skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no, ransomware is worse than losing all data on the device, since ransomware gangs generally also destroy your backups and also attempt extortion with threats to publish your data. All backups help against accidental destruction and incidents like in this article, but for ransomware protection most cloud storage solutions won't help you, you need either offline or append-only backups.
All these can be the wrong assumptions for sure. Working in a space with some fraud though I can tell you the majority of users verify fine and there ate only the few percentage that don’t for any number of reasons some what you have given above. For smaller vendors though things to consider are

- a charge back can come up to 6 months later. A loss of that is not only a loss of funds but a charge back fee

- too many charge backs could affect the merchant account with the potential of a loss of being able to run your business and this can extend to PayPal or anything merchants run charges through.

- Fees may go up like interchange fees on running credit cards if an account is deemed higher risk.

- blacklisting from visa or Mastercard or merchant accounts in general is not unheard of. Loosing access to running credit cards would be the end of many businesses.

So mom and pop shops need to be aware of fraud and ensure it is low or taken care of. You can’t just accept every order and hope for the best. Fraud does exists and when only a few percentage of users meet your list of incorrect fraud assumptions it’s easy to see why they are used at least for extra verification.

One good thing for merchants for those who accept crypto like Bitcoin is all the risk moves to the sender not the merchant. There are no charge backs - so merchants who take crypto should be able to be a bit more lenient on payments and verification.
It's certainly not allowed to be an exact copy. It's also not simply allowed to be an inexact copy, mind.

For your specific example, it depends on how inexact the "copy" actually is.

The four factors of fair use are:

1) the purpose and character of your use

2) the nature of the copyrighted work

3) the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and

4) the effect of the use upon the potential market.

At some point your algorithm might be so lossy that the court rules that the amount and substantiality of what is taken is sufficiently low that your output may count as fair use. (eg. if the end result is something like [1] )

Say we argue for the sake of argument that -say- Stable Diffusion is some sort of lossy compression algorithm. it turns out that -on average- SD only notes down a few bits per image that it trains on. Thus it easily meets the amount and substantiality factor.

If you argue that SD is not a compression algorithm (and I really don't think it is), you may start to meet some of the other factors as well.

The analysis under EU law is a bit different, since there's no fair use per-se. But there's a separate rule for scraping which applies.

[1] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2014/12/22/much-photo-need-alte...
Well, NotPetya obviously was not ransomware, it was malware that masqueraded to pretend to be ransomware.
Why would LEO satellite internet cause frequent change of IP addresses? Shouldn't all that moving-satellite stuff be handled on a lower level of the OSI Model (probably Layer 2: Data Link), and the IP stuff at Layer 3 isn't affected?
This github page is a really poor representation of the software for the unfamiliar. Try here instead: https://www.sdrangel.org/

It's like a radio signal workstation, cribbing from the "digital audio workstation" term in the music world.
Seven years ago you would have been using Clojure 1.8 or earlier I expect?

A LOT has happened with the language and the tooling since then!

Clojure 1.9 gave us Spec "for describing, validating, and testing the structure of data and functions." and a whole bunch of new core functions (mostly new predicates).

Clojure 1.10 overhauled error reporting and gave us tap> (for debugging) and datafy/nav for lazy "navigation" through object graphs, which kicked off a series of new visual tools for exploring data structures: REBL (now Morse), Reveal, Portal, etc.

There's new Clojure CLI tooling now (tools.deps and the deps.edn file) and a library supporting programmatic builds (tools.build and the build.clj file). The 2023 State of Clojure survey shows the new CLI tooling surpassed Leiningen in popularity!

VS Code now has an amazingly capable Clojure extension called Calva, and you can script VS Code and Calva directly in ClojureScript via the Joyride extension.

The latter is made possible by sci -- Small Clojure Interpreter -- from @borkdude. He also created Babashka which provides a near-zero startup time solution for writing shell scripts in Clojure/Script, and clj-kondo which is a powerful, high-performance linter, which in turn powers clojure-lsp bringing static analysis for Clojure to several editors.

Datomic has grown up a lot in the last seven years and is now completely free to use (but not open source). We also have an open source bitemporal database in XTDB from the JUXT folks.

Clojure 1.12 is currently in alpha, and provides built-in support for adding new dependencies to your running REPL (without restarts).

It's a great time to be a Clojurian!
This is likely what is going on. But!

Information control is becoming mainstreamed and it’s hilarious that people are so willing to assign to incompetence or error what has been clearly demonstrated to be systems of control and squelching of difficult opinions, especially from big tech.

You see “big tech” (Microsoft, Google, etc.) has been responsible for so much crushing of “misinformation” lately I think it’s comical that people give the benefit of the doubt when these things happen.

Shouldn’t we at least be mocking them for their hilariously dangerous errors and sometimes failures? Isn’t it honestly time to stop calling it a “conspiracy” like it’s not happening.

I’ve run large scale DC operations. I know these things happen. But I seriously think it’s time we started questioning information control practices when they pop up like this — it’s not conspiracy when you have dozens of blatant examples.

I had intended it as just a random thought because it struck me as funny. But seeing the backlash is anything but heartwarming and I really think people should seriously consider what could happen and is likely going to happen and defend against it happening.

There is so much hostility to the idea that big tech would do this, when in fact they have been regularly doing it. Why in the world would you think this isn’t possible and how could anyone honestly assign “accidental” blackouts of organizations to conspiracy in 2023?
yeah -- I like a beefy desktop. but man oh man. the power that the m-series chips on macbooks deliver is nice. light package. good performance. no noise. less power consumption.

i'm sure people gaming on windows will appreciate that too -- given the success of the steamdeck. if gamers could get 2K or 4K gaming. on machines using 15-30W whether ARM or x86. then similarly us dev's would benefit as well.
As an SWE who used to work on Internet Explorer (yeah, laugh), I know I can't say that JS is somehow impervious to possible attacks and privilege-escalation out of the browser-imposed sandbox (which can and does happen), but when one compares even the basic nature of Flash's plugin/ActiveX control vs modern browser JS engines, the threat-model and browser-vendors' mitigation strategy, it means I have easily 100x more trust in in-browser JS as a far, far "safe"-er environment than Flash.
I've seen and felt similar. It's pretty much a thankless job, especially when dealing with the elderly (i.e., most are not going to get healthier, they're mostly trying to mitigate the pain of old age and dying). I couldn't do it, not with the consistency and grace I've witnessed.

While I don't believe money is the cure for everything, a donation here and there to efforts in that field helps to pause the guilt.
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Misspelling in title.
Yes! Have an issue for that https://github.com/scratchdata/ScratchDB/issues/19

What would you want it to look like?
Something like the FSC standards?

https://fsc.org/en/fsc-standards
This crude advice, which is not always effiecient. I have sensitive eyes, and many monitors cause issues even when they are set _at_ _zero_ brightness. The both feel too dim and too bright simultaneously. Even a single white letter on a black bacground would cause bad eyestrain on a "bad" monitor. Luckily I have found models which do not cause issues and am using them.
We have been increasing funding for 50 years and the problem has not been fixed. America currently sets the record in science funding (in raw amount and percentage of gdp) for any society in History and it seems to have these issues. Even if increasing funding would solve the problem, it is, at best, a short term fix. So long as there is growth in the system you can hide a lot of blight and rot. There is enough to go around so the zero sum bad actors don’t take the full pie. But the long problem with such a solution is that you cannot increase funding indefinitely. At somepoint there is a limit to how much money society can allocate to these projects. We need to make our spending work properly.
> someone is doing testing, and that someone is a -tester- user

excuse me for remembering something surely HN considers a platitude: "everyone has a TEST environment, few are fortunate enough to also have a PROD one"
Why can't you multiply vectors? [video]
An excellent intro to geometric algrebra
That was a lot of unnecessary emotion and hyperbole for what is effectively a paperwork issue on an international flight. The individual has a different legal name in two different legal jurisdictions.

While "American Airlines" is a worldwide company, each local employee is acting in their own self interests so they do not violate the law in that country. But to their credit, the first employee they dealt with did try to flag it as a problem and tried to escalate it, but it sounds like OP just wanted to move ahead without the resolution.

From time to time stuff like this happens. If it has this profound of an emotional impact on you, I highly recommend the services of a travel agent. They are getting paid by you to understand what will and wont work at every step of the journey.
> US-only remote roles.

The entire premise of remote is that it shouldn't matter where you work from, as long as you get the work done. This is extremely, incredibly harmful. I hope you know that.
This is quite nice! I wasn't aware of this.
Not quite the same. But I guess in Emacs you can have code alongside text alongside images and graphics for pretty much any programming language. Another related concept is literate programming. There comments and code kind of switch roles. The comments (i.e. text) are the primary content and the code is designated (but still executable). I feel like it went a bit out of fashion, but a more modern application of this is ZX markdown scripts:

https://google.github.io/zx/markdown-scripts

Those are markdown files with JavaScript code blocks. The entire file is executable.
They’re an easy 100x for the elite. Top engineers are now 10000x’ers.
Universities are the best at creative accounting. PhD students get charged “tuition” but that is normally (hopefully) out of the pocket of their advisor or another fellowship. So your pay is valued at 120k despite you seeing a quarter of that.

I know some grad students that used that fact to their advantage when applying for credit cards but it’s still gross.
I want my next username to be 1969-12-31:19:00.
I would like to emphasize his point. When we get into a digital only currency world, you are loosing control. He is giving a real life example. Nothing hypothetical. Think about blocked - without given reason - Google accounts and such. Could be you bank account, in the future, too!
El Reg is irreverent and intentionally apes British tabloids, sure - but their journalism is fine.

MediaBiasFactCheck rates them as "High" on their factuality scale: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-register-uk/

(though MediaBasFactCheck's statement that "we rate The Register Least Biased based on minimal editorializing" seems to be based on their lack of a political bias, but El Reg is certainly biased towards iconoclasm, but that's the way I like 'em)
Re Julia there is also pluto.jl that is another notebook-like environment for julia. It's been a few years since I played with it but it looked cool, for example it handles state differently so you don't get into the same messes as with ipython notebooks. https://plutojl.org/
We work with smaller data centers that have single node GPU capacity. So while there's a shortage for clouds that have capacity for clusters, we're focusing on aggregating single nodes behind a unified API. It works for our users too-- a single A100 is more than enough to fine-tune llama2 or Mistral7b on your own data.

Also, as you can imagine, the smaller data centers have a pretty rough experience for provisioning. Our API handles difficulties from those smaller data centers to make the experience consistent with provisioning from a major cloud service provider.
>it's like a grenade with five pins

Isn't the better analogy "a revolver with 6 chambers"? I've never seen a grenade with 6 pins. I don't even know how that would work.
I am only not more directly critical of the Administration's response as there are indications that they are working to (and maybe a having some, though far from enough success) moderate Israel's actions (delaying a ground invasion, among other things), and cannot discount the possibility that a better rhetorical position would have worse substantive results.

At the same time... I don't disagree with any of your characterization of the problems with the positioning of the Administration, outside of that consideration.
Hi adrianh -- just want to say 'thank you' for all the work you put into Django.

I use Django exclusively for all my product work and it's... amazing...

... and I was recently consulting on a project where we had to make extensive additions to the Admin views and it was amazingly versatile, flexible, and pleasantly surprising in supporting everything we needed.

Is a cast iron skillet beautiful? Probably not, yet it has stood the test of time and people swear by it. I feel the same way about Django Admin. :)
I'll add another to that list:

-- People will never have a physical mailing address that contains "funny" numbers like "000", "420", "69420", or "80085".
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...

Do you even see it in the list?

This NIH study shows it as ‘small, but significant’ - accounting for anywhere from 2.1-4.4% of the lead found in children’s blood near piston airports.

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1003231

Less than 5% of the amount of lead total in their blood from that source, literally for the highest risk segment you can find. Even if completely eliminated, the other 95% isn’t going anywhere.

Even if you don’t average it out across the population, it’s hard to argue that isn’t so close to zero that nearly any significant benefit anywhere else would make it not a rush.

Most airborne lead pollution now is industrial anyway, and that is clearly the calculus there. As is the #1 and #2 sources of lead ingestion for children, old paint and old pipes.

I’m glad they’re getting rid of it, but I’m not going to complain they didn’t drop everything to rush it. Especially since if they did, they’d almost certainly kill more people in the resulting plane crashes.
If he can withhold assent then he is somewhat responsible for the result. What would happen if he tried?
Reminds me of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion.
There is a balance somewhere though. $60/hr is at the level where some big expectations is normal. You can't demand high pay and low stress work for what is basically a rank and file job.
Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware
> I don't know how we got from "don't download and install random software from untrusted sources on your devices" to "let anyone with a website run code directly on your hardware. Sandboxes are impossible to breech!"

The whole point of WASM is that it's the alternative to downloading and installing random software.
Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...

> We construct a metrology experiment in which the metrologist can sometimes amend the input state by simulating a closed timelike curve, a worldline that travels backward in time. The existence of closed timelike curves is hypothetical. Nevertheless, they can be simulated probabilistically by quantum-teleportation circuits. We leverage such simulations to pinpoint a counterintuitive nonclassical advantage achievable with entanglement. Our experiment echoes a common information-processing task: A metrologist must prepare probes to input into an unknown quantum interaction. The goal is to infer as much information per probe as possible. If the input is optimal, the information gained per probe can exceed any value achievable classically. The problem is that, only after the interaction does the metrologist learn which input would have been optimal. The metrologist can attempt to change the input by effectively teleporting the optimal input back in time, via entanglement manipulation. The effective time travel sometimes fails but ensures that, summed over trials, the metrologist’s winnings are positive. Our Gedankenexperiment demonstrates that entanglement can generate operational advantages forbidden in classical chronology-respecting theories.
Rite aid is filing for bankruptcy and closing stores. Target sold off their in store pharmacies to cvs. Most of the mom and pop pharmacy’s near me are closed or a Walgreens or cvs now and Amazon is starting to get into the game.
As far as non-military uses of this sort of thing: it’d be nice if I could deploy some drones that would spot and track off leash dogs BEFORE they’re running straight at me and my dog. Send one forward along our path and get warning that “hey, your irresponsible neighbor’s dog is loose around this corner”.
It’s really all a professor does. You’re the boss of 5-10 people that are researching your half baked ideas Turing them into quarter baked ideas. Managing them + other obligations take up all their time. Very little is spent getting their hands dirty.
I'm oversimplifying, but this is how I read it as a layperson, with a fair degree of joy!

NASA, for decades: Launching antennae into space is a difficult, costly procedure that requires billions of dollars.

Also NASA: Hey, what if we just...made the inside of one side of a clear balloon shiny??
I have a very negative visceral reaction at the thought. (I am someone who uses python for work, and not for fun…)
> How do you expose the Raspberry Pi so that you can reach it from the outside internet?

I had this issue recently trying to enable port forwarding on a comcast router, which is no longer allowed.

Turns out the answer is "stop the router from blocking ipv6 connections". You can just connect directly to whatever device you want over ipv6.
https://leerob.io/blog/using-nextjs
The convention when flattening is exactly that I thought - an underscore per level of nesting. This is what I would expect to see too.
"The occupant doesn't need to interact with it in any way" is, I think, an actual design goal for Tesla. Not that they'll get there, probably, but to have people get in, touch nothing, and get out at their destination does fit the evident dream.
I got an honorable mention early in grad school, super proud of that photo, was always into photography and microscopy was such a natural extension.
As an amateur photographer (mostly black and white film of my kids, dogs, and family) I'm struck by how incredible these look. The lighting, the brightness of the images, clarity, everything... it's beyond what I thought was possible through a microscope.

If there is anyone here who takes images like this, could you describe what goes into getting lighting and photographs like this?
The thing with eyestrain, that it is extremely different to pinpoint what it causes for people with sensitive eye, so any alternative solution would work.

The most important factor is, obviously is the backlight, and not only being PWM or DC, but also the spectrum and "texture" of the light itself: a typical LCD has diffusers which may have different construction and cause serious issues for some people. Some may be sensitive to polarisation, some people are sensitive to how grainy is antiglare coating is etc.

A good number of people (me including) cannot tolerate backlight with blue at 450 nm, the more it is towards green the better. Some cannot tolerate KSF phosphor in the wide gamut backlights (I am perfetcly fine with it), and love quantum dots.

It is a serious problem, but using the ambient light for the backlight would make experimenting the backlight a super easy task, so yeah, this monitor is a great idea.
The emptiness of literature written for the market
the biggest miscalculation is really on expected uptime. People say they need 5 nines, yet take their car in for service twice a year for a tire rotation and oil change. How much uptime is _really_ required?
Locked boot loaders are there for a reason though. Otherwise anyone with 2 minutes of physical access to your device can permanently compromise it.
Thankfully, the biggest ad company - Google - would hate it because it would dramatically reduce page performance. And webpage performance apparently has a big impact on ad clickthrough rates.
I remember back when Apple's MacBooks had an actual window on the back (the glowing apple logo) that exposed the backlight. You could shine a phone flashlight through it and have it light up the LCD even when the backlight was off. Epicness.
Wait you want to redistribute shit air to the rest of the house? Im not understanding this proposal
Except for all the research around functional programming?

This is like when I hear people claim that physics has not advanced in the last 50-70 years.
Then develop social skills and say that. This shit about asking me about beating my wife is very offensive and there was absolutely no point. You’re just being pointlessly offensive because someone hurt your ego.
San Francisco was having this problem on Harrison St in the Mission a few weeks back. Unfortunately not with blasting Céline Dion, but other music and sideshows
End of the monarchy. No fanfare, no big drama, just OK, bye, we’ve got an election for president to organise.

Especially after Brexit the British people have learned the lesson of fucking around for years when it comes to any change, this will happen with lightning speed and determination.
End of the British monarchy probably.
The problem is that it's not acceptable for online providers to converge on making life miserable for "a few percent" of people.

This is a market failure: to save the cost of a few bucks, huge costs are imposed on these individuals. The answer is to have some mechanism whereby people who run into these issues can pay (once) the small cost of being validated in an alternative way (like, actually talking to a human and explaining what's going on, which is how these issues got solved in meatspace originally)
They can be somewhat true color if you reconstruct the image with the appropriate human perceived color for the wavelength the dye emits, doesn't work well for multiple dyes with close wavelengths.
Wasn’t that your parents point though?
Uh, deja vu? Didn't Canon have a system very similar to this, and it famously got cracked over a decade ago?

https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2133218/canons-image-...
To be clear, “US Only” means “eligible to work in the US”.

The candidates that I’m calling fraudulent are answering “Yes” to a question on our applicant form asking if they’re eligible to work in the US.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a US company wanting to hire US employees.

(FWIW I also hire contract developers outside the US… have nothing against outsourcing, but I prefer to do so knowingly rather than being conned)