skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the Cold War, everyone had spies in the other side.

Russia is certainly still trying that now (I assume the US is too, but haven't heard of it recently).

Giving any group legit access to this risks those spies having a convenient and easy way to find anyone with dirty laundry (even mild, legal stuff), and blackmail them into helping the spies.

This problem still exists even if we don't have the system for legit access, I'm only saying an official system makes it worse.

We still have to alter our societies so that nobody has anything secret to be ashamed of. This necessarily means making society radically more transparent, and I think the only way this is possible is to also make society radically more inclusive and tolerant. Why also tolerant? Because I've heard people typically commit 3 felonies a day (don't trust random factoids), and at that rate transparency without liberty turns the whole nation into a prison.
Worse. They knew of the bugs and prosecuted postmaster for the discrepancy instead of accepting them as bugs.
I'm not even sure complete oversight is the goal. All of the individuals involved might even have the purest of intentions.

But time and time again the outcome of such actions (when left un-countered) does seem to end up with more spying on civilians.
There are no definitions. Citing Latin is pointless and argumentative. Please let go and live your life.
I noticed that in the photos they're all sitting above the bit where the reinforcements are at the edge of the bed. I couldn't see any reinforcement in the middle, ~but there might be some on more detailed plans~ the videos on their site don't show any support either, but I am willing to believe that the load can be distributed by the pair of cardboard sheets.

You would hope that the 350kg is from a point load in the middle of the bed. If anyone finds out, I would also be interested to know.
Fracturing a big commit to smaller parts doesn't help. Amount of work is the same, number of comments would be higher or same due to bigger context loss. GH PR UI is notoriously confusing while reviewing multi commit PRs.
I think this was, likely, showroom material rather than magazine pages
People dying from the elements is at an all time low!

As a teenager, my grandfather lost a set of teeth due to the winter's cold, by sleeping in a cold barn, and he described it as a near-death experience. If anything, for many regions of the world, the weather getting hotter may be a relief for the poor that don't have heating in the winter.

We have zero reasons to be more depressed than prior generations. If we are depressed, don't you think the constant fear porn from mass-media has more to do with it?

PS: it's not just the carbs that are cheaper and more available. It's everything, including meat. Staples of any healthy vegan diet, like green peas, or lentils, weren't even available until ~1960, after industrial agriculture caught on. Never mind the availability of fresh fruits year-round. My grandparents basically lived on a diet of polenta, potatoes, milk, and eggs, as that's what they were able to grow.
Your problem is that you work in a country that has yet to evolve to a state of evolution where there are decent labour laws. Your country values capital above people. Until you vote for something else this is what you will get
It'd take all of forever to construct any real world material atom by atom!
These were used in legendary Rolls-Royces from the 1960s (Silver Cloud, ...). It is a good sign that this thing was so good. I had the chance to drive one of them and it still runs well after >60 years, sometimes even more accurate speed changes than some automatics from the 1990s.
> a lot of those single vendor proprietary solutions put food on the table for a lot of families and businesses

Did I say otherwise?
The last time I looked into the Post Office scandal, the impression I got was that "we just
had too much faith in the IT system!" was a convenient story, but the high-ups knew full well about the problems, and full well that they were persecuting innocent people, but did it anyway to cover up their own failings. If so, people need to see substantial jail terms for this. Perverting the course of justice is no misdemeanor. There's even allegations that Paula Vennells knowingly lied to Parliament
1. ? Did I miss something?

(Time is a-plenty.)
Off-topic: Given that state cyber entities maintain networks isolated from the internet, how do they adapt to the rise of tools like Co-Pilot and ChatGPT in the software engineering landscape? This kind of security setup inherently restricts access to such tools, potentially slowing their pace. Thoughts?
I think that’s part and parcel of any similar project.
As others have said, IKEA has been making furniture out of cardboard for years. Cut into the wrong bit of any of their cheap melamine faced furniture and it's just corrugated cardboard inside. They use little bits of chipboard here and there for stronger joints.

Personally I hate that kind of furniture. When furniture made of chipboard, particle board, fibreboard etc is damaged it's basically scrap. Real wood ages nicely - it's more robust to start with and the damage it does take often adds to the aesthetic.

I've been slowly getting rid of chipboard furniture, replacing it with pieces that stand on their own. A 70 year old table, a 100 year old coffee table, or building it myself from nice wood. It's lovely when your furniture brings you joy.
Yes, but having a child is not a reversible decision, so having a child just to see what it feels like is something that I would not risk doing, especially if the risk is non-zero.
blows my mind how many campaigns he's been involved in.
Popularizing the banana is another one...
If bugs were easy to find and solve there wouldn't be an entire highly paid industry to do it.

Add to that malicious actors actively trying to work against systems (bank/post office/medical system etc) and it becomes pretty hard to prove that both the software and the data referenced by the software is in fact correct.

Now think about the last time a critical piece of data was recorded on paper with a pen/analogue typewriter and both parties got a physical copy of it.

Last time you made a cash withdrawal did you have to go to a teller at the bank, fill in paperwork, have two copies of that paperwork exist and then that paperwork was digitised or was the entire process digital beginning to end?

Think about how you, if you were an expert witness, would prove that an transaction made on a banking website was not a computer fault.

Do you show a code audit which meets some standards?

Do you have the bank's CISO explain all of the security measures?

INAL but I'm reasonably sure the defendant only has to prove that a system with the same security and audit trail has in fact been faulty and your evidence goes out the door or at least the validity of it decreases.
> Maybe it’s nothing. It’s probably nothing.

Yep, two different companies flying you out just to hack your shit. It's probably nothing. It makes me curious what you work with. Do you maintain commonly used open source software?
It’s possible to simultaneously drive economic development, lift a populace out of poverty, and not construct an authoritarian regime.

See also: Western Democracy.

Remind me again which government was responsible for the deadliest famine in human history?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/
Very well said, it’s unfortunate that they can simply pick this as a pressure point and the public might accept it.
I use that one everyday
If you took the entire content of your mailbox, any files shares/onedrive/etc and the all the slack channels you could access and dumped that all online, I imagine that would still do a fair bit of damage to your company. And even if there's nothing overly sensitive or embarrassing in what you post, the fact that you were able to makes the company look incompetent and insecure.

Or you could be more destructive - think how many companies get hit with ransomware and how much that costs them. You don't even need to be technical to do most of it - just "fall" for obvious phishing emails, download dodgy software, etc.

Or (assuming you have a physical office), you could break things, steal from the company, plant bugs or remote access devices, etc.

Hell, even if the best case where you don't do anything actively malicious, if you know you're getting fired in a week then you're not going to put in much effort or do have any incentive to try and do a good job in your last few days.

They have nothing to gain and potentially a lot to lose by letting people know they're being fired, so it's not really a surprise that most companies act that way.
Thanks for the excellent share. Both the thesis and the blog behind it come at a perfect time as I am writing my own thesis on GAN-assisted anonymization of full-body movement data. Very interesting and well written dissertation.
I did not cite Latin, for the record, looks like you're thinking of the other person in this thread. But yes, words definitely have definitions, whether one wants to debate their meanings is a different matter.
There is no Jewish or Christian denomination that rejects Genesis or Psalms.
Costs* Funding*
Typos as usual.
Flavour is a byword for 'driver for compulsive behaviour' here.

Pretty dark stuff.
I'm an ESL speaker, and throughout my whole life I've always considered "a couple" to be equivalent to "a few". Then, I played Papers, Please and the author has always only used the term to mean exactly two. I still associate this meaning with that particular game.
Another example of beg bounty [1]. It's so infuriating that open-source maintainers have to waste time on this.

[1]: https://www.troyhunt.com/beg-bounties/
Better than a chocolate bar I guess. But that’s setting the bar very low
I don't think the tech war is the full explanation for the decline of Japanese tech; the failure to focus on software is a big one and seems to be due to internal factors such as conservatism and business models tied to sale of hardware.

However when the US combines it industrial interests with its state apparatus it is a formidable force; media described the Japanese society as authoritarian, bitter and racist - eager to get back the Americans after world war 2 - with the everyday Japanese being mindless warrior drones in a strict hierarchy. (For examples of this sentiment see the movies Black Rain or Rising Sun - or lookup the tragic death of Vincent Chin - a Chinese mistaken for being Japanese).

The US justice system ran a series of entrapment campaign targeting Japanese firms. And there was buy-american campaigns and extra tariffs were put on Japanese imports.

Ultimately the Japanese yielded. The plaza accord fixed the Yen at a very high price point hampering Japanese exports. And quotas were set for US exports to Japan and Japanese car factories were setup in the US.

And then in 90es you had the rise of now competitative tech firms from South Korea and Taiwan.
Do you get paid by the word, by the post, or are you actually this nuts and do this for free?
Amla pickle is also delicious, my grandmother often used to make it.
Behind the proposal is several Big Tech companies with a lot of money which are seeking lucrative government contracts. One of them is Aston Kutcher's Thorn which seems to have a very good report with the EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson.

https://www-svd-se.translate.goog/a/ona477/kandisbolaget-tho...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/09/26/t...
What else can you do - those sites are not under the courts jurasticion possibly in Russia, China, USA who do not honour requests from other countries either through spite or because their laws differ.
> the right hand is free to hold a cigarette

Crazy talk. You hold the cigarette in the left hand so you can flick the ashes out the window.
It seems like the thread is split between those who value privacy more than preventing child abuse and people who don't believe child abuse and crime in general can actually (gasp) motivate lawmakers to pass laws.

Actually, the view of those lawmakers in this thread seems to be some sort of caricature of self-interested future despots, as if most of commenters here are not living in democracies.

It would be astonishing if it was not routine on HN...

Sure maybe the moral tradeoff is worth it and privacy is top priority. Then I'd recommend to focus on all other areas of life that violate privacy first. Ban airport security, CCTVs etc. After that feel free to move on to banning measures that protect victims, who unlike most of you grown-up functioning adults, can't even stand up for themselves. And address the gravity of that tradeoff, or you're just making nonces out of yourselves.
Bernays. I tried him on a steak once and it wasn't very nice.
How do you sue many sites in twenty different countries?
They sound silly at first but many things have nowadays would sound ridiculous to people in the past; something sounding strange isn’t valid evidence against it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

> Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by stating or reiterating that the argument is absurd, without providing further argumentation.

The arguments for it are a it abstract sometimes (which is maybe why science fiction is a good way to give a concrete, if unrealistic, introduction to the concept) but I think they seem pretty solid
NetBSD performance and power management tweaks
> That looks awfully close to the micro-service approach as well. The approach can be good, but it still gives me pause.

Microservices aside, GP's statement seems to imply composition is like addition wrt. complexity. Unfortunately, in reality it's multiplication. Complexity multiplies with each moving part. There's hardly a better example of that to what we inherited from "original Unix" - chaining small, focused tools in pipes turns into a write-only mess after around the fourth pipe.

Software complexity isn't simply a divide-and-conquer problem, because we pay a penalty for each individual piece, and each piece of glue that connects it with other pieces. That's the whole reason we rely on abstraction and generalization so much - the ability to take a bunch of "small, self-contained, isolated, well-understood parts", put them in a box, and stick a higher-level name to it. Recursively.
Anecdata: Coke is not hyperpalatable, but Oreos are. IMO.
If you don't really code in your spare time your home computer might be unsuitable. For example a Chromebook
I think you're on the money with this. I live in Australia in a pretty walkable inner city area and there are countless amazing food options all around and there is also a KFC which serves absolutely appalling food for higher prices than the much better stuff around. Yet there is always a queue of cars in it since it borders a main road.

I can only assume people tolerate paying more to eat gristle if it means not having to park and get out of their cars. Meanwhile people on foot have access to everything.
That really says more about your social circle than anything else. Your assumption of statistical representativeness is (quite naturally) completely off. Depending on which part of my social circle one would talk about 10% would have been far too few.. At least a couple of years back. It’s getting better though ;)
> You mean raising lord’s kid?

From the link to wikipedia you sourced:

> A majority of historians[citation needed] have concluded that the idea is a myth and that all references to it are from later periods.
Yeah, I don’t know how well I'd be able to draw/trace what I can mentally see, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure that this is a separate ability that can be trained independently from the mental-seeing ability, much like you can train drawing 3D shapes or human anatomy.
https://youtu.be/zPdHPEqmB9g?si=W9guF4EU2J1qoJD4
Looking at the app stores, Android/iOS devs definitely figured it out.

I think straight up relisting would be harder on Steam, at least at this point in time. It's not quite to the point where there is so much sludge that Valve staff can't even handle community reports.
And especially, you meet a <throng, swarm, zounds> of <gnolls, dragon flies, red dragons> and so on.

Those words always seemed the most fantastical to me
I have a big soft spot in my heart for idealistic crypto stuff like this. Everything the author argues is true...but there's no way in hell commercial email providers would actually publish their private keys. The only way it would be in their interest to make it easy to forge old emails would be if a substantial portion of users demanded it, and that's never going to happen.
Turns out that the police will police themselves, given the appropriate incentive: https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/16oe5l9/who_w...
Anonymous;Code handled Earth Simulators very well.
If any sufficiently sophisticated Earth Simulator makes its own Earth Simulator it's simulations all the way down, and system failure can cascade up destroying worlds along the way
Anyone can bring a prosecution in England. In theory it provides a way to hold the powerful to account but it's very expensive so almost all private prosecutions are actually by corporations.
And you'll need that portfolio yield to afford the insulin.
Aldi salads.. Cheap and good
SPF is enough (and it is built-in with plain no-DNS SMTP servers).
Why would a provider forbid tethering? And besides the why, how would they even know you're doing that? If I turn on my phones hotspot, doesn't that look exactly like my phone is doing something™ requiring a high bandwidth?
> Starbucks Japan — what might look like more of the same at a first glance, is actually all images. Fonts are not selectable...

Just experienced this while booking a hotel. This makes it tricky because it breaks the Google Translate functionality in Chrome.

Luckily Yandex Translate supports OCR.
There are a well known list of priorities in a humanitarian relief situation. Beds are not on it.
Isn't commercial support already kinda that? See some players in Linux world.

It is not that weird of an idea. As vendors of OS, must keep putting real effort in their products. And that isn't free. So either they can sell copy one time or then sell subscription.

Sad thing is that Windows has been extremely cheap for amount of use you can get out of single licence. Years of 24/7 use...
Don't worry, your Parser is a functor
European democratic socialism very much has a growth focus, very unclear what a degrowth variant would look like.
I am English Huel is an extremely off putting name for food.

There is no way that you would say you are eating Huel.
Speaking as someone who designs hardware to process data streaming off just one of the detectors on one of the experiments at the LHC, its hard to imagine that is enough!
It's not limited to 32, but afterwards search will be linear along child[0]. Using rotation would not make a difference, since you're in the collision case already, so you would effectively always branch to the same child for levels below 32.
Except with trousers, then a pair is exactly one thing. :)
One key mechanism to foster collusion was Agri Stats. This corporation gathers pricing,
production, and wage data from every firm in the industry, and then sells those same
firms ‘consulting advice,’ essentially selling price-fixing conspiracies to meat
processors.

Isn't there software along the same lines for realtors to determine rent pricing?

It sounds like they should be worried... :)
It's a bit different in Australia in Melbourne/Sydney. You have suburbs but they have all developed micro cities around the train station. So you have these spots that don't smell like piss and smog, have a supermarket, bars, restaurants, and brand new highrises with high quality apartments.

Super easy to live car free since your day to day stuff can be accessed by foot, and the train to the CBD is super easy to access as well.
> It's something that literally has to be grown from the bottom-up, atom by atom --- in bulk, that's essentially a UFO-tier tech.

The UFO-tears were also at our level at some point. How far out in the future are we talking before humans can do this? Is there anything fundamental that would prevents us from doing it?

Also, it's the replicator from Star Trek, isn't it?
Would you mind noting their local reseller?
> Also, not all problems can be solved.

This is something it took me a long time to integrate.

Politicians, especialy politicos with their backs against a wall, face demands to "do something about it" that they can't resist. The result is often a treatment that is worse than the disease.

If that's true, the corrollary is that we shouldn't mock politicians when they come up with "solutions" that are ineffectual - provided they're just ineffectual, and not Trojan horses for some more insidious plan. Perhaps the best answer to "something must be done" is to do something - anything - that doesn't cost too much, and doesn't do much harm.
Measurement of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen in Noisy Urban Locale Using Kitchenware
The problem is the music and movie industries which will want to use the technical systems setup for human trafficers, child abuse, murderers, you know, the real nasty.

A line must be clearly drawn in the usage of such "military" grade systems.
Most people have a tendency to take the easy path and think stuff is perfect rather than accept everything works "approximately", although we see again and again proofs of the contrary.

But as an engineer I find this natural and efficient! You should prioritize and some bugs are less important than others. If anything more effort should be put in education, health and fundamental research rather than fixing all bugs in all software.
> If anything, it will likely toss more resources to open source by those very same big tech companies, to protect their liabilities

I don’t think that's how it will work. The moment the big company ships an open-source library as part of their commercial software, they will be liable for it (but not the original non-commercial open-source authors, if any). As soon as it's used as part of a commercial product, being open source or not won't matter for the liability.
60% of the population used to work in Agriculture. Now that's more like 2%
Do you think the 6/10 classmates who had career choices they wouldn't have otherwise "benefited from Agricultural Automation"?
Even if they didn't own any farms or Agricultural Manafacturing stocks. Their labour being freed up for other uses helped them no?
You can see in this thread that 20 different HNers who are passionate about the subject and done implementation before have 20 different opinions on what the law actually does. So how can we expect random businesses to all be on the same page? And this is not years after GDPR started.
> I get that reading the code is what developers should do, but why not help others and make it easier? Even I add comments so that future me can remember how it works.

Comments are a code smell. If the code doesn't make it clear what the application is doing, you need to rewrite it so that it does.

If your project does not have unit tests, that should be your priority. It makes no sense to focus on comments on a project that has no unit tests.

> I remember emitting the idea of building a tool to calculate an opinionated code quality score on irc, I got mocked. If your codebase is low quality either hire people to refactor it or rewrite it.

No. If the code is low quality, it's on you to improve it. It's your personal task.

> Bad codebase don't deserve developers in my view.

The quality of a codebase reflects the quality of the people working on it.

Look at your comment. You're complaining it's low quality and has no unit tests, but what did you brought to the table? A vague comments on adding comments, and complaining that you expect other people should fix it. You're the root cause, not the solution.