skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average police officer in the Bay Area costs $200k with benefits. Can each police officer bring $200k worth of fines in per person? Moreover, what kind of a system will you create if you incentivize officers to pay their own salary through fines?
Thank you for reaching out. Please refer to the following issue list from SumatraPDF repo [1] [2]. Epub rendering issue like [3] [4].

[1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues?q=is%3...

[2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues?q=is%3...

[3] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/2752

[4] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/3761
I disagree, most celebrities were/are posting what may as well be their fart schedules. Why would anybody care the vacations or fancy meals or random musings of some guy famous for being in movies? Some people evidently do care (voyeurism, and they'd care just as much about his fart schedule) but the point is the such an account doesn't have a check mark because it posts relevant or interesting content but rather because the guy is famous for things completely unrelated to what he posts about. The checkmarks for celebrities had nothing to do with what they posted and everything to do with who they are.
I know other people like them, but I just had my fourth Samsung 860EVO die on me since 2019. Maybe I'm just rough on them?
Not knowing the /proc file system
I meant the (free) low-zoom vs. (paid) high-zoom tiles.

Can you tell us a bit about your rendering pipeline?
There are. During the holocaust, nazis are rumored to have used community elders that there kids would be spared.
I think GP's point is that you can't measure changes in the length of an arm if the ruler you're using is changing in the same way.

I think this misrepresents the situation, but I can't say how, so I can't dismiss it quite so quickly.
I’m just curious, what are these “multi lang dev capabilities” which is in VSCode, but not in IntelliJ?
What are Functions? Coding for Kids [video]
Pro Palestine doesn’t necessarily mean pro Hamas. It usually doesn’t, but of course some people (pro Israel usually) always manipulate/turn it that way. So please let us know where it shows he is pro Hamas vs pro Palestine (and actually against Hamas, which is what I would expect he is).
Qualcomm claims its Snapdragon X Elite processor will beat Apple, Intel, and AMD
It was not only Nokia.
India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor: A Passage of Possibilities
> Individual transport is universally useful

Indeed and the most individual form of transport is walking and most cities in the world are built around walking. Only the US lays its cities out to require cars. It never really laid its cities for horses and carts (with the exception of Salt Lake City.) Before the car, cities were being built around the streetcar, and before that around walking. It's not like people lived in suburbs and went around in horse and buggy lol.
This article is headlined and leads with an accusation about the recent hospital tragedy being due to an Israeli air strike. I believe that the preponderance of sources (neutral or otherwise) have attributed that explosion to a malfunctioning PIJ/Hamas rocket or missile .
I have to agree. I'm writing Terraform files most of the day, and I don't stop to wonder why we still have to deal with it, and why every editor should support it in 2023 when we have much better alternatives such as Jsonnet, Skylark/Starlark, Cue, Dhall, etc. It's the "Not Invented Here" syndrome in the context of HashiCorp.

The only benefit of HCL is HCL v2, which allows you to write expressions without quotes, but this is supported by all alternatives listed above.
> MAME 0.260

How large is a full ROM set these days, I wonder?
> As always the question remains - who has the omniscience and privilege to define disinformation?

In this case it is logically.ai. There is very little information about the company. But in [1] it is noted that:

"Logically was founded in 2017 by Entrepreneur, Engineer and CEO Lyric Jain. Lyric was named Enterprise CXO Leader of the Year in the CogX Awards 2021. Lyric Jain remains the only person with significant control of Logically."

In addition, they have offices in the UK, India, and the US. But no information about potential affiliations with state actors regarding content decisions.

[1] https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/transparency
This quote sums up the point:

"The goal of these Wikipedia-style ontological frameworks is to describe theory, like science. But for the most part, networking is practice. It reflects engineering choices rather than scientific principles. It’s less like a biological taxonomy and more like a military hierarchy: we humans chose to put things there.

It’s a struggle choosing pure theory vs. practice. Are we describing the TCP/IP Internet that we are all using today? Or are we trying to describe theory, how networks have existed in the past and how they might exist in the future?
The OSI Model pretends its theory because it’s the standard. The idea is that there would be 7 fixed layers and that over time, new standards would be invented that would upgrade a layer. All networks of the future would follow this blueprint, so it described all future networks.
"
John Ousterhout, Carson Gross (htmx, https://grugbrain.dev), and Rich Hickey are my favorite people on complexity. John Ousterhout was notably my professor for operating systems @ Stanford. He taught not just ways to design software, but also ways to live.

Carson’s work is also directly influenced by Ousterhout, as referenced at the end of his article.

For John Ousterhout, I suggest looking at the class website:
https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cs190-winter23/

For Carson Gross, I suggest his book, Hypermedia Systems: https://hypermedia.systems/
Thank you for responding and congratulations on the success of SumatraPDF, it seems well-deserved.

I will say that on older systems, Reader/Acrobat are not just slow at startup. I am writing this from a machine that has an i7-2600 and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Reader is almost unusably slow. It's absurd.

Now where's that Mac port? /s
Even before talking about traina, you'd need to get rids of the suburbs and the clear separation of housing and commercial stuff.

There is so much thing to undo and people are so overly sensitive of the value of their property it is nearly impossible or would take centuries to fix.
SumatraPDF does not acquire a file lock on the pdf. This is really useful if you're debugging a process that outputs a pdf and you want to see how the pdf refreshes. With other readers the tool that tries to replace the pdf will fail as the pdf viewer has a lock on the file.
It might also be the constant barrage of Palestine based toll fraud most SIP providers witness. It's very common in telecom to blackhole consistently malicious ASNs that do not handle abuse reports.

Only a handful of networks make up the vast majority of SIP attackers, seems totally reasonable they would block any keywords related to toll fraudsters that previously scammed Twilio clients.
European federalism is very popular in Brussels, much less so elsewhere. Regardless of the fact that their politicians once signed treaties proclaiming a vague "ever closer Union", the nations themselves don't want to integrate to the same level as the US did. Any federalization proposal that would be subject to referenda would be shot down in a supermajority of member countries.

The current state of things, "aborted half-way", is a consequence of social engineering that failed to take into account the possibility that its preferred endgame may not be attractive and that in democracies, going behind the back of the voters can only get you so far.

The integration of the EU basically stopped once it became impossible to hide preparation of new treaties and legislation from the voters by distracting people by something else in the media. This is also case of the legislation we are talking about now. Of course the authors of Chat Control 2.0 would prefer to agree to the entire thing in darkness, but the Internet makes it very hard to conceal the plan.
It is only a 70-80 years since WW II and the Holocaust. There haven't been much change in the dynamics of humans (culture, genetic or nation wise). I think people assume, on a daily basis, that it can't happen again so that they are not distracted by such an outcome. The events happening today shows that such a comeback is not out of the table.

There are no strong safe guards out there. And the people in charge will go for it if it suits their agenda. Polarization is also much easier today. People don't need to read a full book to get propaganda but just watch a few images or a video that triggers the right reaction.

The middle-east seems to be close to the point of no return on a full on scale apocalyptic war. I am looking at oil prices which suggests that all parties are bluffing and hoping that's the case.
One demonstrates that they have the skills by answering the questions correctly. Using an LLM to do it or not is inconsequential. If you can demonstrably produce good output then great, code is a tool and a means to an end after all.
Why would someone drive drunk if they can just let their car drive them home while they snooze in the back?
I try and use "application layer" and "transport layer" myself but find that people don't really understand what I mean but for some reason understand "layer 4" and "layer 7" (and sadly yeah, occasionally "layer 3".) I still insist in documents in using descriptive layer names but usually in conversation just refer to load balancers or proxies.
I’ve been using macOS at home for about 23 years now, but what was the last really useful new feature they added?
"who is pushing things way beyond her remit."

And who was almost successful in doing so. She still may be successful a year or two from now.

It is as if the EC was a big carousel of special interests where every commissioner takes his/her turn and others help them pass things, on order to be able to pass their own things later.

A classical oligarchy, the ancient Greeks would immediately recognize the problem.
Aux Derniers Humaines in Montreal, what a fabulous place that was, best omelettes on earth.
Which makes the name a bit of a misnomer - Judas knew what he was doing.
Yes, I would not advocate for that either. I like having PRs be a more complete thought, ideally, though sometimes you're left with 3 PRs for "one change" if you need e.g. a database change, a migration for the data, and changing the code to use the new column, which is frustrating but doable.
Building what people want vs building what they need
It's wild that Cruise intentionally decided to hide the information of them dragging a person under the car for 20 feet from regulators. However, now that the news is out, their PR team says they showed the video to DMV folks while DMV denies that. Well, someone is lying and I bet it is Cruise.

Here is Cruise initial NHTSA filing: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOT-PE23018-11585P2.p... They mention every detail from start to end but don't mention the fact that they dragged a person under the car.

Let me be very clear, if Cruise just collided with a person due to the mistake of another driver, that's cool. However, this is something way worse. Cruise car stopped, and then decided to drive 20 feet dragging the pedestrian under the car because someone on Cruise team designed a rule that says "if there is a collision, move away from the spot after stopping to avoid blocking traffic". No human driver will ever do that.
The "UK constitution" is a wide set of documents, both laws (some really old) and legal precedent that determine how the country's supposed to operate.

The main concept is "parliamentary supremacy", which means that the parliament (house of commons/lords) can pass any law except one that would bind their action in future. Basically, they can pass whatever law they want, and pass a law repealing it later. The expectation is that they wouldn't do anything too heinous because reasons. The idea that the monarch can forcibly disband parliament doesn't really exist anymore. (although, some laws occasionally do get blocked by that apparatus)

I learned way too much about this while their high court was deciding on the constitutionality of the process of leaving the EU. I wonder how much of it is baby-duck syndrome, but I love living in a republic.
The thing is most drivers should not be allowed to drive given their low training, driving standard, general lack of empathy and/or medications or substance abuse issues but society incorrectly assume driving is a right while it should be considered a privilege you earn and that can be revoked anytime based on regular tests + eventual tickets.

I estimate at around 20% the amount of drivers that really should be allowed to drive given their current driving standards. Possibly more could be allowed after additionnal training and showing better driving standards knowing their license is at risk.
I was horrified with the out of the box experience of Windows 11.

How did this shitshow get past hundreds of developersc, testers, and product managers?
> pitting advertisement buyers against each other in a bidding war.

How else do you sell a limited resource that more than 1 person wants?

On the other side of that bidding war is a publisher with an ad spot to sell. Sure Google takes a cut of that sale, but in every auction there is always a commission given to the auctioneer.

No one is complaining about Sotheby's making a profit when they sell the latest Banksy painting for squillions.
This immediately called to mind a great bit Neil DeGrasse Tyson has about the stupidity of weapons targeting satellites: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/a-PHXGmexxM
Can't pretend I read the whole claim (and even if I did there's a lot redacted), but the summary of "harm" in a hard sense comes down to

>They§constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices under the state consumer protection statutes,violate COPPA, and further constitute unlawful acts under common law principles.

And given an example

>§For example, on September 30, 2021, Davis denied that Meta promotes harmful
content, such as content promoting eating disorders to youth, when she testified before Congress,
stating, “we do not direct people towards content that promotes eating disorders. That actually
violates our policies, and we remove that content when we become aware of it. We actually use
AI to find content like that and remove it. [Redacted]

There are 40+ plaintiffs and over 100 lawyers on the lawsuit so I'm not too surprised they have some basic definitions there. Will it be effective, who knows?
What to expect from Apple's unexpected 'Scary Fast' evening Mac event
It's absolutely ubiquitous as a model. It's taught in every CS curriculum in every university in the world.

It also doesn't break down in the real world, unless you're being extremely pedantic. Many bits of software don't map cleanly to the defined layers, but we can still talk about the distinction between the network layer vs. the session layer, for example, and get value out of that discussion.
The UI was a joke though, and that's arguably one of the most important elements of a mobile OS.
The bit about the new book is interesting, but there's no interview or new info about Watterson himself.
There were 3 known customers targeted.

>BeyondTrust reported the issue.

All 3 customers discovered the issue before Okta fixed the issue. I think all 3 reported the issue to Okta before Okta fixed the issue, but I'm not sure. 1Password and BeyondTrust both reported the issue to Okta before Okta discovered the issue (although 1Password wasn't sure whether the cause was a compromise of Okta's support or malware on the laptop; 1Password didn't find malware, but still thought there might be some). I'm not sure whether Cloudflare reported the issue to Okta before Okta fixed the issue, but it seems likely due to timing. Cloudflare was compromised Oct 18 and immediately discovered it, and the very next day Okta fixed the issue, whereas previously the issue had been languishing for 19 days. That seems to indicate to me that Cloudflare reported it to Okta and Okta kicked their incident response into high gear due to Cloudflare's report.

All 3 customers posted blog posts about the issue after Okta posted a blog post about the issue.

The order they were targeted was: 1Password (Sept 29), BeyondTrust (Oct 2), Cloudflare (Oct 18). I think they reported the issues to Okta in that same order (BeyondTrust reported the issue to Okta the same day they were targeted, I'm not sure about 1Password, and as mentioned above, I suspect Cloudflare reported the issue to Okta the same day they were targeted).

The order they posted blog posts about the issue was: Okta, BeyondTrust, Cloudflare, 1Password.

https://sec.okta.com/harfiles

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/okta-support-unit-bre...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...

https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/hackers-stole-access-tok...

Ars never mentions Cloudflare. Ars says

>Security firm BeyondTrust said it discovered the intrusion after an attacker used valid authentication cookies in an attempt to access its Okta account. The attacker could perform “a few confined actions,” but ultimately, BeyondTrust access policy controls stopped the activity and blocked all access to the account. 1Password now becomes the second known Okta customer to be targeted in a follow-on attack.

That seems to say "BeyondTrust was first and 1Password was second".
I use argparse too, and it's one of the best python libraries (and my most-used)

you can do short (one character) or long arguments with argparse directly:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(argument_default=None)
parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', action='store_true', help='debug flag')

I also do lots of other things, like long help with no args like this:

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
parser.print_help(sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
The press release is kind of undermined by using as its premise that israel targeted Al Ahli Arab Hospital despite there being significant evidence that it was actually a Palestinian group that did that.

The article doesn't seem to be using an evidence based approach.
>with hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles logging millions of miles a month, I feel like we’d be hearing non-stop reports of destruction

Why do you believe that Tesla vehicles are driving millions of miles a month on autopilot?

I suspect that autopilot accounts for a vanishingly small percentage of Tesla miles-driven. Mostly because it sucks, but also because of how hard it is to not miss a nag on a long road trip, with the result that you are locked out of autopilot until your next stop.

(Yes, even when paying attention to the road, with your hands on the wheel. Hell, autopilot locks you out if you exceed 85 mph for more than a few seconds by pressing the accelerator, such as when passing. This is true even in places where the speed limit is 85 mph, and the slower end of the flow of traffic is 95 mph.)

I love the performance of my Model S Plaid. Autopilot, however, is a joke.
Interestingly, Apple’s next event is in 6 days, so this announcement may not age well :)
Since the lawsuit is targeting "harmful content to minors", I think COPPA does give some legal duty there (not a lawyer and I'd have to look up COPPA to remember the details, so take with a grain of salt).
Potentially useful for such experiments and applications:

"Universal visible emitters in nanoscale integrated photonics" (2023)
https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-10-7-8... .. "Photonic chip transforms lightbeam into multiple beams with different properties" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580151

"Electrons turn piece of wire into laser-like light source" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33493885 ; "Coherent Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplification via Free Electron Pumping" (2022) https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1572967/v1

"Ultrafast dense DNA functionalization of quantum dots and rods for scalable 2D array fabrication with nanoscale precision" (2023)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh8508

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-new-material-five... :

> The team is currently working with the same DNA structure but substituting even stronger carbide ceramics for glass. They have plans to experiment with different DNA structures to see which makes the material strongest.

"AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets" (2023)
https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-system-can-generate-novel-prote...
I saw the "indeed should not be", which seems to even more strongly indicate the opposite.
> The other 26 are selected by the Council of Ministers, without Parliamentary oversight.

No, after the European Parliament has approved the proposed President of the European Commission and the Council has chosen the other 26 commissioners, the Commission as a whole is subject to another vote of confidence by the European Parliament.
About YouTube, Microsoft could have done the same as Amazon on the Fire devices, put the website into an app. Instead they used some non-public API to access videos, presumably due to the deficiencies of their browser engine. Of course Google shut that down.
Many folks, including myself, live (nearly) entirely within the browser. Pinned tabs, multiple windows, as big improvements in JS / wasm make this pretty smooth.
So: ad agencies?
> But I will always pick a Waymo over an Uber if they are the same distance away. I love playing my own music and just being in my own world without another human to consider. It is truly a relaxing commute.

Not to ruin your commute, do you know if there are interior-facing cameras monitoring the passengers?
"Cute"?

If elephants are as smart as we're lead to believe they'll eventually realise its a recording. Like birds do with those fake plastic hawks.
All 3 customers detected it quickly on their own. It sounds from their blog posts that BeyondTrust and Cloudflare both had good alerting that immediately alerted them to the problem. It sounds like 1Password's alerting wasn't as good, and they got lucky that the impacted employee saw a suspicious email saying "here's the report you requested" thought "I didn't request that report" and reported the suspicious email to the security response team.

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/okta-support-unit-bre...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...

https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/
Yes, that's the technique. Generate 10 images, then choose the ones that turned out well for the next round. That's the standard way to create a LoRA.
`argparse` does it by default:

>>> import argparse
>>> p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> p.add_argument("--foo", "-f", action="store_true")
>>> p.add_argument("--bar", "-b")
>>> p.parse_args(["-fb", "baz"])
Namespace(foo=True, bar='baz')
OSI is just a model. Like all models, it's wrong. But its ubiquity, and the fact that it's survived the test of time, clearly signal that it is a useful model. And that's as good as models get.
Honestly they scare me a little.

I frequently walk my dog where a lot of cruises operate. I dislike there's no.. two-way communication? with car. I mean that with a human driver if we make eye contact then I know they see me and I can safely (yes yes not 100%) cross the street. With a cruise I have no idea if it sees me, or if there's a bug that will make it drive as I'm in the middle of the crosswalk. They actually make me jog across out of fear.