skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have to ask a really basic question: Why does Microsoft have such a vested interest in users using Edge over competitors?

FOMO and Paranoia. Anything that looks like a market they might miss out on they get scared, freak out, create a shit product and jump in the market with HUGE marketing/info campaigns to convince everyone theirs is the best product, and then it turns out it's not really a profitable market at all. But at least they weren't usurped.
Should one move to Somalia if they value the hard-ness of life?
> your principles result in people getting injured and killed

Good principles remain good regardless of exceptional circumstances.

> needed to change or else they collapse and don't function at all

Yeah, they changed _and_ they don't function at all. Now they just protect the causes their donors agree with while retaining the prestige of the name.

Personally I think a total collapse would have been preferable.
Bravo to the folks sticking to their guns and not giving into this. I wish I can but I'm in a single breadwinner and not in a financial position to do so.
So the only games left would be worth paying for? Sounds good. Let’s get started.
Not sure if anyone else can comment on prevalent software in banking. But it seems like IBM’s FTM is fairly prevalent. The underlying technology from a glance seems dated (Java 8, bunch of uncontainerized shell scripts running the show) and highly proprietary in the bad ways. E.g the proprietary stack hasn’t seen innovation. Add to that, the same teams deploying this software.
Yale Cop Union Scares New Students with Grim Reaper Crime Flyers
There is an inherent tension between planning and iteration. As you plan for more and more unknowns, the cost of planning increases towards infinity.

There is an optimal amount of planning, but knowing it exactly in advance is suboptimal in terms of planning planning cost.
Your first point is what I came here to say. It seems like thr hedonic treadmill is responsible for most of modern dysfybction in self-regulation.
It doesn't matter because you'll get it no matter what.

It would just be nice if the government and institutions would admit that they censored a quite plausible theory.

Just admit it was because you needed to keep people from panicking.

Also lab leak<>lab made
Whatever culture they were trying to build with their interviewing approach, politics engagement and staff promotions, that is not a culture to aim for it turns out.
You're funny. Good luck.
Also, I'm sure AI devs would be all for making it more difficult to run models on the desktop so you'd be forced to use a cloud service. They could even keep using a non-GPL patched Linux on their servers because it's not like they're distributing anything.
Neat insight

The protocols for HPC are so amorphous that they bubbled up into the lowest common denominator, completely software defined async global workspace
I wrote it, I agree that's probably a big reason. It's liable to be a reason why ISPs block certain traffic too like in the EFF article. I don't have enough information to know for sure which is why I said we don't know their motivations. The point still stands though, it's bad for everyone if big model providers start making their own pet lists of prohibited uses. The rest of open source manages fine without doing this.
Do you agree with this statement?
"If you paid for a product with a known platform restriction, don't expect it to Just Work, & don't leave a negative review if it doesn't."

I'm asking because IMO you initially claimed something more broad than your second comment indicates.
...for some definition of faster
Would you allow deer camps in your housing utopia?
(it's more than a lisp variant, but conceptually, yes)
Kavanaugh's point is actually pretty terse and elegant:

> The Ninth Circuit held that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property are covered by the Clean Water Act because, as relevant here, the wetlands have a “significant nexus” to covered waters nearby. 8 F. 4th 1075, 1093 (2021). The Court today reverses the Ninth Circuit’s judgment. I agree with the Court’s reversal of the Ninth Circuit. In particular, I agree with the Court’s decision not to adopt the “significant nexus” test for determining whether a wetland is covered under the Act. And I agree with the Court’s bottom-line judgment that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property are not covered by the Act and are therefore not subject to permitting requirements.

> I write separately because I respectfully disagree with the Court’s new test for assessing when wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act. The Court concludes that wetlands are covered by the Act only when the wetlands have a “continuous surface connection” to waters of the United States—that is, when the wetlands are “adjoining” covered waters. Ante, at 20, 22 (internal quotation marks omitted). In my view, the Court’s “continuous surface connection” test departs from the statutory text, from 45 years of consistent agency practice, and from this Court’s precedents. The Court’s test narrows the Clean Water Act’s coverage of “adjacent” wetlands to mean only “adjoining” wetlands. But “adjacent” and “adjoining” have distinct meanings: Adjoining wetlands are contiguous to or bordering a covered water, whereas adjacent wetlands include both (i) those wetlands contiguous to or bordering a covered water, and (ii) wetlands separated from a covered water only by a man-made dike or barrier, natural river berm, beach dune, or the like. By narrowing the Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the Court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States. Therefore, I respectfully concur only in the Court’s judgment.
Oh, that's more concerning.

> 2023-07-17: Asked the maintainer if they successfully downloaded the binary PoC, if they have any questions and notified about the disclosure policy. No reply received.

It doesn't sound like there's a dispute over these being bugs, but the author has forgotten or ignored this issue?

But still..

* Headline: BUFFER OVERFLOWS! WRITES! (MAYBE) ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION!

* Details: we can make it continue 1 extra cycle of a loop to write beyond a string buffer boundary. We can't make it perform arbitrary code execution but you never know.

If the string buffer abuts something important in memory (e.g. a return address on the stack), or you can manipulate things so that it does, then even 1 byte write is bad, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand... but it does seem like the researchers didn't find anything useful to do with their 3-byte overflow write.

Hopefully the author picks this up and fixes it.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sues automakers as car theft crisis gets worse
Toyota really did hybrid first. Honda has lagged on hybrids their whole existence. And the Toyota Sienna minivan is a hybrid.
Stuff like this does get me excited, as a web developer who's always wanted to explore graphics but never really dipped into native development.

On the other hand, I know enough to know that Chromium uses Harfbuzz and Skia to render a webpage that, in itself, is going to use another instance of Harfbuzz and Skia to render into a canvas element. Intuitively, it feels dirty.
It was Bush Senior, Clinton (with PNTR), Bush Junior. The story of why the US thought PNTR was a good move is long, and has to do with the events of 1989.
Also... Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao were both very different from who we have today. China was not necessarily friendly, but they thought there was a good chance of them becoming friendly, especially if their market opened up. For several years after Tiananmen, the Democrats in Congress actually wanted sanctions against the PRC, but it kept getting vetoed, so as not to torpedo the chance.
As far as I know, Jitsi uses SFU (i.e. not P2P, not MCU), so every device sends their stream once (to the server), which doesn't do any transcoding but only forwards the streams to each client.

Therefore (just like multicast) you only send your stream once, and every client receives n streams.
That's a nice way to avoid scams, but the cost doesn't seem worth the benefits to me as someone who otherwise has good awareness about scams. I've made some nice friends off the internet and yet to fall for a scam, so it doesn't seem worth locking out that possibility of friendship just to reduce the odds of being scammed slightly more.

I could easily see giving very different advice to a friend with less scam awareness, though (like an older friend with limited knowledge of technology).
The issue in CA is idiosyncratic to the state. In 2020 the average price of homeowners insurance in CA was $1,241 and in Illinois was $1,144. It probably doesn't make sense for California to be only 8% more expensive than Illinois.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-homeowne...

Houses are more expensive in CA, building costs are more expensive in CA and the weather is more volatile (and becoming increasingly so) in CA.

The rate level in CA needs to increase. The regulator in CA makes it difficult to raise rates, so companies are responding by reducing their appetite.
My wife and I are Christian and do honor the Sabbath. In practice, one of the things we do for this is to deload from our Smartphones (and really, all screens) every Sunday.

I notice when I have my phone available, I have a strong inability to nap. I will object in all sorts of ways - usually because I feel like I am not being productive.

Sunday naps, however, are incredible, and being detached for a whole day allows me to get the rest my body actually needs. And I have a ton of clarity returning to work on Monday.
GM traces all their dependency trees down to the mines or other sources of raw materials. This is often 6-7 levels deep. However they know what to watch for in the news and so when something happens they can jump to find an alternate, which often gives them 3 months before the production lines stop.

They also do this so that they know nobody is using slave labor.
It's possible to be perfectly cordial without being a US client state.

Why should they have to be "in the fold"?
With the caveat that even those experts are sometimes confounded, yes.
If you don't believe Chinese statistics, you can check that US import from China is back to pre-COVID volumes and rising.

Honestly, I'm tired of this "oh they're totalitarian, so we cannot believe their statistics when it's good" stance. It looks so much like a comfortable self-deceit.
so what?

I dont want to be part of a society with built in racist laws.
> Even the top-of-the-line display is ridiculously bad.

To me, that’s far from “decent enough”, not even taking into account the other (more minor) differences you name.
One thing I see at the very bottom, where it says "Tutorial, here is a video:" There isn't a video, just an image.
Given what we already see playing out in Europe and America's existing history of trade policy with China, I suspect politics/trade policy will likely be very unkind to allowing imports of cheap chinese cars to the US any time soon.

European and Japanese manufacturers are already getting that nasty surprise in European markets competing with Chinese EVs like the MG4 etc.
Hey all Jitsi dev here. It hasn’t been an easy few days, thanks a lot for the empathetic comments I’ve seen here.

We’ll keep moving forward making (hopefully) the best open source meetings tool out there.

To answer a few recurring questions:

- Only the first user needs to be authenticated

- This change does not affect the self-hosted deployments, you can choose what auth (or none at all) to use
Clearly you have not followed this topic closely, how about you look into the DruPal issues or "Dongle Gate" or the Firing the Firefox CEO, James Damore, or 100's of other examples of people being removed from projects for differences of opinions far far far far less than wanting to "exterminate" people
Did Amazon ever fix their restroom issue? Yeah, I wouldn't want to RTO if it's a literal s-show.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-employees-biggest-compl...
Any applications for 2d physics, for example simulations and games and whatnot.
Engineering is based on forming a hypothesis and testing for failure. If the current generation is less likely to test for failure, they will fail at the scientific method, every time.

Culture, at least in the United States, tends to avoid failure or talking about it.

Early days of computing had more engineers, given they were designing the physical systems that ran the code they were writing. After mainstream computing hit the market, this allowed others, like mathematicians, to write code without designing the computer they ran on.

Engineers embrace failure and use it to create better code. But, that's super boring and people tend to avoid marketing or raising interest on failures, even though it is common knowledge that we learn more from failure than success.

That means success, with an avoidance of discussing failure, became a "thing" that people ended up talking about more. This results in more people wanting to talk about their successes, and being more like people talking about their successes.

And, to make matters worse, theories always sound good if they present hypothetical positive outcomes. They are far easier to sell quickly into others, so we preference that and the cycle continues.

If you want to find the software engineers, look where failures are accepted, scientific methods are embraced, and reliable code is desired. Databases. Flight systems. Robotics. Medical equipment. Space stuff.
I think the previous poster claims that different measurement process yields different measurement errors (spread). Since correlation coefficient is a function of spread, if the measurement errors are random, even if the underlying relation is the same, it suffices to increase the spread a little bit and get a subsequently smaller correlation coefficient.

Confidence bounds for every correlation coefficient would add value and _might_ change some of the interpretations.

E.g.: "its average correlation with the other measurements is only 0.03, which is not just small, it is substantially smaller than the next smallest, which is ear breadth, with an average correlation of 0.13."

If the former is 0.03 +- 0.02 and the latter is 0.13 +- 0.07, we could claim that both are equal to 0 (or just equal).
> This is a clear violation of the Free Software license that Linux is made available under.

This is your opinion.

My opinion is that it is a clear violation of the GPL if a program provides two sets of interfaces, one set to be used by other GPL programs and one set with crippled performance for non-GPL programs.

This is a restriction on use that has nothing to do with GPL, which says: "This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program.".

Crippling the performance for the users who choose to use the GPL program together with a non-GPL program is definitely incompatible with "unlimited permission to run".

Whoever has written the original GPL program has no right to impose limits on the users of the program. If they want to impose limits, they must choose a different license, not GPL.

The restrictions imposed by GPL are based on copyright, i.e. they refer to transferring copies of the covered work, but not to how it should be used.
Cars should be taxed based on weight.
Sourcegraph uses OpenAI for embeddings. The default LLM is Claude 2 and Claude Instant for completions.
I'm a happily paying customer, and I'm a little ... pleasantly surprised? ... that their numbers are about 1/10 what I expected. I can't really explain it. I want them to succeed and wish them great success, but something about them being small feels oddly good.

I haven't experienced a 10s pop-in on mobile (iOS Safari with the extension installed). What OS/browser? You could probably file a bug report on their feedback site.
I think something that could help a lot of people would be a browser devtool comparison page. You can take your existing browser tags and show which devtool features exist on each browser. Personally, I would 100% use a guide like that to decide which browsers tools suit my needs.
I have an automatic chicken coop door from the company Run-Chicken. It is one of the most brilliantly designed products I've ever owned. It has an app for setting up the opening and closing rules, which can be rather sophisticated, based on both time and light conditions.

The device itself has no WIFI, bluetooth, or a radio of any kind. To program the device, you push a button to put it into a programming mode, then hold your phone up to its photo sensor, and it will flash the screen in a sequence of black and white to relay the encoded settings.
What's the rationale behind this? Why specifically China?
Yes, I am saying that it could be desirable for the owner to refuse a buyout and sell it to someone other than the government.
The problem is that it really _is_ an all or nothing, there are assumptions that cooperative programs will make that break if they can be preempted at any point. Even having a "little" preemption means programs have to be written to assume it can happen at any time (unless preemption means killing the program entirely).
The AWS ECS cli understands the syntax of docker-compose files, so you can use almost the same setup as local development. Also depending on your setup, e.g. if your services are stateless and the state is kept somewhere else like SQS queue, you can parallelize 100x with a single command.

ecs-cli compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml --ecs-params ecs-params.yml service up --cluster YOUR_CLUSTER

ecs-cli compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml --ecs-params ecs-params.yml service scale 100 --cluster YOUR_CLUSTER

Not sure if that is what you meant, feel free to get in touch.
Great job at very conveniently making this about social and political issues instead of answering his question.
Weight-based motor vehicle tax
My wife somehow knows how to navigate that site and can extract knowledge from it that I would only dream was available.

I'm much closer to your side of the aisle. Burn it with fire.
With Github. Microsoft now controls much of the world's open source code. Wonderful.
Incorrect, they get kickbacks: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...
Funny how things change.

In the 90s the U.S., EU and Japan were the champions of free trade for industrial products and services.

However, when it would come to agricultural goods they were the champions of tariffs and protectionism. Why? Easy: because 3rd world countries were very competitive on agriculture. Egypt had better cotton, Argentina had beef, Brazil had orange juice, Cuba had sugar, etc, etc.

3rd world countries would complain about the hypocrisy and the rich would reply that they should just shut up and give up on protectionism.

Now the whole Southeast Asia is competing with rich countries in industrial goods and protectionism is not protectionism anymore, is "decoupling".
There is the Toyota and Chrysler, both of which I would consider if I had to get a new van right now. But in 2017 there wasn't a viable option.
Unconventions
That’s step one. Then the other developing companies will need to climb the dependency tree to make more and more of the materials locally. It’s what India did with car manufacturing, eventually building the entire vehicle in country. They are now the biggest exporter of tractors in the world. Same thing with pharmaceutical manufacturing as well. The space industry was the same way with imported tech from the Soviet Union but now it’s all built indigenously along with local advancements.
Except when judges get kickbacks from prisons for sending them prisoners.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...
Apple is full of weird choices that are off-putting to newcomers, intrusive ads, bugs. For some reason in German, they use a non-standard keyboard layout and they don't sell a standard one.

But it's still better than Windows.

I just wish Apple would fix their idiosyncrasies, I may have gone into the eco-system more fully. I guess they don't need the business of undecided people.
Actually, no. Treating people differently based on race, is by definition racism - discriminating against people on the basis of their race.

And your analogy is a poor one for what is happening in NZ with regards to healthcare. Healthcare is a limited resource, and what NZ is doing is letting race be a factor when triaged patients in an environment of limited healthcare resources. You could literally be sicker than someone else, but if you're the wrong race, the other person get treatment first.

So for your analogy, it's more like there are two kids. One hasn't eaten in 3 days, the other 2 days, but the one that hasn't eaten in 3 days is a member of an "oppressive race" (without having committed any oppression themselves mind you, just their ancestors), so the other one gets to eat first.
In the UK the government sort of does manage a map that’s used as the basis of a lot of others maps called Ordinance Survey Maps.
No, they're not. Just because the NRC says it is cool doesn't mean that a power plant is above criticism. People are allowed to object to things happening around them.
> You keep a count and any time a test fails/recovers 3 times it gets skipped, even if there's weeks between failures.

Congratulations, you now have an untested feature.

Flaky tests should be fixed, of course. But just deleting them isn't fixing them, and it leaves you worse off, not better.

May i ask how you feel about TODO comments?
It's interesting speaking to German's about their language sometimes, and the way that as a language leaner I perceive words differently to how they do as a native speaker.

For instance consider the word for a wedding 'Hochzeit' - in order to remember the word I broke it down into 'hoch' (high) and Zeit (time) - so a wedding is a 'high time' of your life.

Some Germans seem to have never viewed the word in terms of it's components, and this is a revelation to them!
There was a paper on HN about a year ago published by the DoD (if memory serves) that roughly speaking the only way to combat drones is by having more, possibly smaller, drones.

So I think at least one "how" has been arrived at.
> The memo listed several factors to consider, including "the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values."

This itself is the bad bit, IMO. My expectation of the ACLU is that they will always defend the rights of individuals, regardless of the goals of those exercising those rights.

When the ACLU defended Nazis marching in Skokie, they weren't defending the goals of Nazis to strip ethnic minorities of rights; they were solely defending first amendment rights.

The logic here seems so fragile that I don't see how one could see it as anything other than a bad thing if they value the ACLU as a bastion for defending rights.

For instance, if a criminal is actively going around and killing people from one political bent or ethnic background, they are clearly not respecting the rights of others.

Should we decide that it's okay to not grant them a speedy trial, since giving a jury the right to free them would definitely get in the way of theother rights we care about?
Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
That's because the ultra-rich figured out how to buy the politicians, so they're not the ones "in charge" and don't take the blame.
Auzzies? That would be ''Aussies'', mate, and the market for the ''ute'' is alive and well to this day there and in New Zealand. Australian car buyers have also tended to prefer 4-door sedans to 2-door coupes.
I have a demo on the website.

https://kinetics.vercel.app/docs/demo

I benched the results without rendering (more or less focused on backend game physics), I'm not sure how it'd work with rendering since FPS lag would probably hinder performance to the point theyre both equal. In the event someone wants to make my library more efficient with rendering, they can always use WebGL with WASM