skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> say every individual police officer who is a witness to a speeding offence, to be a technical expert on the technological tools they are given to do their job.

That's what I was going for. If the officer doesn't understand the limitations of their tool, they shouldn't testify in court beyond "I pointed it that way and read the number, as trained".

There are existing cases where the speed reading is contested because the handheld speed cameras can move slightly and bounce first off the side mirror then off the reg plate giving you "extra speed".

My point was that if you say "that person was speeding" you should be responsible for that statement afterwards, but you can say "I used the provided tool and got reading X", at least the doubt is there.
Well he stopped selling LEGO after that and is now promoting LEGO alternatives which do have a better price / quality ratio.

That LEGO tries to push any competition out of the market with shady legal tactics (e.g. claiming minifigures appear too similar even though they clearly feature different proportions and characteristics) while at the same time hiking prices leaves a bad taste.
The PhD work of Sruti Ragavan appears to lie behind part of this development. She hasn't defended her thesis yet, but she's been recruited by the MSR Cambridge team behind this work, where she interned in 2018, IIUC just before she began her PhD work.

https://sruti-s-ragavan.com/research/
For years, nay decades, the standard for data centers is no swapping. An incident caused by machine went slow due to swapping is almost as embarrassing as one caused by disk filling. Better to orchestrate a restart every night on your leaky code.
I think a lot of "normal" people like the idea of holding corporates accountable but how would that actually work?

The CEO blames one of their directors; the Director blames the supplier; the supplier blames the requirements documentation; the Business Analysts blame the culture for creating confusing and conflicting requirements.

Yes, you can hold the organisation accountable but then the people who worked there back then are long gone, they don't care if the Post Office gets fined £500M.

You only have to look at the enquiry into the flammable cladding scandal which was entirely down to fraud, yet, there are people who have not been arrested over their misrepresentation of their products.
Like someone mentioned in another thread (edit: and another reply written while I typed this), LEGO the company cares about this for trademark reasons -- they don't want the word to become generic and lose trademark protections.

In the US, I've never actually heard someone use the "correct" plural, everyone just says "Legos", which makes it reasonably correct IMO. That said, I've heard "LEGO" plural occasionally in Europe, more people seem to care across the pond.
In case someone reads this (6 days later). Looks like git rebase is a lot faster now \o/
As long as you provide yours about Teamspeak servers.
Yes, it seems clear that people knew about these problems — they were obvious at one level of management — and they worked together to cover them up.
This loud obnoxious Chicago Italian botanist youtuber often makes that point eloquently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsAFpSXj7Y
I have Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Spotify, sometimes Youtube TV, OTA via TIVO. Trust me, TPB is much more convenient.
This sounds like a similar situation to Telstra in Australia, which was forced to split into two entities - one a wholesale network provider that was open to all operators, the other a consumer operator that (supposedly) operates under the same rules as everyone else.
No, that's accurate. Often making your game accessible on mobile just means not going offroad and doing your own weird thing, apps are accessible by default and you often just have to make sure to use labels correctly. At least this is true in menu or text-based games, which is more games than you would think on mobile.
Which could happen system-wide because they turned off the DRM servers (a la Microsoft books) or maybe you've been deemed "unacceptable" on the platform.
Is the dominance of x86 due to any inherent properties of x86, or historical legacy?

I think the xbox-s/x and ps5's choice of CPU vendor was driven more by business factors and the integrated graphics, than the virtues of x86 per se. The Switch does pretty well despite the less powerful CPU in the tegra.
How is that relevant to the plural case?
I don't think we should allow corporations to dictate how we use language.
Just as I use StackOverflow less and less, I also use google (search in general) less and less for development work. Sure every so often I get a weird error and search for it, but I’ve been finding that less and less useful. A big part of it is that I don’t really use any hyper popular frameworks and libraries so there just aren’t many answers out there for what I do use. I’ve also grown accustomed to reading the language and library documentation and reference material, example code or the code I’m using itself.

Recently, I’ve mainly been working on a niche Clojure project and a personal C++ game+engine project. For Clojure, I get along best with clojuredocs, the readme for whatever library I’m using and just reading the code. I only really found google/SO useful for Clojure in the early days when I was still learning it, but I’ve been writing Clojure for ten years now.

For C++, I keep cppreference.org open and also the readme’s for the libraries I use (mostly header only libraries) and ill look at the headers too. The only library I’ve really spent a lot of time googling is the Bullet physics engine (it’s woefully underdocumented unless you’re using the python bindings). Any time I’ve tried googling for error messages, I’ve found it less than useful so instead I guess I’ve just gotten better at trying to understand obscure clang errors (usually template errors). I’ve also needed some help doing more advanced things with the EnTT library, but the author is very responsive on github and discord.

In my previous job, I was mainly working on automating various AWS service interaction with terraform and python and while I did occasionally google for things, I almost always ended back on the terraform and AWS official documentation pages anyway.

I also learned to program at a time when my internet access was irregular, so relied on offline copies of documentation for all my needs. Maybe that helped me rely less on quick fix searches, although I definitely went through a phase of that some years ago.

As for the article, besides quotes for exact matches, I don’t think I’ve ever bothered with any of the other tips, in years if ever. Got on just fine without it ;-)
If the criminal is sophisticated enough to target cryptocurrency holdings, they'll probably transfer the coins to their own wallets right there on the crime scene. Exchanges won't help either: they can simply force their victims to log in and withdraw the money.

This also happens with traditional banks where I live. People are kidnapped and taken to ATMs where their accounts are drained.
I'm not going to buy one, but its more because I don't have several million dollars to spare.
That's a nice concise list. Even moreso: "You can think of information literacy as having five components: identify, find, evaluate, apply, and acknowledge sources of information" - via https://libguides.seminolestate.edu/researchfoundations/info...
Ideally there’s be no feel/click noise on an Apple trackpad. “Tap to click” is a revelation.
End of the day the Intel Macbooks of the last few years have been terrible low performance processors that get thermal constrained and have abysmal inconsistent battery life. So if all you use is Macs the M1 is going to feel amazing.
Let’s say you buy 5 movies from Apple and then the CC on file expires before they billed you for a $0.99 app you bought, so you owe Apple $0.99. They will now block you from ALL access to anything you have already “purchased” until you pay them.
Can pregnant and lactating women take Covid-19 vaccine?
Yeah and then they get surprised at why the mobile one suck.

That was me trying to play games on laptops with 'i7' about a dozen years ago.
LEGO fan for 40+ years here, last set purchased a couple of weeks ago. Don't bother doing this.

- People who care will notice that other people who care use the term appropriately, and will do it themselves.

- People who don't care won't, and will be annoyed if you correct them.

You can use the difference as a shibboleth.
> I don't know why you're being downvoted.

I can answer why _I_ downvoted the comment. It was this part:

> [...] it's really surprising to me how many eagerly lap up the angle Apple is pushing without much reflection, even on HN. Like the good old Apple hype days.

You can make a point without implying that anybody who doesn't agree with you is incompetent (the "Apple hype" meme is really stale).
That’s not likely to work after a high profile incident like this, in the short term or the long term. Publication is, by design, a de-anonymizing process.
i think you meant to say "their trademark"
Oh wow, this is great Macha! You've provided a concise solution to a real puzzle who's importance fit precisely in the space occupied by "important enough to know" and "not important enough to research it myself". Intel should put your explanation in a PDF and distribute it widely. (Or better, review their marketing approach.)
Which metaphor is a better goal: melting pot or salad bowl? The melting pot is a metaphor for assimilation. Let us incorporate your cultural distinctiveness into our collective. The salad bowl isn't about assimilation, but diversification. It's anti-Borg: Keep your cultural distinctiveness intact within a shared framework, enriching a diverse collective. Thirty-one flavors are better than one blended combination.

There is no uniform answer to which approach is better. It depends on the details. But we should recognize that while they can both be useful at the same time, they are still fundamentally at odds. We cannot both maintain our diversity and assimilate our differences.

"Cultural appropriation" seems to be about supporting the salad bowl. It is a demand to not assimilate the elements of another culture but to allow them to remain distinct. It's not hard to recognize the value of this. The more homogeneous we are, the lower our potential to adapt and evolve to a changing environment.

On other hand, diversity creates conflict and disharmony that can reduce our collective fitness if the environment does not change more than some threshold. An assimilated society has more trust and cohesion. One would expect Borg internal politics to be less contentious than ours.

So which approach should be valued more may be a matter of how much change is expected, and how fast. I think the right answer is a lot, and fast, and so I tend to value diversity over cohesion. But that isn't the right answer at all places and levels. It is far from cut and dry.

My big problem with the "cultural appropriation" meme is that it tends to focus on the more trivial parts of culture, like dress and music, while being hostile to the more substantial parts, like distinct, often irreconcilable cultural values. On the other hand, a salad that contains irreconcilable flavors would be a lousy salad.

There is no easy answer to whether a melting pot or a salad bowl is a better goal, and we shouldn't pretend there is.
Amazon and Walmart confront Indian politics
Celebrating World Book Day
Well known phenomenon known in economics as pork cycle. It was first observed in in livestock markets nearly 100 years ago.
Right, this is the problem: how to protect normal people without giving large companies more power? And how to do it when the companies are the ones in the room with lawmakers?

Non-transferable copyright/patents?
But if you live in a successful welfare state, what need have you for help from your neighbours? The welfare state might help you even better, as it can benefit from economies of scale, and it will not demand anything in return from you except, once you are working a normal job, your taxes. Also, depictions of pre-welfare-state help from neighbours often underscore how that help was always conditional: sexual and racial minorities, women with children out of wedlock, people not members of the locally dominant church or political wing, etc. often found their pleas for help rejected.
Its hard to believe its free.
Not sure how is this related to the SW development, this is just a general set of Google keywords. I might sound like an old fart, but I feel like it is much more helpful to learn your way around the docs as a developer. I regularly see people googling all kinds of basic language knowledge that can be found in documentation. However, googling might lead to outdated or incorrect information, especially when people just copy the first result from Stack Overflow. My advice for the junior Python programmers is to learn using the `help` keyword and python console to quickly check how things work.
Physical media fails too, it's become a real problem in the retro gaming world. Optical discs start to break down and even worse optical drives wear out with no viable replacements. So piracy helps preserve physical media too.
I'm not saying we're running out of applications for more compute power.

We're specifically running out of reasons to want faster linear (per core) general-purpose performance (in fact I'd say this happened some time ago). Everything else we get from here on in terms of smaller process etc. is just a bonus. We don't fundamentally need it to keep evolving our hardware for our ever-growing computation needs.

And that's because as our problems multiply and grow, parallel execution and heterogenous cores tend to solve our problems much more efficiently on the watt, than asking for "more of the same, but faster".

There's this Ford quote "if I had asked what people want, they'd have said faster horses". Fake or not, it reflects our tendency to stare at the wrong variables and miss the forest for the trees. The industry is full of languages utilizing parallel/heterogenous execution and you don't need a PhD to use one anymore.

CPUs are effectively turning into "controllers" that prepare command queues for various other types of processing units. As we keep evolving our GPU/ML/etc. processing units, CPUs will have less to do, not more. In fact, I expect CPUs will get simpler and slower as our bottlenecks move to the specialized vector units.
Thinkpads feel well made but the screens are mostly terrible and the trackpad design is very dated.

I’m not sure why Lenovo doesn’t use better IPS panels, they can’t be saving that much margin from them.
The black box is an image, not text-based. When you share it, it's the thumbnail of the post.
The other crew left and presumably the captain after this guy signed to stay and be the custodian, there is nothing to indicate in the article he of all the crew was singled out (from memory)

Obviously it doesn’t change the tragic situation, had he not signed up as custodian we’d be reading an article about a ship captain stuck on a ship
Not to victim blame there is a difference between someone stole x thousands from my home vs I lost x thousands investing in an ostrich farm
Both are sad, but ...
Extending Vue Router Links in Vue 3
> On July 16, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to appoint Walker to be a Member (Private Life) of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution

he was rewarded with a sinecure.
I think what apple may be trying to do is reduce macOS sales and full throttle on iOS sales. It no longer makes sense for a macOS if it is going to have the same chip as iPad Pro.
Congrats to markosaric for plausible.io getting a mention just six months after launching on HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696145
Its hard to narrow down my picks but ill go with the big 3.

500k Iraqis

2000k Vietnamizes

300k Afghanis

This is ignoring any "indirect" involvement in many, many coups in south America.

I honestly think the world would be safer if you fucked off for 50 years or so. Find a pet project closer to home you're interested in, those Mexican kids won't put themselves in cages after all.
> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things.

This drives me up the walls. At my last job (food ordering startup the CEO had the attitude that releasing code that was 95% functional was Okay, remaining issues could be fixed as we went along.

As a result, one developer overlooked a bug that cost the company €300,000, loyalty discounts weren't being deducted from payments to take-aways. They then had the cheek to demand take-aways pay them back.

Then they launched a major upgrade to the system at 5pm on a Friday - two hours before their busiest time of the week. It collapsed a few hours later and it was impossible to roll back because they didn't include a roll-back SQL script for the DB. It took till the following Tuesday to fix it.

The DB schema was all over the place and as a result it was slow. Entity Framework couldn't handle it and the SQL it was generating was terrible. Me being the only one with decent SQL knowledge had to replace all the bad EF queries with raw inline SQL.

Despite this, they still carried on deploying without a care in the world. I was told to stop moaning about QA. We didn't have QA or testing staff, the CEOs attitude being why pay for QA staff when our clients will do it for free?
> To those that say it's to incentivize investment and reward risk; I thought that was the market's job? Why is the government in the business of rewarding an investor for risk? The asset price should reflect the inherent risk in order to incentivize investment right?

That's exactly right, but you're only looking at it from the point of view of someone clicking "buy" on their phone. Instead, look at it through the eyes of someone who has twenty years of working the daily grind saved up and is thinking about building something new out of nothing. Maybe it's worth the risk of losing that savings. If you tax that even more, then the balance tips even more into riskier territory and makes it less likely that you take on that new business venture.

You're saying that the market corrects for that, and it does... by disincentiving the investment by making the potential payoff less.
How do you know this culture existed 20 years ago when this system was developed? It is almost certain that a corporate developer in the 1990s would be 100% waterfall.

The issue is very often related to massively complex corporate requirements (the Post Office makes me cringe, even today, with the complexity of their postal system) and then coupled with the ever-present need to keep costs low, especially when designing something so complex.

I doubt anyone building this thought it would be OK to break things!
>AND operator will return only results related to both terms:

html AND css

This is new to me. So what is the difference between searching html css and html AND css?
D.B. Cooper Hijacking
Yes, after rereading the article I've found this info. At first reading I was expecting a separate section and missed it.
Free Convertible Note Calculator
Here's an archive link for those who didn't see it back in 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple....
From the linked article:

> “search term”

> Force an exact-match search. Use this to refine results for ambiguous searches, or to exclude synonyms when searching for single words.

Author claimed they tested all of the operators, but this one in particular I can confirm haven't worked reliably for me for over a decade and across a number of machines and accounts.

Some times it can be traced down to things like me searching for "foo bar" and Google thinking

> He said foo. Bar immediately replied [...]

is a valid match which is kind of understandable.

But most of the time I can't really see why the page shows up at all. No trace when searching in the page nor in the page source.
Absolutely nothing's wrong with it, but it's just am addition to parent comment on how funny some phrases sound like.

Anyone can write whatever they want and name their projects however they want.

"Fastest standalone headless framework. Powered by AI. Written in TypeScript, coded with love in San Francisco Bay, by @kode_ninja using VSCode."

I write this with no offence. Just always have a chuckle while reading phrases like parent commenter and I commented on. :)
Explained: Why India is facing oxygen shortage during 2nd Covid wave
I love my physical media free life.

I love not having to deal with storage for my collection.

I love that my content got upgraded from HD to 4K.

I love that I have all my movies available at both of my homes, and while traveling.

I don’t give the single tiniest shit about Apple knowing that I just watched a movie.

I think the odds of Apple serving me my movies in 30 years is higher than the odds of me having working dvd and blu-ray players in 30 years. Not 100% in either case, but I’ll roll the dice.

I didn’t get scammed. I got a more convenient life.

If I had a magic wand, I’d make it so I could cheaply re-sell content that I’m done with, but it’s not a bad trade off.
This was developed at Stanford right? That’s where Manu Prakash works and that link says Stanford as well.
I had an Ideapad 5 (4800u) for a few months, it was a great little Ryzen laptop. Battery life was 7-10 hours of "real" use, CPU performance is righteous, and build quality is pretty surprising for sub-$500. Great little Linux laptop!
I'm a contractor from eastern europe, its a completely different ball game to contract "cross country". Especially in EU, where much of the work is still done on-site, especially in embedded which is my domain.
We have yet to see any new iPad Pro with the M1. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a difference in clock speed with those.
> Indeed, here is Go's definition of ed25519.PublicKey […]

Wouldn’t you need some sort of length restriction on that? Or are all byte sequences valid Ed25519 keys — e.g. the empty byte sequence and the byte sequence that comprises this[1] cat GIF?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c3/2b/fa/c32bfa16bcf864e478d3...
Would be great if Lego jumped on board projects like both of these and released them as kits.

They'd only need create a few 'scientific' bricks to make them work. Not that different from Mindstorms.
American civilians who had made a decided effort to commit a federal felony. Also "ordering soliders to kill American civilians" attempts to color the situation in an unfavorable light, as if the soldiers had alternatives, or the situation didn't fully warrant it.

There's no reason that killing armed gangsters wasn't totally justified in this case.
sorry for your loss
I'm not sure what OpenGL has to do with here?

Generally no hardware today is designed for OpenGL. They all translate it into their own instruction set. The M1 is no different as it supports OpenGL as well.
> A decade ago the activists were occupying Wall Street. Now they’re all aligned with the mega corps and the fighting is about semantics of how we say that lives matter.

It is a mistake to equate these two unrelated movements, with “the activists”. I mean, you might as well say that “the activists” took a break from BLM on Jan 6 to storm the Capitol.

BLM isn’t a cosmetic rebrand of OWS.

It is also misleading to suggest BLM “is aligned with megacorps”; the institutions which have been brought around by pressure (public, employee, and otherwise) to at least paying lip service to BLM were largely indifferent and in some cases hostile when the movement started, and for some time after, much as occurred with the earlier Civil Rights movement. That’s kind of the point of activist movements, though some are successful and most are not.