skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From reading the article, it seems that Uber displayed fake data in their app when they detected the user was law enforcement. This means that cops could not use the app to locate Uber drivers in real time.

I gotta say, I'm not sure I see the problem. Did Uber ever ignore / lie when hit with warrants or subpoenas? On what legal grounds is displaying fake data like this illegal?

I think you could make a case that this is obstruction of justice, but Uber never destroyed evidence.
They don't need Bitcoin miners for this.

They can make deals with energy intense industries.

Or invest in energy storage or just be more creative about it than trying to appeal to miners.
This reads exactly like parody corporatespeak jargon.
Bloom AI – Open-Source LLM for Text and Code Generation – Hands-On Colab
It still doesn’t sound that extreme, tbh. I’m not sure how Heathrow compares to Schiphol but KLM alone is scrapping on the order of 7,000 seats _per day_. And that’s one (admittedly major) airline.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2433371-klm-schrapt-7000-stoelen-per-...
> actual science or some touched up version of objects in our universe.

Here's a mental model that I found particularly beneficial:

All electromagnetic radiation is the same. In the sense that every proton/neutron is the same. But adding a few more protons/neutrons creates an entirely new element, with entirely new chemical properties. From something simple come incredibly new powerful behaviours. So just as Iron is massively different from Plutonium, Microwaves are massively different from Gamma rays.

What we call "visible light" is not particularly special, except to us, and our specific human biology. It feels more real because it's visible to us, but it's not on the grand scale of the universe.

What we're observing through these telescopes isn't a dog chasing a ball. We're seeing stuff billions of light years away, millions of light years in size, billions of years ago. Passing by trillions of other stars and planets on the way.

These objects are emitting a gargantuan amount of information. Why should we only present the information that happens to be in the same subset as what our primitive primate vision cones can process?

So, no, if you were to teleport to the nebula/galaxy that we're showing images for, it wouldn't look exactly like that to your human eyes. Instead, what you're seeing is what a god with perfect vision of the universe would see. You're seeing the universe for what it is, not just the part of it that is presented to humans.
- The typical mom & pop business: Squarespace
- Any company without in-house technical leadership: Wordpress + Simply Static
- Any engineering-focused company: Sanity

These recommendations account for common requirements each tier of company typically has

(i.e. long-term maintenance, hiring, and technical features like internationalization)
Lol. Accessing a file in android is a mess.
The law of conservation of energy disagrees. Sure, a miner might not noticeably increase the load on a power plant. It may only require a teeny bit more gas to flow to the turbine. But it’s not free energy.
Have you seen overlay comparisons to Hubble? The detail is significantly improved.
One of the benefits of a waterfall development model over these agile strategies is that code review becomes a whole-team, front-and-center piece of the process, not a distraction from other tasks.

With each revision of our product spec, we work first to write or modify code to meet the new spec and then, once everybody has tested and merged all their changes, we pause new development to review and verify the code. We tend to end up each working on different modules, so we can maintain complete independence in review by each reviewing others' modules with minimal attention to who authored each individual diff. We just keep a spreadsheet tracking all the different files, their authors, and whether they've changed since the last review; at the start of a new review, we assign a reviewer to each file and then the author and reviewer work the file through review-resolve rounds until there are no further findings.

Since everybody is fully focused on the review, it goes by quickly; since there's no expectation of review during development, we can develop quickly without holdups.
Tell me the EUR is too low to do any good without telling me the EUR is too low to do any good

Edit: Y'all really think they would have limited flights in touristic high season if the Euro was what it was 2-3 years ago? Please!
> For example, most official Debian[1] and Ubuntu[2] package repositories currently use HTTP (not HTTPS) by default for content retrieval.

But then you've bootstrapped the trust somehow. If you were to download an ISO from that not-HTTPS website, you'd be at risk.
Now if only Comcast modems could scan these, I could use this to set the WiFi password (/s), since it forgets every time it is reset (…less /s).

… too bad I'm with a different monopoly ISP now. Their Wifi just drops you if you are on the 5 GHz bands and transmit anywhere remotely near full throttle. So you have to stay on the 2.4 GHz and weep.
invasion and conquest of another people's land first requires the dehumanisation of those people. War crimes inevitably ensue
How can I help this?!

I’ve been wanting tailcalls to be in wasm for years! I consider it a blocker for all sorts of uses I’d be interested in
A decade ago Heathrow had IRIS entry at passport control. You had to register, and in theory had to use heathrow a lot to get on the list.

It was great, walk in, no need to fish out a passport, 5 seconds later you walked through, and because it was frequent flyers only you didn't have grandma still wearing sunglasses, or dropping her passport, or putting her boarding card in, etc.

I measured the "e-passport" queue at Paris last time I got the train to London. There were 5 gates, on average each one took 45 seconds to process someone, the fastest being 31 seconds, the slowest over a minute before rejecting them

That's 1 person every 9 seconds, or 400 per hour. The hourly train has 900 seats. That simply doesn't work.
The image details do have the dimensions listed in a standard measure down under the "Fast Facts" section; I assume this will be included for every image release.

The deep field image says it's about 2.4 arcmin across[1], Stephan's Quintet image is about 7.4 arcmin across[2], etc.

[1] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/035/01G...
[2] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/034/01G...
>the smallest percentage are willing to update firmware

Not commenting on the broader issue, but this attitude has to change. Firmware updates cannot be seen as optional anymore.
Hello, this is your car insurance provider here. We noticed that you are driving a hacked car on the road. Your insurance is hereby cancelled. Thank you for paying your premiums so far.
Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, and Disinformation: A Primer
Hmm, after tinkering around a bit, I think according to https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js/issues/82 , the mask element in the giraffe SVGs is not supported in the PDF converter. It is just dropped, leafing the qraffe rather qr-less.

But I sadly know neither svg enough to think up an alternative approach, or a JS/TS dev enough to see if there are other libraries.
I disagree.

As web apps and web services get more and more e2e encryption and strong privacy, the backends become dumber and dumber. If the backend can't see the data it's working with, it can't have much business logic in - instead the backend ends up looking much like a dumb storage service or message queue. Some companies will just make their app talk direct to S3/pubsub rather than run their own application servers.

At that point, some 'hacker' can download the APK or the javascript bundle of the frontend, and simply put up a replacement backend that does the same storage service.

Well done, you now have a 'pirate' web service.
In the pre Facebook era people thought social networking would be distributed over thousands and millions of blogs with the help of RSS but that didn't happen because it turned out that centralized commercial services are better than FOSS distributed ones. That's why Facebook and Google won; they offered better services because they were centralized commercial services which were constantly updated and improved all because ad revenues were skyrocketing and all the best engineers decided to work for them instead of trying to pursue decentralized/distributed FOSS solutions.

Bitcoin is an exception to this and it was most likely made by one guy as a FOSS payment solution which would compete against Visa/Mastercard, commercial banks and central banks all at the same time. On the other hand Satoshi could've patented his ideas and go straight to the VISA and try to sell them the Blockchain story but he decided to make it FOSS and truly decentralized.
Yes, they reimplement the backend. Yes, this does require a lot of experimentation. Yes, they sometimes get details wrong. Or sometimes they just change it, because they feel like it (e.g. accelerated xp, or just for paying customers)
Really, is TOTP too much to ask when they are charging $300-$500 for a single replacement key anyway?
Something missing from this discussion that's worth pointing out:

This image shows profound "gravitational lensing", which you know. But what you might not know is that is precisely _why_ they chose to photograph it.

This galaxy cluster (SMACS 0723) may be the most well known and powerful gravitational lens we have observed. The galaxies shown distorted around the edges are actually behind the lens, but are magnified by it. This means we can see even farther in this region of space than normal, because we compound the power of the JWST with the power of this natural lens.

It all adds up to providing the "deepest" view of the universe yet, allowing us to see galaxies at a distance of more than 13.2B lightyears. This lets us see structures formed in the infancy of the universe, that wouldn't be possible looking at most other points in the sky, or even anywhere else in this deep field besides the perimeter of the lens in the middle.
Skunk Works Lays Out Vision for Future Manned-Unmanned Air Combat
> Prices for the Black service start at GBP £2,750 + VAT for up to 3 persons for an arriving or departing flight, as well as those on flights connecting within 3 hours.

Kind of pricy, source: https://www.heathrowvip.com/s/faqs
What is real life? What are vivid colors?

All electromagnetic radiation is the same. In the sense that every proton/neutron is the same. But adding a few more protons/neutrons creates an entirely new element, with entirely new chemical properties. From something simple come incredibly new powerful behaviours. So just as Iron is massively different from Plutonium, Microwaves are massively different from Gamma rays.

What we call "colors", or "visible light" is not particularly special, except to us, and our specific human biology. It feels more real because it's visible to us, but it's not on the grand scale of the universe.

What we're observing through these telescopes isn't a dog chasing a ball. We're seeing stuff billions of light years away, millions of light years in size, billions of years ago. Passing by trillions of other stars and planets on the way.

These objects are emitting a gargantuan amount of information. Why should we only present the information that happens to be in the same subset as what our primitive primate vision cones can process?

So, no, if you were to teleport to the nebula/galaxy that we're showing images for, it wouldn't look exactly like that to your human eyes. Instead, what you're seeing is what a god with perfect vision of the universe would see. You're seeing the universe for what it is, not just the part of it that is presented to humans.
> Giving a shit doesn't scale. In a society obsessed with growth, it's not a sustainable thing.

GaS comes in many forms, and can scale without issue for forms that fall within (for example) product design and development processes. I think we can agree that some companies do this better than others. Improved shit-giving at this stage actually gets cheaper per customer with scale.

Per-unit/per-customer forms of GAS can scale as well, but not for free. For example, Google and YouTube could vastly improve customer/creator support, but explicitly chooses not to because they believe there's no GaS ROI there.
I'm a city builder fanatic. I played the original simcity, 2000 and 3000. But 4 wasn't very fun and sim city origin was a dumpster fire.

Luckily we have better options now. cities skylines is a worthy successor to the original franchise and the (optional) dlcs only make the experience better.
I'm likely in the minority in my thinking, but I don't think targeting wasm with managed languages is such a great use case for wasm anyway, and so it wasn't worth building in GC to support. For the times you want to, something light like reference counting should be easy enough.
That's shortsighted. There is only so much money in the system. People who use content blockers usually don't buy stuff in response to ads.

Ad blocking users won't reduce the entire ad revenue that is flowing through the system.

From the perspective of a company this is different of course - a company can increase revenue by maximizing the number of ads shown to users. But when you look at it from the perspective of the entire system, the more users are forced to view ads, the less valuable an ad becomes, so it's a race to the bottom.

The biggest problem is that ads are the wrong solution. In earlier times, many services that operate for free now were primarily paid services - paid voluntarily, which is based on respect and human dignity. And the ads were just printed in paper form, so there was a limit to how much money you could extract out of it. Ads had their place, but were limited in their scope. Publishers of paper newspapers would have never thought to maximize revenue by forcing users to actually look at an ad, because there was no technical way to do it. Now they think they are entitled to be intrusive, and to control user behavior while legally giving away something for free without any legal obligation for readers to return anything. So those who benefit from ads resort to moral pressure.

They have developed feedback systems, and the feedback systems are carefully designed to extract as much money out of people with no regard for anything else, which is dehumanizing, and this means ads (like all systems that use psychology to manipulate behavior) are actively destroying what makes us human.

They will only stop once the ad system has been dried out, and when that happens we finally may get meaningful content and journalism again.
Secure the NAS.

I.e., treat the network as an extension of the Internet, that is, assume it's compromised. Since … it basically is, given the crap hardware ISPs foist upon people.
It depends on the calling convention used -- whether it is caller clean-up or callee clean-up. With caller clean-up, the stack pointer is left below the argument list when the function returns. With callee clean-up, it gets popped above the argument list. You can perform tail calls naturally if it's callee clean-up. (With caller clean-up, a compiler might hypothetically pull off a tail call if the callee's argument list takes less memory, but it's not something you could add as a language feature.)
My son didn't need a scientific miracle, he just needed an iPad
One fun way to get familiar with bitwise operations is writing a virtual machine, as it involves a lot of masking and shifting bits from instructions to extract relevant pieces (dare I say bits) of information. If anyone is interested in going this route, I recommend LC-3, as it's very straightforward.

https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/
I mean sure, but no one is forcing users to install software from APT groups. That's a choice people make. The general point is that you should be able to use hardware for general computing. There can be a switch that by default limits to software signed by your original manufacturer but that should toggleable by the end user.
> The main issue is that people mix conversion with customer obsession!

The logic is: If they hate your app, they won't spend money. If they love your app, they will. Which is what would make you think A/B testing and UX work are the same thing.

There's really nothing new about this issue at all. Playing towards the average creates a lot of shitty stuff, in apps/websites as well as politics and wherever else there are metrics to track.

The genius of a good product is that it will make a stand and not give in to the whims of over-optimization in order to maintain its original intent. This is what made Apple unique.

It requires leadership with guts who aren't chasing the latest shiny object.
To me, the SLR has always seemed like a somewhat inelegant design that nevertheless solved real problems present in rangefinders (and other non-reflex cameras). The whole idea of a big, heavy, loud, flappy mirror mechanism just seems clunky on some level. Mirrorless digital cameras get to solve the same problems in a much simpler, more elegant fashion, and the day I got my first mirrorless camera, I knew I'd never buy another DSLR.
Payload Validation in Go with Validator
Does that also include the very tiny little dots? I have the same question as OP, and I thought the tiny dots were single stars, and the little bigger ones (brighter) were galaxies.
> they've automated _everything_ to the point where it's impossible to escalate to a real person

Well, yes, because any place where you can escalate to a human, would be flooded with people trying to step around the whole automated edifice without ever first trying to engage with it. People would post links to it on various forums saying "hey, doing X allows you to get a Google CSR on the line" (even though that person is only empowered to do a very specific thing, and probably doesn't have internal contacts for their equivalents in any other department), and then those CSRs would be demoted-in-practice to level-1 triage, even though level-1 triage is supposed to be the machine's job.

As it so happens, Google do offer plenty of ways to engage with them — they just can't "say any of them out loud", or they'll be bombarded and rendered useless, as above.

I'll give you a hint for three such side-channels, though:

- There are public product discussion and bugs mailing lists (Google Groups) for many Google services. The engineers working on these products monitor these lists.

- Some things you'd think Google develops in private, are actually developed in public. Examples: https://github.com/googleapis; https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform. You can file issues on these repos!

- When Google engineers and, especially, Product Managers, put their public @google.com email addresses on conference presentations, they do that for a reason. They want you to reach out with questions/concerns about the thing they've built!
Very plausible that people from other EU countries who worked in airports left, and it’s a reduced pool of people willing and able to take on those jobs today because of Brexit.

So it clearly isn’t the cause of airport chaos, but it can’t be helpful.
I'm not based in US so even contacting a lawyer about this thing is expensive.

Lawyers here are not willing to handle international cases except big business cases.
Protip: Just be rich
Why not buy your own router or access point? Spectrum even let us buy our own modem.
I just use the automagical p20 Apple WiFi password sharing.
If you take "just" to mean "justifiable", sure. That meaning doesn't really make sense in the context of this discussion though, so yes I am invoking one of the definitions related to fairness.
Yeah. I should probably note that I wasn’t continually working on the issue. It was attempted sporadically over that time period - mainly because google’s support maze ..err I mean ‘system’ is so terrible.

I would spend ~20 minutes following different resolution paths, get mad at them not helping at all, forget about it because this level of frustration is not worth $100 to me, repeat a few times a year. Don’t get me wrong, $100 is $100 - I just wasn’t in dire need of it I guess.
Ah, but we are still "during covid", though people are traveling again, meaning that the number of pilots and staff who are out sick is significantly higher than pre-covid times. That's a major factor causing flight cancellations in the US, not sure abut Europe.
In general, these attacks leverage the microarchitectural details of processors that implement speculative execution (which is nearly any modern processor). ARM processors can differ in their microarchitecture, so this particular exploit may or may not apply to them. It's not necessarily an "ARM" versus "x86" thing. (This specific exploit applies to a mitigation, retpoline, implemented in Linux. It appears that at least some ARM processors are vulnerable to the speculation attacks that make retpolines necessary in the first place: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-L...)
Link :- http://dedomil.net For J2ME Games
Thank you Dang. I actually did not mean to insinuate that the posts are astroturfed, in fact them being legitimately held opinions is the most upsetting aspect to me. I feel we’ve got a community of strong critical thinkers here, and I’ve observed a pattern (anecdotal as you point out) of sidestepping on threads about Uber’s legal/moral obligations to their drivers. It pains me to see us selectively using our critical thinking skills when it suits us, and then hunkering down with “so what it’s better for me now” when it doesn’t.
Linus is totally off his rocker though. His argument is that "he deserves to get paid for what he does, if you AdBlock he doesn't get paid, hence you are taking money from him if you AdBlock."

This idea though is totally wrong, and is some serious post-hoc BS after over a decade of this internet advertising business model becoming comfortable. Linus's business is GIVING AWAY content and hoping that advertisers (his real customers) will want to agree to pay him according to his terms. You can say things about TOS and EULA and how that is totally a legally and morally binding or whatever but that's moving the goalposts now that folks have found a way to exploit audiences for money after years of GIVING AWAY content for free.

I don't have to read each advertising flyer that comes with my pizza, even if the pizza store decides to give me 100 advertising flyers in exchange for making the pizza free, and no amount of EULAs will make it so. It's my computer, I can throw out the garbage you give me if I want.
Your point is clear but I do not think there is a need for such hyperbole (or for the exclamations).

I could not find a reference reliable enough to quote here, but I would be surprised if any major airport loses more than a few percent of checked luggage. So you will most likely not lose your luggage.
That is likely the issue. The alternative is to use Lambda to render pdfs on the server side, but I wanted to keep this fully on the client side as a static site (to avoid any trust issues with sending your wifi credentials to strangers). I may have to pay up real $$ if I want to do this "right".
You could probably just use a regular modern smartphone and restrict apps on it.

Option A - not installing said apps at all

Option B - using focus modes/Android Wellbeing (and the iOS counterpart) or even battery saver's "disable all apps other than x" features