skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I hadn't been thinking about that, but it makes sense.

I certainly think that the set of people who don't trust clouds is probably bigger than it should be, but there are some cases where the "natural bug bounty" (available money to steal) is over 100x higher than the earnings of a software engineer and it's easy to cash out. I think it may be reasonable to be paranoid about your cloud provider's (and their employees') access to your systems if that is the case.
"Judicial review" in Israel is a unilateral and unjustified assertion of authority. It's not found in any sort of basic law and is incredibly uncommon in the kind of parliamentary supremacist unitary state (ie no tradition of institutional balance-of-power) Israel thought they were setting up ab initio. It's also obviously incestuous for a body to choose their own replacements as the Israeli supreme court does.

On face, it's far more defensible for the body with an explicit democratic mandate to reign in the body that does not, than the reverse.
Love SH3D. As others said, it takes some time to learn, but becomes pretty intuitive.

The ability to import and scale a background image is my favorite feature. I recently used it with a satellite image from my County's property line tool and planned a shed location. It was easy to measure setbacks and other obstacles. I even had fun translating the surveyor jargon on the deed to retrace the property lines.
> Biometrics can't be revoked, so if your gym leaks your fingerprint images (linked to your name), that's a mistake that in practice simply cannot be fixed. You just can't use that finger for sensitive biometrics ever again. People should not be forced to take the risk.

Fingerprint scanner systems don’t store photos of your fingerprint. They store information that can be used to match against your fingerprint within their own system, but they can’t be used to reconstruct your fingerprint.
In my opinion if you go open office everyone should go open office even the bosses. A previous company did this. Often you would sit next to the CEO in the open office
The secret routine that the best software engineers have been following for years.
> The shame of software engineers

What decisions are on these guys? How to name some variable? How to receive mole salary? Or what manager's/marketologists' decision not to code?
They've been trying this at my workplace for a few months. "3 days in-office" actually means everybody piles in on Tues, Wed, Thurs, making it impossible to find a meeting room on those days, and (it's a huge building with other companies) making the elevators slow and overcrowded as hell. It's a terrible 'solution' to a 'problem' that I'm not convinced even exists.
Gasoline is a transport mechanism for solar power just like green hydrogen is. The difference is only that oil was stored by nature millions of years ago while green hydro is stored by humans today.

The important point is whether or not the energy used to create it was "free". From a human perspective, the energy that was spent creating oil was "free". But if you have an intermittent surplus of renewable power and use it to create green hydrogen it is also "free".
It’s not clear to me how “add more parens” is necessarily an effective solution to avoiding a misplaced paren, as was the case here.
Syzygy Endgame Tablebases
Twitter to Allow Only Blue Subscribers to Use Worst Form of Authentication
Mayo? I guess ChatGPT has yet to scan a White Castle menu.
In a perfect world, this would be the case. Just as in a perfect world, no one would store un-hashed passwords.
Apple Maps Releases “Detailed City Experience” and Cycling Directions in Germany
https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/1626241169754578944
https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/1626257535178280960
What should they base it on? Lines of code or jira tickets? Most of the metrics you can name are things we as devs have insisted for years are not adequate to measure dev productivity.
Distributed transactions: What, why, and how to build a distributed application
Now, only if it could play music from a casette…
Glassdoor.com suggests that McDonald's in NYC pays crew members and cashiers about $36-37k/year and managers around $129k/year.

The national minimum wage of $7.25/hour works out to about $12k/year, so that's about three times as much.

New York State has a higher minimum wage, $14.20/hour. That works out to about $24k/year, so NYC McDonalds is still paying considerably more.
Duke3d was released in 1996. PCs by that point had long included some variation of the 16550A UART and interlnk took advantage of the FIFO in the 16550A. A PC powerful enough to run Duke Nukem 3D should not have had a problem transferring at 115200.
All I see is bold claims like this made as fact without any supporting evidence.
Even Pentium class CPUs had problems handling MP3s depending on the encoding
Glad this girl could get the treatment she needed. But I have to question spending millions of pounds on a single dose of a drug at a time when nurses aren't getting payrises in line with inflation and citizens are dying because there's huge waiting list backlogs. Pretty much everybody I know has given up trying to get healthcare if they need it.

Of course, it shouldn't have to be either/or. Unfortunately, the institution (NHS) has been driven into the ground and we're all paying taxes for practically nothing in return.
>> So you are actually proposing to raise taxes

It depends - in the specific scenario of an incredibly expensive drug for small numbers of patients (and other problems with similar dynamics) then tax might not be the best solution. But in other cases yes.

In this particular case the returns would go to successful investors - not historically a money user class prone to causing inflation (quite the opposite). In this case you may find that you don’t need any intervention - they might take their winnings and go speculate on more investments (great!). It may be that conditions are such that they don’t presently fancy investing, perhaps you could offer them inflation tracking risk free gilts/tbills to park in for now. However you would need to be ready for their choice to go on an inflationary non productive consumption spree. In which case - directed taxation should be applied.
Are you serious or joking? Impressive if it's for real.
If the fingerprint worked across multiple computers, they did store the fingerprint. Maybe it wasn't an image, but it would need to be informative enough to distinguish between multiple employees. Embedded fingerprint readers only provide a matches user/doesn't match user result.
Is seems to have a long tour of usage (even if not being used as designed).

It’s good news to me that it’s not being used at Adak to find incoming Russian ICBMs. Hopefully we don’t have to endure another USSR Cold War.
“More than a week after the crash, CNN discovered that some East Palestine residents had served as extras in the recent Netflix film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise—specifically while filming the novel’s “Airborne Toxic Event” sequence, in which an errant rail car spills chemicals that produce a noxious black cloud over a midwestern town.”

Hadn’t heard this tidbit about the crash before, what a truly insane coincidence. The airborne toxic event in the novel/movie causes deja vu, too.
The big factor is going to be library support. Deno is younger and doesn't have the same ecosystem. You can do all the same stuff, but in node, someone may have figured out the hard part for you.
I think the best way to solve this problem is by writing small digestible message passing functions (like Erlang) and each function written using design by contrast (like Eiffel). That way the situation can be bought under some control when the software scales.
I think I never tried it via serial but remember playing over 10base2 or 10baseT IPX.
On the other hand, you have nothing to compare your experience to so while it might be "working out great", it could be better.

Playing devil's advocate here.
‘Bond villain’ DNA could transform cancer treatment, scientists say
>> And precisely because they were nuclear accidents, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl left their surroundings contaminated for years, even decades.

Perhaps a small point, but the incident at Three Mile Island did not lead contaminate surroundings for years. Or at least, the extent is somewhat disputed.

From wiki:

According to the American Nuclear Society, using the official radioactivity emission figures, "The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant was eight millirem (0.08 mSv), and no more than 100 millirem (1 mSv) to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by US residents in a year."

Although some epidemiological studies cast some doubt on that:

A peer-reviewed research article by Dr. Steven Wing found a significant increase in cancers between 1979 and 1985 among people who lived within ten miles of TMI.[113] In 2009 Dr. Wing stated that radiation releases during the accident were probably "thousands of times greater" than the NRC's estimates. A retrospective study of Pennsylvania Cancer Registry found an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in some counties south of TMI (although, notably, not in Dauphin County itself) and in high-risk age groups but did not draw a causal link between these incidences and the accident.[13][14] The Talbott lab at the University of Pittsburgh reported finding a few, small increased cancer risks within the TMI population.[15] A more recent study reached "findings consistent with observations from other radiation-exposed populations," raising "the possibility that radiation released from [Three Mile Island] may have altered the molecular profile of [thyroid cancer] in the population surrounding TMI", establishing a potential causal mechanism, although not definitively proving causation.[114]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
> On face, it's far more defensible for the body with an explicit democratic mandate to reign in the body that does not, than the reverse.

Which is why, ordinarily, we try and do justice to our and others’ understandings by not stopping at superficial analyses.

Judicial review has empirically strengthened democracies, rather than weakening them. Democracies that weaken or capture their independent judiciaries tend to undergo democratic backsliding, especially under reactionary governments.
“ubuntu-advantage-tools needs to be present so users can upgrade to Ubuntu Advantage/Pro to get extended security support.”

Remind users to apt-get ubuntu-advantage-tools if they want to upgrade.

“No, `apt-get ubuntu-extended-support` isn’t an option, because users should be able to use Ubuntu without using apt-get.”

So, who exactly is using Minimal Ubuntu (“…a set of Ubuntu images designed for automated deployment at scale…”) without using apt-get? Your description of the distro as “…not intended to be comfortable to use at the command line, but you can apt-get and snap install anything as usual…” sure sounds like you expect users to use apt-get, in the rare circumstance that anyone ever does log in as a user to one of these distros.

“Sorry, but we will not budge on this ‘must have access to advantage/pro without apt-get’ technicality.”

So there’s this line, once again from the Ubuntu wiki’s own description of Ubuntu Minimal: “The `unminimize` command will install the standard Ubuntu Server packages if you want to convert a Minimal instance to a standard Server environment…”. So make a `get-advantage` or `go-pro` command. There, access to advantage/pro without apt-get.

“Look, we are a business, and advantage/pro upgrades are how we make money, we’re not taking it out.”

I’m sure you have telemetry tracking upgrade conversions - maybe in ubuntu-advantage-tools itself, maybe elsewhere. Take a good look at that data and find out how many people are upgrading to advantage/pro from minimal. Is it zero? It’s zero, isn’t it?
Thank you for confirming. You aren’t interested in the main topic, but you do appear to be interested in avoiding it.
I believe trick in Germany is to formally tell them you are pregnant before they try to fire you / pass over you for promotions etc.

Tell them too early and you risk discrimination, tell them too late and you risk missing out on legal protection.
> I was curious about the concept of inverting this – requiring that all variables lazily evaluate, and in the case that evaluation is needed now, some keyword obtains it.

That's how Haskell works. Everything is lazily evaluated, and in the case that evaluation is needed now, the "seq" function obtains it (https://wiki.haskell.org/Seq).
10-15 years ago, it was :)
Thanks for this message
Edit: Had just woken up and didn't notice "you are not more familiar with one or the other". Hm, will have to think on that one.

Haskell. I know it best and know at least 10 people I could hire that also know it.

I can be as safe or as unsafe as needed where it's needed and get good performance without thinking about it most of the time.
I don't think ethics applies unless the AI actually has conscious experience. The trouble is that conscious experience is only detectable from the inside. So we need to test it from the inside. Here's a way:

Attain the technology to upload a human to hardware via the "ship of theseus" method, replacing a few neurons at a time with hardware that replicates the activities of the originals.

But when you actually upload people, have them report their experiences as you go. Vary the order in which you replace parts.

If people never report anything weird, then I might start to trust that the hardware really does support conscious experience. But if, say, you replace the visual cortex and people say they know where everything is but aren't actually experiencing visual qualia, then I'll take that as evidence that the hardware does not support conscious experience, and any AI based on that hardware is a philosophical zombie, replicating behaviors but not experiencing qualia.

That will be my default assumption until we test it, because no matter how complicated the computer program, mathematically it's still a Turing machine, and I don't see how a Turing machine moving back and forth on a tape can end up having qualia.
I tend to agree with toxic here. Side effects inside conditionals should be avoided, in short circuit conditionals even more so.

In a case like this, my preference would be to give callback a dummy value and always run it.

I subscribe pretty heavily to the Carmack philosophy of always running the code as similarity as possible and making a decision at the end of a procedure.
If only there was a language that defines explicit conversions between booleans and numbers.
Bro thinks handing a majoritarian government unlimited, unchecked power is the solution lol

Democracy breaks when power is concentrated.
For some reason, Wikipedia doesn’t provide its usual level of detail on the FISA court page. Amendments to FISA look like:

1978, formed out of the Church commission

1994, business communications added to scope, and surveillance might be physical. “Business” would eventually include GPS and cell tower locating information kept by cell provider businesses.

2007, expanded to legitimize a dragnet for cases where foreign agents are included among bulk collection. I say legitimize because in 2005 the intelligence community was busted surpassing the bounds permitted by law. Retroactive immunity of telecom companies is one of the more interesting policy debates, I think.

Since 2008, it has been renewed by every President.

While Snowden is perhaps the most prominent face of what the public is permitted to know, Trump campaigner Carter Page is the most prominent FISA target. Any American citizen is legally protected by FISA unless they’re a foreign agent.

Page acted suspiciously like he was being paid by Russia to courier information. I think we can conclude that the FISA court acted in their typical knee jerk fashion to allow surveillance without bothering with civil rights; four times. The DoJ would eventually conclude it did not have probable cause to surveil Page. Republican legislators felt Page needed to be protected, and he became the face for some changes to FISA. Carter Page lied about trips to Moscow. Depending on your politics, this might be to cover up crimes, or you might fantasize that he was on a secret mission. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also lied about the trips. Anyway, fighting for changes to the kind of suspicion FISA is allowed to investigate is based on Page lying about when he was in Moscow.

The material unconstitutionally gathered on Page is tightly guarded by the government. His lawsuits have been thrown out. Having been at one time such a prominent victim that he was changing FISA law, he would later be described by the White House as an unknown.
> The benefits of Free Software is that if you want to get some software running on platforms the original author doesn't support but the language does, you can do that.

The exact cause of this entire controversy is that the software in question is switching to a language that supports less platforms.
Fear misrepresents it a bit

Apprehension is the better term, and yes. I'm nervous about those too because they are remarkably easy to abuse and the fundamentals are similar - over prescription

This is just a visual aid, don't let it confuse you
Another reason micromanagement is a popular technique because the manager is incompetent.
I wouldn't call it "low status", I'd call it "emerging".

I told somebody around 2009 that I was interested in AI and he thought I was an insane crackpot.

I think there is going to be a huge spend on technology related to decarbonization in the next ten years. Also advanced manufacturing technology will be important. The north star for that (at the risk of sounding grandiose) is space industrialization: if we are going to send 10,000 people to Mars, Ceres or some place that and expect them to survive they need to be able to manufacture just about everything. Even if that never happens, advanced manufacturing is needed on this planet and will create opportunities.

It might not be the path to billions but grad school in chemistry or adjacent areas of science and engineering would be a way to get in.

I think there will be some billion dollar games in the ten next years that will involve some intersection of technology, art and entertainment. I think of the company Type Moon from Japan that started out with very simple visual novels but developed a stable of characters and storytelling viewpoints that led to some rather good games like Fate/Extra and Fate/Extella and then the blockbuster mobile game Fate/Grand Order -- one of those "overnight success" stories that they'd worked on for more than 10 years.

There will be billion dollar games based on VR/AR and related technologies but my fear is that Mark Zuckerberg will try to destroy any competitor in this space out of spite.
I think we probably copied it via a laplink cable. We definitely played it multiplayer via a serial cable.
> Hire people you can trust to do the work and let them do it.

And give them pay increases in line with inflation, in line with their gained experience and equal to or above market rates
Ah nostalgia... This was my first PC processor. I remember my CPU came with some sort of a bug that prevented me running windows 3.11 on it.
Many fingerprint scanners are just optical and just return an image of the finger, and it is up to the implementation of the security software as to whether or not that image is converted to a hash and/or disposed of securely. And just like password hashes, some fingerprint hashes can be broken.
The 'permacrisis' hitting Gen Z workers
From Math Camp to Handcuffs
Ah, that makes sense.

I'd take a look at https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler -- I bet that fits the bill for what you need if you have the servers but need the data. :)
I think the argument is fundamentally hobbled because its authors refuse to cite the current political situation as a reason for its opposition to the changes. There have been times and places where the proposed balance of judicial and legislative power would not have led to a dangerous descent into autocracy. That’s a function the political culture and inclinations of those at the time.

The problem is that Netenyahu’s bloc will, given untrammelled power, attempt to ensconce itself in parliament forever, just as Orban and Modi did. That is fact specific to those times and places, and is essential to the argument.
On a related note, there’s a procedurally generated FPS in VR. “Doom of VR”

https://store.steampowered.com/app/615120/COMPOUND/

Doom3 also plays well on a Quest 2

There’s this too https://uploadvr.com/playing-original-doom-vr-quest/
It's oxymoronic to say that removing final authority to an unelected body that effectively chooses their own successors "strengthens democracy" in some metaphysical sense. The logical implication is that an unelected self-perpetuating supreme court in absolute control of the country would be the be the strongest democracy of all.
https://archive.is/yyg3R
I remember awhile ago, maybe 5-8 years back (wow, time) I went to log into Twitter, and was confronted with a dark pattern: enter my phone number to access my account. No other option.

I only used my Twitter account on occasion, and after that, I swore I wouldn’t.

Years later, I decided to log in again, mainly for digital hygiene. No prompt for phone number. Fantastic! I logged in. But then, I realized that there was no email 2FA, nor authenticator app option. Only SMS.

I gave them my number and have logged in a handful of times since.

The Twitter chronicles continue to amuse and annoy me. I’d bet this is the latest in a series of moves to lock down internal KPIs across their funnel, especially following the shutdown of public API.

Edit: this is probably a lot simpler. The rate per SMS has been increasing quite a lot YoY. This is probably just a line item getting trimmed as they, uh, “trim the fat.”

I miss old Elon.
One thing the Python version doesn't suffer from is lines that have to end in something like "))))". Syntax readability may be subjective, and I agree that the business logic in both examples are equally readable, but I think having to read and write a bunch of repeated punctuation at the end of a line, depending on how deeply the final statement is nested, is annoying. I don't know how Janet in particular handles error messaging around unmatched parens, but most languages have trouble localizing errors to the place where missing parens, curlies, etc actually are. This can be alleviated by rainbow highlighting paren pairs, or even having the editor auto-insert closing parens to make you less likely to forget one. But I think if you need additional help from the editor to make using the syntax a nice experience, that may be an objective sign that the syntax isn't the best.
"It Is Happening Again: We Are Discussing Authoritarians As If They Are To Be Tolerated" struck me around the 60% mark.
Why is snap supposed to be bad, now?
That's why I don't think squatting should be allowed. For company name, you can't just create thousand companies and resell their names. Domain squatting brings no value to society
a) the data can often be used to recreate a fake fingerprint that isn't identical but will be accepted, sometimes even by systems from different vendors

b) what they actually store varies, and I'm sure some systems do just store the picture (your passport does, for example), some likely don't store it in the database but happen to have a temp folder somewhere with everything they scanned, and some claim they don't store it and then store it under advanced military-grade 512 bit RSA encryption with the key stored next to the images.

The software quality of biometrics systems is among the worst I've seen. Worse even than embedded/IOT stuff.
It's telcos generating bogus SMS so they can charge Twitter fees for them.