skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how many times do you think one should be allowed to turn in the same piece of work for additional academic credit?

As many as it meets the requirements for.

Heck, I submitted the exact same "tell us about a significant experience in your life" story to every single university I applied for.

And I guarantee the teachers are duplicating lessons or parts of lessons when they teach related classes. Have you ever seen a professor cite, "Me, the first time I taught this class"?

That's just being smart and efficient. I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of these examples.
Every technology we know of started off as the exclusive purview of the rich and then saw progressive decreases in price as a result of providers fighting for market share by innovating on and scaling up production.

As for immortal tyrants, we already have immortal institutions that are functionally the same. And the activists, dissidents and opposition leaders who challenge their power will be almost certain to gain from immortality just as much as the heads of dominant political parties.

In a rapidly changing world, immortal tyrants will not necessarily have an advantage in keeping a grip on power. Insofar as they stick to their old ways, the nations they lead will stagnate and become more susceptible to foreign influence. And if they are open to change, they may be open to abandoning their repressive ways.

Opposing technologies that can save us from death due to hypothetical fears about the rich seems like a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Aging has a 100% probability of killing you if this technology doesn't emerge within your lifetime. It is strictly a greater threat than a speculated immortal tyrant. And if you think we are so abhorrent that we deserve a measly 80 years before we succumb to aging, then it doesn't follow that you would be so aghast at the idea of those same unworthy beings living longer under repression.
As far as I know, Android also doesn't have the same level of privacy requirements and permission prompts to show the user. Facebook et al. don't have much of a reason to push a third-party app store.

In addition, exploitation might be transparent to the user, i.e. a botnet that runs in the background[0] or replacing ads in other apps to steal their revenue[1]. People use iOS and recommend it to their friends/family because of its simplicity and the built-in safeguards the App Store provides, since installing a sideloaded app is a much more involved process.

0: https://cyble.com/blog/daam-android-botnet-being-distributed...

1: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20688885/agent-smith-andr...
We do know what happened though. Boeing used an insider to pass information about their competitors bids and then gave them a high paying job with a large sign on bonus.

They got the contract killed because they knew they could work up a furor about a European design being used by the US. Of course it's fine in the other direction.

There's legitimate reasons to not want to depend on an ally for equipment but in this case it seems that Boeing haven't been able to deliver on it at all. Losing might have been a good kick up the ass to improve for the next time this type of contract comes around.
JSON functions stopped working with blobs in SQLite 3.45
The biggest office politics I see these days is demographic/racial based. Big tech splits very cleanly on these lines, exceptions abound
could you explain why a little more? [background: though wind river got bought by aptiv... paid a pretty penny for it]
It's likely `git reflog` would have their work, but not everyone knows about it
Improving the Performance of a Open-Source Graphics Rendering Library by 1500%
but this post is about c++ 23 and probably should stay on that topic? Everyone who uses c knows you can do it in c++ but either don't want to introduce the extra complexities, work with older code bases, prefer the "simplicity" of c, or have an organizational requirement. Personally on embedded I like c++, especially raii, smart pointers, containers, and classes, but I completely avoid rtti, exceptions, and complex template metaprogramming (by me). That subset is easy to keep in my head and on my projects. However some clients want C, and that's what I give them.
Early on there was a lot of concern about 'happy' hypoxia where your blood o2 was dangerously low but people didn't feel critically ill. I'm not sure where that ended up clinically/evidentially as things moved on though.
That Musk is involved in it whatsoever is probably reason enough to stay far away.
The physiological adaptations to caloric restriction in general are extremely broad and not all are related to the tradeoff in thermogenesis. But to answer your question, you basically get cold much more easily, basically all the time. As for why the body isn't always operating as efficiently as it does on CR: it's possible that the "default" state we are in today, due to caloric overabundance, is actually a hyper-active state, characterised by excessive protein synthesis, tissue hypertrophy and libido, among other things. These are all very costly in terms of metabolic resources. When fewer calories are available, developmental processes slow down, metabolism switches to catabolic autophagy (which has the benefit of recycling old and damaged organelles) and reproductive function is deprioritised, in favour of optimising survival. The evolutionary basis is to ensure survival, until comfortable sustenance is found again, so that reproductive concerns can be resumed.
I hate the experience of a non ergonomic rectangular device in general. It’s uncomfortable to use in most situations.

For example I use my pinkie finger to support the weight of my device when I type. The weight of the iPhone 14 combined with a case is enough to leave a permanent impression in my pinkie from heavy use. A contoured case that considers how people actually hold their device would be nice.

If we were to rethink all of it from the ground up I’m sure there is a better way. Maybe even a silicone soft phone would be a good start.
EU regulators don’t agree.
In the UK the wages are piss poor for engineers. You can often make more money doing menial jobs that don't need education.
It sounds as though mission life has as much to do with funding for ground staff (not something I ever considered) at least as much as it has to do with the life expectancy of deployed hardware.
If I had to chose a name for it, it probably would be "Regex 401".
As an aside, I also think this explains the "bamboo ceiling" phenomenon. South asian culture is comfortable with self-promotion--my dad taught me most of these rules from a young age--in a way I get the impression east asian culture maybe looks down upon. That plays out when you look at who is in management. So if you're an engineer (from any background) who wants to move up, consider reading this book.
hackers: heroes of the computer revolution

by Steven Levy.

I think he also wrote some of the other well known books, maybe including fire in the valley. need to check.

He is a journalist, so the book is sure to be embellished to sound good, but a cool read nonetheless, IMO.
Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
Kevin Mitnick popularized social engineering in the 90s and properly documented it starting 2001. 30 years back, you could have broken into so many systems this way. Just call someone, claim to be their boss, ask for the password.

Https was only really widespread about a decade ago. It's trivial to encrypt literally every minor chat message today, but I also wonder at what era it would have been too computationally expensive. It's possible logins weren't even encrypted. Symmetric key encryption was well known into the 70s, but how widespread was the use? I remember in the 90s, they'd tell us to use PGP for everything and the US gov allegedly demanded a back door for it. You could probably find an unprotected hard drive somewhere and figure out file contents from the plaintext.

As for cyber warfare, they probably don't have a clue what our systems run on. 2013 had plenty of exploits. Most have been handled by 2024 and it's done by layers upon layers of security. You don't just hack into systems nowadays. Social engineering and spearphishing is the easiest vector, and even that has layers of protection.

Cold war era scientists might have been more thorough though. They did creative stuff like The Great Seal bug, but the thing is we know about every idea that has ever been thought of in the 70s by now. But it reminds me of the X-Com games, where a team defeats a group with superior technology attacks one with inferior tech. They beat the invaders, they reverse engineer the technology, and they use it to make even better ones. I'd say the fundamentals don't matter much, but they were just immersed in being creative with all their restrictions.
I have my doubts on c++ ever making it into the mainstream kernel while Torvalds is benevolent dictator. Especially since there is rust. I agree with the rest of what you said though.
Whose definition is this "newness"? Plagiarism is about passing other people's work off as your own. It comes from a Greek root about kidnapping, not about how old something is.
Wind river is also behind vxworks which is scary to some
Why not Linux? https://plasma-mobile.org/
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I am turned off by the grey. I've seen some apartments that I might have considered renting except that everything was grey. I wouldn't buy a house with a bunch of grey flooring, or I'd at least underprice by the cost to replace it.
Totally agree that this isn't a good full pentesting device, but I also think that such a device doesn't need to be in order to be popular. Just look at the IM-ME when Samy Kamkar showed it off [0] and it sold out.

Most people don't need a full SDR like a HackRF in order to explore their RF devices and a Flipper gives that too them without the headache of software and the bulk of a full PortaPack.

(I love my HackRF and PortaPack for the record. The Flipper can't complete with the features and low-level access when you need it)

[0] https://hackaday.com/2015/06/08/hacking-the-im-me-to-open-ga...
“Outside” perspective after I was recently gifted one for my birthday: it’s a fun and easy tool to learn about hardware. I became a programmer through the “Applied Math” route (Causal Inference -> Probability -> UL -> DL -> CS). Never owned a Raspberry Pi/Arduino and too busy to get into hobbyist electronics. The Flipper is accessible and low friction, motivates learning eg about GPIO, and is the first time I’ve messed with firmware and signals.
It is my understanding that some people who don't exercise at all have a hard time controlling their appetites, and then when they introduce moderate exercise, they find it much easier to keep their eating in check. I think it's synergistic.
I have a lot of conflicting thoughts but I will point out that the Apple ecosystem has to a large degree resisted the enshittification that has consumed others.

It is strongly more consumer friendly than alternatives. I pay my money, I receive a software or service. I use apps that are largely free of intrusive ads, scams or tracking.

As a consumer I will (and do) take this deal every day of the week.

I logged in to Windows for the first time in a while, the other day, and felt violated by the amount of ads, marketing and promotional content the OS itself was throwing in my face.

I see similar things when I watch friends use their Android phones.

No thank you.
The default assumption is that everything I do not cite is my own. I'm the one doing the writing.
We should've stopped at the Power Glove and Wii. VR itself is a recurring non sequitur category with a cargo cult thought process akin to "It was featured in Lawnmower Man, Brainstorm, and Hackers, so let's keep pour billions into something no one wants or needs." (And The Jetson's + Back to the Future drives the inane quest for inherently inefficient and much more dangerous flying cars.)
There is no doubt at all that both are markets. The only question is whether it’s in the public interest and compatible with the law to regulate them, and courts and governments around the world are figuring that out right now.

Why the courts ruled differently for Google was that they had different deals for different participants in it, while Apple has a uniformly expensive deal for everybody.
This comment vaguely reminded me of this delightfully strange article on Taylor Swift that Sam Kriss published a while back: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist
The SH-3 is also the CPU of the Cave CV1000 arcade board, which gave us the best bullet hell games. (Though arguably, Cave's developers thought the board was way underpowered. Still, they did an amazing job with the games)
Teaching CS50 with AI [pdf]
Producing new things is happening faster every year. Literally a book can be written in a day, published electronically the same day and published overnight.

30 years longer than the term when the country was founded.

Surely the term should be going down, not up.

I have three ideas:

1. A short flat term, say 3 years, after which the work becomes public domain

Or

2. Copyright is not automatic. You have to publish the work to the Library of Congress and the publication fee is $1000 for one year. You can extend as long as you like but each additional year costs 10x what the previous year cost (pick your favorite exponential values)

Or

3. You get your choice of copyright as we have today XOR non-discriminatory non-DRM distribution. That is, you can choose copyright protection under todays laws, but if you do, you may not use any form of DRM or exclusive licensing and you must make your content available to all distributors at the same price. Or, you can distribute however you want and DRM however you want, but your content will not receive copyright protections.

—-

These all balance the enforcement costs and societal costs of copyright with the right to be remunerated for creative work, and take into account that creation is faster than ever before.
Cloning my NFC cards, being my garage opener (I wasn't given a key and couldn't be bothered getting one... and yes, it's my garage), testing equipment using the GPIO pins and what not. Last one is really handy tbh

Edit: oh! I used it today to snap pictures with my phone every second for photogrammetry work, that was neat! Wish I had gotten better point clouds out of Gaussian splatting though
When did newness become part of the definition? It's not on the etymological history of the word. It's not in dictionary definitions of the word. Where is this coming from?
Ask HN: Which data serialization do LLMs understand better?
JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, EDN, etc.

JSON's token tax is high.

YAML's token tax is low but I'm not sure if white space doesn't confuse LLMs.

Which one works best?
Sound reasoning when applied to the alien civilizations themselves. However, the dark forest problem (which is what the original commenter I think is talking about) extends beyond the idea that aliens may or may not have agressive traits, if you believe that there are thousands of alien races out there, you only need one to be technologically advanced and decide that humans are too "agressive" to be left alone.

Upate: Other people in the thread have mentioned 3 Body Problem, I would recommend taking a look, it completely changed how I think about this.
If they have contact info on their website you could ask. If I was on the other end of that inbox I’d definitely tell you, in the absolute best case it could convert into a sale (or maybe you’ll just make someone’s day).
That's what I like about InstantPots: having a standardized cooking device makes recipes a lot easier to share.
Hopefully, but it depends on how it acts in the body. Manx treatments are not used as the side effects are too bad*
that was a good one, although they had a really intense time.

"pinball"
I always feel like NASA has mastered the basic "under promise, over deliver" philosophy that keeps the lights on and the next missions funded. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at who they get to tap dance in front of the congressional committee or how they schmooze the decadal people to rise above the rest.
In the same way that people are purchasing internet from horrible ISPs, shopping at overpriced supermarkets etc.: A lack of competition.
First of all these are not new gems. In the past I used both and I strongly prefer this one to aasm. I like the DSL of it. It seems more convenient to me.
As I hear about AI replacing workers, I think back to the short story “Manna”

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
It all depends on what one’s looking for I guess. As an aesthetically inclined technical person, seams can be annoying to the point of distraction if they’re not thoughtfully worked into the design (90% of the time, they’re not).
I think about this all the time.

Economies are human constructs and can be changed with political will.
> As for me, I've been a developer for 25 years and never wanted to go into management. I love my job because I love to code and I love learning new things. I'm 100% not the target audience for this book.

I feel like you can still gain a lot of respect by loving to code. For one, if you're impactful enough your name will be all over your company's git repositories in commits. You'll have your name in documentation. A lot of newer employees will remember your mentoring. That in itself all earns you valuable respect.

Perhaps it's not the same as making sure the CEO knows that you made this piece of software, and did this thing, and that thing... but it does make its way there in a healthy organization.
Ask HN: Which ASR model or service provides Fine tune capability?
US home sales see worst year since 1995
Odd that the article about finally opening the canister didn't actually include any photos of the inside of the canister.

You can see it on the official article here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-osiris-rex-curation...
Not sure what point you are trying to make here. You think that developers got a better deal when software was sold in brick and mortar stores? I remember when the App Store was first announced, there was much excitement among developers over Apple only taking a 30% cut.
EBCDIC persisted later than many might expect - to 1990 in legacy hardened IBM System/360's used in air traffic and defence (branded as IBM 9020's IIRC).

Early C compiler projects (eg: The Hendrix Small-C of ~1982) would get patched by some to support the full C language and extended to cross compile to and from whatever machines were about at the time, System/360's, VAX, PDP's, early PC's, BBC micros, etc.

It wasn't always the case that char encoding passed on by default, there was always the option to insert a trans table whether compiling or dealing with data stored in not native form (similar to data in big end V little end).
I agree that this has dragged on for at least a few years too long, but I do have some sympathy for wanting to do this right.

If a regulator comes up with an overreaching plan to open up the app markets and that law or ruling gets struck down by a court, it could cement the status quo even further.
Sometimes everybody loses a bit.
It's a symbol.
Basically a glorified string literal.
Here's the truth about office politics: it's a rat race trap. You spend your life away jockeying for attention, resources and org chart positions. You go through immense stressors, let others down and get let down, swallow your mental peace - only to jockey for a higher position in the ladder. Every rung of the ladder is just being more and more assistant to your boss. You just CANNOT have your boss think badly of you. It's an abusive attachment. You grind and grind away, only to get laid off because some distant boss wants it to happen.

Imagine a video game where monkeys spend their lives climbing an imaginary rung, only to find that reaching the top rung is the same as falling from a middle rung - both are "game overs"
You're not paying attention then. Office politics applies to everyone. It's the one meritocratic thing about business. The person who's better at manipulating people goes to the top, regardless of race, gender, etc.
> I assume because it’s cheaper to lose that feature than the pay the required licensing fee.

Without a doubt. I would imagine the number of people that would actually choose to not buy an Apple Watch because it doesn’t have a blood oxygen sensor is really really small. I also believe it’s likely that people considering upgrading an existing Apple Watch will not be deterred by the removal of the feature. My sense is that Apple felt that it had basically nothing to lose. They were going to incur some legal costs in this anyway, why not let that play out? Remove it if you lose the battle. If you lose out on maybe <500 watch sales no biggie, you still have the optics to your customer base that you exhausted all options to keep the feature.
Sometimes even clearly seriously ill people don’t go to the hospital. Especially in the middle of a pandemic.
This is "mini breakthrough" in early stage of researches.
Basically not interested to anybody outside the research community.
Actually I thought of a case where this is just not just common but practically universal: welll pumps. Basically all the pumps are 240, and a 120 receptacle or light is almost always installed off the same (240) circuit.
Weird that I’m getting downvoted. I’m curious why that is.
Have you talked to her about it? Only you and her can figure it out. That you love her is a positive thing.

Partners can be like chalk and cheese. To expect a single human being to tick all of your boxes is naive. This is why people have friends and peers. Understanding that peers don't necessarily have to mean unfriendly competitors is a big one.

What do you want from the relationship long-term? Do you both want the kids you want to try for? Do you both want to build something? Anything? Have fun? Or have you not really sat and thought about it or spoken about it with her?

You have different kinds of relationships with different kinds of people. They're all different. Again, only you and her can answer these questions.

Here's a curveball question: have you ever considered that you might be autistic? I'm autistic, I have asked these sorts of questions before. You should want to stay because you love her and want a future with her.

Another curveball question: do you want kids generally, or do you specifically want kids with her?
It displays something on there but “The majority of wrist-worn fitness devices and trackers track your heart rate through your skin. Unfortunately, this means they usually aren't sensitive enough to detect heart rate variability accurately.”

HRV is an interesting field. Too high and it can indicate arrhythmia. Too low is also not good.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21773-heart-r...
oh thank god someone else put in the effort to type this, so I didn't have to. yes, this view is 100% correct.
There's no real overpopulation; there's only misuse of resources. There's too many people driving in big SUVs and living in McMansions and using too much fossil fuel energy.
It's definitely the same folks (I know them). Ian's been posting about the project on the dangerous prototype twitter account here: https://twitter.com/dangerousproto/
It doesn't matter whether you, I, or the Ukrainian state agree with his views, he has a fundamental human right to express them.
> You think that developers got a better deal when software was sold in brick and mortar stores?

What? No, my point is developers would get a better deal when there isn't a monopoly on the distribution. Is it not obvious that the 27% fee is only possible due to lack of competition? That if there were other stores selling iPhone apps then competition would drive down the 27% fee?
It’s a function call, with a positional arg and a keyword arg?
If a tyrant reigns over a country for centuries, it's because the people there want him in power.
Sure now walk away from the person while the file is transfering... on airdrop it finishes over the internet after you walk out of range :)