skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a dramatic lie, even for clickbait. He was not locked out of his smart home - his Amazon smart devices were disabled. Still something perfectly valid to write a story about. There really needs to be some kind of stronger mechanism for punishing this level of clickbait.
I'm guessing they are thinking of a scenario where SELECT * FROM User_Details gets sent directly to the front end.

So even if all you are displaying is the users name or initials you would still be sending things like SSN and credit card number to the front end
You'll own nothing, and you'll be *****
Have you been to the library lately?
> Typewriters used monospaced fonts to allocate the same amount of horizontal spacing to every character.

> Word and many other similar apps make fonts proportional, so two spaces is no longer necessary.

I'll have to check if nvi displays font
proportionally or not. If the "i" takes the same
space as "m," I'll have to put in double spaces
between sentences.

Yes, four spaces after commas is too much.
I don't think we've progressed that much. If you dig into what "masculinity" means today, it's still an extremely narrow lane. We accept a much wider range if you identify as queer, but if you identify as straight, "masculine" still basically means a silent Marlboro man.
We all know how to read a graph. In fact, I noticed that the deaths graph cuts off earlier in this article than all of the other time-year charts which is indicative of cherrypicking. Looking at their source data [0], looks like deaths are now ~2x those at 2001 levels (~1 death per million).

[0]: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/edr/trends-develop...
At this point he just gives New Zealand a bad name. With all the propaganda he pushes. So he’s cost every NZ citizen paying taxes in NZ and made the country look bad with his public peddling of propaganda for Putin and the CCP.
“Alexa, open the pod bay doors”
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that”
That's putting the cart before the horse. FSF's goal with GPL was to make all software free. Removing or sealing off projects is antithetical to that. That's what I'm getting at.

I should have been more clear, my point wasn't really on the semantics (and inexactitude) of "stealing." I can agree with your usage in this context.
It doesn't matter if it's an evolution or a revolution - a change of any sort means new tooling to produce the components, new procedures to assemble them, new analysis to certify that they will all work together, and new training for everyone involved to do all the above.
Well first a broken clock is always right twice a day... but also the example you give are SPECIFIC, not just general doom and gloom.

The unabomber was being scared of technology in general
> Rust has a reputation for having a steep on-ramp

I like how the author has avoided the common misunderstanding of the word "learning curve" by choosing a different word.
I disagree with many of these: I've enough experience writing, reading, and maintaining Rust code to know that some of these sound good in theory, but are harmful in practice.
The public can not learn to read scientific papers, no matter how much they would want to. You have to be on par with the person who wrote the study, in their field, to really be able to judge it.

The chain should be, take for example nutrition, something like: study - skeptic science community - trials - health administration - policy - personal doctors - public, with constant feedback between the links. You still have leaky abstractions at every level but the positions are (or should be) equipped to handle it.

Study -> news -> public, or study -> public is an impossible chain. That's how you get all the fad diets, covid home-made remedies and so on.
I read this as childish frustration directed at people that are not "as smart" as the author.

Regardless of what he's trying to say, there are much much better ways to present these topics.
Have you ever thought about creating your own YouTube channel, but you’re an introverted person or simply don’t want to show your face? Have you thought of several content ideas if you had your YouTube channel, but always feared exposing yourself?
I'm waiting for people to realize watching sports are a negative externality.

>Environmental damage(transportation)

>Addiction

>Opportunity cost

>Celeb worship

and only partially related:

>Sports betting(and addiction to betting)

Its a hard pill to take, I habitually watch my university's football team. It is depressing since they lose and their expectations are high. Even the year they won, I can't help to think how many hours I wasted on useless feeder teams and previous seasons. There is a community aspect, but this is overblown because nearly every hobby has a community.

Nothing wrong with playing sports, but there is a reason for the phrase 'bread and circuses'.
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I don’t know much about the ETL industry. Are these ETL jobs for all sort of data? Accounting data? Log data? Getting the data from point A to point B? You mentioned UI. Is the UI so the customer can now move the data around or to visualize the data.?
But.. that’s not what happened. I was getting something I didn’t paid for .. that’s what I find dysfunctional. Because that means there’s a lot of extra effort in the country on getting unpaid services paid. My personal experience just adds the cherry on top that I was also not using it. So it was wasted effort on the provider and society in general.
I'm really happy you were able to exert control over your life and kick that habit. Stay strong man.
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You can use helical screw piles in places with a frost line. As long as the blades are below the frost line.
Russia’s Big Economic Problem: Not Enough Workers
I think there may be a difference between the support you get in countries with an Apple presence and in countries without it. In Denmark where I live we have 3rd party support, and it’s very, very, terrible from my anecdotal experience. Even for things that are entirely digital.

I’m pretty sure it’s better than Google’s automated no-support, but it’s certainly nothing to praise.
You think he can quit cold turkey?
From the same link...

> The Emsland test facility was the only Transrapid track in Germany.[citation needed] It has been deactivated, and is scheduled to be disassembled.
C# support in VSCode is fine at the moment; I sometimes use it for quick scratch-code experiments. The OmniSharp-powered extension which provides basic support is under constant development, so things may have improved since you last used it. Microsoft have also added a closed-source extension recently which provides Visual Studio-like extra features on top, like Solution Explorer, better Test integration etc.; that's free for individuals and small teams but you need a Visual Studio Subscription if you want to use it in large teams or if you're making >$1M per annum:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
The marketplace will shake this out. If remote heavy companies do better than in-office companies in terms of hiring and retention that will be obvious in a few years. Older workers, those with professional partners, those with kids or geographic preferences or family ties are less interested in offices. We’ll see what happens.

Ironically, workers like I described are not too
interesting to some tech firms. Is this a cost or just a sour grapes argument?
In the case of drug possession, it can, though, if the amounts are sufficient to indicate towards dealing or production of drugs.
Well, I mean, I think you are absolutely wrong. So... Who's right?

(Hint: not you)
This has been possible in Austria since the late 90s.

https://checkyourdrugs.at
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As a heuristic, you should treat obvious errors in the body of a technical text as a red flag, but don't be so harsh on mismatched examples or diagrams. That stuff is notoriously easy to mess up and doesn't tell you anything useful about the amount of thought or revision that went into the writing of the piece.

A more constructive thing to do than blaring the "FAIL" klaxon at the first such mistake is to just let the author know.
Removing the GIL should be seen as a last option.
there's also an interpreter for RASP as described in the paper :) https://github.com/tech-srl/RASP

And Sasha's blog (your link) has a nice walkthrough of long addition with RASP!
I think the connection is that US cities were growing rapidly at that time, but built without modern safety practices.
Lawyers and courts do, however, so what you consider really doesn't matter.
Society should discuss if recommendation algorithms and targeted advertisement must be regulated. It is known that people have more probability of sharing content that shocks them more. It lights a cycle where recommendation algorithms will give users ever increasing extremism inducing videos. This makes people more radical and makes them consume more of the same drug-like content.

Result: polarized society and a few content creators making a good amount of money generating extremist content and google and advertisers making billions regardless of how much they threat democracy elsewhere. Yes, people are making lots of money with lies and half-truths. It is well known and I think that some liars know they are lying but don't care because they are making money.

My girlfriend's father ate so much of these absurd things that nobody sane can talk to him anymore. Last year, after elections, he insisted that Lula was dead and that someone was impersonating him. At the new years eve, instead of spending time with his family, he was watching one of these youtube channels expecting to see a coup in brazil. He is still saying to everyone that our money in banks will be seized by the government.

Summarizing: recommendation algorithms and targeted advertisement are destroying families and people.
There is no way that a normal person can gain 1.4kg of body mass in a day unless they are on some sort of eating challenge. Even then I doubt that they would metabolise even half of the food unless they built up to it.

That's a 10,000+ calorie surplus, you'd have to eat 1.5kg of straight mayonnaise and digest it all.

Sure, you can get the scale to shift by that much, I can do that in a few minutes by drinking 1.4L of water.

If you want to learn about actual realistic bodyweight tuning, look into the bodybuilding community, or any sport that has weight classes. Much more accurate information than using indirect measures of what people sort of felt like they sort of wanted to eat.
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally
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I just don’t believe he read that to their face and didn’t get punched. No way this happened.
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play was pretty good, wasn't it?
Why doesn't he have a key to his house?

Notwithstanding the larger issues about getting locked out of accounts, if his power/internet were out, wouldn't he be just as screwed? Don't ceed control of your home to technology you don't control, but also make sure there's a low tech backdoor in case you need one because you need to live there even if the fancy stuff goes off.
On the scale of drug hardness, alcohol is near the top. I don't see why any other drug should have stricter laws.

Alcohol is addictive, physical dependence forming and can be overdosed with no medical use. Are these not attributes of Schedule 1 drugs?
It's surely cheaper to rewire and refit, than to knock the whole thing down to the foundations and start again.
Working at google was an interesting experience on this. Everyone there cared greatly about the topic, executives were willing to staff huge teams who worked solely on minimizing technical aspects of friction (both company-wide and for specific areas), and individuals and teams were given a massive amount of leeway to work as they thought was best.

And yet, the dev experience was absolutely unbearable. Submitting one small (already approved!) change could literally take days of intermittent work to do, and the lack of structure meant that reviews were organized completely ad-hoc. Coordinating with teammates was just “if you need to coordinate, go talk to them” plus a weekly status meeting because agile/scrum/detailed ticketing was an “unnecessary distraction”.

All of this is on top of the insane number of internal tools to learn and re-learn as they got deprecated, merged, and updated (which is a good thing, but still a time sink).

This essay is very good, and clarified my thinking on the topic to a few possibilities, where multiple are probably somewhat true at once:

1. Google-scale work is just inherently really, really hard.

2. Sometimes removing all the organizational processes in the name of developer freedom makes things worse.

3. The promotion structure might lead to overly-complicated or dubiously-useful technical processes.

4. I might just be bad, either at programming or whatever it takes to be effective at a big company.
Just looking at the stats for the US, significantly more people have opioid use disorder than have ever reported using MDMA in their entire lives and using MDMA once in your entire life is a pretty generous definition of a drug 'user'.

> Do you go to clubs? Parties? Raves? Backs of offices? etc?

Do you live in Europe? Your description of drug use seems decidedly European to me.. America doesn't have the same MDMA use culture as in Western Europe outside of some raves, more of an opioid & amphetamine use.

But I live in San Francisco so I have plenty of experience dealing with populations of habitual drug users. There are millions of Americans that are addicted to opioids and even more addicted to stimulants (illegal & legal, if you have withdrawal it is a dependence).
The Telegraph seems to get quite a bit of revenue from their gambling content.

An example is https://www.telegraph.co.uk/betting/casino-guides/blackjack/

It's just odd to have this on a trusted national newspaper. Feels very out of place.
EXTREMELY misleading headline.

Man was not, as so many of us would read, "locked out of his house", which pretty much anyone would interpret as the man did not have physical access to his house.

No, nothing at all like that happened. What actually happened was, his Amazon devices *in* his house didn't work. Which is also not great but not on the level of being forced to live in your car for a week.

There is no way the editors at the Independent didn't do this intentionally in order to generate clicks.
The paper from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332033

Showed that attention with positional encodings and arbitrary precision rational activation functions is Turing complete.

Using a finite precision, nonrational activation function and/or without positional encodings is not Turning complete.

Plus Turing completeness does not tell you anything about practical computation in reasonable time or space constraints.

printf() format strings are TC, and while interesting, probably won't help you solve real problems.
As Ties to China Turn Toxic, Even Chinese Companies Are Breaking Them
Very German to make up completely arbitrary rules like this rather than just legalizing it outright.
>Do NOT give control of your home or domicile to tech giants. Even if you work for them.

Especially if you work for them. And even more so if you are not a member of a trade union that will (help) protect you from your employer.
Ruby is really good at concurrency now with non-blocking fibers. https://github.com/socketry/async makes it really easy to use.
This dude literally spent days doing their work. Rebooted Linux nearly 300k to find their fuckup. Then they have the infantile reaction to complain about clicking a link?
That is true for a lot of western countries but we are expect to produce and consume more concrete until 2050 then we did so far in history in developing countries.
I'm all for the legalization of cannabis/gambling/alcohol/prostitution/etc. but I do believe that advertising for these industries are a net negative for society. We're all used to alcohol advertising by now but it's objectively just as bad as the rest.
You'd hit up GoDaddy for hosting and FTP your webpage files to it. And it'd work just as well as other website.
I guess I agree with you on the "providing a service means they can profit from the transaction".
Yeah I was wrong by using the word "Justify". I meant more like: is it something that will last? In other markets, like music and movies/shows, the (what I see as similar) "pay per track" business model didn't resist compared to the subscription business model.
Do u really think the price would stay stable while the CEO sells of his whole stake?
I get it, and I sympathize with bosses wanting reports to be in the general vicinity of them during working hours.

But as housing and other costs increase quickly and continually push workers further and further out, it's really not fair for bosses to expect that their workers are going to want to commute longer and longer distances for no additional pay, and zero personal benefit.

Personally, I think the hybrid approach is the best - there needs to be times when teams are together physically, and times when teams and individual contributors (in any domain, not just tech or engineering) when people should be trusted to work - and that should be wherever a given employee is able to do their best work. If that's in the office, great. If that's at a coffee shop, great. If that's at home, great. Let everyone do their best work when, where and how they are able to.
> Amazon has no right to disable an account or services unilaterally like that with little recourse from the user.

Yeah, that's literally the entire point of federated identity. If you give an identity provider the rights to your identity, they have the ability to grant or revoke privileges at will.

If you don't like that, do your part in promoting self sovereign identity standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity
Most concrete products can be recycled.

But, due to the very low cost of cement and other related products, it is rarely economical to transport end of life concrete far to be reused.

However, if there are effective taxes on disposing of concrete (as there are throughout the EU+UK), then concrete does tend to get reused.
Data and product to engineer ratio at 50 tech scaleups
The degree of inconvenience to him is just a minor indicental detail that depends on how much smart stuff he happened to install. Maybe its not everything today but there anyone who doesn’t think that will increase in the future? This is a timely wake up call not to trust anything internet connected.
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Huh? Why else would they do the test in the first place?
Yeah, 100%. It's why I'll never use a Uber type service for my day to day transport needs, and will make sure any cars I get* don't require accounts, internet access, etc to function.

It only takes one mistake, one corporate screwup or one misunderstanding/vindicative asshole and hey, your means of getting to work at a reasonable time is gone. That's too much of a risk to take.

* I don't currently use a car, but that's simply because the town I'm in is very walkable.
My favorite was browsing a 1902 Ladies’ Home Journal and finding a lament about how commercial Christmas had become, and essentially, how much better things were back in the good old days.

It’s amazing how evergreen that general sentiment seems to be.
> I imagine its too hard to have an optional flag at the start of each program that can let the user decide?

Adding nogil would mean deep changes to the interpreter. I imagine maintaining both versions would be almost like forking the project.
Yeah, I read this post as a dig at "cargo cult" programmers who read up on google-scale programming and best practice and unthinkingly apply those constructs to their own Bob's-Restaurant-scale task at hand where they are often at best an unneeded time and complexity overhead.
These articles go on a bit. There is a good summary of the science evidence for a lab leak from on twitter from Richard H. Ebright (Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers):

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1567569810745356289

that was from Sept 22. Since then we've had

>They said the Wuhan scientists had inserted furin cleavage sites into viruses in 2019 in exactly the way proposed in Daszak’s failed funding application to Darpa.

in the recent Times article https://archive.is/zRoAn

and the names of the researchers, Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu, in this article.

It's all looking quite likely that this is the source, though further information will probably come out.
Yes, but it should be in the article if everything else is.
And if you're really concerned about speed, Python is not the language to choose.
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. My original point was that in Germany they are mandated to keep the lights on until I explicitly cancel the service regardless of wether I pay on time or not. I didn’t complain about them charging me for something I didn’t use.. I just find it ridiculous that they had to keep providing me the service even tho I didn’t paid. I thibk from a provider perspective it’s shitty to keep on the lights while not getting paid. And I find it laughable that’s how service providers work in Germany .. it’s difficult for both providers and clients alike to cancel a contract in Germany.. And that’s even if the client doesn’t pay… and I think that makes everything worse for everyone.
What's the reasoning behind that approach? If the drug is considered dangerous, why is it less dangerous when I grow it myself rather than have a professional do it?
The title is misleading. He was locked out of using the smart devices there, not literally locked out as in unable to open the front door.
Yeah it's probably qw only. It's pretty easy to get it running these days with the recent clients. You can just download a qw client (ezquake recommended [0]) and extract the executable to your quake folder.

Alternatively you can download nQuake [1], a full pack with most things included except for the non-shareware maps. You can then just place the pak1.pak file inside the id1 folder and make it complete.

Good luck ;)

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[1] https://nquake.com/