skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you might be suggesting is to remove prosecutorial immunity. There are so many cases of wrongdoing by prosecutors and judges, and there’s really very little that can be done to punish them.
“At least four photos”—why not just walk around the car with phone video running?
Condolences. I didn't intend any nastiness, if that helps.
Honestly, this is getting a little tiring. None of those books are "banned," they were just removed from circulation from some school library or another.
And non-American banks force their non-American customers to answer "are you happen to be American resident?". Even when they never did anything related to USA.

Imagine if every country on Earth asked this. But of course USA can force other countries to do whatever it wants.
Ah, my mistake. I was certain it wrapped around Nix for some reason.
Or go spelunking through modern Go code.

Variable names that are so terse it hinders reading and comprehension.
> If you were a non-lazy dev/engineer, you would have parsed your event log to understand the reason it took so much time to boot and you would have fixed the issue.

Might as well switch to Linux at this point. Why put in that much effort into a proprietary system that you paid for just to make it work reasonably?
It's worth noting that this case wasn't a screw up. It was a deliberate act of deception. You may well understand this but "fuck up" is an ambiguous term that might allow for negligence or an error rather than actual malfeasance, which was the case here.
Yes, but the article is pointing out that without being in a state of famine or other known state when muscles have no alternative but to other fuels, the soleus uses other fuels.
It was not a refund. I had reserved the car, but did not pay in advance. I paid when I brought the car back. Specifically they charged my card when I brought it back. In the past, I have been able to return early and they just take it back and turn around and rented back out. It was an absolute surprise and that $700 they were not willing to back away from. So they did lose a customer for life. I Rent-A-Car at least once a month, I use Enterprise now.
That's a pretty good article. Also, the classic one-volt-or-so voltage limiter is a pair of antiparallel silicon diodes. You can put them in series for a bigger limit.
I agree, I just think that right now there is a risk no one will actually provide a working alternative. They will either change nothing, or squeeze more plots in and when the whole place grinds to a halt for lack of space they will have moved on already.

I really think the problem with lack of walkable (liveable really) neighbourhoods is that it needs both state planning AND developers to be properly incentivised. That is why no one has managed it yet, there is very little overlap between those groups.

Thanks for listening to my ted talk!
NYT has slipped into outrage culture
Enterprise, National, etc - Nearly everyone. You might pay a small fee for some, but its expected business practice.
imagine the interaction between an african american male who righteously believes that he has done nothing wrong and the police forces who righteously believe that he is driving a stolen vehicle
That’s a good point, and I agree, I was just throwing out this weird devils advocate argument that came to me. I think about cycling, and other events in sports where drugs are involved. People claim they are not on drugs, they go on a crusade against the cheaters, only to be found later to be cheaters themselves.
Anecdotal and it may not be hip to say, but I haven't had a problem with any Dell I've used (Fedora and Ubuntu since ~2010).
The language will fix a chunk of it. Much buggy code simply cannot be compiled, and if you can't compile it you can't ship it. You are mostly left with logic and design errors, which can become more obvious due to the language. Middle management will hate it because due to the language they lose much of their ability to compromise on quality, passing the buck. Upper management may love it or hate it, depending on how serious they are about improving quality, as the language forces the spending for that level of quality.
It’s the same police reporting and behavior that chases down the person who steals a family’s only car.
Gadget bridge is amazing. I use it all the time with my Amazfit watch. Very privacy friendly, the app doesn't even ask for internet permission. It syncs better than the other third-party is app "Notify for Amazfit". That one always stopped syncing activities after a while.

Unfortunately it has some problems too. The weather function requires a third party app (because of the lack of internet permission) that fails to update automatically. And many features are not supported or don't work well.

But it serves me well overall with some workarounds with my Amazfit GTS 2 mini. I have a pinetime too but that still needs a lot of love to be usable.
Yes, muscles can use fat but only when forced to do so bc the primary fuel source is no longer available. This article is showing that even while the muscles and liver have glycogen and glucose is available, the soleus chooses to use fat. This is huge if it’s true!
This is not a correct comparison.

Firstly, if an employee of a company fucks up at work, the company is responsible, not the employee.

In certain regulated fields, if a licensed individual fucks up, even when employed, their licence can be impacted and they can be fined (this is common in the financial industry).

If a prosecutor intentionally misleads a judge, there is a misconduct process that can impact their license and career.

When the article says "fbi", they mean an attorney acting on behalf of the FBI, and that person can be held accountable if the judge decides to.
The whole ecosyst includes the webpages that you view though. The loss of privacy is much bigger than the gain considering that ublock is up there on the only extension in use
I've observed this for the last 75 years (I used to buy garage sale collections of old Popular Science/Popular Mechanics magazines as a kid 50 years ago). There seems to be some fascinating men have for dirigibles, just like they love planes, trains, and automobiles.

Correct title should be "Airships Rise Again, Again".
> Communicating effectively is a complex skill that takes years to develop, and an essential one if you want to program professionally.

I suspect that a good chunk of the drive to send "aging" programmers into management is that they're much better at communication than their peers. And part of it has to be that a subordinate who is better at communication than the manager often becomes a de facto manager.

Leadership often doesn't respect organization charts. But this can cause a great deal of angst among anointed leaders.
Ukraine Situation Report: Russia’s Drone War Erupts Thanks to Iran
People will buy there because it is slightly cheaper. And then it will all fail, because the limited parking will be filled with cars and everyone will complain.
Can you expand a bit on the quality of Google's internal practices with user data? eg what would an engineer on Google Photos need to do to be able to access my photos, if possible at all
does vscode not have something akin to the apropos command from emacs? that tends to help quite a bit
I don't think so. As I said, those other countries didn't have the same relative demographics as Japan. This just sounds like a fringe theory that isn't really borne out by evidence.
Risk isn't free, if you want government workers to bear the risk of jail for their mistakes, you'll have to pay them like engineers or doctors.
Has anything really changed? It's not like paying a human to write your essay wasn't a thing.
You assume everyone who dislikes Thiel and his ilk is a "dem", and no, I'd dislike them the same way I have a strong distaste for both Cuomos.
I don't know if anyone's ever told you, but calling people "buddy" while chastising them makes you sound like a cock.
High school is actually going to be the worst intersection.

At the college level, an AI paper should still get you dinged for not understanding the material.

At the middle school/high school level, how the hell is a teacher supposed to tell the difference between a student who is learning to write and one who cheated with an AI?
In the Crossfire Hurricane case, an FBI Lawyer - Kevin Clinesmith doctored an email from the CIA and used the doctored email as fake evidence to secure a FISA warrant. He doctored the email to mean the exact opposite of what the email was communicating. It seems to have been uncritically assumed that this lawyer acted alone and nobody else at the agency was aware of this act. Stories like this seem to suggest that this manner of operation could be fairly routine at the agency.
So could they just have an AC button, since one could also just start completely fresh?

Given how Apple's Calculator works on the Mac, with the delete key erasing digits one at a time, it would be sensible for them to offer this key on iOS.

If they offered no delete functionality, that would be insisting that no one needs it. They don't do this — they offer the functionality behind a gesture that is nearly impossible to discover.
Ok, I'll bite. How does Google, in your opinion, treat user data?
If you're renting from an airport location National is a little bit better.
This is how gov works. Its why we need as little as possible. Its very difficult to hold them accountable when their funding is essentially guaranteed regardless of performance.
Microchip War – USA vs. China
Sure, but did you have a credible source? Seriously, those must have been some unforgettable conversations. I'm a little envious.
Well with Gadgetbridge you do have just that :) Software freedom and no privacy invasion.
TakeaScreen is a Browser Extention supporting: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge!

Think of it as a screenshot with a twist. With TakeaScreen, you can take screenshots of anything in your browser and apply beautiful background gradients to them.
that sucks but also what kind of state?
I linked to the same file you did, that is the "script" I was referring to. And I said that I didn't use it.

My point is that the Python API is more interesting than the txt2img script, and it doesn't add any watermarks.
we need more shameless plug on this thread ... the more benchmark, the better! I think this would be a fun weekend afternoon :)
It took me way too long to accidentally find out that the stock calculator app becomes a (limited) scientific calculator in landscape mode.
I skimmed this article and I’m confused and must not be understanding it.

It talks about bare metal vanilla components without any frameworks and such. This has my attention. But it ends with “here’s a library on top of web components called Lit!”

Are web components not good enough yet? Why do I need anything?
I for one would be happier if every site that relied on ads simply vanished. The whole reason we have an "attention economy" is the monetary gain from showing people ads, which encourages quantity (ie spam) over quality.

There was a link posted to HN today: "Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto". I remember when a web search about any topic would find you a few similar pages, of people diving deeply into topics and DIYing experiments and publishing everything they'd learned simply because they wanted to share hard-won knowledge.

On my projects-to-do-someday list, I would like to try mashing up a search engine to filter out results that contain advertising (load the page, check if anything matches adblock list, if so, discard). Obviously in today's adcancer-filled web, that is going to discard the vast majority of results. But I'd hope that it would eventually surface some interesting results that have been drowned out by spam, assuming they're even still indexed. But it certainly couldn't be any worse than all the false positives that drown the results these days.
"Wider bandwidth" is not so useful if the wide bandwidth does not include the frequencies you care about. Generally speaking, the higher the frequency, the smaller the transformer. Ethernet deals with very high frequencies, so they can make nice, cheap transformers.

Try putting audio through an ethernet transformer and see how much comes out the other side... I bet it won't be much, and you'll get extreme distortion unless your signal levels are very low.
Saul Kripke Obituary
I hope he can sue the company and get life time payouts. It is entirely reasonable punishment for these totalitarians.
For that matter, although 4chan co-opted "NPC" for the NPC meme/NPC Womack, the joke of calling actual people "NPCs" goes back way before that in nerd/geek circles.
These libraries have classes that make it easier for the programmer to write code in relation to: listening for user input events, creating objects, adding extra resources, and so on.
Every time there's a piece critical on tech from a news site, I remind myself that the news media holds a gigantic grudge against tech for taking away their audiences and their profits. It's a valid grudge, but it of course colors everything they write about tech.
The worst degradation for my UX with my iPhone has been when they added some Siri smart search stuff to searching. I'm someone who's given up on memorizing the layout of my apps and I always just swipe down and search by the name of the app. This used to be extremely efficient. Usually a single letter is enough to have the app be in the top 3 results

Now they also search a bunch of other apps and I think Siri does something with your searches, possible even looking for web results. All I really want is for the app results to show up first and not have them bogged down by all the other stuff being searched

Edit: Seems I'm not the only one.[0][1] Also what I was talking about was called "Spotlight search" now its in "Siri & Search". Doesn't seem like there's a real solution

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7887520

[1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1483913
Yep. I had a chance to talk to an American several years ago who was living in Switzerland when I first learned about this situation. He had a house there before the US had fully forced the Swiss banks to give up their banking records. He had to refi or something and basically the local Swiss banks would not offer him a new loan purely because he was an American and because the US had been so heavy handed with them. Eventually I was able to find a lender to work with but it was not easy. The situation was so acrimonious that all major Swiss banks were refusing to do any new business with Americans. Afterwords I looked into it and linked up what had been happening in the news with his story (not his specific problem, but in general terms what had been going on with banking).
Yes, and calling Hertz would confirm the report that the car was stolen, because its Hertz calling the police in the first place.
> In addition to that, if you have a high-DPI laptop display and you want to plug it into a low-DPI desktop monitor (or vice-versa), good luck getting the scaling to work in a usable way.

Sure? This is exactly the thing that Wayland was supposed to solve. Only X has one DPI for all screens.

I still use X because I'm on FreeBSD and I even got multi-screen multi-dpi scaling to work there, with xrandr settings but indeed it was not fun. In Wayland it should be click & play though.
Google Plans to Counter Propaganda
NOLU – A simple interface for interacting with GPT-3 AI
Alternate History: An India Without Colonialism
Amazing set of projects with open source release. Amazing to see!
I love this, and I can see myself agreeing already, while a few years younger it's quite reassuring to know I'm not just weird about some things.

One I have only recently come to appreciate though is paired programming.

> I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero.

There is a limit of course, but recently I've been doing more and more, not by instruction but just more sitting on a call sharing a screen and going through the work day. Good combination of chit-chat and some problem solving, it's actually really nice for remote work.
Am I the only one who thinks that calling other people NPCs is basically the same thing as saying that they are not human? That they aren't really alive/conscious. I find that concept utterly offensive.

Although maybe I'm being a bit too literal about it.
The unusually nutritious spongey bread that's served with Ethiopian meals is called injera. If it's made from teff it's also gluten free.
> I speak it without an accent

I love this, and I’m stealing it. it’s a perfect description of competency in a language, imo.

I absolutely understand the emphasis on shipping, and i actually have recently come to lament some of my unshipped projects lately (I’m in a phase of finishing instead of starting projects myself, and sometimes have felt like I haven’t gotten to ship anything in my software career, but that’s another story for another day) but part of the core skills I attribute to allowing me to finish are the same ones leet code interviews helped me polish. how one works on a low-level data structure is one of the core aspects of software engineering i examine in a new hire.

What I think I’m trying to say is, I don’t mean to stop working on shipping a project to focus on leet code toy problems, but rather that a lot of leet code interview problems have given me better insights on how to focus and solve problems im trying to ship. I have found great value in going back and rehashing leet code interview problems and turning them into tiny libraries after i was given them. So much so that I’ve turned it into an exercise. I’ll have to write a full post about it sometime, but writing tiny libraries has been one of the best things I’ve done for my technical skills.
What do you do professionally, now? If you don't mind me asking.
This is one thing that's always annoyed me about reading EE books - just tell me the equation and I'll approximate it (thank you), don't tell me a million approximations before the actual behaviour.
Doesn’t matter. It’ll fix itself based on demand.
Of course. It's based only on similar observations from other companies. We'll see in a year or three.
Good. On Windows atleast Firefox is just as fast as Chrome.
Even for heavy sites like Twitch/Youtube.
Ublock origin works the best, vertical tabs from extensions etc so I dont really miss any features. Maybe the Vivaldi F2 command line.

Edge is still faster but its good that the default Windows browser is finally good.
If your comment were code, I think it's an example of a)
Once dates get too complex it is easier to just have an external script figure out whether today is the day and have it run every day:

0 9 * * * anvandare is-today-the-day.py && celebrate.sh

With is-today-the-day.py being:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
from dateutil.easter import easter
from datetime import datetime as dt
today = dt.today().date()
(easter(2023) - today).days == 0 and sys.exit(0) or sys.exit(1)

Or, if we didn't have the easter function already (just adding this because it was fun to work it out):

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys, ephem as e, datetime as dt
setup = '2022/09/25'
date = (e.next_full_moon(e.next_equinox(setup))).datetime()
easter2023 = (date + dt.timedelta(7 - date.isoweekday())).date()
today = dt.datetime.today().date()
(easter2023 - today).days == 0 and sys.exit(0) or sys.exit(1)
How tf would anyone think that swiping a calculator screen will make the digits go away one at a time, and that this behavior would be organically discovered?
It's better than other jobs b because there is very little actual authority over what is considered correct. If software was more entrenched in academia then the story might have been very different.

As an aside, your return statement example made me chuckle. That's the exact kind of thing some people get their panties in a bunch over. But then you switch to another team and it's cool. lol I've experienced that kind of thing so many times. It's as if the field is designed so that you're constantly gaslit into thinking you're incompetent.
And the people who aren't cattle tend to avoid the stock pens.
Scratch Cyborgs: The Hip-Hop DJ as Technology
“Based on my training and experience” is the magic phrase that lets feds say whatever falsehoods they want in a warrant application (a sworn statement made under penalty of perjury) and suffer zero consequences for lying.

Literally 100% of the times I have read this phrase, obvious falsehoods followed shortly thereafter.

Courts and police conspire to avoid penalizing police with violations of law.
"my stove has 35,000 burners" Holy Sh*t! I wounder how many BTU's each burner has? That's a big stove!
Curious that the description seems to be laden with buzzword-bingo words.

It could be made less Corporate-Powerpoint, for example:

> WebЯcade is a web-based front end for playing games within the browser on many platforms (Xbox Series X|S, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS), with gamepad (Bluetooth and USB) support.
Sure, the overall "eventually stuff gets supported" story is good. And people hold on to hardware a lot more than they used to. This guy's using a T420. That's an 11 year old machine! Older hardware has always worked much better under Linux than newer hardware (sometimes for longer than it's worked well on Windows).

It's also pretty amazing that there are now some major-vendor Linux-out-of-the-box laptops. But the pool is still not all that large.

I was just looking at an Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED and Google suggests ... nah. Very un-boring.

E.g.

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/63549/linux-on-zenboo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/wv2c28/anyon...

Fun shit like "keyboard doesn't work yet" plus various other nothing-surprising-to-me-after-doing-this-for-20-years stuff like weird audio driver patch crap.
We know the plant existed from copious administrative records, if that’s what you’re asking.
Optocouplers are neat. I few months ago, it was the middle of the night and I was thinking about how to add AC frequency monitoring to my GPS clock project. (Any frequency source is fun; I have two GPSes, a DS3231, a WWVB module, etc.) I didn't have any optocouplers, but I heard that LEDs work as photodiodes. Indeed, I found some random LEDs, connected one to mains with a large resistor, and pointed it at another LED. A 60Hz voltage appeared on the leads of the second LED. I then went to sleep instead of finding an ADC and writing the frequency sampling code... and so the thing never made it into production. But, neat surprise. If you want a quick and dirty optoisolator, you only need one type of component: the humble LED.
In practice, the most popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been audited by more independent parties than almost any other software. No auditor would have passed up the opportunity to be the one who discovered a major hole in Bitcoin.
The USSR, China, Cambodia, Vietnam... it looks like you're mistaking scale with events of lesser time frames and "singular" locations (i.e. Auschwitz, Treblinka, and so on under the Nazis).

I wonder why you feel that it is necessary to attempt to be insulting?
No, in my point of view this sort of thing should be too obvious to mention. Once they start making it explit, people will immediately start questioning it.
Strange Loop 2023 will be the last
Intel hardware was really good on Linux but I suppose that will change in the future because it seems the person responsible for that has left Intel.
I was just on holiday in a city where having a car was a necessity in order to go anywhere fast. Now I’m back in Belgium where I can use a bike.

I had an app where I could order a car for some occasions and the app is nice. But I do not think it’s superior to a more efficient city: better public transport and bike infrastructure.

I agree with you that having nice things isn’t immediately bad, but especially Americans tend to confuse the things they’re used to for “nice things”, fault of not having tried the better alternative yet.