skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MG3 will turn on the radio turn the volume up to at least 50% and auto play via Bluetooth whenever the ignition starts.

So you might not want music. You turn down the radio and turn it off. Next ignition you find your paired phone starts up Spotify on command from the car and starts playing.

It means you have to never pair your phone. Worse than annoying. Who wants that? At the very least keep volume at 0% if that's what I set it last ignition.
Canadian corporate taxes are quite a bit higher than in the US - 33% vs 21%. So not an easy decision...
Don’t “Fake It Till You Make It”; Instead, Remember What You Know
Tailscale is doing to Wire guard what Git hub did to git. Even further mainstreamed it.
> As the article suggests some are just filing incorrectly, what are the real risks and consequences of this?

Provided you never used an R&D tax credit, none.

But if you did, with a huge templated report report about software R&D, you have a verbatim provable record of doing R&D expenses. And those reports, they come from 10 different vendors who all use the same words and formatting. The IRS could easily solve one case and get everyone.
Good luck figuring out how to do that accounting when teams are blended and all your workers are salaried.
French dude gets in trouble with the law and has his encryption cracked. Hackernews goes into an extended (and extremely interesting) thread about the entropy content of grammatical English. Probably not that different in terms of entropy content per character, though.

That being said I don't understand your calculation of 4lg(100000). That seems like it can't possibly be correct. For starters it is entirely independent of the entropy content of the words in the dictionary. I could have 100000 strong random passwords of 1000 characters each in my dictionary. Could you explain this a bit, please because there's obviously something I'm missing?

Edit: Aah I think I get it - the assumption is both me and the attacker know the dictionary so the entropy content of the words doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is the joint probability distribution of the combinations I'm choosing. Is that correct?
I've never tried this, but it appears to be possible to use Oracle SQL Developer to browse SQLite tables.

https://github.com/Trivadis/sqldev-jdbc-proxy

Oracle SQL Developer is a Java clone of Toad from Quest software:

https://www.oracle.com/database/sqldeveloper/

Toad also bears a resemblance to the Windows app in the post.
Poor IBM Watson, killed by not being hip
> bloat

What _is_ bloat to people? Is it because it has Candy Crush pre-installed? The Settings menu? The install is bigger than Windows 3.11 so it's bloated?
How to Add Social Authentication Using Django-Allauth to Your Django Project
Easily create sign-up, login and password reset page templates, and enable Google social authentication.
Yes, that's why I described it as a movie.

We have a lot of high-carbon energy substitution to do before DCC makes sense anywhere, let alone in the middle of an ocean, but before people trash DCC too hard I wanted to gently remind everyone that 1: industrial processes work better at scale, and 2: nature gives us magic rocks containing obscene amounts of low-carbon energy, so "inefficient" isn't necessarily a condemnation once we get past the energy substitution phase of decarbonization. I applaud the people working to de-risk the technology today so that when the time is right it can get off the ground.
This codebase is very much tied to the win32 API, maybe with the winelib wrapper but otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Sibling post here mentioned using under wine but I'm not sure if that's the best idea since wine might not translate locking semantics in the same way and those might be plenty important to avoid corruption with SQLite databases.
Moderators should, in my opinion. They’re doing a ton of the thankless janitorial work of cleaning up Reddit’s walled garden. If Reddit mods quit for a week Reddit wouldn’t have a product.
What jurisdiction doesn't count employee salaries as an expense?

Salaries are already taxed as individual income. Taxing them as corporate profits and individual income is not closing a loophole, its double-taxing.
This could also have led to a bad ending. They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful.
Is anybody currently feeding a country's worth (e.g. Israel) of medical records into an AI and asking it to come up with novel off-label uses of medicine?

E.g. "TDAP Tetanus vaccine = 42% lower risk of dementia in older adults"... more findings like this would be great.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33856020/
This is the setup I’ve been wanting for a decade. It’s fun to modularize what’s normally an “all in one” product. The end result is superior in my opinion, but there’s no need for any home users to do this. It’s only useful to me because consumer 10 Gb/s is bleeding edge and the small market can’t support all niches yet.
You've never filed an 1120.
So like, all of everything we do in modern society.
Tried cancelling my Spotify premium subscription but I can't seem to get it to work. On the surface it looks like they just disabled the button to cancel the subscription. The button doesn't seem to do anything. I pay for the subscription directly using a credit card, not via Apple's app store.

Edit: Also wanted to note that I tried this on Brave, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
The Anatomy of Panic: A personal history of anxiety
Fox News and Dominion settle election defamation lawsuit for $787.5M
Good. There'll be "old-timers" and regulars and newcomers and tourists, and walkers and competitors and joggers…

(Parking is along Embarcadero road, not in the Byxbee Park parking lot.)
> It does seem that even though anime is more popular than ever, there is not so many modern anime classics.

Are you comparing to 1995-2005 or are you comparing to the lifetime of anime from about 1970 onwards?

1) I'm not sure anime is all that popular anymore. For example, I see FAR less anime merch than I did back in the early 2000s. Cyberpunk:Edgerunners is one of the few recently that seemed to spawn merch.

2) It doesn't help that a cour is now 13 episodes, at best, by default. It's pretty hard to make a "classic" anime in just 13 episodes on a super tight deadline. You can see the drop in quality around 2005 right about when things are switching to 13 episodes. By the time you reach 2010, practically nothing that isn't promoting toys is longer than 13 episodes.

3) Up through about the mid-90s, anime was mostly meant to promote buying toys and the quality reflects this (really--take a look at the anime released from about 1980-1990).

4) There were never that many "classic" anime after you remove Studio Ghibli.

5) 1995-2005 just had a remarkable run of producing some stupidly good anime along with all the standard dreck. It was a combination of decent enough funding, decent enough technology, and a sudden market opening (US demand).

6) The Japanese anime business leaders were complete and total dolts for a very long time. After about 2005, they sold increasingly expensive box sets to their whales and that completely warped things. Consquently, you get increasing amounts of junk hyper-tailored to the anime faithful (See: Zero no Tsukaima getting 48 episodes(!)--actually, please don't see it, it's total garbage).
Thank you for saying this. It’s a classic appeal to the law fallacy I see so often online.
Fair enough. I think my concern is just that there is definitely some opaqueness here to the responses we can be provided.

It may be providing a true insight or a false one. Of course Google result quality is quite bad.. and I'd be concerned with a link to a "let me google that for you" as a stand in for an analysis for the same reasons :)
Is this a surprise to anyone? Britain is quite well known for its draconian laws on free speech and encryption.
Having GPT-4 play Jeopardy today would be no fun at all
To consider your analogy a bit further: Imagine you had access to only... five 18th century novels, that's it, no other knowledge about the period, the people or anything. Then you try to write your own. You can make up your own stories that are a merging of various parts of those five novels, but they'll always only contain what's in those, or some combination.

If all the books deal with France then Germans or English will never make an appearance because it's literally impossible to guess that they exist since they're not in the original books (the books here are training data if that's not obvious).
Give it time. One day people will be arrested at borders for "suspicion that they are travelling with a decoy phone".
“The C Programming Language, Second Edition” is an excellent book for learning the basics of ANSI C. However, there have been a few revisions of the C standard since then. While none of the changes are extreme (it’s not like learning Java 1.2 or Python 2 in 2023, and there are many ANSI C code bases still being maintained today), it’s still good to know of the newer features of the language. Additionally, the book does not cover certain pitfalls that affect the security and reliability of programs written in C, such as security problems caused by faulty uses of gets() and strcpy().

It’s unfortunate Dennis Ritchie is no longer with us; it would be nice to have a third edition of K&R that covers modern C standards and has information about best practices for avoiding situations that can lead to insecure code.
And we're fine with it.

They can suffer Windows or MacOS, it means nothing to me.
Yeah, and, so? We don’t have the briefcase car and that’s what I want. Don’t come with your whataboutisms and try to make me accept less. Your games are transparent!
Rust Foundation so sorry for scaring the C out of you
Well, if you expand the definition of "slave" enough, I suppose so. But in reality, I have plenty of choice and freedom.

If the only way I can live, though, is to feed my ideas to a master AI, then I really am a slave. I would argue that such a life is not worth the effort.
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement
I remember trying to compile OpenCV 2 for it and the compiler would segfault on me.
Do you have a source for this? The law seems pretty clear to me:

> ANY amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of ANY software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174
Look up section 162 vs 174 treatment and the distinction between "new companies" vs "carrying on a trade". It's far from unambiguous and as long as you have a defensible position you absolutely are entitled to push the envelope.

Is implementing a specification a REE "in the experimental or laboratory sense"? I'd say it's not, and I don't have to explain my position unless I'm audited.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.174-2
It is like Goodhart‘s Law (When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure) with an incentive attached to the measure. It probably needs to be in constant flux by design. Maybe a good thing as it would otherwise get rigid and boring.
Serious question — is “residential proxies” a euphemism for “botnet?”
I wonder what they're going to do with the library of discs.
> what paths there are for manure which don't release methane

Aerobic digestion. Ie: with lots of airflow/oxygen (lots of heat also helps!)
GPT-4 or its successors, will kill medical records as such.

And it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

It is said that doctors spend a lot of their time on bullshit computer procedures, involving garbage software, when they should be seeing patients or learning something.
More than open-source, I would say it's also due to the fact that on Android there's no homemade apps with private apis like on iOS.

Apple's security model clearly excludes their own apps and that shows on the issues publicly released.

Secondly, on Android, very few system components are actually tied to the OS version, and it's getting thinner after every version. On iOS it's the norm.
Are high power electric vehicle chargers safe for patients with cardiac devices?
Windows won't get better as long as their consumer unfriendly behaviour has no effect on sales.

The EU (or some other authority) should force Windows licenses to be a separate purchase. The machines could still come with Windows preloaded, but then require a license key to unlock.

It would open the doors for competition and force MS to make Windows a compelling product that users would want to pay for.
Yes. It also penalizes shrinking firms as you simply lose the benefit of amortization if you can’t use it.
I’ve spent a good amount of time on YC’s cofounder matching service and my biggest problem is not anything that can be fixed by a better platform. Most the “ideas” for products are dystopian, moral-less get-rich-quick schemes that I’d have to abandon any semblance of ethics to get behind. Web3 especially has brought out the “music men” of the world and given them a platform. Fuck this “do anything for a buck” world we’ve built.
My number 1 complaint after switching from linux mint back to windows after years in linux-land after building a gaming rig -

The auto sort by date and group by most recent in their file explorer that you have to either use a third party app to turn back into sort by name and group by none, or - do that selection for literally every folder on its own.

That's a fucking train wreck. Who decided that sorting by date instead of name was a good idea? WHY?
I installed Gentoo when it was new with far less handholding. I was a child.

If you're literate enough to be able to read the wiki, you can manage to install, use every day, and get good at, Arch Linux.
You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations.

A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be random is the GTK fonts throughout the UI changed to a mono-spaced font regardless of what the control panel showed.

It "resolved itself" within a few weeks.

I don't know if it was an update that caused and subsequently resolved the issue, or something else I did.

This was just one of many hair-pulling examples I ran into across KDE Plasma and Gnome on Fedora.

I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS.
The founders in 1776 were happy with things in 1788 and generally opposed the constitution. After reading the articles of confederation (yes I actually did that), there are some things that should have been cleaned up, but overall I think it was a good enough system that didn't need to be replaced.
I would in fact argue that in large systems it is infeasible to have a load-balancer sit in between. Especially if you adopt a microservice-based architecture: it doesn't make sense for every microservice to have its own load balancer to proxy all traffic. Instead the load balancer simply assigns traffic to specific services without being in the middle. It is the client's responsibility to obey the load balancer's decision.
Yeah that would be the cash flow, my example was taxable income. But yes, that's the whole problem!
Oh No! I've already been down one TvTropes rabbit hole today.
It's a bit strained, but car or TV companies often put out a new model that's identical to the old model +- some but fixes. There's a line somewhere but the law does not specify the line, it seems
Of course. The Enterprise and Server versions of Windows are like a different world of user experience and OS control from e.g. Home.
You know, a tool, made by a tool maker, in the relevant trade, making a tool meant to be used by tool makers.

As opposed to the stuff nowadays that seem to be marketed first, made by whoever has the least power to ignore the job, and using some abysmal javascript GUI framework that can't even keep up with desktop framerate.

I also miss the days when the tools I used to do my job didn't HIDE shit from me, like error messages. Sure, I might not know what "ExtremelyExplicitNullException in doFrobThrob" means, but when I paste that error message in the support email, the engineer on the other side knows the exact line of code that error was generated on, and which variable was broken, and 9/10 times that's enough to actually find the root cause and fix it. No telemetry required. I'm so tired of vague, numbered error messages that nobody knows what line of code it corresponds to and nobody cares anyway because it's just going into a giant pile in the telemetry system that nobody except one mediocre PM is allowed to pull bugs from.
I had an idea yesterday, why don't we train AI on all the chats, like have a rolling release, where we feed it's chats or maybe even a self-retrospection of the chats back into the thing with semantics around quality, so it can improve that way?

Example: You ask ai something, it takes 3 different tries to get what you want.
AI Critiques itself, decides what it could do better and rolls that into training, perhaps it goes line by line and scores how 'helpful' that was to give certain negative/positive bias to new training datasets.
What's the cost of using the platform?
I don't think they screw the long game at all. I don't see developers having much choice regarding the OS, so MS needs to deal with their companies, not with them directly. They are also placated with things like WSL, which satisfies many use cases where otherwise someone would have installed Linux or used git bash/cygwin/VM. Or a shiny new editor, like VSCode, and they also have GitHub... Businesses, as always, need things to just work, and in the current climate, that would include handling MS Office formats, and only one software exists that handles them well enough - MS Office. Windows is still bundled with new computers as the de facto free system, running it pirated is easier than ever, you can download from MS directly even. And now every of their offering is also online, bundled with a large cloud storage offering for really really cheap.

I really don't think these offerings can be beaten. It makes business sense to use them, it makes sense personally to use them, and you can't avoid them either, because govts, administration, businesses all use them and expect the people to interface with them over these formats.

I don't feel there's anything stupid about what MS is currently doing. But I DO feel that people are hurt by how they operate.
Data leakage definition is not accurate I think. Data leakage is when your training data contains information about the target, but similar data will not be available when the model is used. It can be either internal or external data.
Thank you for providing the actual political context. It is much more helpful to know who did this and why then to complain about an amorphous and unchanging "Congress".
Excuse me! I am a Custodian.
Where am I supposed to get movies from now? Serious question, given that Blockbuster etc. no longer exist, and I don't want to use streaming services with terrible compression artifacts and dubious 24Hz->60Hz conversion.
> or, keep improving the product to the point where most people actually find it useful

Some product ideas can't be made desirable and useful no matter how much improvement they get.
> Benchmarking and profiling doesn't help with that.

I've learned that benchmarking and profiling is the _only_ way to write performant code.

I've seen in code review a number of examples of a very fancy algorithm being broken out, and asked, "You realize N is bounded to be at most 100 here?". Or, "you realize the thread overhead here for parallel processing is two magnitudes slower than serial data access on one thread?"

Humans are bad at intuitively understanding where the slow parts of code are. I've seen processing be improved to the point of impossible to grok, shaving 10ms of a processing piece that is 50ms long, only to then spend time blocking waiting for network transfers that require 10s.

I'm of the opinion the biggest performance improvements are usually in design and architecture. What if there were a design that avoided the need to do any network IO? In that case the 10s + 50ms would be a 50ms process, rather than a hard to grok "optimized" 10s + 40ms process. Simple code leads to simpler design, which is easier to reason about and spot the places where things like "this entire network round trip can be cut out", or "we are loading this data multiple times throughout this process, we can load it once", or "we are loading this data and then spending a lot of time querying "n+1", instead if we stored the data in this format with some pre-processing we'll avoid the "n+1" query."

To further rant, the emphasis of algorithms in coding interviews, people enjoying algorithms more than cleaning up crufty architecture - that is the root of a lot of bad software rather. In sum, it's almost always the design that is slow, rarely it's the algorithm. The profiling is key as it let's you know where things are actually slow. (Recently a colleague was trying to optimize a tight loop that processed 1.5M rows. To "optimize" memory usage, they converted all variables to static to 'save' memory and avoid GC pauses. This in effect did _nothing_, the compiler instead was going to inline all the variables anyways and the resulting bytecode was not going to have any extra variables in at all. Converting local variables to static actually made the memory usage just slightly worse. So, this 'optimization' did nothing but make the code worse. A quick benchmark would have shown that optimization having no effect (to really optimize memory usage, we updated the design to stream results to a file rather than keep everything in memory for a final dump to file at the very end). Another example, I once helped a team do performance work for a DB that they spent a year tuning. They did not keep track of any performance benchmarks, what changes did what improvement; and after a year had nothing to show except for a DB that would crash after a few minutes. Taking that over, starting everything over from scratch, benchmarking everything, the project was done a month later and was stupid fast.)
> blanket justification for writing unreadable code

Well, ironically, the site itself is down (so the code must be beautiful?) but assuming I understand the content from the title, another thing that most of these "code quality doesn't matter" types overlook is that software changes over time, quite a bit. That's why it's called "soft"ware, it's supposed to be soft. Readable is changeable. If all the mattered were performance, we'd engrave the code path onto a circuit board.
As is usually the case, what they decided was something much narrower than the general case. LinkedIn still can and does make efforts to prevent/restrict automated browsing at scale. What they can't do is selectively block traffic from the plaintiff company altogether, when the content is otherwise publicly available.
https://earthquake.alaska.edu/event/0234u0lcjp

https://earthquake.alaska.edu/event/0234u01ap5

Would it have been around this time? I'd be interested to know if their seismographs can be used to detect non-earthquake recordings.

When I was little I lived less than an hour from Cape Canaveral and damn, when those shuttle missions launched, you'd feel it in your bones. I'm not sure how it would feel if it were just in the air crossing my path though.
The one big advantage the disk service had over streaming, was that Netflix could buy the disks from anywhere (even the local Walmart, if they had to), and lend them to customers.

Streaming requires negotiating licensing rights, with each IP owner independently.

This is why the DVD service had so many more titles than the streaming service. At least when I was actively using it.
Honestly, with new resolutions, 3.1 may be exactly the look I want. Everything was grouped logically, and you had control over your OS.