skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New tool protects against vulnerabilities in popular file converter ImageMagick
Which point(s) does zerotier fail?
It's rediscovering human nature. People can't be trusted if things are done in darkness. There will always be someone to negatively take advantage of the situation.

Without some regulation we will see a never ending cycle of fraud. FTX over and over again. The real shame is that Crypto was gaining a bit of respectability only to be brought down again. Also, how easily it was for a 30 yr old business neophyte had so many people fooled since there was no clarity on his dealings.

Blind trust has not worked and will never work as long as humans are involved.
That's actually a minor plot point in Neal Stephenson's latest novel "Termination Shock."
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He probably meant 16:10.
My personal favorite example of composition for robots was the project Squarepusher did for Zima (yes, the defunct drink that tasted like alcoholic diet Sprite) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUq4sO4LQM]. That being said, there's a long history of music being sequenced for machines to play. Automated calliopes and orchestrions go back over a hundred years. Also, Conlon Nancarrow should be credited with being the first modern composer to write music purely for machines using techniques and speeds that would be impossible for a human to replicate [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVhBxwRqg]. I really like how the One Hacker Band took a lot of these preexisting ideas, but added things that I haven't seen applied to sequenced physical instruments, namely using machine learning to allow the band to compose music.
Even modern color LCD's on laptops and stuff implement many of these tricks.
Why does the icu string library care about time zones?
Researchers cannot always differentiate AI-generated and original abstracts
The homes that could help solve LA’s housing crisis
I'm not who you replied to, but:

- typing numbers.

- sometimes also: typing really long numbers

- rarely, I'll use the numpad to hold my pinky finger. My control key, arrow key, and backspace key don't like this though.

- I also use the +, -, and Enter keys too.

- Asterisk is handy for multiplication. But slash is definitely not used ever.

- Once in a while I might press the NumLock key. Usually it's pressed in pairs.
Bionic 3rd thumb: The future of human augmentation
Have a startup accountability email list (2020)
financing terrorism (most likely related to the Russian/Ukrainian war as

this is a conventional war, what do you mean financing terrorism? was he financing russia or ukraine?
yes, more of this.
This seems like it could turn out to be a disaster if the company decides to do a 10-15% "across the board" cut, as many seem to be doing.
> A calculated risk that didn't pan out.

As a perennial negative Nancy, I'm pretty skeptical of this over "irrational exuberance". Every five to ten years everyone thinks that they are at the start of a brand new normal, where everything will be up and to the right forever, and then, oops that wasn't right.

People were being a little silly about the pandemic boom, we should just say that and not give out passes for being a part of the crowd.
Interesting. TIL about the Open CLI framework that they all seem to be moving to: https://oclif.io/
For 90% of the pastries that are available in my area (NY) the factories/bakeries seem to use sugar by the bucket-load in their recipes. Often it's hard to taste anything in some pastries, because the sugar overwhelms everything.

Probably is one reason why insulin resistance is becoming common.
I actually find it quite interesting that people are jumping to the conclusion that the comment is demeaning. Ambiguous and lacking a particular effort to be explicitly positive, sure. But where is the "criticizing and demeaning" the author part? The comment is bare and terse, questioning whether it's really that impressive when you factor in geography or whether it's more or less to be expected. There is no ad hominem attack.

For instance, Japan has good sea food cuisine. Sure that's awesome and nothing to disparage, but neither is it especially impressive considering they're an island. I think this is the point the comment is attempting to communicate.
First time I've heard of that phrase, can't believe that is basically what people are referring to with the term "quiet quitting."
There were attempts to create tsunamis with nukes. But I’m not sure how effective this sort of thing would be against a carrier. A single wave could I guess be spotted from pretty far away, and is just a problem for a plane that wants to land or takeoff at that very moment. Creating general chop in excess of what the carrier can handle might be annoying, but it seems much more difficult (lots of energy involved in creating a bunch of waves, and I guess this rules out using a single huge explosion).

Plus, I bet somebody would work out who did it if a country used a nuke to create a wave, there are only a couple candidates for who could do this sort of thing, after all. I bet it would have pretty significant diplomatic ramifications to… inconvenience a carrier group for a couple minutes.
Yah I don't get why these laptop manufactures keep shipping garbage screens. I got a 3:2 2160 x 1440, IPS screen on a $200 tablet a few months ago. My laptop has a 16:9 that looks worse, and has lower resolution despite the machine costing 6x as much.

So, please, its hard to call your product "premium" if its screen is worse than a bottom of the barrel tablet.
>detected cancer would have gone away on its own. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's impossible.

What if they detect a slow growing cancer that wouldn't have become a problem before you hit the age of 150? Not every cancer is aggressively trying to eat its host whole.
Ben’s continuous mantra of observability has resonated strongly with me. I have learned so much more from researching and reflecting on the indexed artifacts of others’ public discourse than from any ephemeral meeting.
If you want a computer that does exactly what you want the way you think you want it, clearly you should not get a Mac.
Louisiana Cops Use Facial Recognition Tech to Arrest the Wrong Person
Exactly this. I hear so many people recommend TOML over YAML.

I see the logic in it. For simple Key-value configurations, TOML is superior and more straightforward to YAML. You can add sub-level values and it isn't too bad (if there aren't too many), but beyond two levels, TOML becomes difficult to use.

If you really work in YAML in any sort of more advanced capacity (kubernetes, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines) then you really need the complexity that YAML provides. You also get used to the "gotchas" mentioned here. Navigating them is fairly straightfoward.

I think the article was vastly overblown. Is YAML perfect? Certainly not. But you find a better way to display such complex data structures in a more human-readable and human-writable way. The complexity is YAML's strength, but it comes with caveats as all complexity generally does. I really think its the best we have.
Here is a list of 185+ excellent no-code tools you can use to build your next million-dollar SAAS app.
Don't know much about them but CEO seems legit. This is a great exit package:

Pay: Separation packages offered to affected employees include a minimum of 12 weeks of pay, and more for those with longer tenure.

Equity: We removed the vesting cliff for employees who were with Lattice for less than one year. Their equity will vest monthly during their employment term as if they had reached the cliff. Employees will have up to 3 years to exercise their options post-exit.

Healthcare & Mental Wellness: We’re covering the cost of healthcare benefit continuation for employees, as well as extending mental health support through Spring Health, for 3 months.

Financial Advising: Origin financial wellness support will be available for 3 months to provide Certified Financial Planning and other tools.

Career support: We will be providing transitional support services to affected employees, with the costs covered by Lattice. The support includes career coaching, resume and LinkedIn updating, interview coaching, among other personalized services.

Laptops: All impacted Latticians may keep their laptops. We recognize that a career transition is not a good time to be without a capable machine.

Invest in Your People Fund: The option to have Lattice invest in a new startup will remain available to departing Latticians. If they decide to launch a startup that aligns with Lattice’s investment criteria, they will be eligible for up to a $100K investment from Lattice. Details here.
Wave dynamics, specifically ones which have interactions with the ground, are some of the few systems that need derivatives higher than two to describe them. Lots of interesting stuff going on
What may be impressive about is that Sweden has all these natural resources without falling prey to the resource curse.
Fun to see Kiruna here on Hacker News! My wife and I lived there for a year in 2014/2015. The mine is the _reason_ for the town, and it's exciting for my friends that live there to see additional minerals other than the high-quality iron ore they currently are mining.

As some other comments have mentioned, the town is being moved as the mine follows the iron ore under the current town. It's a relatively small town (~22,0000 people) but it's still a huge project to move.

The new deposit is under the town's ski slope on Luossavaara, which is the site of a now-abandoned iron ore mine. Luossavaara is the "L" in the mining company's LKAB name (Fully, Luossavaara Kiruna AB), so good that it's going to be working again under that same played-out deposit. It's also almost directly under my sister-in-law's house--which means they're probably slated to move too!
Jung's Theory of Neurosis
Minslides: Easiest Presentation Slides Ever?
My credit card company offers a similar service for free, they'd monitor my information online and then submit an opt-out request on my behalf.

I don't use the service, but it's because of how opt-out requests work, I'd have to give an online website information about me that they may not have in order to delete the info they have, it sounds counterproductive and assumes they won't see the other info, or publish it a different way.
> - They have a big appetite for adding complexity to systems
> - They also have a big appetite for adding work to their own plates

This is actually in part a management issue, and process issue.

Whoever is managing the team's work shouldn't allow developers to go rogue and start doing whatever they want. Everything is a card. Everything is prioritised. If the work isn't going through a sanity check and being thought about in the context of everything else then the developer has gone rogue.

Once you have everything being carded up properly (requirements, acceptance criteria etc) then quality control happens during card show-casing / pull-request review. If someone has gone beyond the requirements, don't let it fly during pull-request review. Separate pull-requests for separate cards - no combining them all into one, no working on multiple cards at a time.

Stick to the process and be an anal card and process nazi about it. Don't let things slip.

> - Their code has no consistent style

This is a team standards issue. You need to get together as a team and together agree on a consistent style. People's code who breaks the standard shouldn't make it past pull-request review. You can also introduce linting tools to help enforce the standard.

Assuming you have them, get the team lead and PM in a room together to discuss how to put all of this together. You might find that one of the bigger issues here aren't the team members themselves but whoever is leading the team.
On my Darter Pro 8 (recentish, not top-of-the-line) laptop, the branding on the lid isn't one sticker, it's a sticker per character, which I could likely remove and leave smooth black metal.

This Reddit thread seems to agree with me that the stickers can be removed, albeit about a different model:

https://old.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/ge0mqz/lemur_pro_...

Looks like it has the same kind of lettering as mine, though.
Ah, for the Good Old Days of the pre-computer newsroom - when sensitive data like that could Just Never Spread without a load of deliberate, manual effort.

Vs. now - sensitive data seems to spread faster than germs in a day care center where the staff aren't bright enough to wash their hands.
In any just world the company would be dissolved and all of its resources taken and put towards fixing the problems it intentionally created, and the people that knew about this be held personally liable.
>> Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it.

Right, so they have to be much more common than said, because a rogue wave could be 6" high on glass-calm seas.
It might make more sense to think of these folks, not as smart people operating independently, but as part of a larger social ecosystem. They claim to be purely data driven, but generally that's not really true. A lot of decision making comes down to social conditioning and peer pressure.

In particular, I would say its not malicious, but just how society works. If you see your peers (other CEO's), the people you respect and report to (VC, investors) all saying similar things and nudging you to go in a specific direction, its easier to think you're on the right direction, easier to ignore signals that might point to the fact that your decision making is flawed.

The unfortunate truth is that they have the "excuse" that everyone around them was caught by surprise, so its "not their fault" (i.e. they're still a good leader) and investors will buy it. The people that lose out are the affected employees; they just need to be nice and polite, apologize profusely and move on, while its the employees that lose the most.
Props to them for shouting out Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine.

Danny Dunn was the kid star of a series of youth-oriented novels from the 1950s that were early exemplars of the "kid and scientist adventure" genre that's persisted in media to this day in the form of Jonny Quest, WarGames (original concept), Back to the Future, and Rick and Morty. His eccentric neighbor Professor Bullfinch would invent sci-fi gizmos or involve himself in scientific malarkey that Danny would get sucked into and cause all sorts of trouble.

In this case, the gizmo was Miniac, a powerful but miniaturized (fits in a room), clanking 1950s computer. It had a microphone that you could ask questions into and it would type out cogent answers (much like GOT today!). Danny Dunn, placed in care of Miniac while the professor is out if town, instantly realizes the homework automation potential of the machine, but the mean kid breaks it causing it to output wrong answers and he and his friend Irene must actually know their stuff in order to see that the answers are wrong and fix it. Finally their teacher basically tricks them into using it as a research tool and actually expanding their minds. I'll leave the implications for today's GPT-equipped kids as an exercise.

It's a great book and a great series. I wish more kids were exposed to its like today.
>new wave hippy-esque thing

Strange because I'm from [country in EU]: homework generally have no bearing on the final grade and considering homework it's considered permissive and hippy-esque: they can cheat, copy, make the parents/siblings do it, ask the Internet to do it and so on. The actual, rigorous evaluation happens in class and only in class, homework assigned so you can prepare for the actual test.
"If it is not already obvious, these are somewhat conflicting goals. The people paying for the bulk of the work are not the most numerous consumers of it, and the desires of the billions of end-users are to a degree opposed to those of the people paying developers to work on it."

Having projects become dependent on commercial entities is not always a good thing for everyone.

Those getting paid by corporations to work on FOSS might argue it's a good thing.

The corporations paying them might argue it's a good thing.

The vendors to those corporations might argue it's a good thing.

Developers relying on FOSS for commercial purposes might argue it's a good thing.

Tech journalists and bloggers might believe it's a good thing based on what they are told.

But what about end users. What is their self-interest.

It is possible that for some this may not be a good thing.

Thus, for end users' benefit, some non-commercial projects are needed.

When people online start arguing that FOSS projects need corporate support maybe not everyone reading thinks, "Yeah, that would be a good thing."

"For a while, things like NetBSD will come to the rescue, but it can't do so forever."

Forever is a long time.
You answered your own question. The top down pressure to invest in minority-led is immense. Doing too much due diligence on Frank might be characterized by some as being skeptical of a minority-led company.

Couple that with the FOMO culture of 2021 and you have a recipe for minimal DD and maximum deal speed.
I had been tired of the game for a solid couple of years when I got in an accident. Guy ran red light and t-boned my car. Came out unscathed but made me question all the decisions. Still took me another 2 years of figuring out next steps and finally quit.

It wasn't one major thing but several things leading up to a critical mass. During the process, found myself collecting and going back to some key pieces of writing that helped think through the decision. You might find these useful, collected all of them here:
https://www.leadingsapiens.com/essential-career-change-frame...
Yes, it has been an ongoing thing for several years. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2021/03/23/kiruna-a-...
Not one sentence mentions anything close to child labor. And environmental
activists are going to be activists wherever you go.

What is however completely missing from the article is them to show actual numbers. If you look at SQMs environmental report you get a different picture: https://www.sqmlithium.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SQM-Re...

Much of what is being done to protect the environment isn't voluntary, the government is pushing reductionn of water use, use of renewable energy and lowering of emissions at mining sites.

It's a mining country and it has been for more than 100 years, wars have been fought over this. There is no other meaningful industry here. So this won't stop anytime soon.
I don't really agree with the comparison to Web3. LLMs have real world use cases as an interface. It might not replace most current software/systems/processes but act as an interface to these, especially voice. This alone has excellent value proposition and could improve productivity.

Use cases I envision:
- Customer service automation (much better than the shit we have today).
- Tutoring services (won't replace tutors but as an aid).

- Conversational assistant.

- Marketing/SEO.

- Search enhancement.

- Office productivity assistance (debugging, idea generation, search, etc).

All of these are use cases that can generate money, unlike Web3.
That's going to be how it works out, combined with everyone in the UK using a VPN.
Yes.

This year I plan to join a large corp with good engineering standards. I am going to grind leetcode and system design if I can double my salary. If I fail at grinding leetcode I'm just going to apply everywhere and make move to a better corp.

Reasons:
Understaffed. Things constantly breaking, which I have no power to fix because of a legacy system. New features over reliability. Poor team communication. People on different pages. Lack of care about quality as long as it works.
Normally I'd read "arc" as "atomic reference count", i.e., a refcount system where the increment and decrement operations are done with atomic increments/decrements. This permits the refcounted objects to be shared across threads that might mutate the refcount: they need to not corrupt the refcount, or UB ensues.

E.g., the Arc type in Rust. Rust, for example, has a separate Rc type. Rc should outperform Arc, but cannot be shared across threads.
And then there are the one or two users who ask the most goddamnably stupid questions at least once a day. “Why don’t people like walking barefoot in snow?” “Can cannibalism be an ethical source of meat?” “Should we build a wall around Fiji to save it from flooding?” I’m making those up, but the reality is that their questions are equally stupid.
Not at all, I love talking about it.

I was convinced that a model needed to be able to read like we do. And what do we do when we read? Pick up a book.

That turns out to be surprisingly hard, at least for training data. Step one is to acquire the books. Step two is to turn them into a readable format for computers.

Both steps were very hard. I lucked out on step one because The Eye happened to host all of bibliotok, which came to around 30k books or so.

Trouble is, lots of those are PDFs. And although humans are great at reading those, they fucking suck for blind people. And a gpt is a blind person in a sense, because it needs to follow a linear sequence of words — something that PDFs are horrible at giving.

But one day I realized that epubs were merely html files, and aaronsw happened to write an amazing html to text converter. I had to hack it to fix a few corner cases. But after a few days, I ran it across all 19,000 epubs I spidered, then zipped the whole thing up and called it books3: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282149329784833?s=4...

It’s one of the larger components of the pile, I think around 35%. Which is quite the hefty sum when it’s purely text. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around just how mindbogglingly big 800GB of text is.
> the company would be dissolved and all of its resources taken and put towards fixing the problems it intentionally created, and the people that knew about this be held personally liable

I get the second part. But what's the utility of the first over a fine? Are you suggesting nationalizing Exxon? Or liquidating it?
It is a stretch. Majority of Russian population couldn’t care less about the statehood of the former Soviet republics and nostalgia for SU is not the base of the current regime (ideology of which is a conservative nationalism very similar to MAGA). This nostalgia existed in 1990s too and has same nature and features as in Germany.
The common name for that is "inverted classroom". Not exactly chairs bolted to the ceiling but more descriptive than a person's name.
Higher frequency allows transformers and induction motors to use less steel in their cores for the same power.

In aviation, that matters because weight matters.

The downside is iron losses become bigger (heat lost in transformers). In a plane that typically doesn't matter because you aren't worried about losing a couple of watts of electrical power.

In today's world, it is irrelevant because all voltage conversion is done solid state (which is easier from DC), and all motors (of new designs) are brushless and therefore prefer to run from DC.
Parts of Spain have a history of anarchism and syndicalism, with an explicit recognition that it was a way to fight back against an economic system that was taking advantage of them.[1]

Chile tried to do something similar when they realized a lot of their mines were owned by US companies, they elected a new leader who was going to nationalize the mines, but then the US govt backed a coup to overthrow him and install a dictator.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat