skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a father allowed to take photos of his son's groin even for non medical reasons?
The linked article lists a lot of jobs that a frontend developer may be asked to do. Many sites certainly have all of those, but it is not realistic to say that every frontend developer is expected to know how to do all of these. (honestly these days I'm happy if a frontend developer actually knows what a DOM node is).

But it is certainly true that Frontend development is complicated, and often under-appreciated. IME, the person doing a final integration is always the person who has to deal with all the miscommunication that has accumulated over the project. This is true in all fields I am aware of. Frontend development typically fills this role, because the flaws in the design of the data layer, or the miscommunications between the business stakeholder and the designer are typically invisible until someone actually tries to integrate it end to end. Actually delivering a good user experience in a reasonable amount of time while identifying and mitigating these hurdles is very challenging, and can be taken for granted especially if you end up doing a good job at it.

IME the items listed in the article do happen to some people some times, but are much less fundamental than the general integration problem.
Concise and clever aren't necessarily related. Concise means conveying your objective as clearly as you can, as small as you can. Clever is John Carmack's q_sqrt. Code that is small, that works, but no one understands why.

LOC should be looked at as a negative at a certain point. Software Engineers spend more time reading code than writing code. The more LOC you have, the more an engineer needs to read to get work done. LOC is not a good measurement of quality software nor is it a measurement of complexity of the problem, only the complexity of the code.
ARM instruction set licensing is a drag, an inefficiency.

ARMv8 is a nice ISA, and the work that architects do is critical, and it's not easy to develop a precise, clean, extensible, and relatively bug free ISA. But there is relatively little real innovation in it. It's a pretty conventional RISC, warmed over for the modern era. In fact no ISA has any real magic, that's all in the silicon.

There's certainly not hundreds of millions of dollars per year worth. That money is only paid because of the proprietary lock-in and ecosystem around the ISA, which is similar to the proprietary software model, so at some point it would be easy to imagine large chunks of the industry deciding to break away and go to something more open.

It may not inevitably displace ARM entirely, and ARM Ltd might change their ways or open their ISA to prevent it. But it could easily happen too, in the next decade or so.
You don't publish on Spotify. You publish on one of the services which have a distribution deal with Spotify, like TuneCore or CDBaby. Some of the dodgier services like that have features to make this exact sort of thing easy (for instance, you get to choose a new publisher label name every time).
To how many parents has this already happened? I get the feeling "Mark" who lives in SF probably knows folks in media or tech. How many nameless, powerless people in Middle America or the Global South had their digital lives nuked and suffered in silence?
In a cynical way, this would mean no more wars.

Once the world sees a few wars where the drones win, every country on earth is going to get them. They are cheap, can be made by university students, can be weaponized in a myriad of ways and can be deployed from far away (UAVs with a thousand drones, can deploy them thousands of kilometers) and they are disposable.

Silent drones with autonomous instructions, will be the ultimate booby trap.
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> you are guilty of money laundering if a copy is found on your computer -- now running the Ethereum mainnet or any fork that contains it is illegal in the United States

This is well beyond the regulatory and legal powers of the U.S. Treasury and the DOJ. That is not the letter of the law with regards to money laundering, and the agency cannot invent new laws out of thin air. Nor can they blanket ban a technology or code just because they have to learn new stuff. Could Congress pass such a law? Sure, but even then, we'll go to the mats in the court and in state legislatures. Nevermind that criminalizing and demonizing a large portion of the population hurts your re-election chances.

Even torrenting, as egregious as the copyright abuse was in Pirate Bay's heyday, was never banned in such a way. Email scams from Nigeria never necessitated the shutdown of email. VPNs continue to operate.

Nevermind that similar cases with regards to cryptography have already gone to court, which ruled in favor of speech: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...

The XKCD example is amusing, but fails even the most basic cross-examination. Surely officers with a court-issued warrant for probable cause of a crime should be able to inspect a person's home or things. Maybe they could find a private key written on a post-it note somewhere in the person's home. That's all fair and good, and no one is arguing against that. Clearly, it's not very scalable, nor should it be. We operate under the presumption of innocence in free societies.

We all have a problem with illegal, abusive, mass surveillance. It is a violation of human liberty and a disturbing trend that has to be pushed against to prevent a full-on dystopian, authoritarian hellscape where you don't even have paper cash as an outlet from the panopticon. To avoid that future outcome, to preserve the freedom of your children, you have to fight for privacy and transactional liberty. My ancestors were willing to bleed and die for liberty. Some of us still are, today. Never wake a sleeping lion, indeed.
I recall some Keysight "educational" video where the guy says, "This is my million-dollar cellphone charger" and plugs his cellphone into a USB port on a fancy oscilloscope.
https://archive.ph/J70Fc
Hoooo boy. You obviously aren't familiar with American Puritanism.
This is right - the whole point with money laundering is to have a legitimate business where extra money can come in, apparently from real but untraceable customers, that is really dirty money you control.
Can't a laser be defeated by deflecting the light or reflecting it? Or dispersing it?

Afterall, its just a focused heat beam of electromagnetic radiation.
Key word being some. If everything is emphasized than nothing is. Growing up in India, I'd day good riddance to shouty colors and permanent visual overstimulation. Grey is calmn. Neutrals are calmn. Fuck colors.
We recently contacted their sales team with intention to re-work pricing. We did not mention that in first mail and got immediate response. When we mentioned we want to negotiate pricing, noone has responded in months now.
Well, taking a photo of just the groin, for non-medical reasons would be kind of weird. Taking a photo of the whole baby, e.g. in bath is perfectly normal, even if it also shows the groin.
The ADM3A is too limited to have many quirks.
Believe it or not, but things cost more than they did 10 years ago.
Carl Sagan Was Just Dead Wrong (2019)
On a similar topic

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/why-movies-so-dark-hard-t...
Conceded. I guess I was wrong. Too bad I was so arrogant about it!
It's actually pretty rare for these to be used as money laundering tools.
I inherited a graphql project that was a work of art in that respect. All access control etc was done in the database and triggers were effectively used the works.

The resulting application was a complete performance failure. Databases are slow and generally involve latency. They are a source of truth and an engine for querying.

They are not meant to be your applications working data model.
That's like saying banking systems don't need to be compliant, banks need to be.
I take objection to this line:

> When I share this story with other sailors, they are universally aghast that we helped these refugees.

I wonder what kind of sailors they are conversing with, if at all.
https://archive.ph/EuBeO
It’s quick and easy to move from Gmail to Fastmail. Did it earlier this year. Now YouTube is the only Google product I use, and it works pretty well without an account.
Publishing code is not the issue that regulators should be concerned about. Running the code is the issue. Regulators should treat cryptocurrency "miners" as money transmitters and make them comply with the existing regulations that apply to money transmitters. Despite the claims that cryptocurrencies are "peer-to-peer electronic money", that's not entirely accurate. A peer can't send cryptocurrency to another peer. They need an intermediary to do that, which is the so-called "miner". Therefore a "miner" is to all effects and purposes a money transmitter.
Stop giving Google control of one of if not the most important communications identity in your life. I know gmail is cheap and easy, but theres a reason for that: you're giving up so much.
Public investors can choose not to buy it if the price point is a scam. Hence that choice makes it not a scam.
I think it varies too much to describe as one thing. But there's way more of the givers there than I was used to where I was from.
Cloudflare does DNS and domain registration. They are subject to US laws but they have been very hands off and pro free speech (too much IMO, protecting abhorrent sites) but that does give more trust in this case.
> This means the software engineers in the project are very bad and therefore the code quality overall will also be bad.

Conversely, I do think you're very bad and don't have much experience with large python codebases.

For example the suggestion to split and use microservices makes no sense. Microservices are even harder to refactor.
Apparently “worst of internet” was… “The organization of the World-Wide Web. I love the Web, but finding something specific on it is a nightmare. And because the Web is growing by leaps and bounds, I just don't see things getting easier anytime soon.”

Made me smile... especially the last line. :)
Think about it like this. A lot of things are financed via credit/debt. For example, you buy a house, using a mortgage, which has an interest rate.

Some people might be able to finance a $500k house, at 0% interest rate for 30 years. However, with certainty there are fewer people who are able to finance a $500k house, at 10% interest rate for 30 years, as this costs much more. This means, as interest rates rise, fewer people will be able to secure and offer $500k for a house. As fewer people are offering $500k for a house, sellers will struggle more to sell a house for $500k, and eventually, there even comes a point where prices are forced to drop. As for how high interest rates need to get and how long they are in place to cause a decrease in prices, is mostly a guessing game, but eventually it will cause an effect.

Now, that said, initially people might try to raise their prices to offset the increase in financing costs, (and therefore adding to inflation like the parent post thought), but like I said, eventually there comes a point where they just won't find anyone who will buy their higher prices, because no one can afford those higher prices, and therefore prices must come down if transactions are to continue happening at all, and some transactions will surely continue to happen, as some money is better than no money, when you got a liability to pay.

And this also applies to food prices, along with most everything, in very similar but indirectly complex ways, mainly because most transactions in the economy happen via credit, then with actual money/cash. Let alone the fact that all money originates via central bank loans.
This would be like attaching electrodes to your hard drive to try to fix bugs in your computer, maybe it helps defrag and free up memory but I wouldn't trust it to be risk free until we got more data.
> it's not binary. We'll likely start seeing hybrids that follow the cost curve down while scaling up battery capacity.

Do hybrids make any sense at all if you're mostly operating at a constant load, like I imagine container-ships do? It's not like they're stuck in stop and start traffic across the Pacific.
Both - the first is for sharding tensors across GPUs, the second is to do an all reduce (e.g. for distributed data parallel to synchronize gradients)
Speaking as an Indian, Sub continent politics is totally messed up. India realised in the immediate events after Independence. Democracy won't survive if feudalism exists along side. It wasn't even that much of a difficult thing to understand, if you are a bonded labor under a feudal you pretty much do what the feudal says, and given the overall socio-economic situation of such places feudals would win anyway(Only feudals have the influence and money to even fight the elections). Though India abolished absentee landlordism, feudalism nevertheless continues. And even till date significant politics of India runs through political dynasties(former and current feudals).

Add to this religion, every few years there is some popular majoritarian religious trend, often loaded with settling scores with the minorities for some imagined victimhood, some battle some king who belonged to your religion lost 800 years back, these are 'pride' related emotional issues on which masses vote. No one cares about education, or improving general standard of living.

Add to this caste, regional and linguistic reasons.

Democracy is mostly a sham even without fixing, because masses don't vote for their own good. To think of democracy in the sub continent, people vote to hurt others than to help themselves. A vote is mostly a downvote in many ways.
Note: this video is sped up to look more dramatic.
If you can train with 8 bit ints, then FP8 should be fine: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13108

A group at IBM has been claiming for years that you can train with as little as FP4: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/file/13b919438259814cd5be8...
Very clear-minded take on what Snowflake is great and not so great for. Snowflake is great and cheap for what it's meant for. It gets expensive when you try to use it for something it was not designed for.
I looked at an LG one, 65EP5G. It's around 10x the cost of other 65" LG OLED displays. I get that it might be higher quality, but not 10x higher, and I know there's some revenue from ads, but not $10k.
You're confusing the H100, a high-end data-center card with the RTX 4000 series.
NIO testing swap stations that reduce peak demand by sending energy back to grid
This is the most reasoned and constructive response that this event has produced.
I hope your suggestion gets some political/legal traction.
I think you're being unreasonably optimistic. Outlawing drones won't stop them. You'd have to outlaw general-purpose computers, and that law would still only last until the next war between great powers.
It seems like a problem that requires legal change. Right now Google is fully entitled to nuke the persons email and phone number, completely locking them out of their life. And they can do this for any reason without any recourse.

Once you reach the scale and importance of these services, it shouldn’t be legal to lock people out like this.
Beautiful short story. I'm happy there were no comments yet on it, as I'd normally browse the comments and then leave. If you are like that, then I recommend to read the article, it isn't that long.
The weaponized ones are rarely just in the visible spectrum. But yeah just like radar there’ll probably be a lot of cat and mouse games
Then whoever gave you the debt will be bankrupt, and whoever you paid the debt to will be rich.

Money doesn't stop at its first use. And debt is nothing more than allowing you to spend the real thing without selling it first.
I like contents about hacking on this blog. Recommend to check other posts.
Starting quantum mechanics & decoding hieroglyphics is quite a résumé.
To be fair Paddle explicitly says that they are a payment solutions platform for SaaS companies
This is like staying you should stop trusting the supermarket to not poison your food and to instead trust the smaller supermarket to not do it or to just grow your own food.

It’s not practical to not trust anyone and maintain a functional life. The real insight should be at regulating tech companies so they can’t do this anymore.

Email is a utility and should be regulated like one. The power company can’t just shut your house off because you tweeted something bad but for some reason tech companies can do effectively this.
I'm also talking about the very large amount of Neodymium magnets needed for the very large generators of wind-mills.

It's the most dirty part to mine and is exclusively from China (95% of worldwide production).
No, not all nodes are miners. Nodes are peers. Even SPV nodes, which is what is used in mobile wallets etc. Money transmitters are also required to have custody of funds, which is never the case for nodes or miners. You know nothing about the legal side, nor the technical side of this issue, so should probably stay out of it, because now you're just spreading misinformation.
Something I think we often forget about the past is that when they did the things we now look back on as see as being borderline inscrutable, it was invariably driven by the belief that it was also safe and productive. It just turns out they were wrong.

This reminded me of the not especially brief trend of lobotomization for health benefits. In current society people might like to imagine the reality was something to do with socioeconomics, race, or other various identities. In reality people did genuinely believe in this. One of the victims of this practice was none other than the sister of JFK, Rosemary Kennedy [1]. She went from being a troubled young adult to being incontinent and having the mental capacity of a 2 year old. She was institutionalized with the entire incident being kept secret for decades.

I suppose the nice thing is that a treatment like this (back to the electroshock your brain for health) will implicitly entail a reasonable degree of informed consent, because it sounds like a bad idea on the surface. And so if somebody agree to do it, they've presumably done some due diligence and not just relied on The Verge. Approved medical treatments which "seem" much safer, like taking a pill, can entail just as great of risk, but their apparently benign nature belies the importance of similar due diligence.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
> Most pirating is done via torrent.

that's certainly not truth in many EU countries and one of the reasons is because downlaoding is legal, so DDL is king, heck even I pirate since 90s and started to use torrents just in recent years, until then was downloading all my movies/TV shows legally from DDL where are illegally uploaded by someone else

> But no it isn’t legal to download content that wasn’t authorized to be uploaded.

wrong, it's legal to download/stream video content for your personal usage and you don't need to care about any authorization, that's problem of the hosting provider and uploader, you as downloader are off the hook

check question 11 for various countries - Czechia, Slovakia, Spain and many other countries allow this
https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faq-cs...
A new weapon always begets new counter-weapons. They may provide sufficiently believable protection from the drones, though not all-encompassing. Wars may become somewhat bloodier and a lot scarier. In any case, I highly doubt drones would do much to end wars. Rifles, artillery and other super-killers of the 20th century certainly didn't.
Safety isn't a technical problem, it's a human problem. Over long periods safety measures end up being cut and introduce risk. There's also design decisions revolved around cost even though better solutions exist. Then there's just plain oversights. For example we all know earthquakes and tsunamis exist and yet the Fukushima still happened.
And bankruptcy sorts all that out. That's why we have it as the reset mechanism.

Capitalism without the threat of bankruptcy is like Catholicism without the threat of hellfire.
"Mark was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, but Google has said it will stand by its decision."

Can someone explain what Google's logic is? At this point [after the news articles], clearly humans are involved at Google, clearly they know this is not child porn, so why not reinstate the account and move on?
Try MapTiler. It works fine with what you're using. For geocoding, I dunno, we run our own show.
https://archive.ph/pMWyB
I don’t think you can do this anymore, cats out of the bag. I mean hypothetically anyone can kill someone with a drone right now and it would be pretty hard to track down who did it. Just have a drone with a gun or knife attached and fly down at the person as they leave the house. Have you seen FPV drones? They’re extremely responsive, fast and small. You could do it from miles away, even another country.
Since I thought it was a gimmick I just assumed you could switch it off.
The TV is 32” btw. Just big enough to comfortably see the ball when watching football, small enough to not be the centerpiece of the living room.
I do not have any complaints about the panel btw, good enough i guess.
If you think that's wild, wait til you hear what they did in meatspace!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
There in Austin, Texas
> Why is it so important which government is facilitating which research?

For better or worse, the world doesn't work such that everyone who reads a research paper is on an equal footing to industrialize/commercialize the technology. The ones who got their hands dirty are far ahead. Thus governments do something called 'industrial policy' (a somewhat dirty word in the West these days, to our detriment I think) where they try to build 'value chains' (or whatever you wanna call it) where they spend money on pure research, applied research, early stage spinoffs, etc. to kickstart an industry around a particular technology.

For an example, consider how decades-long investment by the US government into electronic warfare and military electronics kickstarted Silicon Valley.

So China is gearing up to be a dominant player in the global nuclear power market. So does that matter? In a way it's better somebody does it than nobody and we continue burning fossils, but being one of these hopeless romantics who think things like democracy and human rights are incredibly important I'd rather see 'our team' on the field as well. Energy extortion isn't pretty, see Europe and Russia at the moment.
https://archive.ph/yrWSq
Hrmm, Berkeley resident here. It's clear that the city possesses the original digital copies of the last several decades of these documents, and the fact that their system of record produces them as images is just a weird quirk. Instead of OCRing them, wouldn't it be better to just get the city to fix their system? I'm not the only one who thinks so. Berkeleyside recently wrote about it:

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/08/12/new-city-website-lim...
Average age of cars were 14 years old and almost all exceeded 100k miles. A majority were domestic SUVs. Adding 14 years to those cars means we are missing out on 680k mostly ford and Chevy suvs made in the 90s with probably at least a quarter million miles. The us has sold close to 200 million new cars since 2009, meaning even if we assume all those clunkers were still on the road we’d increase supply by less than a half percent of new sales. Probably not much of a factor on current pricing.