skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Singapore some years ago with a smoker, and discovered that there were indeed smoking areas (at least near many bars) but they were so few and small that they would always be full of smokers, the ashtrays would be overflowing, etc.

Made me wonder whether part of the government plan was "yes, if you must, but you will not enjoy it."
It seems like it would be pretty easy to make it appear that your spam torrent is highly active.
I disagree. The point of curves is to differentiate the students. Students who don’t understand do and the material should be failed, it that doesn’t tell us who should get A vs B vs C
What makes you think I insist on breaking Singaporean laws?
> The other segment of the population that can be affected by a clear and well founded explanation of what is happening are those sitting on the fence about climate change or feeling skeptical for legitimate reasons.

I simply no longer believe these people really exist, that information has been around, it has been around for decades, and yet this argument comes up time and time again, I'm a reasonable person, persuade me. Nah.... it's been done time and time again.
And are thus eclipsed by better, safer solutions like renewable energy.
Associate ≠ adjunct. Associate means that the person is one of the junior faculty, adjunct (typically) means the person is someone who might teach a class or supervise graduate students. But an adjunct doesn't have a vote in faculty meetings.
The WebP vulnerability: a tale of a CVE with much bigger impl
Makes me love Singapore the more. Very pragmatic leadership. Can't be characterized as "right-leaning" or "left-leaning" or whatever...it's like the leaders just sat down and thought, "Let us borrow any idea that works and implement in our country"...grew from third-world levels of poverty to enviable first-world development in a few decades.

I'm not Singaporean and have never visited if you're wondering...
I think we need a community-maintained and democratized time-tracking standard so we're not so beholden to Big Time
This is a hacker classic. Would be curious to know what eventually became of it.
I have a Pro account. Not having to install software locally, and being able to do shared online development is very appealing and helpful. To put it another way, Replit saves me from having to spend time learning and monitoring "administrative" aspects of development. I can just work on my coding challenge. Unfortunately, the new billing system is a step backwards.

The problem for me is that hosting costs are now variable, and the mere fact that I have to monitor or worry about an unexpectedly high bill is a drop-dead. Moreover, I have to take time even to understand the billing system.

If I understand the new billing system correctly, and again, I don't want to have to spend time figuring it out, there is a monthly allowance, so that my typical small test deployments are unlikely to incur any charges beyond my prepaid annual subscription. Is that right?

Suppose I leave a site deployed, and there's a DDOS attack? Or by some fluke, the site goes viral because a Reddit user happened to like a test image on the home page. My allowance is exceeded, and I'm suck with a bill. Sure, it's unlikely, but it could happen. I see complaints about unexpected bills from various cloud providers often, nearly every week.

The whole appeal of Replit's earlier billing system is that there was a fixed cost. Is there a setting so a deployment will be taken offline if the prepaid allowance is exceeded? If not, I won't use the service as much as I'd like. Why pay for a service I use only for the occasional one-off?

That said, this makes me realize I'm not a satisfied customer, and I regret renewing my one year plan recently. The site is just too unreliable. A problem the replit has had for years (I haven't tried this recently), for example, is that if I accidentally select a large file in the editor (like a data file), the browser freezes while an attempt is made to render the file. Sometimes the only way to recover from this is to delete the repl. At least put up an alert if a large file is selected, "You have selected a 1 GB file....."

Also, the forum-based support is practically unusable, unless someone happens to have recently posted about the problem I'm having. Searching through posts and reading lot of unsolved, minimally categorized issues with non-authoritative replies is not a good use of my time. I get that Replit doesn't want to provide support, and there might not be a market for paid support in Replit's user base, but Replit can do better. EDIT: Is anyone working on ML-based support?
As of today, I think the best way to learn orbital mechanics is playing Kerbal Space Program.
Agreed, question is what is the timeline for this? 2year or 5 year or much later ?
I have the same problem! It takes months, but eventually the clock in my car is minutes behind. I think currently it's about 4 minutes behind.
It sounds like a misunderstanding of the MPEG concept. For an encode to be made efficiently, it needs to see more than one frame of video at a time. Sure, I-frame only encoding is possible, but it's not efficient and the result isn't really distributable. Encoding wants to see multiple frames at a time so that the P and B frames can be used. Also, to get the best bang for the bandwidth buck is to use multipass encoding. Can't do that if all of the frames don't exist yet.

You have to remember how old the technology you are trying to use is, and then consider the power of the computers available when they were made. MPEG-2 encoding used to require a dedicated expansion card because the CPUs did have decent instructions for the encoding. Now, that's all native to the CPU which makes the code base archaic.
That's why I always have a couple of notes shoved in a back pocket of my pants; I haven't once forgotten to put my pants on when leaving home (yet)!
Apple fixes overheating problems and 0-day security flaw with iOS 17.0.3 update
SQL+Vector: Empowering GenAI Applications with Relational Vector Databases
Yeah, I was really hoping it was going to be like the Bass Pro Shops pyramid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid
Wildfires, Flooding, Heat: How Climate Changed Upended Summer
I tried to replace my wireless card in my T440s. For a decade, Lenovo mostly forbids these upgrade via whitelisting in Thinkpads. Hello, other vendors...
One of most famous cases was a dipshit American with a spray can, so you and I are going to have disagree about the definition of “serious” crimes. Especially when the entire impetus of the vandalism law to stop graffiti protesting the ruling party in 1966. (Previously, vandalism was punished by a small fine, rather than caning.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Michael_Fay
That's the thing. No one can actually comprehend such things like geopolicits, global/national economy, climate change etc. The world is too big for our brains to understand.
The design of software in a car is held to similar standards as the hardware in a car, as one of the people who sign off on it (and not a PE). The software often is independently inspected and verified as part of homologation.

Adding a scapegoat engineer wouldn't do anything meaningful except ruin one dude's career when something happens because

1) automotive manufacturers don't fall under engineering firm regulations

2) one person cannot have meaningful technical oversight over the scope of a vehicle, and

3) there is no software PE accreditation process in the US.
Could you provide a link to these other studies please?
> This means that metadata, such as [...] connection-close signals, which were visible to [...] all middleboxes in TCP, are now only available to the client and server in QUIC.

Do I understand that correctly, that middelboxes are not supposed to know whether or not a connection still exists? Then how exactly is NAT going to work?
AI-based algorithm uses “compressed evolution” to create functional robots
This is perhaps a bit too much of a 'thinking outside the box' suggestion, and please don't take this the wrong way, but have you tried reading resources for post-surgical detransitioners, such as the r/detrans subreddit? Doing so might help you rethink your desire for surgery, potentially saving you $100k or so and avoiding all of the health risks and complications involved.

Alternatively maybe keep in mind that there are many high-profile people of gender who haven't had any of the surgeries and seem to be getting on just fine.

Hope this helps and best of luck in your job search.
> Failing that, there is the option of getting a motorbike – permits for which are a relative snip at $7,930

I don't understand why this is so much lower. Motorbikes can park in smaller spaces but on the road, require similar area/clearance
At this rate they might raise the military service time from two to four years.
This proposal would lead (I suspect) to "enshittification" of the supply chain as people wrangled to be larger portions of the dependency/payment tree, eh?

Part of what makes FOSS work at all is that the motivation is not profit but benefit.
The Fall of Civilizations podcast is also very interesting and, despite the title, actually covers each civilization from origin to fall.

I do believe Cholula, and this particular pyramid, are mentioned in the episode about the Mexica empira. That one also includes readings of sources contemporary to the early stages of the colonian era in native Nahuatl.
Fairphone is repairable but not upgradable.
Is the design and implementation of the hardware in a car independently inspected and verified?
Biden approves new section of border wall as Mexico crossings rise
.max file format is intentionally hostile to developers to implement it, forcing them to use the proprietary library/environment. In my experience .obj (binary or ASCII) or .lwo have the best interoperability.
Those corporate phishing tests are often administered by KnowBe4, and KnowBe4 identifies their phishing emails with custom email headers (can't remember what it is off the top of my head). So if you view the source code of an email and look for the obvious KnowBe4 header, you can tell ahead of time.
I don't think you understand what geostationary orbit is. They all have to be going the same direction (with the Earth's rotation) or else it isn't stationary (not moving) over the geo (earth).

As a result I think you're misunderstanding what the orbital dynamics would be.
The original example of Stigler’s law of eponymy.
Definitely an interesting analogy, I find it uncharitable towards the state of software engineering though. Whereas alchemy/chemistry had to unlock a model of the microscopic world based on observation of the macro world we were born into, software engineering was the entire creation of a new world that we built from the ground up. It’s not that we don’t have a sufficient understanding to build great and precise software works, it’s just that the macro space is so large and unconstrained without the physical limitations that keep problem spaces of physical sciences more tractable and comprehensible.

I do agree SWE is still early days and will develop a lot, but I don’t think it will coalesce the way you’re suggesting though because we’ll keep dreaming up new things to do with arbitrary data and logic.
Brian Randell's bombshell 1976 lecture on the top secret Colossus computer [video]
You're wrong.

https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dbl...
I wish we had this cost where I live in The Netherlands. So many people here don't need cars.
How are they not doing exactly what you're asking for though? The fine is tiny.
This[1] is the typical satellites thruster:

https://www.satnow.com/products/thrusters/space-electric-thr...

It has a thrust of ~20 milli Newtons.

Power that up for 10 seconds on a satellite weighing 500 kg, and you will move an extra 0.4 millimeters per second.

So how exactly is precise maneuvering hard?
How can London be at #1 if the methodology includes: Avilability of housing, Average time to comute, weather and Affordability
(btw my comment was/is about the DHT crawler)

You are describing a pay-to-play model. The validator is if the seeder/leech count is high. Well does DHT provide aggregate bandwidth of each torrent? If not, you can easily spin up 1000+ nodes and connect to your torrent. Tada fake popularity. If bandwidth is known, then you simply raise your costs a bit by running fake clients. There are anti-piracy groups who's entire mandate is to provide noise in the piracy ecosystem. Food for thought: bandwidth costs for this would be a rounding error for e.g. MGM, Universal, or any major content creator.

DHT does not offer any sort of reputation or comment system. Back to centralized torrenting which is why I suspect DHT crawling has not been a very popular feature
This happened earlier this year to the HS where I had two kids attending. The first minutes before they figured out it was a hoax were terrifying.
Jekyll, Gitlab Pages, and VSCode. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Once you get the config and include syntax for Jekyll, it's a piece of cake.
But nice FX.
Show HN: Improve your efficiency by accessing multiple LLMs at work
They must have fixed it, it wasn't like this in the past. I remember being annoyed by this when I was still using Google.
This is great, but I can't trust a Lenovo device and I'm always a bit shocked when I see developers buying ThinkPads from a company that's demonstrated it can't be trusted to give you a secure device.
> Computer science is a tiny subset of software engineering. In practice, almost all of computer science is encapsulated in a few, tiny standard libraries - the places where bubble-sorts and hash maps live.

I agree with that...

> (This mistake is consistent, and leads to "leet code" style interview questions which are irrelevant to actual work).

...but not so much with that! Computer science is immensely useful in real world work: it helps to be able to look at a task and recognise it as an application of a few, general theorems, say in the field of graph theory or distributed systems, and let that knowledge guide your implementation. Just knowing that the problem you're facing is mathematically undecidable tells you more than weeks of experimentation would, for instance. Perhaps it's often a mistake to ask about it as an interview question, but it's not a mistake to familiarise oneself with the theory.

The issues are twofold with the relationship between computer science and software engineering.

Firstly, typical computer science courses are simply not advanced enough. At the pace of a typical university education, one would need to get to doctorate level before being able to reliably make novel developments in a given field, but that probably won't sound like a good investment of time and money when one could be earning significantly above-average salaries in industry even without the education. I personally believe that making more intensive courses available would be ideal for a large number of otherwise very competent programmers who are limited by their lack of academic computer science education.

Secondly, computers are too luxurious of an environment to necessitate rigour! If you're building a shelving unit, you won't need to perform complicated calculations to measure stress-strain curves or cantilevering forces. The tolerances are so wide that you can get bolt together about any planks of wood and make a piece of furniture that is mechanically adequate. Does that make cabinet-making alchemy? I think it makes it more like craftsmanship, but it's definitely not engineering! Likewise, most computer applications always have CPU cycles to spare, data storage on tap and flexible timing requirements, so innovation only really happens at the limits of the technology: hyperscale applications, safety-critical or embedded software.

I still think it's slightly unfair to say that software development is alchemy, when it is to me more like a well-established but rather conservative craft, which is only occasionally pushed into academic study and engineering rigour when the stakes are high enough.
>but that’s not the same thing as actually downloading/seeding the content in the torrent itself.

The question is whether Law Enforcement and "Intellectual Property" watchdogs make a meaningful distinction between the two in their monitoring tools.
I value my privacy too and don't want to have to use a phone number for any service, but yours is the wrong arguement for this.
Reason is slave to the passions. If it doesn't resonate at an emotional level we don't care. It doesn't matter if we understand. We also have to give a fuck, and clearly we don't.
Scale seems relative here, no? Scaling to serve a few nearby countries is still some sort of scale, just not worldwide scale.
I would never buy a smartphone based on whether it could receive FM radio, and if I had a smartphone that could, I would probably never use it. But the article makes the point that FM radio can work just fine in emergency situations where the mobile network is overwhelmed, and having that capability available could be life-saving.
I feel like Singapore is also largely a country for the rich, perhaps just larger -- they import something like 30-40% of their workers as migrant workers.
Hence my original

> with "enough" regulatory feedback

that seemed to meet with disfavor.
ironically I remember the jokes about owning cars in soviet union
I suspect Lenovo is being motivated by rumblings from the EU.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023...
It does when all sit on each others boards and already dis the same thing before!
In Europe we get to supply weapons to people who want to fight to fight an enemy that is even less competent than the US on a very bad day. From the viewpoint of arms sales it is win-win-win for the US.

People used to say the "S-400 is the best air defense system in the world", I think selling Patriot and NASAMS is easier than it ever was. Is anybody in their right mind ever going to buy one of those T-72 variants with an exploding autoloader?
I never understood public policies that making something so expensive only the wealthy can afford.

Just make it illegal and seize the car for destruction. Same effect, and fairer.
Debugging Postgres autovacuum problems: tips
Reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/-trd_f6j3eI?si=WH3RivFdTRDBwiW8
And just on cue there it is: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of Capitalism”, variously attributed to Frederic Jameson and Mark Fisher (amongst others).
Not just enviable, they have the worlds highest GDP per capita, the only Asian country with a triple AAA rating by all ratings bodies, good integration policies (low crime but basically a 20/20/20/20 split between Buddhism, Atheism, Christianity, and Islam - not completely 20:20:20:20 but can't remember the right numbers and it's close-ish), one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and pretty awesome food!

It's almost like cracking down on crime in a tough way with liberal economics can lead to a great place to live.
Im not sure how this qualifies as open source when the repo for the book[0] is essentially empty?

[0] https://github.com/Apress/db-performance-at-scale
As a Chinese user who regularly breaches the GFW, QUIC is a god send. Tunneling traffic over a QUIC instead of TLS to breach the GFW has much lower latency and higher throughput (if you change the congestion control). In addition, for those foreign websites not blocked by GFW, the latency difference between QUIC and TCP based protocol is also visible to the naked eye, as the RTT from China to the rest of the world is often high.
> Sometimes, drastic solutions like these are needed. Singapore strikes a good balance between freedom and responsibility IMHO.

Some of them make sense. But executing people for drug crimes can be called barbarism.
I do not understand your post in the context of local vendors running a shop or restaurant of providing a service, but go on.
Bruce Momjian: Oracle Supports Postgres
PC was the exception during the 16bit days, and it was due to IBM failing to prevent clones that it happened in first place.

Most non technical users see their computers the same way as a DVD player.
How on earth is it street legal to emit a high-pressure plume of jet exhaust behind you?
Does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN and the regulatory requirement that all providers implement it by June 2022 not cover text messages? If not, that's a massive hole.
https://dungherder.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/how-many-more-sh...
Krita is also evidence that this model can work in some limited instances even though the program is completely monetarily free in every sense of the word. It's not "free after X months", it's not "free but you pay for premium features" -- it's just a free download, but you can buy it in a store. There are only two reasons to buy Krita through Steam:

1. You want to support Krita

2. You want Steam to handle updating/launching

And it turns out that's enough for them to get some sales. People underestimate how often users will either take the path of least resistance or purchase something just to be nice. Typically when we run into this kind of behavior it's negative, for example the struggle to try and get ordinary people to install ad blockers. But it's nice with Krita to see that human instinct more positively leveraged.
Didn't say it needed to be a purely mathematical proof. They don't accomplish this with a combination of materials science and CAD software with a patchwork of regulation/review?
An officer accidentally fired a gun? Is it just me or is that something that just should not happen?
Thats true, I can imagine the poor lab tech who didnt make that mistake either having to make the tough call.
If you don't use the budget you won't get the budget, sailor.
Probably just a local quartz oscillator, like a cheap wristwatch but embedded into the car. That'll drift with temperature, vibration, humidity, and some other factors, but it's cheap and just relies on the user to occasionally set it. Fancier systems can use radio time or GNSS (more likely if the car has built in navigation), but that's probably not happening if you regularly set the time!
> American danger of school shootings

“nothing we can do says only nation where this regularly happens”. sigh.
Vandalism is a felony in my state (Massachusetts). That seems to define it as being a serious crime here.
Burner phone number purchased with cash. Wear a mask to the store for added privacy.
How could that possibly be the case? The current best commercially-available solar panels are 20% efficient. Last-gen stuff is 10-15%.
This is the most American thing I will read today.
> Gun prevalence explains the medium of choise these past 25 years, and one thing that needs to be tackled, but there seems to be other factors at play as well.

People blame guns exclusively, but I think the real causes are:

1. Some kind of societal dysfunction that's leading deeper levels of anger and isolation in some people.

2. Massive national advertising campaigns by the media reminding angry, isolated teenagers that shooting up their school is an option they have.