skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think something may be off on iPhone rendering. Your accordions don’t look quite right, I think:

https://i.imgur.com/9mGrHpi.jpg
No it’s saying “people didn’t make a that much of a fuss and the world didn’t end when people started scanning cloud documents and so the same will probably be true of client scanning.”

Like I don't like this plan but I also have to be realistic that my reaction as someone who values privacy is way overblown.
Gestapo, DDR, Stasi and ALG II/Hartz4 ;)
Ah yes, because /that's/ the important part of the argument.
Is Mach 3.5 the highest reported speed? Is it "official" in some way?
No no. The way I would do communism would be good!
Yes absolutely, I'm all for giving addicts the help they need. I just don't think haphazardly making it available OTC without a prescription like the GP suggested would be the right decision in the current situation. People already abuse OTC medications with a lot less recreational potential, stuff like whippits and DPH. Adding Suboxone to the mix would, in addition to helping the addicts that want to quit, raise a new generation of buprenorphine addicts.

Despite its miraculous efficacy for addiction treatment it certainly has some recreational potential and the long lasting opioids used for maintenance are a bitch to quit. Many people stay on the stuff for life because while you can taper down it's really, really hard to drop the last bit. While milder than with the fast-acting opioids, the physical withdrawals go on for weeks. With heroin or fentanyl they're over by day 3 or 4 and it's all mental after that.

In my ideal gay luxury space communist world most drugs would be available for anyone after a doctor's consultation where you learn basic harm reduction and such. Currently people abuse OTC medications or buy fentanyl laced stuff of the street to get high even though they're absolute trash for that. Safer options exist.
Not that it would be any better, if these officials were elected.
> how is an undersea wall going to even partially reduce flooding

They interfere with storm surges. The same way reefs force waves to break, dissipating their energy offshore.
Just because China does something to their citizens (denies them access to foreign tech products that they'd otherwise enjoy), doesn't mean its rational for the US to do the same same thing to its own citizens.

Consumers benefit from having access to a globally competitive array of products. Including tech products. I wish Chinese consumers could as well, but just because they don't doesn't mean that US consumers should also suffer.
I think it's fairer to say that the German population is opposed to the idea of surveillance, especially when it happens in public. It's also worth pointing out that "opposition" in this case is extremely tame. The most intense and prolonged protests (not counting the recurring riots surrounding events like G20 or the yearly Mayday protests) Germany has seen in recent history were over COVID measures and even those were pretty mild and didn't do anything. Germans like to complain, but protests usually just fizzle out or lead to delays at best.

I think even interest in privacy is waning. Ever since companies have been dragging their heels and making users run through (often outright illegal) cookie consent popups I've been hearing people complain more about privacy protections than about privacy abuses. The attempts to portray these laws as "red tape" have been very effective.
Clearly they don't, the only time I've heard anything about this was when Apple forwarded support requests for the version of open source software they packaged upstream (despite the usual "no guarantees" license), which is kind of scummy for a commercial company. Not illegal or a reason for billing them any money, just pretty scummy.

The GP complains that Bloomberg doesn't give away enough free money because it's a very profitable company. Apple, an even more profitable company, actually shipping the project this is about to their customers, pays even less. L

If there was some kind of expectation that big companies using open source would provide any support, I'd say that yes, Apple should definitely be looked at more sternly than Bloomberg. I don't think anyone is saying that here, though.
Can you go into more detail about this compensator? Is this a consumer product you can buy to fix a misbehaving light or a component that the manufacturer needs to include in the bulb?
Indeed, Golang really got this right.
This is a Chord (2016)
Git alternative command line interfaces just make no sense

1. If you want to do something advanced, it will be a lot easier to find help online using regular/original git commands

2. You still need to learn this new interface , so you will end up learning too different command line interfaces (one for the easy stuff and one for the advanced stuff)

3. You will surely, almost certainly mix the two interfaces

Use and learn git "original" commands to do advanced stuff
Use a nice UI for the easy straightforward stuff

The only alt command line interface I might consider is magit, because it mixed the emacs commands with GUI elements, and still i think magit is not all that because its not GUI enough, if magit becomes faster and more graphical, only then it might make more sense (for now its really only for emacs hardcore users)
How much of this is driven by the actual cost of properly provisioning emitters and fielding a good power supply vs the inability of consumers to hold manufacturers accountable?
I suspect you could make a simple dotting marker for whiteboards by taping an eraser to a whiteboard pen.

I release this invention into the public domain for the good of mankind.
It’s not that easy in real life. A couple of years ago we had a guy who was really nice, someone who you really connect with when you first meet him. But he never produced any working code.

We have a set of “onboarding tasks” that are well defined and have definite definitions of “done”. He didn’t complete them. His team lead gave him a series of “easy” bugs (think, change this error message to that error message). He couldn’t figure that out. He required lots of pair programming and oversight.

We tried to do a PIP and gave him unlimited access to our top devs for help. We really tried everything. We should have cut it off much earlier than we did, but he was just so nice. It was hard.

Near the end when we were justifying fire him, we went through all his records. It turned out that I did his technical interview and failed him (I had forgotten by the time I got involved with his PIP) But the rest of staff loved him and thought he has lots of potential. He didn’t. We really tried.

It was gut wrenching firing him. He was a real person who we all liked. But he was just too much of a drag and we are a small company and don’t have the buffer to pay people to do negative work.
True, but we should have fought “cloud scanning” then as well.

Governments have no right to compel companies to engage in policing activities like this.
Only considering market forces and saying the market will fix itself is a shortsighted argument. We live in a society and the market does not factor in societal impacts in terms of the "greatest good". Markets need a balancing counter force to make sure eggs are not only available to the rich and the poor are exposed to malnutrition.
I say this because in the US we have this dominant idea that there is nothing better than not interfering with the market while forgetting that the market is only valuable to society if it serves our greater good. The statement that price controls do more harm than good is not true in a general sense.
When society chips in to save banks no one seems to have a problem with that, try to make eggs affordable is blatant overreach.
Easybake toy ovens used incandescent bulbs to bake brownies.
I think for a lot of people, like myself, writing Rust is just as easy as writing Python (actually it's way easier IMO). So when people write Python it's sort of like "uh, why would you choose the slower tool?".

Obviously the answer is "because I'm faster with Python" but then part of my brain is "well get good idk".
Just learn to use git.
Thank goodness we can rely for now on humans, who always give the 100% logical response to all questions.
What’s an example of what you consider to be a high quality led? I’m pretty happy with everything that I have in my home but I’m curious what you’re talking about
Restoring New York City’s natural flood defence’s is insufficient per se. We will still need to build a wall. That doesn’t mean we should only build the sea wall.
I just use nbd-server, nbd-client (kernel module nbd). While at home things are fine, when not at home things can get bad unless you use something like UDPspeeder <https://github.com/wangyu-/UDPspeeder> then you just need to deal with slower speeds.

I do backups with borg while connected to the NAS with ethernet.
"half the weight of a down-filled comforter may consist of dead dust mites and their tiny droppings." - Ugh.
I have begun to use grow lights everywhere as regular lights.

They emit a pleasant looking spectrum, have good heat sinks for longevity, have high-quality ballasts, built-in dimmers and do not flicker.

They also blow out any alternative out of the water when it comes to pure brightness for precision work (soldering, painting minis, etc.)

They are also fairly cheap (can find some lights as low as 50c/watt on sale)

Oh and lastly - I can always just move them and use them to grow any kind of plants (wink wink, nudge)
They can peacefully coexist in a room by room choice of algorithm. Your other MIMI proposal, linear Matrix rooms, would weaken the integrity asumptions and completely change the trust model.
I'm reasonably certain it's an exaggeration on the authors part.
They only go apeshit on the owner of the internet subscription, they don't catch anyone on doing anything.
USA doesn't go to real war over citizen security interests. It only goes for business interests.
Windfall profits and periods of poor returns is the history of commodity producers - but the supply response usually takes years to respond (takes like 10 years to build a copper mine, and probably takes at least 6-12 months to increase egg production capacity)
LLMs wont achieve superintelligence alone. He's jumped the gun and has now put on a clown wig.
I related this "story" elsewhere, but in another context is good too.

So, when I was younger, I used to frequent DEMF, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. It's now called Movement or whatever.

It was a great time. And one of the favorite feel good moments was seeing Grandma Techno there: https://mixmag.net/feature/grandma-techno-shares-her-love

Looking back, this view might have been kind of ageist. It shouldn't be that surprising or weird to have older people there. Elders in the tribe. But at the time it was also just a happy recurring image during the event.

We were taught to love this woman through informal network stories and "whispers". Everybody had that friend who pointed her out pridefully, and maybe you became that friend pointing her out to another.

I can imagine another world where seeing Grandma Techno dancing among the younglings is creepy. At least make her wear a VR headset when she's within 1000 feet of the festival. It's nothing personal, it's just nature.

She has a book now. Whether that's because she wanted that sweet "FAANG" publishing deal or liked contributing to the scene. Well... who cares... both benefit us.

Fortunately, we were taught to accept people through informal support networks of friends.

Same goes with npm and cargo.

Yeah, this story seems disjointed and out-of-place. But it's important. And I'm naive, but I'd rather have an orderly migration to social and technical controls for packaging than drama. And I can still respect the people who want some other solution.

Because I'm that fucking old person now.
There's been lots of discussion about blockchains, webs of trust, trusted reviews, small[0] fees and a host of other ideas to address npm package spam.

I'll throw out another one: create an automated testing process for uploaded NPMs, such testing to be performed before allowing the new "package" to be visible to others.

If the testing process can't find any code or if it really is a real package, but can't be successfully tested, the upload can be rejected with (or without for obvious spam) an email to the "developer" letting them know their code doesn't work and won't be visible to the world until they fix their bugs.

The devil is, of course, in the details. I'm sure there are many edge cases and special circumstances that will likely require manual intervention, but I'd expect that such a solution would cover the vast majority of "spam" packages, with the added benefit of not allowing broken code on the site either.

Perhaps (likely even) there are other, better ways to handle this issue, but this idea would, presumably, significantly reduce the spam issue without negatively impacting honest/real developers.

Just a crazy thought.

[0] "Small" is relative, as a bunch of folks have pointed out.
If you like oysters, the all-you-can-eat BOP annual fundraiser is one of the best events, in terms of fun and value, one can go to. Purveyors fly in from around the continent to show their wares. The liquor sponsors are great. And the venue is usually unique.
There's still a lot of SAML and SOAP being spoken on the Internet, so I wouldn't call it a failed protocol.
Interoperability between Java and .NET was a solved problem somewhere around 2008.

Most important reason XML was replaced by JSON for the majority of use cases was the parser had a lot of complexity and wasn't implemented as well for other languages that were considered 'less serious' at the time. If you built with Rails or PHP you probably had to deal with badly implemented XML and SOAP libraries.
FYI Wiz CEO is former head of cloud security in Microsoft....
They are almost certainly referring to the use of 85°C capacitors. These are much cheaper and die quicker compared to their pricier counterparts.

It's not so much "planned obsolescence" as it is "consumers shop on price primarily". And its even harder because there really isn't much benefit to putting specs on your bulbs because 99.9% of consumers won't understand them anyway.

What should happen is a mandated "nutrition facts" that gets put on all bulbs so people can familiarize themselves with a standard fact sheet.
There have been various successful multiparty moratoria in science e.g. Asilomar moratorium on recombinant DNA, and the (ongoing) moratorium on human cloning research https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...
For what it's worth, Gambas does have a built-in way of interfacing with shared libraries: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/extern

It also has the concept of components, which can be programmed in C/C++ to wrap external libraries: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/dev/overview
LineProfiler is the best tool to learn how to write performant Python and do code optimization.

https://github.com/pyutils/line_profiler

You can literally see the hot spot of your code, then you can grind different algorithms or change the whole architecture to make it faster.

For example replace short for loops to list comprehensions, vectorize all numpy operations (only vectorize partially do not help the issue), using 'not any()' instead or 'all()' for boolean, etc.

Doing this for like 2 weeks, basically you can automatically recognize most bad code patterns at a glance.
The challenge is people are obviously split on whether that is moral Behavior or not. For example I think it is perfectly moral. Nobody is forcing me to buy eggs. I don't have a right to someone else's eggs. When I don't like the price, I buy a different protein. Over the last several months, I found myself buying a lot more pork, often for less than 90 cents a pound.
I live somewhere that snow on traffic lights can be a problem. Same with headlights and tail lights.
Rust on Nails – Ruby on Rails-style suggestions for the Rust ecosystem
Is it just me or is there something off about this article? It reads quite incoherent.

I happen to work with a lot of LED light sources nowadays and I can see most problems discussed are related to the light fixture, driver or psychology.
More often than not it is the capacitors in these mains powered LEDs that fail first, because the circuit is designed to run at the highest temperature possible to lower the cost of the final product.
The bulbs, or LED chips, looks quite innocent in this regard.
Open Source Computer Networks Book
Crazy nosense change. $100 is damn high and 10K tweets a month is damn low. Even if you were willing to pay, the amount of tweets is so low that it's in fact totally useless.
When is open-source going to admit they traded money for influence? Altruism is not a thing, people.
Wonderful, that lets me crank it down to 0 and I can then for now add a diskcache decorator. I'll follow that issue and comment on it with some requests (who doesn't love more requests ;) ).
I think the point is that parents spending more time with their children might be more important than squeezing every last ounce of productivity out of people.
I think the argument is that no harm has actually been shown and there is no legal reason to have one of the fastest growing companies hamstrung while Big Tech gets it's shit together.
My pool pump and AC will cost me about $700 US this month. Switching from incandescent to LED bulbs might have saved me a few dollars. And for what? For expensive bulbs that flicker, don't reproduce colors well, last less than a year, and undulate and buzz when dimmed (yes, the dimmable ones)? I think we've been bamboozled by the light bulb industry.
The mouth-watering world of NIST standard foods (2020)
Drug users are people's children first. Parents suffer the most.
Isn't that what parent is saying? They (we) spend a lot of money chasing diminishing returns.
So?

First off, the whole argument behind these models has been from day one that training on copyrighted material is fair use. At most this would be a TOS violation. Second off, AI output is not subject to copyright, so it has even less protection than the original works it was trained on.

Copyright maximalism for me, but not for thee. It's just so silly for someone working at OpenAI to complain about this.
Any country is creepy, especially if you don't understand the reasoning for certain aspects of it.
I'm in the same boat. I wasn't a huge distro-hopper but I went from Ubuntu to Arch for rolling updates and no dist-upgrade mess and then settled on NixOS for the declarative config. First it was the "correct" version of Ansible/Puppet/Chef on servers and then on my desktop.

It's amazing to have a system that isn't accumulating cruft as you tweak config files and to be able to completely set up a new system in an hour with all of my preferred config and applications. NixOS is dotfiles on steroids. On top of that you get easy dev environments with nix-shell and trivial rollbacks if something goes wrong. (gone are the days of manually reverting packages from the package manager's update log)
Honestly, this is better than the article itself.
It seems like an attainable ambition for a scaled down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

and if you built some kind of "gun" that can shoot those things you could should numerous ones out in different directions to observe different targets and definitely have results in years if not weeks instead of decades.
It's not a lot but way better than most companies. I still don't think this is the proper way to earn enough dough for OSS people though.
It is very hard to turn a black box function into something that can be used reliably. Network and filesystem permissions are baby steps that only prevent genuine developer mistakes, not malicious attacks.

The PDF converter library you're using might not need filesystem or network access, but it can detect specific text in links and replace the URL with a phishing site. There are no technical shortcuts to trust.

You can sandbox all you want, use three layers of VMs and what not, but if you're allowing me to produce bytes for you and then expect to use them elsewhere in any nontrivial way, I've already won.
It used to be that you only had one option so you didn’t have to think about it.

But, that single option was at least "good enough". I never bought a normal incandescent bulb only to have the color rendering/brightness/etc be downright awful.

LEDs come packaged as "daylight" or "bright white" or whatever else. I want one that's labelled "just like your normal 60W incandescent".
Hmm. I found this article informative. I suppose it did mention their service, but only toward the end. Even then, it wasn’t like “Buy now for 50% off!!!” So on balance, I am glad they posted.
Narcan only works if there's someone else who can administer it.
And that someone else should be sober enough to do it.
Great to see some opposition on this issue. As a swede, I have been baffled by the silence from Swedish media about this. Mullvad VPN has been bringing up this issue a lot, most notably in the swedish newspaper SvD [1], but also by advertisements in the Stockholm subway, but that's about it. Understandably the ongoing NATO process takes up a lot of headlines, but most of the other headlines are just about murders, unfortunately.

[1]: https://www.svd.se/a/76mlxW/jan-jonsson-stoppa-forslaget-om-...
The revert command is a good, easy solution- "git revert <commit-hash"

run "git log" to grab the commit hash

The really challenging parts of git IMO are around maintaining branches. Merge vs rebase, squash or no squash, when to back-merge, etc.
Darcs version control System focuses on changes rather than snapshots
Do you mind if I ask what country?
Not him, but what I assume he's referring to is the usual cases in Germany where if you torrent a book, a movie, or an mp3 without a VPN, you'll instantly be served a threatening letter from the likes of GEMA, Axel-Springer, or some independent law firm who have your info from your ISP who tracks you, and they'll ask you to pay a fine for your illegal copyright violation or they'll threaten to take you to court on behalf of the film & record companies, where some 80 year old boomer judge who doesn't understand how the internet works, will instantly side with Axel-Springer because they're an old, big, rich, respected German corporation with reputable lawyers who have a history with the judge, and you're not.

Reddit is chock full of expats in Germany who got burned by this. And also the locals, but rare because they know how the system works.

In Germany it's difficult to defend yourself in court against copyright bullying from big corporations if you don't have deep pockets for a top lawyer, as there's no jury trials, nor double jeopardy, like in the US, so you're at the mercy of a major corporation with unlimited money and an old judge who has read about the internet in the newspaper, so people will instantly fold and stop what they're doing and pay whatever bullshit fine they're issued even when they do nothing illegal because paying the fine is cheaper than battling in court.

Honestly, Americans take for granted some of the freedoms they have online and in their justice system.

Look up the case of Axel-Springer suing the company that created AdBlock. Luckily Axel lost the first round[1], but it's scary how bold these companies are in Germany as many private individuals don't have the means to defend themselves in curt against such an entity.

[1] https://digiday.com/media/axel-springer-reinvigorates-legal-...
> All you need is a $60 calibrated mic, a protracter, a tape measure, and some free software.

You also need a crane to hoist the speaker 20 meters into the air, or you have ground reflections to contend with. (You could bury the speaker so its front is flush with th ground for a hlaf-space measurement and do some math with that, of course.)
Pretty awesome. Been using git for 10 years and I trully think its CLI is terrible. It's unintuitive, scary, and opaque. I'll give it a go. Pretty cool for a first year student, you've gut (pun intended) a good career ahead of you I'm sure.