skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, plus western countries are usually smaller and services arrive quickly at the scene.
You seem to be missing that my laptop existing is an objective fact rather than a logical argument.
Support for Israel Is Declining Globally; Especially in the USA
Ilya did soemething that is highly unforgivable. He betrayed his friends for an ideal. Greg and Sam trusted him. That is the only reason he is being pushed out and I believe it is a good thing for both. Ego is in the way for everyone right now but in the end, Ilya will be better off. Hopefully he can walk away with some money and take some time to think where he wants to go next. Maybe teach the next group of kids? We need great minds in the Universities. Even if he has crazy woke ideas.
I have older bikes without ABS. You would think a Morgan, having the extra wheel on the ground would have better stopping power than a motorcycle — but then there's the added weight....

I'm always cognizant of my lack of stopping power when on my motorcycle and so leave a wide berth between myself and any vehicle ahead of me. I suppose someone not used to that mindset finding themselves in a 3-wheeler might be forgiven for thinking they were in a car.
Removing the "who" from the original title made the sentence grammatically incorrect.
as you said, he broke copyright law. that is copyright infringement, it is not theft.
Unless one CT hits another.
I'm still struggling to understand what counts as 'knowing how it works' for you.

In my view, if you randomly generated a piece of code to do a task, you know how it works - you can see the algorithm right there in front of you. If you randomly generated it and checked each instance until you found a good one, you even know how you got it and why it's good at the task (because you checked it and threw away the ones that weren't). Obviously if you start not knowing what the code is, you have a simple, surface level lack of understanding which you can resolve by tracing it. Once you've done that, you understand everything there is to understand about it. The fact that it produces nice wavelet transforms is a simple product of how it was found.

What more do you want to understand about it? What more is there to understand about it?
I did the same thing. Have you found any software to analyze it?
The settled Arabs don't really know much about the Bedouins, and neither do the Jews. The settled Arabs of today really don't have much an opinion of the Bedouins, but I suppose that might have been different in generations past. Both populations have separate conflicts with the Jewish state.

Both the settled Arabs and the Bedouins tell that the settled Arabs came long after the Bedouins. The settled Arabs say that the Bedouins were here before they came, but the Bedouins were only in the بر (which is somehow different than صحراء but I don't know what the difference is, both seem to mean "desert" in my language). Now the Bedouins are found further north too. The settled Arabs came mostly from Egypt and some from Syria, and some from other places. They came looking for work and land, and married with the local populations. They consider themselves local since time immemorable because they married with the local populations, though they will tell of their forefathers in Egypt.

The Bedouins say that they came a few hundred years before, from Saudi Arabia. Some Bedouins also tell of great-great grandfathers from Egypt. They actually will be very frank about not liking the settled Arabs, and they will be just as frank when talking about their relationship with the Jews. I happen to know of injustices that the Jews did to the Bedouins that the anti-Jewish crowd would absolutely love to parade, if they only really cared about the welfare of the people and not just the establishment of an Arab state to displace the Jewish state.
Reminds me of a story about an engineer who was participating in a meeting with managers and partners. Manager was speaking of his team and how they will deliver software. Then, he asked the engineer to assure that the software will be bug-free. To this the engineer responded by saying he cannot guarantee there will be no bugs. The manager went nuts and started screaming.

Engineers cannot be responsible for all the vertical stack and the components which were built by others. If somebody claims it is bug free then they have not enough experience. Pretty much anything can fail, we just need to test as many possible cases as possible with a variety of available tools to reduce the chances of bugs.
This is a really good idea, and I can't believe it didn't occur to me with my PowerShell tooling background, since a lot of them have been doing this for a long time.
I've read (a long time ago) a newspaper article mentioning a simple pricking of the skin to produce one drop of blood. A pure ritual with no practical effect. Not sure how widespread it is though, or if it's just a wishful thinking on part of some Western cultural mediation agency.
Investment banker here. The culture of software/tech better valuing work life balance is alluring. Whats described in the article is pretty alien to me. I typically have 4-6 hours of meetings a day (client calls) and am also expected to do 6+ hours of document/email work a day on top of that. I have to do somewhere between 2-10 hrs of work every weekend. It is impossible to keep up, so i am always disappointing somebody and i just live with that. The compensation is excellent (I’ve earned up to 720k in a good year) but i feel like this job will kill me. I actually want to get into programming and robotics and actually build something. Im worried its too late to switch and ill get knocked down to a much lower salary as a jr dev at 35yrs old. Its hard to walk away from that paycheck. Ideas?
> and you probably only have one such messaging app

That sounds extremely unrealistic. If nothing else, you already have GCM – I don’t think it deactivates the persistent connection even if you don’t have any notification registrations.

> Backgrounding is problematic when devs do it wrong or disrespect the user, but this isn't one of those cases.

But how would Google distinguish “disrespecting” from intentional use cases?

I’ve used Android for years, and uncontrollable background services were a big problem.

> unless GCM is considered a major battery drain (hint, it's not)

It’s as much a battery drain as APNs. The point is that I want as few of these persistent connections and background services as possible, and the ideal number is one.
I've got one very convincing reason: distribution.
Having a web app makes it:

* usable on pretty much any platform

* easy to distribute/update

* easily trustworthy/jailed (no need to install something that might access your data)

It makes me sad, but as far as I can see, there is no serious alternative for universal+jailed apps.
doesn't cost anything to write a book
AI – A Camera, Not an Engine
I wrote a Python app with a Tkinter GUI for a customer. You can’t tell it’s written in Python or Tkinter as long as you change the default icon.

I’ve encountered a few vendor apps over the years, like data collector apps, that I noticed were written in Python with Tkinter. The only way I knew was they hadn’t changed the default Tkinter icon.
This coming from someone who is obviously using the Internet and a computer…
Candles are horrifying for indoor air quality, why would anyone use them?
I believe you may have something with Anti-dollar. Joking aside, there’s almost always a company on the other side of the coin. Boycotting or otherwise public outcry’s and cancel culture would look a whole lot different if it were a value-based voting platform where competing interests vie for the value. Add reporting for government agencies on what’s “hot” and it sends a clear picture on what the national sentiment is.
And every atrocity, driven by greed, envy or just sheer assholery?

Also humans.
was forced into the agreement based on laws i never agreed with. anyway, y'all are talking about ethics not laws so your point is invalid.
Despite being satire, I think that could work in the US. It plays off the my team / their team dynamic and sends some fraction of the donated money onwards. Very like an inefficiently run fundraising organisation. There's an outside chance of the setup making a loss for the organisers but only if a pair is very unevenly matched (and that's fixable by letting the 'onmimatch' run down to 0%). I'm not even sure it qualifies as fraudulent.
My university offered both a CS degree and a Software Engineering degree. While both open the door to tech jobs once in industry, the contents varied in the upper years. The software engineering one started with common engineering courses, then common CS classes, and finished with project lifecycle classes such as QA & requirements gathering. In contrast, the CS program started with a mix of core engineering and science classes, progressed to the common CS classes, then went further into advanced CS and algorithms classes.
Reminds me of antistocks [1]:

"We sell antistocks.”

“Antistocks? Is that like . . . shorting a stock?”

“Shorting is barbaric. Think how nice and simple going long is. And then with shorting you have to borrow from some specific person for some specific amount of time, and deal with margin calls and short squeezes and all that garbage. We asked ourselves - how can we make shorting as simple as going long? Antistocks are the answer. A Tesla antistock is a certificate which obligates you to pay us the value of a Tesla stock dividend each year.”

“Why would anyone ever buy that?”

“They don’t! We pay them X dollars to take it! Then when Tesla goes down, they pay someone else less than X dollars to take it from them, and keep the profit.”

“What if they don’t pay the reverse dividend?”

“I mean, that’s the counterparty risk you take with everything, isn’t it? Home loans, car loans, credit default swaps. If it helps, we’re limiting the product to accredited investors, so they can’t, like, pay a homeless guy $1 to take it off their hands.”

“And you think people will prefer this to just shorting Tesla the normal way?”

“It’s not just about shorting Tesla. This is the beginning of a whole new antifinance revolution. Lots of people want to invest in SpaceX, but they can’t, because Elon Musk selfishly refuses to go public. No one else can get around that. But we can! We print a million shares of synthetic SpaceX stock and a million shares of antistock, each antistock share requires you to pay one one-millionth of SpaceX’s yearly profits to the holder of one stock share. Or, you know how millions of ordinary people can’t afford homeownership anymore because Blackrock keeps buying up all the homes as investment properties? We just print a million synthetic houses and a million antihouses, where the antihouse owners have to pay the average rent in a certain area to the synthetic house owners each month. Blackrock gets to invest in real estate without having to worry about all those boring contingent things like mold or termites, and we can leave the real physical houses for ordinary families.”

“Sorry, but this sounds like a terrible idea.”

“I’m glad you think so! Would you like to be a seed anti-investor in our startup? If you’re right, then our antistock prices will never be this high again!”

[1]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/even-more-bay-area-house-pa...
Yes, I agree with your first paragraph. The second paragraph I agree with less, as the Iraqis that I've talked to do in fact seem to see the Palestinian struggle as their own struggle as well. But I don't claim to really know Iraqi culture.
Yes, they were attacked first and that’s a traditional justification for war. If a government wants to go to war, this is the time to do it, while they have the support of the public.

However, as we saw after 9/11, that doesn’t necessarily mean that whatever war a government proposes is a good idea. A counter-attack could still be foolish or unnecessarily brutal (as it seems to be). It might still result in a strategic failure.

The kind of explanation I’d be interested in would be why the way Israel is prosecuting this war is something the US (and other countries) should support.

(Your comment is about what Hamas did, and that’s a different sort of thing than a justification for what the Israel military is doing.)
> archaeogenetics revolution in the last 15 years

Unfortunately none of that is passed on to said audience, as can been in comments that claim ancient europe followed burial or genetic patterns aligned with a cold war era political classification of the region.

It would be comical if not tragic that we actually fund people producing such “research”. I am less and less surprised that some think we can replace them with chat bots given how low quality the output is.
Also, their derivative is just a multiplication (if normalized) or two (if not).

https://hannibunny.github.io/orbook/preprocessing/04gaussian...
Was something wrong with https://free-for.dev ?
Don’t know who it was but it’s 100% true
If there is one, I think it will be many years away. With ChatGPT/GPT-4/llama2/Gemini and Stable Diffusion/DALL·E/Midjourney available, and each getting more powerful and convincing as time goes on, I feel like the "cat is out of the bag". There's tremendous opportunity in these technologies and they'll find their way into more and more niches. I think the drive to improve them isn't going to taper off any time soon, especially if some talented engineers have the AGI sparkle in their eyes.
> So adding another protocol into the mix solves, what? Answer: nothing, it solves nothing.

Another protocol like RCS? RCS simply solves the problems of SMS/MMS. It doesn't add another protocol, it ultimately replaces two of them.

> Bob has a hardon for mastadon so then another subgroup is created.

Good for Bob. I don't think Mastodon supports group chatting and its DM support is super nascent, its weird choice but I wish him the best.

> Joan finds out that her Google Fi service is incompatible with RCS

Even though Google Fi is definitely compatible with RCS, we can assume it isn't supported for the scenario.

> so she decides to create an email list.

Joan doesn't know what RCS is and doesn't care. Joan makes a group of people on Messages. It works fine, as it falls back to MMS automatically.

> Joe finds a bug with Beeper and then decides that really everyone needs to move to ICQ.

Wait why is anyone using Beeper here. So the user used a unifying client and ran into a bug and blamed something about the underlying messaging system?

> Marley decides maybe everyone should just try MMS again except that nobody can fall back on that because everyone except Joan has opted into RCS.

Everyone on RCS can fall back to MMS just fine, just like iMessage can. The only difference is one of these is a standard that Apple can implement and the other is a proprietary protocol that Google cannot.
They seem to be largely compatible in terms of the API, so the main difference is the license I think (PySide is LGPL, while PyQt is GPL).
There are a bunch of related but distinct technologies with names here. For example:

CTAP is a protocol for say a PC, or a Phone to talk to an authenticator, maybe over USB or maybe Bluetooth.

WebAuthn is a W3C standard for how a web site can negotiate (via Javascript) exactly what we're going to authenticate and then perform the authentication.

Imagine you connect an external CD drive to your laptop. The CD can turn Red Book CD audio into PCM data, maybe the drive plugs in with a USB-C cable, and the drive uses a SCSI-based Mass Storage variant USB protocol to talk to the laptop, which has an XHCI USB controller, so your operating system needn't know the fine details of this precise PCI USB controller chip. Again, distinct technologies with their own names.
Why would the US bother? Unless they propose not to engage in diplomacy, the replacement diplomat is going to spy on them too. It isn't like these are rogue actors, the spying is sponsored by their state.

The only reason to even talk about it would be if they want to roll a particular diplomat who is hard to work with or if it was convenient to gin up a diplomatic incident so that they could pretend to be unhappy.
That sounds like a pretty reasonable solution, just doing it for the ‘crown jewels’.

The OTP in the password manager one is another thing I’ve struggled to wrap my head around. There’s an interesting conversation about it with folks at 1Password for those interested: https://1password.community/discussion/101714/why-is-it-a-go...
Sure, but pirates do steal. How is this a suitable word to differentiate something from stealing?
Temporal API Is Awesome
Well, that actually may be a good hint for me for a project I'm working on right now. I just fell of the chair when I realized how Vault charges for Enterprise "clients" (identities). This could be some fresh air.
Not 6 hrs, but I’ll take it!
> Notice how even if you are an early bird and in the office by 9, you are a lazy slacker when you leave at 5? Then someone rolls in at 11 and leaves at 7 - same number of hours. HARD WORKER.

So I generally agree with your post, but is this what constitutes early riser these days? I get having kids and missing the key 7-9am time slot, but is an 11am start time a Usual Thing?
well it is. you don't see the same behemoth cars over there. the roads are much less crowded. and the whole of the place is not designed around cars, so smaller cars are the norm here, and much more practical. I can guarantee you won't enjoy driving a pickup here.
Google Project Ellman: Merging photo, search data to create digital twin chatbot
It didn't happen anywhere. Yet IM vendors (not only Apple) still pretend we need propertiary protocol to transport a few bytes of unicode. It should be standardized long time ago.
Learn Python, automate your work.

Develop a relationship with someone that knows Python, have them automate your work.

Alternatively, learn VBA if you live in Word.

Alternative 2, just learn to be more proficient with the tools that you use.

If there's something that I have discovered it is that many people's office jobs could be automated—or at least much more efficient—if they were developers.

Any task that you do that involves any kind of data, developing reports that can be templated, Excel, could all probably be automated.
I find this fascinating. I once was considering getting my whole genome sequenced from Nebula but then I realized that their sequencing was being done by Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). The quality of sequencing from BGI is very high, but the reality is it has some fairly established ties to the PLA (to the extent that it's considered for sanctions by lawmakers). There's been concern in the bioinformatics community for years that the CCP/PLA, through BGI, has been amassing substantial genomics data on people (most notably pregnant women). Unclear why, but – given the authoritarianism – the mind can go places. That's the thing with running any genomics-oriented organization; at minimum, pretty sordid optics can emerge if you're not careful.

I bring this up because Nebula is clearly making a play for anonymity which, in my mind, is strange. Perhaps deceitful. The thing about genetic data, especially WGS, is that it's hopelessly not anonymous. Sure, it can be protected, but given the world we live in (hacks, data brokers, etc.), it's the type of data that will likely get out into the wild. This past week at 23 and Me is a case in point. The comment from another poster here about whether they delete it or not is an important one. I suspect they don't; for a while Nebula was touting a setup where they held onto your data and you could license it for use by pharmaceutical companies or researchers and receive payment. Not sure if that's still a thing. Either way, I find the notion of "anonymity" here very dubious, even if you pay with Monero or similar, use a PO box, etc. But that's kinda the reality – these genomics companies aren't especially open about a several key facts when you get your genome sequence. Another example is that they don't make clear that when you get your genome sequenced you are effectively unmasking the genome of your extended family.
So you’re saying Python is non-modern? Also - Python has no “native” gui toolkit so it’s impossible for things to look “a certain way” that would betray the underlying language.

I think you really have no idea what you’re talking about.
> You cannot be “the only democracy in the Middle East” and use the excuse that the other countries are making you be authoritarian despots.

I agree with you. Where we disagree is the I "use the excuse that the other countries are making [us] be authoritarian despots". I do not think that we are authoritarian despots. I think that we have been maintaining a military occupation for over fifty years, that we have been trying desperately to rid ourselves of for thirty years. We have nobody to hand that territory over to.

If you can find a body to administer the West Bank, I'd love to hear your suggestion. The obvious bodies who have been tasked with developing this authority, such as the PA, have proven themselves time and time again of being incapable of such.
Much obliged! Chess GUIs are a very natural extension of a CLI, thank you!
I would even want that for a non-stick full size USB drive like one of those Sandisk 2 TB drives. I know that an FS can be made read-only, but it would be great if it were possible to protect from writes at the hardware level without making it too easy for someone (could be a family member or whomever) to turn off the protection.
This is called RAD, yeah. There's Qt Designer for Qt and Glade for GTK, for example. (I still miss Delphi 6 though)
Yes, it is. A mobile field hospital is usually built around the premise of a tent. Germany, USA, UK, Russia - all have tent-based forward deployable field hospitals.

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6787138/348th-field-hospital-...
Open source software software doesn't list open source software, so that's a bit weird.

Semi-unrelated, it's curious how many projects listed in the sibling comments used to be open source and now aren't. Almost like people are routinely using open source to establish market share then changing to proprietary to try to exploit said market share.
Sounds lighter than the Nation-State laws in Israel to me. For reference:

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas

> Article 7:

> The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio...

> 1 — Basic Principles

> A. The land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people, in which the State of Israel was established.

> 7 — Jewish Settlement

> A. The state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.