skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hormesis and Cold Showers
Mike Hearn: Postcard from France – Pass Sanitaire Enforcement
But...!

I've also seen many developers for years adopting mainstream libraries and frameworks wrongly.

The atrocities I've seen built with Ember, Rails, Angular, and the like.

Often these people built their own (albeit less powerful) libraries and could work much better with them.
>stop a bunch of conglomerates from monopolizing the internet

Would Google make more money if they did this?
It's been painfully obvious that money laundering is one of the primary activities of the CIA. Doing illegal things to get money to do more illegal things is the name of the game.

It's a sign of decay.
The problem is when that list is used to prevent you from accessing common services, like fly on planes.

Edit: Because people assumed I was talking about the no-fly list specifically; I'm not. The terror watch list also winds up being used to cause problems for people.

From: THE PROGRESS AND PITFALLS OF THE TERRORIST WATCH LIST
By: COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg48979/html/C...

> Inaccurate watch
list information also increases the chances of innocent persons being stopped or detained because of misidentification.

A page by the ACLU goes into some detail.
https://www.aclu.org/other/us-government-watchlisting-unfair...

That list, and others, are not innocent "we're just keeping an eye on these people" lists. Their use causes serious harm.
It’s absolutely obvious that iOS has to allow side loading and other app stores. It’s user hostile and tyrannical of Apple to do otherwise. Always was. It’s a huge fat 30% margin for them but no other computer in history I’ve heard of had operated in such a closed garden.

One country (US/EU) will eventually pass legislation, that I hope is sweep enough that we will never see a situation like this again. Apple has no right to build the iPhone then seal it against the user itself. This should never have been allowed, ever.
>but developers for that platform still make less money on it.

Isn't that why it's not big problem?

I get the gist, it's a thing, but I don't get what the article is trying to show me... but admittedly I found that article hard to read / grok, I felt like I walked into the middle of a conversation when I read it.
Sounds good. Like others have said an API around the generator would be cool too, then all I need is a webpage and a monitor.
It's also a type of fake efficiency. The vegetables we grow have less nutrition in them, the technology is not built to last, products get thrown in the trash without being used and people are drained by their work instead of satisfied. We're doing something wrong, I don't know the solution but ideology seems to be clouding us from seeing the problems in the first place.
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions
FYI, HN strips certain unicode that it thinks are emoji.
I'm struggling a little bit with using StyleGANs so far. Are you available for a (paid if you prefer) call where I ask you a few questions about it? If so, xrdawson@gmail.com.

(I have a connection to Sweden, by the way. My brother lived in Eskilstuna in high school. So, I learned a little bit of Swedish when I visited him. His host brother thought it was really weird I met him and said "jag heter Chris, jag älska naturen!"). But, I would not feel comfortable talking to you in Swedish about StyleGAN. :) ).
it's just not the same without underworld's cowgirl playing in the background :)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Earns FIPS 140-2 Security Certification
Try using tabs. Still open in excel with less problems
Except in these cases, it's not the government asking these companies to take down the "misinformation" videos. In fact, some of these companies try to add "misleading" label to actual, official government announcements.. Trying to run a parallel, unelected government.
Usually by an insider.
People Are Shelling Out Six Figures for NFT Rocks
Once again, citation please.

You seem very sure of these Supreme Court decisions that appear to have slipped past the rest of us. Not saying you are wrong, with the firehose of info these days it's easy to miss things, even really important things.
Yeah I think the way I'd do it (personally) is have an RPi constantly generate new images in the background and cache them until storage is maxed out, then when you hit the button it just fetches the next image from cache.

That would allow the frame to be somewhat lower power and also decrease ventilation requirements -- no fan needed.
With today's postpaid plans that have almost no way to get an overage, what's the point of setting it up to require credit?

The postpaid plans are usually more expensive than prepaid, and they require a SSN and I'm not going to make the difference back by investing the payment for a month.
I truly enjoy working on projects that includes both areas, interesting tech and woodwork :)
And other people think you should have to present proof of vaccination to go outside but no ID vote. Neither group is thinking past the propaganda their side presents.
What makes you say its a list of Trump supporters?
When they offer phones on payment they're essentially providing a loan. This does carry some risk as it is, even more if they're not running a credit check.
> Your company usually goes bankrupt, and all the engineers will complain at their next jobs about what a wonderfully designed engineering system they were building, and how awful it is that nobody appreciates such things these days.

This is precisely why I try to interview tech leads about what they shipped rather than what they built. There are a lot of otherwise very talented developers out there who will spend years playing around in your codebase, writing beautiful code, but not actually shipping anything useful. Replacing them with shipping-focused engineers, even if they're not as technically competent, usually results in big productivity boosts.

This isn't a popular opinion among developer communities, but it's a common theme in the management forums I'm part of. It's important to have fun and budget some time for things like open-source contributions and library building, but the top priority must always be on shipping product.
Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11
Parsing a CSV can be done in a line-per-line basis, while a an array of arrays in JSON is not valid until you reach the end.

How would any existing JSON parser handle 75GB of data in a single array of arrays?
It's kind of interesting many commenters here require a proof during an interview.

So, while this can be highly flawed, how about asking the candidate? I find more often than not that if I ask the candidate how excited they are about learning stuff, they tell the truth. Especially when I probe a bit deeper, what do they want to learn, why, and, most importantly, what is their learning process.

If someone indicates they have a periodic study system in place, that's a strong indicator in the right direction. If someone tells me they have a goal they are achieving right now, that's amazing. If they can even estimate how long it will take them based on previous data, that sounds like a winner to me.

At that point, I am confident that they want to learn, and I have to assess other things, like what's their starting point, personality, etc.

I don't have a proof of their slope for learning. They could very well be lying just to get the job, but it's way better than disregarding slope because you can't prove it.
> But Apple and MS did the opposite of helping.

I think it's pretty absurd to expect Apple and MS to suspend work on graphics APIs until the committee gets around to figure things out. Especially when the committee is already falling behind, and fixing these issues isn't even on the agenda yet. I just don't understand how someone could blame Apple and Microsoft for developing their own APIs, and then let the OpenGL committee off the hook for completely failing to fix the outstanding issues in the OpenGL API in a timely fashion.

Again... and it seems people keep forgetting this part... Metal was released to developers before the project that eventually became Vulkan even started. At the time Metal was released, Vulkan DID NOT EXIST, not even by a different name.

"I know, let's not work on this important project, and hand it off to an industry working group." Said no engineer, ever.

When a committee fails to produce a working standard, alternatives appear. This is how WHATWG appeared.

> That was exactly my point. "Correctly" as in "let's push lock-in to hook developers on this and make life harder for them if they want to support multiple platforms".

That's just begging the question. If you're going to argue, at least make an argument.
Great discussion. I live in Apple's ecosystem, and this is even more compelling with our new Honda Pilot basically being an extension of our iPhones. I have been on three road trips in the last 8 weeks, and this feature was so nice!

I am still considering stepping back, switching to a Pixel 5 from the CalyxOS organization, rely on my wife's iPhone while on road trips, start using my GPU Linux laptop from System 76 as my main driver, and fall back on using ProtonMail with my email domain.

I did recently remove virtually everything from my iPhone except Freedom, text/email, Chess, Go, Music, podcast, and Safari. I think my phone should just be a phone, more or less.

I am not so disappointed with Apple's CSAM functionality as I am about their longer term trend. They are starting with something that has wide support, but who knows what is next.
> Voting is not a constitutional right.

Yes it is.

> Voting Rights Act is statutory like most of our laws.

Constitutional rights are often enforced by legislation; Amendments articulating rights often explicitly authorize this. See, with regard to voting rights, the 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments. (EDIT: also, the 14th Amendment [see Sec. 2 and 5], and, as noted in a sibling comment, the 24th Amendment. Also the 17th Amendment, though that doesn’t have a Congressional enforcement clause. Voting rights are the single most common subject of Constitutional amendments.)
VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has.

GitHub is okay-ish.

But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto.

Outlook is also a joke.

Excel got better IMO.

No strong opinions for other apps.
The Fairphone and similar tech is also discussed here:

https://thereboot.com/cracking-open-the-android-ios-grip-on-...
If someone who is an artist does something, does that automatically make it art?
If a non-artist put up this sign is it still art?
I'll add that unless you're very familiar with the framework/language you'll be using, it's pretty hard to estimate scope of work

I think you've just defined a pretty good benchmark for when it's sensible to consider a less popular choice. Are you familiar enough with it to be confident of coming out ahead by using it? Perhaps you have a backup plan like the interop you mentioned if some functionality is missing. Perhaps the tool is so much more productive in general that you are reasonably confident any extra development work to fill in the gaps will be outweighed by the overall benefits. But there should be some clear reason you think the risk is justified.
Facebook says ready to launch digital wallet
https://archive.is/CBuFn
Indeed, AAPL's biggest problem, macOS bugs, is only getting bigger.
Care to provide an example or two?
Statement on Recent Changes to Current Affairs
>I would have thought that it’s almost impossible for a particle to end up in the same place as it started.

That's true on a short time scale. But on a longer time scale,
you will eventually visit all possible states of the system.

I think this is similar to the concept of ergodicity[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity
because hospitals filling too quickly and there is only so much beds.
> I check my mail and Slack in the morning, then close them both and know that nothing can sidetrack me the rest of the day.

It's great if you can have that luxury, but it's not always possible. A lot of us have some level of constant "on call" duty where we can't just be unreachable the whole day.

The problem for me is that it is definitely possible for me to be unreachable for 1-2 hour chunks, but often times when I "get out of flow" it's difficult for me to get back it. I could see something like Flow Club benefitting me.
New social media app is evaluated over $20M pre revenue
Boston Dynamics' Robots Can Do Parkour. Should We Worry?
Perceptual hashing systems that do derivative image lookups don't rely on exact hash comparisons, but fuzzy hash comparisons using a distance metric like the Hamming distance to find similar images.

If two hashes are off by a bit or two, chances are that the two images are derived from the same, or similar, source image.
Somewhat related: part of the Government of Canada (ESDC) has started their own pilot for making micro-acquisition opportunities much easier to both set up on the government side, and bid for on the contractor side. https://twitter.com/MicroBuysGC
Best RealSense replacements?
> It’s a huge fat 30% margin

Isn't the margin 15% for (what I assume is) a vast majority of sales?
I don't see the added value compared to virtual-study-hall that uni runs https://www.ucalgary.ca/live-uc-ucalgary-site/sites/default/...
and random strangers on different free website/platforms.
That appears to be the consensus: https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1428053056567103488
Maybe it would be better if people just choose not to buy iOS devices if they are so terrible- why does the government have to get involved?
What I find so interesting about this is that it's NOT your co-workers. Which is actually really intriguing. I wouldn't be able to participate in this right now due to my living situation, but I love the idea.

One problem with trying to get co-workers to do this is that it's probably hard to find people that would want to. So instead open it up to a global pool of people and you're much more likely to easily find 9 that want to sit and work.

Long time ago I rented a co-working space for $99 / month and working amongst strangers is oddly powerfully motivating.
Just want to say thanks for these thorough teardowns and wonderfully annotated die photos.
Mura CMS was the top open source project in the CFML world. Then overnight they pulled down their GitHub repo and went closed source.

The community of open source developers and users are now free to move to Masa. I believe this is how things are supposed to work in the open source world.
Ethical Hacking: Introduction to Exploits
curious if you using halogen or react-basic? I've gone with halogen for a small project and it's been fine but sometimes i wonder if react-basic is a better choice.
You need some kind of advanced cad that has torsion and stress simulation. Something like full solidworks or Catia. Problem is it takes som much time and knowhow to setup the simulations that you might as well just keep trying and failing physically. Eventually you will gain more insight how forces would distribute in the material, and the know how of what works and what doesn't.
Bottom line... Hands on experiment always beats a simulation
The premise is that CSVs are in widespread use and not suitable for their used purposes.

The conclusion is that there are many binary formats which are more suitable, except that none are used widely enough, and the post even goes on to not make a recommendation. Finally it says that we have to accept this sad state:

"Ultimately, even if it could muster the collective will, the industry doesn’t have to unify around a single successor format. We only need to move to some collection of formats that are built with machine-readability and clarity as first-order design principles. But how do we get there?"
RV employee here, so take this as you will but... this comment is baffling. RV does not own or operate A Place for Mom. One of the private equity firms that owns a stake in RV also has a stake in A Place for Mom. Not the strongest connection in the world. RV bought Bankrate, Inc in 2017 (the acquisition through which I joined RV, in another division) which owned Caring.com. Because of the investor connection, RV never integrated Caring and sold it off immediately. So, maybe the senior care industry has some awful practices. But... RV does not do business in that industry. This is really what you hold against us?
To be fair, they do have to reauthorize the Freedom Unmitigated Bill for Appropriations Reconciliation Defense act every year or we're not allowed to leave our homes. Those F35-Liberty planes aren't going to pay for themselves.
> I feel like I've made a terrible decision and don't know what to do next.

My advice is straightforward. First, stay in the position until an adequate amount of time has passed so it won't raise eyebrows on your resume. Second, begin looking for other work doing what you want to do, using this job as a stepping stone.

You took a chance, it didn't work out as expected. That's life. Move on to the next thing!
in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign, signaling some sort of message or meaning. even if there is no evident or inherent intent being encompassed in some chunk of reality, there is still something being signified, and therefore something being communicated. in cases like this, the art is the interpretant formulated by the interpreter, a personal value judgment, rather than some intended value encoded by some given creator of art.

just my take on it, maybe it might provide a framework for seeing how even unintentional, stochastic processes can be conceived of as art. :)
For that matter, how is this "fake"? It's a real sign and is designed to help drivers by giving them accurate information.
It’s 15%
It's basically because SSNs were not supposed to be used for that purpose, they were only supposed to be for the SSA to track people, like an account number.

In fact, the paper cards used to say "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" on them. I forget when that was removed.

The military started using them for ID in the 60s, then the IRS started using them in the 70s, and it's just kind of morphed into an ID number because "everyone has one".
If they are going to do aggressive app reviews anyway, I wish they would mandate that useless promotional notifications could be disabled without getting rid of the core functionality of the app. >:(
Tesla Features That Prove We're Living in the Future
Fading Beacon – Why America Is Losing International Students
One Star (2015)
There are cases spanning a century across several creative legislative attempts by the US Congress to create a de facto mandatory national identity system. This information is not difficult to find. All of them tried to workaround the fact that States can create mandatory identity systems but the Federal government cannot. (It is one of the reasons SSN cards go out of their way to assert they are not to be used as an ID.)

Past attempts included things like withholding tax disbursements to non-compliant States, but the US Supreme Court deemed that coercive and therefore illegal. The Real ID Act is the latest attempt but it has been delayed for many years by State non-compliance and general unwillingness to share their identity databases with the Federal government.

The ID required to vote is a State ID, which is perfectly Constitutional. No one is requiring a Federal ID to vote. In fact, many States will not recognize any Federal ID, including passports.
The latest Fedora 34 respins (and soon Fedora 35) work out of the box with everything including the fingerprint reader. Ubuntu 21.04 supports everything but the fingerprint reader, which needs libfprint 1.92.0. There is a pretty active community of Framework Laptop users now providing tips on how to set up different distros: https://community.frame.work/c/diy-edition/linux/91
Since the "pixels" are either formed at every intersection of 4 photosites (overlapping each other) or by interpolating data for each color to include the "missing" photosites (which is effectively the same), the megapixel count should fairly accurately represent both the number of photosites and the number of pixels in the output image.

I'm not exactly sure how the edge pixels are treated, but the difference in number between pixels and photosites should be on the order of a few thousand at most.
Hybrit technology delivers the world’s first fossil-free steel to Volvo Group
That's still incredibly high.
A lot of the comment section highlights the obvious problem: this is fine theoretically (maybe even obviously correct), but much harder to get right in practice.
Scrolling on Firefox should be fixed now. Apologies about that!
Swanly Plugin– Create Simple Roadmaps for Complex Jira Software Projects
Brilliant. Did you come up with this or did you see it somewhere?
The Edges of Cutting-Edge Languages – Richard Feldman
Here's the developer's thread on this:

https://twitter.com/FlickType/status/1427292843928821765
Sewage pumps in the pipes and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebeanlage (sorry do not know the english word for that)
Synthetic fibres in tissues are a huge issues for these pumps..
A new parliament will be elected in Germany on 26 September. Current polls do not see a majority for the ruling coalition of CDU/CSU (Conservatives) and SPD (Labour). It is expected that either the FDP (Liberals) or the Grünen (Greens) or both will be part of the next government. Both the FDP (the party of the MP who wrote the letter) and the Grünen have been very supportive of data protection and privacy in opposition. We will see if they stick to it in government.
No, I don't think that's what we're witnessing. No one has yet demonstrated that they can take a hash alone and produce an image that matches the hash. It's true that that would be bad, but right now you still need the original colliding image.
> Shumeyko said he repeatedly asked if it would be possible for him to be paid for his information, but Apple was apparently noncommittal, and he is now speaking out after feeling taken advantage of.

“I have the name of an apple employee who is selling access to internal resources X, Y and Z. Here is the proof. Pay me a negotiable fee and I will give you his identity.”

It seems like have a bunch of valuable information to Apple in return for nothing and is now sore about it.
People buy overpriced and locked appliances from a monopoly-making company. The only way to stop this is to stop buying shitty products. Their mobile market share is huge, why would they stop doing this when customers keep on buying?
> Good. The longer I do this, the longer I realize that unless your in a race-to-the-bottom industry (something like vying for eye balls to increase ad spend), then this is categorically a bad thing.

It's not that simple. I realize this may be uncommon, but it's possible to work on a product that is truly worthwhile, that improves peoples' lives, and whose target users urgently need a solution to the problem you're solving. I recently developed a product that I believe meets this description (I won't plug it here). I chose Elixir for the web application. While I think that's a defensible choice, given the real-time nature of the application, I sometimes wonder if I would have been better off choosing a more mainstream language -- one with an official Stripe client library, for one thing. Any day I spent unnecessarily reimplementing something because I chose Elixir is a day that the target users couldn't benefit from my product. And, bearing that in mind, I should get back to work.