skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it’s the best way to survive failures (such as loss of power). Transactions allow you to know that all your datastructures are in a consistent state.
This seems like a likely answer.
You're right, I should not have put Poland in the pro-Russian camp. I know it's not. I heard it stems from what the Soviets did at Warsaw near the end of the war (apparently they waited outside a few weeks to give the Germans time to kill as many remaining civilians as possible so they could set up shop themselves)

But it is populist and not EU-friendly right now. Hopefully it will change.
OK. So let's say I put all that money in each year. When does it benefit me after I've become homeless and hungry? After rent, food, insurance, medical bills, student loans, and taxes there's nowhere near that kind of money left. Let alone if you're the kind of person that enjoys recreational activities.
The headline says "Detroit man" but the article goes on to provide zero indication that the thief is a man or from Detroit.
This thief was caught though.

There may be no security on the bluetooth, but there were cameras and accountants who noticed a discrepancy in the sales figures.

In a way, it's better to have 'system level security' (ie. auditors and CCTV) than to secure just the fuel pump - after all, another thief might be around the back lowering his own pump into the big storage tanks, bypassing the bluetooth entirely...
Tom Hanks Warns of Dental Ad Using A.I. Version of Him
Yes, I and others have considered a more retro feel for the user interface. I mainly want a Symbolics Genera-like interface :)
New 6G Networks Are in the Works. Can They Destroy Dead Zones for Good?
> The market judges everyone’s skills, and barring nepotism, the market will pay everyone what they are worth, which is sadly not much for a lot of people.

false in the general case, you're basically invoking a just world hypothesis without actual proof for it.

For a counter example, please see slavery - slaves were not paid anything, despite obviously producing something of worth. Furthermore, there was no difference in the salaries between slaves, despite there presumably being differences in output.

For another counter example, you can look into the variation in programmer salaries based on country, or more generally location. The same job will pay anywhere from $180k in SF to $8k in India, due to differences in cost of living, which have a priori zero effect on programmer 'worth', which I presume would be how good the programmer is at writing code and delivering business value.

It is true that at a certain point, 'real skills' matter - eventually, if you're working as a software engineer, you need to write code. However, it is false to assume there is anything besides a maybe a very mild correlation, if any, in the salaries of software engineers and their ability. You can have a Polish dev with 15 years of experience making less than a new grad in California, and that has nothing to do with skill, but everything to do with regional differences in salary.
Apple enforces new check on apps in China as Beijing tightens oversight
Autistic parent is going to get killed for being Autistic. This is just another reason why I don't want children and don't get near children. I don't want the trouble of other people's prejudice.
That's an interesting detail! Perhaps she was lying down & the Cruise smarts didn't perceive her as a pedestrian, but more like an obstacle / 'bump' in the road?

Just speculating here, but would be useful to find out.

If human drivers see a pedestrian get hit or someone falling down, we instinctively know that's a human there on the pavement (and try to avoid at all costs, just like for pedestrians walking around). Or avoid human-shaped / human-sized objects just in case.

If a self-driving car would lose track of a human as soon as it stops looking like a typical pedestrian, that would be a problem.
>in Canada, if you want to "Pay Inside", you have to go in and actually pay - they authorize the maximum transaction, and it unlocks the pump and sets it to a maximum amount.

I'm in a good-sized city, and every gas station I've been to lets you pay inside after filling up. The only ones that require pre-pay (either by going inside as you described, paying for a max amount, or by CC) are the farthest pumps away from the store.
If you had told them you raised X mil, would they verify it?
Is it weird that my first thought was about ransomware's ransom note and I wondered what kind of fingerprint was used (gpg key? ssh?). I had to open the article to realise how wrong I was.

>Police were able to identify him, as the print was on their database linked to a drink-driving incident from 1999.

Ok, this is scary. So fingerprints collected 24 years ago for completely unrelated (and dubious - why collect fingerprints for drunk driving) reasons basically live forever in the gov databases. I'm not sure I welcome this brave new world.
"Next-generation 6G technology could “enable applications that we may not even imagine today”

Wasn't 5G supposed to to that?
I've seen "Post hog" too many times in less savoury situations to not laugh at the name.
Exploring the Sharpened Cosine Similarity (2022)
Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic
Depends on the station but pump then pay is still a thing, but seems to be regional as this post from 2023 shows.

https://www.cleverdude.com/content/4-things-you-need-to-know...
Most of the time a judge doesn't need to provide justification of any kind when issuing a verdict. The assumption (and it's a big one) is that they follow the law when issuing verdicts - like you said it's more like a custom. I suppose the difference is that a judge cannot stand up and say "I found you have broken the law but I disagree with the law so I won't find you guilty" while a jury can - but judges have an almost absolute discretion at deciding what the verdict is, if they internally disagree with a law they can just find you not guilty if they so wish.
Location: Paris

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Node, Deno, WebAssembly (wasm), Python.

Résumé/CV: https://cloud-faure.yourownnet.fr/s/gGzG3wHXj9iSxP3

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-faure-2b1a4b116/

Email: olivier.cj.faure@gmail.com
> Support for this project was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

What does this mean? Is this a sponsored op-ed?
New EU vulnerability disclosure rules deemed an “unnecessary risk”
Death, taxes, and industry stakeholders penning open letters criticizing pending EU legislation.
The argument that combining traditional database and vector database into one because it reduces data movement doesn't compute for me.

Firstly, even for non vector data, read/write transactional database vs read-optimized store purely for fast serving are already markedly different. Then, the shape of data that is used to generate embeddings is markedly different than the shape of data that is ready to transact or serve.

So, no matter where it is stored, it has to leave that store, get transformed and enriched and then run through an embeddings generator (ML inference).

Then, it has to be stored in a manner that is optimal for retrieval ranking. If you are doing ANN that's one thing, but if you are doing attribute based filtering while retrieving and you wish to accelerate it through GPU to do more exhaustive search, that's another thing altogether.

All these lead to fairly sophisticated optimized implementation. Sure, a singular database product solution that has all these different optimized engines can emerge over time but surely it is too early today to converge like this.
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Software engineer with 7 years experience solving problems related to vehicle routing, route optimisation, and mapping.
I understand you're sentiment, however, never mind the fact that gas station owners are barely scraping by, theft is theft. We cannot win by debating ourselves because instead of dismantling the security state (that's what iot is), the result will be a doubling down (secure iot, install backdoors, take registration, etc)
To be clear: most of the original claims about historical, prehistorical and then-contemporary indigeneous societies that have survived into the Western cultural canon were written by people who were used to extrapolating from their own cultural and social norms to others and judging everything on a scale that favored them and their social hierarchies. This also bled over into other natural sciences, which is for example why Darwin's theory of evolution was so disruptive.

Another example is how a lot of national mythologies were invented largely out of thin air in the 17th through 19th centuries, e.g. the Scottish clan system with its strict lineages and tartans. Most of the mythology around kilts is pure fabrication.

Even in economics this can be found with the common wisdom that money/currency was preceded by bartering, which we now know to be an oversimplification to the point of being wrong with in-group gift economies apparently having been far more common and bartering being part of diplomacy between separate groups rather than something you'd do with your neighbor.

Arguably this tendency even persisted to the point where the myth of an "alpha wolf" arose based on observations of wolves in captivity that was quickly dispelled after actually looking at wolves able to roam in their natural environment.

If you want to present the Victorian Age as the pinnacle of human development, of course you'll see the "uncivilised" natives as beneath you in every way and after hunting their prey animals for game and destroying their natural resources claim that starvation is just part of their natural experience rather than something you inflicted on them by taking away their livelihoods. Luckily most fields of study have moved away from this antiquated approach but sadly there's a growing call among certain people to "return to tradition" and dismiss this as "woke" nonsense.
Many companies in the web space operate almost entirely via MacBook
> you had the option to do a weekly backup of yourself.

I would gladly do this, as I gladly back up the data on my own personal hard drive, but I had no idea I needed to do a weekly backup of my Mastodon data! Nobody warned Mastodon users that this kind of data loss was to be expected. By the time I found out, it was too late.

How many of the 1.8 million monthly active Mastodon users are doing weekly backups of their Mastodon data? When has Eugen Rochko or other Mastodon instance administrators ever advised Mastodon users to this?

You seem to be blaming the victims here. And again, it's not just me: every user of my old instance experienced the same data loss, whether they know it or not (likely not).

There's no "community" if the Mastodon instance administrators are not making crucial announcements to Mastodon users, not helping those users preserve their data. If anything, I have just performed a service to the Mastodon community by informing Mastodon users that their data is not safe on the instances.

Instead of properly warning users, they spread reassuringly false bromides like "It doesn't matter which Mastodon instance you join." As it turns out, this matters a lot.
Some really orwellian stuff here. What amazes me is that people really believe this bullshit and don't even show a hint of shame.
The gut brain link is a serious concern
Female events and spaces are eroding at an alarming rate.
Agree - I was active enough on Usenet that at one point a book publisher sent me a box of books because apparently I had helped out one of their authors, and he asked them to do so. (Wiley FTW)
Portugal will scrap tax-efficient NHR regime in 2024
Some would argue they are complicit of a giant crime against humanity and environment.
default password zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero !
I actually enjoy the gas station ads because it brings us one step closer to the glorious dark future of Cyberpunk /s
things that dont last long are replaceable though.

no one complains about not being able to replace the processor in their phone because it 'never' breaks. batteries on the other hand do, and to varying degrees are replaceable.
> Location don't matter

Hi friend,

This language may be hindering your progress in finding a good job. Your flexibility is commendable, but the language is a bit dismissive. For most companies, location is very important, even for remote work, due to regulations and compliance.

I would suggest targeting either remote-only/remote-friendly companies, or on-site. But definitely do not try to snag a position where the employer expects on-site, but in your mind you expect to only have long visits.

Hope this helps!
> top-decile lawyers

> a failed lawyer

Isn't there anything in between? And, the lawyers who make $20 million a year might only be able to do so by serving a lot of slimy clients, so not necessary a category to admire.
This is the natural consequence of 50 years of car centric urban design. It turns out there's a limit on how many cars you can fit into a limited space. It's not policy that hates cars but geometry: https://thewaroncars.org/transcript-episode-79-the-end-of-ub...
I love my hometown.
They could correlate by absence of a matching receipt.

Strip out every timestamp correlated with a sale.

Strip out no object at a pump.

Scan through the remainder.
Like Tesla going against dealerships, this is very much needed.

In general the best markets are have low transaction fees, efficient, trustworthy, maintain minimum quality bar, and many balanced players on both ends.

In this scenario NAR has created an inefficient market.

Same with most states having a very hefty permitting processes that takes more than half a year for new construction.

Not saying we abolish permits, but Americas solution to housing crisis is making the permitting process faster and transparent.

We can’t call ourselves capitalists when the markets are rigged.

Gotta let the builders build, the sellers sell and the buyers buy.
>> - worse for the people who weren't privy to that conversation but perhaps could have learned or contributed except that they were OOO that moment.

> Which is why working at the office is important.

What about the guy who just walked over to someone else, now both parties were absent in eachothers conversation.

This is actually a good example of: Falls flat if everyone starts doing it. So many times I walk up to someone in the office to ask him something, but he is doing the same so I can't find him.
I read this as a 'coding tarte' and was expecting some sort of hodge-podge of rust transpiled into WASM being invoked by a node process that interfaces with a slice of python in the middle.
this is a great idea, going to update the docs. also, regarding dark themes, you can control the text/background color via query params:

<link rel="icon" href="https://zany.sh/favicon.svg?text=hi&background-color=black&text-color=white">
Uhh Romania is definitely within EU "border" :)
> “Windows is in a terrible spot. IOS brought a clearly superior computing paradigm that brought billions to the market.”

No it’s not. IMO, iOS is a superior media consumption platform, but a laughably bad computing platform.
Article is behind a paywall.

Going from the title: How took it Meta this long to invent a reasonable offering for their EU market?

I'm not a Meta user, but I'd gladly pay a subscription for whatever online service offers me most.
Perhaps it's because I'm a parent, but I couldn't disagree more. Drunk driving is antisocial and dangerous behavior. In this case, the presumption that someone engaging in it is more likely to commit crime down the road has proven completely true.

There are things that scare me about the future, but this is not one of them.
Sounds like you'd be interested in having a teletype machine, a system for triggering key presses on a physical typing interface using digital signals (not to be confused with a teletype machine, a system for triggering digital signals using key presses on a physical typing interface).
A 9 year old girl was just rescued from possible death or horrible abuse - and you are not in favor of the technology that allowed that?
I mean, i think he understands that perfectly fine. You can still engage with things that have nothing to do with you. You did it with your comment after all.

You can still reasonably feel a moral obligation to intervene on stuff done in your name or on your behalf even if it isn't really about you.
In my experience restricting cars typically means creating pedestrianised areas. These have been shown over the years to have significant benefits for shops, culture, etc in those areas. Sometimes the benefits do take a few years to come through, so when they do they aren't attributed to the lack of cars, which is a shame.
Does it have the sound of Tippex being carefully brushed onto the paper when you hit the backspace or delete or CTRL-x ?

Then blowing sounds as you try to make it solid quicker?
Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? Someone asked my co-author Steve Macek that question on Facebook, and Steve's response is worth quoting at length:

It is not censorship to revoke Fox's TV licenses for failure to live up to the public interest requirements the FCC expects of broadcasters.

So, this proposed government regulation of speech isn’t censorship because some guy on Facebook, that I’ve never heard of, personally doesn’t like Fox.

Denying a license is exactly the sort of thing a Roman Censor would have done.
I want to hear that at normal typing speed. I feel like, unless there are a good amount of slightly varied samples, it's going to have that TR-808 repetitive vibe going on ...
I personally agree that the death penalty shouldn't be a thing, but if a court only sentenced definitely guilty people who committed very heinous crimes to death, why is the death penalty barbaric in that case? (Not leading you on, just wondering what your take on this is.)
How is the quality story of Nokia nowadays? I was disappointed a local shop here in India tried to replace the battery and board with the usb port and got no improvement. The back glass also shattered with one fall. So much for the 1100 days nostalgia.
Do you also think that Large Companies should be able to hire their own armies and make their own laws?

The entire point of living in a society is that the government maintains a monopoly on force, and therefore can provide security to it's people.

If the government can't enforce its own laws, what the fuck do we pay taxes for?
They are separate systems. We don't touch Postgres for the same code that needs to access Pinecone.
... we also need a base library that has some standard data structures like maps, vectors, stacks, and queues! Best of luck with your project. :)
I don't know what the author has against inches. Other than being US focused it seems like as reasonable unit as any. I think it makes more sense to use an absolute every-day unit than pixels. Plus for pixels the question is who's pixels? Should the size of things change if someone opens it with a high DPI display?

Also I suspect embedding maps or looking stuff up when making a presentation is pretty common. I don't like the sidebar approach to it (sidebar should be a browser feature if anything) but I think it does make product sense.

The other points seem spot-on though. Although a few are a little nitpicky about getting perfect styling and alignment that the average user isn't too concerned about.

> List indentations look moronic when you resize text

Oh, this one bites me in Google Docs. I always wondering why the intents look awful by default.
I've seen people getting ready for a day of working on yards fill up 30 different things each on multiple trucks. The quantity might not stand out, and the attendant(s) might not be allowed to intervene if they think something looks suspicious. A "better to lose some money than risk losing a longtime customer over a mistake or an attendant getting shot playing hero" policy makes a lot of sense.
lots of kernings misfits ftw
We actually did something more along the lines of your first suggestion - we were asking for difference not specifically “which is better” because actually “better” is entirely contextual (and actually this was part of the point - that some people actually prefer lower quality audio because it’s what they are used to). I think (it’s a long time ago now) that we played each set which was two or three samples twice and rather than asking which was “original” I think we asked them to score for clarity, richness and which they preferred - and then to make a guess about which was a higher/lower quality source file.

Like I say, it wasn’t a rigorously scientific experiment but it was in the context of a conference about evolution of audio standards and what that meant for audio delivery from labels/distributors to DSPs.
> How could you not care about proving this to others?

Because he knows he couldn't. Maybe only subconsciously. The OOBE phenomenon is so old, experienced by so many, it would be ridiculous to thing the proposed tests weren't conducted before. They were, many times, and they failed.
It seems like your problem is that you're using a CNAME at the zone apex, which isn't valid. CNAMEs can't overlap with other records of the same name, and the zone apex holds other conflicting records (like SOA/MX).

It also looks like you've got some but not a complete DNSSEC config: https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/taonexus.com
Trying to equate theft with writing software bugs seems like a bad road to go down.
It's all OK if you frame it as a "privelage" the government is gracious enough to bestow.. then of course it's not censorship!
Author here, I wrote this post whilst thinking about how difficult I found it to wrote a Tetris (and failed) when I learned how to program. I hope to inspire novice programmers a little.
>If you’re unlucky, you might read this and think, “holy shit, no wonder I’m burned out”.

This is why full stack jobs are terribly compensated for workers. Even worse if you are doing infrastructure.

Companies are not paying a premium for the flexibility and likely burning you out at the same time.
We use Cloudflare Workers for our API and just handle auth calls by checking the JWTs with Supabase and caching it. So we already had the necessary auth setup to do this.

For basic CRUD we use the Supabase endpoints directly but none of that involves querying a vector db :P
>>Edit: Looks like pump then pay is more regional than I assumed.

The only place I have ever seen the requirement to pay first was in some tourist resorts in Spain, I guess to prevent theft. Weirdest thing ever, it's like....lady I have no idea how much fuel this rental car will take, how can I possibly prepay you.
Complexity for the developer and simplicity for the user had been an underlying mantra in macOS development for decades. Only in the past 10 years or so has there been a lot of effort to try and also simplify the developer side.
I actually think electric is one thing that could be squarely profitable for the small guy- think a small lot with solar panels or micro hydro and a few charging stations invested for much less than the cost of a house.
We do have a lot of our security documentation written on Overleaf! Sadly the security questionnaires tend to come in Excel :(
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database with PostgreSQL
I'd love to see you argue the theoretical perils of the government keeping fingerprint records in front of the family of the rescued 9 year old.
Weirdly, Oracle now has a PostgreSQL offering on their public Cloud.

Maybe finally admitting Oracle DB isn't good enough... ;)
Apple Maps is better overall for driving in the UK too.
Lots of stuff in there outside of Azure. I think we got a $1500 credit with Miro which was pretty awesome.