skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breaking the rules is in big tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
No company can afford to spend $100B on something that will be obsolete a year later, you just can't recover the investment from sales that quickly.

$100m is manageable, if you've got 100m paying subscribers or companies using your API for a year you can recoup the costs, but there aren't many companies with 100m users to monetise for it. $1B feels like it's pushing it, only a few companies in the world can monetise, and realistically it's about lasting through the next round to be able to continue competing, not about making the money back.

$100B though, that's a whole different game again. That's like asking for the biggest private investment ever made, for capex that depreciates at $50B a year. You'd have to be stupid to do it. The public markets wouldn't take it.

Investing that much in hardware that depreciates over 5+ years and is theoretically still usable at the end, maybe, but even then the biggest companies in the world are still spending an order of magnitude less per year, so the numbers end up working out very differently. Plus that's companies with 1B users ready to monetise.
This is not for VMs. This is for computers that doesn't comes with built-in IPMI/iLO/iDRAC/XClarity or something similar.
Dark mode, light mode ... Just switch on the light in the room and stop looking into light source while sitting in the dark. That's why your eyes hurt, when your irises need to constantly expand and contract. Dark mode is reducing amount of light coming through but does not solve the root cause of no background light.
I don't understand how something that is pleasing to the eye can be bad for it. Dark mode seems to give me less eyestrain. Websites have so much white space that white mode makes my eyes fatigued faster. Just bright LED light.
I'll take 20 days! Sounds amazing. Generally get a week in a year - but in the Alps, so pretty good.
Leonhard Euler discovered or was associated with so many mathematical/physics/etc concepts that people stopped naming them after him to keep from everything being Eulers'.

A 20th century mathematician with a similar problem was Paul Erdos.
> Dynamic bitrate is an issue but as a desktop user I'd just set it to max anyway. Clickable arease are pure cancer - just put links below the video.

You know that Desktop users account for < 10% of YouTube? Users on smartphones account for 70%-90% of usage based on some easy to find device statistics. Many of these are probably using cellular networks, so dynamic bitrate isn't just a "nice to have" feature.

Most of the time interpolating data from the developer / HN bubble to rest of the internet is not a good idea.
Seems similar:

iwctl station wlan0 connect "essid" --passphrase "itsasecret"

The permanent config would be stuffed into /var/lib/iwd/essid.conf (different file per SSID)

The harder part for me is remembering it's "iwctl station wlan0 scan && iwctl station wlan0 get-networks" to see what's out there for a new connection. Of course I always cheat and make a wifi-scan wrapper script so maybe that's why I never remember...
Yeah, journaling is very rewarding. Sometimes you don't realize how much you change and grow. Sometimes you read back and laugh at how you've overcome, sometimes you cry.

Though I've gotta say, if my grandparents (or their parents) did have social media, they'd have loved it.
CEOs get paid massive amounts for supposedly being responsible for the company. So why shouldn't they be held responsible for the company?
They also sell electric scooters to the public, so they can collect tons of traffic data.
But this isn't a preprint and this isn't on Arxiv.
While I share similar concerns, I also want to point out that:

- Zed is (currently) free
- still pre 1.0 release
- being developed quickly by a small group of developers

For those of us who enjoy Zed, we should give appreciation for what they have created.

As someone who's maintains OSS myself, the onslaught of people who can swarm in fast to piss on your hard/long efforts can demoralize you.

So let's be kind in our words (and tone) to these folks.
Toyota also failed miserably with the unintended accelerator pedals. And basically pulled some of the same stunts with denial and cover ups and blaming everyone but themselves (legally you have to do this I suppose).

So I don't think they're a great example of having excellent QA everywhere. And kind of helps with your point of if the ORG and the division of that org is really thinking about quality and what they ship then it carries through. But that might not be the case for every part of the company (I.E. Boeing)

Turned out to be extremely bad code and some potential mechanical issues from what I understand[1]

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
I think the point of OP was that in many ways companies have many of the same rights and privileges as individuals, but cannot be punished in the same ways.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#Para...

> fs
> Setting this parameter to 0 prevents the fullscreen button from displaying in the player. The default value is 1, which causes the fullscreen button to display.

So yes, these website chose to do this.
Is whatever Boeing did a "dangerous felony"? Wikipedia suggests not every crime qualifies:

>To avoid the need for reliance upon common law interpretations of what felony conduct merges with murder, and what offenses do and do not qualify for felony murder, many U.S. jurisdictions explicitly list what offenses qualify in a felony murder statute. Federal law specifies additional crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, and carjacking.
I've heard that before. So this statement in the article: "A high-powered transmitter can be located. But the receiver, tuning in to a station at a pre-scheduled time, cannot" is not strictly true?
You may want to try x2go. It uses the older NX protocol version 3, while NoMachine is at version 4. It's good enough for my use case, and support remote applications just fine: this is how I use it.
My network home setup v5
Personally I suffer eye strain without dark mode, but dark does not means black, I tend to use dark grey colors without too much contrast.
Building the Endgame Invisible PC
'Curved' walking and a depth camera detect early cognitive decline
NICE DCV is a good alternative if you don't mind paying. I've found the image quality, latency and multi-monitor support to be better than NoMachine. You can get a permanent licence for $180.

https://www.nice-dcv.com

They are owned by Amazon Web Services.
No, it would mean 13x times smaller models where training data is better curated.

Ironically I think this is a step towards Clip again, which Google already improved with SigLIP but now returns to introduce a global or "batch" perspective. At least that is how I read it with my very amateur understanding.
TIL skis have metal edges on them
Before 3D printers were so common, the way you’d solve this problem was to buy an enclosure and modify it (cut out a hole) for the monitor to fit into. There are many options for prebuilt enclosure/cases, so I’m sure you could find one with the right amount of space and size for this project.

3D printing will yield a more custom solution that fits exactly the size you need. But that’s a pretty recent advancement and there are alternatives.
"Leaders" who are overwhelmed, completely out of their depth, or both, become control freaks. They can't trust themselves, so how could they possibly trust others?
> Irish, Italians, and Slavs weren't considered "white" under...

True-ish. And yet (by my skim) the article makes no mention of that - even though it's contrary to modern popular usage.

Historically, a society's nobility very often were of a different "race" - the one which had shown up with an army, and conquered the society. (And I used England for a reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest .) And even when that was not the case, hereditary nobility were usually treated as socially/politically/genetically distinct from the commoners - which looks darned "racist", in the common meaning of that word.

> Race is a social and political construct but the article clearly [...] the modern concept of race [...]

My impression: Both you and the article are working within a particular intellectual bubble. Which bubble needs to be clearly labeled, but ain't.
I don't really understand that as a point, though. What would punishing a company look like? Why wouldn't we want to figure out how to punish (or hold accountable) individuals, instead of focusing on the fact that we can't punish legal entities?

We can't punish countries either, even though they can also do these things. We can only punish people. So what?
Then switch on the lights in your room? Why doing complex retheming and suffering pain if you don't when you can just flip the switch?
Currently yes. The main idea was to have something to build good small habits that you do daily. So no current way to change frequency.

You could technically do up to every 4 days since you'll still be able to keep your streaks using the freezes
> you rage against the machine thinking why is it so hard but then realise you just learnt how to swap out any part of your network stack (or the other fun footgun of installing multiple conflicting network managers to intermittently and silently break your connection)

I achieved the first one (and at some point the last one) without achieving the middle one, I think...
how you teach manners

You can't teach a corporation manners. If you are going to talk about corporations as if they are people (and legally they want us to treat them as people) then you have to face that they are, technically speaking, artificial psychopaths (incapacity to experience guilt, failure to conform to social norms and respect the law, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness in pursuit of profit, etc). Very powerful, immortal, artificial psychopaths.
> Petee has simply said that we should respect someone’s pretty reasonable preferences.

That's not an accurate reading of the Petee's post.

> I think most of us would far prefer to have Petee as a coworker than you.

Speak for yourself.
> This is really weird. No known isotope of promethium has a half-life longer than 17.7 years, meaning that it must be produced by some continuous process if we are to see it in Przybylski's star. Further analysis showed it contains actinium, protactinium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, and einsteinium. These are difficult to confirm because they do not occur in nature (except, it seems, in Przybylski's star).

They're searching for natural explanations to rule out alien life. Very very cool. Quite a variety. Lots to learn from this star.
Individuals need to be held accountable. Having the company plead guilty helps literally no one. Who were the relevant board members? The CEO? The COO. These people need to be charged.
Dark modes aren't made equal. Some have proper contrast and are generally easier to look at than light modes even in proper background lighting (especially when the light version overuses various shades of gray), some are rather painful to use - and I'm not even speaking about aesthetics.

There are apps and websites where dark mode is a massive win, but when coding with colored syntax, you won't beat light background both on- and off-screen (doesn't mean I don't sometimes end up coding in a dark room using a dark terminal anyway :P)
We have invented light bulb at the beginning of 20th century. You will definitely find its descendant in your room. Try to use it.
Future of Design Tools
no one can, any company who tells you otherwise is lying to sell you a product
Stalinism also inspired "360 reviews".
I previously created Attendize, another popular open source ticketing platform. I sold it back in 2018, and unfortunately the new owners have abandoned it. So I decided to create a better alternative.

Overall it took me the lion's share of a year. Mostly working for a couple of hours in the evenings.
Lite YouTube Embed requires me to "start" the video twice - once click on embed, then another start on youtube loaded. However I'd like to see it fixed (if possible) because I find the lack of website load time optimization disturbing
Total Commander is an orthodox (2 pane) file manager written in Object Pascal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Commander
I tend to think that a more just system would transfer ownership of criminal organizations to victims, which would also supersede all outstanding financial liabilities. Especially this last point would destroy credit options for companies suspected of criminal activity as the larger creditors will hire private investigators.
Do you happen to have any suggestions as to how to get started with 3D printing? Can you recommend a 3D printer to buy as the first one?
Nicotine is highly addictive.
I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. One portion of the build-to-host buildfile was only present in the release tarball.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Just adding another point of view.

I'm a data scientist, intrinsic to my job is to work with private data that is usually vital to the company or 3rd party, the thought of running any plugins/software from untrusted sources is just insane in this environment.

Basically anything that isn't in the internal repository is a big no, so that rules out the pulling from the language package repository.

Access to the git server is handled at network level outside the workstation, I can only access a few services anyway, not regular internet access, the ssh keys are only valid for a period of time & current project, preconfigured in an image.

Some of us just have different needs.
Gee, maybe we’d get people who are knowledgeable and care about engineering rigor, instead of MBAs whose sole goal is to make the share price go up.
Modder transforms Nintendo Switch to play GTA 5 thanks to RAM upgrade
Why toggle switches suck (and what to do instead)
Agentic RAG: query reformulation and self-query
I had a similar experience back when I switched to Arch. For some reason, the default at the time for network configuration was netctl. Coming from a world where default = old, true and tried, I assumed that newtorkctl is going to be just that.

Fast-forward few years: I learned that no matter the Linux distro, true and tried is NetworkManager. It has various flaws, which is why there are plenty of complementary / alternative management solutions, but they usually come with more flaws than what they purport to replace / complement.

Also, it's worth learning several commands from nmcli family. Especially, when it comes to wifi:

nmcli d wifi list
nmcli d wifi connect $SSID password $PASSWORD

This will cover most of what you need when connecting to WiFi with your laptop wherever you need most of the time.
You put in place an incentive to not do these things. Corporate executives and boards do these things because they're incentivized to do so through stock price-based compensation.

Great risk should come with great reward. We no longer assign risk to most executives at publicly-traded, multinational corporations, but the reward is still great.

I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what the risk should be, but it should be something that a golden parachute shouldn't be able to resolve.
Thank you for this insight. I feel the same way and did not know until you put it into words like this. Creating is the passion.. In my case, perhaps a little bit was a philosophy that hours put into the word corresponded with output quality and that by creating and coding new things, I avoided responsibility. When the system is new, it can't go down and keep me awake. I have learned these things don't last. The project takes off, or it fails. The paper is written, the (academic) grant runs out. Living in perpetual green field programming (to me this is what software was growing up - mostly disk distributed programmes, and games) - is not that practical.

Ensuring you create daily... is practical.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were 8-bit computers that could. On the other hand, I would find it surprising if there were 8-bit computers that could. At least for choosing 256 colours out of a larger palette.

Keep in mind that 8-bit computers were limited to 64 kB of memory unless they used tricks like banking. It looks like the CPC used about 16 kB for video memory. Bumping it up to 8-bit colour at the lowest resolution would require 32 kB for video memory. (Adding a palette to that would fit into the rounding error.) Even if that memory wasn't directly addressable by the processor, the cost of RAM was another reason why those 8-bit machines were memory constrained.
HahahahhahahajajjajahahahahahBNnNnbn. The consumer speaks. You'll get what you want if you're upset, so keep it up. :)
> I also think people don't understand how extremely lucky Boeing is.

Disagree. I think most people can see how lucky it is for them that they can avoid an expensive and protracted court case, just say "oh yeah, we're guilty of a serious fraud" and the only consequence is some fines that amount to about 1% of their annual revenue. With consequences like that, it seems like the government is actively encouraging them to commit fraud...
Well I get your perspective, but I don't think it is universally true

track_activity(customerId: string, eventId: string, pageId: string, pageName: string, sessionDuration: number)

This can always be refactored into

track_activity(event: Event)
It seems like a bad design choice, that, besides allowing for running untrusted code directly at download time, also makes it difficult to properly mirror artifacts, and I'd assume, make platform portability inconsistent, at best.
I also think steaks can be a good motivator, but it can be quite demotivating if you accidentally lose a long streak. That was the idea with the freezes, to still have the motivation element but try to cut out any of the annoyances that come with streak. They get automatically used, but as long as you complete at least one day before they run out, the number of freezes reset.

In terms of your situation when you had to travel, you could also pause the app. That way when you get back, you'd pick up right where you left off without losing anything. I don't think these ideas cover every scenario, so there may still be room for improvement
Might be some useful things you can do with the Tauri rust backend too
Is it common that a satellite explodes? Yes. Dozens of satellites have exploded. For example, the Russian Kosmos series has a history of battery leaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spacecraft_that_broke...
Their company is filled with humans, though. A human can do something illegal.

For example: if someone breaks into a bank, do you always fire the CEO?

Then: if an employee of the bank breaks into a bank, now do you always fire the CEO?
A problem doesn’t need to be specific to capitalism in order to be caused by it. Of course this is all a result (a predictable one) of a certain type of capitalist theory, namely extreme shareholder primacy.
In cases like this it should be even harsher than a prison or monetary punishment, I like what China is doing by executing White collar criminals such as CEO's for negligence, fraud, causing death etc:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-white-collar-crimina...
xrdp + rdesktop is my current daily driver for this
I'm Leaving the Intercept and Starting Drop Site News
What?!?! I have never heard anyone pronounce these terms in such a ludicrous fashion, and it’s not because I don’t have exposure I do a fair amount of work in this space.
They would almost be writing it like that, if they were making statements without qualification.

But luckily they were not.
But then the shareholders wouldn't own the company anymore, so they'd be victims of the crime too, and get ownership transferred straight back to them.
> Nice to live in 2024, where men no longer needed parenting wise

That's equality: men aren't needed anywhere anymore. Except to go work in the sewers and to be military drafted. The left ain't very interested in establishing equality in these cases.

When I had to dig for five hours in human manure to find where a pipe was clogged in the garden, I called my wife and daughters to show them, from a distance, what I was doing.

Their "princess", disgusted, look was priceless. They immediately went back to the house while yuk'ing.

Next day, after I found where the problem was, the plumbing company sent someone to actually unclog the pipe. Do I need to precise whether it was a man or a woman that showed up?

Don't get me wrong: my wife owns not one but two companies (including one with me). She's not a "tradwife" by any means. She cannot cook without burning frying pans and pots (and me neither).

But who takes the trashes out, who fixes the sink, who drills holes, who paints, who does electrical job in the house? Who takes care of the cars' tires? Of the bicycles maintenance? And who finds a solution to every single f-cking computer issue in the house?

I'm sure I'm enforcing patriarchal stereotypes by doing these deeds myself.

Yeah, it has to be it. Next time they'll put boots on and go dig for hours end in human manure to find that clogged pipe while I reflect on the benefits of men/women equality.

And when I'll call the plumbing company, I'll tell them they better sent a woman (I'll accept a non-binary identifying as a butterfly too).
Switching to more aggressive edge angles (1° base, 3° side from 0° base, 1° side) on my snowboard made a huge difference. I can lock in a carved turn much easier on ice and don't catch my tails or any other sketchiness in slow floating transitions across the board. I think most of the improvement is attributable to base bevel, and I agree with your assessment that freshness of sharpening is important. I hit my edges with a fine grit stone and a gummy stone every morning before heading out, and by afternoon they're noticeably more dull and hold less well. One test you can do to measure this is to drag the top of your fingernail across the edge in a perpendicular manner. If the edge is sharp it'll shave a little ribbon of fingernail off, if it isn't it won't. I only ever use a file to change angles or if I need to take a bunch of material off to fix a large rock gouge (like something that would require also ptex repair). I ride a Tanker 201 with Upz hardboots and F2 plates.
pikvm solution is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W + HDMI CSI cable + pi pico for atx control + usb c splitter. It's actually cheaper. And once you put it together, you run stock pikvm image with smooth upgrades, etc.
Monsanto engineered several crops to create their own insecticides with genes from bacillus thuringiensis (BT). BT corn was approved by regulators for corn not intended for human consumption.

In practice it became impossible to keep BT corn out of the food supply. With corn as a staple crop and the international trade in corn everyone on the planet became a test case.

There was controversy on the impact of corn pollen on non-target species, including monarchs and lady-birds/lady bugs and bees. Follow-up studies didn’t show significant impact in quantities likely to be encountered in the field.

All GMs have risk of pollen drift and the risk of gene spread. Farmers growing non-BT corn for export may have their crops rejected in some markets if contaminated. Corn cross pollinates with a genetic ancestor of corn in South America which is considered a weed because it can cause domestic corn kernels to not develop properly. There is some risk of gene transfer and creating a “super” weed.

https://ejbpc.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41938-018-0...

https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-153
I would have thought that rate limiting would be an easier solution to the problem of using chatgpt as an api.
That’s neither here nor there. Everything can be statistically modelled but very few things are reasoning.

Same with turing machines.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.17711
Wayland is still catching up