skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though this topic's domain is beside what I wrote; what is on the other end of said force does not matter. The moral burden is not alleviated because it stands in contrast of goodness from the same action. To kill is to kill. To enact terror through rape, pillaging and demolition cannot be washed away. They exist simultaneously to any hypothetical goodness and the two of them taken together cannot be reduced to a single value.

A life of no evil cannot be perpetuated from will alone. It can be lived, and possibly perpetuated in extremely narrow likelihoods, but not through force of will. If you would like to complain that this suggests it is unfair if you are to survive in this world, yes. Though I wouldn't call it unfair. Consider this, if it's a function of luck, it is truly the most fair thing of all. Far more than if it were simply left up to will, which gives a discriminatory advantage to those with better skills of utilizing and applying their will.
I would imagine practically anyone who has tried taking it orally quickly became aware that it was not effective, and it has been available for years. I don't know that I've personally met a single person that found it effective, and the anecdote of having to register into "pre-crime" government databases to get the stuff that actually works is widely shared (in the USA).
How did Qualcomm snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their Oryon SoC?
I have a modest proposal. We (USA) could send our retirees to China which would fill up some of the overabundance of housing there while releasing housing here. An article floated by a while ago saying Boomers are the fastest growing homeless demographic.
That is true, but no one is disputing that.
[Laughs in Trusting Trust Problem]
Calling bullshit. Semiconductors cannot be "improvised". PN junctions aren't found anywhere accidentally.

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

One common type was made from an oxidized razor blade (rusty or flamed) with a pencil lead pressed against the blade with a safety pin. The oxide layer on the blade and the point contact of the pencil lead form a semiconductor Schottky diode and only allow current to pass in one direction.
I’d love to use an indie pharmacy, but my employers pharmacy benefit provider is…. CVS. If I don’t get most of my drugs filled there, they cost 2-3x as much, sometimes more.
yeah! i clicked through the link and thought "oh, the hex grid guy!"
> People own their networks when they're not out in public.

People rent their networks from one, maybe two area options. The consumer networks want to completely control router hardware these days and these days charge extra rental fees for owned hardware instead of rented hardware. (It's fascinating that they can legally get away with that.) Some of the biggest consumer networks have already proven they are happy to use this hardware control to inject additional ads into customers' networks for a paltry amount of additional revenue.

You are correct that people should have networks that they own and trust at home. You may have missed that they don't and consumers have lost that battle. (You may also be underestimating just how much time people spend on devices "out in public". The mobile device has become the most common device for a lot of users. For some users the only device.)

> every application / Trojan writer

They've always had that power.

Applications have never been forced to use OS/network-configured DNS. DNS is an absurdly simple protocol that doesn't even have encryption by default. OS firewalls might block sockets to DNS ports by default, but there are ways to tunnel over other ports plus tools like UPnP given enough user trust.

DoH is a standardized port tunnel but that doesn't mean that unstandardized ones never existed before. Trojans/viruses have been doing weird things to avoid DNS for decades. DoH doesn't make them that much easier.

DoH isn't great and it is a shame that for privacy and control it's a big ugly trade-off/compromise from ideals. It's useful for some people. There are definitely unanswered questions in terms of which big corporation truly cares about privacy. I've seen my monopolist consumer ISP inject ads against my wishes and do change the DNS on my home (owned) routers (that I pay extra for each month despite owning my own hardware because of owning my own hardware). I don't always know what to think about Cloudflare's massive PR engine of how much they claim to value privacy, but so far I've never seen them inject an ad where one doesn't belong nor have I seen ad revenue make a splash in their quarterly reports. They don't seem to be an ad company. (Yet?)

Trust is hard and we all have different threat models. I don't blame you for distrusting Cloudflare. I have direct evidence for distrusting my current ISP and indirect evidence for distrusting most consumer ISPs I've encountered, despite being paying customers. There's no free lunch and there's no right answer, just a lot of "least wrong" answers. DoH isn't the right answer objectively. But DoH can be a "least wrong" for some users. Just as trying to be the MITM in networks you own is quite wrong from a security standpoint (once you've got one MITM it becomes harder to trust that there isn't a second one) but may be the "least wrong" answer for some users including maybe you.
That's ideal for a radio telescope, especially considering how reliant modern society is on radio equipment
> No. The most ad targeting that should ever exist is by geography, and that's it.

This is an arbitrary moral line, and if you that's the one you want to draw for your own life, then fine.

But it's also really dumb.

Why should men see ads for tampons? Why should women see a message telling them to get a prostate cancer checkup? I already have tickets to see the superbowl - why am I getting ads to once again buy more tickets to the superbowl?

There's all sorts of value and productivity that can be gained from targeting ads. Are those capabilities used 100% for good causes? of course not. But it at least does something for society, unlike a weird moral finger wagging.
I agree, this Lex guy is such a dud.
They presumably want to be taken seriously, and not just as some hobby thing
Certainly a brass headboard doesn't have a semiconductor in it. But that doesn't mean the story is bullshit. Just that it's not working in the way they think it is.

Heres an example of a thistle being used to convert an AM signal into audio. Granted, they are touching the plant directly to the broadcast tower, and it's outputting enough power that it starts burning and even burns the hand of the person holding the plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
Meta in Myanmar
Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork?

Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing

Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy

Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci

Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

Upd: added links
Presuming the remote work location has decently fast internet with very good uptime, and the distance to the local health provider who can provide quality care is reasonable. I've found that many inexpensive places are lacking one or both of the above.

Not saying remote work doesn't expand the options - just that it isn't a panacea for all the issues that lead to expensive housing.
> Such a contrasting view compared to the long fight in Hawaii

In Hawaii the location is the top of the mountain and considered sacred land.

The small natural dip where the Arecibo telescope was built did not have particular society-wide historical significance so it's not comparable.
I dont know if its that these folks are slowing down - or less capable mentally, or if the world has changed so much from their youth that they're unable to deal with the change.

My 90 year old grandfather is able to deal with the changed world, surprisingly so.
At Close we have been offering an 80% salary / 4-day week option for engineering roles for a few years now. This originally was mandatory during early 2020 COVID-19 economic uncertainty as a way to cut costs without doing layoffs. Quickly it became optional – most people moved back to 100% but some people decided they enjoyed it and wanted to continue that arrangement.

What's interesting about 4d weeks is that it's 20% less work but 50% more days off, which can be very impactful for folks.

Our 80% option is a flexible thing, as in you can choose to do it for the summer but not the rest of the year. We try to adjust workloads accordingly. I've taken advantage of it myself for a period of time and it gave me more free time to be with family and also work on side projects.

Some people really love taking our 80% option / 4d and others absolutely don't want to.

Companies offering flexibility in work hours can really help retention IMO, and is a natural progression after (a) remote / freedom of location, and (b) freedom of specific work schedule.

I know a few companies offer "4-day week summers" to everybody or even "everyone always does 4-day weeks". But I like the "fairness" of giving people an option, since different people are in different life situations at different times where working more vs. less can be especially helpful.
That's 5 copies for SVE (had an error in first message - SVE allows up to 2048-bit vectors, not 1024), and 10 copies for RVV if you wanted to target all widths (though you'd probably be fine for a decade or a couple by targeting just 128 & 256-bit, and maybe 512-bit). Plus one more for a scalar fallback.

And yes, it's not particularly large of a cost, other than it being an extremely pointless waste of space given that it is possible to have just one variant that covers them all.

Though, it would become significantly more problematic if you wanted to target different extension groups too (which you would quite likely want to some extent) as those'd multiply with all the length targets - SVE vs SVE2 vs more future extensions, and on RVV there's just a lot (Zvfh & Zvfhmin for FP16, Zvbb for extra bitmanip stuff, many more here[1]; and potentially at some point there could be an extension that uses a wider encoding scheme to inline vsetvl fields & allow masking by registers other than v0, which could benefit everything)

[1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-crypto/blob/c8ddeb7e64a3444dd...
With ‘large potentially hazardous asteroids’, thinking we have found most of them doesn’t really seem that reassuring.

Like the mayor giving a press conference in front of the zoo saying “Most of the large, maneating lions are thought to have been located”.
I'm really torn about this. Mauna Kea is the best place on the entire planet to observe the galactic center; it has the best seeing (minimal humidity and low atmospheric turbulence) that's not matched in the northern hemisphere. The ESO already has an equivalent observatory planned in the southern hemisphere so there's less value in relocating the TMT down to Chile, so effectively either Mauna Kea or nowhere.

Simultaneously, Hawaii has an ugly history of colonization that's not talked about enough. The area is sacred to native Hawaiians and indigenous people deserve say in how their ancestral land is used. The TMT is also a comparatively easy target for activists to push back on colonization compared to large corporations with continents of lawyers, or the tourism economy that provides revenue for the island. Folks know that chaining elderly folks across construction access works, and it would be a PR nightmare to forcibly remove them.

Scientific progress should be something that transcends politics but we're stuck with the legacy of colonization, and that makes us all a little poorer.
Walgreens seems to have an incredibly inefficient processing operation. Each prescription fill requires someone to access several different computers. A vaccination took an hour, of which 90% was paperwork.
Holy comma splice, Batman
CGI has used "visual programming" for decades not with great success. Quotes there because it depends on what you consider visual programming. It's not syntax level minutia as it's more of a functional blocks or expressions even that mutate data from start to end.. which in its essence programming is all about anyways. See Autodesk Flame, Digital Foundry Nuke, SideFX Houdini for examples.
Yep but that doesn't happen accidentally. And good luck getting a quartz crystal in a form that can be heard.
didn't even know that existed. Thanks, I'll check it out!!!
Literally no one is suggesting that they don't perform a thorough investigation.
unaffordable housing isnt a supply and demand issue. its an investor issue
One detail about the 4-day work week that tends to be ignored is that a 4 day work week is not the same as a part-time position, and, crucially, it should be compensated the same as a "full-time" 40 hours per week position. Some companies claim to have a 4 day work week schedule, when in fact they simply negotiate an equal reduction in salary.

The point of working less is for people to have more personal time without this impacting their livelihood. There are many well-studied benefits of this[1], both to workers and companies, yet greedy companies still cling to archaic practices to squeeze as much profits as possible out of each employee.

Even after considerable productivity increases gained in part by automation and technology, we've seen decades of wage stagnation and an increasing productivity-pay gap[2,3,4]. Workers have lived with this short end of the stick for far too long, and the least controversial step forward would be to make the 4 day work week without pay reduction a general policy in all companies in nonessential industries. There are industries that need to operate with longer schedules, and those positions should be compensated accordingly, but most IT companies can certainly operate with much less than 5 days per week.

[1]: https://time.com/6256741/four-day-work-week-benefits/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_of_wages_from_produ...

[3]: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

[4]: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Just gotta get a remote job in the six figures, it’s super easy to do. /s
Of course I believe you—but you're referring to internal state that the rest of us don't have access to and which you didn't encode in your comment. Intent doesn't communicate itself—especially not in this medium, where all we have access to are tiny globs of text—so it has to be made explicit. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Since your comment didn't do that, I read it as more of a putdown than it sounds like you intended to convey. Commenting on someone else's intimate relationships and psychological state is exceedingly personal territory. Internet users often, unfortunately, step into that as a way of being snide to others (it's even a bit of a trope, though I'm not saying your comment went this far: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...). And this becomes 100x more likely when the context is an ideological battlefield, which gender issues are.
The problem is that remote work is only feasible for a relatively small percentage of jobs. "Where are homes affordable for the HN crowd" is a very different discussion than where are homes affordable for the general population of the US.
> Because it's pretty routine for me to get pinged on IRC/slack/whatever by another engineer who's looking for help with something.

That's why when we were all colocated in one building, I was logged out. I made it clear they were welcome to drop by my cube whenever they wanted, but I would not be available by IM. It cut the interrupts by half, easily. People use you as a crutch. When you raise the cost even minimally, they are suddenly willing to solve their own problems.

That's the one aspect that COVID destroyed. Now I have to be online as people can't just walk to my cube.
Yeah... I understand. I worked in an enterprise like that for a while. Got out as soon as I could. Can't stand the glacially slow pace of actually getting things (not bullshit) done. I don't think your problem is with tooling, it's with enterprise bullshit.
This is a BS story; the delivery robot company turned over footage to LAPD in a case involving the attempted theft of one of their robots. This is no different from someone with a security camera at their home turning over footage of a burglar.
there's a paper about it that I just found, enjoy https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13062
This is exactly it, a lot of apple framework code under the hood is not safe and you don't notice it most of the time, but you get users reporting it and maybe reproduce it intermittently once a week if that.

Most apps are not as intense as ours, they are web app equivalents that just do a few http calls and display form data. Our app is pretty intense with gpu background jobs, image queries, ai models running, local db modifications and network uploads occurring, which is way more of a concurrency stress test than most. It acts like a local only desktop app with some optional internet features.

It’s the observability blocking that is the worst part. If we could observe deadlock states then it wouldn't be as bad.
they would never let that happen
Amit describes the differences here [2], but briefly:

- The Wiki pseduocode uses Set data structures for everything. While these are covered in classes, the up-tree concept isn't as heavily described as other trees

- Looking at it now, it looks like the pseudocode is a little more beginner friendly, but "back in mah day" it was not

- Although, RedBlob's pseudocode for obtaining neighboring nodes is clearer than "for each neighbor of current" (Wikipedia pseudocode)

- RedBlob uses Priority Queues and Maps instead of Sets, which connect better to other AI searches / recommendation algorithms. Higher 'priority' recommendations move to root in PQs while nodes in Sets... don't... they just sort of 'exist'

- The Maps make looking up node costs more intuitive than lists (aka "current := the node in openSet having the lowest fScore[] value")

[2] https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/implementati...
I wonder if it recognizes languages that don't have greetings. Try Klingon next time: "nuqneH"
"Traditional advice" when I was growing up and my parents bought a house was 25%.
It almost sounds like he was bragging about the capabilities of the device. That’ll do it for sure.

But serious question: does it actually allow someone to copy airport security badges?
For your sake, I hope you're being paid with an assumption of a 60-hour week.
Where did anybody say accidentally? I said it could be improvised. Are you arguing just to argue?

Edit: I realize that the headboard story implies an "accidental" semiconductor. And yes that's totally possible.
looks nice, I could see them getting printed as a nice art piece
I know that the content creators have access to this information, and anecdotally I've heard that it's part of the negotiation process, but to be fair I don't know that for sure.
We’ve moved away from them to a pharmacy in a local grocery store. IDK WTF is wrong with CVS, but they always seem to have 4-6 people working but can’t process more than 40 customers an hour, between the window and the line inside. I’ve read comments from people who’ve worked there who claim CVS chronically understaffs the pharmacy, but god, they always seem to have a lot of folks behind the counter, so I guess their processes must be incredibly inefficient.

And if you know for a fact you need to ask someone there a quick question, there is no way to do that over the phone without going through one of the most hostile phone trees I’ve ever experienced. Say, if you need to ask if they’ve got some drug in stock before telling your doctor to send it there (why the everloving fuck customers have to do this seems-like-it-should-be-automated labor themselves is another question—but we do, and CVS makes it about as unpleasant as possible)
> put their idle/money-burning build capacity to solving America's own real-estate shortages

I mean, we could quickly end the US real-estate shortages completely domestically if we were willing to upzone and build insane tenement-style high-rises like the Chinese are willing to do.
A hundred years ago a US silver dollar would buy you a decent steak dinner, and naturally a US $10 gold eagle coin would serve 10 people.

Now that same kind of dinner can still be had for the same silver dollar, but the amount of gold in the small 1923 gold eagle[0] would be enough to serve 30 today, not merely the 10 diners of 100 years ago.

And some of these are nice restaurants.

Today if your dollar does not contain the full ounce of silver it was originally intended to, and all you have is a $1 bank note instead, it still buys a kid-sized ice cream cone at McDonald's. Now sometimes only during special promotions depending on market.

[0] Regular ordinary legal tender, but were all confiscated by the government because they were gold in 1933, when the ownership of gold by Americans was outlawed until decades later (only after its backing of the dollar was discontinued).
By "emulating" Win32 and DirectX, in detriment of native Linux features.
He didn't just mouth off, he claimed that he could use the device to circumvent their access badge control system through cloning.

It seems like there is a pretty legitimate case to confiscating a device from a person who says he could use said device to compromise security. Even in the case that there isn't an explicit policy against that specific device.

I sometimes travel with VHF/UHF ham radios. These, if used improperly, could interfere with airport and operations, as well as aircraft band radios. I occasionally get asked what the radio is for, and I explain what it is. If I mouthed off and said I can use it for all sorts of stuff, like jamming security frequencies, I would expect to lose cus

If I casually mention to the cabin crew that my mealtime knife could, technically, be used to stab them, should they also let that slide since I'm just stating the capabilities of the knife?
Most jobs aren’t full remote, they’re either in person or hybrid. Even during the peak of Covid, a majority of workers weren’t eligible to work from home.

Ironically it’s the well off office workers who are most likely to be able to work remote, the exact people who are least impacted by housing prices.
California resident here. Female and in what was then called junior high school when Senator Feinstein became Mayor of San Francisco.

She was one the people who changed the profile of power. That profile can only change so much at a time and change it to accommodate women was and still is a very big deal.

I didn’t always agree with her but I always thought she was committed to public service. And, like any long-serving senator, she changed her mind. Time and growth will do that, especially in a legislative body that should be built on compromise and inclusivity.

It’s sad to me that the end her career became dominated by not stepping down. I don’t know much — or anything — about back room politics but can imagine it was a decision calculated and agreed to by more than her or her staff.

I read an article a few months ago — I can’t find it now because of today’s news flood for her name — that talked about the way she wrote letters, position papers, instructions for years. She communicated in writing. And that is part of what gave her a high functioning staff and one that could support her in this last term. She had spent a lifetime in public service documenting what she thought.

In President Biden’s statement, he wrote that she was often the only woman in the room. Every article is chronicling her firsts. That she was the first woman to represent CA in the senate and that she was tenacious and held on when other people thought she should go quietly seems to me a perfectly logical pairing.