skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any functional team does this already. If you define bite size chunks to be completed up front, QA can test them as they're completed, for example.

This just sounds like someone working at a terrible company with stories like 'build the api' having a revelation that their methods are not smart.
The most remarkable thing in this case, to me, is the extent to which the press colluded with the intelligence officials. The press is supposed to check and balance, but in this case they walked hand-in-hand with the agencies. The article seems to conclude that the officials are being punished for talking to the press - well yes, they worked with the press to suppress the story, and successfully.

The whistleblower's revelations, obviously very serious and substantiated, have effectively been buried. No one in Denmark knows what this case is about, except that these top officials are being prosecuted for vague reasons, and with an undertone that it is all very unfair and probably a bad thing for Denmark.

Frankly, this BBC article probably contains more information than you would have from following the case in Danish media over a couple of years. (edit: Guardian, thanks for the correction)
Almost as if it matters and these models aren't just spitting out random info until they spit out something you like.
Careful with those axes, Eugene.
You can turn this off right now with tesla maps.
Even if it's handled in the backend, if you receive zero visual feedback from clicking the button, you'll just keep spamming it until something happens.

Not that great of an experience when you sit there and "nothing happens".
The (really amazing) 3D sculpture in this post appears to come from this paper, which also shows several others: https://naml.us/paper/irving_segerman2012_fractal.pdf
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Rust crate left_right[1].

It's also a map that supports multiple readers AND a writer.

It does this by maintaining two maps, one used by the writer and one used by the readers and atomically swap the two when useful, the cool part is that reads are wait-free but the cost is at least double memory usage and slow writes (twice the work).

[1]: https://docs.rs/left-right/latest/left_right/
> The way most people talk about software engineering, you'd think they were some kind of open-source warrior building entire applications from scratch when really they're on the Cancel Prime Membership Button Obfuscation Enablement team at Amazon.

True, if one apply most of the lessons in the article (e.g. "Nobody gives a f** about your clean code") to a well-established open source project, the maintainers will grind you to death.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it seems we are experiencing a regression in the democratic rule of law these days, even in countries like Denmark.
Except for potentially most of the population, the internet provided a more vibrant, welcoming, supportive and rich community than their local community ever could. The "gray sameness" is a recent phenomena and commanded by legal and state abuse, that a lot of the commenters above here lament about.
“Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement on eID”

Why do you editorialize the title? Especially a press release.

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wikipedia does not corroborate the hysterical claims from the times article.
So, you are saying that the country is accelerating towards making Brazil a reality. Not a good prospect.

Also, I don't get the obsession against ID cards.
What points to him being pessimistic? The ending of both the Plague and the Rebel are filled with optimism (or courage as he would rather phrase it). The Fall was a confusing mixed bag but generally it's mostly been positive.
Average library has plenty of books that have not been digitized. On other hand those are not also particularly rare either. So other libraries are very likely to have copies or at least the national one is some countries have one.

More rare or old books tend not to be stored on shelves.
This was a great read, thx :) Of all the other languages than Python, I am the most drawn to Fortran. I used it for some university project and it was quite nice. Hope I'll find a good excuse to pick it up for some project.
(for people who don’t know the origin, it’s from the IRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing#IRA_sta...)
It's not crazy per se, but at the end of the day, that code still needs to be reviewed/understood.
To feed data to LLMs
> This is obviously dangerous, and it is more dangerous because broken equipment can't be trusted to behave in a predictable way.

Then we should work towards fixing broken robots using working robots.
If anyone is injured on your property, you’re liable.

Insurance is meant to handle this risk.
> Because I don't see how bytes being copied around in secret actually hurts children in any meaningful way.

Isn't this probably the biggest source of revenue for criminals? Money for bytes, which creates more incentives to commit more crimes?
Disappointing, the author spends more column inches in partisan tittle tattle than challenging the substance of these awful laws.

The opposition party (soon to be our govt) want MORE authoritarian control of the Internet:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...

So let's stop indulging in red/blue point-scoring. Less ad-hominems / slurs by association. "Racism" and Trump have no bearing on any of this. Instead, let's focus on the meat and vegetables of bad lawmaking and how we can challenge it. We have an uphill battle, educating our lawmakers and the public about online civil rights issues.

Let's examine the manifestos and pledged positions of the Lib Dems and Reform parties on this issue and, if their stance is sound, lend them our vote. In a FPTP system, our vote won't change the makeup of the Commons, but it will be counted, and it will help inform both Tories and Labour on the direction in which we want to drive our politics.

At present the Lib Dems seem very silent on encryption: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/15101/

And it's nowhere to be found in the Reform Party manifesto either: https://www.reformparty.uk/reformisessential

Lib Dems are on 11% of the popular vote and Reform are on 7% (and growing): https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

Either of them could be king-makers at the next General Election, and even if not, the two incumbent parties will be watching the swing to figure out which direction voters are travelling in.

So we need to educate the smaller parties, and get this issue onto their radar. The small, new and hungry parties are more likely to engage directly with us than the old established parties IMO.

Stop raging, start engaging.
In Japan the percentage is very low, but you can still have all the foreign food you want. Most foreigners in any country are doing other things than running restaurants, so it's pretty orthogonal.
I find it remarkable you find this remarkable.

Par for the course.
I think it's really unfortunate that the ID card legislation didn't go through. Standardising this would have made so many things much easier, especially interacting with government services. Instead we have this convoluted ad-hoc system of proving identity that just frustrates everyone while making fraud more likely. I hope Labour, in the next Parliament, builds upon the voter ID scheme and makes a national ID card for everyone.
This might be a strange thought, but the idea of the global shutter got me thinking about the promise of a global shutter and the strange implications it could lead to regarding special relativity. I'm not an expert but, as I understand, one aspect of special relativity is that there is no shared now. Like, the idea of simultaneity is different than how we experience it, because two observers can literally witness a different sequence of events and there are no contradictions. (I hope I got that right)

In a traditional shutter, each row of pixels are read one at a time, so there is an inherit arrow of time. However, with a global shutter, each row of pixels is "exposed" simultaneously, theoretically. So what I wonder is what would be the implications of this with respect to special relativity.

For example, if a global shutter camera were used to adjudicate a close race, would it be possible for one row of sensors to witness a contradictory result with another row? Sorry if I'm not explaining this right but I'd be curious to hear what a more knowledgable person's thoughts on the matter are.
I always find it odd when people say you should have a paper map, or a low tech way of making fire, or something like that.

People always frame it as "Old tech is better", but having the skill to actually use it seems like the important part.

I doubt I'd know what to do with a paper map in an emergency, but I do know that I probably shouldn't go to places where lack of skill or equipment is likely to kill me.
One of my favorite quotes:

"Politics has nothing to do with what a person personally advocates for." - Norman Finkelstein

An example he often gives is advocating for a world without borders. You can advocate for it, and create a group of like minded peiple and write blogs about it, but it will be like creating a cult. Politics, according to him, starts with what the people want. It has to have some concrete proposals and practical momentum that are accepted (or at least not resisted) by the general public.
You need both. As there are some things you cannot conpromise on. Like. Idk. Things factually impossible. Or Human Rights.
Excellent -- this was news to me. Thanks.

There is a demonstrable reluctance in these comments to confront what the Sokal hoax demonstrated.

There are generally "common wisdom" conclusions from this, that again, does not materially affect how people live their lives.

* If a country has "democratic" in its name, it's not a democracy.

* If an academic field has "science" in its name, it's not a science.

Yes there are of course exceptions... but they are literally small ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_republic#Global_use...

There are multiple areas of academia which role-play as rigorous scientific study, but in fact, are just people trading mumbo-jumbo which varies in how convincing it looks, and if you drill down, it's not just academia.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ray-dalio-rob-copela...

100% of supplmentary, complementary, and alternative medicine is fake.

Cf.

https://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/

But that doesn't stop it being a multi-billion-$CURRENCY industry. It is entirely fake, but people will pay to think they feel better.

That is why I used those names in that order.

S. C. A. M.

Gambling does not make you money. It makes gambling companies money. But it's vast.

Stock markets are, largely, gambling, driven by vague feelings, instincts, and herd impulse. I have worked there. They don't really know. It's hunches and friendships and hysteria.

But the world runs on it.
Too late for me to edit, but my code is missing a "test al, al" after "lodsb".
I was looking for a country to escape to from mine (EU member ruled by a fascist-in-all-but-its-name government). Sadly, this means I'll have to cross out the UK from the list of potential countries to immigrate to. Since I only really speak English (my German has rusted badly), this leaves only Ireland (but it rains there all the time) and Canada (which is very far).
> You got the shot 5 times, still caught it, and you call it a vaccine...

After almost 4 years of this virus, 3 years of covid vaccines, a presumably basic level of biological education, the baseline level of curiosity that I'd have thought would be present in anyone reading HN, and the world of free information at our fingertips, I don't rightly understand why people keep making elementary mistakes like this.
The home office aren't giving enough funding (and/or organisational change?) to the police either. Bike stolen? Car stolen? House broken into? Mugged on the street? They don't have time to investigate any of it.

This stuff is what actually reduces the quality of life of the average person. Why waste time and money putting this sort of draconian and technically infeasible law through when they're doing nothing about petty (or increasingly less petty) crime?
Can't speak from experience, but my recommendation would be to never hire someone to do work you've not done yourself. (I believe Joel Spolsky mentions this.)

So for instance try doing marketing yourself for a month. One benefit: you may discover you're good at it and don't need to hire someone, or hire someone freelance or part-time. The more important benefit: when you're interviewing a candidate, you know what you're looking for and can explain what you need from experience.
>> because vendors will insist on fucking the experience up for the sake of branding anyway

I see that you too have at some point installed printer driver software.
I don't think I've used it in ages. Maybe part of maturing as a developer, most answers I started to find there were expected and not covering the problems I faced, so usually original docs are the only reliable source, and maybe a GH issue to interact directly with the author. So I guess a tool to surface information straight from docs beats SO. Also won't complain about not having to deal with legitimate questions being closed due to "reasons".
The character rendering is much less context-dependent than Arabic, but Hebrew does have a few final forms which are different at the end of a word, so one can't strictly say that Hebrew characters will never change as a result of adding additional text. Just not nearly as much as Arabic characters do!

Actually, I don't remember clearly how the different forms are handled by different character sets and if one would have to type them explicitly in some configurations. Surely on typewriters, but maybe not in Unicode?
>>If I need to deliver some feature, and I think it will take 2 days, I add roughly 40% more time to it

My first real job and Dan told me to estimate by first doubling your initial estimate and then multiply by 4. This gives a pretty good estimate, in most cases ...
Omegle was always a horny and abusive place and a place that was so very skin colour sensitive (as usual this skipped the discourse). Pretty much nothing else. I am amused by the mentions of magical place people are lamenting. Besides it was a direct copy of Chatroulette.

But I understand. It’s always the case - one’s revolutionary is another’s terrorist.
Multiple years ago it was something to us - something new. There are too many people who do not care about it (similar services) these days, people are born with the internet and just take it for granted.

Another analogy could be the gas car industry. We just look at it differently nowadays, we prioritize pollution and do not think much of the fact that you could easily travel around the world in any of these gas guzzlers. You could not do it in a Tesla or any other electric car, yet many want to just kill it off.
Can't wait for the "I don't have a driver license but GPT19 just gives me verbal instructions on how to start the car and drive it. It can't read traffic signs but it's fine I haven't killed anyone yet"
Does anybody know if forced certificates are still part of the bill?
Nice suggestion about a side project.

However, only a terrible boss thinks their reports get paid to do what they want.
I miss times when people stated their opinions directly and concisely.
The entire world's economy is based on fossil fuel. If there's even a hint of not growing -> stock markets crash. How could anyone expect a decrease in anything consumed, fossil fuel especially?!
I have applied for three jobs in my career of 11 years and got two of them. This is bafflingly ineffectual, comparatively.
Not only would it cost $1,000+ it wouldn't work at all and maybe last like 24 hours IF you were extremely careful and didn't touch the bike
Thanks. I just summarized the first few lines of what I found on Wikipedia and moved on.
> Yes, that's a fundamental reason python packaging is a mess. Python success is largely due to the availability of key mixed language packages. No other mainstream language package manager has to deal with this.

Admittedly I'm not a python expert, but julia handles this just fine? It doesn't seem like it's a difficulty inherent to "mixed language packages". Somehow it appears to me that python's approach is just bad somehow.
Do you really mean "including" or "involving"?
It doesn't need a privacy policy if it doesn't betray your privacy. And that is a PM decision.
That’s so cool.

I’ve always wanted to build something like this in Flutter!
I don't think I've ever seen one in Netherland as big as the one pictured. Plenty of stuff to climb on, but never all that high.

Except trees. I've always loved climbing trees, and am bit sad that my kids don't.
I would say JSON + schema, rather than just JSON. Like S-expressions, JSON saves you from having to implement a tokenizer, and a tokenizer is one of the easier parts of a DSL. You still need to implement something like a syntax, because things that are handled by the syntax now get pushed into later stages of the DSL. However, if you can provide a JSON schema for your language, then the problem is mostly solved !

On the other hand, it's not enough to read JSON, you need a JSON parser library that provides you with the position (line:column) of every JSON value, so that you can emit user-friendly errors.
Ok fair enough, I will reach out via the website. Thank you again.
This is a guardian article, not BBC. Maybe the link was changed?
This is the worst type of regulatory overreach - a true innovation killer - putting useless regulatory burden on all car manufacturers. It will only benefit the large incumbents that can afford to be inefficient.

In what world (except for a communist one) is it the role of the government to put arbitrary laws in place pandering to nische interests like this one? The role for regulations is in ensuring the safety of citizens and fighting mono/oligo-polies (instead of helping them, like in this case).
Reading the call return address is basically how you write position-independent code (relocatable without modifying the on-memory executable image).

On Linux there's a stub subroutine that does exactly that: __i686.get_pc_thunk.<reg>.

Here's the entire subroutine:

__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx:
MOV EBX, DWORD PTR [ESP]
RET

Yup, that's all. If you compile with gcc -m32 -fPIC, you'll see a call to that thunk whenever a function accesses GOT or other relocatable symbols.
As we keep saying, US Unions !== Swedish Unions (Or Scandinavian for that matter)

Maybe the US Unions need to change name to something else because they act nothing like Unions in Europe. From what I see described by movies and companies it sounds more like Maffia, is that correct or is it propaganda?
The other way around I'm encouraged by how politicians and others in Denmark are held accountable at the highest level, it's a very good sign.
They can, but they have to think a lot about backwards compatibility and existing code. So sometimes they can't, and in this particular case I think it's going to be hard, mostly because of existing Javascript code.

Also there's standardization and coordination between browsers, but if there is a genuine need for something they tend to find a way.
What problem is that solving for the homeowner?

I get hundreds of packages per year (not an exaggeration) and as far as I know, exactly zero have ever been stolen. Missing packages are invariably delivered to someplace else that must have had a better vibe for the driver that day. (I’ll get pics of proof of delivery with a package that is clearly not at my house.)

In that environment, what problem do I have that could be solved by this, and how much effort (and aesthetics) am I willing to spend to solve it?

Now, if my house shared a wall with two other houses and people walked by my front door all the time, maybe I’d have a theft problem due to greater opportunities for it to happen.

Places with lawns probably don’t have nearly as much package theft just due to less foot traffic.
The reporter seems insufferable.

> Yells at the man's house "Why aren't you protecting children?"

> Turns to camera "I just wanted to have a civil conversation. He doesn't want to talk... ever"

Sure man, civil conversation.
Come to Ireland! The weather is bad, but not that bad on the east coast, and there are loads of tech jobs
At least here in northern Finland you could already do that even with staff present. Everyone goes in with backpacks or bags and with self service there's no way to actually monitor if all the books were properly checked out.
Isn't light (luminosity) perception logarithmic?
Germany wouldn't have been a smart move, but Austria might be - still a relatively sane, neutral state when it comes to human rights - admittedly surrounded by insanity. Your German will definitely improve.

Ireland? Human Rights > rain. Go for it, mate.
Some times the only way to win is by not playing.
Age verification would probably require some form of ID, killing the site.
Curious to see how it films a spinning airplane propeller.

Also, can the global shutter be turned off when you don’t need it, so you can get higher dynamic range?
> Force technology companies to inform the Home Office in advance of security and privacy features they want to add, including encryption, and force them to disable features which the government objects to

This sounds fine to me. The signals intelligence agencies don't want to be blindsided by changes that will hamper their work. Private industry needs to be willing to co-operate for the benefit of everyone, not just their bottom line.
This summer we finally relaxed a lot after years of masking, and BAM, a child coughed right on my wife's face and she got long covid. Fortunately she seems to be almost totally recovered now (fingers crossed for no relapse) , but she has spent two months with fatigue and headaches strong enough to prevent her from working or doing many daily activities.

My wife is in her 30s and healthy. COVID can still be quite brutal, although of course the extent of the measures one should take is highly debatable and subjective.
"Every single... developer must inform the home office of every security patch".

What would happened if they did that?
Heat Pump Installations Slow, Impeding Biden's Climate Goals
So another RAG product? I do like the ability to specify your knowledge and qualification level to help steer the output.
I will do this tomorrow! I'll water it down and use my spray gun. :)

Genius! The poor man's vanta black!
I watched the discussion between Musk and Sunak. And at some point they were wondering/discussing about the start-up scene in the UK.

Well... "sure" (in a John Oliver tone). Ask from people to sabotage their own products, and then DO worry why things aren't going the way you want them to (have the pie AND eat it too)
If a parcel I ordered to my house gets sent to a pickup point, there’s an extremely good chance that the sender will be taking that parcel back and I’ll do without or order another one.

Only if I really needed that specific thing pretty badly today would I spend a few bucks and 20 minutes to drive over to come get it.

I ordered some physical thing, not that thing and a quest.
I will always judge Americans by the way they handled the Epstein/Maxwell case. One was painfully obviously executed by the FBI to protect pedophiles, the other had a court proceeding where the main focus was on protecting the identities of the pedophiles.

With this level of ignorance, you can even invade and devastate whole countries with the public completely ignoring it. How many here know of the thousands of dead civilians, many children, and millions displaced refugees as the result of the recent US Syria invasion? We're crossing some lines here I didn't think were crossable.
Very nice - I like the irregular square/triangles and the Versailles-like ones.

I was about to ask if the code was available, but then found the programs page. Thanks.