skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Referring to TechTV presenter Cat Schwartz, I presume?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Schwartz
I just bought a 23 Kia Telluride (was also looking at palisades) to upgrade my 05 outback; I did extensive research, and ended up zoning in on Hyundai-Kia specifically because their electronics are so 'hackable,' while still containing all the cutting edge sensors.

I think it is going to be a tiny sliver of cars that are allowed to get away with having a vehicle be able to be controlled like a remote control from a completely unencrypted, trivially intercepted-and-changed protocol. In the future I suspect if manufacturers want to put these features on cars, they will have to protect the communication between the different systems.
I actually want to see one just to see how it works out.

Probably HolyC is close? It's like an anti-Rust I think.
Principles of Horrible API Documentation
Lots of safe languages are close enough to C speed, like Ocaml, Go, many JVM languages (w Graal native image if fast startup is needed like here), Ada, Swift, etc. You can still have kinds of memory bugs in all of these incl Rust, esp leaks.
2000 dot-com crash, 1992 recession, the 1970's were horrible.

The issue right now is 'education and housing' costs which at least in part have something to do with our much longer than planned life expectancy and built up housing equity among those people, who vote and are very well organized as well as having deep ties into the system. I don't know what the answer is but I don't see anyone with great answers. Maybe 'decentralized' workforces will help out a bit, because affordability is reasonable in many places and frankly the supposed 'cool spots' just are not that cool.
> they can't just throw money around for funsies.

And yet a single bad/pointless/redundant meeting can easily cost 5k or more in time alone.

Companies throw money away constantly.
isn’t this a paid feature?
Existing RFC's require an email address. What you are looking for would require a new RFC to have a default address for a domain and of course changes to all MUA's/MTA's.

I think the shortest path to make something like this would just be to have an amending RFC that includes a lookup of a specific TXT record if an email address is not present. That TXT record could have a default email address for the domain.
> a Mark of Death in the tech community... refuse to work with people

You called for individuals who work in this space to be ostracized, boycotted, blacklisted, etc.

You're hoping that people will read your comment and then panic at the thought of taking one of these jobs, for fear of being discriminated against further down the road the next time they look for employment.

This is you trying to control behavior through fear.
Unfortunately I think you're off by an order of magnitude. I think it would be 810 Kilojoules, which is approximately equivalent to a 1kg lithium-ion battery. Of course, you could move thousands of rocks up and down a big crater, rather than just one, but it would still be a lot of infrastructure for a fairly small amount of energy storage.
> Also, I've tried 4 different podcast players and they're all terrible except for Spotify's.

You’re the first person I’ve heard with anything positive to say about their podcast UI, so I’m really curious what those four are.
There's also the dimension of time. Two such civilizations need to be both spatially and temporally proximal. One of the "explanations" for the Fermi Paradox is that humans are too far out from the temporal peak, i.e. too late or too early to the scene.
Altimeter is a secondary instrument for a climb. The primary instrument for pitch would be the airspeed indicator (for a typical constant speed climb). The fact that they noticed the descent (on the VSI and altimeter) and corrected indicates they were scanning, but doesn't tell much about what was happening that caused them to transition from a climb to descent.
Scheduling amusement park rides through an app seems like a new circle of hell.
I dunno, haven’t people like the Kardashians made plenty of money out of exactly that?
It still blows my mind that midjourney & co. can get decent illumination, shadows and even reflections. Just... how?!
This is how I judge python tools these days. I will not use most tools that offer no ability to configure with pyproject (except pre-commit), and will look for alternatives if you can use pyproject but the docs seem to discourage it.

Biggest missing piece of the workflow now is a modern replacement for Tox/Nox; only one I see is Hatch, but that replaces a lot more, for better or worse.
Can they claim to support it then?
Aren't linters global? If you change the number of args to a function, you want the linter to tell you all call sites with the wrong number of args right?
I think that's a healthy thing. Regulation has advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it goes too far and sometimes it doesn't go far enough. So it makes sense to have people advocating both more and less of it.
My self lore is that Google has an AI way more powerful than open.ai, but they won't release it because sometimes it can be coaxed into saying something that might be considered offensive by some.

So instead they have been working with the diversity team for the last year trying to get it certified as "Not racist, LGBTQ+ friendly", while still having it have some degree of functionality. I'm only half kidding here.

Maybe this will finally wake up the board to ditch Sundar, and onboard someone who is more tech and product focused.
The next post in the series, https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft... is more technical.

I should do some sort of write up of just .netMF, but I don't honestly recall too much about it in a general sense, since most of my time was spent in the weeds optimizing code.
Including the fact that trains are too long, which directly contributed to this incident.

https://www.timesunion.com/allnews/article/Railroad-union-sa...
RFC 5321 defines the what that address looks like. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321#page-15
Who are you to decide what others are comfortable sharing on here. It is quite literally as simple as the person I replied to choosing not reply to my comment. Why is this issue a concern to you?

> I don't have a dog in this fight politically one way or the other

Neither do I.

> people don't need to identify themselves IRL here

I don't think they do either. Why are you assuming I "needed" this information?
> A lot of web content is fictionalized nonsense in general

Always funny when you read a Wikipedia entry, and then scroll to the footnotes and click them all. Most of them 404. Some of them are citing some blog post written by some non-credentialed hack and the blog post doesn't even have citations, it's just made up on-the-fly. Then there's citations which lead to a scientific paper, and when you read the paper, everything said is 'backed' by more citations, and those citations 404/don't exist. The whole of Wikipedia is a lie.
The train that was carrying all of this passed through Cleveland, Ohio, just prior to this accident. Imagine the fallout if this had happened around a population of hundreds of thousands of people?
50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge
Carrier at least claims their UV upgrade does not produce ozone. Not sure how accurate that is though.
If the problem was understood and corrected, I don't see any operational reason to not continue to the destination. (Same story on the AA runway incursion in NY. They knew what happened; it was corrected; they called company and continued the trip.) The CVR over-write is a side-effect of those correct decisions.
Thank you for the response Charlie! I also found darglint but yes, even less maintained than pydoctest.

Totally understood this isn't a top priority, but very glad to hear it is potentially in-scope. I've been looking for an excuse to get into rust... we'll see.
absolutely brilliant, bravo
Today is the 10th year anniversary of Steam being officially out for Linux
Brexit was clearly a plan by PETA to make the UK vegan.
(1959)
Because civilization is a myth and most people are trash. The primary operating principal is exploitation.
Thanks for sharing your project. Care to talk about the technical aspect of the pipeline for different types of inputs (Text based PDFs and OCR for images and image based PDFs)?
Three orders of magnitude*
That's right -- we don't support match statements, and we don't support except* (which is part of 3.11 IIRC), but I _think_ we support everything else. And of course, I intend to support all of those language features.

If interested: CPython moved to a new parser, a PEG parser, in Python 3.9, and part of the motivation was to support language features like pattern matching, which introduced ambiguities in the grammar that the existing parser couldn't handle. For the same reason, they've been non-trivial to implement in the RustPython parser -- they either require clever techniques, or the parser needs to be written as a PEG parser. I am hoping to do the former, but I need to find time to prioritize it.
Define “tech”? It’s almost as if it stopped meaning “technology” and now means… what?
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu's Real-Time “RT” Kernel to General Availability
I suppose, but it's not really that hard to resolve things at 30-60k feet.

The big Chinese balloon was ~300ft across (and the equipment ~100ft) at 60kft would be almost half the size of the moon... 0.25deg or easily visible by eye. And you can get shots of that with a hand held mobile phone at night. Any amateur astronomical camera set up is capable of 1-4 arc sec (better than 0.0001deg) and daytime exposures would be <10msec.

So it's pretty easy to get 1ft resolution at that altitude. Getting 1inch is harder, but doable especially with multiple images, which is possible now even for amateurs. If it was moving at 100mph (closer to 30-50) that's only <1ft during the exposure time (still 50x faster than the moon). The gov can do much better, but I wouldn't count on mm resolution.
My job for the past 10+ years with a medium-sized tech company pretty much fundamentally changed my financial situation even given salary and stock appreciation that was nothing extraordinary.
Search is ad-influenced already, but there's still signal under the noise.

Adding a chat front end is just going to lower the SNR, because ChatGPT has no idea what facts are or how to check them.

Unfortunately it's also the main attraction for corporate revenue generation. You can sell stuff conversationally. Woo hoo. These systems are going to turn into automated used car sales bots which use persuasion techniques to steer users towards a sale.

From the user POV the main attraction is the prospect of a kind of universal summarising WikiBot and bureaucratic paperwork automator.

Those are fundamentally different domains.

Users have been pretty relaxed about being manipulated and distracted by social media and covert PR/sales/influencer operations, so there's going to be a huge market for the bad stuff.

But it's just corporate noise, as it always is. The real value will come from processed search in the sense of automated teaching and intelligence augmentation.

Unfortunately there's not where most of the research will go. It's not going to become common until LLMs are taught to fact check with high reliability, and the cost of entry is low enough for that to be offered as a service.

Meanwhile - yes, exactly: ads disguised as search results.
We've seen this before in smaller waves, or institutionally woven, in big tech. Standard operating procedure has been to hoard a bunch of cheap new grads, grind them out with your culture or small RIFs, and keep the most productive.

It boggles me that this is acceptable and the norm for new grads. This, from the article, should be the norm:

"The job prospects in Big Tech are so grim that career counselors at even the most elite universities are urging students to consider positions at smaller companies and in less sought-after sectors, such as manufacturing or government."
Although where did those 2x, 3x increase come from? Did big tech grab employees from other companies who have been short handled for a couple of years? Not like all of a sudden we got 2x more engineers ready to go.
When I hear Ohio and trains I immediately think of the huge federal grants for building a higher speed rail line from Cleveland over Columbus to Cincinnati that were already granted.

The same was granted for Wisconsin and Florida.

And one by one their governors refused to use these grants to build the infrastructure, and one by one the federal grants were reassigned, until in the end Florida got 2.3 billion dollars for building a high-speed rail line Miami-Orlando-Tampa. That was also sabotaged by its governor.

But because such a rail line is so incredibly economically effective a private company started to build it anyhow, just at lower speeds.

I’m still flabbergasted about this.
Why not make a solid enclosure out of metal and melt a hole in it when you need to move material in and out?
I recall it was after Trump's election that Google started prioritizing official outlets in YouTube search results for anything political.

That made it very hard to find the parody/compilation videos poking fun at politicians unless you manually resorted by view count.
Look like it was real! (In subsequent probing it appears to have been fixed.)
Overall I like Overcast, definitely better than Apple’s app. I don’t like UI though — the teal blue color, oversized controls, the “+ + + +” on the playback speed slider, strange layout choices, etc. (I know that these are relatively minor things to most people).
Compact holographic sound fields enable rapid one-step assembly of matter in 3D
Of course. There's at least one Ruff contributor who I know is working on a Python docstring parser, written in Rust, with formal grammars etc. (unlike Pydocstyle which relies on regex). I don't know the status of that project, but it would be very cool to see, and Ruff could of course leverage it :)
What's kind of funny is, I've gone completely the other route... I've been using VS Code almost exclusively, even for a handful of .Net (Core/5+) projects. I will say the .Net extension for VS Code is lacking though, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks it's intentionally borked by MS. I find the experience is generally better for everything that isn't C#/.Net

I just literally setup Copilot, though haven't really used it yet. I also haven't worked much with ChatGPT, but may give that a try as well. I'm starting on a Rust project and really unfamiliar with the language, even after reading a couple books at this point. The learning curve has been steeper than other languages I've worked with, so willing to try the leg up approach at this point.
r/opendirectories needs to get in on this.
Roadmap 2023 Weaviate vector search engine
Lots of things are happening in the world of vector DBs. For those interested in what Weaviate will do this year. Tl;Dr: ingestion and search pipelines, native roaring bitmap index, auto-scaling, product quantization, and disk-based ANN.
well it seems Dems put the rule in place, Republicans removed it, and then the Dems didn't act fast enough to re-instate it.

if i where to point at who has the most fault it here would be the Republicans.
Didn't realize that distinction - thank you.

Do you know if they recommended it right away or after a few days?
Here's a perspective you might have not heard:

Past 7 months inflation is 3.25% annualized, while fed funds rate is expected to be 4.75% next month. We're seeing high interest now for inflation that was 8 - 16 months ago.
iPhone - I'm happy to take recommendations.
Perfect example of "privatized gains, socialized losses".

In a just world every decision maker with blood on their hands would pay with their wealth for tens of thousands of lives extinguished, which means: back to working class, should they ever leave prison.

But surely they'll have it all squirreled away off-shore and nothing of substance will change.
I'm surprised as well, it's clear that music will always be a loss leader for them. Why not do more in video, which is at least a proven monetization channel (YT, Tiktok, IG Live). MTV-style programming is due a comeback.
Historically, when the email protocol was first made [RFC 561](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc561) in 1973 personal computers were rare and very low power. At the time, hardly anyone owned a computer on their own.

That said, might be cool, but good luck getting most apps to accept something without an @ as an email address
You've got to understand that you kids have been raised in different times.

In the 1980's, the German state tried twice to do a census of the population. Twice the protests by the people were so vivid, that they failed to do them. In 1983, the highest German court declared the planned census unconstitutional and in 1987, protests on May 1st turned into violence over this issue.

In 2022, Germany did a census again. There was basically no public objection.
I just think it would be wise to not blindly trust any agency right now. I would like to see some independently verified levels at the crash site and at the locations where people are reporting issues.
Some people, like me, really like to plan. It's nice to know I can walk up to a ride and get on it in a few minutes rather than rush a park and hope to get in early enough that I don't lose my whole morning to waiting in line for ten minute attraction. To me, that kinda sounds like a new circle of hell, but to each their own.
Yeah we're a Microsoft centred company and we don't even use Office. Everything goes in Google Docs or Confluence .
From what I understand, the bank will still maintain the huge excel sheet, but you get the benifit of crypto because when they issue the "tokens" that they accept, they are double blind signed. So the bank doesn't know who bought what
Sounds like a national lab?
Good! The last thing we need is to centralize brainpower among 5-6 too-large companies.

There's also the dirty secret that there are lots of hard problems out there, and you probably have a better chance of working on one of those hard problems than you would at Google, where you'd come up against people with decades of experience and lots more credentials than you. We should be warning grads that getting into Google could mean you getting paged to keep Gmail running at 4am in the morning, rather than figuring out a sweet graph analysis problem.

I worry that the grasping for status for some is actually a cover for, "I don't know what to do but I would like others to validate me."
There's embedded and then there's embedded.

The system I'm working on at my day job has about 1meg of Flash and, IIRC, 128k RAM. It was reduced in resources to save cost (disposable device). The one I'm working on at home has about 4M Flash and 256k RAM. One of them is making liberal use of the STL and I know both have Python implementations available.

Tiny, memory constrained devices are still around, but they're a smaller and smaller part of the pie every year.
I graduated in 2001 and it was extremely difficult to break in. Minimum wage programming jobs that were so competitive other candidates were left crying when they couldn't land a position.

Just keep pushing.
I would strongly recommend you use the tool to generate a screenshot of the tool and put that on the homepage :)
I know two devs.

One changed 3 jobs in his whole career of 20 years and was genuinely interested in what he does, for whom he does it, which tools he uses and how to understand better the technology that's needed to achieve the goal. He is great to talk to, listens and never tries to interrupt with "but what about <technology X>, why didn't you use <latest serverless thingy>, who the f* is the ID-10-T that made you learn <language that does the job and people know it>", just in order to give himself credibility. Doesn't use popular social media.

The other one always talked at people, knew all the buzzwords and changed 1 job every 8 - 12 months in the span of his 10 year long career, and never failed to mention it in social gatherings as if it's something to be proud of. His Twitter, LinkedIn, StackOverflow (with low score of answers and badly written questions that are borderline insulting when told to provide sufficient info), Facebook and TikTok are regularly updated multiple times in a day, mostly with phrases such as "In order to grow, you can only do so with an awesome team like <array of names from LinkedIn with similar social presence>" or other motivational phrases. He never skips the chance to mention that there exists choice of tech that does the job better and it's the one he happens to use, being the latest and shiniest in the toolbox of frameworks, SaaS or similar tools. Interactions with him are multiplayer monologue and most his social circle is similar - people who talk about themselves and how great they are, backed up with obscure, witty, wannabe-nerd words used for frameworks/libs/SaaS in their toolbox.

One of these two lost the job and blames the world and big tech. The other one kept it. And will keep it for forseeable future.

There is work to be done and there are people to do it.

One of these two is a rare find in world of engineering, the other is common occurrence. One of these two is economically viable while the other incurs loss.

As unpopular my comment will get, I'll let the downvoter (or upvoter) guess who kept the job and which person sounds as a more pleasant co-worker.
According to wikipedia, BC's program was modeled after a program started by Minneapolis police in 1998.

Bait car programs are pretty well known in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_Car_(TV_series)

And police in the recent problem areas have been doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZh6D9sftw
jokes are discouraged here.
similar, i read something about uv-c in 2019; and also how washing machines most active cleaning is from water (they don't kill things well), so had added a uv-c light to "treat" my laundry.
Computer-controlled weapons have far more opportunity to diffuse responsibility and shift the blame. Notice how often "algorithms" are already used in civilian context as a wall to hide behind. This will only get worse with autonomous weapons.
I have a friend that's found ChatGPT helpful in a similar way... it's not quite right, but enough to get going in a direction. Dave's Garage on youtube did a decent walkthrough for working with ChatGPT, and was interresting.

It's definitely not at doomsayer levels, and don't think it will ever get there, you still have to understand enough to know if it's even right. Similar for general facts and writing things like research papers.
Trick question, I would not click on a link to The Verge.
I, personally, want save to act like committing a transaction. I don't like making changes to something and having every key typed or item clicked on be an immediate change to the file. The common case for me is to start making changes, then save them when I'm ready, sometimes as another file name. At least 30 years of this behavior has been ingrained into my workflows. We have undo, but I'd also like to have a revert changes option that acts like rolling back a transaction. The simple rollback is to just close the file without saving, but that doesn't work if every change big or small is a commit.
Depends on whether the author is pedantic about the use of GB vs. GiB.
I’m bearish on Google but you’re correct and shouldn’t be in light gray text. Bard is a smaller version of Lamda, not PALM, so we know for sure they had a much more advanced model some time ago
so... the grants were unnecessary? Also, how can someone see this catastrophe and still want to go with trains -- 200+ year old tech that is clearly environmentally destructive, doesn't solve last-mile, and can't be parallelized or re-routed, or even rescheduled easily
Podcasts should be available via RSS feed.