skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This deserves further commentary.

In my humble opinion, what really grinds my gears is the abuse of the letter of the law, “circumventing the access protection”. If your fence has gaping holes, it's not a functional fence.

Since this is hackernews, graffiti "vandalism" is still a good example. The only protection of public facing walls is law enforcement, which is spotty. Private property such as trains may employ fences and security, which can be circumvented. Train stations and trains in service have to open anyhow. Terms of Service may explicitly forbid pollution, defacement, however you want to call it (this holds by analogy if you leave logs on the server, my point being, as it were, that security is a process).

The law makes a practical difference for each of these cases, but the spirit of the law is the same in each case and the baseline is that the law is whatever is deemed appropriate by the powers that be, the finder of facts, population as represented by select individuals, the common joe. This, in turn, is supposed to be enshrined in constitutions of sorts. In sum, “unlawful" (“widerrechtlich” or “unbefugt”) derives in different ways from constitutional rights.

In the given case, subsection 202a is based on confidentiality (Art. 10 GG "privacy of correspondance"), but in my example (guilty as charged) the laws against vandalism are based on property (Art. 14 GG). In result, your comparison is a type error for me (as is circumvent if access control is a process).

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/index.html

Comparative Law is a real thing, by the way, that is most foreign to me, but I make due.
This is brilliant! I have quite a few rejection letters too.
I think it’s fair critique for the post to focus on the VC (not angel) investment — the expectations of VCs and pressure to deliver a profit could easily have been a significant factor in the decision made by the CEO to focus on substantial revenue growth.
I think the moral of the story is if you stumble on such a vuln while working in Germany in the future its best practice to sell it on the darknet since you unknowingly already committed the crime anyway. might as well get paid for it.

Please Dont shoot the messenger, I didnt write the stupid law.
Actually I did that (note that the REM is missing from my prompt.) It didn't look like a hack for embedding binary data for subsequent PEEK or CALL statements, which was common on the 8-bit Apple I grew up using, so I assumed it was just garbage and left it out.

When I fed it your updated version that didn't include the REM, farther down the page, it still didn't quite work. Although I can tell it's not too badly broken. There's some visual structure in the output, just not the expected image.
Maybe possessive isn't the right word, but she wants to be the "sole object of his desire."

I call this an irrational instinct because she continues to want this in spite of Michael's cruel confession. Frances has a right and reason to object, but she never considers the option of leaving, arguably the most rational course of action.

That said, I dont think there is a single objective truth in fictions like this, but it's certainly interesting to hear all the different interpretations!
>the study results suggest repeating the experiment with a larger sample pool and introducing randomized controlled trials covering more clinical parameters.

Habituation should be one of the controls.

Novelty alone might explain the effect. What happens after a week, or month of listening music tuned to 432?
Did she make the word a better place, or a worse one?

In my opinion, after seeing this video, any HR department will simply say “you are being laid off” and give no other information. I imagine this could only reduce the amount of information that an HR dept would give.

This is my cynical point of view, at least.
In Los Angeles the median individual income is $30k.

For an individual, HUD puts the "low income" threshold at $70k and "very low income" at 44k.
It’s not clear, but what is clear is Cases like this can and often do have a chilling effect on legitimate, well-intentioned reporters of vulnerabilities which leaves everyone else at even greater risk due to negligence on the part of the company. We should be highly critical of these legal outcomes particularly when there was no intent to harm.
I don't know who you're talking about but this was a straightforward moderation call, not some weird capitulation.

Nearly every time we moderate any X at all, someone jumps to the conclusion "mod secretly agrees with the enemies of X or is secretly under their power". But X varies across the set of all topics, so if this logic is correct, we'd have to secretly be favoring everybody's enemy.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Physicists Design a Way to Detect Quantum Behavior in Large Objects, Like Us
Wasn't llama initially a leak?
Nice! I came across a few simple text blog sites recently. This post might just have pushed me to start my own.
Im not familiar with how animal medicene work. When you say it was an experimental treatment, does that mean your pet participated in a registered study by the manufacturer? If so, did the manufacturer pick up the cost? Alternatively, do you mean that the treatment was experimental because it was off label use, and outside of a study?
i think it all comes down to:

it's not a crime to build a house that has open doors and windows.

but it's certainly a crime to enter one as an uninvited guest, let alone do things with traceable logs.
Many self checkout systems check for the weight of scanned items, so if you scan an item you have to put it down (“please place item in the bagging area”) in order to continue.
"Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13... :

> ABSTRACT: The search for empirical schemes to evidence the nonclassicality of large masses is a central quest of current research. However, practical schemes to witness the irreducible quantumness of an arbitrarily large mass are still lacking. To this end, we incorporate crucial modifications to the standard tools for probing the quantum violation of the pivotal classical notion of macrorealism (MR): while usual tests use the same measurement arrangement at successive times, here we use two different measurement arrangements. This yields a striking result: a mass-independent violation of MR is possible for harmonic oscillator systems. In fact, our adaptation enables probing quantum violations for literally any mass, momentum, and frequency. Moreover, coarse-grained position measurements at an accuracy much worse than the standard quantum limit, as well as knowing the relevant parameters only to this precision, without requiring them to be tuned, suffice for our proposal. These should drastically simplify the experimental effort in testing the nonclassicality of massive objects ranging from atomic ions to macroscopic mirrors in LIGO.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2023-sponsorship-situat...

TL/DR: they accepted sponsorship by Anduril, a weapons manufacturer and publicized that fact 3 days before the conference. The German scene is quite pacifistic and threw a fit.
>The same logic applies to shutting down oil and gas production: if we are not certain, then why risk the downsides?

You are conflating the cost of not extracting a fraction of a fraction of current production capacity with the risk ending human existence through changing systems we do not have anything close to a full understanding of nor precise control over.

Degrees of risk matter, in fact they are the whole point of GPs logic.
It didn’t install itself. It came as part of an OS release. Even Linus distros do that.

And promotion of what exactly? They announced that this would be a new feature of the OS.

The idea that they aren’t allowed to add apps with new releases makes no sense at all.
It's not really shuttered it's just become subscription only.
> which translates into hundreds of worldwide patents

Possibly. Every country costs a ton of money, so they don't necessarily file worldwide on all of them. There's no such thing as an "worldwide patent." At most a part of the cost by saved by Patent Cooperation Treaty filings.
Oxman's dissertation was submitted to the architecture department. It's likely that none of her reviewers were actually equipped or motivated to know which aspects of it were nonsense.

Architecture as an academic discipline suffers from having practitioners with science-envy, but who don't have the training, the disposition, or the incentives to practice real science. The real end product of Oxman's labor is not a paper that advances science in some way: it's a beautiful piece of sculpture that will be acquired by MoMA. She's actually good at this part of the job! Unfortunately she (along with many others within the field) feels compelled to use science-y jargon to dress up what she's doing.
I think that’s right, and I think there’s a third aspect at play, which is that culturally the US doesn’t value jobs in manufacturing, machining, engineering, etc. as highly as it once did (after WW2, say) or as highly as it values finance and tech jobs today. I’m not sure how easily that could change.
Regardless, all this opinionated settings should be by OS maintainers or similar. I don’t see why a low level init system tries to make decisions for others. Yes, it may be with good intentions, but don’t.
Backstage or ServiceNow in front of kubevirt
I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
It's universally known that that means things like racist imagery/text content, not content like "I hate cake" or Tswift.
And the linked blog post: https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-...
... and I had games working fine with wine/vkd3d 8.x which did stop working once I updated to wine/vkd3d 9.x (same build configuration).

That "compatibility" which comes and goes all the time...
Does anyone work for a company in another country remotely? I'm not talking those who permanently travel, but say, a Canadian working remotely for a US firm. What happens there, pay income taxes twice?
"The beatings will continue until consent is provided that the beating was consensual"
You can do a lot of damage by simply accessing data: blackmail, state or industrial espionage, insider trading, HIPPA violations, obtaining signing keys or passwords for lateral movement, etc. All those require additional intent, to be fair, but it's hard to prove intent and much easier to prove access. And there are very few legitimate reasons to access someone else's private data, and many nefarious ones.
While what you say is completely valid, that doesn't save the original argument by pcj50 which was made up claims about the ability for scammer to drain your wallet. Of course you could build your own implementation that allows for such an attack, it is not a valid criticism of the project.
Expo SDK 50 just launched
This is a chunky release. Tons of updates and new goodies to make DX better.
Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 Addendum #2 [pdf]
I found the "On job hopping, backstabbing, and the lack thereof" section a bit odd. The argument seems to be that your co-workers aren't your friends (in general, of course there will be exceptions), and you'll move on in a few years, so it doesn't matter. And the counterargument is that the reason they're not your friends is because you're going to move on in a few years, so you don't bother to form stronger relationships, and that if you stay at a company for much longer (say, 10 years or so), then your co-workers will be your friends.

I just don't think whether or not your co-workers are or will be friends has anything to do with any of that. I stayed at my last company for 10 years, and ended up with quite a few real, non-work friends from that job. And those friends are mix of people: some were only with the company another year or two after I joined, whereas others had longer tenures.

If you are going to make sustainable friendships with your co-workers, you need to know them in more context than seeing them at the office or on video calls. If you do things with them outside the office, and actually develop real friendships with them, then you are likely to remain friends after one or both of you leaves the company. And so the length of time you spend at a company is pretty much irrelevant.
Research finds Covid variant with 100% mortality in ACE2-transgenic mice
My thinking is that prod credentials that you aren’t supposed to have were used. So if you’ve been ask to investigate, and see something this glaringly bad, then you need to stop immediately, inform your boss, and get explicit approval before continuing.
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Not even necessarily fuse in that case, just cache the operands and result in internal registers and don't run the multiply again if the operands are the same. Same for DIV/REM.
My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
Yeah it is quite a tough call really. But I think this is why it is so important to consider nuance. I think it is easy not to and we forget that what explicitly makes an expert is consideration of nuance. By definition this needs be true because if it was obvious you wouldn't require significant education lol.

I want to also add that there are no globally optimal solutions. So everything has a downside and I think we often fall for this trap in an effort to support our priors and do not accurately compare. So it is easy to get into polarizing arguments because while we argue about the same problem we often do not have similar optimization criteria. I've found clarifying optimization criteria helps defuse these types of arguments.

I hate to say it, but CS people also have a bad reputation around this. My hypothesis is that programmers often work in many different domains and are exposed to domain knowledge, but as we all know, it is exceptionally easy to deceive one's self into thinking they know more than they do (just go on any social media platform, including HN, if you doubt this lol. My personal favorite is to watch people who can't do calculus argue with Judea Pearl on Twitter)
This kind of an old axe to grind at this point, many engineers involved in these kinds of choices would rather be coding but see the need for good navigation. It is hard to decide when to differentiate roles as a company grows.
On the other hand, I would say, "this land has very high taxes compared to its price; therefore it's not very valuable land."

If you implement a land value tax, as I understand it, the parking lot and the skyscraper next to it should be taxed the same if they have the same footprint. All things being equal, that means a very large tax burden for the parking lot owner, and that certainly is an incentive to transfer it to someone who will do something with it, which is what you're advocating for.

But at the same time, it makes the price you can get for the parking lot much lower. And I'm having a hard time not equating sales price and value. And once I've seen that under a LVT, the parking lot has no or little value, because it can't be sold for much money, it's more confusing --- if the value is low, and the tax rate is based on value, why are the taxes so high?
I agree, that they are missing a big opportunity not supporting all 200 Vision Pro users with built in eye tracking.

Especially as they are moving into showing ads.
Your comments are basically "what if we had clones guys, why has no one thought of this?"

You didn't "write extensively", you put science fiction plots ideas that have already been done a dozen times into comments.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that execution might be a bigger factor than ideas here.
Broadcom will not be able to extract their acquisition cost out of future customer due to their rate of cuts.

Broadcom watched Arm sue Qualcomm, and was like, hold my beer. Revenue for VMware was 13.6B last year. They would have to maintain that for 4 more years just to break even on revenue. There is zero chance they will make a profit on this acquisition.
Having been to both countries I fully agree.
However the GP had a point in that the public image of Norway is hydro power and 90% EVs nowadays. The fact that they are a major oil and gas exporter is not as widespread.
> Or, is there a farm in Oregon that specializes in hiring people with PhDs in Math?

There is, it's next to the one with spherical cows.
Would be funnier if they said, "Try Deepmind."
He's right though. "Not tolerating hate" is a paperthin principle, that would stand up to as much scrutiny as everything else Ello stood for, in hindsight. re, it was all bullshit and the warning signs should be called out as such so we know next time someone tries to bullshit us.
Engineers Finally Open Osiris-REx's Sample Container
37signals first ONCE product: Campfire
I don't see why Ello didn't just turn into a Pinterest + Etsy + DeviantArt hybrid.

Let artists show off work, let them seem their art/products, take a percentage of the sale as profit.

Maybe that's a bad business model for a social-media-first platform.
That press you mentioned in an interesting example of the globalization of machine tools. Commissioned by an American company and made in Italy by a Hong Kong Chinese owned company, which now makes them in China.
There should remain some cachet when it comes to actually working directly with code that directly impacts software functionality. I love it. Coder, programmer, electron magician, logic monkey, or perhaps my favorite, Techpriest, call it whatever you want... at the end of the day this is the only job where you get paid to build completely nonphysical machines. I press keys that go clack clack, logic gates go flip flop, the electrons go zoom zoom, and my bank account goes ding ding.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…

...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
This 432 Hz theory is sort of like saying that if we measured the meter as being slightly shorter, people would have an easier time running a 5k.

Music exists in multiple keys, and a song can be in a high or low range regardless of what key it’s in. Changing the standard tuning wouldn’t fundamentally affect anything.

Also, did the study authors simply taking a recording and pitch shift it down to 432 Hz? That would affect the tempo of the song as well as the pitch. Even if they performed time stretching to keep the tempo the same, it shouldn’t be surprising that lower pitches make people slightly calmer than slightly higher pitches.
My preferred approach for that kind of difficulty is just to look at how existing open-source projects have solved similar problems. You'll either figure it out or come away with specific, informed questions that you can ask on a Discord or Reddit or something.
Good to know. Although that upstream commit ratio looks a bit scary. ;)
And an American one, at that (we’re talking government services here, not some SaaS). Are there really no native UK cloud providers?
My house Door is usually open . That doesnt mean people are free to enter and use the toilet .
Here is their announcement:

https://www.pornhub.com/blog/co-performer-verification-updat...
No? How does that even follow? That a standard should codify common expectations insofar possible (without breaking rigor) is irrelevant to whether you "should" only use standardized languages or not.
OP isn't trying to be less boring to his kids though.. he's trying to be less boring to new people
do you have portal for noscript/basic (x)html browsers?
College students in hospital after hackers send graphic images to Discord server
Will force Apple to implement a good web experience.

From the 30% tax apple enforces, why would anyone give apple more power by building on a new platform versus a reasonable web app?
Sometimes they do. Rosa Parks wasn't the first to resist racial segregation on the bus, but a sex worker did the same but that wouldn't have played as well in the media so she went un-rallied around.
> An IBM employee who spoke with The Register, and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, described the enforced return-to-office policy as "attrition by design," noting that the IT giant would have to spend some money to relocate and promote lower-band (younger) employees but would save money overall by shedding more experienced, more expensive workers.
I agree that fair queueing is a good solution to this problem! A request scheduler based on weighted fair queuing is also central to Aperture, an open-source load management system my team has been building for the last 2 years.
Priorities and tokens (request weights) can be provided to Aperture when scheduling requests. It runs weighted fair queuing that ensures relative allocation of capacity based on the relative values of (token/priorities). It also ensures fair allocation of capacity across users within the same priority class so that no single user can starve others.

Would love to hear your thoughts about this project:
https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
If someone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it above.

(It's best to use a representative phrase from the article body rather than making up new language; that's usually, though not always, possible.)
Helium supply is an issue and blimps are risky in adverse weather. Also these kite models keep the generator on the ground, saves from trying to float so much delicate weight.
Why?

Your phone already comes with lots of apps you didn’t install

How is that any different at all?

Of all the things to complain about Apple this seems like the minor-est
And the walk to work is a self-discipline solution!
Depends on how you define "adware." According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware, Microsoft at one point defined it as "any software that installs itself on your system without your knowledge and displays advertisements when the user browses the Internet."

I'm not sure what other term I could/should have used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yuck, Plaid is the one that wants access to all your transaction history and to share it, right?
I would love to see some direct comparison music. Listened to one quick guitar riff on youtube that I could find and 432 just sounded out of tune to me. Which, I suppose, it would be.

I question how much effect this would have over time. 8Hz would be a shockingly small amount of change to not have accidentally stumbled on to this being "better" hundreds of years ago. So I'd wager it's maybe something to do with the music sounds just enough "off" from normal that the mind becomes more engaged with the music.
but I would be, if i could make a couple million copies of you and direct them to do whatever i wanted.
I don't know what it's like in UK but it may be the case that government has a hard time a{ttract,fford}ing talent to administer everything in house. Not that AWS is great for cost saving but if its between paying 50k/year for cloud services and not being able to find an engineer who will competently do the job for less than 50k, then the cloud is your only move really.