skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> It underscores the country’s fragmented public health systems and its decentralized and underfunded reporting system, which hobbled the U.S. pandemic response.

> a $13 million project that’s been viewed over 2.5 billion times

Does anyone believe the CDC would be able to create and run --for three years-- the equivalent to the JHU pandemic website if we gave them $13 million dollars?

Of course not. That money might not las a week, maybe not even a day.

Funding isn't the problem. It's about incompetence. Fix that first.

You can't throw money at incompetent organizations and make them better, you'll just build a larger incompetent organization.

Note I did not say incompetent people. You can have otherwise competent people as part of an organization that can't find it's way out of a paper bag. This happens more often then people realize.

It is no secret that government organizations are characterized by waste and organizational incompetence. I am reminded of this every time I drive our crumbling roads in Southern California. Money isn't their problem. We have been paying for road maintenance for decades...it just doesn't get done or it is done poorly.

Emergencies have unique ways to quickly highlight competence and incompetence. We need to fix the real problems, not throw money around hoping divine intervention will sort it out.
That is insane. In my experience explicitly negative job references are unheard of and I think they may even be illegal (or at least legally risky) - a bad job reference would be something like "I confirm he worked here" without more.
Wildlife Rescue India (All That Breathes Documentary)
This is a good article that covers the basics of looking for a UART debug port that could be used as a way to get some low level access to the router and go from there:

https://www.riverloopsecurity.com/blog/2020/01/hw-101-uart/
AFAIK Taler is a cryptographic gift card. You'd need to "buy" them first, but once you own them, you can sell/transfer/redeem them wherever, anonymously.
Honestly, I think we need more voice actors, not less. One of my biggest complaints with the dialogue in Oblivion wasn't the inanity of the "conversations" but the fact that there weren't enough different voices to go around so everyone of same race and sex would sound the same.
One is about global geopolitical games and a possible upcoming war in the next few decades.

The other is a local environmental disaster. There's a national angle in pointing out this is exactly what the rail unions told us would happen but is even Fox News reporting on that?
Thanks - it also led me to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgOogVddW2I

About the film logos at start of movies, where I always questioned just why film studios/production companies always need some animated logo....

I recall when I was studying Animation in Seattle in the 90s - I was learning Softimage, but I regret not taking the Alias|Wavefront (which became MAYA, and the primary UX seed to Blender)...

The paramount logo was redone with Alias on SGI machines and at the time was touted at how complex the render was due to the number of layers used in the making of it, I cant recall exactly (1996 or so) but I think they had 27 different cloud layers in that animation (cloud the environmental entity, not AWS)

But yeah the SGI logo is epic.
yeah, it's not that bad when you are in DC or on Wall Street
Discovery action filed against DoNotPay.com signalling broad fraud claims [pdf]
Avoiding that sort of collateral damage is why they've developed the AGM-114R9X, aka the "sword missile". It has no explosive warhead, instead it has 6 blades that unfold right before impact. It can turn anybody in one specific car into hamburger meat, while leaving bystanders on the side of the street unharmed.

These have been in use for a few years now. You can tell when they're used from pictures of the car wrecks they leave behind. A very distinct 6 pointed star shape cut through the car roof: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39109438
See, this is exactly the part that software people don't get. You give your code away for free, which means you have decided up front that you don't stand to benefit from retaining any rights for yourself (except perhaps minor ones like attribution, or whatever the license(s) you use call for). That is the exact opposite of having skin in the game---your skin is somewhere else, in another game. As I said: different incentives.

Why don't novelists all release their full manuscripts under highly permissive free licenses at the same time as their published volumes hit the store shelves? Is it because they're all stupid and vain, wringing their hands over a non-issue? Or could it be that all things are not equal, and that their living depends on the protections afforded them by copyright law in a way yours doesn't?
> I'm thinking it'll be more of a hybrid model, where you'll have a human in a fighter jet with an accompanying drone swarm

The "Loyal Wingman" project is already underway to build that, though not as a swarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-28_Ghost_Bat

India is doing the same thing with their CATS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Combat_Air_Teaming_System
> While the software isn't as snappy as it theoretically could be, that is mostly because the market finds the tradeoff between features and speed.

I don't know how much the market really has a say in this. I don't use Slack because I want to. I use it because I must. When we had open protocols, you really could choose the best client. Nowadays everything is a walled garden.

It's amazing just how poorly we've managed to make a chat application run. Across the board companies are using JS-based apps not because it necessarily leads to a better user experience but because it reduces their costs. Running a couple might be fine. Running more than that really slows things down. And developers tend to forget that most of the world isn't running a machine with the specs that they run with and many don't bother testing their stuff on machines with more limited resources.

I routinely have to kill applications when trying to build software or pair program because our video conferencing tools aren't light on resources either. I can't just add more RAM to my laptop because everything is soldered on now. That's another big difference from the past couple of decades. People could cheaply upgrade their hardware every couple of years. Now, you have to buy a brand new device, so people naturally hold on to their hardware longer. Mobile phone users are hanging on to their devices longer. Just yesterday we saw news that GitHub employees can only refresh laptops every four years. We should be working to make more efficient use of resources instead of targeting everything at the latest hardware specs.

Obviously there was old, bloated software. I think most of what people remember as being slow had a lot to do with spinning disks. I upgraded a family member's computer to something more modern not too long ago. He's pretty set in his ways and still uses old versions of MS Money and the like. It was amazing how much faster they ran. I can't know for certain, but I don't see that sort of future for JS apps. They're slow on considerably more advanced hardware. While more memory would help, more CPU cores likely won't.

I wish performance would be taken more seriously in the UX world. But, it costs less to cut corners and when you have a captive market, who cares? Once one company starts doing it, others do too, making it a race to the bottom. I'm thankful there are still indie developers building high quality, platform-native applications.
This ignores that the “LGBTQ” community and politics around it and support/non-support for it can become toxic. See things like pronouns, renaming of male/female terminology, minor disputes that are blown out of proportion because someone wants attention.

So much of coding culture needs to chill out and the tools should be let to diversity into different communities, if people wanna fight about politics/gender/inclusion/etc, they should use the appropriate channels for that instead of putting everyone into a situation where you have to choose sides.
The best games were the ones released during your childhood. The next best are modern indie games inspired by the ones you played in your childhood.
> Oh, if you take a large overall sample of the Reddit, you will find the overall opinion that Rust is gay

Yeah but do they like the language tho.
Are they likewise mandating the construction of the infrastructure needed to handle all the vehicle charging?
I got scared from the Rumble front page with borderline scams, conspiracies, and click-bait. But then I realized it's the same with YouTube if you don't log in.
> Microsoft has proven skills in building/launching/supporting products, and clear capabilities to cater things into the enterprise/B2B market, including customer support for all levels.

I take offence at this. They tell everyone 6 months before something is launched how good it's going to be, release crap and spend a year fixing it, then it limps along in a bug ridden mess for years while their reps (via partner support / connect) make promises about fixing stuff that will never be kept and then it gets evolved into another product or rebrand or shitcanned or all your cases get disposed of when they change how they're structured internally.

Been working for MS partners and enterprises that use their crap for 25 years. This is the status quo and no one complains too hard because they assume this is right and normal. It's not.
The visuals are pretty rough and the map is small. The map size actually is a blessing though since your character moves at a snails pace.

The gameplay, especially from a melee perspective, is rough at best, and directly unfun at its worst.
No way you would be allowed to do "grassroot" obvious for any actual user usability improvements on Maps.

Dunno what gatekeeper they have exactly but you can smell him from afar.
There's another difference which is a stretch of time in which personal computers got faster a lot faster - often faster than than bloat could catch up (for a bit). That produced periods in which some previously slow-seeming software got quite snappy. This naturally stopped happening with the same regularity but it still does, occasionally - e.g. the excitement over M-series Macs.
EyeDropper
Most consumers agree price discrimination (charging two residents
of the same town different prices) is dishonest.
'in another tab' == never for 98% of the population.
> “Let's imagine we’re going to build a better war-fighting system,” Schmidt says, outlining what would amount to an enormous overhaul of the most powerful military operation on earth. “We would just create a tech company.” ... Independent studies and congressional hearings have found that it can take years for the DOD to select and buy software, which may be outdated by the time it is installed. Schmidt says this is a huge problem for the US, because computerization, software, and networking are poised to revolutionize warfare.

I'm not sure if "tech company" is the right model for weapons systems. Tech companies are often terrible at support and reliability. The military needs rugged and reliable systems with long service lives, and tech companies aren't know for that. They are known for taking shortcuts on QA, releasing with bugs and fixing them in a later release (if at all), not supporting products for more than a few years, etc.

Also, I'm not sure how military software can be "outdated," except compared to rival militaries. It's specialized stuff, and can be state of the art even it's written in Ada.

> Schmidt says, because of procurement rules that forbid the Pentagon from handing out money without going through careful but overly lengthy review processes.

The process can definitely be changed, but I feel like this is probably complaining about the tradeoffs. Isn't the current process designed to minimize corruption/maximize fairness (e.g. anyone has a fair shot if they can meet the requirements)? If you reduce the reviews, I bet there will be far more complaints of large contracts going to well-connected cronies.
When Existence Is Inefficient
Is this materially better than standard "fill in the blank" boilerplate? I would guess it is in terms of variety, but in content?
I thought I'd share since the blog just released.

I'm not affiliated with the blog itself, but I work as a software engineer for PrimeVideo and my team has already articles scheduled for publication :)
I wonder if anything disempowering happened in that industry recently that might have discouraged rail workers from speaking out
> Transfers between individuals are not supported, only payment by individuals to merchants.

This isn't a problem unless becoming a merchant is a burden by whatever process or financially.
This reads the same as "what did you expect of full self driving? Of course there are technical limitations." A lot of people have an expectation that AI is "smart" based on popular culture, relatively very few realize what we have currently is word prediction not intelligence of some sort
> While sheep are considered the gold star for solar because they don’t jump on panels, goats have long been used for utility and pipeline maintenance and perimeter maintenance (or maintaining vegetation around the borders of a site) in countries like France.

From a 2020 article on the topic. Sorry goats, you are not the "gold standard" here.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/sheep-ag-and-sun-agrivoltai...
After having had 2 girlfriends who didn't care about Valentine's Day and now having one who cares about it way too much, I can safely say this is the most unwinnable day of the year.
If quality of support would raise the bottom line, support wouldn’t be so bad in everything mass market related. Unfortunately, AI will be the cheaper option to maintain a semblance of support.
Just do static routes or BGP over Wireguard. Simpler, scalable, less error prone.
There's crucial nuance here.

Lifetime annotations aren't elided based on there being only one unambiguous answer. Rather, there's three simple rules[1] that look at the function signature and in simple cases give what you probably want. If those simple rules don't match your use case you need to define manually, the compiler doesn't get clever.

This means that if you want to take a reference to an array and return a reference to an item in an array, for example, elision will work fine. But if you take a reference to a key and look up a reference to the value in a global map you need to write it by hand, even though the compiler could pretty clearly guess the output lifetime you want.

This preserves a crucial feature: you can know the exact signature of a function by only looking at the signature definition, you don't need to look into the body.

Lifetime elision isn't like inferring argument types. It's like defaulting integer literals to i32 unless you specify otherwise.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/lifetime-elision.html
I've been waiting for autonomous cargo ships for a while. There must be routes that are simple and direct that could easily be 90+% automated. I mean there's not exactly a lot you can crash into in the ocean.

Even if you need a human crew to handle the stuff around the coasts it seems like a good place to start with automation.
This article [1] was written two years ago about the US government trying to pass off chinese spy balloons as UFOs in order to save face. It's shocking how quickly the public took up the UFO narrative, given that there were multiple confirmed spy balloons just 24 hours earlier. The same people wringing their hands over "disinformation" are the ones telling you that it's alien flying saucers and not enemy spy aircraft.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...
We have lots of valid arguments for everything...but where do we think this is going to end? All living peacefully with AI as the ultimate deterrent? Nukes had to be used to become a deterrent. Now we have something no one can claim to be able to control...still let's keep on marching.
Kurian should be the CEO of an Alphabet subsidiary- but not Google. Cloud should be pulled out of Google and turned into a full subsidiary.
Besides the low amount, it is where the cash go (your account) that is identified/traceable on normal (those that accept deposits of cash and even cheques are called "evoluted" here) ATM's.
PolygonZone – Calculate Coordinates for Computer Vision Polygons and Lines
I use Google not because it's a great product but because I'm locked in or don't have good options.
I'm guessing the boards don't need to be the top shareholders? Maybe that could be the driver for this mess.
The feature I would be interested in is if this can do link state toggling on the on the vxlan interface if the wg handshake timer goes stale. If that works, then it becomes practical to do things like run ospf routing over the vxlan interface.
The fish rots from the head, as they say.

Google is in a bad spot, and was in a bad spot well before ChatGPT appeared in the news.

I think Pichai is a CFO/accountant, this is not what they need at this point.

In practice, I'd like to see Google lose its position, their dominance has been detrimental for the whole tech ecosystem.
China's government said it originated in China, but it denied that it intentionally flew over the US for surveillance purposes: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/china-tells-us-to-remain-coo...
There is a dark joke that I think is appropriate here:

Q: What’s the difference between a wedding and a group of insurgents?

A: I dunno man, I just fly the drone.
"Grow wary" isn't a thing.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=grow+weary%2Cg...
Searching Twitter for tweets with both airport codes SFO and OGG (the Maui airport code) on those dates: nothing

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22ogg%22%20%22sfo%22%20since%3...

For all messages @united with 1722 on those dates: nothing mentioning this incident

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40united%201722%20since%3A2022...

For all messages @united with SFO on those dates: nothing mentioning this incident

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40united%20sfo%20since%3A2022-...

For all messages @united with OGG on those dates: nothing mentioning this incident

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40united%20ogg%20since%3A2022-...

For all messages with the words maui flight on or around those dates: lots of messages about bad weather, turbulence injuries on a Honolulu-bound flight, delays and cancellations, a lot of complaints about sitting on the tarmac for 30-90 minutes waiting for a gate on Alaska Air flights to Maui, and the Hawaii Life Flight helicopter disappearance, but not this incident

https://twitter.com/search?q=maui%20flight%20since%3A2022-12...
VINs are by design very visible on cars? You could get the same information by just going to the lot...

Though the overall lesson of the story is good: analog redactions with a permanent market and a b&w photocopier are recommended for anybody without 100% confidence in their tools.
I do think the YTP spliced audio still has intrinsic appeal. Part of the humor comes from memorable lines being reused in unexpected ways.
Reflections on an Essay by Wigner
American leadership culture is quite bad.
My chromeos framework laptop also seems to lose little power when sleeping, but I haven't done a long study. I just upgraded the ram to 64gb, so happy I bought this one. Next step is switching it to dual booting linux and chromeos.
Google has lost its way since they have switched their own mantra from "user-first" to "AI-first".

On the flip side, I think Microsoft has made a strategic mistake of going after search openly. Satya literally called out Google to compete.

Google also has a lot of money and will not lose easily. This war is going to cost a lot of money for both of them.
AI experts aren't the only people or even the best people to consult on questions like this, and they have a bias. The right questions to ask are, what is the intended purpose of Google's chatbot and how well does it do, based in independent testing. If Google's chatbot is shown in a demo to produce embarrassing mistakes, that's news and it's going to get reported.
@FooBarWidget, I take it you're not uighur?
To me it seems LGBTQ people are drawn to interesting things that differ from the mainstream. A small, weird, underestimated project which becomes a mainstream success parallels their own identity struggle.
He was a PM but there's relatively little PMing to do on a browser. If you look at the features Chrome launched with it was all engineering focused stuff: speed, security, non-functionals like that. The project itself was really driven by Page and some hires from Mozilla/Safari teams.
People care about features. They don't care if a page takes 2 seconds to load or has a thousand npm packages holding it up. They care that they can click a button and it does the thing that they need to do to accomplish their task. This stuff is all magic and pixie dust to 99.9% of people. And if adding the new feature creates bloat and slowness, so be it. If this tiny little seemingly insignificant thing that user wants is not there, it doesn't matter to them if you have to completely break your "architectural purity" and hack something gross that messes with your Lighthouse score to put it there. It just needs to be there.
that's over an hour minimum in best case, unrealistic scenario... the real drive for these people is going to be at least 2 hours a day... probably more like 2.5 hours in the areas we are talking about.
Use a separate digital camera and JPG rescale/compress the hell out of it after the fact. Screen grabs are convenient, but not sufficiently lossy, and can leak information.

If you're feeling rough, run the screencap through an OCR and a spell checker first before taking an off axis picture in Times New Roman.
Yeah, Rust is better at throwing compile time errors than C, though its defaults still fall kinda short, which is why I include

-Dwarnings -Funsafe-code

in my compile flags. Which is shorter than my C flags:

-Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Werror -O2 -march=(arch-of-computer) -pipe
I'm not sure about the low value. If I'm searching for a Rav4, it probably behooves other makers of small SUV models--or even substitutes like a Suburu Outback--to help plant a seed about the other options out there just in case you're not thinking that way.
AI doesn't even pretend to get anything 'right'. As far as I understand it produces statistically common phrases related to the subject words.

I asked for a chemical bond description of caffeine. It began with the formula C8H10N4O2, then proceeded to blather about the number of bonds of this type and that. Getting absolutely everything wrong, egregiously wrong.

I believe it was just spouting chemistry-sounding verbiage from other descriptions of chemical bonds of other substances.

AI doesn't 'look things up' or 'disgorge something it's heard'. It makes shit up wholesale from fragments. Always spouting it out with complete confidence.
That happened 4 years ago, and Tesla has done nothing but increase sales in Europe since then. I'm sure this will change as traditional car manufacturers improve their EV lineups. Europe in general also has a lot more options for the EV charging market so I don't think the SuC network is as pronounced there.

The Model Y was the top selling model in Europe in December 2022. EV or ICE. https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2022/12/07/model-y--...

It will probably make a bigger impact in the US. And the switch to a standard interface is holding up billions in federal funding so Tesla will probably eventually take the hit.