skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that is just insane.

I saw some videos from China [1] where people were upgrading the storage in the new M4 Mac Minis. The Mac Mini's SSD is on a removable pcb but it is raw nand flash as opposed to, say, typical m2 2230 SSDs that have a built-in controller. So they had to desolder it. But getting someone in China to desolder and upgrade the SSD to 2 TB is like 90% cheaper than buying it from Apple.

[1] http://xhslink.com/a/o0tLp4thqsDZ
The NPR article does talk about some directly observable effects like people having trouble breathing and rashes, or 'brain fog', though I suppose that's not all conclusively casually linked. Still, it's something worth thinking about, and something I feel is worth taking into account when you have the option of buying a garment consisting of only natural fibers versus something boasting it's wrinkle-free, or if you're deciding weather or not to buy the water repellent spray that the shoe store clerk is pushing, and so on.
I thought it looked familiar!
So the suggestion is that uh... the former fraud chief of the Spanish police... become a highly connected event promotor... with access to high profile clients who will actually spend 20,000 euro for a concert ticket... which we inexplicably demand and receive IN CASH... in exchange for VIP tables at high profile events that we magically have access to... while supplying 20,000 worth of services to the one VIP that did attend... and then repeat this how many times? While forging receipts for cash payments, which will sustain scrutiny from a cursory audit?

Is there a missing /s? Like this is neither easy nor a plausible way to get away with financial fraud.
Since at least XP, in my memory, and yes it is pretty easy to argue that every version has gotten worse.

Some highlights:

"Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27337382

"Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404332

"Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30711277

EDIT: And to finish the throughline back to XP, every version of Windows since then has included more "telemetry", which a perfectly reasonable person could describe as "spyware".
How much realistic battery life do you get?

Can you hear the fans spin in a typical week?
> I'm surprised there hasn't yet been any TWS advertised with open-source firmware

Let me introduce you to the PineBuds Pro: https://pine64.com/product/pinebuds-pro-open-firmware-capabl...
You describe jepsen as if it's BDSM for databases, which might not be too far off.
If you add the ability to toggle days in various states this could be a really useful tool for me. Unfortunately I have family obligations that occur at various times in the year. Clickable cells that would change them from day/off or not could really help here.
Japan has a lot less crime than the US.
Give them some smartphones with social media and it'll be forgotten in a generation.
Related, we recently released an AI Email Assistant available as a Google Chrome extension for Gmail: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email...
I hadn't intended to take away from that. And I've used these scripts myself for spinning up resources - they're definitely a help.
Oh wow, this is truely sad news.

I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.
Show HN: AI Email Assistant for Gmail
Did you consider Zulip? I've always wondered why Zulip isn't used more often by communities. Seems like it could be a great hybrid between Discord and Telegram.
Thank you for reading and the kind words! We're almost looking forward to this loophole being shut down to really make things a tad bit more challenging haha

We've got some ideas for the Faraday cage—a whole bunch of networks research and hacking that we can do without messing up live systems! It's also really nice to be able to test a device in isolation, without worrying about whether it's phoning back home in some way.
I've always found it funny that SQL was designed the way it is to be as close to natural English as possible, but then they went ahead and made everything all-caps
M4 Mac mini's efficiency
I don't write or read SQL too often, but I prefer the ALL_CAPS because it usually lets me know if something is part of the SQL syntax itself or a function or whatever, or if it's referencing a table/column/etc.

Obviously not very foolproof, but automated linters/prettifiers like the one in DataGrip do a good job with this for every query I've ever thrown at it.
Carving your space
>England did not return to its pre-plague population until about 1625, 280 years after the first strike. During most of that period Western Europe had about half the population it had in 1345. And yet 1400-1500 ‘is the very century in which Western Europe’s global expansion began’, the period of what has been called ‘the Great Divergence’ between Europe and the rest of the world. ‘The Black Death and the Rise of Europe’, as Belich’s subtitle has it, do seem to be linked in time, and it may not be a coincidence.

This period also coincided with the renaissance and the European wars of religion. Europe was a busy place.
Is that even the case? Did they not apply anywhere else? Do they even qualify anywhere else? This wouldn't even have been possible under US law until recently.

If Apple tried to do this in the past in the US, they would have made it illegal to buy AirPods without a prescription, which is obviously a regulatory nonstarter.
Soon 23andMe will enter its PE stage where it will truly start capitalizing on their data gold mine.
Instructional staff doesn't scale. One teacher can teach only one class at a time. The whole idea of EdTech is to scale learning beyond that.
Yeah, I don't trust AI magic either. Very precise manual filters can run out of date quickly, "AI" can be unpredictable. Maybe naïve bayes will be a middle ground?

I use and like SpamSieve for macOS but it's limited to spam/not spam.
I would really like support for more categories than two.
About 8 hours. That is the biggest sacrifice I make by not going with a Macbook. But fwiw I'm on Arch, I haven't spent any time on battery optimization config. I'm sure I could get a few extra hours if I played with the configs.
Show HN: Web App that looks at your resume and matches you to jobs
I was tired of major job boards like LinkedIn/Indeed/Glass Door having spammy, promotions, and irrelevant job postings. Especially in ML where it was a pain to find MLE roles specializing in Computer Vision.

So I built Rocket Jobs. It looks at your resume and then uses semantic search to match you to relevant job postings based on your actual work experience. I spent a lot of time improving this "RAG" system by trying different embedding vendors and techniques to improve retrieval quality.

I intend to keep this 100% free. I'm able to run it for $0 rn. I'm also parsing 2M tokens a day all for free because I'm just using a 8B param llama for free rn from cerebras, groq, and together.ai. I plan to migrate to gemini later.

Also getting free postgres from aiven.io and free hosting from heroku student discount valid for 2 years

Link: https://www.rocketjobs.app/
This is such a refreshing perspective! I've always wondered if there's room for craftsmen to build quality products for smaller groups. Your focus on simple, well-designed software really resonates with me. Thanks for showing us a viable path.
It's also highly variable. There are lots of nearby areas that feel unsafe, and the people in those areas that make me question safety ride the busses more. Do i feel unsafe in my home? No, but i don't have a lot of addicts mulling around my house or i'd move (like you said).

Then of course there's differences in opinion on actual risk. I don't generally feel comfortable around variables i don't understand. I grew up around addicts and found them to be very unpredictable, and so my reaction may be biased. Nonetheless it's true for me personally.

edit: Conversely though, i think humans have a tendency to get used to nearly anything. We then can downplay the risks of things we've become accustomed to. Even if the risk of violence is low, risk of general unpleasant interactions would be enough to make me avoid the bus/etc.
Am I right that proxmox takes over your entire machine?

I have been using a combination of docker and lxc/lxd to manage my VMs. But, cockpit (on ubuntu) does not give me a perfect experience for managing running VMS, etc.

I wish there was a good solution for all of this. But, it feels like you need to cobble together a bunch of kibana tools to get true monitoring.
That, or OpenStack. I know it's a bigger deal for telcos and wraps kvm, but it's very reliable, scalable, and has all the features a hosting provider would need.
Reading the post title, the film Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa comes to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala_(1975_film)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
you might have gotten the boot at 18 but many get a job or go to college and still live at home. where are you getting your numbers from?
Some old terminals didn't have lower case. Like 1960s era
AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey
I refuse to patronize places that are card only. Not everyone can use electronic payments.

New York and some other cities actually made it illegal, as it's discriminatory.
I dunno about Eurozone, but I bought some land from my US county recently, and they told me I could provide a cashier's check or come with about $50,000 in cash. I went ahead and paid my bank fees to get a cashier's check.
The articles notes he laundered a portion of the money through crypto and business fraud.
I dont consider that an opinion anymore.

You have to look at microsoft and windows from the perspective of an actual software product. Who in their right mind would find it acceptable if their program/operating system decided to automatically download candy crush. Let that sink in. Either you accept that candy crush itself is malware preying on an innocent microsoft or there is a significant and hostile attempt by microsoft to push unwanted and distracting software onto consumers. Which is practically the definition of malware. You could add the countless other examples of advertisement and other unwanted behaviour that is not fit for an operating system and you'll find they fit the description of malware. If you happen to disagree then I would like to ask you what fits the description of the candy crush saga on windows really is.
Like youtube? Paying 30+ and still getting ads
If Netflix closed up shop tomorrow, there'd be a long a thread here, lots of headlines, and lots of whining, but at this point there are a ton of other streaming services and most of us would shrug and move on. Netflix has been on my bubble for a good couple of years and has only marginally kept my monthly subscription.

In fact, I'm still somewhat angry at Netflix for wiping out disc rental and then killing their own DVD by mail which was a good source of reliable one+ year old movies.
It’s always a relief to read stuff articles this, realize I know 90% of it, and I’ve deserved the jobs I’ve had.

Great and super useful notes
Alternative title:
"Obviously Irresponsible, Intellectually Lazy Things that We Definitely Haven't Been Doing for Fifteen Years."
Ask HN: Have you ever emailed your way into a job?
For example in your job hunt did you ever find a position you felt you were the right fit for? So in addition to applying, you email the recruiter or hiring manager. Curious about what people's results are with this approach?
It went on for far longer than the last decade. The thing is that it takes a long time for a very big company of any sort to die, so it can zombie along for years. Even when private equity notorious is pretty much trying to kill the company.
> but are by definition past focused,

To add to that, and because the GP had mentioned (a "virtual") Clausewitz, "human"/irl strategy itself has in many cases been too focused on said past and, because of that, has caused defeats for the adopters of those "past-focused" strategies. Look at the Clausewitzian concept of "decisive victory" which was adopted by German WW1 strategists who, in so doing, ended up causing defeat for their country.

Good strategy is an art, the same as war, no LLM nor any other computer code would be ever able to replicate it or improve on it.
I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test which is quite more useful.
I would like to see a comparison with older models as most people that have an m3 are not considering an upgrade.
> If you happen to disagree then I would like to ask you what fits the description of the candy crush saga on windows really is.

It's whatever Dell and HP preloading McAfee is; which they've been doing in one way or another for decades.
> The article talks about corruption like it's just a clearly bad thing and people either do the bad thing or not, but it's a blurry line between engaging in corruption and the normal ways that organizations work.

Until you have "cops" every 10 miles on the freeway all demanding a bribe at gunpoint.

"Corruption" is sand in the gears of everything.

You can't go from point A to point B in a consistent amount of time or money. You can't order something and expect it to work without triple checking everything yourself. etc.

We have a great example of the pernicious effects of corruption: Russia couldn't roll over Ukraine because corruption completely hollowed out their military.
One of the biggest goals of the component model is that it doesn't matter what language your component is written in. Composition can happen anytime one component exports an interface and another component imports it. https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/creating-and-co...
No no that's my point: Bluesky has no algorithm. You see only the posts of people you follow, in order, and nothing else (unless you deliberately subscribe to "discovery" feeds.)

So you have complete control.
Feels like this only works if your bosses (your spouse and employer) are willing to acknowledge the realities of WFH with a baby. Otherwise, forget it.
Seeing as most will read ^^ I'll put my 2c here:

In the article one professor says to just use NMN instead of injections. (6O GBP for 30 capsules).

I also find it suspect the article doesn't talk about nicotinamide riboside (NR).
You'll find lots about the Jepsen analysis process here: https://jepsen.io/services/analysis
> It just seemed surprising to me that every country in the world has medical device certification for anything that calls itself a hearing aid,

"Trusting the FDA" instead of having your own evaluation seems a lot less foolish now that Americans have decided to put a guy in charge of the FDA who wants to get rid of vaccines.
Yes, installing Proxmox is akin to installing ESXi.
They do monthly-ish releases https://index.commoncrawl.org/
There's one more aspect to this that wasn't mentioned at all in the article.

In Japan, home computers never really made sense until it was far, far too late.

In the west, you'd buy a PC (or a home computer) to play games, edit documents or manage your business. The latter two were pretty much impossible in Japan, as the computers of that era couldn't handle the complexities of the Japanese language and character set. Gaming was all that remained, and if you only wanted gaming, you could just as well get a NES (known in Japan as Famicom), which was much better suited for the purpose.

Computers eventually caught up, but some of the cultural impact remained, still making them less popular than in the west.

This is one of the reasons why Japanese were so good at consumer electronics, they just needed that electronics a lot more than we did, and the devices needed a lot more features, as "just plug it into a computer to do the complicated stuff" wasn't really an option there.
Windows 7 was the last good OS that came out of microsoft for me.

I would honestly switch from linux to windows 7 if they provided support.
Interesting list that we all should familiarize ourselves with. But doesn't that list apply to all "authoritarian" governments. Whether fascist, communist, capitalist, socialist, democratic, and so on.
I know lots of people who live very nice lives ($300-750k/year spend) using nothing but cash and never showing ID.

There are a million ways to convert it to crypto, and a million ways to convert crypto to many of the other things one might want to use: gift cards, airline miles, etc.

Same goes for gold. There are lots of shops in many countries that will buy gold for cash. Many countries still have hotels that accept cash.

You can pay for a surprising amount of things in cash. One friend of mine simply has a rich buddy buy his cars and insurance, and he gives him paper cash each year for the sum of payments+insurance.

Many landlords are happy to accept cash, especially if you are willing to pay a year in advance.

Why do you think someone with that much money would be driving a car that's titled and plated in their own name?
I know the whole debate around systemd but I never knew people even considered it to be along the lines of malware. I checked Devuan (which I also just learned from your comment) and they say

> Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd that allows users to reclaim control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements and ensuring Init Freedom.

which, okay, points towards that direction but I can't find what they exactly consider "unnecessary entanglements" nor what exactly means "Init Freedom".

I'm genuinely curious, what exactly are people saying about systemd being "malware"?
It’s expensive and it’s good that other options are available, it’s not insanely expensive though, the people that need the upgrade often make 6 figure salaries and can afford the upgrade although they might not like the idea of paying it, I personally hate it but I know when I buy the machine will last me at least 5 years, which is good enough for me.
I just spend loads of time on email.

Web version sounds great.
Since this is not commercial, how does it interact with California AB 2602?
Probably not a neighbor but reporter jailed for soliciting a minor
I got so fed up with Windows 11 and Microsoft's BS that I bought a new PC with an AMD processor and GPU so I could daily drive Linux (for context, NVIDIA hates open source and so there aren't any good drivers on Linux).

I've been running most of my games through Proton, and the experience is flawless. Only game that hasn't worked for me is Rust because of some EAC requirements.
Cool tool, I have often thought about something like this, it is certainly very useful.

> Email us, or find us on Mastodon, Threads, or Twitter X. (Gosh, can we all just agree on one social media network already?)

Nostr!
"which combines the performance of SSDs with the capacity of tape" more BS coming out of China
# also has the advantage of being on a key on a T9 keypad while using twitter over SMS was in style.
Interesting choice with telegram. I see it requires to get user's own Gmail api credentials?

I too recently launched AI automations for Gmail. I am a heavy email user, so connecting chatgpt to my inbox was obvious to me. When gpt-4 was released it passed my tests with 90% accuracy, so I've decided to release it at inboxchat.ai

But while I enjoy AI sorting my emails, the most useful feature for meturned out to be screener, inspired by this post: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-probl.... It sends all emails from first-time or unknown senders into a separate Review Later label. If email is moved to Inbox, then that sender becomes trusted and is allowed into Inbox in the future. It's simple, dumb feature but so effective
When I was 6 years old I was confused just like you about the age of things.

I mean, they were discovered before the Digital Age and missed only The Beatles and TV.
> Shocking that the Cortex A53 ... is still so so ubiquitous

I'm sending this from my Librem 5 GNU/Linux phone powered by Cortex A53. And it's good enough to be my daily driver.
I wanted to delegate management of my raid array to higher level tools since it died on me seemingly for nothing (I was able to recover all the drives but none of the files).

I tried TrueNAS but it's very rigid. Proxmox seems to give you more control over what's installed on the server but it's also quite locked down. Don't remember exactly what was it that pushed me off Proxmox. I think it was that I needed to manage some VMs over LXD API and others over proxmox and I couldn't mix and match, I had to choose one without extra hacks.
This is a very snarky/bitter view of it. In my career I have done fairly well and have been promoted after the fact a couple of times. People who don't take these opportunities rarely move up to bigger responsibilities. At big tech is usually expected that you are already performing at a level above for a certain period of time before being promoted
What if you downloaded from a US wifi network?
>The OS and preinstalled / uninstallable apps from the OS provider, the phone manufacturer, the hardware manufacturers, sometimes the network provider have their own TOS, their own gag orders, etc. The TOS undoubtedly extends to the UI toggle, and even if it didn't they are almost certainly under gag orders about that functionality anyways. That is what I see as virtually unavoidable.

Again, there's a pretty big difference between an opt out, and a system that outright betrays the user. Moreover, what you said might work for someone who has location services enabled in the OS and don't realize there's preinstalled facebook with pre-approved permissions, but OP specifically mentioned disabling location services in the OS, which should disable it for all apps regardless of whether it's pre-approved.
> 1. the steppe mammoth specifically (i.e. the one everyone means when they reference humans hunting mammoths to extinction)

The steppe mammoth became extinct 200,000 years ago, it likely never encountered homo sapiens. The name is also a bit of a misnomer - they were associated with the steppe but were not confined to them.

When people talk about mammoths hunted to extinction by humans, they are usually referring to the woolly mammoth, which had a much wider range. They've been found from southern Spain to Kentucky. They might also be talking about the Columbian mammoth which resided in lower latitude parts of North America as far south as Costa Rica. Both the woolly and columbian mammoths are descended from the steppe mammoth, and both went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene with pygmy populations surviving on islands into the Holocene. Both survived numerous previous interglacial periods.

The "mammoth steppe" is just a poetic name for a biome common at the time, indeed the most common biome on Earth during the age of the woolly mammoth, it's not actually a term for a region the woolly mammoth was endemic to. It is by definition distinct from currently existing steppe climates, but the differences are mostly academic and does not explain the extinction of the mammoths. Indeed it is believed that the decline of the steppe was likely caused by the extinction of the mammoth (and other large herbivores), as they prevented trees from becoming too large or numerous, and in their absence much of the steppe turned into forest.
Or, it will be amplified, and will become the basis of a religious-nationalist movement.
> unless I somehow convince them to read the code(Like as if that's going to happen!).

code is read more often than its written. I spend maybe 60-70% of my time reading code when I'm "writing code". I don't think it will take much convincing if you're working on a project with others.