skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After you read it, you'll understand that the "policy debates" the masses are exposed to have very little resemblence with what preoccupies decisionmakers! The government, no matter the administration, is far more rigorous and strategic than people give it credit for.

In this case the example document you quote is rather poorly chosen and does not really seem "rigorous" at all. Most if not all topics the document touches are basically the same that monopolize "policy debates" everywhere all 24h of the day (immigration, nationalism, welfare, and immigration. did I say immigration?), and the conclusions are defended as poorly as your average comment from Reddit. The document does not even get the names of many regions and cities correctly; the grammar is at many points terrible; many of the figures and charts look as if made with Paint, and whenever they are not, they are screen-scrapped from random websites and then poorly JPEG recompressed. Heck, at some point they even use Google Trends as source...

My humble opinion about these "think tank" reports that get "leaked" is that they use "commissioned by X government" just to advertise themselves, and it's either false or meaningless. I'm quite sure that the "serious" government analysis, if they exist, don't get leaked since that would probably immediately ruin all the predictions.
Larry Page's electric air taxi startup is winding down
I’ve been on a flight where they used the medical intercom. Nobody is going to use it without a whole lot of people noticing.

And yes, it is there so the attendants can talk directly to medical personnel on the ground while attending to the person needing care.

PS - “intercom” is probably going to give people the wrong idea. It’s a headset with a thick black 50-foot long cord, and when you plug it in, it dangles down on top of passengers before getting to the aisle. Also, you can’t hear it - only the person wearing the headset hears anything…
That was a thought of mine, but I've literally never had to service or maintain or admin my r-pi. It just hums along in the background. I realize this is anecdotal, but worth mentioning.

The payoff (usable, perhaps even enjoyable, internet) is worth any admin it might create.
> non-deterministic kick

Actually non-deterministic? Or just difficult-to-deterministic? Genuinely curious.
Thanks, I just thought it was broken.

I hate this behaviour, as I'm usually looking as my fingers type the last bit, and if I keep adding matching letters, please don't change?
Like with cooking gas cylinders?

If you don't own it, as long it's certified good and won't blow your car up it doesn't really matter if it's well-worn, etc?
It is iOS safari on an iPhone SE. For future reference.
I wasn't pushing the lab leak theory, but I was quietly telling people at the pub that there's no way to tell the difference between an unmodified virus leaked from a lab versus a virus from an animal population.

I stand by this. The current debate is around a modified strain escaping from a lab, but even if that's laid to rest, how would we rule out a leak of an unmodified virus?

I find it embarrassing that everyone took so long to point out the obvious: whether it was a lab leak is impossible to disprove.
Someone did a GIF version before: https://github.com/Rogdham/gif-md5-hashquine
Weird, I am on Fedora and have none of the issues.
I don't know... everything works so well on linux out of the box nowadays, and over time you can setup everything exactly as you want.

As an engineer I feel like it's a great investment and loving my setup has a big impact on the enjoyment I get from work.

If you spend the time, can all the annoying stuff be turned off in Windows?
I'm struggling to understand how this would explain the account here:

>Then the master power button up at 1L for the cabin power kept getting I pushed so it would shut off all the IFE, seat power and outlets. I had to push the button on again about 3 times inflight. Then the 2 got a call with the same groaning noise and thought it was one of us playing a joke but it wasn't us.

>It certainly was freaking all of us and the passengers. They wanted off the plane as bad as we did. The 2 be FAs said they had been on the plane the other day and the same thing happened. I had a visual on each FA when the noise would come over the PA and one time when the FO was doing a break so unless the captain was playing a long sick, joke I don't have an explanation.

https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1572358118985633795

Any ideas?
ECall 112-based emergency assistance from your vehicle
Flame bait? Libertarianism is a stereotypical collegiate belief system that collapses explosively and hilariously whenever it’s been attempted. Keep your guns, I’m fine with civilian gun ownership. I’m not fine with school shootings. First world countries manage responsible gun ownership without school shootings. Let’s get there and then quibble about these things.
There was an implicit "(without you judging them)" in that question.
Haven't heard of Visidata before. Just downloaded and it blew my mind. A less useful tool particularly for CSV is the CSV Rainbow plugin on VSCode, which was my previous favorite.
The root account should not be used to do anything except set up Admin accounts in IAM. That said, to ensure that the credentials aren't lost if someone leaves, what we do is save the QR code to an offline secure database (like KeePass) that is backed up regularly (e.g. on Dropbox). That way all the admins can use the same MFA account.
Long-term neurologic outcomes of Covid-19
Yep, APISIX seems to breaking the mould somewhat though - it’s not primarily Java-based. Comparatively, its documentation is also somewhat clearer - it’s explicitly built on top of open-resty/Nginx, and its integration points are more clearly defined. This project lists a number of formats (from common to semi-obscure) and some language integrations, but doesn’t detail actual networking protocols? It’s strange. Maybe it’s a just a translation detail?
These corporate sponsored legislators are really good at writing policy that sounds good to the public but really helps their corporate sponsor's bottom lines in practice. This bill wouldn't exist if it wasn't designed by large corporate software firms looking to taint, or profit from, FOSS in some way.
Maybe, if electrical contracting used blockchains like sigstore, https://www.sigstore.dev/ from OpenSSF, https://openssf.org.
Well if you consider the entire design process, accelerating or automating just a portion of it would not be that useful, right? So that's about all we can say right now.
This is on multiple social media sites - did you read the article?
The vast majority of computer users, Windows users and otherwise, have experienced some form or another of data loss. I'm just being fair to Windows (and you!).

To go back to your example, you lost your work after Windows decided to silently update and reboot overnight. Now the million dollar question: Why didn't you save your work before you left?

A blackout or a drive crash or any number of failure cases could have happened instead and you would have still lost that unsaved data, too.

You're going to eventually lose any data you do not explicitly save. To put it another way, any data you don't save should be data you don't mind losing.

Windows 10/11's autoupdates are fucking nonsense, but data loss of the kind you're speaking of is by far a case of PEBKAC in my opinion. If you lose data overnight, that's because you didn't take basic steps to save and protect your data.
Ask HN: Why are programmers so cynical?
Obviously a generalization, but I think we can all agree that it's become a sort of meme now on HN. A startup will launch and there will be at least a few people determined to make known why they think the startup should not exist, often with a cynical tone.

The classic example is the Dropbox launch [0]. A more recent example might be the Mighty launch [1].

Why do we think this is? Is cynicism something that's actually more prevalent within the programmer community? Or perhaps it's just some kind of normal distribution in effect, where most people will be fairly neutral, and a few will be passionate on either side of the curve?

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215
This person (James Halliday I think) is a huge contributor to the node community. 1000+ node packages: https://www.npmjs.com/~substack
You would be nervous too if your guest could MKUltra you.
You don't need physical access to interfere with an analog audio system. (Remember old cellphones?) Since they're saying it's an issue with the amplifier, I'm assuming someone found a weak spot that readily gets picked up by the system's input.
A new social media marketing strategy?
coauthor here: the book cover thing is a known issue that is turning out to be strangely difficult to solve. yes, the amazon cover is the older version.
sounds like the theory is that keeping it going over a long period of time keeps the metabolism up vs a short walk? tbh I'm skeptical, but my point is more that "go for a walk" isn't really the answer for weight loss. serious cardio (hiit appears to work well from last time i looked at literature) and some heavy lifting work way better, but it's still mostly a "calories in" problem.
Links for those wondering:

Blog: https://www.brandons.me/tags/bagel.html

HN (53 comments, 1 yr ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28566597

gh: https://github.com/brundonsmith/bagel
ploink

Enjoy your sealioning.
Lost souls on Boeing planes isn't too far fetched. Lord Xenu flew in all those thetans on rocket powered DC-8's which were originally made by McDonnell Douglas who merged with Boeing. Basically Snakes on a Plane but with souls and Tom Cruise.
> Obscure API implementations paying pseudonymous developers for PRs with anonymous donation money seems like a fine kind of laundering operation.

If that happens then you investigate, find out if it is a money laundering scheme, and bring a criminal prosecution if it is. You don't just assume they're guilty because the transaction was anonymous, or ban privacy tools and conduct mass surveillance on every transaction to make sure none of them are suspicious.

It's kinda wild how many people on HN suddenly become anti decentralization and pro mass surveillance whenever the topic of cryptocurrency comes up.
RLHF
You are correct that most EDA platforms have a notion of a library but in the domain of PCB design, those libraries are usually limited to components (symbols/footprints). And there is very little verification that is done upon reuse. That's where we differ: design verification upon reuse with the judicious use of component properties written in the same code as the component itself. And reuse is now just copying text, and not having to worry about tool version compatibility for instance.
I keep imagining the fantasy scenario where some day I stumble on a software download or repo or something. Nothing special, no fanfare, just a random piece of code to do some random task.

Inside the repo or zip, is a simple text manifest file. The file has some bog standard readme stuff and then lists all the files and their hashes, you know, so you can check nothing's corrupted whatnot.

But in that list of files, is a line item for the manifest file itself and along with its own hash! Something that on the surface looks completely innocuous but becomes profoundly impressive as you ponder it.

Kind of a low-key [fridge brilliance](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeBrilliance) kind of flex.

[Bonus] I'm also reminded of this paper: https://vision.cornell.edu/se3/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ge...
I've been working on trying to do the same, but I've mainly stopped trying to learn things unless it's really compelling. I've been trying to do a little quality work, and then mainly do anything but work, and that's imo how time should be spent. Feels great.

The important thing to realize is that life is already sufficiently challenging and complicated, working more takes away time from basically everything else that matters more.

Working and learning for the sake of both is unimaginative and kind of a dead end imo

Edit: Not that these aren't worhy pursuits, but you need to consider that they need to contribute to your overall wellbeing. Do you have a good social life, do you have a lover, a community, non-tech hobbies, great health and fitness, good relationships with your family and yourself?

If I had not been forced to step away from programming a few times in my twenties, I'd be pretty depressed by now/still. I have vague interests that are tech related, but outside of my duties I literally couldn't give a shit about working more; it'd be a crutch if I ran out of other ideas.
Is there anything like Tomorrow’s World today?
>But the bullet itself is probably "off the shelf" and so would be the powder and case too.

At this level I wouldn't be surprised if they did something ridiculous like CNC machine a copper billet bullet to ~micron tolerance/consistency.

That said, from the pictures they appear to at least start with a commercial or 'to-spec' round from the company Unknown Munitions.
Have you ever tried to help people who will not make the slightest effort to help themselves?
Age, probably. Young kids aren't that smart.
They are asking about a single service at a single bank…

How much you wanna bet that they’re following up on a whistleblower tip?

> Specifically, the IRS summons seeks information about customers of SFOX, a cryptocurrency prime broker, who used banking services that M.Y. Safra Bank offered to SFOX customers engaged in cryptocurrency transactions
So we're looking for #donglechallenge or similar?
SIM NIMBY
Yeah it's neat but idk who the target market for this is. I can run a custom-designed site with all sorts of features using WordPress.com or Shopify or Hubspot. Once I need a real platform and backend services, you'll need a team that can spin up Docker images in AWS or the like and the full gamut of DIY platform tools. Platforms like fly.io appeal to semi-mature orgs but they will either die or outgrow it pretty quickly.
Holy cow. I did not know about that. And the pricing seems extremely reasonable.
A potato gun with hair spray as a propellant can for sure kill a man. My friends in high school would make them, and blast a large potato 2-4 football fields.
That, or a particular employee—maintenance or grounds crew—who serviced those planes.

Seems like whoever's doing this knows those systems unusually well, given that their own personnel don't know how it's done.
My takeaway from reading that book was that if I was a time traveler I'd avoid that place and time. I thought the banditry may have served as inspiration for the middle books of Game of Thrones.
DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) CSAC (Cybersecurity Advisory Committee) TAC (Technical Advisory Council) subcommittee report, June 2022, https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/June%2...

> The Technical Advisory Council Subcommittee was established to leverage the imagination, ingenuity, and talents of technical experts from diverse background and experiences for the good of the nation. The subcommittee was asked to evaluate and make recommendations tactical and strategic in nature. These Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) recommendations for the June Quarterly Meeting focus on vulnerability discovery and disclosure.

Mr. Jeff Moss, Subcommittee Chair, DEF CON Communications
Mr. Dino Dai Zovi, Security Researcher
Mr. Luiz Eduardo, Aruba Threat Labs
Mr. Isiah Jones, National Resilience Inc.
Mr. Kurt Opsahl, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ms. Runa Sandvik, Security Researcher
Mr. Yan Shoshitaishvili, Arizona State University
Ms. Rachel Tobac, SocialProof Security
Mr. David Weston, Microsoft
Mr. Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House
Ms. Yan Zhu, Brave Software
> Disincentivize sharing, and sharing goes away.

And existing proprietary software companies will rejoice, as the barrier to entry in the software market will again be very high.
This is an excellent series.

Important: several of the "next installment" links point to the same one, instead, and you have to hand-edit the link to get to the next one.

Something not mentioned that I found surprising was the very large fraction of construction cost consumed by zinc, for corrosion control, vs copper and steel. I guess that for finance purposes, zinc is considered part of the steel. Maybe availability and price of zinc is stable enough not to need separate attention, unlike copper.
It's OK that we're not a good fit for every user; in fact, you should be suspicious of providers that claim otherwise.
I knew as I wrote it, someone was going to pick apart the details... I tried to hedge my bets.

The new arc protection breakers look interesting to me.
I think the problem is that you are thinking of things purely in terms of how gas stations and gas powered cars work. You need to step back and re-think.

For almost all EV owners, a level 2 (240V 20amp) charger at home is all that's needed[0]. It charges slowly, but given the car sits for 12+ hours every night, it's more than enough. You get home, you plug in, you go eat dinner and go to bed. When it's time to go in the morning, you have a full charge. "Refilling" isn't a discrete event that takes place in a given place. You just plug in whenever you aren't driving.

DC fast charging, which charges the car in an hour or less, that's a rare event. It's what you use when you're on a long trip somewhere that takes more than one charge of the battery. But most owners might do that a few times per year.

So the problem you're trying to solve with this "swappable battery" solution is tiny. Imagine how much more the car will cost to support this complexity, and for what benefit? Saving a few hours per year? I won't pay the additional thousands of dollars for the "swappable battery" car, and I won't pay the cost of maintaining the swappable battery stations. It's just not worth it vs spending that time getting lunch.

[0] My wife and I did the math on our own driving patterns and realized we could probably get away with a level ONE charger- literally a standard 120V extension cord - for the EV we're on a waiting list for.
"This article is more than 10 years old"
Some criminals just need opportunity and support to see the light. Some are just horrible people who can't realistically be saved and should just be thrown in jail forever. Most are somewhere between the two.

I think what we need to do is to reintroduce short-term but painful punishments (a day in the stocks, public caning, etc) for moderately severe offenses. Some people need more than just a slap on the wrist to change, but don't deserve to have their life ruined forever by a 30-year jail sentence. Physical pain and public shaming have worked well for millions of years (literally) they still work today in many countries, and they are far more compassionate than a long jail sentence. Humans are just another animal species, sometimes animal incentives are what we need.
I loved my Linux setups so much I automated them with some Ansible and a bunch of scripts and config files in a git repo to set up my user profile too.

I can't seem to get two Windows installs to be functionally identical the same way. I also can't believe winget is a relatively new invention.

You can turn off most of the annoying stuff, for a time. I'm convinced that sometimes settings just change on their own.
Small fix: over time some of their tools become incredibly good for productivity.

Because they have an excellent track record of completely ignoring the glaring problems with some of their apps like become slower even though cpus and gpus are getting faster (looking at you, Lightroom team)
If they really wanted to make open source more secure they would just pay people to audit & submit fixes to widely used open source software. Of course the reality today is that the opposite occurs -- when federal intelligence agencies find out about vulnerabilities they prefer to keep the exploits for themselves.
I spent years furious with OS X's flaky handling of windows on disconnect/reconnect of windows.

A few hours with Hammerspoon have made that a non-issue, and I've hardly had to think about window positioning or size since hammering this logic out:

https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/5d47773e0e7cacb9139...
Why can't they treat this like academic / scientific work and create a funding body around grants that support OSS devs so they have more time and money to protect the software?
For the sorts of purposes described in bill-blurb, the questions would be essentially identical.
For the non-gun people in here that is an absolute chonker of a bullet.

The .556 (very common AR round) is 112. 9mm common in handguns is around 115.

422 grain = 27.35 grams / 0.9646 ounces.
Pretty sure it was channel 9. I used to listen to that all the time.
Seems that commercial power costs less than residential. Sometimes the difference is negligible but other times it's significant. I know residential lines cost much more to maintain because of the distances but that doesn't apply to residential apartments buildings in cities and I believe there's a seperate charge for that.

Why?

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Looks like he’s storing data in the server’s file system, but I see no mention of backups. Hopefully there’s more than one copy of the data somewhere (or it’s not critical data)!
LG will send out updates that require you to accept new license agreements when you turn the tv on next. It’s very obvious about what they are tracking but very obnoxious in pointing it out. The parents that OP refers to probably just clicks accept all and moves on.

We have an LG tv and one of my family members hit accept all after an update and now my remote listens to us. To fix this properly I would need to factory reset which loses all of our streaming settings. I actually don’t because I have a separate ISP only for our TVs so there’s a bit of separation between our streaming use and phone activity
I mean that bringing kubernetes to an on-premises customer, just to run our software, was (probably correctly) deemed to be too much complexity. In the end it was complex enough as it was. 5 years ago kubernetes on-prem was not particularly easy, it probably still isn't, and doing it for a customer who just wants to run our software is a lot of support burden.
Or, if this is a solved problem with "AI" (a nonsense name for the most part, but if that's what they call it, that's what they call it) then don't and use the tools that get the job done. I have no reason to learn how a variable transmission engine works just to go shopping, and I have no reason to learn what to look for if tools do that for me. That's the whole point of good tooling: to turn conventional "you need to learn X before you can Y" into "this is archaic and no one needs to know this anymore". Or perhaps more in line with Adobe products: no one in their right mind is going to learn how to create uniform blurs with successive blends when they can just hit "filters -> blur -> gaussian blur". The tool made the traditional approach obsolete. Here's to many more things made obsolete.
NIST actually provides a lot of things like this -- what _should_ your method provide as an output -- it's pretty cool to dig through!

Example: https://www.nist.gov/itl/sed/products-services/statistical-r...
In other words, "fiscal conservatives'" chief desire is to move government money into private pockets at maximum rate in exchange for little or no value.

"Fiscal responsibility" is just their smokescreen. They certainly understand the difference between spending and investment. They just want to own the investment part, while government does the spending part.
Yeah I think it's essentially independent dice rolls, that's gotta put it well into the 90%s
how patronizing

you'll get out of your rut, OP. it's normal to not like your job.