skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why involve a human? No plate visible? Anti tank weapon launch.

Problem solves itself, the vast militarization of our police force is justified, everyone happy.
Just because a country is non-aligned, it doesn't mean it's a credible source.

For example, India relies on Russia because they have lots of Soviet equipment. This is more than just simple trading and obviously they'll think twice before making their main weapons supplier angry. Knowing this, you should question the credibility of any report they make, after all it's not in their interest to have a bad relationship with Russia.

You mentioned Indonesia. Sure, maybe non-aligned... but are they credible or impartial when they have a strong strong military cooperation with Russia? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%E2%80%93Russia_relat...

From the list of non-aligned countries you mentioned on the comment I replied to, maybe Mexico would be a more credible source on what's happening in Ukraine? Not sure, but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say.

The sanctions, the "with us or against us", etc, is a different question. What I'm trying to say is it's not in the interest of some of the non-aligned countries to be impartial when talking about this conflict. They are credible as anyone else.
The Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk autonomous regions have high percentages of ethnic Russians and voted for Russian sovereignty. In Donetsk 99.2% voted for Russian sovereignty.

I would say it's fine to invade those regions.
The earth's radius is about 6.4x10^6 meters, so 100,000 times smaller is about the size of a football field.
It's your moral duty to do something about these cars. The police are complicit in drivers killing people. Pulling the plastic off is the least you should do.
Is everyone responding to this comment high or something?

> The other Chandler was discontinued >10 years ago, but[...]
Gracious. The worst that happens in Toronto is the premier tries to sell you crack.
Calibre + DeDRM plugin can make your purchases yours. There are also sites that host pirated books.

In 2013 or 14 when I decided to get an ereader, I went from Nook to Kobo because Nook books weren't crackable, and then from Kobo to Kindle because I liked the form factor and fonts better.

The moment I can't strip DRM from Amazon books is the day I pirate everything, and will purchase deadtree books to give to the library.
99% of them are cops, NYPD is full of manchildren who live with their parents on long island or staten island. Most of them believe they're above the law and that they don't need to pay the tolls to get into the city.
There are lots of metrics / static analysis tools for this like cyclometric complexity, coverity, sonarqube, findbugs, etc.

They all make sense to a point... but can also be gamed and misused once they start being tracked.
>It doesn't have to be perfect, just better than humans.

I have a different opinion on this.

Humans don’t like uncertainty. We like to feel like our mental model of reality can predict future outcomes. When it doesn’t, we get very uneasy. It’s why we don’t like dealing with erratic humans.

Part of the problem with AI is it’s lack of interpretability. People aren’t going to want to interact with AI if they can’t intuit what it will do, even if you can show it’s statistically better. The performance barrier is going to be much higher than just a little better than humans. We don’t have that limitation when dealing with people because we can more easily infer their goals and actions.

Thinking that being a little better than humans is the threshold is a rational decision. But human trust is often irrational. The latter often drives politics which can regulate AI into a corner.
Vaughan Challenger Disaster book used that term to describe a specific bureaucratic process where hundreds of unacceptable risks in the Space Transportation System were "accepted" and managed for each launch. It has also been used to describe the process by which errors in the construction of nuclear plants are analyzed and determined to be critical, trivial, or something in between.

More frequently though people use it to describe the non-process through which doctors go into surgery without washing their hands or forklift operators get in the habit of smoking pot at work.
Modern Microsoft has been a surprisingly good steward to all of the game companies they've brought in. They bought DoubleFine and brought Psychonauts 2 to market after a decade in development hell.
>How to respond to media requests at Meta

> We’re pretty good about how to respond to requests from the press.

> Do not respond to requests for comment. We don’t comment on news stories.

> Do not respond to requests for interviews. We don’t have the time to do them.

> Do not respond to requests for information about the research behind Meta’s news and product. We don’t share the research behind our news or products.

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How to not abondon a project? I would love to know that.

This is my naive understanding. A for profit company open sources a project that they have been using and developing internally. The have built a philosophy and understanding of the project as they use and develop it. Most of their action regarding the project is that they must use it and they usually don't have any other options.

Because the foundation is already laid the solution for its shortcoming is having just an understanding of them. Then you open source the project knowing that you have developed the project to it's completion.

Now comes the OSS community. Either we request features that goes against the project philosophy or we don't want to get involved because we don't need to compromise and acknowledge the shortcomings because we have options.

A good solution can be open sourcing projects that the org thinks isn't complete and needs further development without compromising security, philosophy and usability. Because if you have a list of things you need, you can ask the OSS community to fix those things rather then be critical of the foundation and philosophy.
For posterity, the screenshot of the Tweet: https://twitter.com/0xfbifemboy/status/1592476741582614530
Man Survived the Desert by Building a Motorcycle from His Broken Car
> Also digital formats are constantly evolving and backwards compatibility for old formats is removed.

While that was certainly true at one time, Unicode text, HTML, XML, and ZIP files aren't going anywhere (or there'll be a collapse of society so thorough that print books are unlikely to survive, either).

EPUB books are basically XHTML and XML zipped up along with any external assets (e.g., images). There are nuances, but a DRM-free EPUB book should be readable indefinitely. You can check this out by unzipping the EPUB and looking at the files inside with a web browser (if you're doing it from a GUI, you will probably have to change the file extension to .zip first, so it unzips rather than opens in your ebook reader software).
> Companies exist to make money

Fiduciary duty isn't the same as company mission or purpose.

If Google did not provide some sort of product or service it would not need to exist as a company. Even if Google were a pure research lab without obvious consumer or business products or services it would still be doing non-financial work that someone thought provided some kind of benefit.

Investors are not Google's only stakeholders. Without customers or employees (for example) Google would cease to exist. Google may also discover that the general public is another stakeholder.

Google's mission statement[1] isn't actually "to make as much money as possible" or even "to provide maximum value to shareholders" but rather "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

[1] https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/
Billboards serve only as a distraction to drivers and take away from the natural beauty of the landscape, making it look like a capitalist dystopia.
DRM-laden digital books should be seen like the extra cheap paperbacks which fall apart sitting untouched on the shelf after a couple of years. Extremely different than the well-bound books one might think of when handling a 100 year old book.

Non-DRM'd ebooks in formats which are open, easily parseable, and that people care to archive should be fine for a long time. Some people here are talking about a decade as if we won't be able to parse epubs or text files in 10 years. I've got documents >30 years old already which are still easily parsed, and I don't imagine I'll have problems rendering them in another 30 years.

I'll be utterly amazed if we can't render a basic HTML document, text-focused PDF, or hell even just ASCII text in the year 2032. I also have little doubt I'll still technically be able to load my DVDs or Blu-Rays of that data in 2032 and copy it into the holographic crystal storage devices that'll come out just before that.
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hmm, but no mention of orally consumed cannabinoids, or vaped cannabinoids (dry herb or concentrate).

I feel like those are the more interesting vehicles to research for cannabis. Its been fairly well established that smoking cannabis (combustion of plant matter) is still harmful to some degree.
Here is a good start: http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/

The first thing I would do is look at usage of global state. Are there data objects used from the global scope? Are dependencies imported and then used directly from the global scope rather than being passed to a constructor? Are there any mutable singletons?

The second thing I would do is look at constructors. Are constructors calling a lot of functions (implication of global state usage), are they doing much besides taking arguments and storing them as object state? Do objects require an initialization method be called?

The third thing I would do is look for "law of Demeter" violations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter):

Explicit violation:
doesSomething.callSomethingElse().thatCallsSomethingElse().thatCallsEvenAnotherThing()

Not any less of a violation but looks better:
a = doesSomething.CallSomethingElse()
b = a.thatCallsSomethingElse()
c = b.thatCallsEvenAnotherThing()

Next I would make percentiles of lines of code per scope. How many lines of code does the average function have? How many lines of code does the average class have? As well as look at un scoped functions (implies global state usage) and the outliers for lines per scope (what does the class with the most lines of code in scope look like, what does the longest funciton look like)?

I would probably keep raw counts of the number of functions, classes, imports, if's, and loops themselves.

Obviously anywhere you see lines of code, it might make more sense to look at number of ifs and loops since that is probably a more accurate measure of complexity.

I would definitely (and actually probably first) look at the database tables/how they are represented in the code.

More qualitatively, I would look at what kind of logging and time series data are exported.

I would look at how exceptions are handled in the main loop.

I would look at separation of business logic from server logic.

I would look for strong layers (business logic probably shouldn't be intermingled with presentation logic).

I would probably grep a sample of TODOs and grep a sample of comments.

I would look at test coverage and test implementation (unit and integration).

I would look at test run time.

I would look at build time.

I would try to look at a dependency graph.

I might look at git blame to see how many people edit how many different files.

I would look for bazel/build logic.

I would look at the build script itself to see how assets are generated and stored.
Or, put in the language of risk, probability and severity
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A zero config full-stack web framework in Typescript using HTMX and a routing structure.
There are tons of DRM-free ebooks out there, including some from major publishing houses.
I find it to be better than ever. Outside of sports I almost never see ads.

Video is available when I want it. The amount of content seems almost endless.
I am a professional technical neologista, anyone can learn the skill with practice.
This is the mentality that sells cars for >$100k - peoples whole ego is locked up in these things.

Mate, we are all just trying to get somewhere safely.
Your comment has a lot of innuendo:

> sleep with you

There is no allegation or proof the agent had a sexual relationship with the defendant

> ply you with drugs

The agent in question smoked weed with the defendant. Your use of "drugs" here is innuendo for sure. And there's nothing saying the agent either "plied" the defendant with said weed (is it so unbelievable for the defendant to smoke weed in Michigan?) and definitely nothing proving that the agent drugged the defendant to get them to incriminate himself.

Also keep in mind a few more things:

1. Multiple people were charged for plotting to kidnap the governor. That's a fact. You obviously believe that it was a complete FBI false flag or something of that sort? But that's conspiracy theory as it stands.

2. Plotting to kidnap a governor is a serious crime! Your comment tries to diminish that. But that is an act of domestic terrorism and embedding FBI agents in said groups trying to do such a plot is not untoward. That's their job.

3. Your source is the Washington Examiner (heavily conservative leaning is a nice way to describe it), and the content is only statements by the defendant with the weakest corroboration by the FBI. A grain of salt is needed for sure.
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Somehow most players have way darker skin, now we know why. /s
It's pretty good at generating convincing-sounding, yet completely wrong, mathematical proofs. Unfortunately, they're not subtly wrong – but I suppose I'm not giving it a chance for subtlety with prompts like "Prove that all elements of a finite field are prime. (Show your working.)".[0]

> 1. Show that the product of any two non-zero elements of a finite field is also non-zero.

> 2. Let α be an element of a finite field. Prove that α is prime if and only if α-1 is non-zero.

> 3. Show that if α is a prime element of a finite field then α-1 is also prime.

> 4. Deduce that every element of a finite field is prime.

[0]: https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=400&prompt=Prove+that+...
> And local government officials run on platforms of vowing not to let police enforce these sort of actions. Not allowed to enforce speeding fines, parking fines, lack of license plate fine, public nuisance fines.

Seems like a mischaracterization to me. I have heard reducing pre-textual stops such as turning too wide or improper signal use, etc. Haven’t seen anything about not enforcing speed limits or allowing people to drive without a license plate.
On the other hand, I'd say that absent sufficient data, one should pick the most flexible tool, which I'll bet in this context is the one with the most moving parts, i.e. git.

Outside of the Git fanboy bubble, developers don’t want to have to be version control experts, which once you get past a certain level of Git usage, you have to be, whether you wanted to or not.

Especially if your team doesn’t have that person who can get you out of any Git jam you may get yourself into.

It will also be much faster to get a new developer up to speed using Sapling than Git. And because it’s Git-compatible, if there’s something super advanced that can only be done using the Git command line, that’s still an option.

Telling the intern/junior developer to read the man page for git-log is a non-starter; it’s over 19,000 words!

The best thing for the greybeards is they can continue using Git while others use Sapling and commit to the same repo.
Presumably yeah. Like the Robinhood stake is surely going to be liquidated. Do they own large stakes in many other liquid companies?
When you drill into the social justice argument, at least some forms of them, the injustice is essentially that the poor are forced to drive and the bus service sucks. If you are concerned that the cost of registering a car, or paying tickets for expired plates, or repairing your headlights is outrageous and can cause a marginal person's financial life to spiral out of control, your first and best tool is better public transportation.
Digital books are fine. You can get many of them without DRM.

DRM sucks. Period. But as of today, it can be removed after purchase, which means its longevity will depend on backup strategies, not licensing servers.

Can that change? Sure. But it's not the case today, and we don't see it on the horizon.
Spraypaint a private key (or any unique symbol, really) to prove you did it.
> ...is not vandalism

It is. It definitely is.

I get that it's annoying to see someone getting away with something. But that doesn't make it your right to address it however you see fit.

The point I'm trying to get across is that even though the other guy is wrong, that doesn't make it alright for you to do whatever you want in response.

The lawyer is doxxing the guy too. People really need to get a perspective on this kind of thing.
Is this a capital strike ?

Everyone just itching to engineer a recession.
Power, money, and glory corrupt. This is generally what happens with a lack of effective competition in the market.
Toyota make terrific vehicles but their performance marketing is hilarious
Just imagine.
A COO only has 3 high level things to do (sounds easy but is really hard because it is a blank slate)

1) Figure out what needs to be measured (KPIs, metrics, etc) in specifics

2) Be able to measure items listed in step 1 accurately and timely

3) Make changes to improve what you are measuring (efficiency, volume/counts, speed/rate, etc)

Keep repeating steps 1 to 3
There's a difference and it's just the letter of the law.

You get convicted of "providing material support to terrorism" when the person you're plotting to kidnap is a governor.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s support for Democrats is massively overstated
At first, I thought it was referring to the conversation program, Eliza.

Then I thought it was referring to a programming language, Eliza.

Now I think it is referring to a modern programming language created to replicate the implementation of the conversation program, ELIZA.

The whole thing could have been far less confusing if:

1. The page provided more context about what ELIZA is.

2. If ELIZA is indeed a programming language (a Lisp?) inspired by the original ELIZA, it would be a good idea to give it a different name.

Anyway, it was frustrating to read this page so I have stopped.
Yep, my family has been a victim of assault with a deadly weapon (handgun) and OPD (almost) literally refused to take a report.

Called 911.

"Is this an emergency?"

"No this happened ten minutes ago in front of our house."

"Then you need to report it through the online crime reporting system" [click]

Um, ok. [report, report, report]

[next day]

Email from OPD says, report rejected because this kind of crime must be reported to an officer in person.

Called OPD.

"We'll send an officer"

[24 hours later]

Call again

"We'll send an officer"

[24 hours later]

[voicemail] This is officer XXX, I'm standing in front of your house, can you talk now? Here is my number (510) 555-4321, call me any time.

(I couldn't talk to him because I was away from my house)

[call the officer at the number he gave]

"The voice mail box at 555-4321 has not been set up, please try again later."

On and on. I finally gave up, which I think is the result they're shooting for. Talking to neighbors, I'm clearly not the only one with this experience. I'm a stupidity-over-malice kind of person but at this point I feel malicious compliance or malicious incompetence is not out of the question.
You could queue it up to send chunks of reassuring alibi video (or checksums of same) while you are doing your murders or crimes.

Put another way, the possibility that you could have done that renders the timestamping useless.
From other tweets I've read, the senior tech people could have told him something correct — that loading the timeline results in thousands of requests to microservices — but he misunderstood it — those requests do not at all originate 1:1 from the client, and they are not a huge factor in the overall latency.
Amusingly, I would counter that the people who think this is vandalism are the ones who are lacking in perspective.
Why are you making these outlandish claims - of course it is not. You do not even pass intent.
If you don't copy those files to new media, the piece of hardware itself that they reside on may be unusable. How easily can you read some HTML sitting on a 500 megabyte IDE drive from 1995, versus a book printed in 1995? If you come across such an object, you don't even know what is on it, and whether it is worth it to delve into it.
Elysium 1.0
All unpaid legacy Blue checkmarks will be removed in a few months
Yes yes, though you forgot the "(except on Windows phone)" part ;P... but the issue is that if the company ever has to make a serious decision between better organizing the world's information and making more money for shareholders and it doesn't optimize for the money, then that's where the fiduciary duty part comes in and why it seems entirely fair to say that that's the company's actual purpose, not whatever tag line makes them feel better about it (and yes: this is why public companies are essentially all inherently evil).
People are referencing wilderness scenarios here— which absolutely a great use case— but it’s more than that.

Not long ago I drove a long distance along plain old US interstates. With about 400 miles in between two major cities there were a few stretches of 5-10 miles where I didn’t have cell service, sometimes 25-40 miles in between local town exits or gas stations. Had I not scouted the routes ahead of time, I would have had no idea where to go or which direction to walk if there was a problem, much less an emergency like crashing where I couldn’t walk.

There are still large gaps in coverage as large as not-walkable-in-a-day in what you’d think are at least minimally developed areas. And they are minimally developed, but you’ll have no idea of what direction that developed portion is if you’re stuck without cell service or an actual physical map.

No one should go on any long car trip letting GPS guide the way without scouting the route a bit ahead of time to know what’s nearby in sparse areas. Apple is filling that “oh f$ck” gap a bit. Nice feature.
Last year I decided to exit the Kindle ecosystem after buying quite a few books in it, and cracking the DRM was a pretty near thing. I was lucky to have an older Kindle device sitting around that didn't support Amazon's latest DRM. It seems like they may be winning the arms race.

As an individual with a few hundred ebooks rather than an institution with millions of them, I'm a lot less concerned about losing my un-DRM'd files and/or the ability to read them, but I very nearly lost my entire ebook library just because I fell into Kindle's convenience trap. I've decided now to only buy ebooks that don't have DRM.
Took long time to track the full path of the blue ball.