skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd loved DIRAVI like on old Citroën CXes then. Instead of a big spring in the Danfoss valve between the steering column and rack it had a little gearbox with a kind of "dogbone link" joining the two, that got pushed from side to side if there was a difference between the rack position and steering column position to push the valve. Then there was a kind of heart-shaped cam that pushed the steering wheel back to the centre, with a spring pressing against it controlled by hydraulic pressure from a speed sensor on the gearbox. The faster you went the harder it pressed the spring until at 70mph you could barely move the steering wheel but the slightest pressure would steer quite quickly.

Until you got used to its incredibly sensitive response (about 1.5 turns lock-to-lock) you tended to drive in zig-zags like you were tacking a dinghy up the road, but once you did get used to it nothing ever felt as precise or comfortable. I've driven some incredibly "sporty" cars, "cost as much as a house" end of the market cars, and none of them got close to the CX for steering feel.

The earlier GS and GSA had inboard front disc brakes on the side of the gearbox, allowing them to be massive while also allowing the tall skinny tyres (145SR80, about 150mm wide) to be absolutely centred on the kingpin, boresighted on the middle of the contact patch. They had incredible handling, so sharp and responsive, and the non-powered steering was as light as any modern car at parking speeds.
Google Security Blog, Use-After-Freedom: MiraclePtr
> identifying all of their operators, trying to prove intent, and convicting them all of money laundering seems to be a tall ask

Sort by known wallet size. Those efforts should more than pay for the enforcement costs.

This is AML 101. Except with a public ledger. Cash transactions don't afford law enforcement that luxury.
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I'm sure the world will care just as much when it comes for software developers job.. "That just CAN'T be considered true software, as it was not written by the human hand!" yeah.. No, sometimes new tech disrupts your field, you reorganize or find something else to do.. or continuing doing what you love, on your own time.
The "flat" in this article was referring to the hub side (i.e. where a hubcap would be if there was one), not the surface that meets the road.
I don't know; also I'm not a lawyer so don't rely on me for legal advice!

I guess it would have turned on whether the cops' lingering suspicion was reasonable. Legally, this isn't so much weighing one point of view against another, as the LEO/state being able to construct a reasoned argument to justify the search - which is almost always possible.

For example, I recall a murder case where a guy was pulled over on the freeway in the small hours of the morning and turned out to have a dead body in the trunk. The defendant challenged the validity of the stop at appeal. The reason offered at trial for the stop was that a) there had been a string of auto burglaries in that area; b) it was dry but had rained earlier, and there were still water drops on the car - suggesting it had been parked a short time earlier; c) the freeway was almost empty but the vehicle as staying scrupulously at the speed limit. So the cop reason-ably suspected it could be a car thief and pulled the driver over to check. The court agreed.
Yes, remove all the blinders.

Of course, in practice, this has the problem that it is already hard to get reviewers, because nobody has time anymore. Removing the anonymity of reviewers leads to the judge becoming open to judgement themselves, and many would not like that. Furthermore, there might be severe repercussions if the reviewed is more powerful than the reviewer, especially in authoritarian societies. But maybe one should just exclude these societies from peer review, and let them do their own thing.

I think peer review has to become a market place. Let everyone choose for themselves which paper they would like to review, and there is both positive and negative credit for both reviewers and authors. The pool of reviewers of a paper shares 25% of the credit that the authors of the paper get. This way you are incentivised to review even outlier papers, because if they are successful you get a substantial amount of credit for them. How the credit is distributed among the reviewers should also incorporate a time factor, so that reviewers rushing to a paper that is already successful don't get nearly as much credit as a lone early reviewer.
In French, an homosexual is colloquially called a "PD" or "pédé". It is offensive to some people and is usually used as an insult by homophobes. It directly comes from "pédéraste" and contributed a lot, 20 years ago, in the idea that homosexuals where deviant people.
For information, Kevin is also a Breton/Celtic name, and was quite popular in Brittany.
> Most of the members of the French Resistance during the Second World War were communists

I am an old French (65yo) but what I understand is that statement is only propaganda if only because De Gaule's army was much larger.

Anyway "resistance" was not a well structured organisation even De Gaulle's organisation, it was sparse at the beginning (1941) and a lot of people declared themselve as "résistant" after the D day. Many people who actually did resistance acts did not claim themselve to be "résistants".

See [0] "Before the Liberation day, we were 2,500 in the maquis. Five or six days later, we were around 10,000"

At "liberation", people lived in a state of terror, armed young men roamed the cities. Properties were stolen. Many women were shamed, shaved and raped by those pseudo resistants [2]. Neighbors denounced neighbors for profit.

Again see [0] "“There were people killed, one wonders why. Sometimes out of jealousy or revenge. To take their wives... It's easy when you have a gun in your hand, if you're mentally imbalanced. »"

US forces put the number of "summary executions" following liberation at 80,000. The French Minister of the Interior in March 1945 claimed that the number executed was 105,000 [1].

[0] https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2001/08/26/215395-la-terrib...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89puration_l%C3%A9gale

[2] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/french-female-collaborator-...
> The happy fact of the matter is that the vast majority of actors in the economy seem to be pretty well-behaved.

That's mainly because, in most countries, to become a participant in a regulated financial system, you have to meet the 'fit and proper' criteria of qualification [https://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs47c4.pdf].

There are continuous audits and enforcement/disciplinary actions taken to ensure regulatory compliance. Also, digitisation has enabled tech based regulatory/supervisory tooling to reduce the burden of regulatory/supervisory activities.

And, as newer/faster tech based mechanisms/rails have gained adoption older more cumbersome rails are getting retired. This is leading to effective regulatory simplifications.
I knew someone who built their own speaker cabinets and
I couldn’t believe DIY speakers could match companies
that spent hundreds millions on audio engineering

Yeah! The good news is that in many ways, audio is a solved problem - the industry is over a century old, so all the fun tech has had lots of time to trickle down to DIY folks. =)

That said, designing your own high quality (I'm defining "high quality" as "measures objectively well") speaker "from scratch" is quite a bit of work.

https://sites.google.com/site/undefinition/diy-speaker-faqs/...

Most folks, even designers, start by building other peoples' designs. If you really want to design your own speakers, then absolutely go for it. It's not rocket science, but it's somewhat involved if you want to do it right.

If you just want a pair of high quality speakers for cheap (I am one of those people!) then use an existing design w/ a flat-pack kit from Parts Express or elsewhere.
Amazon is flooded with products. Often duplicates with fake reviews.

How can someone actually find a quality item and know that's what it is on Amazon?
I don't think there's much research that double blind significantly improves the process. Been a while since I read it, but IIRC this article goes into that: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2015/05/13/weighing-up-anon...
Given the choice between Cuba and anywhere else, most Cubans would without a doubt choose anywhere else. Why else would so many choose to risk death trying to escape their country on overcrowded ramshackle boats? Literally hundreds of Cuban refugees are picked up by border patrol every single month in Miami and the surrounding areas.

Also, it’s not clear whether you meant to say the Castro brothers are included in strongmen or exceptions, but I assume it’s strongmen.
I downloaded the W3Schools offline dump zip archive, which was under 50mb IIRC, from a friend when I first started learning programming because I didn't have access to proper internet. That helped me a lot to learn to code.
As themagician says.
Unless they're of a particularly notoriously bad brand.. I can't remember the name now but I'll recognize it when I see it. Can you see what brand it is?
They're not illegal in Germany, but the legal requirements are so onerous (50% salary paid for the duration of the non-compete) nobody does it. I believe it's similar in France.
We practice eugenics with almost every lifeform we have domesticated but refuse to do so with ourselves, just coz some guy with a funny mustache got it confused with muh white masterrace.
Yes, very much so. I think of the incompleteness theorem as saying that the language of mathematics is rich enough to express questions that are too complex to answer. That's a lot less worrying than there being contradictions (questions that we can prove are both false and true).
Most of my factories resembles the Visual Basic 6 programs I wrote in my teenage years. Spaghetti doesn't even describe it.
Nice, if you have a distributed project.

If you work in a commercial environment with an authenticated central repository then all actions are logged. This is the best place to audit who-did-what.

I suppose this doesn’t work though if you have developers with legitimate reasons to push commits by other people. What would those be? Cherry picking bug fixes to a release branch? One engineer merging a branch where they’ve been collaborating with someone else? I would probably want to take ownership of the former, and the latter isn’t very common now in the era of “everything on master”.
They don't need to go on strike if there's an alternative employer available. They just need to quit. Going on strike turns these things from being focused on bad managers to focusing on intransigent employees. Leaving means the management needs fixing or changing.
I confused as to why the feel of a car driven at road speeds isn’t a “real”/valuable/relevant selling point in road cars. That’s a huge factor in my car purchases, and it’s the thing I remember most about my old cars.
I worked at Coinbase for four years, where Bazel is the build system of choice.

It's so so much worse than the homegrown software it replaced.

Hermetic sounds nice in theory, but doesn't actually matter and comes with a massive cost.

1. Bazel is slow. Like really fucking slow compared to your native build tools. Startup time can be insane if you use multiple rules (languages) in your repo. There's a great feeling when you get to work in the morning to build your go project but you have to install the latest python, nodejs, and ruby toolchains because someone updated them on master. The cache works well, except with a 1000 devs something will always be invalidated on master.

2. The documentation sucks. It's written to explain concepts with how things work, with no examples of how to actually complete tasks you care about. Of course that wouldn't help either because the bazel setup you're using is heavily customised.

3. Everyone on your team now has to learn yet another DSL, and a bunch of commands to run. I would easily spend 5 hours per week either waiting for, or debugging some issue in bazel.

All this for what benefit? Everyone's on the same version of a dependency? Not even sure this is a desirable property.

Also the monorepo is slow as jelly to work with and many tools or editors struggle to open it. Good luck getting code completion to work well too.

It's one of those ideas that are nice in theory, but awful in practice. It's possible that with enough manpower you may be able to use it effectively, but we certainly were not.
You can't criticize America.
That binding to GABA receptors "gives a calming feeling" is at best vaguely accurate. And even if it was accurate, there is in any case a mile from that to reducing social anxiety. Other "downer" drugs don't make people more outgoing, despite binding to GABA receptors, because we don't ascribe those qualities to them.

Even emotional states such as happy, calm, afraid etc. are higher level phenomena that don't map nicely onto hormones and neurotransmitters. The same low-level signal may even be interpreted in different ways depending on circumstance. There's a classic experiment with niacin demonstrating this, but like so many old behaviour experiments, it's ignored in favour of more "white coat" neuroscience these days.
So the friend custom-built these speakers, and then “configured” them when installing them? What company did he work at?
What part of that article do you think has aged well?

Not that it wasn't braindead nonsense for anyone who cared to look at
things with clear eyes even when it first came out.
If using on google tv, and you have Yt premium, Yt kids still show ads...(when Yt non kids does not show any ads).

Plus my daughter found the most annoying whiny crybaby shows in her feed in Yt kids.

Yt kids has now been removed from all devices.

Regular YouTube with certain subscriptions/playlists are better
"Official" (aka well-known/have a high "Impact Factor") journals give you a stamp of approval that help you get recognised in your career, and in some fields are where your peers go to stay up to date on new potentially relevant research.

(Disclosure: I volunteer for https://plaudit.pub, a non-profit that aims to separate that from the publication process.)
I can't really understand the author's (and apparently some designers') fetish about "deep dish" wheels. If a flat wheel allows better technical solutions and even improves aerodynamics, I'm all for flat wheels! Hell, even Formula 1 cars (which used to have the "deepest" wheels ever) use hubcaps since this season (https://the-race.com/formula-1/gary-anderson-how-f1s-new-whe...). Maybe that will make "flat wheels" sexy? We will have to wait and see...
This isn't really an example of SEO content. If it were, it would ramble on for multiple paragraphs (and page/ad breaks) before getting to the point.
There are other options out there. Ada, for example, has extended return statements and - more directly - expression functions.
> It is heartwarming to know that they were largely produced by single fathers.

Leslie Jamison does an incredible job making Packard and Montgomery sound like flawed but fundamentally descent human beings. What a great piece of writing.
Fair enough. That's not what I understood from your initial post, so I appreciate the clarification.

I got the hierarchy idea from your example that catching a rapist is better than catching a knife slasher and extrapolated from there.
I want those chairs [1]. If I can get two of them into my living room :)

[1] https://sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com/Interior-Design-Os...
The Nevada national security site, part 2
Everything said could also apply to the bicycle industry. Two or three heavyweights own the factories and produce for everyone else.
And 100% of people will live much worse lives 100 years in the future, all because we're blind to see the somewhat obvious result of all this hockey stick growth...
No. A cheat developer could still just sign a driver like every other developer and load a hypervisor. Then hook everything you want and youre gucci.

Another option: there are a lot of vulnerable drivers, such as intels LAN driver, or capcoms. Of course those are blacklisted and anti cheats usually don’t let you start the game when those are loaded, but you can use exploitable those to load your own driver, and then unload the vulnerable driver.

Other things you can do: DMA stuff, uefi payloads and more.

You will never be able to prevent cheating on user owned hardware which sits under their desk.
I really don't like the term "diversity hire". A candidate cannot be diverse. Diversity is a property of a population.
Reason has a long history of being on the wrong side of this kind of thing but talking as if they aren't.

Here's an article they wrote, to refute the allegation that they were pro-apartheid:

https://reason.com/2014/07/19/reason-spuriously-accused-by-c...

They say, that as well as all the pro-apartheid things they wrote (the more recent of which didn't count because they were just knowingly lying for political motives) they also wrote lots of articles about how apartheid was terrible.

But if you read those articles, they all basically follow the pattern of "apartheid is terrible, but the thing that people are doing to combat apartheid is worse". They suggest that boycotting apartheid regimes would lead to more apartheid, and the best way to get rid of apartheid is to mostly do nothing.

The opening quote that they deny, literally says they attacked anti-apartheid sanctions. They say that's a lie, but it's obviously true from their own article in defence.

I suppose you could still argue they were correct in what they argued (even if they are a bit coy about admitting it now), but other people disagree:

> The African National Congress, which was the leading anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, has published extensive documentation to support their assertion that the boycott campaign [...] was, indeed, instrumental in ending apartheid.

A very strong echo.

edit to add this quote because it's right at the bottom after all the denials:

> the biggest category I left out were the Reaganite proxy-war correspondetry of Jack Wheeler, which had much less to do with South Africa's domestic policies, and more with its role in the Cold War (which, as I argued in my Nelson Mandela obituary this year, had the effect of warping America's policy and values toward apartheid)

So it wasn't their fault, it was America that was wrong about Apartheid and had warped values.
It's extra damning if you realize that the team behind TerraForm Labs KNEW there was no way to make the mechanism work.

After all, they tried it before, and failed, see Basis Cash: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/05/11/usts-do-kwon-was-be...

What is saddening me more is that all these teams are now making the same mistakes the cypherpunks in the'80, '90' and early '00 made.

The problem with any stablecoin is that you cannot fake trust. Either you have dollars/gold in a vault or you don't.

The solution that bitcoin came up with (for the lack of gold or dollars in a vault) was to provably spend or lock-in, not gold or dollars that can be taken out again, but electricity itself. The expenditure was done through the hashing algorithm HashCash, and by the very nature is this process, the electricity cannot be taken out of the system again.

An interesting paper on this subject can be found here: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/12/223058-bitcoins-acade...
How to replicate venture capital returns with public securities
It’s not so simple. Many manufacturers set a minimum advertised price which would require legislation to change.

Additionally advertising a certain price and actually selling at a different price is a surefire way to get delisted from google for example. This is why the whole promotion codes/voucher concept is popular.
Lots of CSV files of transactions sent between banks by sftp servers and processed by big COBOL mainframes.

Any part of this process that is modernized still has to emulate the old...
That sounds really interesting! Good luck!
Great project, Josh! I'd love to see where this goes.

As a general design style, the pattern you have landed on with two big prev/next buttons and then very few action buttons (call) sounds great. I can imagine this working very well for a number of other journeys in the app. e.g. if you start to add config, making all the lists or menus work this way could be a lovely, simple interface. I'll keep an eye out and chime in if anything else comes to mind as you go.
MBA career choices follow trends
For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that when the current war in Ukraine started the Moscow/Russian employees of a big US networking hardware company of which everyone on this forum has heard about had their access cut off instantly, as in the invasion started at around 2AM and when the employees tried to get to work that morning they found out they could no longer access the company’s resources.

Which tells me that that company’s HQ had already put a sort of kill switch in place for cases like this.
> I don't understand the siren call of Communism on early XX - midcentury intellectuals

I think it boils down to “enemy of my enemy”. Their main enemy was the establishment, which means capitalism, corporatism and so on. Communism was its declared enemy number one, so to be edgy and radical they picked that.

If the West was trampling over some poor country, whatever that country’s political or cultural preferences, they automatically become appealing to anti-establishment intellectuals in the West as a way to show sympathy.
You can buy those Intel cards (single quantities) for around 12-15 bucks at retailers.
> But one of those two must be true, you just can't prove it.

Three alternative accounts:

* Both the CH and ¬CH mathematical universes really exist, so we just have to choose which one we're more interested in at a given time. Like one might say there are the "reall numbers" and the "realle numbers", both valid and interesting constructions which humanity was just slow to recognize the distinctions between (because they were initially less relevant to our interests and our day-to-day lives).

* We are actually ultimately thinking about one or the other of them, or are in some sense in one or the other mathematical universe, but we don't know enough about our intuition about the reals to be able to specify or explain which one. (Maybe we need other properties whose obviousness or relevance humanity is not smart enough to notice?)

* Some finitist or ultrafinitist approach is actually right: the real numbers are a formalism that, while reasonably motivated by historical attempts to "complete" mathematics in various ways, doesn't correspond to anything Platonically real or to anything intellectually relevant to humanity. (In this account, there is potentially no answer to the question because the real numbers don't exist at all. Neither CH nor ¬CH refers to a mathematical reality, just to games about formalisms.)
It's a different market segment for sure, but at my company we spent considerable engineering resources migrating the codebase away from a proprietary embedded toolchain to gcc. The toolchain vendor's licensing scheme was expensive and annoying, and had no chance of sustainably scaling with the company's growth. They weren't willing to negotiate, and so they priced themselves out of relevance permanently. Maybe they thought we were bluffing?
Do the Markets Undervalue Branding?
I second this. Bazel is more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah.
My computer in 1998 had a 28.8k modem and my dad's machine had the fast 56k one.

Used floppies to transfer data to and from the fast computer until 2002 or 2003.
Just make sure it is standard cable. And not something slightly different.

Not that I also haven't had bad experience with general quality of headphones. That is other parts just breaking with only slightly careless use. Thankfully the wireless Pioneers I bought seem to have lasted with Boses I alternate with.