skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rented a car in the US from Hertz while on a long trip there. I wasn't sure of the exact return date (several weeks) and I only had an international debit card and not a credit card. The guy at the counter was perfectly fine with this, said he'd note it on the file and I could settle up when returning it, whenever that was.

Drove the car around the East Coast for weeks and then returned it and paid what I owed.

Got back home to Australia and found threatening letters from them saying that the car hadn't been returned and was considered stolen, police had been notified, etc. The letter was sent at about the 10-14 day mark, and from memory we had the car for at least a few more weeks after that. Ignored it and never heard anything else about it.

Whenever possible, I use Alamo when in the US. They've always been excellent.
The things I write in my notebook as a professional writer
What happens when you dont have tables?

In the land of the blind the guy with one eye walks everyone off a cliff.
Using MinIO for tiered storage with Confluent
Another thing excellent native Mac git client is Fork[0], which is unique in that it has a perfectly mirrored native (MFC I think) Windows version.

It works together very well with Secretive[1] which allows you to keep your SSH key in your Mac’s Secure Enclave and require Touch ID to use them, as well as displaying a notification showing what’s trying to access keys. It can also store keys in hardware dongles (like YubiKeys) and has a nice native UI for managing multiple keys.

[0]: https://git-fork.com/
[1]: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
That is definitely on the skimpy side of "tons".
Indeed, calling the fact not paying an employee's a type of theft seems to be an originally English idiom¹. In other languages it's more akin to an unpaid debt or a breach contract rather than stolen property. Intuitively, to have something stolen one needs to have gained ownership of it in the first place. (And being owed something is not the same as owning it.)

P.S.: What's with the hashes?

¹. It seems to also be used in Spanish, but mostly in an American context as a calque from English.
You don't want to have one tiny bright light source. You'll have harsh shadows and looking at it will blind you. Get LED strips instead.
The mere prospect of being a better paid/supported mercenary somewhere else than the warn-torn long-war country you've been in is a worryingly reasonable appeal.
Ha! I'm Australian and heard from them also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30595985
What do super computers have to do with hacking?
UF also provided text transcripts which were searchable - did you get those too?
Oh man. We're not the only ones still running a mod_perl Apache 1.3 stack in production?!

We have a few patches against the Apache 1.3 codebase, but, yea, it's a very old stack.
Not quite. You’re right that scientific knowledge and career prestige are not zero-sum competitive games, but the competition for scientific funding often is. Anyone who’s sat down to write a grant proposal knows what a struggle it can be to get support for even the most promising research.

If (big if, but it is the topic of the discussion at hand) self-experimentation is increasingly normalized, and through normalization attracts funding, one can imagine the competition for said funds incentivizing researchers and labs to take extreme measures to garner attention and acquire support.

Money, the same motivation that pushes athletes to extremes, is not something scientists are immune to, even if the ultimate utility of the money serves different purposes.
As far as I know, this doesn’t get information from upstream maintainers. For this to work well, I think we would want actual advisories generated around commit time, embargoed early notification, and a process for publication.
They achieved the "best case scenario": avoid death while the disease is more dangerous (pre-vaccine, pre-omicron), then gradually open with an inevitable (but much lower) death spike. SK per capita deaths are an order of magnitude lower than the US.
Bonds are a form of lending and pay coupons. Shares experience capital appreciation from business growth and pay dividends from profits. Houses bring rent. How does Bitcoin create wealth?
Here is the best mathematics course on YouTube:

Introduction to Higher Mathematics (Bill Shillito) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZzHxk_TPOStgPtqRZ6KzmkUQ...
C Package Manager
These have been very common in South Florida for as long as I can remember.

During early '00s summer camp, I remember seeing someone from afar unknowingly walk into an actual palm-sized one's web. The spider latched onto their back right as they got into their car and drove away. I can only imagine what that car ride was like.

Around '08 a couple of friends and I had taken psychedelic mushrooms and ventured into the mangrove forests in order to find hidden openings by the beach. We found a nice one, but on the way there, we had to pass through a couple trees that were covered with hundreds of these. It really scared one of my friends in the moment.

Nice to know they are harmless. Truthfully we didn't really know what these were and just called them banana spiders for as long as I can remember, probably due to their long yellow abdomen.
> Most people who are religious nowadays know that the stories aren't real or are embellished. It's a story to teach a lesson.

This is a thin excuse. These stories were held up as literal truths for centuries. The moral principles they embody are held up as serious until they become too unfashionable, then those are dismissed as metaphor too. If you claim a given religious lesson is good and valid today, what basis do we have for believing that someone in 40 years won't be saying that that lesson too was something that was never meant to be taken seriously?

> Getting in a fight over something neither side can prove is ridiculous.

Note how you're contradicting your previous argument, because you don't have a position beyond throwing a bunch of arguments at the wall and hoping something will stick. The burden of proof is on the one making claims; otherwise we should all take Russell's teapot seriously.

> But if you want to debate what we cannot know, riddle me this, how do you know we're not in a simulation made by a higher being?

We don't. Act accordingly.
Absolutely!

It wouldn't be easy, and would need some adjustments for colorspace etc but this is a method I have seen discussed online before.

The speaker part is much easier. At some point in almost all modern audio systems, there will be a PCM signal as part of the DAC step. Hook in here, pipe that signal to a computer's audio in / microphone port, and you've got a pretty clean audio stream.
Voluntarily drive slower. This was the first response by the federal government in the 1970's. You can get 5-15% better gas mileage if you slow down on the highways.
I never really understood how image compression works but now I feel a bit closer. Cool project!
Can you explain what you mean by the hierarchical way of assigning addresses? Every source I ever read and person I ever talked to that had even a slight guess was that chome were assigned in order of when they were constructed and there wasn't much rhyme or reason besides that. Discussing odd even numbering and city blocks going up by 100s and 1000s was one of the few things people thought was impressive about American infrastructure.

Importance could make sense in that a first mover in Shibuya could get a prime chome but I'd still like more information.
JPMorgan Cuts Russia Bonds
Not super fair to compare contributor count then vs now; You could say the same about the Linux kernel or any major open source project of some history. World much bigger now. The kind of BTC contributor then was never about the money either, whereas I would say every ETH project ever (including the eth ico) was a cash grab, divorced from the cypherpunk roots.
Dashboard of 5,330 sanctions against Russia
Today you provide sigint to Ukrainians, tomorrow you cover up for KSA killing another dissident https://theintercept.com/2014/07/25/nsas-new-partner-spying-... or assist in waterboardings https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/nsa-closely-involved-in-...
Self-published sources are generally not considered reliable: i.e. anyone can't just write a web page or a book and start quoting themselves on Wikipedia. That's clearly objectionable!

Recognized domain experts who are routinely published in respectable journals is one of the main exceptions.

Some relevant policy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self...
Having polluted air is one thing, but it seems like it could be confounded by what's causing the pollution: millions of people sitting in cars for hours a day, not getting physical exercise while under a constant barrage of micro-stresses from driving, not to mention skipping out on proper nutrition going through drive-thrus. In some circles it's unthinkable to travel even a few blocks away without driving, let alone simply strolling around for pleasure. How much of this change would be reversed if people simply lived healthy lifestyles
Wow, so all you need to cause a whole bunch of UFO sightings is a paramotor with a reflective wing? Interesting...
I posted recently asking for exactly this... but for medicine.

I have a body, everyone I know has a body.

The operate pretty much the same everywhere in the world.

I would like to know how it works.
On that note, there was an interesting comment on psychometrics here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798887
What value do you think dealerships provide?
Well if you need some feedback, feel free to reach out. I'm not a manager about to suffer from interview burn out or anything, but would be happy to see something like Litebulb lighten the load in the future for both sides of the hiring process.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472...
I bought on of his books but it’s not the complete series.
Humans evolved to move around a lot. Avoiding exercise to save food will lead to a host of ailments. Sarcopenia is a hidden epidemic among older people in developed countries.
Thanks for the book recommendation. That one looks very interesting.
JFC this industry needs to get its secops act together. This is the #2 cloud provider in the world.
85,000 in a single bank account. Diversify to a few banks to minimize risk. Hold other assets. It’s nice to have a 0-risk piece of your portfolio.
I'm curious where the pair programming religion came from. There was certainly a time when it didn't exist as a concept. I for sure don't remember anyone suggesting that it would be cool if two folks sat around the ASR-33 and took turns to hunt-n-peck on the keyboard. Perhaps it originated in the brogrammer movement?

Anyway, the sibling article says:

"A pair of programmers tends to produce better code than someone working alone."

Let's assume this is true (I'm reasonably sure it's false). If one programmer can type code that's at quality N, then add a second one to look at what they're typing and perhaps you can say that quality will be >N since the second person might spot errors made by the first. But we just used TWICE as many people to write that "better" code. I expect there are industries where this burning of resources makes sense, but most of the time it won't regardless of the improved code quality achieved. We could write 2x the amount of crappy code and most organizations would opt to do that.

If we're pairing up at the terminal to teach/train/transfer knowledge, that makes much sense and has been done since the ASR-33. Also sometimes it helps to have two or more people stare at a debugging session together to crack a gnarly problem. Designing at the whiteboard has been a thing since Von Neumann and Turing (chalk board...)

Programming however, isn't a thing you do in pairs, imho. It's creepy and weird.
As someone studying teaching math, I found it interesting to compare her suggestions:

- Calc I-IV
- Intro to proofs
- Linear algebra
- (Abstract) algebra I-II
- Real analysis
- Complex analysis
- Ordinary differential equations
- Partial differential equations
- (Others)

to my program plan:

- A couple teaching courses (including one for roughly grades 5-8)
- Calc I-IV
- Statistics (one without calc, one with)
- Linear algebra
- Discrete
- Geometry
- Number theory
- History of math (apparently not just a history class, I haven't taken it yet)
- Abstract algebra and into to topology
This is the first time ever seeing a paper here from where I used to study - Florida Atlantic University.
At the end of the day Mac users are so few in number and cost so much to retain and acquire that it's not worth the dev cycles to make Mac native software. MacOS is slightly better than Windows to target as a developer, and fine to use if you disable all the nag/scare messages that $App wants to be able to save your preferences - but it's just cheaper and easier to make a web app today.
Stop eating meat, stop flying, stop driving, stop buying new clothes (for starters). Its not "feel good", its reality.
The most immediate use case that comes to mind is breaking encryption.
This is from last year, it needs 2021 in the title
Box of human heads stolen from Denver truck
Honestly? It's Chrome (and, by extension, Electron) being relatively good as a "native platform" that killed "native apps" on Mac. (And I guess Windows/Linux too, I don't know.)

Ironically Chrome got its start as an Apple WebKit fork, but they invested a lot in it from then.

Anyway. People just write it in Electron, or just go for web app directly. It's like Java of yesteryear - "write once, run anywhere, but never good".

We can fight it or embrace it, I'm afraid.
True, but there are cases where you really do want to increase the amount of light being generated -- like Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Intelligence Disclosures in the Ukraine Criss and Beyond
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years
who else is going to explain the value of paint sealant and an extended warranty?
Russia Arrests almost 5k anti-War Protesters in 65 Cities this past Weekend
I’m unsure how to respond to this - I explicitly did not dismiss iq, but the testing. If the testing has any bias then the results of the testing are not comparable between people.

The net effect of this is that any system that has attempted to make “unbiased” choices based on IQ tests as an objective measure have resulted in systems that favour those biases.

I don’t deny that people have an “IQ”, “g-factor”, “ISDN”, or whatever. It is very clear that some people are smarter than others[1]. But the biased testing renders is useless for any outside of an individual.

[1] to be very clear, I’ve known plenty of otherwise “smart” people who have performed poorly, and vice versa. Generally results in life aren’t purely a result of anything innate.
Political. Dealerships are an invention of government. Look into the history of auto manufacturers and their relationship with US states.

Also, I predict Ford is going to experience some legal difficulties with this. States govern the operation of dealerships, including pricing regulations, and they are not uniform. The dealers themselves are not powerless either, some being large, well heeled enterprises and associations that have fought and won against manufacturers.
And their color balance is almost always way off. So is their CRI.
Your first sentence is flat-out wrong for two reasons: the most obvious is that while not sufficient to solve the problem, it clearly does help but the second is the psychological benefits. Telling people things they can do right now don't matter is depressing; getting them in the habit of thinking about ways to reduce their personal impact is part of helping build the social inertia which is needed to get the various people you mentioned in your second paragraph to listen. Someone who feels good and – far more importantly – gets positive feedback towards making a change rather than a cynical “it won't help” is probably going to keep doing things like that (drop beef next!), and probably explore ways to make their commute less expensive too.

One way to think about it which might be helpful is to triage your targets: have a short-term goal which you could do today with no real barriers (e.g. pick a protein other than beef), a mid-term goal which you can do on your own but might take some planning (bike / transit to work or shop, use a clothesline instead of a drier, replace old non-electric appliances in your house with electric ones, buy your electricity from a renewables supplier, etc.), and a long-term goal with more dependencies which you can't do quickly or on your own (get involved in local politics to reduce car usage, hound your elected representatives, etc.).
This is a major plot point of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Previous "Superblocks" discussion on HN:

Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars[0] (2016) - 236 comments

What New York Can Learn from Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’[1] (2016) - 133 comments

Superblocks: Barcelona’s plan to take back streets from cars[2] (2019) - 31 comments

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237966

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200760

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12633414
> in general thieves steal things they can easily sell rather than things that are expensive

I’m not following your logic. An expensive item is much easier to sell than a cheaper one. Easiness to sell is correlated to value.
Like a sibling said it might be more of a promotional rate thing since there are max lock-ups, but here's a Binance document [0] that advertises 20% for AVAX, NEAR, MATIC, and 70% for CAKE (never heard of it). Looking at CAKE, they have a max lockup of 10 coins for 90 days. So that's... $60 worth of crypto at 70% APR for 90/365 days ~= $10 profit max. Just like banks that offer a stunning 3% interest rate when you open a savings account (up to $3,000 for first 3 months etc etc)

[0] https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/2dd9fba94afd...
What do you mean saved us every time in the past ? We have never faced a problem like climate change. Its the first time we've been so advanced as a species that we can destroy our environment from over consumption. Historically the problems revolved around being unable to produce enough for our needs. Technology is an incredible force for good, but this is a new problem and theres no guarantee that it "saves" us
A decade+ ago when I was in school, the policy was to push honors and AP classes for "college-bound" students. Stats (not offered as honors or AP in my school) was one of the fun courses that co-op kids got to take while we were stuck in pre-calc.
Russian FSB's Era Cryptophone System Is Down in Ukraine
Having an OnlyKey go through the wash and riding through the rain on my motorbike and sloshed in my pockets for years, I don't think it's going to “break”. Also they do offer a slim USB-C version (https://onlykey.io/collections/all/products/onlykey-duo-dual...) so I’m not really sure what you’re going on about.
EPRs are 1750 MWe (4950 MWth).
I think the "black hole information paradox" held back progress in quantum gravity for 30 years. Given that it is so hard for young physicists to get established it really is a crime that somebody established was able to sustain such a thought-stopping bad idea for so long.

That is, if quantum theory is true, there is no information loss in a black hole... Or rather any quantum theory of gravity is not going to give you that result so if you're hung up on that idea you are not working on quantum gravity. Other than insisting on that, there is no fundamental difficulty with quantum gravity in theory... but a lack of experiments is a real problem.
I dislike the ACM as an organization. They spend resources on politicizing computer science rather than actually doing any computer science. You see ACM posters around campus, and think "wow cool a computer science club! maybe I should join." Then you realize that they do nothing but have dry meetings about leftist politics.

As for this paper in particular, I bet that these results are due to diversity hires producing lower quality code. I think that's more likely than Google being racist.
ChaChaCha
They run operations like Cicda3301 to recruit to ones that make it to the end.

https://www.cicada3301.org/

/s
https://archive.ph/iTlDL
I'm pretty sure this is the only way to solve it (factorization table). I don't see how else?
Agree. This is bread and butter for SMT solvers like Z3. No "AI" required.
Seriously though, what is the difference?
> famine, disease and death

Famine, disease and death have visited the human race in many eras in many ways. In a large part, the modern world's (temporary) escape of these things is bought through gluttonous use of energy. Like goblins in a vast project to extract undreamed of amounts of energy that just happened to be lying in deep dark pools, we suck this planet dry and claim it is our right to do so. In our mad dash to get at that incredible goldmine of serendipitous energy, we failed to plan for a transition off said energy sources to something sustainable. That's tempting enough for fate to deal us one nasty fall from a great height, but the real kicker is that burning that energy pumped a noxious debt into our atmosphere with long-ranging consequences for the entire biosphere. We've been voracious little goblins that have gnawed away at the support structure that holds up our existence, namely the remarkable green jewelry that adorns the one planet that can support us.

> How much poverty, death are you willing to accept, because during COVID that answer was ZERO, so i am wondering what the answer is here?

HA! I've always thought we should pay the consequences of our actions, and in these cases, both point a pretty damning finger in the direction of our own greed. In both cases, the loudest, shrillest voices were crying about money when life was in the balance. They used codewords like "economy" and "jobs" and "livelihood". But really, we failed to plan for a system where people could have just taken a coordinated timeout. A fragile engine, always tripping forward, that dies if it sputters.

In reality, we can't think of any other way of living than the way we do now, a way of avarice and entitlement, one that would appall any generation of humans that came before us.
Yes I score several points higher consistently in IQ tests, and I have very wild and vivid dreams.
I don’t think VSCode belongs on that list. I’d much rather use it than XCode. We could probably all agree on the others though.
I also use jupyter for this, but my goto is tablib. for anyone who hasn't used it, it's super easy to switch between tabular data formats. you create an instance of their Dataset class, then assign your data to the appropriate property, and all of the other properties are your data in the respective format

for instance:

from tablib import Dataset

json_array_of_objects = '[{"header": "data1"}, {"header": "data2"}]'
ds = Dataset()
ds.json = json_array_of_objects

ds.csv # data formatted as a csv
ds.xlsx # excel, only useful on a binary read or write
ds.dict # list of dictionaries
ds.json # list of dictionaries converted to json
ds.jira # table formatted for jiras markup
ds.html # html table
# and more

they used to vendorize dependencies, so everything worked out of the box, but now some features need to be installed specifically, or do pip install tablib[all], which is kind of annoying. I suspect they started doing it when they included support for pandas dataframes, because they didn't want to vendorize all of pandas. or force it to install as a requirement.
Nitter link:

https://nitter.snopyta.org/christogrozev/status/150097392643...