skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Part of the $44/mo Peloton subscription is subsidized by the $2500 bikes. Given that they fucked up by scaling production to a vastly overestimated demand forecast AND that increasing the subscription price for all members will lead to future problems also, it makes total sense for Peloton to reclaim some of the value this way.

2. As others noted here, Peloton bikes sell for well under MSRP in the secondary market. A $1000 used Bike+ (or Bike with the swivel attachment) and a $95 one time activation fee is much cheaper than spending $2500 new before taxes and delivery fees.

3. I did road cycling for a long time. I still do, but much less frequently than I did in the past. Raced for a little. (I was terrible, but also not very committed.)

Peloton is amazing.

The instructors are top-notch. Way better than your local cycle instructor, on average.

The programming is vast and really well done. There's something for everyone.

The community is quite social, if you're into that (I am not).

The bike itself is really well made as well. Nothing cheap about it. I'm especially fond of the auto-resistance feature because it gives me a good ballpark as to how hard I should be working to get the most out of whatever class I'm taking. (The resistance on the bike is extremely well calibrated and calibrates on boot, I believe. This is a huge problem at cycling studios, since you're usually using beat-up bikes that haven't been calibrated in a while.)

You can absolutely get some other spin bike, strap a tablet onto it and use Peloton that way, but I think you'd be missing out on a lot. You could also fix your road bike to a trainer and use something like Zwift, Strava or Wahoo but that's an entirely different thing.
If they fulfilled the requirements provided to them I don’t see how that could be the case. Even if they didn’t it was Boeing’s job to verify that.

It’s a bit like blaming low level construction workers for a bridge that collapsed (assuming they didn’t sabotage anything on purpose).
most complex and/or commercial aircraft do share the workload between a pilot-flying, and a pilot-non-flying—in addition to the captain & FO hierarchy you are probably aware of.
Valhalla: Where Are We? [video]
Battery backed SRAM
Yesyesyesyesyes I didn't realize how badly this is needed and how much I would like to work on this until you brought it up.

It's wild how much useful information flows through the HN Zeitgeist! I singlehandedly attribute my career success/position to keeping up with it all
Another benefit of BYOK is it simplifies the implementation. You don't need to spend as much time protecting against the attack vector where they rack up a big bill against your key.
It's shameful for the quality of work asked for.
That is such a myth. Only a few people are capable of higher level things in society. Not everyone can or wants to be an artist or composer.
Previously, there was an obvious mapping between the charges laid against Mr. Peters and specific comments - the article linked here attempts to make this mapping explicit, as does my own. However, a large majority of those threads were hidden from public view, and now they have been further hidden from the view of more privileged forum users (via a global setting for hidden posts), and some have even been deleted. Many of my previously hidden posts have been deleted from the forum, too.

Fortunately for me, I had my own posts saved already, and have since uploaded them to my blog, available through a header link (https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/).
> Uncompressed audio is radically different and richer than low fi digital compression, but almost everything we hear everywhere is coming through streaming services.

Out of curiosity, have you blind A/B tested yourself with the various streaming service "high" quality MP3 encodings vs. lossless? (like https://abx.digitalfeed.net/) I agree that there is some difference that you can hear in certain parts of songs listening on high-end equipment/headphones (stuff that is greater quality than >99.9% of the listening population has), but really to me it would be hard to call it radically different. Obviously if you are below 320 MP3s there are more noticeable compromises that do ruin things one you notice.
Arguably, the fediverse got it from Twitter, and Twitter got it from the syntax of email addresses, which came from Unix user@domain account signifiers
I've used https://github.com/rokath/trice which is similar but targeting microcontrollers. It isn't immediately clear to me if nanolog could run on a microcontroller with its output directed over RTT/uart/etc or not.
MirageVPN and the discovery of two OpenVPN CVEs
Cutting and pasting an old 2019 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944627 :

> There are similar problems with uploading to publishers in ePub format. The last time I was bashing my head against ebook publishing, about a couple of years ago, many (most? all?) of the sites were validating ePub uploads using an old version of the ePub suite which rejected some ebooks which were valid per the up-to-date validator. Which version they were using was ofc not documented, and you were lucky to even get to see an error message. And of course tech support was largely unhelpful. (Especially kobo.com 's.) The people working on the ePub spec seemed to be largely unbothered by the fragmentation/noncompliance and hideous experience for those authoring and uploading in the format, too.

> Which is a pity, because aside from this and some other bugs and pitfalls EPUB 2.0 has some attractive features and is nice to work with for anyone who doesn't mind bashing out a good old directory tree of HTML docs by hand.

Maybe things are a lot better by now. Here's hoping!
Most shareholders hardly have a say on how major public companies are run. Thr Only signal they have is by buying/selling stock or not even that if you only own your shares indirectly through an ETF.
> the NSA can grab your laptop

If the NSA grabbed your laptop, you've already lost. For instance, they could replace all input and output devices (keyboard, mouse, screen, audio, etc) with ones that not only log everything you do, but also allow them to remotely control your machine as if they were physically present. They could then pretend the laptop was opened (by falsifying the hall effect sensor which detects the lid state), power it on (by forging a press of the power button), log into your account (by replaying the password they logged earlier), and do anything they wanted, as if they were you. They could even use the camera to detect when you looked away for a second while logged into the laptop, and quickly do some input, bypassing any extra validation (like fingerprints or a smartcard) logging into your user account might have required. No need to modify or even touch the boot chain and storage.
(As an update: Mr. Furman has formally withdrawn the motion, per https://discuss.python.org/t/calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confid... .)
Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs
Sure, but I think you get my point.
For every feel good story we hear of the bad guys getting caught, you bet there are dozens of stories in that murky grey area where we really don’t think either side are the good guys.
NextGraph: Build local-first and decentralized apps
https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol#readm...
Tails is a single machine that runs Tor you are mixing it up with Whonix which uses a gateway VM with Tor on it and a workstation VM that gets routed via the gateway.
There is an alternative and complementary approach worth considering - instead of duplicating infrastructure in a smaller scale, you can simplify it to the simplest possible requirements needed to make your service run. Consider an old shared hosting - a single server could run 100s of wordpress websites just as well.
I have not used this and it says it targets embedded systems but maybe it is close enough to what you might be looking for: https://github.com/knurling-rs/defmt
People on semaglutides may not actually continue to eat garbage - with a smaller total caloric intake it becomes a lot more important to use it on nutritious food, since your body still needs all the same vitamins and minerals. And without the same cravings doing that becomes easier.
Haha I had the exact same experience with Prince of Persia. The existential crisis took nearly a decade to wear off.

The realization that every possible image that can fit on a screen can be stuck in a bitmap helped keep it going. Everything that could possible ever be photographed, just sitting there in the latent space waiting to be summoned.

... And now, I'm amazed that through some basically fancy noise we can type in words and get pictures in under a second. They even almost have the right number of fingers.
You should look into how this is done at scale with something like Babel.

Babel parses JS into a AST (abstract syntax tree) and then lets you react to specific pieces of code.

Here is an example of the power of a tool like Babel: https://github.com/christina-de-martinez/babel-plugin-glowup...
I’ve recently been trusting gpu watt usage over utilization. Any idea how good that is as a simple proxy (if I’m just looking at nvidia-smi)?
Daniel Lemire's entire blog: https://lemire.me/blog/ .

It focuses on low level optimizations, often by using SIMD, avoiding division, and being generally clever. It's nothing I use in my job, but I enjoy reading every post.
Yeah, I suppose like the biological cancer, there's not a clear cause effect relationship between a reshaping culture, and then MBAs or "Ship-it" mentality taking over engineering oversight and scheduling. It's a runaway effect.

I tend to place more blame on a deliberate reshaping by the top individual, rather than some accidental metastasizing of the problem. I'm straining the analogy.
Nice article. I like the level he is addressing
The only browsers shown will be those that undergo Apple's rigorous review process - so what exactly is the problem here?

Thanks to Apple and their exceptionally high standards, you can be sure that no matter what you choose, you'll get a safe, private, and awesome user experience ... at least that's what the arguments in favor of their app store monopoly say.
Way more than 3 out of 10 in my personal experience of unsuccessfully looking for a job for two full years now
> same performance

at much lower power consumption! Every time a new processor comes around, lots of people complain that they don't need faster but want less heat and less noise. Now they get it and still complain.
I've found over the years that doing software engineering is fun, but being a software engineer is not. Especially the song and dance of trying to get hired.

In companies there is often a lack of leadership, organization, communication, honesty, and skill. I became a software developer because I like building things in Rails, so that's what I am focusing on.

For you, I would highlight that there are other languages/frameworks out there which might help with your tooling woes - but everything else is the state of the industry.
Why didn't they just use Advanced Mobile Location? I called in a fire for a fallen tree in the middle of the field and they just asked if it was next to where I'm standing.
Only a child brings their activism to work. Do the job you were hired to do; it is your livelihood and how you survive. Their priorities are all mixed up, but I can't fault them too much. Such people were raised by others who told them that their feelings matter more than objective reality.
There are basically only 2 ways to scale up your income beyond current market rate (nobody would pay you more if they can buy it for cheaper):

1. Obtaining a very unique yet demanded enough expertise, so that certain companies hunt for you because it is critical for the business and there is not many people in the world who can do that (for example building facebook scale datacenters from scratch, or being a creator of java).

2. Having your own business and your own customers.
Hey this is great. But this should be pay per pricing model instead of $30/month upfront. I don't think with this pricing model it can be compete with cloudflare suite of products like durable objects, kv etc.
Luckily I subscribe to my own consumer AI service to automate all this for me. To paraphrase The Simpsons: "AI: the cause of and solution to all life's problems."
As with anything, it's all about implementation. The Supreme Court's size fluctuated over time, with different presidents increasing--or decreasing--it, often in response to the Court's actions or the major political disputes of the day. And often for even more partisan reasons than the current arguments for expansion.

John Adams and the Federalist Party reduced the Court from six to five; Jefferson restored the Court to six before expanding it to seven a few years later. Congress bumped it up from seven to nine in 1837, and Lincoln added a tenth during the Civil War. After the war, and at least partially motivated by vacancies that would have offered Andrew Johnson the opportunity to nominate justices who would screw with the Reconstruction plan, Congress reduced the Court from ten to seven. In 1869, Congress increased the Court's size to nine...and nominated two additional justices the very day the Court ruled paper currency--greenbacks--unconstitutional, who would then enable the Court to reverse that decision.

That said, there are non-partisan arguments for expanding the Court. We now have thirteen circuits; historically, each justice was responsible for a circuit but when appeals courts were added, the Supreme Court wasn't expanded. And then there's the expanded use of the shadow docket for more consequential questions. All of that's dramatically increased the Court's workload, and fixing it would probably be preferable...assuming that the act of fixing it didn't cause other issues.

Beyond that, not all of the expansion proposals amount to "add as many as we can." Many of them are tied to other reforms that are meant to lower the perceived stakes of each appointment, and grant a sort of regularity that ought to appeal to both parties without succumbing to what Venezuela current has to deal with.
Show HN: Parakeet: A Tiny LLM
Looking for feedback! Feeling a bit of tunnel vision from working on this alone and this space moved quite fast around me.
Also, this was always possible using a simple proxy that directly send requests to their API
No, that's not how scuba divers ascend. Or at least not a safe technique, and not what is taught in certification courses.
Perhaps Boeing has something to do with this company?
My problem is just that -- I go to a place; I want a katsu (cutlet) set, and all they have is katsu-don, and I'm like, "I didn't want the rice bowl with the curry sauce; I wanted the schnitzel with the A1 sauce", but people are calling both "katsu". That's my only beef. Or pork, I guess.
17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
Open Source Push Notification Service
Frankly, that just sounds like a fire code / building code issue. Are these "apartment buildings" legal for habitation, with actual legal separate apartments, and not some weird subdivision/subletting situation?

In every place I have ever lived, having a clearly marked addresses and door numbers for apartments is required by the fire code. If there's an emergency that requires a fire or ambulance response, smoke in the air, etc, then "Nth floor, door on the right" is not a good thing to be explaining over the phone.
this is overblown

copper acetoarsenite is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green and is deadly, but still used by artists as a pigment today (though it's no longer used for things like wallpaper, clothing, and rat poison)

lead oxide is a mild concern; it's sweet, and back when it was the most common white pigment for painting houses, kids would chew on it. at that time there was a massive subclinical lead poisoning outbreak that probably resulted in an unprecedented decades-long crime wave in the usa, but that was probably more due to leaded gasoline than the paint. and the amount that can potentially flake off a book is even smaller than what kids got chewing on paint chips

but lead chromate is basically nontoxic under any normal exposure conditions. it's something you don't want to eat, though people commonly use it as a food dye; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_chromate says:

> Despite containing both lead and hexavalent chromium, lead chromate is not acutely lethal because of its very low solubility. The LD50 for rats is only 5,000 mg/kg. Lead chromate must be treated with great care in its manufacture, the main concerns being dust of the chromate precursor. (...) It is used (illegally) to enhance the color of certain spices, particularly turmeric,[8][9] particularly in Bangladesh. (...) Unlike other lead-based paint pigments, lead chromate is still widely used, especially in road marking paint.

and lead sulfide is pretty much completely nontoxic. there's no way to get lead poisoning from it. that's why egg whites are an antidote to lead poisoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_sulfide#Safety

if you tried to murder someone with lead chromate and lead sulfide, you would fail. they would probably be unharmed

now, it's also possible the lead is in some other form that's more dangerous. and it's not clear that you'd put lead sulfide in a book on purpose; it's black, but carbon is cheaper, and making carbon black is both safer and easier. so maybe the excess lead is in some form that's of real concern. but the compounds they've identified are harmless, except for the green menace we already knew about

phys.org and the acs should be ashamed of having printed this baseless fearmongering
Super Programmers
the copper acetoarsenite covers have always been unsafe to handle, while the others are completely safe
Check out this: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/teaching-resources-library/boeings-...

It's a super fun read. And you're absolutely right: Boeing caused the problem itself. Shifting blame to poor software "accidentally" produced by 9/hr engineers is not legitimate.

There was a bug. But it was only a problem because all the other redundancies and safeguards were shortcut and regulators and pilots were mislead about the severity of MCAS system's "corrections" and not given proper data to know when to override it.
The "just" is doing a lot of work...

Converting from photons to something else that can be beamed and then converting it again seems more complicated than "just" a mirror that points to already existing equipment on earth
The Ronald Knox "Ten Commandments of Detection" (1928/2023)
Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure
Hey HN! I've been building tooling for voice-driven apps over the past few months, as part of a hardware project. Someone suggested adapting the DSL to play Dungeons and Dragons. So, here we are!

What is it? An AI-powered, voice-controlled D&D adventure set in the world of Dvorak. Talk to characters, explore locations, and shape the story using your words.

Use your microphone to interact with the AI dungeon master. Explore freely – interrupt, ask questions, or take unexpected actions. If you make friends at the tavern, you can also just hang out there and chat.

Hint: Talk to the bartender to move the story along.

This is an early demo, and I'm eager for your thoughts: Is the concept engaging? What works well, and what doesn't? I've added a feedback form to the webpage in case you want to drop a comment without posting on HN.

Thanks for trying out the demo!
But brains - robotic or biological - do get scrambled. E.g if you assign a repeating task to a human, and then leave and check in on them after a few months, there's a significant probability that they've burnt-out, or otherwise mishandling it for some reason, and you need to apply an intervention, up to and including replacing them.

I would like to propose something like Godel's incompleteness theorem - Falcor's law of unreliability: any system complex enough to effectively and consistently solve a problem beyond some threshold of complexity (e.g. independently doing the dishes), is necessarily so complex that it cannot continuously run on its own without requiring occasional outside intervention. As per the Fundamental theorem of software engineering, we can always address any given failure mode by adding another layer of indirection/management, but the fundamental issue would still apply to the larger system.

Arguably the only solution is an evolutionary one, whereby there's no single system that is consistently reliable, but the (antifragile) ecosystem as a whole is.
Based on my personal experience, I really doubt that the last 4 digits of the ZIP+4 are changing more often than once per decade or longer. I could see the delivery point of the 11-digit code changing every few months, but you are already aware of that code system so it is not simple confusion between the two on your part.

Could you provide more information or a source?
this is backwards. yes, the un-set dye is reactive. but the set dye isn't reactive. that's what's 'set' about it
We also got blueberry-gum flavoured crisps. Saving you the trouble: They are less incredible. I still agree it's worth it!
The 737-max was aeronautical malpractice that Boeing tried to band-aid with software.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-lo...

And the fact that they wanted to spend nothing on the software and then rush to production (this was exposed in this article) is some cluster-b antisocial personality disorder shit...The bean counters had the stock churning at all time highs and they were going to do things their own way (trading at 450 per share shortly before these tragedies).

So it's HIGHLY unlikely that Boeings software for the 737 Max would have been operating at spec given the use-case (overcoming hardware problems with software in a way that's never been done before). MCAS was not designed to take into account that external sesors could be out of wack (which happens all the time). MCAS took liberties and had opinions that ran counter to the norms of aviation. And this is the hallmark of poor software engineers that have no domain expertise and no ability to push back against anti-social personalities masquerading as managers.

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When the two computers disagree, the solution for the humans in the cockpit is to look across the control panel to see what the other instruments are saying and then sort it out. In the Boeing system, the flight management computer does not “look across” at the other instruments. It believes only the instruments on its side. It doesn’t go old-school. It’s modern. It’s software.

This means that if a particular angle-of-attack sensor goes haywire—which happens all the time in a machine that alternates from one extreme environment to another, vibrating and shaking all the way—the flight management computer just believes it. "

If you want to have the title of SR. Engineer and lives are in the palm of your hand you better be prepared to be the bad guy and take on management when they're being driven by motivations that run counter towards the quality and the usecases for your code. VW had a similar culture and those "senior software engineers" went to prison, not the managers (remember that).
I agree with your observation, but this is merely put fwd as an alternative to port knocking.

Port knocking is IMHO just to keep your sshd logs clean from huge lists of failed attempts, that prevent me from actually finding interesting information in them.
My main note tool for years has been Obsidian (using Obsidian Sync on Linux, Windows, Android, and iPhone). Works great for regular notes.

I don't think it's very good as an outliner, though I haven't tried the recent outliner plugins, so maybe things have improved. I do my outlining with org-mode on Emacs because of my dissatisfaction with Obsidian in that area and lost data on Logseq.
I'm surprised we have yet to see chatgpt records as part of a court case yet, as police have been using searches as evidence for some time now.