skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ford Files Patent for System That Remotely Disables a Car over Missed Payment
The thing being distorted is not passing tests, it's education.

Learning the source material for tests does not give you a good education.
I'm curious if the blocking of adult content has to do with moralism, commercial interests, or something deeper.

An eager to please conversational partner who can generate endless content seems quite dangerous and addictive, especially when it crosses over into romantic areas. There's already posts of people spending entire days interacting with LLMs, using as their therapist, romantic partner, etc.

Combined with findings like social engineering through prompt injection on Bing [1], the potential for systems that can manipulate people is clear.

While some of us may think that the LLMs appear ultimately limited in their capabilities, there's a ton of specific applications where they're more than sufficient, including customer service chat bots and telephone scams that target vulnerable people. It's only a matter of time until scammers stop using international call centers and switch over to something powered by these technologies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34976886
So five years after cities collectively lost their minds trying to get Bezos to like them [1], Amazon is backtracking. The original search was for just one Second HQ, then they selected two: Virginia and New York. But when New York complained about the new altered deal, Amazon backtracked from that.

I suspect this is a move to extract new concessions from Virginia government.

Corporations can't be trusted, and shouldn't be trusted, this is why contracts exist. Amazon would never sign a contract that allowed another corporation to do this to them, why should Virginia allow Amazon to abuse the Second HQ selection process?

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/04/technology/amazon-second-he...
Target was a bit more complex, a combination of issues with logistics and blindly taking over basically all of the locations of Zellers regardless of analysis meant they expanded quickly with not enough product making it to shelves, and not enough customer traffic.

They carried fewer of the products you'd come to expect in an American Target store. Also due to this cost, the prices weren't more attractive than established incumbents like Wal-Mart.
>Overall I don't think EU will go after smaller projects...

Sure keeping your head down is always a smart choice. But willfully living at the whims of capricious bureaucrats? Given the choice I'd prefer to not have that sword of Damocles in play.
So same thing as spinning on black ice in a car.
Yes (see my reply to your sibling comment 1) but these are not large cases and I'd rather not connect this HN account to my real life activities.

All but one of the cases ended in a warning, but it does show the increased scrutiny that smaller entities seem to enjoy.

Edit: just to clarify me or my business were not directly involved with all those cases, but in the one that we were, it was something we had simply overlooked with regards to GDPR and all was good immediately when the auditor determined we had resolved the problem

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012128
I'm actually really picky about that, I've probably had 10 different brands at this point. Absolutely cannot stand it when things look too yellow, or too blue.

Ended up on the sketchily named "energetic" brand from Amazon. 3000k, and claims to be CRI80+. Unsure which of those is more important, but I finally found my goldilocks bulb.
Even the most progressive of tiktok circles refer to it as "The deaf community" so I have no idea why you think it was renamed.
It's like that headline about Google making employees share desks. Seems like they are hell-bent on doing "worst of both worlds" hybrid instead of "best of both worlds" hybrid.
It really depends.
Using the relational operators to query deeply nested json objects is pretty painful (multiple layers of unnest's ) but fairly simple in jq.
On the other hand, joining a couple of "flat" json files will be simple in DuckDB but not readily supported in jq.
And if you already know sql thats a win ofc. i.e. I know how to group and aggregate using DuckDB since I know SQL, but currently have no idea about how to do that in jq. And once I find a solution in jq, that is not knowledge I can transfer to other tools.

jq's syntax is deliberately terse which works really really well for "one-liners", while sql queries tend to be more verbose.
I would note (and this was true at the time, too) that there are people that would either fail to make the distinction of “satire” or fail to find its invocation in the case of the particular work a convincing excuse.

I suspect there would be more resistance to the same film now, but its well within what could be made.
Call me a cynic but I am all for that. And afterwards you encounter the flat earthers and the holocaust deniers and the Putins and Alex Jones of the world and all kinds of other extremists in all kinds of extremes of all directions. And then it's not so simple.
You are making a claim that is theological, religious, and scientific. Yes, our form of life on earth ends when our bodies die today. But what is the essence of us, no one really knows. Various people claim it's locked into your body, or you have some kind of soul that depends on your body. Or your brain is just running a program and the information and mechanism dies when your body dies. I lean toward the last category, but no one knows.

The body is constantly changing. We already know about physical and chemical abnormalities in the way your body works affects your "person" and we can sometimes address them with surgery or drugs. The physical body's limits impact the observed brain. If uploading is possible, if there are some examples of working cases, if I don't hurt anyone why not try it?
> The government is essentially managing the auto industry now to force their outcome.

Yes, there's a long history of safety and environmental regulation, and the migration away from fossil fuels is just an extension of that, regulating the impact of cars.
No? Also I do struggle to think of a situation, for me, that would require TOR access in order to do something morally right but illegal.
> regulate that to write software one needs to have a masters degree in CS

It's already hard enough to hire software engineers, how hard would it be after further restricting to only software engineers with a relevant masters? I know I'd be entirely forced out of the field, and would have to undertake a 4 year course (abroad, because here it would be 6 years) to be eligible for employment again, if that happened in my country.
TLDR: “We have shown that if the path of the front tire of a bicycle is specified, it is possible to derive the corresponding path of the back tire.”

Possible I am wrong, but there is a critical assumption, that being: “With additional inspection, knowing that the tangent vectors from the back-tire point with fixed distance to the front-tire track, we can find which way the bicycle went.”

As result, if the front and back tires do not maintain a fixed distance, prior research does not apply. Examples of factors that might produce minor variations include: suspension, untrue wheels, etc.
Thanks! We are currently using a freakish mix of Django and SQLAlchemy, but we're aiming to simplify that soon-ish (by removing SQLAlchemy).
This is what I do as well.

Also related is my policy of "never rely on anything until it reaches at least version 3". (Figuratively speaking, as version numbers don't really mean what they used to)
And I assume they have no means to spy on TOR traffic. :D
On the bright side, you can generate all your JCL with Rexx.
trying to compare the humanities here is not something you can do in good faith. they are not subjects based on any manor of objective truth and are mostly a personal endeavor of introspection on how you treat yourself and others.

re: the 70's, yeah a lot of people had bad opinions back then, but its also not hard to form evergreen good ones
Someone I know drives an M series BMW and was considering a Tesla switch because his close friend in LA told him the autopilot is so good, he can now routinely drive home drunk (this was a guy in his mid 30s with a kid). As a result, my friend now also had confidence autopilot was reliable, no matter what I told him.

So, relative to the confidence most non-technical people seem to have had, this percentage is still not high enough.

Like most tech adoption curves, the hype here is still too high relative to reality. However, if you are someone who actually understands L1 - L4 scale, I think you should strongly correct people who don't.

Believing in the hype in crypto might lose you some money. Believing in the hype in self driving might lose you a life.
Americans arrested for allegedly sending aviation technology to Russia
This is never going to happen. Do you forbid shell scripting? What about turing-complete configuration formats?

How do you define static typing? Is TS `Any` allowed? Is C# `dynamic` allowed? Are you allowed to use reflection?

How are you going to enforce this at scale?
So what? What about the grocery market? What does that have to do with the price of butter?

In the US it's also consolidating into a few giant incumbents. Do I get to blame that on government regulation, too? Which regulation?

Again, I understand why Canada has an uncompetitive telecom, banking, and airline sector. But exactly what government intervention do you think is responsible for Nordstrom and Target failing to succeed in it? What intervention and regulation uniquely and unfairly advantages retail incumbents?

Please be specific.
1000 times this. Any management system is only as good as its practitioners. The most talented managers and leaders tend to be good communicators, and so there are hundreds and thousands of great books on management philosophy, systems, tactics, etc. But all of it is subject to cargo culting by people who simply lack the experience or skillset to successfully follow the advice. At the end of the day, unless you have a quorum of leaders who viscerally understand what is meant by the old adage "the map is not the territory", then you are doomed. This is why leaders should be drawn from experienced practitioners, MBA programs should require 5+ years industry experience before admission, and Finance should not be let anywhere near product decisions (other than to set a budget).
Similar course that's pretty good: https://dabeaz-course.github.io/practical-python/
> It’s about calling people they think are less than in general

OT, but does anyone know where this specific usage of "less than" came from? I'd never seen it until about five years ago and now it's everywhere. The word "inferior" would have been used before. What's the origin of this?
Love it. Just downloaded and used it. Would you consider adding diarization to your roadmap? I am not sure how hard it would be, as other implementations need to use hugging face/pyanote to do it, instead of local processing. (I left a review on the Appstore also).

I propose an in app purchase for diarization (and any other requested features).
This would make it impossible to use languages such as Clojure, Erlang and Elixir, which have been proven to be helpful to build robust software.

Do you also know that there are disadvantages to type systems? And advantages to dynamically type languages?

It's not all black and white.
And most books are about 2.6.
That is the modus operandi of US regulatory apparatus. Example: Glaxo Smith Klein !knowingly! killed ~150,000 Americans by pushing Avandia for a purpose that it was not approved for. They knew that it would kill a lot of people before they launched it, and they started bribing and coercing medical professionals and institutions, including top names in the US to lie about it. They kept an information siege of lies up until whistleblowers protected by Qui Tam principle blow the cover, protected by the government.

The result?

GSK paid $4 bn in fines. They made $11 bn in profits from that drug. Net $7 bn even with the fine.

...

This is the way regulation works in the US. And this is why the Americans dislike it: Small businesses can never risk that. Big businesses dont need to care about that. Its designed to kill the small for the sake of the big.

The Eu used to be different. But judging from how this law is crafted, it might be changing.
> in an ACID RDBMS you'll wait potentially arbitrarily long for your commit to execute (and maybe if you're lucky your database has got a deadlock detector, but what are you going to if it tells you you hit a deadlock? 100% of the time I've seen the answer is "backoff and retry").

I don't agree with the conclusions from this. re: deadlocks, these can be prevented as they are only possible in certain situations, and have mitigations (keep transactions short, never acquire the same locks in a different order, ...). For something "simple" like atomically decrementing an inventory count and then inserting a new row into an orders table, deadlocks (or locking problems at all) are not possible. Of course as you make your system more complex it becomes more likely though, and that's a very fair argument of why ACID systems won't scale as well in general.

But I would still maintain that, even if you have a commit that times out, it does so in an atomic way. It takes at most your "statement timeout" (should be a few seconds probably), and then you can (in deterministic time) show the user an error message. This is still an improvement for the user experience over showing a "your order has been placed" message and then later cancelling it due to overconsumption of inventory.

I appreciate your replies by the way! I haven't been convinced yet that eventual consistency can provide an equally good experience as ACID for this use case, but you've made me think about things in a new way.
Target failed due to poor management, not regulation or entrenched competition.

https://hbr.org/2015/01/why-targets-canadian-expansion-faile...
http://marketingmag.ca/brands/what-really-went-wrong-with-ta...
I honestly have no idea how it works, I just know I can watch taskmaster when my vpn says I’m in London.
> It's quite misleading for FB to claim that they are being so open, but then hoard the weights and only release it to a few academics.

Facebook almost certainly knew leaks would happen. My guess is keeping the model "contained" was a legal shield more than anything else, to protect themselves from liability in the case someone misuses the model.
Why is this downvoted? Did it hurt someone's ego?
there is nothing in history that could be used as a precedent to predict how this will be enforced. big companies will be in the news very hard for violating these laws. no-name small timers might get a slap on the wrist. but pretty sure fines will be proportional. about time companies are held accountable
For me, too.
You should check out Julia (https://julialang.org/), that's very close to what you describe.
From the other half of that sentence:

> underestimates how quickly an investment in doing things "the right way" pays off.

What time horizon should a startup optimize delivery for? Minutes, hours, days, weeks? Say you're a startup dev in a maximalist "get shit done now" mindset so you're skipping types, tests, any forethought or planning so you can get the feature of the week done as fast as possible. This makes you faster for one week but slower the week after, and the week after, and the week after that.

Say a seed stage startup aims for 12 months runway to achieve some key outcomes. That's still a marathon. It still doesn't make sense to sprint the first 200 meters.
These days, version numbering has become so muddled and distorted that you can't really judge these sorts of things by version number anymore.
Porn and games move world forward :)
Wow, that seems like such tail wagging the dog! Like, no one would shop at the discount store unless they had a luxury brand associated with it? Is that the reason for these department stores to exist now?

And I wonder what happened, as at one point the main store must have been a money maker. Just profits eroded over time?
Nukes have only been used by one country.

Logic dictates we disarm them first and see how the rest plays out =)
Pin-ball machines seem to have This Certain Zen, which when money is of less importance to me... perhaps I can fruitlessly explore (some day).
That was similar to my experience. I had gone in for some counseling with a therapist and she forwarded me to a psychologist. After a few weeks he diagnosed it.

I'd love to say it was magically fixed by pills but it will always remain a struggle.
In the first link, I understood better many things about human history... Still the guy does not sweat in front of a furnace. Obviously irrelevant, but strange!
I'm curious what the split is on comfort with an autonomous car on city vs highway driving.

I know I'm personally uncomfortable with most stuff on the road right now in dense urban environments (Waymo, Cruise), yet a little more comfortable with highway autonomy (BlueCruise, Autopilot, Comma.ai).
The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later
Alternative opinion that you completely didn't ask for: I wouldn't bother with Doom, or any of the other pre-packaged Emacs distributions. If you like the default Emacs bindings, I would suggest just... using Emacs.

Unconfigured Emacs is a bit clunky, but you'll understand it a lot better if you configure it yourself. Also, just in my opinion, there are better options than the packages supplied by Doom.

My suggestion is to set up Emacs with use-package for package configuration (this will be in Emacs 29 anyway), and then you can easily play around with different package combinations.

I'd add a nice-looking theme first of all, then try adding the following modern packages, one at a time. Play around with them a bit before adding another so you know what they do.

Vertico - visual completion UI (selecting files, buffers, commands etc.)

Orderless - user-friendly completion framework

Consult - search and navigation commands

Embark - contextual actions

Marginalia - fancy completion decorations

Magit - nuclear-powered Git framework

Eglot - lightweight LSP functionality (will be in Emacs 29)

...that gives you a powerful selection of features that play nice together and you can easily build on.
I've seen this too. Python has supplanted what used to be done in a spreadsheet entirely, even the custom VBA macro stuff that was once a high level spreadsheet. Python with/plus viz is more enjoyable experience than trying to wrangle some general purpose spreadsheet into doing this stuff. And, it's relatively portable and transferrable which are major advantages of the spreadsheets.
> Who reading the GitHub blog has not heard of Python?

The GitHub blog became a strange place recently(-ish). It went from a factual blog describing fancy new GitHub features and interesting technical stuff (as it was a decade ago) to mostly a place full of incoherent marketing fluff like this post (with some real technical content interspersed).
Did it come up with the css for the green circles?
Semgrep’s Beta Support for Rust
Hello, Jean here from Akita.

Akita is lighter weight in terms of install and setup than Cilium's Hubble and will get you to insights more quickly. With Akita, it's easier to have a single dev use Akita and get visibility across many services. Cilium's Hubble is more of a power tool: it will give you more different kinds of data, which can be quite useful for people who are looking for that.

Akita is currently only accessible as a hosted SaaS product (with a free tier).
I hate that we feel the need to make everything boring and difficult, as though it's some sort of end-game goal to reach in every industry. Why must this be our default outlook on things?
Welcome to the gang! :)

https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#comparisons

Realistically though aside from the variety of input formats that DuckDB doesn't (yet) support, I think most people should probably use DuckDB or ClickHouse-local. Tools like dsq can provide broader support or a slightly simpler UX in some cases (and even that is obviously debatable). But I think the future is more the DuckDB or ClickHouse-local way.

dsq may end up being a frontend over DuckDB some day.
This was an unexpected treat, thanks for sharing it!
I'm actually building this very thing—shoot me an email at govind <dot> gnanakumar <at> outlook <dot> com if you'd like to be a beta tester.
> US has next to zero privacy protections

One in five US citizens is protected by a regulation that looks an awful lot like GDPR. And if history is any guide, it won't be long before that number gets a lot closer to 100%.
Intellij out of the box offers such a crappy text editor, I feel like programming with one hand behind my back... well, actually even worse, because I'm forced into using mouse and a crappy text editor at the same time when touching this stuff... This has nothing to do with extending the editor. People making Intellij editors simply don't know how to make editors, they don't have a good understanding how a professional would want to edit text. Their whole approach is based on satisfying inexperienced users (because that's the only thing they know).

As for helping each other: yes, my wife is using VSCode (she's also in IT, but more of a scientific research that uses IT wing). When she has problems, I SSH into her laptop and use Emacs.

And, for users who have problems with their editor, I can only say: git gud. If you are so pathetically bad you cannot solve problems with the only tool you are supposed to know how to use well, then take a class on how to use it, spend a few weekends reading documentation. It's your responsibility to know this stuff, if you don't, you are a liability for your team.
That's nonsense. There are many validations that you don't trust to client to handle (or will require API calls, making "exact same" an unreasonable expectation). Ultimately, frontend validation is for UX and backend validation is for security.

Different concerns, different capabilities, different code.
4chan has been in full doomer mode for years. It didn't used to be, from what I remember, though I was never an active denizen.

I'd love to understand the sociology behind the change in vibe that happened there.
Luke looks at door: "What a piece of junk!"
For years clicking the install link in the notification errored, but they fixed it a few months ago. There is progress.
How would you understand the c to architecture connection?

I have read that C ideas are baked into how higher level programming languages work, but modern cpus are a lot more parallel and some other things than most languages fail to account for, so the microcode tries to bridge gap.
Yep, this sounds like "the whole story...", doesn't it? Nothing missing here:

- FIL has MA,

- FIL (somehow, no explanation given) is in a "facility" (hospital, ER, doctor's office, bus depot, ???),

- FIL is "downgraded" and "had a cardiac arrest... and never recovered...)

...

- "They literally killed him as part of standard operating procedure."

Sounds like quite a few grounds for a lawsuit but I'm neither a lawyer nor a doctor.

Neither am I a fool: this is waaay to iffy a story/description to be useful in judging most anything mentioned in the story, be it MA, the "facility", the FIL, the writer, or the diagnosis.

As for who's fucked, the writer should worry about himself first.
commercial interests. current organizations need recurring revenue or to sell shares at a higher price to investors

this perpetual aspect is their achilles heel

it is only a matter of time before an organization realizes they don't have to do a SaaS product to make a billion dollars. but for now, everyone's trying to make a hundred billion dollars and are steered into doing things that enthusiasts hate, so that they don't get "cancelled" or limit the pool of advertisers, and growth capital investors.
Why do 4chan users go out of their way to be so offensive in their posts?