skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it a Google app? If not I hardly think Google's to blame for that. There's a lot I'm concerned of with Google and I'm not happy with a lot of ways they're doing things, but it's really up to ourselves not to use such apps. At least they have to explicitly ask for your permission.

If you buy a Pixel, I don't think there should be such crap? A lot of times it's the manufacturers. Samsung is a terrible offender in this category, I regret my most recent Galaxy phone and will not make that mistake again.

Unless you run a self-flashed OSS OS, the least invasive choices for mobile seem to be Apple, followed by vanilla Android on Google Pixel (but then you might as well run GrapheneOS).
>I think it means I should hone my dreadful hackery skills, because I can be too slow and considered and perfectionistic as a developer.

very nicely said.
Excel is just xml file. What I do is design the excel file how I need it. Export/Save as XML then use jinja2 and template it.

First sheet is usually raw data in standard rows/columns, second sheet would have the cells I need, etc a cell for sum of x columns from sheet 1.

Then use panda’s to get the data, and feed it through jinja2’s template render function.
This is doable, I’ve talked with various people in the Python community for years about it on and off at various conferences.

The issue is finding the money, first to pay for a little dev time, second to pay for the much more expensive infrastructure costs of running this kind of continuous build/test infrastructure.
I think their point is that it's either so futile to attempt, or so unlikely an issue, that the NSA targets US civilians that living off the grid is lower hanging fruit from an absolutist opsec perspective.
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I can see the "keep people tied to the same company" side as having company benefits, sure. And yeah, almost any existing project I've come in to takes months (minimum) to understand the interplay of business/code/company/process/etc.
Good point. The Dreamliner has such problems in its Li-ion batteries to the point that the weight savings due to composite construction was subsequently nullified by metal retrofits to contain battery fires (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...). Additionally, IATA has put strict limits on Li-ion cargo due to Lithium being too reactive, so any plane with Lithium batteries must consider that.
When an AI "decides" that someone should have no food tomorrow, there's always a human who set the AI up to do that, and there's always humans who honor this "decision", often while pretending that they have no choice, that they're mere messengers. No exceptions.
I would expect there to be self-mutating code such that when the open source code is compiled with a particular compiler it activates a different code path (written into the compiler itself) such that the final resulting binary does not correspond to the source code if it were compiled with another compiler.

And if this resulting binary is distributed, audits of the source code wouldn't catch these modifications.
Probably even worse, as fuel can be dumped.
Not just the footer—it even has the hamburger at the top.
No problem, this article is being shared on other news sites now. And it's genuinely confusing to me why the original nature article isn't linked, or why Figure 2 isn't shown in any of them. The figure speaks for itself and even looks very nice. I don't understand reporting on scientific news.

EDIT: Actually axios linked to the original article, so good for them
https://www.axios.com/nasa-moon-wobble-coastal-flooding-c462...
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What about events that need faster than 1 minute response times? Any push notification like system is going to be just as error prone. And what about multiple message handlers? And what happens when the send fails? Did someone write the code to check the inbox for them and handle them? When a send fails multiple times, is that logged and is there a system for clients to check that log? Message transfer isnt the hard problem in this domain.
Er, but OP's tars up and ship after every change?

Get out of here with your antipatterns.
Excel has become the de facto report writer. Look at how many products have Excel plug ins. This allows them to skip the UI development and the report writing portion.
Well, I guess you are speaking about companies who don't know what they do. But this article speaks about banks, who have hundreds of servers, ability to recover anything, full-time employed ops teams, monitoring & automation in place for 20 years already. Moving to cloud provides very little advantage (definitely not financially) to such companies. They are not SaaS who might need to double their infrastructure overnight. Lots of advantages provided by cloud has been in place years before clouds because of VMWare. Another thing is existing bank apps are often monoliths (when you are happy, in Java with Spring, C# .NET, when not, in Visual Basic, Cobol, PowerBuilder, SAP) or huge interconnected services, huge databases with thousands of stored procedures, SOAP APIs in place. This is not a place where you would leverage ElasticBeanstalk or AWS Lambda.
haha! yes, that happened in my previous workplace. many people would keep fully-finished side projects , that they alone use everyday to save time, ready including fancy shiny ppts for "next quarter's hackathon"

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Amazing story! I want to feel like myself again too!
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I've had great experiences from here too. Almost took one, but I was their second choice and they were my second choice as well, but it would have been great. I'd rank HN as the best place to find a job.
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Noted, thanks! I'm still a noob when it comes to 3D modeling. But I'm looking into it, to create different scenarios that you can choose from. I'm thinking the Louvre (hang your photo in the Mona Lisa's spot) or some other well-known location.
I really think that it should be more common to limit meetings to around this length, or at least have a five minute break every 40 minutes or so. My team's weekly meeting has got inexorably longer as the business has grown which in all other ways is a huge positive, but it's a real struggle to meaningfully engage with an 80 minute long meeting once you're past an hour in my opinion.
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No, lithium batteries are explosive. If anything, the fire hazard is probably worse.

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/electric-vehicle-bat...
What if the worst people in the world said they all wanted to go into space
You can bury the char or plow it into fields as a soil ameliorant.

Or if you wanted you could literally just bury it. Then it becomes a coal plant in reverse
Not that I'm aware of. It's data that accompanies audio from publishers/distributors to ensure consistency across platforms. Perhaps with free audio but I can't really see a business reason to publish for free
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It is because no one has to take responsibility for the machine. If you then overwrite the machine, then you have the responsibility of the decision.
First time anyone saw me as an American, not sure what to make of it. Now that you mentioned it, the world should never have let the US get away with the war on terror and everything that came with it. But hey, that's the world we live in now, one of our own making.
I completely agree. My concern is that the problem is rooted in human psychology rather than process control, which makes it much harder to fix.

My experience in aerospace is that the industry swings back and forth on this like a pendulum. A bad event happens and then there’s a focus on safety improvements. Then years or decades go by and no bad event happens. Rather than attribute this increased safety to the process changes, those very same changes are looked at as a burden? Why are we spending all this money and time on quality and safety checks, people say. It’s killing our schedule and budget, they conclude. So they work to erode those processes until another adverse event happens, albeit of a slightly different flavor. Rinse and repeat.
How the Python import system works
Hi! This is part 11 of my Python behind the scenes series. I've been programming in Python for quite a while but didn't really understand how the import system works: what modules and packages are exactly; what relative imports are relative to; what's in sys.path and so on. My goal with this part was to answer all these questions. After you read it, you should be able to tell what exactly happens during the import process.

I welcome your feedback and questions. Thanks!
It's honestly disgusting to see JS developers abuse social justice language in this way. You should be ashamed. Go make a donation.
First Temple-era walls, razed in Biblical account, found unbreached in Jerusalem
Passengers would just reduce the carbon footprint per transported person, which goes against the greenwashing stance of Musk cars.

Or put another way: those potential passengers should get their own Tesla, because more teslas are better for the environment.
Charging is fair but the entire model of free service that turns into premium after a critical mass leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm not sure how you could sensibly guard against this behavior but it seems anticompetitive.
These things do happen, but I'd be willing to place money on it not happening to a major financial institution. The day AWS and friends summarily terminate the account of a major UK bank, causing people to lose the ability to access their money, would also be the day that every company in the country immediately pulls out the business continuity plan and digs into the section on dealing with having to migrate to a new provider.
This is a crime because it happened in the US, targeting an American. Does the article claim any morality high ground? Are you saying this isn't an indictable crime because every country does the same?
A Frankenstein image used in the article: https://wyss-prod.imgix.net/app/uploads/2019/07/25150410/She...
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Indeed the best protection against getting 0day'd is probably to be into computer security. I feel confident that the NSA is not throwing 0days at computer security professionals; whereas they could use them on the average person with little risk of detection.
This is entirely due to the record meeting feature has been decimating their google drive infrastructure.
Quite relatable.

At work, we want to build a simple database and app to interface against it. Asked our boss, asked the IT guys, got the same answer:

A : "Sure, but it has to be MS Access"

Q : "Why though, PostgreSQL / SQLite/ etc. works fine"

A : "Because we already have MS Access"

Q : "OK - could we at least get [programming language + frameworks] for the interface part"

A : "Use Excel and VBA. We already have that"
Archive.org is really old (in terms of internet age) - even before Google, who have used their services to index all archived web pages. They have also donated a lot of servers and cash to them. You can reasonably bet on archive.org outlasting other similar services.
My split ergonomic daily driver is a cloudnine - near identical to the microsoft ergo 4000. Near zero ramp up time, and backlit too
It was nerve wracking the first month for me and I deleted my post (fun fact: you can delete/edit your posts on that thread any time). But after a while, nothing bad happened so I kept posting there. Like OP, there were no responses the first time, but after getting your message out more clearly, they come in.
> Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of your text diagrams
Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created
Note that they have agreed to buy them "conditionally… once the aircraft meet United's safety, business and operating requirements." The 2026 number in the title is probably without meaning. Nobody's meeting those requirements just yet.
This, but for my whole job :)
On one hand, the behavior would be different if _literally abducted from German soil_.

On the other hand, the German government has almost no power to project force abroad so it might not matter much (aside from some sanctions or whatever).
Where would I look to get started with that?

I do have preexisting Nix experience, as well as with flakes, but I don't know how it applies to my M1.
The obesity epidemic is the logical consequence of the marketing paradigm adopted by big food when the biggest companies were bought by big tobacco.

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cigarette-giants-bought-food-compan...
I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-A78RgMhZU "A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)" to be a brilliant introduction to WASM as well as writing interpreters in general. I'm a relative novice in the subject and it was pitched right at my level.
Rhit author here, discovering this post by luck. If you have a question, I'm here to answer. I hope my site ( https://dystroy.org/rhit/ ) answers most of them already.
Eh, if R is geometric then so is algebra. The only thing geometric about R is that you can define an absolute value (i.e. it is an ordered ring) which is a property it inherits from the fractions. The fractions in turn are a basic consequence of the definition of a field (the fractions have a unique image into all fields).

If you've got addition and multiplication then you can get the reals by just adding additive inverse, multiplicative inverses and completeness, none of which are inherently geometric properties. So any geometry must come from the distributive property, because there's not much else it could be.
Eurosystem launches digital euro project
[Good] Rail travel in the United States is practically nonexistent and people are in a hurry.

Hopefully low-speed maglev becomes a thing

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/15/c_139591288.htm
> Charging is fair but the entire model of free service that turns into premium after a critical mass leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It was clear that Meet for individuals' limits were waived due to COVID-19. They have done an announcement about lifting the limits and even stated that it was originally slated to end at September 30 last year. I was a bit surprised they extended it though.
I don't have a horse in this race, but I have often heard in these threads the rumor that the reason the Remarkable E-Ink tablet cannot be fully open-source is due to restrictive licenses for the E-ink technology they use. Basically people are upset (understandably) that they're holding this amazing technology in their hands but are not free to use it to its full potential, as the actual Remarkable software is pretty limited, despite running on Linux. I don't have any idea of whether this is really true or not, but at least it's a falsifiable claim that might help you or someone knowledgeable pin down the origin :)
Predatory pricing is the usual term.
He also wrote [1], which is a review of the development in that domain in the last 10 years or so. It's amazing how much progress has been made even when compared to OP links which is only 2 years old. This is by far the best thing I have read in the last 12 months. From controlling morphogenesis, re-viewing what life and death really mean, where memory actually live, how to create synthetic lifeforms etc. I would recommend it to anyone. It's strangely relevant to computer science/AI as well in my opinion.

The ethical implications are also quite staggering to think about.

You can also find a keynote from him from the last ALife conference, around the same theme, but less thorough [2].

[1] "Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00062... (You can find it in full on Sci-hub).

[2] "Multi-scale goal-directedness in biology as inspiration for robotics and artificial life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L43-XE1uwWc
The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided today to launch the investigation phase of a digital euro project lasting 24 months, noting that a digital euro would complement cash, not replace it.
The problem is that any AI able to perfectly imitate my behavior would also be me and doesn't want to be stuck in that meeting, either.
Yea, they can drop fuel if they know there will be a problem.
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You're just rephrasing what I wrote now, so I guess we agree. Will you admit your original point was misinformed then? We can look at actual Nazi election posters if you like, they never told the people it's going to be suffering and hell, obviously. They made tons of grand promises and that's how they got to power. Denying this fact is dangerous, if we don't understand how totalitarian regimes come about, history is bound to repeat itself.
To be fair, as a non-native english speaker, I've become used to Americans using random capitalization very often, especially in legal documents. The quoting does seem weird, as it looks like uncertainty more than anything.
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GitHub changed the semantics of stars, and that's a shame
I used the keyboard for a year. Coming from ErgoDox EZ (from the same company), it took me ~half a year to type as fast with very few typos.

I found it unsuitable for gaming, since my layout was programming-related. I'm sure I could have configured it for gaming, but I found it easier to just switch to a regular keyboard.

It's also not totally suitable for writing in other than English. If you have other characters, like accents, I found it difficult to program the keyboard properly.

Otherwise, the sky's the limit.
That's so hilariously misguided, it's like some student's experimental pet project. It gives zero visual hint as to how to use it (i.e. ‘affordances’). From the looks, I'd guess that it's a horizontal slider with the range of like fifty pixels. If this was any kind of an established control, you'd surely just use the speaker icon itself as the ‘handler’ to grab—the fact that they needed the separate green dot says enough about whether it was a good idea. How it passed any kind of review at MS is a baffling mystery.
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Still unfortunately more expensive buying the component than just putting the dial on a touchscreen.

Even if it's objectively worse in absolutely every possible dimension you could ever grade it on.
If there would be the conversion in two direction, this would be super helpful to for code comments incl. a graphic editor inside the IDE.
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Facebook staffers told to scrap any mention of Russia in a 2017 white paper
that's not how I remember it:

https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/

edit: from the linked article, in case it isn't clear, an HN comment by eich:

"Sure, in userland many languages compile to assembly. Hmm, where have I heard that word lately?"[1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554914
but who should I pray to then?
My """favorite""" part is that if you use old.reddit.com, you have to go on the new website to accept the cookie notice.
Something like CSV Reader?: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/csv-reader/dnioinf...
The "OS as a service" era was also when they really ramped up the advertising and telemetry in windows. It would be nice if they decide whatever revenue that brings is not worth the loss of good will people had for Microsoft before all that began and give it up.
Is it really that unfair to blame the guy who profited most from it? If as you say increasing the size of an organization inevitably leads to a dystopian behemoth shouldn't we condemn people who do exactly that to grow their wealth?
Open the gate? If you read about Cold War history you'd find endless stories about kidnapping for political reasons.

One of a more famous example:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eichmann-capture...

And a more recent one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Hongwei
Unfortunately, a child can take over an unpatched computer using public exploits.

Please explain your comment about how key signing ceremonies stop people from being bribed. The creation of those keys creates a root of trust but doesn't stop leaf certs from being generated.
I'm glad he made it to the US. Of course because it's The Atlantic, they were obligated to implicate the US as a co-conspirator: "Islamophobic discourses that gathered strength in the U.S. have been central to China’s efforts to justify its Xinjiang policies". Yeah, of course it's all really our fault, of course.

Keep in mind, The Atlantic is a lifestyle magazine.
Going for walks every 30mins will leave you with very little accomplished at the end of the day. The idea is if you're to spend prolonged periods of time at a computer its possible a lying position is most optimal.
How is the problem of PII better solved on premises?
> But you don’t want to install globally.

I do want to install globally, as outlined in my original comment. Unless you can tell me how to somehow modify the installation of Weechat to also include this one Python package.

I think Nix is a really cool concept and no doubt there are certain use cases that it solves really well. But my experience with it as a day to day package manager was that it just made simple things hard without a proportional benefit to make all the trouble worth it.
Yeah, the invocation of quantum entanglement in the 3 body problem was ... a problem. The best scifi of any "hardness" is by authors that know the limits of their own understanding of science and physics and beyond that point they don't try to explain things. I can accept a premise that violates physics, I have a tough time accepting an explanation that violates physics, if that makes sense. "Assume that the society actually found tachyons and figured out how to use them to communicate FTL" is fine, but "quantum entanglement really does let you communicate FTL" is hard to get past.

Like you said, though, still great books and a great writer :)
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Eventually meetings would be nothing but AIs talking with each other
There is https://gridstudio.io/ but I am not sure what the current project status is...
I hadn't heard about this mantra before:

Management's reasoning fell in line with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's early mantra, "company over country," according to the book.

"As a private global company, Facebook did not want to engage in geopolitical skirmishes, and it certainly didn't want to be in the middle of contentious national elections," the authors write. "Facebook was, above all, a business."
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I'd expect that if the cloud providers wish to acquire customers that have to comply with those regulations, the cloud providers will have clause in the contract that they are contractually obligated to keep the same services running for that period of time.
The lack of strings makes sense, as many different languages and standard libraries have their own implementations of it, that can behave slightly differently. It now puts the implementation of the string to the compilers/linkers, as is generally the case for assembly as well.

The lack of a DOM API is something I sorely miss as well. It's currently possible (and not that hard, you can just interact with JS), but comes with such performance overhead that you lose the entire benefit of WASM.
After visiting Auschwitz, I expected (or maybe hoped) that the world would never let it happen again.

“How could they do this?”, People asked.

“That would never happen today” people murmured.

Yet, here we are. Reading the 15th article about it, while the White House deletes tweets that likely anger the CCP

They should be removed from most favored nation status.

Governments could do a lot more but don’t