skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take something that is cheap to make,
works with no need for power
and that can last for decades
with complicated technology.

Yes, if you happen to be in a country
with money and technology sure.
for some cases.

I hope they will still train doctors
how to use a Stethoscope and drill it
into them.

Years ago I read that BillyG got a full MR once a year
That way the billionaires' doctors could look for changes.
growths, and whatever else may show up in a delta.
Sounds like a good idea.

If everyone had a full MRI every 6 months, a lot of issues
would be resolved earlier, I think. (I am not a doctor).
So a lot of doctors visits and exams could be eliminated.

We would just need a sh*tload of MRI machines everywhere.

On that note could you just make a conveyor belt?
One person at a time, 0.5 m between each person?
I mean to make the process efficient.
Maybe add a few XR or CTs on the path, some blood.
sprinkle AI and we will have a Silicon Valley sensation.
Someone write me a check now.
If you have multiple versions of python installed you can just do

python3.9 -m pip

python3.10 -m pip

The standard library is the reason why python is popular to begin with.
I'm replying to this one, but really, it applies to each of the replies to tester756. I want to say you all are insane, but I'm wondering if it's just that I do a different type of programming, or that the language I'm using doesn't lend itself well to TDD. Example, I have a function, in C [1], that runs another program and returns true or false. The prototype is:

extern bool run_hook(char const *tag,char const **argv); // [2]

tag is informational; argv is an array where argv[0] is the program name, the rest are arguments. Okay, how would you write a test first for this? You literally can't, because the function has to exist to even link it to a test program. Please tell me, because otherwise, this has to be the most insane way to write software I've come across.

[1] LEGACY CODE!

[2] I go more into testing this function here: <https://boston.conman.org/2022/12/21.1>. The comments I've received about that have been interesting, including "that's not a unit test." WTF?
> The reality is asians aren't as physically capable as other races, generally speaking.

What about baseball then? MLB has only 3% asians[1]. However, asians have demonstrated excellence at a very similar sport (Cricket), so physique should not matter.

[1] https://routine.com/blogs/press-box/mlb-player-demographics
It could also be changed to a copy of the official T-Mobile site, resulting in widespread phishing.
When I launched my ISP in Michigan I once showed a VP of engineering at ITT Automotive my business card with with my email address. This was 1993. He said "I will never need an an email address." :-)
You can't possibly be serious. Her assault came first, it's just that it's somehow acceptable to you. It is perfectly reasonable to respond to assault with violence of your own to dissuade further assault especially if it is the only way to ensure that teacher doesn't break a ruler over your hands and possibly fracture a knuckle again.
Why? Genuinely asking if you don't mind.
I would say it is. Weather ‘enabled’ to maximize damage is more of the question. Will be too tempting for chinese gov not to
The XMPP server software history used:
jabberd -> ejabberd -> Isode M-Link -> Prosody IM
Not quite what the video is about. The $75k is for finding the persons which facilitates finding the motive (which, to be fair, is what more people will be interested in), not the 'what happened' with technical content (which is more of an HN type of interest). The video answers the question in the title.
"Karma is a bitch" as the saying goes.
That's around the last generation when it was worth to overclock things, because the headroom on a typical consumer-grade -K cpu was at least 25%.

Personally, I run a 4670K at 4Ghz, and it's been rock stable as my main machine for the last 8.5 years. It's finally beginning to show its age in 22-23, but the longevity and use I got out of a $200 processor is incredible.

But when CPUs auto-turbo to 5+ Ghz, I agree, overclocking sort of loses its luster.
Except for weed, which is not legal under US law.
No, You're Not Bribing Your Kids (2019)
If you monetize the video then you are using it for commercial use. Anything in a monetized YouTube video requires you to get a commercial license unless fair use applies. Most content creators knowingly ignore this and just pray that they don't get sued or have their channel taken down from the massive amount of copyrights problems they have. So for at least for games this strategy has worked well unless you make a publisher mad. Entire sites like Twitch are built on top of people infringing game's copyright like this.
Yes, an image that's taken from three to four orders of magnitude further away is much worse than one taken from close up. Unless you spend a lot on the optics and make the satellite really big. But while the NRO is busy pointing space telescopes at earth, the private sector has so far been more interested in using these images to estimate crop yields over entire countries, or look at how full parking lots of certain companies are. For those use cases it's more useful to launch more lower-cost satellites to get more coverage more frequently, at the expense of quality.
I think you are misunderstanding the Treasury's position. You are free to run the code on your own computer on a VM for a made up Blockchain however many times you want, no problem. You can even run a permissioned version of it yourself, where you and your 40 permissioned friends mix their transactions for privacy, and everyone knows (through, let's say, off chain trust) that none of them are committing crimes, I personally don't think that would be a problem either. However, if you are running the same code on a public Blockchain and mixing your transactions with literal criminals [0], well, that is a crime now.

"Running a computer program" is too vague, and legality of it depends on the context.

[0] since everything on this Blockchain is public, you can easily see proceeds of cybercrime coming into tornado. It's not really a point of contention.
I wonder about that $100k limit. Why would there be that special case?
Monolithic kernels can have a stable ABIs for drivers, and microkernels can have unstable. It's just a development choice.
bad netiquette is rude. Forcing people to internet search a comment just to understand it is quite rude.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology
I clarified who I was referring to before you responded. Thanks for weighing in though!

Have you heard of any studies about diversity being akin to a fatal disease or… are you just here to say you don’t like my post?

edit: Can you point out what “my movement” is? I posted about how I thought some posts are silly.

edit 2:

I’ll respond to your response here!

“ I think the DEI movement is full of grifters and dummies who think saying intersectional a lot of times makes something right, is what I think. It's a jobs program for humanities majors where we pay them to tell us how awful we are”

Okay, so I’m part of “the DEI movement” (this isn’t something I’ve ever heard of but ok)

Since all posts are motivated by movements, can you describe your movement?
Predates the war in Ukraine. Given what we've seen in asymmetrically applied technology and force capability would the author say anything different? I suspect about AAA and senior staff ... no. But about Russian and Chinese preparedness for war, maybe? Because what we've seen suggests volume didn't actually work against quality.

The observations about MAD risk and losses in mainland US vs signature cities in Europe are the corollary of what we were told European NATO forces believed as their core doctrine: if Americans started to deploy and prepare for use the forward tactical nuclear weapons without European consensus on use, they'd be seized.

It's a truism to say drones changed everything. Likewise radar and directed counter battery fire, and the modern day equivalent of shrapnel and case: those titanium ball-bearing weapons make road equipment and aircraft useless for a wide margin around the strike, and appear to ruin defensive structure (and the occupants) too.

We're relearning about overpressure. And logistics.

Experience fighting in the ME and Afghanistan only supplies some relevant experience, but arguably it helped where Russian kleptocracy caused much of their problems. Without overstating it, that could happen to any army. It just happened spectacularly, and at scale to this one.

(Not in, nor never have been in the forces)
> There is a rational argument for corporal punishment of kids. A human brain isn’t fully developed until age 25. You can’t reason with kids. There is a place for physical consequences that kids can understand with their limited cognitive capabilities.

Grounding and taking away their computer is a physical consequence that kids can understand with their limited cognitive capabilities. It's not clear to me why their still-developing brains would be an argument for inflicting violence on them. Is there any level at all of physical abuse you couldn't support with this logic?

> In rich country, you can put up with poorly behaved kids because you just have so much margin.

A self-sustaining long-term advantage.
The video inspired me to explore the open source grid map at atlas.eia.gov, but it sure looks like the online map was locked down.

Despite the sidebar saying the map is visible to the public, the maps never load and I'm seeing access denied errors for map resources in the console.

There could be multiple explanations for the map to stop loading, but the error messages sure give me the impression that it was to restrict access to this information, and that makes me a little sad even though I can understand why it might be tempting to restrict given the circumstances.
Crypto is high risk in the banking industry due to poor anti-money laundering enforcement and lack of compliance. Additionally, working with Binance carries reputation risk, since their practices are shady. So a bank processing payments for crypto absolutely has motive to shut it down, especially if it’s not lucrative to do so.
I recollect tech co's touting their diversity efforts at least since 2016 US elections. What do they have to show for 6 years of efforts? Any objective improvement so far? If not, better to end this performative theater and let's do something which will actually move the needle.
> The CDC notes that 71.6 percent of Americans fit the criteria for being overweight

Scary number along with:

> The percent of the U.S. population that is overweight has remained roughly constant since the early 1960s. But taken in combination, the proportion of citizens fitting into either category has grown from about 55 percent in the early 1990s to almost 72 percent today.

I’ve seen numerous reasons attributed to this: the subsidization and proliferation of HFCS and the related villainization of fats in the 70s; the reduction in wages and rise of two-worker households (no one to cook at home); increase in consumption of processed foods that introduce various “unnatural” substances (e.g., micro plastics) in the body; etc.

Seems like a multifaceted problem and not one that will soon be solved.
I think the main reason Ruby has avoided this (like most other newer languages) is the lack of a numeric/scientific ecosystem, which is where the real mess begins. Science code never dies (because the rewrite almost never implements everything the predecessor had, so now you need both the original tool and its "replacement"), so I have tools built from Fortran, C, C++, Tcl, Java, Python and now Rust to combine.
Bush was three presidents ago, if that's your concrete example I'd say you don't have leg to stand on.
pay after you get the service
Dollar Stores Are Growing as Food Retailers in the U.S.
It's greatly reduces the number of people who can withdraw, that's all.
Even then it exposes an issue with delivery.

I worked on earth scale digital mapping the late 1980s on a product that ultimately fed into Keyhole | Google maps | Hexagon.

As a state we flew air photos every summer (and started with digitising these) and acquired various sat feeds through our ground station.

Polar precessing orbits (MODIS, etc) do a full loop about the planet roughly every hour or so, and their orbit walks about the planet to maintain a roughly constant ground sun angle (~ sun-synchronous), returning overhead in 24 hours (or within the week, depending on interlacing patterns).

The point being, we delivered high resolution images (digitised or, on request, blown up from good quality large format film negatives) over the urban areas from the summer surveys and ensured clear images OR we delivered sat imagery from a clear day (in the visual spectrum) or multi band spectrum data from whenever requested.

A cloudy day can be easily rejected from many sat feeds - unless its areas such as PNG that are famously Obscured by Clouds [1] and required near ground helicopter survey work to map (fun times).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Di8-NzSMrg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-sqVe5mOM
Similar bug with dark souls online
W2 work feels more stable and secure than startup land. If you worked for Google for 20 years you don't expect to be let go with no notice by an automated system. But that is exactly what happened to thousands of people just now. You kind of expect this kind of thing in startup land. Recent events show this downside is not unique to startups, and can affect any worker anywhere. It's chilling, and it should take some of the glow off of W2 work in comparison to startup work. But like I said, there is a third alternative which is, IMHO, far more fullfilling and grounded anyway, which is bootstrapping and working directly with customers.
Is there a way to see what the optimal path was after you’ve solved it? Or just the optimal number?
Unlawful violence is the other part of that definition. Two components: unlawful violence and a political motive. Not either/or, terrorism requires both.

> OWS was political and caused some property damage

Marginal example. I think most of the property damage was incidental to what they were doing; camping in city parks. Insofar as the property damage was deliberate vandalism, it seems like marginal terrorism. To pick an similar example that seems a lot more clear; if the KKK throws a brick through the window of a business owned by a black person, that's obviously terrorism right?

All in all I think wiktionary's definition is pretty good.
But the orthodoxy seems to be write the tests first, see them fail, then write code, not write a little bit of code, write some test cases, repeat. How "test first, then code" works in a compiled language like C++ or Rust be beyond me (unless I'm taking this to a literal conclusion).
Octave is wonderful. It's one of those free software projects whose success and necessity inspire the entire movement.

In one of my first jobs I saved a bunch of money for the company just by porting stuff out of Matlab. It wasn't just that the licenses were pricey, it's that they were a pain in the butt, plus the program was slow and very difficult to orchestrate. At least at the time.

It wasn't always easy or possible to replace a client's Matlab analyses with an Octave script, but we at least confined it to just one license on one server, stashed inside a utility closet. While meanwhile all other data analysis work flows had been automated and moved into EC2, where they ran for free on Octave.
Does the military actually use them?
> Well there’s nothing if you disregard personal testimony as Stockholm syndrome

I don’t disregard anything as Stockholm Syndrome, since that doesn’t exist.

However, I do disregard anecdotal conclusory testimony about causative processes, as a general rule. I’ll accept testimony about facts plausibly within the knowledge of the person testifying as being (barring special reason for suspicion on those points) as trustworthy as the person testifying.
Asking as a complete newcomer to Python programming...

Why doesn't somebody just fix pip? Or is pipenv just understood to be the fix?
I don’t watch TV much anymore, but I used to really like Viceland. Lots of thoughtful, well-produced programming, sort of like a bunch of documentaries on a variety of subjects. It would be sad to see it turned into the other garbage that legacy networks have turned into.
Japan has been in the year 2000 for the last 40 years.
I immediately wonder if someone wished to be remembered… thus unearthing this 3k years later grants their wish.

Does anyone know how delicately these sites are dug up? Ie: would we know if they had thrown straw or other degradable materials in and it had been covered up? Seems like a well being deeper than usual has the opportunity to have multiple ages of use and artifacts.
The map loads for me on Firefox for Android, though it takes a minute.
> The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men

- Charles de Gaulle
Tony Hawk Discusses His Broken Leg
Sometimes directly from the publisher. Anecdotal example, I like an album by a band Tap Tap. They were short lived and based out of the UK. US Spotify does not have that album, but I can purchase it from their publisher at the time (ironically named Stolen Records).
A lot of infrastructure is built with some concept of defense in mind from public trash cans to nuclear power plants.

The electrical grid is largely ignored because it’s so big and distributed over such a large area it’s difficult for small groups to attack it successfully. So the focus is on limiting cascading failures. Shooting equipment only caused local damage and things got back to normal in a week.

It was unpleasant for those affected, but you can catch people conducting repeated attacks a lot easier than you can harden all this infrastructure.
Reminds me of the Key And Peele “Bank Heist” sketch[1].

1: https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM
I sold my second company for chips, for a price of software and domain name. For couple of years I thought it was a total failure. Then one wise man said that most failed businesses are ending up deep in debt, so exiting net positive is actually is not that bad. Note: we bootstrapped without external investments.
>Building safer dialogue agents: Training an AI to communicate in a way that’s more helpful, correct, and harmless

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/building-safer-dialogue-agents
A Ffffound Retrospective – 15 Years Later (2022)
I think we mostly agree, but have some small differences in some aspects.

To elaborate, I don't like the weaseliness of "unlawful" as well as "violence". (to put it bluntly, in some contexts violence is anything form touching a shoulder to punching a nose and beyond --and who decides lawfulness and unlawfulness?) I'm _not_ saying they are undefinable but rather in some contexts their definitions are given great latitude.
> categorizing me without any evidence as a victim of violence

You literally describe the violence you were targeted with.

Your personal view that this violence was justified and is part of a beneficial pattern of violence does not negate that it is violence.
get AAA, and also credit card over the phone? I would have stopped there
An example of what I'm describing is separation of mechanism and policy, but not specifically in the sense of OS authorization. The policy is where the different contexts are applied and the machanism is free of context but capable of executing it.
After you are done creating the #mission #vision and #strategy then it’s time to think about execution and when will your team execute the vision. The roadmap will be a living document of incremental value you will create for your product this could be a mix of features or experiments you would undertake to achieve your goals over a certain period of time.
How is this different from planet labs? planet labs actually makes their own satellites.
One can say the same for literally any act of terrorism, I think?
> pays a lot of Argentinian developers in USDT

And what do those developers pay for in USDT?

It's Argentina. Read about its economy. To use it as an example is somewhat disingenuous. The government rations foreign currency in something like a few hundred USD per month per person I think. If cryptocurrency is another way to work around legal inconveniences, so what.
Holy shit that website just crippled my phone.
Fascinating article... But when you consider that the driving initial application was pumping water (out of coal mines), you have to acknowledge that pumping water would've also been a major concern for the Romans too -- i.e. hydrology and aquaducts
You disregard anecdote when it clashes with your priors.
Holy shit.

Link for the lazy: https://www.ncrunch.net/
And by "listened" you mean "postponed until people forgot", right?
Oh yes, Argentina, where the solution is unregulated crypto. Thank god swift is irrelevant to crypto because that's the core issue here.
I don't think even the loyalty of Apple customers will overcome VR. I own a VR headset and the drawbacks that cannot be fixed with engineering make them very uncool. It's not cool to have a sweaty acne-producing pair of goggles strapped to your head. It's not cool to need to use a UI to resume experiencing actual reality. The form factor of VR, even after hypothetical improvements, is still clunky and fragile. If Apple actually ships anything in this space, I'm convinced it will be a huge misstep.
An unintended consequence of AML regulation: making operating an honest business more difficult and forcing them into become more shady operations or be outcompeted by those who do. Same problem faced by Tether.
Any verification you can get over the mail or over the Internet or over any other distant communication can be faked. Cryptography doesn't help, genetic material doesn't help, fingerprints don't help: They only prove that the entity you're communicating with has access to private keys and at least one person, assuming genetic material can't be faked at this point, not that you're always communicating with the same person. It's why the old cypherpunks insisted on exchanging public keys in person.
I don't think this is responsive to my comment.
For Your Information (FYI) it's common...
That's far from free in terms of direct, logistical, or opportunity costs, and even high concrete walls are easily defeatable with a little imagination. The main problem for would-be attackers is discoverability - preparing and escaping without detection is quite challenging.

Opportunities for teamwork are limited by the FBI's outstanding abilities to infiltrate social networks and entrap hotheads, keeping militant types in a constant state of paranoia and distrust. It's hard to accrue the necessary knowledge alone, harder to locate peers (though this varies with geography and economic power), and very hard to coordinate. Doing so online has obvious security difficulties, and professional criminal networks aren't easily accessible or sympathetic. The feds can't catch everyone, but they can drastically raise the cost of force multipliers.
As others said, freedom of association and similar fundamental rights of the business world.

Binance was outsourcing parts of regulatory issues to their bank and they decided it's not worth their effort anymore.

Just another proof that crypto exists on the same planet as the rest of us.
Yeah ... no.