skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel is winning in low end and high end, just not in power efficiency.
My inner voice! As with most people, I'm my own worst critic.
I would like to drastically claw it back but I think there are limited circumstances where that immunity should apply.

At the very least, criminal immunity and being required to carry large insurance policies for civil damages. Paid for out of pocket and underwritten based on their job performance/complaints.
Subscription services are a technology for carmakers to practice price discrimination.[1] Price discrimination reallocates consumer surplus to carmakers. It is not good for you unless you're a carmaker.

Without subscription services, they only have the option of limiting heated seats to certain trims. If you want heated seats, you can buy one of those trims. But that trim probably comes with other features, too, that contribute to your surplus as a consumer.

With subscription services, they can force you to pay for everything feature-by-feature. This is worse for you, better for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Agreed. You become an official? Congrats, you no longer have direct control of your investments.

Would that be such a downer for people looking to serve in government? Certain special limits seem reasonable to apply to government officials that have special knowledge or other authority.
Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?
I don't think the East India Company was intentionally committing genocide for the sake of racial/genetic purity.

Offhand, I can't think of any corporations who have done that. There's no profit in it... at least, not unless a government is footing the bill.
> I think the best fix I've heard is that their trades need to be digitally announced immediately (within a few minutes of execution).

Apart from the announcement, I'd add a delay of one day to the execution of said trades.
It also turns out that chimerism may be a lot more common than we’d thought.
> You are really an unpleasant person to interact with.

I'm sure Meletus felt that way while Socrates was absolutely wrecking him in court and exposing his hypocrisy. Maybe that's why they murdered Socrates?

You are not qualified to take part in the debate I raised. It's obvious you dont understand the little physics you have read nor know the math you're trying to talk about. You should count yourself lucky instead because this conversation is a chance for you to open your eyes to a world of physics which is even more amazing than you realized. Instead you'll probably just keep trolling. 'The starting point of true learning is the realization that you're not actually aware of anything yet.'

> let me know next time you personally observe a quantum phenomenon with your own senses.

to my knowledge, literally every single "sense" measurement is a "quantum" phenomenon which happens via entanglement along with literally everything else at all scales. you still have insufficient understanding of this.

and dont mince words about quantum being a theory and things being beyond theory. you contradict yourself in that way and if consciousness is beyond our science now and that is your point then I invite you to stop arguing with me and will remind you that we are discussing experiments in real life and what physics means, not what I feel in my heart.

please stop now
No bias or prejudice here, just reading his opinions. But think about it for just a minute: there's never a mystery about how he's gonna vote--oral arguments never change his mind. Does that sound like a guy who's listening?
I was in the executive branch in 2020, there was no mobilization until March.
the irony of that, is that all to many times, one must enable cookies to be able to dismiss the, often full screen takeover, cookie notice to "disable" cookies
Can the system use two cameras simultaneously to improve cases where two players are superimposed?
Stability.ai sent a take down request to Runway ML's SD v1.5 citing IP Leak
This article does an annoying thing where it gives you stats without proper comparison so you can't tell if the numbers are actually out of the ordinary.

> A deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci reported 10 sales of mutual funds and stocks totaling between $157,000 and $480,000 that month.

Impossible to tell if that's suspicious without knowing how much that deputy normally trades.

> officials at another health agency, Health and Human Services, reported 60% more sales of stocks and funds in January than the average over the previous 12 months

A better comparison would be to January 2019 to account for seasonality. Maybe people rebalance/reevaluate their investments at the start of the year.

> Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao purchased more than $600,000 in two stock funds

Again, impossible to tell if that is unusual without comparison. Apparently she is worth 10s of millions of dollars.

> Nearly 400 officials across 50 agencies reported owning stocks in airline, resort, hotel, restaurant and cruise companies in early 2020, the review found.

Okay...?

> [March] was the most active for trading by officials across the federal government, including at HHS

March was the most active for trading, period. Because the markets were melting down. Also, by March the impact was more widely known to the public.

There's more stuff below the fold but this is getting tedious.
I liked your metaphor. That's a good take.
fiber analysis is also fake as hell (like saying: these threads came from your carpet, or your shirt).

ballistic forensics only works if the gun is barely fired after the time that the bullets in question are fired, becuase each time you fire a gun it wears down the barrel again, in new ways.

Fingerprint analysis is not based on solid science, nobody knows how common it is for someone to have very similar fingerprints to another person, and nobody knows what the right standard for "points of similarity" is. Fingerprint analysis has been used to convict people of crimes they could not have committed because they were not in the same state or even country, in ways that are provable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield
That's why I both hope Oxide Computers succeed and worry they may not.

They are effectively building a mini computer. The smallest unit you can buy from them is an entire rack. Modified rackmount hardware with better software to make it more cohesive.

I really hope they go to half-racks, but I've no idea how you'd stack them.
Most (all?) vehicle codes don’t permit other colors or flashing lights unless it’s an emergency vehicle.
> You’ve got a DevOps team.

Yeap. Largest red flag there is.
Facebook wouldn't have paid billions for just a messaging app. What they really paid for is people's social graphs.
None of this actually relevant to openbsd dropping 386 support 15 years ago.
Why do software engineers insist on being paid when they never deliver any working software? Imagine a world in which programmers were only paid once their code hit production. My hypothesis is that estimation skills would improve at a geometric rate.

Said differently: good programmers are not afraid of making estimates. This classic article says it all better than I could: https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-eng...

From The Unwritten Laws of Engineering, quoted in the article:

Promises, schedules, and estimates are necessary and important instruments in a well-ordered business. Many engineers fail to realize this, or habitually try to dodge the irksome responsibility for making commitments. You must make promises based upon your own estimates for the part of the job for which you are responsible, together with estimates obtained from contributing departments for their parts. No one should be allowed to avoid the issue by the old formula, “I can’t give a promise because it depends upon so many uncertain factors."

Also from the article:

Avoiding responsibility for estimates is another way of saying, “I’m not ready to be relied upon for building critical pieces of infrastructure.”
Non-compliant & dumb implementations doesn't mean the law itself is bad. The problem is a major lack of enforcement.
That's completely unrelated. "GPS" on that sign is shorthand for "navigation map data". Even in populated areas like bay area, there are instances of this all around.
Ask HN: Tools for managing job interviews?
I'm familiar with "Applicant Tracking System (ATS)" software like Greenhouse for the hiring side, but I've never heard of software for managing the interviewing side.

As a software engineer somewhere between casually and actively interviewing, I've quickly become overwhelmed in managing leads, emails, scheduling, and documenting discovery for each opportunity. I built out what I thought to be a sophisticated system in Notion (complete with a database, todos, and document templates), but it hasn't scaled as well as I thought it would.

Anyone know of any tools out there for managing job interviews and opportunities for tech workers?
It’s hard to get a sense from the site or from the actual idea pages what the goal is. Removing the BQE (https://transformyour.city/vision/new-york-city/the-bqe ) would affect millions of people and businesses, and simply saying “transform it into a linear park” comes across as incredibly naïve. I would feel foolish signing this petition because…what’s the actual plan?

Sure, maybe there is some way to do it with a multi-decade effort, an enormous cost, and a fundamental shift in NYC’s layout and even economy, but something about how MASSIVELY oversimplified the statement “Remove the BQE” is makes it hard to take this seriously.

I applaud the sentiment, though! And I hate the BQE.

Edit: Also just to be even clearer for anyone not familiar with NYC geography: the BQE is a stretch of interstate highway 278 that connects Brooklyn and Queens.

This isn’t the High Line, built from a disused rail line. It’s proposing removing a stretch of interstate and putting a park in its place.

Edit 2: Ok, apparently the goal is to gather signatures and then show elected officials. The minimum bar appears to be 100 signatures. I have a hard time understanding what outcome is expected when an elected official in NYC is shown a petition in which 100 people say we should rip out part of the interstate (and one of NYC’s most important stretches of road) and put in a park.
Diesel electric engines are actually VERY efficient.

Even the "old diesel" locomotives are still easily 40% efficient.
It would be interesting to see how many times a copilot competitor trained off it gave correct code vs wrong code for a given case
Remote Working in Japan? Airline Plans to Offer You Unlimited Flights to Tokyo
After 14 years on LinkedIn, I recently closed my account.

LinkedIn never did much of consequence for me, and I've been enjoying no longer receiving recruiter spam.

A long time ago I did once find a job through LinkedIn ads, but beyond that it's been a complete waste of time and energy.

At this point, social media, especially of the "professional" variety, seems like more trouble than it's worth.
does it include spouses? Also doesn't prevent them from getting paid for information via other means. Or being promised cushy board positions once they are out of congress
Typically it's a "man bites dog" kind of case. [ducks]
And snapd has all of the information it needs to do all of this. "Is Firefox Running?" is a tricky question in a traditional package install, because there's a number of ways you can launch a program and "ps |grep firefox" isn't quite right. But that's not the case for snapd! It is the executor and all launches to Firefox have to pass through it; If you launch Firefox while it's running and there's an update queued, it should be able to pass that on to the old version, while still being able to handle "This program is exiting and has an update queued, so let's update it now".

Every critical piece of information is available to Snapd, and yet, they have chosen the wrong and broken implementation.
> * JS has just not been as stable and mature as Ruby or Python until the past couple of years (thanks to ES5/ES6), especially if you consider the browser acceptance of latest ES.

+1. I see way more of my js packages deprecated and renamed than ruby. There hasn't been a huge backwards compatibility issue in ruby since like ~2.7 (ruby 3 and 3.1 were easy), but hunting down which version of node the npm package works on is a huge pain.
Both parties support federalism when it suits their platform and not otherwise.
This is one of those things that just drives people out of tech and leaves the ones still in it super frustrated. So many buzzwords and PR non-sense from non-tech mgmt.
A roof that collapses on your heads and kills your family the next year?

(Not saying that he would do such a bad job necessarily; just addressing parent's argument that since the roof is demolished you can't do worse than that)
This is really strange, and is being handled very badly.

RunwayML are an official partner of Stability AI. Stability has been delaying the release of their 1.5 model for several weeks now, citing unspecified "legal concerns".

RunwayML has seemingly gone ahead and released it themselves anyway, forcing Stability to file a takedown request for leaking their IP.

In the aftermath of the AUTOMATIC1111 debacle last week, this doesn't reflect well on Stability's comms. Things seem a lot less open since investors got on board...
> Notorious for his inability to cope with defeat

what

these guys can’t be serious.

In any case, if Carlsen, Nakamura, and Chess.com are in fact colluding to stifle the anomalously fastest-ascending player, that would be quite the story.
The only Google SWEs I know with Androids were provided a Pixel as a work phone.
Looks really pretty. Would love to be able to use the output from previous requests into future requests as it's always annoying to change the input based on the previous responses.
I replaced my companies Google reCAPTCHA validation with Turnstile and so far the implementation experience has been fine. Not so different from the Google implementation and no major issues I have come across thus far.

In terms of how it actually performs, it’s only been deployed in staging and a limited user preview version of the site so far, so it’s yet to experience much of the bad traffic or edge cases that might hit the production site.
Since we know that the NIH will block research that doesn't fit whatever is fashionable at the moment how can we trust anything they put out? If contrary results are forbidden then its not science. See for example this story from yesterday..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33269567
No one is forcing you to buy that car mode. Many cars don’t have mandatory subscriptions.
If they can sue someone over growing their own wheat, they can sue over just about anything with even a tenuous link to commercial activity.
Is this GPT?
Does file system encryption drivers sound niche?
> Excel (MS Office in general) replaced similar roles, such as secretaries and accountants.

If Middle Managers were similar they would have been replaced by Excel too, wouldn’t they? Either they aren’t similar or analogy doesn’t work.
The Canadian woodworker built these structures for people who had no actual housing. Not people who had the immediate option of an actual house and just picked living in the shack for funzies.

Your suggestion that these homeless people should have just went in 'actual' housing instead is absurd, it almost certainly wasn't an option for many if not most of them in the face of the immediate expedient options.
To which of his documentaries are you referring? Adam Curtis, right?
Yeah, it's gross that consent to a breathalyzer test is a precondition for even getting a license in the first place.

Are people convicted of DUI based on breathalyzer evidence alone? I would hope that the breathalyzer is just used as a first gate (since it's relatively easy to administer), but then a conviction would require corroboration from a blood test. Then again, with our "justice" system as it is, I wouldn't be surprised if a breathalyzer is enough in some circumstances.
This is false. Price discrimination is good for consumers that opt out. In the absence of price discrimination the price ends up somewhere in between, which is worse for customers that would have paid less.
Under the GPL, contributions have to use the same license: GPL.
So no way to be sure if I bought Jon Voights car?
This will only create a market for old "used" accounts.

LinkedIn allows you to change your name and profile content as often as you wish, and doesn't keep or publicly expose any of a profile's past info.
Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770% [video]
Glad to see someone else remembers Hamachi :)

Tailscale feels as magical as Hamachi did.
No, because it's made by an advertising company and has no taste. Something else will likely become cool
I strongly recommend Pop!_OS as a great solution for 'snapless Ubuntu '. I buy System76 machines with it, but also install it on a bunch of my other non-System76 machines. The whole family uses it.
If we’re talking in the context of an organisation which has or is considering having a devops team and / or a platform team, like in the article then yeah i agree you’re not going to be apt installing a db.

There will be some mandated platform choices so that the org has a fighting chance of managing complexity and knowledge/skills within the db platform team.

I’d expect you’ll have to specify in a web form or maybe an api call that you need a document db / oltp / olap and you want it in region A and of size medium and you want an indefinite expiry date on this lease. I wouldn’t expect to have much more freedom than that, e.g. backups, point in time restore options etc will all be standardised. I’d expect to be immediately given an appropriate pre-built instance that had been provisioned and kept warm waiting for the next request of a db of these specs.

That allows the developer minimal friction but also allows the db platform team to say we provision a postgres for document db use cases not a mongodb because it simplifies platform ownership (and we just mail a link to some docs explaining how to use a postgres as a document db to the user account that requested the instance).
Is there? Simulating forward sounds doable. Some fluid sprayed from here, with this mass and so on it lands as so. Backwards from a spatter pattern on an object sounds a lot harder, not least because there will be multiple possible answers and heaps of unknown variables.
I had to resort to logging in via my phone browser the other day. Got endless spinning on desktop, on both Firefox and Chrome. Absolute trash of a website.
Aluminum just gets more brittle when exposed to high energy particles. It's not like it goes anywhere. It will still perform about as well as radiation shielding although there are better materials for that. So if you want to use the aluminum for structural purposes, especially with gravity present, you'd have to make more robust designs just to account for any embrittlement which also means more weight and therefore more fuel to get the parts off earth.
You can't sue them. That's the reason so many non-compliant consent flows are out there, and entire businesses have been built on providing them as a service.

The best you can do is to complain to your country's data protection agency (in the UK this would be the ICO, in France the CNIL, etc). The problem is that they aren't enforcing the regulation enough to deter non-compliance. It's cheaper (in fact, free most of the time, the worst you will get is be asked to get into compliance despite breaching the regulation for years) to breach it for as long as you can than to respect it.
Ironically, Law and Order SVU has an entire episode focused on that issue.
From most articles I've read on this topic, I haven't been sympathetic to the claims that GitHub Copilot violates copyright. After all, human intelligence learns by reading books and reviewing code and then producing novel code. The results are influenced by what the human inteligence has seen, and there's nothing wrong with that - all of the world's knowledge builds from prior knowledge. Trying to lock all of that away via copyright claims is not the intention of copyright law. Copyright law applies to explicit copying.

But a recent article showed some specific examples where a 15-line code chunk was clearly copied and pasted from someone's github code, with a couple variables renamed and identical comments but with '//' instead of '/* ... */'. If this were homework, it would be reported as copied.

So I suspect there's not as much "intelligence" in this system as advertised.
I don't know.

"His January sales amounted to the largest number of transactions he had reported for a single month since 2018, according to his financial disclosures."

Perhaps we could rephrase this as

"His January sales amounted to more transactions than he had reported for any month in the preceding year."

Or, if the that higher month in 2018 was early on, then "in the preceding n months". And for that matter, what was the dollar volume?

"On March 13, then-President Donald Trump announced a federal partnership with the private sector to increase the nation’s testing capability for Covid, inviting top executives at 10 companies, including Target Corp., Walmart Inc., CVS Pharmacy Inc. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., to the White House for the announcement.
Roughly 300 federal officials reported owning stock in at least one of the 10 companies at the time, their financial disclosures show."

OK, but did they buy that stock the week before?

Full disclosure: I own stock in CVS and Boeing, or maybe I don't. Like many rational and only moderately prosperous Americans, I have investments in mutual funds. I'll save the next statement and see how exquisite my timing has been.
Also, motorcyclists obeying the speed limit could save lives.
Has anyone here used an iPad as their primary editing tool?

Unless one were really constrained by weight or items, I don't know why someone wouldn't just edit on their Macbook.

I think it's great that you can do this on an iPad; I just wonder how useful it really is. The Macbook Air is pretty small and lightweight already.

It would be interesting to see a side by side editing session comparison with two people, one using an iPad, and the other using a laptop.
They are definitely going through some growing pains thats for sure.
Right what's the point of declaring a column to have type INTEGER if it really means "This column MAY contain integers, but may contain other kinds of data as well".
I think what was expressed was that there are exceptions (so, not literally always). Like road trips. We don’t need to get hung up on this. There are phrases that apply like “for all practical purposes.”

And having an L2 charger beyond a simple 220 wall outlet is no faster than the 220 wall outlet. Sure you can upgrade and get a fast L2 charger but you can more cheaply upgrade your 110 wall outlet to 220 and it will be just as fast as any installed L2 charging unit. In other words the installation of a charger is superfluous when it comes to speed of charging, which is what you have been talking about.

You might have heard of people getting faster charge times with an L2 charger versus their friend’s 220 volt outlet. But the opposite happens too: 220 outlets vary depending on amps, and so do L2 chargers. It’s possible to have an L2 charger that is slower than a 220 outlet, depending on the amps of the L2 charger and the amps of the 220 outlet.
and gerrymandering. And FPTP.
When there are violent struggles, it's not actually that uncommon for bite marks to be present on victim or assistant.

*Source - I've seen lots of episodes of Forensic Files.