skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the books on the Kobo store are also sold with DRM. They only mention it in small print under eBook Details at the bottom of the page, e.g. Download options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)
A Dev needs to make this Replit killer that talks to me over Email only
All thwse bots ate poltical engagement vampires and plat forms are incemtivized to ignore them because they make sitws seem popular.

And dont forget, reddit started life as a bunch of owner sock puppets.
I think you just naturally end up with that because the things appear indestructible. The first ever kindle I bought (dunno how long ago, it was before paperwhite, so more than 11 years) still works without issue. Even retains all the music I put on it 14 years ago when it was still an experimental feature.

I think the only thing that has been discontinued is the free 3G internet all over the world that they apparently figured was too expensive.
I'm not excusing Apple, I'm shaming the competition. There's no justification for the PC laptops to be so bad.
No problem! Let's dream up a little use case:

Imagine you have a speed sensor eg. on your car and you would like to calculate the jerk (2nd derivative of speed) of your motion (useful in a range of driving comfort metrics etc.). The speed sensor on your car is probably not all that accurate, it will give some slightly randomly wrong output and it may not give that output at exactly 10 times per second, you will have some jitter in the rate you receive data. If you naiively attempt to calculate jerk by doing central differences on the signal twice (using np.gradient twice) you will amplify the noise in the signal and end up with something that looks totally wrong which you will then have to post process and maybe resample to get it at the rate that you want. If instead of np.gradient you use kalmangrad.grad you will get a nice smooth jerk signal (and a fixed up speed signal too).
There are many ways to do this kind of thing, but I personally like this one as its fast, can be run online, and if you want you can get uncertainties in your derivatives too :)
I once worked on an ewaste shipment from a rail carrier.

99% of the stuff they sent us was boring corporate desktops running standard, secure soe.

1 laptop however, booted into windows with saved credentials, connected to a vpn automatically, logged into the rail companys in house software automatically, and began displaying what I can only assume was a live map of the rail network. Little green lines running along red lines, the green lines would come to junctions and stop. It had buttons. I think I shucked the hard drive and drilled it within 60 seconds and had the hardware completely disintegrated.

One other time a games company that got liquidated sent us a pallet of computers that had source code for a relatively popular strategy game on the drives.

Another games company shipped us their test kits one of which had a dev build of a relatively well known action adventure game. The warehouse guys would play the dev build of the game on their lunch breaks.

Basically no one gives a shit.

All of that before I worked for a business that stored their customer info including credit cards in plain text one dirwalk away on their public website. When we complained we were told that it was fine because they "encrypted" the card numbers. The encryption was adding 1 to the card number. I died.
Are you talking about renowned author Dan Brown? The one who walks with his feet?
News flash: you're in the niche of the niche. People don't care about die size.

I'd be willing to bet that the amount of money they are missing out on is miniscule and is by far offset by people's money who care about other stuff. Like you know, performance and battery life, just to stick to your examples.
OK that makes sense. As an outsider, the C# code bases I look at seem to do this as standard practice, even if the requirement for different classes never materialises. I guess you get used to looking at it, but it seems (perhaps naively) as wasteful and a bit distracting.
I love this writing style, very easy to read.
Best of luck with the optimizations effort! looking forward to hearing more about this project.
How does one get a passkey from iCloud into one of these formats?

"You can't take your passkeys from Apple Passwords"

s/iCloud/1Password?

"There's not a way to import/export passkeys"

s/iCloud/Google?

So "you can copy paste them using those formats, if you can get them into those formats in the first place".
1) Have a goal

2) Are you still moving towards that goal? Or away from that goal?

The goal can be anything. For me, sometimes it's just "have fun building something". Am I still having fun? Keep building it. Not having fun? Move on. If my goal is "learn a new technology", then it's equally straight forward: "am I still learning?" or "did I learn everything I needed?"

Startups are the same: have a goal -- some objective, even if abstract, to guide you. You may change strategies, change products, change approaches along the way. But if you find that you are no longer moving towards that goal or no longer interested in moving closer to that goal, that's the end.
More Meta Layoffs
Basically, approximating calculus operations on noisy, discrete-in-time data streams.
I received well over 1000 SMS messages in 2020 from the Biden campaign. Replying 'STOP' worked... for that one number but since they were using a huge army of volunteers to SMS out messages, asking them to stop was pointless as there was a seemingly endless number of others sending out messages. Legal or not, it wasn't ethical. It only started after I updated my voter registration because I moved between counties. The online form had telephone number as a mandatory field but I didn't realize that would be released to political campaigns.

Trump and Biden both spammed my physical mailbox with the usual slick mailers, though the Biden campaign had an interesting twist in that I kept getting what appeared to be hand written postcards from people in metro Atlanta where I lived but every single one of those post cards was postmarked San Francisco. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and think maybe the postcards were written in bulk by the actual people in the Atlanta area and then sent to some Biden associated organization in SF, who then paid the postage for all the individual postcards to go out.
Using the wisdom of the crowd here: what is the best ereader for tinkering? I'm browsing the answers here looking for that and I don't know if anything actually fits the bill. Something with Android, tablet-type machines, seems to be the answer? Is there nothing better?
I've found that when mixing the two types of routes, it can be quite easy to accidentally introduce blocking paths which freeze up the main event loop, especially if mixing async dependencies with sync ones.

When a route is async, it gets scheduled on the main event loop, meaning that any blocking calls can block all requests in flight, and block unexpected things like start up and teardown of api handlers. `asyncio.to_thread()` can help here, but it's easy to forget (and there's no warnings in case you forget).

If you do mix the two, I would be very careful to monitor the timings of your requests to detect early if blocking is occurring. For adding these metrics, I suggest using something like statsd or open-telemetry libraries for adding reporting to the endpoints, which you can feed into telemetry dashboards.
Had a standing desk before, and a treadmill desk. Didnt really feel like it was a massive improvement, if anything I couldnt do work for a prolonged period of time like sitting and i used to go for walks to take breaks. With standing desks you dont really build this habit per say since your always standing
I don't know maybe I've just been unlucky, but at least for me on a couple of different laptops I regularly get full desktop freezes on Debian & Fedora from using things like VMs / GPU accelerated browser (Chrome) / Other things (I don't actually use CUDA/AI much at all but I suspect the issues come from sharing of GPU resources across apps, could be wrong)

This doesn't happen on Windows nearly as much on the same laptops, I don't use Macs that much. And yes I agree it does seem more of an issue with laptops with discrete graphics.

I do still use Linux desktop a lot, I'm happy to take the trade-off but my point was just that depending on the work you do, or the features of the laptop you want to use, like power mgmt or bluetooth, there will be tinkering. (and yes this is entirely manufacturers fault)
I guess he’s never seen the kind of insane contracts people that publish on the Amazon store need to sign xD
Robinhood Introduces Trading Platform:Legend, Futures Trading, and Index Options
I believe the main reason laptops have to be separated is because they appear as just a large chunk of metal on the X-ray. A tablet would look similar.

Pre-iPad, most airport staff (who aren't hardcore techies, or might not have the privilege of higher education) might think of a tablet as a laptop anyway.
Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility:

"A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a government project."

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/15/internet-archive-data-breach-...

"Internet Archive Cyber Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers"

https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/internet-arch...

"Anti-Israel hacker group hacks 'Internet Archive', exposing 31 million users"

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/bkird2rjke
The roads system. I'd say that works fairly well.
So if there's a concrete skirt around the entire boundary of the house with a proper slant, wont the water run off properly?
As world debt hits $100T, IMF warns deficit must be brought under control
Yeah, I still surprise myself over how passionately I hate Drupal. I've been a developer of various sorts for ~30 years, and sure, there's some languages and frameworks I like more than others, but for the most part they don't really elicit an emotional reaction. They run the gamut from "not my favorite" to "this is pretty nice". Drupal is the only software I've ever come to outright hate. It makes me stress-eat and want to punch something.

To be fair, it's not universally disliked... after all, some 25-30% of those survey respondents still like it, as does at least one other person in this thread. It's just more widely disliked than most other frameworks. Despite that, for something this old and bloated, it still has a healthy ecosystem and lots of developers and conferences and vendors and such. I'm just not one of them, lol.
The precision you need for interferometry depends on the wavelength, and being able to do this over astronomical distances at visible wavelengths would indeed be a challenge. I think the scale is timing more accurate than 0.1 nanoseconds and distance accuracy on the order of 100 nanometers. Near those orders of magnitude at least and over astronomical distances that might be measured in AU.

Then again the precision of the gravitational wave instruments measure distance on the order of the width of a proton, so who knows.

Terrestrial infrared and optical interferometry telescopes are on the bleeding edge right now.
This was a refreshing read! I like to think Software is eating the world, but it's unable to digest the data and use it effectively. Perhaps the shift from services to a product business adds a layer of RWE (real-world evidence) to solving hard engineering problems.
if you can get a backup, someone can get scammed into providing that to an attacker, taking away any security benefit.
NA is (or at least was when I played) the most populated and visible regional zone, and attracts a lot of players attempting various kinds of rank manipulation. On the one hand you have smurfing, which is the practice of a relatively high skill player using a an account with relatively low rank so that they can dominate lower ranked players. On the other side you have boosting, which is a relatively high skill player ranking up new accounts for later sale.

In practice this means at lower ranks, it was not at all uncommon to be matched with players with similar rank but vastly better skills.
I'm quite capable of seeking out information from political candidates instead of them spamming me.
Get a Kobo, which model depends on your needs. A Kindle is never yours since Amazon can push arbitrary updates wipe your stuff. Don't buy Boox either, as they include a lot of bloatware, not to mention they're blatantly disregarding GPL.

Kobos are mostly just arm linux machines. You can install KOReader on them for a better reading experience.
My wife developed gluten and dairy intolerance quite rapidly a couple years ago. I’m wondering if something like this could be related.
Choose two from: Good/fast/free.

Those "civilized" countries universally have very long wait lists that make health outcomes worse.
Solars go first in any disasters and there's cleanup cost of destroyed panels, so there is such thing as solar fallout. They also don't decay unlike radioactive fallout.
I am loosely aware of a time that a local bank performed a large data centre migration.

They built new infrastructure at the new site, then just decommed the old building.

Pretty standard stuff, but the old building was like, 1930s era or something. After the hardware was deracked, it was left in a loading dock, in a now abandoned building, behind an unlocked roller door for like 6 months before it was recovered for data destruction.
ah, a connoisseur...

alas the last bottle of that was served in 1972

the current incarnation is z/VM, which started 2000. it is rumored to have one or two new features.
In the end they can say "x monthly users" so they're complicit.
It is expensive, almost $100 per kWh stored, plus construction costs that involve fireproofing and spacing things because lithium batteries are flammable. And a lithium battery loses capacity with every recharge, so it needs replacement every few years.

We need batteries that cost, say, $10 / kWh, are not (as) flammable, not toxic (not Pb, not NiCd), and don't degrade too fast.

With that, they can be large, heavy, have low specific charge, require high or low temperatures (within reason), etc. For a large utility-grade installation all these qualities are not hugely important. There is plenty of space under solar panels and around wind turbines anyway.

Before that, selling methane remains a very good business indeed.
AI PC is just a marketing term, doesn't have any real substance
> Paying off a loan is spending.

Talk about "double taxation" and wealthy being able to avoid taxes. I need a loan to buy a car. Taxes at the purchase, taxes as I pay back the loan. I take out a mortgage. Taxes on the sale, taxes on the mortgage payment. Meanwhile someone able to drop several hundred thousand in cash pay taxes once.
This is entirely anecdotal, and n=1, but I have seen a sailing YouTuber who claimed that she was unable to tolerate gluten in the USA, but once in Europe there was no problem. She assumed that it was related to agri-chem in the USA.

Does anyone know which grain related agricultural products are used in the USA and not in the EU?
> skill assist

Yeah, most games have builtin aimbot, called "aim assist". I do not like it, in fact, I find it annoying as a player, too (I come from Quake 3).
How attached and how technical does it have to be to be "cyborg".

Me with a pen and paper exceeds many human capabilites.

Likewise with wearables like a smartwatch.

Does it have to be direct neural integration to be a cyborg? Definitely people with profound brain injuries have been enhanced to the ability to interact again.
He was born in '76, so it's possible his school was a trial school a few years earlier, but doesn't seem likely.
If there is a declared state of war between two countries, than someone else doing what Israel did to Hezbollah would be considered a valid act of war.

The problem is that Israel and Hezbollah are currently in a state of informal hostilities but are not in a state of declared war. That distinction matters at the international level.

In the case of Gaza, Israel and Hamas were in a truce, until Hamas unilaterally broke that truce on October 7, 2023. It turns out Hamas had been using the most recent truce to build up its forces and plan those terrorist attacks, which is why Israel is unwilling to enter into a new truce. (And on a historical note, Hamas has unilaterally broken or violated every truce and peace treaty it has negotiated with Israel.) Given that the Gazan civilian population was openly sheltering and supporting the Hamas forces, the international rules of war hold that Gazan civilians are legitimate collateral damage so long as there was no intent by Israel to deliberately attack civilian targets. Importantly, Israel is formally at war with Hamas, so the legal framework is different from what happened with Hezbollah.
WP Engine is run by private equity, so a massive boulder with salt for anything they say
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Robinhood launches desktop platform, adds futures and index options trading
>We introduce a new Autoencoder (AE) that aggressively increases the scaling factor to 32. Compared with AE-F8, our AE-F32 outputs 16× fewer latent tokens,

Basically they compress/decompress the images more, which means they need less computation during generation. But on the flip side this should mean less variability.

Isn't this more of a design trade-off than an optimization?
This is very much an "ask your own attorney" type of question.
>What about the PayPal stories? Or those are all supposedly “not fair and balanced”?

What stories?

>That’s why the Cybetruck looks like it was draw by a 3 year old?

So? This doesn't serve to disprove my point. Elon gets into the weeds. Your opinion of it doesn't change the success of the company and the technology.

>Why? You don’t have to pretend you are an engineer to build an extremely successful company as CEO while having significant impact on the products it designs. Just look at Apple.

I never said anything about apple. I said that's why HIS companies are successful. There's plenty of reasons why other companies are successful.

It's a well known fact Elon Gets into the weeds of engineering and tech. Just watch the video.
Big discussion in 2023 (586 points, 175 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35684828
What's "they"? The Cloudflare subsidiary in Moldova is presumably a different entity than the one in the US. The issue is they're trying to enforce the law of Moldova against the US corporation for things it does in the US.
Okay, these options are far enough down the slippery slope to present a compelling argument that the whole thing is a Bad Idea. Short hop from here to suppress_yawns=true, and then breezing through enthusiasm_multiplier=1.4 on to enable_AI_avatar=true with bon_mot_interval=240s...
Ahh that makes sense. Well all I can say to that is that it's not up to me what's evil. The point I was trying to make is: sometimes you want to archive something that you don't endorse / don't want to be publicly linked.

You might not want to amplify and broadcast the fact that you're archiving it to the world.
Yeah I get that, I understand why cheat developers do what they do. It seems like there's a huge market and I find it hard to blame them trying to make a living- morality wise they're probably more worried about rent, bills, family than whether or not someone's game time is ruined. But it's only this way because so many people are willing enough to cheat that dropping money on it is fine for them. It's their psychology I don't really get. Even if they're doing it because they want the satisfaction of a "win", doesn't that victory feel hollow because it's something they paid money for? It's like the difference between a community valuing you enough to give you an award vs going down to the trophy shop and paying someone a make you your own trophy that doesn't really mean anything.
Requiring MDM for attestation seems like the extremely-obvious answer to all this, yea.

High(er) security environments exist, and some extremely anti-user features make tons of sense there - anti-user is kinda the point, you don't want people to do anything they like. But those environments should not be allowed to impact any other environments, it's just going to foster abuse. MDM divides them very cleanly.
What are you referring to by "gamesense"? FWIW you can implement all sorts of movement hacks, from dodging bullet particles to appearing laggy enough to seem to be teleporting.
Break them back down, they can't handle the market share they have
Helps for nodding off on the flight, too.
> Can someone explain to me what is the Palantir's business model

AFAICT, it is government & government-adjacent contracting using techniques borrowed from big tech and WITCH, since big tech won't directly court government sw contracts, and WITCH may fail at getting clearances for foreign-based personnel.
Palantir was working on my companies data for months getting ready to show us what AI could do for us. Internally I was asking "what could they possibly show us that we don't already know, even theoretically?" No one really had any idea either, but we were skeptically optimistic. Palantir said just wait, this AI shit is amazing and we'll have so many new insights for you.

The day finally came and the execs were all in the office for the big presentation. I wasn't there, but from what I heard, it was basically a handful of unfinished, incomplete Power BI type reports outlining information that we already had/knew. They were literally laughed out of the room and the meeting was cut short. It was a huge waste of time. I wish I could have been there, from what I heard it was hilarious.
That makes sense. Another comment pointed out that even the resolution of colored content (150 ppi) is half that of black-and-white content (300 ppi). Trying to take notes with bad refresh rates and lower resolution would not make for a good experience.
No, Hezbollah has not behaved "entirely rational and predictable". They have indiscriminately fired rockets at civilian populations in northern Israel, often over a hundred in a single day, averaging dozens every day continuously for almost a year, killing principally (as you'd expect) civilians (ironically, many of them not Israeli Jewish citizens), in one case including half a youth football team.
Apologizes, you're correct. I vaguely remember reading they were "first" to get FDA approval for some feature, but if that were ever true, it is sorely outdated information. I fell for the hype, it seems.

Unfortunate that I can't delete or edit the post at this point.
> And if it wasn't for Apple's magnificent hardware,

I would agree with this sentiment if people said something like "Apple has gotten the hardware right with the current gen, but the intel macs were colossal pieces of shit in both hardware and software".
My mother had a cough of five years that everyone thought was just her allergies. Cured by unrelated antibiotics. (Not that they did anything about the underlying allergies, just took out what she thought was a symptom she had to live with.)
That's definitely not the title (j3b) or h1 (1MDb)
That's entirely speculation. They could just as well be winding down the project entirely, which has happened before.