skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, governmental organizations and public authorities in general for the most part are exempt from obligations under GDPR, the most easily applicable loophole being that they can always argue legitimate interest or that they're simply legally required to store PII.

It's next to impossible to successfully contest that argument in court.
> So I think we will see a shift in where people settle,

Let's hope not all will want to live above the supermarket they work at: https://3pod.bandcamp.com/track/triangle-of-happiness
I wanted to add Modern Pinball, in NYC to the list, but sadly they closed due to COVID. While it was a small shop, they rotated machines frequently and had a number of historic machines available for play.

Also the legendary Steve Epstein was involved in the business. Steve ran Broadway Arcade, which at its height in the 80s had over 144 pins. It was my local arcade growing up and sat where the Times Square Church and McDonalds on 51st st now occupy today.

Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, Maine used to be a great location for pinball as well but has long since gone the Family Fun Center route instead. I think most of what they had moved to Maine Silverball Tavern in Saco.

I also hit the PHoF in Vegas every time I go. Great collection.
The layoffs will continue until performance improves.
Jamie Dimon Leading Efforts to Craft New First Republic Bank Rescue Plan
I loaded the original screen saver on a cube farm of computers when it first came out. Wish I would have thought to have taken a picture of the cacophony of color that resulted when you turned the lights in that room out at night but had all the computer monitors on. Then again I might have not even owned a camera back then.

I haven't crunched SETI for years, but I do still tilt at numerical windmills - Primegrid can be great fun if you are lucky enough to hit a mega prime (I have three!).
I don’t think (b) will work. The Dallas police pension fund is currently $3b in the red, how will they pay anything?
So is this a vulnerability in specific raw sockets applications (i.e., you could get it right in the application), or a vulnerability in the Windows kernel's TCP/IP stack that is only exploitable when there is a raw sockets application running?
Your analogy is flawed. If someone is a board/director in a company they have additional scrutiny. Why would they ever take that job?

The question should be, would otherwise great people NOT join the force if such a control isn't in place?

Also, without controls - you attract exactly the wrong people (power-hungry bullies).
TL;DR - Sorry for this long post.

"Scientists have issued a "final warning" on the climate crisis as rising greenhouse gas emissions bring the world to the brink of irreversible damage that can only be averted by swift and drastic action."

OMG.

I just stopped reading after the first paragraph. Welcome to the attention economy where only the biggest fairground screamer gets a hearing. Except that fairground screamers are definitely not part of the achievements of "age of enlightenment".

I remember a few years ago - when it was about the populism of extreme right-wing parties - how the propaganda was described: First a problem is described as a catastrophe, and then the only way to solve it is presented. Any parallels?

Nothing - but absolutely nothing - makes sense in this paragraph. Where is the critical thinking that "science" always prides itself?

It starts with the fact that scientists have issued a final warning on the climate crisis. Sounds somehow like parents who are at their wits' end with their educational measures and don't know what to do next. And what does "final warning" actually mean? Will we be spared that from next year on? Or will there be the "really last warning", the "last last warning" or the "last last warning 2"?

I am sure they will continue with their "warnings" next year. What else are they supposed to do?

So then the world comes to the brink of irrevocable damage? What is that supposed to be? Irreversible damage like the last eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, the irreversible damage of the Hiroshima bombs, the irreversible damage of the last world war?

The world is continuously changing. Things are destroyed and things are rebuilt. We dig up the earth everywhere we greed for mineral resources. For the next iPhone of the very scientists who warn against it. We changed the surface of the Earth a dozen times but now it's irreversible. Fun fact: If nature gets the chance in 1.000 years nothing will be there anymore because nature irreversible changed everything again. Is this a catastrophe as well?

But it's not even "damage", it's just the "brink of possible damage". So we are heading for a situation that might produce damage - and that we can only prevent by taking drastic measures.

But who tells us that precisely these drastic measures will not also lead to damage?

Yes, the climate is changing. The glaciers are melting and suddenly old Roman roads appear that led over the mountains. Yes, it was warmer 2,000 years ago, too. But probably someone forgot to announce to the people back then that they were living on the brink of a catastrophe or something.

Before anybody asks: Yes, lets clean the oceans. Lets plant trees. Lets adapt to the climate change. Lets invest in robust energy sources which are not dependent on wind or sun for which we have to cut down forests and destroy seas. But don't be that arrogant to think that using a master plan we can control a complex, non-deterministic, loopback-based system on the edge of chaos.

This never happened. And this never will. And those systems are always "irreversible" because that's the nature of it.
Really really cool step to help adoptability,

> You can either configure Dragonfly as a secondary instance alongside your existing Redis master, or establish your own replicated DF-to-DF setup. The configuration process is quite similar to that of Redis.
Any cloud engineers here? I hate Terraform lol
Just spent the last two days with failed deployments, and I'm ready to throw my laptop against the wall. It's not specific to terraform, but cloud infrastructure is just so fricken annoying. Does anyone enjoy this??
Facebook clearly tried it with a huge amount of money.

I think the illusion was the problem. Suck wanted it to work without realizing his gadget.

I'm much more curious if Tim will really release apples version and if it will burn him.

And I only mean for broad consumer vr/ar not for industry etc.

Forcing a worker to wear a headset is much easier and there are fast financial benefits. Alone when you can train someone virtual before letting them on the real thing.
A fun coincidence I keep asking: has anyone made the connection that the interstellar object ʻOumuamua came from the direction of Vega, much in the same way that the alien signal in the film 'Contact' came from Vega?
Ukraine Warns of Further Fall in Grain Harvest
Living in a small city (or large town may be a more accurate way to put it) with lots of greenways, I feel like I get the best of both worlds. Before my office re-located I could go 6 miles (~9.5 km) to/from work on a bike in between or around corporate campuses and subdivisions and only deal with a few intersections, while in a car I'd have to deal with traffic and traffic lights regularly most of the way.
I think you misunderstand giraffe_lady's point. She's saying that beating up on random people is actually the job of the police - not the job we think they have, not the job they have morally or legally, but given the system and society we have, that's their actual job. And the question is, why do we as a society want our police to do that?

I'm not sure that I agree with her point. But that's what I think she's saying.
^This

My recipe for tech startup founder includes:
1. You were one of the smartest kids at your private school—so you’re opinionated and confident
2. You’re some kind of social misfit with a chip on your shoulder
3. Father is an Engineer, Lawyer, Banker, Doctor
4. Got some private tutoring or coaching at a young age
5. Went to a fancy big-name college

It doesn’t apply to everyone, but during a recent job search I did a little detective work on founders at jobs I was applying for, and this was the large majority of them
Open source with arbitrary restrictions on its usage. I don’t get how “this is the way”.

Examples like these make it clear why FSF explicitly distances itself from the term open source.
They're not. "Free market" is an unstable phenomenon that exists only when dynamically stabilized by appropriate regulations. Without that, it collapses on itself.
Changed from https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/ above. Thanks!
>The police are the foot soldiers of the ruling class.

While they will certainly side with the "rulers" over anyone else when there is a conflict on the day to day the are also the foot soldiers of you the hypothetical average HNer reading this comment.

The people with real power DGAF about the sort of petty "annoyance or minor risk to the public" behavior that the police spend the bulk of their time enforcing.

You think Musk is worried about fentanyl in his weed?

You think Gates cares if you are drunk and disorderly alcohol in public?

You think the Kochs give a crap about some kid doing a burnout at a stop light?

You think Murdoch cares whether some restaurant is staying open in defiance of a health department?

Of course not. They're above that kind of stuff. Ditto for any list of powerful politicians you feel like coming up with.

When the police initiate an interaction they are almost always doing it to enforcing the laws that you the average "well enough paid to give a crap about issues not related to your economic survival in the short/medium term" American want them to enforce (revenue policing notwithstanding).
Always the city. There’s universal indemnification de facto or de jure. This is a bigger issue than QI but gets virtually no attention.

I suspect the plaintiff’s bar is behind that as they’d prefer QI go but indemnification stay.
Depends on the quality of the infrastructure. I live in a metropolitan area with elevated metros, suburban and long distance trains, cargo trains, trams (streetcars in american), etc. and it vastly differs. Paris line 6 makes a lot of noise due to the rubber tires and frequent turns (it's a semicircle line), meanwhile modern trams and modernised suburban rail (RER A) are barely audible even next to the tracks, let alone in buildings nearby.
Really, the most likely explanation for a fast blur on some airplane's sensors is an alien self-replicating physics defying probe from a hyper-advanced civilization?
doesn't say it has to be a commercial competitor
Maybe this is the Killswitch engineer they were joking about doing their job
I'm sure the shared controllers on demo units back in the day were just as bad.
The problem is, it's not a very good "solution" because reblogs was also a useful feature in spreading certain kinds of information.

In my opinion, Twitter was (and is) instrumental in effectively highlighting certain kinds of important, unrecognized, "news," e.g. police brutality.

I'm glad Mastodon folk are considering effective ways to reintroduce it.
In most states, CDL holders receive harsher punishments for traffic violations because they are licensed, trained, and should know better. In some states, they are even treated more strictly in their personal vehicles for the same reason. Truck drivers can lose their job because they were speeding in their free time. LEOs really don't like it when you point out the discrepancy between this logic and how they are treated.
And works in VR and has a small but enthusiastic multiplayer scene. It's easily the thing I've spent most time doing in VR.
I make no political judgments or make aspirations toward conservatives. It’s just that this case is an example of conflicting policy goals of a particular political movement. It is an interesting case for that reason (among others).

Regardless of cause or politics or any other consideration it is still true that qualified immunity is effectively tyrannical and therefore ought to be opposed. Police should not be immune to purposefully violating civil rights. Regardless of who is in power or control.
That might be the case in theory, but if a university can't tell the difference between AI generated essays/books and human generated ones the how could the courts?
What I was thinking of is hosting for yourself; ie there would be no uploads from outside, only downloads.
The lack of multipage support is the most obvious distinction, I think, but you could probably add the necessary metadata and render fake borders and boxes to simulate pages if you really wanted to. As far as I know, SVGs cannot contain forms for one example. PDFs can also be digitally signed according to the spec, and they contain DRM provisions.

PDF has a lot of features that I would never think of myself (pronunciation guides, for example) which would require designing a custom solution for in many other formats such as SVG.

If I wanted to render something to be printed and I wanted it to be printed exactly as specified, I would consider PDF (and PostScript) files to be much more reliable than SVG files. SVGs are great for images and icons, but they're simply not designed to do the things PDF was designed to do.

Conversely, PDFs are difficult to embed and require proprietary tools to use most of their less common features, so in many areas they're much worse than SVGs.
I don't want to put too much of a point on it but if engineers are 'loafing and surfing' for most of the working week and you're not embellishing the story, then I don't think it's an engineering problem you got but a management or prioritisation one.

Engineers doing their work in 2 days and being blocked for the next 5?
I'm reminded of Aggretsuko where Retsuko and Fenneko become obsessed with a VR app that features a virtual romantic partner who flirts with you, and after a short while, nags you into buying DLC in the form of scenery and outfit packs.

The subtly funny bit is, in this world of talking cartoon animals, the virtual romantic partner was an impossibly handsome male unicorn.
As someone who works in the City this isn't really that surprising. A lot of the roads around there are pretty much empty save for buses, cyclists and the occasional taxi. Congestion charge, lack of parking and excellent public transport links all contribute to that I guess. In other areas of London it's a very different story.
Closed offices > cubicles > open desks, the treatment like cattle began once we stopped having closed offices.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232150.
If you're ever in the Dallas/Ft Worth area..

National Videogame Museum!

https://nvmusa.org

there are also several Free Play arcade locations (they restore & maintain the original hardware) along with Arcade 92 up in McKinney, TX.
10x faster sliding windows: how our Rust streaming engine beats Flink
Also, limited number of applications you can have at any one time.
It seems like it breaks every hour, which I'm guessing is because of some JWT expiration time of 60 minutes. Usually refreshing the page fixes it, but sometimes it's necessary to logout and log back in again. Properly implementing refresh tokens is really not easy. At work we had similar issues on our site for the first few months post-launch and it took a lot of effort to finally fix them.
Protecting Zoom and our customers: our Bug Bounty program’s success in 2022
Its impossible to avoid the late Fred Brooks, if they spent $1B the due date would have been X, and spending the next $35B made the due date later.

For a given technology you can only sensibly produce a product of complexity X, beyond which it scales at some awful exponential rate, so throwing more labor at the problem rarely works because the organizational coordination costs scale up faster than the productivity gains.
When workers don't negotiate together, it's trivial for employers to reset compensation expectations like this.

If you work for a company like Amazon, and you don't want to be laid off, the only thing you can do to move the needle is join a union. (You can also be a top performer, but it's not clear how big of a difference that makes; top performers with big salaries make big targets for layoffs as well.)
What is the argument to hold them to a higher standard when they are off duty?
It's a shame you can't post that list and invite others to add their experiences to it. IMO, transparency is the best way to fight tyrants.
Nothing to do with feelings, but logic.

How is it theft if the original still exists? If I copy your words above verbatim and send it to a friend, is that theft? Your comment will still exist unless dang deems otherwise.

It might be costly or undesirable to the producers, but that's just a problem with digital media. Enforcement is always going to be difficult unless we invite 'rightsholders' to control our devices.
Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System
> How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors?

I don't get it. Those are ethical ways to reward people for their valuable work. Are you implying people should be ashamed of this?
> We live in the golden age of computer science entrepreneurialism.

no we don't, not any more. the disruptors are now the ones to be disrupted, and they're trying awful hard to keep that from happening.

like, sure there are still new businesses starting, that's true in a lot of fields. but SVB imploding is a fantastic sign as to what is truly happening to startup culture.
Not really. The courts should toss any frivolous claims fairly quickly. If it is still an issue, then perhaps we need wider ranging changes to the legal system as any abuse that could happen with these cases surely happen in other areas of the law too.
Not sure if this is an example of anti-fragility, but it made me think of that. there's def something diff about bikes for this. Get too drunk as a cyclist and you remove yourself from the situation in relatively safe way, just by not being able to stay in control :)
You should go into neuroscience, sounds like you would solve all the open problems pretty quickly.

After all, we have a fairly good understanding of what a given neuron is doing, how hard can it be to understand a network of them?
Note that qualified immunity is entirely a matter of statutory interpretation and not at all constitutional law. Congress can change any part of the doctrine or get rid of it altogether at any time.
Coincidentally, not ironically. Perhaps clairvoyantly or prophetically. Definitely not ironically.
Personally I don't really care about the faux drama.

I'm glad I can use direct url imports in simple Deno scripts.

I also see the need for import maps for larger projects.

I do think node_modules is an abomination and glad I don't have to deal with them anymore.

I prefer writing everything that works in Deno and the browser, not Node specific APIs.

I like the tech, I don't really care about the drama, and I doubt the Ryan does either lol.
You can always pull a marketing stunt like .webm vs. Matroska if you want to advertise support for a variant of Flash constrained to just the vector parts.
Forgejo is AGPL, there was just a vote and the community came out strongly to say they disagree with commercial usage of Forgejo! I am so happy they did that!
But you can do that with a lot of games?!?

Did you never just tried that out?

Lime you can stay seated in Skyrim and co
Thag warn sharp rock could be misused for nefarious purposes.
Nice, I didn’t realize the issue could be how it’s capitalized, thanks for pointing it out
"but I believe the talking computers systems will write better software, so I can't be too sad, eh?"

I hear you and actually agree that most coding will eventually be performed by AI. However, I'd bet against AI/ML ever being capable of original thought. One must first move past convention; something that is diametrically opposed to the current AI/ML approach. Time won't change this. A new paradigm might.

Either way, the most powerful commodity (and scarcest resource) is and has always been... original thought.
Does Page Speed Even Matter?
Yeah, Rust has gotten pretty popular over the years and I mean you can't really say that it's undeserving. Rust is an amazing programming language!
Trustworthy people still make mistakes, and act out of emotion, you surely don’t want anybody making mistakes on your food.

Feel free to downvote, but never play with the safety of your food.
Safer than doing the same with burnouts in a parking lot.
> We've had a massive influx of new tech talent

about 1 out of 100 people i interviewed actually know how computers work, we still hired about 10 out of 100 (thats maybe 1 in 1000 cvs)

> Skip to today and I'm honestly wondering how long I have.

how long you have to do what? to learn? to make money? you will find a way to make money, i have lived with 2$ per day and with 200$ per day and its fine, some times you have to steal some bread, but its not the end of the world, and you have a life time to learn.

just don't stress too much, tech has ebbs and flows, your job does not define you.
Preliminary orbital calculations suggest that the object came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, in the northern constellation of Lyra. However, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey―even at the speed of about 59,000 miles per hour (26.4 kilometers per second)―that Vega was not near that position when the ‘Oumuamua was there about 300,000 years ago.

Source: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/co...
Are those “with a track record of making a difference” also ok with interview tests, white boards, and/or take homes? I don’t know if viewing excessive tests with disdain is a characteristic solely exhibited by ex top tech; I feel like that’s a universal sentiment among top talent regardless of their background. Not wanting to be burdened with unnecessary burden is a good thing!!

I also don’t think people generally have a problem with interviews. You have to be assessed somehow, obviously, and people at top companies still get interviewed when jumping to other top companies. I’ve really only seen serious complaints (that is, beyond mild grumbling) when interviewing is a huge time sink for a specific company, especially when that company’s compensation is lower and/or the communication process is poor (e.g. ghosting).

Why in the world would anyone interview with you if your company offers less than top tech for equal or harder interviews? (Spinning your rhetoric back at you for added effect. I don’t know what your hiring is like.)
Kind of. It was pretty much the job of the proto-police forces which naturally became our modern police forces. The development of policing in America is much more crude and ad-hoc than people would like to admit. I don't think modern police generally join the force with this spirit but there's a root of violent lackiness that has maybe never been fully exercised from the system.
> If I, some poor guy in the ghetto is considering tightening the belt on my finances and looking ten years out,

I think you're reading too many cranks on the internet. The state of the economy is fine, significantly stronger than where it was just 3 years ago. Real consumer spending hasn't budged much and the labor market is the strongest in 50 years despite the well publicized layoffs.

The dotcom boom happened under equivalent to higher interest rates than we had now. "Morning in America" happened with an unemployment rate double what it is today.