skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid about $100/month for cable TV in the US and that wasn't with a bunch of premium content. (Maybe just HBO.) That was Comcast so I assume that was pretty typical. And then any streaming channels, movie rentals (which were mostly not on standard cable), etc. were on top of that.

And when I canceled cable TV I decided to just go cold turkey and do without the occasional sporting event on live TV. So depending upon how you count I'm probably paying less than $50/month for all my video entertainment these days.
If Mozilla's market share is an impediment to the adoption, then have I got some bad news for you about Brave....

(I say this as a happy user of Brave on Android)
DC Rainmaker (sports gadgets reviews) has a nice compromise of having product video reviews on Youtube, but also even more in-depth reviews with all the tables and charts on his website. I used to read his written reviews, now I mostly skim his videos.
> This is a gross oversimplification. So after emailing, do you wait for the rust bindings to be fixed? Do you just get your changes merged regardless? Does the rust bindings maintainer have a say in what form your change takes? Can this hold back a release?

I'm pretty sure they are just asking for emailing. Just a short shift to getting changes in advance some of the time rather than none of the time. It didn't sound like they were asking to cross the divide from Partition Tolerance + Availability to Partition Tolerance + Consistency, merely shifting things a step in that direction (I think the CAP theorem applies everywhere).
> I.e. on average your life would have been even better if your parents were awesome.

That's pretty profound! You should write an article!
Not only do I demand secure software by default, but I actively work to terminate relationships with companies who feel how you do. They can have whatever ideals they'd like, just none of the money I steward.
Maybe the government should offer something like the Dead Man's Switch email service.

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
There's a huge factor in the increase in energy costs during the pandemic that doesn't get talked about much, weirdly. It gets attributed to greedflation but it's actually far simpler.

In 2020, the Trump administration pressured OPEC to cut production by about 9.7 million barrels a day [1], roughly 10% of the world's production. This was a 2 year deal. Look at the 5 year chart [2] and you can see exactly where this deal starts and ends. This is further confirmed by looking at OPEC oil production [3].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/special-report-trump...

[2]: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

[3]: https://ycharts.com/indicators/opec_crude_oil_production
> Why is security free?

People don't want to get hurt, physically, emotionally, financially.

> Not just in software but in general?

People being harmed is very expensive.

> you need to pay tribute to those who can

This is a very primordial view of things. Security and safety are literally the underpinning of modern, western society. The cost of that security is baked into prices for services and products, taxes and law.
It ran great articles to the very end but it also had some series that were real stinkers.

The one that bugged me was the monthly roundup of HDDs where, usually, they recommended that you pay $100 extra to get an expensive consumer HDD that, according to the spec sheet, was 3db quieter and consumed maybe 0.5W less than an inexpensive enterprise HDD (funny reversal, but the enterprise product is a mass-produced product they sell a lot of and all the hyper-thin SKUs aimed at consumers probably sold one here and one there) although anything is one bad bearing away from being 20db louder.

This went in for years but they never confronted the issue directly by taking measurements or asking if the HDD industry was destroying itself by offering too many SKUs — if WD had just one SKU maybe Best Buy would stock it, but if there is a different one for a 2 bay NAS, a 3 bay NAS, a 4 bay NAS, and for recording video they won’t stock any of them. (And with all those spurious choices they didn’t give you a clear choice of CMR vs SMR!)

Charlie Demerjian stands almost alone as a tech journalist who doesn’t get high on the industry’s supply and, on that level, Anandtech was another tech outlet dependent on that industry that couldn’t give it the tough love to point out rampant brand destruction. Charlie told you 5 years ago that Intel’s product roadmap was a suicide note, Anandtech sure didn’t.
A better comparison is bucket sort which is O(N) with uniformly distributed keys.
Don't worry by the way, cable boxes, Netflix, and televisions will give away your privacy even if you pay
The deadline to cancel without penalty is 9am day-of. In reality people will cancel at all different times, but for this exercise of designing out enough of the stampede conditions, let's say the first cancellation occurs at 8:55am day-of. So now it sends the "you won" email -- maybe the recipient even knew they were at the top of the waitlist so they can anticipate this. They've only got 5 minutes of cancellation window themselves! There is no way of giving another 12-24 hours RSVP time.

Now here's where it gets interesting: this means a rational no-bot human ought to ignore the whole system until 9am day-of, at which point the greedy "just in case" reservations have all been canceled, so all reservations are real people, and the ridiculousness of the system has led enough people to find alternative transportation that plenty of spots are available for easy taking, right? If no-show penalties are enforced properly.

I was out there in early March and this consumed me for a few weeks leading up to it, but it was fun.
Depends on who sits in the antitrust seat. It's pretty incredible to realize the one who does today wrote this a few years ago: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...
I speak to a lot of hungarians, and they are all very worried about the current situation in their country.

They say when they go back home that general moral is low, and people are just not living good lives anymore.

Most people with skills have left the country, meaning that simple things like building and maintaining houses is almost impossible. Those that are trying to get work done on their house or car are finding that it costs extortinoate amounts for low grade work.

Orban is paying Fidesz friendly families to have more Hungarian children, and at the same time ignoring European immigration quotas and keeping refugees in camps at borders.

European money intended for infrastructure upgrades is funnelled into companies owned by Orbans family and friends.

These are just some of the first hand annecdotes I am regularly hearing.

Orbans regular anti-European stance combined with regular news headlines about the Hungarians governments friendlyness towards Putins Russia, looks really worrying for Europe in the future.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-veto-eu-russia-gas-s...
A reflection on corporate double speak (Elastic Search)
I don't use an adblocker because I'm not entitled to the content. If seeing the ads makes the site not worth it I just don't go to that site, these sites won't learn until people stop using them. I've had a lot of people ask me how and honestly the web isn't that bad of you just don't spend all your time on crappy sites.

I'll often ask people with ad blockers what sites they pay for and depressingly often they say they don't pay for any. Coming as no surprise to anyone that has worked with customers before, what people say they'll pay for and what they actually will pay for are very different.
>Focus on fashion

People have been tricking out their rigs with fancy lighting since the beginning, it's not a new development.
In my case, I kind of worked backwards from the way eieio found it. I was at the very bottom of the million checkboxes when I noticed there was a repeating pattern. And if you zoomed out enough, and sized your window large enough, it looked like this: https://matrix.theblob.org/omcb-repeating-pattern.png

It was obviously a bot, but it definitely wasn't random. It was a pattern that repeated every 208 checkboxes. At first I thought it was a barcode, but it wouldn't scan even when I turned it into a form that should scan. Then, I figured it could potentially be a binary code, so I tried treating the repeating pattern as binary, with the checked boxes as 1s and the unchecked boxes as 0s. That got me the URL that eieio talks about in the original article.

Once I was there, I discovered from the other members that I had taken a more arduous route than I needed to; it turns out that the site's API was such that it sent its initial state as a base64-encoded version of the full binary state of the board. Decoding the base64 and looking at the end of the data would also have gotten you the same URL, and as such many of the people in the server were bot developers who had done exactly that because they wanted to reverse-engineer it.
I don't think that's accurate. Creating a shading language is obviously a huge effort, but there were already years of effort put into WebGPU as well as implementations/games building on top of the work-in-progress specification before the shading language decision was made (implementations at the time accepted SPIR-V).
Show HN: Website with coding puzzles from job interviews
Hi Friends! As I run another site with more general programming exercises for years - I always felt they are different from puzzles and test projects proposed at job interviews. So recently I started this new place and am slowly adding problems here.

Of course the number of such challenges I encountered in interviews myself is quite limited. So if you may recollect something of the kind which could be converted to a puzzle - please, kindly share it to me (e.g. with "rodiongork" at gmail). Puzzles of algorithmic nature or system-oriented and language-specific - are all welcome. Currently I'm working to add a few postgresql exercises and executor for them.
I'm sad to hear that they're shutting down. I thought that Anandtech would be one of the holdouts for written tech journalism in a world that's become increasingly video first.

What are people reading these days for hardware reviews?

I find that Notebookcheck and GSMArena are decent for laptop and phone reviews respectively.
Nobody pays for words, but YouTube pays for videos. Sad but true.
What's the Difference Between Console, Terminal, Emulators, and Shell Anyway?
Hopefully the last blog post you ever have to read on the matter
I was wondering what the fuck was going on and whether this was internal community meme or style that I just wasn't aware of. Turns out it's just cringey corporate goons being cringey corporate goons.
That wold require automating reproductibility or requestin and analysing datasets that are not provided.
Did know know that about TOTP!

But as long as the counters increment at the same rate which presumably they would?

For enrollment scan the same QR code for two different apps.

Or is that not getting it?
I can see that. Television was the newest thing for the boomers, and was a big deal for early Gen X. Later Gen X and Millenials got the Internet, which in its infancy, was too slow to display anything other than text and crappy graphics. Once video became virtually free to transmit, we started seeing a lot of video-based content saturate the waves again.
I would guess somewhere around 1997 when Anand started the site.
While I would like to live essentially forever, I wasn’t ever really terrified of death. It’s more like a regret or melancholy that that’s how physical reality works. Maybe readings like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8579608 could improve your coping with the outlook.
Before they reply, I would be willing to put money on it being something to do with "coming out".
Battery formation and the role of electrode utilization in extending cycle life
Highlights
•186 Li-ion batteries cycled across 62 formation protocols but with the same aging test
•High-formation charge current on the first cycle extends battery cycle life by up to 70%
•Substantial Li loss during fast formation shifts the electrode utilization range
That is convenient! Thanks
No, because the people are already a net drain on society. They already require dedicated police force, they already require dedicated sanitation force, food stamps, etcetcetc. And that’s not to mention the health and psychological cost on society of not being able to walk freely without fear cracked out guy will assault you.

I’m not proposing moving from these people providing $0.00 to taking whatever a person to monitor their work and provide institutional food costs, I’m proposing we move from these people costing a society a shitload, both financially and health/safety wise, to perhaps similar financially, but removing the health and safety burden and finally putting them on a path to success.
Cool thank you :)
You might not realize this on a conscious level, but the reason you're reluctant to tell your friends about your parents is because they'll assume you're a bad person too, due to how you inherited their codebase. If my parents were abusive, I'd want to hide that fact, similar to how I'd want to hide a past felony conviction for abuse. Because I believe people can change and deserve the opportunity to rise above their circumstances and make themselves into something better than where they came from. Having that opportunity is more important than the emotional catharsis of oversharing, wouldn't you agree?
Is that really the answer to that problem?

Or do you just simply drum all the corpse f*ckers out of Embalming Service?
I don't remember any case over the last 5 years or so TSA even asked me for a boarding pass. I think they gave up on that entirely. They do ask for an ID (and take a picture now - looks like bots are better at matching faces than TSA agents) but until you get to the boarding nobody now even looks at the boarding pass, so anything before the gate is freely accessible to anyone with an ID.
Can't believe it!
Thank you, Anadtech, for all the great stuff over the years.
I grew up with washers in the basement and only ever put them there. Though washers on the same floor as the bedrooms sounds more ergonomic. I suppose you could simply make the washer room a shower closet complete with floor drain, tiled walls with green sheetrock but cost goes up and exercise goes down ;-)
That causes kitchens here to be often modular and removable — I've literally seen someone take their kitchen sink with them on a tram here.

The kitchen I got here, is a permanent installation, because my partner didn't want the normal German style.
I literally had this argument with David Schwartz of Ripple about our lack of a consensus protocol.
My sperm provider literally said that his dad treated him like shit, so he gets to treat me like shit, and that as a reward some day I'd get to treat my own son like shit.

I fired both of them 8 years ago and haven't missed them even one time. They were always an emotional cost center. Whenever I had one problem, if they found out, I'd have two: the original problem and providing emotional support to them for having upset them.

When I first moved to uni, I was utterly confused by everybody saying they were looking forward to going home for Christmas - why on earth would you want to go back to that? I remained baffled for another 12 years until I finally realised what had happened. I drew a poor hand.
> So in what category were those commercials for smoking?

Awareness, (increasing) interest and desire:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase_funnel

Smoking dates back millennia:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smoking

It is was just more productized in the (mid-)1900s, just like everything else was.
Yeah, even with 48V, we're still rocking parallel 4/0 copper, it's still a lot of amperage to try to supply 15 kw at 48V. They are heavy. The ones we got from WindyNation were surprisingly flexible, though, which has made them a lot easier to work with.
I don't agree that the market (consumers) are asking for video, they just refuse to pay for words, while Google (not the consumer) will pay for videos.
This might be a "read the paper dipshit" moment, but I'm not certain that the "have you been a victim of a crime" is a sufficient question. Would someone who lives in an area where there's an expectation that your car will be broken into consider themselves a victim of crime? I was just reading about domestic violence within same sex couples and in many cases victims don't consider themselves as such because of a belief that DV can only affect hetero women. I wonder if something similar could be going on here for some proportion of the respondents.
I think describing Einstein as having a love affair with things being relative is accurate.
What do you think motivates people to submit a Show HN? Typically they expect to get something out of it that they don’t get by their project just sitting on GitHub.
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No, it's the fact that she spiked his drink with a calcium compound. Just use your common sense. It's allowed, even when it comes to women. Especially when it comes to women.
1) they could in theory be provided
2) not necessarily: it's a matter of authority, that when ceases to exist, it ripples

Edit: to an extent it applies to journalism. Nowadays, at best, you have citations that turn out to be fake and seldom who cites them gets updated
2024 Toyota GR Supra Review: A Great Manual Sports Car, Stop Complaining
nothing https://www.livescience.com/49610-scientists-unboil-egg.html
I don't think it's such an rare adversary to have. Organized crime can easily have several experienced hackers in their "organization". It's common knowledge that gangs actually do monitor peoples routines who are inside their territory and they do it for several reasons, one of them being to rob your apartment or do an evil maid attack on your computer.

It's also common knowledge that all adversaries view people who have higher security than the average person as a person of interest or a mark. If they are spies they think you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide and if you are trying to hard to hide then you must have something important to hide. Criminals think if you have security then you must have something valuable to protect.

Also some of the methods described her this thread seem impractical and extreme but one you go down this rabbit hole of security and privacy, you become used to gradually putting in a little more extra effort for better security and privacy. Normal users can't understand how someone can survive with having to toggle scripts on/off with the noscripts extension but for most people who are interested in security and privacy that is easy and effortless like breathing air.
I wonder if you could register using all the plate numbers from a nearby car rental place, then try to rent the corresponding car if it gets chosen.
Want to Ruin a Destination's Appeal for Others? Take a Selfie and Post It
When I was in my teens, I lived in a foster home and had, what I suppose you might say, a foster sibling. This sibling, who despite doing some wicked things, I still reserve some admiration and affection for, though their status beyond some very serious legal troubles has remained unknown to me for many years.

I was, at some point, poisoned. With what, I never discovered. But I do remember the effects, which were extremely difficult. Extreme fatigue, disorientation and a very persistent, strange metallic essence present in the mouth and sinuses for weeks or months.

If it were only these symptoms alone, I'd have never suspected anything, despite the 'sibling's' known and well exhibited tendencies for cruelty.

At the age of, perhaps 17, I asked for help shaving my head, which was abundant with hair. We were both surprised to see that an inch of the growth, closest to the scalp, was solid gray. This is quite freakish for a teenager, and none of those who witnessed it failed to be astonished. I still remember the reaction as we made the observation during the haircut, which gave a slight impression of 'oh shit... Did I go too far? Oh well...' <Smirk>.

I've been through too much since to know why or what ails me presently, and I'm sure there are many factors, but my health is pretty damn complicated.

This shit does happen.
I'm a big Rust fan, but async Rust is an abomination.
You can skip the solar panel entirely and just lay out mirrors, or just spray the ground with white paint.
Life insurance? Retirement funds? Perhaps she wanted to be able to take their child back to China?

As a more general point I would strongly advise against forming a permanent union with someone you cannot trust implicitly, or who does not share your values and goals. Such relationships are doomed to fail eventually, and the time wasted would be better spent trying to find a better partner. Also, when you do find the better partner, it will be obvious and you will be grateful for it.

In my case, I had some trouble trusting a previous relationship with my finances. I hid the size of my life insurance and retirement plans, didn't want to combine bank accounts, was doubtful that they would take care of my parents if something happened to me, etc. In retrospect there were reasons I didn't feel comfortable, and that was predictive of the outcome of the relationship.

My current partner and spouse is much more obviously trustworthy and has my best interest at heart. I don't feel uncomfortable that my they know everything or could spend all my money, because I know their personality and values and know that they won't. Hell, they even told me to not keep them on life support because they wouldn't want to burden me. (I would anyway as long as there was a chance, because I really value someone like that.)

To summarize, if you think you have to preemptively defend yourself against malicious behavior by your partner, you obviously have the wrong partner. I wish you the best of luck in finding a better one.
Those plans are to some degree a consequence of a conservative outlook when they were initially approved mixed with local politicians fearing a backlash in a cold winter if there is even a short period with a power shortage. This happened a couple of winters ago in some regions of China and is part of the reason for the coal power plant build spree they went on. Have a search for news on the coal power plant news in 2023. However, these plants turn out to not be really needed and are idle a lot and approvals are plummeting for new coal plants in 2024 already and I would expect to see the same for nuclear soon as renewables continue to prove their reliability and as battery storage continues to grow massively.

That said the growth in renewables will still take some years to make a big dent in coal in China so the nuclear power is welcome!
I'm glad to hear the forums are still going to be around. They certainly aren't as popular as they once were but I still consider myself a part of that community and enjoy conversing with the old timers once and awhile.
The Siege of Leningrad killed 1.5 million people, roughly half the population of the city, over a period of roughly two years.
For Two-Job Workers, There Aren't Enough Hours in a Day to Stay Afloat
Traffic deaths have surged with the post 2020 decrease in enforcement. Cars are dangerous and bad drivers kill people.
> the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was - nor will it ever be again

This is very darkly ominous and of course it does not apply just to tech journalism.

Written communication, by real people, is not an optional luxury, its the best means to exchange dense, valuable, high quality information.

It feels as if the current digital "economy" is hell-bent to turn society into an illiterate, short-video watching, ad-clicking mob.

Not sure there has ever been technological innovation that was so regressive in its impact, profiting by actively degrading the human condition. Alas, here we are and we can't blame the Martians.