skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originally I was thinking they could handle an open tab like a gas station — place a hold on the card for $X for an open tab. But then, the more I thought about it, I’m not sure I want to be the bartender that has to explain why there was a hold of $100 on a college kid’s debit card.

Sorry you can’t buy lunch, but the hold will get released in a few days, so it’s ok!

There’s got to be a better way…
This kind of looks like https://flattr.com/ but specifically for dev/dependencies.

Not sure I like that there's "only" a two-month limit in which funds can be claimed, though. Some developers could be very busy or get caught up with other stuff and not hear about their accumulated funds before the "expire". Some might also think it's a phishing scam if they haven't heard of StackAid before.
That's not how I understood it. 48MP are available only in ProRaw format.
Lockdown Mode is an optional, it is a extreme protection that's designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, Lockdown might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats.
> though, to be fair, it is rare that I agree with 100% of anyone's political positions, including my own

Finally something I can almost totally agree with!
I run a service that provides content for news sites and a couple of months ago I started replacing some of the charts for a SVG file generated once on the server and distributed to all customers, instead of sending the data and generating it on the reader's device.

It took me a lot of time trying to convince some customers to let me do that silly change, it's a tiny bit of power but if we built everything thinking about this I'm sure we could save a lot of energy.
https://archive.ph/o48Sv
In my area, any house that isn't selling gets painted blue with an orange door. Stagnant and on the market for a few months? Have you tried painting it blue with an orange door? Works every time!
macOS sets the bar higher than leaving stuff readable by anything run by the current user.

Applications are supposed to store secrets in the Keychain, which will give them back only to the same application with code signed by the same developer. macOS applications can't steal each others' secrets willy-nilly.
Part of the problem is difficulty, no? If it takes you two days to configure the phone to be safe, how sure are you that you’ve got every single option you had to change completely correct? That seems like a lot of possible mistakes.

“Slide this and cover practically everything built in” is a lot more reliable. You can still have problems (as always) with anything extra you install, like any system would.
Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage
Anyone that’s familiar with the history of American machine politics knows that you certainly can hack the paper.
And with those restaurants you don’t have a “debt”, so they don’t have to accept cash (unless your state has a law about it).
and recently a Rafale seat didn't ignite because of a sequencer issue too (I don't know if it's the same manufacturer)
BA.5 avoids the immunity you gained from Delta, Alpha, and the original.

If you got COVID-19 this July-ish (when BA.5 was biggest), maybe you don't need a vaccine update. But given how much the virus has evolved, it only makes sense to update your body to the newest version that's out there.

If the next big strain is from the BA.5 lineage (or closely related lines like Omicron), having your body trained on the new proteins / RNA should help a lot.

------

Fortunately, it's not as big a deal because original strain / original vaccine looks like it still prevents hospitalization and deaths. So this is strictly about reducing the spread of Omicron / BA.5 and related substrains.
Oh boy! Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a looong time :).
HBO Max has a nice 'feature' where it shows a ten second timer at the end of the episode and jumps to the next. For some shows, there is a final scene and it exits a little early so you miss the last bit. If you want to catch them all you need to click an x next to the countdown for each episode.
> Overall it's very interesting to see Apple invest so significantly in something that will benefit relatively few users

Maybe Apple wants to encourage more (non-classified) government use of iPhones? Maybe they have a big juicy contract they could take if they just get their OS into the right shape for it?

Government purchase-orders used to be the main thing that kept RIM/Blackberry afloat: they were a Canadian manufacturer, and so were (or could be validated + closely scrutinized to be) trustworthy as a supplier for American government communications systems. This is 90% of why the Blackberry ecosystem was... the way that it was.

Apple is now in (nearly) the same position. And their ecosystem has also been strange for the last 6-or-so years, in that particular "there's no clear reason for this, unless the government asked you to do it for supply-chain-integrity purposes" way (e.g. a self-serve repair program that requires you to pre-register a device for repair before ordering parts, and then report the part IDs to initiate online pairing.)
Not Sure How to WordPress Anymore?
Pearson has it in hardcover for $165.32: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/compilers-pr...

Amazon has it in paperback for $86.00 and hardcover for $165.32: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1292024348/

Used copies are cheaper.
And it’s free
TI-51 from 1973. Still works flawlessly
Appwrite – Open-Source End-to-End Back End Server
Isn't that with 3rd party apps only?
I for one am worried that Wikipedia only has enough assets to survive a bit over a couple years of the fundraising climate dries up. That is not anti fragile.
At least you didn't have Dopewars installed!
This is Laion-5B, https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/

It's built off of common crawl, so it probably does have a pretty representative sample from whatever the big image searches use.

Funny enough, the NSFW filter that laion built is turned on. Without it, it's... a lot. The NSFW stuff is done with a model, so you get a probability of NSFW out of it, and you can select a threshold.

If you set the threshold high, like 95% certainty that an image is nsfw to filter it, you get a bunch of false negatives, letting a ton of nsfw through. Set it too low, and you throw out stuff that isn't nsfw.

We (haveibeentrained) erred on the side of too high, so we wouldn't tell artists their work wasn't in there if it was. Tough trade-off there. Similar to using the dataset to train an AI model, where you might cut off useful images from training if you try and filter all the nsfw.
Capitalism is barely designed, it's a constantly improvised justification for predatory behavior.
I suppose the other issue was that IE was only available on Windows (although briefly on Macs too) and wasn't standard compliant.
> It'll def just be ignored, as it's on a high percentage of notes[1] for any transaction anyways [2].

Cops have used cocaine residue as "cause" to rob people of cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs
Drugs, marketplace/Craigslist stuff, farmers markets and food stalls, all tips unless it’s a restaurant, a lot of my landscapers/contractors etc.
Why is that? Due to older machines used or something else?
Only if you insist on hiring in the US – while at the same time talking all the time about how you want to fix the fact that you're underrepresented in many parts of the world, by asking some really expensive US staff to fix it ...
> “The parts … are strictly considered suspect at this time”

This looks pretty bad! but I know literally nothing about ejection seats
All the object allocation, pointer chasing, and general indirection is what makes JSON parsing slow, particularly building up tree structures. Bump allocators and the like don't help much, at least for the parsing--most malloc implementations already do fast, O(1) allocation for small objects, and have for decades. (Arenas are useful for making deallocation O(1), though.)

If you care about raw JSON throughput, use Ragel or something similar to build a state machine that directly parses JSON into a flat, native data structure. Now you have zero allocations without even needing to shim malloc/free. AVX-512 would still be at least as useful, but it's a much more difficult problem to leverage SIMD in a parser generator than in a simple string escape routine or behind a more abstract interface like a regex library.

Quite a few language environments these days provide in-language JSON deserializers, but they're still significantly slower than they could be even when they deserialize to flat data structures. The macro languages and internal compiler intrinsics used to accomplish this are the worst possible environments for development. Lisp-like languages aren't really an exception as they tend to trade easier in-language transforms for a steeper climb when it comes to generating optimized native code for the transform.
So social good projects need to suck because we’re all misers? Try applying this logic to a for profit company and you’d laugh.
Is there some angle for corporate phones too? If you’re a company and you’re going to buy a load of phones and you ask your cybersecurity department, I think they’d probably already tell you that iPhones are more secure. This just adds to it. Perhaps Apple are worried about eg pixel phones reliably getting security updates.
Hopefully we can go contactless on ATMs. Seems antiquated to insert a card.
>the roughly 50% reduction in food produced this year vs last

That seems like a huge piece of news that I have missed. Do you have a source so that I can read more about it? There was the worry about Ukrainian wheat not making it to parts of Africa this year, but even that I thought was less of a concern with a deal struck between Russia and Ukraine for grain exporting.
Even if they hadn't strategically picked that model of old car for maximum crunch factor anyone without a seat belt may as well be on a motorcycle.

Edit: Deleted the rest of the comment, It is not worthwhile to have a nuanced discussion about the merits of the various safety improvements with this community.
I'm not 100% on this, but I think a big portion of the captions for the images come from the alt-text, and are probably auto-generated by the sites they were scraped from.
I really find it sad that people try to kill ideas like this, irrespective of their intent and motivation, though I'd also like to understand these at some point. At HP, I once suggested charging customers for features they'd like to see in a future product, credited back when they buy the machine - this was to help product discovery as every customer had 'ideas' but it was hard to tell which ones mattered. It did not go over well. Now, you see this practically everywhere - from people paying to reserve F150 Lightning, Cybertruck, etc. to things such as Kickstarter.
I lock my ATM cards and only unlock them when I need to get cash.
This is such an angry ranty version of this story...

...but at the same time, this feels like the angry ranty version of the story that [a certain set of] Googlers deserve.
Unfortunately "random" is a headache for a certain type of bureaucrat. They can't really do "random" or "unpredictable" and it needs somebody who actually understands what is going on to sit down and walk through how they can check whether to tick this box. For the Web PKI we had this problem extensively. No, if you set the top bit of this 128-bit integer, that's not 128 random bits. That's 127 random bits, the top one isn't random any more, see?

Anyway, the EMV test spec tells them to ensure the numbers are different not that they're random even though the cryptography requires randomness to work. So if you make terminals, the way to ensure you pass is not to use random numbers, as there's a tiny chance a random number fails the test. To pass, just ensure you emit a sequence of different numbers. For example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That's not random at all, but it's different and so it passes the test.

As you would expect this is an exploitable bug. Light Blue Touchpaper covered this years back.
Any Turing-complete interpreter written in a non-memory-safe language is a potential exploit vector; and browsers are full of them. The major browser engines all do their own font rendering, for just one example.

This is why the iOS App Store allows Swift Playgrounds (app with a memory-safe interpreter), and allows iSH Shell (virtualized POSIX environment, where you can write and run e.g. bash scripts), but doesn't allow iSH Shell to ship with gcc.
At least in this particular case it's not necessarily a perpetuity; the funding of the C4 is entirely reliant on Patagonia's profits; if people decide that the outcome is undesirable they can just boycott Patagonia.
Carrying cash is more common in NYC due to many small businesses there being cash-only. For instance, halal food carts are cash-only. As a result, there is higher ATM usage in NYC where these ATM skimmers were found.
it's especially annoying when they start to advertise each podcast on each other's feed and you get a sort of quadratic spam across every channel.
Is that why my wife has been complaining all her pictures make her look like she has a smooth/filter-applied face? She just switched from Android to Iphone 13. I tried playing around with the settings but couldn't make it look 'normal'.
also, make sure you're using python3.9 or lower

https://stackoverflow.com/a/70501550/21539
Pretty bad COLR support in the creative tools. Looks like OpenType-SVG is better supported
I used to follow a bunch of people on Twitter.

I still do, but I used to, too.
> You can't find 32 bit PCM music anywhere

Yes you can (not that I think it’s useful): https://ototoy.jp/find/?q=32bit

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843619)
It was an important clarification which got hijacked. The clarification is that some local climates might not meaningfully warm, they might even cool, but will experience other drastic changes. Even as the global temperature rises.

It’s a trick because nuance is easily exploited by people craven enough to exploit it. But it’s an important distinction for people who don’t understand why they’re having colder or wetter winters in temperate climate regions (example picked out of my locality).
Military courts operate differently.
No. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-apple-proraw-pho...
There are several levels that you can analyse this. Firstly: Is it English and is it grammatically correct? Seems OK but we can allow English to be a bit slack.

Now, how do we attach meaning to the actual statement. Do the English words actually mean the same thing to me as they do to you? Probably.

Should any statement be applicable to anything - world or otherwise? It is just a statement and not my best man's speech at my brother's wedding 25 odd years ago, which I'm sure you can appreciate that I consider that being rather more important.

So here we have a statement that is unable to be consistent and as you say, it sounds like it should have meaning but doesn't.

So we have a way of saying things with spoken language that are logically inconsistent that are also grammatically correct and that is a sort of flavour of what Goedel proved with his incompleteness theorem.
> artifact-free resampling definitely isn't a straightforward thing.

It's more that in practice artifact free resampling isn't a thing at all, so you have to choose what your artifacts do.
My understanding was that the median iPhone is much more secure than the median android phone due to things like regular updates being widely installed. Lots of the things that used to be worse for android (eg bad app permission model) have been fixed.
I found that quote buried in some news article about grain from Ukraine and it stuck with me. Let me see if I can find it (or a reference to a similar figure) again.
The punishment should be even more severe.

It’s a national security risk.

The federal government needs more internal audits.
Quiet Quitting Is Hustle Culture's Reckoning
I’ve leveled with myself that this is the pace of future mobile device hardware releases. “Peak phone” has been a topic of discussion for a while now. Are we there yet? I think so.

Apple has gotten a lot of flack for releasing “new” hardware and software features that aren’t really new or groundbreaking. I’m starting to see the genius in their planning. The slow trickle of improvements (I like how you call them “S revisions”) are for the sake of momentum, the long term survival of the company. Especially when Apple is already battling the longevity of their own products. I’m rounding off Year Two of my iPhone 12 Pro Max and will likely squeeze out a third year.
And other things but yes. You’ve contributed a lot in life, you still get to keep say 700 million but the next generation needs to prove themselves again (not that they need to with 700 million but it’s a start)
> But it's far more offensive and far more vile to suggest that the State has any right to regulate public speech based on its content.

Why? Offensive to whom? There seems to be general agreement that some speech crosses lines that are not okay and should be regulated. This is why all countries that have freedom of speech protections also have a list of exceptions. In the US, certain things like ads, pornography, slander, sedition, and lies are generally not considered protected speech. It depends on the specifics in any given case, but I’m not offended at all by the suggestion that the State should be allowed to regulate these kinds of speech when they cause harm.
Surely that’ll get you a one use token but not data good for repeat use? In addition you would have to send that to the network as a retailer yourself. So it would not be anonymous.
I was using the tablet computers when they first came out (2003?) and I remain a fan to this day - all of my subsequent laptop purchases have consisted of models with a Wacom stylus and the ability to take notes with a pen. While the Transmeta-based model that was my first purchase was less than perfect, the subsequent models were amazing. All of my class notes from that era are still in some Windows Journal file or on OneNote.
Unfortunately, what I see the most is:

An increase in seniority comes with (A) a decrease in hands-on time with technical problems and (B) an increase in time spent on project management, team organization, and people problems.

None the less, there are some possibly interesting resources regarding levels at Honeycomb [1], Netflix [2], and Gitlab [3]. There's a whole book if you're going to venture into "staff" [4]. Last but not least, don't forget the Peter Principle [5].

[1] https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/engineering-levels-at-honeycom...

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/netflix-levels/

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/developmen...

[4] https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
The EV charging situation in the US is about to suck a little less
> No digital records, no potential for this type of skimmer or other scam

I don't understand. How are you not exposed to this type of skimmer when it only attacks those who use cash ATMs, like what you do?
Still making it so easy that they can have literally his name and photo with a blue check mark seems sloppy to me?
Been out of touch with it, but, IIRC, NB's plugin story used to be pretty top notch (hot reload and all). Better than Eclipse and IntelliJ.

Geert W used to write a lot of good articles on doing cool and interesting things with NB, and user stories of how it was being used at different companies to build internal tools. Their GUI builder was pretty sweet too, IMO.

Glad to see it's still around!
Yes, that's the same dataset. This website has some additional tools coming so artists can flag and opt out, or upload to opt in, and we'll get those to the laion team to add or remove from the 5B (and future) datasets.
In the past when I've used them, I usually started by listing all the nodes in a long list under a single root, not trying to organize them at all. I fought the urge to organize everything from the get go.
Only if you think starting and running a huge corporation is equivalent to using cellphones.

Imagine the same comic, but instead of a peasant insert a socialist slaveholder.
So then isn’t it obvious the bank should charge some fees, make some profits, etc., to cover the cost of their liability burden? The article seems to write in a roundabout way such that it gives the impression there’s something special happening, outside of what the default expectation would be.
The Problem with Peat
I'm more concerned about plastic fibers getting into the air via laundering (or simply regular activity of wearing them and little bits of plastic occasionally coming loose) than I am about the use of oil in the clothing.

I believe there should be more restrictions on the use of plastic in society, seeing as "Plastic Fibers Are Found in 83% of the World's Tap Water, a New Study Reveals"[1]

[1] https://time.com/4928759/plastic-fiber-tap-water-study/
Pixel 6 photos are dramatically over processed. You can shoot RAW on them too, but that looks even worse.
I don't use any card where you cannot deactivate the magnetic stripe entirely by software. This way the magnetic stripe gets useless because transactions through it are blocked. I live in Europe and nearly never need the magnetic stripe (one big exception was one ATM which would not work without it).
Or Chrome shouldn't force a new colour font standard, they keep doing it, they could at least make sure creative tools has support for it.
Very interesting, and does capture some of the transparency of Inspiration, in the sense that using the tool doesn't interfere with the process. Thanks for sharing this!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-bo...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that millions of eligible Americans, including those as young as 12, get an updated omicron-targeting booster shot to bolster defenses against serious illness and death during a potential fall or winter rise in covid-19 cases.

If you doctor is telling you not to get the booster, you need a better doctor.
> - Those tap targets on CC readers sometimes aren't where the antenna is, and you have to rub your card all over the reader to get it to work?

I have no issues with the icon for tap. Although they do seem to rub off and I wonder if they are meant to have an accessible braille pattern.

My dislike is tapping the screen, because then you block the visual feedback mechanism that lets you know whether it worked.
I'm really conflicted about if I'm going to be shooting in 48MP or 12MP for normal use. Most of my photos are taken of friends in casual settings and used for social media. Many times a good shot requires capturing a number of photos in sequence, with all but one or two discarded.

The local file storage and backup capacity requirements for 48MP are going to get crazy. I may only shoot in 48MP in rare cases when I really want the super quality and normally leave in 12MP mode.
The only time I've used magnetic stripe in the last decade was in the US.
"Anthropogenic climate change at a rate that humans and/or natural systems can't cope with" just isn't as catchy.
> Does OFAC have the power to say "we are designating the Hawala system"?

Probably not because "Hawala system" is not an entity that can be defined - it's like banning "cryptocurrencies" in general. OFAC wouldn't be able to do that - because it's not a specific definable entity. Designating a specific hawaladar would be possible for them (though likely not very effective).
Because looking at the 12MP pictures I would NEVER want it, and I don't want to sacrifice the battery / storage with 48MP pictures the time. I expected the lower resolutions to be a leap compared to the current gen (I have a 13 non-pro) but there's basically no difference.