skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I am the author of this article, it's interesting to see it being discussed here. A few points:

It's definitely possible to reverse engineer the word list and other aspects of the w3w system. However I also want to make my anysis code public and I don't want to deal with w3w's lawyers.

w3w make the basic claim that 1. similar addresses are far away from each other and 2. this makes mistakes obvious.

1 isn't true because they use a very naive randomization method. This was described before in an excellent blog post https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/what3words-the-algorithm... I added some equations in my work. In the worst case you end up with a run of addresses like

twice.over.x
word.again.y
repeat.phrase.z
...

And maybe 10km away another run like

twice.over.a
word.again.b
repeat.phrase.c
...

Only one word is different, which obviously makes it much easier to confuse addresses.

The other point is that around 25% of addresses (probably more) could be confused with 4 or more others. In that case, the AutoSuggest feature may not suggest the address you meant, and if it doesn't, there's not much you can do, since this is the only form of error correction available in w3w.

w3w is quite popular here in the UK and I can see the appeal, it is more fun to shout out green.apple.regret than some alphanumeric string. But given the above problems (which i am sure w3w know about) that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to trust an app like this with matters of life and death.
I always think of Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" [1]

At the time I had a coworker who was militant about "simple code" and anti "complexity". I used to argue that the code they preferred was more of a pain in the butt due to avoiding anything beyond the most basic of constructs. They saw that this was a talk, suggested our team watch it, and then became upset because it turned out they hadn't actually watched it and assumed based on the title that it'd back up their viewpoints.

Lowest common denominator coding isn't the same thing as avoiding complexity.
Wayland's a solved problem if you use an up to date or rolling release distribution.
limpy b :(
> bloated

"blimpy"
Does Apple have the SSD on-chip, though? Looking at the iFixit teardown it seems that it’s a separate chip (though I’m far from an expert on the topic)

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Mini+M2+Teardown/157365#...
Opening and saving as .docx would seem to be the only hard part.

I'm assuming that's not built into the widget or into Windows. Is there an open-source drop-in docx<->rtf library out there?
WINE ships with a WordPad clone.
Nagging thought of mine that gets brought up by the comment that there are two overpasses on each side of it. Which is those carry car traffic which makes them dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists. It would be a good idea to build more pedestrian/bicycle only overpasses one street over from the car overpasses.
WordPad had one real use in my world: if you edited a Linux document in WordPad it was smart enough to not mess up the line endings CR/LF versus LF IIRC. It was nice to not have to worry.
You don't think conference organizers should consider the environment they are hosting in? Everything must be a political message?
Sounds like the organizations that AOG Technics claims are the OEMs [1] rather than repair shops. So that does point to the parts being fake.

[1]: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SafetyNotice2023004.pdf
> It rarely if ever is.

It happens all the time. But when it happens it's so transparent that nobody even notices.

There are many 30+ year old open source applications still in use. How many of the current maintainers are still the original developers?
https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/reaper-drones-over-hou...

> The South and Central American drug war(s) is one of the most violent wars in modern history .. Over a million people have died in the conflict since 1970, and that’s not counting the over 50,000 Americans who die every year from opioid-related deaths, or the 20+ thousand American homicides every year, the majority of them in some way related to gangs that fund themselves off drug sales..

US intervention against the Mexican Cartels would be taking on organized forces that have been under arms longer than the Taliban, are better funded than Ukraine, have a population and territory bigger than Saddam had in Iraq, and some of whom, as in the case of the Los Zetas Cartel, are themselves former Special Forces trained by American Green Berets..

America has had a massive advantage in every war it’s fought in the past 100 years: America has always been fighting elsewhere .. America’s population, industry … They’ve all been safely 10,000 miles away across oceans from the enemy and pretty much untouchable .. A military intervention against the Cartels would instantly end that.
This is bad for both SF Fire Department, and Cruise.

Cruise's business is in an area where human life can easily be impacted. This incident, regardless of fault, reminds us of that. It suggests the need for over cautiousness, and American business is not known for that. So Cruise will face enthusiastic critique for its entire existence.

SFFD sounds like it's made a mistake, and it too is in the life or death "business". So it will receive an unpleasant audit for this incident.

Overall the public is losing, it seems, as this is too chaotic and unsafe a system to be allowed. So we must now step in and regulate.
Seems to me that Steam itself fits well into this category. It tracks your overall play time for games and has a recommender system, and also keeps global stats for a _lot_: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/
MS are the kings of legacy support, no joke here. It is astonishing really.
Huh. I was able to get a working epub, but I'd recommend the pdf version instead. The OCR and formatting for the epub are automated rough drafts.
I know a dozen programmers like this. It's true that it's not easy to get fired if you're a constant benefit to the team's productivity, but it's very hard to get promoted under most organizations' promo guidelines, which usually involve design documents and end-to-end projects.
I use Calibre regularly to strip DRM and convert books from one format to another.

For reading, I like epr, but epy is apparently an upgrade.

https://github.com/wustho/epr
https://github.com/wustho/epy
Ever. So cool.
What Scrum "intends" to do, and what it actually does, are radically different.
one time I was in Kyrgyzstan staring down a band of armed marauders with AKs, me holding nothing but my pre-Lenovo Thinkpad. The battery had long since died (it only lasts about 38 minutes) and of course the WiFi doesn't work due to proprietary drivers but I was able to plug in the six-pound AC adapter to the back of a Unimog and after waiting for the 10 minute boot process to complete I quickly typed "C-c b" which is my personal keybind for blimpy. The marauders were so impressed that they gave me a camel and sent me on my way.

So I guess you could say that blimpy saves lives.
Hearos earplugs.

Silk eye shade.

Tiny metal bottles of Tylenol, Claritin, Ibuprofen.

Mouse pad.

USB-C to micro-USB adapter (for charging headphones using a USB-C cable).

Whistle.

2.4Ghz presentation clicker.
iDEAL transactions are final. We are really spoiled in the Netherlands with such a simple system. If you want your money back you write to the merchant. If you rent a server to do some calculations (hallucinations) for you you would have to prove the digital product was not what you've ordered. You are free to give refunds when you like of course.
… you know the CIA imported and sold drugs in the USA?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traf...
Good question because I have found the paper I had misremembered and it’s that the top chimp is way more stressed because no one wants to be number 2 but everyone wants to be number 1.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1207120
Just an idea I thought about before... If wood chips are used to make particle boards then I wonder if plastic chips can be used in the mix say in a 50:50 ratio (or 70:30). The idea that perhaps hard plastic can be shredded to make particle boards which are a useful building material. Not sure how such a board would perform and what issues does it create.
They don't have to submit it to Homebrew. Similarly I don't have to use it. If I have to submit a PR to Homebrew when an app's creator can (and usually does) do it themselves, it's likely I will just use something on Homebrew already, like Itsycal, which I have just started using as a result of someone else mentioning it. It's just a difference of opinion, nothing more.
Nothing too interesting, Steam Deck, s8 ultra tab + keyboard cover, wacom pen and glove, usb hub, charger, old 2fa phone, water bottle, spare tote bag, spare IEMs and umbrella.

Of course the expensive electronics only go out if I expect to have time for them.
Looking for better ways to type blimpy in my document.
There's an 11 meg iso file included, and there are some exe files among its contents.
I wondered what it was too. Maybe "exception groups" or "except star" would be clearer for the reader (thanks for your amazing work btw)
Mostly because C and UNIX symbiosis, and ANSI C being too little.

So POSIX ends up being the rest that everyone reaches out for when using C.

The irony being that still isn't enough to get rid of #ifdef spaghetti, due to the things POSIX leaves out to each implementation.
Same here. There’s great stuff for us to watch together, but the mindless stuff keeps getting thrown up over and over again.
On carabiner :

* backup / secondary wedding ring (different style than primary):)

* usb stick

* flashlight

Right small pocket: deodorant, mints, toothpick/floss/toothbrush

Left mesh pocket : change, 5cm charging cable

Left small pocket : wired headset that came with phone, packet of Kleenex / tissues

Outside compartment

* lip balm, allergy pills, ricola/halls, tums, cialis, ibuprofen, tylenol, Gravol (small cutouts of blister packs or portable versions), Band-Aid

* pen, pencil, highlighter

* this is where small chargers, charging cables, good headset with boom or good headphones go

* Samsung note 8 (my entertainment phone, no sim, WiFi only)

Medium sized compartment

* one or two of : dslr, steam deck, Nintendo 3dsXL, drone, etc

* large charger brick with 1*pd for laptop, 2x USB A charging slots

Top small compartment

* puffer (salbumitamol / bronchiodilator), nasal spray, spare wallet and travel id's, usually another wired headset lol

Largest compartment

Typically clothes

Laptop compartment

Laptop and tablet or kindle

This all packs a lot smaller than it sounds :).
It still seems a bit of a stretch to jump to the conclusion that someone who's good at fighting production fires probably has experience with competitive coding. You could maybe conclude that they would be good at competitive coding were they to try it, but competitive coding is way less popular than just... having a career in software.
so keep using it? ending development doesn't mean the executable stops working.

the good news for you is this is essentially a promise that wordpad will never change.
Chapstick

Floss - you never know when you'll get something between your teeth

Band-aids - getting one through official sources due to a papercut is way too much peperwork
Ok, an unintended consequences scenario?

I am interested though, when would praising a coworker negatively impact them via their manager?
this answers nothing
Yes, it just concats the files.
You're right, prohibition funds organized crime all over the world.
Reaper Drones over Houston: A War in Mexico Would Mean War in America
what dont you like about vim that would make you switch away from it? There's no universe where I can imagine doing that
I replaced my 20-year-old Targus with an Osprey and I'm really glad I did.

It doesn't have an internal frame, but it's very sturdy and holds up well.
BM25F (which is based on IDF) to quickly identify relevant past responses based on the question and reply they got.

At each summarization step you can go through and find which Q/A pairs have the highest relevance across all of the other questions in the current batch, which helps solve LLMs tendencies to get stuck in high similar repetitions
Because it's well established how copyright works with human-authored assets and unsettled how copyright works with generative AI, and corporations are allergic to uncertainty and liability? Along with the risk that they'll get overwhelmed with low quality submissions like eg Clarkesworld?

Given that in the past that have been very reticent about taking down games (eg see [1][2]), I don't find it likely that they have an "anti AI" stance. I personally would need to see like, a blog post or some other statement to that effect in order to buy that hypothesis.

[1] https://www.thegamer.com/valve-gabe-newells-libertarian-stea...

This is summarizing reporting from People Make Games:

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo [48m]
As well as

> By the way, about these epic pics: you can't just fly a drone this close to the airport without getting in trouble with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is restricted airspace. That's why I went through the process of requesting and receiving drone flight clearance from the FAA, just so I could show you these photos. You're welcome.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364339.
And to clarify: I don't try to start the ICE with my Tesla hooked up, mostly out of superstition. I don't see why it wouldn't work given there's also a regular old 12v sealed lead acid battery behind the frunk.
If you don't already do it, something I learned from some Japanese friends is to fold the towel around the (cold or frozen) water bottle in the hot days. It keeps the bottle colder for longer, avoids condensation/wetting the insides, and now you have a damp fresh towel if you are sweating, which is nice.
I have not engaged in a similar depth of study of other world religions.

If you prove a correct mathematical formula, you need not spend time figuring out every other incorrect way to solve the problem.

Likewise, once you find the truth it doesn’t require falsifying every other claim to truth for it to remain true. Jesus was the only person whose words and deeds claim deity and with which there is zero evidence to contradict his claims, unlike the likes of Mohammad, Buddha, and countless other claims of godhood—Jesus of Nazareth’s are the only ones that hold up under scrutiny.

Other religions can believe they’ve got a claim to truth if they wish, but truth doesn’t waver due to one’s personal preferences or convictions.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Would you please stop doing this? You've been posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments to the point of trolling. We ban accounts that keep doing this, and we already warned you once (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364256).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364448.
Water bottle, iPad, flashlight, sunglasses, AirPods, light jacket, a black pen, lip balm, floss/Y-picks, hair comb, folded tote bag, and snacks for my kids.
I've uploaded the metadata to ClickHouse Playground for analysis.

Example: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHByb2plY...

This is a nice dataset for exploration, although small (only one billion records). Going to upload all lines of code...
A few things I haven't seen others mention:

- tiny travel umbrella (6-8 inches in length when compacted)

- Colgate Wisps (when you need to fresh up your teeth/breath on the go)

- Airtag

- eyeglasses cleaning cloth

- PNY Pro Elite external SSD (barely bigger than a dongle, super portable; I'd probably opt for the similar Samsung T7 instead if I was buying one right now)
How timely, I hit similar issues, I often end up removing blockers from my team when pairing, which doesn't end up visible in Jira and now HR is bothering me.
It's different enough that the generation numbers do not align at all, which is the mistaken assumption at issue here.
The studio’s SSD is modular.

What’s interesting is that the nand chips don’t have a controller on them. It’s just a nand chip. The controller is build into the soc.
Let's be honest, it was never a war on drugs, it was a war on drug addicts - a group that already had enough problems on their plate before they had the full force of a police state hunting them down.
MBP

Keydous mech keyboard with yellow switches (maybe I should just buy a separate one for the office?)

Puffer vest in case it gets cold

USB Charger

Moleskine

Pen

heavy exercise band

PX-7 headphones

Portable charger for cellphone

Prybar/screwdriver
I think you can still use them through the browser only with OneDrive account.
No but there’s been significant erosion of $ purchasing power
honestly Vim is pretty slow, and it utterly sucks with long lines. you can do "g" motion, but I cant seem to get my muscle memory to remember that. to me "down" should always use whats visible on the screen, not just dumbly move to the next line.
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released with Accent Color Support
Look, I'm aware of the point of Gitea/etc. I also don't really care.

I want people to be able to easily contribute so they don't give up and just go back to GitHub. OAuth with a GitHub access level solves this, full stop.

A proper federation protocol is correct and the right option long term but there is no need to knock what actually works right this moment. Doing the right option often takes far longer than is ideal.
The entire world. The drug trade is global and the USA is a huge market, perhaps the biggest.

Also worth reminding people that the whole point of money laundering is to keep the operations going without having to keep big secrets or make anyone unnecessary complicit. It's not about corruption, shady business, or legislation. Those are all lies told to get normal people to believe even uglier lies. No, it can all be completely reformed, swamp drained, and regularly audited to be squeaky clean and still the money and drugs will continue to flow unimpeded. This is outside the scope of individual governments. Even if the USA and Mexico cooperated perfectly, the money is already clean before it hits their domestic banks and the smuggling is less about avoiding getting caught and more about overwhelming the system. This is why it's called a "war" on drugs.
There’s nothing to answer.
I also responded to it.

> There's no reason to suspect a generic asset is infringing on it's face, but for models trained on the open internet it's an entirely unanswered question.

As in, there's no reason not to give the benefit of the doubt to a traditional asset, but it's not yet understood how copyright works with a generative asset.

Am I missing something?
Although the same query can be run directly from Parquet files with clickhouse-local:

clickhouse-local --query "SELECT project_name, sum(lines), sum(size) FROM '*.parquet' WHERE skip_reason = '' AND project_name ILIKE '%ClickHouse%' GROUP BY project_name ORDER BY 2 DESC"

https://clickhouse.com/blog/extracting-converting-querying-l...
I'm full-remote, so this is my general "I'm going somewhere and want to be lightly prepared" bag, rather than something I actually carry everyday. I'd take this to the coffeeshop if I actually needed something in it, etc. I'd also take this with me if I traveled, but with a packing cube or two of clothes also slipped in.

* My laptop (MacBook Pro 16")

* A pack of charging supplies (this is my covers-everything pack for extended travel, so it's a charging brick and enough cables to charge my laptop, phone, and watch, and a battery for emergencies)

* My kindle

* (Situationally) my Steam Deck (in a JSAUX ModCase, which greatly slims down its space needs compared to the bundled case)

* A bunch of OTC medications -- painkillers, mostly -- all jumbled as bare pills into a single small pill case

* Emergency snacks, generally RxBar protein bars

* Some pens and pencils, which honestly I almost never use but feel I should have

* Water bottle

* Umbrella

* A grid fleece layer, in case I'm in a very aggressively cooled coffee shop

* A jumble of miscellaneous small supplies in a small pocket: glasses cleaning cloth, toothpicks, tissues, etc

* An AirTag

Currently all in a Mystery Ranch Catalyst 26 <https://www.mysteryranch.com/catalyst-26-pack> (it could all fit into a much smaller bag, but that's the size with a separate laptop pocket). I've been thrown off by my work standardizing on the MacBook Pro 16", when I'd far rather have the 14" for easier carry.
Windows includes BSD tar, which can produce ZIP files.

tar -c --format=zip -f foo.zip path/
Not sure about OP, but there are some online-only checking accounts available. Mine was verified with two sub-dollar deposits.
The criticism of the GP is that teams at his company would estimate story points differently depending on how much stress they wanted to take on and not based on the complexity of the work. This had the impact of the low stress teams not taking on ambitious work. Whereas teams that would take on ambitious work and attaching points to that work were working at unsustainable levels to meet targets.

In your Super Bowl example, you'd either get a team that would focus on doing the scrum activities but never deliver anything useful regardless of how many points it would take, or you'd get a burnt out team that's on the verge of flaming out. In either case "Story points" provide you with no predictive capacity even though predicting would provide value.
I have indeed read the review. I think there's some confusion here.

Your comment: When there's plenty of opportunity to search for and find evidence, and multiple researchers do try, and repeatedly fail to find evidence

The review: *Explicitly discluded all but one study.

Here's the other thing. The ONE study they DID include did actually find a positive effect:

> Key results
> The included study found that people who took garlic every day for three months (instead of a placebo) had fewer colds. That is, over the three‐month period, there were 24 occurrences of the common cold in the garlic group, compared to 65 in the placebo group. When participants experienced a cold, the length of illness was similar in both groups (4.63 versus 5.63 days).

The reason the analysis concluded that there's "not enough evidence" is simply because there was not more than a single study they deemed valid based on methodology. The thing is that even those discluded studies found a positive effect. In fact, all evidence points to a positive effect. The review is literally just saying there's not enough high quality evidence

Comments like yours confound "not enough evidence" for "evidence against". That's all I'm pointing out
This is such a bad take. Cartels have small arms the US military has drones, satellites, the NSA. A war against the cartel would be much like our participation in Syria.
The backpack I keep in my car boot (“trunk” for the Americans here ;) ) has: a set of ”work” clothes (rugged trousers, breathable shirt, high vis rain jacket, also boots but not in the backpack), USB battery pack, old AirPods, a few handkerchiefs, a mini first aid kit (also a bigger first aid kit but not in the backpack), an assortment of useful pills, individually packaged gum, compact umbrella, hybrid gym/bathers clothes, gym towel (and beach towel but not in backpack), a very very bright keyring flashlight, multitool.

Recently removed: plastic water bottle (the plastic leached into the water too quickly)