skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increased liability/lawsuit-exposure seems like an efficient way to do it (certainly better than regulations with very specific criteria around how people should write software)

This liability is already non-zero. I wonder if the penalty fees are too low, or if there's some kind of legal shield that reduces the risk
Hue lights are zigbee. There are zigbee USB controllers, and they're supported by Home Assistant etc., so if you want you can easily enough set it up totally isolated and firewalled off. You just won't be able to use the official app and bridge.
You don’t give details, so I don’t know whether your simulations does, but both the pitcher and the batter will, if they’re any good, adjust the amount of risk they’re taking depending on the score.

For example, if the pitching party is 8 runs ahead with one ball to play, the bowler’s primary goal should be to not throw an extra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_(cricket)). Getting hit with a four or six wouldn’t be ideal, but still would win them the match.

If, on the other hand, they’re a single run ahead with a hundred balls to play while the batters have a single wicket in hand, trying to minimize runs conceded per over doesn’t make sense; the bowler should instead aim to get that last wicket even if that means the risk of losing the match in a single ball is extremely high.

For the batter, similar arguments apply. If there’s no need to score fast, good batters will take less risk. Also, there’s the relationship with your partner. You want the better player to get at bat and stay there. That may mean running a single in cases where you could easily run two.

Because of that, I think a good simulation would have a spectrum of distributions for both the bowler and the batter and a function that picks one of them depending on circumstances (including, of course, the weather forecast).
Google mocks Apple's refusal to support RCS in new video
I live in a place that is also off a private road and the solution that was come up with was "like" an HOA, but just maintains the actual road. They collected 10K, and then dropped the yearly collection to $125/year. 11 houses on this road. Because yes, road repairs are very expensive. At one point, they were looking at 45K to get the road just functioning until they convinced the city to take like 100 feet of it under their control
Yeah it was once the cool kid in town.

Just recently I read a nice quote here on HN (paraphrasing):

Either you die young as a hero or you live long enough to become the villain
Yes. When you take a step back and consider this exact statement, it's utter insanity.
There is zero credible information that the person assassinated had anything to do with any armed militant groups. He was a political activist. RCMP and CSIS investigated him quite thoroughly.

edit: the persons posting replies to "news" articles contradicting this are from sources that are hardcore Modi/BJP supporters. About as credible as posting a newsmax URL.
New Startup
I am starting working on a social media platform for programming community, so as a new comer in this field, I need guidance, so every suggestion will be helpful to me.
No. The eradication of pollution sources, even coal, is not at all inevitable. Remember that there's an active and large pro-pollution element in US politics right now. it Any money spent in a positive direction is useful to help avoid or win fights to push things in the wrong direction.
JSON Updates in Postgres 16
Oracle? Cisco? Do something for somebody else for free? Are you mad? They'll license the fire, and calculate the fees based on volume of air heated.
I wonder how it will work if you attach an iPhone 15 Pro to your laptop with a short USB/Thunderbolt cable. Presumably it will at least save on rebroadcasting the internet connection.
I actually wonder why people dump gobs of user input to the vector db, or try to tokenize it into something smart, instead of being smarter and asking for queries to be generated. Such as:

--

Given a Jira issue database, I want to give you additional context to answer a question about a project called FooBar. The Jira project id is FOOBAR. Please generate JQL that you would like to use to answer this question

My question is: what are the major areas of technical debt in project FOOBAR?

--

Given a search engine for the wiki for project foobar, generate queries that help you answer this question:

What's the current status of project foobar?

---

Or somesuch...

(and hi Max, thanks for plugging our book :-p )
Product Development Instincts Are Bad for Building Platforms
I use sqlc and it makes this a non-issue.
They hedge using the delta of the option and adjust accordingly.
If the article is correct google have had for years warnings that this bridge has collapsed. Now - of course the ultimate responsibility is to the driver because - you have eyes. Then it is to the myriad of people who have not put a traffic cone there. And lastly is to google for not updating their database.
This used to be what everybody in Germany had to do to open a bank account or request a new credit card, until the alternative of KYC by video call became popular.

It's not efficient by any means, but in my view it beats the US practice treating an SSN as a password, together with bizarre "security questions" sourced from public records that some banks use as a "verification method". And no, "phone number verification" (that really only works for phone numbers with the big three mobile carriers) should also never have been a thing.

I really, really hope to see a usable-by-everyone identification method one day, as opposed to "usable by enough", with a sizable fraction of the population just being denied access to credit, banking, and more, just because they don't exist in the expected form in some creepy data miner's database.

Ironically, German ID cards support exactly such a method: You can just tap it on your iOS or Android phone for a "qualified electronic signature" as defined by EU law. And as a non-citizen, you can now finally get an "e-ID only" card, so nobody is excluded from that scheme! Unfortunately, I don't know a single person that remembers their six-digit PIN that's required for that feature...
I'm really curious what the actual Google policy on user corrections is. My apartment complex is all mislabeled when it comes to what numbers are in what buildings. When I moved in I entered corrections a few times (and I have to assume I wasn't the only one), yet a year later it remains unchanged.
Sure, someone who doesn't use facebook might not care if you sell essential oils in his name on facebook, but if you are required to prove your identity, presumably that identity is available to the service provider. So your identity will get permanently banned from the service after the first few violations, making it not cost effective for something like spamming. Its not like the captcha solving farms which sell them for 0.1 cent a piece.

If, instead of just spamming, you want to do something a little more devious, like running a pyramid scheme, making a bomb threat or posting whatever your government calls hate speech - the person who gave you his identity is in trouble. It's kind of like saying "I will [digitally] sign any paper you want for $100". The ceiling for negative consequences is practically limitless.

He might get away by claiming the identity was somehow stolen, but that would have to be a lot of money for so much potential trouble.
They all run the same instruction, so I'm not actually sure if the slices matter much.
Hey kdrag0n, congrats on the launch! I've been using it since the beta, and let me tell you, this is gonna be the go-to option for Docker on Mac.
The maps themself aren't any better in my neighborhood (or rather the the places on the map). I tried contributing once but OpenStreeMap ux and data model/tagging taxonomy is a convoluted mess too.
I see publications like this come out of CISA every so often, but they always follow a similar format: "security is a really big problem", "the industry is consistently failing to apply well-known solutions", "will you pretty please just get on top of this already?"

There is no regulatory body equivalent to the FTC or SEC or FDA for software, and it shows. Big software isn't magically more altruistic than big pharma or big agriculture or big finance. Given a choice between making huge amounts of money with very little overhead and raising overhead in order to protect consumers, they will consistently choose the former. It's high past time we have an agency with real teeth to regulate the software industry.
I have always filled out change of address online with no issues. But I suppose it’s been 5-6 years since I last did this.
Show HN: yget – get top stories on HN without a browser
example usage:

$ yget 3

1. Cisco Acquires Splunk
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596497>
591 points by siddharthb_ | 325 comments

2. Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37599510>
151 points by jrepinc | 63 comments

3. Nippon Television has just acquired Studio Ghibli
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596788>
454 points by sohkamyung | 146 comments

#!/bin/sh

# yget: get top stories on hn without a browser
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37601452

# this is a small shell script i wrote to try out the firebase API that
# prints HN posts one at a time into your terminal. it depends on curl
# and jq, but is otherwise fully portable.

yget () {
URI_FMT='https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0'
URL_FMT='https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id='

USER=${USER:-$(whoami || id -un)}
YGET_DIR="${YGET_DIR:-/tmp/yget.$USER}"
mkdir -p "$YGET_DIR"

topstories="$YGET_DIR"/topstories.json
curl -s "$URI_FMT/topstories.json" > "$topstories"

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
if test "$1" -ge 1 2>/dev/null && test "$1" -le 500 2>/dev/null; then
post_left="$1"
elif test "$1" -lt 1 2>/dev/null || test "$1" -gt 500 2>/dev/null; then
printf "out of range!\n"
exit 1
else
printf "invalid input!\n"
exit 1
fi
else
post_left="4"
fi

post_count="$post_left"

while [ "$post_left" -gt 0 ]; do
rank=$((post_count - post_left))
num=$((rank + 1))
id=$(jq -r .["$rank"] "$topstories")
story="$YGET_DIR"/"$id".json
curl -s "$URI_FMT/item/$id.json" > "$story"
title=$(jq -r '.title' "$story")
score=$(jq -r '.score' "$story")
user=$(jq -r '.by' "$story")
comments=$(jq -r '.descendants' "$story")
printf "\n%3d. %s \n" "$num" "$title"
printf " <%s> \n" "$URL_FMT$id"
printf " %s points by %s | %s comments \n" "$score" "$user" "$comments"
post_left=$((post_left - 1))
done
}

yget "$1"
Yeah, the one good thought I did have when learning about this tool was "most teachers are not going to have the time to fiddle with this during teaching". But I'm sure there are several companies currently working on a way to do this scoring automatically via commodity webcams facing the class
If you don't actually follow your money to validate that it was used to remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as claimed, you have no way of knowing whether it's a scam or not.

It's not like purchasing supplies actually needed for your business, where you usually know when something is not delivered or not up to spec.

Still, bogus jet engine parts can find their way into airliners.
The choices are Windows with a modem or macOS without.
Good question. I'd honestly agree with you. There was an article linked here the other day quoting Charlie Munger saying that the secret to success in business was less about doing the right things and more about not doing the wrong things. Unfortunately if you look at the hardware business today, there's a lot of companies clearly doing the wrong things, Apple is also clearly not. Still goes to my point that Apple is far more than a hype train, there's actually something of substance there.
Highly recommend it, too. I've found it invaluable. Especially for some of the more arcane ffmpeg incantations.
The title and electric BMW review in the first part was an annoying bait and switch to the real content.
It’s nothing to do with children. This government fought hard against feeding children in schools, something that India manages to do. They delayed rebuilding crumbling schools until the last moment when they were required to act.

The government conveniently only cares about children when they can use them as pawns to obtain more power.

Their framing of the issue is malicious, by accepting it you fall into their trap. Better to ignore it and go with your own frame.
Official Elixir blog post on this exact topic from just 2-days ago.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...
Truesdell is amazing, I like this quote:

"The computer: ruin of science and threat to mankind”

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~ball/Miscelleaneous%20Article...
You are right and I misremembered. I think mowing down "entire cavalry regiments" is something I read about the Second Boer war where indeed British cavalry charged against Boers equipped with machine guns with disastrous results, whether "entire cavalry regiments" is an exaggeration or not. However, I would say that already by the time of the American civil war traditional cavalry tactics had been proven to be ineffective. American generals learned their lessons and changed their use of cavalry during the war. European generals did not and continued to emphasize the use of sabres and lances. Thus, the early stages of the First world war featured some cavalry charges which ended in blood baths for the charging side.
So, when will we see fully CGI generated scam tournaments? It seems those would take away some risks for the scammers and could make the games more believable.
In the US it generally seems to end up being natural gas; still a pretty big emissions improvement but not zero carbon by any means.
So when your oracle devices start spitting out EVEN MORE LOGS you can pay them coming and going.
It's interesting that, in light of things like this, you still see large software companies adding support for new components written in non-memory safe languages (e.g. C)

As an example Red Hat OpenShift added support for crun(https://github.com/containers/crun) this year(https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/whats-new-in-red-hat-openshift...), which is written in C as an alternative to runc, which is written in Go(https://github.com/opencontainers/runc)...
Pretty sure every Splunk customer has that split brain. This thing's great, what can we quit sending to it?
I'd argue that the primary audience for Mozilla Foundation foundrasings etc is the tech bubble people.

In the end: it's about getting Mozilla browser users to donate to something other than the Mozilla browser.
> Please go see offsets markets are regulated such as California and tell me that your linked rant is still relevant.

> I agree - markets that have no support and regulation without teeth let's poor offsets go through (read voluntary markets). I'm talking about regulated / industrial markets.

Deforestation carbon credits from Verra are accepted on California's carbon market and rely on (imo) pretty much fake estimates. In fact, CARB relies heavily [0] on offsets that in my view have done little to prove causality when it would not be difficult to do so.

e: Here is an article in a Nature journal published today indicating that additionality is basically non-existent for California's offset program [1]

[0]: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/compliance-offset-p...
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00984-2
A better source might be the acheologists' own website:

https://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/h...

There's a good video from a couple years ago there exploring the same site, I guess the news is a new cache of artifacts, not the discovery of the temple itself.
Yeah, the solution here is to get rid of 98% of the logging.
Its open source and the crypto library is also 3rd party verified. I don't get your problem.
It can understand preprocessor macros, and the FFI's CLinker class understands different platform ABIs. So I guess you could generate several different packages with variant ABIs, abstract over them and then use whichever one seems to be available.
I think that it's very reasonable to argue that explicitly telling someone to take steps that will kill them is, at best, grossly negligent.

The fact that it required other, completely unrelated, lines of defense to fail for the victim to be able to follow those steps all the way does not in any way absolve Google of responsibility here.
That's why I said "a bunch of individual [related] commits"
It’s irrelevant if they’re a freedom fighter or a terrorist. Extra judicial killings are not justified.

I’m not sure if this particular killing was done by India, but either way it’s not great timing.
That’s one hell of an endorsement. Marketing team won the jackpot.
I think the second and the third was okay, but the fourth was... hmm maybe "decline" is not the right word, it was as if I walked into my favorite coffee shop and they decided to drop a bunch of bricks and PVC pipes on my laps because that's what they do now. (Can't talk about later books - I kinda stopped there and never picked up again. Maybe I should.)
ACX Classifieds 9/23
Well then where is the money to develop safer language, from all the research and prototypes we have right now in this domain?
I didn't think my brain was filling anything. It just wasn't bothered.

These visual tricks are neat. There's one where by putting black strips in "strategic" places the person pictured looks naked. :)
No, not another javascript framework. Do not do this!
> Non-Goals
> There is no plan to remove JNI from the Java Platform.

So it is a goal?
Well, the world is destructible, so when there is a small hole (of dynamic size) in a wall, then a enemy bot should really only see the player, if there is no rubble blocking the path.
Meaning tiles are waay too big for my simulation and raycasting the most straightforward way, also some enemies can evade projectiles and obstacles, but also have to scan them first.

And it works already the way I want it. It could just be more performant, so more details and realism would be possible.
the whataboutism is in your post spelling out an opinion that I do think is best described with this neologism, you stated that the UK author is not in a position to describe an US situation because things ain't rosy on the other side of the pond either...
> We have US states that allow it, so one can relocate to states where people have voted for it if that's what they want.

This is not easy for people of limited means, hence a federal law enshrining people’s civil rights over their own existence.
Sooner or later there will be no one after - and it's sure looking like sooner to me. One reason of many for the no children.
Oh wow did not know this was something that was user facing. 40 cards do seem reasonable though?
Even replacing those power plants with LNG would be a net benefit.
I'd just see that as modeling

{query: str, keywords: List[str]}
Open street map's license allows anyone to use their data, but if you "build upon" their data then you must release your version with the same license. Google maps would not be able to incorporate OSM's licensed data to their own data without releasing their own proprietary data freely as well, which they aren't willing to do.
Line of sight, easy - just aim a sight and find that you are seeing a building rather than the opposite device.
Particularly if his knock-back sends you into the hole.
My blacklist:
- Jira
- Confluence
- Salesforce
- Anything SAP, but especially HR products
- MS Teams
- MS Sharepoint
Genuine question: do advisories like this ever directly result in action being taken? Do they carry weight with stakeholders?

(looking for real-world anecdotes, not preexisting assumptions)
"What's the worst that could happen, if we let MBA-types take over engineering?"

"Even your home's light bulbs will require an Internet-connected computer account that spies on you."
> Functioning identity systems are a component of a functioning
> government.

That's a very strong and parochial claim.

Good, reliable, trustworthy, functioning government has existed for
between 5,000 and 10,000 years depending on which anthropology you
follow.

For almost all of that time, governments have had scant legibility
into the size or makeup of their population, barring a rather crude
census every now and then.

Identity at individual granularity happened practically yesterday, and
is still a project in progress for many nation states. It's really a
function of global travel, banking systems, modern social welfare
benefits and healthcare.

A well designed government does not need micro-relations with each and
every citizen, but works fine in aggregation, devolved autonomous
subsystems and heuristics.

The "Government needs to know all about you" is a technocratic conceit
less than 100 years old.
Unless you're a congressman
> Splunk doesn't get that. There are no hobbyist/prosumer splunk installations. Zero. Nada.

Not true. I ran a free (legit!) Splunk instance in my homelab for years. It's been several years since I shut the homelab down, so I couldn't tell you if they still have hobbyist licensing, but they certainly had it in the past.
I also dropped InfluxDB at work due to its terrible performance. VictoriaMetrics is great

I was using Promscale (TimescaleDB) but they EOL'd Promscale which forced us to Victoria. But either way both of these are much faster than Influx

Don't get fooled into the latest InfluxDB rewrite. I think the latest is cloud hosted only too? So stupid
Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks
Hardware: https://phoscon.de/en/conbee2/

Software (you may or may not need it for HA): https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin
Seems like cheap auto off timers and simple motion detector lights would solve all those problems with 1970s technology and no network connections at all.
> Are you joking about Sonos? They force you to have account with them to use speakers and you have to enable location sharing on your app to connect

Tangential PSA: Red Sea (aquatics) does/did this too. I can't control the lights on my fucking aquarium without all four of them being connected to the internet over wifi and managed through an account registered with an app with location sharing enabled. Only the iOS app worked; the Android version was completely broken.

The app lets you group lights and model the lighting curves however you want but there's no reason this couldn't have been done over Zigbee. I assume my LAN is now part of some Mossad botnet.
Confluence full text search is so bad that there are memes about it…
Founder of runreveal here, if anyone is interested let me know. The news today was big, but not necessarily too surprising.
Ideally, the concrete jersey barriers are temporary until the bridge is either repaired or dismantled appropriately (with proper road closure on both sides).

It still blows my mind that a bridge on an otherwise publicly accessible road was privately owned and maintained. That's a new one to me - around here, there are plenty of private neighborhood roads, but none have bridges.
Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power (CSP) is rapidly getting cheaper: from 9.8¢/kWh (2018) to 5.0¢/kWh (2030) [1]. With 14 hours of storage, this can take care of baseload.

[1]https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/2030-solar-cost-t...
From Endnotes: All costs quoted here exclude benefits from federal or state tax incentives, such as the Investment Tax Credit.
I think there were a few things going on here that make me more sympathetic to the driver:

1. The picture in the article makes it seem like the bridge is located in a very residential spot where you might have your guard down.

2. The article mentions it was dark and raining when the accident occurred.

3. The driver was in an unfamiliar neighborhood, and in those times, I think many, many people have gotten very used to relying on Google/Apple Maps to "get you home without directing you into a creek".