skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A `DELETE FROM` function can be used for good or bad. A gun can be used for good or bad (see the war in Ukraine, it can be used to murder or protect your family from murderers).

A code change excluding a known, named entity from safety checks is more like rigging a bridge to explode when your enemy crosses the bridge.

Zero ambiguity.
> It does not have clear boundaries

They absolutely have boundaries that a lawyer or prosecutor can use to make a case in a court of law. How do you think the law works? Interpretation of laws is a big part of how the common law system works.
Beginner-friendly introduction to Free Monads
The real question is: Why didn't they spend that money on a different company?
Sepp Holzer uses pigs to "waterproof" his ponds. They roam around and eventually compress the earth. And he famously said, if you don't have pigs, you will have to do the pigs' work!
no I didn't see it, I guess you and others with similar answer are right, I'll know what to watch for next time!
I think most of the world either uses a US layout, or other layouts that don't have that key.
Your brain
If Sony and Apple contribute their changes upstream, they benefit from each other’s changes.

If they do not contribute upstream, they do not benefit from each other’s changes.

That’s their choice. It’s arrogantly coercive and authoritarian to try to use market position to force them to make one choice or another.
Can we stop calling him a "billionaire", or a "former billionaire". Did he ever actually have a billion of his own assets?
>An electric car produces no CO2 over its lifetime.

It just appears, fully-made and with no CO2 spent on its manufacture?
very graceful answer, thank you!
The number of vagrants had been decreasing YoY from ~2000 to 2020. I think the effect you see in cities is an increased concentration of vagrants from numerous states and other cities into just a few. I do believe homeless population has generally increased over the last 2 years, so I won't belay this point any further.

Real dollars and wages have not increased a lot... for the average citizen, but has increased tremendously for those with more skills. Nevertheless, the average citizen does have more purchasing power compared to their rough equivalent ~50 years back. The main culprits of rising costs is healthcare, housing, and education. Housing has performed it's worst effect on the average American over the last 2 years, but before that was quite steady in relative cost to the average income. Food, entertainment, clothing, transportation, and communication are now much more affordable, inflation over the last 2 years has also put a dent into the relative cost to the average income, but nevertheless still better now than previous.

What solutions are there for the average American? Take advantage of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease, learn new skills and drive forth competition. Stagnant industries will have to adapt or they will die.

I don't think reality is quite so dire. There's not a lot that can convince me, I'm well aware of wage stagnation, I'm well aware of inflation YoY, I'm well aware that the average American is hurting quite a bit over the last 2 years. But in the long run, the average American is doing OK, and will be doing OK. Hopefully, OK turns into GOOD and thriving. Happy to be proven wrong though.
Companies House: Identity verification for new companies in the UK
> The question is did he personally benefit from the change made more than his usual salary?

That’s not the question — as in, it won’t be an element of any of the crimes he’s eventually charged with. The question is whether he was knowingly or recklessly involved in a scheme to defraud people.

And just generally, legal reasoning does frequently use analogies but they need to be tighter than the ones you’re using. This case isn’t much like building a faulty bridge.
Ground-based alternative to GPS achieves 10 cm accuracy
I don't want to be rude but IMHO part of the training is choosing the right tools for the task
Investors normally always have at least 1x liquidation preferences. Common stock is usually always wiped out when a company is sold for less than it raised.
Push ESP32 over the Air Updates from GitHub
Possibly. On the other hand, I’m not sure I’ve ever read any of my own company’s press releases. Was this guy an officer of the company?
I'm not sure if this is better or worse.
A gun has many purposes, some legitimate (law enforcement, "defense" etc), others less so. A code change that allows the company to do illegal things has no legitimate purpose.

I think what's up to debate is to what extent the developers were lied to regarding the purpose of the code. Maybe they were told it was for testing purposes only, or the higher ups managed to convince them that it's ok despite them questioning it. I suppose those things will come up during investigation and will certainly affect their sentences, but I don't think they will be off the hook that easily.
They also steal/stealing black hiphop and other music from around the world specially black.
IDN Is Crazy
Technically I agree - it's just one of those things that quite a few platforms do... It's similar to the eufy stuff circulated about recently. User uploads XYZ, they expect it to be "private" - platform devs decide private == obfuscated via a super long file name (a bit layman, sorry) in some kind of object storage.

While there's definitely a method of securing the access to the uploaded content to those who should have access, it's often not implemented that way since your uploaded content would be statistically improbable to "guess" and even more improbable to tie it back to you.

I came off a little direct, straight up saying it was not a vulnerability without context. While I still stand by it not being a vuln from a sec perspective, it's definitely not great.
Let’s use spreadsheets to rewire apps and make new ones
Great to see this happen! Should have been done a long time ago.
Having been burned by equity of nothing too often I tend to flat out refuse equity in general, but since you bring it up what is the advice/recommendation here?
I think it's quite common for competitive programmers and code golfers to have their own language, often inspired by APL. They often do not require any ecosystem as they are supposed to only solve puzzles, so it's really easy to develop them.
Yep. Flickr does a lot of things right in comparison: holds onto and prominently displays camera metadata (EXIF), doesn't strip your color profile, allows uploading in wide gamuts to all clients (no sRGB conversion), doesn't compress the living hell out your photo, much more lenient on photo dimensions allowed to upload which is great for panoramas (not limited to square and squarish crops), allows editing not just the post data but also the license and the image itself after upload (maybe you realized it was darker than you thought and need to make a tweak), holds onto an original copy of the upload for archival reasons (I've used in a pinch when someone needed a hi-res copy and I wasn't attached to my NAS), and the, not to gatekeep, lack of everyday phone shots made the platform great to just browse by 'interestingness' and not being slapped with memes or influenerse or low-quality stuff for your friends but not a portfolio.
I wonder what one could do with a Raspberry Pi and this?
Taichi Fuels GPU-Accelerated Image Processing: A Beginner to Expert Guide
> they're quite honest

I've come to appreciate the "when X is not the right choice" that some projects list. Even if it's the right choice it often provides additonal information because it deliberately takes a different perspective.

Related to "being honest" are the many bullet points some projects lists as features only to have you discover very much later that it's more like a roadmap without saying so. Just be honest when you describe your project because exaggerations will only lead to frustration among potential users.
Congratulations? I'm not saying you need to care or whatever, I'm just saying you shouldn't dismiss people who do need to care for whatever reason.

Great that you always have access to a computer with 64+ GB RAM, but not everyone is quite so lucky.
In other words it's a game dependent on network effects, which definitely makes for an uphill battle. You _have_ to go viral.
Then it's irrelevant. The point is that the remainders are evenly distributed as the integer is incremented, with at most a single round being short. That's just how the math works.
What I hear you say is that some publicly available third-party libraries written for use with JS are changing very often, and introduce incompatibilities and breaking changes.

And you write that some publicly available third-party libraries written for use with .NET change less often and/or do not introduce incompatibilities and breaking changes (as often).

Two true statements, which are totally and entirely unrelated to the JavaScript and .net.

> Bringing in libraries shouldn't mean burdening yourself with so much future incompatibility.

I agree, but it does, and the more active the library, the worse.. If you don't believe me, try writing absolutely cutting edge stuff in C, using whatever the most active and hip libraries you can find..

You'll have better success, not because C is a better language (though, I very much like it), but because stuff moves at a slower pace, even the hip C stuff is not _that_ hip, when you look at the amount of code contributed per unit of time, or the amount of new features implemented per release.

Of course I'm being general, you can certainly find JS libraries that are extremely solid, and you can certainly find C libraries that are very fragile, but in general.. they correlate well to the popularity/activity of the language.. but not with any inherent property of the actual language.
They are using CNNs to encode the input. But…

Data2Vec uses a “standard” transformer architecture.[1]
In Data2Vec2 the transformer architecture forms the “bulk of the model weights”.[2]

The tweaks I eluded to should have more clearly referenced that each modality uses a different encoder.

[1] section 3.1 data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language.
[2] section 3.2 Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language.
Holding people personally liable is the exception and not the norm. It makes sense too, like if the company lawyers say something is fine then you have to be able to trust them, unless it's something obviously wrong.
https://applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-162-ipados-162-...

> At the time of writing, we are aware of the following new bugs ...

I wonder if I will ever be able to install a .0 iOS release without breaking my world.
Not really. There are a few examples, but ubisoft is coming back to steam, gog and humble bundle offer steam keys etc.. It is mostly just EA being EA.

And in any case a little inconvenience is a small price to prevent monopolies.
Love your comment, but I want to add something to this:

> 15 years ago this just wasnt possible

Actually around 2003 to 2006 I was doing that. Back then we were releasing games on PocketPC, which sold around $20. It was basically 1 programmer and 1 artist, or some could do that all by themselves.

But then came a period where mobile became really popular, and a lot of money started flowing into that game platform.

But I do agree that now you have both the platforms and tools for small game developers to pull off some very nice games.
They’re a tiny tiny minority if any, compared to what we are seeing here in comments.

I’m sure they would agree with what I said when they scroll through the comments.

I would not want to wander into HN comments section if I am doing any kind of divergent innovation, challenging the limits of what's technically possible. People here just parrot the status-quo as the absolute truth. If that was the case, humanity would have made zero progress.

Some nerd in some quiet corner, working hard in disbelief of the rest of the society, is the one changing the course of history. Not the ones, parroting established textual truths. There is GPT-3 for that.
I sort of explained my thought process above but I suspect they've done it this way for "cdn things"

It's not great, there's certainly a way to secure it, but like many other solutions - stuff it in a storage bucket with a "random" url is "good enough" in the eyes of the platform.
How can they defend a trademark that people used (at Google) before them?
Microsoft Windows has the option to upload your BitLocker recovery key to your Microsoft account. I was trying to understand why Apple needed to ping a server for a recovery key. Oh, look... they do have that feature afterall:

https://support.apple.com/guide/profile-manager/use-a-person...
> Of course, they’ll have better evidence once they go through discovery, but this moron has been on a self-incrimination tour.

And lots of armchair lawyers have been deeply triggered by how the "media" have been proven to be corrupt and in on the scam by allowing him to speak. If there is any conspiracy here it is that the media were doing the bidding of the DA to get SBF to talk the nonsense he has been, trap him and put a massive bow on an easy prosecution.
You think the investors that invested $310M on a $190M ran a charity?
I can’t see where in the paper Data2Vec is reported to have contextual embeddings that work across modalities. Can you reference the section in the paper?
Front running requires pretty invasive changes to the very performance critical parts of the trading engine. You have to analyse the queued trades, decide on a trading strategy and insert new trades, all without inserting too much latency.

It would be hard (but not impossible) to implement such functionality without dozens of software engineers being very aware of it's existence and the implications.

This kind of software change only touches the edges and can be done with much more plausible deniability. The exclusion to margin calls was a single if statement inserted by a single engineer with the justification Alameda were the primary market maker. The dashboard change might have been just a bug they avoided fixing (If you normally automatically margin call negative balances, why would your dashboard bother reporting negative balances?)
I strongly agree, the innovation needed is in haptics on the actuator side.

Can you expand on the static and low frequency? My impression was that if you're aiming for fingertips, higher frequency has more resolution. Iirc braille is mostly sensed by the vibration of the ridges of your fingerprint, when moving your finger over the dots. For this reason single character braille displays never really took off, you need an entire row (typically 40 characters) to make a usable refreshable braille display.

I've looked at the actuator array in the paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41528-022-00216-1

It's made with "standard" multilayer pzt actuators, with a displacement of 1000nm at 60V. That's apparently above the sensing threshold, but imho not enough for practical applications.

I am curious about the fabrication methods though. The 1mm actuators are in a checkerboard pattern, and apparently reflow soldered. I'm curious how they did that while staying below the curie temperature of the actuators (typically <150°C for PZT), and if that is mechanically sufficient.

It's still very impressive work.
Has anyone read Late Victorian Holocausts, a full exposition of this argument? It's important if true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts
I implemented this for my personal use and chose “aka/“ instead of “go/“. Still short, and still pretty self explanatory, but unique.
This is sort of re-assuring: if CZ stole all the money (SBF Style) then they would not have handled almost 2Bn (2.7Bn if you include Monday's outflows...) in withdrawals so smoothly...
>I also added the ability for my RSS subscribers to comment on RSS items from my feed using their Mastodon accounts

How does it work? Looking at a feed.rss file, I don't see any links to Mastodon posts.

>I curate RSS feeds on specific topics

>I think this is a real sweet spot. I cannot go back to feeds of anything and everything, a hodge-podge mixture of bad one-paragraph summaries or overwhelmingly long RSS item bodies.

It is the sweet spot when it comes to consuming your feed on its own.
In the context of other feeds, and you may have resolved it with Mastodon feedback, it still takes some time to find the best links in your feed. That's a quality on its own, so please don't feel pressured for change. However, these points would make it sweeter for me:

* Showing the most popular highlights of the week, month and year, by user vote and by the popularity of the main article on social networks, as well as your personal favorites.

* Find like-minded collectors who have included the same highlight or for further drill-down, a set of highlights.

* It would also be interesting to see a note from you why you have selected a highlight, when that's appropriate. Further tags that could be used for sorting and ranking would also be nice.
Fusion but What about the Neutrons
Fusion, as I understand it, will generate a huge neutron flux. This will likely have 2 effects, one due to collision and one due to absorption. In additon, there is a problem with source materials.

First, collision. High energy neutrons, the "bowling balls of physics" have interesting effects. As I understand it, the collisions offset atoms in various substances. It is the reason fuel rods need to be replaced. Because of displacement the safety shield around the nuclear core falls apart. It is the reason nuclear power plants have a 40 year lifetime. Displacement, the Wigner effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_effect ) was the cause of graphite fires in England due to the rapid release of energy.

Collisions will likely cause the walls of the fusion system to fail. Silicon electronics fails in high flux situations requiring special techniques, like silicon on sapphire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_on_sapphire).

Absorption will also play a role. The blanket around the fusion core is a neutron multiplier, likely made of beryllium (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7154770) or lithium. I suspect lithium will win out as it will become a source for lithium-7 using to make hydrogen bomb cores. Either way I suspect this will be a highly radioactive by-product.

Fusion requires a source of tritium, a by-product of nuclear fission. Japan is currently releasing huge stores of tritium (https://www.science.org/content/article/japan-plans-release-fukushima-s-contaminated-water-ocean). However, fusion will compete with nuclear bomb technology because tritium enhances bomb effects, allowing "dial-a-bang" variable sized bomb yield. Because tritium has a short half-life (12ish years) it needs to be made fresh.
Should an engineer be tracking what their company is telling media outlets? No one else is tasked with looking at my code except other engineers; why should engineers spend their precious time making sure that other business units are performing their duties ethically?
You can test in production if you have multi-tenancy aware services, where tenancy is some string value like Foo to make sure reads to Foo can only read data that was written to Foo.
>If people want to eat chickpeas or soy, they are free to do so. Similarly, if people want to eat cheap chicken, people who don't eat chicken shouldn't have any say into it.

If people want to eat chickpeas or soy, they are free to do so. Similarly, if people want to eat cheap human flesh, people who don't eat human flesh shouldn't have any say in it.
I dont get his point about the email providers and spending a full time jobs worth of time for that.

Setup and maintenance of the mailcow dockerized stack is quick and easy. Add a $12 VPS of your choice to it, et voila.
I think "undefined behavior" is the standard term for the "is unsafe" situation that you mention.
Even if that is how it worked, what do you think Alameda was doing with the money it got? It's not like Alameda was investing in the stock markets - it was still pouring it into crypto.

As for how the scam worked, my understanding is different - my understanding is that they both bought the token you asked for AND lent the same money to Alameda (who would then go on to buy it's own crypto) - because much of the buying was happening from other FTX accounts, which didn't actually require the dollars. So the same dollars were getting reflected both in the price of the crypto consumers asked for, and again in the prices of the crypto that Alameda was trading.
Yes, it does. https://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html
You've named a lot of the most annoying and buggy IDEs, and that does not contradict that post, as Xcode can still be in that number. Rare is there an iOS/macOS developer that does not complain about Xcode. Sites like this exist for a reason:

http://deriveddata.dance

> C++ is interoperable with Swift.

Via ObjC bridging, yes. They just formed a working group for true interoperability at the top of this year.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3649131/swift-c-plus-plus-...

> Dropping OpenGL was annoying to me also, but it seems like hardly anyone cares about that layer any more as they're all on Unity and Unreal instead.

Shame about first party support for Vulkan, though.
When you divide 2^32 across 3 machines, you get 1431655766, 1431655765, 1431655765. They're nearly identical, just an itsy bitsy bit different. This isn't going to cause one machine to have noticeably less load than the others.
Trying to work for actually profitable companies should help! (No, haven't seen any profit from any options yet. I usually negotiate for mor cash when I can.)
> you are free not to use it.

No, you are not because facebook is Big. So for instance restaurants, announcements, some news etc will only be on facebook. So this reads like "just don't use any electricity"... technically 'possible' but a completely useless argument.
"I was just following orders" went out of style in 1946. Software engineers are not mindless drones.
The article suggests an answer:

> "Then along came Microsoft, with its need for efficient Azure cloud datacenters. We understand Redmond has no interest in selling Fungible’s kit [storage arrays] to external customers."

The article goes on to say:

> "In the absence of any other possible suitors and VC funding seemingly drying up, Fungible management, we are told, agreed to a lower offer from Microsoft than they would have liked."

So in the current funding climate, Microsoft was able to buy up this useful technology at a discount price.
I'm looking forward to them destroying the Earth with us on it to build an interstellar bypass, and then telling us that our feelings on the matter aren't important because we're lesser beings.
Amid Musk's Reign at Twitter, Our Digital History Is at Risk
It's all very 1984, which is ironic considering the famous Apple advert from the 1980s :-)
.NET 7: suspicious places and errors in the source code
with firefox it works for me. and i use ublock origin too, perhaps a more lenient version.
Given that what is and isn't legal varies a lot between countries, how anything but federation can be a sensible approach for a truly global Net?
Genuinely intoxicated as opposed to having had one or two small drinks? In that case the headline could be extended to "over half of […] but most had only had one or two small drinks and were not genuinely intoxicated". Less blame for the same amount of harm.
Someone previously created a tweet linking to itself by predicting the likely ID range:
https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet
This is really great. I would like to use it as a visual backdrop on a big screen when playing DJ sets. I see that it enters a permanently zooming out mode when I zoom out fast, would be awesome if the zoom control disappears when it enters that mode so that it just displays the game of life itself and no UI elements.