skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange Days film explores some interesting stuff like this.

> brain inside body

But why is your experience tied to one brain and not another.
OPNsense and HardenedBSD are parting ways
How to Use Your Phone So That It Doesn't Use You
I do think it's fair to characterize someone as a "hero" if they take great or sacrifice in ways that benefit others, even if the person doesn't have complete liberty and agency at the moment that they do it. There are always forces and restrictions that affect our choices.
> But I don't want them shifting into digital snooping that is totally unrelated to mail.

I mean, the primary method for delivery of goods purchased on the Silk Road was through the USPS. And I imagine the tor sites that replaced the Silk Road have similar delivery needs.

So if the USPS isn’t going to “digitally snoop” for the illegal delivery of handguns and heroin, who will?
Or maybe a broken thermostat heater. Apparently this is a separate component sometimes.

What on earth is thermostat heater, you ask? Surprisingly, many dryers apparently have a simple fixed-temperature thermostat, and in order to make lower settings work, a heating element tricks that thermostat into perceiving a higher temperature.

If that heating element doesn't do its job, then the dryer acts like it's always on the highest setting.

From https://applianceassistant.com/Dryer-Repair/How-Electric-Dry... :

> The thermostat heater is often located within the cycling thermostat. However, it may sometimes be a separate component mounted to the dryer's cycling thermostat. Depending on the dryer's temperature setting, more or less voltage is supplied to this heater. Low settings supply more voltage and create more heat, while medium settings supply slightly less voltage, generating less heat. High heat settings will not energize the thermostat heater at all. In this way the thermostat is tricked into thinking that the dryer is hotter than it actually is, so it opens at a lower drum temperature.
The difference is that when an animal suffers, they retain memories. One only need to consider something like this story I heard about a dog on Reddit, who was scared of obese people and men. Turns out, the dog was severely abused by a 500-lb man who was its former owner.
Pretty sure the behavior of echo is standardized on all machines that have notify-send installed.
I agree but I'm also a bit conflicted. A video games first purpose is to be a commercial product, where as art is something created for the sake of expression.
I don't write software at fang scale and I've been bitten by GC pauses in other languages. Even when it doesn't cause issues, you can see it in the response times charts.

Not having to worry about that is very nice.
Using less memory, I agree it's not terribly important but it is a nice bonus - which comes in handy when working on embedded, videogames or in constrained conditions (like when you can put a lower limit to your containers and run more containers on the same machine).
What a harrowing, intense read about an incredibly strong person.
Not true at all, any gathering of people is a prime target for shipping contraband in the mail. Not to mention how the protests could affect mail service in the area.
> Spending money without automated fraud checking, dispute resolution and the ability to do chargeback sounds like a great idea until you think for more than 2 seconds about why those things exist.

Sure, those things exist, and cash also exists, and in physical real-life transactions you get to decide for yourself which one you want to use. With online transactions and without crypto, for the most part you currently don't have a choice, and that's not good.

Example: if I'm storing important archive data in AWS Glacier that has to be retained for years and I have to pay monthly, I'd be much more worried about data loss due to something going wrong with one of the monthly automatic card payments than with AWS defrauding me or with Glacier itself failing. So I'd rather pay with crypto (or ideally, pay years in advance up front and not worry about monthly payments at all), than leave it up to the whims and vagaries of some damn card company's flaky software.

Yes stuff like that has happened to me more than once in real life (not with amazon but with some other hosting providers).
There's lots of confusion about what semgrep does here, which is kind of unfortunate. I haven't touched it much, but I have built a very similar tool (I'm one of the contributors to refex[1], which is a very similar project).

The starting point of semantic grep is very useful. When you have a big codebase, you often want to detect antipatterns, or not even antipatterns, but just uses of a thing, say you're renaming a method and want to track down the callers.

Being able to act on the AST, instead of hoping you searched up all of the variants of whitespace and line breaks and, depending on the specific example, different uses of argument passing, is really useful.

But often when you're semantically grepping, your goal is to replace something with something else (this is what refex was initially built for: to aide in large scale changes in python, as a sort of equivalent to the C++ tools that Google uses).

But then you want to shift left even further: once you have a pattern that you want to replace once, you can just enforce that a linter yell at you when anyone does it again. So it's very natural to develop a linter-style thing on top of one of these[2].

This is, as I understand it sort of the same thing that happens in C++: clang-tidy and clang-format are written on top of AST libraries that can be used for ad-hoc analysis and transformations, but you can also just plug them into a linter.

The thing is, for most organizations, enforcing code style and best practices is more valuable than apply a refactoring to 10M lines of code, because most organizations don't have 10M lines of code to refactor. That doesn't mean that these tools aren't also useful for ad-hoc transforms and exploratory analysis. They absolutely are!

[1]: https://github.com/ssbr/refex

[2]: https://github.com/ssbr/refex/tree/main/refex/fix
Even more surprising that there’s one situation still ongoing:

> Meanwhile, at the Iranian port of Assaluyeh, 19 mostly Indian crew members of the bulk carrier Ula are on hunger strike after their vessel was abandoned by its owners in July 2019.
Tribalism was certainly a significant factor, but I would wager that inconsistency played a bigger role:

- Major political figures publicly flaunted their own mask mandates and lockdown rules, with zero consequences.

"The rules are for you, not us" is not how you get people to come together to fight a pandemic.

- Media condemning social gatherings as super-spreader events, while at the same time, endorsing only very specific riots/protests.

- At the start of the pandemic, everybody wanted masks.

The CDC then stated masks were ineffective.

After that, if you tried to get ahold of masks, you were attacked for doing so. I personally witnessed this tens of times. The same people then flipped around and attacked you if you didn't wear a mask.

It was straight out of the last scene in Orwell's 1984. It was spooky.

Later, the CDC came out and said, "Hey, we lied to you to guarantee a supply of masks for medical personnel. But you should totally trust us now!"

- Media in the US was and is literally nothing but fearporn, which has largely bifurcated the population into "living in terror" and "fresh out of fucks to give".

There's plenty more examples, but I'll stop here.

The inconsistency would have been workable if it wasn't for the violence and anger. Your ability to publicly change your mind without sacrificing credibility inversely correlates to the violence of your opinion.
The concept of calibration - actually being right at the rate that matches your estimated percent confidence - is important for machine learning. It's important to know how well you can trust the prediction of a ML model (ironically to that you can do something like send low confidence predictions for manual review, which apparently might not be that calibrated either)... Deep learning models in particular are not good at accurately estimating confidence, so there is a whole body of work on getting better confidence estimates, e.g. [0]. It's nice to see that people make the same kind of mistakes.

[0]Guo et al., https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04599
do you not see the irony in your comment
Or "hackers" though that's another fuzzy one. But yes "makers" generally is what you said - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture
The postal inspection service is a law enforcement agency...? And it existed before the FBI. Moreover, all federal law enforcement trains at the same place in Georgia.

Look: https://www.uspis.gov

Matter of fact their website news section shows you some of the crazy crime they investigate. Theft of postal vehicle happened few days ago apparently.
I use a Dell D6000[0] to drive 2x 1440p monitors, my keyboard and mouse via a single USB-A/C cable swapped between personal and work machines. It does it all via DisplayLink software so it adds a little load to the computer, but not noticeable. I've used it with Dell laptops, Surfaces, can even power (slowly) a MBP.

My desktop doesn't support Thunderbolt, which rules out the vast majority of solutions I've looked at.

[0] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-universal-dock-d60...
Why do you think this is different than hosting a normal website with file uploads? Literally millions of people have made such websites (especially around 2000-2010).
Cool. Did you build your network through Upwork-like platform?
How did you get started?
eh FaceID is more like a software feature rather than hardware, even a basic windows laptop these days have it
> What we need is a unified API that can easily support multiple backends

Android standardized NNAPI and on-device inference is in pretty good shape. As you said, training is different matter.
I’ve heard of these (thanks, HN community!) and currently use Anki (for years the Android, Windows, and Linux versions, and recently paid for the iOS version). I mostly use cloze deletion to make multiple cards from one. Low barrier to making cards and reinforcing learning. Making effective cards is a work in practice. I start with small chunks to not hit walls.
An investor get paid $1 because...they had money to invest.

Labor need not be taxed at all if you ask me.
Tell someone upstream - in this case Greg KH - what you want to do and agree on a protocol. Inform him of each patch you submit. He's then the backstop against anything in the experiment actually causing harm.
Show HN: Compare Bitcoin current price performance with the 2016 halving
I just ate 2 bananas a minute ago. You mean I could have eaten a kilo of honey instead? :P

Seriously, though. Everything is radioactive since the 1940s. This doesn't strike me as a huge surprise, although I guess it is good to do this sort of research, if only to get an idea what the levels are.
AFAIK, Teslas do have weight sensors in the drivers seat. Now the question is, why is that not used in this scenario? A bug or some actual reason not to continuously check driver weight (=presence)?
not sure how you earning 700$ is relevant to this iMAc
>However I use it far less frequently than ALT-.

Haha of course. I use it so frequently I can't imagine how anyone uses their shell without it.

>can understand all those bindings

I knew that but just being reminded helped me realize that C-o is probably going to be useful in the REPL as well. Thanks.
Oh man this would have been ripe for targeted exploitation. Ad tracking is crazy.
My experience with build systems tied to specific IDEs is that they 'foster' homogeneity through fear and ignorance of the build process. Any changes along that axis become impossible in practice. On the other hand, text-based build description languages under version control provided a path to understanding and mastery. Even autotools has been better than weird bespoke IDE build integrations.

Also in my experience, "compatibility" is best enforced by API/ABI/FFI contracts, and commitments to support released versions for a given length of time.
How does it decide what mime-type a file has?
could have added the logo on that huge ugly chin
> The US has the lowest effective individual capital tax rates in the world outside of tax shelter countries.

The capital gains rate in the UK is 20%.

https://www.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax/rates

The top capital gains rate in the US is 23.8% + state taxes.
"Mental own goal" is such a perfect turn of phrase.

> It's a hard mental paradox to fix though,

One of the things I've learned in the past year of therapy is that if a mental problem is hard to fix at one level, it's usually because that problem is just an emergent symptom of a different deeper level issue.

Also, you never really "fix" psychological problems, so much as grow forward into a slightly different person that both combines that problematic history and adaptations to deal with it. It's like we're weird amphibians that can't regrow lost limb, but can grow an unrelated new limb at a different location that lets us walk again.
The chart compares Bitcoin's price performance between halvings (2016, current).

Halving price series are calculated since halving date.

The formula is: Projected Price = Price on the compared's mapped date / Price on the compared's halving date * Price on the current halving date.
“Fomite”: name checks out for an epidemiologist.

But then seriously, my partner is a paramedic in a large North American city. He has been, to put in bluntly, lucky, because this non-American city implemented a reasonable sick plan, and he serves a chunk of the city that has not been hard-hit. (Which is to say: no warehouses, no food processing.) But just the constant hyper-vigilant PPE dance wears and wears you down. Nothing is “simple” now; the simplest slip-and-fall becomes a scene out of the Andromeda Strain, because you don’t want to get infected, and you certainly don’t want to pass something on when you are harboring the virus but not presenting obvious symptoms. (Too bad said city also had one hell of a testing bottleneck, and you couldn’t just test test test to make sure the front-line staff is virus-free.)
So true, the PM still doesn't have the decency to take questions even now. He has not given a single press conference since 7 years.
He is just a press conference shy version of Donald Trump.
All he can do is claim credit and vanish without completing even a single thing.
And there are so many places where there's shared interest or context.

Waiting in line at the grocery store, browsing in a bookstore (or any store), at a farmer's market, the DMV...

There's practically no environment where one couldn't spin up a conversation based on a shared experience.
It helps to understand that the way people act is mostly a projection of their inner self instead a reflection of who you are.
Isn't that kind of the function of search engines?
There are a lot of games which are definitely not created primarily to make money - or at least, it might be the artists only way of making money but from another studio it wouldn't be considered a commercial cashgrab.

Pathologic, for example, is not exactly a FIFA game
The problem with discussing our options is that anyone can play the "people are dying, so you're being inconsiderate" card. I agree that the virus has caused excess suffering, but our actions to prevent people from living life have caused suffering too. It's not clear that pausing our collective lives, ruining countless small businesses (while large businesses reach sky-high profits), driving up mental health issues, making policies that disproportionately hurt the poor (while providing nearly zero financial assistance), and promoting mask use to the point where citizens are default distrustful of each other for over a year of our short lives was worth it. Given the very low risk of dying from the disease, it seems that the biggest impact of the virus was its ability to remind us all that we're going to die.
Don't you think it's just people can set their country to North Korea just for fun?
> The other option, that you conveniently ignore, is that cities build a good infrastructure that attracts talent and the businesses come to either serve the talent or employ the talent -- no subsidy needed.

How do cities pay for that good infrastructure? either with tax revenue or debt (bond). Very often cities want to attract businesses precisely because their commercial base is in decline, with very little room to hike tax. As for debt, such a city may have low credit score making it hard to get loans, or being saddled with high interest rate.

Giving incentive to businesses allows them to stabilize long term revenue, at the same time adding local jobs. That's the theory. The reality of course include both good and bad examples of such scheme. Foxconn is a bad example.
> I was able to power a microcontroller on just indoor light

Wow!
It doesn't have the detail about the trade winds, but there is this article about how the Outer Banks was nearly chosen as a test site, based partly on the input of a meteorologist: https://www.pilotonline.com/life/article_6662e143-8b1c-51b8-...
You probably also have skills that they don't have and which leaves them at awe (unless that person is a narcissist). Not trying to make this into a competition, just saying that we all have our different attributes.
USD is the Universal Scene Description that pixar coined a few years ago. it wants to be gltf but more for exchanging files between graphics packages. The general idea is that many graphics packages do things a tiny bit different and that means every package has basically his own file format. So the idea for this format is to store anything you need to open a 3d scene and work on it in the file. So not only all the models and textures are there such as a fbx or gltf file would have, but also all the bones, animations, lights and light settings are in the file.

Because the files can become really big in the graphics world and because it one more standard on the pile of standard developers often use different names for USD. They might add the letter p in front for Pixar. but the most common is to use the USDz extension basicly the file is now a zip file just like a jar is.
> the size ... [is] ... 46,225 square millimeters

According to google calculations, this is just under 6 square feet.
They make a lot of money off their hardware though, and iMessage is a key part of retaining users each upgrade cycle on their own hardware. It certainly has been an issue for me.

On the other hand, I wish everyone would just use some other network as the standard, instead of something owned by Facebook or Apple or other giant Silicon Valley company. After Facebook started censoring private messenger communications between people, I just can’t trust them and am unwilling to give them a chance.
>I will say that personally I have fewer concerns about programs to monitor public content on the Internet, than programs that seek to access, monitor, and store content that people intended to be privately communicated to other people.

You should be worried about both, they're honestly equivalent.

See, this is the greatest bait and switch ever perpetrated on the citizens of the United States, and I'm not sure anyone was even actively trying to do it. Time was, communication between you and someone else was fundamentally expected to stay private. This was by definition prior to Third Party Doctrine, with which the Judiciary unilaterally decided the 4th Amendment was more of a suggestion than a hard line in the sand.

Communication intermediaried through a service provider should never have been severed from personal effects and papers. If third-party metadata were treated bbased on the end; intended communication either point to point (private), multicast (confidential with expectation of privacy), or broadcast (implicitly public), we'd be in a much better place. When the Government starts vendoring out surveillance, or bakes it into departments, you know you've steered your society off the rails somewhere.

The fact we're okay with businesses acting like a cabal of gossiping grannies only legitimizes the continued erosion of private space. How long until IoT connection strength logs make it possible to surveill anywhere with enough devices and computing power?
> ...For those making 1M / yr or more.

This is on a graduated tax schedule, correct?

If so, then only the 1,000,001st dollar gets the higher tax (and every dollar thereafter).
It sounds like you're talking about a totally different question. OP is interested in subscribing to changes in the results of a query at runtime, not changes to the text of the query itself.
Govt has witnesses saying the dead passengers were showing off the Autopilot.

I see no reason to believe Musk, a serial liar with a massive incentive to lie here.

He even hedged by saying "data recovered so far" doesn't show Autopilot engaged.
But do they send you the data first, or do you send them the payment first?

If they send you the data first, then why should you pay them? If you send them the payment first, then why should they send it?

I'm sure there's a piece I'm missing, but have I missed something obvious?
> a video games first purpose is to be a commercial product,

That rather depends on the video game.

> where as art is something created for the sake of expression

Quite a lot of what is universally recognized as art was created for commercial purposes by the artist; no small part of it was also shaped by commercial interests of those who commissioned it.
I can't imagine they have a very strong compliance focus. What gave them away in particular, or where they just operating in the open?
I guess I'm asking a question of crime priority, and whether some crimes are more likely to be punished because a disproportionate amount of policing is put in place towards that sort of crime.

If the same resources that were dedicated to the numerous policing agencies in the US were given to a smaller number of more generalized agencies, those agencies would be allowed to prioritize where their time and resources are best spent protecting the public.
Out of curiosity, Is there value in doing this over (say) running a GitHub Action post commit and failing the build if it finds something nasty?
Exactly.

"> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies."

This is useless and nobody should fear it. You should fear a set of teams of highly trained technologists. Thats not what we have here
Disco Elysium is high art if there ever was any
Yes to the form factor & idea. Hard pass to an almost 4 year[1] old CPU.

Lenovo has been one of the first business mini-PC makers to start offering Ryzens[2]. I'm hoping we see ongoing adoption. NUCs and mini-PC's have always been expensive luxuries, but the mini-PC market is affordable and amazing, very value conscious, with a big secondary market.

Lenovo was originally selling them their first Ryzens at a very high price, alas, and that was super sad. But they had some great sales... and are now discontinued. Generally folks seem to believe discontinuation is because the next gen Ryzens are coming soon, & Lenovo's been busy making the newer ones. But TBD what the launch price looks like, & how quickly & how serious they get with sale prices.

Hoping we see value ongoing redefined as a result of Ryzen. Whether it's business-targeting or these consumer-oriented mini-pcs, we will see. Hopefully we keep seeing more.

[1] https://techreport.com/review/32877/amds-ryzen-5-2500u-apu-r...

[2] https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m75q-gen2-ti...
The answer is an API, like NNAPI. AD is a frontend concern and doesn't really matter to accelerators.

For AD, I am bullish for Enzyme, which does AD on LLVM IR, avoiding deep compiler integration: https://enzyme.mit.edu/