skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe everyone exposed to something should be re-exposed to the theme once there's a new development.

This doesn't work. Show people two articles, one that is false and one that is true, and most people will say the one that aligns with their priors is true. We need to either teach people to recognize fake news, censor fake news, or accept that basically everyone will believe false propaganda. There are no other options. Once someone has been shown an article they agree with telling them the article was false just leads them to think you're on "the other side".
Really? Maintaining consistency across users is a huge part of IT. I can't imagine working somewhere where everyone just uses whatever software they want. Support would be a nightmare.
True, but openbsd is far easier to understand than ubuntu.

user friendly is not the same thing as simple.
Yeah, for it to work, we'd need to get Bezos to spend $700M+ on an Expanse reboot.

(After a few seasons, the set will pay for itself!)
The older I get and the more systems I encounter, the more I'm convinced everything is in a state of failing. The question is only how long before it becomes noticable.
Whatever happened to massive parallelism anyway? SMP seems to have killed it, but curious what you guys think?
I have a similar setup as I mentioned in another comment.

I wouldn't say it is limited or not fully featured. It does everything one needs. There's nothing missing, rather it lacks the bloat. It begins with a basic system and you build up the things you need and want on top of it (versus starting with a bloated system and trying to remove things you don't need or want).

Why do I prefer the minimal setup? In my mind, stability. I have used the same setup and mostly the same configuration for ~16 years. At times my machine has had an uptime of 700+ days before a reboot.

I like things that "just work" and continue to work, forever (preferably). More moving parts means more potential breakage. Keep it stupid simple and to the point.
At a previous job at a certain 3 letter company, we once developed a simple web app so users could do the unimaginable: change their own passwords for an internal billing system.

Management congratulated us on the initiative and asked to shut it down immediately. The reason: the users had to previously open a ticket to get their password changed (very secure, right?) and, with this app, the customer would see a 30% reduction in tickets and would probably reevaluate how many bodies they rented from the 3 letter company.

So yes, I fully agree that most large companies are not interested in helping their users or workers at all.
> but it should be required to be backloaded instead of front loaded in the training case (i.e, at the end of the year they give you a bonus equivalent to the training cost (and a commensurately lower salary during the year)

That would be quite unfair to the worker who misses out on opportunity throughout the year for not having access to the money. The business is actually incentivized to structure it this way since they can realize the opportunity themselves, but in practice workers would run away as fast as possible if a business tried this, more than negating the potential upside.

> mainly because people are just really bad at saving for known "rainy day issues".

One can always negotiate this if they are willing to trade opportunity for less risk in managing their personal finances. A business is unlikely to say no as it is to its benefit. It wouldn't be a sensible default for either party, however.
It's linked ('unaired segments of the interview') in the submitted article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad77y/kanye-west-tucker-car...

Bizarre. In a way, good on them for editing the weirdest stuff out... But really probably shouldn't have used any of it when someone's so clearly in such a bad state?

I mean it really is just driving clicks/views/profit from someone's poor health, in a nasty sort of way (i.e. not to say news or obituaries etc. are bad) isn't it?
I believe they'll still find a way, as the article describes. There will be an unmet need and potential market that will be satisfied, outside the bounds of what's lawful.
1) Don't force me into a scheme that I don't want to participate in. Maybe "most people" are willing to gamble a small amount of their hard-earned income. I am not. I choose not to buy lottery tickets because such systems do not appeal to me and I have better things to spend $52 on. Like buying a pair of shoes for my child for the school year.

2) Your math doesn't account for the administration costs of such a system.

3) Not to get us into a libertarian "taxes are theft" debate, but if we can agree on the necessity of government services and the funding thereof, then I don't see why it should be controversial to try and find optional alternatives to taxation whenever possible. Lotteries might have their drawbacks, and we can debate whether lotteries are a good way to go about getting funding, but at least they are an opt-in / voluntary way to raise funding for those services. No one has gone to jail or had their assets seized for failing to buy a lottery ticket.
The government can tax you. The government can give out money to random people. What do you mean not legal? Especially because the government writes the laws...
I view lotteries as taxes on those that don't understand probability and money investing. That fits with those making that low of a salary. It's predatory, just like payday and title loans.
There are many problems with this kind of hypotheses:
(a) any hypothesis should predict/explain facts that are different from the original data/facts that the hypothesis accounts for; otherwise, it is ad hoc.
(b) multiple competing hypotheses can account for the same set of facts. So, how to pick which hypothesis should one pick from the competing hypotheses? Again, here, Philosophy of sciences come to rescue. Pick a hypothesis that explains/solves more facts/problems. Here, the problems/facts should be novel, not the original ones.
Its easier to be a victim than a hero even in peoples minds.
It also doesn't make the lottery any less predatory.
> Sure some people get a better lot by emigrating, but in the process there is brain deain and such. So instead of them helping their own country to better themselves, their own country gets worse.

I've met a lot of smart immigrants who left their country because there was no opportunity for them to contribute or improve. Often there's so much corruption or racial/religious discrimination that it's a choice to sink or swim.

Of course, the prospect of "a better life" even in the most dire circumstances is becoming less attainable when the local population are already struggling. I've seen several articles similar to this one, where the reception from people is "I'm struggling to pay my rent too, why doesn't anyone do a story on that?"

https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/ukrainian-newcomers-st...
> Under what argument should it be reasonable

To narrow the gap luck currently plays in life outcomes.

Currently, you are either born lucky, trust funds and generational real estate, or not.

More chances to be "lucky" would enable more opportunities for more people. And the OP suggests a negligible cost to make that happen.
Well guess what,
It's an technology that's available for 16 years in Europe.
Unlike Tesla we don't dump unsafe beta shit on the road...
Here from another article
"Audi's digital matrix LED headlight design can do that too. It recognizes vehicles and pedestrians in front of the car and adjusts the headlight beam as needed.

Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/audi-digital-matrix-led-headlights..."
Lower by one factor than before this issue was determined.
KataOS, based on Rust, Google's newest experimental OS
This is a mod that seems extremely boring and tedious. The base game is not like this.
Didn't 4chan start off largely as castaways from Something Awful? Your point is valid though. 4chan had an enormous amount of time to become the shining star of how great an absolute[1] free speech site could be, but still manages to be a cesspool. This should be a neon hint, but people keep thinking that they're going to invent the one free speech site that doesn't end up toxic.

1: Also as others point out, even 4chan moderates, however lightly.
I agree. I wondered what your comment was referring to at first but then I realized the irony and let out a little chuckle.
The "George Bush doesn’t care about black people" incident was in 2005. Not saying that was a manic episode, but it certainly could have been.
It would be best for employees if the training was suppled at employer cost and working conditions were such that they didn't need to quit.

There was a similar story linked a few weeks ago. My comment then still applies. If the value of the training accrues primarily to the employer then the employer should be footing the cost with no strings attached.

A common example is paying for a Masters degree or an industry certification. The value accrues primarily to the employee (or at least, the value is shared). The training is transferable. It's standardized. Etc. Requiring a pay-back period is reasonable here.

The counter-example are training courses as described in the article. The employee was already certified/licensed in the field. The training offered no value to the employee. The employer should be paying for it (but isn't, because this is just an end-run around debt peonage laws).
I'm not entirely sure that is a nonsensical argument.

I am permitted to use any client I like to perform SQL queries of our customer data, but if the client were to happen to route the data through a third party, I would be in employment-jeopardy breach of our security policies.

Similar rules goes for hardware: I can bring my own device for reading and locally storing our email and chats, but customer data is not to be accessed on any hardware not authorized by the company.

Roster data is not customer data, and there are reasonable arguments to be made that this is not an exact parallel. But in principle, I can understand a company wanting to have control over certain types of data and how it might be exfiltrated from the company, even if it is intended for employees to use to do their jobs.
Interesting. That makes sense, but what’s the reason for using current instead of voltage as the variable?
I have not found a shop that refuses cash, but if I did I would also refuse to shop there.

It shouldn't even be legal for a shop to refuse cash. I understand the grey area of some asshat coming in with $300 of pennies, but outside of those edge cases, it should be illegal to operate a physical store without accepting cash, and without putting in limits to convince people not to use cash.
It is necessary, because companies might otherwise game the system like: "Give us your DNA and have a 1:1,000,000 chance to win a bottle of whiskey."
It shows how the technology works.
It does shadow out pedestrians or cyclists.
Otherwise it wouldn't get approved here.
>Can't make private individuals or companies host your speech.

There is no fundamental reason this is an unchangeable true. A lot of the noise around Section 230 repeal and other laws being passed in places like Texas are designed to alter exactly this norm.

Personally I am not sure if I would change it or not, I am just pointing out that it is far from written in stone...
My blog is built on Github pages. I don't have lots of images, so they're hosted in the same repo of my website.
Wow, you just triggered a memory cascade for me. I used Cygnus all the time and had totally forgotten that name.

Re: phase of life: I was a teen when I got my first computer, a Radio Shack Color Computer. I can still remember 6809 opcodes and specific memory addresses for that computer.
China delays key GDP data in middle of Communist party Congress
I don't like Bitcoin, but this isnt news. Blocks aren't created at a set interval because it's a poison process that averages out to 10 minutes.

Even the article itself says that this is expected to happen once every 34 days.
Related (but anecdotal): I was very pleasantly surprised at how good the Delta app is for flyers.
Hi, author of the article here. I don't care if you read my story or don't, but if you're going to accuse me of "clickbait," I'd encourage you to actually read it. The plan here is to literally load live 12 gauge shells into the robot's PAN disrupter device, which typically only takes blank rounds, in order to shoot and kill people under special emergency circumstances. It's a shotgun. But don't take it from me, take it from the cop who proposed the plan!

“Yeah, physically a live round can go in,” Daza-Quiroz answered. “Absolutely. And you’d be getting a shotgun round.”
> If someone tells you power concentrated in the government is bad and power should be evenly distributed, they're talking about a flat democracy (aka direct democracy).

You're wrongly inferring that. No need to assume stuff when you can just ask the other person.

> they're talking about a flat democracy (aka direct democracy).

That does not describe a system where power is evenly distributed. Because of the already widely known problems you mentioned. Lots of folks learn this stuff in high school.
Who is incentivized to mine a produce blockchain? How are tokens immutably assigned to units of commodities in a way that can’t be compromised?
Mass shooter manifestoes have cited both 4chan posts and named newspaper, TV and radio personalities. People are quite capable of being terrible under their own names.
True overall, but it still only takes one Sierra Club to gum it up in court for years. It's not like the neighborhood can vote to override federal courts.
A similar, larger telescope[0] was put into service in China in 2016. There are a few things Arecibo could do that it can't (receiving frequencies above 3 GHz, transmitting), but in other areas it's better. So on the whole I can see how the need isn't that strong right now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
It's quite possible they consider the benefit of overworking their employees to be worth the risk of having to pay those fines.
I think there's definitely a large nugget of truth here, even if it's not universally true or accepted wisdom.

I would enjoy reading it expanded on even more, 'ops' people tend to be almost universally coming from non-university backgrounds, for example, in my experience.
I think it was mostly (1) and (4), with (1) feeding (4). There was a lot of "this time it's different" about the current AI bubble, though I think it's fading a bit, now.
Entirely unrelated, but I love that the actual album cover is a missing image on that article. They're talking about how iconic it is, and the image itself is the "broken image" icon - which is iconic in itself.
Generative AI: Do or Die
Police have already used a bomb disposal robot to kill a person [1] in the US.

The conversation they had shows slippery slope in action:

> After a brief silence, Commissioner Jesse Hsieh asked the next question: “Does the department plan on using a live round in the robot PAN disruptor?”

> The answer was immediately provocative. “No,” Daza-Quiroz said, before quickly pivoting to hypothetical scenarios in which, yes, just such a shotgun-armed robot might be useful to police.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...
Ah, I guess this term is overloaded. I am not familiar with the specific PG offerings, but more complex search engines are often based on indexing pairs of words (bigrams) as opposed to individual keywords. Pairs of words together are much more meaningful.
I don't think this is the case anymore, not with the internet at least. Yes an employer will know what they are paying others at the company versus you, but unlike before, it's exceedingly easy for an employee to come up with the "market number" of what they should be paid.

And often times that "market number" dominates whatever numbers an employer might have that they keep to themselves,
Yet the economics literature is full of this exact misuse of the term "rationality", not to mention what economists say in their blogs, op-eds, and interviews. Not to mention the traditional econ 101 curriculum.
Current flow is independent of wire length, the sender only has to turn up the voltage high enough to overcome the wire resistance.
What's a "large sum"? If you compare how relatively spoiled we software engineers are to other (even white collar) careers, we're doing pretty darn well. Even if you're making super-low-end in the US at like $80k, many people in other careers would never dream to pull that much. Many of us are comfortably pulling $120k-$170k and that's unfathomable to many people. In everywhere but (maybe) the most expensive city centers in America, that's a very, very good life.

I'm assuming "large sums of money" here means (at least) $250k+. I guess I start to ask "how much is enough"?
How does the FA know to complain without a legality checker? They have to go through the work of parsing the legalese and calculating time zone differences etc. And if they did complain, the airline says "Sorry, here's a freebie for your trouble" (worth 0.01% of the fine)

Compare that to every FA knowing every single time there's a breach, being able to compare notes etc.
> People pay for a lottery ticket to dream about what their life could be like if they won (similar to people who never launch that buiness idea).

That might describe the median player, but I doubt it describes the median ticket. It only takes one ticket per draw to dream of winning, but many players purchase multiples. That suggests that they are motivated by something other than the entertainment of fantasy.
App screenshot on the appstore shows a list of names associated with a rota, presumably crew member names scraped from the airlines' password-protected crew portal.

It's not especially surprising airlines don't want unauthorised third party apps accessing and storing personal data from their intranets, even if the third party developer is very ethical about not leaking it to people without passwords and makes beautiful UX
> My goal here isn’t “what is 100% the most reliability-oriented way we can build things”, it’s more like “what is the 80% of reliability we can get for 20% of the effort while still enabling devs to go fast”

The author also points out that these bullet points will not apply to every unique situation.

If your goal is to allow devs to go fast at the cost of more hardened code, then yes, skipping code coverage is a major way to code faster. There are definitely times when it is appropriate to skip writing tests when the primary goal is to go fast.

It's difficult to answer your question without knowing your specific situation though.
Unless you are actively using those functions, you should be fine.

Up to a point. As with all CVEs, the issue tend to be whether your dependencies are using it, or their dependencies, etc, etc.

mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose

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> So, how do you spot it?

One way that's worked for me in the past is to give in slightly to the person's demands (even by just conceding their point in an argument), and observe how they react. If this cools their rage, then they are expressing sincere pain due to a wrong that has been done to them, and only desire justice in some form. This person has legitimate concerns and deserves support.

If getting their demands met enrages them even more, then by listening to them you are only feeding a fire in their heart that will consume everything if allowed to. You have to stay away from those people.

Emotions cause some noise in this process so you shouldn't rush to judgment.

I call this the difference between "Social Justice Warriors" (shameful that this has become a negative term because being a warrior for social justice describes every great leader) and "Social Grudge Warriors".
We've deployed our helm charts with Spinnaker. Spinnaker has a nice UI that shows which charts are deployed, which environment variables were used, and the manifest files themselves.
Because of Britney Spears this has become a lot harder to do in the past year or two.
Civilization Inspired Budget Redux
Exactly, but the tool analogy hinges on the skills actually being portable to a new job.

I can see the case for repayment agreements if the employer is (say) sending someone to a local university to get an MBA. That training transfers directly to other jobs and its price is set on the open market: you’d pay the same if you self-funded the MBA instead.

On the other hand, niche or employer-specific training doesn’t have either of those properties. Knowing the SOPs at Sally’s Beauty may not help much at other salons, let alone other industries. The price is also arbitrary and the employer has every incentive to inflate it.
Hmm. Worked for me.

If it continues to not work, here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/zwgMhzR
> I would be interested to see it change so the jackpot doesn't go UP each time, but instead the number of winners goes UP somehow - perhaps by drawing an extra powerball if nobody has won for a certain period.

This is more or less the concept of the lottery game with the MIT group stories.

Once the accumulated prize pot hit a certain number, the pot would 'roll down' to all winners on that drawing. So, the meta game was to buy as many tickets as possible for a rolldown drawing. And then, to buy as many tickets as possible for a near rolldown drawing to force it into rolldown, perhaps without other buying groups noticing. Of course, this meta game turns this type of drawing into less of an 'everyone can win' thing and more of a those with resources can work the odds and come out ahead; which is contrary to the preferred public image of the lotteries.

On the traditional lotteries, you do see that the large jackpots tend to have more cases of multiple jackpot tickets.
NOT a colony.... we're a territory. If you think puerto rico becoming it's own country and missing out on the aid, support and ease of travel provided by the federal government you are either malevolent or naive.

Puerto Rican residents can vote on everything aside from federal elections.
That's essentially what lottery/prize/premium bonds are, albeit they're optional

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_bond
> the reality is that scraping is legal, always possible, but difficult.

> This particular case is a bit harder since it's not purely using public data, but may still qualify since it's likely scraping with legally-obtained credentials.

No, it's easy: they're employees, they can be told they're not allowed to do that. Doesn't matter if the app's legally allowed to exist or not.
As I mention in my comment, there's no problem with letting people opt out.
MOS-6502 and NES emulator in Rust
> most people are happy to pay $1 for a remote chance of winning $300,000

Sure, as a novelty. Not hundreds of times every few years.
There's probably a big grey area between "This is a really hard problem but we've got smart people and I think we have a decent shot" and "This is a really hard problem and odds are we'll crash and burn but we'll have given it a shot and made lots of (personal) money in the mean time."

The fable of the talking horse is probably apropos to a lot of these situations. https://naomistanford.com/2009/02/09/teaching-the-horse-to-t...
I think (at least last time I looked into it, it may have changed since then) the problem was that some of the scientific equipment is heavy and suspended by cables which are degrading over time. I don't think it is like a battleship for example, which degrades into a battleship shaped hunk of steel which can be easily restored into a museum ship -- cables under tension fail catastrophically.
That's classic dumping, though. Give away your product for free until you dominate the market and then try to monetize your market share.