skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I am your hardware destroying cousin. For me it's mice, not keyboards.

I've had the same keyboard for like a decade, but I go through mice every 3-6 months. I've tried logitech / corsair / no-name / razor. 90% of the time I replace a mouse because of phantom double clicks or the mouse3 button just ceasing to work.

More rarely, the mouse will reconnect cycle over and over, or the scroll wheel will break.

I don't THINK I abuse them, but my body count indicates maybe I'm too hard on them and don't know it.

Maybe we need hardware that'll give us data on how mean we are to them so we can gain perspective. :p
How's this any different than buying an expired domain and doing a password reset .. anywhere?

-- Probably someone else already mentioned this in the comments here, I just couldn't see.
No, and yes, so long as you don't delete information.

Think of a marble-based computer, whose inner workings are frictionless and massless. The marbles roll freely without losing energy unless they are forced to stop somehow, but computation is nonetheless performed.
> All evidence suggests that humans around the world are born with more or less the same brains.

Which is great news because if there were conflicting evidence, or even an expressed desire to seek it out, that would be a good way to get refused research funding and to get drummed out of academia and polite society.
>I completely understand why you would behave this way, but I would absolutely not apply to the same place.

Well that's exactly why I apply multiple times.

Had an example last year. I applied once, got rejected, coincidentally met someone at that same company and team later in the week. They sent me a referral, and then boom, recruiter call the next day. My resume was the same. It's just the referral pile got me visiable.

I'm pretty convinced even pre-AI that there are so many times when I'm simply not seen. Getting no response or an automated response just tells me these days "okay, I didn't make it to a human. Maybe next time" instead of "welp, I'm not good enough right now".

Also note that those kinds of companies are pretty big with hundreds of roles for software. The hiring culture between each team may as well make it a few dozen companies. I'm not trying to re-apply (on purpose) to a small group of a a few dozen after one rejection from the exact same role.
I don’t think it would be acceptable to say “Arbeiten macht frei” in a casual conversation. Just because Chinese history is distant from and unfamiliar to western experience doesn’t mean we should trivialize it.
It looks like it gives you DIY plans but there is also an option to get a finished keyboard - this leads to a page with some error messages in it though.
CSS has entered the ChatGPT.
Slavery was wrong even in the 1700s and and 1800s. I wish it hadn't happened, but until we have a time machine there's not a lot we can do about it.

Just because the US has committed major sins in the past doesn't mean we should be slap-happy about other countries repeating those sins.

It might be "sanctimonious", but I don't think "I'm against slave labor everywhere" is an especially brave take.
I would guess that most dynamic pricing won't work in a competitive market. By "competitive" I mean that there are a large number of buyers and sellers and something close to perfect information (namely that buyers know the prices goods are being sold at).
Will they?
Trump has said he's in favor of the H1-B program and has given no indications that he plans to lessen or stop it.
Tariffs will likely be used as bargaining tools - you won't see tariffs directed at a country because a US corporation has outsourced labor there.
There's a lot of noise about changes to immigration right now, but I'd be very unsurprised if little or nothing changed.
Its raw for a reason

Isolated from just 100 randomly collected samples:

Escherichia coli 78%

Listeria monocytogenes 47%

Staphylococcus aureus 25%

Salmonella spp 21%

not worth mentioning the antibiotics and other vetenary medications given to bovines.

And the ground up chickens given as feed,

Oh I forgot, they are also Antibiotic-resistant because of the excessive use of antibiotics.
> No, wouldn't connecting to a slow 3g tower affect ping times to all global servers proportionately?

Yep. Per the article (last point under "How it works"):

> Users with a high latency to all servers can be excluded from polls, as this is a strong indicator of a VPN/proxy usage

Something seems off about how they're measuring latency (which seems to be "fetch various AWS Lambda endpoints"), since their system seems to think that I have hundreds of milliseconds of latency even to the nearest AWS region (even though in practice it should be an order of magnitude lower), and multiple seconds to the other side of the world.

edit: well, if the slowness is just on last-mile delivery, then it should be a fixed amount of overhead added to each connection (rather than a multiplier). For instance, I have about 8ms of latency added by my ISP just by the first hop into their network. But it's that same 8ms overhead whether I'm connecting to a server on the other side of town, or on the other side of the world.
I've sometimes found library editions which are a middle compromise - cheaper than hardcover but higher quality that paperback.
At least they're up-front about the viability of remotely controlled voting farms as an exploit.
Yeah that point wasn't lost on me.

Maybe it's due to my age, but CDs don't seem that analog to me.

A few things CDs don't have that tapes and/or vinyl do:

- gradual degradation from repeated use

- need for maintenance (e.g. cleaning vinyl with a brush, or occasionally splicing a broken tape[0])

- time and effort needed to move to the next song or replay the current one (and my first tape deck didn't have a rewind button, so I had to eject the tape, flip the cassette, forward, then flip back and hope I had gotten to roughly the right point)

- the ability to directly manipulate the medium, e.g. using a hand to move the record slightly faster, or using a pencil to wind a tape

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXx2nq6dmpg
You can just buy or kill your competition via subsidizing your pricing. There's no appetite to legislate this anticompetitive behavior.
I'm also black and growing up I had the impression that "woke" referred to left-leaning conspiracy theorists and activists. 9/11 truthers and gay rights activists were the main woke groups of the Bush era
>But then I would also argue that work restrictions are illegal as well.

We have a whole host of work restrictions that we have decided are very beneficial for society as a whole. Things like minimum wage, maximum working hours, overtime, etc.

Maintaining domestic industries and talent by not selling out to foreign mercenary labor is generally quite beneficial for the national interest.
What do you mean by "boomers"?
If OpenSSL Was a GUI
Here's something I accepted. I will mess up, but I'll focus on being a good person that leads by example. The rest is details. I don't know what your situation is, and I'm sorry if you are unable, but I would wish more people get to experience the absolute joy of parenting. It is an exercise of being selfless to the point that you are happy doing things that seem miserable to others for the only reason that there's someone else that benefits from that sacrifice. It's life changing in a great way.

P.S. usual caveats that it's ok if not every person has kids, There's lots of narcisists, etc. that probably shouldnt. However, I feel that in my circles (professional, well adjusted, big city people), the bias is against kids. That is a massive mistake.
Kayak was the absolute worst about this to me. I had purchased premium economy tickets to Japan for several thousand USD from Kayak. Japan closed. The FAA made it clear that refunds were to be awarded. Kayak jerked me around and tried to keep half my money. Eventually I got it back less $400.
Indeed. Price discrimination is a market failure. It's only possible when a seller has market power.
The instantaneous "HDR" capability of biological eyes is really quite amazing. About 5 orders of magnitude for human eyes, about 2-3 for most cameras.

By the way, there's a really cool in its simplicity medium term adaptation mechanism in eyes as well, they measure light intensity by photo-decay of a chemical substance that is produced slowly. If there is much light, the substance decays a short time after production. If there is little light, it accumulates for about half a minute, massively increasing sensitivity. The quantum efficiency (the inverse of how many photons it takes to produce a signal) of a dark-adapted eye is about 0.3: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172#MOESM482
The prices might seem fair to each, until they learn what the other was charged. At that point the sellers likely pays a price in terms of reputation.
That assumes a perfect market. No information asymmetry between buyers and seller. No collusion. All buyers and sellers on equal ground.
There is $300k in bounties if you create under 1MB WebAssembly CPython distribution

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1huxrs6/python_runn...
Without a good amount of peering, this seems unlikely to work. There is really no guarantee about where traffic will exit a user ISP's network and enter the next. On average, sure, it may take a reasonably short path, but it might also travel halfway across the continent to traverse an IX.
Booking.com has nothing. The article names 4 competitors, besides booking directly on the hotel's website.
Because a number of people on our team were born and raised in China. It’s very likely that some of them had family affected by the awful aftermath of the Hundred Flowers campaign.
Csound is legend. You can find almost all the sound effects in csound, and the score of csound is an exclusive feature.

Compared with Csound, Glicol has a completely different logic in syntax, which is much more lightweight and focused on sound synthesis and live coding. The core logic of Glicol can actually use "organized numbers" to make music. Numbers are used between nodes, and you can even "listen" to an envelope. Controlling these nodes is like having countless sound modules. The original idea of Glicol was that after I became familiar with DAW and modular synthesizers, I wanted to design a language that could simulate this workflow.
I can imagine also that in some situations where there's a large volume of work to be done and you don't need a high performer to get some of it done, you'd rather have the low performer than nobody in that position so you can make progress.
Reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email:

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
The point is not that you are eating dirt. The point is that you are constantly surrounded by small amounts of things that are not good for you. Take a plane? Eat a banana? You are exposed to radiation. Drink water in certain parts of the country? You are exposed to small amounts of uranium. Is any of that good? No, but it's unavoidable to be exposed to small amounts of naturally occuring toxins and it's not worth worrying about.
ummmm what? I have had an MX Master Mouse for over 8 years and as an automotive engineer i have dropped it numerous times while testing vehicles, inside the vehicle, while getting out of the vehicle, just walking from desk to the cars in parking lots... and it still survived 8 years! what are you doing to your mouse exactly?
#1 is exactly what we're doing with ours. The little one understands cassettes and the concept of an audiobook or a Welles radio drama (sometimes MP3/CD, but I record custom cassettes too).

I have a millenium-era iMac set up as the family computer in anticipation of introductory computing when old enough (probably soon) and learning that digital entertainment is a state of mind and place you go to for a time, and then shut down and do something else. It's in the living room and off, so right now we're just building familiarity with it and exploring the keyboard, mouse, etc. and mimicking dad. Currently the little one -loves- the physical interaction of a typewriter and requests one more than a keyboard (but loose keyboards are fun too!).

The TV is a projector screen that recedes into the ceiling. Total screen time for them in the home right now over the past ~2.5y is probably...3 hours? Maybe?

My daily driver mobile is a black and white PDA and almost never a phone. I don't think my toddler has -ever- asked me for my phone and certainly wouldn't think to request, e.g. a video on it. Entertainment comes from our books, legos, and trains.

My theory is an accelerated progression through history. Mastering technology means understanding where it came from. It takes the shine off the modern rectangle of doom if you can place it in time and space and your first habits aren't built around it.

To @ozim's point, the issue is what has been normalized in broader society and so, yeah, we've clearly figured out touchscreens and plenty of local places for kids have unnecessary TVs. The concerns of other kids/parents introducing things to ours too early is mitigated by building a core [home]school and social group who shares enough common values. The differences between our respective households become learning opportunities for everyone.

What's fantastic is that I can go to the grocery store or sit in a restaurant for an hour and a half (and even better, two flights with a layover--with effort) with no tantrum from a toddler and no technology. Just...not even a thought that enters.
I’ve tried the arm rest thing. Not very comfortable unfortunately. At least for me.
I don't think the claim is that Google has introduced a totally novel vuln, just that they are a stable, trusted middleman who is failing to mitigate a common vuln where they can.

You don't abandon filing cabinets, but given that some percentage of startup failures are sudden and surprising and the people who could do something are unmotivated / unable to, it's not a best practice for a commercial landlord to put abandoned files on the street with a sign "free", files and all. Maybe they have a legal right to, but it's not how I would operate in that situation.
I blog for the (admittedly infrequent) pleasure of it; I have no expectations, and my page hits confirm that.

In the last 180 days there's been 2507 visitors to the home page, 2803 to the robots file, and 5965 to a page that shows some domains I might sell (but otherwise has no content at all).

The actual article pages averaged between 90 and 170 visitors total per page over those 180 days.

As a numbers thing it isn't worth it (for me). However I have had recruiters cold-contacting me based on my blog (and github), and a publisher wanting me to edit and peer review a technical book. So it can open up new possibilities regardless of the scale of the readership.

(Edit: I don't re-post anywhere else as whilst I have accounts on the socials they are unused placeholders)
I appreciate the spirit, but unfortunately in this case the person themselves made their views and intentions abundantly clear, so we don't have to talk about anything circumstantial.

To quote IdleWorlds above (once again, thank you for this info): "The guy also posted "the CEO must die" to his Instagram."

There's no "what if" here.
Either all selling is predatory or none of it is.

I’m in the former camp- it’s predatory and our prosperity is built on it.
> Trying to hack on other people's junk with NixOS is just asking for pain.

Yeah, but being that Nix is essentially a giant wrapper for the system, that kind of goes without saying. The other side of the coin is that, using other people's Nix junk is extremely easy. Far easier than what any other distro could hope to achieve.

My favorite example is simple-nixos-mailserver. Try passing someone a dovecot, postfix, and openssh configurations/instructions in any other distro and see how long it takes before they mess up, or more likely, give up.

Whereas with simple-nixos-mailserver, you're guaranteed to get something to work, essentially right out of the box.
I click a lot? I don't feel like I'm putting the hammer to them. They just all die.
The aggregators are often buying inventory at below cost. They exist to help fill rooms that otherwise won’t sell.
I will! It's nature's sweetener, I've always said :)
-c:v h264_nvenc

This is useful for batch encoding, when you're encoding a lot of different videos at once, because you can get better encoding throughput.

But in my limited experiments a while back, I found the output quality to be slightly worse than with libx264. I don't know if there's a way around it, but I'm not the only one who had that experience.
>Surely any positive effect from doing this would be muted (again, likely into the negative) because the company doesn't want to hire you.

In my experience, it's because they didn't actually see you (or they were never hiring anyone to begin with. Hence the article). If I don't get to a step where I speak to a human, I don't really count it as a rejection. Just a filtering.

Rejection implies that my skillset was not fit to the role, or that someone else was better than me and selected. Definitely not the vibes I get in this current market.
Agreed, and articles like this don't help. That's the only point I was trying to make really.
In common usage we don’t think lawful violence as violence. We don’t say that it’s violent for police to arrest bank robbers. Therefore prohibitions on violence are commonly understood to apply only to unlawful violence. No one is confused by this!

The distinction only surfaces if someone insists on describing lawful violence as violence, as in the parent comment.
This is not a new idea, and I don't believe it will help the malicious actors of the world.

People have been doxxed/compromised in the past by opening links or visiting sites from an adversary who used source IP to geolocate someone.

I can't see it being more than a verification of existing GeoIP databases and possibly a way to detect some VPN use.
That team was one of three that was developing rockets. The others were air force and navy.
Why is clock skew being used here at all? I'm confused why the client's clock is being trusted or consulted in any way for a measurement like this. I should probably click through and read the details.

ETA Ok, reading the code turned up not a lot of comments. But it did produce the following line. I hope that's for testing and not the actual nonce generation process:

nonce = 'ieoskirlyzauuv6ehdug8lift65fkrddeuu6f5z6ka'
I've seen code that works well for a piece of middleware, but when the stack is complete, testing the entire stack is always done with perfect data.

An entire stack failing due to a piece of the stack for so many reasons is so common.

Testing is a skillset that many don't have without experience.
SRAM is actually very architecturally similar to some adiabatic circuit topologies.
I haven't used influxdb in a project yet, but I'm a fan of its capabilities!

The core-enterprise dichotomy seems more or less the same as what scylla had until recently. Does influxdata have different considerations from scylla that will allow influxdb to remain open source in the long term?
If you treat that as a given, rather a thing for us to change with environmental design, the only ethical solution is banning private drivers entirely.

Encouraging anti-social people's deadly hobbies is terrible for the community.
gospeed mate! if you own no car and no mobile big thumbs up!
If you can't deal with the challenges of being on a plane where someone else's kids are screaming, maybe you just don't get to go on commercial flights. Just charter a jet.

Non-parents always have all the answers about how kids should be raised.
Usefulness of proposed metrics aside, I can't wrap my head around proposed use cases there.

If you don't require proof of identification for voting then one local voter can vote limitless times.
If you do require it, why don't you trust it? Surely an identification is enough too choose if someone could vote or not.

It could be a nice addition to some social networks like Mastodon, I suppose, if people wouldn't care enough to create puppet accounts just to swing a vote, and false rejections/positives wouldn't mean losing or gaining something meaningful. Other then that, I have no idea.
>do you often cling to your assumptions when they do not match data?

Ocassionally, as one should.

But never when they don't match empirical reality.

As one also should - "questionaires" and "statistics" be damned. USSR also had plenty of statistics...
now that's a weissman score
(2024)

... But I doubt OpenSSL has changed enough to make this out-of-date.
> I had a wrong picture of cargo cults myself

It's quite easy to see how this happened in your situation, but it has nothing to do with Feynman, or any external stimulus at all.
Couldn't the "test" add some variety of math challenge, thus making a simple proxy insufficient. Obviously, this method would add more noise to the final calculation, but if the proxy would need to forward its data to the end-user machine to perform the math, then a simple proxy in this case wouldn't be sufficient.
Just because you're strict in one area doesn't mean that you're completely mistrusting everything. You can (and should) still teach responsibility in the same way that generations have before social media.
The continued, logical flaw in your argument is a false opposition between industry and the state. California’s wildly corrupt Democratic Party machine is bought and paid for by PG&E to create this exact state of affairs and the CPUC allows them to profiteer and bribe their politician pals in return, setting the rest of us on fire as a consequence.
Drivers are on average richer than pedestrians.

In America, with our current wealth disparity, that leaves their interests wildly over-represented in policy and infrastructure.
> If the goal is to be safer than a human driver then it will require better than human sensors, such as lidar.

Having the same sensors as a human but being more attentive would be a step up. That said, I think camera-only is not good enough for now.
Transactions are the only composable concurrency control primitive, but this requires that they be nestable.

It’s a key “primitive” missing from almost all high-level programming languages, with the notable exception of some SQL dialects.
I still wanted to see what the price was for each test. Maybe the author didn't want to say which hotels IRL, so call them Hotels A-E.
On a previous trip to Japan I used my CC travel portal (can’t remember if it was Chase or Amex) to book one of the hotels. It took several days of back and forth with the CC company acting as a middleman to clarify whether “twin bed” meant a single bed sized for a child, or two beds which could be pushed together to approximate a U.S. queen size bed. (Japan seems to translate “two beds” as “twin room”, but it was unclear whether that had been re-translated when shown on the CC company’s whitelabeled Expedia instance.)
Trans is also an ideology. It's the belief that each person has a "gender identity" which may or may not align with their sex, and that this "gender identity", rather than sex, is what makes someone a woman or a man or, somehow, neither.

By the same logic as you are presenting, it is toxic and hostile to impose this ideology upon others. If believers of this ideology want to use "preferred pronouns" and such, they should of course be free to do so.

But others who do not hold this ideological stance, including those who oppose it for whatever reason (e.g. because they see the concept and implementation of "gender identity" as fundamentally sexist), shouldn't be forced to pay lip service to it, any more than atheists should be forced to pray at work.

You call this refusal "assholery", but presumably that is because you are a believer of this ideology - including the belief that to reject it is "transphobic" (which is roughly equivalent to the religious zealots' cry of "heretic") and therefore, per this belief, reprehensible?