skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked?

Yes, absolutely. I hate that my car sits all night, unused. then it sits in a work parking lot all day, again unused. I hate that 90% of the time, my car is just a waste of space, costing me money while depreciating right in front of my eyes, and that is if it don't have some sort of expensive problem that needs to be fixed.
Flexible is right, but with the weird caveat that the company which manufactures the hardware (and the nation in which it's headquartered) generally gets a veto when it comes to any one of its customers sending any given item to Ukraine, if they want it. That's about the contracts and terms military hardware is sold under, and the need for ongoing maintenance contracts. It's why Germany, after gifting Ukraine with some anti-aircraft equipment, couldn't send surplus Oerlikon ammo to Ukraine. Switzerland, where the ammo was manufactured, would not allow it.

(not because it was a Russia-provoking "escalation" but because they're a neutral country with something in their law prohibiting sending arms into conflict zones... which also has an export-oriented arms industry for some reason)
Yeah, it’s not (entirely) the students’ faults that this slipped through peer review. I don’t envy the whiplash they’re going to experience over the next few weeks.

If I was the graduate chair of their department I might schedule a meeting with their supervisor to sort out how this happened.
By making it hard to obtain weapons.
The US thinking to me seams to go along the lines of handing out nuclear weapons to everybody so forces are balanced...
Canada's press is already largely government-funded. The US has the NY Times, the Washington Post, and many other news sites that have learned to adapt to the digital age. The main issue with the US is that it just had way too many local papers because classified ads used to print money pre-internet. The US now resembles more the UK, which had long ago moved to primarily national papers.
I imagine that itronitron's point is that the issue of parking as presented in the article is a typically American feature. Many other countries deal with it differently.
Their skin is various variations of white. A Tajik or a Chechen are still white-ish coloured (which is why differentiating by skin colour is one of the stupidest ways to differentiate people)
C++ Faker library based on Faker.js
Hello, I started a new C++ Faker open-source library similar to Faker.js for generating testing data.

https://github.com/cieslarmichal/faker-cxx

The reason I am creating a C++ Faker library is that I don't see a proper faker library in C++. My goal is to provide a library like that for C++ developers.

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>[regarding personal information e.g., demographics, political beliefs] ...the mere fact that a user visits websites or apps that may reveal such information does not in any way mean that the user manifestly makes public his or her data

Part of the underlying reasoning, given in the court decision that prompted this ban[1]. I think this gets at the core of what makes such data collection & utilization in targeted advertisements so problematic.

Also of interest from the same, regarding processing of any data in general without explicit consent:

>only on condition that the data processing is objectively indispensable such that the main subject matter of the contract cannot be achieved...

Where subject matter means the purpose for which the user is using the site. And then this:

>the personalised advertising by which the online social network Facebook finances its
activity, cannot justify [data processing] ...in the absence of the data subject’s consent

Basically, "But that's how we keep the lights on" is not sufficient to justify using this data without consent. I can't easily think of a product or service that could not function, as a matter of practicality, unless it used my data without my consent. If a product or service cannot function without such data, it seems like that would be pretty clear by the nature of the product? Are there counter examples to this where the exception might apply?

[1] https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/te...
Yes, though it's the terpenes I'm worried about. They are phenomenal solvents and I could see them destabilizing a custard.
Adversarial learning. Machines are inherently better at it than humans, which is one more reason to worry about AI.
We were considering using https://www.linen.dev/ for our own slack group for this reason - it surfaces information from these chat groups and makes it available via search. Anyone here tried them out?
A major military aspect comes from a general logistics perspective. Eisenhower took part in a 1919 cross country motor convoy- it took 62 days to cross the United States, with many difficulties. That experience is regularly cited as a major influence on his desire to establish the interstate highways.

It’s not that they were built for the military, but the advantages to the military were also obvious.

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/...
It's even blatantly worse in the Spanish Wikipedia
I've used healthchecks.io for years (and Laravel eco system has some heartbeat checks built into their system), I'm curious how Peeng differs?
In fact, I would go further and say we would actually be worse off without personalized advertising. Personalized ads help connect innovative products with the people who would benefit from them. Without a way to reach these niche audiences, these products might not be able to exist, and the community would be worse off.
Honestly good for them. I’m sure they will learn a lot.
Don't build with shitty materials. There are ways to sound proof apartments to the degree that it's a non issue. Adding a facility in the vicinity for parties solves the issue of neighbours wanting to blast loud music (unless they are really obnoxious neighbours but in that case building management can take care of that).
I promise that you'll never once deal with the stress of knowing that someone has raided your tomb.
> I'd ask you to consider that this might be a sign of the exact opposite, and that we can't get broad buy-in on the things that some groups see as obvious additions.

Polls show that we do have broad buy-in on a number of issues, sometimes across partisan lines, but the way the system is designed, a small minority can block almost any action. Also, the leaders of both major political parties often act against the desires of their own "supporters", by which I mean voting supporters rather than their financial supporters.

> For citizens, this is so demonstrably false that I feel like I must be misinterpreting you here.

Here's what I said: "The founders weren't omniscient, benevolent gods. They were just wealthy landowners looking out for their own interests — it's crucial to note that they ignored over half the population of the colonies, i.e., women and black people". How exactly are you interpreting that?
The "traditional" way (many years ago) was to open the distributor (no tools needed, they had spring clips) and take the rotor with you.
Reminds me of this classic: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Arch...
It could get a few extra sorties out of the airplanes before they are all shot down or out of action due to technical difficulties. For a small country with limited external support that could be worth the relatively small cost.

Also, the "almost certainly already lost" situation is exactly what small countries are facing if Russia attacks them. Their main air bases are going to be attacked. Regular relocation of equipment may be the only way to survive more than a few hours.
I was just promoted from staff pun engineer to CPO (chief pun officer) at my company!
DISCLAIMER: You work for Wix.
What do you mean by standard tests? PCR? Antigen? Antibody?
> but for $33 a week I can get to most major neighborhoods in 30 minutes

Ahh yes, only the most important, noteworthy neighborhoods that most likely aren’t transit deserts, right?
Always loved Thinkpad as a student, until it became Lenovo
> This would be nice to retrofit onto my old Honda, which has an easily exploited flaw in its rolling code system.

There are aftermarket immobilizers systems as well, that also use cryptographically bound keys.

> Modern cars also have new vulnerabilities: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

If car manufacturers can fuck up implementing today's immobilizer systems, what makes you think they won't fuck up implementing the rube goldberg contraption? Why do we have to switch to it just to get a non-broken cryptographic implementation?
So you're asserting that marketing companies know people better than they know themselves? If that's true, that's incredibly damning of marketing companies and is a great argument for why they should have access to less individualized data about people.
Are those scare quotes or irony that isn't clear? Why link a CNBC article from 2020?

Here's a paper from last year: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321237/

Yes, it's Omicron, but 32.4% asymptomatic infection is not very rare.

Asymptomatic carriers are 75% as infectious as symptomatic individuals: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Yes, there are border tensions, I'm well aware. Stupid things like car registration numbers. But thankfully, it's nowhere near actual mass murders of civilians, so I don't see any reason for NATO getting involved.
The F35 is also meant to be very flexible, so that we can slap new toys into it as the world turns. It's supposed to run it's own little "fleet" of networked drones and MALDs and similar so that it can grab all the intel of everything about the enemy and send that info back to a bunch of A-10s and/or B52s carrying long range munitions to actually fire.
I dont think the Odyssey is a pale reflection of the Iliad in terms of mythological weight.

On the contrary, most of its stories relate to extremely tales and folklores - ie Polyphemus.

Have fun : https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-trace-...
The coverage is strange as the reason Death Valley is so hot is due to its particular geography. With Telescope Peak at 11,000 feet on one side of the valley and a steep drop to Badwater below sea level the hot air is unable to escape/disperse and is instead repeatedly heated like an oven. Panamint Springs in the neighboring Panamint Valley is not nearly as hot.
>I'd like a Linux laptop that would beat this.

Por que no los dos?

Asahi is running on M2 now: https://asahilinux.org/2022/07/july-2022-release/
The best locks offer is that you have to plan a break-in in advance; i.e., you have to have your lockpicking tools with you. That said, you can pick master locks with a paperclip; I've done it. So it's not much of a barrier.

That said, just because people have low-security locks on their house doesn't mean that better options aren't available. I have Medeco locks. They are harder to pick than what you get at the hardware store. So far, no break-ins from lockpickers! Also, I'll sell you a rock that keeps tigers away.
The Dysfunctional State of Tech
With the attack on the USS Liberty, we know that alignment of interests is not always true.
A high-quality wifi card and software is more valuable to me than ethernet ports, which are so bulky that I don't especially care if they come built in. The Framework approach here is ideal.
Mastodon Content Mover: Migrate posts to other instances
In this day and age, we might as well use a simpler, binary measurement for temperature.

It could toggle between "brr, I miss wildfires" and "so this is what it feels like to touch the sun". Who needs the in-between numbers anymore?
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the idea is to add a safety control for preventing harassment to a hugely popular communication medium, not to promote a company.

> It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me.

they're probably ok with that. can't please em all.
there are synchronized and non-synchronized tasks.

if its something where we need to synchronize with other team members, then schedule it ahead of time, or else let me know asap / hit my cell / etc.

One of the givens of remote work is that you have "synchronous hours" where the expectation is that you're within 5-15 min of your computer, and that you put status messages if you're away / out.

e.g. "OUT LUNCH" at 12:41pm means I can reasonably guess where you are (lunch) and roughly when you're going to be back (1-130ish).

non-synchronized or non-time-sensitive tasks can be done whenever so long as deadlines are met
This is all fine while the management is fine. As soon as the company or people change, it goes to shit.

The next thing you know you've been trying to get the broken communal door/gate/sewer/extractor fan/lights/electric/gas/whatever fixed for months if not years and no one at the management company is even returning calls, and you sure as hell can't fix it yourself since you are not legally allowed to do it (and you can guarantee that if you were to do something yourself the dormant management company would suddenly spring to life and sue you to hell and back). Then next summer they hike the management and maintenance prices 500% and there is fuck all you can do apart from suck it up because now you can't sell because no one wants to pay the high fee, and you can't not pay it as you'll be taken to court for non-payment of contract within days (and P.S. their contract says they can hike the prices as they please because wow look at that cool yard for dogs! I totally forgot to read the entire contract.whatevs.)

TL;Dr it is great while it is all working fine. IME after a few years once the initial glean and glow has worn off and things start to naturally wear out and break, it will go to shit. It will start small with broken lawn furniture that doesn't get replaced, then before you know it the roof is leaking and there is nothing you can do apart from hope the people you pay to look after the place but are not responding to emails or calls actually do something.

But hey good luck with your place anyway.
Same here. And I'm still living my life as I want - I go out to concerts, theaters, and restaurants, I just mask up when the situation allows. I haven't felt sick since 2020 and it's awesome. Used to catch a cold once a quarter.
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I'm so torn on my ebike. On one hand, all the good points are true; it's a blast, it opens the city up to you, and its a great way to get around.

All that said, mine has been doing nothing but gathering dust in the basement. Aside from 'pleasure cruise' there is no valid use case for the damned thing, at least in my city. Locking it, especially securing every valuable component on it, is unfeasible and would add ~20 lbs to my pack weight just to lock it. All efforts at creating bike storage lockers have failed, as it became common knowledge that the fragile sheet metal is effectively a lootbox for the taking.

My roadbike on the other hand, cost $100, can be maintained with a small pouch of tools, enjoys effectively infinite range, and is unassuming enough to remain undisturbed at a lock post.

It's a shame, because I'm a big believer in electric micro-mobility vehicles, but the security and usage issues means that the Bird scooters blighting our sidewalks are about the most workable solution we have at the moment.
Windows for ARM64 runs just fine, and has its own x86 emulation layer.

There are scenarios where you genuinely need Intel hardware (running x86-64 binary drivers, I guess), but it's a pretty small subset.
There are still a few 17" laptops in production, like the razer blade, but I was referring to the 2011 17 inch macbook pro[0]. It was called the "lunch tray" by people who thought it was too big.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqfc9NBYfr0
Hosting your own Mastodon server
Wherever you registered them might have a marketplace... GoDaddy and Namecheap definitely have one. Sedo.com and Flippa.com are also other ones to list your domains. I'm sure you can still find some good domains out there... especially with AI domains.
It does affect the timeline of paying out victims.
Like a voice saying "error 47"? A good question. If I had to guess I'd say probably either localization concerns or that it was just a continuation of a pattern that began well before BIOSs were large enough to store audio.
https://archive.is/YAY6l
It’s much easier to heat something than to cool it. You can build a fire without any technology at all, but you can’t do anything about unsurvivable heat without a working power grid.
You may suffer no harm, but there are plenty of real stories of others who have.

I maintain that it doesn't matter. Harm isn't necessary to reasonably object to being spied on. Just wanting to not be under surveillance is more than sufficient.
What's wrong with enterprise Linux
And then a coworker/boss is at your desk with you and needs to show you how to do something and cannot for the life of them grok wtf your personalized bs is, requiring them to go get their own absurdly personalized mess to show you, and still you both have problems because the workload they showed you tonsave an hour a day would require you to pull out massive chunks of your personalized bs in order to add in a huge chunk of their personalized bs.

And that doesn't even get into what happens on shared machines (servers etc) where your entire workflow either doesn't work or entirely prevents others from being able to get anything done on the machine.

Really.... we all recognize the value of standardization when it comes to our code but yall fight tooth and nail about standardization in other aspects of the profession.... and then wonder why everything is a buggy unintelligible mess at 99% of workplaces and projects...
I understand your dislike of the default workflow for Firefox profiles. Fortunately you can launch them from the CLI, so I usually creat an alias to my alt profiles then launch the browser from the shell.
I don't understand how people can use a browser without Container Tabs. This is a killer feature of Firefox and so many people don't even know about it.
Certainly anecdotally you hear of people who tested for multiple days after they think they may have been exposed and only get a positive result after five days or something like that.
Get bent. This was the first translation I read of the Odyssey, it took some work to read, and I loved it. This is how translations ought to be, in my view - as close to a transliteration as possible without being grammatically incomprehensible. If I need to consult a dictionary or reference material to supplement my understanding, that's just fine.

The modern style of translations-as-rewrites that aim to meet readers in their comfort zones are terrible, the literary equivalent of shitty dub tracks on foreign video media.
Or destroying the pistons. I did this once. It was a long walk as in many kilometers from where we broke down to Mannheim train station so we could get home. Normally you could hitchhike but it was late at night and for some reason the locals didn't want to pick up a couple of scruffy looking American GIs.
The clean shaven part isn't true any more. There's a reason first responders are no longer required to be clean cut.

>It's time to stop promoting these as a "solution" to a non-existant problem.

What do you mean by non existent problem?
I believe those agencies that create the "so called cheap websites" will utilize such AI based tools to create better websites, faster, and more cost effective for their customers.

Given a talk like -

Agency: What is your budget?

Client: 500$

Agency (yesterday): I can only do so much

Agency (today): I can offer you more for the same budget
Thanks @jedberg. I’ll add a few examples to the front page.
Seeing how we are reading, not reciting, these texts, I prefer to sacrifice meter for brevity and clarity. Have you any particular recommendations? I can read Greek and do speak a bit of the modern language (just from Duolingo) if that would be a consideration.
That's not correct, because if you agree that one kind of result tends to happen more than the other, then it is easier that the single game that you are currently playing belongs to the larger group. When you play once, it is like if you were randomly choosing a game of all the possible ones that you could play, in which case you are more likely to choose one of those that are more numerous.

It's the same reasoning that you would apply in other aspects of life. Imagine you have to travel to some town and there are only two possible roads: A and B. The stats tell that on road A there tend to occur 100 fatal accidents per year, while on road B only one accident has been registered in the last 10 years.

The causes of that disparity may be multiple, like, for example, that road A has many curves with precipices while B does not. But you don't even need to know those causes; the starts themselves tell you that as result it is easier to get a falal accident on road A than on road B. But, of course, it always exists the possibility that you survive in any of them, and also that you have an accident in any of them.

So, if you were to travel through one of them just once and had to choose, I don't think you would say that those stats don't matter only because you will travel once. You would prefer to take the safer road B.

In Monty Hall game, deciding to stay would be like taking road A, and deciding to switch would be like taking road B.

Moreover, if the game consisted in that instead of revealing a goat, the host gave you the opportunity to reject your first choice and instead check inside the other two doors and take which you prefer from them, it is obvious that it would be better to switch to the other two (unless you think 2 is not greater than 1), and that's true regardless of if you are playing just once or multiple times. Anyway, by checking those two doors you would necessarily find at least an incorrect one, as there is only one prize in total.

If you notice, as the host knows the locations of the contents and always removes a losing door from those that you did not pick, then it is like if he was doing that work for you of checking inside those other two doors, eliminating from them the incorrect one that you would have found anyway, and leaving closed exactly which you would have picked if you were who had checked inside those two doors.

So, if you agree that it would be better to switch to the other two doors, you must also agree that it is better to switch to the other single one that the host is offering, as both ways win in exactly the same cases.
I suppose I should have thought of that—I'm wearing Japanese raw denim jeans right now—but I forgot all about fashion, so good point bringing that up. I don't know if there's much "you have to be in Tokyo" for, given the exportable quality of clothing, but it's a fair point on cultural output.
Yes, it does make sense that the DoD is more concerned about their own soldiers' lives than whether or not the Iraqi military has their vehicles stolen from them. These vehicles were already given away, adding some stupid biometric system would increase both the price of the vehicles and the number of lives lost due to failures. Throwing technology at problems is not always a solution. The vehicles typically have better security than a lock anyway, they're occupied or guarded by soldiers with guns.

You might be familiar with locks on vehicles due to your own experiences, but deterrence to unoccupied theft is a requirement that is somewhat unique to civilian passenger vehicles. It is completely normal for many other types of vehicles to have very minimal or zero theft mitigations due to operating in different conditions with different requirements. For example, multi-million dollar jets have no anti-theft systems at all.