skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be true artistry and celebration of beauty in corporate advertising. Look at the works of Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha. But no college kid is going to be putting up posters of these misshapen flat people in their college dorm.
Why should I put my website to sleep?
Impressive strategic analysis. But maybe get Clippy to spell check next time boys and girls.

"Solders" lol
this "one way street" is one of the major talking points of many EU politicians in creating a more self sufficient union in terms of military power.

It is still a long way to go though.
The Scientists, the Statesmen, and the Bomb (2018) [pdf]
The peer comments here aren't quite right. The query that goes to the root server, isn't "what's the name server for .com?". It's "what's the IP for abc.example.com?"

The root servers choose to send referrals back for the TLD.

They don't have to. They could answer the query directly, or send a bogus authority record for "example.com", etc.

So, technically, you could create some chaos in the way you're describing if you ran a root server. (Plus the wrinkle of DNSSEC).
$100 laptop back then was absurdly absurdly cheap. still is! but much more so then.

OLPC is still the most innovative, learnable, interseting attempt at creating a computing environment I've ever seen. a journal keeping track of what you did, so you could revisit. cross-laptop applications using mesh networking technologies to communicate & share computing spaces.

the OS wasn't all built alone in a lab somewhere. it took the best technologies of the day, took what already was making linux desktop as great as it was (dbus), and ran with it (xmpp-salut link-local messaging as a transport for dbus). i've never seen a team be 1/10th as aware of the computing environment, of what the alpha geeks are doing, and they did a brilliant job taking those pieces to forge something incredibly interesting & promising for young educational users.

huge respect to OLPC.
Only if you're uninsured. Any halfway decent health insurance plan has out of pocket maxes that a software engineer can easily cover.

I'm general, QOL is going to be better in Europe if youre in a low income bracket because you get so much as a public service. But if you make real money, you're going to be better off in America.
Yes, I absolutely agree. When you buy something you imagine yourself reselling, you can factor the resale price into the total cost.

I don't think this is a counter to my argument, though. I'm not saying it is wrong to be able to resell books, I am just pointing out that reselling books without the author receiving any money strikes me as morally improper. As I mentioned in another comment, I'm not convinced that there exists a decent solution to this problem, and I imagine that it's at least in part factored into RRPs, but I just thought it was something to consider.
You're probably downvoted by people that don't quite understand a notion that is more than 200 years old, which is called "Suppy and demand". The article is literally saying that "speaking up" helped their salary and HN comments are all about unionization (which is letting union speak for you) and claiming that if you negotiate you get fired, that's absurd.

Nobody forced them to work, they can leave, negotiate, refuse an offer, and there are still a lot of video game companies, so this is a market that doesn't need any regulation or unionization. They made a choice to get this job at a low salary.

The only complication is for young student idealizing the environment without knowing that the salary is bad. Well that's what this twitter trend is helping at. It will inform the high performer and keep them out of the field and companies will have to either raise salaries to re-attract them or accept lower performer.
I like m43 cameras, but the depth of field with that sensor size is nowhere near that of full frame
> I operate X currently and all are in Asia where they're most needed imho.

Interesting/Awesome. Just curious, what day/event specifically motivated you to get started with this?

To be honest, my impression -- which could be wrong -- is most exit node operators do so for nefarious reasons, Pr0n (hence your username INT-Penis), or are Fed.

(to be clear, appreciate what you are doing regardless)
Here you go: https://www.levels.fyi/
Here's one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-healthcare-pass-the...
Why AWS Could Own the Future of Quantum Computing
SSL stripping allows attackers to avoid the big browser warnings, yet view and tamper with your data.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/performing-preventing-ssl-stripp...
Defensiveness? Possibly, but that's just one. I believe they do it mostly because they want to antagonize. They don't care if the info is false because it's all just a game anyway. If there's fact-checking, it proves that the information is valuable enough to cause someone of importance to waste time debunking it. Therefore, it is high-value material and should go viral even more.

It's the same reason my dog steals socks. If someone is chasing them for a stolen sock, it must be of high value and therefore it must be stolen more frequently, carried away, and buried in the backyard. It's a part of the brain we share with dogs, apes, sheep, and cattle.
Unless you are making a habit of inspecting ships that like to surprise you with RPGs fire (And what exactly is their plan after firing that RPG at an inspection crew sent by an incredibly heavily armed warship?), this thing will need an incredibly low accident/crash/technical defect/user error rate in order to be a net positive for adoption.

Also, if you are boarding the kind of vessel that makes a habit of surprising naval inspectors with incredibly lethal application of medium-arms fire, what stops them from shooting you while you float in... Or are screwing around with getting your gear off after you land.

This seems like a fun toy which is only useful in situations when nobody's looking to pick a fight with you.
That's exactly what I thought. Because WFP are powerful, NDIS is bonkers (it's what what used by Internet Download Manager and Kaspersky for their features), so the only use case is maybe YARA-style eBPF rulesets.
You missed a lot of tedious reboots by starting your experience with the Windows NT family w/ Windows 2000. Windows NT 4.0 was a breath of fresh air, as far as the UI went, compared to NT 3.51, but Windows NT didn't really come into its own, in my opinion, until Windows 2000.

The tedious "re-apply the service pack and reboot" or "you thought about changing a setting, so therefore reboot" scenarios were nearly removed with Windows 2000. Having plug 'n play and hot-plug hardware work well was great, too.
I had always assumed they just did that already without permission
I never owned any BTC. I wouldn't put all of my savings into BTC, but it would be useful for (semi-/sometimes-) anonymous transactions. That makes it better than credit cards, checks, or cash because it can't be CC skimmed or physically robbed.

I would like to buy groceries with it, but I don't want to hold much BTC for very long.
For computer hardware, I use PCPartPicker to find what I want, and follow their link.

Yes, I know that those will definitely be referral links, but I'm fine with that.
Quantum walks on programmable two-dimensional 62-qubit superconducting processor
I don't think a spell checker would have caught that since it's a word that's spelled correctly.
This implies that the thing that gets the experience can be separated from one body and attached to another body. It's ridiculous to speculate what this Ford's experience would be if it was a Ferrari.
You can do a lot more in NDIS and probably more in WFP than you can in eBPF, if only because eBPF has strict limits on the kinds of loops you can express (they have to be verifiably bounded). Packet-processing BPF programs are tightly bound to Linux kernel APIs, many of which won't be ported here, so I think write-once-run-anywhere is unlikely to be an attribute of this.

Importantly: eBPF has at this point not much to do with packets; it's a generic kernel and userland instrumentation layer. Most new BPF code is written to monitor local program runtimes, not to look at packets.

If Windows adopts XDP, we might get to a point where
Why are they bad?
Claiming that it's mixed because there's no such charge is avoiding the question, which is "if a normal person reads this, would he get an accurate impression of what happened?" If someone is convicted of a crime which an ordinary person would look at and say 'that's terrorism', then it's true or mostly true. The fact that there isn't literally a definition of "convicted of terrorism" should at most change "true" into "mostly true".

That's how fact checking sites usually introduce bias--they don't actually lie about literal facts, they just have shifting standards about when things need to be absolutely literally true, when they can give false impressions, and what counts as "mostly" when something is mostly true or false or mixed.
Hackers: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”
https://archive.is/QnhXE
I just realised that it's a 15 year old so I might be a bit harsh, but it's also actual hashtag and keyword spam to pollute search results (#buygme), doesn't work, violates multiple python styles/formats, doesn't have whitespace which is critical for python, ...

The donation button is kind of the icing on the cake for this.
BPF or berkely packet filter was written to be a faster replacement of tcpdump. People saw that it was pretty neat and started using it for non-tcp dump like stuff and it became extended BPF/eBPF. I would guess that running eBPF on Windows would be a lot slower, but it would be interesting to see a performance comparison.
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Peter Watts does this too.
>so if they are not a person with integrity or humility<

>we choose to ride these people for years and never let them forget about their mistakes<

Maybe it's the people who refuse to acknowledge they're contributing to that climate of douchebagery while producing no dialogue of productive value who lack integrity. If you're public fact checking someone in 2021 it's because you're either an asshole or unaware that you're being an asshole.
If that’s the case the AI needs some work. :P
Reinforcement Learning 10: Classic Games Case Study [video]
A ton of cheap plastic light sabers at birthday parties. And millions of Yoda one-liners all over.
OpenAI Scholars 2021: Final Projects
Light rays don't know the size of the sensor that they're headed for. So clearly the size of the format can't affect the 'rendering' or whatever other subjective property people want to attribute to MF. Imagine masking off the sides of a MF sensor with tape: you now have a full frame camera which must necessarily retain the 'medium format look'. Or similarly, imagine mounting an MF lens on a full frame camera (which you can in fact do). Aside from the crop, the rendering of the image must be the same.

The preceding considerations show that the medium format look, if it exists, must be a property that goes away as soon as you crop the photo. But none of the candidates for this alleged look (e.g. 'rendering' of out of focus regions) has that property.

In principle, medium format should offer shallower depth of field. However, in practice, medium format lenses rarely go beyond f2.8 whereas crazy ~f1 lenses are available for full frame. So if you really want ludicrously shallow depth of field you're probably better off with full frame.

All this being said, it's obviously the case that any given medium format lens might look different from any given full frame or crop sensor lens. Perhaps there are even generalisations about the 'look' of commonly used MF lenses vs. commonly used FF lenses (though I have never seen any evidence for this).

In-lens leaf shutters can also make a real difference, and are more common on medium format cameras.

On an anecdotal level, I'd add that I shoot a bit of 4x5 film as a hobby and the photos 'look' the same as the photos I take on my phone with its tiny sensor (apart from the expected differences such as resolution, grain, depth of field).

This site has some side-by-side comparisons of FF and MF: https://srussenschuck.com/review-fujifilm-gfx-50s/
This is what I think the best course looks like. I know there are issues with Spotify's model (at least, I have heard people make this claim), but given that music had to transition to a streaming-based model (and considering that written text looks to be slowly going this way, too) the per-consumption royalty looks good to me.

Of course, instantiating this in the real world is another question. For ebook libraries, it certainly seems plausible, but for regular libraries?
One interesting point mentioned is the idea that this recount violates a federal law. Can't the same thing be said about states legalizing marijuana, which remains illegal federally?

The idea that private contractors aren't permitted to verify ballots for 22 months seems quite out of step with the fact that the US government relies extensively on private contractors to maintain secrecy on everything, from the postal service to military programs involving national security. For example, it is widely known that Edward Snowden worked at a contractor for the NSA, not the NSA itself, Lockheed developed the SR-71 for the USAF, and the USPS change of address database is managed by a private contractor.

I do not have an opinion either way as to whether the election was stolen. I see no harm in simply letting this process play out; Biden's victory didn't depend on Arizona anyway.
Tim Burton's movies often have aesthetic mini-manifestos embedded in them. For example, Beetlejuice represented the reverse of the classic "ghost story", one in which the ghosts were sweet, earnest, and identifiable while the living people were horrid and monstrous. So for the Maitlands, Burton chose the aesthetic of their traditional Victorian Connecticut home with all its understated ornateness. The building has "character", which the young couple wish to preserve.

The Deetzes (except for Lydia) are represented by... Memphis. And the fact that they strip the home down and completely remodel it into a Memphis mishmash indicates how horrible and destructive they are.

That said, OG Memphis at least has an element of fun and funkiness to it. Think the opening titles of Saved by the Bell. Corporate Memphis is about as funky as the KPMG theme song: https://youtu.be/NCvKXgp-Awo
Perhaps they do. If they get caught, though, that's big trouble with the regulators.
Roblox is an exception. I am in a similar situation, at twitch, where I work, but these companies are the exception and not the rule, for game dev stuff.

Epic games probably pays highly, as well as riot, and value. But I can count on maybe 1 hand, the number of actual good "video game" companies that I would want to work for.
I live in CA, and raise 4 kids while the total pay, including my wife's, just recently surpassed 150k (she works very low hours part-time). Not in the bay area though.

We would probably need about $20k more for the same lifestyle had we not gotten lucky with timing buying a house (we bought in 2011, right before a big increase in prices). Alternatively we could have kids sharing a bedroom and live otherwise the same.
If you're a member of the administrators group, by default it uses something out of C:\ProgramData instead.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Nor is naiveté. There are bad people in the world. That's a brute fact you have to account for in your moral reckoning. If you take the purist "no violence" stance, you're abandoning victims to their fate so you can remain pure. That doesn't seem moral to me.
I appreciate this. Needed to read it today. Thanks :D
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The statement was "run software from OpenBMC"... so that could mean almost anything - anything except the conclusion to seem to have drawn. My guess would be that it means they'll grab some of the python code and carve up the systemd scripts. I've been living with an openbmc equipped system for a year or so - there is a lot about it that I won't miss, especially the way it handles serial communication.
Pretty sure Intel started the pandemic to cause this chip shortage so they could hurt AMD. /s
Tailwind CSS v2.1
If we simply disband the imperialist military-industrial complex, those people will no longer be tragically forced into a life of violence and we will all sing Kumbaya.
Also imagine a boarding like this occurring at night. Sure night vision goggles are ubiquitous at this point, but it is still going to be a smaller/stealthier approach compared to a helicopter.

Also boardings can be done safely in far more situations, much further out to sea. You can carry a few of these on pretty much any patrol boat, a helicopter needs a take off/landing site and has an operating distance.
Judging by levels.fyi it's exactly what I said, L4 at Google makes ~$157k a year. If you're talking about TC that has to be said; most people when they are talking about "making X amount" are talking about salary.
No...like the camera being disabled for real unless you give the consent to use it....all that under the penalty of losing the 2 trillion dollar company reputation if you are uncovered doing otherwise.

This thing would only work at 2% of its potential unless you also give users an excuse to use the front camera much more frequently and move the ads from search towards the aforementioned front camera environment.

They have a whole lot of social engineering to do which has to go along with the proper engineering.

I guess efficiency and customization junkies would love a GoogleDocs UI which is optimized for their gaze so you can be upfront with them
I suppose it could be useful, but not being able to evacuate someone certainly limits what it can do. In the video they still needed a helicopter for the actual rescue part.

For search drones are cheaper, scale better, and are safer for mountain rescue staff. This may make sense for whatever cross-section exists for remote mobile first aid where a helicopter is unavailable, and you roughly know where they are (due to limited fuel and the risk of the jetpack itself getting stranded).

If it can be expanded to hold two people this could be incredible for rescue.
Just to have a bit of a counter argument from me, a game developer who loves games and has worked in the US games industry for the majority of my 20 years career:

If your argument is "You can make more at a FAANG company" - well yeah, you can. You don't work in gaming because you want to make the top salary. You work in gaming because you love games and you enjoy having all your coworkers also love games and being able to talk to all of them about games and having your company culture revolve around games and gaming. It's games all the way down! It's a completely different work environment. As someone who loves games, the best years of my working career were when I was working on game teams, not at tech companies.

Also, developer salaries in games is still plenty good. It's still great money. I never felt like I was losing out.

Also the argument that it's "grueling 80+ hour weeks day in and day out is" is bullshit! The only time I ever worked 80 hours in a single week was when I was starting out in Quality Assurance and I was getting paid hourly so I was happy to make the extra overtime. As a salaried developer I don't think I was ever expected to work more than 60 hours a week, and then after the crunch was over we always got 1 or 2 weeks of extra vacation ("comp time"). To be clear, the normal working schedule was 40 hours per week. Crunch time is like 1 or 2 times a year, for maybe 1-2 months each time. And like I said, depending on how much you crunch, you would get extra paid time off afterwards. So for me, that was a pretty good trade. I'd much rather work my ass off for a couple months and then get an extra 2 week vacation at the end of it.

Maybe some game companies treat their employees like dirt and work them into the ground, but the ones I've worked for, I never felt that way. Don't work at those terrible companies! There are plenty of "good" game companies out there who pay good salaries and have good working conditions.

As someone who is older now with kids, my priorities are definitely different than when I worked in games during my 20s and early 30s. I would no longer be happy working those 60 hour weeks. I want a better work life balance. So I don't know if I could work on a game team like that anymore. But do I regret working there before I had a family? Absolutely not. #gamedev4life
Considering that I see a large number of Tor nodes running from the same addresses as many pool.ntp.org nodes, I think your view is a bit uncharitable. Some people believe in Internet freedom and privacy, and see Tor as a way to help bring that vision to the world. In my opinion, it's just people contributing another piece of infrastructure run as a public service.
Passive income is usually “dramatically less work than a full time job” — e.g. 5 days effort per month. Even paying someone else to do it means you still need to check up on it (and make sure they’re actually doing the work, and doing it competently)
Windows already has a native system call filter, doesn't it?
Do you finish anything though? A lot of writers find that the effort of finishing the story is a lot more work than writing the early parts and so they have half-finished novels in their files that realistically they will never finished.

I'll leave it to the reader to decide if that is okay or not. For me, I know I have too many unfinished projects and so my stories will remain dreams that never get written down.
Also, it makes sense in the broader EU strategy of becoming less reliant on the US.

The EU has a good amount of soft power, this is just testing testing it's waters in directing policy more directly. (other examples are the Iran deal after the US left, and Intervention in Africa)

Geopolitically, this makes a lot of sense, and i think the idea has good intentions, but the implementation of the law is where it falls short.
> The more unsexy a software field is, the better the pay and work conditions are.

I don't know... tell that to everyone who rebranded their statistics degree as "Data Science" starting ten years ago and got a huge career boost, or all the fresh-outs with multi-hundred-$ grant packages because they got an A in their Machine Learning class.

In fact, I can think of glamorous places that do pretty well for their software engineers (Pixar, Apple, ...) and I've seen firsthand how unglamorous companies can also be shitty and low-pay.

Apart from video games, I think there's not many examples to bolster your claim.
Even though it failed its ambitious goals, it still changed the world. The fear it instilled in mainstream PC makers created the netbook segment. Of course, they never were as innovative as the XO.

I hope someday we try to do it again.
This pretty much mirrors my mypy experience too. The only project I've ever successfully used it on was a single-file CLI tool that only used the stdlib.

And by "successfully" I mean "it ran at all". Every other thing I've thrown at it has caused it to crash. I quite like the concept, but implementation has been rather abysmal as far as I've seen. Has it improved in ~ the past year?
I’ve done private and Public hydro and the private projects were still stressful with liquidated damages hanging over my head if i caused a delay in the project and all of the environmental considerations which dramatically complicated the machinery and the controls.