skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that they're bringing ancient equipment out of storage, and have lost more than 10,000 vehicles, and that's only the verified losses.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

Now the small amount of modern equipment they have are being shown to be in bad condition too.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then there's really a chance that it might be a duck.

Russia has proven to be weak on the battlefield so have been forced to pivot to a war of attrition, hoping to win by sending more men into the meat grinder and using systematic war crimes, presumably in an effort to weaken the defenders' resolve.
If companies pay reddit for "public" data the incentive to poision the platform with too much ads decreases, and there's always adblock.
Not sure it really makes a difference. I guess it’s part of the business cycle to over-hire and over-fire, rinse, and repeat. But I think if a CEO’s best accomplishment is laying off a bunch of workers, that’s a pretty poor endorsement.

Neither company has meaningfully changed or reinvented their product in the last decade. Still they’re making money hand over fist. In many ways these companies succeed despite their leadership’s best intentions, rather than because of them.
I'd do it for a romantic date with my girl!

Take her to SoCal and sleep on a train!
Freud was an optimist, and when I read his works, I catch a bit of his enthusiasm and imagine that one day I might be healed, regardless of the clear intractability of my mental problems, so I keep coming back to him and others who followed in his wake. If that makes me a cultist, well, so be it.
> If anything, that the basics of software development still requires R&D is an indictment of our fields lack of professionalism.

This is a bit much. "Research" maybe, but not "development". Many things are developed -- land, buildings, etc. Someone still has to do the work.
Pro tip: it's easy to replace nyan cat with a different image. My kids liked Twilight Sparkle.
Why is US train travel so much slower than that in Russia of all places.
was being the keyword it seems
The man/woman in the arena. I recommend giving it a review.
I have probably a thousand ratings and I know they are allowing a PDF export of your history and ratings. If I could find the right service I wouldn't mind spending a rainy afternoon or sick day migrating them by hand. That would allow me to revisit some of my old ratings and adjust them for my changed tastes. As far as I know there's no export function beyond that, however.

I'll give taste.io a spin. It looks like it might be a bit streaming focused. I know letterboxd is where real film fans go, but I'll miss that usually spot on star prediction.
The good news is that these efforts to audit and improve the voting systems started many years ago. As a result of all the efforts by researchers, many states have scrapped their old systems and changed to newer paper + electronic based systems. For example, NJ used to have machines that were proven to have attack vectors. They were discarded in favor of a system that records electronically but also prints out your selection on paper and then drops it in a sealed box after you verify what is printed on the paper is what you intended to vote. If the election is close then a review of the paper ballots is performed. Is it perfect? No, but it is better than having no paper record at all as it at least gives the option of a manual recount is someone were to challenge the results (or if the count is close enough, a recount triggers without a challenge).

The challenge now is to ensure all 50 states are on board with using machines with no known exploits. Unfortunately some states are lagging behind greatly (can you guess which ones?)
Is there any other (realistic) option? Afaik if you don't make them edge calls, you'll get charged more money by Vercel for compute than OpenAI will charge you for the actual request.
Oh I like OpenSUSE! Been a while since I used it though. I've been meaning to look into a few things for that distro such as its secure boot implementation and mandatory access control defaults, but I've just not got around to it.
Be careful.

Bats can contort to fit almost any hole in the house. They are effectively tiny mice.

And just like nice, they make noises with their claws when they get into the walls (they will ryn when not airborne and quite fast too)

And their poop will bring hordes of cockroaches....
Side question: are there any interesting brand new medical imaging modalities being worked on these days or is all work focused on improving existing ones?
NSF has safe harbor of fringe + indirect @ 50% of salary, IIRC.
A bit off topic but this article made think of a wierd future.

LLM's writing ad-hoc code, handling message passing, and a self contained llm functions in software systems. Ushering in a whole era of non-deterministic computing. I thought our infrastructure was shaky now...
Removing friction must be valuable, Amazon's 1-click shopping was worth beaucoup bucks for them. Chat, Gifs and videos, news and Venmo all in one would be adopted quite well. Until all the trolls and scams pee in the pool and Musk says "freedom of your money to disappear" when snowflakes complain. And then you can be banned capriciously because the owner doesn't like you.
I'm an engineer at Meta waiting to hear my fate. Regardless of what happens tomorrow, I want to be gone by the end of the year because of leadership.

The "I don't foresee more layoffs" line in November was bad. I understand that circumstances change, but other than SVB (which was contained and didn't really impact Meta), there wasn't much between November and March. This shows a lack of foresight beyond around a month, not to mention how haphazard the layoffs were.

NYT reported that execs are phoning it in. I have no first-hand knowledge of it, but I believe it.

Zuck missed TikTok. He wasn't ready for Apple's privacy changes. Rather than paying attention to competitors, he was busy building a failed cryptocurrency and the metaverse. Unless letting TikTok take hold was a big brain plan to get lawmakers to stop looking at Meta.

The rebrand was poorly timed. It was almost exactly at the stock peak before reality started setting in.

Sheryl left.

Then there's the overhiring, but at least everyone else in the industry did it, so that's merely average performance.

I don't like it as an investment, and I'm having a hard timing making the case for it being somewhere I want to work.
The amount of people that regularly need to go between LA and SF post-covid has got to be pretty low.
Real estate has this same problem but 10x as bad.
Interesting that people were mocking “scripting” languages when you have revolutionary stuff like openAi being developed in python.

I don’t, however, love Electron. I’ve built a couple apps myself with it, it’s just that the DOM is too slow.

If someone manages to create an engine that could remove the lag that you get when rendering and manipulating large amounts of HTML that would be fantastic. But right now it’s a subpar experience when compared to native apps.
No business traveller is getting the $50 ticket though. And I like being rocked to sleep on a train... Not sure about US but on trains I've been on the middle fare is already quite comfy. The lower fares tend to lack in vertical space tbough. And your point about morning-in, evening-out is valid too.
It could give you JIT for free, but I don't think it's a silver bullet.

It would be hard to implement. ROM is unstructured data, interpreted however the game wants. You'd need some heuristics or instrumentation to find which parts are code, and where the code jumps to.

You still need the hardware emulated, and emulation ideally should be cycle accurate, so the generated WASM would be tightly coupled to the emulator. Resulting binary likely would be larger, as I expect 8-bit Thumb code to be more compact than 32-bit WASM.
I would pay large sums of money to hear him sing the entirety of Timberlake's Justified, given that most of it was really written for you know who..

Also, Starboy? Funny, I FAR prefer everything before that.
But how are you going to measure that, is my point. A single user can run a speed test at a given point in time, but you can't be running speed tests all the time.

The concept of "the average speed a user sees" -- there isn't an obvious way to me for how an ISP could calculate that for even a single customer, let alone across the whole network.

Which is why I'm curious if there are network experts who have ideas of how you could even define it in a way that is both relatively accurate and practical to implement.
Idk about you but I would usually need to shower and brush my teeth before business meetings.
I doubt the trains would include functional showers
If you want a romantic date take the Coast Starlight during the day for the views and get a hotel room at either end at night.
Even with newer versions, some (many?) distro installers still default to using LUKS 1 for the root partition anyway. As the article also says, while grub2 does support LUKS 2 now it still only supports pbkdf2, so having root be LUKS 1 makes it harder to accidentally switch away from pbkdf2.
The filibuster is fine, in its original form. Manipulate the parliamentary process to push the date close to the end of session, then have some windbag with sufficient endurance read the phone book for a few days.

The current version, where you declare yourself filibustered, is too cheap. In the old days, they just filibustered stuff like voting rights, not procedures for borrowing money to support the adopted budget.
Here we go! Thank you.
that's kind of a self-centered rationalization.

"We in the city can no longer see the night sky, so it's now an unimportant issue."

SpaceX sky-litter is the first time that i've had my night-sky obstructed far-far off-coast on the ocean; that feels significant somehow.
This would be absolutely beautiful to see in practice.

I can't wait to see how major ISPs would absolutely bend the heck out of the rules to make this somehow not a win for consumers.
Not from the Bay Area to LA. It’s a 45 minute to one hour flight. You can fly in, get your meetings in and get back all in a day.

I’ve done the Oakland to Burbank or LAX round trip that way a ton.
How can you grow your R&D team when you’re no longer in business because your tax bill is more money than you have? It makes zero sense.
This is good as far as it goes--I think better information can help consumers at the margins. But it's hard to imagine this will do much to actual induce competition in markets where there are only a few (or one) players and most consumers are sticky.
Google engineers scrambling to find out how to use their knowledge of if a string is a concatenation of two dictionary words, or other useless LeetCode puzzles, to mitigate their services going down.

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35545817
I met my wife and the mother of my children on the Amtrak “coast starlight express” - the late train that runs between LA and SF. We were seated together for dinner in the dining car and the rest is history. We would be first in line for this! Fantastic idea - I hope the economics make sense!
Upvoted for “hypocrisy disclaimer”
Shouldn't be too hard to add the clients since, in terms of the animation, they're just flipped versions of the server. The question is if this resonance is going to require some intentionality to it to demonstrate/replicate.
No I can assure you that it’s just not possible to go faster with the infrastructure and freight rail priorities we have in the US
"unveil" and "fresh" are such strange words in this headline about a bunch of people being fired, as if it was a new product launch.
Google did reduce staffing levels, there was a layoff in January. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with was let go as part of it.
As someone who's taken a couple semesters of college-level accounting, and filed my corporate taxes correctly many years without audit (but am not an accountant/CPA), this seems broadly correct.

I'm actually surprised people are freaking out about this. Of course software is R&D. And of course you don't just get to expense it all at once. It's long-lived, like you said.

Maybe we could have some tax breaks like our friends over in real estate, but I very much think the base assumption should be that software dev is capitalized.
It's interesting that no one sees this as it is: Killing the golden goose so that the IRS can get some meat.

This change, theoretically, doesn't "add" to your tax bill. You'll be paying the same amount of taxes. However, as in the example outlined in the first comment, you'll continually have a credit with the IRS due to the amortization. The questions are:

1. Is this credit recoverable?

2. Why is the IRS doing this anyway? Just for a quick cash/tax boost?

Because that's what failed states look like. The USSR is looking good in proportions...
(which teaches you the concept pretty quick.)
The odds of either origin or destination being near the LA train stop are roughly 0% and maybe 1% on the SF side.

This is just as inconvenient for the vast majority of residents who make the LA/SF travel as going to the airport.
More than 155,000 Canadian federal public servants to go on strike
It's very customizable because with enough gumption you can hook into Explorer directly and make it appear and behave however you want.

And that's just the shell.

What, where and how Windows can do something for you depends entirely on what you install and how you configure everything. Windows is a blank canvas.
My heart aches reading this headline.
This type of zoning (Euclidian; zoned by purpose) was very new and only tested in SCOTUS in 1926, suspiciously 18 years after the Model T was introduced. I don’t know if the US pioneered it but it doesn’t seem to have taken hold in Europe til recently too.

I’d suspect very old (pre-car) and historically-preserved parts of Chicago, like Boston, DC, and New York, have a much less Euclidian setup.
As a Hammer Films lover, Christoher Lee will always be my number one.
Non-road transit infrastructure in the US is quite bad and notoriously expensive to build. I very much enjoyed using the train system in Spain when I visited. Wish we had something like that here.
What's mastadon?
The biggest problem with Watson was that it wasn't ever really a specific software. It was just kind of IBM's branding for machine learning consulting services.
> See c(3). Any software development is unambiguously R&D.

"For purposes of this section" to me means you don't have to justify software development as R&E if you define that software development work as R&E.

Being pedantic, but it's R&E not R&D.
FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and CMMC are entirely based on NIST Standards. If you want to do business with the federal, state or local government you will need to comply with these regulations (Soon, these programs are being rolled out)

Edit: Granted, OP obviously has no idea what they're talking about. They are very forward thinking methods for ensuring a zero trust network, communications and data exchange. They include very explicit controls and requirements for maintaining data security.
Not just Hulu. Comcast wholly owns NBC Universal. That’s a massive IP monolith.
A few weeks ago my house sprang a massive leak in the roof during a rainstorm, just as I was preparing for a week-long business trip. I got so stressed, the next morning I forgot the passcode I'd been typing into my iPhone for the last five years. Three days of carefully writing down my attempts didn't work—I hit the ten-mistake limit and the phone auto-wiped.
Yields pretty funny results with my usual test https://aus.social/@s_mcleod/110223104698463219
Yeah, it's a little disappointing that they are being obtuse with some of the stats on the label. Data caps, overage fees and bandwidth throttling should definitely be highly visible.
I don't know, 32k per year is pretty steep... I mean ~35k, that's the ballpark number for the entire system (if bought new).
>a teenager

Not to detract from her courage, just to clarify: She was 23, posing as a teenager behind enemy lines. TFA says she was 20 when she joined the WAAF in '41 and started that mission May '44.
Although I agree that you must test optimized code for correctness, I think it should be approached very cautiously, as tests can become checkpoints that constrain optimization.

I had a memorable experience of that, actually - for a long time we had a Trello card titled “faster to operate on the bits instead”, and the team looked at that card fondly during development. After we started getting traction, it was finally time to optimize! We conscientiously wrote tests to ensure correctness, and then began an incredibly enjoyable informal hackathon. We blazed through every step, replacing the logic piece by piece with bit operations. This step was 2x faster, that step was 5x faster, and so on. A few steps were slower, which was a bit weird, but we were having so much fun shouting out our gains to each other across the room, racing to improve. By the afternoon we had optimized each step and gotten an order of magnitude improvement.

“Great stuff, team.”

“I thought it would have been faster.”

“Yeah, same.”

We did some evening profiling and noticed a lot of time being spent in a dozen or so functions with names like “toRepr”, “reconstitute”, stuff like that. Actually it was like most of the time - what!? And then we saw, at each step we converted to raw bits, performed the equivalent logic with fast bit operations, then converted back to the representation for handoff to the next step. Wait, why we are converting to and from bits like thirty times each run? That can’t be right. Realization strikes - right before most handoffs there was a commented-out line that ran out tests on the representation to ensure it was still correct.

Someone pointed out we wrote that test before we had done any investigation of performance (I remember it almost word for word actually, “When we wrote the test, all we knew was it would be faster in bits, but not how. And the test doesn’t even look at bits!”). So we ripped out all the conversions and stayed in bits from step to step. Without changing the bit logic it was now almost three orders of magnitude performance gain, basically running in milliseconds instead of seconds. Two OOM that we had earned, but left on the table!

Tests introduced arbitrary checkpoints and imposed irrelevant constraints on the problem, without us noticing until afterwards. We caught the problem pretty easily that time, but I do wonder how many other times we (or others) didn’t because it wasn’t as obvious. The service that accepted the output maybe should have been accepting raw bits instead of the representation. The service that gave us the input definitely should have been staying in the bits.

So, do test your optimizations for correctness, but be really careful. Tests can easily and subtly constrain your optimization space in major and arbitrary ways!
Well, that's what I did.
Lol. That was done to placate the slave owners.

Just like modern reactionary politics isn’t good for people or popular, the biggest fear of slave owners was that free whites would figure out that slaves gutted the value of their labors.

It doesn’t take a “genius” to figure out that having state legislatures select federal legislators is foolish. Anyone suggesting that the US Senate as constituted for the last century is a populist institution may require institutional help of another kind.
No.

After 5 years the first years salaries are considered to be a "finished" R&D project, which means there's nothing left to amortize.

The only thing like that is that if, after a few years, you fire all your devs (or at least, all devs working on adding new features and building new products), then you can keep amortizing the last 4 years of salaries for your now-fired workers over the next few years, which reduces your tax base. But I mean, by that point, who cares? Any software business that has fired all its devs is over.
>Be aware that in the case of Bitlocker specifically Microsoft "conveniently" saves your encryption key on their "cloud", so you don't really need the TPM to decrypt stuff, which of course goes completely against the purpose of storing the key there in the first place.

What MS stores in the cloud is not the encryption key but a recovery key. Obviously a recovery key can also be used to perform the decryption, but it has the benefit that it's generated by the system to be of high entropy, as opposed to a human-chosen password.

If you're against FDE recovery keys I assume you're also against 2FA recovery codes.
No it was not. The question was directed at the commenter about assessing skill, never made any statement disparaging said skill.

Also you seem to be unaware of the relationship of this commenter - you may want to examine their Twitter from before this story was submitted here. Or go on and prove yourself a prat, I won’t stop you.
There is an all electric Lincoln?
>But what this does is says that if the product you created is an asset, the salaries that go into creating that asset should be treated as if it were purchasing that asset.

This is precisely what happens!!
Ah! Not to worry, those who do remember history are doomed to watch others repeat it, so I think it's a bit of a wash in the end.
They don't know.
Not sure why you're dismissing the problems here by referring to fictional movie elements?

Note the "secretly record" element in [https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/more_voting_m...]

Bruce Schneier is not a crank, he's written extensively over the years on the issues and the one I'm pointing out is just one specific one of many. As a software developer yourself, you might be capable of taking these issues seriously.
For overnight sleeper trains, it's a feature to be longer than 8 hours, not a bug. The point is to get a full night's sleep, not half a night's sleep.

This is 1 hour to settle in, 8 hours of sleep, and 1 hour to change, refresh, have coffee and breakfast.

And it goes without saying this is not a high-speed train. It's using existing rail infrastructure so it's pointless to compare with what you can do in Spain, I don't know why you're even bringing that up. It certainly does sound like you're trying to bash here.
honestly I'd rather be in a hotel room all day with my romantic partner.

you can probably guess why.

the sleeper-train novelty kind of appeals to me for that reason.

as for selling it to business people? I don't get that at all.
Which part of howey do you think Coinbase earn(not staking, but the product offered by Coinbase themselves) doesn't satisfy and is therefore not a security?

I made it explicit between staking (you staking your own money) and doing it through Coinbase.
That train is about as stable as a washing machine. Can't imagine getting off after 6hrs without latent vertigo.
Some of us think a browser acts as a User Agent. It's supposed to be on our side, not the side of the website.

(Under your analogy maybe the store is putting a beacon in my pocket.)
The user expresses their frustration with the critics by sarcastically asking what it would take to impress them. They believe that the new technology offers significant benefits and that the complaints seem unjustified.