skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> make it difficult for the manufacturer to contact me directly

Probably a good thing in the case of most manufacturers.
When you sign into Chrome, you allow Google to associate websites you visit with your Google account.
> > After you get through this hurdle you then have to install the right software, and MSYS2 makes the "genius" decision of letting me pick which binary I want to install for every single install. Do you need to install fmpeg? Better spend an hour sifting through clang-amd64-ucrt-mingw32-ffmpeg vs. gcc-x86_64-w32-gnu-ffmpeg and tons of packages.

> Huh. Yeah, that does seem odd - is it a result of MSYS2 being oriented at devs who need compatible libraries?

Yeah, we are oriented at devs that re-package our binaries and also want to be a development environment for upstreams, and also a testbed for toolchains. So we provide x86/x64/arm64, then ucrt/msvcrt, and llvm/gcc. I wouldn't blame anyone for finding this confusing. It's described here: https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments

For ffmpeg, since it was mentioned as an example, this looks like: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-ffmpeg
The price for a small-batch run is going to depend heavily upon how difficult it is to manufacture at small scale. If you got that $95 quote from a local shop, you can try asking them what you can do to make it cheaper. There might be some tricky features in your design that are jacking up the labor costs.

The cheapest way to make a small-batch aluminum enclosure is probably to base it off an off-the-shelf extrusion stock. I'd go on McMaster and find some C-channel stock that fits my needs, then I'd design a base plate that nests inside the C-channel. If you're trying to go for an upscale, professional look, you can have the machine shop run a wire wheel over the C-channel before anodizing it.
Advice: don’t rely on any tool open-sourced by Netflix. They have a long history of dropping support for things after they’ve announced them. Someone got a checkmark on their promotion packet by getting this blog post and code sharing out the door, but don’t build your business on a solution like this.
It's actually a golden age for fun video games, because we are swimming in new beautiful, engaging, original titles every year.

Some things really take you by surprise as well.

I never saw Inscryption, Disco Eliseum or Hades coming, and I think nobody did.

And even oldish games still have great value. I still play LoL or Isaac, and they are as good as they were on day 1.

Plus, you get the Switch then the Deck refreshed portable gaming experience. The latter made emulation so nice as well.

With terrific communities, insane speed runners, devs coming up with crazy new concepts and hardware that never stop to get better, it's hard to complain except that with a busy life, you will see only 1% of those masterpieces.
No that explains it really well, thank you. While that exact sort of experience is alien to me (my capacity for happiness or excitement is generally very muted), thanks to analogous enough experiences I can definitely see how that could become uncontrollable if people have them at hand.

If someone gave me 2 pounds of gummi bears that were secretly caffeinated, I could see doing something similar to myself.
The "P" in "Parties" also needed to be capitalized.
If this sub is the state of modern science, we are in a lot of trouble.
I feel like in general, the complex structures and legalese in the startup world are set up against founders and against employees. Is there anyone pushing for simplification or standard forms or structures that are not just in the VC’s or acquirer’s interests?
Keep in mind that you have be to registered and pay a fee to vote, but from the sound of this they don't verify names.

The total tally here is of less than 4,000 votes. It's not surprising that people game this, the economic gains of having a book listed as a Hugo award winner must be huge.
If you think this is going to enable anything that resembles "cheap", think again. IF it works, this is going to be exclusively for rich people to avoid traffic jams.

Electric is plain and simple a no-go for aircraft, the specific energy is nowhere near sufficient to actually make an impact. See e.g. the Airbus E-Fan X cancellation, and their subsequent switch to hydrogen research.

And it makes sense if you take a closer look at the development in battery technology, you will see that although $/kWh has gone down fast, kg/kWh has been essentially unchanged for over a decade. That is if you ignore numbers in university press releases but look at what is available commercially on the pack level for a safety critical application.
Lawsuit to what? Their CAD files, the build instructions? The board shipped with the Nintendo Wii?
Dude would never believe that anyone could do what he couldn't without PEDs. Bolt ran a under 21s 200 meter at age 15. His 10.03 time was literally his debut time with the 100 meter.
okay, cool :)
> You cite some programs that didn't properly keep their data in a single dotdir, and use that as a reason why a single dotdir was bad?!

No. It's literally the other way around. It's bad that they keep everything in a single dotdir, because now I have to poke through dozens of folders to see where they hide their caches and other bloated garbage that shouldn't be backed up or kept in git, and where between all that garbage they're hiding their config files.

If all caches go to ~/.cache, I can exclude them all with a single setting, and I can put all my configurations in git/backups by adding ~/.config.

Same as with /var/tmp vs /etc vs /var/lib; if I want everything thrown together into a single folder I can just go use Windows.
I'm really not sure what you are saying here.

"Your $1000 per month rent can only be compared with the interest part of a mortgage you'd get for the exact same housing you are paying rent for. If the rent is less than the interest would be, then yes, you are better off renting."

Why just the mortgage interest? Why not the property taxes, the utilities, the repair costs, the time to perform the upkeep and maintenance (which for me has a monetary value).

I have been renting where I am at for 14 years now and there have been no crazy rent hikes.

It was ~800/mo 14 years ago and has climbed slowly to ~1000/mo currently.

I have looked many times at buying a home in my area, but there is nothing in a similar area, and a nice house that I would actually want to own for less than about 2000/mo for a mortgage (probably more like 2500/mo now). That doesn't even count property taxes which would be like another 500/mo.

Then, if I value my time, I would need to pay someone to do the mowing and shoveling and other maintenance beyond that...

It's way more expensive than renting.

With renting I'm paying about $12,000 a year and that's it. That includes water and heat too and me not having to spend any time or money on upkeep or maintenance.

With all the money I save, I do multi-family real-estate investing and development. That generates me a passive income plus huge deductions from asset and property depreciation. And when the property is improved and sold after several years nets a large gain which I move into a new property thus not having to pay taxes on that transaction either. The return on this is far greater than the average rate of a home appreciation minus mortgage interest.
>Presumably, this includes a “house” that can hold 1000 people at low rent.

Presumptuous indeed. There wouldn't be a housing shortage if vast parts of the U.S. weren't restricted to single family homes. The choice isn't a single family home or a housing complex that can hold a 1,000 people, but more efficient usage of space and infrastructure, one that isn't totally centered around everyone having a vehicle. That can also mean low rise multi-family homes seen in cities worldwide, and yes, also big complexes where viable.

>If it does, then you’re not going to find that many people who own property agree with you.

Well if things don't change, lots of people won't be able to own property, and the rules will change anyway. We're seeing this in California.
Might be worth dropping some coin on getting the SFWA Lawyers to contract an outside data analysis group to verify these findings after the absolute fustercluck that was the Hugos 2023. I think this statement is made in good faith, and I believe they believe they are correct in their analysis but the shadow of the 2023 Hugos is long and dark. There will be questions regardless of how many good faith statements the committee makes. I don't envy them having to deal with this.
What I don’t get is even in the absence of capitalization wouldn’t the default interpretation be whatever the prevailing reasonable meaning would be?
We may well find that this matter doesn't ultimately hinge on screen-scraping as much as it does deceptive behaviour by an agent.
The NES -- as far as its basic hardware architecture -- was not designed for a market where the video game crash had even occurred. It was designed for release in Japan in 1983 as the Famicom, undoubtedly the most powerful console in the market at the time -- a time where by the way I'm not sure what else you would even put in a console other than a 6502 or Z80.

If you wanted cheap above all, you could have gone for a plain 6502 or a cut-down variant (like the 6507 in the Atari VCS), but they also didn't do that -- the Ricoh 2A03 is a custom part that includes custom sound hardware.
Anxiety and Rationality
> and you can't replace half a city block's worth of two- and three-flat dwellings

It is funny because here in the Puget Sound, if we had two and three flat dwellings that would be a major improvement over the bullshit we have now. Like seriously, 3 story flats would be a dream for density and alleviate much of the area's high house prices.

Unfortunately due to a confluence of factors there are only two types of "density" being built around here:

1. Giant apartment blocks owned by multi-national investment firms where the rent goes up by LOL each year that exist just to drain money out of the community.

2. Awful 4 story townhouses that are inappropriate for anyone who has small children, or knees that aren't perfect.

Also because of reasons, the townhomes don't have usable yards (they have to be set in the lot such a way that neither the front or back are usable), and they can only be built in a few designated "upzoned" areas.

Zoning changes are slowly supposed to come that upzone[1] more and more of the city, but if building actual usable housing isn't even possible, just pure zoning changes aren't enough.

[1] Where upzoned means not just SFH, but still most of the city will be zoned SFH only.
Fair points on potentially not knowing the outgoing number. I'll have to chew on that problem for a bit. Difficult, but I don't think unsolvable.

Either way, the solution I proposed is a non-ideal workaround to a better system of truly unique virtual numbers. But as you mentioned, spammers are still gonna spam numbers, whether they're virtual or not.

I think in the grand scheme, I'm ok with the potential of spam as long as no single person (besides the Telecom provider) ever has record of my actual number. If the real number leaks, it would make it easier to transfer the real number, since every existing number you've given out simply redirects to the new number.
If he's reading, we need to talk about MAUI.
NES? Yes.

SNES... Somewhat? I think there were tradeoffs here between that and the genesis; You got more colors and could get better sound out of the SNES... On the flip side people did -amazing- things with the YM2612 and for all the SNES RPG Soundtracks I love, they don't slap like the Streets of Rage series or Sanic.

N64 had pretty good perf but the Cartridge format made it -very- expensive to do anything very fancy; this is one of the reasons that lots of folks feel PS1 had better looking games despite N64's superior specs.

GameCube... Sits in a very weird spot IMO, but that whole generation was a bit Zany due to how everyone was experimenting with different 'paths to faster/better 3d'. Dreamcast had lots of 'special' stuff, GC was unique in it's own right, PS2's biggest stumble IIRC was too little ram for the GS...

To me, the bigger 'paradigm shift' that Nintendo made with the Wii was preferring more COTS-y stuff versus more special custom things...

NES had the Special Ricoh 6502 variant. SNES had the SPC. N64... TBH was mostly SGI based so possibly the exception. Gamecube had a custom GPU (Flipper)...

Wii is for the most part an 'incremental' upgrade from GC Hardware, and the Switch uses a not-that-special Tegra AFAIK.
What's the issue with having a span represent "one year and two months"? Both involve a variable number of days (365-366 and 28-31), but I would hope you could store the components separately so it can be unambiguously applied once given a specific moment in time.

I'm thinking something along the lines of how ActiveSupport::Duration works:

>> 4.years + 5.months + 3.weeks + 2.days + 1.hour + 4.minutes + 10.seconds
=> 4 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 10 seconds

Of course the downside being that it would need to be sized large enough to contain each component, even though they may be rarely used.
As long as there are ideas, there will be people who claim their "new ideas" have absolutely nothing in them derived from any previous ideas. Such people then scorn others who do not help them maintain the same fiction, and who instead dare to acknowledge that everything builds on what came before.
> As long as energy isn't unlimited, humans will always have some comparative 
language
 [advantage] compared to AI + robots.

The truth of that really depends what you mean by "humans"...

All humans? Probably not, as there are a lot of people who aren't especially capable or talented, and every conceivable economic activity they could do can be done by a machine with an AI with a below-average human intelligence and a capable robot body.

Also, IIRC, solar panels are already more efficient than plants, so I doubt there's a dystopian "humans are better for manual labor" loophole.

Most humans? Still probably no, given that AI seems to be making the most progress against white collar work right now.

Some minority of humans? This might be true, as there are people who are extraordinarily smart and talented. It seems most likely that AI will be unable to replace the people at the very tops of their fields, but there are very, very few people in those positions, and most people just plain don't have the ability work at that level.
I also shudder to think what types of employers would be complicit with such a scenario.
such an elaborate conspiracy could never be realized
Between him and Alastair Reynolds I've become very tired of getting to the end of huge novel series and having the ending make me feel like none of the events mattered.
This may be true, but it's not really relevant. Most people don't do training at all, especially past 50 yo, where bone density declines in women.

(And that's a significant issue in itself)
i appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
> what is the issue with XMLDSig?

There's a wealth of issues, some generic and some specific to the (not so well thought out...) choices made by the SAML spec.

For starters, the XML signature spec requires canonicalization of the message (which is XML). But the message itself need not be the canonicalized message. So the SAML implementer, if they follow the spec, must process the untrusted input and canonicalize it prior to verifying the signature.

Add in that you can override just about every aspect of the signature algorithm, canonicalization details, and even what parts of the message are actually signed, and you get huge number of places where things can either go wrong or may be overlooked.

Then throw in "XML Encryption" (again with canonicalization) which could be done on the whole message or just the assertions.

Then throw in that you can sign the encrypted portion, or the unencrypted portion, or just the assertions, or encrypt the signatures, or ...

So in short, there's too many ways to do too many thing.

Which leads to a massive surface area of code if you actually follow the spec. Which leads to libraries that either do not follow the spec (e.g., ignoring encryption and just checking signatures in a known location), or think that they follow the spec but will happily ignore missing assertions or out of date certificates.

SAML sucks. But hey, it's still better than having your own passwords!
Config files are the lesser problem, although it's really, really, really useful for programs to realize that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME exists.

More importantly, please put your caches under $XDG_CACHE_HOME so they don't trash up my backups or git.

And if you're feeling really fancy, put all your runtime stuff in a separate dir in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR so /tmp doesn't look like someone detonated a zip bomb in there. I want to use it for my temporary files and still find them, thank you very much.
The number of these you'll find, especially in teaching, is amazingly high.

The "absent-minded professor backed by his down-to-earth wife" is a trope but a common one (and, to be fair, it's not always a man who's absent minded!).
First author publications. She’s an Ivy grad. Obviously I am biased, but she isn’t really slacking mate.
Is there anyone else in here that sees UBI is the "left's" equivalent to flat-earth or chemtrails? No matter how much you explain the most basic and fundamental realities that are adjacent to the laws of physics, they simply cannot or appear to be psychologically incapable of accepting the reality of the matter and are baffled.

It's like those flat-earth people who did that experiment with the extremely sensitive gyroscope that proved that the earth was rotating and spherical; and were caught on recording saying "well, we clearly cannot accept that" and I think eventually simply deliberately ignored and suppressed it from their minds.

Do not ever underestimate certain human's capacity for self-delusion.

The bigger problem though is that this UBI cult is very authoritarian and tyrannical at its core, consistently increasing the insistence that they must take and use ever increasing amounts of other people's money to prove that UBI works, coincidentally making the researchers and the common NGO types scam artist operatives huge amounts of money in the process.

UBI is simply a con job, a fraud, a lie, theft, and even slavery ... theft of resources and services against their will and under threat of violence and harm in order to support the lives and livelihoods of others.

You want UBI? Great, sign up to have your income taxed to pay for it.
Possible Superconductivity in Brain (2018)
It's not just capitalism. The Soviet Union drained the Aral Sea in hopes of irrigating cotton farms and overfished whales whose carcasses went to waste to mindlessly meet quotas.

At least capitalism is good at extracting value from the pillaging, unlike the alternatives.

But, in the end, pillaging is inevitable. Thermodynamically, "there's stuff already there, and all we have to do is get it" is the simple sugar of industry. You'll never find easier Calories. It's too sweet to resist. That's how you end up in oxymoronic schemes like "biomass" (cutting down forests) in the pursuit of renewable energy.
I am all for hand grinding coffee and I have been doing it for over 20 years now but these pepper mill style grinders are very slow and not just because of the limited capacity. Every one that I have seen has a poor feed which only drops a few beans at a time into the burr, coffee beans are not very hard and can be feed in quite quickly. The grinder they recommend looks slightly better in this regard than most but still not great. A plus for it is that it looks like the burr is kept well fixed in the center at least; many of these grinder rely on the beans themselves to keep the burr centered which does not work and is especially bad on coarse grinds, the beans tend to push the burr to one side resulting in a very uneven grind that is a mix of very fine and very coarse.
>Lots of organs in the body lack regeneration capabilities once you age as an evolutionary mechanism to avoid tumors.

why is this so?
Password ass: a simple password manager
i mean this study clearly shows that people work fewer hours and increase leisure time when given money.

i don’t think that is a bad thing necessarily but i think we can be relatively confident of the empirical reality of the effect (at least in the short-term) for quantities of money like this?
I wrote my own because I wanted to learn about DAG and toposort and had some ideas about what nodes and edges in the workflow meant (IE, does data flow over edges? Or do the edges just represent the sequence in which things run? Is a node a bundle of code, does it run continuously, or run then exit?). I almost ended up with reflow, which is a functional-programming approach based on python, similar to nextflow, but I found that the whole functional approach to be extremely challenging to reason about and debug.

Often times what happens is the workflow engine is tailored to a specific problem and then other teams discover the engine and want to use it for their projects, but often need some additional feature, sometimes which completely up-ends the mental model of the engine itself.
Is there so much money to be made from winning a Hugo award or are bot farms so cheap?
Discussion (18 points, 4 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41001655
A major problem with blocking third party cookies is that it kills any embeddable logged in experience. Think payment gateway widgets that would now require you to login every time you want to make a purchase, or youtube embeds that would no longer recognize your premium subscription and roll ads across the web if if you pay for none, etc.
Not even close - real time memory scanning? Suspicious memory access detection? Suspicious file access detection? Suspicious network traffic? Suspicious kernel calls? Introspection on running program code?

It’s already a major performance impact, throwing it into user space would kill those products entirely.
This is why, for earning money, you should participate in positive sum games like the real economy. Poker is worse than 0 sum, its negative sum.
FWIW, the XML signature stuff in dot net just works. Once you get dot net's XML stuff itself working.
Ad revenue declines without 3P cookies[1]. Safari and Firefox have less market share than Chrome and aren't made by a giant advertising company so they don't attract the same scrutiny. When Google tries to restrict 3P cookies it creates the appearance that they're just trying to kneecap their competitors, whether that's true or not.

[1] https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/15189422
That’s pretty naive. My mother and her friends love recounting stories about doing exactly that in the 1980s while travelling. Probably just a date at a restaurant but certainly it’s not unheard of. A glamorous date at a nice restaurant vs a soup kitchen? Come on.
>An investigation by Slidstvo, the Kyiv-based news website, found that at least 262 soldiers had died and 778 are still missing after nine months of struggling to maintain a foothold in the settlement.
One guy optimized Mario 64 to run at 60FPS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
It has been since 2016... Dun-dun-dahhh
Magnetic Force Microscopy of Brain Microtubules
The Game Gear didn't come out until one and a half year later. It's easy to see how it wasn't even remotely practical to release a color handheld system in 1989, and it's easy to argue that it wasn't practical in 1990 either, but Sega did it anyway.

So when the Game Boy came out it was easily the most powerful handheld system on the market (admittedly by virtue of being essentially the only one worth mentioning)
Discussion (58 points, 3 hours ago, 190 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033005
I already own a miyoo with the emus though I meant something that replicates the original hardware and can run the actual game cartridges/ISOs
With birth rates already in decline, population is already going to zero.