skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were also many people in the "justice apparatus" (ie. the prosecutor, police, a GREAT many social workers of two dozen different organizations, schools, ...) that were intimately involved with this practice. They got away with it because they didn't get paid.

But their "duty" is to "protect the interest of the children" (literally from the law). To say they utterly failed their duty is vastly understating what happened. Half a dozen children committed suicide because of them. Frankly, if that happened because of a private citizen ... they would have been dragged before the court on charges of murder and faced decades in prison.

If all it takes is one bad actor (e.g. a more-and-more drunk elderly judge) to create this practice for 5 years, which then goes unpunished for another 10 years ... then we've lost all semblance of justice.
One thing I learned from Cliff Stoll's the cuckoo's egg is that the internet was far from the only computer network. Every country was building one or more networks. There was some kind of cambrian explosion of network technologys going on.

What the internet did was more subtle, but far more important: It standardized the technology, connecting these networks. Instead of tons of little private network, we got 1 global net owned by nobody.

I have no problem believing chile had one of these little private networks.
Not sure where you'd upload the photos to Google domains?

Assuming, of course, that you don't use your personal account for your domains - that'd be crazy!
If you use chrome and only chrome.
Dickens published his works in serial format so that was pretty cool (https://www.uvic.ca/library/research-teaching/collections/se...)
That's probably the most positive way to regard not being able to get a seat I've heard of.

But when the line goes through at Paddington and Stratford that is when it should be regarded as working fully. Once people can stay on the train, or just jaunt over a platform to switch to the Elizabeth line it should start to show its mettle. Also I believe they plan to double the through train capacity.

Also are there plans to add more carriages to the nine the trains already have?
We care about attracting investors because the country is full of people dying due to not enough monetary resources both for the state and for individuals.
But what if it really was simple?
Just having smaller classes, a better school lunch and a better outlook for the future could potentially half school shooting per decade?
Which would be huge and is maybe measurable. School shootings are extremely rare.

While also benefiting the million students in despair, who share many significant traits with the FBI standard issued 52 page school shooter, that aren't violent?

For every shooter there are a million mistreated students, who choose to suffer in silence. So it will take a lot of effort to reduce the amount of very fringe outsiders, who can commit the willpower to kill their own peers, but somehow lack something to use this willpower to improve their own situation in a positive way.

I like your general rule and there is actually no simple fix. But there are simple things you can do, that improve a situation a lot.

Making schools less hateable isn't a bad idea and probably easier to achieve, then getting rid of all available weapons and everyone on happy pills.
I have a larger issue that no one addressed. There has to be some type of special software for the medical profession that allows you to take a picture on your phone that is not stored on your phone and that you send to the doctor.
There were lots and lots of blogs with similar opinions.

It’s really the case that they played up their hosting of some controversial writers in order to build publicity - hence one of their founders appears on Joe Rogan etc.

You can admire their stance and business model or not but let’s not pretend they were out of the ordinary.
You're going to eat some cost on any speculative/out-of-order chip to get loads and stores ordered bidirectionally relative to getting it down to the `MFENCE` or whatever by hand, though a great deal less than not having a speculative execution pipeline.

The statement you're calling "grossfully incorrect" was double-qualified by "IIRC" and "basically", which I thought was enough to make clear that I was oversimplifying a bit.

The Google doc I linked starts with this:

"Most engineers reach for atomic operations in an attempt to produce some lock-free mechanism. Furthermore, programmers enjoy the intellectual puzzle of using atomic operations. Both of these lead to clever implementations which are almost always ill-advised and often incorrect."

They're being generous.

I'm well aware that it gets up the ass of every self-styled Ghemawat to point out that most people shouldn't be playing jazz on this stuff, but if even one hacker doesn't fuck up something important because I urged some caution, I'll live.
That's what I assumed it meant, just thought it was a funny phrasing—not that I can think of a better way of putting it as succinctly.
I'm willing to bet it does. Well, probably never to 0, but close enough.

There's just too many escape valves. If you're a miner, you don't care about what network you're mining, you care about getting the most profit out of your hardware. There are several EVM PoW chains that are established, have been around and are listed and traded somewhere already, and have functioning contracts in them, and beyond that there are other non EVM PoW chains to direct your hardware at if you're running GPUs. It just doesn't make sense for a miner to take the risk of backing a new chain over moving their hash power over to an existing one.
I'm getting a "Dr Blair, Dr Blair, Dr Jay Hamilton, Dr Jay Hamilton..." vibe.
The underlying paper comments the Czech Republic has high car ownership but relatively low use because of good public transport:

> The few exceptions where car modal share remains low and car ownership is relatively high, such as Switzerland, Japan, and the Czech Republic, have well-developed and efficient public transportation systems (e.g., public buses and subways) to satisfy their main mobility demand.

Thus, a ranking of "Vehicles per 1000 people" isn't necessarily indicative of vehicle use, and it's the latter which generates CO2 (for IC engines) and other pollutants, not mere ownership.

The paper calculates the effect of changing the modal share of bike use world-wide to match that of Denmark, and presents the first ever (to the authors' knowledge) substance for that calculation.
If they're important why did you just gloss over them? What are they?
I don't get why those new lines could not be driverless, I don't see much technical difficulties. They don't have to be unattended, you could place a security-guy in every train at night. But I don't see how the drivers perform tasks that couldn't be automated.
> I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs

I was responding to to the bit about online editors, and Quip has a very nice collaborative editor that has a lot of useful functionality (which eventually makes its way into Google Docs)
At the very end of the clip he says: "psychologically this was hard to do, because so much of their identity gets wrapped up in these educational badges...".

This resonated with me, but because of an opposite experience, I didn't go to a good school, and for a long time had imposter syndrome any time I started a new job. It took many years to internally get over that.
Could you be more precise about what you mean by "fake" accounts?
If it’s personal domains, then it would make sense to use a personal account.
Low benefit to cost ratio, probably.
But they keep insisting that their services and cloud storage is private and secure? Odd.
On another plane, John McCarthy smiles.
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I completely agree, thus the contrast of my first sentence in GP with the first sentence in GGP.
Seeing how I agree with your thoughts in general, I’m now en route to pick up a copy of 4000 weeks. Thanks!
Mirrors my experience completely.

The great thing for me at university was that no one forced me to go to the lectures. I was on a computer science course, but was more happy making games in my bedroom or writing fiction, and just skipping everthing course related.

For me, life's best served when there's no one badgering you for your attention or your time. If a friend randomly walks up to my flat and rings the buzzer, there's a good chance I'll use it as an excuse to stop work and go hang.

Even if it takes us like 5 extra years to get that deep knowledge of physics, who really cares? You get there in the end if you have the time and space to actually learn it. The modern world is so focused on optimising for time, it can really hinder some people.
It’s an early ERP system. People undersell or oversell it depending on their ideological bias but that’s what it’s most comparable to imo.

It’s not particularly exciting but it was a practical idea.
Throwing it out there:

does anyone know where I can find a copy-pastable template for Spring Boot to integrate a classic sign-up workflow in my web app.

I hate to reinvent the wheel here...
I like to think of the Elizabeth line heralding the post Covid era. People can work from home, but if they commute is made less traumatic (more word for the collective noun for commuters is a 'plight of commuters') then there'll be less pain in going in.

For myself the Central Line is loud, noisy, very hot, crowded, the tracks are bad rocking wildly. I don't think we'll get back to days of standing on the platform waiting for several trains to pass by before being able to get on to the train.

Tube noise is deafening, I seem to be the only person sticking my fingers in my ears, a silent protest.
Funny you ask that, since I have indeed refactored OTPCL (a sort of Erlang-flavored Tcl-flavored scripting/config language I've been on-and-off hacking on for the last couple years) multiple times now, namely to rewrite the parser and to rewrite how command exports work - so the commit history should reflect some of the pitfalls and boons I encountered.

I actually did pursue static typing (w/ type annotations and Dialyzer) at one point, but quickly lost interest, since it didn't really seem to add much. Having comprehensive tests, on the other hand, was crucial - especially since I could use pattern matching within those tests to make assertions about expected inputs and outputs.

I will say that there were bugs that compile-time type checking probably would've caught, but tests also readily caught them. The same can likely be said for current bugs. It's ultimately the same idea: validate that your code adheres to the expected API and behavior; only difference is that the validation happens in different places.
JetRacer Flying Chair Goes 150 MPH
You can inject dynamic content into a static site in transit.
Lucid triples up on motors for 1,200-hp Air Sapphire super-sedan
The alternative view is that those state of the art models are using technology/architectures/paradigms with an inherent limit and are very far away from automating all of those jobs.

At the end of the day, all the demos leave me with a feeling of disappointment. Current image synthesis models appear to be useless beyond doing experimental art for fun and novelty, chatbots still suck and copilot just (sometimes) replaces googling, but not developers or their education.
This is a bad thought process to have:

No amount of fancy, serious, technical, professional talk will convince me that <subject> is anything but <dismissive words>.

It's the same stance a lot of people take to vaccines, politics, religion, climate change, wars etc etc and it's causing heaps of problems.
Imagine what happens when that person doesn’t leave academia to have the opportunity to learn to code. They just stay on. And end up teaching coding.
I thought you mean there is a SICP with html as the teaching programming language instead of Lisp
SuperMemo does not work for kids (2021)
It is strange, especially as it’s designed to have automated reversing at Paddington so the driver can change ends.
Creating fake emails is easy. Rent VPS for $5, set up postfix and you have infinite number of emails.
They didn't, though. They had a bunch of telex machines that were old even at the time. The title of this link is hyperbole to serve an ideological agenda. It's Teen Vogue tech history.
> A Google spokeswoman said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men.

Wow. Just wow. This is worse than the usual Google's automated screw-ups. In this case, Google was notified of the issue by the NYT. Yet they actively chose to continue to screw over their victims just because they can.

> In a statement, Google said, “Child sexual abuse material is abhorrent and we’re committed to preventing the spread of it on our platforms.”

Just how tone deaf can Google be, continuing to treat these innocent folks as criminals in this passive aggressive statement even after being proven wrong? Do these people have no empathy at all?
The song is a fairly important part of the equation - because it’s the hypocrisy part of it. To be privileged isn’t necessarily wrong - it’s usually something that you didn’t have control over and its hard to fault an 18 year old kid from choosing school over war - even if many others couldn’t afford that choice. To claim you’re not privileged (“it aint me”) when you clearly are… that’s wrong.
controversial opinion: as much as everybody knows that China isn't exactly championing the western way of life and western democratic standards, I keep my private files in a Chinese cloud (backups are kept private in a NAS in my house).

Why?

Because they are not in contact with our authorities and, frankly, the chances my private files will be of any interest for Chinese authorities are close to zero.

Not that I have nothing in particular to hide, but as this example proves once again, if life damaging mistakes can happen, they will happen.
Interesting - thanks, I’ll check it out sometime
> spam annoys users more than the occasional missed message.

For me it's the other way around. I don't care about occasional spam. But the possibility of missing message means that I'm forced to read ALL spam periodically.
> But no, the purpose of a chart is not as a practical aid to getting around. The purpose of a chart is for insecure white men to feel better about themselves.

Obviously, what is being said is not that Gerardus Mercator designed, in the 1500s, a map with the express purpose of misrepresenting the relative size of places in order to further a 21st century geopolitical cause of eurocentrism. That would be a very stupid thing to say, and I'm sure you're not that stupid.

It is perfectly possible, however, that a map projection originally conceived for navigation is (unintentionally) a misrepresentation of the world that does further such an agenda of eurocentrism and does misrepresent e.g. the size of Africa, in a way that is unsuited for educational purposes.

I don't even understand the relevance of arguing "but it's so great for navigating if you're shipwrecked in the middle of the Pacific", which is obviously a vanishingly small use-case of this map.
One person making multiple accounts to abuse the service. For example by spamming it.
This. China, unlike the U.S., is not gonna ask other countries to extradite me if they ever find me in violation of whatever bullshit law they have.
I hope, for the sake of your software industry, that this only relates to calling yourself an engineer, and not to the general practice of software development. If you have to be a licensed engineer to work in software in Italy then that'd be a colossal drag on anything interesting happening in that industry.
You can decide which contacts make the phone ring even then.
I’ve heard too many things about how non existent Google’s customer service is to ever trust them for anything critical. You hardly ever hear stories like this from any of the other big tech companies. I’m excluding FB, because I don’t care about FB enough.
One of my pet peeves is when people say they don't "have time for" something. Time is not something you have; very rarely does a huge box full of time dump out of the air onto your back yard, ready to unpack. Time is something you take for the things that matter to you.

I try to lead by good example and say instead that "currently, I can't see myself taking the time to do" something. It's a small change but it feels a lot more honest.
The article picture is not from the discovered site.

If you click on the picture you can read the full description:

> Carnac in northwestern France is one of the most famous megalithic sites in the world with some 3,000 standing stones .
Thats a crazy level of risk assessment for an average user.

> how does your password manager help you if your email password gets leaked?

You still need my TOTP codes in my case at least, which conveniently are stored in my password manager. Is it perfectly secure? No, of course it's not, but frankly my risk profile isn't worrying about a targeted attack on me and my password manager, it's worrying about leaked shared credentials.

Side note, I also get a push notification on my phone whenever a new device logs on, so unless the attack is _extremely_ targeted, well timed and they know what they want, Its not a risk for me.
The best palette-reducing algorithm I know is the one by Xiaolin Wu: https://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~xwu/cq.c

That particular implementation is less than ideal. It has issues with correctness (the precision of FP32 accumulators was not enough for my use cases, needed an upgrade to FP64), performance (no SIMD), and subjective code quality (I tend to avoid global variables for things like that).

But the algorithm itself is awesome.
I keep a guitar on a stand next to my workspace, and reach out to it from time to time when waiting for a build.
Welcome to fascism.

A private company is the de-facto judge, jury and executioner because it owns half the infrastructure you live your life on.
That's because it would be largely ineffective. States use the powers they have.
Author does not understand how many clueless people are there. Setting up an account is allreqdy a problem for a lot of people (both old and young people can be very non technical). This new system will often not work on a personal computer - those often dont have a configured mail client. All is done via web.

Also I can easily see this abused by tons of spamers, where every spam website will have a mailto: popup trying to catch inexperienced users - to reveal their emails.
Why would you not print naked adults?
I just did

Nothing happened
By many people, yes, but they'll be reminded in future discussions about trusting Google.
Stress distribution and surface shock wave of drop impact
Snap chat?
Is this the case with Apple iCloud Photo Library, too?
This is surprisingly good. (I’ve run a consulting company for 23 years, so I am in a position to judge.)

I call my customers “clients,” though. I don’t buy the it-implies-they-are-lesser-than-you argument.
They all embed themselves deeply into our communications, for not-so-altruistic purposes--allegedly to "serve us better", realistically to train the shit out of their AIs in the hopes of growing (or at least maintaining) market share. If people weren't such cattle, a hard line would have already been drawn. If...
Dollar per effort, one makes more in most other jobs with less stress (even though with potentially less job stability if we are considering a tenured faculty).
I use the core section 3 days a week for work. It’s brilliant, quite the feat of engineering. The scale of the stations is like nothing else on the TFL network.
You actually have access to some pretty powerful search queries. Only a subset of them are used in the default client. You can search by energy level, by danceability, if songs are more likely to contain lyrics...

However. If the goal of this is to not miss out on artists you already know... Then it's simply a competitor to the "release radar" weekly playlist.
If anything, this is simply more verbose without being any more accurate, and I doubt anyone besides yourself notices or thinks there's a difference.
I hadn’t heard of Datasette until you published this blog entry. I have to say, on watching your intro video, it looks really fantastic. Congratulations on creating such an excellent tool. I look forward to playing with it over the coming days and learning more about it.
Thanks for the very detailed reply. Evaluating NURBS is useful, but you piqued my interested in the reverse operation. For a moment I almost had the impression we could specify CSG operations based on features extracted from the BREP reconstruction (that would be a game-changer!).

I was looking up at the current docs for the csg->brep conversion, but I don't really see much. Does brlcad actually allow to fit/reconstruct NURBS over the constructed geometry? The export docs still mention IGES export is just faceted.

I'm mostly using openscad and cgal directly, and my experience with both is that model regeneration takes a nosedive for anything non trivial. openscad for example doesn't offer any tool to shoot/analyze rays. The realtime preview also suffers for coplanar z-fighting issues, often making exact CSG operation really hard to debug. However the ergonomics are pretty decent when iterating and constructing geometry on the fly.

Can I ask your role in brl-cad? All your posts are extremely detailed. Are you a contributor? I wonder if I should reinvest time in brl-cad once again.
Guy calls current flow clumsy. Comes up with alternative reliant on mailto :)
Oh, the "curse" got this individual too.

"Is it a good idea?

I have no idea;"

Great, why the article then?
At Ditto (www.ditto.live) our entire server side core and the apps that use that core are written in Rust. No one has complained about any issues at all. I think our company loves Rust so much that they're just happy we didn't choose Java. I don't think the results would have been too different if we chose a more established server-side app framework or language, but the company is happy that we use Rust through and through.
The main feature is that you can "beam" a very narrow beam of rf to a moving target like military convoy
Flight Simulator 2022: Ultra Realism on RTX 3090 with $100 Graphics Mods [video]
This is fine as long as you don’t plan to travel to China in the future.
Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up institutions for pennies
Yes, Central Line is pretty bad. Even getting on at the first station on the line is crowded and I often have to wait for the next one.

I'm still glad we have the Elizabeth line. I can get into central London much faster, even if it's not mostly for work. And the trains are nicer than the other tube lines. Because they're open inside rather than being separated by carriage you can just get on and then walk to find a seat if it's busier than normal.
Pointing out idiosyncrasies about a language is not racism. I didn't even complained about the verbosity, merely pointed it out.

Moreover, if I didn't like the language why do you think I learned it?
> I don't see much technical difficulties

If you haven't seen the technical difficulties that crossrail has run in to then you haven't been paying attention. They've been talking for years about how complex it has been to integrate the 3 signalling systems in use at various points on the line, so I'm not surprised they want a human in the loop in case one of them gets a bit wonky.