skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah totally these fragile snowflakes crying "boohoo I lost my career that I had been working on for my entire life and people harass me whenever I appear in public and call me a sham :..("

All you need to maintain your mental health is a good bottle of whisky and a stiff upper lip!
As a "normal" driver, the pulsating lights absolutely are annoying... and don't even get me started on those loud ass pipes!

Now, as a motorcyclist who has been hit head-on more than once by drivers who swore "I didn't even see him!" -- with the last crash leaving me with multiple broken bones and an inability to walk for several months -- you better believe I now have both a pulsating headlamp and a nice set of loud ass pipes (they're even called "Street Cannons")! on my bike.

I've also lost a non-zero number of friends due to folks who swore they didn't see them.

It's now been eight years since I've gotten hit... so I really am sorry if my headlight or pipes bother you as I pass by but, well, I have loved ones I'd like to see again so I hope you'll forgive me.
AutoScore: An Interpretable Machine Learning-Based Clinical Score Generator
Is there an easy way to get Arch on WSL?
Parler accidentally exposed its elite members private email information
It's good, but I get occasional sites that refuse to load at all. I get a blank screen. Oddly though, if I look in the dev tools, network tab and see the response, the page is there. It just doesn't get rendered. When I go through Cloudflare DoH, it works fine.
It is amusing watching some of the discourse over the implications if this project was to actually succeed in its goal of making cities as they where before the Eisenhower act demolished downtown's[0]. There is some research[1] coming out of the University of Colorado showing that by prioritizing bike lanes, all road users end up safer. It would then only logically conclude if you removed cars that it would only cause further advancements in safety.

[0]https://www.archdaily.com/981425/did-a-highway-kill-the-city...
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYeNz1jCkM&t=8s
(Specific, upstream-provided) PPAs are the main reason I use Ubuntu Server. Given that they're built against Ubuntu's separately-version-sequenced package ecosystem, I can't expect PPAs that install cleanly on Ubuntu to be able to find the same packages required to install cleanly on Debian. If I could, I'd just use Debian and then forcibly add the PPAs as apt sources.
The Federal Reserve sets interest rates for banks. To slow rising prices, they have been increasing interest rates, which makes people want to buy more bonds because they have better returns. As more money moves into U.S. dollar-based investments, the value of the dollar rises, and the investments based in other currencies that were sold to buy them decrease in value.
I don’t understand the price of YouTube premium at all, it’s way too expensive for what it offers compared to other streaming services:

- YouTube does not produce its own content, nor does it pay licensing fees.

- a premium account is for a single user only, no ‘who is watching’ profiles, meaning you need a subscription for each individual.

- there is still an insane amount of ads in videos.

- you get a bundled music subscription, or can choose to pay less but then it has arbitrary playback restrictions.

- even the lite tier is at least or more expensive than other mainstream streaming services (besides Netflix), which don’t have the same drawbacks.
Tesla is working on next-gen electric car platform for half the price
> nobody knows how common it is for someone to have very similar fingerprints to another person

Your last example is definitely a good counterexample to this, but I feel in most of cases, the suspects are very few so fingerprints only need to be able to distinguish one of the others, than say, identify a random dude from billions. So it's still useable.

It's like while SHA-1, or even CRC32, is totally incapable for security, it's still perfectly fine to be used to detect if a known file is corrupted (through natural cause, not deliberately altered) or not.
Korean auto giant Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain
“We” didn’t take parler offline. AWS did, surely after some pressure. In addition to this, Twitter should and is held accountable by society. You can’t possibly have missed the entire debate on its moderation. Of course, twitter also does more to
Moderate the content on its site than Parler did which is what got it booted off AWS. Few services want to be associated with radical ideologues spreading violence.
100% complexity beats assumptions
If my test suite never ever goes red, then I don't feel as confident in my code as when I have a small number of red tests.
ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
Yep, I've done this too. I had a video with a live youtube transcript for a talk, but in addition I had a manually written transcript from one of the attendees. She wasn't trying to make it word-for-word perfect, but it was reasonably close and obviously had better formatting.

The automatic transcript was fairly poor quality but had fairly precise timestamps. The manual transcript lacked timestamps but was high quality. So I used an approximate matching algorithm to combine them and produce a clickable version of the manual transcript where every group of words was a direct link to that portion of the youtube video. It all worked out surprisingly well. (The other piece was that I hand-inserted annotations to produce an index of various topics and concepts that I thought were significant.)

I don't know how common of a situation this is, since it requires having a high-fidelity human-created transcript. I could clean up the tools and release them, I suppose. I did this for a birthday present.

(I don't have a demo because it's a private video, sadly, and I have rights to neither the video nor the manual transcript.)
I believe the parent is talking about dedicated barcode readers (wands, scanners, etc...). Some of them are camera based.

Smartphone based barcode reading software/SDKs made any dedicated reader for consumer use largely obsolete.
It's in good company as macOS/XNU/Darwin userland is based on 4.4BSD-Lite2 and an ancient version of FreeBSD.
This is like saying "Dont hate the player hate the game"

No I am perfectly capable of rightly placing blame on both. In this context the Cops, prosecutors and judges all have an ethical duty to the truth. All 3 seem to have forgotten that underlying obligation in the system

They want that "win", that conviction, that revenge, or what ever.

So yes I will blame the judge for letting bad "evidence" in that lacks proper foundation, but I will also blame the cop that is presenting the "evidence" and the prosecutor that presented the "evidence"

Our systems have layers for a reason, we can not and should not have to relay solely upon the Judge as the first, last and only line of defense here.
Agreed about not modifying the helmet but I could imagine a helmet with such a thing built in.
> Fauci was the one in charge of the response to AIDS, which everyone seems to agree was horrendous, yet he's now a national hero.

That's a very self-serving argument cherry picking from history.

Fauci was initially hated by the AIDS activists in the 80s but worked to gain their trust. You also don't factor in the societal hate americans had towards the gay population preventing research towards a cure.

Here's an article that gives a detailed account of what it was like back in the 80's.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/the-her...
If it was a FOSS project, they probably wouldn't be inclined to strip licenses out wholesale. If there was a way to get Copilot to emit proper attribution, the issue would be moot.
Women in Forensic Computing 2023 – Cyberkriminalität Und Forensische Informatik
Isn't it enough infections already to sell tons of drugs, why to design the new for this case?
This presents a summary of all the bullshit science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0
Now if we can just get Logic (with VSTs). I'd love to leave my MBP at home when I'm on the road and still be able to write music.
Yep. The cuecat worked by making keystrokes.

The trouble with your analysis is I think few people wanted a barcode scanner back then and the ones that did wanted a reliable barcode scanner. A $40 barcode scanner you buy off ebay from a chinese manufacturer is not going to save you any time or hassle by scanning UPC codes although it might do OK with QR codes. A Cuecat was much worse.
LumaFusion is a fantastic app, but I do find it a bit fiddly to use sometimes - really precise edits are much harder than they should be. Looking forward to giving Resolve a go though.
Right to repair laws would help here.
Sure. It's a physical object, reflecting broadband light from nearby stars. The colors would be different, and you might not see the same fine structure without filters, like how the Sun looks very different through a Calcium K line filter https://thelonelyphoton.com/2022/01/08/solar-imaging/

Given its size the density is probably pretty low, though. If you got right up next to it you wouldn't see much, in the same way a fog bank gets less visible when you walk towards it.
>Equal opportunity, not equal outcome, should be the goal of a free society

That's well and good, but coming from Quillette, I'm suspect that this is a diffusion of responsibility tactic intended to muddy the waters in a way that accomplishes nothing. Let's give the author the benefit of the doubt; well, what then?

Let's say we agree that equality of opportunity is a shared goal. Are there any responsibilities anyone has to meet that goal? Who exactly has to do anything at all?

It quickly becomes a case where using a "better metric" equates to worse outcomes. But that was sort of the point all along, wasn't it?
I perform all three roles for one company. I agreed to it upfront. I do it in less than 40 hours a week at a very respectable salary. I get maybe 1 after hours call a year for an Ops task. My boss knows that I won't do QA or Ops nearly as well as I do Dev, and he knows that QA and Ops time come out of Dev time (not personal time) and he's okay with that because that's the stage we're in.

If you think that is a scam, I don't know what to tell you.
This is an incredibly weak analogy because parents regularly limit access to sites for their children and it’s seen as a healthy treatment of the internet. I must say I’m completely lost on what you were intending to get across
I totally agree with the first part of your comment.

I want to add that there's a real possibility that legislation to address this (totally legitimate) issue goes too far and makes it even harder for non-wealthy people to run for public office - I think it's unreasonable for a new congressperson who owns a home and a small amount of an S&P index fund to have to set up a blind trust for their partner's uncle.
From everything said about Hans the thing that sticks out to me the most is his analysed centipawn loss over all his games. Typically, as someone improves, both their loss per move and loss-variance falls. For hans, there is limited improvement over time and a high variance in the quality of his moves. He effectively has played at a 2700 level for a couple of years... This seems to be unusal compared to compariable pros.

I have listened to some his interviews recently and he talks extensively about engine analysed lines. He talks about avoiding lines he hasn't analysed or is uncertain on. I wouldn't be surprised if he has optimised his development on engine analysis. It would explain a high number of highly accurute games. It would also explain the variance in his play where he forced into unknown lines.
Yes. In order:

A well predicted branch costs 0. This is the best case and why branching code can sometimes be faster.

An instruction that needs a previous instruction to compute has some pipeline stalls. This is slower than the above and why branchless code can be slower.

A mispredicted branch costs a full pipeline flush. The worst case. This is why we avoid branches but we shouldn't do so blindly since it might not be common in a given program.

So it depends. I discourage removing branches in general unless you have benchmarks to back it up.
I obviously didn’t say that. The exception for motorcycles is extremely limited — it’s more of a high frequency pulsing than a flashing.
Eh disagree. It’s been invaluable for keeping up with former colleagues. And finding contacts to assist with business.
This depends on the exact circumstances of how your career was ended.
It's pretty good for internal apps. I wrote a lot of fully custom internal apps using SharePoint. Written in Svelte, hosted on SharePoint site and - lists, workflows, and API as backend.
And public figures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
Or on the top of any hill (Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, etc. etc. etc.)
Why musicians are burning out like never before
I think the relevant transplant is bone marrow, since that produces Red Blood Cells. Here is an article about it:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transp...
Was the codebase supposed to be generic, or did someone wanted more weird challenges in his life?
Hydrogen is markedly more energy-dense than kerosene, by unit weight. It takes up more room, and in particular more room than fits in wings. So it needs a different tankage scheme. Underwing nacelles seem practical.

Hydrogen works fine in jet engines, but also in fuel cells driving electric turbines.

Once aircraft using hydrogen enter a route, kerosene craft become unable to compete, because the huge reduction in fuel weight translates to substantially increased paying-cargo capacity.

It will depend on infrastructural changes, in particular synthesis from grid power and storage at airports, and a cheap renewable-power surplus.
Is this the same effect as seen in the precession of Mercury's perihelion?
So a likely extremely controversial paper being shared publicly to a non-expert audience prior to any peer-review.

Is this going to be yet one more of those “will be withdrawn after peer scrutiny but by then it is too late because the false meme has been injected into the public consciousness” things?
> Yes, imo - because they don't just mistrust - they randomly trust alternatives.

> Mistrust is warranted, definitely. Trusting random sources that fit their heavy bias is something we should all be hyper aware of and fight. Yet we don't.

Not exactly, IMHO mistrust is a two step process: 1. mistrust and 2. find alternatives to trust instead, in that order. I think 1 always starts first, through 2 can accelerate/reinforce it.

Mistrust puts one in an awkward, unsupported position in a world where things are way to complicated for one person to process, and it should be expected that it will take a long time for an individual to find an adequate replacement for institutions that have lost their trust (probably through trial-trusting other institutions then mistrusting them, too).
If you were ethically inclined toward such things, I've read posts online of people using VPNs to sign up for Youtube Premium from Argentina to pay a reduced rate.

I can't vouch for the effectiveness, but googling does show some people report having tried it successfully.
-- the lawyer he is using is an interesting choice - https://www.gartnerlawfirm.com/ - has no particular specialty in this - somewhat reads like an ambulance chaser --
I didn't send the number. It sent a (base64, IIRC) encoded version of the barcode, along with a serial number for tracking purposes. It was fairly quickly reverse engineered, but never quite as simple as some of the contemporary barcode scanners that just entered raw numbers.
I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand the idea of subscriptions for components that are physically present in the car and don't require ongoing cost by the manufacturer to support them is annoying.
On the other hand I think that there could be some advantages to that model. The costs of cars seem to going up considerably because of all the advanced features. If it is possible to standardize some of the manufacturing process to reduce cost and control access to items with software that could be a win. It would also be nice to have the ability to try features out in your real live before deciding if you want them. Or it could allow drivers to add features for short periods of time. It might not make sense to buy heated seats if you live in Florida, but are travelling to Colorado for a ski vacation paying $10 to unlock if for a month might an awesome feature.

I think the middle ground would be to require manufacturers to offer a lifetime unlock option for any feature that could be subscribed to without an ongoing maintenance cost.
Not if they're right.

If they're right and he faced severe mental health consequences as a result of people correctly pointing out he has cheated for pride and money, in the words of the great Ben Finegold all I can say is...

The truth hurts.
I sorry, I didn't make my point very clearly: I think this article is raises non-issue, intended to create conflict and bad feelings. They say that the opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy; I am ambivalent about this article and am not invested enough to knowledgeably discuss it. I'm not an SF resident, and I don't know how much it would reasonably cost to put up a durable and safe public toilet in a high cost, seismically active urban area. I don't have time to figure that out, so I'll assume the people involved are doing their best and I will go on with my life. There are a lot of people here focused on unproductive negativity, and that is not good for them or Hacker News as a community.

The truth is there is always something to get outraged about somewhere, and rather than focusing on them everyone should do their best to live with dignity, integrity, and empathy.
How long until half the subjects in an IT degree are provided by the faculty of law?
Most of the licenses that the article is referring to that take four years don't have any educational requirement. They take four years because they require that you have four years (or equivalent) or work experience.

Here are the license requirements:

1. Four years work experience or equivalent in the particular field you are trying to get licensed in. Some of the work experience can be replaced with college classes from an accredited program.

2. Passing an exam (or 2 exams for a few specialities). To give an idea of what such exams are like, here are descriptions of the exams you have to pass fir a gypsum drywall contractor license.

2A. Gypsum drywall trade knowledge exam. 5 hours, 80 questions, open book covering topics such as gypsum and gypsum wallboard installations, taping and texturing, metal stud walls and ceiling grid systems, and special applications. More details on what is covered here [1].

2B. Business and finance exam. 6.5 hours, 120 questions, open book covering topics such as establishing a contracting business, managing administrative duties, managing trade operations, accounting stuff, managing human resources, and complying with regulations. Here's more detail [2].

[1] http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/servop/testing/document...

[2] http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/servop/testing/document...
> Which means that a generation or two down the road, strategic adversaries may have tech to alter intelligence and other mental traits, because they will know what to edit and how.

We know that we'd improve the intelligence of children across the board if we had free school lunches and classes started at 11am. That's pretty low hanging fruit for a country with our resources, so why haven't we accomplished this?
Nowadays DNA is matched by a proprietary software that nobody knows if it's buggy or not. But I've never seen a non buggy software before…
Does it work with twilio sip trunking?
That's much more than I expected. That being said, it's not really the same as Jones: chess.com's revenue comes from a paid service, one that's basically orthogonal to any support they've lent to the cheating accusations. This is in contrast to InfoWars, where a significant income driver was Jones's repeated defamations.
Across the whole thing. Tangling the hose did not separate the flow into separate actions.
It’s a VoIP app, network traffic is likely.
Google Q2: 70B, ads: 57B, cloud 6B. Net profit: $16B

But money > more money so hey
On iOS you can define a two-step Shortcut that does this (type or dictate text and then send it by email to a predefined address [0]). I imagine there are similar facilities on Android.

[0] “Ask for Input” followed by “Send Email”, deactivate “Show Compose Sheet” on the latter. Then use the microphone symbol for speech recognition on the initial text input.
Worst idea ever. I have never and will never give LinkedIn (or similar platforms) my work email address.

I strictly separate work from personal stuff. Work stuff gets my work email. Personal stuff gets my personal email.

Traveling for work and need to book a hotel? Work email.
Apple Id for work laptop? Work email. New account per employer. Gets disassociated and closed before I hand in my laptop.
Electronic pay slips? Personal email.
Health insurance account? Personal email.
Apple Id for personal laptop? Personal email.

There are things I need or want access to without being dependent on my employer.

LinkedIn has nothing to do with my work. It's personal. It's about me. I list information about me. It's like a CV. No I should not have to update my CV through my work email account where my employer has access to information they shouldn't and where I can't update it if I no longer work there.
There are Android phones sold at least in Russia without Google services at all. People use them mostly fine.

And no, it's not mandatory for developers to use Google Play. It's a bit more work to DIY your app distribution, but you get total independence in exchange. It's ultimately developer's choice to make.
This is completely incorrect, at least for the US.

As I understand it (not a lawyer, but did take an IP law class a number of years ago), all creative works get copyright by default. A list requiring no creativity, such as a complete alphabetical list of names and phone numbers, has no copyright, or at least "thin" copyright. However, lists that show creativity ("most important phone numbers in the US") have copyright even though the facts they contain are not copyrighted.

"Optimized algorithms" are most definitely creative. Even a straightforward implementation of an algorithm has creativity, if only in naming, the use of `for` vs `foreach` vs `while`, and any machine/OS/language specific details.

Class structures and code organization is definitely copyrighted: Google's (successful) defense in Google v. Oracle was not that APIs (class structures and organization) are not copyrightable, but that their use of the APIs was fair use. Comments are even more copyrightable, as they are creative writing describing the code. Unless your comments are mechanically generated, I guess, then the phone book ruling could hold, but in that case you should improve your comments.

A more accurate rule of thumb is that everything is copyrighted.
Lot of people here with opinions about using Ubuntu as a desktop OS. Seemingly nobody here with opinions about Ubuntu as a server OS. Strange for a bunch of startup people who ship their SaaS backends on Linux servers.
"2biteencryption", name checks out
Just to add a bit of positivity in the sea of negativity - thanks for Ubuntu, it has been very impactful in the ecosystem!