skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a column in DIE ZEIT from 1999 on the subject of the planned obsolescence of light bulbs:

"Is it actually true that light bulb manufacturers could have produced light bulbs with an almost unlimited life a long time ago, but don't want to in order to stay in business? Rainer Mauersberger, Tucson (USA)

I don't want to speculate here about the motives of the light bulb manufacturers, but just want to list a few facts.

1. every light bulb (as it is correctly called) has a limited service life because tungsten atoms constantly evaporate from the filament and the wire breaks at some point.

2. how long the wire lasts can be "adjusted", for example by making it thicker or thinner. However, if you make it glow less brightly and thus increase its service life, the already poor efficiency drops even further - a standard light bulb only converts four percent of the electrical energy into light.

3) Since December 24, 1924, there has in fact been an international "light bulb cartel", which was essentially controlled by the companies General Electric (USA), Osram/Siemens (Germany) and Associated Electrical Industries (Great Britain). This cartel not only divided up the global markets among themselves, but also reached agreements on how long a light bulb should last - since the Second World War, this has been 1,000 hours. In the Soviet Union and Hungary, there have always been bulbs with a longer service life; the Chinese bulb still burns for 5000 hours today.

4) The inventor Dieter Binninger developed a light bulb with a considerably longer life expectancy, which he also patented. His three improvements: a new form of filament

filament, a glass bulb filled with noble gas and a diode as a "dimmer". The Binninger bulb lasted 150,000 hours and consumed only around 50 percent more energy than an ordinary bulb for the same light output. Binninger produced the light bulbs himself, but then negotiated with the Treuhand to take over the GDR company Narva. Shortly after submitting his offer, the light bulb revolutionary crashed in a private plane in 1991.

5 Today, light bulbs are no longer manufactured in the new federal states. Light bulbs in the western world still have a life span of 1000 hours. Christoph Drösser

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)"

https://www.zeit.de/stimmts/1999/199933_stimmts_gluehbir
If the vendor doesn't go open source, I will look for an open source alternative. If none is available, I will consider building one. Only after researching those options would I consider a propeietary or "Fair" source product. And I would be very careful with how I integrate such a product into my business.

So yeah, if there are no good open source alternatives and building my own would be cost prohibitive, I might consider a Fair Source product.
We can argue about what they intended, but here is what they wrote:

"The term “new source” means any stationary source, the construction or modification of which is commenced after the publication of regulations (or, if earlier, proposed regulations) prescribing a standard of performance under this section which will be applicable to such source."

and

"The term “existing source” means any stationary source other than a new source."

Finally.. congress didn't hand EPA an unlimited authority to make decisions about sources. It handed them a process they must follow when it comes to ruling on "new sources."

With a law this complex, I'm not sure you can bring the intentions of a single sponsor into the consideration:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/7411
Apple seems to like to coerce their users onto their preferred track little by little, release after release, instead of hamfistedly forcing it on day one. Instead, each release is a small drip of inconvenience and nudging.

Long time ago, you could run any executable you wanted. Then, you got a little nag, but whatever. Then (I think) you had to right click and take an extra step to run them, with a scary warning. Then, you got an even scarier warning and had to navigate into Settings to select "Allow applications downloaded from" -> Anywhere. Then, they removed the "Anywhere" option, but you could re-enable it with the command line.

It's also directionally clear: They surely intend to fully boil the frog one day and remove the ability to do this.

Se also: The UX you have to navigate in order to fill your own password into web pages on Safari.
I genuinely think that Google, organizationally and strategically, sees organic results as an annoyance and a legacy liability.

Ideally, Google would prefer that you show up, type a search term, and are surfaced a variety of “answers.” Some of them would be in the form of ads, others would be in the form of YouTube links so you can see ads there, and others would be in the form of closed-ended solutions which completely satisfy your query with no need or ability to click. All of the options, crucially, should keep you on Google’s own real estate.

If I’m right, you can expect the organic search results to continue their trend of de-prioritization. They’ve already been pushed below the fold on most types of queries. Next, you should see them buried in a collapsible widget with an unappealing name, like “view unverified results.” The next stage is probably to remove that section entirely but with a user profile preference to restore it, followed by full deprecation, which will probably be noted only by the HN crowd and not really even noticed by everyone else. I would estimate the general public’s rate of choosing the ads on Google SERPs is something like 80-90% already.
I was working on a Linux laptop and the installation process wasn't immediately clear. Some of the frameworks I looked at didn't target the most recent .NET version so I had to install multiple versions. Once I had it installed, I had compilation failures with a project that was built on Windows. The team that ran it wasn't sure what was happening.

Also, having the documentation split between the F# parts on one site and the .NET parts on another site was a bit of a pain.

It might have gone better if I was starting with a book instead of picking docs off the web.
I couldn't find anything on Google under the tagline "CH4, the clean gas", and all of the marketing I could find called it natrual gas instead. It was marketed as a "clean" solution, laughable as that may be. I guess it's a little less bullshit than all of the "clean coal" marketing.
I think you need to wait one year before being able to post an exact link again. You can ask deng to reset it if you want, but maybe take some initiative for yourself rather than giving other people attitude, then asking them to do you favors?
Can you please substantiate and elaborate your claims with sources?
C# for real work, Python for scripting or specific use-cases where it has excellent library support & Golang if I need something closer to C or very lightweight or easy for people to understand.

Rust is interesting but the compile times aren't great.
memccpy, then use the return value to terminate.
My technical focus is on the operation of custom appliances in various (cloud) environments. Therefore, please bear in mind that I have a very limited view of the various functionalities in the cloud environment. The advantage is that I have basically performed the same task in all three environments.

tl;dr: Azure is crap, GCP is mid, AWS is best

Core problems in Azure:
1) opaque IAM policies
2) Slow, unresponsive and bloated frontend
3) Basic tasks such as reboot sometimes take forever
4) When using the azure cli tool, you have completely unusable response times, sometimes simple tasks such as adding or removing IPs to NICs take up to 3 minutes
5) Documentation mostly useless
6) Installation of some bloated Windows tools (e.g. waagent) on Linux appliances (can certainly be avoided, but is probably activated by default, known Microsoft foolishness)
7) Some Microsoft peculiarities also lead to such strange problems that the ssh login is sometimes not possible for 10-40 minutes after a restart of the sshd

I started in Azure and worked with it for about a year, then I worked with AWS for the first time and was thrilled. The syntax of the CLI tool is intuitive and the frontend reacts to CLI commands within seconds. Everything is well documented and I was able to find helpful resources for almost every error I encountered. And by helpful I mean that I had to read ONE article to solve the problem. No comparison to hours of research for any Azure problems.

Google is definitely not bad, especially things like automated network configuration were easier in my experience, but I find the front end more confusing. Overall though, the experience is comparable to AWS.

My only advice: Don't use Azure. I regularly have to suppress the urge to take a bath with my toaster after having to work with it.
Here's how I got there. Author doesn't like the way decisions are made so they think they should be the decision-maker. The team is supposed to make the decisions in Scrum. So, I feared that in reality, they're just not a team player and feeling a little powerless in that dynamic given all the pushback they may be experiencing.

The author's complaints about Scrum Master and Product Owner do not seem to be substantiated, just gripes.

The Scrum Master is supposed to be the unblocker and master of ceremonies. In my opinion, the best SM arrangement is as a rotating role for analysts/developers on the team rather than a dedicated position. The Scrum Master needs to be involved with the actual work to understand what a blocker is. Rotating SM is actually becoming more common in the industry, as I understand it.

The ideal Product Owner is the one neck to choke on the team for failure. The ideal PO is the keeper of the vision and the tastemaker and a buffer between the team and the business/politics and the subject matter expert when it comes to business requirements for the project. Obviously, there are less-than-ideal PO's, and we can lament and complain about that separately, but author needs to better understand what a PO is in Scrum. I wonder if they think a Project Manager is the same thing as a Product Owner.
So to clarify: my suggested point of comparison was replacing QOI + 7Zip of GP with QOIR + zstd. QOIR already compresses better than QOI before the LZ4 pass, and zstd compresses faster than 7zip and often better. On top of that you can put zstd in the header option when streaming data on a browser so you don't need to increase the JS bundle or whatever if the use case is the web. So that's basically a guaranteed net improvement all around.

Second of all, the speed/compression trade-off with zstd can be tuned a lot. The "half as fast as LZ4" stat is for the fastest setting, but for the proposed comparison point of 7zip a slower setting with better compression ratio is likely perfectly fine.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev?tab=readme-ov-file...
I get where you're coming from.

I also think, based on both study and experience, that often it's better to simply act than to attempt to argue or negotiate.

Acting (including withdrawing your own support) doesn't require the participation or cooperation of the other party. Argument and negotiation both do. A fundamental limitation of rational interactions is the reliance on rationality by your counterparty.
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I hope they will at least prompt the user to let them know what’s going on. I’ve run into this before on macOS, where an app wouldn’t launch, and on a hunch I went into the security settings and saw a section there were it was blocked and I could allow it. There was not even a hint of this in the error message when trying to launch the app. It was a very poor experience.

I’ll also be curious if placing the app in ~/Applications avoids the restriction. This has long been my way to get around some of the restrictions at work. /Applications requires admin rights, ~/Applications does not. Apps still show up in LaunchPad and work as normal (as far as I’ve seen), they are just only available to the user, instead of all users, which is fine for my situation. I used to have to request admin rights every time VS Code wanted to update on my work laptop, but since I put it in my user folder instead, it’s been smooth sailing.
There were a lot of amazing advancements from 1950 to 1980. After 1990 and autofocus the build quality of lenses started going downhill. The plastic focusing mechanisms negated a lot of the otherwise good optics.

The affordable category of lenses today also don't gave good optics. While there are good modern optics used in higher-end lenses, it's easier to get better used old optics that outperforms shitty modern optics at the same price point.

There are some nice lenses made today but they are extremely costly. A Sony GM 300/2.8 costs $6000. I got my late 70s Canon SSC Fluorite 300/2.8 for $400 and it's tack sharp corner to corner, and considering I paid only $400 for it, I'm not too worried about taking it everyhwere.

A Sony GM 50/1.2 costs $1900. I paid $300 for my Nikkor early 80's 50/1.2. For f/1.2 portraits sharpness isn't the thing you're usually after, and mine gives absolutely spectacular results.

Back in the 50s-80s almost every lens was built like a tank and they are now available used at a fraction of the price of modern equivalents. If you don't give a crap about autofocus (studio portrait, macro, landscape, product photographers all don't need autofocus), it's a very good deal. Plastic started to show up in the 90s and killed everything.

(If you're shooting sports and wildlife, yeah, prioritize autofocus, but that's not what I do.)
While you are correct, this is not what Hetzner said. If the highest cost in the TOC would be acquisition an not floor space over time, then OP would be right
At this rate SpaceX will have two certified manned launch vehicles (Crew Dragon, Starship) by the time any other providers have a functioning platform.

(yes it will be years before Starship is human-certified... but Starliner has already had MORE years)
I’d hate to see how their knives are washed
> The article also says that USDoD tried to sell the data for only $3.5 million, so they value it at roughly $830/person.

When I divide 3,500,000 USD by 2,900,000,000 people, I get $0.0012/person. How do you get $830/person?
Did you arrange that in the shape of an among us on purpose?
I don't think so.

It would be illegal not to reimburse the expense in, say, California; https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-lab...
Sure, but the same can be said for the 4-year delay, too. I don't really see a big difference, and I'm using the FCL [0] which is also 2-year DOSP.

If the author is no longer improving the product in 2-year cycles, they deserve to be usurped.

[0]: https://fcl.dev
Anyone know if we could have requested our data deleted from National Public Data per CCPA? If so, what other huge databrokers have the same data that we can request deletion?
Analog computing (aka: OpAmps) will always exist in situations where the A-to-D converter is a problem.

For example: 24-bit ADCs may exist but with nonlinearity errors, offset errors and noise problems.

You will likely get better results out of Instrumentation OpAmps (specifically designed OpAmps for (A-B) * C type operations). Less noise, more accuracy and more linearity across wider voltages and currents.

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And if my Analog design is already better than the best possible A-to-D converters out there, then no digital technique can ever possibly catch up. Just converting the analog signal to the digital world already introduced significant errors before the computer even booted up... Let alone the final D-to-A conversion back. (Most things today need a voltage or current applied to operate, possibly in proportion to the computed values).

I expect radio (WiFi, cellphones etc. etc.) to remain analog for the near future. SDR techniques are crazy good today but still expensive.
You freeze your credit by making an account on TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax's websites. It sucks, and they suck, but it's free. Unless you take out loans quite frequently, there's no reason not to do it. My credit has been frozen for years, and I only ever unfreeze it for a month or two at a time when I need to refinance a mortgage or something like that.
I live at the bottom of a valley, but luckily in a tiny house on a concrete pad, so I have no basement and I'm raised up two feet off the ground. That works pretty well for the house, but the driveway and yard still floods. So I dug a "pond" and small ditch things to channel water to it. You can't really tell where it is because I let my yard grow wild, but when it rains hard the water fills it up, and it evaporates/drains naturally over a couple days.

The ditch actually speeds up the water drainage. I dug the ditches to divert the water around the property line, so the surface area of ditch in total is large, even though you can't really see it and it doesn't get in the way. I figure at least a quarter of the water drains through the ditch before it gets to the pond. This is probably helped by the fact that the soil is very rocky.
For some American Jews, a path to German citizenship opens options
Ah, forgotten records, including the musings of poet Allen Ginsburg, provide a secret decoder ring to interpreting the Clean Air Act. This is not, of course, how one interprets statutes.

For what it's worth, the linked press release's description of the Supreme Court's decision is wrong; the court did not, in fact, hold that "Congress had not empowered the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases," but that it could not regulate in the manner that it did. And, so far as the statute at issue is concerned, the evidence is overwhelming that it was never intended to empower EPA to restructure the nation's electricity system. I wrote a fair bit about this at the time, and was apparently persuasive.[1]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/204857/202...
Ah, yeah, the non-windows stuff was pretty clunky for awhile, but I do feel like it's gotten a bit better at the command line support.

FWIW I think it works fine with Nix, so if you're not opposed to using that package manager it should pretty trivial to get different versions working with a nix shell and/or flake.
>You're going to have patterns from the .NET Framework era being ported to .NET Core projects. It works, but you'll have two paradigms of doing things mixed into your project.

I've been spending the past couple years migrating various platforms from Framework to the new .NET and as long as you've got a head on your shoulders it's not too bad. Also, new projects in .NET are fantastic to work with, imo.
That's obsolete. macOS now uses ocsp2.apple.com.

The process is "trustd".
Actually Technology Connections made a great youtube video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

The gist is that by running bulbs at a lower power, you can greatly prolong its life, but the downside is that it doesn't heat up as much, and since emissions spectrum correllates with temperature, ends up being much worse at converting electricity to light, which ends up being not worth it.
> They own enough congressmen to make sure any such legislation never makes it out of committee.

Campaign donations are a powerful motivator but they lose to real public pressure every time. The public is not very interested in this problem because it's incredibly abstract and none of the proposed solutions seem designed to actually solve it without forcing a religious level of austerity on them.
I just paid for a project, but got charged $33 on Paypal instead of $17, and then it lost my project and no history of the transaction in my transactions on the dashboard.

I tried sending a message to support, and it threw an error, so trying here. I understand shit happens, I am not irate, but I would like to remedy this.
Actually, you get one free year of credit monitoring.

After the first year, you'll be asked to pay for monitoring.
No, please read: https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-product-owner
It's in fact very common to microcode instructions at early iterations of an arch. https://uops.info/table.html is a nice place if certain instructions being slow brings joy to your life.
Youd need a new court first lol
I don't think the current one is very open to suggestion
Do you have crawl space or basement? If you have crawl space, then you should encapsulate it.

- Increase airflow in your basement or crawl space. Add a pest proof window that you can open and close. Or operate a fan based on humidity or temp, similar to a gable/attic fan.

- Add a properly sized dehumidifier that pump water out of your house to keep the humidity low.

- Keep plants away from your house if your house is swamped by plants. Plants hold ton of moisture and it's great for your air, but terrible at humidity.
End of the day we can always ignore the Supreme Court rulings. Thermonuclear option.

Marburey vs Madison was the courts interpreting the constitution to say that judicial review exists. Judicial review itself is a precedent that we've all been following in good faith.

I'd honestly love a historic review of judicial review and see if we think it's been a net positive or negative. For every civilian rights win there's also a dredd Scott, not sure how it's balanced on the whole. I've always thought it was a good thing and I like it in theory but... Now that I'm older I'm thinking about it's application in practice more critically
I never really understood that pitch, personally. The sell is to untether people from their phone by tethering them to something else (that is inferior in almost every way) instead? Where's the win?
Thanks for sharing, the other articles on this blog are equally fascinating
How much has to happen before we pass legislating forbidding SSN as ID?
> police would be ever-present in the area

you live in the area? because your comment doesn’t sound like it
> But what about the trolling that gets worse and worse, even if you ignore it?

I’d say this would be when it crosses over from trolling to harassment.
This is exactly why insurance was invented.
He worked much longer for the 900 but more importantly - he repeated the 900 at the age of 48[0]!

[0] https://youtu.be/TnvPt_a7iOQ?t=93
> Is it possible to now use Puppeteer from inside the browser?

Talking about WebDriver (BiDi) in general rather than Puppeteer specifically, it depends what exactly you mean.

Classic WebDriver is a HTTP-based protocol. WebDriver BiDi uses websockets (although other transports are a possibility for the future). Script running inside the browser can create HTTP connections and create websockets connections, so you can create a web page that implements a WebDriver or WebDriver BiDi client. But of course you need to have a browser to connect to, and that needs to be configured to actually allow connections from your host; for obvious security reasons that's not allowed by default.

This sounds a bit obscure, but it can be useful. Firefox devtools is implemented in HTML+JS in the browser (like the rest of the Firefox UI), and can connect to a different Firefox instance (e.g. for debugging mobile Firefox from desktop). The default runner for web-platform-tests drives the browser from the outside (typically) using WebDriver, but it also provides an API so the in-browser tests can access some WebDriver commands.
I think it was suppose to be 830 persons / $1.
probably not - the areas outside these bart stations are known as crime hotspots
I know it is a privilege and a rare opportunity to go into space, but it strikes me as something that should be compensated for at higher than the going rate of astronaut salaries of $100-$150K/year. They overpay for every bolt but count the pennies when it comes to the salaries.