skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Le néant [...] c’est au sein même de l’être, en son coeur, comme un ver.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being — like a worm
Reminds me of the First Law of Robotics[1]

"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

“A provider like Google may disclose information to law enforcement without a subpoena or a warrant ‘if the provider, in good faith, believes that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay of communications relating to the emergency,'”

s/provider like Google/robot/

s/may disclose.*if the provider/may act to protect any person if the robot/

s/requires disclosure without delay of communications/requires action/

“A robot may act to protect any person if the robot believes that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires action without delay of communications relating to the emergency,'”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
I think there's a lot of historical accident involved. Personally, my experience of the two terms was that I heard about "services" aka "SOA" first, and it meant a top-down global architecture where the pieces were composed in elaborate, cumbersome ways: service buses, orchestrators, complicated XML-based technologies, service discovery, remote transactions, all that fancy stuff that many people tried and few people ever got working correctly. People were talking about integrating a new service to your architecture by dragging and dropping widgets in an orchestration dashboard generated from XML descriptors published by the services, and it was the kind of thing that blew your mind for a few seconds until you realized it was obviously never going to work.

Then I heard about "microservices," and the people using that term were talking about JSON and HTTP and DNS, stuff you could actually imagine working, and then you tried it and you actually could get it working with almost no effort, which was mind-blowing in a different and better way.

That difference was a historical accident based on where those terms were in the hype cycle. Now a lot of definitions of "microservices" describe architectures that are almost as elaborate as the old SOA ideas I was exposed to, and people have the same reaction I did to "services" back then. And now it's the supposed microservices experts who will tell you that if you did anything simple enough that you actually got it working in less than six months with less than fifty people, then you did it wrong and doomed your company. The hype cycle has made a complete turn.
For anyone coming back to this, I just wrote a small proposal to define JSON5 duplicate object name behavior. I'd love any support on the issue:

https://github.com/json5/json5-spec/issues/38
Sometimes, you just love a device and don't want to use something new. I still shoot a 5DmkII, and there's really only one feature that is available in the newer models that I'd love to have on my older body (specifically number of focus points). I've used all of the models after that including mirrorless, but this older body still my fave.

So the 10 year old camera isn't that strange to me.
Is this based on Firefox's own telemetry? I disable that, but I'm not sure how many other users might also do that. Firefox is not a default browser on any platform, so people install it for a reason (perceived better privacy, security, etc), and might be more inclined to tweak the default settings.
Notre Dame rises again
Huh, I left Chrome due to the poor rendering compared to Firefox.
So bone marrow transplant from someone with natural resistance (the same gene as the Chinese CRISPR kids?)?

Wouldn’t this have happened by chance before 6-7 years ago when the first case was reported?
This accurately covers the area: ask your recruiter / someone else you might have met, and unfortunately it's very possible you'll never get a response or get something vague like "they were looking for someone with more experience".

About setting the record straight: you'll never "overturn" a rejection; it would set the wrong precedent for every other hiring decision and also would create a very weird work environment. It's just never worth the trouble. Reapply in a year, many places will give you a totally fresh attempt (which I think is actually a bit charitable).

To echo other anecdata: I've been mildly confronted by previous interviewees who I've rejected and it was always very uncomfortable. The decision is almost never personal, and in one of these cases I actually voted for hire, but was overruled.
For anyone who, like me, was curious about this, the worker's name was Stanley Watras. There's more on him on JSTOR if you want to read up: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44534629
Did you look at the graphs you posted? Looks like it's been fluctuating around the same number for over a year.
Awesome article, but:

>It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces.

Modifying anyone's behavior can cause people to go on the defensive, it's just normal human behavior. It's also to good to remember that because you have a hammer, not everything should be a nail. These stop signs do lose their potency if they're overused.
My former neighbor's father owned a junkyard with a fairly mean junkyard dog. Said dog did its job with a would-be thief, and the local government made them exterminate the dog.

Apparently the logic behind that decision included the argument that the fact that they posted a "beware of dog" sign indicated that they knew the dog was dangerous (duh, that's sort of the point) and therefore shouldn't be given further chances.

Yes, I realize that this wholly ignores the fact that the would-be thief was trespassing and that the meanness of junkyard dogs is so well-known as to be mentioned in a popular song. And that, again, the risk of getting bitten by the guard dog is precisely the deterrent factor in the system.
Yes, I completely agree. My point is that in order to make that statement you have to know that the brain is the mechanism behind identity. This is not obvious a priori. In fact, it took quite a lot of work over several centuries to figure that out.
So you're saying it will only be a few more years then? Look at where cellphone cameras were 20 years ago, and where they are today. The present inadequacy of hardware doesn't give me any comfort.
ff should make front end IDEs
> if the labels you put on this structure don't produce a nice "story"

Aha! I know this pattern. I've seen this kind of thinking form into a good fit for affinity groups which metabolize esoterica and sequence-relations really well. People who like to wear newsboy caps also seem to love this stuff for some reason.

Groups which google "pseudoscience {your-model-name}" as soon as something sounds even remotely like it's got a story behind it as opposed to mechanistic research--this is a different setup and IMO there are other patterns that get really good results. One of which is disconnecting from story and even sequence in some ways. Again just IMO.

Thanks for the tip on the the AEMoE as well.
Definitely not on-par with the makerspace equipment quality, it'd be hobbyist equipment at that point, which would likely suit my needs just fine for a few years.
Tell HN: Gitlab.com doesn't allow issue search without signing in
I was searching for an issue on gitlab.com just now, and noticed I couldn't search any project's issue tracker without signing in: a banner says "You must sign in to search for specific terms." To reproduce, simply open https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/ in a private browsing session and try to search for any term.

I'm shocked by the user hostility. There's zero chance I'm going to move my open source projects to gitlab.com if users can't even search the issue tracker without creating a GitLab account and signing in. Truly baffling decision.

I was so shocked I dug deeper and tracked down the offending code and MRs that introduced them (appreciate the ability to do this, I'll give them that). This is controlled by a feature flag :disable_anonymous_search and manifests as <div class="js-issues-list" data-is-anonymous-search-disabled="true" ...> in rendered HTML. Relevant MRs from 10 months ago:

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70223

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70249

I don't see any justification given, but the former MR says "Related to #340716" which doesn't link to anywhere, and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/340716 is 404, so maybe something internal?

The feature flag also doesn't appear to be default-on for self-hosted instances.

Edit: Removed a potentially controversial aside since I don’t want to steer the conversation that way.
The best mod is ripping out that IR filter. Sadly, that's not going to happen via software. That's the firmest of firmware mods.
Anecdotally, I've noticed an increasing number of websites where basic functionality does not work on desktop Firefox. I now have to open Chrome on a daily basis whereas just a couple years ago I was 100% FF for browsing (not counting using other browsers for front end testing etc).

For example, FedEx tracking refuses to work on Firefox. Shapeways (3D printing service) landing page was (is?) broken/non interactive on FF. Also a vBulletin based forum I regularly visit started return 400 Bad Request responses when visiting with FF. All these work fine with Chrome and used to work with Firefox.
I feel like they could have just come out with basically identical Pystudio and Jstudio products and kept the substantial value of the old brand name.

That said Quarto looks exciting and I'm looking forward to whatever they make next.
Japan zoo kills 57 snow monkeys due to alien genes (2017)
The only app that has ever worked for me is Bear. I can just hit CTRL + B and start typing..

It has reliable sync using iCloud, markdown, nested tags, integrates in the browsers for clips, supports images and is pretty fast.

The big downside is that it's for OSX only but since I'm always in the Apple ecosystem (and have my iPad/iPhone with all the time me anyway), it's perfect for me. There is a web app in the works as well AFAIK but it's a long time coming..

Bonus points: use the Nebo app on iPad with the Apple pencil to sketch and export to Bear.

If you are on OSX, I highly recommend it!
>How can you expect disney, the largest entertainment company in the world, to disconnect you from reality?

Because they want my money? The entire point of Disney is disconnecting from reality.
A news release
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lo...
The (almost certainly invented by Tacitus) speech by Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius is rather stirring e.g.:

"Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus

Although I am originally from Moray I now live in Fife and the hill behind our house is where Agricola's army is said to have camped on the way North after having crossed the Firth of Forth.
This can also be an overall industry trend as now all big players have native apps for smartphones/tablets. People might prefer to use phone or tablets compared to desktops.
>The context in which this data is shared is imminent danger to life.

Not at all - it's merely somebody's _claim_ that there's some danger.
Yes the title has been editorialized.

"Firefox user activity" would be better.
Oh that's interesting, same here. None of the antialiasing levels can make it look like chrome which is just so odd. They even redesigned the tabs recently and inverted the selection colours so the tab you're in looks like the only one that's deselected which is just confusing and stupid. Luckily there's a painful way to install a theme that fixes that at least.

Neither of that stopped me from using it as the main browser though, it was the lack of specific-tab screen share that's sort of essential for work meetings and is for some reason just absent. I imagine for some people the lack of chromecast support may be a deal breaker too. There's just no end to the list of features it just doesn't have. Mostly I imagine, as all requests on Bugzilla are closed with wonfix, because clearly users don't know shit right? Their HR department must have "extreme arrogance" as a prerequisite for hiring people...
I prefer the way & .class looks, its just like LESS
How do you come to this conclusion given that YOY data shows

July of last year: 197.8 million active users

July of this year: 196.2 million active users
Unrelated, but for some reason, the first image (of a keyboard) seems to be a DALL-E image. Many images generated by DALL-E have some common sub-perceptual characteristics in the edges or something.
Really appreciate the balanced feedback. I don't quite agree that rolling your own authz is that simple (especially fine-grained / resource-based authz), but I understand your other concerns, and we'll work to address them. Also, you have some excellent suggestions here, and we'll incorporate them into our roadmap. Thanks!
> More like the other way around, I think.

Honestly, it doesn't have to be an either-or thing. It could be a symbiotic quid-pro-quo.
Was this the reason they got rid of "car mode" for their app?
I think if I were you. Lots of these places get capital equipment as a donation and that doesn't come with FLOSS software most of the time. I think FLOSS as a first choice when available as a good replacement, would be a better policy.
Axtually Im forgettong things. This is like John Carmack’s .plan :)
Please try Firefox on mobile if you've been using Chrome on Android. The adblocker makes it faster than Chrome, as well as more pleasing to use. Google refuses to support extensions on Chrome, hence no adblock there - but various Chromium forks could also be alternatives.
> I think that consciousness (or rather the feeling of consciousness) is very related to continuous long-term memory storing.

Are you my surgeon? About six years ago I was to undergo somewhat novel surgery and the chappie asked if he could record the procedure, it being a research hospital and all). "Sure," I said, "if you can assure me I will feel no pain."

He said that he could not promise that, but they he could assure me I would not remember it even if it did.

And that's the alpha and the omega of my philosophizing. If I can't remember it happening, did it even? How does this map to criminal justice?
I think the problem with querying is efficient query-planning requires understanding the indexes on the dataset, so you at least need to be able to expose indexes and the their properties in an API.
High population density seems like another likely factor. In a lot of NYC, and especially in Manhattan, there are people out on the streets at all hours. I assume that discourages crime.
Definitely, compare to a DSLR which is only fully powered-on when your finger is on the shutter button. Otherwise it's basically asleep 99% of the time, if the screen's off.
and you know, run the screens that affect the battery life significantly.
Fax machines are still regularly used for business purposes in Japan.

While uploading some trip photos at an Akihabara cafe in 2018, I noticed that my laptop at the time (a used Dell XPS from 2015) appeared significantly newer than the laptops of the other patrons. There were even a couple of integrated trackballs, which I haven't seen in a laptop since the late '90s. I also suddenly realized I was a bit under-dressed in a plain polo shirt and slacks.
It is even easier by the government using EZPass and electronic toll readers. No optics or OCR required.
> actually practical and useful provably-safe language (Rust).

You can have spatial and temporal memory safety by writing single threaded code in any GC language.
> he thinks none of these lawsuits contained data falsification claims
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer

> he thinks these whistleblowers and the BMJ are liars
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

Now we know not to trust lern_too_spel :)
I think it's more likely that you can see something other people can't. I have this page open on macOS on identical monitors side by side, one in Chrome, and one in FF, and I legitimately can't tell a difference between the two in terms of text rendering. If I was in a discussion with you and you were going on about how poorly Firefox rendered text, I would be skeptical, because I don't see it.
Thanks, this is fascinating!

Verbatim archival gold CDs and the PI tape were purchased through Amazon for the UCDE fabrication illustrated in Fig. 1a and patterned with a Cricut Maker® fabric cutter.

The ECG MCU was designed with a uBIC-MZ24C20R (MEZOO, Inc, South Korea) chipset, which is a high-performance, low-powered one-chip 1 channel ECG (lead I) biometric sensor module with a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 processor. ECG data from two leads (RA and LA) were collected with 24-bit ADC resolution and 1 kHz sampling rate and then transmitted to a smartphone application in real-time via Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) communication.
Yes I don't doubt there's major challenges to cleaning up the data. Still though it could help illuminate some of the major trends
Here's my current PKM app rundown, from my own notes on the subject:

# NotePlan 3

Pros: Native, and so nice to use.

Cons: Bottom line: the author doubled the subscription price in the upgrade from version 2 to 3, and is experimenting with doubling the price again to $120/yr. Few plugins.

# Obsidian

Pros: Tons of useful plugins. Huge community support.

Cons: Lacking daily notes like NotePlan and Logseq. Not native.

# Logseq

Pros: Data entry is very ergonomic.

Cons: As of 2022-07, still regularly seeing updates that fix data loss. Moving toward proprietary sync service? Not native.

# iA Writer

Pros: Native. Great UI. Already paid for it. One-time purchase.

Cons: Lacks daily notes. Just recently added wiki links. No backlinks. No plugin API or Shortcuts support. No Mermaid.js diagrams.
If the police refuse to subpoena the security company, in the US you can get a civil attorney to file a "John Doe warrant" and use that lawsuit against that unknown defendant to subpoena whoever has the footage you need.
To be fair, though, there's a flip side. My neighbors seem to get more utility from my driveway feed than I do. Every couple of months, I get a text from a neighbor asking if I got footage of some such thing. Everybody knows who has cameras, and those people are invaluable whenever something nefarious happens (mail theft, break in, kids running amok, etc).
I feel like that's less of a problem because the user is more likely to convert on the version that he likes more, which would still provide accurate data.

But yes, there is no perfect solution with the limitations of the API :D
>> “ During this process, the HomeKit data is encrypted using keys derived from the user's HomeKit identity and a random nonce and is handled as an opaque binary large object, or blob.”

If you don’t control the keys, to me, that’s not end-to-end encrypted.

Source:
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-security-sec49...
Correct, no API gateway.

> Not sure how useful this is since that is the entry point for all the lambda functions.

Well that's just not accurate! You can also call them via API. Which is what Sidecar does.

> I just don't see why I would need to use PHP for this.

Because you're already using Laravel! If you're not using Laravel, you wouldn't use this.

If you want to see me doing a live-demo of this at a conference, it might make a bit more sense: https://youtu.be/0Rq-yHAwYjQ?t=11751
Is this data gathered from the "Firefox Data Collection and Use" section of the settings or another method?
If you have to "get" something for it to be funny, is it still funny? Does the intent matter? I know you said comedy, not funny, but I'm speaking as a layman not as an auteur of comedy.
A dog was mistaken for a lion: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/labradoodle-m...
I'm an open source advocate. I used firefox for decades, even when it was being blown out of the water by Chrome performance wise. Recently I've switched to Brave due to many websites not rendering correctly or running slowly. Lots of government websites don't work with firefox for instance. You'll get decently far along in the form of a street parking permit, and then you can't submit it for some reason.

I wish Mozilla chose to pursue making the best browser engine possible. It's a winning strategy as we can see from the dominance of chromium based browsers. Instead they've tried adding features or products paired with the browser as their strategy. Some, such as containers, are great. Others, like pocket, are forgettable.

I'm also not a fan of how the CEO has been increasingly rewarded even though the market share has plummeted. At a certain point you need leadership to commit to improving market share and hold them to it. However, this has nothing to do with why I've switched browsers.
Why aren't we asking this question since the beginning of the pandemic?
Google's ToS is 16 pages with what appears to be about 50+ hyperlinks, including several hyperlinks to "additional service-specific terms" which itself has ~50 links to other terms which are all multiple pages.

Perhaps instead of pinning all of the blame on users, we could have the companies producing labyrinthian ToS contracts written by top-grade lawyers and full of legalese (that no layperson should be expected to understand) shoulder at least some of the blame?

This doesn't even touch on the fact that many topics (as related to data aggregation and privacy) are highly technical and require at least a few years of post-secondary to even begin wrapping your head around (e.g. de-anonymization via large sparse datasets is not something I can reasonably teach my 85-year old parent, nor to my child, both of which use Google services in some capacity).

But, yes... Let's blame it on Average Joe, who just wants to watch their dog for a few minutes while at work and saw an ad on TV about a convenient way to do so. Shame on them for not being both a lawyer and a CS graduate.
I'm saying get rid of the 6 core product line when it's just as effective to artificially limit the better product just to have inventory.

You know, like how we don't make 486DX2 chips anymore.
My blood pressure increased just reading that and imagining myself on the receiving end. We don't post things like that here, pretty please.

> "we don't do that here"

As a newcomer to wherever, given this treatment I'd feel excluded and somewhat upset. Who is "we"? Am I dealing with a homogeneous group and this person is speaking for all of them? Why don't they do "that"? Am I the only one that's different?

> preferred way to say no: “that doesn’t work for me.”

That... doesn't work for me? If you want to say no, just say no. If you want to say more, I'd be very grateful if you could tell me why not.

I'm sure the magic phrases have made the author's professional career easier. Also I'm sure they made life worse for other people.
Slightly off topic.
But what do you think of the "definition of recession"[1] debacle that is currently going on? Do you think this is similar to "changing the definition of a vaccine" that you mentioned?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+recession&sour...
Hypothetically speaking, if it were a lab-leak and if it were a malicious lab tech or an that was mad at the world or compromised by a political actor, they could have dumped/micronize sprayed a vial [1] into the food market which would make the statement not entirely false. This is of course a lazy theory and would be nearly impossible to test out.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrWmPMZGiY [video, gets NSFW around 2:30]