skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little late, so this will get buried, but I had a similar experience.
I caught two felonies (both from the same incident)
Luckily, I had a good job at the time and it was my first offense, so I was able to get house arrest.
After seeing what could have been my life, I completed my BS in CS, online part-time and convinced the state of California to let me move there.
I received five years of probation, so even though I was off house arrest, I had to convince the state of California to take me as a probationer.
I don't think this is usually offered, even though I had gainful employment waiting for me. I feel very fortunate.
Since then, I've worked for various startups and Fortune 50 companies as a software engineer. I was lucky enough that the tech industry valued me more for my skills than punished me for my past.
I will be forever grateful to the state of California and the tech industry for this.
I've looked into, and tried to volunteer for various programs that try to teach inmates or felons technical/engineering skills. All have fallen through.
I'd love to hear what you're working on OP, and if you want to brainstorm a way we can try and help more inmates turn their life around through software development.
The idea that you can't tell someone else what they can do with a thing once it has been sold traces back to common law. Here is a Supreme Court example from 1911:

"The right of alienation is one of the essential incidents of a right of general property in movables, and restraints upon alienation have been generally regarded as obnoxious to public policy [and have] been generally held void." -Miles Medical. v. Park

I can't point you to a specific code that prohibits this because it depends entirely on what grounds Tesla would claim the right to impose such restrictions. For example if they claim that parts of the Cybertruck are patented, the exhaustion doctrine would apply. From Wikipedia: "once an authorized sale of a patented article occurs, the patent holder's exclusive rights to control the use and sale of that article are said to be 'exhausted,' and the purchaser is free to use or resell that article without further restraint from patent law. However, under the repair and reconstruction doctrine, the patent owner retains the right to exclude purchasers of the articles from making the patented invention anew"
You're making several errors with your assumptions because you seem not to understand the market, or how subsidies work
Link to where this was said by rh?
They dropped the ball on military investments (which were MASSIVE), see their report ( https://www.ccomptes.fr/en/documents/1134 ), page 35: «Le champ d’analyse ne couvre pas les dépenses de recherche relevant du domaine militaire, ni celles se rattachant à la recherche fondamentale».

Even the cost of civilian research (from the 50's to 2012) is very difficult to assess («les données recueillies ne sont pas toutes homogènes et leur fiabilité n’est pas totale.»).

Ballpark figures (page 270): 288 billions euros (value: 2010) invested, 118 of them being directly production-related investments (maintenance is not accounted for), with severe methodological restrictions («Il est difficile aujourd’hui de 'reconstruire' l'histoire du financement»), tackled by using conventions inherited from the nuclear industry.
Oh hey =D

The ring's source code in particular had to be transcribed from an actual shader I made (https://www.shadertoy.com/view/msd3R2). I didn't have the patience to write it directly in CSS. It's neither the right semantic nor the medium for it (which does make you wonder what CSS' medium was supposed to be).

Out of curiosity, I've transcribed that ring, which runs at <1 fps with pure CSS, into a JS version with requestionAnimationFrame + setting the background color (https://github.com/chenglou/pure-css-shaders-art/blob/master...).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it runs at full 120fps on a decent laptop (it's just 21*21 JS style setting really). I've tried to make a half-JS, half-CSS version, and the speed is somewhere in-between. Basically, CSS variables are _extremely_ slow across all browsers, and I don't believe I've hit some particular edge-case. They're not used idiomatically here, but still, we shouldn't hit this drastic of slowdowns when updating 441 styles. They're also pretty hard to read the moment the calculation isn't some trivial basic arithmetics; and even then...

The true shader version runs at basically infinite fps =)
For a lot of these changes, you need a motivated and engaged enforcer/system-owner who will work through these challenges. It takes time and effort to change the culture of a group. I can't imagine someone wanting to change unless they either gain a strong motivation (highly unlikely given that they have been in the current condition for a while themselves) or they are given the right framework/setup by someone else (govt. in this case). So, this is a hard problem and one shouldn't get disheartened due to no progress so far.
>If buy a game on Steam, I should be able to play it on PlayStation as well.

"If I buy a car, I should be able to drive thru train tunnels."
You can already use Windows exclusively with the keyboard since at least 3.11, although I'm not sure if they've since broken some of that in 11.
I suspect that a neuron is far more complex than a perceptron.
They have been """hybrid""" for quote some time with the mgu and mgk.
I could see them trying other shenanigans, like nerfing the vehicle in some way if you violate the TOS.
Turn your monitor's brightness down.

Those of us who have monitors which aren't left at eye-bleedingly-bright defaults shouldn't have to suffer low contrast text (which is much harder to fix).
> Pie rat likes loose clothing and will run into sleeves, pants, and general enjoy herself

Eeek!
Yo!

Since you did some compiler stuff, what's the reason—no pun intended—behind such a drastic performance gap?

Also, your first link is not working because of the HN link parsing logic I guess.
I just had my first cigar the other night at 38. Was a good experience, I look forward to next time, but it was the environment/atmosphere more than the high.

I have zero interest in smoking weed or cigarettes. It's a completely different thing in my mind.
I suspect Elon has never heard of the first sale doctorine. Got my popcorn ready.
Everyone who owns a dog knows they have intelligence and self-awareness.
Sure, but that doesn't negate the above.

As part of the overall design of an EV charger, you ideally should accommodate charge ports in different locations. (1) and (2) should be clearly communicated wherever your car's charge port is located.

Charge ports have mostly settled in one "corner" of the car, with a few front/back. If your cable reaches left/right/center, it can accommodate all common charge ports.
You can, but then you don't actually own the thing.
There are now "power control systems" (software) that can dynamically turn on / off "flexible loads" to keep the total electrical current under a specified maximum. ... Without negatively impacting occupants. "Smart panel" examples: Span, Lumin, Savant.
The Cat was always plotting my demise. I could see it in her eyes.
If GPS ever goes down, getting lost will be the least of your worries.
So basically making lots of different spagetti, and seeing which sticks to the wall?
Holy FUD Batman.

It’s a good thing Open Enterprise Linux is here to save us by forking RHEL and their, god awful, GPL packages!

I’m glad to know that pyeri is swearing off so many packages maintained and contributed by Red Hat. Thanks for your sacrifice pyeri
right, not theft, just the seemingly legitimate sale of items whose rightful owner is unknown.

if you think this isn't used as an opportunity for fencing stolen items, you're deluding yourself.
I hear you and that’s all reasonable but at the same time, Donald Trump is running for president after being involved in a coup attempt and dozens of actions that should destroy his brand. But it strengthens it.

The Musk cultists will buy.
Doesn’t solve the other issues. Where do your kids go to school? Latte?
All of that work for me on AMDGPU, so likely not a KDE bug.
Same here I have been using wayland with sway and KDE depending on the machines (some with intel gpu, but no nvidia) for a few years now and nothing to complain about (fedora, arch and ubuntu)
It's an open question whether they take jobs from the locals. If they can't work in the US, then the same person can just work outside the US.

Considering the percentage of immigrants/foreigners in Silicon Valley, it can be easily argued that its success was entirely due to the ease of foreign workers being able to work in the same location. If it was somewhere else that was more attractive, then who knows, Hong Kong could have been the alternate world Silicon Valley.
>>> the team tried to solve that with a search

Before that you should fix the names. Searching for Gaussian would't give me Gaussian blur because the script for that is in a different name.

And if you kill the menu, you are killing the whole project.
Decriminalizing drug usage is just a small but necessary part to mitigate this problem.

As usual these people didn't learn or "forgot" all the other hard parts.

This particular article doesn't mention it, but I'm getting sick of hearing "Portugal decriminalized drug usage in the 90s and solved the drug problem" - Really? that simple? Even Hollywood westerns were more deep than that.

On of the key aspects to "solve" this problem is also culture, family support, personal responsibility and that's when you hear the tires screeching and nothing will get done or ever work.
These always just result in perpetual “I am not a robot” checking for me :/
Using AI behavior in an argument about psychology seems like a slippery slope though.
Sorry, but the number of people who have seen Pulp Fiction, plus the number of people who know derogatory terms for disabled people, is much greater than the number of people who know technical biological terms of art.

If the GIMP developers really want to score an edgy rhetorical point about how society should get over its uptight wokeness and let them use any word they want whenever they want, and that's the hill they choose to die on, then how about they go all in, and try convincing society to re-signify the n-word by using it IN ALL UPPER CASE as the name of a hard-to-use paint program with an overly complex incomprehensible user interface for TempleOS, then come back to me after a few years and let me know how well that went.

Prejudice by Tim Minchin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

At least the Blender developers finally listened to reason, admitted they made a mistake, and switched the left and right mouse button behavior, which wasn't nearly as offensive to as many people as "GIMP", whose name makes it kind of hard to evangelize around the school or office without coming off like a flaming MAGA asshole.

Donald Trump appears to mock a reporter's disability:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLfkhxIH5Q

By stubbornly refusing to change the name, the Gimp developers have lost the right to whine and feel sorry for themselves about how unpopular it is and how nobody takes them seriously. Because in the intervening 25 years since 1998, 4chan and GamerGate and MAGA and Q-Anon and January 6 and Elon Musk have kind of spoiled the coolness and originality of that rebellious "edgelord" attitude.

If you have to explain to people, "I'm not really ableist, but I am simply participating in performance art to resignify a derogatory slang term for handicapped people or submissive S&M sex slaves as the name of a paint program!" you have already lost them.
(Sadly, I discontinue work on my rabbit pellet gun.)
It’s hard to take a reply serious from a person who doesn’t understand analogies.
It’s in the EULA. They don’t deny it and it’s their right.

The problem is RMS and all the people supporting FOSS and the GPL say Red Hat, and any other company, are well with in their rights to have that clause.

And this causes people, who didn’t pay for RHEL, won’t pay for Rocky or Alma or any other clone to hate a company they never supported.
We use the other half too. 'Chal' and 'hole' are cognates as well.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%84#Persian

YakhChAL: Ice-hollow.
Great points. JMS55, are you interested in contributing to UE5 WebGPU? My team and I have been working on this for the past several years, and would welcome some help.

If you're ever looking to join a team to advance Unreal Engine 5 and graphics in the browser, please reach out. We're tackling Nanite and Lumen in the browser, and contributing to the WebGPU spec in collaboration with Google.

You can reach me on Discord - my username is astlouis44

I'm also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-st-louis-3986a5102/
OBS Studio 30.0 Released with Intel QSV AV1 on Linux, Whip/WebRTC Output
Arstechnica [0] has a better article on it.

The tl;dr is that Amazon already uses a fork of Android called FireOS. However, Google makes manufacturers sign a contract that says that if they manufacture devices that run Android, they cannot manufacture other devices that use forks of Android. This was making it difficult for Amazon to find manufacturers that could make device with FireOS, so Amazon is ditching Android entirely.

0: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/amazon-fire-tablets-...
I'd say it is that, plus the fact that they built their charger designs at a time when they had to do them cheap.

They had very little capital, and they knew that they couldn't sell cars without a charging network. So they put all their efforts into reusing as much as they could from their high volume cars to improve economies of scale.

Noone else had the same incentives. That part is changing fast, though.
Correct because it’s free if you agree to the terms. Amazing concept.

It’s like if you let me in your house, let me use your stuff, and then you ask me not to break something and then I break something and you kick me out and I get upset.
> But the trade off should not be "if there is any risk at all, then no"

I'm a kitesurfer and I'm with you 100%. I'm glad kiting is not banned in most places. Kiters die every year -- I knew someone who was killed, and I've had a couple close shaves. In fact, today I was kiting and witnessed a kiter get rescued by the Coast Guard. It's understandable that society would want to have some say due to the externalities (loss of productive members of society, cost of rescues, risk to bystanders, etc).

IMO it's not the case that 'no risk is acceptable' -- it's just that the risk tolerance for various things seems really arbitrary & out of proportion to reward. For instance, if we didn't accept any risks as a society, we'd ban alcohol & tobacco along with kitesurfing, skydiving and motorcycles, but we don't.
Does it? Say the program normally awards to small companies to improve competition. Tesla could underbid reducing their take home if they win but given they don't think they would win that isn't a problem.

Similarly if they want to contest the result underbidding gives them justification.

All hyperbole of course.
The war on drugs hasn’t worked either. Having an opioid epidemic in the USA should make that painfully obvious to everyone.
Yes, password cracking works on salted hashes too. And the way you now describe it, with the entries in every column being hashed, and the column names themselves being meaningless*, I'm confused what value such a database has for anyone. They're just columns of random data, and the analyst doesn't even know what the data represents?

*And presumably, somehow, there being no way to recover this meaning. E.g. if an attacker is reversing hashes, they could try several sources of guesses - city names, country names, common first and last names in several languages, heights and weights in metric and imperial in the human range, valid phone numbers, IPv4 addresses, dates, blood type, license plate and post numbers or entire addresses, e-mail addresses if the attacker has a list of known-valid emails... all of these, and I'm sure many others that I forgot, are sufficiently small that they can be brute-force guessed by simply trying all possibilities, so no matter how generic the name of a column is, if it contains any of this data, the hashing can be reversed.
I once added an album release date to a page and cited the artist's own home page for the date. I was sharply rebuked for it.
Iron fertilization of equatorial oceans would make for very high albedo algae blooms. The ocean absorbs the vast majority of absorbed solar radiation. It has been pointed out that at low angles it reflects almost all light, but that is when the energy has gone through the most atmosphere and the water or land would absorb much less anyway. Napkin math scaling up previous fertilization experiments indicates about 1.5 billion USD per however long the blooms last, to trigger a snowball earth. We'd stop when it got cold enough.
>>> search is how you discover things

So you mean that I should loop through [a-zA-Z0-9]* to search which name is defined so that I can use that function? What pills do you take, I want them.
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> My point is just that different situations call for different privacy postures.

True. Privacy is a special case of security, and it's only useful to talk about security in terms of what threats are of concern.

> "Anonymization = Untrustworthy" glosses over this in a way that doesn't help us find ways to improve the situation.

If your concern is to be as anonymous as possible, then "Anonymization = untrustworthy" is not an unreasonable stance. The only way I know of that data can be collected and handled in an anonymous way is to aggregate the collected data immediately and discard all individualized data.

Replacing data with something like a hash is useful in many ways, but there are many things it isn't that useful with.
The qanat system was effectively destroyed by the Mongols when they invaded Iran centuries ago. That contributed to the desertification of Iran and its overall decline.
i used omegle. it was ok but you did get a few perverts here and there. same thing with chat roulette
Why do you think that a global pandemic is the only thing that can cause disruption? The ship stuck in the Suez canal was not pandemic related, and that kind of issue can happen at any time. What happens if the Suez or Panama canals are not functioning? Panama is already concerned about the water levels available. What about trade relations going to the extreme side and blocks all commerce with a major supplier? What if union dock workers all go on strike?

Thinking that it can never happen again is just wearing blinders
GLP-1 agonists are in an entirely different universe of appetite suppression compared to ketogenic diets.
The common denominator for getting a good bargain is camping outside to arrive early or visiting regularly. While I like a good deal, I do not care for those style of deals.
It has to do with Cloudflare being the selected choice of provider, and adding to an exclusion list will bypass queries to Cloudflare.
I think the reason the DX stuff broke out besides the different sound was they could do it on a cpu at the time and have a lot of voices without incurring the hardware transitor cost for each voice as much. I'm not an audio programmer but I've heard trying to emulate subtractive synthesis can be difficult.

In the github section the author somewhat alludes to this : "Next, there is "subtractive" synthesis (not really a surprise after "additive" synthesis, is it?). It involves taking a waveform with many harmonics (triangular wave, sawtooth wave, etc) and using a time-varying filter to remove the higher harmonics. I tried that too once, but it wasn't great either, at least for the effort involved in coding and tweaking the parameters."
Reddio builds a globally low-latency Starknet RPC node service
In the previous two articles, ETH Full Node and Pathfinder and Reddio's Starknet Beta Node Launch: Access the Future Today, we shared the methods for setting up ETH nodes and Starknet nodes, as well as the services we offer to the public. In this article, we will discuss how we set up these services and how we achieve a much lower global average response latency.
Throws quite the wrench into the "European colonizers" narrative (which was always false).
Joan of Freaking Arc, a Final Jeopardy Post-Mortem
This is extremely cool. What a testament to the Windows APIs too.
I'd suggest you try Copilot, specifically Copilot Chat. I was skeptical about it as ChatGPT feels like it had a lot of issues with code, but I tried it yesterday to build a small game (I do web APIs for my dayjob, so I have zero experience in that) and it honestly feels game changing,

It's like you have a mid-level developer sitting next to you, who has been using the libraries you are using for years.

It still hallucinates, and it still makes mistakes, but many questions I would have turned to Google to, it was able to answer right there and explain exactly why my code was not right. Also surprisingly good at figuring out logic issues, I always get confused if X and Y are up/down or left/right.
We're talking about averages here. Certainly there are plenty of individuals wrongly incarcerated, etc.
sad vodka hours
The new 'Geneva code' for hackers on the cyber battlefield
> Let’s at least grant the benefit of the doubt, that the poster knew to salt the hash. We can take it as given that incompetence makes for poor anonymization.

Actually let's not, because adding salting doesn't actually get it right either. Rather it's just another easily-broken system that is only good enough to fool its own designer. It's still trivial to run through a list of the most common city names, and recover nearly all of the entries. And if there is just a single "salt" per DB, which would be necessary for the apparent requirement that matching city names stay matching, even cycling through all combinations of letters is nearly practical. There just isn't enough starting entropy to make hashing meaningful.
No. He doesn't mean it dropped because used. He means sticker dropped.

Article claims new it was $120K last year and new it's $80K this year.
> What proportion of counterfeits could you detect?

This is an impossible question to answer. The numerator was a known number of counterfeits but the denominator is entirely unknown.

> Was there any concern on liability

Yes many brands, including Apple, would threaten to sue. Some even did but as a developer I wasn’t involved in those details to know much.

> Was there any effort to prevent sellers they know are selling junk, or going to sell junk, from using the site?

Absolutely! There were entire organizations of 100s of people devoted to just this task. Including appeal pathways for sellers to get back access to the site.
It just wasn't cold enough.
Apathy and finding where the apathetic go, redirecting my time as I see fit.

I work for two boring tech firms in boring biz tech. Nobody at either job is passionate about their work. Nobody cares about the customer. There are fiefdoms waging war endlessly.

It is hell if you care about shipping good quality stuff, seeing to customer needs and not ripping them off, and getting things done quickly.

But in the last week I probably did 15 hours of total work between the two of them and spent the other 25 as I liked.
"as unlikely as that might be" would indicate to me that it's not the direction of my understanding. so other than that, care to actually respond with something that moves the conversation along with the other questions regarding why the vast disparity between vendors?
The opioid epidemic has been mostly fueled by pharma companies, their consultants, doctors, pharmacists and the government that did nothing for decades despite knowing well something wasn't right. The war on drugs mostly criminalized people that couldn't afford the legal drugs or couldn't find a crooked doctor to prescribe them so they had to rely on street vendors and their low quality-high variability-high fraud products.
I'm impressed. What did your dad do to help you get interested in coding?