skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can you rotate the bitlocker key? I was under the impression that it’s permanent.

The actual key key is not changeable, but the "recovery key" is not actually the key (or a representation of it) but is another password that unlocks the actual key. As already mentioned, this can be done in one click on an admin console, and even on personal systems you could change it (even to all zeroes if you're stupid enough) using the manage-bde command-line program.
> Glad I switched to using AMD. Although some RUMINT indicating quality assurance troubles in 9000 series though. They were supposed to push out new product by end of July. But delayed to mid August.

I had a theory that the "quality issues" are a marketing ploy (see? we don't send customers bad products, unlike those other guys) combined with an excuse to delay the release date (and thus the review embargo date) until after the proposed Intel microcode release, since the updated microcode was expected to negatively impact Intel in the performance comparison.
I think the article incorrectly states that KEF is owned by Harman, I can only find evidence on the contrary.
The article doesn't list much in the way of tech. LLMs, social media, and advertising hegemons leaving Europe is hardly a tech flight. In fact, it sounds like a best case scenario. Someone call me when Zeiss moves out because they can't compete in Europe, and I'll be concerned Europe is actually losing something of value.
California Court Upholds Gig-Worker Proposition 22
selling digital products online… what is new? how did they get to 1MM ARR with all the competition?
Discussion (60 points, 15 days ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939376
Which was all a typical Rockstar reference to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(sex)
A. Time Domain

Fingerprinting a song introduces latency because the song has to play long enough to get an adequate sample for the fingerprint.

What would the headphones do before a match is established?

B. Space Domain

Canceling requires a waveform 180 degrees out of phase. It needs to be about the same size as the song. If you stream that waveform, there’s latency and mechanical rights issues. If it is stored locally, you need space for all-the-songs.

C. Music is bigger than Texas

Remixes, covers, recordings of live performances add complexity to fingerprinting and increase the size of the phased wave database.

Good luck.
If it does, then 200 years from now I think there will still be holdouts for 6000 years, but there probably won't be any for 14 billion.
> those people cannot then own properties without being subject to those extra taxes

...neither can an individual today. The point is one person still controls multiple properties.
Discussion (24 points, 9 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080345
There’s comb filtering too.
Aren’t they (present humans) simply profiting from work done decades ago (past humans, not them) through patents or others kinds of IP / protections granted by governments ? Surely it was original and useful before but now it’s part of humans knowledge base
Or they'll just get bought by Microsoft, Amazon, or Cloudflare and that'll be that

I like Tailscale just because it's OpenVPN without the unbearable agony of setting it up so it actually works
So these criminals that have been performing the illegal searches. The next step is they'll be charged with false imprisonment, extortion, and conspiracy, right?

Oh, okay then, how about at least for deprivation of civil rights under the color of law?

Well then, what about monetary damages for the people whose data was copied, devices were stolen or could no longer be trusted, wasted time and missed flights, costs of retaining an attorney to defend themselves, etc?

Oh, the result is that the criminals that did this are just going to have to pause for a little bit until some attorney working for their agency, whom we are also paying for, writes a new justification with slightly tweaked reasoning, at which time the perps will resume?!?

Sovereign immunity strikes again. None of these terrible authoritarian dynamics are ever going to be reigned in until sovereign immunity is severely curtailed. At the very least we need civil liability that compensates the victims out of the department's budget. Ideally there should be criminal liability, either on the individuals performing the illegal actions, or if they're following written policy then whomever instituted that policy.

And if you think this sounds extreme, then note it's still more lenient than what the rest of us get! Security guards, private investigators, and even just individuals defending themselves still manage to operate while staying well away from the edges of the law. And in general, staying away from the edges of the law is the exact dynamic we want for those involved in physically coercing others.
1. If you don't want me to speculate about your point, make your point. I'm not going to participate in you trying to "teach" with the Socratic method of a bunch of leading questions that try to make answers you don't like impossible.

2. I said I was guessing, and it's possible my guess war wrong. But frankly, nothing you've said actually indicates that my guess of your point was wrong--it simply indicates that you didn't understand my post. So I'll ask you point blank: do you believe perception is reality? A simple, "yes" or a "no" will suffice, no need to flower it up with philosophese.

3. You say you're a religious person. Which religion? I doubt you believe the vague, slippery, undefined religion that exists only to allow religious people to debate atheists without having to defend the absurd beliefs of their actual religion.

> Just one way you've missed the mark: you are speaking as if your access to my mind is as good as it is to yours.

No, I'm saying my access to the mind of a religious person is as good as yours.

> > The thing is, science is perfectly capable of answering this question--it's not unknowable.

> "Science" only has volition through scientists (or "scientific thinkers"), and Humans very often are not able to not know things (particularly educated Humans at times....a little knowledge is a dangerous thing as they say). Studying science does not turn one into a Perfectly Rational Human, after all.

Yep. Which is why I didn't say "science is perfectly capable of answering ALL QUESTIONS". What I said was "Science is perfectly capable of answering THIS QUESTION." Since you're intent on taking everything out of context, I will insist on clarifying that what I mean is, "Science is perfectly capable of answering the question of whether perception is reality or not--whether perception is reality or not is not unknowable."

I will go on to say, religion isn't capable of answering any questions. No criticism of science actually gives any validity to religion.

> Please, tell me who "my" "invisible friend" is, Human. Tell me in vivid detail, I would really like to know this about my actual, not indirect self.

Your invisible friend is whatever deity your religion believes in. You said you were religious.

> When you say "think", I'm curious what you mean. Could you (after the fact, giving you an advantage) write out a pseudocode representation of the chain(s) of logic (and the axioms & premises upon which it is based) you ran to arrive at that incorrect conclusion? Because I have a sneaking suspicion there might be some heuristics and bad axioms(!) in the cognitive pipeline.

Bro, what are you even asking? If you want to know why I think philosophy is often poor communication presented as intelligence, it's crap like the above quoted paragraph.

No, I'm not going to pseudo-code out the definition of the word "think", if that's what you're asking me to do.
It seems that you’re correct! I’m not sure what led me to believe that. I’ll update the post when I get home later.

edit: fixed

I dug into the API similarities between the speakers more and it seems like they're both using this software called StreamSDK [1]. I hadn't heard of that and it's given me more to research on these.

[1] https://www.streamunlimited.com/stream-sdk/
Discussion (53 points, 21 days ago, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40880077
What are you talking about? The OP made requests from his Bun server. CORS would obviously break any request made directly from js in the browser
As a counterexample, I've been promoted for reducing tech debt
Since smart phones are explicitly mentioned in Article 4 along with bump stocks, it’s pretty clear how this SCOTUS would rule.
What's Tailscale's value prop? It's just a kludge together of various FOSS heavyweights..?
I was always of the opinion that the real difference was community culture.

I used to be into Gentoo, but the community got pretty toxic around the time that Robbins left. My sense was Robbins was trying to start over with less negativity. Hence the "fun" part of "funtoo".
I’ve been having problems studying this topic for years now, is there actually an official scientific field with official books and an official consensus on this ? Seems hard to know who to trust on this wide-but-niche topic
Shifting away from using capital as the basis for resources allocation has been tried repeatedly and failed catastrophically every time. There's no mechanism than the market better to optimize the problems of supply, demand, and logistics.

However, something should definitely be done about funny money printers. There are plenty of mechanisms in history shown to be successful dealing with them, such as going to where they live and taking care of them in the dead of night. I agree that massive inflation is a serious problem, but the solution is not to say "let's get rid of the utility of money!" -- it is to punish the people subverting market utility for their own gain.

Trying to change reality because a small group of bad actors is absurd. Just get rid of the bad actors.
It doesn't. I was strip searched and imprisoned without a warrant, or even an arrest. And it gets worse from there.
"Why use Dropbox when I can use rsync or FTP" [0]

- HN in 2007

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> Key learning for me, is that it's a lot better to hire smart people to learn, than it is to hire stupid people to do something that they already know how to do.

When I was working on open source projects in a community that attracted non-programmers and existing programmers who wanted to contribute I also found this to be true in some way. It's a little different in that I'm not asking people to join but rather they want to join.

Some of the "senior" programmers who wanted to be part of the community were a bit arrogant, looked down on other programmers, wanted to be part of the community but still somewhat distant, wanting to do their own thing entirely in isolation, etc.

Meanwhile the "junior" programmers were full of energy, would fix small issues others were blind to, try working on new features in context with the community, more willing to learn, active otherwise in the community, etc.

So in this case I'd frame it more as motivation than being smart or stupid. I think the same applies to larger companies too, overall juniors tend to have more drive.

Even myself, when I was younger I definitely had more energy to start random projects every week for random ideas, but nowadays I *feel* like I've explored everything interesting under the sun (I know in reality I have not) and so I'm a lot more picky about what I decide to start.
Michael Crichton didn't write Jurassic Park just to talk about dinosaurs. He wrote it as a reaction to constantly seeing Men building unsustainable worlds, they had no hope of controlling, being told so by experts, and building them anyway.

WSJ knows all that. Its job is to promote the hustle anyway. In their wisdom the next gen has to continue the tradition, even as the failures get bigger and bigger.
Compromise is never required. It can be beneficial but success can sometimes be a matter of being entirely uncompromising.
In the border search context, an intermediate standard of some kind related to actual suspicion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception#Search...
Most of it I get, but... "Genital prosthetics"!? What on Earth?
PR reviews are the one thing you sure don't want a LLM doing.
The difference is that file:// URLs can be opened by your grandparent opening a .html file that they downloaded, whereas http://localhost requires you to actually set up a web server.

Imagine double-clicking a malicious page.html and suddenly your entire Documents folder can be fetched and manipulated by JavaScript. Yikes.

But to your latter point, yeah, there’s no reason sandboxed web apps couldn’t be given better file:// permissions.
Citing an obvious satirical piece?
Also you shouldn't make an Ask HN post unless you're actually asking a question. Here OP seems to just want to say their own ideas on the matter.

That, or they forgot to switch accounts and they're trying to karma farm :P
Have you talked with contractors recently? It costs a lot more than you seem to think it does.
if you're wondering why you see a weird ⌍ symbol from time to time on the demo, it's a "small 7" because the watch ties the top and bottom segments of the first and third digits (segments A and D) together.

https://joeycastillo.github.io/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/wi...

it's really amazing how much efficiency they packed in this display. in normal use, these digits only need to display the numbers 0-5 [for the first digit, the clock only needs 0, 1, 2, but the chronometer goes up to 59:59.99], none of which need to distinguish between those segments. technically I guess the chronometer could have gone up to 69:59.99 without breaking anything though, but I guess "one hour" is sufficient? the numbers 8 and 9 also illuminate both the top and bottom segment, so it's only 7 that is an issue.
You can start by understanding the physics behind high dynamic range. Any real world analog value can have a tremendous dynamic range, it’s not just light : distances, sound, weight, time, frequencies etc. We always need to reduce / compress / limit / saturate dynamic range when converting to digital values. And we always need to expand it back when reconverting to an analog signal
Time to re-watch Gattaca.
I tried once or twice in the early 2010s to set up a home server and had a similar experience to what you describe. Stuff would break and I wouldn't want to spend time fixing it.

I think part of the excitement I'm feeling is that the ecosystem today feels way more stable and mature than it did a decade to a decade and a half ago. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, TrueNAS, and a few other things have all pretty much run themselves for me with almost no downtime (other than one blackout that happened while I was traveling and drained my UPS) for the past nine months. There's tinkering to get it all up and running, but way less maintenance than I remember in the past.
Totally this. I am old enough to remember LAN fun times. And writing software since 1970s at high school.

And Tailscale works for me to create my own network of phones, laptops, desktops and a remote node at DO. Works brilliantly to cross geo boundaries, borders, wifi networks(home has multiple) and seamless moving between mobile networks and wired.

Not sure will create a new internet or not but at least a new intranet where all my devices are reachable and controllable.
I have a theory that software devs make horrible mechanics.
Amortization also spreads the back loaded expenses out to the timeframe of the revenue
"Its search engine uses Microsoft's Bing's technology, with whom it has a long-term arrangement."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53922786
You think that.

I was strip searched

When that came up with nothing they appeared in front of a judge claiming drug baggies were sticking out of my ass, then I was imprisoned, printed, and loaded up in a prisoner van and dragged to several hospitals while they tried to convince doctors to X-ray or invasively search me.

It sounds so insane, and gross, people usually don't believe it.

I was sent the medical bills when finished. The search is the beginning, after comes years of being chased by debt collectors.
Some people are professional small landlords. It’s an incredibly valuable service for people who don’t want the headache of home maintenance, and there are very significant economies of scale - 1 unit is generally not worth doing unless you really enjoy diy.
Most importantly all this tech is not reducing cost of living, but is increasing it. Tech is reducing prices of compute and memory and software but everyone's monthly bill increases. This is only possible through parasitic behavior. And we know how to kill parasites. The life and times of a parasite are not as fun as the worthies who come up with these unsustainable business models think.
I wonder how much we are actually losing on this side of the pond with that.

Maybe it is for the best. I don't really trust those billion-dollar companies.
Show HN: Graphs – A daily puzzle game to guess data sets
Hi everyone. I'm making Graphs as a love letter to the crossword, Wordle, Connections, and other "educational" daily games. I started building it a week or two ago and have some more ideas on the roadmap, but I'd love to share it today to see what people think.

Every day, you are given a nameless graph and 3 options to select the right data set it is representing. It's super simple - check out today's chart and you should be able to get the gist quickly.

My email + # is on the page. Would love feedback on the game as well as ideas for future graphs and/or data sets to look into! It's been a balancing act between finding a data set that is quality and public, not too niche, and visually interesting.

Winning streaks and/or archive coming soon! Don't hesitate to reach out ~Ari https://www.graphs.world
Foreign Policy is pearl-clutching because they've seen what actually enforced antitrust law looks like for the first time since Borke and Reagan ratfucked it.

The thing is, the tech business is uniquely conducive to generating monopolies, for a handful of reasons. The biggest being we're a copyright industry. Congress made the mistake of putting software under the same legal framework as Mickey Mouse, so the monopoly tech companies have over interoperability is government granted, has little bounds on its power, and lasts forever. And when tech and creative industries got together to enforce those legal rights through software, we got DMCA 1201, an awful law that gives anyone with a valid copyright veto rights over technological progress. The only way you get shit done in the tech industry is to get acquired so that you have enough market power to license and collaborate.

Outside of copyright we have online services firms like Google and Facebook, who operate primarily through surveillance capitalism. In prior media landscapes, if you wanted to sell to New York Times readers, you had to buy inventory in the Times. Today, you ask Google and Facebook to put ads on anyone who went on nytimes.com in the past week, which is just as lucrative for the ad buyer but Google and Facebook can pay the other sites less than what an actual NYT ad would command. Targeted advertising moves money away from a diverse and distributed group of publishers towards a pair of ad networks who know exactly everything about everyone at all times.

Facebook absolutely could be 'paid for' through nontargeted ads, but it makes Facebook a far less valuable business if they can't siphon data off you and sell it to other companies. Hell, Apple already proved this: iOS 14 moved ad tracking to opt-in[0], so nobody opted in, and Facebook had a revenue hit.

Europe is not inhospitable to tech, but it is inhospitable to tech monopolization, which is predominantly how American firms operate. And to be honest, I don't think Europe is wrong to do this. In fact, I want America's government to start doing the same thing. I want a government that acts less like a rubber stamp for a handful of megacorporations and more like the villains in an Ayn Rand novel.

Do you want to see what the alternative is? Simple: the end of democracy. Trump was just a preview. Democracy is not a given, it requires distributed political power, which requires distributed wealth and economic power. If a handful of firms can centralize economic power to themselves, then they become the economy, and they can start pulling the strings politically. We already saw this with oil in the 70s, but basically every American industry works this way. The only vestige of democracy left is that sometimes industries have conflicting economic interests and that sometimes the working class hurls an orange brick through everyone's windows.

[0] Unless you're Apple, who can still track you. Related note: Google is basically being forced to keep third-party cookies in Chrome because they dragged their feet on removing them for far too long.
The vast majority of tools you can expense the year you buy them

That is not true in the U.S. All capital assets must be depreciated. This includes all tools and equipment except for very short life consumables (< 1 year).
Because it's insane? It makes the rest of the post uninteresting by comparison.
Thanks! IIRC(fuzzily - it's been a while), I chose -UCS for a more euclidean color difference metric - I should review that. My even fuzzier recollection, is CIELAB's visible gamut shape is very artifacty[1], perhaps misleadingly representing the volume outside sRGB/P3 for instance.

The pedagogical objectives of playing well with full visible 3D gamut, and spectral locus, and of avoiding shape artifacts (concavities, excursions), are... non-traditional. Characteristics which could be happily traded away in traditional uses of color spaces, for characteristics like model math and simplicity which here have near-zero value (lookup tables satisficing). And were - most spaces have "oh my, that's a hard downselect" bizarre visual hulls, and topologies outside of P3 or even sRGB can get quite strange. Thus the need to untwist CAM16's curving hue lines - they're not bad within sRGB, but by the time they hit visible hull, yipes, I recall some as near parallel to hull.

Having a color space to play with as a realistic 3D whole, seems not the kind of thing we collectively incentivize. A lot of science education content difficulty seems like that.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visible_gamut_within...
Yggdrasil would indeed better fit the description.
It should however be noted, that, while it does work great, is still a research project.
Exactly this. (and for those unfamiliar with the terms, in federal courts "Circuit Courts" are the first level of appeals courts, which both sides have a right to be heard in, followed by the Supreme Court which is discretionary and only takes on big cases)

When there is a "circuit split" like this, with different appellate courts going in opposite directions you are almost 100% guaranteed SCOTUS has to step in to fix it.

I don't know the outcome of this, as I've not studied border searches in years, but while SCOTUS went in the favor of defendants on prior search cases (e.g. Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373, cellphone searches on person during arrest; Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), cellphone GPS logs from carrier; United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012), GPS attached to car), the court has changed to the right, which generally (but not always) means less defendant-friendly, more government-friendly.

If I had to wager, SCOTUS will uphold warrantless border searches.
The problem is this accounting change brings no additional dollars to the government coffers.

All it does is frontloads the money. So if your company lasts beyond 3 years you’re in basically the same position. But those first 3 years you’re far worse off. And the government makes no additional money either because the same amount is deducted, just over 3 years instead of 1.
do you want to build one or does your son want to build one?