skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shied away from the police violence videos, and snuck them in quietly later, because mainly I wanted to establish the _innocence_ of the protest, which is key for showing the _inaccuracy_ of it's mainstream media representation, and the _absurdity_ of the parliamentary response. The police are not the enemies here, and I didn't want to inflame things too much. I'm trying to get this done in an orderly fashion.
Why, because Bennett couldn't be convicted of it? Bennett took decades off Shumaker's life. AFAICT it's for practical reasons that he got a lesser charge, not for philosophical reasons.

https://www.swordandscale.com/murder-charges-under-the-delay...
Incognito/private browsing is another workaround.
> Toxicological studies show that oral doses of nickel and chromium can cause cutaneous adverse reactions such as dermatitis.

Literally the first sentence in the abstract when you click the link. The rest of the abstract summarizes the study nicely in a small paragraph.
Yes is it a feature not a bug? "Nickel is a mineral. It is found in several foods including nuts, dried beans and peas, soybeans, grains, and chocolate. The body needs nickel, but in very small amounts. Nickel is a common trace element in multiple vitamins." [1]

[1] https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1223/nickel
I'm asking for reassurance.
In Argentina, QR codes is how you pay with your phone in super markets, pubs/bars, restaurants, everywhere - its their "apple pay", using Mercado Pago [0] app/service. Also, all the paper menus from restaurants are replaced with QR codes thanks to the pandemic.

[0] https://www.mercadopago.com.ar/
No, never tried that.

The ink inside the pens could be clearly seen, so I don't think it was invisible. And the ball in the ballpoint clearly felt like it had locked up.
Hey, its Rob from Rownd.

Agree, it is over-priced for simple use-cases. What would be an appropriate price for the hacker news audience? It is far easier for us to lower prices and raise them.

Let me know and I'll change it!
I started out deploying the righteous spear of whatevs but I think I need some more context here.

What is Roskomsvoboba?
> Disagreeing with social norms doesn't strike me as humble.

we're leaving in different social circles... so it is totally possible that the norm i see differs from yours.

I worked once for the startup where idea was, "engineer" does not need prefix. Salaries, responsibilities, you name it -- were different. The title (in R&D) was not. Nobody cares.

I did not say "skill". I do not care about skills any more than I care about years of experience. The only thing I care about is ability, willingness, and readiness to contribute. The same person might match differently in different companies. E.g., intimate knowledge of C++ in embedded systems (e.g., avionics software) might be highly irrelevant in web-oriented startup, which is pushing Python. Would 10+ years engineer qualify for "staff" position? definitely no. "senior"? -- maybe. If Boing had layoff, it might be an option for somebody to restart carrier. A good person will quickly grow through the ladder, in the same company or moving on. But immediately? please.

> a matter of law for government jobs
One can think of government as a single employer. In my company there is a levelling guide. We do not care about government, government does not care about us. :-)
I'm interested: why do you think it is debatable if HTTPS is "concretely pretty good" as it exists now?
U-Boot can provide basic UEFI environment. Hardware description is another thing, either ACPI or DeviceTree can be used.
> At this point in time it's a pain point for me that Android devices don't usually have built-in QR reader software

It's hidden, but I believe it's built in the default camera app now.

I've learned that my last 3 phones have had it built in.
When you're counting work days, 4 weeks is 20 days. 10 days is two weeks notice.

Some countries/states have no notice period at all. (How could you work under conditions like that? How could you plan anything? That would include tasks at work, your mortgage, your holidays, etc, etc.)
chromium isn't so benign, is it?
This was a joy to read. Not only is it laugh-out-loud funny in places, but the memes and pop culture references start strong and they don't stop coming. There's even some amusing criticism of systemd in there.

Jokes aside, though, it's a really thought-provoking read, crammed full of references to actual research papers, giving a plausible-sounding step by step explanation, with numbers, of how an AI hard takeoff scenario would look.

Whether as a piece of fiction or as a call to take seriously how poor our defences are against such a scenario, I think it is well worth a read by anyone interested in AI. I remember a few years ago I was searching for a description of what an AI box escape might involve, so this was really satisfying to find.
> comments seem to focus on how Russians deserve punishment, but how productive is this type of punishment?

That's angry, polarized people giving into being cruel. It's understandable. I thought I was jaded, but the horrors coming out of Ukraine are breathtaking. But the Russian people deserve none of this, nor what is coming for them.

There are two sanctions/decoupling strategies: a fast strategy and a slow strategy.

The fast strategy aims to convince elites to change course. If Putin withdraws, he gets his economy back. That's unlikely here; the real targets are his generals.
The slow strategy is about degrading capability. It's a worst-case fallback for when the fast strategy fails. Smaller economies power smaller war machines. Brain drain, industrial decay and material shortages make unmanageable threats less potent.

Drawn-out sanctions undermine the appeal of popular uprising. External pressure tends to bring people together, which in this case means tolerating eroding freedoms in exchange for security. And starving, broken people don't revolt. When we deploy long-term sanctions, we're putting a nation in international quarantine. Despite the terrific cost, to ourselves and the innocent people there. The image of decades-long sanctions forcing people into the streets against their own government is a fantasy based on the fast-strategy success of the South African example.
Do you really know whether you like an album after listening to a song once? Enough to buy it? Maybe, maybe not. What if you had to decide today, and might never be able to listen to that album again if you don't buy it? You might regret it later...

That's the kind of manipulation we see in some games. I don't think this should be considered normal. The same applies to Nintendo's Switch games that were only available for purchase for a short time after release, with Nintendo not saying whether those games will ever be available again [0]. We all know that a lot of people bought those games just in case, and that's the intention.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/1/22307522/mario-limited-tim...
> clearly a crime in the real world?

Because real theft destroys value, while “stealing” information merely doesn’t realize potential gains.

> I barely make half

Entrepreneurship is difficult. If it was merely about effort, our societies would have been completely different.

Interesting careers tend to pay less; video game developers work more and get paid less. FOSS software written by unpaid labor is perhaps the extreme example.
I’d +1 the usage of pgAudit when higher throughput is needed. If you’re on AWS, RDS can automatically ship these logs to S3 where you can then run Athena queries against them.
Shouldn't take too long to run out of "silly" questions before you get to the right ones, as long as the interest is there and it's genuine. Now how do you foster sincere curiosity is a better question :)
I heard that cheap stainless pots leach fewer toxins than the expensive ones.
Yeah, you can definitely go the Andy Grove approach or even try to become your direct's friend(don't really recommend). Personally I think 1:1s are being used wastefully and have become the industry norm so people put up with them.
There is nothing cultish about the way Amazon interviews. If you are a good engineer with a relevant background who can speak english you will have no problem passing these interviews. I'm not sure why you are framing it as cultish.
>which is bad for most applications

Why?
I’d agree if I believed they could/would take money out of their retirement accounts and somehow disallow benefitting from trusts, but that seems highly unlikely.

Prison time allows for disincentivizing as well as rehabilitation. Death sentence on the other hand…

Perhaps part of the problem are our prison conditions. And the minimal effort directed towards true rehabilitation. Fixing those might make prison time less ethically fraught.
>Does that mean JavaScript should add no new syntax ever again? No, of course not.

Yes? Yes. Maybe?

At least not in cases where the language can already do things adequately, and the change is just a cosmetic improvement. Annotating comments already works, changing that just to have a syntax that looks like type hinting but isn't just makes the language worse in my opinion. I'd rather they just bite the bullet and add optional type hinting, and make the syntax do what it appears to. Otherwise, the necessary complexity of typing Javascript should be kept entirely out of the language itself - including special syntax to make things easier. Deal with Typescript and its peculiarities and the build step, if that's what you want to do, and annotate types in the existing comment syntax, but Javascript is an untyped language and should be remain absolutely, even aggressively agnostic about such things.
I can control my smart devices by typing the command

'turn [device-name] on'

in the terminal from my computer, and I feel like an super awesome hacker every time. Works great when I am at my computer but don't have my phone around to use the app. I had to use an android emulator to get the local network keys to make tinytuya work.
Eventually demand will subside, and prices will go down. Probably during the next recession/depression.
Obligatory cereal-iron extraction

https://youtu.be/NHqN-Be5nlU
I visited UAE recently, and was considering moving there.

You can find tons of offerings from local offices that can help you get employment visa that allows you to work for other UAE employers whilen sponsored by the office (advertised as freelancer visa, however it doesn't really allow you to work as contractor for UAE clients), you can find many posters everywhere in Dubai.

In case you are not there yet, just check dubai.dubizzle.com (craigslist like in Dubai).
this is about $2050 for two years visa, you pay less per person when getting your family members.

A more expensive and robust option, is to work with through umbrella company like freelancervisa.com , they will issue invoices for your local client in their name, they recieve the fund and give it to you, the only fees is that 2 years visa is kinda double the first option (plus you have to charge your clients %5 for VAT).

Also if you are impacted with Upwork (or similar) cease of operations for residents Russia, moving to UAE and opening a bank account will fix this for you, you don't have to be able to work legally with UAE clients if you won't work with UAE clients, so the $2K-ish option should be good

Also, UAE is pretty robust in terms of money remitance and crypto friendly, in case you can't take your family with you.

Good luck
I am afraid data audit is not just about data changes. The real challenge is how to audit the data read which people should not do.

Since there is no redo logs generated for data read, CDC could not help in this case. It will reply on the audit traces, the SQL capture and cache, etc. But it's costly.
Thanks for correcting on the CO2.

>This was the sixth time that exact piece had broken off and hit the vehicle.

That was part of the problem and what is meant by the foam shedding being "in family." They had witnessed it enough (along with foam shedding elsewhere) without consequence that it wasn't really considered a credible risk. Until it happened during a period of the launch where the delta-v made it a different scenario, with an energy that caused unexpected characteristics about the foam.

This is second hand knowledge, but the person I know involved in the testing said they had a really hard time recreating the damage to tiles on the specs they were given after Columbia. By chance, they decided to turn the gun beyond the quoted specs (as I understand it), and all of a sudden the foam acted like a hard chunk of debris. I think it's hard for people to grasp how much is unknown, even after a disaster. Often, it's only in hindsight where it seems obvious.
No, I suppose it isn't, is it? The poor thing would likely be crushed.
Probably a lot of benefit from stock split as well as can be seen with Tesla, nvidia, apple in the past
A tech executive privately funding hundreds of soldiers to fight for Ukraine
> does anyone know why this is ”native” API and not just a generic image processing script

Consider the following facts:

1. This was designed by Google

2. Google Play Services provides an API for detecting barcodes, faces and text https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/a...

3. Chrome gets a shape detection API for detecting barcodes, faces and text https://web.dev/shape-detection/

Of course, it's a matter of perspective whether you want to see this as lovers of the free web helping webapps to feature parity with native apps; or Google churning out yet another low-effort standard that's easy for them and difficult for all their competitors.
All soldiers from all armies have done that from time immemorial. Though it's usually stated as 'soldiers liberating chickens'. :)
No one should be purchasing a H610 without being fully cognizant of what they are giving up. Namely a drastic reduction in PCIe lanes, zero USB 3.2 20Gbps ports, and no memory overclocking, which in Intel land usually means no XMP.
> And I like the total bluntness of the job offering.

It's right up there with:

You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.
Not only could it save us time on job interviews, it could save us time on tech support calls: https://xkcd.com/806/

I think you're being unrealistically conservative about how much things are going to change. You might be right that things will get better instead of worse, but overall I think you're seriously underestimating just how much and how fast the world changes over time. Don't forget that it's only been 21 years since "Know Your Customer" was an unthinkable Big-Brother sort of idea, only a year since "vaccine passports" were widely thought to be a paranoid fantasy that could only happen in Israel, and only two weeks since Russia invading Ukraine was widely dismissed as implausible.

More broadly, I think that if you want to know what's going to happen 50 years in the future, you need to look at things that have happened at least 50 years into the past. 02072 will probably be as strange to us, if we live to see it, as our life today would have seemed in 01972.

I'm not sure why you're dismissing Iran. 85 million people live there and their welfare is important.

As for "smarter-than-thou", I think it's rather that good programmers are acutely aware of the severe limits on human mental capacity and therefore look for solutions that don't require them to be infallible or even smart. Also, we have computers, so we can build our practices around them!

A couple of years ago, Hillel Wayne interviewed a number of "crossover" engineers who had worked both as software engineers and in other engineering fields, and my recommendations above are strongly influenced by what they said about what the different fields can learn from one another. If you're interested in these issues, you might be interested in reading his writeup: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-we-can-learn/
Walk down the rows of cubicles chanting "Nonne avertis et conare iterum?" (best I could translate "have you tried turning it off and on again" to latin)
> But the crack pipe thing was completely made up.

Can you let the New York Times know?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/biden-harm-re...
Be aware that ECC will only work on the W680 motherboards and these ae considerably quite expensive.
Not yet. Lots of talking so far. Let’s see how this pans out over the next couple of years.
Biden to Feds: Figure Out This Crypto Thing, Stat
I am amused that one who know neither Chinese and Russian languages confidently claim that their media are lying, based on the reporting that one knows as biased.

Let's put in this way.

One saw a black box.

One was told that the black box contains some nasty staff.

One knows that the above statement is biased.

One then claim that the black box contains the nasty thing.

See how bias anchored one's thought, even if clearly this guy had no first hand information to make any judgement at all. Yet still be able to have a mental state that clearly established.
China’s Russia Risk
Why not carbon steel? It's lighter and just as durable, that's why it's used in restaurant kitchens.
Another nice thing about this one is that in the case where the objects intersect, you can just keep iterating mostly the same algorithm to get the intersection points, rather than needing to use Expanding Polytope as with GJK.
Sorry but I'm confused by

> I did not want to maintain two sets of slides

This confusion is causing another confusion as to why you couldn't publish the PDF before the lecture.
A handful of my professors don't allow us to use this kind of pens, especially for major examinations. The issue was the ink disappears when exposed to heat. Yes, you could place the paper in a fridge when that happens but what kind of professor will have time to do that? Other times, some erasures unintentionally appears just by placing the paper near an A/C.

I never use these pens anymore because of it's weird use case: writings which doesn't need to be kept long-term and at the same time you're sure will be handled properly (temperature-wise).
What are you talking about? This is not for cloud datacenters trying to squeeze every bit of compute per resource.

These machines are commonly used by professionals in industries like movie and music production. They don't care what the power bill is, it's insignificant compared to the cost of the employee using the hardware.
pc = Stripe cofounder Patrick Collison's username
more sad coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/europe/ukraine-fami...
For those that didn't watch the Simpsons, this is very relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
Amazon to Split 20 for 1
I strongly disagree with this "both sides are the same" BS. One side has made it illegal to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a war, the other has not. Yes, it's virtually impossible to reports news without some bias affecting that presentation. But it's a disservice to the world to claim that those are even vaguely the same thing.
Don't worry too much, all this stuff will take a few years off your life on average and those years would've sucked anyway.
From the paper: Low levels of Cr (III) are essential for human health and metabolism of glucose, protein, and fat; however adverse effects of oral Cr exposures, such as dermatitis, are also known

Cr (VI) is the bad cancer causing version.
> Mrs Chippy’s voyage was not without incident. Storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees, in a diary entry dated 13 September 1914, relates that "An extraordinary thing happened during the night. The tabby cat jumped overboard through one of the cabin portholes and the officer on watch, Lt. Hudson, heard her screams and turned the ship smartly round & picked her up. She must have been in the water 10 minutes or more".
Because there's ways to build safe sandboxes that allow untrusted code to use a bunch of things that it calls unsafe.
GJK handles closest points (and distance, separating axis) between two non-overlapping convex shapes. Once convex shapes penetrate, you can use EPA, the Expanding Polytope Algorithm, invented Gino van den Bergen (while we were working together at NaN/Blender, around 20 years ago). See also http://dtecta.com/publications and check out this recent implementation in C++ for both GJK and EPA is in Jolt Physics (used in the game Horizon Forbidden West): https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics/tree/master/Jolt/Geome...
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> As long as The Internet is available to Russians, people will find a way around Roskomnadzor blocks. All it takes is a single 100Mb VPS to provide VPN connection for 10-20 people.

The things is, there is no way to buy a $5 VPS/VPN now in Russia "thanks" to Visa / Mastercard actions.
It is a feature, nickel is a cofactor in certain enzymes, and in industrial nations the main source for humans is their stainless steel cookware. On chromium being an essential trace element the jury is still out.
Many many phones had waterproof headphone jacks without flaps before the iPhone 7 added waterproofing like the Galaxy S5. Many still do, e.g Samsung A52.
You wouldn't be able to see a single menu nearly anywhere here in Mexico City without one.

Basically everywhere uses a QR
code for something of importance
I had no idea this was open source. Vital is an amazing synth, and really gives Serum and Pigments competition.
Worth noting that this investigation specifically analyzes highly acidic tomato sauce and that is likely to be the worst case scenario. Still very valuable research!
Excess deaths is a perfectly valid statistic to base policy off... if policy makers maintained a hands-off approach and didn't radically change society through out the pandemic.

Can you in good conscience say that the typical rate of death remained steady while the following happened:

* a majority of given populations remained at home (lock downs - meaning no travelling to work in multi-tonne death traps)

* practised increased hygiene protocols (masks, more frequent hand washing)

* did not visit elderly homes (at least, less than usual)

* many people were reluctant to get timely health care (due to fear of catching COVID from medical facilities)

* ate worse and excersied less

* infected elderly patients were sent back to their nursing homes (to typically infect the entire facility)

There are so many confounding factors that on the face of it, should result in a radically different death profile... and almost every country faced the above to different extents.

Anyone claiming to be able to work out the actual number of people who died from COVID-19 from excess deaths is being disingenous at best.
I'm using my grandmothers cast iron. She and my grandfather lived well into their 50's so I should be good.
This is the explanation that made it click for me, although in my experience it seems like he's wrong about being able to rule out the need for doing certain checks when you already "know" the origin is not in that section due to how you got to where you are. Not sure if my implementation was just shitty, but you'll get weird results when objects are very close if you don't exhaustively check every sector - probably due to numerical imprecision, if I had to guess.
The most most interesting part of this story is they needed to delete the porcine endogenous retroviruses from the pig dna before the heart could be transplanted since that can infect humans. Next step is to use Crispr to kosher bacon.
It likely varies hospital to hospital and region to region. I would hope it's more often the case than not though. I'm an organ donor and I wouldn't be happy to find out that my liver went to an alcoholic that wasn't making a strong effort at sobriety.
My Motorola phone from 2017 has QR support in the Camera app.
Thermal mass is a desirable feature for cooking some things, the cooking surface loses less temperature as you introduce ingredients.