skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have many friends in medical jobs where their decisions can have extreme effects on other people’s lives, to the point of risking life or death if they make the wrong decision for the patient or miss some key information.

From that perspective, software development feels like a low-stakes game.

Obviously there are many jobs with less decision fatigue, but I don’t think software development is uniquely bad compared to other highly paid professions like legal or medical.

All things considered, software engineering is one of the cushier high-paying careers out there. We definitely have it good.
Tests and compiled languages help reduce risks associated with fixing a bug in a function.

The classic fear that "I don't know what else uses this function" is simple enough to solve for a developer who knows how to perform static analysis.

However, many don't. Even if they do know how to find all areas where a function is being called, it's easier for the "busy" developer to make a copy of the entire function and just change the part they need.
Small price to pay for herd immunity and normalcy, if it actually worked.
On the other hand, a single cell much simpler than a neuron (any bacteria) is able to perform significantly more complex calculations than any ANN we've tried so far (successfully interacting with an environment to move and find food).

Comparing these kinds of disparate tasks for "computational power levels" between vastly different architectures one of which we're not even close to understanding is generally pretty futile.
The two

> Latex packaging is nightmare.

and

> Verbosity will be solved by tones of JS and python packages.

seem at odds to me.
Indeed, a common paradigm is to use mosh to connect over the internet to some bastion host, and then use ssh for all subsequent connections over a highly reliable internal network.
In my opinion, 2008, GME, and many other gaffes really show we need more regulation -- not less!
The article indicates the party account got locked for doxxing a nine year old rape victim. If there's an extreme here, it's not my position.
DDR5/DDR4 Solution for 5nm SoCs Launched
Brushless Motors

Power Tool KickBack Control (and just safety, were dB warnings big in the 90's? Ergonomic's are improving)

Drill bit/blades/disk composition/tech.

The fact I can (almost) throw out tools that you'd never have seen in a garage in the 90's.

And if we are not children and can talk about such things, they can look good. (Although the 90's tools are now retro and also have an aesthetic)

Track down a power tools catalogue from the 90's

Like computers, every thing was invented before the 80's. But now it's usable and accessible.

And yes, the 80% is probably batteries and cost. But there's a lot in the 20% too.

Going off topic but putting a clear window on stick vacuum cleaners literally gamified vacuuming. What that means for asthma for instance we will see over the years.

Battery adapter's (ie. Milwaukee to Makita) went from 3d printed on ebay to injected moulded over a short period.

The female market has been increasing since the 90/00's and is continuing to increase.
In the past it was even possible to host static websites from the Public folder
Two I can think of:

- Performance. Rendering emails, especially big HTML emails, in a separate process means that rendering can be offloaded to a different CPU core and that can help keep the main Thunderbird UI more responsive

- Security. If HTML email rendering is in its own process it reduces the blast radius of any exploits in the web sandbox. I also vaguely recall from Firefox's work that there might be additional OS-level security restrictions that can be applied on a per-process basis, which you might want for web rendering but can't have for other parts of the email client.
How hard would it be to prove correctness of this quicksort in an example?
I just want to add to your number 1.

Not only would this be marginal it also wouldn’t necessarily be catching the real “monsters”. I don’t think if you find someone with old already known about images that it would necessarily equate to someone that actually abuses children. I think about this in a similar way (not exactly) as I do with drugs, just because a person gets busted with drugs doesn’t mean they are a drug dealer or a maker of drugs.

This is not to say that perhaps there are some more active real-time stuff in these databases that maybe with enough searching could make its way back to the perpetrator and indeed maybe even find a victim. It’s just seems that that would be far more marginal and is generally what I’m concerned about when it comes to these issues. For me it’s more important to protect children than it is to bust some weirdos for looking at the wrong porn (these can both be related as well and I do understand that I just think it’s not as cut and dry as we believe it is), further if it keeps said weirdo from actually harming a child then let them have it. We allow these databases to exist for, presumably, the same reason, with the idea that we can stop future victims from happening.
Why should people with natural immunity from previous exposure get it? Natural immunity provides broader protection because antibodies are generated for more of the virus, instead of just the spike protein in the case of vaccines.

If there is negligible additional protection then why take the risk of vaccine injury?

Why can't antibody tests be regarded in the same way as vaccination for 'passport' purposes?

The CDC estimates about 110 million Americans have had COVID already. Why should they be vaccinated? Why not 'donate' the doses that would be have been used on them to other countries, to help people who have not been previously infected?
If people hate the syntax, at least it will serve as a stable target to compile other math markup languages to. It might even lead to a lot more experimentation and innovation in that area.
The big refinement other than going to lithium batteries is the adoption of brushless DC motor technology.
Most ORMs don't let us do this, and it works well.

Getting back the entire relation (rather than some sub-tuple) isn't the kind of expense that causes problems scaling. It chews up network bandwidth between the database and the API, but it's not more computationally expensive (asymptotically).

And if my entities are dozens of columns wide, I'm probably not in 3NF anyway, so it'd be better to focus my efforts on getting there.
Is this due to fluctuating pricing or high usage? It seems that Texas bills vary between a monthly average of $100-200. That seems a lot to me, but the average unit price is pretty good.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47876
It doesn't matter, if only GCC gets to play with Linux kernel.

Rust is only following down the footsteps of D and Go.
Yes, but these weren't insurance companies, they were retail banks. That was the problem.
I agree overall and think total vaccination would end the crisis given that it reduces mutations. But at least one health agency has put the protection of the mRNA vaccines for delta as low as ~40% and if the first 10 days everyone is infectious while the second 10 days the unvaccinated are in bed/quarantine then it sounds like the transmission rate could be about the same for both groups.
Mocking inventors for the challenges they cross along the way tends to not age well.
What if after filling the form the customer doesn't want to contact via WhatApp? Can they still send it over web like any other form?
No, because it's wrong. Threshold neurons are still differentiable almost everywhere, no different than Relus which are ubiquitous. They may not be very good activation functions but they don't prevent a network from learning.
No, because the great thing about software is how malleable it is. Try
undoing things in hardware, construction, law, or surgery.
Building a Multi-Step Form with Petite-Vue
Motus in fine velocior. Big changes are happening as a rapid succession of incremental acts. The culmination is not pretty.

Somehow I expect that even some of those who have most fully internalized the commands of their oppressors are beginning to experience a bit of cognitive dissonance from the rapid pace of oligarchic usurpation and expanding totalitarian control. At least one hopes. But there are always those who will live out their lives in the cocoon of Stockholm syndrome.
"Happier and more fulfilled" is a good question to ask about a person, but I think it gets too squishy in regards to people. Too abstract.

If you're going to broaden person to people, I think it's best to narrow to "happier and more fulfilled" in regards to something. Marriage/personal economics/profession/social life/spiritual life/etc.
I've lost power here in Maryland several times over the course of just a few years (usually during thunderstorms). And I happen to know that Pepco (our power company) basically has a "let hardware fail before we fix it" policy. A couple years ago we had a problem where plugging in a vacuum or turning on the disposal dimmed the lights in the whole house. We hired a master electrician to take a look and he concluded it was pepco's box outside. We reported it to pepco and they did nothing. 1 year later the box failed and we completely lost power until pepco came out and replaced something in their box.

So yeah, I seriously doubt many states could hold up to this level of scrutiny.
EFF conflates the CSAM detection and the iMessage safety features in the first paragraph. Disappointing that they can’t make their case with the facts.
It is worse tho. The surveillance apparatus doesn't care much about your actual words and images, but your associations and relations. This makes finding needles much more efficient and pre-encryption exfiltration circumvents user added measures, like third party iCloud encryption. And I am pretty sure this will be baked into the OS deeper than your VPN/DNS's reach. Opening up this side channel isn't undone by trusting some "icloud deactivation". Much less in your mind.
That's just such a naive take with no connection to reality. Occasional deaths and inheritance by retail shareholders has zero impact on share prices.
The conflicting information derives from political decision making, not scientific reason. Not confusing at all from that perspective.
This works well only if you're supporting a linear evolution of releases, no branching or LTS or back-porting.
That response admits the sexual references sent to a 17-year old and just quibbles with the idea that someone could initially chalk it up as a weird mistake, then change their mind after hearing of similar experiences of others.

As to the third-party defense: it is maybe unfortunate, but sadly fact, that the existence of one bank I did not rob, or even suspiciously stalked around in, does not proof that I did not rob any bank.

edit: this comment is as quickly approaching grey, as De Grey is approaching a 17-year old, apparently. I guess multiple accusation of sexual harassment are still the easiest way to establishing a fan base on HN.
> remember how advertisements always had to say “no batteries included”?

Hmm. Perhaps this is a regionalism, but I remember the phrase as being "batteries not included":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries_Not_Included
> ...why cling to a word that has so much cultural baggage...

Clinging? We're all just talking here and we don't have any authority over this software. Are we allowed to have differing opinions about what already took place? I think so.

Personally, my opinion is that I laugh at these people for their empty virtue signaling that really doesn't help understanding here in this case. We don't have to be clinging in order to discuss how idiotic we think things are.
It might get it right some of the time, but it will be necessarily wrong some of the time. It's also very possible that for many (possibly even most) TMs, the most efficient algorithm for predicting the output is that TM itself.
It's a photo-op, not doxxing. This is tantamount to accusing the family of doxxing themselves considering they invited him to meet with them.

> Sharing a picture of his meeting with the girl's family on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had tweeted in Hindi, “Parents' tears are saying only one thing -- their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path to justice.”

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/dalit-rape-murder-rahu...
Life expectancy has already lowered quite a bit from the pandemic we can't put a lid on, and when (if) that settles down cataclysmic climate change will continue its work. Sorry but the future seems quite bleak.
By the way, your email address provider is only one metric by which you are being monitored. Everything happening online is now being monitored, stored and AI analysed, and will be for a long time in the future as technology is evolving and new meaning can emerge from everything that is recorded.

Therefore, encryption is their enemy. For now. Until they break it all. Or until we break away.
Yeah good point, I updated my comment. Thanks!
It looks like there is confusion in the way this is being reported. In some news articles they wrote accounts were locked. In one article it was mentioned that the tweets were made invisible.
I'd welcome anyone trying to explain this idea to me along a number of axises, because I really do not get it.

1. What does 3D space add? If I want to shop for some item it's more convenient for me to look at a list with pictures and text than to wander through a 3D store. It's also more efficient for the vendor to provide the list than pay people to model the interior of their 3D store, scan all their products in, etc. The Internet won through being more convenient, I don't see how this isn't a step backwards.

2. What are we going to do about UGC kitsch? Second Life and more recently VRChat and NeosVR have provided demonstrations of what a metaverse combining content from thousands of creators of mixed skill levels is like. While I can appreciate it on some level, the fact is it's hideous. Are the operators of metaverse-Amazon really going to let their in-store aesthetics be ruined by a low-poly neon-purple wolf wandering through it while I'm trying to browse? If they are, why? If they aren't, how is this an interconnected metaverse?

3. Why is anyone going to respect the interconnectedness of the metaverse? Websites successfully resisted the Semantic Web. Businesses don't want to point the way to their competitors. Games want to constrain what the player character can be to fit a specific power level, tone or art style. Fortnite, for all of its metaverse cred, does not allow players to upload their own avatars and has never (to my knowledge) added a portal which when entered closes Fortnite and opens another game.
These sound like common blacklist-style defenses. As examples, mail services use RBLs to prevent spam, Cloudflare services often require captchas from Tor exit node IP addresses, many websites decline signups from throwaway email addresses like Mailinator. Credit card companies use various indicators to prevent fraud.

I'm not saying these measures are perfect or fair, but they are not related to government (though government may also use them); they are just obvious ways to prevent unwanted activity such as spam, fraud, hacking attacks, etc.

> Their AI determined that people using particular email providers need to be watched

How do you know that government has concluded 'particular providers need to be watched', and that the decision was performed by an AI?

> for using a privacy focused email address when signing up for services operated by a government entity

How do you know the cause?
Using Javascript on the back-end to build stylesheets based on tags actually used might make some sense, but client side? That's just dumb. There's so many ways that can go wrong.
You define a smart contract where your intent is that it checks if other smart contracts are legal and runs them. Then you define a contract that runs the contract that checks if another contract is legal and then as the writer your intent is for the program to be illegal if the other program is legal and vice versa. Then you run this second contract through the first. If it is legal it is illegal and if it is illegal it is legal. Obviously there is no way to write a smart contract that checks if others are legal, but a writer can intend to write it which is where the problem of considering smart contract writer intent originates.
Yup, and as Al-Khwarizmi says in a sibling comment, we are entertained through the journey.

Whether it diminishes your entertainment, once you get to the end of the story, to realise almost everything was pointless
- in the fictional universe you just partook - well that's a question for you.

For me, it does not. But I also really enjoyed Joseph Heller's second novel.
This article has more details. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/12/tech/twitter-india-congre... The opposition party clearly had the permission of the parents to post the photo. The Indian government appears to have requested of Twitter to remove the photo since it was used for political purposes by the opposition.
Is Eclipse modern?
Do new programmers and projects use it? It has been in decline for years.
Now all we need is the ability to set a client-side encryption key file that applies transparently before upload and on download. This would then be emailed to yourself as a backup. Then you can be secure in your effects.
It's arguable that some memories are stored via epigenetic modifications to DNA, depending on how you define "storing memories". It is very unlikely it is storing memories in the way humans typically think of memories. But I don't think "in DNA" necessarily implies "in DNA sequence".
Kotlin Is Turning 10
I believe that after half a dozen releases 0 stops being meaningful and is just reflection on somebody's inability to make a decision.

I make my point by always numbering my first prod release as 1.0.0.

It is never going to be perfect and it is always going to be in state of flux.

Why try to push responsibility onto client by telling them "Guys, we have warned you, this is still version 0"?
The fact that some order is better than no order does not imply that more order is better than less order.

If you assume that adding more government always makes things better, then why not go all the way to complete totalitarianism?

If you agree that totalitarianism is too far, then I don't see why reasonable people can't disagree on which direction (more government or less government) is an improvement on the status quo.
International law supersedes Twitter's ToS and Twitter's actions are entangling the United States into international political conflicts that we don't need to be dumped into.

The core question as far as international law is concerned is whether or not Twitter's actions in these instances are those of a state or if it is a private actor. Twitter would say it's a private actor, but considering the close historical coordination between Twitter, the State Department, and the intelligence octopus, one would have to be somewhere between clueless, brain damaged, and a stooge to argue that Twitter is wholly a private actor and completely uncontaminated from American state pressure.

I'm not an Indian, not ethnically Indian, don't care about India, but India should accordingly treat Twitter as if it is an American state actor and seek restitution and remediation under the exact same reasoning that the United States uses to blame the Russian state for election interference among other miscellaneous "cyber" things.

We do use this exact reasoning against the Russians with even less evidence. Our economic policy of attempting to digitally dominate and interfere with foreign powers is also screwing up our diplomacy (not that American diplomacy can really get any more twisted, but still, I'm speaking in terms of the principle here). India's at an inflection point now in its own foreign policy, and it is not helpful to the American interest to have quasi-private frothing algorithmic dogs causing needless diplomatic incidents continuously for no discernable benefit to anyone but Twitter's feckless shareholders.
> it is quite hard to keep a grid stable with such high penetration of renewables.

This isn't true (counterexamples: New Zealand, UK, Germany), and even if it were, saying it in this context is disingenuous because it implies that the problems with Texas's grid are due to renewables. They aren't: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/17/energy-20....
Tesla is already supply limited. They sell every car they produce and are ramping as fast as they can. So, this tax credit doesn't help them sell more cars. The credit was meant as a boost to legacy automakers--or more specifically their union labor force who are big political donors.

The cap kind of defeats the purpose of the credit though. Legacy automakers aren't currently able to profitably make a compelling, long-range BEV at a $40k price point. So they'll have to push crappy shorter-range models or polluting plug-in hybrids if the credit allows it. It also would hurt Tesla because it would make their higher margin long-range models harder to sell vs. the lower margin standard range.
Could they not have deleted the tweet or the picture and posted in its place an explanation citing the precise policy that's being enforced?
Getting the facts right matters. At the same time, isn’t the Texas leadership that lead to the power grid fiasco deserving of intense criticism?
I enjoyed this. It was funny and had some really good jabs at some of these projects.

I'm also happy that its list of notable ZeroVer projects includes Dwarf Fortress, currently at v0.47.05, 15 years after the first version was released.
> I have also been told by more than one person that does professional compiler development that GCC's codebase is very difficult to work with.

Add another. (Now-former professional compiler developer.)

> At least some commentary I've read suggests that this was a deliberate choice on the part of the GNU project.

This is the ‘RMS loophole’ in the GPL. In theory you can do what you want with the source; in practice you need help from the insiders.
Generally 99% of people I worked with in IT (UK) over the last 20 years either make a sandwich for lunch, eat leftovers or eat at the work canteen which isn't free and normally isn't great either. They have their main meal in the evening. Of course people have the occasional lunch out but it's normally once or twice a month. In big cities of course this is often pretty different.

I used to eat lunch at the canteen fairly often out occasionally have leftovers. Since covid I'm at home and normally make a sandwich or salad with whatever is in the fridge.
I don't think I (or probably most others here) have enough information to intelligently comment on that.

Is the family of the rape victim consenting to their image being used, or not? Is the picture and/or identity of the family widely broadcast in the media, or not? Is the picture portraying things in a particularly unique and politically important light (like the napalm girl picture), or not?

Edit: I see other people starting to bring in this sort of information now, but I don't think it's surprising that early comments are on the content of the article.
If the lead MS word developer listens to Carmack's thoughts and points out problems, he's more than qualified.
Looks like fail2ban (16.8 years of being zero-versioned according to this site) is actually on the path to a 1.0 release:

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/3f5c382a988bb21f...

Well, the master branch is considered 1.0 at least. Not sure if there's been an official 1.0 release though...
Not sure I want to celebrate this. The introduction of the PC caused a mass extinction in the personal computer space. Soon all diversity was gone and everything was PC-compatible.
In this case the reason is made explicitly clear. Furthermore, after they took the action against Rahul Gandhi, his party leaders shared the same image in protest.