skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or I think this shows your lack of understanding of auditing.

In large global financial audits, there are many complex accounting systems that run on Unix systems. These systems as part of the financial audit are audited to ensure there is an appropriate level of IT general controls that support the underlying financial statements. I.e. what's stopping the admin from making direct data changes to the underlying database that supports the financial statements.

Furthermore, those traditional accounting firms (Big 4) no longer and haven't for a decade + only provided accounting. These firms have enormous skills in internal audit, governance risk and controls, data science, cyber security, Information Technology etc.
I’ll add it to the list… but I’ve got like 40 naval books I haven’t read yet ;)

Got a couple shelves of them.

(And I already have NAM Rodgers books on the Royal Navy… assuming Georgian is an autocorrect.
Extending Communications – Drone-Based Radio Repeater
Why not? From a tech journalism perspective, I find them as useful as any other news site.

I’m genuinely curious why you don’t like them
The average price of electricity in the US in December 2022 was $0.16/kWh [1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...
Maybe you're trying to imply lab escape hypothesis, but probably any origin in China, including natural sources causes them discomfort due to the fact that the initial response was denial.
> For whatever reason it's never really caught on

I don't believe this is true at all. I don't recall working on a single C++ for the last half dozen years which hasn't adopted the Core Guidelines up to the code review level.

Of course it's a blend of survivorship bias to claim that no project uses the Core Guidelines if you personally fail to consider it to start with.
An important detail that none of the reporting I've seen has mentioned: Tesla got upwards of $750 million in subsidies from the state of NY for putting the Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo.

The condition was that they had to support 1460 jobs. Last I heard they were around 1500, so it's reasonable to believe the analyst jobs are only located there to avoid paying fines for breach of contract with NYS.
Yep, I've done network boot with mine. It's a lot easier these days since you don't have to manually generate an initramfs with the modules.
Is Mad Max on the menu?
So we change focus on the outcomes of change. That’s how it goes. Science. shrug

Stop posting hyper generalized subjective perspectives as expert opinion? It just gets sad and you come off like an entitled know it all. Jfc the internet is full of idiots and empty back and forth.
Yes I agree, almost every car
electric or not that you buy now is laden with crap that's only there to benefit the manufacturer and screw the buyer. But it's clear that electric represents a chance to screw people from the ground up, cutting out things like independent garages and even gas stations, and giving cover to computerize and log everything. Regulation is necessary, but it's going to be whack a mole trying to prevent vendors ripping off customers, and the automotive already basically has regulatory captured their way into preventing competition. In some respects I think there needs to be less, or at least more sensible regulation, to encourage competition that might actually provide options to people (unfortunately I think most people don't value freedom and are happy to give it up for something shiny, it may be a lost cause)
The problem is that Google makes enough money from ad business that they don't care that they may be losing out on more revenue/profits by having better support. This fundamental belief is one reason Google has a hard time making inroads in the enterprise market. In that market, support absolutely matters and the perception that Google doesn't care about it makes it easier to exclude Google altogether when considering a cloud platform or office productivity suite.
You can be invested in your work, in your professionalism, and in the people you get to know. All of those things are very different from being emotionally invested in the company itself.
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I'm sorry but this seems like an ignorant comment. I remember the stories from CNN(?) about how it was Trumps fault they didn't investigate the origin back then.

I remember when the only ones actually asking questions and not getting vaccinated were blamed to be "stupid republicans" and "conspiracy theorists".

You're so polarized over there my fucked up country seems like heaven in comparison. We've always been at war with Eurasia, right?
Until you’ve hit product market fit, you shouldn’t build anything other than what is unique to your product. If you are spending time on authentication or forms or worker queue architecture, you’re wasting time. Frameworks and plug-ins exist to allow this to be all plug and play, so you can focus on building something potentially useful enough for people to pay for it.

Product market fit is generally achieved when you can’t keep up with demand for your product. “Can’t keep up” is generally an operational problem first, then a technical problem (the Do Things That Don’t Scale stuff catches up to you basically).

Scaling is a GOOD problem…as long as you actually have a business model. If you’re selling stuff but getting crunched by demand and your tech is cracking at the seams…hell yes! Pay people to fix the tech/replace the janky or slow stuff/automate manual things.

If you don’t have a business model, you can scale the shit out of some idea but not be able to afford to fix the issues coming from breaking out of your frameworks. Not to say you can’t eventually make this model work, you just have to raise a shit ton of money to do it usually.

Use frameworks. It’s not a debate. Don’t reinvent wheels when you’re trying to invent some new product idea.

Only work on the product.
What image format stores pixel values in text?
Basis of the plot for the Alien movies.
Security is important. What makes SAP secure? I personally found errors in customer systems. And at the time even Microsoft couldn’t implement OAuth2 correctly with regards to the specifications… which is no surprise given how often it had to be amended.

A good deal of “security,” even in the enterprise, is a lot of theatre and show boating. Write a formal specification and throw it at a model checker and you’ll probably start finding holes in most software stacks. But hardly any software developers do that let alone IT managers.

The later generation of the stuff I was working on at that company had to also be certified under certain important regulations. The system had to be able to be auditable in the sense that application logs couldn’t be repudiated in court and users couldn’t tamper with data. That was some pretty serious work.

But yeah.. there’s a lot of “lol security” out there and as an IT person trying to manage ISV solutions it can be a huge pain trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.

But just buying MS or SAP and thinking you’re done with security is also as bad. Don’t overlook security.
Covid killed more people than the Holocaust, and we're just going to sweep that under the rug so as not to create tension with a major global player. That's realpolitik for you.
Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor
the world needs to know, this is bigger than China and their “discomfort”
Banned by whom? You can't ban it. You can pretend to ban it, countries could get together and do something similar to nuclear nonproliferation, but as we see today that is only a stopgap, and the big countries that were already doing it will keep doing it.

If it wasn't a leak, we need to understand the geopolitical dynamics that led to this, if this is the case it was on par with Hiroshima and surface nuclear weapons testing, it is as dangerous a technology as nuclear weapons.
ChromeOS now runs on top of Linux and, er, Zephyr
It can be, but the problem is that the good subreddits are only take one click for someone to join them, and thus they are not isolated at all from the broader community of Reddit and the broader community of Reddit being what it is that sub reddit inevitably degrades. But yes, some subreddits are nice.
But that's an example of you overpaying - no need for audit insurance if you're making mistakes in their favor.

I don't think it does wash sales across different brokers properly though, but neither does anyone else.
The expression ((INT32_MAX / 0x1ff) <= x) is well-defined and will not cause overflow for any value of x of type int32_t. There is nothing to "optimize away" because there are no inputs that would invoke undefined behavior.

The original code was like this:

if (x < 0)
return 0;
int32_t i = x * 0x1ff / 0xffff;
if (i >= 0 && i < sizeof(tab)) {

(x * 0x1ff / 0xffff) can only be negative if (x < 0), which can be ruled out because the function would have returned already, or if a signed overflow has occurred, which is undefined behavior so anything can happen. The compiler can remove the (i >= 0) check because the only way it's false is if undefined behavior has already been invoked.

If you add the overflow check you quoted before the assignment, the compiler can still optimize away the (i >= 0) check like before with the same reasoning. Only this time the function will return before an overflow would occur.

The point of the "sledgehammer principle" described in the article is that UB checks must occur before the UB might be invoked and branch away. You obviously can't do this either:

int i = 2 / x;
if (i != undefined) {
return i;
}
return 0;

Instead, you'll have to do something like:

if (x != 0) {
int i = 2 / x;
return i;
}
return 0;
It would profit them by generating buzz and good will from their customers towards their future products, knowing that at some point, the customer will be given complete ownership of the product.

Plus, if the parts of the underlying software that are not going to be reused without modification in future products were open sourced, then for most semi-successful products there is the possibility of the code base growing, new tools and utilities being created, and information being generated that would improve their future products.

The only potential downside is that if the newer products that are released are retrogressive or are deemed to not be enough of an improvement then their own older systems with better software might crowd out their market share.

This would be a dramatic blow to sales of products like iPhones which have not had any MAJOR hardware upgrades in a few years, but for SBCs, a new processor, additional cores, faster memory, stronger graphics cards, USB-C, there's dozens of small improvements each generation that make a newer version worthwhile to customers.
Just so we’re all on the same page:

Not being loyal to the company doesn’t mean not being kind and good to your coworkers, or being a poor leader.

It doesn’t mean you have license to be pessimistic, jaded, poisonous, and an asshole.

It does mean your identity isn’t you work for Google, and your worth isn’t your continued relationship with your employer.

It does mean make good financial decisions for yourself, your family, and avoid giving home team discounts.
Where? Is there also 1G or better 5G+ fiber?
I buy Spotify for podcasts (as a listener of Heavyweight which is now exclusive to Spotify).

It sucks, and about 40% of the time an ad comes on, it crashes or loses my place in the episode completely when I try to skip (or I'm unable to skip). It's literally the worst podcast player I've ever used.

I don't know what other exclusives they've gotten with a captive audience, but it's at least a reasonably logical play. Reply All would have kept me on the platform too had it not ended.

But I stay because that's where my playlists and recs are, and those serve me well enough too.
Maybe it won't matter in that nothing positive is actually ever done with results anyway. Searching for stuff to back up a pre-existing belief, manufactured results just as good as found.
Without the security daemons you risk a flux capacitor overload and that leads to it being exploitable via pointer wraparound.
No knowledge. But is the two posts just contradict each other ?

Anyway, very cool and click on individual dot give you the orbit. Still not sure how to find the geostationary one though.
Depends on subreddit.
Birds of feather flock together.
It does have silence trimming now at least, not sure about the other stuff.
This may be true, but the quality of the journalism is so low as to make the claim useless.

The meat producer claims he has anecdotal evidence. aka hearsay. He asks law enforcement who don't really have anything. An expert is wheeled out, but all he can say is that it might be happening. Does the journalist investigate? Do they quality sample some meat? Do they ask the ministry? No no and no.

Brexit in my opinion is a hot mess. But so is this news story.
"Just" copy paste a multi GB file with endless lines of authors? Brilliant? I might be missing something here.
Why cant you use an N tree, what's special about 4?
I don’t generally think in individual words when writing. When I want to write a sentence, the first thing I think about is the idea that I want to convey. Then clusters of words start to come into my mind, as ways of expressing that idea, and I select and organize those fragments into a sentence, sometimes fine tuning words to avoid undesirable connotations or emphasize desired ones. Finally I glue the tuned fragments together with syntax and connecting words. Throughout the process I’m constantly iterating.

I don’t think that what ChatGPT does is anything remotely like what I do to communicate. But maybe I’m weird.
I'm always conflicted by Brunelle's videos. The skill displayed is certainly impressive, but I think it's wrong to glorify that kind of behavior. Those people are irresponsible fools. If you want to do stunts, don't do it around people who don't want to be involved. And I say this as someone who commutes by road bike daily.
Bats are bad news and generally it's a very good idea to completely avoid contact with them and also with bat feces. Don't touch bats. Ever.
I would argue this would be better done but google or someone else specializing faceted search over structured data. GPT may smooth over results that are coded as near misses (eg USB vs USB3),but as you said it gave you nearly half wrong incorrect data. There are also ways with toolformer it could call the right APIs and maybe interpret the data, but as is LLMs aren’t the right tech to fetch data from like this.
Are you familiar with the writings of Malthus? Predictions of humanity’s growth-fueled demise are not new.

> is there any future in which the humans race does not choke itself with its own overgrowth?

There are three primary ideas that give me hope in the future of humanity.

The first is space settlement, especially on orbital colonies. The books The High Frontier and Mining the Sky are great introductions to this concept. And after a long “space winter”, it’s gaining steam.

The second is the humble concept of recycling. I believe technological progress will allow us to recycle the vast majority of materials that we use to build our civilization. Current directions in this field are enzymatic decomposition and AI-enabled visual separation of matter.

Finally, I have hope in the future of humanity based on the fact that those with higher quality of life and education tend to have fewer children.

These things together paint a picture of a next century with fewer total humans on earth living with much higher life quality and efficiency, with an expanding frontier of orbital colonies of adventurers. This frontier will in turn become a comfortable civilization that can sustain trillions, before we even discuss the possibility of life outside our solar system.

Lofty? Yes. But look at how far we have come and note that indications for high QOL and high tech are accelerating, not slowing down. There will be challenge after challenge, but we will get to a fundamentally brighter future with different problems, make no mistake.

That is, we will get there if we have engaged citizens of democracies all over the world who believe in and act on their power. Political will is the bottleneck.
The Netpbm family of image formats, including PPM, have both binary and ascii standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#PPM_example
You need to open your mind a bit. There is something in between the 50 storey apartment block and detached suburban sprawl. Liveable cities have 4-5 stories, wide footpaths, car-free squares where kids can be supervised at a distance but mostly left to their own devices. Amenities within walking/biking distance.
As a parent, I trade off having less space in exchange for a walkable environment for my children to play and live in. I am lucky to live in a city where my children can safely walk to their friends house and take a city bus to school. They have some autonomy and won't be arrested for going to buy a doughnut unsupervised, like in the USA.

Also, no, I don't have my own metalworking shop, but I do have a Hackerspace nearby, which not only has more tools and equipment than I could ever need, but people to enjoy them with.

The US suburban life is all fear and isolation based. Your home is your castle, your lawn is a moat. Your SUV/Pickup is your steed, used to go into battle every day with a hostile world. You can have a gun before you can have a beer... You only think you need all that space because your are not willing to share it with others as part of a communal society.
Perhaps the regulatory solution is to offer the option: Either the vendor covers the cost of recycling, or they liberate the devices so recycling isn't the only option.
…why? Sorry I’m not being flippant here I mean it. Why would this be okay? What is the reason that I would want someone to be able to intentionally take advantage of me as a person in a way that benefits them but not me when I have no personal connection to them?

Moreover, why would I let a corporation or other business do that?

Im genuinely curious where your thinking is at with this and hope you’ll elaborate beyond this short reply you gave.
Wasn't there a humorous law which said "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no" and indeed, what makes you think it works? It fools people into thinking it works but have you seen that chess match between Stockfish and ChatGPT? It's the best, most succinct demonstration of what ChatGPT is.

https://pastebin.com/X6kBRTa9

https://i.redd.it/fl4puwzxt9ha1.gif

https://youtu.be/rSCNW1OCk_M
Their reasoning they don't have good access to China and all the data collected should be seen less as concerned interests who don't want the origins found, and more that the investigation isn't practical any more, given that no matter what they eventually found, the media pwned by various politics will still perpetrate the lab theory.

I'm disappointed that they're not looking into the September 2019 detection in Italy of covid 19 (screened lung tissue samples) and the fact the closest iirc match so far to the original covid 19 is from a population of bats in Laos.

It's not unreasonable to blame the emergence of the virus on the presence of an exotic animal trade which post codid 19, China has moved hard on that practise.
I visited south India a couple of times. One early morning I had climbed a mountain, and from close to the peak I turned and saw the sun rise a blood red colour. Insane levels of pollution.
> Frameworks and plug-ins exist to allow this to be all plug and play

Too many are buggy and/or poorly documented and take lots of trial and error to get working as intended. And you create a dependency mess by including lots of pluggins/libraries. It may be quick up front, but can jack maintenance after say 5-ish years. Multi-K-lines-of-code libraries "rot" as environments change. If you can write a shop-tuned version in say 300 lines, do it, because it's easier to fix later. Select vendor libraries/pluggins judiciously.
I have my popcorn ready. Watching the number of EVs increase exponentially faster than the number of chargers. I think right now in UK, where most people are unable to charge at home, there are regions with 1:50 charger to EV ratio which is just comical. Politicians are delusional with their plans to ban the sales of ICE cars in 2030, because it will take forever for the EV infrastructure to catch up.
Something adaptive. Maybe AABB trees depending on the context.
> ECP brakes would have saved the day

Citation needed.

It sounds like all administrations (especially those currently in charge) deserve criticism for not focusing on the correct regulations for train safety.

Requiring something that isn't needed doesn't help... It can hurt as it takes resources away from actual necessities, like sensors, and tighter maintenance inspections.
Found the BO hater!
> but I do use linters (like clang-tidy) that enforce a decent chunk of the guide. And reference like a style guide (or any documentation really), yes.

That's my experience as well. Clang-tidy, clang-format, cppcheck and Core Guidelines. I don't recall the last project I've worked that didn't used that combo.
You have to work around this problem with batteries...

It's only a problem if you want to use the energy for systems that must be always available. If you intend to use it to power a factory, let's say to make more panels, you just operate 50% of time that, without clouds or any atmosphere filter, is actually better than on Earth.

For continuous support, take a nuclear reactor or build a wired net near a pole so when night comes to one station, you receive power from another.
The alternative is that you could also just plan around the lunar cycle by turning machinery off during the lunar night and only having moon landings during the day.
If by never runs, you mean things like automatic grammar and spell checking, which way back when were things you'd click a menu to run, and now are constantly running reassessing your lifes worth every time you click a new key. There tend to be any number of 'small' things like this that add up over time and suddenly we're running slow. It also doesn't help many applications followed the Apple school of thought and remove any configuration options so you're unable to disable much of this.

This is ignoring the plethora of bad decisions in the past we're paying for now. Your word processor is likely running in a virtualized environment in your operating system because 30 years ago running full blowin programming applications with no security in your document was a good idea. Then you'll have another layer or two of anti-virus on top of it.
Would have been smarter to fail open in a situation like this and get the good press for eating the costs.
This tropey political post has no appreciation for how weird AI can be! Bing's chatbot starts trying to guilt you and convince you that you're dead if you try to argue with it! Do you want that left in so it's not "censored"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/112g4it/this_is_fun/
Hm, thats all food for thought. Btw I don't think that you are being off-topic.
The whole point of a vaccine is to expose the immune system to an antigen.
> Yeah I've been thinking along these lines. ChatGPT is telling us something about language or thought, we just havent got to the bottom of what it is yet. Something along the lines of 'with enough data its easier to model than we expected'.

I’ve been thinking similarly, and am coming to understand and accept we’ll never get to the bottom of it :)

The universe is fractal-like in nature. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that if “we” have created an intelligence which exists as a subset of “us”, a self-similar process is ultimately responsible for granting us our own intelligence.
The claim is of the specious and super-bogus-misinformation variety.

We now understand how COVID infections occur:

As a function of viral load due to exposure via inhalation of exhaled droplets transmitted through air shared with someone shedding the virus.

https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/frequently-asked-questi...