skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that paragliding is inherently safer. The speeds are lower, and it's not "head-first". But at least a hang-glider is a solid device that can't randomly collapse (a common cause of paragliding accidents). From what I've seen in terms of safety stats, they are similar, with sailplanes being a bit safer (though my sense is that that depends on whether you fly sailplanes in the mountains or flatter areas, with mountains being significantly more dangerous).
I had the same reaction. This seems like the plan of scanning of pictures on iPhones for CSAM; it would not be hard to add extra patterns that match materials beyond the original intent.

Are the secret patterns all publicly available? Or is the secret scanning patterns themselves secret? Without public review, we cannot know what secrets they will obtain.

I for one do not trust GutHub/Microsoft to act in the interest of the average user. Their past actions disqualify them from receiving any benefit of doubt.
You can use Excalidraw in Obsidian, there is a plugin that uses it and extends it in many ways.
Seems a similar issue to: how can you trust someone you buy a physical product from online?

Do they have a reputation? If a third party mediates the sale (eg eBay) do they have policies in place to handle such issues?
Yeah, the argument I guess is most people won't go that far over small payments like $2-5 kind of like how news sites have a paywall you can bypass with archive.is
Looks like the article has an important update:

> (Update, 10:50 a.m., 12/20/2022: Given that the NY legislature is technically never out of session in modern times, inaction by the governor on the bill after 10 days would make a passed but not signed bill a law. The original post originally suggested an out-of-session process. Ars regrets the error regarding New York's otherwise completely straightforward legislative system.)

> The governor has 10 days to act on the bill after Friday's delivery, or until midnight on Dec. 28. Failing to act with either a signature or a veto will make the bill become law. The bill was originally introduced in 2021, so it cannot be easily re-introduced during the next session and would have to be re-drafted and submitted.
So.. a little before Covid hit, some of our leaders decided ( so they were a little ahead of the curve ) to attempt to change names like blacklist to something more neutral in tone. What they quickly found out is that it would cost actual cash money as the change would reverberate throughout the system used. All of a sudden, the proposal was quietly dropped.
> Theoretically speaking, labour shortage should affect economy in a way that wages rise to attract more people, right? Why aren't we seeing something like that?

Because attracting more people into the labor market assumes that there are people sitting on the sidelines, waiting for higher wages. The labor force in most western countries is already tapped out, exhausted and cannot do any more work.
> I'd feel bad blaming the one single guy who's honestly trying.

The point here is that he's not honestly trying; he's neither of those words.
All the Ways to Make Bubble Tea, Taiwan's Pearl-Fect Drink
At risk of being overly pedantic, I have to point out that you quoted my conclusion (which is based on my attitude), my attitude is, as I said, an unsettling mixture of reverence and annoyance.

I'm actually pretty eager to learn and use what you might call the Array Paradigm. Here's a comment thread from this summer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380292 Some good info surfaced, and you can see for yourself how excited I got. :) Anyway...

> all code is opaque and difficult to people who haven't learned how to read it.

Sure, but there's a difference between, say, Logo and J in terms of available educational materials, eh?

My complaint isn't that the array languages are particularly hard (they're not), it's that they are obscure.

( "elsethread" I love it! I'm going to use that I think. Cheers! )
> Maybe we can all appreciate that perhaps the people who wrote this list are in fact expressing a genuine concern about language that is held by others, even if you do not personally see the concern?

No, I do not believe that anyone is genuinely offended by "master" and "slave" in the technical sense. I believe that's a bad faith argument that should be ridiculed.
I am quite certain that using all of the iron in a single planet's core is well beyond the difficulty of building a self-replicating probe (which itself is well beyond our technical capabilities).

Not to mention, such probes are unlikely to be build able from a single metal, and some metals used for advanced electronics are significantly rarer than iron.
I think you are vastly overestimating POTUS' powers. They can't simply issue an edict to send someone to prison.
Do you think slurs against the group of people you so precisely targeted belong on this list, or no?
I feel the need to write an "economic leftist's manifesto" and get it in front of as many people, particularly conservatives, as we can.

This identify and grievance based social leftism does very little to materially improve the conditions of people, very little to change actual power structures which harm the everyday family, and does very much to divide people by making individual identity/attributes the most important thing about a person. Community goes out the window, free expression is ridiculed.

Economic leftism and social democracy is the key to pushing politics leftward in the United States. It prioritizes economic security for people and families. It wants to take away free markets and profit motive from those industries where it is harmful or objectively immoral, such as health insurance and prisons. It wants to lift all people of all races and identities, to get everyone a decent education, housing, healthcare, and work in order to secure a person's ability to live day to day without fear bankruptcy or homelessness.

This kind of divisive, satirical, Newspeak bullshit will do more to keep the far right in power in the United States.
If the Internet has told us anything, it's that as soon as the production of a self-replicating probe becomes accessible to a hobbyist, some people will do it even if there's no benefit to them. And it only takes one. The far future human colonists won't be landing on unspoilt wilderness; they'll be reclaiming systems from some 25th century script kiddy.
I imagine that it has a lot to do with TSMC's 3nm being pushed back so far.

History shows that a very large chip made on a process node that has just come online isn't going to have a good initial yield, and 3nm wafers are said to be fairly expensive.

>One wafer processed on TSMC's leading edge N3 manufacturing technology will cost over $20,000 according to DigiTimes

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-will-charge-20000-per...
Well, it is deterministic and all but I like my lines to connect the points I specify and not end at nearby ones. A line from (0, 0) to (90, 70) has a slope of 7/9. If you represent that with one fractional digit as 0.8 and then on each step just add 0.8 to the y coordinate, you will end up at (90, 72). If you want to reach (900, 700) you will end up at (900, 720). Two fractional digits will get you to (900, 702), three will make you actually land on (900, 700), but not exactly but (900, 700.2). And even then some pixels might not be in the correct place.

In the right circumstances this might all be fine and work well enough if you have enough precision for the fractional part, but this is no algorithm that I would recommend to anyone.
i have come to the conclusion over the past 10 years that it is now all about buying ads. seo doesn’t seem to work anymore and on social media nothing gets reach organically. i am wondering how other people are dealing with this. i cannot afford to pay for ads in my business. if i did i would have no margin left to work with.
> Hyperbole

Humans have appeared roughly 300k years ago. During PETM, the Earth warmed roughly 4 degrees Celsius in 10 million years. We have warmed it 1 degree in roughly 100 years.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Climate_sensitivity_...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temperature_reconstr...

> unless the proceeds of those taxes are directly used to develop or stimulate development of really feasible alternatives.

Those taxes can be used instead of everything else being taxed more for the same total tax burden. The Laffer curve shows the optimal taxation ratio, and taxing more than that will cause people to stop working or emigrate.

And earmarking it for developing alternatives won't reduce corruption in those alternatives. What will work is leaving alternative energy solutions relatively untaxed, because people will still need energy.
I'm not convinced this isn't a solution in search of a problem. What is it good for?

For most things being sold you'll want an account attached. If this is a song or a book then you probably want to at least have functionality like reviews, ratings and recommendations.

Whatever it is that you're selling probably forms part of some sort of established relationship -- I don't recall ever getting out my credit card and paying $5 for something from a random link on Twitter.

It also seems abuse prone. If we're supposed to share these paid links, that creates an incentive for scammers and trolls to create their own links and get people's money while delivering nothing. That means customers will lose confidence in the system, vendors will get screwed, and the company will be hit with chargebacks. This seems like a dangerous business model.

For the vendor side, this seems to be a redirector, so once the first person pays, they can share the URL they got redirected to. This doesn't seem like a good business plan.

EDIT: I just got one to load. This is all I get:

"This link costs $15.00 to access. You are trying to accessed a link through PaidLink.to, which requires payment to proceed. Fill out your payment details below."

What the heck am I even paying $15 for? I haven't a clue. Not only there's no preview, there's not even a description!

Screenshot for anyone having issues: https://imgur.com/YIsypEN
If someone wanted to get in touch with you, what would be the best way?
This article got me thinking about the number of people engaging in relatively risky outdoor activities in the US. It seems that and gliding is decreasing on a per capita basis, but I wonder if this is a consequence of more Sports filling the niche, or a more risk adverse and less adventurous population.

Maybe it is neither in just a function of increased urbanization or monoculture.

That said, it seems like there is a general decline in serious hobbyists in a lot of fields/ activities
Porsche’s synthetic gasoline factory comes online today in Chile
Hey, I just paid for a subscription but I'm getting a 500 on the manage membership page - any idea what's up with that?
I appreciate your thoughtful response. I failed to communicate my point. An untimed power test has a deadline. It’s also not about memorization. You use all of the resources at your disposal to complete the test by the deadline. The only rule is that you aren’t allowed to collaborate, and this rule is enforced by comparing the students’ answers after submission of the test.

As an aside: I’m not sure if you were trying to argue that a UPT isn’t appropriate for industry. Whether or not a university’s job has to do with industry (or if it’s being done appropriately) is a different discussion I have no interest in pursuing here or elsewhere on HN. That being said, it’s been proven by decades of research universally saying that the UPT is the ultimate tool for ensuring that the universities have done their job.

The point of my response was to communicate that ChatGPT has made it much harder to administer these types of exams because it’s so difficult to detect cheating. This is very different than saying ChatGPT is cheating. It’s not; it just makes students’ who use ChatGPT have such similar answers that you can’t tell if they cheated. This forces exams back into in-person, timed settings (without open internet access). It’s a miserable environment for someone with the aforementioned problems (anxiety, slow test-taking, dyslexia, etc.).
I thoroughly enjoyed Cixin Liu's Three Body series. Even if wildly unlikely I find the idea kind of comforting to existential dread despite it being possibly the worst fate for humanity.
Bresenham originally developed the algorithm for drawing lines with a plotter (servos).
I don't know if discriminating against visa holders is illegal, but most visa holders are minorities so this would be a violation of the civil rights act
I never would have imagined that of all people, it would be the political correctness police who do away with the stand up meeting.
>It can be done entirely with integer arithmetic.

It's true when first and last points are within or not too far from the screen/clip, but if wanting to draw a long line (if coords are 32 bits ints) that's mostly out of it and don't want clipping to introduce half a pixel size errors/inconsistencies, unless running Bresenham for a long time out of the clip, floating points are a more accurate tool to do the clipping and the drawing.

See for example:
https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/src/main/jav...

[edit: it might actually be possible to jump to the clipped area while staying in integers and not loose accuracy, but I don't recall why I didn't try that]
> Given that the NY legislature is technically never out of session in modern times, inaction by the governor on the bill after 10 days would make a passed but not signed bill a law. The original post originally suggested an out-of-session process. Ars regrets the error regarding New York's otherwise completely straightforward legislative system

Waiting is the same as signing it seems? So whats the plan here? Veto at the last second over the holidays and hope nobody notices?
Worth noting that seventy years ago we had 1.5L V16 F1 engines producing 600HP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Racing_Motors_V16

They weren't the most reliable things though....
I grew up with the phrase “deaf and dumb” and it did not once occur to me the other meaning of dumb in the context of this phrase or similar “non-vocal” context. But ever since someone corrected me that’s all I can think.
"Even in our study of just five stores, there are 157 unique drinks." - wonder how this compares to starbucks?
> Or is that nonsense?

Yes, that is nonsense.

1) secret scanning can be disabled (not even sure it's enabled by default).
2) the regexes are fairly specific, length limited, etc.
3) github is obviously reviewing regexes that are accepted.

Check the list of stuff supported:
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/sec...

A bit sad, they don't publish the list of regexes, etc.

--------------

I added a similar thing to the package manager for Dart / Flutter, because we saw users accidentally publishing secrets. That code is public, it relies on regexes and entropy estimation:

https://github.com/dart-lang/pub/blob/eb8ee21a089ebe0f2c2dd8...

It was heavily inspired by the researchers in:
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd...

Worth a read, and certainly provides motivation for Github to do this kind of work :D

(disclosure: I work for Google. The opinions stated here are my own)
You'll pay to h8! Well, no, actually I won't.
Great! I love the philosophy around open and clear formats. Like I have said before, a second brain should be as open and reliable as possible.
The commingling of words and phrases which are often used outside of their domain of applicability in order to be offensive, with those that are not, just spreads the contagion to no useful end.

It is particularly bad when the given replacement is nowhere near synonymous. The first one that really got my eyes rolling was 'detail-oriented' for OCD: being detail-oriented is an aspect of safety in a number of areas, and this is nothing like OCD, which has a clinical definition.

If one cares about something, don't make it easy to ridicule and dismiss.
You would think that to be true, but I don't know that any serious attempts (of which several have been made, see RoboRace et al) have yet bested a human driver.
Could someone please explain to me why this is cool/useful? I'm not a huge spotify user. Is the idea that I can set up the daemon on a networked computer in my home and then have it stream to speakers around my house?
Good to know I got only a 1 in 1000 chance of dying because Americans are so hyped up on fake maga tough guy takes that we can't agree to hold police accountable for their behavior.
A picture is worth a thousand words, I'm currently writing the blog post but I believe the diagram is already representing 80% of the blog post.
With the caveat that I'm very far from a power user, I'm struggling to picture how I'd use this. Not as in I think it's a bad idea, but rather it looks cool but I believe I don't quite understand it.

I think the following is an example of an intended use case? Can anyone confirm/deny?

For my work related notes, there's some hierarchical structure to them even though it's hard to see that at the note level. There's all the projects for my work, and then for each project there are notes, and sometimes those notes have notes, etc. I think what Canvas would do here is let me create a visual board for all of the notes related to my work that'd make it easier for me to visualize the whole, drill in/out in particular areas, etc? Does that sound right?
Elon Musk started looking for a new Twitter CEO before polling the site’s users
> I agree with the reasoning behind capitalizing the b in Black but not the w in White when referring to people.

The actual reason is activist pettiness, though.
Neat setup, I've considered starting down this path as well.

With this setup, how do you deal with data backups, especially if multiple of your docker instances have databases of their own?
One thing that bugs me with Obsidian: I cannot create a link to a specific obsidian vault on desktop (Windows). The thing is I often take small notes and opening an Obsidian (or any other app) is usually too much work for me. Instead, I prefer to create file shortcuts on desktop to just double-click them later when I want to access the data.

The thing is Obsidian vault is not represented by a recognizable file; it's a folder. So there is nothing to click at to automatically open it in Obsidian and consequently there is no way to create a shortcut on desktop that would open the specific Obsidian vault.

Yes, I know, I can launch Obsidian app and start from there but it is too much hustle when you have several frequently used vaults.

Also, the standard F2 shortcut for the usual item renaming does not work and it adds friction.
No. That would assume the property itself has no value.
It’s more because of America’s unique farming legacy.
I'm using "casually religious" to mean "I go to church because my parents always did, but I don't really believe in that superstitious nonsense." Catholicism in particular is going through a stark divide right now, because the "Christmas and Easter" Catholics are no longer bothering to show up for Christmas or Easter. So at a glance, it looks like the Church is getting more conservative, but it's really mostly attrition.

But that's all outward religious practice; my comment was more getting at my suspicion that many human behaviors are effectively religion in disguise. Where do axioms come from?
Yes, but you also need to attract new customers too, which sometimes requires features people don’t actually use, but think they’ll use.
Still very different. Obsidian Canvas is about spatially organizing your already-existing knowledge base in Obsidian. Figjam is more like virtual whiteboarding. Big big fan of both Obsidian and Figma/Figjam, they don't really compete here though.
Yep, we are losing the next world war...
That looks great. I had no idea this was coming. Now I wonder which other ideas the Obsidian team has.
I've recently been looking for something just like this.
Apple is asking me to buy a plane ticket to fix their HomeKit architecture issue
Elon is one of the most powerful people ever and sinks far lower. He literally wore a sink costume. I think us normies are fine being a little immature.
Any way you want to measure it, it is less extreme.
Imagine the book you could write: "I Was Elon's Meatshield for 6 Months"
> I'll ask them how much their own money they'll bet

In a way, they always try that - when the estimates (that they were bullied into agreeing to, not that they came up with themselves) inevitably turn out to be too low, the developers are expected to start working for free (nights and weekends) to make them accurate.
> OK. I'm being harsh. At the time, with the information they had, those decisions that now appear stupid could make sense.

I don't think you are. At the time, we in the Amiga community were wondering wtf was going on back then, when it was happening.

It was pretty clear the leadership were making bad decisions, when they weren't absent.
Yes it still requires someone with understanding to decide that the "autocompletion" value makes sense.

I might start writing the most obtuse code ever so that all the models get skewed by ludicrous amounts of template nonsense, overuse of auto and tonnes of lambda functions where an ordinary function would do (or maybe many static struct with operator() to confuse matters and make the call stack obtuse). That'll guarantee job security.
In this year, my base assumption is that everyone's trying, even if it's just trying not to psychologically decompose.
SGI bet what little remained of the farm on Itanium and even sold a handful of Itanium-based supercomputers.

It was an odd strategy from a company that obviously had no future and nothing left to offer. At the time, I had built up so much animus against SGI for their outrageous pricing and unbelievably annoying FlexLM software licensing that it was amusing to me. Their god damned MIPS Pro compiler spent more cycles checking its license file than actually compiling a small C file. And the FlexLM system was so badly written that it did nothing to stop piracy and any user could trick it into overwriting any file on the system. They claimed to patch it, but never actually fixed it. At least they open-sourced XFS. That was nice of them.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasa-gets-sgi-2048-core-itaniu...
“Once you realize that, then you change your approach to: Never take on cold start projects that are business critical”

Unfortunately these are my favorite projects even if it’s a pain to tell management that there is no way to give them meaningful estimates. They pretty much have to agree to invest some money and then see what comes out of it.
Lots of programming isn't math or logic, its shovelling data and manipulating strings. Is APL good at that?
Actually the best time expired several years ago. Also prevention is better than cure.
Important Optimizations to Apply in Your C++ Programs [video]
I hope this is the storage solution backing zombo.com
Gatekeeper was put in place to create application execution restrictions that stopped malicious apps from running on the device.
By taking this approach, the individual showed his willingness to think outside of the box and take initiative without involving his superiors. It demonstrates his resourcefulness, determination, and capability to make decisions independently. The individual took the risk of potentially facing consequences later on if his superiors did not approve of his actions. However, it was clearly a calculated risk as he had the support and permission of his clients to proceed with whatever necessary for the success of the project.
Your attitude is honestly baffling. I hope you manage to resolve whatever has gone wrong for you.
Look into Zerodium https://zerodium.com/.

They sell exploits to government agencies. They are one of the more legit outfits, but researchers can also sell exploits to NSO style bad actors.