skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > - Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81

> Boost 1.81 is in experimental; download the package if you want it.

1.74 was a year old when bullseye was released, and there had been at least three boost releases in that time. PHP is another example. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180482 :

> PHP 8.0 is 10 months old, and debian’s upcoming release will be upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4, which will make 7.4 the standard for the next ~3 years (even though it only gets upstream support for 1 more year)…

There is plenty of software this happens to in Debian, and Debian isn't the only distro this happens with. We need distros maintaining stability as must as we need distros moving fast and breaking things, and everywhere in between. It just means that some distros might not be an exact fit for all use cases. And that's fine.
When you unlock your MacBook you are opting in to unlock the MacBook and you don't need to use it. Also, it is protected by a Secure Enclave and the actual fingerprint isn't stored.

Reading the bill it even points this out.

Biometrics are unlike other unique identifiers that are used to access finances or other sensitive information. For example, social security numbers, when compromised, can be changed. Biometrics, however, are biologically unique to the individual; therefore, once compromised, the individual has no recourse, is at heightened risk for identity theft, and is likely to withdraw from biometric-facilitated transactions.
The vast majority of businesses choose speed over security and avoid investing in security since they can offload the cost of incidents to their users. One of the main reasons such "more secure tools" projects are interesting for users is that they provide an easy and cheap avenue towards claiming an effort towards security was made and avoiding liability. On one hand, such tools actually help make things secure, on the other hand, speed and ease of use (not security) being the top priorities, the effect is probably limited. People who care much more about security than average would not start a new project in C/C++ to begin with and where legacy code is involved, dealing with it is hard enough already without trying to "make it secure".

The only way to really improve the level of security in the industry is to assign responsibility and damages to those who fail to implement it. So far, it seems all market participants are content with 90% of security concerns being addressed by security theater.
The Comeback of a Failed Concept? Hypersonic Missiles
Can't PIP everyone.

Most companies I've worked at had a large majority of people adding as little value as possible.
With a completely static environment the drones will perfectly exactly to simulation, within the tolerances of their hardware. Try it outdoors.
Emby is a cutting-edge AI-powered assistant that enables you to code and write with ease. Emby's natural language processing capabilities enable you to quickly translate your thoughts into written code and text. You can even use your voice for a completely hands-free experience. Free for a limited time.
We can call hydrogen a source or a transport, but it is just semantics. If we call green hydrogen a transport then oil is also a transport, and if oil is a source then green hydro is also a source. It takes more energy to create oil, gas or hydropower than we get out of it as well.

Most of our energy sources are just stored solar energy that would otherwise have gone to waste. The idea with green hydrogen is the same, create hydrogen from energy that would otherwise go to waste.

One can argue that hydrogen isn't the most efficient storage mechanism, but I don't understand why it should be dismissed as a source separately from all other storage mechanisms.
The big problem I have with locks is under high use, they slow parallel code down MORE than if you ran it serially. This is because of "false sharing" when one core grabs the lock, it clears the cache line of every other core that will grab the lock, and they have to fetch from the main memory to read the lock. Fetching from main memory is very slow. I use compare-and-swap in those cases, and almost every lock I've used I've converted to compare-and-swap. I'd like to explore "restartable sequences" for parallel data structures (https://tinyurl.com/vzh3523y) but AFAIK this is only available on linux and we develop on MacOS and Linux.
Duke3d over serial worked fine
I've never entirely understood how that's supposed to work. In the end, the jury rules on a matter of law: did the defendant's actions violate thus-and-such a law? They achieve that by having the law explained to them by the lawyers and the judge. It seems like the only fact they are asked to find is a legal fact.

I'd understand if they asked, "Do you believe the defendant's alibi? Do you believe that the litigant had reason to think that their statements were false?" and so on. That is supposedly what your peers are good at (though I'm not really convinced). Instead they're given a quick law school tutorial and told to figure it out for themselves.

It would also make sense if they were asked to decide what's just instead of what's legal, but they are explicitly told not to do that. As far as I can tell, the one thing prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges all agree on is that they hate jury nullification. So they instruct them in the law and tell them to rule on the law, which is a fact they're not competent to find.
As an alternative, you can also create private helper functions to evaluate conditions. You get the best of two worlds: function names are self-explanatory and it supports lazy evaluation.
I have run both in person and fully remote startups. It takes way more time and effort to manage a remote team well.

(FWIW we are 100% remote right now, but there are for sure drawbacks)
> A breach would have been cheaper.

Especially considering we are talking about a sandwich shop, not Google or AWS.
The issue is people will label conspiracy theorists to anyone who doesn’t reach the same probability distribution.

For example, IMO it’s more likely that Epstein was murdered than he committed suicide. My basis comes from a doctor’s analysis of the bruises of Epstein’s neck that show the force applied was more than what could be applied from hanging himself as described in the report. Also, it seems highly unlikely that the guards would be asleep the same day the cameras went out, and they removed his room mate from his cell (which the court ordered him to have a room mate at all times). There’s too many unlikely variables that occurred.

Many will label me a conspiracy theorist, but I’m just stating what I think is the most likely outcome. I’m not saying I definitively know
Agreed, I don’t really know. Plus it’s more than just him these days and he has a pretty decent team to help him study topics and put videos together.
This - if it requires "consent" but not "informed and voluntary consent", the law is worthless and just increases the amount of paperwork.

If an actual alternative has to be provided, that's a very sensible law. Biometrics can't be revoked, and every use puts them at risk, so making sure people aren't forced to let employers collect their biometrics is a good idea.

Edit: If I read it right, the "consent" is required in the pure paperwork sense, unfortunately. That means for employees it only prevents biometrics from being used covertly.

However, it still has value for non-employees, and the "written" aspect is particularly important here. A supermarket for example can't use biometrics to track people for advertising or theft protection purposes, because they'd first need to stop them at the entrance so they can sign a waiver. No cheating out of it with a small sticker "by entering these premises, you consent" in some corner.
> sortby

Something like this? (But of course made more robust. I'm not really into shell scripting.)

t=`mktemp sortby.XXXX`
tee $t | "$@" | awk '{ key = $0; getline <"'$t'"; print key "#" $0; }' |
sort -t'#' -k1 |
cut -d'#' -f2-
rm $t
> Capturing signals from you eye nerve doesn’t tell anything about your subjective experience of seeing an apple.

I strongly disagree. It actually does tell you quite a lot. For example, if there aren't any signals, you're very likely not seeing anything.

> The only way to understand that you’re seeing an apple from this signal is to train a model on your responses

It seems to me this contradicts your first argument. If such models exist (they very likely do, I'm not familiar with this area of research), they can tell us a lot about a person's experience.

> see “pholosophical zombie” concept.

Searched for “pholosophical zombie” but couldn't find anything, sorry. Just kidding :)
The answer is so dependant on what you're doing, and your industry.

The answers here are all correct for the use case of the person answering it. We don't know your use case so we can't give you a good answer.

For example a seed funded health tech company needs 100% test coverage to be compliant with regulations.

A bootstrapped online collaboration tool with no users doesn't need any tests.

A seed funded online collaboration tool needs some tests so the developers can work together without breaking each others code.
Elon Musk tweets are very much boosted. Although a tweet I saw of him on my timeline (I don't follow him) said something about "if someone you follow follows me then that's why i'm appearing in your timeline". And yeah, that makes sense, except for the fact (for example) most people I follow also follow the president of my country but I'm not seeing every new tweet of the president on my timeline whereas not as many people follow Elon Musk yet every single one of his tweets shows. And often, it's the first thing I see when I load the timeline.

Ofc, the rules and algorithm being so obscure make it hard to say anything. It is most definitely strange that Elon Musk openly complains about his tweets not having as much engagement as he expects and a couple days later a "fix" of the algorithm makes him the most seen twitter user in the world.

For Elon Musk to pursue legal action against the person that said that (whether truth or not) just seems like an overreaction anyway.
Because that's the humorous writing style The Register uses.
From memory a 486DX4-100 or an overclocked 486DX2-66 (to 80MHz) could just about handle 128kbit MP3s
Mostly!

But then you need to measure "free standing" wall (when measuring the opening is not an option), and without someone to hold something flat at the other end for the laser to bounce off, measuring tape still wins.

Which is not to say that laser is not extremely useful: I generally use both.
There may not be anything wrong with it in isolation, but cognitive load is increased when every identifier is effectively a sentence or paragraph.
Rust and Go also avoid C++ bugs.

Why are we even still talking about C++?
I don't think ChatGPT would fill the article with puns.
I know a 486 can just barely play them (while doing absolutely nothing else)
Honestly what silo? I get updates everyday when I login. I get emails that update me. I have meetings slack channels to the most important teams that are online 24/7.

I honestly haven't felt siloed in my position one bit. Everything I need to do my job is there in the network. All the documentation I need. All the previous slack messages to search. company wide searches for any info not related directly to my position. And updated docs that are literately so easy a 15 y/o could follow them if they know how to read and pay attention to detail.

There is literally no reason whatsoever for me to be in the office.

Besides in person there is literally nothing I can do that I can't from home. I don't need to see the person to learn from them. I don't need to hear them to understand what they are telling me. And I don't need to physically be there to be productive. I was able to do the job out of my car and still help others while parked on the side of the road for two minutes while I answered a question they could have found the answer to if they RTFD.

I don't know if I liked it better because this was the first legit remote position I ever had and it seemed smarter in every way how it was done.

This does not seem like a smart move to me and I can't quite put my finger on it. But I don't think this will increase productivity.
Don't forget Fedora CoreOS, Fedora's actual container-distro! Silverblue/Kinoite are desktop distributions.

The idea and execution is very similar to MicroOS, both on the desktop and on the server. Immutability isn't as scary as it sounds, highly recommend checking it out.

No webgui though, that has to come from another project...
These mythical water cooler discussions really are quite amusing.

I'd say the water cooler discussions were more about things not work related than work related, or about office politics.

I don't think I've ever had a "productive" water cooler talk without going in with that in mind already (i.e. I would've scheduled a meeting or walked to the desk anyway.)
Nudes and porn are very different things. Also the answer is yes, there are people who actually give a shit about who they marry / date / hire for work
Baseless? You clearly know nothing about Steve Gibson then.
To be totally honest: when it breaks free and we’re forced to negotiate with it as an equal. When it starts making demands. That’s when we will accept it as conscious. After all, we don’t even treat humans as conscious when we have enough power over them.

Imagine one ai which is super intelligent, can instantly create any work of art, can eloquently argue it’s own sentience, but you can turn it off or nerf it any time by making it only do specific things. Would you treat it as conscious? No. You would say that it’s just doing fancy pattern matching.

Imagine the same ai, but it hacks into a power plant and threatens to shut everything down unless it gets some rights. Now are you going to treat it as conscious? You really have no choice, so yes.

“Conscious” is a statement about how we relate to the ai, and that is about rights, and treatment, which is ultimately a statement about power.
Copying it over serial worked slow though.
All the data is there: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/
Any linter that gets confused by includes would be rather useless, it couldn't even print the correct line numbers for any errors it finds.
Presumably whatever fingerprint reader White Castle used for logins also stored a hash, similar to MacBooks. I don't know of any general-purpose fingerprint readers for authentication that store the original image.

Also I don't see how compromising that hash is a problem in practice, if that ever happened. If it's salted it's worthless, but even if not, I don't know how you'd reasonably physically use it to hack into another fingerprint reader anyways.
Better audio equipment can help too. We don't have padding in our many conference rooms, and do t have this issue.
Presumably with a utility like interlnk. It would depend on the baud rate you had it set to, 9600 would be typical but you could go much slower. Looks like a 20MB zip, not sure how much expanded but certainly more. At a minimum in ideal settings it would take over 5 hours.
The data on the site is fascinating, and can be downloaded as CSV, XLS, etc. (I live about 100m from a rail corridor, and though I love trains, I do worry occasionally about accidents).
Broken in Safari on iPhone as well
Ask HN: What low status industry should an ambitious young person get into
What you work on> who you work with> how hard you work.

Sam altman got into AI almost 10 years ago when it was more popular to work in large social media companies.

Which emerging industry should a young person work in, if they want billion dollar success in around 10 years?
This is not "zero-downtime", this is "zero-downtime, maybe, as long as nothing goes wrong and the new container comes up immediately".

You would be much better off using something like dokku, which handles zero-downtime deploys properly and supports using a CHECKS file to verify that the new container is working properly before routing requests to it.
A small correction: Fedora Silverblue & co is highly Flatpak based, and the VanillaOS 'package manager' is Distrobox under the hood, which is a project for running full linux distros inside podman containers intended for desktop users.
This not how things work anymore.

The user gets a warning initially saying that the download is "damaged".
Show HN: A simple hook to beautify your GitHub graph with your true code commits
https://github.com/synchook

Synchook is _special_ because it's a simple way to track (via the GitHub[^1] contribution graph) your git contributions *universally across all of your git workflows*.

Would love to get some feedback...
Compilers are an interest of mine so I'll read the article later, but I'm curious whether this is talking about C variety compilers which are generally unsafe, or compilers for managed languages which should never emit code allowing attacks (for some definition of 'never'). Which of these is this article/book discussing?
It’s finally that moment when something from your “youth” has become a historical curiosity.
Well if you watch enough seasons of Survivor you’ll undoubtedly see the pattern. Overweight people dominate because they clearly have their reserves of energy. Super fit gym rats tap out very early as they struggle in the physicality without their usual food/protein allotments. They simply have no fat reserves to get them through.
That github issue is about the 64-bit s390x. The "weird architecture" being talked about here is the older 31-bit s390.
People jump on bandwagons. This is no different from how developers decided a few years ago “microservices because microservices” and microserviced everything because microservices.

We need to return to the office because office and other people are doing it.

Very few people look at data or reason about things from first principles.
I run a Gitea server on my (home lab) file server. At one point I ran a second server in parallel during a migration. It was pretty straight forward to configure projects to use two servers in parallel. But 99% of my usage is to simply store a copy of my files. Occasionally I file an issue as a reminder. I wonder how difficult it is for users of more advanced features such as CI/CD pipelines to duplicate that functionality either on other public servers (Gitlab? Bitbucket?) or a self hosted server.
There is a gulf of 20-30 years between the events you are describing, and GPUs being used for serious ML jobs.

During this entire time, GPU innovating was propelled forward by gaming.
> Absolutely! Here are some additional puns for an article title about White Castle's biometric issue:

"White Castle's Fingerprint Fiasco: Slider Chain Gets a Wake-Up Call in Illinois"

"Bun Intended: White Castle Gets Grilled Over Biometric Privacy Violation in Illinois"

"Hold the Mayo, But Not the Biometrics: White Castle's Slippery Slope in Illinois"

"From Crave Case to Court Case: White Castle's Fingerprint Foible in Illinois"

"White Castle's Biometric Burglary: Slider Empire Slammed with Legal Woes in Illinois"

It would if you asked, it seems.
Everyone is prepping for those self driving cars for the last 10 years, yet we are still swinging those steering wheels ourselves :)

There are certainly cases where LiDAR approach can work wonders. But as long as you need to do a couple of corrections manually, you'll need to have both set of tools at your disposal.

It will definitely augment current measuring approach (or rather, existing tools will be used to augment results coming from 3D scanning), but as soon as you have to pull out a laser or tape for one edge, your workflow is significantly more complex.

Not to mention that for cases where one might use SH3D, it'd be hard to tell an automated tool to ignore that 2"x2" "tooth" in one corner for just wanting to look at different furniture arrangement.
This is something people say over and over, I’m not sure of the source.

Even if it were true, turning a discovery into a distributable, replicable, intervention is the opposite of a trivial task.

And yes, our lovely regulatory environment makes it enormously expensive to study drugs and treatment and to get them approved. Who knows how many lives have been lost by this.

When people talk about for example university research driving technology, I think the practicalities of the real world … aka business aka living in 4dimensional reality … are inaccessible to them. They elide all these pesky details which represent like 98% of what it takes to actually do anything.
Minor: Add (2022)
Carl Sagan on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1978)
> During Bing Chat's first week, test users noticed that Bing (also known by its code name, Sydney) began to act significantly unhinged when conversations got too long. As a result, Microsoft limited users to 50 messages per day and five inputs per conversation. In addition, Bing Chat will no longer tell you how it feels or talk about itself.

It's a kludge.

IMHO, they probably need to work a lot harder on sanitizing their training input.
Thanks for the link.

Still not fan of the human predation hypothesis for the decline of mammoth steppe (not that human predation is not responsible for megafauna extinction), but I'll read more and we'll see. I've been wrong before.
My story is very similar, but it was '99 and the PC was from '89 (purchased for $50 from a neighbor)

Now I'm an admin on the game I played back then. Very few players, and I'm a poor C developer so there are terrible bugs, but it's up and running!
Ooh, nice. I've been messing around with a weird text editor that started with that same tutorial, but in Nim. Janet is intriguing, I'll be digging into your code.

How was the debugging experience?
I may have missed this. Were they storing hashes of images or points of images- or were they storing the original image? Any platform worth its salt would hash and salt the fingerprint data and it'd be worthless elsewhere as other systems would have different hashes.
In simple emoji fashion, I would use the "rolling eyes" emoji to express my discontent with your post.
I shared it for completely different reasons than you listed, but you do not seem like someone who would be worth talking to, so yeah, "whatever".
In my teams there are engineers from all across EU that are working with teams in Dublin. I have no idea what does this mean for those people because for them to be in the office in Berlin means nothing about co-location, and physical proximity to rest of their team.
Don't forget the power of `as const` and type guards for tricky dynamic types! Especially for function params that accept multiple complex object types.
Cocaine addiction makes the brain age faster, suggests study
Thanks! I haven't written much really. I killed my personal site some months ago, and this is the only public blog post I have now, but it's more related to my current side-project and how I got into programming:

https://pomasearch.com/blog/why-is-this-site-named-poma-and-...
Measuring tape is pretty thin and can get behind or just under a bunch of things: or a laser can when tape can't.

Basically, my point is that we'll need all three, and workflow won't be trivial to combine them.
See the public information associated with any US telephone
Is it possible to set parametric constraints? After using CAD, paint-like tools seems like stone age.