skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please do not mistake me for someone who has any sympathy for the plight Israeli leadership finds itself in today. They belong in the Hague.

That's fair enough, many Israelis feel likewise. You shouldn't mistake me for liking the Israeli leadership either.

That said - Hamas played a game of pretending to be appeased, and it worked. I agree that Israel has been absolutely immoral over the last 18 years, though I think the bigger problem was closing off avenues for peace and not (as Israel should've done as the stronger party) aggressively pushing for peace.

That said - I do wonder what you think Israel should've done differently. Because to address Hamas earlier would've meant invading Gaza years ago. Certainly Israelis can and are upset that its leaders let Hamas build up so much strength, but do you think anyone in the world would've had any sympathy for Israel had it done a ground invasion to root out Hamas fifteen years ago? Even after October 7th there was barely sympathy to root out Hamas.
Sidenote: While Qualcomm is focusing on Windows, recent Exynos chips use RDNA2 architecture graphics, which ought to work in Linux AND Windows with a few minor patches. Samsung has also been extremely faithful about keeping bootloaders unlocked on Exynos devices. My bets are on Exynos laptops.
> What I'm really asking is if a sufficiently determined person couldn't have avoided all these headaches by building and/or standardizing equivalent technologies.

https://xkcd.com/927/

The reason that this worked out in x86-land is that the entire industry spawned from cloning and making extensions for a single product, the IBM PC.
need a 3090 at least for that
I've visited data centres (with various impressing sounding accreditations) where the doors have been wedged open because the employees found the security annoying

I've also had DC employees, without authorisation: reboot my machines, give themselves access rights and then tamper with my systems

admittedly the latter was a long time ago, before any of this stuff was considered critical infrastructure

these days they'd probably end up in prison
It's still $800 ... OK, I need someone to talk me out of it (esp. as the last thing I need is Yet Another Tinkering Sinkhole :) )

But have you encountered any serious issues so far (I expect to put Linux on it, and I build my own kernels).
Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal
If anybody is interested here's an example of how to do edge detection using this editor https://github.com/victorqribeiro/customFilter/issues/1#issu...
Because the arbitrary age we picked, by which almost nobody is yet fully physically nor mentally developed, is definitely the correct one.

Non-sarcastically: Overton Window
In my experience, these captions only work for native speakers (of a language that happens to be supported) with "standard" accents. With other accents and/or non-native speakers, they break down pretty badly. Combine that with some amount of bilingual dialog and some technical terms and internal tech names, and it can get quite mystifying.
Something that's always bothered me about Kindles is the web browser. Like, I get it, that's not what it's made for. But it should be able to do more than it is currently able to. I don't mean "easily rendering complex websites". The kindle is made for text display, its current displays are surprisingly broad (although still narrow enough that if I'm using the web browser I typically go through stuff I know works - Wikipedia, Google, etc - or things on textonly.website and other such things with an emphasis on being small). But what really nags me is the formats of books it lets you download. Here they are: .prc, .txt, .mobi, .azw3.

They are, needless to say, not the most common formats. A search on google for "computing filetype:[X]", with "[X]" being replaced by pdf, epub, mobi, txt, and azw3 (prc produced seemingly no relevant results) has about 174 results for Kindle-supported files (done by going to the last page as Google's counter is more accurate there), 120 of which were .txt. The non-Kindle supported searches, epub and pdf, had 356 results, 67 of which were epub files. But Google's engine doesn't do great for finding books. A much better database is LibGen. As I couldn't figure out an analysis of all LibGen files, I searched for "Astronomy" (unless noted all LibGen searches are in nonfiction) which yielded 2,550 results, sorted by extension, and counted.

Results:

4 things in .zip format, 0.15 percent
3 in .rar, 0.11 percent
2144 in .pdf, 84 percent
11 in mobi, 0.43 percent
1 in mdf, lit, gz and bz2, 0.039 percent each
214 in epub, 8.39 percent.
156 in djvu, 6.1 percent
3 in azw3, 0.11 percent
8 in 7z, 0.31 percent
2 in chm, 0.078 percent.

In my experience that's rather skewed (I'd never seen a 7z one before, or at least not noticed one). But the general idea - PDF most common, then EPUB, then something else (often MOBI, distantly) - remains. The fact that Kindle can't go from 14 downloadable things to 228 (actually, many legal open access ebooks are published in just pdf or pdf+epub, it's rare to get mobi or azw3) by letting you download an already existent format it kind of supports is a bit ridiculous and has always struck me as odd.

But I am very curious how the color kindle works on the web browser, as noncolor Kindles have the background bleed a bit if you scroll. I imagine you'd end up with this sludgy mess of a background, but I'm not sure.
This is gonna push things towards some very unfortunate DRM.
Discipline and structure are good and necessary, but that's not what I'm getting at (and I think we probably agree there) when I say "rigidity." Students (especially young children) aren't widgets to be pushed through a factory, but individuals for whom some degree of flexibility is required.
Sadly no. Biggest bug in there, "fortunately". Easy to patch, though.
As a big advocate of remote work, over the years I'm coming to agree with this less and less. Done well, remote work is great. Done poorly, it's killing me. It often saps me of energy even more than office work did somehow.
Sorry, i didn't address your suggestion. I don't put any complete algorithms in a computer of any type, not a phone. Windows, Android,and every other op system saves and shares your work in any program with the "mother ship" (software developers and hosts). Information security requires me to keep it in my head mostly. Kind of ironic that I claim to have answers that damage security, but i also am highly aware of that insecurity already existing by other means.
One day too late. ^-^
That’s obviously better than being seen as unprofessional.
Cloudflare have some really interesting tech, like https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-keyless-ssl-all-the-b..., that I really wish we had an open implementation of so I could do similar myself.
This interview gives you the flavour of challenges making the memory for one of the worlds first computers -- the CSIR Mk1 in Australia.

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/2591

More info https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_pages/initiatives/c...
Yeah, combining unit tests and written docs in various ways seems fine. My reading of the article was that the tests are the only documentation. Maybe that was not the intent but just a bad interpretation on my part.

Though some replies here seem to keep arguing for my interpretation, so it's not just me.
I certainly understand that. But again I don't know what to make of the rankings. Yes, I know this is a niche community and yes I know there are more games than these classics...but comparison on Crokinole being #47 among thousands of games in the community is difficult to interpret for someone who hasn't played hundreds of different board games.
TONC is amazing. I learned so much from it.
reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
Historically, startups have hired foreign "employees" as contractors to simplify paperwork.

How are "false freelancer" laws, e.g. in Spain, affecting the market? Do you generally advise American early-stage startups startups to hire foreigners as contractors, or to immediately use a PEO?
I remember the first year they introduced it, as a final in the Omegathon. It was really tense!
This game has such a special place in my heart - like others, I have some beautiful handmade boards, some of which have been in my family for a couple generations. Canadian as well which seems thematically common here. My father and I spend as much time trash-talking each other about playing as we do playing. And my grandmother was a complete shark, the crokinole matriarch who would put any of us to shame.

Another reason why I will always appreciate HN and its breadth of community and interests.
Barriers to Chiplet Sockets
Startups during their earliest stages are encouraged to throw spaghetti at the wall specifically because they don't yet have a customers to offend. They have nothing to lose from failing fast.

In the 2010's more mature companies explored adopting this same model, especially those that had themselves been founded the decade prior. What came out of it was a lot of spaghetti making a mess all over the walls, and the floors, and the ceiling. There were half-baked ideas everywhere, and a few genuine revolutions, but the quality of pretty much everything tanked.

Optimistically, we now seem to be at the starr of a pendulum swing back from that, but with little time to scrape off all the spaghetti that continues to drag everything down.
I built something similar that I called LowBoard. It was a 12x16 array of addressable color LEDs that was originally for low-rez halloween pictures (so good timing!) and we displayed it in the window as part of our display. Then I built a web app and hooked it up to the internet to let anyone draw and display an image for 20 seconds, kind of a physical snapchat. Then an hour or so later and ~100 12x16 dick-picks I disassembled it. Several lessons learned!
I have one bound to an AutoHotKey script that switches to Teams and mutes/unmutes my mic, since Teams doesn't have a global mute hotkey. I used the others while filming to switch OBS scenes/camera layouts. I'll probably set them up as app launch hotkeys now.
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> never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails

I get that it’s creepy that this is being done, but I highly doubt that nobody at Blind has “never seen” this. Blind sends spam using multiple different domain names trying to get people to sign up. The domains are rotated so they can get around blocking on the email server, and the fact they do it means they already know that companies try to block them.
Because movement isn't 1% of the brain. Movement is why we have brains. Balance and head-righting do sensor fusion between vision, the vestibular system, and proprioception. That's a whole-body problem, and I don't see how that can be a low-energy activity. Brains are expensive.

We do have an unconscious falling reflex, but that works by startling us awake! Actually doing movement planning requires a running brain.
I used to get paid to develop those war room monitoring solutions. literally just crafting dashboards that no one would ever look at directly, but just sorta had around.

> execs is to approach them like young children.

lots of images. bright colors. no more than 3 bulletpoints per slide. no more than 4 minutes to get to the point, and be unambiguous about what and why.
The study is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52631-9

Lots of cool pictures if you like oceanography stuff.
Eating healthy and spreading one's cheeks as the sit down is hardly a lot of trouble.

I like bidets, but I hardly need them. When I build my next house, it will have bidets.
Basically because of the way the tech evolved. x86 was made to be “generic” from very early on, in large because of the decoupling between CPU vendors and PC vendors.

ARM doesn’t make chips you can buy and plug into devices (they don’t make chips at all). You get the IP for the core and you then typically integrate it into your SoC. There is/was so much custom development that there was no benefit in adding an abstraction for the sake of adding an abstraction when the only ARM SoC a device would ever see is the one that shipped from the factory with it, and the tight coupling between firmware and hardware developers for phones and tablets meant you would just hardcode the values and behaviors and peripherals you expected to find.

There is a level of abstraction at the code level with svd files that let you more easily code new firmware against new chips reusing existing logic, but it’s like the equivalent of a some mediocre api compatibility without abi compatibility - you still need new blobs for the end user.

The era of PCs and laptops using ARM running generic operating systems came ages into the existence and growth of the ARM ecosystem. Compromises such as device trees were found, but it’s nothing like BIOS and ACPI.

(Now we’ll get the typical replies stating “yes but no one does BIOS and ACPI correctly so I’d rather have to wait for actually correct device trees blobs from the manufacturer than a buggy ACPI implementation” to offer the alternative viewpoint.)
Manage WooCommerce Orders from a Single Dashboard on macOS
Very fun. Unfortunately there is a way to, in my opinion, cheese it. I made it to 2485 on my second attempt.

Reversed to avoid spoiling the game:
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Fuzzers, caches, graph algorithms, climate models, massive compilations, in-mem filesystems, VMs, Llama 3 405 B (will be slow)
> Maybe that was always the strategy?

Can confirm that was the strategy from day minus-three.
In my limited experience, it's usually when they are sick or dying.
Open Source FreeBSD NAS: Maintenance Best Practices
Hn hugged after only 6 pts.
> Common Lisp happens to be on the upper end of what loop allows – you can use it as a standard for loop pretty easily, but the interface gives you many other options.

If you really wanna get freaky try 'do. It is the heroin addicted cousin of 'loop

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_do_...
It's interesting how it ignores things like headers and footers. LLMs have an edge there in "deciding" whether to include something in the output or not.

It'd be great if your hosted version would also accept a URL to a PDF and give a permalink to the result as well (if you're looking for upgrades)
I think it goes deeper: a lot of the people who are likely to question their gender identity are likely to have other geek traits.

Some of the very early stars in tech were seeking identity (more than gender), often to the point of their own destruction. Some folks who were so bright that no one really understood how to use their insights leap to my mind specifically. Someday we'll be able to make use of the things they tried to tell us. Perhaps they'll be remembered then.
did you even read half of the article?

summary: guy found that the IP and steam ids can be rotated with low cost, so he used the in-game web browser to set a persistent cookie (on that installation of the game), so once cheaters get banned, rotate their IP/steam id, they'll be banned until they clear the app's data.
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. A blind outside is just like a curtain, except that to whatever extent it heated up it is heating up directly outside (via radiation or convection). A curtain that's hot in the insulated enveloppe is strictly worse, everything else being equal (color, etc.)

The radiation of the sun has to go somewhere. More of it will be reflected back by shutters, and whatever is absorbed can more readily be dissipated outside than inside.
Sounds like a lot more work then just getting them to spam themselves.

The USPS has an FAQ about mailing bricks, but it won't load for me. I do know they are allowed to throw away trash, and they could interpret a brick as trash.
Everytime i see someone writing "journey" i instantly feel repulsed by a... tech bro VC vibe maybe?

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
I came here to say the same thing. It's a game-changer.
Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"
John Nickolls "ultimately willed CUDA into existence"
Case in point. It's hard to value life when you are willing to contribute to the loss of it. I hope that the price of your morals is at the very least high to be sold so easily.
CEOs and heads of state of entire countries have been fired or forced to resign for abusing entitlements. Are you in fact saying is anyone worth their salary?
If we look at practices that fall under formal methods, I would include things like TLA+ (or Alloy) specifications and concolic testing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic_testing) (which is sometimes used as a step in the process of automatic test generation).

Practices that are not usually considered formal methods include clever semi-blackbox fuzzing (like Antithesis) and mutation testing to improve test quality.
Google Illuminate recently also introduced a customization feature. I use this customization with it:

audience=technical, duration=long, tone=professional & engaging
> With over 80,000 organizations already using NotebookLM

Really. "Using"? (as in an email from an org owned domain logged in to notebooklm page?..)
This cannot be a coincidence, just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8XRpeXopHY The Shroud of Turin is still Fake by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

But that video is one month old, so—?
Thanks - this helps.

> employment agreement with the company

I believe this means that once the entity is founded and funding secured, all participants will need to transfer their H1B to this new entity in order to work for it, right?
Not /exclusively/ ARM, but having their own silicon is helping more than hurting. Personally, and along the lines I think you're getting at, I think Microsoft is in a weird spot of trying to hold on to legacy compatibility for longer than they should and taking some UI gambles that aren't paying off ("again", if you count Windows Phone). Maybe their own chips would help, but that alone isn't the dealbreaker.
We had this at my company (finance) during covid they had a generous Uber eats offer for food after work hours. Some employees (particularly new grads) realised they could pick the food up as they left or collect the food at the door as they left the office or redirect the order. remember at the time thinking this is stealing pennies when you’re paid incredibly well.

Well it wasn’t pennies. HR filtered to find those who claimed thousands and then managed to prove many of them were ordering on days they hadn’t even swiped into the office. Anyway, when HR finally did look into it dozens of people got fired from their $n00,000 job for stealing $5,000 worth of food. Good to fire them, you don’t want to hire people that stupid.
Shockingly enough it is actually possible to do decent ray casting and much more on the GBA despite the incredibly minimal compute budget.

Joshua Barretto has been working on a GBA port of Super Mario 64 with entire 3D levels, characters, and movements. In my opinion just incredible work:

https://youtu.be/9mUsgJ-HiDM
You see prison on TV even as a child. remember the first time I saw my US high school in person and my first thought was that it was clearly a prison inspired design. They had an interior balcony where the each level was viewable from each other level. Unlike a mall the walls were opaque and each door identical with a number.

If the school was properly organized it could be in an actual prison for all would have cared. I think de-streaming is far worse than bad decor.
> “New alignment offer: I guess some people were sad they missed the last window. Some have been leaking to the press and ex-employees. That's water under the bridge. Maybe the last offer needed to be higher. People have said they want a new window, so this is my attempt.

It's kind a funny, the whole point of the last offer was that you rip off the band-aid once and for all. But giving people a 4-hour window before you spend a week doing increasingly crazy things didn't really give people enough of a taste of things to come.

I'm also not sure why the CEO is being so pernicious with these tiny windows. Why only give your people 4 hours with no advance notice?

People want to draw obvious comparisons to the offers at Twitter and 37 Signals, but at least with those employees were a) given enough notice to discuss things with friends/family and b) knew what they were signing up for. I'm not sure if the Automattic employees who missed the window last week knew they were going to be engaging in supply chain attacks against their own ecosystem a few days later.
I wonder how explicit and clear they were about the intended purpose of these vouchers. I can see myself saying fck it and using it however I feel without thinking much since it seems insignificant, unless they make a deal of it.
A look at the aerc mail client
The strongest argument against against wealth tax, at least for smaller countries, is that it also targets the most mobile (and quite frankly, whiny) people. It's just easier to increase taxes on the middle class a few points than introduce a wealth tax.

But I dream of a world where the US and EU agree to both introduce a wealth tax. Unfortunately I think the democracies of the world will rather crumble under unsustainable wealth disparancy than do something like that:-/
have you tried asking them? researchers are often happy to explain their work!
Unless I'm mistaken, I think fire_lake might be referring to a wholly unrelated first-person RPG spellcasting game project wherein the player would draw glyphs with their mouse in order to cast spells, and then there would be a surprise later in the game based on this mechanic (which was later repurposed for The Witness).
I just think that both Impro and The Looming Tower have nothing to do with development and seem imposed by people who think they are important.
Certifications would help distinguish you. It can be hard to evaluate the worthiness of foreign educational institutions, but certs, such as those for AWS and GCP can be great.

They often highly reflect what you will actually do on the job (assuming you are going to be a Cloud or DevOps Engineer), show discipline, and prove a high level of knowledge and the ability to gain that knowledge.

Other certs that I think are valuable include the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Terraform Associate, and even the newer GitHub Certs. I'm sure others have valuable certs to add. It is always changing.
That's great feedback, thank you. I built a rudimentary control scheme on top of the minimal Crisp library and will take a look into doing a little more with it.
Adding Raylib to Forth
> and heavily try to get people to use Safari on macOS

how so? on any new macOS install, I use Safari to download Firefox. After that, I never think about Safari until I'm trying to use its DevTools to look at iDevices. I never get a nag screen about Safari. I have never had default browser changed after any updates.

so where exactly is this heavy handed attempt at forcing Safari down anyone's throat?
Site is exceeding its traffic allotment. I had to try a few times but I was able to snag a copy for the archives.

https://archive.is/FBDVL
Cached here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872770
Its not named for the public, but the editor specifically looks for certain reviewers who are qualified to comment on the work at hand. They don't just grab random people they look for specific people. And if they are getting a bait and switch out of it instead, well, that's not really honest to the editors efforts trying to get a quality peer review for their journal.
Louis Rossmann on Ethical Data