skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an op-ed by the bill's sponsor.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/03/24/hb-...

It's a meandering argument to me as it makes a big deal about cops not knowing the intent of someone within 8 feet of the officer. If that's an issue I suppose anyone within 8 feet could possibly be a threat, but some magic 8 foot bubble would seem to be unrealistic to maintain anyway.

I will say that as a rando individual (not a cop) I get how I wouldn't want to be recorded as videos can be skewed and so on. But as far as police goes that's something that is just part of life and they should also be making their own recordings to counter some of that.

Side note: We've had several cases of various claims against cops in my area that were very quickly cleared up after there was a video captured by the cops. Without the video it would have been just he said he said type situation, but video cleared the cops (or at least showed the situation was far more complex) fairly quickly. There have been several "this is just like george floyd" situations where the rhetoric and outrage vanished fairly quickly after the video was released. They should be embracing that technology.
Industrial apps are often served from a private network with no access to the internet - I understand if you don't want to target that sector, but it is a real use case.
The draft has even more info on the security measures in its rationale section (Begründung / 4. Erfüllungsaufwand)[0] including an estimated cost for the private growing. It's €20. Any padlocked container or closet will do; there's no ambiguity here. Even better, read §36. Violating the required measures is not a criminal offence, it's a misdemeanour (Ordnungswidrigkeit).

[0] which by the way is commonly used be judges when they deliberate the verdict: https://www.verwaltung-innovativ.de/DE/Gesetzgebung/Projekt_...
One thing I don't understand is why housing prices are not falling. When you are a landlord and the home doesn't rent, my first instinct would be to lower the price until people start showing up, yet this doesn't appear to be happening. Even the opposite, landlords would rather kick someone out that can't afford a hike in rent prices than to keep prices at the same level. To me it seems better to have a lower income occupied property than a high income but non-occupied property (effectively making the income 0, and with upkeep cost making it a net expense). Maybe there's some kind of mechanism I don't see because I'm not a landlord myself. How do landlords get the money to bridge the periods their properties are vacant?
The KINGrinder KX is a cheaper alternative to the 1Zpresso line.

But yeah, definitely don't discount manual grinders. But note grinding for espresso with a handgrinder is... an exercise. lol.
74% of apps with PII are vulnerable to a ‘major exploit’, report
How does one control that? Fundamentally, technology is knowledge combined with tools.

You can’t control the knowledge, so the only thing left is control access to the tools.

How do you do that, on a global scale? There is precedent, but it’s not easy.

With nukes we’ve been fortunate that the tools are so expensive and difficult to obtain and create that only nation states can consider them. That could change if we find a cheap way to refine uranium or produce plutonium.

With biology it’s harder to control because the tools have numerous research and peaceful uses.
In Hacking Contest would be a nice addition to this title...
Compressive maintenance rather than percussive.
> You want me to trust ratings more, let me order them by date.

Interesting idea.

Having been involved with multiple third party sellers on Amazon, my extension of your thought is to have the ability to display a graph of all five rating levels over time.

This makes rating manipulation visible at both ends of the scale.

I know of people who, for example, sent out free samples of their product to a thousand people or more with a suggestion to post a four or five star review (after which they would get more goodies for free).

I also know of sellers who were attacked by either bots or a mob (in one case a competitor hired a team outside the US) who post hundreds of 1-star ratings and negative reviews.

If you could see a ratings graph over time, you should see step changes. This would be an indication of rating manipulation, both on the positive and negative side.

Many years ago I helped the seller who was the target of the fraudulent 1-star scheme prove to Amazon they were being attacked. The attack also consisted of said mob clicking on this seller's ads very early in the morning to exhaust the daily budget. So, bad reviews and your ads don't show-up when people are shopping. They got destroyed within a couple of months.

Graphing a bunch of this activity clearly showed rate-of-change discrepancies. It took about six months for Amazon to finally admit this happened. They had to refund over $100K in advertising that had been consumed through fraudulent clicks. Amazon would no reveal who did this (they claimed they knew, yet refused to provide the information to enable legal action). Sadly, they did not remove any of the fraudulent ratings and reviews.

Every single one of this seller's products absolutely tanked in search, going from pages 1 ~ 3 to 15+. Faced with the reality of the "mafia" behind the scenes when selling on Amazon, they felt they had no choice but to kill the business and focus on areas where open criminal manipulation and attacks were not tacitly allowed and ignored by the very ecommerce platform your business depends on. I know a bunch of people who got really hurt by Amazon through similar circumstances. To a person, most of them were people --not big business-- trying to make a go of selling product online to support their families and aim for a better life. Instead Amazon created an ecosystem that turned into a nightmare and caused most of them to lose money. Some even took out second mortgages on their homes to finance their entrepreneurial venture. Very sad.
The ‘World’s Happiest Man’ Shares His Three Rules for Life
Wasn't there a firmware bug in some drives that made them fail after a certain number of seconds of uptime? Was a workaround/fix published?
The PCBs are of the exact same model. My fear is a DRM type scheme connected to serial numbers etc. stored on the platters having to match those of the controller.
I made https://extensionpay.com to monetize my own browser extensions and between that and free distribution on the extension stores it’s really easy to try making extensions that make money. So far devs have made over $300k with ExtensionPay. That said, it still take some skill to find a niche that works.
The product is almost done, still figuring out the licensing part and starting with marketing/getting some customers in.

It's https://wplytic.com - WordPress Analytics Plugin (data is stored directly in the WP database).
Another common thought for how the not-seeing-in-mirrors thing came about is that silver was seen as something that harmed or warded off evil, hence its use against werewolf and such in many myths. Way-back-when, the reflective backing of mirrors, at least those owned by the rich or well-to-do, was often achieved with a thin coat of silver. Of course that doesn't explain other evil creatures having a reflection in the same mirrors, but as the various mythologies have different mixed sources we can't expect an awful lot of consistency.
Thousands of Systems Turned into Proxy Exit Nodes via Malware
Liberté, égalité, fraternité but for real
This jumps from anecdata to cherry-picked stats to really speculative predictions. Some of them may be right, and there can be a real problem, but this is not well argued or thought through.

One could take several of these wild predictions and flip them the other way. The author says military strength will decay due to poor quality recruits. You could also imagine that a job that comes with housing, food, health care and eventually access to higher education would be more desirable, and the military could have its pick of better recruits. The author says we'll put in place a wealth tax ... but in an era where savings already lose their value from the higher inflation also predicted, one might expect that putting a wealth tax into effect would be politically more difficult than in a lower inflation environment (ie savers are already being taxed). Etc etc.
Eh, it's an art style. And I'm not an artist. I want to be an artist, but practicing is seemingly too hard for my ADHD. :(
When you press the BT button in control center it shows a message saying "Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow"
They solve this problem for more than a decade now, that’s why I never cared about it at all. I press whichever I want and my IDE does something that will match my intent. Someone else’s IDE will do the same even if it is spaceTABspace.

We are not parsing sequential ASCII, we are doing visual programming, although on the very low end of the spectrum.
> strips of a Silicon Valley Bank credit card under the SSD to support the PCB.

Good to know it's still useful.
Population of 20000
Great, another excuse for people not to read the article.

We've got enough problems with people reading a headline and running with it. I hate to think of google summarizing some scientific study - particularly some "pop" scientific study - and have everyone confidently reciting it as though it's been conclusively proven without making any effort to look at the source.
I've been working on a domain-specific language for UI designers, called Matry.

The language is:

- platform agnostic
- component oriented
- designed to feel intuitive to non-technical users

I've been at the drawing board for a long time, stuck in syntax design. So I don't have a working prototype. But I do have a landing page and some documentation:

https://matry.design/

https://github.com/matry/documentation

My philosophy is this: over the last decade or so, the design world has been attempting to get closer to developers and collaborate more closely. While there's a lot of excitement and energy from the design side to solve this problem, I don't see as much enthusiasm from the dev side. So what I'm trying to do is carve out a space in the software development toolchain specifically for designers - an approach I'm calling "design inclusion".

The real question is how to do this. Most attempts from the design side fall under two categories - making design tooling more programmatic (aka Figma), and introducing no-code or low-code tools. I think both of these fall short in various ways; it wouldn't be practical to list those reasons here. If this gap is going to be bridged, I think the solution has to come from engineers. We have to define an interface for design contribution, and over the years that I've spent thinking about this problem, I've come to the conclusion that a formal language is by far the most versatile and efficient way to create that bridge.
Here’s the full article:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser...
> Would be similar to how many places aren't outright banning ICE cars, just banning the sale of new ones at some point in the future. Allowing for a comparatively smooth transition.

This comparison doesn't make much sense. We're highlighting a dangerous failure in capability here, not a desire to change out the engine. Either engine works perfectly fine, it's secondary properties that we care about with transition. It's a primary responsibility of an autonomous vehicle to be able to identify and react to obstacles.

We either need the enhanced cones or we don't, but only a fraction of cones being enhanced means they aren't actually that useful or that the situations without them are inherently more dangerous. Are we OK with a situation where autonomous vehicles identify the enhanced cones 90% of the time but the non-enhanced 50%? No, we want both to be very high.
A lot of the telemetry can be disabled with tools like O&O ShutUp. It's not perfect and it'd be nice to have a built-in option, but at least it's something. I think you can also bypass the Microsoft account requirement by installing without internet access.
If we're going off anecdotes, we've also seen an explosion in popularity of the 2-3 hour podcast and season long Netflix binges.

Doesn't this generation have an absurdly long attention span compared to the generation of the 30 minute TV show with three 2-3 minute commercial breaks?
They seem to be basing the behavior on the Tor Browser which is described here:

https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduct...

The Mullvad Browser download page has this to say:

"Strong anti-fingerprinting from the Tor Project

The Tor Project has a proven track record of building a privacy-focused browser. The Mullvad Browser has the same fingerprinting protection as the Tor Browser – it just connects to the internet with (or without) a VPN instead of the Tor Network."
Yeah, opens up the "You're being arrested for resisting arrest" loophole cops love to abuse.

"I arrested you because you were recording me and didn't stop when I approached you to arrest you for recording me too close."
Good question, and yes! I'll get a text message as soon as they ask to sign up and I'll have them in the alpha by the end of the day. Anyone who is already in the alpha can invite unlimited teammates.

It's probably ready for public beta ...
Is that an issue people are seeing regularly? This story does not indicate it is.
Maybe we're talking at cross purposes; what I mean is that PCA+KNN or other tricks mean that for high dim and large amounts of data you can get useful results; with the enlarged view of KNN as "anything where the last step is KNN" your statement that it's "astoundingly bad" is wrong. But for the narrow view of just KNN then sure cod applies.
> However I would have to say that `dnf` (the new `yum`) is waaay better than apt. For a start it is much much faster to install things. I don't know why apt is so slow.

I (and everyone else I know of) have the opposite experience, which pretty much matches the numbers here: <https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-linux-package...>. DNF seems to be 0.1% faster than YUM, but it’s still not competitive with other package managers.
We now have a decade worth of large platforms removing wrong-think content and then claiming it was all a big mistake.

Why is the Washington Post never "mistakenly" deplatformed?

Perhaps some day scientists will resolve this mystery.
No matter how many, or how qualified the professionals, inflation can't really be measured. The goods change over time, and it's very subjective as to whether those changes justify price increases.
Wow also had a similar idea! How are you getting the google review aggregate if you don't mind me asking? Even simply plotting Michelin restaurants seems like such a good idea in retrospect. I wanted to do something similar with famous food bloggers, maybe you can consider adding that to your list. Something like all of Mark Wein's recs on a map, with a link back to the original youtube video. Automatically adding data from different sources is the hard part I couldn't get over, especially since some of the videos don't have a location in the text.
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely need to get over hating the sound of my own voice and record a demo video.
It's been a while since I looked into using LTSC.

Are the two options basically pirate it or pay huge sums of money?
Me too, had to watch the video to fully understand how to use the tool. At first I tried to find the copy button to copy the effect (assuming it was like CSS, or something like that), but nonetheless a pleasant surprise when I discovered the real usage (I like to write songs and poems, so this is gold for me).
How would that work in a public school setting? Seems like there are too many kids and not enough teachers/time to implement this across all subjects.

If you are right, and oral exams become the best way to evaluate student learning, then I could see smaller private schools becoming more popular as a correlation.
I wanted to make sure you're aware of https://github.com/typst/typst -- Typst is a great clean formatting language that's worthy of taking on TeX!

Typst might be powerful enough that Burro's "explicit layout" desire could be implemented as a library in it.
Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC “Genoa” Instances Deliver Leading Performance
As Philip points out, Sabine Hossenfelder’s quick summary on LK-99 2 weeks ago punched large holes into this whole thing in less than 5 minutes. I wish media outlets presented skeptic viewpoints instead of just hype.. but that doesn’t sell.

LK99 - A new room temperature superconductor?
https://youtu.be/RjzL9cS3VW8
CGP Grey did a great YouTube video on this several years ago, and why airlines won't use it: https://youtu.be/oAHbLRjF0vo

Note that this is from a boarding, not deplaning viewpoint, but the concepts are similar.
Fair enough! Regarding your points I have to disagree:

1) Since the library is meant to be used in a web app, how would the app be accessed without internet access? Also there is an Enterprise license which has completely offline operation, but this has been requested mainly for compliance and IT policy reasons.

2) Knowing what some of my competitors charge I disagree. I encourage you to send an email to the address listed on the page, and I will gladly send you the Enterprise factsheet. But yeah, maybe it's not for you and that's fine!
It would be interesting to know the DC project author/company name.
Let the War of the Eighth Coalition begin!
> You can't eat a 60" tv or a car though.

That's not the point. (As I said, the 60" TV stat is equally useless for evaluating inflation.) Cherry-picking a single product like "Campbell's tomato soup" is not a valid methodology for measuring inflation. Not because it's edible or inedible, but because it's too small of a sample size. You can tell any story you like about inflation and the economy by carefully hand-picking a single item.

If the price of an egg doubles, but the price of butter halves, what do we conclude about inflation? Nothing; we need more information.
It's not me; It's the law. What you've just described has resulted in the past in two life sentences with no possibility of parole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Haile_Kifer_and_N...
In all of my flights I've seen that people allow the row in front of them to deplane first. It's just courtesy I've seen. Is this similar to "fill and flush"?
That was an interesting rabbit hole. Pretty hard to deny that connection, given their background.

It does somewhat ruin the puzzle though, and still doesn't actually solve it.
>Hydrogen has its uses (e.g. steel plants). Transportation is not one of them.

Small caveat, hydrogen is still pretty useful for upper stage rocket propulsion because of its low mass and high specific impulse.
I usually hate these kinds of articles, but this is full of wisdom and i enjoyed it immensely. (full disclosure: the publisher i work for, the MIT Press, is publishing Ricard's memoir later this year).

The headline doesn't do it justice, and is quickly explained by Ricard at the start of the discussion:

"You know, once I was on the India Today Conclave. They said, 'Can you give us the three secrets of happiness?' I said: 'First, there’s no secret. Second, there’s not just three points. Third, it takes a whole life, but it is the most worthy thing you can do.' I’m happy to feel I am on the right track. I cannot imagine feeling hate or wanting someone to suffer."

There are too many good quotes to choose from, but this one stuck with me: "Delusion is a cause of suffering. If you could get rid of that, that will alleviate suffering in many forms."
Airlines would bastardize this by doing it by class then column, as you can't have steerage riff raff get off before double platinum diamond medallion clearly superior than you first class.

In that model, would it faster or slower for someone in the middle of end of the plane?
They start by talking about growing costs of living
People are not machines. Machines are not people.

But I'll take your bait:

I grew up close to a city, (Worcester MA,) with plenty of weirdo streets like San Francisco, and had plenty of teenage friends who lived in the city or travelled through it.

Needless to say, we didn't get behind the wheel for the first time in Worcester. We stayed in calmer streets until we were ready. When we drove in Worcester with learner's permits, we had adult supervision. Afterwards, we were only allowed to drive without adult supervision once we passed the driver's test. (I should also point out that, at the time, Worcester had a very serious problem with unlicensed drivers.)

Clearly, Cruise's vehicles aren't ready to drive in San Francisco without adult supervision.

But let's get back to the thesis: It is highly inappropriate to equate a machine with a human. Machines have no rights whatsoever. The "We've all got to learn sometime" attitude doesn't apply to this discussion, because an autonomous car is not a human.

What instead applies to this argument is conventional engineering and business development: Where is it appropriate to run Cruise's early marketing experiments, where bugs (and other unanticipated behavior) is expected? What are the appropriate limitations to put on vehicles when they have no driver? For example, what if the first use of the vehicles was a private resort (like Disney World) where the nature of a malfunctioning vehicle is easier to absorb because there are very few passenger vehicles.
fits except Ryan S. Lynch in [-1]
My hope is that these customers will opt for the Enterprise license which works completely offline. But hey, finding product-market fit is hard. :-) Thanks for your input!
That is modeled as "status quo" - this unfortunately leads to waste of the scarce aisle real estate, a resource that is better used in "Fill & Flush."
I'm a Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience at FAANG. I have designed and built real time ML systems that support millions of QPS with < 10 ms latency. I also have a variety of other skills.

And yet I can't escape leetcode interviews. In fact I recently sent a spree of CVs and got automated rejection emails for most of them.

I don't buy your take.