highly adaptable human at the other end of the line which can interpret your order with a broken microphone, bad language skills, a loud motor interfering and in any weather.

And openai cannot handle the "please drive though to the first booth" if all else fails.

On another anecdotal note completely off-topic: I wonder how it would interpret a horse, back in the days when I worked at the local McD we had plenty of them going though the drivethough.
Depending on whether or not you consider a KS a "real" PDP-10, my KS actually uses less power than my modern PC does under load. The KS sits just under a kilowatt running UETP, but my PC spikes north of 1.2 when running benchmarks. And that's with a now obsolete graphics card in the PC, the newer ones are even more power-hungry.
By what means? Picking one of various parties that all colluded on the laws? Perhaps one that promises to oppose it but then does the opposite? Let's not pretend that voting of all things is an effective means to enact change on specific issues in a representative democracy.
To be more specific, lots of high frequency content means we are hearing sharp transients, so quickly changing waves. Lots of low frequency content means we are hearing smoother waves
Is OpenTelemetry a right solution for mobile observability (with Hanson Ho)
In the podcast we discuss:
- Importance of observability in complex IT environments
- Challenges and differences in mobile observability
- Impact of complexity on Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
- The importance of Production Data in Mobile Observability
- Optimizing data collection and standardization for cost-effective Observability
- Impact of integration on Mobile Development
- The future of Observability

This is a text version, alternatively you can listen on Spotify or YouTube
I appreciate your comment, and agree.-
AFAIK just about all Unix-like OSes overcommit and dynamically allocate like this. I know macOS and xBSD (which which macOS is one) do this.

I don't know what Windows does.
Like all things, it depends. It's not necessarily a myth, but rather it depends on a number of factors. I'll be storing my tomatoes on the counter (upside down) as well as my cukes. Just unfortunate that I'm the only one in my household that likes tomatoes so I end up with a lot of waste sometimes.
My feeling is that you're the one confused with what other people think and care about, not the other way around. I'll leave it there and agree to disagree, as you've been ignoring the points made by both of us who replied to you.
Thanks for the info. It does sound much more cumbersome than Ventoy. Given its current state as of linked issue, I still should look into it...
Should invest in tab groups instead.
Is it me or are the standards for 'home routers' just basically horrible? I don't work as a security researcher or anything but in my time I've found multiple router vulnerabilities across manufactures. Everything from exposed admin interfaces (with default creds), issues with firewalls, UPnP accessible outside..., incredibly naïve credential management, its like home routers are swiss cheese by default.

What do HN people tend to run that doesn't give them issues? I'd especially be interested in routers that have good IPv6 support (maybe impossible but still.)
Well home 5G wifi has trouble covering all rooms at decent quality, I guess because the walls are thick, so building material may be an issue. I obviously never tried going on the roof to check because it happens when it is raining.
It's not on people to watch hour long youtube videos to rejoin your argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
How to Price a Data Asset
Please share more about this!
Huh. I’m shocked at the storage temps for apples. I always heard they go mealy in the fridge. Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store.

Lots of stuff that says 50-55 F which is unfortunate because most people don’t have any kind of storage at that temp.
And? The GP talks about it being upside down when plugged in to the left hand side of a device.

Given that USB-C is Bi-directional, flipping it over would show the screen…
Pretty sure D-Link is Taiwanese. And Taiwan has reasons to want to be on good terms with the US. That being said, my money is still on incompetence.
I was addicted to these games as a kid. Too bad they never remade them and now its some obscure title nobody can get.
I think you nailed it. However, as someone that grew up in the midwest, then spent 5 years living on the west coast, I would say that lumping the midwest in with the west coast for this statement is wildly inaccurate:

> I do feel people on the west coast and midwest arent really used to community collaboration either near as much as the east coast either. Also they are not used to openly expressing themselves...

If you spend some time in Chicago, I think you would find that it isn't much different from the east coast, based on your description. I can assure you that we have no issues openly expressing ourselves :)
Vector graphics compression is real pain in Word.
> A laptop/phone that needs to be recharged every few weeks… heaven.

Agreed. Unfortunately it seems like increases in battery density are soaked up by either increased energy consumption (screen resolution/brightness, processor) or decreased battery volume to make a thinner device.

I have a smartwatch that doesn't require wall charging (a Garmin Instinct with solar) and I really like the combination of solar cells, low-power processor, monochrome screen, and frugal radios.

That got me curious about a low-powered laptop and I've been eyeing an e-ink tablet with keyboard (e.g. Boox Tab or Remarkable 2) but I think it'd be a little too limited for my laptop usecases. And all the super-energy-efficient phones (e.g. e-ink) I've seen simply shrink the battery volume to offset any efficiency gains.
I've worked in the produce section of a supermarket. We had a refrigerated stock room that was used for everything except bananas. I don't know what temperature it was kept at, but I believe it was somewhat warmer than the usual 5C refrigerator temperature. It could well have been the 10C minimum recommended by the article.
Some more than others according to my observations :\
> when the ordering lacks human touch it feels like getting served at the animal feeder.

While not too dissimilar, I like to think of it as ordering something from the replicator like in Star Trek.
Thanks for sharing, everything makes sense except this:

> The problem is all of the real world interface challenges, keeping speakers and microphones working outdoors across many different climates and weather conditions, and temperatures and humidity is incredibly expensive.

I thought this was a solved problem already, by McDonald’s in fact?
Some people don't speak english well. Others think installing an app and pressing hamburger icon is easier I think I agree.
Zamm v0.1.4: Self-Unity
I used it as a teaching aid to help colleagues from our application teams get the background and skills to work on our core platform. I certainly got a lot out of it because I had to do all the exercises, and I think if i hadn’t had to prepare like that I would have skimmed more and gained less. But I already had a background that covered a lot of the same areas.

So it is going to depend a lot on your background and the effort you put in. It may be better done as part of a reading group where you can discuss the exercises than on your own as some are meant to highlight why certain approaches are hard and are not commonly used.
> It‘s extremely difficult to predict the lifetime of a consumer product as it also depends on how it’s being used.

That's actually false. Almost all of the engineered goods are engineered to a certain lifetime. Usually companies have internal endurance testing results for every item. The ones who care about will release their expectations.
> ChatGPT would write the articles in their entirety, and most of his team was fired. The few people remaining were left with an even less creative task: editing ChatGPT's subpar text to make it sound more human.
By 2024, the company laid off the rest of Miller's team, and he was alone. "All of a sudden I was just doing everyone's job," Miller says
The best thing about touchscreens and apps is that I don't have to worry about the frontline human and the kitchen human misunderstanding my custom request. Now it's down to just the kitchen human, and they tend to make fewer mistakes it seems.

As far as the human at the counter setting the tone and mood: I have had very few fast food interactions where this human made it a positive experience. "Meh" at best, and often not-good to bad.
A lot of the blame for the rent crisis in the US is put on big corporate landlords.

I have no idea to what extent it is actually the case that they are to blame, but mom-and-pop businesses are never as popular to attack.
It's LAN side only. Not that this excuses things, but it's not internet side.
If it’s like the ordering kiosks in the store, it’ll take 2x-5x as long to order as just telling someone what you want.

Even more, for people unfamiliar with it or who aren’t comfortable with computer interfaces.

Not good for drive-through throughput.
I would say shop culture as well as buyer cultures. A lot of shops in non cycling friendly areas just only keep stock of high margin high end road bikes and MTBs. So it may very well be that the guy in the article photo didn't knew much about bike and was sold an e-MTB because that was what was available and it looked good and unlike those bikes used by grannies and only installed fenders as a second thoughts later when he came back from a commute totally soaked.
Keep in mind this is mostly a resource for farmers and grocers -- much less strange to imagine a cucumber that was stored at 5C for a day after picking, going to the farmers market, home with a shopper and then sitting on their counter for a few days. Interpreting it as direct advice for consumers can be a bit misleading, but there's still plenty to learn from it as a consumer.
> * The nscd protocol does not support enumeration, so primitives such as getpwent() cannot be implemented over nscd.
Presumably those where running FreeBSD? Can't imagine that Compellent was Net- or OpenBSD based.
It "shouldn't" be a problem for the US to do that, because it's supposed to be minimizing regulatory overhead and promoting competition so its companies are globally competitive. Importing something from a country because they have a large labor market is a different thing than importing things from that country because your country imposes high regulatory overhead on domestic producers but not on foreign imports.

This also gets back to my point about the US increasingly failing at its ideal of not imposing high regulatory overhead.
The problem is that the PDP-10 is really unsuited to running C. It doesn't use 8-bit bytes and doesn't have a native "byte" datatype, just words and halfwords. There are byte instructions, but you have to construct a "byte pointer" to use them, which is a control word describing bytes of arbitrary size. The PDP-10 also has no single dedicated stack pointer, any AC except for the program counter can be used as a stack pointer, to its own independent stack if you want.
I came from fbsd ports so agreed but that's what I'm saying, that's more thsn 20 year old tech and we should be able to improve.
Why can't the hardware problem solved with just a phone and an app?

Also what ML model did your company use?
Just to add something interesting about them. Many of our favorite dances and music in Bolivia have being originated and developed from that zone, like Morenada or Caporales. It is a mix of african and andean sounds, which I think is wonderful. And yes I'm Bolivian :)
Here some Saya I randomly found in YT (https://youtu.be/WbI1ncuyWbk)
Nim Version 2.0.6 Released
GCC says that register extensions are not supported with basic inline asm. If you do it anyway it doesn't work it's not undefined behaviour, it's behaving as documented. Once you've ventured into vendorland you're outside the realm of undefined behaviour to start with, but following the vendor's documentation on how to use the vendor's extension is the minimum requirement for meeting your expectations that the feature will work.
Should be! ROMchip posts recordings on their YouTube channel afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/@ROMchipJournal
Seems like more of a hassle than just chucking them in the fridge, but it might appeal to some. :)
okay so, assuming this is malice vs. incompetence:

surely D-Link would be able to pinpoint the code injection and ID the engineer who put in the backdoor (presumably paid by someone)

right?

what happens to that engineer? or are they already long-gone with their $$$
Kriegsspiel: The Original War Game
Study finds 6 biological subtypes of depression w brain imaging/machine learning
opnsense. you dont need to run these garbage consumer routers. downside is if your ISP still provides a modem/CPE. but some times you can put those into bridge mode and make them less of a risk
Doesn't surprise me in the least. McDonald's is such a bad company on many levels, even from its founding roots.
They make fast food (an industry notorious for craping all over their employees) and it was usurped by a greedy business man (Ray Kroc) from its original founders.
Their food is okay, but I would never, ever do work for them.
As has been opined, it's risk management by VPs.

If IBM screws up a contract, it's IBM's fault for failing to execute.

If a lesser known contractor screws up a contract, it's the VP's fault for not picking a bigger firm.
> they are selected by the voters

From a small in-group of well connected people.

> The voters freely decide wether they wish to have representatives who pass laws which are benefitial to Elon Musk.

No, the voters at best select a bundle of stances for/against various things. Effectively this means you have no input except for maybe one or two issues you care most about. In practice you do not even get to do that as your representatives are not bound to what they promised to get you to elect them.
Reading the comment above from noen, it seems McDonalds sabotaged the project as part of a plan for an acquisition.

When reading the article I also jumped to conclusion it was IBM's problem. But then thought it sounded an awful like McDonalds was 'hinting' that it was IBM's problem while not being able to say so.

So kind of a reverse stab. McDonalds is acting like there is contract language saying they can't say what happened, and subtly making it seem like it was IBM when really McDonalds is saying: "It was IBM but we can't say because of contracts, wink wink, but really we were a horrible customer and wrecked the project and trying to spin this onto the vendor".
What? Unless vegetables are showing clear signs of decay (e.g. cucumber becomes yellow and soft) they are safe to eat for weeks after purchase. Many vegetables can be stored for many months if you manage temperature, light and humidity properly.

Back in the days, people would store vegetables in a cold basement for up to 1 year. Potatoes are stored dry and dark, carrots and cabbage are pulled straight out of the ground, not cleaned or divided roots/leaves, and are kept moist and dark (the old folks would stack up layers of wet moss and veggies), while garlic and onions are kept dry and dark and separate from the rest.
No it's the one true implementation now. With original flavour developers and everything.
Probably a temporary hack someone did to facilitate some internal testing and no one remembered to comment it out before building the release version.
A really good point. And, you have to think about budget levels. If you have a product and it is 50k, and you pursue a FOMO strategy, remember that you need to convince dozens of people inside the organization that they will miss out. The half life for a FOMO conversation isn't great, one advocate inside the organization might be captivated but when they send the email to the next person, they won't feel it and will sabotage the deal.

If you are selling something under $10k, then you can often get one person with budget approval up to $10k to buy it on a whim, and that's much easier. But that actual level is hard to figure out.

All that being said, your point feels like it could be restated to say they care a lot more about protecting their jobs. And, it is really strong right now.