skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So buttplug.io as a library is made for supporting communication with toys from a host, but itself is not made to be a peripheral protocol. It's verbose af because of some of the early decisions I made that we are now very very stuck with.

That said, on the firmware side, I'm pushing for tcode, which is a sort of gcode variant for sex toy firmware. There's documentation for it in STPIHKAL (sex toy protocols i have known and loved), our protocol aggregation repo:

https://stpihkal.docs.buttplug.io/protocols/tcode.html
Something which surprises me is that these full-width and half-width formattings are still enforced sometimes even these days in new Japanese web services.

Considering that there is a seemingly easy lossless transformation path from/to these full-width/half-width alternatives, it would suffice to only support the full-width form one would think (and do some transformation as necessary without the user being involved).
I never really understood the interest for making 3D printed containers. I browsed through the repo and it's legitimately cool stuff but the costs of filaments will definitely make this much more expensive than just going to the dollar store/Ikea to buy organizers that will be similar but (probably) sturdier and easier to clean than printed parts.
With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
> There's an old saying in Japan that goes: "It ain't scary crossing a red light when you're in a group!" :V

Originally that wasn't even a saying, it was a joke (famously told by Beat Takeshi's comedy duo around 1980). I guess that's long enough ago that you can say it's old now and because it sounded so much like a saying it's basically accepted as a saying now though.
Calling for objectivity is probably not the first thing people want to do when discussing a company building a giant world-wide spying machine. In addition to logic, humans employ sentiment, emotions, and feelings and there isn't anything wrong with doing that.
>pay-to-win gambling

Gacha games have entered chat.

>(and targeting kids, at that)

Same. Also see the subscription scams rampant on walled gardens.

>And heavy-handed censorship

I’m not arguing for censorship, money isn’t speech nor are psychological studies. I think the line is crossed when video game companies bring phd psychologists in house to help design and study game design to drive sales. While I think fomo is a shitty tactic it shouldn’t be illegal. However, if psychologists are collecting data about users and drawing conclusions then not only do the companies need to acquire informed consent the results and data should be required to be published.

Again, video games have been great for socially marginalized people. Lately, these people have become piggy banks for the roaches designing systems with the explicit purpose of maximizing profit, ethics and externalities can be blame shifted elsewhere and guilt can be stifled with extravagant lifestyles.
Also in SA, and also contacted by Optus. The thing that shits me is that I haven’t been a customer in a couple of years. They really shouldn’t have details unnecessarily stored unless there is some government requirement.
And out of those 355, a lot are repeated already. For example

"Lockdown Extended",
"New Lockdowns Advised",
"Lockdowns Are Coming",
"Lockdowns Are Imminent",
"Lockdowns Are In Effect",
"Lockdowns Are Inevitable",
"Lockdowns Coming",
"Lockdowns Imminent",
"Lockdowns In Effect",
"Lockdowns Inevitable",
"Lockdowns Return",
Again, the entire post is just axiomatic moral judgments with no information.
I am dense and so don’t get what this site is showing me. Can someone explain?
aye - we may get general debt reform if enough homes become underwater. I'd have to imagine that the number of people able to buy a million dollar house at the 15% interest rates of the 1970s is not large enough to support the current market.
The problem is you can only what’s an epicycle or not in hindsight. Usually much later.
I was also looking for photos or diagrams of the road. So weird they didn’t include any.
Can you transmit the entire state of the board to me?

No no, not where all the pieces are, but I want you to send me everything about where the board is in space, it's material, dimensions, weight, etc...
It provides examples of various broken and good SSL configurations.
> However, if you’re not operating in that context (multinational with big cultural/ language differences)

If you're operating in the US, it is still multicultural. As a simple example, about 40% of the US is introverted, yet most strongly extroverted people have little understanding of the differences. And they very often misread the facial expressions of introverts.

> I’m not sure why you would pick the lowest common denominator and choose the lower bandwidth, less engaging, less human way of collaborating.

In all these threads, you've failed to understand the low signal to noise ratio that video brings. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but comes with a thousand more falsehoods than words do.

As an example, where I work, meetings are a heck of a lot better than when we used to have them in person at work. The few that insist otherwise are simply unwilling to accept that they have not adapted, and the problems lie with them, and not with the format.
They were lawsuited https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
A couple are mentioned in the article: Wisk (invested in by Boeing), and Eve (backed by United Airlines)
First thing that comes to mind is Uber Blade. Haven't had a chance to use it personally as my flights always seem to come in to late, though.
> "still in existence" is kind of implied, no?

Definitely not. Being first does not remotely imply existence. The first gospels have long deteriorated into dust, and the earliest versions are copies of copies of copies. Further, it is astronomically unlikely that the earliest version of Gilgamesh in existence is the original.

> We can theorize that there were some previous works, but Gilgamesh is the oldest we can actually read.

There are quite a large number of works that can be no longer be read.[1] This does not mean they're literature any less than works that can still be read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work
Most countries in the world require some form of ID to activate a new SIM card. The justification is usually that "burner phones are for terrorists and criminals". In US, for example, Faisal Shahzad is often cited as an example.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...

US Senate tried to pass a similar law back in 2010. Bill sponsors were Chuck Schumer and John Cornyn, in case you ever see those names on your ballot.
So you're saying that we should introduce error correcting codes
Cheapo 4k 60hz Spectre tv from walmart. Best purchase I've made in years. Plug in my favorite streaming device and when it gets old and slow I just chuck it and buy another $20-50 device instead of having to buy a whole TV.
A 7" tablet fits into a large pants pocket. A 13" laptop does not.
That's what the first 3 paragraphs are talking about. Philosophy is organized and contextualized by it's historical people and works.
"This is an object. Our modern authorities admit they can't explain it. Could it be a power struggle? Ancient critical theorists say 'yes.'" That's the level of rigor in the paper and the in the view of history as progress. A house without a foundation is still a house, and an indistinguishable representation from one that has one, but it's durability and coherence over time that makes one real and the other a representation.

I really don't think the author is the first to try throwing out the past, and there were some odd setups in the essay where he expected the "mighty dead" to make a case for themselves today, instead of it being on him to make the case for what he has to improve on them. The underlying view of history as progress and his implied materialist view of epistemic value, I think, isn't new.

If you substitute ideology for philosophy, then iterate ideological theorems from it, you can produce what are essentially holographic projections of consistent ideas that seem to encompass everything, and the easiest ones are structured like the Ancient Aliens reference above. The genius of that show is that it is as rigorous a critical theory of archeology as any other critical theory, it's just that everyone thinks their fancier version is different. It's as though we needed Ancient Astronaut Theory to convince us that other critical theories are real.

The last century has emphasized some interesting problems that were the consequence of our new ability to simulate and represent much of our experience as artifacts of computation and language, along with critical theories designed as solvents for the artifacts of language, where objects could be decoupled from their meanings, and then re-assigning meaning seemed like just an exercise in power over subjects - but that only works on a certain kind of mind. If you have ever seen an animal react to a magic trick, it's the same slight of hand effect on an intellectual level, I think. You can't navigate without waypoints, and any new philosophical ideas that are not informed by the foundations are just going to be post-hoc moralizations of exigencies in the present.
I had a google interviews loop, 2 out of 3 weren't leetcode related questions. the 3rd was a easy medium bfs. one of questions drilled into teSt driven development and etc.
In addition to what other siblings already said, in Australia we have a scoring system to prove your identity (called "100 point identification") and depending on the score needed, drivers licence can get you there so it's used very often. This system is for Government entities but private companies often take inspiration from it

This is the SA version since GP is from South Australia, all other states have the same thing too https://www.police.sa.gov.au/services-and-events/100-point-i...
Based on what? I have never heard of this rule "Bigger = safer".

Nothing "inevitable" about accidents.
It's linked from the article. Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation, Lilium, Vertical Aerospace are some.

> Hundreds of companies, new ones and legacy aviation players alike, are working on such vehicles—also called air taxis or eVTOLs (short for electric vertical take off and landing). Five such startups have gone public in the past 12 months. They are trying to shape a near future in which taking a flying cab is an economically viable alternative to taking a terrestrial one.

https://archive.ph/gZOlU#selection-237.0-237.373
Meanwhile, your inbox fills with obvious spam from google.com.
Are Quebec’s Most Beautiful Islands Doomed to Disappear?
Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
Did it fit on your pocket? There were meme for the PR https://www.engadget.com/2009-01-12-vaio-p-doesnt-have-nothi...
Never heard of Signal GH! Thanks! I have my antenna split to my TV, and look at signal strength there, and I run TVHeadend, with HDhomerun as my source, on my Synology NAS (used to run it on my Raspberry Pi), and it provides stats and signal strength details, but all of this is on a per channel basis.

I also have Kodi on my FireTV, and it can also display stats if you use the TVHeadend plugin, and press 'o' to show live stats. Again, one channel at a time.

Edit: Just bought it. Much easier to read all the stats and far easier than lugging around a laptop when fiddling with an antenna! Thanks again.
Well, that's sure an improvement from the last time I looked into this! Thank you, I'll check out Kobo.
And what in MV3 solved all of that? It still allows enough to do a lot of damage.

Regardless of that, at some point you have to trust software. You can't expect everyone to read every line of code and compile all the software by themselves.
> mention that Schmidhuber is usually correct

You present this statement as fact when it is still highly debated. A lot of researchers will claim a popular new approach is a reformulation of experiments they did X years ago. It's usually best to see it as a spectrum where some idea are on the same axis, where one end is "totally different" and the other is "renamed approached".
Because they're irresponsible. There's no reason to hang on to this information once they've verified it.
I mean... the Firefox build has NodeJS in it now, so in a sense Chromium is in the toolchain :-)
They could do the world a favor, and shut it down, like so many other products.
That'd be hilarious! I'd love to find one of these after being shocked to discover my SSD system started sounding like a hard drive. Especially if it was appropriately sync'd to actual reads and writes on the SSD.
Not "nobody". Just not as many people as the other thing.
len() is not the same as __len__. The built in len() function does type checking and produces a useful exception/message if you provide an argument for which len() is inappropriate. Instead, if you do someobj.__len__ and that object does not implement __len__, then you'll get an exception complaining that he object has no __len__.

Likewise, for example, abs() and __abs__() raise different exceptions if used on something for which abs() makes no sense. Like len(), the built in failure exceptions are somewhat more useful than the dunder exceptions.

But even the type related exceptions of the built in functions are inconsistent -- unnecessarily so.

abs("hello") => TypeError: bad operand type for abs(): 'str'

len(5) => TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len()

At least the exception types are uniform: TypeError. But the exception messages should be identical rather than two very different statements which say the same thing: function f is not appropriate for argument type t.

You may call all this inconsistency freedom, but it's just lack of structure and general sloppiness. Or to be kinder, it's just more organic. Inconsistency and organic evolution are not hallmarks of good tools for building reliable systems.

Finally, I do not lack the inability to understand why a lot of people like Python. I just posit that most people who like Python only like it because they don't (yet) know better. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html . Python is Blub in this essay.

If you don't know better, Python is a marvelous language. Although I would argue that some of the oddities and awkwardness of Python misshape peoples' thought processes in a way that can be difficult to unlearn (and which I believe even make these conversations like we are having in this topic extra challenging).
Privacy Engineering at CMU and Privacy Decision Making with Dr. Lorrie Cranor
In this interview, Dr. Cranor discusses Carnegie Mellon University's privacy engineering programming, her research on privacy decision making, and the future of privacy engineering.
Maybe, but not until the permitting gets fixed for small nuclear plants. It took NuScale over $1 billion dollars to get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to okay its design. And it hasn’t built an small reactor that is even operating yet. Some of these have to get built before we can say whether they can go at old coal plants.
Yes. But you need to tell the AI the current board state anyway (ie via transmitting what moves have been made). So adding some more input is not necessarily that much harder.

The benefit of getting the AI pick a move from the top two you are considering is that play looks more convincingly human.
I know many services that do this. And even if you fight with customer care for RCA they go silent and pass you around to other team members to whom you need to tell the problem again and again.
Books are physically changing because of inflation
Broadcasts have a 15 minute delay to avoid this kind of cheating.
Passenger: Enterprise grade web app server for Ruby, Node.js, Python
Open WiFi are prevalent throughout our neighborhoods.

The SSID name starts with “Xfinity”.
I've seen accidents out there.

I guessed that this was the stretch of road correctly before even reading the article.
I get a wee bit worried that email will become unrecoverable and we’ll end up stuck with something far less federated.
Why would anyone want to interact or reside in such a freaking hell hole of "reality"?

I'm genuinely at a complete loss.
Twitter looked rather different back then. And they had to explain what is was.
In my amateur learning about Egypt, “beer” seems misleading. It’s definitely a fermented grain beverage thing, but more like bread + liquid that doesn’t make you sick.

Reproductions are kinda nasty and very low ABV from what I’ve heard and read. But a ton of calories and no amoebas. Perfect for a hard day’s pyramid building.
You have to scroll about 2/3rds of the way down the article to see the description of the crash:

>> Andrew entered the left lane on the far side of the road as a 19-year-old was driving down it in a red Toyota Camry. In a statement included in the police report, the driver said he was headed to Starbucks and estimated he was going 55 mph. The speed limit was 40. At 55 mph, it takes the distance of a football field to stop a car. Suddenly there was a boy on a bike in the road before him and now that boy and his bike were rolling up the hood and into the windshield that abruptly shattered and now they were airborne and now they were not and the driver was pulling off to the side of the road and running over to the boy lying in the road by his twisted bike but the boy wasn’t moving. It all happened so quickly. The driver called 911.

Earlier in the article, they mention that he had been taught to cross in the crosswalk:

>> He crossed, probably, in the crosswalk because he’d been taught he’d be protected there

Searching google maps, this intersection[1] may be the one he crossed, but the article didn't really specify where he crossed, so it's not possible to determine whether he crossed at an intersection in a crosswalk or mid-block.

From the description in the article it says:

>> Andrew entered the left lane on the far side of the road as a 19-year-old was driving down it in a red Toyota Camry.

Does that mean that the motorist was going to run a red light? Was the cyclist crossing on a red light or a don't walk signal? Looking through Google streetview on Hempstead Turnpike between N Wantagh Ave and Berger Ave, there are no mid-block crosswalks that I can see; the only crosswalks are at traffic signal controlled intersections.

If the motorist ran a red light, then why wasn't he arrested and/or charged with violating that law? The motorist admitted he was exceeding the posted speed limit by a significant amount, but he wasn't even charged with speeding.

Or did the cyclist just cross mid block without checking for approaching traffic or crossed against the light and/or pedestrian signal?

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/pida8vz91j5iumjGA
That’s because it literally looks like 80% of the multiple lane roads in America. There are probably >20 intersections in my city that would be completely indistinguishable.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vGr7gyiEPTfXxtY17?g_st=ic

It’s also the point of the article. These very dangerous designs are everywhere and they kill thousands every year. A man was killed in my city two nights ago on an arterial just like this one.
This is just a ChromeOS tablet except it's running a customized version of ChromiumOS?
Deep learning-based automated metrology tool for semiconductor characterization
I don't know about Samsung, but even some random Chinese smartphones pass the MDM checks these days. I had Unihertz Atom XL as my BYOD work device for quite a while with no issues.
I biked many thousands of miles to/from work/school in Seattle - well, up until the third time I got run over and decided to call it quits - and agree 1000%.

The idea that "sharing the road" is possible if only we were all a little nicer and more attentive is a supremely naive fantasy that exists primarily as a justification to not build real physically divided infrastructure.

Painted bike lanes (and crosswalks, tbqh) are death traps and overall fucking terrible fig-leaf concepts. Barriers (and over/underpasses, etc) or nothing.
Or simply an accomplice.
Amazon and Apple and all their users that like being in that ecosystem would disagree with you.

I was never inconvenienced by being on the Kindle ecosystem, since anything I would like is there, and possibly for a lower price than the rest. Plus, the reader syncs to the cloud, and if I'm stuck waiting somewhere for an appointment, I can just continue reading on my phone.

Using Calibre and de-drm-ing books is way more of an inconvenience. If anything ever happens and Amazon wipes out my library, I would just feel like I could get an already de-drm-ed "backup" from someone else, to the same effect as doing the process myself
I had a friend who was aiming for medical school but was drilled into her by family that you never ever borrow money.

One day we sat down and did the math on earning a medical degree and ending up debt free via borrowing vs not borrowing and her eyes figuratively popped.

Money is possibly the cheapest resource of any tech startup.
Take care of middle managers in the hybrid world
I recommend Progressbar95, which provides progress bars and great HDD sounds, among other things: https://youtu.be/aTM8wxMIIx8
There are several firms that exist that provide income and net worth as a service. For example, Windfall Data scrapes all publicly available information and other sources to collect data for everyone in the US. They provide an API that allows you to see the estimate net worth and annual income of anyone. You don’t have any privacy when it comes to income.
This sounds interesting. Is it a one-off custom build, or are you planning to sell them?
Ironically, Equifax is making money out of the Optus breach: https://www.optus.com.au/support/cyberattack/equifax-protect...
Aah, the ever-present, nebulous and unlisted "bug fixes and security enhancements".

...oh, and more ads (not mentioned in the changelog).

...and feature removals (not mentioned in the changelog).

...oh, and you can't downgrade (not mentioned in the changelog).

Firmware updates are fine, but it should definitely be illegal to not allow a device to be returned by a consumer to the precise functionality it had at the time of purchase.

I can't believe people have been brainwashed to accept this as normal.
How does this work in practice. Do you force everyone to work on a theory they don’t believe in or are not interested in? Do we think that will actually yield useful results?

Scientists are individually working on theories/ideas that they find most interesting.

The only way this sounds like practically enforceable is if we have a situation where funding agencies are only funding a single theory and refusing to fund people doing research in other areas. But I don’t believe that is the case.
> I dont think anyone believes that ukraine is going to retake its full territory, nor that they should. There will be growing skepticism during the winter

Im actually more confident that Ukraine will have a decisive victory then I was a month or so ago.

Russia has entered the desperation stage of the war by mobilising 300k barely trained conscripts and throwing them straight to the front lines (some are already POWs).

This has shown me that Russias losses are significant and that they cannot sustain there professional army, which is the first sign things are going to go very south very quickly.
I’m a crypto fence sitter, and I mostly think these things are scams.

But I think that the distributed-public-database thing has real value. Companies come and companies go, and opening up data to the scrutiny of daylight is sorta a prisoner’s dilemma problem much of the time. Building a long-lived business on top of a by-design-public data store seems like a really cool thing.

Sure, any company could decide to host a Postgres instance on AWS with world-readable creds. But does that happen? And what happens when the company goes under? Who keeps paying the AWS bills?