skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were out at all during / after Covid, restaurant menus were all QR codes on tables around me.

They are on posters all over. Commonly used for sign-ups and event entrance. It’s a mid assumption to think they are more popular in tech circles, I actually think the reverse is true.
For many that first went online via AOL, it was revelatory that the web was still accessible even if you didn't use the AOL browser. Most people didn't know what to do with it outside of that, but I suppose that's not any different from today with what Google and Apple are doing with their platforms and apps.

Nothing new under the sun, eh?
I think that’s the wrong metric, the velocity is much higher (20-30k new rentals/month which means all the airbnbs would consumed in like 1-2 weeks)
One thing I have observed when giving security advice (and having the street cred to do so): people don’t believe it. You tell them no, really 2+2 is not 5, here’s the Peano arithmetic to prove it (2+2 = 1+3 = 0+4 = 4), and they don’t believe you.

Real example, I was working on TPM provisioning once. There was something fishy about the process: though they ostensibly wanted a secure channel between the provider and the TPM, the connection procedure didn’t properly authenticate the TPM. It could be replaced by a fake or emulated TPM, the provider would be none the wiser. Not too big a deal (it all happens inside the factory), but still worth pointing out. Anyway, my team lead did not believe me.

Fast forward a number of weeks (the TPM is a freaking mess, I was slow), most of the provisioning was done, secure channel and all, the whole procedure worked without a hitch… on an emulated TPM. Told you so: we need to validate the public key shown in the certificate the TPM provides, else it could come from any manufacturer. Anyway, I had working code to prove my case, and my team lead still did not believe me.

Me, the guy who wrote a cryptographic library, and was put to work on the TPM precisely because of that expertise. I had to escalate to the security guy on a meeting, and he believe me. Probably because he actually knew his shit. So at last, I was allowed to fix the bug.

The lesson I draw from that is that demonstrating a security exploit is freaking important. It’s not enough to point out the bridge isn’t finished, people need to see a car falling down to its doom.
For an infinite treasure trove of mediocrity (and the odd surprise), there's fanfiction archives like AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/).
surely the more of these they send, the less likely you are to click on them
Not very, currently. It's a hard problem, because it's basically a marketplace. You need both the projects and the maintainers for it to work, and it's a notoriously hard chicken-and-egg problem to solve.

The way I wanted to solve it is to have as many projects as possible in the Shelter, so that when you came across a project that was abandoned that you were interested in, you could simply become a maintainer and take it over. Unfortunately, projects don't have much of an incentive to be added to CS when the maintainers aren't there, so the solution hasn't worked that well.
For a second I thought it's a really well done fake. The art style looked so obviously beyond 1994 software rendering. But then you start to notice that the backgrounds are all static 3D renderings and there are very few objects in motion after all, so it's certainly feasible on a 486.

Maybe you could say it's basically a 3D version of Alone in the Dark using ellipsoids instead of polygons as the primitive.

The quality of the animation is unusually good for the time, which is really what creates the coherent illusion. Wikipedia says the game had just one developer paired with a "film animation expert", which makes a lot of sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatica

I'm shocked I've never heard of this game until now.
Is there not an open source hardware project to revive these? I was scanning the comments assuming there must be someone doing that. No?

This seems like a project that, if it were completely untethered from commercial desires, would be incredible for kids and adults to play with. I can imagine tamagotchis that could wander about the house (like a remora fish on a shark), finding random bluetooth connections to feed upon, sending strange messages to watches and iPads. All kinds of fun ideas come to mind.
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maybe they are just trolling you.
It’s really easy to develop (especially backend) code that doesn’t have this horrible problem. Just use literally any other language. This is neither modern nor a reality.

Regulation can’t come to this snake oil industry fast enough.
I agree, but it could be that they need to focus all their resources to take on google with any chance of success. It could also very well be that the other big companies alter their behavior in response to the now real threat of anti-trust enforcement.
> Control would make sense if governments had a clear, flawless track record of developing software;

Why? The government does not have a clear, flawless track record developing food, nor medicine, still it controls and regulates them for the safety of society.

You can't demand absolute knowledge as a pre-requisite of regulations, that's absurd and unachievable. Extremely black-and-white thinking as well.
The bus has come, and this is the best possible rescue.
Is that written somewhere? Maybe just different understandings and expectations.. but for me "Show HN" is about here is my work/project I'm proud of, want to share with the rest of the world, want to have it discussed. For a normal news, even if you are the author of submitting, not sure if that's necessary. "Show HN" is imo not the anti-astroturfing disclosure, and for my expectations I would actually be a bit surprised and sad if a "Show HN" here would have lead me to just this little announcement, and maybe even downvote it :)
Yup Polish has A LOT of loanwords. Most people don't realize how many. My favorite example is how Polish stole Latin, German and Czech words for color and now each mean different things :)

Kolor - color
Farba - paint
Barwa - hue

Also Polish is surprisingly similar to Sanskrit, for example only recently I realized that budzik (alarm clock) pobudka (waking up someone as a noun) and all related bud- words have the same word root as Buddha (the awaken one). Blew my mind :)
On most Unix flavors it is not built-in. The only shell I know that has "ls" built-in is BusyBox.

And besides, I said in other places: "ls" has been "deprecated by its maintainer" more times than exa, it's just that somebody has always forked it. GNU "ls" (the one in Linux) is a complete rewrite of the original shell, and it is annoyingly incompatible with the macOS fork of BSD ls.
Good point. We'll add that to the next post if there is a new record. Also what can be confusing is that the business viable part is even much smaller than the technical viable part. The low power operations is really only at lower SF7 or SF8. And we push our partners and ecosystem to keep the payload as small as possible as every byte counts. It is a completely different way of thinking than WiFi or cellular. Yet I do agree it is presented with the same terms and paradigm and that is confusing.
Real-time Trumpet Simulation C++/Vulkan [video]
Speaking of URL parsing differences, Python's urllib library recently had a CVE for failing to strip whitespace from the scheme and domain.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102153
I don't know where on earth you got those numbers for Houston from... that would be a world record by an amazing margin. Very few places to date have recorded wet bulb temps above 35 degrees.

I can only assume you are putting incorrect readings into the calculators.

Are you making sure to put the temperature at the time of the humidity reading, since they reach their maximums at very different times of the day. If you just put max temp and humidity readings for a day in you are going to be wildly wrong.
Unfortunately the usual referent of "cultural revolution" is the Maoist one which was extremely violent. You could try referencing the colour revolutions or the Portuguese "carnation revolution" maybe.
I felt the same way, but if you spend enough time reading FE forums, you’ll find people are presenting themselves pretty earnestly. No doubt any FE’rs on Reddit or 4chan are mostly just baiting, but there are some very real disciples out there.

Check out this thread -
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=92...

It’s a little hard to follow the arguments, but I think they’re being made out of honest conviction. It’s a fascinating little corner of the internet, one has to wonder if it will live on.
> Curious what you would say the opposite is?

“UK has not backed down in tech encryption row, minister says”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-minister-says-position...
Interesting.

Is the blessing done by you, someone in your team, someone in another team, someone in another company, someone in government?

Is the blessed supply chain comparable (not in volume, but in features, ease of use) to NPM or pip ecosystem? What do you do when you need the feature that isn't in the blessed set?
>lots of governments pass lots of laws and regulations and are untruthful about what they'll do later.

If I was giving them the benefit of the doubt I would say they are trying to avoid losing face.
Doing one thing today and portraying that as never doing anything else is a fallacy. Acting like it would do no good and have no effect on everyone else even if they never do the exact same thing to everyone else is a fallacy. It's fallacies all around.
I know, but it doesn't necessarily matter in this context, my point is that big simple numbers make good headlines, and complicated analyses do not.
At 20 letters it's a suitably 'difficult' word even if it were actually an English one with familiar pronunciation. It being a German compound word makes it's usefulness to the general English speaking population highly questionable.

I would bet money that 2/3 or more of the people I know, keeping in mind that my technical acquaintances are only a small fraction, don't know Zeitgeist enough to pronounce it properly or even give a definition for it if asked.

Edit: Same goes for Schadenfreude
Except it doesn't work fine, its poor design is one of the reasons for the modern replacements
Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed [video]
https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python#web-server
Oh please. Dumb word games isn't going to make the "is this a bird" AI approach explainable. https://xkcd.com/1425/

Even the "simple" AI's with only a few TBs of data for training still have low/no understanding what's going on to identify the features and how they relate. Sure, we can tell this neuron identifies this squiggle, but what does it mean? No fucking clue. It also shows us collectively that most of these "hard" problems we have no clue how to understand them. And although AI allows us to "do it", it's a bad hack for actually understanding, optimizing, and doing.

> That it works without you understanding it is a failure of your understanding not of the approach.

Cool. Then point me towards the tools to explain how weights in a moderate-ly sized NN are created with training data, and associated with each other and how they find the features in question.

Oh yeah. Those tools don't exist.
LoRa vs LoRA. The former is what the link is about which is some cool radio stuff.
The trouble I had with it is that it reasons from weak metaphors, and seems to attempt to persuade based on those metaphors.

For example, in the passage I quoted the first thing he does is treat the speed of light as hypothetically finite. Everything we know about the universe tells us it is finite, and this was established long ago. So that's already an odd sentence. The next sentence is meaningless, however.

Phrases like "aether of this reality" are poetic, referring to a term from Greek mythology where a god blew out his breath to create the universe, not anything to do with science. Then, with zero reasoning, the sentence proceeds to claim that a finite speed of light must (somehow) mean "fractal entropy." Again this is poetic and not scientifically meaningful. Fractal is self-similar patterns at different scales of a system. Entropy is a measure how little we know of the organization of a system. You can torture yourself and call the measures "fractal" but that doesn't lead you anywhere toward understanding anything.

The talk of ripples again carries this further using visual metaphors detached from meaning.

I think that's why I had such trouble with it.

As for how I found it, I sort by new and look for headlines that interest me. Tachyons, in a scientific context, interest me. No I'm not looking for an argument or fight. Discussion is always welcome. I just hold the actual opinion that what I read in the article is insubstantial as science and uncompelling as rhetoric.
Loved idagio when I was subscribed.
Don't most aspiring writers already do so, for some value of terrible? S.J. Perelman wrote a series of pieces, "Cloudland Revisited" about the books and movies that thrilled him when he was young but didn't stand up to later reading or viewing. Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is a classic, though on the other hand you might want to have a look at D.H. Lawrence and Yvor Winters on Cooper before giving up entirely.
This is probably the end for serious labels that publish classical and Western art music. We don't need some Silicon Valley hipsters deciding what's art.
I am not anti-rewrite or anti-port. There exist good reasons to rewrite software.

However, being "modern" is not a good reason. The gnu authors were not motivated to write the coreutils simply for the sake of modernity. And that is why their fork of ls has much greater staying power than all the "modern" forks.
I just don’t see what the plan is here. I actually don’t think Google has such an iron grip monopoly that it unbreakable. In fact, I see Google as the most vulnerable of the big tech companies. They have one highly profitable product, search. Bing is making serious strides and their AI search is significantly better. Everything else Google does is small potatoes.
As do I.

However, I'm also pretty happy that NHTSA mandated seatbelts be included in cars despite the fact that they were wildly unpopular.
> to assume good faith. To assume the government is sincerely invested in doing it's job of protecting citizens.

Five thousand years of recorded human history should serve as adequate evidence against making this assumption. And we all know that even if the current government is sincerely invested in doing its job in good faith, any powers that are given to the current government can and will be abused by a future government that may be invested in doing something else.
You can do a lot with 292 bits per second if you use it well.
Your whataboutism skills are lacking.
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I think I would rephrase one sentence 'what constitutes secure software by design.' to 'it may make some places actually realize there's an activity called software design, which is when you think about how the software should be have before you whack something together.'
First you have to win the case against google then you can look at other companies.
maybe it's an aspect of having learned "word processing" in the late 80s / early 90s ... but I find the "edit around" far more useful than "cut and hold elsewhere"
Yep, likewise. It’s not the burden that people like to describe.
What is astroturf? If I Google it I see fake grass.
Your interpretation is what I intended. Thing is, I don't anticipate ever needing to touch the code if I use the utilities installed by default on whatever Linux distribution I'm using (which includes Windows, which I use as an interface for WSL). Even if I was comfortable with Rust, which I'm not and haven't used in years, it would still take a lot of time to understand the code well enough to make changes.
I love crawling in traffic in 1st. Totally agree.
I was too scared to try it while in the czech republic (brno).
I think that's a leftover from typewriters, the pairing of () with numbers existed there, and [] wasn't available. See [0] for an example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric
That's not the issue. I listen to all sorts of music. The problem is searching and indexing. You want movements to stay together, you want to be able to search by conductor, concert hall, recording date, featured soloist, composer, Opus or Catalog number, etc. Nobody handles this correctly.
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actually this is a cool question, biologists always try to reply these questions. but this is a new species...
I think what we need is for github to get in on it. Discoverability is 90% of the work.
I'm just going to say it. I have had little difficulty finding all the linkedin profiles for employees in small companies (~100 employees.) Go to the linkedin page for a company and click where it says the number of employees. Click on any employee with a public profile and peruse the "People also viewed" and "People you may know" columns on the right-hand side making sure to click "show more." Keep opening new tabs, rinse and repeat.

For a larger company I once wrote a python script to do the same which helped with avoiding duplication.

If you are stuck trying to find a profile for someone and they have a picture, do a reverse image search with the company and job title and it will usually find them.

I would regard any information you put on LinkedIn as public information no matter what your privacy settings are.

I use a basically new LinkedIn account for my searches.
I wonder if this is what boomers/old gen x felt like when 70's hippy fashion/culture was the fad back in the late 90's/early 2000's.
So it takes more than 5 dollars. You also need a gateway but you can get these for 99 dollars. Still this technology has a very low barrier to entry for such a long range and low power capability.
You could look at it as the chat requests being the API, which is simple yes, but in a way the prompts you would write could also be considered the API, in which case it is the most complex API ever. People aren't worried about having to change the first one, it's the prompting needing to change/ model not having the right capabilities.
Outcome.
The valley is not exactly a hipster stronghold. Much too suburban for them.
https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html
Yes, this was 868MHz
Do read my article. I have a very clear example of why that actually doesn't work in practice.
I was going to say, what about those of us working for globally distributed companies? We should go to an office so we can then use a conference room to Zoom with some people in another office? I don’t see how the office magically creates better collaboration, actually it’s worse.
This still implicitly asserts that the murderers are to blame for something.

Well, this will quickly turn into the nuances of definitions of words. Blame can have several subtilely different meanings, so call it blame if you want. I will avoid that problem by saying that we go from asserting that a person did something wrong and could and should have done otherwise to asserting that a person did something wrong.

"Protecting others" carries an implicit assertion that failing to abide by this principle means you are broken [...]

Yes, if we have the principle that one person should not harm another and you do not follow that principle, then in a deterministic universe we would say that you are not behaving as expected, that you are broken if you want. Well, there is probably some nuance required here, are you really broken and will keep harming others or was this more like an exceptional situation making you misbehave once but unlikely to do so again?

"[...] rather than that the principle itself is mistaken, as would be true if you really believed blame didn't exist.

Take the example of some manufacturing robots, if one of them breaks and keeps crashing into others, then you will remove and replace the broken one, you are not going to blame it or assign any responsibility to it, because one of the wires connecting a sensor got lose. I do not see why enforcing a policy, categorizing behavior into acceptable and unacceptable behavior, requires blame in any form. We just categorize, we do not even have to look why something ended up in one category or the other. A related but different question is what our policy is, where the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior lies.

And then you still have to account for whether the transgressor was coerced rather than was acting from their beliefs and desires (aka made a free choice).

That falls under the point mentioned above, more nuance, whether the behavior was situation specific or is likely inherent. But that is again independent of free will - whether I am determined to do bad things or freely decide to do bad things, one should try to prevent me from doing bad things.

And it matters even less in case of coercion, or maybe it is even more complicated in the case of free will. There is not really anything to be said about deterministic coercion to do a bad thing, but if you have free will, maybe you should have resisted more? This will not always apply, but at least sometimes you will have a choice to resist the coercion and probably experience some negative consequences in return, or to go along a cause negative consequences for others.
> Most people don't type `ls` directly either. Aliases like `l`, `ll` and `la` are very common, in which case it really doesn't matter which tool you're using.

Huh. I always use plain ls with flags and deliberately unset aliases like ll.

I guess I'm weird.
if you've ever had pre-shredded cheese, like a bag fulla pre-shreded mozzarella, you have eaten sawdust. FDA regulated, food-safe sawdust.

tiny, very tiny, particles of saw dust (labeled "cellulose" in the ingredients), is used to keep the cheese from clumping up.

go and watch your favorite pizza chain make pizza, with giant bags of pre-shredded cheese, and then ponder your sawdust intake.
Dead github theory.
Also more likely to request far more than you need so you don’t have to deal with them as frequently.

Everywhere I’ve seen that strategy tried had massive overspending and outages due to it. What’s worked best is cloud style usage billing because that aligns the incentives with the people making the decisions, but it’s really non-trivial to get the accurate full cost.
Those are nice! I like the shinkansen trains. Unfortunately I cannot get these in my country for a reasonable price, but thanks for the recommendation!
To be fair, the GP said governments should fear their citizens, not that they do and always have done. It's an ideal end state, I guess.
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They don't see. So they feel.

It has to feel right as well as smell right.
Didn’t know this. Thanks for the tip!

Personally, when I test REST APIs, I use „restclient.el“ all the time which also comes with a great JQ integration („jq-set-var“ for example for deriving request variables from responses). For traversing larger responses I use „counsel-jq“ in a customized JSON mode: https://github.com/200ok-ch/counsel-jq

But I’ll give the major mode a try, too.
This was a fun theme that was ranted about a lot on alt.aol-sucks
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One potential issue may be the clause that the city must pay the outsourcing company to make up for lost revenue under their expected amount in the contract. For instance when they raised the rates and less people started parking, the city had to pick up the tab.