skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it isn't. As _old_dude_ pointed out, this is a runtime API that generates JIT wrappers. Rust's cxx does no runtime code generation, while P/Invoke does.
Not really unless you think of democracy only as a glorified strawpoll. Inherent in the free mandate that representatives here have is the idea that they can and should exercise their own judgement independently. Sometimes this may even be against their constituents (or anyone else) so a degree of secrecy is important. In legislative in general to make independent decisions.

Excess transparency means representatives will pander only for votes/money/attention, it's for example why every televised American congressional session makes you lose braincells. Because they're only talking to the TV, they're not actually deliberating.
Yes, sous were an old monetary unit; 100 sous amounted to 5 francs; see https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cent_sous I translate by fiver because of this, but 5 francs 150 years ago were a lot more money than $5 today. Then the word sous evolved to be synonymous with money, but in the song it doesn't mean "money" generally, it means a specific amount of money.

Whorehouse sounds more idiomatic to me than "brothel", especially in a popular song like this one; brothel to me is a more refined/scholarly word maybe? But I may be wrong, I'm not a native English speaker.
As someone who actually saw that book back in the ‘80’s. Truly tasteless jokes vol. 3 != bbc.com. You could definitely print those jokes today, but, as in 1983, I wouldn’t expect them in a major worldwide media outlet’s article. I’d expect to find them in a little paperback not kept in the front row of a bookshelf.
I think this is still the latest they've written: https://github.blog/2022-03-23-an-update-on-recent-service-d...

Was discussed on HN too last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783051
still bonkers until proven otherwise
I don’t even text anymore, I just ping people on Facebook or discord or wherever. And then I’m likely to call them from my computer on one of those services too, which means the mobile carrier is 100% cut out of the loop.
Kenyan inventor turns plastic into bricks
Sounds like nix or guix, but this time based on javascript and requiring yet another tool. I'm not convinced.
Ask HN: Emails from MS about account with almost my address. What happened?
I got a series of emails from Microsoft to a slightly misspelled address (firstlast@gmail instead of first.last@gmail)

Email 1) Cofirm your email address
Email 2) Your account has been renamed
Email 3) Your account has been activated
Email 4) Game purchase order

It seems my email haven't been breached (I have 2fa and got no prompt). My Microsoft account first.last@gmail doesn't show any activity. I haven't been charged anything.

The credit card used in the purchase order doesn't match any of my cards.

I have contacted Microsoft Support and only got to the first level support who were able to confirm that the emails are legit from Microsoft (based on headers, domains and signatures) but were unable to tell anything about the order / account itself.

I wonder what has happened and whether I should be worried.
1. Change buffer (like when I copy some text from a website and website changes "some text" to "some text has been copied from example.com").

2. Forbid either selecting of text or using right mouse button (might be beaten with some extensions).

3. Exposing Incognito mode for letting some pesky websites show you that it doesn't serve Incognito visitors (I really do not need any history since a typical website's live-cycle is short and redesign usually breaks old links).

4. Informing that mouse cursor has left viewport (is being used in two situations: to propose to sign for a newsletter on your email if the mouse is going off the page or annoying students for not letting to google on the device they are passing an exam).

5. Hiding an ability to save images, most of the "technologies" could be outcome with dev console, but sometimes it really works so good that the simplest way is just to make a screenshot.
The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and Labor
> Incremental search as I'm used to the term certainly existed long before and still exists now: did the Cat do something different?

Yes, it did. It included two functions that significantly change the system's user-friendliness:

- Search and navigation was done through quasi-mode interactions, instead as with point-and-click. This gave end-users the powerful keyboard-only navigation capabilities of vi, without all the cognitive load of its navigation&commands mode.

- All content in the system was organized as a single infinite stream of text. There were special characters for sections and files, so you could always navigate to the previous/next section or file by leaping to that character. And you could open a section or file by typing the character plus the file name.

Several of these conventions have been since adopted by browsers' "smart address bars", allowing users to navigate the web through a limited version of this keyboard-first style. But there is no desktop environment that fully takes advantage of these principles for a general audience. Typically, only some power users benefit from a similar workflow in controlled environments like Emacs, without all the simplicity and gentle learning curve of the Canon Cat.
The problems are around process almost always. But I’ve also seen on occasion some sadly pragmatic reasons for very slow processes such as critical legacy software that a replacement for can’t be found even with 8+ figure checks to vendors waved.

One of the big trends from the 2010s for cloud software was to cloudwash old stacks that really weren’t more than simply validated to not crash and burn on an EC2 instance, which is why the entire cloud native movement exists to differentiate greenfield cloud architecture services from cloudwashed ones.

Things can be pretty frustrating working with different vendors of different applications and competencies. People will be patching log4j issues for years to come, for example, and that’s probably easier to validate in aggregate than entire kernel upgrades for decrepit, unsupported distros like CentOS 5 that I still hear about being used.
Also, 'science advances one funeral at a time'
I wonder how much of it is all the Skins and Cosmetics you have to download even if you never bought them as someone else might have it equipped.
Rescued Film near Chernobyl shows Life before the nuclear-disaster
Yes, under "tally sheet" at https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_vote_secrecy/

Note that that still points to the dummy tally (a tally that lists who voted, but not what they voted for), but the project secretary usually publishes the real thing within a few days of vote ending.
The Future of the International Space Station Looks Dire
> How can I trust that my voice was actually heard by the system?

Most vote countings are public. I can go to my polling place, cast my vote, check that nobody tampers with the box, watch how they count every vote correctly, ensure that the written tallies are correct, and then verify that the central system tallies match with those I counted.
From the quote it says they only adjusted for age and smoking.
> I am not going to be targeted by [...]

This reminds me strongly of an ex-employer of mine, whose response to a security vulnerability was inevitably "our customers won't do that". It's one thing to have a threat model, it is quite another to dismiss low-hanging fruit (and trust me, whatever "smart" lock you have is very low-hanging) as not a big concern.
I don't really think you need much math to learn to code at all. Again, some forms of code is helped by math, but I've also seen beginners struggle to reconcile differences between whatever programming language they were introduced to an mathematical notations. There's no doubt there are close relationships between math and CS, but you can a lot of CS just fine without ever being aware of those relationships.

I opted out of pretty much all the math I could at university, and at mine you could opt out of almost all of it (I had to take one introductory course which mostly served to bring those who hadn't taken much in high school up to scratch, and one introductory stats course).

Many of my other courses touches on subjects where a mathematician probably would say "but that's math". E.g. my compiler courses of course touched on a lot on parsers and grammars that are effectively just math restated. But those restatements matter. Maybe if more math was taught in ways that downplayed the dense notations more people would actually stick with it.
> Watch any senate/congressional/government hearing about technology related subjects from your country's government and you'll see what I mean.

Has anyone done some good study / writing on the subject?

I recall, as a young know-it-all, laughing at that one Congress Critter for his "internet is a series of tubes" comment - but as I've gotten older I really just look at most of these things as plumbing data such that I'm not all that sure he was wrong.

Makes me wonder if your assertion is more based on the superficial media takes of the day, and not reality.
Why wouldn't they hire a person that is a professional electronic forensics expert to look into such a device? (Yes, cost, most probably.)
I say this as «not connecting ground» sounds like a rooky mistake. Using their procedure – i.e. by what looks to me like amateurishly poking around the device – they would have destroyed anything that could be brought forth as evidence in a court.
Yeah, indeed, this is not esoteric physics. If you have a 10 kW electric induction stove (you can see the rating from the specs) and you want to operate purely on solar panels, you need at least 10 kW of solar panels and inverter etc.

Also maybe you want to use the oven and AC and charge the car at the same time etc. As far as I understand, it's a plus and minus calculation. It's not any kind of compatibility issue...

Naturally big electric power sinks need bigger voltages, otherwise the current and thus the cabling would get very thick.
If old don't understand smartphones. Thats a valid reason for not using it. For anything important.
Article's (big) mistake is to lump all energy sources together when comparing Bitcoin energy use.

Firstly, Bitcoin is using electricity, Bitcoin competes for energy in electric power market only.

Secondly, Bitcoin energy use would be better compared to total electric power produced from fossil fuels alone. This is because there's no such thing as green Bitcoin until green energy that Bitcoin is using cannot be used for other purposes.
Paper voting is vulnerable to basic sleight of hand, and your ability to effectively monitor the count is somewhat limited.

Electronic voting can be much better, but it is of course not a terribly easy problem to solve.

For what it’s worth, I don’t believe that paper voting is particularly problematic. But I do think that electronic voting could make voting easier and more accessible.
Aruba's Instant On range is a direct competitor to Unifi. It also doesn't require a controller.
Why, is it out of date? Am I missing the latest security updates?
I've gotten nearly a dozen in the past week. It's pretty unnerving with the recent history of zero-click iMessage exploits. These are SMS, but maybe there's a privately known SMS zero-click exploit.

Spam SMS ought to be even easier for carriers to filter than voice. They need to do it and soon.
I’ve silenced all unknown callers on my iPhone.

I rec folks do the same.

I undo this anytime I get a good delivery tho
I'm glad we have a self-hosted Gitlab. Sure you need to do a bit of setup and configuration, but it's worth in the long run.
Possibly relevant: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en-GB
I was not talking about runtime vs compile time, I was talking about how you interact with it as an end user.
> it may never be feasible to do so on Apple Silicon at a useful speed

What a uninspiring and uninteresting start of the article.
> I also know how disgusting kitchens are [...]

They're disinfected literally every day, and during the day all surfaces are regularly cleaned. If this isn't mandatory where you live, you live in a country with bad hygiene laws.

> We pay back of house staff as little as we can get away with to work every weekend and holiday in hellish conditions.

This doesn't match where I live at all, FWIW.
You have to look at geo political implications if China or Russia wouldn’t help theses poorer countries they lose all the impact they made over the last decade by providing infrastructure to these countries. It’s not the clear cut case you make it out to be. The whole fertilizer production problem is also more of a logistical problem because fertilizer production is easy and there are a lot of countries with natural gas reserves. Russia on the other hand can’t produce tech or seeds for secondary fruits needed for a proper soil rotation. You can easily kickstart fertilizer production. Tech and seed not so much especially when you take into account that Russia optimized their agriculture for modern single use seeds.
> Use threads for effective team collaboration. Seriously.

Threads are where messages go to die. I don’t have time to read every single thread clicking into it individually. You’re just making work for me, having to figure out what threads I have to read. If it’s in a thread and no one @‘d me, assume I missed it. I read very quickly, I just want to be able to scan all messages in a channel chronologically.

My team begrudgingly moved over from an IRC server about two years ago to the larger corporations Slack and have actively avoided threads in our spaces.

What they should add is an optional unrolled thread view where people can use threads but we can still get the whole thing as a single non-hierarchical timeline I can just scroll, akin to how Signal does replying to specific messages.
I'd expect politicians who don't understand something to bring experts that does understand that thing, not to ignore everything they don't understand.
I'm from the last offline generation and don't hate the telephone, but the volume of spam calls my landline receives has to be 99% of rings. I may have gone to bat for landlines if there wasn't the spam problem as I think they have upsides over cell phones. Way better sound quality, more consistent service, and answerable by anyone at home.

However, I have been getting 20+ spam calls a day for the last week and I am ready to get rid of the landline forever.

The generational decay would be much much slower if telecoms did their job.
GMail ignores dots in the address, so probably someone who can't remember what their email address actually is created a new account with the dotless address, and now you are getting the emails for that.
In the EU, there are several laws in the making or already enacted which will make it MANDATORY to detect speed limits [1] and slow down your car when it goes too fast. Also, collision data and maintenance data will be automatically transmitted in newly sold cars[2], [3].

[1] ISA, Intelligent Speed Assist: https://etsc.eu/intelligent-speed-assistance-isa/

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/163/oj

[3] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2021/1244/oj
Now THAT is one heck of a double entendre!
Then the question becomes: are we the DDs more like MPs or more like citizens? I'd say we're more like the latter. MPs work for the citizens, and therefore their work must be open to scrutiny. Secret votes of citizens, however, is the norm.

(Full disclosure: In spite of what I wrote above, I did vote NOTA above all other options. I am not confident that I'm ready to change the status quo.)
And for the avoidance of doubt, the modern RunCPM emulator is nothing to do with the old MS-DOS tool of the same name.

I used it, but I can't remember whence that came. I also used 22NICE from Sydex. Info on such things:

https://www.cpm80.com/

https://www.sydex.com/index.html

http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/cpm/cpm_emul.htm
I'm not saying because they are "old and experienced" they don't have any value nor wisdom. I'm simply saying that don't trust their opinion on things they don't understand. And if they don't understand something, I expect them to bring themselves up to speed on that thing, or bring in others who do understand that thing. I'm not expecting them to ignore that thing simply because they don't understand it, or worse, pretend like they do understand it when it's clear they don't.
My elderly mother got a call from a Doctor for an appointment reminder saying "press 1 to confirm". It was one of those robo voice calls. What was disturbing is the doctor's name was nobody she knew or heard of. But the call mentioned a doctor's appointment she actually did have. The robocall had the day and time correct but the nurse there said they never called my mother they don't have any automated system to call patients. Mom almost answered the robo call if it wasn't for the ominous "press 1" which I tell her to never do.

I put mom and dad on the do not call registry here in Canada but it doesn't help. Constant calls from Amazon, Visa, Revenue Canada etc. It's either the robo voice or someone with an Indian accent.
Thank you for confirming what I said.

I know I won't convince you one way or the other. I've seen statements eerily similar to yours before, that I feel that it might be a regurgitation from some article or book somewhere.

Note the use of dehumanising terms, literally calling customers animals and 'cannon fodder'.

This is what this (part of the) industry thinks of the people that play their games, cattle.
There are a lot of potential solutions for in-space electric propulsion. Just that iterating technology in space is slow and expensive. That's a reason why they're potential solutions - they haven't been tried out!

For example you could have water thrusters. Or evaporated plastics.
Solve two problems at once, if you ask me
We love poop.is, so we decided to poop more
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Ray Tracer Written in Pure CMake
1st 2 links report cve id not found
Redhat & Ubuntu have cookie walls and Debian pages are the only readable without pressing or clicking or agreeing or disagreeing on anything. However none of the sites mention a fix.

What is the fix? Surely they don't release this kind of info without a fix.
> would you feel my claim was accurate?

No, because Coca-cola isn't expensive - it costs about as much soft drinks produced by other companies. Furthermore I don't believe that there are any relevant patents left - its formula is a trade secret. IMO if this was the case with e-ink - we would see much better adoption and prices.

Is Windows expensive right now? I don't know how much exactly vendors pay to install it on hardware before sale. But I do know that Windows beats free alternatives (FreeDOS, Linux), so it's at least not unreasonably/prohibitively expensive. Furthermore Windows price is justified by its great advantage over competitors - huge ecosystem of software. Can the same be said about E ink? It's worse than literal paper for static images, worse than LCD for dynamic content. There is a niche for content that sometimes has to change, like on price tags, but those screens are significantly cheaper than what we're complaining about in this thread.
> Makes me wonder if your assertion is more based on the superficial media takes of the day, and not reality.

Again, it's based on watching hearings and other media released by my government when they are talking about technology.

I'm in no way laughing at them for not understanding something. But I am laughing at those who pretend to understand something, or who simply ignore something because they don't understand it. It's not that hard to find experts in certain subjects, and it's really bad that they don't leverage this more for subjects they don't understand.
Again? Last time this happened was 4 days ago as I also said:

>>> Hopefully GitHub won't have another outage in a week's (or even a months) time. [0]

Yet another incident less than a week / 4 days later with GitHub Actions if one was to go 'all in' on GitHub. Would have to reset the counter once again.

You can see in the whole comment chain [0] and in [1] why I was totally right in the 'long term' of not 'centralizing everything' on GitHub since 2020. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30790842

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
I believe it was published in Annals of Internal Medicine (impact factor of ~4). The link is to a news article in Science discussing the paper.
This just made my day. Thanks kind stranger.

Sadly it wouldn't work in the German translation. As "came here frequently" with would be grammatically correct (in German) as "came to here frequently".

"Hier gekommen" (came here) and "hier her gekommen" (came to here) differ. One would need to translate it more freely and that would probably loose the raunchyness.

"But my father often spent the night in Rome."

"But my father often sampled Rome's pleasures."

Or something alike.
Bringing in actual experts would be at odds with the informal duty of a politician to appease to the donors. That's why you see such obscene amounts of absurdity out of modern politics - they don't ask actual experts for advice, they ask their top donors.
Your suggestion is a really good one. We have channels with several hundred people in it, and there threads are a must. In the smaller team channels I often reply out-of-thread, since it doesn't matter.
Exactly. I view DDs more as the citizens of a democracy, rather than the elected representatives of the citizens.
I had a lot of issues with GitHub actions failing yesterday (the infamous "Request failed with status code 502"), but there were no service issues listed on their status page. It just started working late yesterday and seems to be fine today though.
Crypto in general is the nightmare, because all carbon in the ground can be sold as crypto. Build a mining farm and power plant. This is already underway- using flared gas has created the incentive to steer gas towards crypto.

The only thing holding it back is that crypto can be worth an arbitray amount but it only monetizes when someone buys it.
Perhaps but it's a bit of an odd subject to pick if you can't stomach writing out the source in full.

It's like trying to evaluate Renaissance paintings, but not wanting to see a naked human body in the process.
FTA:
"Wave’s mission is to improve the world, not to make money"

"Our investors are venture capitalists trying to make a high return"

"saving our users over $100 million so far [in Senegal alone]."

Am I missing something? What's to stop your VCs from leaning on you to suddenly hike your rates up in favor of more profits once you are a de facto monopoly on payment services? If the answer isn't "They don't and will never hold voting shares and board seats", then why did they invest in your company at all ...?
> I put mom and dad on the do not call registry here in Canada but it doesn't help.

I worry about my Dad with this. I tell him constantly to hang up no matter who they say they are as a matter of habit. If he really wants he can initiate a call with that organization to ensure it's actually them.

Despite me saying this repeatedly, I've heard him give personal info over the phone to cold callers offering discount electricity rates.
Thanks for sharing! I always find it hard to come up with a team name for my squad/agile/scrum/hackaton teams.
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If you or a previous owner ever took out black box insurance, they install a GPS/accelerometer in your car. The insurance companies rarely bother to remove the trackers, so if you've had multiple policies you may end up with a couple of units wired in. Sometimes the mechanics will rip out the old ones, but they put them in different places and they're too busy to check everywhere (install is a 5 minute job). Usually they'll tell you that the device will be turned off once the policy ends.