skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would also suggest Moodle. My remote university is using it and while the interface is a bit archaic (= looking and feeling outdated) and many functionalities are almost never being used because of better alternatives (like the chat function or messages), it does have its advantages. You can set up a good work space where students can use the forum, you can interact with them, you can set up learning assignments, upload documents, videos and so on. I think it does its job quite well in the area that it is meant to be used.
No live classes, afaik, but those are easily managable via jitsi, for example.
Does it? It's a link to a Substack article with some numbers, but no actual data. Not even the links or names of the papers and articles. At first I thought it was a stylistic choice, but the author does link his own whitepaper from the Cato institute.

There's also a thought experiment, which is convenient, since the outcome is open to everyone's interpretation. But it's not actual data.
The unfortunate lesson that is probably learned is to only stalk Android users with AirTags.
Author here, I don't think it would apply well to that scenario. elfshaker is good for manyclangs where we ship 2,000 revisions in one file (pack), so the cost of individual revision is amortized. If one build of llvm+clang costs you some ~400 MiB; a single elfshaker pack containing 2,000 builds has an amortized cost of around 40kiB/build. But this amazing win is only happening because you are shipping 2,000 builds at once. If you wanted to ship a single delta, you can't compress against all the other builds.
> War machines: be they airplanes, tanks, or battleships, were all going to be exposed to enemy fire and explosions. These fuels (Kerosene and Diesel in particular) were chosen because they're extremely safe: high flash points and even higher auto-ignition points.

I'm not sure those were really the reasons for the choices that were made in most cases. Airplanes of the era used gasoline engines because Otto engines provided much better power/weight than the diesel engines of that time. For submarines, I'm not sure safety was a bigger factor than being able to use the same(?) fuel oil that the predominantly steam powered surface fleets were using, and that diesel engines provided better fuel economy than gasoline ones.

One place where safety might(?) have been a factor was that the USSR decided to power its tanks with diesel, whereas the other major combatants used gasoline engines in their tanks. I'm sure this prevented a lot of fiery demises for Soviet tank crews.
or you could use a service such as SerpApi.
XP explorer stars so fast because it's already running. The desktop with the icons is actually an explorer window.
It's nice of Apple to have iPhones alert you in cases like this, but it's a major issue that there's no easy way for an Android user to get the same notification.
Thanks for the response! I was more just curious about future possibilities vs immediate practicle use.

git-lfs just offloads the storage of the large binaries to a remote site, and then downloads on demand.

If you have a lot of binary assets like artwork or huge excel spreadsheets, it's very useful, because in those cases, without git-lfs, the git repo will get very large, git will get extremely slow, and github will get angry at you for having too large a repo.

But it's not all roses with git-lfs, since now you're reliant on the external network to do checkouts, vs having fetched everything at once w/ the initial clone, and also of course just switching between revisions can get slower since you're network-limited to fetch those large files. (And though I'm not sure, it doesn't seem like git-lfs is doing any local caching.)

So you could imagine where something like having elfshaker embedded in the repo and integrated as a checkout filter could potentially be a useful alternative. Basically an efficient way to store binaries directly in the repo.

(Maybe it would be too small a band of use cases to be practicle though? Obviously if you have lots of distinct art assets, that's just going to be big, no matter what...)
> So a bunch of these people are going to grow up and find out that the world values their abilities very little. The options left are either poverty or a life of welfare support, depending on how much they can appeal to the conscience of the larger society.

This will be the next crisis for sure. It is only logical. I wonder how that will play out?
Human rights are pretty important in Austria, they come directly behind ensuring a smooth skiing season.
hOUSE rIVER mONSTERS?

Anyone????

House Atredies?

I sense the Emperor behind it.
This is so creepy, good thing that she spotted it before it's too late.
When adding sentences to your post, it's better to explicitly mark them as edits, to avoid confusion when reading replies that were posted before the edit.
That is not an answer. What metadata? What validator? Who provides and verifies that metadata? Who provides the validator?
This is so great. I love the chunky grid layout when positioning.

The eyes and other ridiculousness is what made me wanna try it out. Everyone's branding these days is so boring. Great work. :D
I came the other way. As in, tests displaced types.

Did Java for 13 years. Then moved to Ruby and lost the type system I had leaned so hard on.

After an adjustment period I got into the new groove of just testing all code, and I don't miss my hard typed days at all.
No, it will not...
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> I truely believe that developing software is a creative process that you are always doing for the first time

This is absolutely true. And that's because when we find ourselves doing the same thing repeatedly, we abstract it into a library, a framework, or a service so that we don't have to do it again.

The easiest thing to predict is something that has been done a zillion times. So if you're building 100 houses in a subdivision, you can get really good at estimating and hitting those estimates. But the more novel something is, the harder it is to predict. And software by its nature is novel. If it isn't, we're doing it wrong.
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Android phones aren't being used to report the location of the AirTag so there's no point.
Tasking developers with anything other than developing, thinking or talking about thinking and developing is most certainly a waste of time.
I was thinking more along the lines of automated discovery of such heuristics.
It keeps growing

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/legal-ma...

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/01/225631...
You could do both. Begin with a rough estimate, preferably a range (order of magnitude). If this gets greenlit, do all the things you mentioned but also just start on the project. Iterate on the estimate like you iterate on the deliverables, the estimation will get increasingly accurate as you develop.

There's a bit more upfront work here that goes into the estimation, but it won't be like 25% of it is pure waste. Maybe 5 to 10%, depends on what the quality of the estimate must be.

Somehow this never works in practice though, I suspect the initial guesstimate will prime the expectations of everyone involved and will be seen as a target. Clients will be disappointed if the project takes longer and frame it as such (it's late, takes longer, over budget, etc.). I suspect that in order for this to work, the initial range must be large and the adjusted estimates in the project as well as the delivery date must fall within this range.

I think this is a basic function of trust: will these people do as they say or not?
Confuses cause and effect. The loss of privacy, aka tracking people for what is euphemistically called "advertising", causes individualism. Or more simply, if you destroy the ability to communicate and discuss collaboratively, communities cannot be created. CAS.
The sales team works closest with people who will become customers, it’s not crazy for them to be plugged into a customers needs or priorities. That said, lots of sales people make promises first and figure out the details later which isn’t good business.
Only about 25 years too late :D, but that would have been cool to know about.

It does make me think though about how I might have discovered such a thing at that point in time.

I don't think I even had internet at home then, I never used things like a BBS and later I was never big into forums either. So the only way I really learnt things was either through fiddling (which is how I found out about the parallel cable networking) or through word of mouth.

It also might not have occurred to me yet how to find answers on the internet and besides, there was no Google back then.

There also wasn't any local community I was aware of that was into these kinds of things. So I only learnt very limited amounts.

I guess I could have tried computing magazines which may also have helped, but I didn't have any real money then, and it's also possible that the options were very slim in South Africa anyhow.
The best you'll get is NetSuite.
The idea that shifting "norm enforcement" from local communities towards impersonal institutions is somehow "bad" is extremely wrong and harmful.

Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities. In small groups all sorts of abuse can be hidden and sometimes even outright accepted in the name of "cohesion".

Small communities with informal power dynamics can be extremely toxic in a way that is far more harmful than google knowing what videos you watch. Small town may seem idyllic but they are often hell for that one gay resident.
It also requires a certain sense of confidence that whoever named that method you're calling gave it a good name. Fortunately (and not, I think, coincidentally) the ruby community has always tended towards good naming being really important.
Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations
Ford and chipmaker announce noncommittal “partnership” to alleviate shortages
Its time that the public sees all these "black lives matter" riots for what they are: white kids setting minority and poor neighborhoods on fire so that the gentrifiers can buy up the destroyed areas (because, contrary to popular opinion, not everyone has insurance).
Corn? Must refer to something else besides what we call corn today. A different grain? Or “corns” of salt maybe?
Literacy (especially among noble and architects) was not at all uncommon before 1902. We're not talking exactly neolithic age.
The example for the Yield effect [1] looks suspiciously like the condition system of Common Lisp and restarts.

[1] https://effekt-lang.org/#intro-handlers
To reach parity Google should obviously propose a tiny tracking device, and only allow Android users to disarm it. Now peace will be restored.
I’ll check that out but as an EV owner over the course of a few years even the Supercharger network isn’t widespread enough. So I’m not ready to buy that there is an alternative that’s as good as that network already. This looks more like the “see you can drive from LA to NYC” road-trip stuff from the early Tesla days.

Things will expand for sure and I’m happy about it, but this looks like marketing to me.

You own and drive an EV I take it? What’s your experience been like?
A few approaches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_test
For backup you probably want something like Borg to handle deduplication of identical content between backups.
Not the parent but I read it as you've always only had a limited degree of privacy but the "what people know about you" has expanded from a small in-group to a much larger population. Which, very broadly speaking, seems reasonably true.
Notes on GitOps potential role in compliance
That's not how AirTags work, though.
Are you completely unaware of how the blockchain is validated and the cryptography underlying it?
You seem awfully sure. I was able to find only one study that directly compared crime, race, and income group: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/poor-...

Unfortunately the metric it uses is whether they were ever incarcerated for any reason. Someone hostile to those results would probably dismiss them as due to police racism.

One could try to use homicide and victim surveys as a mostly objective proxy for all violent crime (very difficult and impossible, respectively, for racist police practices to affect), compare that to the violent crime rate of each racial group, and use any disparity to estimate how racist the police and justice system are being.

But then one would risk getting a result one doesn't like.
But any other nearby iPhone is...
Discussing about the effort required for each task/story, is crucial to generate alignment within a team, determine better the scope of a task/story -- and decompose it, if it appears that the effort would be so big that tracking what has been done and what remains to be done would be intractable.

The by-product of these discussion may be summed up as a number. But oh yes its unit must not be time.
Part of the innovative FindMy protocol so widely discussed here a while ago is that no other party can identify the owner of the device except the owner – or those with whom the owner shared the device location.

EDIT: Well, as others pointed out, indeed having physical access to a device changes things. The serial number is rather tied to an iCloud account, so Apple, if subpoenaed, should be able to identify its owner (but not their location).
I have used LibreOffice, and it makes me cringe. Has it vastly improved the UI in the last three years? That was the last time I installed it, tried using it for three weeks, then uninstalled it.

It was like a bad acid trip version of the 1990s.
This is the most brilliant software project ever and this man is a genius messiah.
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I think Apple needs be forced to open their AirTag platform to non-Apple users, at least for the tracking notifications. I don't have an Apple phone, nor I plan to get one, and this is plainly creepy.
Oh, not TLA+?
Thanks, seems like that could be good solution for storing of daily backups of DB. I didn't know I needed it but seems like I do.
A look at the intimate details Amazon knows about us
> user needs protection from the third party code that they run

Unfortunately the above then often crosses the line over into "protecting the user from actually accomplishing useful stuff". The file sandboxing approaches I've seen so for e.g. commonly ignore the existence of file formats that don't consist of a single, atomic file.
Except the tag is still being tracked by any iPhones it drives/travels near so it still functions as a tracker just slightly more intermittently.
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> that they just don't trust in-house expertise over basically any vendors.

Another way to look at this: they recognize that they aren't software firms. If you bring in OSS, you have to manage it like a product. You have to recruit, train and manage competent developers. You have to balance competing priorities from "customers" across the firm. That's hard for firms that focus on software, and often impossible for big enterprises.

There's also a cost distribution problem. If you buy commercial software, probably other people are buying it to. Thus you share the development and maintenance costs. You can (hopefully) competent software management too.

I think "open core" is probably best balance here. Yes, we need better funding/pricing models here.
> In any case, given the huge upfront investment required for a quality platform this doesn't seem like something an edtech startup can bootstrap.

Exactly, especially if it's supposed to be really generic. I've co-founded 2 ed-tech startups targeting niche areas. In both cases there were dozens of competitors in these niches and some specializing in some sub niches. Those niches are most of the time good enough, usually you can find a mobile or web app for anything.

But as mentioned, working with public or private education orgs brings its own challenges. I expect getting any leads there to take years. It's much easier to target consumers directly.

That said, if anyone came up with a generic open-source LMS, on the long-term it could be quite disruptive because everyone in that area is just constantly reinventing the wheel. It's just a ton of incompatible solutions.
I don't understand this. Of course there's a point -- if there's an AirTag following me around, I'd like to know. Having an Android app just for that would be really useful (and not so hard to build.)
Yeah, when his memory returned.
You don’t get notifications if you use Android.
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I think it is due to the fact that going down stairs requires eccentric muscle contraction which is harder on the joints and also harder to control.
I think for definition what people really care about in practice, even if they don't know it, is it a car they have to crouch down into, or can they simply sit into it. Most people don't like those flat cars that you stoop down into anymore.

I think Ford, that massive iconic US car brand, have discontinued all sedans in the US now, since they're so unpopular.
AFAICT academics never have deadlines to produce anything specific. Sometimes they’ll have requirements to publish X papers in Y years, but never solve this problem by date certain.

Which makes sense for open ended research projects, I don’t have any sympathy for a CEO complaining that no one can tell him how long to fully autonomous cars. It’s less fine for build me a website type projects.
Wow! Very cool project and very inspiring! I'd love to know more about hardware like this but I wouldn't know where to start.
"Sexton said tracking someone and their location without their permission is criminal and with the holidays approaching more crimes like this are starting to appear."

I assume I'm just missing something obvious, but why is tracking someone without permission happening more now that the holidays are approaching? I can't come up with anything that seems likely.
Government is reactionary. And slow.
LOL

I mean, you're lucky when you go looking in version control on a software project from the last couple of years if the documentation surrounding a reason for a design choice is anything more than 'fixed bug'. Expecting more detailed change control documentation from mediaeval castlebuilders seems optimistic.
Apple needs to be held accountable for this, it's the only way to stop stuff like this happening. She'd never have know were she an android user. How many people has this happened to without their knowledge?
I love the article despite the partisan political bickering on the tail end. There's more common ground available on these issues from Trump's right wing supporters than what might appear so at first. There's an artfully constructed corporate smokescreen of fear propaganda intended to make those common interests unpursuable. It makes us mutual boogeymen and causes us to intellectually inbreed - liberals and conservatives are not healthy ideologically without good-faith interchange.
Investors, Second Homes, and AMH, oh my
Performing poorly with non-textual data happens for a a number of reasons. Binary data, when changed, often have a lot of 'non-local' changes in them. For example, a PSD file might well have a compression algorithm already applied to it. An insertion/deletion is going to result in a very different compressed representation for which there is no good way to have an efficient delta. elfshaker will suffer the same problem here.
The photos of these staircases reminded me of the insides of the shells of some spiral-shelled animals. Interesting that as you look into the opening of most such shells, they turn to the left as well. I wonder if this observation was an influence on the early architects of these stair structures.
Only stalk people in areas where there are only Androids, I suppose, which is pretty much nowhere in US cities at least
This year the EU overhauled VAT regulations for purchases from outside the EU.

First of all it is now possible to make tax declarations yourself without going through a customs agent. Previously if you bought something like a dashcam from AliExpress you'd need to pay VAT and a "processing fee" to the agent (i.e. the post office) which in total would come to around the same price as you paid the seller. It's still somewhat complicated to do yourself, but the post office here introduced their own electronic declaration system. If you choose to use their system it's €3, but if you choose to do it yourself you need to pay a "parcel handling fee" of €3.

Additionally the regulations require sellers sending goods to the EU to charge VAT at the time of purchase. So everything you buy from AliExpress now is sold with VAT (but prices are still shown without). The post office also introduced a €1 handling fee for these parcels - that they don't need to do anything with other than deliver them.
This seems more luck than anything else, right? It's just a function of how long it takes the software to determine which phones to alert, and it's more or less random whether or not someone will go home during that interim period before they get notified.
Or maybe not. It's not the weight of the fuel cell/motor combo that is the limiting factor, but the weight of the H2 storage tanks. An H2 jet engine will probably [0] be less efficient than a fuel cell + motor, so more H2 storage is required in order to reach a comparable performance.

[0] Considering the Carnot efficiency of a jet engine at ~30%, a combination of fuel cell (~60%), motor (~95%) and propeller (~80%) will still beat it by a factor of 1.5.
While calling mental health facilities to get advice on a similarly mentally ill individual (homeless for probably decades, delusional speech, probably paranoid schizophrenic, afraid of authorities and equally resistant to treatment...no drugs or alcohol though, so that was nice) two of the people I spoke to said the only way they could reasonably see the person getting help was if I called 911 or the police and told them I was worried they were a threat to themselves. That was the only way to get them forcibly treated. One of them said this based on her own experience in trying to get help for a family member. So I did.

Depending on your city/state, they may send out a mental health specialist. Mine didn't have any available so the police called me and gathered the required information. It was the middle of winter and this individual steadfastly refused to go to a homeless shelter and had a respiratory illness, so it was easy to make the case he was endangering his life. The officer was friendly and explained that if they did find the person to indeed be a threat to themselves, they would be taken to a mental health facility if beds were available. In this person's case, turned out he had a warrant out for his arrest. Part of me felt bad that he went to jail, but the other part was relieved that he was out of the cold. Unfortunately, he fell through the cracks and doesn't seem to have been given mental health treatment during his time there.

Fast forward a few months and I got a call from him. He had made his way to some city in Arizona. He went to a hospital there for some unrelated illness; they quickly realized he was mentally ill and after an evaluation committed him against his will. I hope he gets better.
"but it's a major issue that there's no easy way for an Android user to get the same notification."

Another evil reason to buy an iphone!
Yeah, good question. Apple made it really easy to catch an AirTag near you, but did they make it easy to then track that AirTag back to the owner?
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