skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize reading this now that "red tape" was not the appropriate way to convey what I'm trying to convey. I'm going to try and figure out how to rephrase that better in the future.

All those inspections, certifications, and other requirements exist for very good reasons. Reasons that more likely than not cost us blood and tears to realize their need.
The company I used to work for had huge layoffs. I found out about it a few weeks after the face, and by then everyone had been hired or had successfully gone independent consultant.

I wanted to help but it was too late. Felt kind of bad, then I realized that was a dumb thing to feel.
I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home
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Why would I even need a twitter client when the experience of using twitter is going downhill. I think the API being shut down should be the least of his worries.
I enjoyed reading how they solved synch problem: schedule this moments commands for 2 turns from now, and the turn length is dynamic to smooth out experience.
All of this is public knowledge and has nothing to do with my role:

Nation states, especially the US, should be suspected of having compromised everything. Look at all the things Edward Snowden released. Look at the way the NSA has corrupted cryptographic standards in the past (e.g. Dual EC DRBG). There are countless instances of similar situations.
This is a common enough problem that Windows power toys used to have a way to open terminal from explorer right click menu. Very useful functionality.
It looks like not only was the data ingested, but the neural network was trained from scratch up to 94% (?) accuracy in that time.
I don't think you can trust any commercial baseband, period. They all have to adhere to complex radio standards, nobody wants to implement them because their design-by-committee stuff is boring/lame/hard/painful, so what you get is a few stacks that pass the tests and everyone builds on top of that. Same goes for any other RTOS-style firmware, it's really hard to get right, and because most of them are built by/for the 'device' world, they often have very long release cycles, slow development etc. just like say, head units in cars or painfully slow touch screens on devices that should just have buttons (like office style coffee machines, ATMs etc).

WiFi is in a similar position, but at least the diversity is a bit better causing integration tests to fail better when too many bad implementations try to talk to each other.

That leaves all the other chips, which I think are best trusted in a divide and conquer setup where they all have to independently verify their blobs, and not be allowed to mess with each others memory/internal state. It can make them more expensive, but it also compartmentalises them in a way that side-channel attacks within CPU cores are completely mitigated.

Only a very very very small amount of companies in the world will have the capital, expertise and manpower to make devices where enough of the stack can be trusted, and out of all of those, only some actually seem to try:

- Google (mostly for UX, but also to make fat stacks of cash via ads)
- Apple (mostly for UX, but also to make fat stacks of cash via ecosystem)
- Microsoft (console, ARM windows, mostly for DRM, but also UX)
- Sony (console, mostly for DRM, but also UX)
- Nintendo (console, mostly for DRM)

Besides the vertical integration they could make, there is the problem of their 'personalities' usually not being a good fit for people that want to go off the deep end in terms of security, privacy, control, feelings etc. But anyone and everyone else simply cannot do to silicon what needs to be done, even if just because of the lack of IP.

The more a company does _not_ want to get burned on their security/privacy positions and keeps iterating making better designs, the more you _could_ trust them. The only realistic alternative is going back to 80's computing, and nobody has time for that.
Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune
Also 6: tech debt being another term for "code I personally do not understand," or "software written in a way different than I would write it." The article calls this out;

> Turns out some apparent tech debt was actually code that was better left untouched, had there been better documentation. We documented what we would not refactor or remove.

> Better clarity on the design and architecture of the code, enabled us to make better judgement calls when we had to cut corners due to the time constraints.

There is certainly real tech debt. But I have lost count of the number of times in my career I've heard a bright, but less experienced, developer claim that because a certain piece of code uses Formerly Popular Framework A from 7 years ago when it was written instead of Current Popular Framework B, it is unmaintainable tech debt, despite it having tests, a working CI pipeline, working monitoring, etc.
I see bleepingcomputer.com themselves are not yet in compliance.
HP owns it now eh? I recall there was a state-looking historical marker plaque. It looked like a toolshed or a very small "garage" shed tucked in the back. I may have seen it once or twice walking around the neighborhood.

When I worked at Stanford, it was somewhat amusing to see international tourists take pictures of mundane elements: lamps, the sidewalk, or a random tree. The flowers in the Oval, I could understand, but at least take pictures of the sculptures and Memorial Church.

Now, I live across the street from where people line-up at 9 am for BBQ like it's for an iPhone 30.
Thanks i appreciate the help. We'll take a look at it. Realistically it's probably too much lift to do all this directly. Key benefits of django-simple-history are single line add to other tables/models as well as reifying historical items.
Safari's extension support is great, I was keen to include that in the book. Having to develop extensions inside XCode and deploy them in the Apple App store felt a bit odd, but it's really interesting how the extension has a dedicated "app" on the phone, which allows for some interesting possibilities.
In my opinion, Republicans are less falling in line and more voting against the other side.

American politics today are about thesis/antithesis, where the thesis is whatever the latest liberal agenda is and the antithesis is everyone who normally disagrees with each other, but is united in a common disagreement with the Democratic Party.

In this environment, there's only one political thesis (not antithesis) that has more than a very small percentage of the vote.
The pandemic has frozen time in some ways. Time is strange enough already and the pando has compounded it.
First LastPass and now this. Is any customer data secure online if security companies can't take care of it?
There is a psychological element to it.

If there's a safety mechanism that may or may not work, coming to rely on it is suicidal.

If there is no safety mechanism in the first place, you (hopefully!) never become complacent in the first place.

So it's better to either have a safety mechanism that will absolutely work every single time or nothing at all, than one that may or may not work and invite complacency.
The free tier also came later and wasn’t well publicized: one of the lessons from Stadia’s failure is that Google giving it a bad reputation at launch squandered a lot of what they did later.

Another example was the refund at the end, which would have addressed one of the most common review points had it been policy. Here’s a representative launch review listing that under “The ugly”:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/google-stadia-might-b...
Also, Unicode support being added to onetrueawk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32534173
I did this a while back, wanted a bpm tapper which was always available in chrome. Super useful when browsing eg. youtube or soundcloud for tracks to add to a dj set

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tap-bpm/gfagkcalol...
That depends on the unemployment rate of white collar workers.
The only reason i raised issues about tech debt in previous companies is because i don't want to inherit from a messy codebase created from the formers.

Even with a good test suite, you can go very far. Clean test (interface) is more important than clean code (implementation)
> What commercial vendors offer out of the box has never been a good yardstick for talking about security features

It absolutely is. Default setting matter a lot!

It's great to have extra security features too. But even experienced users won't change defaults if they have too much cost. If things are turned on by default then those costs diminish because other software has to work within them.
Why would I do that?

Someone said Twitter was essentially unusable without Tweetbot. As someone who finds Twitter very usable without Tweetbot, I asked, “Why?” Someone else said that a very small number of people have a very specific use case that makes Tweetbot better than the Twitter apps/website. I said that was a neat example but doesn’t really apply to many people.
Don't even need desalination plants; They could use tidal energy to spray seawater into the air, increasing evaporation and rainfall. They could pump seawater to several valleys below sealevel, and naturally desalinate, but they would have to cooperate with other states. And those are just a few of many possibilities.
https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk also supports csv

And handling it with awk: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45420535/whats-the-most-...
Is it only sandbox mode, or does it have some scenarios with an objective?

The river look too straight. I expected more meanders.
Unfortunately, this is exactly how it's characterized in the aerospace industry. Often the requirements that are design to reduce/verify quality and safety requirements are talked about as "bureaucracy" and "just paperwork."
Depending on demographics, including stage of life, many people talk to their real life friends online more than than they do in person.
I'm thinking maybe there are two distinct groups of people. One group choose their OS and love to fiddle and fine tune its behaviour.

Another group have their OS chosen for them by their employer. They don't care about the OS, or software in general - they just want to get through the day.

Perhaps KDE is well suited to one group and Gnome to another?
I was in a rejected take off. I collected my phone from the cockpit door after it flew there from my hand. Without the seatbelt, I would have flown too.

I never found out the reason. I thought they would have to report it and I could read it in av herald.
that is not the case
What's Ahead for U.S. Propane Marketers in Winter 2022-23?
Camera in bathroom is like having targeted implant on your phone or computer.

Whereas, this mass surveillance is more like putting cameras on some public sewer tunnels to see what passes through the pipes. And then 99.999% of the time not checking the recording before it gets wiped.
The Food Satiety Index (updated 2022)
Ask HN: Where can I find pcaps of QUIC v2?
I need some pcaps of QUIC v2 to do testing. But I cannot find any when searching and doing capture on the internet. Where can I find some pcaps of QUIC v2?
> Pregnant man is also bewildering

I would say Man in Business Suit Levitating is a more bewildering emoji, since men can't levitate no matter which suit they wear.

If that emoji is worth keeping then why not have a pregnant man emoji?
> Or is most water demand outside the cities for farming and industrial purposes ?

This is exactly the issue. Most of it is used by agriculture and golf courses.
I used to feel that way but now I appreciate the usefulness of "% of time" concept for aligning individual or team effort.

For example, if my boss and I agree that I should be focused 80% on new business development and 20% on keeping existing customers happy, it doesn't mean I allocate every hour or every day this way, but it does mean that I pay a lot more attention to A vs B, but don't neglect B altogether.

That's a useful way to agree on what is important in your context so your work can overall reflect that.
I think countries now need to do whatever they can, right now.

No "quests". If it's Nuclear, build proven nuclear plants in the quickest amount of time possible and than faff around with micro-reactors or whatever.

We're out of time to mess around.
Flaws and features in the flent network measurement tool
Teslas don’t use regen on the brake pedal. That is only using the friction brakes.
I don't know how airport infrastructure requirements work, but for the actual airframes themselves, the requisite level of reliability/redundancy are strictly defined. I would imagine airport design is similar. If so, it's clear if it's necessary or not.
The underground cooks of Singapore’s prisons
So beautiful. We've fallen so far in modern UI.

Every six months or so I look for the ability to skin Windows 10 to look like this, or like Windows Classic at least. It seems to be largely impossible.
Ask America's Greatest Capitalist, Nancy Pelosi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPVlWarVMI
Once again, you haven't mentioned at all how garbage collection changes anything, even though that was what you originally said and never backed up with anything.

Described algorithms ignore the ABA problem.

I literally wrote a method for doing that, an index with a version that can be checked to make sure nothing changed.

Also if you're going to say that heavily tested implementations ignore the ABA problem you need to explain why you think that or why you think they won't work and again, why garbage collection changes anything.

stores pointers on 48 bits which is not enough on new architectures.

48 bits is the size of the memory controller on modern CPUs and exceeding that would need over 281 terabytes of memory.

Again, the original question is what lock free algorithm can be done with garbage collection that can't be done without it?
This reddit post questions the accuracy of the crash bug story and offers an alternative explanation - that the game was designed with the expansion pak in mind in the first place: https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/t2owki/psa_dk64s_expan...
I have to concur. I find that I am somewhat icon blind these days and can scan over an icon/app that I am looking for multiple times in certain instances before finding it
On the flip side, change is far more risky when it affects many callers rather than once page. Whatever time you “wasted” fixing multiple pages might be instead spent validating that the single fix doesn’t produce any unintended consequences.

Simple duplication is probably the least bad form of tech debt I can imagine.
one way to phrase it might be to change

> because of all the red tape that must be

to

because of all the rigoy testing and precise engineering that has to be
You would need to have code review on every update and to ensure that no code downloads anything it evaluates, and potentially even check for interactions with other plugins which could be compromised to provide eval mechanisms in an effort to “wash hands” of any malicious changes in later updates. (Since the long tail of updates seems to be one of the significant risk factors with less scrupulous actors trying to buy popular extensions for things like ad revenues before later dumping them to people who use them for malware or lousy eventually turning to malware themselves.

A review process can help but sadly it’s got a lot of work to do if it want to actually “solve” the problems here.
>”hard to defend targets that would make the immediate areas "dirty" with unusable land for centuries or longer.”

The smaller scale of the reactors limits how bad the fallout would be, both in terms of how violent any meltdown could be and how much material could be dispersed. You certainly wouldn’t have a Chernobyl or Fukushima situation. Cleanup would be expensive but it would not be unusable for centuries.

From what I can tell small module reactors are not actually planned to be installed individually and dispersed around a city. All the plans suggest placing something like 6-10 together in a dedicated facility just like a conventional power plant. It would certainly have good security.
> So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated

If you ever feel downcast about your skills, remember someone had the temerity to say this to Bill Gates.
The deprecation timelines have been postponed [1] [2]. You can still submit v2… but it’s probably best to build for v3 now.

1. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/more-mv2-transition/
2. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
Agree with everything else you said but take some issue with this:

> Shitty developers are going to make shitty software.

That’s really not the point I was trying to make. It’s more of a trap to blame ICs on the ground in most situations when they’re usually only following existing practices. All this will do is demoralize your engineers.

Mismanagement in the form of poor staffing choices (especially moving tenured and experienced engineers to the next shiny thing) is often the culprit. This usually stemming from the pressure from leadership to ship stuff fast, as usual.

Once you sacrifice quality of any kind, that bar gets lowered for good, and before you know it there are so many examples of poor quality that any issues get lost in the noise.
No, that page is misleading because it doesn't include unaffilated developers. Red Hat may be the biggest corporate contributor, but most contributors are actually not affiliated with any corporation.

I say you're trolling because even if it were entirely a corporate Red Hat project, Red Hat still wouldn't owe anyone any features. They would still be the "volunteers" in that case. Insisting anyone meet some threshold of features for a random free product they give away is leaning heavily into toxic entitlement. I suspect you know this full well. This isn't just about a disagreement and it's not that they're putting their interests above "the user." A corporate contributor puts the interests of their paying customers over anyone else. That's how they work. But then you immediately jump from there to equating "the user" with your own personal choice. Can you not see how this is a very trolly way to approach conversation about anything? Just be clearer next time and say it's not to your liking and be done with it, you don't need to turn every conversation about this into a Red Hat flame war.

And before someone makes more trollish comments accusing me of "defending Red Hat," I don't have any connection to them. It's just bad conversation to have people trying to turn every comment thread into a hate-fest directed at some corporation. Yeah I get it, capitalism is terrible. But isn't this what we want companies to be doing? Taking labor their customers paid for and giving it back for free to open source projects?
Models like MidJourney and StableDiffusion can generate very close renditions of some very well known paintings – and if it has enough of a conceptual understanding of even a less known painting, it can do a pretty impressive rendition of that as well.

But it's virtually impossible for these models to make an exact replica – a photocopy - of an existing painting, because that would make it break some laws of information theory probably. It's not a lossless compression engine. Paintings like, "Girl With the Pearl Earring" appear so frequently in the datasets that the models tend to overfit on them – which is actually not something you want when designing a model. It tends to create issues for you. But that's why a painting like that can be simulated somewhat accurately. But even then – it's never going to be 100%.
I'll probably get severely downvoted for this but the whole tripe screamed nothing but narcissist who got his free toy taken away.
It persists for me as recently as three weeks ago. I think it still works fine.
> I'll be on my own address sometime in the next month or so.

As someone who's looking to do exactly that myself, what server are you thinking of running? Mastodon itself, or one of the others?
100% false. A runway incursion of this magnitude would absolutely be classified as a "bad thing". You're getting hung up on semantics.
Just like in the movie 2:22... which oddly enough I was watching on Friday night.
Clearly people find it distasteful when politicians do legal but immoral things. It's a non-issue legally speaking, but one wonders why this gaping source of misaligned incentives remains.
> defeat Elsevier & other vultures of scientific publication

That’s a great way to have your life savings drained, or worse. Don’t do it if you live anywhere where you can be nabbed by Uncle Sam. See Aaron Swartz, Alexandra Elbakyan.
Quite the opposite. Merge sort is much more susceptible to cpu cache misses. You have to go out of your way to optimize mere sort to avoid cache issues. But the devil is in the details and it really depends on the arch, the dataset you're sorting (numbers vs strings makes a big difference), cores and cache levels available, memory available.
>close calls outnumber accidents in this field by a ton to one

The irony is that the reason the safety numbers are that good is because aerospace is one of the only 5+ sigma quality/safety industries.
Thanks for that! I've signed up for the newsletter based on how good that article was.
I mentioned VCRs specifically because in 1976 Universal Studios sued Sony over the claims that because Sony manufactured a device that could be used for copyright infringement the company was liable for infringement committed by consumers of Betamax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....

Take a note of the majority opinion in the Supreme Court ruling:

> The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing uses ... one potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies this standard, however it is understood: private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home.[7] [...] [W]hen one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact... that the entire work is reproduced... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use.

Stable Diffusion is also capable of commercially significant non-infringing uses. It is to be expected that the lower courts will continue to follow the precedence set by the Supreme Court that there is a clear distinction between a mechanical device capable of making copies and the distribution of those copies.

To put in the context of Stable Diffusion, this is why legal experts keep saying there are two things to consider: The model, which is almost guaranteed to be protected by fair use, and the outputs of the model, in which the users of the model are liable for any copyright infringement.
The cohesiveness is delightful and makes me want to cry a little bit
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My experience mirrors yours. I started using KDE back in the 1.x days, and continued up through 3.5. I switched to OS X for a few years, then when I came back to Linux I discovered how wonderful i3 was to use. I've been on Sway now for a few years, but they're functionally equivalent with each other.

I try KDE each time a major new release hits, but I just can't give up my Sway workflow. Maybe KDE+ Bismuth would do it.