skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A new scam that I'm seeing is random text messages where the other person thinks you're a veterinarian, or play tennis (and they're oddly worded):

> Hello Manny. My customized tennis racket has arrived. I want to play a tennis match with you. I have a hunch that you are no longer my opponent. When do you have time?

I imagine they want to get you into a conversation and pitch a crypto scam.
`dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled` already was false. If you're having to set it manually in `about:config`, you're likely missing something bigger in `about:preferences#privacy`.
I'm a bit torn. My first thought was "If the current state of the art LLMs made the mistakes it's unlikely an LLM would be able to correct them." But I'm not sure that's true if the support LLM (chat bot) is given very specific instructions so as to limit the possible answers. Still I think that's gonna break down pretty quick for other reasons.

Maybe the chat bot can recognize a botched request and even suggest a fix but what then? It certainly won't be able to convert the user's next request into a working application of even moderate complexity. And do you really want a chat bot to be the first interaction your customers have.

I think this is why we haven't seen these things take off outside of very large organizations who are looking to save money in exchange for making customers ask for a human when they need one.
It's entirely possible for something to be a positive-sum game, and still have people individually acting in their own self-interest reducing the size of the economy.

Global warming is the same thing. If everyone pollutes, we all die and the world ends. Individually however, if I'm in a world where everyone is burning coal, I don't see any gain to setting up my own wind turbine. Meanwhile everyone who kept burning coal has a slightly better existence until we all die a horrible death. The flipside is also true, if I'm the only one burning coal in a world of wind turbines, I won't have a significant effect on the climate and I get cheaper energy.

The economic solution to this is regulating greenhouse gas emissions so nobody can gain an advantage from burning coal. We all live and businesses make more money (because Earth will still exist to make money on).

It's also possible to do this with non-competes. If a world without them is economically better, we need to put our efforts into banning them globally. It doesn't make sense to only ban them in the US or Canada, because companies can just outsource to where it's acceptable.
IWTL: How to Trace Nested Loops?
Obviously language doesn't matter. I am trying to learn to trace nested loops and I am really getting confused. Can anyone guide me?
M'unpleasant.
iOS has a hardware backdoor built in. [1]

[1] https://bgr.com/tech/the-most-sophisticated-iphone-attack-ev...
Yep professional medical organizations and universities are causing this artificial supply limit to benefit those who are already practicing and part of this ecosystem.
I have to agree. Making a big deal about microplastics when we’re overweight, sedentary, and atherosclerotic seems like stepping over dollars to look for pennies.
I also want to selfhost variosu servers like dns, email(just to send email to myself).....ldap, dhcp etc. Where do I get started with? I know linux command line.
That’s a good argument for it that I didn’t think of. But I can’t help but think this was likely just some business friendly thing that was lobbied for under the misleading label of “reform”
And then there are those of us who find computers to be more bearable than people...

At least computers don't think it's their god-given right to treat you like garbage.
We have things we call "durable locks" (but it sounds like thats a loaded term that I don't know the meaning of) that work by recording lock holders in persistent storage + use a corresponding volatile lock when the lock holders need to assert ownership (e.g. to perform a write).

in our system, the only programs that are allowed to take "durable locks" are ones that are guaranteed to complete (ie, their existence is also recorded in persistent storage, and they are retried until completion). The "durable" part means that even if they restart or die, other writers cant jump in and screw things up. The "volatile" part guarantees that only one of them will be writing at the same time.

I wonder what Martin would have to say about our weird little locks
Regorus – A fast, lightweight OPA policy language interpreter in Rust
I know its a bit of a tangent, but its wryly humorous to me that someone referring to something else as "virtue signalling" is, in itself, a way of signalling some specific "virtue" (an incredibly negative and gross one) wrt. the way they think about the world.

Its quite useful, means I can safely ignore any opinion they have on the topic at hand.
> IV – the expression of thought is free, and anonymity is forbidden

I've never heard of anonymity being forbidden anywhere before. What exactly does that imply? What motivated this... right?
I counted at least 30 electric motors in my (non-EV) car. 3 in each mirror. 2 in the HUD.

All of those will end up in a landfill/junk yard. Seems like a huge waste.
It's a typo - it should be Calendrical.

See https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
We changed the URL from https://languagehat.com/mcwhorter-on-the-euphemism-treadmill... to the article it points to, but interested readers may want to look at both.
They are considered BIPOC. It stands for Black, Indigenous, or Person Of Color. The term is intended to be inclusive of all groups who are not white while recognizing that, in the states where the term originated, Black and Indigenous communities have suffered uniquely and systemically.

Note: I am not saying that it achieved those goals or that it's a good or bad term, just explaining the intended understanding.
> I assume wireless sonos gear does not come with an Ethernet patch cable, right?

Only recently, but yes.

They used to, though. I have sixteen Sonos players of varying vintage, from the ZP90 to an Arc and almost everything in between, and of those only the Roam and the Move (portable by design) were supplied without network cables. Even the sub-woofers can be plugged in. However I’ve just checked the spec of the recently launched Era 100/300 models - not portable - and indeed, they lack even a built-in interface. Ethernet dongle costs extra. I’m chalking that up as yet another “screw you” from Sonos’s product management to its customers.
Anyone hired some offshore outsourcing people at a super cheap rate that are slow and mostly useless but cheap and act as a first line barrier? Something like Dell support line.

I hate dealing with those people but realize a cheap product wont have a highly paid developer hand holding me because I wont RTFM.
Ask HN: Learning Linux from Scratch
I'm interested in learning Linux and have minimal knowledge about operating systems and kernels. Can you recommend resources that cover everything from the basics to advanced topics?

Do I need to have knowledge of OS before understanding Linux kernal.
Interesting idea. I think it becomes far more interesting if you can come up with analysis that not only provides homes for sale but homes that may be coming up for sale. Which neighborhoods have listings for furniture on Facebook Marketplace? Which homes appear to no longer have anyone living there. I look at a home I own that will be sold soon. No internet is setup there. Maybe you Wardrive, by the literal definition, and find homes that don't seem to have internet as an indicator that someone may be interested in moving/selling. The possibilities are endless.
It depends, are we pontificating as technologists, or addressing real market needs? Given that the framework is already there and widely adopted, I think the moment there is a viable commercial scenario where a company sees a profit opportunity, additional JSON-LD schemas will take off. I don't think Great Thinker technologists are likely to alter the behavior of the market at scale by themselves
Yes, me too. I was just referring to the time between entering the bedroom and actually sleeping.
Hmm, I will use this one. Thanks.
Yup. They're extrapolating from uncalibrated GC/MS curves, and normalizing by mass of pre-processed sample. They also don't give any of the un-normalized data. I have zero faith in the accuracy of these numbers, but some faith in the inter-group comparisons.

The sensitivity of the GC/MS method makes me hypothesize that the stated values are massively inflated. Whatever error there was in that original measurement is probably amplified like crazy in scaling up to ug/g estimates.
Visual Novels is typically somewhere between just keep clicking to read (like a ebook) or some choices (like a choose -your-own-adventure book). But I've also seen one Ren'Py game with a strategy game (hex grid turn based, IIRC) in it, because after all it's still a programming language.
I thought they were called DEIs now.
True. Even simple scenarios like "save a file in s3 IFF the s3 link is saved in postgres" which are seen in virtually any application are rarely handled well.
there's web3, where users have a private key and the public key is on a cryptocurrency chain, but adoption there has been slow. there's also a number of problems with that approach, but that's the other option on the table.

I want to believe, but sadly there's no market for it. unless someone wants to start a privacy minded alternative to auth0, and figure out a business model that works , which is to say, are you willing to pay for this better way? are there enough other people willing to pay a company for privacy to make it a lucrative worthwhile business? because users are trained to think that software should be free-as-in-beer but unfortunately, developing software is expensive and those costs have to be recouped somehow. people say they want to pay, but revealed preferences are they don't.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/marco-civil-devil-deta...
nih.gov also has studies showing the opposite. It's fair game to question IMO.
Nature killed more people when the oasis was pristine. Life pre-plastic was shorter, more brutish and a lot less comfortable.
Hiring talent at a steep discount.
Swift is not Mac OS only, it’s actually cross platform. Maybe you’re referring to Mac OS/ios swift sdk that is platform specific
From the article - "This radix sort would be easy to make even faster. Instead, let us make one that is slower"

The radix sort was used to provide an estimate for how much better the quicksort could improve.
>For example, icons will not be scaled in your method. ... Not to mention icons on the taskbar look garbage

Yes, they are. It works fine. I'm using KDE fwiw. Icon scaling is one of the easily-configured features, especially on the taskbar. (The icons are all SVG, so why would you want to do anything other than native scaling?) Everything I use it for works fine. Maybe you should try it out.
What makes you say that? I learned HTML using Notepad and Netscape. I had a single semester as senior in high school that taught PASCAL, but that was 7 years prior. Not really sure how that helped in the slightest.

I don't feel this is any different from someone that might have taken a class that taught HTML/JS/CSS except for that would actually be learning directly applicable to today. If that type of person jumped into a bootcamp, I feel like that would be similar to anything I experienced if not better. The internet is a thing now so there is so much more access to anything I had.
> Balls and breasts are utterly irrelevant

Except, your reductionist take on men and women aside for the moment, it does matter in the context of the OP. Men, who exist and have specific needs, have a social need for friendship together that once was met in part by DIY but increasingly that isn’t happening or even possible and that is a loss for men and male mental health. Returning to your “balls and breasts” reductionism which I suspect is the true source of our disagreement, besides all other nuance most people including myself and presumably the OP accept the modest thesis that men and women have distinct needs in terms of mental health. Male mental health has been ignored and neglected for decades and this specific topic is a structural net loss for male mental health.
If anything I'm not trivializing it enough.

There are dozens of companies with vastly more cultural literacy vying to manipulate you into buying goods every day. Amidst the sea of "look at my notification! Look at my recommendation! ANNOYING clap AD clap TIME!!!!!!!", why do you think some random overly angry/insulting recommendation with a bizarre or nonsensical framing coming from China is going to change minds rather than be ignored?

Foreign propaganda tends to gain traction when laundered through someone people pay attention to. (E-)celebrities, political figures, charismatic activist figureheads. Not a recommendation algorithm endlessly exploited by advertisers to get a tiny crumb of attention from.

The Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense have minimal literacy in the economics of attention and it shows.
> ATMs were meant to kill banking jobs but ah theres more jobs in banking than ever.

ATMs only handle basic teller functions and since COVID in NYC I had to change banks twice because I couldn't find actual tellers or banks with reasonable open hours. BoA had these virtual-teller only branches and the video systems were always broken (and the only option on Saturday). This was in Midtown Manhattan and my only option was basically a single branch on the other side of town 8-4 M-F.

I'm now happily with a credit union but at least since moving to the south things are generally better because customers won't tolerate not being able to deal with an actual person.
Glup Shitto's second cousin.
Considering the first stages of Russia's invasion started in 2014 I wouldn't be surprised that Ukraine had a large army by 2022.
Relaxation during an interview can also be a function of practice. Obviously when you're squeezed its more difficult to get that practice in, but if you can it can help tremendously.
Thank you, we're hoping so too.
Good management is a tool they have to fix the problem. But yes, sometimes they have mismanaged things so much that they can only kick up a fuss or pester people. It causes a lot of stress and is not very effective from my exp.

On a more positive note, other managers will have a rapport with their teams where if the team only learns of a problem, it will be addressed. They only need to act as liaisons — stick something on a kanban board somewhere, and it will get resolved. No loud crying necessary, just business as usual.
Try Debian, read any book you find comfortable, do not forget practicing in terminal. You are not going to have knowledge of OS or understanding the kernel anytime soon because it requires you to know C programming language.
I had a related episode at work when my coworker asked me why his seemingly trivial 10 line piece of code was misbehaving inexplicably. It turned out he had two variables `file_name` and `filename` and used one in place of another. I asked him how he ended up with such code, he said he used copilot to create it. Using code from a generative AI without understanding what it does is never a good idea.
Yes, and there's a fair amount of controversy over it, particularly the noise levels - https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

And the fact that in some time periods it seems the miners made more money from downscaling energy demand during peak loads than they did from mining activities.

Plus residents in some areas are up in arms that these companies got a variety of tax exemptions and sweetheart deals, jobs never materialised (because how many people do you need?), and what they seem to get in return is more expensive power bills.
I mean, ageism is absolutely real. As is cognitive decline (which is a legitimate disability). But also, there's a difference between "I'm trying and failing" and "I'm not trying". I give the former camp way way more leeway.
> And? That span is within an individual's lifetime, which is not very long in the context of human history. As of now there's zero sign any entity with regulatory power is doing anything about microplastics.

Primarily, I _am_interested with health outcomes within my and my children's lifespan so that's the sort of time span I'm primarily concerned about. If the comparison to asbestos hold's true then we still have a _long_ time (long enough that any potential deleterious effects will be felt by all currently living and soon to be living members of my family) before any sort of regulatory action will be taken regardless of the health impacts.

> Also, why are you trying to deliver a point without looking up most of the examples I've listed? Do you expect that to be a convincing argument?

Because I'm _not_ your fact-checker. You're other examples may well follow a much quicker time-frame between discovery and strong regulatory action; I don't really care one way or the other, since at least one example shows a course of history which would play out poorly for those of us alive _now_ and exposed to increasing levels of environmental plastics.
> Web3 = read/write/own

This is "reminagined" and more commonly known as just "Web3". Entirely different from the older conceptual
"Web 3.0" in context of semantic web.

So more like:

Web 3.0 = read/write/describe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

The resolution to this conondrum is of course to do both simultaneously and refer to it as "Web 5". Ask my friend Jack.
Mass food poisoning in ByteDance office
I think the whole thing is quite subjective and certainly in part the subjection would depend on that particular officer's mood on that particular time on that particular day at that particular place.

The subjective assessment would be along the lines of differentiating between "driver slowly and casually accelerated to 10 mph over the limit, passed the car with a wide berth, and merged back with a large buffer" versus "driver suddenly accelerated from 10 mph below the speed limit to 3 above, spitefully passed closely to another car before dangerously cutting 2 feet in front of them"

I think most officers have been driving long enough to tell if someone is driving like a dick or cruising at 10 mph over and being chill. The latter will still get you a ticket, sure, but the likelihood of getting excoriated by them is less than say, 5 mph over the limit and you're tailgating and cutting people off. Some of those things maybe the cop can't legally write you up for, but the cop will see, can tell, and will make sure that you'll get written up for some thing or another. And hey that's a good thing, nobody likes a douchey driver.
Is game preservation a losing battle?
I have yet to see a significant increase in productivity from AI. I wonder where they are extrapolating from?
No they aren't. RSVP, DIY, PhD, ASAP, BYO, TMI... there's no reason to dislike them any more than there's a reason to dislike adjectives.
Yep I see it, though it doesn't prompt me for a password - just looks like a normal half-finished website (although very different from www.coca-cola.com). Interesting.
Lazygit creator interviews DHH (creator of Rails)
This could actually be an ingenious way of solving the problem. If someone has a support issue and can't solve it themselves, yet requires coding help, forward them a freelancer that they can hire for 20$/hr from upwork that knows this API well etc.
Well... your comment has both the question and an answer: It's quite possible that fewer people bother dual-booting because it's less needed; as WINE/proton gets better and more programs have native Linux support, the need to have a Windows install on hand diminishes.
ICY DOCK has you covered. it's kind of their thing.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040Z924Q

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H5ZKPT

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HK4QG

at only $1.72 per gram, it's the greatest bargain in the computer market today.
They were. https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-texas

Though the data centers are pivoting to AI. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/bye-bye-bitcoin-hello-ai-tex...

Though it's still significant. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/texas-bitcoin-mine-n...

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-e... ( Published April 9, 2023; Updated Jan. 3, 2024 ). It's a well done presentation.

And they are shocked that this is driving up electrical prices. https://x.com/LtGovTX/status/1800968003636408657 (June 12th, 2024)

> ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and others gave shocking testimony today in the Senate Committee on Business & Commerce that within only six years (that’s only three legislative sessions), our power grid needs will grow from about 85,000 to 150,000 megawatts. That is much higher than the 110,000 megawatts they previously projected. The 110,000 megawatts was already a big increase, which is why the Senate pushed our incentive plan to build more dispatchable power last session. 150,000 megawatts is almost double the megawatts we now have on the grid.

> Later testimony said the growth is due to the increases in population, normal business growth, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, crypto miners and data centers will be responsible for over 50% of the added growth. We need to take a close look at those two industries. They produce very few jobs compared to the incredible demands they place on our grid. Crypto mining may actually make more money selling electricity back to the grid than from their crypto mining operations.

> Texans will ultimately pay the price. I’m more interested in building the grid to service customers in their homes, apartments, and normal businesses and keeping costs as low as possible for them instead of for very niche industries that have massive power demands and produce few jobs. We want data centers, but it can’t be the Wild Wild West of data centers and crypto miners crashing our grid and turning the lights off.

> The Senators asked why this had not been disclosed before today. #txlege

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The theory is/was that Texas grid works "best" (the market runs most efficiently) when its running at the most capacity (everyone with something that can generate power is making money - this is better than conserving and asking polluting or less efficent sources to spin down when the demand isn't there ... in theory) with the ability to have things that can't pay for the increased price (in theory, that was supposed to be crypto) scale back their use when other demand goes up.
They were a hitmaker for Sony before the acquisition. The cost of a forced transition was perceived as worth it (and probably was; Uncharted and TLOU made more money than all their previous titles put together).
the worst is when someone knows all the keywords to make it seem like they are technical but after talking for a few days you realize wait they really don't know wtf they're talking about!
That has been entirely my experience too: pip is good enough for me.
> Websites don't have "business hours"

depends what you're selling, and there's always the chance that someone is up at 4am their time, but if the page was down from 11pm to 6am every day for a mainstream physical product, they'd probably not lose too many sales.

unfortunately, losing a sale puts a business into a tizzy, to they tend to react poorly to that thought. it's because it's easy enough to leave the computer running unattended over night that business hours aren't a thing that websites are in that spot, but watching the traffic flows while on the Internet traffic team at Google on top of some emotional development, means that for a small bespoke business, SLAs don't even have have any nines for that business to remain in business.

we're biased to by the very nature of us commenting on an Internet website, but there are still customers out there that don't use the Internet on a daily basis.
Can this be also disabled on Android?