skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different trims have different features isn't a particularly new phenomenon. I think the main novelty here is that Audi decided it's easier to leave the original button instead of replacing it with a nonfunctional unlabeled button (which is how most cars do it)
It seems quaint now since we all got so used to it, but this is called an anti-feature. Someone spent engineering time (and every customer is paying for that) to make this thing less useful.

I used to be up in arms about this after watching Benjamin Mako Hill's talk in 2010: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/antifeatures-talk

In Hindsight, this was one of the first times during my university days that I thought "maybe tech isn't going the right way."
The real villains will have access via gov agencies to make emergency data requests to tech companies.

Maltego can also be used to pivot on any info you already have to collect more. I'd say the best you can reasonably do is to use this to find your trails and remove them or worst case obfuscate it with noise.
This is a great instinct and I recommend everyone do this.

There’s a ton of resources on this, unfortunately subject to this predictable effect where spam proliferation easily overwhelms your ability to discover useful resources in reasonable time period.

Michael Bazzell has a book on OSINT (and a blog/podcast) which I can recommend for an initial dive. Good starting point for action would be his data broker checklist.
I worked at one SB company and yeah, they had basically unlimited money to throw at problem, but their main competitors had too, from what I heard.

The funding world is _weird_ and I really wonder when the music will stop. I thought (hoped? against my short-time self-interest) that COVID will be such a crisis that will make people reconsider all these crazy spendings, but, apparently not!

YOLO I guess
I prefer not to tell people what they can and can't do with their spare time. This hack was probably a blast to write. Let people make fun things.

Ironically, your advice is essentially "make an indie game", but it's way easier to get noticed by writing impressive hacks that excite people than by developing yet another indie title that's overwhelmingly likely to just get buried on Steam. The vast majority of indie titles will never attract articles on Ars Technica. So this is poor advice even if your goal is to optimize for maximum audience.
Was just thinking of you today: https://twitter.com/rahimnathwani/status/1510810237522964487...
Why not run the processor on the FPGA?
The Stirrup would be an unknown inexplicable advantage for about one dead mongol horseman's time above ground, followed by the delay to ask a smithy: "make me 20,000 of these"

More realistically, however long it took to make something in the field from the leather/rope/cloth to hand, and a willingness to understand it's implications.
I don’t believe so. AES is symmetric-key encryption; if you do it incorrectly, it doesn’t decrypt at all. The only place you can mess up, then, is in the mode, which I don’t believe is accelerated by most (any?) AES encryption instruction sets; instead, they mostly handle doing an individual round of encryption/decryption.

Public key crypto systems seem like they would be much scarier to have hardware acceleration, though I’m sure if you broke it down to low level enough bits you could make it impossible for the hardware to “break” it (aside from, well, if it decided to just maliciously subsitute your code for its own. But it could do that without extension ISAs.)
This is part of the problem. None of these investors, including YC, have domain expertise. They only preach that the founders themselves should have it, but they are the ones giving the funding. So, in the end, they only look a perceived credentials of the founder and not the tech, which is BS. No one with strong credentials and solid tech would need VC funding, they already have grants. And by then, private equity would be lining up.
No wonder, so far it has been another Vista, the way managed screw all devs that bought into UWP reboot, and the hardware requirements, there are no reasons left to upgrade other that getting it with new hardware.

I will be waiting for Windows 11 Creators Edition [0] or Windows 12, whatever comes.

[0] - The first Windows 10 version that was actually usable.
It's a very common Greek name
Is there a practical use for the GNU factor command?
never saw any more toxicity on irc than any other platform
Looking at the other items it seems that the author prefers open source / cross-platform software / services where possible.
Was not Constantinople in a pretty bad position, so they had to ask Blanche de Castille and whoever was ruling France for help around 1240 ?

Constantinople ruler at the time, Baldwin II was either killed or captured Sources agree that the city started paying tribute to the mongol.

( one is a document excommunicating Baldwin for accepting overloadship from the mongols )

So the city was not taken but the situation was pretty bad.

Similarly, Bulgaria and Hungary were taken too if I’m remember correctly.
So, run fewer trains. Fewer is better than none.
Is there a shorter version of Diplomacy one could use to introduce people to the game and its concepts?
While they didn't "take" Constantinople, they vassalized the nearby Trebizond Empire and beat the Latin Empire's leader in battle, potentially capturing him leading to unknown concessions. Then the re-emergent Byzantines bought an alliance rather than battle them.
Delighted when I see any article about Feynman. Remember 2014 when the idiots thought they successfully canceled this remarkable scientist.
If I was Audi, I would remove all the physical buttons and replace them with a touch screen. That would spare me all the drama in the future.
Technology in general often overrides and obsoletes existing things.
Make do with as little as you can in every aspect of life without torturing yourself. IMO this also counts for creative ambitions: there are writers who propose to postpone writing for as long as you can.

Healthy long-term relationships, on the other side, seem to require a fair amount of luck, though.
In many countries there isn't, at least not at the same 300 euro price range many families manage to get by.

Since Windows XP that we are going to have everyone switch in droves to Linux, because Microsoft did X.

What gaming, running Windows games on Wine and Proton, because studios can't still be bothered to this day, even when they are already using POSIX like (PS/Switch/iOS) or Linux based OSes (Android/Stadia) ?
Surprised that no one has yet mentioned ObjectiveSee tools, KnockKnock and BlockBlock:

https://objective-see.com/

KnockKnock looks for malware like this rogue launchd service.

You use it to quickly check for the presence of some forms of malware. It can integrate with VirusTotal databases.

BlockBlock runs as a background process, and blocks installation of launchd services and kernel extensions. It displays a (rather technical) alert when something tries to install such features. Relatively lightweight.

I also use Little Snitch, from (unrelated) Objective Development:

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

It's quite a bit more complicated, a firewall with a sophisticated user interface that blocks outgoing traffic by default. The alerts let you add rules to allow such traffic. It can generate a _lot_ of alerts as you gradually build up a set of rules that match your usual usage.

I've recently re-installed macOS from Recovery, and I was pleasantly surprised that Little Snitch wasn't often triggered as I went about using my Mac.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend blocking firewall like Little Snitch for usual users; they wouldn't be able to deal with all the alert noise. Like Windows Vista, all over again. But I've come to rely on it... ObjectiveSee has a similar, free tool, if you want to see what I mean.

I strongly recommend ObjectiveSee tools. They are free and (I believe) open source.

https://objective-see.com/
Concept maps are not mind maps, concept maps work in a different way. I'll just offer a self-reference about concept maps [1] since there I have an explanation of how they work I like.

[1]: https://mostlymaths.net/2021/10/concept-maps.html/
This comes off more like name calling than dialog to me. Personally I drive an old Toyota Corolla that is about as close to the base model as one could get (windows doors and transmission are manual). There is nothing extraneous in that machine as far as I can tell. I know perfectly well that my car is the cheap model and I would need to pay extra for some automatic windows, but I would be annoyed if I had a dead switch on the side that does nothing.
From the article it sounds like the manufacturer removed the hardware but left the button and didn’t do a great job patching the gap with good UX.
This is just bad UX design and people have a right to be annoyed about these kinds of things.
Or the process rejects known good people?

A middle ground that I follow is to go back to the person referring and ask are we stupid for not hiring this person? Then we try and reconcile the interview performance with the recommendations.

Another thing that I generally do is never recommend to anyone great that I know to come work where I work. Nothing good comes out of that. They already have good jobs. There is some probability they won't be as successful in the new place. I would deviate from that under certain scenarios but as a rule I would not initiate that sort of change. If they come to me I'd happily recommend them (rarely happens, as I was saying, they have good jobs).

Referrals are tricky especially when there's incentives like referral bonuses and everyone starts referring their cousin's friend's uncle's neighbor (some other problems in that sort of culture but we digress).
("Mind maps are similar in structure to concept maps, developed by learning experts in the 1970s, but differ in that mind maps are simplified by focusing around a single central key concept."):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
You can't seriously claim that countries which imposed serious, long-lasting restrictions on the basic human right of freedom of assembly did "really well" in the pandemic. That's revisionist history.

Saving lives is not a valid justification. If you think it is, then why not impose a permanent police state? We could probably save some lives by giving police the power to search anywhere without a warrant.
Never heard about any errors in AWS billing but it's possible. Contact AWS support and they will refund you.
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We extended that at a technical college I went to for a while because so many of the teachers were downright incompetent.

"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach work here."
> It was "deem" "impossible" for a human to calculate

I live in Malmö so you have to understand I'm obliged to make a "well no wonder given the Danish counting system" joke here

> Fifty is halvtreds, which stands for halvtredje-sinds-tyve, meaning “third half times twenty”, or “two scores plus half of the third score” [2½ 20]*

https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-danish/e...
> There we had something of an impromptu party until there was no more power for the cash register and they stopped sales.

Funny how the entire system has ground to a halt and the bartender is still worried that their cash register receipts and inventory won’t reconcile and shuts that part down too.
What is this for, and what should I do to get on, or off the list?
RTX Doom isn't an exercise in art direction any more than the Cornell Box is an exercise in art direction. If you want an experience shaped by an art director, pick up your favorite title on Steam.

This is a hack that was probably a lot of fun to write and a lot of fun to look at. Hacking support for bleeding-edge GPU technology into a engine from 1993 that doesn't support 3D meshes at all is an impressive feat. I'm glad people are having fun writing such things and don't see the need to critique the aesthetics.
They did had a technic where they draw blood from their horse in small quantity in order to add more protein. ( I remember that from the Dan Carlin series … he’s usually decent with sources )
> sidenote: If anyone out there is an SAP specialist ns.nl looks like a pretty great place to work: 36hr week, 5 weeks vacation, pension, and free unlimited 2nd class + low cost 1st class train travel.

Those are pretty standard terms here in .NL. 36 hours is considered fulltime by most employers, including government and semi-government. Pension is offered almost everywhere and at least 4 weeks vacation is the legal minimum.

Maybe except for the _unlimited_ train travel but most employers do offer free train travel between home and work.

This also means that if an IT system goes down on a Sunday, a lot of employees won’t even pick up the phone until Monday 9 AM.
“Microserfs” by Douglas Coupland (1995)
Turkish kefir is delicious ( that the only one I know, readily available in Doner Kebab places )
Well, how do you expose something that is different on different architectures? Maybe not define it?

Anyway, doesn't seem like you are even trying to understand. No worries, I won't bother.
lol they don't have to do shit they just buy whatever they don't have anyway
How does cherishing every moment and leading by example take care of global warming? Economic inequality? Nuclear armageddon?

I'm trying real hard to cherish every moment and be optimistic, but none of these things are improving.

The only thing that's worked for me on a personal level is not watching mainstream news or advertising, disconnecting from social media, and basically making a decision that I can't improve any of these problems so it's pointless to even try.
It's pretty awesome indeed! I see glimpses of what AR can be in this project.

The artist is Yuta Sasaki and this link goes more detail into this cool project: https://sasaki-sasaki.com/info/en/alive_en/

Can't believe this made the front page. Hopefully it gets back on soon.
Chromebooks are an US phenomenon.

In Europe you hardly see them on sale across traditional chains.

And when they happen to be there, regular shop visitors will notice how their section gets increased promotions until they finally manage to get rid of them.
Anyone play a Oregon Trail type game where you would navigate rivers with the trackball?

The trackball had the advantage over a mouse where you could keep spinning it with force and it felt like endless fun.
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>This is basically the opioid epidemic being repeated with amphetamine.

No it isn't, it's a repeat of the previous American amphetamine epidemic, which has somehow been successfully memory-holed despite lasting multiple decades.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/speedy-history-americ...
I agree. Good people never had a problem getting a job. I got my first summer job writing code when I was in high school. My friend wrote commercial video games when in high school. Through history, if you were enthusiastic about writing software, and you were good at it, finding work was never a problem. It's always been finding those people that has been the problem.

I would almost argue the opposite, that this process opens doors for people who are not good software developers to get good software jobs. Since you can relatively easily prep for a software interview but no amount of prepping makes you a really good developer. Whatever the coding interview process measures, it's not how good of a software engineer/developer you are.
Anyone know how this list was created or how often it gets updated?
You can just supply your own function to parse the date.

In most database systems that would be a disaster, because the database would have a send a request over the network back to your program for each argument it needs to process. For SQLite, it's no big deal, because it's executing in the same address space as your program so it's a simple function call.

I'll admit that it does make it harder to port your program to another language, so it's more of a workaround than an ideal solution.
This application must be really really simple ;), so no database?
I've had one potential employer give me an IQ test (literally this is how they screened people before formally interviewing them - I went in, took an IQ test proctored by an HR person, and then went home and awaited the results). I was then called back in and subjected to multiple rounds of tech interviews involving whiteboard programming and a take-home assignment (with follow-up code review). The engineers I talked to all seemed very pleased with my performance and made it sound like I all but had the job.

However, ultimately, I failed the final test, which was a non-technical sit-down with a company executive. Not a cultural fit.

I like remote work. Nobody cares if you're a "cultural" fit.
I know multiple nurses and doctors who had their hours drastically cut for months. They weren't re-assigned to help with COVID patients.
I realized I've basically only played e1m1. Might explain why I enjoyed UT more than FPSes with storylines.
When I see someone endorse Elon Musk, I instantly take them less serious and avoid getting into into discussions with them, unless they own a Model X. At least it means they're capable of purchasing low-quality luxury goods....?
People will be abused to the extent they allow. I'm never going to buy this stuff. No wifi in my oven, either. No cameras in my TV. Manufacturers, know that if you put inappropriate computers in the product, I'm not going to buy it. Keep it simple and minimal and you will get my money.
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Reminds me of a comment:

> Unless you've made it to your "endgame" company that you're happy to stay at for a while, I feel investing anything more than the bare minimum to get your assigned work done is worth less than just grinding leetcode and otherwise studying for interviews. Doing an actual good job, above and beyond, is not going to be worth much when you're looking for your next job.
Thus we're now seeing the rise of Professional Interviewers or Professional Leetcoders.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298748
See, your statement of "charging for software not being immoral" is still a hotly ongoing topic of debate. It's just that the economic architecture that carried us out of a world primarily constrained by material scarcity is being naively applied to an area of one which does not.

Introducing scarcity dynamics where none exist, is to me, one of the most immoral of willful actions to undertake.
Do you mean real mind maps and real concept maps, or one of the many bastardizations?

Mind maps are very different from concept maps, except that they both arrange boxes and lines on paper.

If you look at Buzan's Mind mapping book, you'll find that he has a definition that virtually no mind map in common use adheres to.

(https://www.2uo.de/Books/the-mind-map-book/ is very incomplete, just a few notes, but look especially at "central image", "branches varying in thickness", "Only one word per branch" and "lines only as long as words")

Similarly, at least the first twenty videos on YouTube I've seen promising to show concept mapping aren't concept maps at all. They are "spider diagrams" (as Buzan calls them), usually with artsy ambitions. And for some reason, many of those were from nurses-in-learning – the term "concept mapping" seems to be very much en vogue in that field.

I'm a very textual person myself, working with endlessly tab-indented text files, but I'm currently trying to look over the fence to the more graphical approaches.
and I thought it was Jack Black
Basic hygiene when cooking is not perfectionism, and is not only done at elite restaurants.

Dismissing basic development good practices as "perfectionism" is just gaslighting people into believing that any form of thinking is overengineering.
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Rich people won’t buy houses if there isn’t a stupidly low restriction on capacity. That’s the same reason they don’t hoard land.
Pet cloning is getting more popular despite the cost
See also Bellard's QuickJS (54k lines) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bellard/quickjs/master/qui...
I'm a tech lead in my team. Honestly, I am terrible at whiteboard questions. I've long forgotten a lot of details that I've studied so hard in my CS degree. If I go to interviews right now without adequate preparation I am very likely to bomb pretty hard! But that doesn't mean I'm a bad developer or that I neglect my duties as a tech lead. It means that interviews are testing something pretty far removed from what we're doing at work.

It's even worse in some companies that just give you a bunch of CS questions to solve, because a lot of the time it's possible for candidates to just memorize a bunch of interview questions and rely on that, regardless of their actual problem solving skills.

There might a better way.

When I interview candidates I've started putting less emphasis on O-notation algorithms and how to optimize them, which is pretty much the norm in most tech interviews (make this faster, do this in-place, etc), and started putting more emphasis on the candidate's understanding of IO, specifically when working with databases, congestion, rate limiting, queues, the stuff you actually encounter when working on real projects in my domain. Asking open ended questions and basically building a tiny project together.

The experience has been enlightening. You can immediately tell the person's analytical thinking because most of what they learn in "interview prep" isn't directly helpful in this situation. You can see some people frantically trying to match the problem with something they've seen in a video or a book instead of stopping for a moment and giving it some actual thought.

At the present I'm pretty certain that asking a person to build something is the best approach to understand their skill level. But this requires more time from both parties.
Could I get access to this once it is complete?
Cool! This project also had a link to an essay "I, Pencil" [0] on the difficulty of producing a pencil (discussed on HN previously as well [1]). That HN discussion also had a link to the Open Source Ecology project [2] that seems somewhat relevant as well.

[0] https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980

[2] https://wiki.opensourceecology.org