skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can now self-fire yourself. Or could be easily "reduced". Congratz mate. Or maybe you are in manager position ?

O, and just wait till global MS365 outage. Or global MS365 emails leak. Or passwords leak or just sell offers on black market...

Also all that thread conflate email systems with "email/messaging/calendaring" packages - that always was corporational level stuff so no serious attempts from open software world.

And maybe you remember Netscape ~4.x had profiles in LDAP ? But, somehow, that fake opensource fundation Mozilla removed it. Why ? Obviously - to trim down competition for budies ! And here we are - "I'm so happy with app via browser!"...

And IBM... n/c...
Still at it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-barrett-se...
Need food packaging that detects pathogens... so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates
What’s that gotta do with this discussion?
This doesn't seem unlike the Pioneer Villages that dot the entire Western world.

Nobody honestly thinks the older lady in the little wooden shack is carding wool from one of her 3 pet sheep in order to actually clothe her family, who are all out doing other pioneering duties at this very moment. She probably drove a car or took a bus from her actual home to get there for your touristy entertainment. And she's been carding that same tuft of wool for months.

If you're paying for an experience, "fake" might be a bit harsh of a descriptor. Personally I love stuff like this.

I did a brewing apprenticeship at a pioneer village a few years ago. It was definitely one of the most fun ways to learn the craft. It was really funny because the tourists just casually assumed the brew master was my dad. I went along with what everybody thought, and just let him do all the talking. More fun for everyone that way.
> I wonder if temperatures can be read simply by reading electrical noise

Yes and no. On one hand, semiconductor properties are temperature dependent, therefore the "noise" from amplifier is temperature dependent.

On the other hand, temperatures of the sound card circuitry depend mostly on computer case temperature, not ambient temperature, but that is somewhat combatable with external cards. Furthermore, amplifiers have multiple stages with various feedbacks and filters designed to among other things reduce (i.e. distort) noise, which is bound to reduce effectiveness.

Even if one succeeded in training an ML model on sound card noise data, noise profile will most likely be too different on different sound card designs for the model to work.

All in all, I suspect that there is enough data in the noise to measure temperatures with one or so degree accuracy, but such a solution would not scale to different hardware.
By nature we choose the path of least resistance. Because it’s easier if possible. It costs less.

We are also always trying to navigate the world constantly, and talking is a way to test our world view against other people. This is why we talk.

So; Talking (articulating the world view) and hopefully getting a affirming response to that is less expensive to our system than throwing away that paradigm and learning a new one.
>In other words, this snippet of code will do exactly what you expect it to without a single surprise:

That reinterpret cast from char* to a char8_t* is undefined behavior.

std::u8string_view utf8_input(reinterpret_cast<const char8_t*>(argv[1]));

This is not just pedantry either, it was purposely designed this way to allow compilers to better optimize code without worrying about aliasing issues.

Link to the paper which explicitly calls out that char8_t be defined as a new type that does not alias with any other type (hence making that reinterpret cast undefined behavior):

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p048...
I haven't looked into this particularly deeply, but from what I can tell, many major tech companies have made more revenue per developer the higher their developer count has gotten.

To my mind, this also matches the tendency of big tech companies to always be hiring, often with no specific positions to fill, and of the incredible wage increase over time. And the manner in which we build upon each others' work makes some sense of this as well.
I know nearly innumerable homeschoolers, they regress to the mean like any other group, but they also have far more hyper successful outliers.

There are a number of people I know who transcended the station of their birth but I know a disproportionate number of homeschoolers who did from an early age per capita.

All bets are off if the homeschooler is insularly religious. Has a kid at a young age or they became "homeschooled" because they were kicked out of every regular school for extreme violence or other similar behavior.
Southern BC just barely qualifies as a desert (9.8" of annual rain in Osoyoos vs. 10" to qualify as a desert)
;)

But yeah Osoyoos is wildly similar in architecture/vibe to parts of AZ/NM.
WFH -> less cars on the street?
I don't understand the proposal. Let's say everyone on HN suddenly stops praising WFH. So what? Are companies going to stop outsourcing? Are legislations going to stop being passed?
I believe this is the site:

https://artickl.com/

And here's a post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/oa7x3...
> Trees get cut down because people deface them, drive into them (yes, they do), or don't tend to them (granted, it's expensive to hire an arborist to keep your insurance happy)

I asked how much to trim a tree in my front yard, was told it was the same price (several hundred dollars) to trim it or to just cut it down and remove it.
Python 3 by default still opens text files using the legacy locale encoding.
It would be interesting to hear the theory of what happened between developing the interesting engine tech under the hood, suitable for flexible collaboration and active databases, and end user riots. Was it that marketing had to decide between promoting the bundled mail/calendar apps and promoting it as a custom app platform, and latter withered away?
I think a lot of people deconstruct the ideas they were given as children, and end up reconstructing parts of them into a bit of a patchwork, later in life.

I hope your boy keeps giving you reasons to be proud of him, whatever kind of proverbial clothes he decides to end up in.
At least Microsoft releases a transparency report. A lot of subprocessors, and services that everyone uses, like Fastly and Akamai, don't, so I bet LEOs just go to them instead.
It's a fact that the weights were unequal, the only question is why. And it's not like it'd be an easy thing for citizens to notice.
The bigger caricature is imagining that it all goes away if you just WFH.

It doesn't magically go away, it just keeps happening, almost certainly to your detriment.
This should come as no surprise: he's been selling himself (and his creation) out since he endorsed media encryption blobs for the web.
Depends where you were in BC.

Victoria was >15 degrees colder than Kamloops for instance.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ethnic and ethnicity

Completely omits mention of ancestry which is how the word is actually used and useful.
Summary: East asians are partially adapted against alcohol because they invented it first and alcohol reduces fitness. No evidence presented but it sounds cute. Presumably they are also adapted against milk because of reasons.
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> why didn’t they tell us it was this simple?

Because it has an intangible effect on GDP. Our culture optimises for creating obedient worker drones who will capitulate to authority. Fostering empathy for others and leading children to a life of fulfilment conflicts with establishment incentives.
Yes that isn't too many, but right now any device can just hop on a network and start communicating (after DHCP). Not only that, but they can start communicating with any public IP address.

If people decided to take this away by adding some security directly into the IP layer (i.e. such that communicating without it is impossible, such as mandatory IPsec), I don't think the tradeoff would be worth it. Now you would have to manage all the normal stuff that comes with keys (e.g. expiration and renewal), and you may find your device gets wedged if you don't do the delicate key expiry dance correctly (i.e. you can't even connect to the site to get updated keys).

It's very easy to say "those DARPA morons not designing security was a big mistake!", but I am not convinced that the tradeoffs of solving it at the internet level (i.e. L4 and down) are worth the bootstrapping / flexibility hits.
My intuition tells me this is the crux of the matter: If I spend my time in the kitchen and the garden and wrenching and cutting and repairing, then my kid will be drawn to like activities. I hope I can behave accordingly and I hope you're right!
They should work on any browser that supports the standards.

10-15 years ago I would agree, but now I feel I must add something to that sentence: any browser that supports the standards before they became Google-ified because it is churning the standards so much that its weapon of monopoly is effectively change --- Firefox can barely keep up, and Microsoft already surrendered.

What we really need to get rid of is the idea that websites are designed to work only on the very latest version of Google's browser or one derived from it. Text-and-images "formatted document" pages should absolutely not require JS just to show their content, and readable with a text-based browser too.

Even webapps, which are more sensitive to browser environments due to their heavy use of JS, should not stop working on an older browser just because a newer version appeared --- after all, it did work before. I really don't understand the rabid trendchasing and forced deprecation the webdev community seems to love so much. All I see are webapps getting slower and ceasing to work, namely doing almost the same thing they could be doing decades ago.
> Those who questioned the centrality of sex to human existence directly attacked the fundamental social conventions of their time.

Almost every person who has ever existed, exists because of sex. That is literally what causes people to happen. That's not merely a social convention.

I say "almost" because artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization are possible. Whether those "are" some intermediated kind of sex becomes debatable. The man who masterbates to fill the cup -- is he having sex? The woman who undergoes the procedure -- is that sex? You can worry about the boundaries of concepts and try to shift them around. Certainly I've done this. And very topically you can do that for very basic concepts, like "man" or "woman". So, obviously, the word "sex" is somehow a social convention. Trivially, you at least say it differently in different languages.

But there is one act that everyone, everywhere, will agree is sex, and that is penile-vaginal sex between a male and a female. The thing that creates babies. That is central to the concept. And though I'm sure efforts are underway to "de-center" that, and to shift the meaning of the word...

...the thing that underlies it is fundamental to your existence. At most, by altering your internal representations, you can cut away from yourself some ability to think or sense or communicate productively about this aspect of reality. But this aspect of reality won't go away.

Granted, this is an aspect of reality whose time dynamics are slow, on the order of generations, so it's possible in the short term to make it seem unimportant. But slow dynamics -- like climate -- are actually very important...
Surely someone who knows so much understands the difference between 3-cycle pipelined latency, where you can have 3 results in 3 cycles, and 3-cycle execution, where only one result is available every 3rd cycle. Thus, comparing 14 cycles pipelined to 3-cycle latency is disingenuous at best.

The facts lead me to disbelieve that you are, in fact, curious.
Many of Apple’s employees should be millionares. If millionaires cannot live life the way they want by leaving Apple, what are they working towards? Staying at Apple despite their wishes regarding a highly impactful issue like work/life balance makes them not so bright.
What about the fact that most people don’t want agency?
Most people are perfectly fine with being told what to do. And rightfully so, as their work is not a measure of their personal success.
Agree, or I would just say “just never give up trying” because they might be working on something stupid and they should sometimes pivot/give up this one but not all together.
That’s really the only universal advice imo.
What about criminal mindset caused by criminal culture flourishing in such areas?
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Right, it's not checked by the device. Its purpose seems to be more forensic: say an app version turned out malicious, and the developer said it wasn't me, Google was pwn3d and used my keys to sign malware. Code transparency would allow a developer to prove that tampering had occurred between their build of the app bundle and the user installation. It looks more like an accountability mechanism in case of failure than a protection.
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No, the headline is accurate.

Although this building had maintenance issues, the bigger question is if it had enough support columns. Video of neighborhood buildings shows a minimal amount of parking garage support for such massive buildings.

It looks like structural engineers designed all those area condos with ideal conditions in mind. One drunk driver taking out a single column would collapse the building.

If you watch the Youtube Practical Engineering channel series on reinforced concrete, it's obvious workman are too careless when placing and/or scratching rebar. (You can't stand on rebar while pouring concrete or the expected exterior spacing isn't kept, which accelerates corrosion and violates any structural calculations.)

Also, never buy a condo with an above-ground pool or you will get periodic maintenance fees for $50,000 - $100,000 per unit, plus the long-term corrosion issues.

To understand how bad sea salt corrodes metal, I've seen airplanes totalled from sea mist. You can use your fingernail to score and crumble aluminum parts.
well, that's the only way to never get pwned
'Hanabi' (花火) means 'fireworks', but it's a compound of 'hana' (花) - 'flower' and 'hi' (火) - 'fire'.
It may be that de facto these are not requirements, but for some of us who take things at face value and feel dishonest if we apply to something that has requirements, it is not that simple. It becomes more complex when you are of deontological preferences where you may have a universal rule forbidding you to do anything that you may deem misleading or dishonest.

Although, I do not engage in judging others much, I would feel a strong disdain toward disregarding the minimum requirements because it supposes that I suppose that the other person is not 100% honest/clear in their intention and certain set of values may forbid some people in what I guess may be called ''bad faith'' i.e. presupposing that people are dishonest without having a viable reason for thinking so.

Well these are just some thoughts but I have a huge mental block in going against requirements, rules etc based upon the idea that the you presuppose that the other person is dishonest because then it would follow that one lives by the presupposition that everyone is being dishonest until otherwise.

Of course, for more utilitarian oriented people there may be more room for flexibility. However, in a pluralistic society I would value a wide array of ethics compatible in a free and fair market which respects fundamental human rights.
Yes, you can get DNA from human remains, even very old ones.
> This is an excellent example of how the AI singularity/revolution/whatever is a total distraction [...]

Umm, no it's not. It's possible we just have two problems - the economic problem you mention might be correct, but also that people who believe in the problems of the singularity are right as well. The existence of a certain problem doesn't negate the existence of the other problem.
Nice idea! First I was thinking he will use NE555 to convert the sensor reading to variable frequency and reading that. Generating a signal then reading it back with the same soundcard is neat.
I can help with a couple of these. 12 notes is a kludge, because powers of 2^(1/12) well approximate simple ratios. These simple ratios (such as 3:2) sound good. I like this video for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hqm0dYKUx4

Also, the reason that the letters are in the wrong order is that we're playing the wrong scale. The monks who invented the scale usually sang in A-minor (so we use the first letter for that scale). Nowadays, we use the major scale, which has the same spacing between notes, but in a different order. It just so happens that C-major has the same notes as A-minor, so that's why we count from C. A great channel for this is Michael New, he explains everything very clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcviIQg_BlU

Music, much like language, has a lot of technical debt.
sushi in kyoto was similar to this. some kind of fermented suhsi. it was ok, prefer the new tokyo style kind lol
Is Crowdfunding and Early Access a Good Combo?
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Software developers have a much wider range of options today then they did just a decade ago. Crowdfunding and Early Access Programs have been making gaming news recently, so it’s worth taking a look at what they are, if and how they can work together.
I refuse to install TikTok because it is so addictive. Last month I installed Facebook for some local Facebook groups (looking for second hand stuffs for my hobby), I accidentally scroll through Facebook videos, it has TV clips and apparently TikTok clips. I may have already spent 20 hours on this already. Plus I use Instagram, I watch ski reels from time to time. Short videos are VERY addictive.

Comparing numbers on Facebook videos and Instagram reels, reels is definitely much better. The content however, is limited comparing to TikTok. And most reels are from TikTok (with logos many times).
I understand that the point of this is to imagine something better, but I feel like the Emacs info reader is already most of the way to the ideal viewer described here.
Idk about Windows but yes the App Store has been doing it this way from the start. I suspect this is a case of Apple envy.
And it's quite good. I switched over a little over a year ago, and I have no regrets.
The idea of the whole system is that remembering locations is something our brain is good at. So this is using our evolved abilities in a wya that benefits us today. Its very different from just memoriaing a list and then pegging items to it.
Because we have specialized diverse teeth. Of course it's possible but that would be novel genetic programming which we just can't do.
Nothing is 100%. But still, unvaccinated people are much more prone/infectious.

Do you want to wait for bulletproof solution and just let people die in the meantime?
It talks about reduced latency, but doesn't describe how it is achieved and why there's such a jump from 50ms to 1ms.

https://www.digi.com/blog/post/5g-network-architecture "Difference between 4G and 5G Network Architecture" section (no id sadly)

Basically there should be less tunneling, as far as I understand.
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Good for them. :) F FB
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This is actually the thing that most bothers me about Jesus. So much of Christianity -- especially early Christianity -- is about the Word "vs." the Flesh. It's like a meme that wants so badly to colonize you that it will torpedo your biological interests to do it.

But Christianity was also very syncretic in the way it spread, and it took on pagan influences, and my feeling is that those practices helped reconcile the meme a little more to biological reality. Maypoles and marriages worked their way back in...

It seems to me that the Word (or the meme) and the Flesh have to be in harmony, each serving the other. Left unchecked, the Word always seems to want to mutilate the flesh. (Maybe because irreversibility is good for anything that's desperate for an absorbing state.) And I have a real problem with that.
Here's a Firefox userChrome.css workaround that moves the close button to the left side of the tab:

https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/c...
Brookstone had one like that
QtWebkit has been deprecated for a long time, and removed from Qt6. If you use it, you'll run into 'not supported' messages on most Google websites.
> Mate if you're going to try that one don't be defending America with it haha. Gofundme campaigns are a part of your healthcare system.

Why not? The US has an enormous welfare state, one of the biggest and most expensive in the world in fact.

Which isn't the same thing as pretending the US has a well-run and efficient welfare state, which it does not.

Fun fact: the US spends more of its economy on its welfare state, than either Canada or Australia do, and just below Switzerland. That's simultaneously a testament to how massive the US welfare state has become, and how poor its efficiency often is (what with our world-topping per capita healthcare costs, nobody gets less bang for the buck on welfare spending than the US).

The bottom 24%-28% (depending on the year) in the US receive free healthcare, which costs north of $700 billion per year. Medicaid alone costs around $650 billion now. The US further has an array of other free and subsidized healthcare programs, at the local/state/federal levels, and I suspect most foreigners are entirely ignorant that any of it exists.

The various government systems of the US spend $9-$10 trillion per year, depending on the year, or roughly 40%-45% of the economy. Did you think that was all going to military spending?
What’s the context here? Why can’t someone go and investigate in person?
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It wouldn't surprise me to learn that all the UAP/UFO incidents were just advanced US craft, powered by some form of fusion.

Fusion requires very strong superconductors. Those can be made from plastic, according to some old patents. The critical temperature of this material far exceeds the decomposition point of the plastic, 1000 degrees K.

If you put all the pieces together, you should be able to pull off Boron 11 fusion in a manner similar to the Polywell, and extract most of the energy directly as high voltage DC.

You could then use that high voltage DC to power a field effect lifter.

That's my guess at the how fusion could be magic. Extrapolated from spending way too much time surfing the web.

One day I want my own personal Megawatt box powered by this technology. It should be about the size of a 2 drawer filing cabinet with a small display for setting the output parameters, and a set of 480, 220, 110, 12 volt, and USB-C outputs.