skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agreed, but you seem to imply it is the Federal Government's job to do it, which I do not think many would agree on, one, and two, kicks the problem up a level.

When state elected politicians can gerrymander their way into power (see next comment), the only other option is federal enforcement. The voice of the harmed is muted in states doing this shit. In fact, in Georgia in particular they are looking at even more punitive measures to stop voters. Without a federal law, how would this ever change?

> We already did. It's illegal. Now go find a judge comfortable with establishing an objective legal test that works in all or most cases to measure gerrymandering. I'll wait. (I kid you not, that's what actually holds it up)

You are mistaken, that already went through and the SC ruled that gerrymandering cases are nonjusticiable [1], making it legal under current laws. There needs to be a new federal law in order to make it illegal.

> You're pissing into the wind. People have that already.

> you get this tooling printing/advertising/favoring whatever gets the most clicks, or drives the most revenue.

You say we have this, yet we also have a media standard that allows for blatant lies with few consequences [2]. So long the primary source for "news" is talking heads that legally classify themselves as "entertainment" to skirt legal standards for journalism, we've got a big problem.

We have a propaganda problem that needs addressing. I don't have the best solution for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucho_v._Common_Cause

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
It's based on Spark rather than Postgresql directly, but I'm part of an effort to build a workflow system disguised as a notebook callled Vizier [1]. SQL is a first-class primitive in Vizier, and the notebook plays nice with postgres (you can load from and unload to postgres using Spark's native data loader).

[1] https://vizierdb.info
Companies are made up of regular people, there is no clear distinction between the two. Efficiency is a spectrum, the more efficient a company, the more the poorest of us benefit from cheaper services. Capping efficiency punishes everyone.
A stupid waste of money, perhaps, but if we look to the mass vaccination campaigns of the past, even to the earliest ones, they all turned out to be pretty good ideas.
It is even more dangerous than that - the more that gets invested, the more return is expected. You lose the luxury of staying small and simple because the investors will push you for a bigger exit, not a "lifestyle" company. Being a solidly profitable company is no longer good enough.
The Pentagon generals must be ill informed about AI. I believe they think it as a magic and can do everything correctly.

This is very dangerous!!

Look at Tesla Self Drive, It literally killed me last night. Weapons are nothing!!
There's good reasons why these exist, and it's got zero to do with dev competence.

In 2005 your employer asks for internal app, says you've got to use kendo or some such UI framework. Or maybe they want an autocomplete drop-down and you picked one that in the future will turn out to be not standards compliant. Or you were asked to use the stylesheet from another project to get them to look the same and that's not compliant. But you don't even know, as it only has to work on IE8 as that's all that's available to your users. You make it. It works fine.

Fast forward to 2015, no-ones touched the app in 10 years, the SVN server the code was on has been thrown away, and it's either rewrite the whole thing or force everyone to keep on using IE8.

That's what generally happened, not dev incompetence.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0Dh6qJ3RE&t=48s

In war, weapon speed triumphs safety concerns.

And hypersonic and laser weaponry is only going to decrease that.

We've been in a delegated authority regime since the USS Vincennes / Iranian Air Flight 655.

There are already shifts towards a delegated-preemption regime in EW (see: efforts to equip EW suites with self-adaptive capability). I can't imagine we won't see the same thing with actual weapons.

Sure, put a human in the loop, if there's time. Otherwise...
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I'm on Google's side here.

I want Android Auto to know what type of plug I have and Google Maps to just show me all compatible chargers. And possibly handle payments. Like what Tesla has been doing for years [0].

Now there's some government developed app to duplicate that functionality but only for their special snowflake network and only in their jurisdiction. Just crossed the border from France to Italy? Install this app (is it in international app stores as well? Do I have to switch my phone to that country?). Ohh now it has it's own map but no navigation so I'm switching back and forth between that and Google Maps.

[0] https://youtu.be/hA_B7qPyUDA?t=1145
I work in healthcare as well and the health IT landscape is horrifying. Hospitals not hiring software engineers is part of the reason you end up with thirty-person implementation teams from firms like Epic and GE trying to config their way out integration hell. Trying to integrate a new product via HL7 is a special hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies. It's the only standard I've worked with where nobody even attempts to follow the spec, and everyone else is just expected to conform to whatever arbitrary changes the hospital made (both intentionally, and accidentally). The vast majority of IT management is completely non-technical, especially - paradoxically - at larger institutions. At small community places the IT director is typically the person who was setting up the doctors' computers ten years prior. At huge practices it's someone with an MHA or who hasn't done anything remotely technical since the 90's.

I love working in healthcare but the hospital side is atrocious in my experience.
A warrant is not required for the government to purchase commercial data products and there are plenty of legitimate uses for this kind of data. Security analytics would seem to be an obvious use case for netflow data, for example. Commercial datasets are also used for address correction and standardization and most government agencies routinely do.
This is extremely cool. Is it possible to build custom modules for the laptop?

I would love adding GPIO or sensors directly to my laptop like that.
People who are averse to vaccines will just see this as a bribe.
Comparing Siberia, Sahara, Antarctica or the Australian outback to Mars seems flawed because there are many places that are a lot better suited for human activities and settlement on Earth. We would not want to go there unless other options are ruled out. So emphasis is "on Earth".

Mars might not have regions that are better suited than these inhospitable parts of Earth but it has the feature of "not being Earth".

Consider it a backup/fallback for the "single point of failure" that Earth currently is not just for humanity but for all of life in the universe that we know of.

Now that we are developing the technical abilities to be able to remove this possible failure point and to finally add some redundancy for life, I think we are almost morally obligated to do so.
It’s probably a Pareto distribution like anything else. Maybe 20% of users care about it enough to pay for a 4x more expensive plan.

I’d be curious to read more about what their architecture looks like now and how they’re planning to evolve it to fit their priorities.
Quebec stops offering first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
"so far" included very many near misses - where individuals with explicit authority to launch counter attacks were in position to decide whether to launch NUCLEAR MISSILES AT A COUNTRY -- because some sensors malfunctioned.

See Stanislav Petrov - the man who prevented an apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Stage 2 should've been the selling point of Python 3.

If there's really a 50% general speed boost sitting around in "normal" bytecode optimization work (and having read a decent amount of CPython I believe there could be), that's a criminal amount of energy over the past decade instead wasted dealing with what the type of a codepoint sequence should be named.
"99% of the time" may be stretching it a bit when you have to prevent yourself from using modern and useful C features in order to get a C++ compiler to accept your codebase.
How do we enforce any treaties the prevent AI usage?
I think you might be better served by something like qutebrowser. Besides, IE will fail on quite a few non-JS websites. For example, pretty much all my websites use CSS grid.
That's the same as when you have a "normal" user ID in the token. You have to bind the request to your user's data _somewhere_.
None of those are on another planet - it changes the value proposition.
I'm confident this will be effective in the short run, but I'm certain the human interest story about one deserving lottery recipient will be more good vaccine publicity in a few months.
True, that happens to me every time I play the lottery.
Imagine if we incentivized eating healthy and exercising...
I know there are sites that provide stock illustrations, I just didn't know which ones they were. But another commenter gave me some.
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A cynic would say that we only banned chemical weapons because they weren't particularly useful in major power combat.

See: cluster munition and mine bans
Having just finished some documentation on cryogen handling, I’m ready.
As a further tangent and something that came as news to me - some cryogens can condense oxygen out of the atmosphere and if oil or grease is present there is a risk of fire. Asphyxiation, frostbite, fire.
This is more of a historical drama than a physics flick. It's chock full of dramatized versions of the actual events and physics.
I am also working on an alternative: https://www.jigdev.com

It’s the same idea except that cells are spread out on a 2d canvas with tabs similar to excel.
This subthread is about purchasing subscriptions to apps. There are multiple apps serving the same niche, so I'm not sure what your point is here.
Land of the free, home of the surveilled.
Personally I will keep wearing a mask around other people until we eradicate it or find a 100% preventive vaccine. So decades for me.
Sunshine[1] should be on this list as well!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
Europa Report is pretty good, and done on a budget
This is true across the board. One tiny crack in a bridge might mean it will collapse. That doesn't mean we should stop building bridges.
Cool project, will I get syntax errors if I use “show me” or “display” instead of “print”. What if I actually want the computer to print on a piece of paper? “Print on the printer”?

It reminds me of HyperTalk some, but this seems to be designed to deal with the gray areas of language is that right?
And yet there is a good chance that almost everything about your visit to that grocery store was steering you to increase the amount you spend while there. On the other hand, if the store didn't put things you might want to buy out on display, no-one would be able to browse, which a lot of people enjoy and/or find useful. So where is the line between unfairly manipulative and simply showing what you're offering and inviting someone to buy it?
Hi, thanks for your availability and a cool product.

I wonder if you plan to make the hardware spec (or parts thereof like the form factor) open source? It's nota deal breaker if you don't, but would be a big plus if you do (although more challenging from a business logic standpoint, but Red Hat seems to have done OK).
Trinity used an actual exploit (ssh IIRC). This sets it apart some movies like Jurassic Park with the girl looking at some UI made of 3D shapes and says "unix, I know it).

Or NCIS - of which I copied for an awareness training the part where the two geeks "go though the firewall" both on the same keyboard.
Bingo.
Which is why the second factor in 2 factor authentication is "something you have".

It's also why SMS text messages do not meet the criteria for 2 factor authentication - it's trivial to social engineer phone companies into moving a phone number to a new phone - presumably one you would not have. Authentication apps are a PITA to move to new devices because having a way to move your keys around without some reliance on meatspace defeats the whole goal of "something you have".
Identifying Unlogged Web Site Traffic
I think there are a lot of 3rd party wrapper around Google & Apples Push APIs, which are not really needed. You can send Push Notification yourself just fine.

For email though, not sure, that's a completely different topic. It comes with many headaches, using a service like SendGrid or Mailchimp seems like a good idea, and if you really want to roll our own mail servers down the line you can still do that.
This sounds like the definition of flimflam with a splash of gaslighting...

flimflam:
deceptive nonsense
Yes, but you also said a wrong thing. Therefore you lack credibility and nobody should ever listen to you again.
> Stop trying to make something sound difficult that isn't. Password hashing is a very simple, straightforward, solved problem and has been for years.

Try asking the following question on Twitter:

"While passing binary data, which example is safer for storing passwords?

[ ] $password | sha256 | bcrypt

[ ] $password | bcrypt"

What do you think the average programmer would say? Most would probably say they are either equal, or the first one, without knowing this specific thing, because most people don't implement their own password-hashing, they use library/framework provided ways that has been established as best practice already.

But, can't blame them really, the difference is marginal and innocent on the surface, but once you understand the implementation, you'll see the holes.
What's the (proposed) causal relationship there? Companies with clear business models can write clear notes to the Stock Exchnage, or companies that write clearly to the exchnage can communicate to the market (users investors) also clearly

(I am assuming that no-one thinks that Japanese consumers read security filings before making their weekly shop?)
Brain implant turns thoughts into text as fast as typing on a smartphone
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If that's how you feel, don't trust them to logout when they walk away. Make those sessions short-lived and ask for the password again whenever they do something remotely sensitive.
Some random ideas off the top of my head for why developing Mars is better than developing the outback:

* Do scientific research and exploration

* Win fame and prestige

* Enjoy having no existing property claims or cultural heritage to disturb

* No laws. Make your own laws. Escape persecution.

* Build a low light-and-RF-pollution observatory

* Create the ultimate off-site backup
"Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer is an interesting book on the subject of memory athletes. The author is a journalist who sets out to write the book and in parallel practices alongside his research subjects. In the end, he winds up winning the USA Memory Championship and setting a US record. Really drives home the point that it's all about the techniques and the time one is willing to put into them.
It's a great justification if you see just how much Google's spyware browser phones home...
I don't support that kind of surveillance.

That said, are they really in illegality ? Can I buy this type of localization data as a private individual ?

If so, then they don't need a warrant, am I right ?
It's economic coercion. Frankly, public health officials and the pharmaceutical industry do not deserve our trust about these vaccines. People would be much more confident about taking them under different circumstances. I'll continue to take a wait and see approach. It appears likely the majority of the rest of the country will as well, if current decreased vaccination rates hold steady.
We aren't going to populate the galaxy. We aren't even going to populate Mars. We are going to live on Earth until something cataclysmic happens, and then we will be gone.
I wish more states would do this and I also wish it was more troublesome to remain un-vaccinated (no air travel, no university attendance, no stadium or movie theater admissions). We should use both the carrot and the stick to get everyone vaccinated.
The Vikings were themselves a farming society. So this has nothing to do with the postulate that non-farming societies would overrun farming societies -- I'd look for a different example.
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Processor Options

i5-1135G7 (8M Cache, up to 4.20 GHz)
i7-1165G7 (12M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
i7-1185G7 (12M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)

Operating System

Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 Pro

Storage

256GB NVMe SSD
512GB NVMe SSD
1TB NVMe SSD

Memory

8GB DDR4-3200 (1x8GB)
16GB DDR4-3200 (2x8GB)
32GB DDR4-3200 (2x16GB)

Connectivity

WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2
WiFi 6 with vPro, Bluetooth 5.2

Weight & Dimensions

1.3kg
15.85mm x 296.63mm x 228.98mm

Display

13.5” 3:2
2256x1504, 100% sRGB color gamut, and >400 nit

Battery

55Wh

Graphics

Iris Xe Graphics

Camera

1080p 60fps

Ports

4x User-selectable Expansion Cards
3.5mm combo headphone jack

Biometrics

Fingerprint Reader

Keyboard

Backlit

Power Adapter

60W USB-C
Uhhhh... Obama doubled down on this bullshit.
Yes. I'll take near misses with nuclear Armageddon over total war.

The anti-nuclear weapons crowd conveniently forgets that the alternative to MAD isn't reliably peace.
That's why all this data collection in the web is a bad idea. Not only by FAANG but any developer who helps in creating this data.
This money represents 0.0001667% of the federal COVID response.

Proportionally, it's about the equivalent wastefulness of a FAANG engineer losing a quarter under a couch cushion.
I think you're talking about reversing globalism. I honestly think it's easier to develop space colonies than reverse globally entrenched political positions.

If we don't spread out there is a 100% chance we will all die given enough time. There are political forces aligned with your position which would seek to redirect any efforts back towards earth. If those ideas become entrenched we will never escape this planet and we will be forever subjugated and enslaved by its political machinations.

With increased population density we always see more bureaucracy and authoritarian government and fewer freedoms and less autonomy.
Do You Need to Hire a Lawyer to Start a Company?
Yeah that's the one. I misremembered it as the tow plane instead of a Cessna.
America was founded on oppositional defiance. If the government is telling me to do something, I'm going to do the exact opposite to prove I can't be controlled!
15 months of reflection from the founder of Textio
Linking to Datasets on ArXiv
This is pretty awesome. Feels like a streamlit for the javascript world.
Thanks I didn't know about this one! It seems to only support rsync though, so using it for public repositories would be difficult.
Hey, where's Fast and the Furious 8?

These movies are all true to the laws of physics.
Putting aside it's approach to ML projects management, MLFlow has a fond place in my heart for making it so much easier to track runs and experiments. If MLFlow did nothing but simply the process of tracking and reporting experiment metrics, it would still be an amazing tool.
Highly recommend the book, its a great read.
I can't think of a language/runtime that has actually gotten slower with time. The nearest I can really point to is the uptick in compile time that happens with languages like Rust/C++ every so often. That's not really a "language is slower" problem though.
I'm no mobile developer, so I don't really know what I'm talking about. Please enlighten me if you can. Doesn't push notifications on iOS require using Apple Push Notification service? That was my last impression I got when I talked with someone about it.
GPT-2 is Open Source. Nothing stopping you from training it on techno babble. GPT-3 is closed source.
No.

The continual insistence by some - many in prominent leadership positions - that nothing changes after you get vaccinated is what was hurting confidence that the vaccine works. If it works, why would I have to act like it doesn't? People can make their own judgements about their personal risk, but I'm not waiting until some arbitrary effectivity point (99%? 99.9%? 99.99%?) to go back to normal. I'll be in the gym tonight for 2 hours without a mask for the first time in well over a year.
That they will ban you for one reason or other has a very high possibility of occurring before you go out of business.
> 100% disagree. We have treaties that prevent use of gas weapons.

I don't have a link, I read a pretty interesting analysis is that the only reason we have such treaties is because those weapons are ineffective against a 1st tier military and are also useless to them. Basically, defense is possible as the needed PPE is relatively cheap and can be used effectively by highly-trained troops, and high-tech conventional weapons used by a trained force are far more effective than gas.

So basically, those treaties were about giving up something advanced militaries would have abandoned anyway.
armies are also made up of regular people, that doesn't mean they're incapable of doing harm on a scale beyond the individual. you're also falsely equating size and efficiency
> So a net reduction of 60K lines of code? And yet functionality was added to the system as well. That's praiseworthy IMO.

Yup.

> Imagine if "we did more with less" infected much of software development today.

Taken to its logical conclusion this should mean that the ultimate piece of software, that does everything and does it perfectly, is 0 LoC.

Hmm, fells like I need to check my logic here...
Definitely! This is the first MVP release of our conversion of the original to Replit and we have done less than the bare minimum so far. We will be updating it chapter by chapter to address these and more! Thanks for the feedback!
...until it doesn't. I would highly recommend a visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum if you'd like a different perspective on nuclear weapons, rather than a American/western one.

And...man, I wish we had that $5.5 trillion back [https://www.brookings.edu/the-hidden-costs-of-our-nuclear-ar...].
> having Cloudflare as the sole judge of the trusted key set

The article doesn't say so, but the approved vendor list is actually not determined by Cloudflare. They defer to the FIDO Alliance's Metadata Service [0], which maintains a list of certified suppliers.

[0] https://fidoalliance.org/metadata/