skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it does say the certain stores, like St. Louis, have given up due to Apple's antagonism, it also says: "Union efforts are slowly gaining ground at Apple stores across the country."

Precedent like this can help future efforts in other places, at the very least. And in general, little back and forth events like this is maybe the best we can hope for in this world where actual worker leadership/autonomism is farther away than Mars.

But yeah, at the same time, you can't help thinking still that Apple could probably just do whatever it wants indefinitely, and easily absorb these slaps on the wrist when they come about.
Last I looked, there was no real difference. I don't know if there would be any politics preventing it, but I would not be too surprised if they merged at some point.
ISPs say US should force Big Tech firms to pay for broadband construction
In the general case that is more or less accurate. There are however a bunch of exceptions in the extreme case.

Rescue services do have a point where they will decide not to continue. During the Tham Luang cave rescue (the thai football boys that got stuck in a cave) there was a period where the rescue services decided that continuing was just too dangerous. It was only because of a handful private cave divers was crazy enough to try a exceptional dangerous idea that those children got out there alive, and had it failed then those cave divers would have basically received all the blame.

The case do illustrate how far into the extreme we have to go. The local rescue services gave up and gave the job to nation service. The national service gave up and gave it to the military (with international support). The military gave up, and then through almost a backdoor, a few individuals tried a Hail Mary attempt which against all odds worked well enough to get everyone home.

There are activities where people has to accept that rescue is limited or zero. If you go hiking in no man land then there is a real risk of rescue service not being able to locate you. People who attempt sailing around the world has the risk of being "lost to sea". Cave explorers both dry and wet has to accept that rescue attempts are done based on what is feasible. Same goes for wreck divers.

We could argue that those risky activities should be illegal (or shamed), but the counter argument is that a lot of activities are just inherently risky. Sports generate a huge amount of injuries. Motorcycles are viewed by health professionals as organ donor generators. Extreme sports are extreme, but they tend to also follow more rigorous training and certification in order to address those risk.
then get cause it to get shutdown on the next cycle
The answer by user 'Blue' on the same thread seems more practical to me. Their answer[1] uses notation that doesn't translate to this messageboard.

Perhaps a reordering of their method, using the existing caret notation:

b^p = r :: the result from base b with exponent p

^pr = b :: the base giving result r from exponent p

br^ = p :: the exponent yielding r with base b

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1158802
I found out about carbon prints, still have it as a bucket list item to make one, though they are quite labor intensive.
Probably. Red Hat acquiring and then maintaining a failing CentOS was one of those solved a problem at a couple times things that just didn't make a lot of sense in the long run (and was almost certainly a mistake).
In plenty of places the legal part of the marriage is entirely separate from the religious part and being married in a religious ceremony with 'proper form' wouldn't have any legal standing anyway. In the eyes of the law in those countries fake priests and real priests are equal.
It is a good stick tho
No, we know for a fact it is impossible.

The problem isn’t the volume of blood, it’s that blood drawn from finger capillaries is not a representative sample for diagnostic purposes. There are plenty of tests that are even more sensitive, but they require a proper sample drawn directly from a vein or artery.
this seems so weird to me since the majority of the planet isn’t doing anything to save these people.
What a weird way to spend federal money. I say it's weird because NASA almost certainly has its own internal Linux support paid through overhead in one form or another, and again the incremental cost of adding "developer" support from Red hat is way, way cheaper than Rocky.

Finally, I doubt Rocky's support can perform as well as Red Hat's. No, I'm not talking about the people who talk on the phone when you break something. If you find a bug in a package, will Rocky be able to quickly and effectively upstream the fix, or will Rocky end up maintaining you on a custom patchlevel forever?

I doubt Rocky has the ability to truly fulfill 24/7 support. It's difficult to build a deep bench for support, and nearly impossible to make sure you're keeping up 24/7 capability for other Maintenance Engineering type tasks.

And if none of these reasons are important enough to stop you from paying them, maybe the thing you're doing isn't important enough to warrant paying for support anyway.
Look at the problem statement. “Omnipotent”, “omniscient”… things that parents are not.

Parents are just humans and are just at the mercy of the world. Unlike God. God made the rules and could have created a completely different world which doesn’t have the limitations that this one has. Meanwhile parents have to work with what they were given.
The $140,000 constitutes back-wages and damages. I agree it is still too low.
This sort of work isn't going "i dunno, emit some new instructions based on a model and hope it is correct." ML techniques fall into one of two categories:

1. Decisions that have no semantic change in the program but affect performance. This is things like code layout or register allocation that will be more cache friendly. This is what I expect to show up in industrial optimizing compilers more and more over the next bunch of years.

2. Decisions where you can prove that the new code sequence is semantically identical to the original code sequence via some formal technique. This is basically the same as various superoptimization techniques but with a new search strategy and therefore no new concerns about correctness. I'd expect this to remain niche and only used offline to generate particularly optimized sequences in extremely hot and small code paths.
The book and this article are by the same authors
What are the arguments to leave it out?

Of course in special cases where you do explicit error handling you can disable it. But for the big mass of commands where nobody checks whether it worked.
Personal Toolbox to Conquer Developer Workflow
They are effective indeed, esp. as political donations go - who would've thought the carpenters union donates more to political initiatives than Oracle?

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizat...
Ask HN: Looking for Google Analytics alternative after v4
I am kind of confused what GA4 is offering. All I want to see:

- Real time visitors
- Keywords bringing people on my site
- Basic Reporting for # of Views monthly/yearly basis.

Is there any free alternative?
Honestly I suspect rocky support to be faster than red hat.
Under which law is this illegal? I'm only aware of legislation that forces websites to ask for consent for storing cookies.
> Everyone involved knew what they were getting into.

I'm sure everyone involved was expert on industrial design and were clued into what exact costs were cut /s
That's an excellent philosophy and I wish more managers/business had it.
> when you’re driving more than 6 hours in a day, which is not uncommon for Americans

Most Americans do less than 5000 miles per year. You totter to the shops and back over distances that people in other countries would just walk.

You can spot American tourists in Scotland, because they can't cope with everything being 200 miles apart when they drive at a maximum of 15mph.
Did anyone use the car sharing feature that have/had? I always wanted to use it but never did.
"Just because we sell people internet connectivity, does not mean they should be allowed to use it without paying again."
It’s stagnated as google is pushing people to maps. No surprise there.
In his inimitable way, Cage would say "yesss!" to the script, in a heartbeat, no doubt.
This shit is so hard to control. The only way to control it is adblockers like uBlock and/or DNS-wide solutions like PiHole
Oxidizing OCaml: Rust-Style Ownership
I assume if it happens again they won't be so lenient.
A Guide for Using CentOS Project Code
More than one thing can be true at a time. GP's explanation is one of the reasons. IMHO it's not the primary reason, but it is a legit entry in the "pro" column
You’re doing the ignorant a favor for no real gain. Bitcoin adoption will continue. Bitcoin’s progress remains unstoppable. No amount of downvotes can stop it. And the next giant leap in buying power will just make the anger and denial stronger here - a classic case of cognitive dissonance.
I wouldn't say the process of unsubscribing from Prime is 'deceptive' but it sure has many steps. They tried just about everything to persuade me to stay except offer to bring back two day shipping.

(I know many of you in urban areas are getting one day shipping but those of us in less favored geographies, such as the same ZIP code as AMZN warehouses, have seen two day shipping turn into five, which makes Amazon uncompetitive with going to the store or with other e-tailers which usually offer faster shipping.)
Excuse me, that what tax?
> Vi and Emacs are horrible ugly things that were rendered obsolete by the Apple Lisa in 1982

Disagree. In the vi/TECO model and emacs to a slightly lesser extent, you operate on text, using text, with an input device that has a 1:1 mapping to units of text. In the Lisa model, you operate on pictures of text.
> The TA [...] asked during the lecture where he was, if he could say something about his grandfather, it turns out he played [hooky] from the class to work on something else, embarrassing!

If the "working on something else" means "working on some hard research problem", this is not embarrassing, but stylish. :-)
You'd need to carry 4km of cable with you
Programmers don't have negative social cachet anymore.

I imagine telling people "I build software to help young children learn" will get a nearly universal positive reaction.
The title seems like absolute clickbait, implying the $30 controller is at fault. Yes, I have read the article and this is not the case. It wouldn't even make sense anyway. But the title together with a mid two digit dollar number heavily try to imply this. The US military uses $49 XBox controllers for basically everything: Training CPGs, drone control hubs and drum roll submarines among a lot of other things. The only gist to take from this is that controllers make fantastic interfaces. Not sure why we need to spotlight this with a potential drama/disaster in relation to it's price.
I don't think weight is a huge issue for submarines (unlike say airplanes), so taking a few batteries along should be fine.

(I don't know anything about subs) you could even store a few batteries in the ballast.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent in Ireland
Generally no, based on past experience with RH support, they're not just dicking around on the internet to find the answer. Most of the folks I know at RH support have been there 5+ years, and are life-long users and community participants in the project they're supporting.
Yes, so this is the meaning of the word I'm rejecting. NN models do not acquire emergent properties.

Human reasoning (, game play, etc.) is emergent in the sense that it is irreducible to its parts. "Generalisation in high-parameter training regiemes" is fully reducible. It is not emergence in any relevant sense of the term.
Sorry, I expressed that poorly.

I was trying to refer to something more general than a primary key, but primary keys are probably the best example. But the same kind of optimization can be used on any value which is essentially immutable.

Consider the following schema:

company: (company_id, company_name)
user: (user_id, user_name)
company_users: (company_id, user_id)
transactions: (transaction_id, user_id, company_id, amount, date)

The presence of company_id in the transactions table is a denormalization, since the source of truth in that case is actually the `company_users` table. But assuming the ids in the system are immutable, this optimization doesn't suffer from any of the issues raised in the OP article. It makes for simpler code that executes faster. It doesn't "deprive us of the correct answer to the problem."
The shocking thing isn't how this case is treated, it's how other cases with similar or lesser harms are.

It's the social construction of crime thing. Stealing $140k is egregious. But because it's an employer stealing from their employees it's being treated as more of an administrative error than a great crime.

Where like, we know that people are in prison on decades long sentences for thefts orders of magnitude smaller, or simple drug possession, or spitting on a cop.
Nice to see that the app I use, Finch, is rated fairly well.

I'm going to assume sharing an invite code would go badly, but if you want mine so you get a mini pet in the app, please email me at the address in my profile. The benefit I get is not monetary: if I get a few signups I get a mini pet myself.

Finch is one of the few self help apps that really seems to help me. I was slipping further into deep depression but Finch has helped me to have a few good days, and I've showered and changed my clothes every day for 2 weeks. I recommend it!
That's not far from the CRUD of a database, or POST/GET/PUT/DELETE of HTTP. It's also not far from what you'd expect at the transport layer of an RPC / IPC mechanism.

The metadata around files - ownership, permissions, creation time - apply to a lot more than files.

I don't really see it being laughed out of the room.
And shell users already have a language they know & should be able to use to compose computing: the shell.

Different programs introducing their own specific programmatic layers defeats the holistic small pieces, loosely coupled premise.
I'm sure they never imagined this video being paired with an incident like this but wow, their joyful and excited reactions (with no context of the lead up to this experiment) feels really morbid/sick. I realize they were trying to prove a myth and it worked, but still found it unsettling.
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
can you say why degoogled chromium matters for tracking, or link to a writeup?
Sounds like they were lenient the first AND second time. But this time they really mean it. Assuming anyone will put their head in the noose and try to unionise a third time...
I can't imagine what Pitts would have thought of the rise of chaos theory in physical systems, aka 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' which was largely discovered with the aid of computers, although Poincare sort of foresaw it

He must have been aware of it - control theory involves feedback loops, and numerical robustness is what it's all about. Anti-aircraft rocketry was developed at that point, and Wiener was a central figure, he even called the field "cybernetics".
Recently, I discovered that SwiftKey keyboard (I assume) was leaking tracking data from Incognito on Android. I would open an Incognito tab in Chrome, the keyboard would show up in "anonymous" mode, but products I searched for still turned into ads in Facebook/Instagram and AdSense in a couple of minutes.

I assume it was SwiftKey since it was the only piece of software that had access to those keywords besides Chrome itself (which I assume is not the leaker since it never leaked data from Incognito on desktop and because it also happened in Firefox Private Browsing). The "Am I Unique" fingerprint for an Incognito vs a regular tab is also different, so I assume it's not a matter of fingerprinting with server-side tracking.

We are being tracked by the least suspicious pieces of software nowadays, it's becoming more and more difficult to know where the actual tracking came from as we add more and more layers of complexity into our computers. It's scary to think about.
Yeah I’m not sure I agree with that statement either…
Now do the US dollar!
Just one nitpick: in fact,
> an atheist or a pagan could baptize someone
but they need to (a) know the right words, (b) do the right thing (i.e., immerse/pour/sprinkle the baptized with/in water) and (c) have the intention to do what the Church does when baptizing (I might get the wording wrong, but you get the (rough) idea).
How RLHF Works
> I could think of sophisticated methods, but maybe the simple answer is that refusing cookies doesn't actually do anything?

This is a great opportunity to conduct a double blind experiment! Set up three Chrome profiles: your current one, one that's totally fresh, and one that's connecting from a different IP over a Socks proxy. Write a script to randomly start Chrome with one of these profiles; every hour quit the browser, restart it with a random profile, and record the ads you see. Do they all get the same distribution of ads? Do they start out different, but eventually converge?
I had never heard of this before[1] (as a sheltered obtuse American) - this seems like exactly the sort of thing that the US separation of church and state was established for. It looks like the church can opt you into their fold using deceptive dark practices - if this were the US, it would be like if registering with ancestry.com opted you into mandatory Mormon tithes[2].

[1] https://allaboutberlin.com/glossary/Kirchensteuer
[2] https://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/genealogy.html
Please don't. It's a nightmare from an accessibility point of view
> in the wake of RedHat changing CentOS model changing from stable to bleeding-edge

CentOS is now bleeding edge? Would you describe Debian Stable as bleeding edge also? On your contiunuum, where would you place Arch and Fedora?
Yes, absolutely. The supersaturated brine produced as a byproduct decimates local ocean life when it's pumped back into the ocean. It's already a problem while desalination is rare. Imagine how bad it will be at "human-scale".

And you can't just divert the brine onto land. Where ever you put it will be salted earth - completely unlivable. And it will probably pollute ground waters.
3% of what? GDP Dollars or Employees' wages? It's certainly not 3% of the food production since Califonria produces 1/3 of the entire nations vegetables and 3/4 of the nations fruit and nuts. And yet therein lies the problem... To many Fruit and Nuts in California.

The best thing for this country would be if California axed their agricultural industry because it would both force and encourage Ag development elsewhere. It would simultaneously be the worst thing for Californians and the cost of food production. But why am I arguing with you? It ultimately, brings my food production closer to home and you and your neighbors bear the cost of higher food prices.
I did not really understand this point.

>The first reason is linked to one of the drawbacks of platinum photography. Although the resulting images are far superior, platinum does not react as quickly to light as silver. This means that you can only make an image using the contact printing technique

Wouldn't that just mean you have to wait longer?
This is already done. Essentially making a medicine goes like this:

1) is it functional? Yes -> step 2

2) is it cytotoxic? (kills everything, for example by dissolving cell membranes) No -> goto step 3

3) is it neurotoxic? (prevents neurons from working) No -> goto step 4

4 to 199) is it ...toxic?

200) proceed to in vitro testing

Someone made a paper ... what happens if you just reverse steps 2 through 199? Start with any old protein, and keep changing it to display as many different kinds of toxicity as possible.

Answer: This just works. Works very well, since we know computational tests for a whole lot of toxicities, and at least a few of them are differentiable.

So you can just assume essentially every country has already done this and tested it.

Fortunately this is not such a huge issue. The challenge is not making poisons, the challenge is spreading them effectively (without ...). Some of these proteins would at least need contact between a large drop of the protein and your skin. Most would need to be injected to kill you. So ...

And we know plenty of non-protein molecules, much easier and faster to make, available in industrial quantities without much checking, that are about as bad as the worst of these proteins.

Also: there are radioactive substances sold on Amazon that'll kill you slowly and painfully just being near you.

https://unicri.it/sites/default/files/2021-12/21_dual_use.pd...
Beatles, not Beetles. It's a dumb pun on "beat".
last I knew, Debian requires config setup, not optional, not guided. There is no "defaults that work" for a network server. Is this still true in 2023 ?
Those are Baptists and other low church Protestants, who don’t have the rite of confession.
Google puts things on the chopping block due to small userbase or not enough user growth. A very large user base product but which has stagnated should be fine as long as users don't start leavign
2 of his ridding positions got banned... Doesn't seem right to me
Clear tradeoff for safety.
Just a slight correction, the o-ring not being tested in freezing conditions wasn't an oversight that destroyed the challenger; the engineers knew that the o-ring hadn't been tested at that unusually low temperature and even suspected it could fail at those temperatures.

Management at Morton Thiokol and NASA disregarded those concerns because they had already scrubbed the launch several times.

Bureaucracy is forged from the furnace of past adversities.
It can only rotate relative to an arbitrary point, not in some objective absolute sense. Here it does not rotate relative to chosen point.
For Java, JOOQ is great and offers better type safety than this. Additionally, JOOQ generates data model classes from the DB schema.
What really gets me is not jokes or stereotypes, it is the blatant double standard.

I have been discussing this trend with some “friends” and they made it abundantly clear that they do not care about white people’s feelings. It’s not about whether or not a specific joke is offensive - because really, stuff like these “white people food” trends are ultimately pretty harmless - but there is this overall sense that white culture deserves to be criticized and other cultures are untouchable. Stereotypes about other cultures are racist and ignorant, but jokes stereotyping white people are funny and actively encouraged. Almost all of these people are white Democrats (in case that matters).

I am absolutely convinced that one day one of these “jokes” will really offend me and the response from my “friends” will be to double down. This has been bothering me so much I am seriously considering whether I want to be associated with these people anymore.
The list is about privacy and security. If you don’t think your prayers are private or need security, then don’t worry about the list I guess.
For Windows, if you run Docker Desktop using WSL2 integration, it is near native perf.
Almost all of my interaction with DPReview was when I wanted to buy a camera and got a Panasonic micro-4/3 based on their reviews I guess 13 years ago. It was good times but there's no chance of me buying a camera again ever I suspect.

I somehow feel like making good history just that isn't necessarily a bad outcome given there is always a reasonable chance the site will be butchered by new leadership. Camera pros must have a discord channel or something by now and not need a newly managed site?