skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, you missed the chance to change to citation to "Dataronomy"
That’s an insult to Nokia Snake. Nokia Snake doesn’t have ads, loot boxes, in-app purchases, collectibles, social media integration or any of dozens of other dark pattern that are practically standard in casual games now.
Good excuse to start over.

I lost a hard drive once due to a failure. It was actually liberating. A lot of old stuff I didn't have to worry about anymore.
https://www.optcore.net/difference-between-rs-232-rs-422-and....

Serial is usually ascii, not always but usually. The different types of serial depend on things like duplexity and line noise, or lack thereof.

232 is -15v to 15v, 422 is -6 to 6, and 485 is -7 to 12
Interesting thread here. I've built a NZ based app (diy meal kit) for pricing recipes with scrapped data and product selections from Woolworths. I'm looking for technical people to work with on this. Massive opportunity to help families make better informed decisions with online groceries.
Realistically I think we would be fine to make packet size significantly larger than Ethernet would currently allow if we really wanted. E.g. Infiniband already has 1x lane speeds of 200 Gbps without relying on any interpacket gap for clock sync at all. Ethernet, on the other hand, has been consistently increasing speed while decreasing the number of bits used for the interpacket gap since it's less and less relevant for clocking. Put a few bytes back and you could probably do enormous sizes.
it was this whole exercise that convinced me to pick up a book on mips "see mips run" which was a first self-study deepdive into microprocessor architecture.

fun times!
I think you missed the forest for the trees. I will make it very clear. The advertising business is a growth vector. It grows with the size of the economy. Singular industries may rise and fall (ex. ads for riding crops) but in aggregate, advertising always continues to grow. Zero sum means explicitly that the total pie stays the same, which advertising is not. It forces the pie to grow. And that's for a straightforward reason, because advertising is an arms race. A company can't afford to drop out, can't afford to fall behind.

> Advertising is going to exist with and without tracking individual users, the difference is simply relative value of undifferentiated content.

So what you mean to say is that targeted advertising is the same as mass advertising, that there's no benefit, perceived or otherwise, of targeting users. Well, I'm afraid you're very wrong. Both buyers and sellers of advertising love targeted advertising. For buyers, it makes the most efficient use of their budget allocation, and for sellers, it allows them to to take maximum advantage of user self-segmentation. The analogy of indiscriminate bombing being superseded by precision munitions is an apt one. There's no going back at this point.

Regulations will only distort the market further. The platforms will make the fines the cost of doing business, and pass them onto the buyers. The buyers, in turn, will pass that cost along to consumers in the form of higher prices. Every company will continue to pay for advertising because they can't afford not to. And so it will continue. All the fines will do is concentrate more wealth into the platforms and the government. And that's exactly what's happening in the EU with advent of GDPR.
Israel is now in a similar position to South Africa in the '80's for a considerable population of the world. Defending actions that others find indefensible. Enshrining societal culture and positions that for most is extermely unpalatable, at best.

I don't see how Israel come back from it's current position, even with U.S. backing. Deliberately killing and maiming children and the vulnerable in the many thousands is not something that a lot of people can overlook, regardless of what type of context is provided.
I think if you a refresh it does flush all your add-ons, no? Unless you have sync turned on you’ll have fun reinstalling them again and setting them up to your liking, and that is pain for someone like me who has 11 of them. Even with sync you still lose settings if they aren’t “sync aware”
amazon.com

it was supposed to be a folksy, communal, whole-earth inspired bookstore that would interact synergistically with actual book stores and the rest of the world.

instead, we built a fucking monster that is awesome for consumers and a nightmare for almost everybody else.

sorry.
That time was probably when SLI/crossfire was still around so high-end consumer boards had a reason to include plenty of slots for 3 GPUs.
By far the biggest hog of resources for me is Dark Reader. I don’t think any other extension even comes close. I still use it though because adding 300ms to a page load to me doesn’t phase me.
O-Bahn Mass Transit System Combines Buses, Trains, and Trams
Tetrafecta would be cooler
Most databases have the concept of temporary tables that will automatically disappear when your session ends. For troubleshooting, I would breakdown each step and save it in a temp table. Validate it. Then use it as the input for the next step. Etc.
RS-232 defines the levels, the different signals, and the physical connectors. However, baud rate, parity, stop bits, and the like are at a "level" above RS-232, and so outside its scope.
> (1) He was more ambitious in terms of the scale of the work. <snip> bigger so he could get a commission.

Finding a sales person is definitely a two-edged sword. Have them eat what they kill means they have to constantly sell small jobs, or wait for that perfect big kill. Pay them a base rate they are comfortable with, and they have no motivation.

Other sales related issues we've all probably seen where sales make promises that are damn near impossible to deliver or fail to recognize an valid sales because the truly do not understand the product. I've been hit by both of these from the same person.
Chevron’s dismemberment is hardly an issue, considering that it’s no different than monarchism in practice. People in power, with no term limits, deep pockets, and tons of leverage delegating power to those who are not elected and are, in fact, unchecked by any form of governmental authority. The balance shifted horribly and the USA was overall worse for it. Now we’re in an era where we can hopefully reverse enough of the damage and, ideally, institute term limits in a way to end the existence of career politicians.
Do you mean “The Invisible Man”?
Maybe the API engineers are not paid enough
Unless you write Mac apps. Then you're constantly chasing Apple's yearly releases, praying that your own software update will not be as obviously rushed and buggy as Apple's own.
> People have no idea how fast global warming is happening.

You're not wrong. The transition in New England in recent years has been unbelievable. I only used the snow blower twice per winter for the past few years. People who live in the southern states don't realize what's going on. The cold, snowy north is becoming a thing of the past and the best weather is moving up here.
What's a working way to download video from Udemy?
So, I just purchased a course on udemy which has super long videos. Unfortunately, there's been extremely high internet latency and overall limited data plan. For some reason, Udemy disabled downloading video for offline view just like Youtube would let you do on most videos..

If anyone could recommend a working tool or software to download videos from this platform for offline viewing, It would be greatly appreciated.
Note: This is a course i have legally purchased on Udemy.
The Karankawa Want You to Know They're Not Extinct
Much as I like prime he makes his content by hopping between techs. For a while he was all about rust, now rust bad zig good. And somewhere in between he was on the go train. And in six months it’ll be something else.

Languages move much slower than that and for the average dev I think so rapid jumps are suboptimal.

Rust seems to have achieved critical mass in some ways. Big tech, gov, kernel etc. That to me is at least as important as language features
I made this mistake as a solo founder. It still ended up opening new doors for me, but still could've done a lot better if I had internalized this from the get go.
So basically they are switching from using their own geostationary satellites to using both Starlink and Oneweb, using multiple antennas at once to get more bandwidth.

Sounds pretty reasonable. Why do it yourself when you can outsource it to get a better product for less money. The Starlink constellation seems pretty resistant to physical attacks, with the laser link now allowing them to route around destroyed base stations. And as part of the contract they work on the resiliency to cyber attacks.

And giving sailors live streams and the ability to call family even at sea seems like a big morale win. Which by extension means being able to attract more and better candidates in the future.
Curious as to the timing given 9 days ago it looks like Russian Navy might be planning to use starlink on their naval drones. Would StarLink eventually be able to control nation state conflicts by disabling connectivity to the side they don't like? They've previously done this to Ukrainian drones.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/new-russian-nav...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/musk-stopped-ukraine-atta...
Yeh, I edited my reply, I realised what you meant afterwards.

Auto layout does sound neat.
I have shared my startup story here, and it was a full-on cargo cult. I am now convinced that Cargo Cult thinking is a far bigger killer of startups than we presume.

https://healthio.notion.site/How-Cargo-Cult-Thinking-Nearly-...
I have a similar past failing. Someone that was a super friendly people person that never met a stranger. Would talk a good talk about plans, but would just not execute. Staying focused on one thing was impossible.
Don't worry, training is protected by the Glory of the Commons -- any intentional linguistic sabotage by an individual would be a tiny drop in the bucket.
I would add YDB.Tech and RonDB Also ProxySQL and ReadySet
Show HN: I made a website for searching police scanner transcripts
Hey everyone,

copcrawler.com is a website that lets you search through transcribed police scanner audio from broadcastify.com. I'm currently using faster-whisper with the tiny.en model to transcribe audio from about 14 departments on some old laptops. The transcript quality is relatively low however it's good enough to find common police scanner keywords like 'shots fired' or 'burglary'. I've also implemented RAG for a of couple departments which you can try out with the chat bot mode.
I agree with this. I don't know if we have easy solutions left to tackle this pernicious problem. But legislating privacy definitely won't work the way people think it will.

In the past, boom and bust cycles, while causing major hardship for regular folks, would also wipe out most incumbents and monopolies, effectively resetting the economy. Modern monetary policy is designed to minimize economic shock, so that option is off the table, and has been for some time now.
+1 for the Playdate. The thing is incredibly friendly to developers and sideloaded games are first-class citizens. In addition to a really pleasant SDK there's also Pulp which is very easy for kids to use to make simple games (and has enough depth to be used to make real games).

https://play.date/pulp/
That's great news! I've always been a big supporter of the FSF and that they stopped this toxic practice it awesome!
The wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised neural networks [pdf]
My unit predates GPS units having street maps, but assuming your TFT version does, I believe there are exporters from Open Street Maps that might be cool to try out?
Remember this the next time you cut a technical corner to launch faster
I guess... math programs...? Proof generators? I've been working with some mathematical code recently and read (skimmed) this whole thing, and I didn't come away with any ideas. There is a link to a resource on "ordinal algebra", but it's lacking the obvious appeal of quaternions and octonions. Commenting in the hope that my ignorance inspires an insightful correction from someone who knows more Math than I do!
Aerc:

Could probably be built on Windows. You just need Go and make. Betterbird supports MacOS only since a view weeks. My initial suggestions to build it for Mac was denied by the author because of „money“.

Let’s you view html emails. It’s in the article.

I bet moving mails by keystrokes are much faster than drag and drop per mouse. If you use the same folders again and again it even faster. Eg:

pa = :archive flat<Enter> # move (think put or paste) mail in the archive folder
pb = :move<space> Brain<Enter> # move mail in my Brain.
pf = :move<space> # move (think put or paste) mail in folder. Next character filters folders.

works out of the box. Configuration is less complicated than mutt (by far)

Works fine with OAUTH

BB is fine but I hate it that I can’t use my own keyboard shortcuts. A ubiquitous phenomenon.
Datasets and curations are copyrightable. I would think of it as a right to use the curation, not a right to use the actors' likeness.
Silicon Valley Is Coming Out in Force Against an AI-Safety Bill
So the caps were wired up in parallel?
Yes, and it's not just non-profit foundations, or even social causes. I've seen it in big corporations too, where some "parasite" as you call them ascends the ranks and "spearheads" some new "initiative", that turns out to have really dubious value and is frequently just reinventing the wheel. For example, at a big tech company, instead of just using some ready-made off-the-shelf solution or using an established standard, pouring a ton of money into some new home-grown thing that does the same thing, perhaps with 5% better performance, but in the end isn't really worth it and cost a ton of money. But the guy who "spearheaded" it gets a big bonus and moves on to even higher roles in the company and leaving the fallout for someone else to deal with.
Just need a proof of concept for data exfiltration from a secure facility by using ultrasonic coil whine and you too can be a security researcher!
Scalability was one part. Later the fact that you didn't need separate routing setup for v6 also was part of it.

But for a telco, the fact that you didn't have to setup IP connectivity in order for routers to see each other, was also a crucial ability.
That difference is due to your devices relatively poor at handling high pps workloads and not really related to the particular speed it's running at. You can certainly get more than 850 mbps on a 1000BASE-T link with standard MTU, on the order of ~100 mbps more.
Starlink isn't a reliable primary radio, period. The US ships being equipped with Starlink are doing so alongside their datalink and radio comms, as should any smart implementation. Both Ukraine and Russia are silly to rely on trivially-jammed AESA comms when more resilient military-grade options exist. Either side has access to military satellites for this kinda stuff.
I assume if we talking about SIMD we are not talking about python, etc.
To focus on short-term speed instead of long-term speed.
> “Before SEA2, ship communications have relied upon Department of Defense (DOD) satellites for the past 30 years,” the NAVWAR piece explains. “These six satellites were roughly 22,300 miles away in geostationary orbit and provided a footprint on Earth the size of a hemisphere, resulting in slow data rates as the signal traveled up to the satellite and back down to its final destination.”

So a similar setup to Hughesnet (which uses three geostationary satellites). Probably with less recent but more expensive satellites, but who knows.
A battery powered snow blower is a toy. You need a gasoline engined blower for sustained and powerful throwing of snow.
Why would anyone speak the phrase ‘cash assistance for the differently abled’? Welfare for the disabled works just fine.
Bit Twiddling Hacks (2009)
Let's have a look at France's emissions :

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france

Somehow, from 1973 they went from 10t C02 per capita to 4.8 t per capita in 2022.

Their GDP at the same went from 264 Bn to ~2779 Bn

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FRA/fra...

Whatever mysterious method of C02 reduction they used should be investigated.
Please make a flutter SDK
Guys.. If I am not responding to certain points in your posts, it might be because I’m still meditating on them :)

But maybe you have not seen Feynman’s letter to Wolfram:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/ghmdxb/richard_fey...

Thats an interesting conversation too, as its possible to accuse Feynman of being a narcissist, but it takes effort ;)
I'll team up with you, if you need a developer.
It should be illegal to post jobs you are not actively hiring for. It's flat out fraud, wasting applicants time and money.
About 50. A fair number of them are "defensive" registrations for my sites that are prone to bad actors trying to fool my users, though, eg. primary site is "example.com", and I get "example.com.au", "example.net", "example.org", etc. to prevent others abusing them.
It's a legal system.

The computer has an operating system.

Both systems really, really hate undefined behavior.

I'd always assumed the legalese was about minimizing the ambiguity that leads to undefined behavior.
Door closers: ubiquitous, yet unloved and often maladjusted [video]
It's a balancing act.

If you represent that you have a product, sell it, collect payment, and actually don't have a product at all, that could be fraud.
Most snow blower carb bowls have a drain screw so it's trivial to drain it. Cleaning the carb if gunk is in there is pretty straightforward. Generally if it fails to start then it's gunk in the carb.
Why did we need an archeological discovery to tell us that people iterated on a design and used trial and error to learn and develop new techniques?
Letting you delete the App Store is funny. There must be a system-level escape hatch which lets you get it back, I can't imagine they would make you do a factory reset.
For v6-specific world, scoped addresses and scoped multicast are explicitly for that purpose. You do not need to hierarchically subnet each following router, you just need to be able to express "next hop" for the subnets you need to route towards.

You use link-local autoconfiguration, and use appropriately-scoped multicast addresses to ask "all-nodes" or "all-routers", making autoconfiguration a breeze compared to v4 world. In v4 world a similar setup is also possible, though specific details of the setup differ, and you have to setup addresses manually for each p2p link.
It sounds great to have an electric snow blower until you use one.
> Allowing marginally slower service to rural areas, which often drag down on-time rates, could improve the agency’s delivery metrics, experts say.

That's a funny way to think about it.
Separate peering VLANs for those using 1500 byte peering and 9000 byte peering about sums up how much of a PITA it is to mix things and expect PMTUD to work.

I'd be willing to bet my lunch more 10x more places have been moving down to assuming 1280 byte connections (since IPv6 guarantees it) than have been peering on the internet at >1500 (not counting 1504 for VLAN tags and whathaveyou).
Honestly, it’s probably a little of both. We’re all embedded in various communicative matrices, all of which have conventions to which we generally adhere because it’s how we were taught, it’s understandable by others (at least other guild members), and it makes communicating more efficient. There’s also a protective mindset to keep the uninitiated from peering too deeply into the mysteries—and thus rendering the work you do much less valuable.

This same study could have been conducted on medical writing and probably arrived at the same conclusions, except medical writing is probably even more jargon-laden than legalese, so I’m not sure a group of layfolk could produce a convincing parody of it.

In any event, I have the feeling this study could have been avoided by a trip across the quad to talk to someone in the English dept.
Of course it is. It comes directly from the etymology.

By using the name of the country rather than the demonym for its inhabitants, it implies some sort of preference for the country as country, to the degree that a person defines themselves by it, rather than a simple point of history about a person's ethnic heritage, over which the person had no control.
New all iPhone 16 camera upgrades, including 3K video and new format
Thank you. I had a similar problem in Firefox 129.0.2 on Linux.
true, but if targeting backdooring, then small drop is the entire bucket
Residential water use is tiny compared to water used to grow things mostly cattle feed, Primarily alfalfa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c

The reason for the water shortages is not more people it’s a complete and utter mismanagement of the watershed
I read the whole thing but I fail to understand how does this help or fit into picture of CRUD app. Most app I interact and work for a living are essentially a CRUD, SQL Server and a DOA layer by Spring.

How do I need to start thinking conceptually for this, InstantDB or Firebase concept to kick in?

Say for a collaborative text editor, I'd use off the shelf CRDT Javascript implementation.
That's probably why the US Navy uses a network agnostic architecture that connects to both Starlink and OneWeb, as well as military LEO satellites.

Besides, according to [1] they can so far only use Starlink for unclassified data. Unlike Ukraine and Russia, the US isn't under any real pressure and can take their time to get this right.

1: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/navy/2024/06/navy-project-bri...
Enso is a Zen Buddhism term (symbol?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
"Mutt/aerc doesn't support windows, an OS many use by preference or requirement"

All modern Windows boxes have Hyper-V built in to some extent and you can run a Linux VM. You have OpenSSH natively too. It will take a bit of twiddling to setup a suitable environment but not much.

I use Linux exclusively and prefer GUIs too. I use Evolution against MS Exchange on-prem, for my sins. I also run a set of vanity email domains for friends and family (Dovecot, Exim etc).

I'm not familiar with Betterbird but it is now bookmarked and noted for eval.

One day we are going to have to dump the Exchange box and I look forward to the discussion about what happens next. M365? Nope, or OK - you kids do that and I'll bugger off and do my own thing. Do bear in mind that I've been running the email system for 25+ years (it was GroupWise once) and I am the Managing Director!

In the end you really can replace Exchange with and IMAPD, MTA etc and a calendaring app of some sort.

Anyway, I'm strolling rather rapidly off topic. Sorry and thanks for the Betterbird notes.
Skin in the game?
This is how environmental political activism works: file lawsuits against some new thing because it isn't absolutely perfectly non-polluting and eco-friendly, and force everyone to keep using some old system that's highly polluting and an ecological disaster. For another great example, see nuclear power.
I love how the farther you get itno teh artclie teh wores the spellnig mitsakse ar. It does feel like going in depth into something.
A great video on this by climate town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
For GMail sync someone else has already mentioned Lieer which is an excellent tool for robust two-way syncing of emails and tags/labels between Notmuch (and anything that uses it) and GMail. It uses the GMail API so it doesn't rely on IMAP.

https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
Nuclear power.
and they thought AI would put SWE's out of work...

If there are more people able to prototype their ideas with AI, sooner or later they will need a real engineer to maintain/improve that code.

That will lead to more jobs and higher demand for SWE's.
We also have to bear in mind that the computer industry often uses "RS-232" in reference to something that uses neither the connector nor the signaling levels defined by RS-232, something we have IBM to thank for.