skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really think Google Maps will die. It's just unlikely that for the rest of history, no one will improve OpenStreetMaps to the point that it is competitive.

From reading the analyses at https://www.justinobeirne.com/, plus just generally following the tech industry, I'm convinced Google Maps will never die, at least not in any timeframe relevant to this discussion.

Between autonomous vehicles at Waymo and Google's desire to provide intelligent suggestions to their Android and web users, they need to have as comprehensive a data set as algorithmically possible.

I suppose it's possible that OSM could become good enough that Google would only need to supply a proprietary layer on top of it for their own needs, but given that they can collect better intelligence about roads and buildings than anyone else through their unwitting spies, I doubt they'd want to give up control over the full stack.
Exit packages generally don't apply if you're fired for cause e.g. due to sexual harassment. They weren't properly fired, they were gently and silently "let out" - in some cases with negotiated settlements that added payouts which weren't in their original "exit package", possibly due to added non-competes and silence clauses.
So this scheme could be useful as a simple sort of video hashing, at least to meet basic hashing needs. I wouldn't use this as a password generator, though. Anyone can reconstruct the password using the same video, so you would have to protect the video.
What is wrong with accessing DB from golang?
Critical Steps in Product Development Process That You Miss
I mean, Rust uses the same locking mechanism to great success. I've never seen a breaking change from upgrading a Rust dependency that preserves semver (which is 99% of them)
Same thing really
Could be 4x if you use mini order of magnitudes, and if you include kids and adult body builders... there’s your 4x!
And this goes the other way, too. In the same vein as lighting, I was trying to find a simple, modern, LED vanity fixture.

You can get builder-grade and often-ugly crap from Home Depot (see also: Brands not being an indicator of quality), or spend hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on designer pieces.

I ended up finding one I really liked off a no-name website, with the product shipped from Hong Kong for like $80. Solid metal, reasonable-looking electronics, arrived in 2 weeks, good communication... very happy!
Trivia: Trends That Defined the Decade
Problem with that is that pre-agriculture you cannot sustain a large number of people, so it is very doubtful that the population could sustain themselves better than with agriculture.

Why would a super healthy pre-agricultural society move to agriculture if it was doing worse than before.
You're not in the US, so why did you bring up Google Fiber? Also if you're not in the US why are you talking about AT&T being forced to take away your ADSL?

Also the poster you replied to specifically said ADSL1 which has been superceded more than a decade ago by ADSL2, ADSL2+ and VDSL. These aren't fibre technologies and in most countries are sold at the same price.
In some cases, they've decided the digital backups are good enough and destroyed the irreplaceable originals. On purpose, not by accident.
Nauty and Traces – Graph Canonical Labelling and Automorphism Group Computation
If "pip install" tries to install a system-wide package, it will break so many things, the author will get many bug reports. Unless this is an abandoned project, this will get fixed. And "pip install" does not need root access in most cases.

If "| curl" does this, it is basically normal to do anything. And root access is required in a lot of cases.
This was a great read.

We went through something similar a couple of years ago, when TLS wasn't as pervasive as it is today and at first focused mostly on minimising the response size – we were already using 204 No Content, but just like the OP we had headers we didn't need to send. In the end we deployed a custom compiled nginx that responded with "204 B" instead of "204 No Content" to shave off a few more bytes. It turned out none of the clients we tested with cared about the string part of the status, just that there was a string part.

When TLS started to become more common we realised the same thing as the OP, that the certificates we had were unnecessarily large and costed us a lot, so we switched to another vendor. When ACM came we were initially excited for the convenience it offered, but took a quick look but decided it would be too expensive to use for that part of our product.
Readable format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205252714680045568.html
General learning is uncomputable, it's called Solomonoff induction. You don't need general learning, you need something at least as powerful as the mess in a human brain.
https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/dumping/
That truck has induced an inordinate amount of navel-gazing.
Because science aims to discover what is really going on under the hood. And that matters. By breaking the problem into vacuum and non vacuum you get a better understanding.
What was the "personal key" that's been deprecated? Was it TOTP, a secondary password, or what?
Kind of off topic but:

> Mark Pasnik is a founding principal of the Boston-based design firm OverUnder and a professor of architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

If you go to the OverUnder website, the proposal to “revamp” the existing Boston City Hall is just an admonition that brutalism sucks and is miserable to be around.

> The design creates vibrant counterpoints of light and liveliness to City Hall's monumental framework. It proposes a series of tactical modifications to the building's lowest and most public levels: clarifying way-finding; improving views, light, and sustainability; occupying abandoned spaces; and increasing the building's openness to the city.

> Daylight from the atrium would stream downward into what is presently a dark hall. Light globes, colorful wall panels, and illuminated information screens would create an animated atmosphere.

So, adding in all the things brutalism is not. Guys. Just tear the thing down. No amount of aesthetic improvements will make people like that place.

http://overunder.co/work/architectural/Boston-City-Hall
The spectrum for old networks gets "refarmed" onto the newer networks and this usually happens incrementally before the shutdown.
Which, to be fair, is close to how it works inside Apple's walled garden. Logging into iCloud on a new computer will cause the iPhone attached to that account to pop-up a "confirm login" dialog, so the second factor for login is as unobtrusive as possible.
Hello, author here - I’m using React as example because I know it better, but many things I talk about in the article also apply to Vue. Perhaps should have named it “why Svelte won’t kill vDOM”.
SRTM is pretty bad, but good enough until height data is easier to work with.
Of course you can. Put your auth behind a sane CDN with TTL of forever, the kind that allows tagging an arbitrary number of objects with a single tag and allow to purge objects matching a tag in a single call within a few milliseconds.

Tag them with sec-uid, sec-uid-dev-id, sec-devclass, sec-we-dont-like-user etc to group them together.

Want to kill sessions of just user uid? Hit a purge endpoint that purges all objects with sec-uid. Want to kill a session for a specific user for a specific device? Hit the purge endpoint that purges all objects with a tag sec-uid-sec-devid. Want to logout all users on an iPhone because "oops, security bug in a version we rolled out"? Hit an endpoint that purges all the docs tagged with sec-devclass of an iphone.

You don't even need to remember tokens you issued.
Assuming now that we are past the point of no return and the world has gone mad voting in people who will do the opposite of what is necessary, what is left to do?

Do we all simply wait for the inevitable like frogs in a slowly boiling pot? I guess I could practice survival skills but I'd rather die than live in what I expect will be absolute hell come 20 - 30 years.
It is being gradually addressed. Battery technology, biofuels, renewables, electric vehicles, etc. have greatly advanced over the past decade and are continuing to improve. Also when the climate effects become more observable by an average person, the public interest in those areas will rise and we will likely see faster progress.
Like what? I had a link to an open source library from a while back but I lost it and have been looking for something like it.
"As a person with personal interest in visual arts"

With all due respects, isn't this an entirely meaningless saying? Everyone has an interest in aesthetics and visual appeal, and has a subjective opinion on what they find appealing. We are a social species so invariably people infect each other's opinion so we have trends and movements towards/from opinions, but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this.

As to the CyberTrck it's worth noting that its design seems a restriction of material limitations rather than an intentional pursuit. As with the Delorean before, they started with the conclusion that they would use stainless steel and virtually every design decision was bound by that beginning.
That's one hell of an inefficient antenna. At a ~1MHz center frequency it's basically just a dummy load (resistor) that happens to radiate a little. 300 Watts at those frequencies on a long run of speaker wire with a matching transformer/unun at one end could get you 100s of miles during the day and 1000s of miles at night.
Your comment is needlessly hostile, FWIW. If you disagree with what they're saying, write a substantive response, even if only a couple of sentences.
Ah, pretty clever. The REDHANDED phrase seems much more likely to convince a jury
I don't know how to describe it, sorry. Like as if they are all printed on recycling paper, perhaps? They have a touch of grayness? Or perhaps it is "all pastels", as the other comment said? Sorry I am not artist enough to be able to describe it.
Kind of reminds me of this copypasta that has become a meme in the emo music scene:

"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
thank you for the link. I couldn’t understand it as explained by Ars. I found open reviews are better.
Actually, they are not. There are some really cheap ones in the series but the ones around 300-400 have been praised by most reviewers.

(I don't work Samsung, don't even have a Samsung myself).
The silly thing about all of this is when you are buying physical products, they actually exist somewhere.

You can (or at least should be able to) go to a store look at the product, try it on, look at the quality first hand and then buy them.

But we've accepted that it's better to save 25% or 50% so that we can avoid the inconvenience of actual shopping.

Furthermore, there are brands that make good stuff and have good customer service, stick to those brands until they prove to be untrustworthy.

Don't reward Amazon just for building a nice website.
After seeing this article I was able to add Google Authenticator as an authentication scheme for login.gov Perhaps the author of this article somehow mis-interpreted the interaction with login.gov.

Of course there are far too many organizations which use text messages for authentication, as the article points out.
So while I don't really participate in cryptocurrencies anymore I have a basic knowledge of how it all works and have read up on ETH contracts. Couldn't someone create a contract on the ETH network (my terminology might be off) that allows you send a message to contract with a name (maybe more PII), a date, and some amount of ETH to create the system Jim Bell hypothesized?

Obviously a big issue would be "death confirmation" as is how do we know X person is actually dead so we can pay out to the "winner"? I imagine it could be done through some kind of majority system but what incentive would other "donators"/"would be killers" have to confirm a death has happened if they aren't the beneficiary? I'm sure someone clever could think of some way to do it...
> We would expect to see even lower rates of women in STEM. The data shows an inverse relationship between women gaining more rights and resources and women's representation in STEM

That's just disingenuous, we literally don't have that data to make any claims on it. You're the one which said you'd expect women participation rates to be randomised, as in some countries to have more women in STEM than men. I simply counterpointed with the fact that societies aren't randomised, they are all patriarchal on some level, that's why you never see more women in tech in any country.

> In fact, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic see the same or lower rates of women in technology than in the United States.

Oh, so your correlation that stricter gender roles and women getting into STEM is not true? Did you just prove yourself wrong?!

Also, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia have higher participation rates than the US...

It's almost like your alleged correlation is BS and random, even within similar countries and cultures.

> The "problem" is that men and women have difference interests, and this difference is largely universal across different societies.

You're literally reading an article claiming the opposite (with sources) mate. Did you read it?!

> But this influence only shifts the representation of women in tech by 10-15%.

That's like gigantic. It's almost parity in the workplace. How can you dismiss it?!

The small difference is explained by the difference in labour participation rates.

We already talked about this but it's like you didn't read my comment.
Iirc at least they claim copyright - whether it would actually be valid I don't know.
I honestly don't know what you're saying here. Please explain.
Regenstein Library at U of Chicago too
Sorry, but I just can't get on board with this point of view.

Shopping has always sucked. Badly. Going to the shops has to be one of the single most annoying and unpleasant day to day experiences I deal with[1].

If you live anywhere even remotely populous when you visit the shops there are people milling around just ####ing everywhere. Dithering, dawdling, standing around chatting at every choke point in the aisles, demonstrating a spectacular lack of spatial awareness - but, honestly, who can blame them when the entire environment is so overstimulating and overcrowded?

And after all this there's a damn good chance you're not going to find what you want anyway.

I dare anyone to visit a department store in a city for half an hour on a Saturday and come out afterwards without having entertained a single murderous thought.

But nowadays I can do a bit of research online, which might be quick or might take a while depending on what I want, find exactly what I want, find somewhere that sells it (generally not Amazon because I just don't trust them that much these days), and either order it for delivery, or click and collect (very handy at places like Screwfix, Toolstation, and B&Q).

It's just way less stressful and way more pleasant. I mean, still not necessarily the most fun thing in the world, but it makes shopping suck a lot less.

[1] There are clearly far worse problems to have, and this may be a #firstworldproblem, but in terms of the normal humdrum routine of daily life, visiting the shops often really sucks.
That "smart"ness you describe is almost definitely what the algorithm's doing. And this is all well and good, until you take into consideration the fact that these systems tend to amplify existing biases.

If it spots a correlation, it'll amplify the correlation, regardless of whether it's actually meaningful. There are probably some originally spurious correlations that Facebook has amplified into existence, given how big and all-encompassing it is. It's the same problems that lead to racist AI judges.
I honestly stopped reading when I read "brutalism experts"
Except all the first brutalist buildings were single family homes lol.
How?

They appear to have an ID verification program Bitcoin exchanges are using (https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/business/postal-services/di...) but I'm unable to Google up how you'd buy BTC there.
If people didn't see vehicles as a net positive compared to the alternative they wouldn't own them.
> though revocation is still hard

My understanding was that they're supposed to only last on the order of 5-10 minutes, with a fresh one created for the next set of requests instead of reusing one JWT for days. Is revocation still an issue with the expiry so short?
You imagined wrong :)

Before using GCP I thought highly of them. Not I actually understand why they are number 3 or 4, well deserved.
Being overwhelmed with choice is known as analysis paralysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

https://xkcd.com/1801/
Benchmarking Mozilla's Firefox Performance over the Past Two Years
Jesus that was crazy to read...this guy is doing god’s work “There is just one reason that a local police department in Minnesota was aware that someone had paid an obscure site on the dark web to have one of its teenage residents killed, and that reason is Chris Monteiro. Monteiro, a systems administrator who runs I.T. security for a midsize firm in London, spends his nights as a white-hat hacker and independent cybercrime researcher, navigating the shadowy spaces of the dark web. Murder marketplaces have in recent years become both his signature area of expertise and his exhausting burden”

Imagine you can pay in bitcoin where AI drone and carry out the hit...all anonymous
Yes, this.

In general, more choices don't make you happier -- in fact they usually have the opposite effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum
“Brut” (fr) and “Brute” (en) share the same Latin-via-Old-French etymology though, they’re related concepts demoting being untamed and simple (compare: “raw strength” vs “brute strength”)

Furthermore, “brutal” is also a word in French, meaning the same thing as it does in English.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that the Frenchmen who coined the phrase intended it to refer both to the rawness or the concrete and the brutality of the design, they can’t have been unaware of the associations.
>Instead of training on the entire 100 million outcomes—product purchases, in this example—Mach divides them into three "buckets," each containing 33.3 million randomly selected outcomes.

So, uh, they're doing what random forests were doing for decades? What is the key difference?
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Small discussions of las week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719760 (33 points, 7 days ago, 5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21714015 (7 points, 8 days, 1 comment)

In particular, he invented Autocode for the Mark 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode, (perhaps) the first high level programming language.
Intuitive Overview of Linear Algebra Fundamentals [pdf]
The rebirth of Community Access TV(CATV). Some enterprising community member would set up an expensive and complicated antenna and split it out to all his neighbors. Those eventually become cable companies.

How cyclic...
I suspect reviews have been gamed for some time. Now it seems like all reviews are always gamed. I even have a conspiracy theory that Amazon is gaming Costco products. A number of their household products have had sub-3 star reviews; seems suspicious. I still feel somewhat confident in products with over 1k reviews. The same goes for reading a few reviews and "trusting" the helpful ones to some extent.
You mentioned it, but: costco.com. The restricted set of choices is very freeing!
I love the Intel RealSense stuff, you get very cutting edge sensor silicon at consumer gear prices with open-source software to go along with it.

The only real problem is that I have no clue why Intel is in this business, and I suspect they won't be for much longer.
Somehow this reminds me of a problem my father (who is a doctor) has often complained about. Basically IT shitheads enforcing their policies on ALL computers in the hospital, including those used in operating rooms.

So that means things like a screen (displaying important information) locking from X minutes of inactivity, on a computer that the surgical team is physically unable to "bump" periodically or type a password on, due to them being scrubbed and sterile.

It reaches a point where you basically have to tell these people "Someone could DIE if you don't change the fucking policy for our use case" to get things to change.
Creating a software that learns the real world indeed seems like a really hard problem without a body.

I was referring to why a software that parse the semantics of Wikipedia articles and make them queryable through natural language questions, is something that humanity isn't able to do?
Windows Defender Antivirus 4.18.1908.7-0 File Extension Spoofing
Even if your tokens are stateful, they should be signed.
Oh my. I once tried buying a kettle on Amazon but the reviews convinced me that any purchase would be bad. In the end I deliberately went to my local supermarket and bought one from there simply because I couldn't see the reviews.
Try coming to California...
That'a well-worth read to everyone that enjoy reading about QA finding bugs, even if not interested in games
Finding quest-related bugs is a nightmare in open-ended games...
No not being sarcastic...projects you mentioned alone were world changing when they came out.
This is true. I've been in this type of situation before but I always attributed to luck rather then a political strategy.

I'm thinking a combination of bluntness and deception is the best middle ground.
I don’t think that’s because of any exodus from Britain: I’ve seen such developments happening in various regions in Germany (where I live) and also renovation of houses that had not been touched in the decade prior.

I can’t tell whether it’s the main factor, but a big contributor at least is the lack of returns on other investments. There are big amounts of savings in Germany, and they have been diverted more and more towards real state in the last, say, five years.
> what is left to do?

what people always do when they are dissatisfied with the government. organise with like minded people and rebel.
2010s in Review: Which Metros Changed the Most?