skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how you leapt on 'audience' there and didn't want to refute use cases. Also leaning on that '30 year' figure. Funny.

The Steam Deck has sold millions of units (increase in audience) and now supports 89% of the top 1000 games at Silver and above (increase in use case). 2% is indeed an increase from where it started in 2018, but it goes to show how many Windows machines are out there that the % isn't higher.

I don't really understand your position. You're vehemently against any Windows code or games running at all and want to belittle, minimise or dismiss any progress that has been made. It feels like you're arguing in bad faith.
Live in the US (not a native) and my health insurance is tied to my employment. Coupled with my mortgage, kids' education costs, etc. sustaining what we have is far more pressing than the desire for more money.
Heart bleed, Log4J, triangulation, spectre, rowhammer, almost every single website hack, every single social engineer attack, only by chance xz…

Yea. Windows sucks, but that is often off topic.
Has Hermès trademarked the design? I would love to get my wife an homage Birkin, but every time I google for such a thing I don’t really find anything. The only thing that makes sense is that they aggressively shut down every competing maker — or just that my google-fu is lacking.

There’s no way that she would be happy with tens of thousands for a purse, but if I could find one with the look and utility for a few hundred then I think she’d be delighted.
> I guess you would need to sound the doorbell every boot

Funny that the store bought wireless doorbell I have does exactly that. :D I guessed it does that to avoid/reduce returns from people who doesn't manage to pair it with the doorbell button and think that it is "not working". So pre-emptively they do a chime right after you plugged in to show that it is working.
You're sure that's not simply a matter of the client-side caching having expired on some machines (thus reaching out again for updates) vs. not having expired on other machines (thus not checking the repo a second time)?

Alternatively maybe they were hitting different mirrors. But in either case, that's not an issue with the distribution.
I agree with all your points. And there is indeed a fundamental systemic issue with how private companies that deliver critical social services interact with the government: healthcare, education, energy, banking, logistics, real-state...

In my anecdotal experience, the EU social-democratic model seems to be the most competent one right now specifically for this problem: more of these should be state-owned. Don't get me wrong, this is a crappy solution too, you are making a lot of sacrifices for it, but generally, these state-owned corporations do seem to be better at delivering critical services, and often (unintuitively) more efficiently than private ones.

My point was that this is not necessarily about "late-stage capitalism" (as I understand it), this was not a case of the open market harming society. Because indeed Boeing is a state-supported monopoly and that's the root of the issue, at least in theory capitalism abhors monopolies.

This happened because Boeing has both the duty to make the most money possible, and is protected by the government because they offer a critical service. There is something fundamentally broken in this incentive model. Either let them play in the open market and encourage competition, or make it non-profit and serve the state directly. A mix of both is a recipe for disaster.
Hey! How dare you, I resemble that remark!
From my understanding (I also don't have an iPhone), you're not sent anywhere, because Netflix were forbidden from telling you to go sign up on their website. There was just no sign up button, and an implicit assumption that you would somehow figure out that you need to open up netflix.com in the browser and subscribe there.

I think that has changed now for Netflix in particular, but not for some other types of apps?
MicroLED isn't theoretically more expensive - in fact, the extended lifespan, more brightness, and lower energy consumption would all be selling points which, for various customers, would lead to being willing to pay more for a product which costs the same or less to make.
> But then, let the developer explain that too.

This is a bit like banning free speech because sometimes not the whole story is told.
I have a device that "forwards" the bell sound to a receiver because my office is too far away to hear the bell otherwise. This would solve it, your suggestion would be even worse.
The Fed runs several RTGS and retail payment systems, including FedNow, FedACH, and Fedwire.

FedACH processes roughly half of all ACH transfers, which include effectively all payroll direct deposit transactions in the US.
You are conveniently forgetting that this was a direct response to the Epic Games lawsuit, as to not appear too anti competetive:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-lowers-app-store-tax-...

Apple only makes concessions when it is under legislative pressure.
Windows erased from my hard drive.
I don't think the problem is crooks in the justice system, but crooks throughout the system, which is a monster that feeds itself - with money you buy power with power you can make more money.

This is what you get in a society in which money is the only thing that matters. This is a stupid idea to even write here let alone build a society upon.
> A little hard to search for, but does this require a special crimper of its own?

The IWISS SN-025 works well for the Mini-PV too. Which makes sense, since the dupont connectors are a near-clone designed for cheaper production.

> As a hobbiest you don’t recommend doing your own crimping at all

I just don't find it very enjoyable, especially getting to the point where I have tools that are actually suitable! The IWISS SN025 is fairly new[1] and before I ran across Matt's blog, reliable information on this subject was hard to find.

But I mean I have after all gone through the effort of getting tools and connectors, so it's more of a medium "recommend against" rather than a "not worth doing at all". It's almost like my preference with assembling PCBs. I don't mind that as much, and am good at it, but if I can just pay someone $20 to do it for me, I'll do that instead. Except I don't think there's any services at that price point for cable harnesses.

[1]: https://www.mattmillman.com/iwiss-sn-025-another-head-scratc...
I came here to say that also. NetPad is great, FOSS. Has all the features I need.
Amcrest AD110 doorbell connected over wifi to a recycled HP mini-PC (can be had cheaply on Amazon) running Frigate (https://frigate.video/) with a Google Coral accelerator installed in one of the internal slots. The Amcrest doorbell does have a cloud video connection if you want, but I firewalled it off from the internet and use the local RTSP streaming over to Frigate. Frigate talks to my local Home Assistant install too for automation. Also built a little buzzer with an ESP8266 and a simple piezo buzzer that runs ESPHome, which Home Assistant can use to play little sounds for stuff like person at the front door, lightning strikes in the area, etc... whatever you want to. The doorbell also has a local API to expose notifications when the button is pressed, which you can link to HA with amcrest2mqtt.

The wifi connection for the doorbell isn't ideal for security purposes, but it's good enough and a lot easier than getting CAT5 to my doorbell. It is more or less 100% reliable with my home wifi setup, though again I'm not really counting on it for any sort of reliable home security.

OP is absolutely right tho that this setup requires work to put together and maintain. Configuring Frigate can be especially confusing, but there are other local options like BlueIris (paid, and Windows only which kills it for me but it is very capable). I've been in this game for many years so it's all easy to me, but getting started is definitely a learning curve. Very fun though, if it's your sort of thing. The DIY home automation community is in a bit of a golden age right now, IMO.
I think 10LTSC is perfectly viable right now, I still run 10LTSC on my Steam Deck.

Right now on my desktop I have 10 LTSC, 11 LTSC, and 11 Pro installed and doing a bunch of benchmarks but still early on data (trying to be as thorough as possible).

I have had someone try to tell me that there is something in Windows 11 that makes it run better on newer processors, I have not been able to find any information on this.

Also theoretically at some point driver support or game support will diminish on 10.

Personally, I think if you are going to go for a new installation 11 likely may be the way to go for the best future compatibility. But 10 is still good.
Disarming Fiat-Shamir Footguns
With modern Content Security Policy restrictions and such most sites now have, previews almost entirely have to be implemented server side to make them work anyway, so no real privacy fears.
You'll have to do it anyway.

I have to explain on average once a month to family why some websites break on "the Apple internet app" (safari) and they should use Firefox or Chrome for critical stuff instead.

Had to explain again yesterday because Safari crashed to a white screen error on my wife's macbook while she was trying to buy plane tickets.

Firefox just worked.

Internet browsers are very present in 2024.
This is me! Happy to answer questions, although I think the articles are mostly self-explanatory.
Show HN: I made a tool to help manage SQLite databases on a VPS
Hey everyone!

It’s a single executable that you can run on your server using Docker, Systemd, or any other tool you prefer. It provides a simple user-friendly interface to manage all your SQLite databases.

Inspired by PhpLiteAdmin, it features a snappy UI and offers power-user functionalities, ability to chat with your database using natural language via OpenAI api, and other features.

It’s free to use, with an option for a one-time payment to unlock all features.

You can find the demo at https://demo.litequeen.com/

It's early and there's much to add. Some features I think it'd be cool to add next:

- Builtin backup and extension management;
- Better integration with LLM apis and open-source models for offline and local inference.
- Data entry automations

Cheers
For what it's worth, Idaho produced 35,525,000 cwt (1,776,250 short tons) of potatoes in fall of 1957. https://archive.org/details/CAT10268574003/page/4/mode/2up?q... ;)
A thoughtful and reasonable response.

Especially like bringing up the hydraulic example.

I was reacting to a common trope on HN to react harshly to any type of metaphor about the brain.

When, where is the outrage when describing 'voltage' as a type of 'water pressure in a hose'. As you say, it is only accurate to a degree.

Like giving a presentation on 'cloud' computing, and the power point has clouds, and some cohort of IT people are seething in the back of the room, "those aren't really clouds, they are servers".

Guess that is the problem, all analogies are only accurate to some degree, or else they would be the original. Nothing can be fully explained by something else, without both models being the same. So at some point, analogies are just helpful to communicate some concepts, but are not complete.

Yet, having something 'similar' can help get over some hump in understanding the 'new thing'.

That link is pay walled, do you have another copy?
It's not really standard and I think the comparisons don't quite work. In Airbnb's case, Apple's policy is comparable to forbidding hosts from offering extra services (not related to lodging) to users off-platform once they begin their stay. In Amazon's case, it's like if Amazon banned manufacturers from including coupons for future direct purchases in the product packaging. In Visa and Mastercard's case, it's like banning merchants from mentioning other payment methods at all.

I think it's abuse and I agree it should be forbidden as a class of behaviors. I would love to see Apple fined enough to deter anyone from trying what they did with Epic ever again.
Go to like any large city and people sell knockoffs for cheap on the sidewalk.
Politics is still both local and personal – but only for independents
I wish there were more details. Does anyone know of any reporting that gives more information? That is, the article says this:

> Under the 2021 deal, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Boeing over allegations it defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration so long as the company overhauled its compliance practices and submitted regular reports.

So, if they want to prosecute, I'm assuming it's because Boeing didn't adequately overhaul its compliance practices or that it didn't submit regular (or truthful) reports. But what are the specifics of how they failed?

I also get frustrated reading these comments here, which are basically "Boeing bad, they only care about execs and shareholders, they ruined their engineering culture." I agree with all of that , but when the government wants to criminally charge someone or a company, they need some specifics (i.e. fraud). It's not enough to just say they had a lax culture or valued profits over safety. Again, to emphasize, not saying that's the case here, I just don't understand how folks can form an opinion on criminal prosecution without even knowing what specific charges are being proposed.
I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.
The article they got the quote from has some more quotes from the interview [1]. In context it sounds to me like they lost a lot of R&D budget ("have to get more focused") and as a consequence don't pursue subsea data centers any more. But they learned a lot that is applicable to other projects they are still running.

They mention liquid immersion, which is a less extreme take on the idea of trading lower failure rates for lower maintainability.

1 https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-confirm...
I followed these instructions and the main advantage for us is that it can send notifications to phones and google/alexa devices. I ended up switching the software to sinric.pro, though.
Ask HN: Legal texts from websites, how to trust it?
While using the web, we accept many privacy policies and terms of services, but it feels weird.

Unlike a paper contract, where I have a copy of it, on a website, I've never saved a page from one of those websites, and they could modify it without warning me.

Is there a website that monitors this? Or there's some industry standard that every website follows it and I'm being overconcerned?
Revoke their charter permanently?

Sounds good, but what's to stop those responsible spinning up another company?
OMG! Last time I went to get on the Subway in Montreal, the line up at the station to purchase one of these tickets was crazy long that I just gave up. There was no way to enter the subway by paying directly. You had to purchase one of these tickets. In Toronto, you can just tap your credit card to get on the subway.

Also, you see these Montreal cards laying all over the streets. This card system just seems so messed up in Montreal.
Braindead rent seeking take. Dutton just cost himself the leadership. The whole of Australia doesn’t want this let alone the NSW Liberal Party, where he plans to put 5/7 of these reactors.
Using machine learning to detect bot attacks that leverage residential proxies
Sometimes referred to as smilies, though IMO that word describes the 3ish character subset that look like a face at 90 degrees⁰, and predating emoji¹ by quite some time².

----

[0] Like :-)

[0] and many many others: ;-) :-( :-| :-p 8-) …

[1] the graphical alternatives

[2] first commonly used in the early 80s, even before my time online, where emoji turned up right at the end of the 90s
Yeah, those ones are probably loopy in particular because the city is polluted
I agree! That's why I didn't say "are culpable differently" but "behave differently".
> Markdown is not a typesetting engine. It is a markup language. What pandoc does is convert the markdown syntax into LaTeX syntax and then run a TeX engine to produce the desired PDF.

If we're going to go that route, neither is LaTeX a typesetting engine; it is a macro package built on the typesetting engine of TeX.
I did the same thing, I built my first new computer in years and was so annoyed at all the advertising in Windows I went full Linux for the first time in over a decade. I specifically went with an AMD GPU (7800XT) as well to avoid how wonky Nvidia is.

Works really well, the only real issue is anti-cheat but I've just decided to play those games on console instead.
It's a bacterium in this case, not a fungus. It can metabolize hydrogen and use CO2 to build the proteins. They electrolyze water using solar power to create the hydrogen, so it sort of does happen on thin air, but of course some minerals need to be added as well. The product is basically a powder consisting of dried bacteria.
And we can definitely rely on plurality of professionals.

There were many (almost all) journalists and intelligence professionals that claimed the Hunter Laptop was not real… except of course it was and entered into evidence in his gun trail and conviction recently.
We'll give "real
actual bug" a pass :)
I've been daily driving (and gaming on) Linux for 2+ years now.I still keep a Windows 10 install around to run games which I can't get to work in Linux, but those are fairly rare. I spend 95% of my gaming time in Linux and, the vast majority of that time it "just works" without any problems. I highly encourage you to try it out!
My gut says Nintendo, because Microsoft doesn't give a shit what you use as long as you write for them, and Sony doesn't feel like they'd be that petty.
I'm on Fedora 40 KDE, both VRR and HDR are supported.
For sure, there are many R&D scenarios where testing to failure is an important part of the process. In the manufacturing process though — not so much.
If you start from scratch, factor it in when deciding on a cms, platform or site generator. I think RSS/atom owes a lot to WordPress, which has it enabled by default since ages.

When you want to add it retro-actively, the specifications are relatively straight forward and don't have many mandatory properties. RSS is a tad simple than Atom, but I'd probably rather go for Atom if I were to start over.

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html

In any case: add a link rel=feed to the header of every page to enable discovery (https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery - but works regardless of the format)
Yea, but that's not so true for the DMA. They're only targeting foreign companies using it.
This reminds me to Total Eclipse [1]. Perhaps doesn't count because it was not an action game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_(1988_video_game...
Congress will do the usual: accept Boeing's money and overlook the issue on one hand, and pretend to the public that they're doing otherwise on the other.

Unfortunately, Americans and the peoples of many democratic countries have given up on verifying if their elected officials are actually doing what they say they are, so taking a ~~bribe~~ campaign contribution and lying about it is a medium-high gain and low risk activity.

As a bonus, you can then use those contributions to market yourself and your lies to the same voters even harder!
I don't understand why so many people think that if Apple didn't take a percentage cut of sales, prices would go down. Products are typically priced at what customers are willing to pay, which likely wouldn't change. The developer would simply earn more. The only real benefit to customers might be the existence of some apps with extremely thin margins that wouldn't be viable otherwise. As a developer, I naturally approve this though.
This is exactly how language works; words are adopted across domains and change meaning over time.
Perhaps 35 years ago I thought to replace an alkaline battery pack for a PC's CMOS memory and RTC with a 3v coin cell. The first step was to solder leads onto it. The second step was to leave the room in a hurry. The cell blew its end cap off and smoked vigorously for a while but no real damage was done.
30% is arguably justified for some tangible goods, depending on the value add of the channel(s) for sales & distribution.

But digital goods? Thievery.
Without knowing the security measures in place, it strikes me as a ripe vulnerability to any determined nefarious actor to destroy or infiltrate this submersible data centre.
I switched to Linux earlier this year. I was a little worried about which games wouldn't work, and I didn't need to worry.

The Steam client works just fine, although I do have to "force compatibility" and choose Proton. So far the games have played fine, including big games like Cyberpunk 2077.

For non-Steam, I'm using the Heroic Game Launcher, and it works great. I'm not missing any games, and I certainly don't miss the Windows BS.
porting over to recent platforms is for most reversing projects the main goal and there are no modern system changes that can harm such an small code base with so few dependecies :) mostly SDL fits all needs for all relevant platforms and i think he will keep DOS compilation ability even when ported to other systems
Not necessarily complying with all relevant IP laws of course.
https://gwern.net/ is my standard for a great blog experience. Their design philosophy (https://gwern.net/about) is right up my alley.
Yes, someone has

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/make-a-dumb-doorbell-s...
Ok, that makes sense then. I know that systems with non-disposable cards exist, and we also have one in the Helsinki metro area. I think our present system assumes continuous connectivity, though. Now and then you see buses with the terminal in a non-functioning state. Ends up being a free ride. (You can also buy unlimited travel within a given zone for x days at a time, which is what those who use public transit daily usually get.)

I think most people nowadays use a phone app rather than the card, though. But we also don't have gates at stations, and it's more of a trust and ticket inspections system similarly to what someone said about Norway.

Japan has the Pasmo system which is weird in that it's actually more like a prepaid debit-style card that you can use not only on most public transit but also as a payment method at some shops etc. You can charge it using teller machines at stations. I can't remember the details, though.
> defense products are also built on confidence

Yes, all commerce involves confidence. The difference with banks is both sides of their balance sheet are not only entirely confidence based, they’re leveraged to the hilt on it.

Boeing can lose and re-gain confidence. (Albeit, at great risk.) A bank can’t; if it ever loses it, even momentarily, it fails. That is a dynamic that has increased as our world grew more interconnected, a dynamic we failed to fully appreciate until ‘08.

> bankruptcy could risk Boeing's space and defense lines

How? Worst case, guarantee BDS’s obligations as part of the bankruptcy.

Put another way: does restructuring threaten their defence line more than the status quo? I don’t know the answer, but I think it’s a valid question. (I’m familiar with their space lone and am halfway to writing it off.)

> big fault here is with Boeing's board

Totally agree. They seem clueless, more afraid of the bark than the bite.
I would assume the Fed thinks it's not actually an ideal time to raise rates.
Real growth is in the dirt, they have a dual mandate, and the funds rate is an indiscriminate weapon. Given the circumstances the ideal intervention would be fiscal policy aimed at reducing the supply of money in less CoL-sensitive areas but the people in charge of _that_ are uh, somewhat more susceptible to political pressure.