skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's basically what http://www.cargosense.com/services.html does. I remember Rich Kilmer presenting a beacon a couple years ago that does GPS/accelerometer/temperature/whatnot to monitor packages.
Having done a security review on a photos app for a company with high customer trust, and knowing what people put in their photo shares... photo and document shares are one of the highest risk areas for people. I didn't know about this until the review but when it was pointed out to me, it's obvious that for some people having their photos stolen is massively worse than credit card fraud or other recoverable things. You can't get those docs and photos back.

However that means that you are right, it's nuclear launch code level security for everyone's photos.
No mossad is incompetent death squads peddling overrated crappy weapons and "training" to any regime dumb enough to employ them. Mostly African despots. They routinely get away with bad stuff because Western governments choose to turn the other cheek similarly to Saudi Arabia.
How can you tell when someone is an atheist?

> me as an atheist

Oh wait...they'll tell you.
How is this not a difference without a distinction?
Every year you wait, the more expensive it becomes to do stuff like this. Solving hard problems is usually unpopular.
This article desperately needs a video, here's a nearly 2 year old video from the same company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3hmbYLQedc
My karma points aren't enough for me to be able to downvote. But here's a verbal downvote.
After dealing with F#'s Async<T> in production, I'm not sure I'd prefer it to the TPL. There are plenty of performance and efficiency problems and the expressiveness is also a double edged sword (we found lots of programmers had issues getting a good intuition around evaluation vs definition time and even very experienced F# devs would get surprised).

Part of it is not necessarily the design F# took but that the TPL is incompatible enough that the mixing of TPL-centric .Net libraries becomes a problem. It might be wise for F# to support the TPL via computation expressions with something like `task { ... }` (there are a few implementations out there but a compiler supported state machine generator would be more ideal).
Underrated? Do you live under a rock by chance?
Not OP:

Logically, God only wouldn't if you weren't convinced about who God is? I applaud your curiosity (and am eager to here other's answers) but if someone believed in God and still put their family first wouldn't that be more curious still?

Like, "sure you want me to fulfil your purposes for creation and be a co-worker with you, give this money to that needy person (say) but I was going to take the family out for a slap-up meal so God, I'm putting them first"?
I'm pro nuclear in principle (it sure beats fossils), but I do get the feeling that the era we are in is not right for such big monolithic infrastructure projects. The costs tend to balloon and the private companies behind them have difficulties in delivering and meeting the stringent quality standards that nuclear requires (for good reasons). See for example the utter failure that has been Olkiluoto 3[1] or the recent bankruptcy of Westinghouse[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987046
Probably nobody; it's just that nobody cares about preventing them.
Its probably pretty common. Its unlikely that anyone at the clinic has any idea how the billing system works; the accounting department is just staffed with accountants and has no engineers. The doctors and nurses and receptionists know even less about it.

Fixing the problem might be even more trivial than mirroring the whole database, but there's no way for anyone at the clinic to know that.
German cars, Mercs especially, seem to have a desirability curve that bottoms out and then skyrockets later. Few people are going to hold a car that looks dated long enough for it to start looking awesome
Lol, Bill Gates will "voluntarily" contribute money to a project. That money isn't his, such enormous wealth can only be stolen from society. In any case, if congress wants to build something they can tax him, print money, or adjust various levers to change the expense. The pretentions and preening of the rich should be drowned in laughter.
> budget instability

California recently voted to shut down the last remaining nuclear power facility in California, Diablo Canyon: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-diablo-canyon-nuclear...

but I don't think it has anything to do with budgets and more to do with the public's perception of safety of fission and officials not wanting to have a meltdown event happen while they're in office.
The exact line is here:

https://github.com/boazsegev/facil.io/blob/master/lib/facil/...

I've seen other hacks to do this, but this is the cleanest that I've seen. He uses the same name for the macro and the function.

The only thing I would change is the way the struct is passed. I would pass by reference.

I really like this.
The ILX hasn't been on the market for 15+ years.

Integra (2001 was last US production year) and RSX are both inline-4 with relatively agressive compression ratios. Anecdotally, an owner who purchased new as a daily driver with no intent on abusing the vehicle is liable to start encountering appreciable maintenance costs at 120,000+ miles. More often than not, these vehicles find a 2nd (or 3rd+) life on the used market. 10% ethanol gas didn't make reliability any better either.
As I understand it, data scientists learn by the same methods as other types of humans.
I cant even remember the last time I was looking at a commit in git or any other source control system. I usually look at pull requests and what has changed.

Example files changed view in Github:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/4311...
Are you really surprised ? To me this seems exactly as intended and expected from facebook, this is fully in line with how facebook thinks and works. Everything facebook is designed to maximize profit in any possible way out of people not knowing better.

The scheme described in this article is akin to the multiple techniques used by facebook to acquire users, they used and abused the whole black book of dirty tricks, dark patterns and such.

Heck there's even one dark pattern named after the ceo and founder of facebook.
Online test supervision software is immoral
? In light of Ukraine there are way bigger concerns than distance from conflict zone to nearest Nuclear power station.
Ukraine voluntarily gave up one of the worlds largest nuclear arsenals in exchange for what now everyone can see worthless security promises from the remaining nuclear powers. This will be last time any country gives up Nuclear weapons and I bet it will result in way more countries getting into the game eventually.
Seems like an unfair comparison, given how much of a massive industrial powerhouse Germany is.
This is absolutely true, a sort of tragedy of the commons for the elite. We should institute a sort of 'enclosure' on the means of production, just to protect them from themselves.
Related -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892755
Less than 1% of German homes are using coal for heating.

https://www.deutsche-handwerks-zeitung.de/so-heizt-deutschla...
> and coal mining continues to this day.

Actually they just closed the very last mine - http://time.com/longform/germany-coal-mine/

>Coal was once the lifeblood of Germany’s economy, providing energy, jobs and a way of life for hundreds of thousands of people. But on Dec. 21, that era — which began during the industrial revolution and peaked in the 1950s — officially comes to an end, as the country’s last black coal mine is sealed up for good.
Taliban control half of Afghanistan as US forces withdraw
Coal [electricity] in the US is down to 60% of what it was ten years ago. Since the second half of 2015, the US has been generating more electricity with natural gas than with coal. The current difference between them is larger than the entirety of US solar production.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
I can’t help but wonder if a lot of the indignities that we tolerate (open-plan offices, unpaid overtime) aren’t worse because there are so many people in our industry unable to fight against them.
I am surprised there are no lexus cars. Those things last forever.
Reclaimed Ebony Clutch Pencil by Nicholas Hemingway
Completely unnecessary racist comment. Removing just that one word would have made it acceptable.
Exactly. And that contract will include a minimum number of seats in exchange for a "discount". So they don't have to worry about you hating it and downsizing.
Actually, it's a very good language (although arguably getting too featureful/complex for its own good these days) with fairly suboptimal tooling. NuGet is slow and a pain in the neck, MSBuild is a huge, slow, blundering XML-tastic beast of a thing, etc.

Migrating large projects to dot net core piece by piece is fraught with tooling bugs and issues (you pretty much need to migrate everything to SDK-style projects before you do anything else, for example, otherwise you get strange interactions between net461 and netstandard projects around auto-generated binding redirects). There's still DLL hell. Default "copy local" results in crazy n log n file copies in large solutions that totally kills build performance (you can tweak this to use hard links in an effort to improve things, but not within Visual Studio which is where I really want cycle times to be low, or do mad hacks with shared output folders, but that can give you nondeterministic builds).

So it's far from all roses - check out their bug trackers on github and there are a number of surprising issues. There are also a lot of missing things on Linux still (e.g. Out-of-the-box support for kerberos auth in ASP.NET core/WebAPI things on Linux). Quite a number of APIs pretend they are there in netstandard but throw at runtime on Linux machines, and yet other things are annoyingly half-hearted, like mapping some Linux syscall return codes to Windows HResults, but not all of them and not consistently across all APIs.

It's getting there, but the surrounding ecosystem has a lot of catching up to do compared to Java, IMO.

The language is nice, though. F# also.
Being Homeless in not a crime, why are so many jailed?
>It’s like saying let’s use sail boats in the era of supersonic travel.

the era of supersonic travel?

I mean, sure, supersonic flight is /technically possible/ but it is exceedingly rare that the sound barrier is broken by traveling civilians.

My understanding is that the problem mostly has to do with air resistance increasing with the cube of speed; this could be overcome by going higher, above the atmosphere, but nobody has figured out how to do that at subsonic flight costs, either.

I mean, it is kind of sad; one of those technologies that we created, but that then turned out to not be as practical as the older stuff for everyday use.
Can the united states procure enough gallium, cadmium, selenium, indium, and whatever else to build enough solar panels ?
Certainly, I get that; but I don't see why a similar effort couldn't be conducted from the outside in. Clearly it would work better to convince somebody effective within the administration to champion it, but my point was mainly that they're not inherently that resistant to it.
In a large company with a range of hiring needs (engineering, legal, sales, program management) HR recruiting has to come up with a one size fits all company sales pitch. In a small company you can override the job postings and even do the job postings yourself. In a large company, you follow process and pick your battles selectively otherwise you get exhausted tilting at windmills.
Because I view capitalism (or, strictly speaking, capital) as authoritarian (mandating human energy be expended to its ends, working in tandem with welfare states towards administered living), exploitative (the labour produced by wage labourers in aggregate is less than the aggregate profit created due to their labour) and allowing only an ever-shrinking space for genuine human expression (it degrades art by forcing it to be marketable and commodified).

I'm not alone in this; even pro-capitalists agree that a relationship can be exploitative even if both parties benefit in some way - they just disagree that capitalism is the cause of such a relationship which we can see the world over.

I think the argument for capitalism improving peoples' lives by measurable degree is a valid one, but it is only as valid as the argument that feudalism (for instance) improved the lives of those without any sustenance or access to land at all. I think we have the capability to do better than pursuit of profit.
Imagine if we could have a reactor running in a very remote area, accessible by robots. No people would work in the area, only remotely controlled robots would be present. People would come into work in a remote office and have high-bandwidth internet access to the cameras installed on the robots. All the installations would be created with "robot-first" interfaces.
Indeed, coal is even worse than nuclear. So let's have neither but renewables instead :). Compared to europe, the USA is a big country and it is also further in the south which means more sun for solar collectors.
Well it's a good thing you can freely move to North Korea where such atrocities are not possible.
A few days ago I was checking the former computer language shootout for another language and saw that C# is beating Java on all the benchmarks. This surprised me because I always had remembered Java being slightly ahead.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Can someone more knowledgeable give me some perspective on how representative these benchmarks are? At this point would it be wrong to say that in general the C# and .net environment is more performant than Java? If so, will there be any changes to Java to bridge any gap?
There's a `task {}` computation expression is the FSharpx.Extras library, which makes it much more pleasant to work with TPL libraries, and removes the performance issues associated with using Async.AwaitTask etc.
Svg-Loaders-react, a React Implementation of Sam Herberts SVG-Loaders
I was born in Soviet Ukraine. Under such a dictatorship, this is not just a bad neighbour but someone who is actively dangerous to your continued existence. Because even innocent transgressions against the state can carry fatal consequences "keeping quiet" is taught early and often and loyalty is highly valued from friends and family.

I think this is why I find myself more sensitive to these issues than some of my colleagues. Even if corporate surveillance is harmless under the current political climate, history doesn't stand still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Defensive programming is very effective in JavaScript. If the state is wrong, log, (core-dump) and restart. Trying to prove correctness statically is not a battle you can win in JavaScript. Instead enjoy getting things done. And let the bugs find themselves, using Murphy's law. For example:

if(x<1) throw new Error("This should never happen: x=" + x);

If it can happen it will happen. So instead of support getting a call that some customers balance is negative, with defensive programming you not only prevented the bad state from spreading, you can also see why it happened. And fix it asap. Meanwhile if you trusted the static analysis good luck and have fun debugging something after-the-fact that "couldn't" happen.
I note that the number of non-deportable detentions are well above deportable detentions.

So it certainly seems like the CPB check points are now primarily being used to spot check for crimes other than immigration. If so, it seems that the special rules in the border zone are already being widely used to extend search and seizure beyond what would be legal outside the border zone. Perhaps this is being justified as yet another semi-exception to the constitution in the name of the endless war on drugs.
> Utility scale renewables are less labor-intensive than coal or nuclear over the full life cycle

It's hard to marshal evidence for or against this claim, since as you say, the newest renewable technologies are in the earliest stages of their life cycles. It's also hard to defend or refute claims about the cost of renewables at scale, since they're currently such a small fraction of energy production. Are we looking at economies of scale / diminishing marginal costs? Or, how quickly will we exhaust the geothermal sites, the dam-able rivers, and the rare minerals that go into batteries and solar panels?

Projecting the answers to these questions requires a lot careful modeling, extrapolation, and educated guesses. Given the hopes, fears, and ideologies at play, it's very easy to lie with stats here (or for proponents of any given source, to bend the truth in one direction in the conversation about creating jobs, and in the opposite direction in the conversation about cutting costs). Based on your linked post, it looks like you're digging into this rigorously & honestly, so thanks for that.

> how much labor is required for fuel extraction

Plus transportation. Isn't this way cheaper for nuclear, where way less fuel (in terms of mass) produces way more power? And, isn't there a good deal of extraction that goes into creating a solar panel?
> In fact, the U.S. and other countries are barring the use of Chinese-built 5G equipment from Huawei and ZTE thanks to allegations...

This doesn't seem like it should be legal either but the article has no issue with it, rather touts it as being good. I'm sure if the US lost economically due to allegations it would be a different story altogether.
Ranger roll [video]
How Much Is Your Pet Worth? Economists Are Stumped
I would say that doctors (depending on the specialty), nurses and lawyers have much worse work-life balances than developers. And law degrees generally don't transfer well to countries with different laws and judicial systems from the one where you studied.
That doesn't seem like an argument against it? I mean, if fission is the best base load (and I'm not saying it is, I don't know) but it takes 20 years to get approval for a fission plant, seems to me like you do some modeling and planning and then you start building.
Wow! That's really interesting to know.

And baffling, honestly. I'd have thought there were scads of them anywhere you find old computer parts.

But I suppose it's also true that old PCs were discarded and trashed/recycled at very high rates, due to rapid obsolescence thanks to a couple decades of Moore's law and the fact that the were fairly ugly and finicky beasts in the first place... so I suppose it makes sense that even if Creative Labs sold a zillion of these back in the day, only a very small percentage survive.

(I tend to hold onto my electronic stuff for a long time, but even I was generally glad to ditch my outdated PC equipment ASAP back in those days.)
'Dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK
Indeed, it was learning Rust that led me to being interested in learning C#, and Span<T> is basically the equivalent of Rust's &[T] slices, which are super useful for avoiding copies. It's pretty cool that C# has things like these and stack-allocated structs, which let me carry over a lot of the performance optimizations I might use in Rust.
This is a thread and topic about America and immigration in America. To suddenly shift and say that you're somehow not talking about American culture seems rather incredibly disingenuous.

And that said, a culture does not deserve to live by virtue of existing. It's protectionism and xenophobia, founded purely because of fears that immigrants will somehow replace your culture with something you view as being lesser. This is a two-way street because I have seen people use it as an argument against letting in people that would destroy woman's rights or what now here in America...and I've heard it used in fears of immigrants fighting for minority rights or woman's rights in countries like Japan.

It's an argument born out of irrational fears and one I find not compelling at all.
For very sensitive freight (read NMR magnets) they already fix tiltmeters and accelerometers to the shipping crate, together with instructions to note excursions on the bill of lading when the item arrives. The superconducting wire in a modern magnet is exceedingly brittle. The various postal services do that, too, I remember seeing a documentary about the Royal Mail.
We Can't Just Assume That Facebook Will Do Its Best
IIRC the highly radioactive part of a nuclear power plant is already robot-only. It's pretty cool technology. But technology isn't the problem.
C# guy here. I played with F# a bit, and kind of fell in love with it really quickly - but I find the async syntax really confusing compared to C#.
"... in the US"
> I read this as: in case of need we can import nuclear power from France or coal generated electricity from Poland.

I live in North Germany and read it as this: we will build large grids across the North Sea to share offshore and onshore electricity and connect it via HVDC lines to Hydro storage in Norway and other upcoming forms of storage (like Power to gas systems...).
Just-In-Time Index Compilation
This is going on all of my homeworks (submitted electronically, of course)
I'm not sure about "scale" but Linux, as an open-source project where external actors want their code included, can push arbitrary amounts of work onto those actors with no additional cost to itself.

They can say "to get your code upstream you have to do twice as much work" or 3x or 4x or whatever. It's not their cost to bear.

An internal team pays that cost. They have to consider whether the trade off of having a pristine commit history is worth the additional overhead of doing it.

I personally care more about PR size and am happy to squash all commits in a PR. If that is too big I'd rather see multiple smaller PRs.
I wonder if the movement triggers car alarms to go off?
Wasn't the PCI version based on a different chip, and not fully compatible? I could be misremembering.
Not simply driving a 15 year old car, but keeping a car for 15 years or more. Quite different!

I see a lot of 15 year old cars driving around in the UK (age of car is easy to gauge here, as it's encoded in the number plate) - I expect most will have changed hands at least once.
I don't think anyone would enjoy going back to goroutines (threads) after async/await. Multithreaded code is actually much harder to write and deal with. Go is inappropriate example here.
The commenter above could have been saying the seats cost the same as Lamborghini seats, which is plausible, or that it costs the same to print a picture of a Lamborghini onto the packaging as it does to print a picture of an airplane seat, which is true. There are many plausible ways to interpret their statement as being correct, but I don't think they're saying any airline seats cost $200k.
Buildah specializes in building OCI images. Podman allows you to pull/run/modify containers created from OCI images. These are distinctly separate tasks, and it seems a lot more straightforward to me than having a daemon (always running, as root...) that handles both tasks.

Podman does allow you to build containers, but my suspicion is it’s intended for easier transitioning from docker (you can alias docker=podman and it just works). Also the build functionality is basically an alias for “buildah bud” so it’s more of a shortcut to another application than re-implementing the same functionality.

Edit: more reading on the intended uses of each tool if you feel like understanding them better
https://podman.io/blogs/2018/10/31/podman-buildah-relationsh...