skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends. It is not as easy as it used to be (i.e.: i haven't heard of people bribing police officers directly). However, what people working with / in the police told me is that once they send perpetrators to court, then they start "influencing" either prosecutors, judges, or someone within the chain.

From what I was told this is how it works:

Prosecutors are bribed to make intentional mistakes so that a judge will dismiss a case (called in Romanian "viciu de procedura", roughly translated to "procedural defect").

Judges themselves are bribed usually in high profile cases, and because of the many legal loopholes it is difficult to prove they are corrupt. Laws can often be interpreted two ways, and it's not uncommon that two lower courts give radically different sentences compared to higher courts.

I heard of cases where doctors are bribed so that a sudden serious health issue is discovered so the perpetrator doesn't get to serve time. Specifically related to traffic offences a high profile political figure recently killed two people, and although the guy was initially able to walk on his own, two days later, the individual was shown on a hospital bed unable to move. The media suspects both doctors and the judge will be influenced, because in Romania by law a judge has to establish what is the percentage of fault each party has. The guy was on the phone when he killed a car driving opposite lane, but since he has been injured "seriously" then the victim is also being blamed for ...injuring the perpetrator. Since he was hospitalized it's easier for a judge to say the victim had X% of fault and thus give a more lenient sentence.

Someone I know working for the economic police told me that they are told exactly whom not to verify, because they are known to do tax avoidance, but they "create jobs" (everything has an excuse) so they are to be left alone.

Basically, there are so many wholes in the system that one doesn't need to bribe the foot soldier, they can just bribe on part of the system and they will get away with it. Applies to traffic offences, financial crime and everything else.

Don't get me started to the amount of fraud that happens with EU funding in Romania as that's also ripe with creative ways to rig the system.

What I find very strange is that people really don't like talking about such issues, saying one should not bad mouth their own country, or when the EU raises such issues they raise the "non interference in internal affairs card". If the foreign media raises it then it's racism. There is a small number of people still opposing this, but recently the police has without shame started beating or harassing them. I see no change in sight because the culture itself is predominantly in favor of letting things work as they do.
Causing discomfort in a respectful way is one thing. Causing discomfort by encouraging employees to call someone racist and homophobic names is a very different thing.

But again, the main point isn't the diversity exercise. It's the way his complaint about the exercise was handled.
They expose an API, you can write against it in Swift with the right libraries. No reason why you can't write against the same API in Linux using your language of choice.

Apple only provides bindings for Swift/JS/Obj-C though, so it'd be a bit of work.
Results of Sam Altman’s 2015 “Bubble Talk” Bet
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You might be interested in this Cleveland-area list of tech companies and resources.

https://github.com/mrfright/cleveland-tech/
It appears that: Tesla bought this all-in-one ARM board from Parrot, and Parrot gave them a 2.6.36 kernel with thousands of custom patches in, and Tesla's not in much of a position to port it to a newer kernel, and then Parrot presumably went on to building other stuff and ignored keeping this kernel up to date and now we're here.

They (probably Parrot) might have updated it in the last year since the vulnerability was discovered though, it's hard to tell.
I fixed the captions, thank you.

My biggest surprise was that compound requests are still faster, even if they need to send 10 times as much data (the 90% cached case).
What, precisely, is stopping them from voluntarily paying more? Why the compulsion to use the system to force others to do as they believe they should do, yet (as far as I can tell) do not actually do?
As I understand it, Australia is supposed to be on fire - it's ecology is adapted for it.

What is un-natural is the fire suppression of the last 100 years.
Why is spectroanalysis your "go to" method? It's expensive and requires a fair bit of interpretation. Why not just paper test strips? With something of that nature they could theoretically smear the most notorious food at the restaurant against the paper and check for results.
Two new cannabinoids identified
If you want to pay extra taxes, just do it and stop complaining about how others are living their life.
I don't think it's about expression in and of itself. Most tech activists agree that some viewpoints are hurtful or toxic and shouldn't be expressed.
Here's a little experiment I made with an ESP8266 to passively search for WiFi AP's (not stations, so not helpful here):

https://github.com/tonyb486/ESP8266-WiFiHunter
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
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The challenge being levied here is against vacuous self-inflationary language that applies to nearly any person at any point in time.
overall it's more complex thanks to the decentralisation.
The members of the GraphBLAS forum have discussed this chip a couple of times. There's a lot of research on making deep neural networks more sparse, not just by pruning a dense matrix, but by starting with a sparse matrix structure de novo. Lincoln Laboratory's Dr. Jeremy Kepner has a good paper on Radix-Net mixed radix topologies that achieve good learning ability but with far fewer neurons and memory requirements. Cited in the paper was a network constructed with these techniques that simulated the size and sparsity of the human brain:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00416.pdf

It would be cool to see the GraphBLAS API ported to this chip, which from what I can tell comes with sparse matrix processing units. As networks become bigger, deeper, but sparser, a chip like this will have some demonstrable advantages over dense numeric processors like GPUs.
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Magnetic field falls off with inverse cube of distance once you're past the approximate size of the magnet. Not to mention that the drive itself is in a ferrous enclosure that provides a lot of shielding... the magnetic field you applied at 6 inches is approximately nothing.
I think it's a little more complicated than running more cables. Most datacenters have a total capacity they can handle, based on how many connections they have to their local grid (or grids, as datacenter places like Santa Clara have multiple power grids to give datacenter redundancy). You need to make sure your internal power distribution systems can actually handle the amount you want to push through, and you need to ensure that your backup power is actually enough to get you through major outages.

AWS, as an example, tends to only have 20MW to 30MW for each of their datacenters- anything above that they say isn't worth the hassle when they can just open a new datacenter. Power is definitely a limiting factor.
> Why the compulsion to use the system to force

Agree so much. Consent is the operational term here. If you _consent_ to giving your money to the government it's fine. I however _object_ to have 33% of my paycheck forcefully removed from my possession. This is in fact, theft.
Yea, how can we talk about privacy of a service that I need to register with a phone number (and in my country to register a phone number is obligatory to give your ID and signature, you can't activate a SIM card anonymously)

Centralized services should be avoided for a multitude of reason, the primary one is being dependent on some company that offers you the service and can and probably will shut down one day, with the result of loosing all the things you had on that service.

Look at the past, how many centralized services closed down and we lost all our data? Instead decentralized services are still up and running: email, usenet, IRC, even if unfortunately a bit forgotten these day (with the exception of email, even if most of people uses GMail anyway so it's in fact centralized...)
Perhaps it provides a boost in the initial development. But the applications that I've seen and used that use frameworks almost always provide an inferior user experience when compared to those that don't.
Why If You Can Get to $10m ARR, You Can Get to $300m ARR
This is the "strikes are illegal therefore strikers are wrong" argument.
Thanks for this breakdown. Any thoughts on how this process might unfold for psilocybin as opposed to a drug that's subject to a chemical patent? Funding, timing, etc.
Out of curiosity, what's the work life balance like for your team?
This is deontological ethics, or Kant's categorical imperative. Just in case anyone wants to follow up on this.
This is one of the convincing arguments for a Space Force, that the amount of assets related to space operations is so huge that inter-service or individual service mgmt is costing us even more.

The problem is that a SF will eventually begin defining their own missions and we will have situations like between the Army and USAF over CAS.
Why not? The company has a marketing and/or public relations department, it’s their job to control the messages that the company sends out. If you want to speak on behalf of the company, then join that department and learn how to do it properly.
> in the first test, h1 compound is just as fast as h2

That's because HTTP/2 auto-compounds multiple requests to send in the same connection, thus there is no surprise there.

The main advantage of HTTP/2 is that it ensures that we can get the same benefit of compound data transfers in a completely transparent manner, without bothering to rearchitect how clients and servers operate.

> Considering all the additional complexity that HTTP/2 introduces, that doesn't seem like any improvement.

This assertion completely misses the whole point of HTTP/2, and why it's a huge improvement over HTTP/1.1.
Non-paywall link:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202001026663/poli...
Internet points, really. A more accurate elevation read gives you a more accurate ability to boast about how brutal your hike was :)
Yes, that's what their web site says.
Shanghai replaces New Year's Eve fireworks with thousands of drones
Is this just a way of spinning that out of 1400 people targeted by this spyware, ONE was an actual suspected terrorist?

Edited to show that the person was only suspected of terrorism.
Well technically it's priority not right of way. My guess is that the concept was only codified with the introduction of traffic laws, which in most places didn't happen before the 20th century. Until then, "priority" in land probably came down to common sense: size, conventions, and social status.
Sure! I got fed up with all that multithreading Vietnam and cut my web teeth with Rails in '05 and as such my focus has been on the business side of the applications you can build on top of a lot of software pieces that may or may not be async/MT or whatever.

For example we ran a lot of Rails code on top of FastCGI with lighttpd but as far as I can remember the Rails code we wrote wasnt affected by the fact that FastCGI was async.
Well I can't read the entire article but here's a question: if 1400 people were notified, is that likely to indicate the approximate number of accounts targeted by NSO Group as part of this (or other) investigations?
Hard to be surprised. Seems only natural for a company that large.

Though I agree as far as tech brand goes Google seems to have gone down much faster than other big tech cos go.
He told cops he was stabbed for being a Jew, his Apple Watch caught him in a lie
Sweden's celebrated schools system fell into crisis (2015)
I'll never understand zoning laws. 9/10 it's just NIMBY complaining that your house is better or worse than theirs.
> How do I modify the code of that which I don’t have access to?

Native code reverse engineering is very time consuming. It’s often possible to achieve similar results by focusing on the code which you have access to. You don’t have source code of Windows OS components, but you do have their APIs and debug symbols, and that’s much better than just binaries.

If you want to change what’s rendered, you can replace the GPU API with a wrapped version, like renderdoc does. If you want to change what’s loaded from disk, patch game files, or replace whatever OS file I/O APIs is used by the game (DLL injection, then MinHook or Detours).

Even when you do need to change game’s own native code, directly patching machine code is rarely a good idea, very hard to implement and especially debug. An easier way is replacing complete functions with API-compatible replacements implemented in your DLL library in C++. Again, use MinHook or Detours to replace the implementation. C++ allows unrestricted memory access so you can read and write everywhere, here’s working examples: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/avs_dx/Dx... https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/avs_dx/Dx... I didn’t have source code of these C++ classes, but wanted their data regardless. Found the offsets by using VS debugger, these third-party DLLs include GUI to change the values, I compared memory before/after making changes.

> What reverse engineer projects are good for beginners?

In the context of modern Windows games, assuming you wanna change what’s rendered, a good start might be https://renderdoc.org/. Officially, the tool is only supported when you run your own code. Technically, it often works with retail games too, just don’t open issues about that, they’ll be closed as a not supported use case. As a nice side effect, you’ll learn a thing of 2 about Direct3D. The tool is open source with good license (MIT), so you can fork, disable their frame captures, and change their API wrappers to modify the output of some particular game.

One more thing, modern games use a lot of bytecodes. E.g. D3D shaders are byte code, search “3dmigoto decompiler” to decompile dxbc into HLSL. .NET is often byte code (Unity3D is based on .NET), use reflector to decompile into C#. Many games use custom VMs, sometimes modding community has decompilers for their custom byte code.

> I’d love to pick up an older gadget and try to reverse engineer it

What do you mean by “gadget”?
This is why I thought what Colovore did was pretty smart- they built liquid cooling into all of their racks. They are literally the densest datacenter I've found that actually allows people to colo with them (I'm sure there's plenty of companies who own their own datacenters that might be denser), but even with their systems you'd only be able to fit two of the Cerebras systems in a single rack (and you wouldn't be able to power both up 100% at the same time).

https://www.colovore.com/data-center/
Hopefully that always happens.

Are you saying that these pigs are not used for food?
"This is not what the story said when we started the sprint. Could you please make this change new story for the next sprint?"
We just had an article on HN yesterday saying there were no cheap RISC-V board available... and here we are!
Internally, represent the articles as IDs. This will eliminate duplicate posts, though not necessarily duplicate articles linked in posts. You can periodically fetch and cache the title pretty easily, since the ID is most of the (interesting characters in the) URL for the page.
Damn, I got lazy on my reply & just hoped nobody went further, but well played on digging deeper.

5. Kafka is silly expensive

Pulsar supports message ack with subscription groups. The worst case with Pulsar is you're storing the entire retention period.

Let's say you have a 4 day retention window, to cover an outage happening on Friday and not having to deal with it until Monday. This is pretty typical with what I see in the Kafka world for small-mid size companies who don't want to pay the 1.5x OT on call.

So, with Pulsar you're at worst storing the 4 days of data but at best you're only storing the messages within the lag period of all consumer groups acknowledging the message.

Now, without getting too deep into Pulsar's feature set even that is a lie because Pulsar has tiered storage as a first class citizen. The messages after the four days could be ship off to S3 if we wanted or even within 1 day depending on our use case and this is all built into Pulsar, no OpEx tooling required. Even access the messages from S3 through Pulsar is abstracted, there's no tooling required to pull them back in if you wanted.

Now with Kakfa our worst case is simply 4 days of retention data. This can get very expensive as compute & storage are tied together, it means scaling up all the brokers (even though we don't need the throughput) for the storage increase. Now, yes MSK basically abstracts all this from you but you're paying for it.

6. AWS Managed Service are not equal citizens to EC2 standalone

Managed services right now don't fall under the new Saving Plan: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-savings-plans-for-aws-c...

This will cost you 30-60% discount on your entire Kafka bill.

7. Excel Life

If I look at the numbers for what I'm doing it would have costed ~$4M for Kafka vs ~$1M for Pulsar.
> I've always been on the skeptical side of medical marijuana usage in all but the most extreme cases

Really? A friend of mine had a similar experience to what @ergothus described in their comments. The friend had a biking accident and got stitches. To ease the pain the doctor prescribed Aadvil / Tylenol, but those drugs just caused diarrhea. So he tried edible marijuana[in a legal state] and it helped him a lot through a few weeks of painful recovery without any side effects.

I find miracle claims suspect as well, I don't think marijuana cures cancer.
Specifically, US companies are required to follow laws that uphold (The US government's interpretation of) human rights.
It is like the tragedy of the commons. Even if AWS decided they will not serve oil companies, those companies will simply take their business elsewhere, e.g to Microsoft, or even worse, to Oracle. This will simply have the effect of hurting the company caring about the climate, and benefitting the ones who don't give a damn. Shared resources like the environment can't be protected by the good will of anyone company. They need to be protected by the letter of the law.
Now that mainstream club drugs such as MDMA, Ketamine, and LSD/Magic Mushrooms are finding their way into therapeutic usage. I'm wondering if and how governments will change the
current narrative about "all drugs are bad for you".

Edit: I'm not advocating recreational drug usage. Just saying, that if mum is on magic mushrooms and studies like these have established safety dosage and clear therapeutic benefits. You can't really tell your teenager that they are going to go crazy if they try some.
> but is this "gambling"? I don't think so.

Of course it is, because you can't predict the future. You could have just as easily lost money investing in individual stocks, even ones that seemed like no-brainers at the time. Why do you think you're better than most other investors at making those investment choices?
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Hit by a car at 3pm, i.e. broad daylight. "Deputies ticketed Weaver for not being as far off the road as possible. The driver who hit him was not charged."
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I think philosophical conjectures are ultimately useless. You can talk about abstract concepts all you want but you don't get anywhere unless you have rigor or formalism. This is why philosophy can do things like talk about logic and ethics and science and religion.

The post is ultimately a trap. I introduce a bit of a simplistic but semi-mind-bending concept but then when you get to the end you realize my true thoughts about philosophy. It's for all the philosophers out there who always tell me that even though I don't know it I'm actually talking about philosophy. Well it's kind of hard not to talk about it given the fact that the word is defined to encompass everything.

I think your post hits the nail on the head. If you want to learn about these concepts formal math is the way to go. The layman description I wrote is really not that deep though, it's all pedantic.
> HTTP/1.1 is constantly ahead when I run it on mobile connected to my Home WiFi.

In the test I've ran right now, HTTP/1.1 took around 3x the time it took HTTP/2 to finish, even after refreshes.
>I don’t understand is how they managed to either sit through or filter out this kind of chatter

Short videos with specific titles, high like/dislike ratios that don't start with ultra fake enthusiasm. The back button is your friend for this ;)
Ideally I'd like to start with nothing, a la Survivorman http://www.lesstroud.ca/survivorman/ and Primitive Technology https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/vid...

That being a bit too long a jump for most people involved in my attempt, I want a progressive one-step-down on everything we use. Home > camper > tent > hammock > foliage > open ground. Stove > grill > campfire > fire drill. Canned food > MRE > dry goods > foraging > hunt/trap. Cheap gear > ultralight gear > iron/leather/wool gear > make your own out there.

The "cell phone bad" issue comes from a new generation fixated on a magic glass slate which mysteriously supplies nearly all their needs, able to conjure up food/shelter/transport/society with just a few taps on some runes - and the users have no idea how it works, nor what they would do without it. Even if they do indeed spend most of their lives relying on it, they must have enough competence & competence to be dropped anywhere in the country, with nothing, and confidently find their way back to safety & society. Too many can't even get home from school/work without a GPS & mapping app.

FWIW: I grew up on wood heat (northern US), raised half our own food, did own car repairs, sewed, had wood/metal/electronic/photo shops, etc. Modern luxuries are, well, luxurious but I aspire to a remote log cabin on a mountain lake with a Starlink connection.
How the Jurassic Park movies haven't kept up with the times according to experts
Oh wow. I was briefly confused by the other comments not being about recipes because of this thread.
Yep.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
Hey thanks! Yeah I've been looking at free sound assets for a moment, I will add it to the incoming changelog, I had missed that one. Since I was developing this game to play with my colleagues I really didn't needed much sound, but will do that soon.