skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is smart of Elon to single out Mastodon as competition rather than the open and federated ActivityPub standard of which Mastodon is only a small part. Federation is really the antithesis to Twitter's centralization.
The book goes to great pains to say that the store in question is a knockoff brand of Ikea. To be honest, those parts of the book felt a bit stilted; I had imagined them being added at the request/requirement of the publisher to avoid lawsuits.
Reddit-tier comment. Ad hominem. Ignoring.
I don't think this is correct. According to the coverage I've read, the facility in question is Rough[1] which closed in 2017. Around that time Truss was "Secretary of State for Justice" and "Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs". In case the latter sounds vaguely energy related, there's a separate cabinet post called "Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_(facility)
Of course it does, but the OP said "most". I'm also keeping a decent stock of food and other useful things, but when I compare to what US calls "prepper" I realize that's going on a whole different level. And it's not about stigma as other commenter assumed, its simply way less extensive and way less philosophical - I'm not preparing to survive the armageddon, just preparing to bridge over some flood days.
Ha! I wish I could say that was intentional. Thanks for pointing it out.
Absolute means Absolute.

And we all immediately understood those accounts were parody and not really Musk provided that you had more than a room temperature IQ.
We use all sorts of hazardous materials, which are safe if properly used, transported and stored.

C is not "unsafe" in the sense that little bits of it break off in installations and make people sick, but in the sense that the assurance of safety almost all rests on the programmer.

If code is safe, and not changed, it stays that way.
Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage frame privacy from the service operator as the norm, while the others relegate it to some “I’m being sneaky now” switch.

Framing fundamental privacy measures as sneaky mode is actively harmful to their broader adoption, paints a target on the few people who do have dire need for protection, and makes us all vulnerable to efforts to legislate against what progress we’ve made.
>If artists didn't want their art to be used (for a variety of purposes!) they shouldn't have made it freely available on the internet.

There’s all sorts of software and source code freely available online, but you can’t do whatever you want with it because of the license agreement it’s released under?

>Maybe art websites will add checkboxes to the effect of "don't use this art to train AI models" to submission forms. That won't be enforceable in court (unless the law changes), and it will only deter completely scrupulous actors much like robots.txt.

How is this any different from software license agreements, or terms of service agreements on websites? People have to check boxes all the time saying they will or won’t do certain things. And those terms are definitely enforceable (in principle).
When people say "C is unsafe", what they mean is "it is too easy to create unintended vulnerabilities when writing C". The language won't catch your mistakes, and some of those mistakes are dangerous. "Safety" in this context means "language, compiler, or runtime features to prevent, catch, or mitigate mistakes made by human programmers".

So this doesn't actually affect things built on top of C. E.g. transpiling Rust to C won't make it any less safe because C is "unsafe" - Rust has its own safety features, that work regardless of compile target.

Or think of it this way - assembly language is even more unsafe than C, yet everything (including C) is built on top of that.
>What?

Did I stutter?

These 8-10 speed transmissions absolutely make a huge difference. Just one example I'm familiar with is the Dodge charger. The 2014 model had a 5 speed automatic, and the 2015 had an 8 speed. Otherwise they are exactly the same car. The 8 speed transmission resulted in a 3MPG improvement on the highway from 27MPG to 30MPG. That is a huge improvement for only changing literally one component on the car.

Sure it's "only one component" but you 5/3rd'ed the number of moving parts in it. And "it" is a component that frequently limits the effective useful life of the car. I said that tradeoff didn't make sense until the past decade or so. An example of someone in 2015 choosing to pick up ~10% fuel economy in something that was already pushing high 20s is, to put it undeservingly charitably, not an example to the contrary.
What if that was precisely his point? Musk is a marketeer, if he can convince people that you can drive a Tesla when you are a member of the traditional right it means more business for him!

Teslas have some appeal to car people, they look sleek and have terrific acceleration, it's just unfortunate that they have an image problem because they are associated with the woke left. Elons comportment will change that view.
I understand your comment, but I think it is said from a privileged position. As a clarifying example; I don't think we would tell a young Iranian girl who is admonished in society for expressing herself to just "meet new people". Society is surprisingly immutable for a single person. I'm not even sure how to meet people if a requirement was that they would earnestly comfort a crying man.
This is an interesting point, but many have heard of those providers and they're very popular, very established, and you can generally count on a very professional and reliable service.

What I see though is that there are dozens of servers, none of which I know anything about. So it's more like if you had to select an e-mail provider from a list of domains you've never heard of before. Not impossible, but not as easy as signing up on twitter.com.
It largely depends on if there is a project freeze or a headcount freeze.

Any negative economic blip is used as a recruitement/headcount freeze where employers can cut out the 'deadwood' without market/customer/shareholder/staff negativity. In that environment, consultants and contractors are valuable because the work needs to be done, but they can't hire the staff (hiring freeze + normal churn + "it's the economy" layoffs)

On the other hand, if projects are being canned, products aren't being developed, apps aren't being launched, that sort of thing then contactors and consultants are not in demand. It does take a lot to stop projects at that scale, and they tend to be focussed on a particular sector. I can think of 2008/2009 in finance (obviously), and 9-11 in the insurance industry (travel recovered very quickly).
Motto: Unsafe languages allow mostly-safe implementations
I'd like to read the full article, but there's a paywall. Looking at the thesis, a lot of these takes seems to miss one or more of the following contexts:

1. Musk can do things other CEO's can't do because he's a celebrity with fanatics.

2. Musk is on his back foot with 1 billion dollars a year in debt interest payments.

3. Musk may be a once in a generation business genius, or he may be, I'll say "less empathetic / slower amygdala" or a number of qualities that wouldn't generalize very well. He also works like 18 hours a day. So yeah, someone else could fire half of their staff when they get into a company, but would they have the stomach for it?
At least in the medical world the security requirements of documents at rest is much higher than ones in transit. So you can't easily do efax because as soon as you have a queued pdf its at rest. (It can be done. just not easily.) So when everybody switches over to voip they usually try to keep the old fax machines going which faxing over voip is hit or miss.
I kind of agree? Granted, many people have already done this over the decades and we have set answers on the validity of these methods.
Work only allows Mac or Win to log in to their VPN.
CSS is also, notably faster for many equivalent operations, because JS has its whole single-threaded, interpreted bottleneck.
Proton VPN’s roadmap for the first part of 2023
As a side note here - it sounds weird, but if you spend your remaining time making sure the barely competent full-timer is as competent as you can, the company will certainly remember you fondly and you'll be top-of-list when it comes time to consult again (and also remember that anyone you worked with at the company may bring your name with them to another company, too).

Consultants want to not only not burn bridges, but want to build as many as they can.
Hmm, wonder if it is like the other comment said and you can for the Pro version. I just set up Windows 11 (Home) a few days ago and did not have the option to do that without a MSFT account.
First I've heard of this project. Though I don't have a use for it yet, it looks cool. Keep up the good work!
Two observations:

1. Depth-first pathfinding in an empty grid is delightfully pathological.

2. A* seems like it was born to solve binary-tree mazes, since it always seems to find a way through it on the first try.
Venezuela was 2 years ago.
In options (under General), I see there's a tick box for the feature, and it is checked. I have a button that says "Designer," and it seems to work. Nice! Next time someone in IT tells me something as moronic as "all web application authentication code must be written in C," or that "SAML authentication happens by adding a key to the HTTP header," -- both of which have actually happened -- I'll have a nice redirection to share.
Scientists decode behavioral patterns of dominance between the sexes in mammals
I know. Ultimately, the reason to use one is if you're largely working out of a house and you're goal is to avoid putting your home address on your business.

While I get what the judge is going for here, there's nothing about renting an office space somewhere that makes a patent more valid.

If anything, the contracts that allow the parent company to take 90-95% of the income should also entitle them to the same level of liability and that should have nothing to do with the shell company address. As soon as that is addressed, hopefully by law, all of this stuff goes away very quickly.
> It was fine at what it did

No need to talk in past tense. C is still the best language at what it is meant for: writing fast software. Not safe software, _fast and portable_ software.

> but the safety problems outweigh them

Safety is to speed what security is to convenience. Frankly, most of the arguments I see today are just fear mongering. In my experience, there is no protecting users from developer mistakes that lead to software exploitation and 'unsafety', independent of the language being used. Memory issues are a common avenue, but if you take it away, the next issue will become the main avenue for exploitation, and you'll be back in the same spot, with the next generation of developers fearing that the new software safety level is insufficient to reach some ideal safety level, all while having traded off real world speed across the board to reach that point.

> no new installations use it

I'm writing a tool in C. It doesn't need to be perfectly secure. It does need to be fast.

By using C we acknowledge that users want speed, more than they want safety, and that's our developer reality. That doesn't mean users don't want safety, it just means that outside of specialized domains, on average speed takes priority - people have been voting for decades that they want speed more than safety, and the process of deciding the priority is as you'd expect: users use money to buy a faster product and companies selling software invest in making their software fast first.

The security argument is also weak. The whole point of cracking software is to find flaws in existing systems, regardless of the language they were coded in. One thing will always be true: anything that sends data can be cracked. You can only make the entry bar harder, but you will not create a language that is significantly safer and as fast as C because the optimizations that make software fast (like not checking array lengths, not checking for overflow, etc) are also the ones making it less secure.

One can create a language that's safer than C and fast (in specific situations), but there will always be people cracking the core of whatever the 'safe' language du jour is, so you will have decreased security incidents on average, but have not eliminated them, while leaving room for a competitor to swoop in with a faster product that's safe enough, and it's your users who will decide who wins, not you.

Just to emphasize this, so far, I have not seen any indication that the general population will shift to picking safety over speed, so you'd be betting against your users.
Yeah this is all an internal power game. Shoigu is a laughingstock, and everyone is angling to be next-in-line by advertising what they've actually accomplished (and presumably, for the presidency after Putin retires).
SVT is public service TV in Sweden. SvtPlay their online streaming service.

Lots of opinions about SVT (as there should be, it’s public!) but if you ask me, it’s super high quality and it’s something that I’m very proud of, as someone from Sweden.
I'm so tired of hearing about this doofus.
I don't know why the server choice is so downplayed when instances can block each other and if you end up on a "wrong one" (the peer pressure to avoid guilt by association is really really strong if you look around) then you have to move around, your name changes etc. Feels like the single user self-hosting is the only way to go but I'm not sure most people would do that (let alone realize how the whole system works)

And personally whole thing feels like a weird combination of reddit and Discord where you choose your sub/server then Twitter tbh
"price gouging is when futures contango" ok buddy. there's literally an energy provider here that will more or less give you spot. and guess what, a whole bunch of people got burned doing that. the issue is there's a glut right now, go look at the futures curve going into winter then get back to me.
> MPD works great for non-tech-savvy friends over, you just need to install a web-based client and they can point their smartphone browser to it.

There are different standards for this: my non-technical friends could probably browse to a local website on their smartphones. My parents would forget how to do it each time, and would be annoyed that it doesn't look like Spotify or Apple Music.

As it is, everybody on my network is able to auto-discover the Pi using their phone or computer's native AirPlay/DLNA support and play music using their application of choice (meaning my server, their own MPD server, Spotify, whatever). That kind of flexibility was a necessity for my case.
It's really exciting to see a good EV that doesn't have the Tesla/Musk cult of personality baggage. I just want a good daily driver that doesn't try to be humanity's savior... looking at the Rivians and the Subaru Solterra (a rebadged Toyota BZ4K, I think)
Yes, because the whole web has become infected with the server side dictating rendering for you instead of just delivering documents and letting the user render how they desire.
House Numbering – The Postal Museum
If you're testing those two dimensions, there are four corner cases. It may be that for some reason somewhere in the middle is a worse case, but the extremes should certainly be tested.
Why destroy Google?

I mean: I do not use GMail anymore, owning my own mail, I do dislike Alphabet services involution and business model, while I have to admit that respect of many others "big of IT" it offer back something valuable (just compare Google Maps with anything else as a personal navigation tools in car) I dot not consider a direct action against it as positive.

If we want Freedom we need to be free. Let's start having our data on our server instead of flood someone else with crap. Let's start owing our infra instead of focusing in cloning web(cr)apps others offer to the public, so let's say coming back to Usenet instead of creating Twitter/FB/Instagram clones, using mails locally without webmails and so on. Let's start rediscovering the LARGE superiority of desktop computing vs cloud+mobile crap.

THIS, done on scale and seriously would kill any GAFAM. Play like squatters does not.
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Dockerized environments are a godsend for this problem. I keep a generic docker env that I can clone into a new project in a few keystrokes. Hello world from local in minutes or less, on a recent version of python.
OS network filtering APIs don’t work that way and another unrelated and unimportant Microsoft team can’t override it
This isn’t the first female crash test dummy at all. Dr. Mark Pearlman at University of Michigan invented a pregnant crash test dummy like 30 years ago. There are plenty of female crash test dummies.

Edit: according to congressional inquiry the NHTSA isn’t necessarily currently using “female” crash test dummies[0]. Still, they had been invented before.

0: https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-...
Either you're absolutist, or you're not. That's one of the few things I'm willing to be absolutist about. Once you start carving out exceptions, it's reasonable to start looking for more.

Personally, I think there should be all kinds of exceptions when it come to "free speech". But in particular, I don't think that "No exceptions, except this one that just occurred to me" is a sound position.
Getting a 502 Bad Gateway from that.
AI Podcast: Lex Fridman Interviews Richard Feynman
With the compiler that you verified and built yourself :)
> but is it that different from early 90s

The question is, "Is quantity a quality itself?"

And while yes, there were plenty of bullshit urban legends and propaganda pieces (generally from ones own government) out there, 'plenty' was still a rather limited number.

I'm not sure how old your kid is, but once they reach the age of infinite recursion 'why' loops you'll quickly learn that you don't have the time and energy to fend off the firehose of falsehood and will succumb to the bullshit asymmetry principle and realize that the internet can feed your kid crap much faster than you can even reply to if you don't moderate their access.
> Aren’t you going to get a lot of survivorship bias here?

So, (0) Survive, then. :-)
I'd put the division somewhere between individual consultants and consulting firms - the former often end up creating the latter and it goes downhill from there. Much has been written on it.
The light rail doesn't cover most of the population of Seattle, instead a slow train meanders far out into the suburbs. Pretend we all agreed to start taking public transit. We couldn't, even the population today couldn't use the system getting planned out to 2055, let alone account for growth.
I am inferring languages like Rust are not a replacement, but rather focus on a different problem domain already addressed in higher level languages.

Its not a complete waste of time, but I have yet to see a use-case only Rust features could better achieve. I am not smart, so may have missed something important. =)
> Hacky, non automated, low quality, not tested, hard to maintain, slow code

Have you seen truck drivers complaining they are forced to drive old trucks and not brand new Ferraris?

If low quality code gets shit done, why would company invest into high quality? Delivering goods in Ferraris might be hell of a fun for drivers, but it's a stupid decision for a trucking company.

How confident are you that your high quality will pay off? When exactly will it pay off? How confident are you that your measurement of "high quality" is not biased? How confident are you that your teammate's perception of "high quality" is not just chasing new hype?

> Business rarely needs refactorings and performance improvements, until they do, and things turns really ugly when they do

Sure, and that's why it's your job to prepare for it. Not by creating "high quality" code in advance, but by creating low quality code that is malleable.
> after Putin retires

He ain't retiring. The only way he is leaving the Kremlin is in a casket.
In my experience in China, steaks or chops aren't served uncut. In cooking at home, I usually slice meat when serving it, rather than forcing each diner to slice it themselves.

That said, I've also eaten uncut steak with chopsticks and a knife.
The 50cc and 125cc motorcycle classes are defined in the EU as both maximum volume and maximum power output in kW. So it's not too unusual to see '50cc-class' and '125cc-class' as descriptors for electric vehicles - a bit like how you could buy compact fluorescent or LED lights as '100W equivalent'.
I thought the title was supposed to be 'Putin's Chief'. Read the article, it's actually his chef, FYI.
Solving a problem and/or building a thing you are personally intensely interested in is the main thing I see over and over for all skills. Programming, woodworking, cooking, etc. If you want to make something happen you'll figure it out and bang on walls til you break through them. There is no substitute.
Still, Designer should display a notice that this is happening on first use (and until the user checks “Don’t show this anymore”, and maybe auto-turn that on again once a year), because a normal user doesn’t necessarily realize that this is happening. You shouldn’t have to be an IT/Office expert to have your privacy being respected.
I'll agree that many of the tools are bad. I have a particular dislike for how slow Word is. But, I don't think that transitioning everything to the cloud is necessarily going to help. Word is slow many times because it freezes up when syncing. And a lot of the tools are good. EAST and PE2E Search have a lot of great features for power searchers that I'd like to see in tools outside of the USPTO. (But they also have a lot of annoyances.)

I don't think more than 1/3 or so of my time is wasted due to these sorts of things. That's significant, but it won't be the game changer that doubling examination time would be.

I don't know anything about what's happening on the backend, for what it's worth. I assume that it's always near exploding.

By the way, you can find a bunch of annoying time wasters listed by examiners here: https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/y9pyfx/mild...

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)