skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than just the police have access to those systems and they are frequently abused already. Volunteer at a DV clinic for just a few weeks and you'll likely run across at least one person who had those systems play a role in their stalking or harassment.

It's usually a clerical worker with access but pretty often a cop. Just limiting access to certain groups isn't sufficient. It also needs to be restricted by time and purpose, audited with harsh consequences. Something the current systems already are not, so I wouldn't expect this to be.

The fact that one unrighteous power exists is not a good argument for another one.
Who remembers the relevant Monty Python sketch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MYxAlA5wuk
I have 2 of the Pro 6 and a ton of wifi devices (lots of ESP32s temperature sensors, tablets, laptops, etc.) and they've kept up really well. I have a VM running pfsense and just have the units set up in bridge mode.

They try to phone home like crazy and use their own DNS servers, so I just blocked them from accessing the network unless I want to do an update, which I unblock it for a bit and then re-block traffic. I got them to compete against my entire apartment complex screaming at 2 & 5 GHz and they've done the job.

I kept my expectations tempered with this because I just want wifi to work and no have to mess with it. I eventually plan on getting a couple Unifi APs to replace them if Amazon does anything really stupid with the product.
Rest assured that I have considered it. The result of that consideration was, and is, to mock the utter naive absurdity of it.
But we could give everyone 55000 full-time equivalents of leisure time back in saved resource spending/wastage.

It’s a drip for everyone but there are many more drips available where that came from.
the root cause of the original problem is caused by invalid IR, which can be caught by IR verification -- which is actually different from assertion.
Furthermore: iron is not getting more expensive. Massive iron-air battery factories are under construction now.
You can self-host your remote cache if you'd like. For example, with GitHub Actions. We're working on better docs for this.

https://turborepo.org/docs/features/remote-caching#custom-re...
usually. Depends on how much I care about the article. If it is squarely relevant to my interests, I click to it directly. Otherwise, the HN commentary is often more enlightening (or at least amusing).
No. That's the same amount of radiation as eating an average banana gives you.
But AAC than MP3?
Hmm. Maybe they have already experimented with "Donate to this specific feature if you really like it" style focused donation campaigns.
good nit. The principle being the same: its compute at scale in DC which is consuming these cards, it has almost nothing to do with painting pretty 3D in consumers eyeballs.
Not usually, but sometimes I will read part of an article and then look to the comments to see if there is an explanation or discussion of something I didn't understand, before continuing. I would not trust HN comment threads to replace the content of articles: I'm fairly certain there are a lot of people who don't read the articles before commenting on them.
Well (as of course you well know) you are right. But people have all sorts of reasons for making the success of a product - my boss at the BBC bought a copy of ZTC++ because he liked the text editor that came with it (it did, didn't it, or am I finally going Deolali?) - he never wrote a line of C++ himself.
Could you please, look at a programming stone guide:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20293259

Alan Carter described ADHD as a power for programming in 2000 for me.

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/add.html

My opinion is that ADHD is a tangle of questions that a person needs to understand. It may take half of his life, but the second half of his life will be excellent. Some people do not see those problems and inconsistencies in themselves that are visible to others and manifest as ADHD.
Once you start deviating from truth, you enable a wide range of extremely horrifically bad things. Things you have not witnessed, but humanity has. Do not do this. "Here be dragons," for the true idiots who don't bother understanding this.
I downloaded it and tried it and I'm not super interested in it. I've tried a number of different task/to do tools over time. What's working for me now is the following Google Doc that works as follows. If today is 4/10/22:

4/10/22

>Write Article

>Go Shopping

* Milk

* Cereal

>Pay Plumber

If I only paid the plumber that day and bought cereal, on the next day you'd have:

4/10/22

>Pay Plumber

>Go Shopping

* Cereal

4/11/22

>Write Article

>Go Shopping

* Milk

That's basically the whole thing. Of course there's a standard calendar app too. After a few months it gets long and you roll over into a new doc. I can always scroll to the bottom and I have a nice diary of things I accomplished. I don't know how you could improve the implementation over a google doc. The good thing about a Google Doc is if I get stuck on some todo I can brainstorm right in the doc. That's the hardest part with a to do system. Some To Dos stay on there for a while and need a lot of context, creativity and brainstorming to get done.
Not OP but if you have user accounts you suddenly have legal responsibilities (in Europe) to follow GDPR rules etc…
The problem is that the i++ goes at the end of the loop body. When the loop body is long, the increment can be many many lines away from the initialization and loop condition. The increment won't always be as obvious as "i++" and can involve function calls. With a well-written for loop, you can see all of that at a glance.
Of course not, but blindly following authorities is a bad move in general.
I’ve found it super tough to do online school with a small child. For the under 10 kids they need a lot of supervision and the online school becomes your day job. So if both parents are trapped at home trying to work it’s hell
Notion honestly has the worst input latency, even on their Android app.

(Not only latency, but poor cursor management as well. I'll frequently hit return, see my blinking cursor on the line below, start typing, and I'll be typing in the previous line.)

Text-entry is possibly the least enjoyable part of Notion.
> all humans are innately predisposed to prejudice and must work to overcome it

Much of "Scott Alexander"'s following came from the readership of a blog named literally 'Overcoming Bias', that's devoted to descriptions of how all humans are often remarkably petty and prejudicial in obscure and counterintuitive ways. It's definitely not taking a mainstream perspective, and the 'redemption' in it is quite subdued, but it does seem to avoid that particular pitfall.
Honestly I think part of the problem is that we are telling ourselves repeatedly how good we have it and self censoring the problems.

"try working in a call center" says someone below in this thread in an effort to belittle concerns.

"They just raised time off from 15 days a year for the new hires isn't that great! Besides its not googly to complain" says the Google employee.

"Yeah it is an evil megacorp but the pay and conditions are amazing." Says the FB employee trying to demonstrate how they have the best job I'm the world while the social status of the job falls due to scandals.

There's a bit of a need among people in tech to highlight success. "I was bullied in school but look at my job! Isn't my job amazing!". They'll say this and defend it to death even if it's not quite true. They'll even attack others who ask "but are you really enjoying it or just letting yourself be worked to death for a small perceived boost in social status your job may bring?"

And don't get me wrong the pay here is good. But the work life balance is amongst the worst in all jobs I've ever held. By far. If I'm being honest im just holding out for as long as I mentally can to get a nice financial boost in life then I'm getting the fuck out of here. The free food and onsite gyms feels like a cynical ploy to get you back to the desks sooner and to keep you there before breakfast and after tea. Even second world countries will have more time off per year available and they'll have that for much lower stress jobs.

I think we've all got to be honest with ourselves here. I met a friend who works 9 days a fortnight in a different industry. "Yeah we get free food high pay and good benefits too. I really like spending 5 days in a row with family every two weeks too!".

I sometimes forget that we're waaay past the golden age where the big tech companies were growing so fast and were unique. The benefits in the industry are becoming somewhat of a norm in any big corporate environment in any industry. But the whip cracking performance management honed by tech company metrics isn't a norm.

If you find yourself exhausted day after day and miserable while your explaining to friends and family that you have a special unique job with soo many benefits realize that you've been manipulated. You're doing the thing we nerds do where we want to show how successful we are but in reality we're leaving ourselves wide open to exploitation as we fight to maintain the illusion to others. No one in other industries works like I've seen tech workers in silicon valley work. It's not normal and not healthy. The pay is high but the cost is higher.
When earbuds came on the market, Audiologists said "this is going to be a disaster in 20 years time" and guess what: tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss levels are through the roof.

I think its to one side of your concern, but related: we truly don't socialize the needed guarding of our eardrums. It's a vicious cycle: unexpected mechanical noises stop us sleeping, leads to weight gain, diabetes, heart problems, high BP which in turn feeds tinnitus, hearing loss...

I wake early for other reasons. Sunrise birdsong is lovely. But dump-truck and recycling truck noises are pretty clashy.
Sites already have started blocking the mozmail.com domain name. I'm considering moving over to fastmail given that their domain is already established for email purposes. I would imagine the same is true for icloud emails
I went to a dev boot camp (Fullstack Academy) in my 50s, took a job in Silicon Valley, moved my family out here from NYC, leaving a career as an advertising creative that was lucrative and high-status but hateful to me.

Moving out here was a gigantic fail that basically ruined my health and my life. It’s been heartbreaking.

Much of the blame for that is mine, and not all of it is due to ageism. But I always find it shocking that people minimize ageism, give excuses for it (older people have families and therefore don’t want to work as many hours etc.), or flat-out deny it exists.

Shortly after I arrived here, my boss moved on to another job, leaving me with a new boss in his mid-20s. This new boss made no secret that he hated older people. He made jokes about older workers in staff meetings that, were he to make such jokes about women or people of color, he would have been subject to lawsuits that would have bankrupted him and the company.

After I was laid off, I had the lovely experience, over and over again, of seeing young interviewers’ faces freeze into going-thru-the-motions masks as soon as they saw that I was middle-aged.

Once I even had the bitter experience of having the 45-old-ish hiring manager phone me on the drive home, telling me she wanted to hire me but could not go against the consensus of her barely post-adolescent staff.

Again: Much of my situation is my own fault. I had generally bought into the bullshit 70’s fallacy that “if you believe in yourself you can do anything you want to,” bolstered by the fact that (being young and reasonably talented) I mostly to that point had done anything I wanted to.

Having said that: Young people are bigoted against old people, regardless of older peoples’ abilities or willingness to work. It has always been thus. And it is worse in tech than any other profession (including advertising!!!), and worse in SV than any other place.
Why does it have to be different? Org-mode is about a year older than markdown and there’s a whole ecosystem inside of emacs you can leverage (notebook-like code execution with org-babel, literate programming, agenda/calendaring, etc.). You could probably build this all on top of markdown (although Markdown’s syntax is much more limited, something like Mediawiki markup would probably be better) but it already exists if you already use emacs.
Yeah, this is not even related to your post, sorry for the wrong reply.
It’s like “trickle down economics.” It’s a phrase coined by its opponents to describe a real ideological trend. Obviously the people advancing that collection of ideas and policies don’t embrace the label and would describe their views differently. That doesn’t mean the label doesn’t describe a real thing. See also: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tel... (“Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand”)

Like there are lots of people demanding to end the SAT because it’s racist against “Latinx.” What do we call those people?
I don't know if I have a favorite part, although the weather forecasting/probabilistic prediction and estimated error in speed of light estimates might be.

I think error modeling doesn't get enough attention, nor does error due to model uncertainty per se, and the paper explains the consequences of those two things pretty well from an applied perspective. I also think it nicely integrates model uncertainty, error modeling, and complex systems modeling all at once.

I don't think there's anything really groundbreaking in it but I think it does a good job of explaining the importance of certain things that are often really overlooked.
Ask HN: Are there any good external CD/DVD drives?
I would appreciate any recommendations. I am looking for a quality optical CD/DVD drive. I have had two different drives so far but each broke after just after two years of modest use. I have never had this problem when those drives were still built into computers. It seems all drives are of poor quality.
"This Story is Unavailable in your region"

I get the message both directly & via archive.ph

https://archive.ph/Bq8af
> When he writes about Lisp, or (for the most part) about startups, or about being a dad, he seems happy and well-adjusted

I could imagine that even unhappy or poorly-adjusted people might sometimes have worthwhile things to say.

> He should take a break from this stuff and write about teaching his kids Lisp.

What would be the main benefit from doing so?
If you haven't check out ember-cli + ember.js latest Octane release. Full typescript support, thriving community, lots of companies using it, lots of active development.
If you get a PGP browser extension they all do. It’s pretty inconvenient to use though, sending encrypted attachments and giving the password offline is probably the only thing most people are up to.
mRNA vaccine boosts cancer immunotherapy in early human trial data
$3/month. Maybe it changed recently?

Edit: we're kind of both right. $3/month, or $24/year.
I agree. All the arguments about the difficulty or practicality of maintaining things in the open world where there's too much stuff, none of that matters at all. How difficult or likely or realistic or useful-today something is doesn't matter at all. The only thing that matters is the difference between possible and not-possible.

What anyone does or doesn't do with that which is possible is no excuse to tolerate, let alone advocate, things being not-possible.
I've learned the hard way to be very careful about noise when visiting apartments, so I'll try to ask other residents of the building I'm interested in and will do multiple visits at different time of the day to better understand how the noise situation is. Especially important now that I live in Hong Kong where a lot of apartments don't even use double pane windows.
This kills the Amtrak.
Many utilities charge extra for paper bills. Screw that.
As an option for critical period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olanzapine
From a future Black Mirror episode:

"Welcome to Seaview Estates, a Safer Neighborhood(tm) by Amazon & in cooperation with the TSA.

We are proud of our award winning public transit connections. Our security officers will conduct quick, minimally invasive searches of all residents, visitors, pets and vehicles when leaving your house, and upon returning to a Safer Neighborhood.

Please note that delays should be expected when entering a Safer Neighborhood, so you should arrive early to clear our screening process.

All liquids, gels and powders should be in transparent containers of no more than 2 ounces, unless from a Safer Neighborhood certified vendor. Did you know that all products purchased through Amazon Prime are pre-certified?"
Ukraine and Russia gear up for large-scale battles reminiscent of WWII
3rd class or BadicMed for private pilot, 2nd class for Commercial, 1st for Airline.
A reply from cstross! That's it, I'm done for the day. Doesn't get better than that. Thanks for all the great books!

Side note: I think Peter Watts is also a "cat person". Something about cat people must contribute to them being some of my favorite writers. Which is odd, since I'm more of a dog person. Maybe if I wrote fiction I would hate what I wrote. And Amazon should include a "author pet preference" as filterable criteria when searching for books. If Greg Egan likes cats that would make for a trifecta.
I agree with the sentiment of not being comfortable with dev and prod differents.

That said, with React these dev mode differences are intentionally about making obscure production issues (such as timing ones) rear their ugly heads in development. The goal is that if your code works without issues in dev, it’ll work even better in production. It’s a thin line for sure, but I broadly support the way they’ve done it so far.
If you're reading a tech news coming out of China, and aren't thinking about politics, you're doing something wrong.

Every tech company in China is in part owned or supported by the chinese government. Hard to talk about "independent tech". They're more like "national tech".

Today and the next 50 years in tech is being defined by the competition between the two superpowers. Their national objectives differ vastly. China: aiming to invade Taiwan; proving everyone that their totalitarian system is competitive with democracy; proving that they can lead the world. US aiming to stay a leader; maintaining the global stability; maintaining the economic & military supremacy. Both economies are trying to slowly decouple from each other, gain independence, and prove their superiority. This is the story of our ages.
All bureaucracies expand until stopped by an external force. Self-justification and perpetuation is in their very nature.

Politically, if you're anti-TSA you're not only anti-safety and pro-terrorism, you're against jobs for veterans (in reality, the bottom tier of veterans with no marketable skills and personality problems that make them unemployable in the private sector).
quitting drinking dropped my BP from ~135/80 to ~115/65
Yea, this article isn't about that at all though. The article is about how the TSA has been crossreferencing amtrak passenger manifests with the do not fly list they maintain, and not letting people get on trains. This isn't about setting up security checkpoints.
Unfortunately any argument of that form can be rejected immediately on epistemological grounds. Take for instance the argument “we can’t say certain words any more because speaking them will summon an ogre who will immediately kill and eat the speaker…and I can’t give any evidence of this occurring, or give an example of any of these words for obvious reasons.”
LLVM makes trade off on enabling/disabling certain checks, including assertions and IR verification, primarily to keep compilation time acceptable in release build. The idea is that we catch as many bugs as possible in debug version of LLVM such that release version can run fast.
I never read the articles to be honest. Dead serious.
What a horrible clickbait title.

They're digging a 64km long tunnel through the Alps - so technically it does enable a connection of Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. But it's not a tunnel from Scandinavia all the way to the Mediterranean like the title implies.

You could also say it connects Latvia to South Africa ...
Exactly what GPT-5 would say.

I'm starting to think these questions about whether GPT-3 produced the original article are just what GPT-5 would post to sow doubt about whether it could be as advanced as it secretly is.
To add to that, I expect hijacking a plane means the very real risk of a military jet being sent to shoot the plane down, especially if it's flying toward populated areas.
Is Locutus a fork of SAFE Network?
All of your facts are correct, but I do not agree with your opinion about the "sense" of providing a compiler for "obsolete" microprocessors. The IBM PC came out mid 1981 and CP/M dominated the market for several years after that. Also, Borland produced an excellent version of (Turbo) Pascal for CP/M. (UCSD also had a CP/M version of Pascal.) FORTRAN IV debuted in 1962, which was eight years before Pascal.

I'm glad that you were able to port your code from DEC FORTRAN IV. I may be younger than you because I learned FORTRAN 77 first, but IIRC Microsoft's F80 had some serious shortcomings and was not a "full" implementation of FORTRAN IV. That's probably why they called it "FORTRAN 80" instead.
In the land of PHP you will always be (use-after-)free
No questions. You're a pretty swell dude and I used a lot of your advice while writing my thesis. Love your work.
We have two main Interbank transfer networks in El Salvador:

The state owned one, which is free and takes less than 15 minutes.

The bank owned network, which costs from $0 to $2 depending on the bank and is instant.
Anyone know where the map image in the article is from? I'd love an interactive map of noise pollution.
I mean I don't think it's that tricky of a concept. Every piece of writing, or art for that matter, is generally supposed to elicit some sort of feeling. The only one this piece made me want to feel was anger or indignation toward the serial killer expert, which I thought was pretty unfair and one-dimensional way of presenting the man. He was well respected in the crime community and by law enforcement, and because he made up a relatively harmless lie the New Yorker kind of eviscerated him in the last paragraph...all to drive home the point you shouldn't lie I guess? Life's more complicated than that.
And plenty of evidence that the journalists had no idea what they were doing and were grasping at straws to construct a story out of nothing. See e.g. https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1049512159481217025 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1049687546945392640
South Park had a pretty appropriate episode about something like this [1].

[1] https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Toilet_Safety_Administrati...
"Republicans aren't getting cancelled for describing their political policies, they're getting cancelled for being racist or x-phobic"

but then,

"It is an utter moral necessity to not extend civility to or engage with Republicans on issues like healthcare or police reform, but instead do everything necessary to prevent their ideas from being heard or discussed."

I'm sure your next point is that everything conservatives believe reduces to wrongthink x-isms, and therefore everything is permissible, and you probably are unable even then to see the inconsistency. But it seems like others have taken note.
More informative and accurate title: noise worsens sleep, which can have many bad health effects
Yep, I joined the tinnitus bandwagon in the beginning of the pandemic. I was locked up at home and neighbouring dogs wouldn't shut up all day, so I resorted to earplugs and here I am now. Surprisingly I met at least 5 other people with the same problem recently, and they were all told by doctors that it was due to stress and not earplugs/headphones. I call it BS.