skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one is an unholy confluence of corporate compliance bullshit

Connecting to the remote machine needs to go through corporate SSO (in a browser) that then starts the native remote client. Policy requires MFA, strong, frequently changed passwords and Windows Hello on the laptop. Policy also requires screen lock after 5 minutes. For some reason policy also requires disabling copy-paste to remote machines.

The end result is that the remote session gets locked out every 5 minutes when you do something in the laptop's browser instead. To log back in one either has to enter a long, complicated password (can't paste it from the password manager!) or use an mfa code. Hardware tokens don't work either due to unreliable USB forwarding.

Having to jump through those hoops once or twice a day would be tolerable, dozens of times is grating.

I assume the policies are written for all the worst-case scenarios where people remote in from private, shared devices or use a laptop in a public place. But they add a lot of unnecessary friction when a laptop is used from a lockable home office.
> It's amazing how quickly a simple idea can get out of hand

No kidding!
Research always goes "nowhere" at first, then there are results and sometimes successes. Don't you think people said the same thing about research for airplanes? most first attempts crashed, but then we had very good flying machines. Could probably find the same for first cars with combustion engines, for some medical treatments or vaccines, ... Let them search, try, improve. Just stop the hype: do the work like engineers and not like silicon valley bros.
Actually, the UN explicitly says that forced cultural assimilation is not genocide[0]:

> Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group.

Etymologically, the word genocide comes from "genus" (roughly meaning "race") and "-cide" (meaning "killing"). It was invented to describe the Holocaust, and every event that is widely accepted as being a genocide has been an attempt to murder an entire group of people.

0. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
No javascript, no paywall. Just the meat of the article, as web was meant to be. :)
Cars are better than public transport in the two dimensions that you listed, plus the additional "it's 15 seconds rather than 5-15 minutes of waiting time to start the ride". (This would stay true for personally-owned self-driving cars, but not for hailed/shared self-driving cars.)
I once arranged a date. 2007. My date said "I'm glad LinkedIn's good for something."
PIA to manage multiple systems / os that don't have functional parity. My steamlink, tablet and occasionally phone remote desktops strait onto my desktop with all the customizations I'm used to for daily tasks. It's just nice not having to adjust. Only problem (relatively new) is DRM preventing many streaming service from displaying video.
You mean like sending what you type in the address bar to google as you type it.

Like sending usage information to the browser developer.

Like downloading code (experiments) for specific users which can essentially do anything.

Are you debugging your browser 100% of the time and fully analyzing all communications that there is nothing leaked. Is anyone?
I think anyone who wants a large amount of RAM or who works on projects in compiled languages will easily notice the difference.
> In all you'd do most trips in about half the time in self driving cars than on a bus.

Does that assume there is no traffic? I feel like the space savings from buses (in terms of space on the road) ought to mean that they would be much quicker than cars for most trips if they are given priority as they'd eliminate traffic jams, significantly increasing the road speed. This applies only to dense urban areas of course. For rural areas, self-driving cars make quite a bit of sense.
I think most were but also as I mentioned elsewhere on this page, Japan and possibly other countries didn’t go DRM-free for some time so possibly they had iTunes Plus but with DRM.
Are you aware the linked article is referring to a man that was arrested for mocking police online?

No cop was distracted, interrupted, or interfered with in their duties in anyway.

>The spoof of the Parma, Ohio, police department's Facebook page that Anthony Novak created in 2016 was not subtle. It included a job notice that said the department "is strongly encouraging minorities to not apply," a post advertising a police abortion van for teenagers, a warning that Parma had made giving homeless people food a crime so they would "leave our city due to starvation," and an announcement of "our official stay inside and catch up with the family day," during which anyone venturing outside between noon and 9 p.m. would be arrested.

>Novak's parody, which was online for just 12 hours, prompted 11 calls to the police department's nonemergency line. Based on that reaction, Novak was arrested and prosecuted for violating a broadly worded state law against using a computer to "disrupt, interrupt, or impair" police services—a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison.
Thoughts on the JavaScript Ecosystem
> It's not nearly the same thing.

why not? Just because people take in experiences slowly, via senses, doesn't mean that an AI isn't replicating that learning via a fast method.
Come on, who does not know that E.M. is a PR bllsht machine. I bet it does that on purpose to make ppl busy talking about him.

Look at what he actually does, and what has been acheived under his drive.

Give credits to very rich and powerful people on what they are actually "doing", not "saying". Maybe that's what he is trying to teach the ppl: the abysmal gap between words and actions. Not saying the words are unimportant.

The only incoming sad point: buying billions something that is worth near nothing (mafia?).

Yeah, E.M. is not a man of his words, but a man of his actions... for now...
We make most of our roads in Florida out of concrete. I am sure asphalt is better for snow but I don’t think I believe that the most powerful country on the planet cannot figure out an alternative to asphalt.
Monitor? No.

But I just recently purchased a Sony A95K QD-OLED television, and holy cow the uniformity is just breathtaking. You start noticing the deficiencies in your own vision.

There's a similar panel available as a computer monitor, but unfortunately only curved and 1440p.
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Sounds like local contrast adjustment. There are several different ways of solving it, here's a couple that look like they work pretty well:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63251089/how-to-do-a-loc...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65666507/local-contrast-...

One possible preprocessing step could be to do a high pass filter on it, if the shadows vary slowly over the image.

There are also more specialized techniques specifically for removing shadows from documents, like these:

http://civc.ucsb.edu/graphics/Papers/ACCV2016_DocShadow/

https://faculty.iiit.ac.in/~vgandhi/papers/shadow_removal_ca...

I also found this, an image editor based approach if you just want to do a few images manually:

https://janithl.github.io/2021/12/remove-shadows-and-uneven-...
CRDT is extremely format-specific. File systems don't operate at that level. And that's before we even decide if the merged edits is what you actually want.
US is extremely car dependant while being the biggest economy in the world. I don't think there is any other reason.

The logical thing would be to make cities less car-dependant but I'm sure there is strong economic interests that would like to continue selling cars.
So I think it is 95% of (2) and 5% of (1).

This is why there is a lot of companies that did (2), but we will not have self driving car in the next 10 years.
> 90% of the work is sludge, trash, unimaginative, boring trash. This pays the bill for the 5% you're proud of.

So; learn prompt engineering to do the trash job, which will free up a lot of time to put in the 5% you're proud of.
There are other applications outside of everyday personal needs. E.g. the trucking industry
Why not link the source? https://js13kgames.com/#winners
So as far as I can see this CISO should have known better because he was ex-law enforcement?
This article is a bit cringe. And it's a bit ironic that Levandowski is the one driving it, as he profited massively at a megacorp on the hype, despite delivering nothing over 10 years ago and then trying to hype it up again at a competitor. I've never seen a person's name appear so many times in an article before, so I guess he is trying to hype up his new scheme.
There’s already extensive road infrastructure pretty much everywhere. Autonomous cars that could just use that would be much better than having to build out and maintain rails.

Buses do not work absurdly well. They take three times as long to go the same distance and operate on a fixed and often infrequent schedule. They aren’t available all the time. You can’t easily transport cargo in them.

Ideally we’d redesign cities to be more walkable and bikeable so cars aren’t as necessary, but that’s not going to happen overnight.
…or removing a trailing LF at the end of a file where the last line is non-empty.
Not sure who thinks these are good. Perhaps for basic programming or in slow moving orgs but outside these two use cases cloud desktops are horrible.
They can simply not sell them. Palantir "buying" a company in this context means they either buy the owner out or buy controlling shares, in both cases nothing happens from there that they don't want to happen.
Ask HN: How to motivate a parent to learn CS?
With all the software and AI revolution, programming is so a basic need yet most people don't understand how Internet, computers, and software "really works" nor they do want to know or "have the time". But it's freaking important, aren't we all gonna explode if society is divided into the lucky tech "elite" and the plebe?

I know some parents in their 50s that could have had a computer and manual to code (BASIC, etc.) but didn't get one in their childhood (instead they got barbies or some consummer midly interesting stuff, etc.) eventually and now they are embittered towards maths but think that they could have been computer experts.

How would you teach a dad or mom in their 50s with professional basic experience (office software) in Windows, MacOs (typic folks who grew up in the prosperous 70s/80s) and a little time to spare from time to time especially the weekend?

Let's imagine they have a brand new computer (laptop/deskotp on MacOS) and have very low patience but a bit of curiosity. (They aren't nerds at all but the 70s born vibe make them like fame and nostalgic about some things I guess).

thanks
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This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions.

This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.
If you want to compile to a binary for ease of distribution, then you can do it with both TypeScript and Python (you just get an interpreter embedded in the binary), although in both cases you'll need to use a 3rd party tool to achieve this. If you want it for the performance then neither are good options, although JS/TS is significantly faster than Python.
Privacy is also terrible in cloud desktops (and cloud apps) but many (most?) developers do not see it as a concern. It's too late to push for privacy in cloud software - especially when it's developers who are the strongest advocates for user-tracking in cloud desktops.
Obviously, good public transportation across the entire US would alleviate the need for a lot of self driving. The reality is, that will never happen for anyone outside the immediate area of a large city. Embedding sensors everywhere suffers the same problem.
Coolest part, imho, is the ATX4VC. I rather like to keep my vintage computers as close to original as possible, but the PSU change is super handy!
I like the idea of only showing filenames that fail using -f so I created an issue for that. According to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation

CR does not appear to really be used as EOL. Also, I don't think having different EOL chars within the same file is really a thing.
Can echo the licensing sentiments across 2 companies now. It's a shame because I grew to really like SPL and how Splunk handled web based distributed search. What are you moving towards now, if I may ask?
Just ask disabled or elderly people and the benefits will become more clear. Basically anybody that can use a normal taxi, but at a lower price (presumably though not proven yet)
There's nothing fundamental about lidar that means it can't reduce in price. The 20th century is littered with examples of highly complex devices that we made in such high volume that they became cheap. Integrated circuits, optical disk drives, hard drives, all the different display technologies - building ten of these would cost millions, but building 100 million drove the unit cost to almost nothing.
For any six numbers that can exist or be drawn, once they are drawn can find something about them that is improbable.

Sooooo, that found something improbable about the numbers, once they have been drawn, means essentially nothing.
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No, I'm not, but I trust that if I disable the thing, it will disable.
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” :)
> why can’t I take any code I find online and ignore the license terms and feed it into a compiler?

a compiler is not transformative. You translating a book into another language doesn't make it a new work.

But an AI that takes billions of images, and uses it to synthesize something different and new, is fairly transformative under my eyes, and deserves new copyright. Unless the AI generated image is largely composed of a small number of works, i don't see why anyone should have copyright ownership of such an output!
Even if your claims about Russia trying to destroy the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian culture were true, that would not be genocide. And just to give you some perspective, the claims you're making almost exactly mirror Putin's equally spurious (and disingenuous) claims that the Ukrainian government was trying to commit genocide against Russian speakers in Ukraine. His claim was based on attempts by the Ukrainian government to remove traces of Russian culture from eastern Ukraine (for example, by promoting the Ukrainian language over the Russian language in schools, by renaming cities, and by removing statues to cultural and historical figures associated with Russia), and on the Ukrainian government's shelling of Donetsk over the last 8 years. Putin is engaged in the exact same abuse of the term "genocide" that you're engaging in.
Yeah, that's the problem. They're never gonna get there at that rate.

>In the view of Levandowski and many of the brightest minds in AI, the underlying technology isn’t just a few years’ worth of refinements away from a resolution. Autonomous driving, they say, needs a fundamental breakthrough that allows computers to quickly use humanlike intuition rather than learning solely by rote. That is to say, Google engineers might spend the rest of their lives puttering around San Francisco and Phoenix without showing that their technology is safer than driving the old-fashioned way.

The view that something fundamental is missing has been prevalent amongst Google's best self-driving engineers since sometime in 2015. Howver, at that time they still entertained optimism that the AI field was moving fast enough that the fundamental missing thing could be discovered.

When ex-google self-driving project director Chris Urmson, Drew Bagnell and Sterling Anderson founded Aurora in 2017, they touted the mantra that "you can't build a ladder to the moon"

Meaning, that, while self-driving industry can make continual incremental step-by-step progress with the technology they have, they will not within a reasonable time frame achieve their objective without a fundamental change.
It would have to be magical not just decent. This is not solvable on the level of the file system. You can't add a blue line to an image on one system and a red line on another system and expect the filesystem to somehow figure out how to handle that on its own. The best you can count on is the conflict being flagged with both versions exposed.
I'd love to do that, but my laptop's and workstation's state inevitably get out of sync leading up to "wait why doesn't this work ... spend a couple of minutes .. ah yes I did X on the other device".

(Before someone suggest "use docker": then I'd need a more powerful workstation and laptop :-)

And VNCing into my workstation from the laptop has all the drawbacks that Matthew described in the article.
Yes the python 3 upgrade was a failure. The python community has learned from the mistakes. What do you want it to do now? This was long enough ago that some Python devs weren’t born yet.

And it wasn’t “all for a print statement” or something, that’s not the pain of the upgrade nor what’s blocking anyone. You would know that, if you had more than passing knowledge about the upgrade.

Pulling scientific reproducibility as an example is a funny one. Python is the least of the issues in that sector. Maybe let’s introduce Docker there, that would be a good, you know, FIRST step. And then python version is irrelevant anyway.

If you want something reproduced, the entire environment should be reproduced, including library versions, compiler versions, etc. Reproducing independently on newer systems will involve updates anyway.
Sorry, been looking at new cars, and salespeople have been explaining new car, extended warranties to me.
Isn't that what brackets are for?

Well that's what I do. If you're having to look it up to write it, you're going to have to look it up to read it again down the line.
What a mess indeed. I did manage to find this:

> Priced for the cloud

> Ubuntu Pro pricing tracks the underlying EC2 cost, starting at 20% for the smallest t3.nano instances, and ramping down to less than 1%.

That probably means it’ll be in the AWS Marketplace and will factor in to your instance rate. For example: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-uy7jg4dds3qjw
Oh come on, nothing to see here just marketing to boost U.S. military recettes.

EDIT: and enslave Japan
Whoa, I thought they are absolutely pointless. Are they even worse?
No, it's an issue in many countries. You will note, however, that this post regards China and India, and my comment was a comparison between the two. Pay attention.
If you need to motivate them - don't. Just leave your parents alone, your job isn't so important that everyone else needs to learn it too.
I don't think nationalisation is the answer, imagine the additional layer of bureaucracy dealing with a government entity. Large companies like Facebook need to be regulated by the government, there needs to be laws in place for stuff like this.
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I doubt arable farmland has generally gone down over the long view.
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It gives up and you take over.

In the cars you can't do that in, there's teleoperation as a backup; the car stops until someone can manually resolve. https://www.motortrend.com/news/mira-self-driving-car-remote...
This reminds me of the world cup in South Africa, where the spectators used vuvuzelas to make a unique sound that I found hard to endure. I figured it would be easy to use a notch filter to remove it, but I could never find a way to implement it it real or near real time, only as post processing.
External administration like in post-war Germany.
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I used a few different compilers for C in one project. Ended up at memcpy and byteswaping to get data between different instances of the code correctly (some ARM, mips, and x86, and each of those can set the byte order). Using a union is possible if it supports packing and the bytes happen to be in the same order and the compiler keeps the struct in the same order. I found that is not true of all compilers, by default. Massively annoyed having to rewrite about 50 file writes/reads that were nice and simple with massive memcpy cascades. Inside the same code on the same compiler you can get away with a lot of things. But port to another arch or try to get bin data out of your program into another (good luck). These days there are realistically 4 compilers people use and they tend to behave mostly the same, also nice libs that do most of this for you. That was the same project I learned not all printf's are created equal. Different CRTs do very different things even in the same compiler family. There is a reason everyone decided to use json and xml to transport data. Because of that mess.
So a bunch of news sites have reported this feature has already rolled out. For example: https://www.engadget.com/google-maps-aerial-view-landmarks-0...

And lo and behold I see something that looks like a 3d rendered view at the top of the entry for "Tower of London".

Except - it's just a video. A rendered video of a 360 view. Tried on Android and iPad. There's no freedom of movement, it plays a single look and even says "report this video" when you click the 3 dots.

Are the news reports wrong - or do the writers not know a video when they see one?
Very interesting conversation for me. Thank you! Specifically I want to encrypt a folder with VeraCrypt for my data.
I had that for a while, thought it was bad till one day the giant boot got taken off and discovered it was hiding a rotten diseased foot. Now I dream about the good times when there was a boot on that foot.
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Mariupol is one big mass burial site. Thousands of people perished there, I doubt it will ever be rebuilt
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Don't nationalise them, break them up. A state monopoly is preferable to a private monopoly, but in this case there's no reason we have to have a monopoly. Facebook and Google do too many things.
> Nobody ever got fired for choosing IMB