skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, another piece of this is that rail companies have eliminated rail yards and park those super-long trains on just random tracks (at least in the LA area). They then complain about the homeless who camp on the sides of the tracks and demand that LA county do something about the camps. The homeless may provide cover for the professional thieves but the homeless aren't the thieves (and the county should indeed eliminate the homeless camps by finding them housing but given a population of people can't legally or pleasantly sleep anywhere, that population is going gravitate to area least protected and that's railroad tracks and freeways, where problem things happen - notice recent freeway fire, etc).

Rail companies go in, apprehend the homeless for trespassing and then complain that county won't prosecute them. And no, the county sensibly doesn't want to fill it's jails with vagrants just 'cause the rail companies don't park their trains where they're safe.

All this is part of the "supply chain problems" of the last few years but the thing with those is the large carriers (shippers and railroads) actually made profits by a legal situation wound-up as "our losses are your losses, our gains are ours". They cried all the way to the bank.
That's incredible, thanks for the reference!

Episode 1 looks so great. So so timeless..!

https://archive.org/details/tt0062588_202201/0001.mp4
"I'm a bit pessimistic that much of this research is being driven by large orgs in collaboration with researchers who aren't sufficiently independent."

I'm one of the co-authors of the study. I think your sentiment is valid but what you describe is true for most fields of research: conflicts of interest can be a problem.

I can attest to the fact that the researchers behind this study have extensive backgrounds in academic research and hold themselves to high standards. If nothing else, not doing so risks putting individual reputations on the line.
That was it, thanks for the suggestion!
My first thought was whether this could help with allergies; this seems to be a much, much bigger group of people. Sadly it didn't seem to come up in the article.

Oh and yay University of Calgary!
$200 000 for a crt plant? Thats $2.5 millions today. There's no way we could do that today.
What a bummer - the use of an off-the-shelf arm was such a clever and promising idea.

Do you think they would have made it if they raised more runway, or is this an issue of focusing on too little of a tire-shops jobs to be done? (prepping the robot taking too long for the one job it has to do)
The similarity is in not thinking about unintended consequences of govt policy. Solve one problem but create another (or more), which might even be worse. The cure being worse than the disease, as it were.

The Canadian govt sought to solve a demographics problem but have created a massive housing affordability problem. What with the climate in Canada, proper housing is a serious necessity.
Okay, I'm looking into this, and my router was stuck in a "6to4 tunnel" configuration with local address assignment 2002:*

This is undesirable for several reasons, but that's what it picked up with "Auto Detect" and "Auto Config". I toggled settings a few times and regained a 2600:* "real IPv6" delegation.
The railroads have them because there wasn't much government out where they were operating when they became necessary.
Thanks, I think I might try to work through those with my son.
I think this reading is _mostly_ right. To make it a little clearer:

1. A rules-based approach to define a minimum standard, likely based around existing descriptions of software weaknesses where the rules basically say "you aren't allowed to have this type of software weakness" (the doc specifically gives path traversal as an example). HOWEVER, liability would only be established if a weakness is actually exploited, to help avoid the problem of people proactively scanning for weaknesses and then troll-suing as a way to make money.

2. A process-based safe harbor to avoid liability for exploitation of weaknesses NOT on the rules-based "no no list." Basically, if you can show you followed the safe harbor process requirements, you get the benefit of the safe harbor. This is to protect and encourage organizations to go above and beyond the floor established by the rules-based standard.
I’m still using Sublime for the references. Without fail I can load up any version of an application including older rails apps sub 3 and it instantly has context. I can easily jump to definitions and even on hover will show me where they are being used. In the context of foos.bars.baz I could easily infer where bars is defined. Seems to work across languages, doesn’t matter if it’s js, ruby, in an erb file it just works. Not to mention the flavor of vim feels great.

VSCode complains and I’ve got to hardcode an alternative absolute path gemfile for Shopify’s LSP to work. It also feels clunkier, even on powerful machines.

If Zed can give parity with Sublime on the references (I just tried and it did not seem to find any references when clearly bars was there) might be an interesting change. Considering it’s open source now I’d happily switch as it does seems super quick.

I might also be old-man yells at cloud and the copilot integration doesn’t appear important yet, but current sublime support is pretty poor for it and seems like that’ll be a thing more and more.
Are really that many developers using Macs?

Maybe I am in a different bubble/country, but most professional developers and hobbyist hackers I know have either ThinkPads or Framework laptops running Linux or sometimes Windows, if they have to.
going to keep and eye on this. maybe I can integrate it in my own service https://montaigne.io.

I saw many broken links on users’ sites and wanted to do this myself, but didn’t have time to implement.
> a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions

I remember an informative presentation about Russian history and culture which seems to go along with this, in particular the bit about "two words for the truth and three for the lie".

https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=2257 (time-stamped at the relevant portion but the whole talk is good)
PSA for anyone else as stupid as me: when doing selective restores be very careful about how you set target_directory. "duplicity restore --path-to-restore some_file source_url ~" does not mean "restore some_file to my home directory", it means "replace my home directory with some_file".
In before the media some how makes this about biden, even though it only goes through 2020.

> The probe was prompted by complaints the Department of Defense received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in “improper medical practices.” It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama.
Not having their own courts seems to be a problem though. No one can get convictions anymore.
You are correct that we charge a per org fee regardless of number of seats. For non-profits, we offer a 50% discount on the subscription price. All the nonprof needs to do to get the discount is email me at sai@kbee.app
> It doubt it'll ever be argued for doorbells. Security cams, that's another story.

Since the camera in the "doorbell" is recording continuously I highly doubt it's anything else then a (security) camera in the eyes of the law. I highly doubt a little button on it which makes it do "ding-dong" changes anything about that.
Yeah - having originally designed the interface for a very low dot pitch 512x342, it turns out to be practically made for fingers when you integer-scale!
It's usually forbidden to rely on those files as they can disappear with updates of windows. The best example I can think of is General MIDI. The files were avaialble with XP and below, and is now often explicitly forbidden because it's not available anymore or not in the same form making demos incompatible.

It's also often forbidden to use the filename to store data. There was that case of the 256B demo that relied on a deep hierarchy of directories to work :)
I remember a loader where you could play a game of Mastermind while the game was loading. Magic. Blew my mind, it's the kind of thing that wasn't supposed to be possible, yet it was...
What's good about the new garbage collectors? You've only said they're new, but what makes them better? How do they compare to other languages?
I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

For example, Pika Backup, and Vorta are popular UIs for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic, while Borgmatic seems to be a de-facto standard for profile configuration.

For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1] I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using but the fact that there are so many competing tools - many of which are no longer maintained - makes it difficult to choose a specific one.

Prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, although it seems to have very few users. :\ A fork of Vorta[5] seems to have fizzled out six years ago.

[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

[5] https://github.com/Mebus/restatic
Ahh yes, this is down. We are still deciding if we want to bring back the public facing roadmap :)
I mean don't use SQL at all. Use a real programming language like Scala, and let Spark (or Flink etc.) do the translation and optimization: https://www.databricks.com/glossary/catalyst-optimizer

I don't understand why anyone would prefer SQL to that for anything beyond a simple SQL query. And it's not just my opinion: industry at large uses Spark for production with complex queries. SQL is for analysts.
There is an exception to only commercial developers provide a polished debugging environment and that is the various non GNU open source Smalltalks.

Eclipse can also produce reasonable debugging for Java at least.

But yes other than that poor debuggers do limit the choice of languages.

Unfortunately PHP is better served than most interesting languages.
A short history of how we adopted Nix in our Haskell / Elm / Ruby (Legacy) development and test environments, with advice on how to adopt it incrementally and avoid common pitfalls.
This would be a great win for the lawyers. T

The better alternative would to be to completely rework the software developing discipline to be as rigorous as civil engineering from the top down. Requiring proper licensing, and security clearances for accessing U.S. customer data.
I see. Graphics drivers were my second idea. They will mature.

Another poster on here a while ago said that it took up to two years for a brand new AMD chipset to get fully supported on Linux. I remember that happening even to an old Intel Dell I had with docking station.

(Looks like this kernel param is meant to solve my problem: amdgpu.sg_display=0 rather than the updated kernel.)

Anyway if you can't get it stable, I'd call support to replace your motherboard perhaps. Shouldn't have to suffer with crashes.
After the roadmap is finalized, as the manager I ask every one on my team to stack rank at least N preferred projects from the roadmap. I map preferences to projects with some optimizations (e.g. career progression, avoiding knowledge silos), review it with everyone, and then commit for the roadmap.

If there's grunt work that no one wants to do, I distribute it fairly among the team. Fairly can be splitting it up evenly among the team (everyone refactors _n_ files) and sometimes it means we round-robin the responsibility (e.g. quarterly compliance reviews with auditors). Obviously this depends on the team size and role in the company, but I think it's only come up a few times over ~4 years.
If anyone from the New York Times is reading, I'm about to cancel my subscription. Despite being a paying subscriber the site insists on serving me a cookie banner and a 'read in the app' overlay after I started reading. Don't interrupt my tiny amount of Fxxking reading time. You ruin the whole experience
Looks like they draw a line at generative AI. CLIP / Whisper / Gym are open; Jukebox / GPT / DallE are not.
The primary reason it doesn't happen is because it's a lot harder to pull these things off than the public perceives.

The examples of supply chain attacks in the wild, or within some controlled environment discussed ad nausea in conference settings are completely different than a supply chain attack against a nation-state with sophisticated intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies. It's not even worth comparing them. The consequences for making a mistake in a supply chain attack against a nation-state are extremely grave, i.e., expect torture and execution in your future.

Imagine arriving in a foreign country and trying to gather the information needed to pull this off. How long before someone finds your behavior peculiar and reports it to the state for investigation. Now you have to accomplish your task knowing there's a good chance you're being watched closely.
"You park your bike for two minutes and that’s what you are left with" got me pretty good as someone who has had a bike stolen before.
If western leaders today believed in individual rights they could ban facial recognition, license plate readers and require businesses to take cash right now. Why do you think they don’t?
Pixel facing new storage issue, likely tied to January Google Play system update
> You can be liable for harms caused by things you give away; you can even be liable for harm caused by things stolen from you (i.e. cars).

Not in traditional tort law. A criminal stealing your car is an intervening event. You didn't cause the harm.

But for the sake of argument let's say you find a precedent. Please explain how that liability would work in the context of products liability.

First ask yourself the threshold question: What is a product? A product is not your FOSS on GitHub.
I'm not counting starting from Altman Saga(TM), but from the beginning. Promises of being open, keeping structure secret, changing their terms to allow military use, etc. etc.

They state something publicly, but are headed to completely different trajectory in reality.

This is enough for me.
All data is stored & edited in Drive. Kbee simply renders it in an easy to search/consume manner
Yes I downloaded the ZIP, here I put it on my website: https://www.zorinaq.com/pub/The_Sheep_and_the_Flower.zip (SHA256: 91327f463ff5edaae89e1e6fd386f313c33d1f171c84f9e843e263af3d034321) After extracting it contains these files (the zip archive is large because it contains a ~200 kB JPEG screenshot):

8159 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower-1280x720.exe
8143 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower-1920x1080.exe
8159 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower-3840x2160.exe
8157 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower-640x360.exe
206507 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower.jpg
1014 bytes: The_sheep_and_the_flower.nfo
A big part of this is those mile-long trains have to park "somewhere" and that can't be rail yards 'cause they're too big to fit.

So this wind-up being as if Fedex, to save money, eliminated their own parking lots and parked their trucks in the sketchy parts of town - and then demanded the cities eliminate the homeless 'cause their truck kept getting broken into.
I know people have swapped out the classic Macs CRTs for an LCD, but I wonder if anyone has tried it with an e-ink display? I've always thought the same thing regarding the classic pre-MacOS 8 systems on e-ink.
I think top schools are much more likely to accept that kid with a 1550 on the SAT who spent his downtime studying differential geometry instead of the SAT.
Ring forever became the 3rd party police with these things.
I'll never own one, no matter what lies they trot out.

It's all marketing garbage, because their profits were impacted. Nothing more.

edit: typo..doh
I mean, music theory is all about communication and describing how things sound, not fitting everything in a box. Though once you learn the theory behind why your stuff works despite the clashing keys, you'll be able to describe it to other musicians and more easily apply it intentionally.
Yes. The zip is bigger than 8kb because it includes a screenshot and builds for various screen resolutions.

Try the scene.org download link here https://demozoo.org/productions/322612/
this hypothetical engineer-CEO is going to put a lot more stock in what the engineers are saying, so even if it'll cost a lot of money, reducing profits, the engineer-ceo is going to say we're not not launch until the engineers say it is good to go. The MBA CEO is going to say the engineers are stupid, they don't know the whole picture, they're going to bankrupt the company, and we're going to launch anyway.
Exactly.

Presumably if it dovetails back into the existing public court system at the prosecution level (i.e. there are railroad lawyers empowered to bring cases similar to DAs), that's still a reasonable separation of powers.

But the slope towards the government (with democratic checks and balances) ceding enforcement authority to a private party (without democratic checks and balances) seems worrisome.
We wrote about our entire journey on IndieHackers. You can find our posts here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/kbee
A writer for Reason will stare you straight in the face and say it's up to the market and a rationally-acting rational actor of an eight-year-old to decide if said eight-year-old can be hired as a coal miner.
On Chrome, the download works better when I right-click and select "Save link as". Chrome mentions that it's not secure because it's http. I've just uploaded the file here, maybe it will work better: https://ctrl-alt-test.fr/dl/The_Sheep_and_the_Flower.zip

If you open the zip file, you'll see multiple files. The biggest (200kB) is a screenshot for reference. It's not used, you can delete it. We didn't include a resolution selector in the executable file; instead we provided one binary for each resolution (e.g. The_sheep_and_the_flower-1920x1080.exe).
I think the message was more then "I'm Taliban", according to the article it was "On my way to blow up the plane. I'm a member of the Taliban."

I think blowing up the plane was a bigger deal
The critical fail on a 1 is a variant that I hate, it makes everything feel like a slapstick comedy. I do wish it would be played as written.
NASA Climate Time Machine
Item 1 is likely related to the spread of the railroads and how important they were so early on. I knew about railroad cops, and the no Social Security eligibility, but it wasn't until the recent strike threats that I learned how railroad employment is so different from most other employment because there are specifically different laws. The importance of the railroads is why there is so much checkerboarded land in the western US, it was given away in grants to the railroads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)

The railroads using shorter trains would allow them to keep the trains in the railyards, where they have more physical control. But that would involve more employees and seems to be something the rail companies are specifically avoiding for various reasons.
> The ZX Spectrum has a 3.5 MHz Z80 processor (1,000 times slower than current computers)

Actually, it's much, much slower than that.

The Z80 takes at least one clock cycle to add or subtract an 8-bit number (sometimes several clock cycles, depending on addressing mode). For a 32-bit number those clock cycles add up quickly.

In contrast, a modern 3.5GHz CPU can add or subtract several 64-bit numbers every clock cycle

And don't get me started on multiplication or floating-point arithmetic. A modern CPU would be thousands times faster, even if it was running at the same clock speed.

Thus, I think that the feat is even more impressive than presented!
We went from nothing to paid users & number 2 product of the day on ProductHunt over a period of three months.

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> ” Almost certainly what they want to happen is the offloading of their security problems onto the public. We the public should not be subsidizing private monopolies because their bad business decisions make them particularly vulnerable to crime.”

Law enforcement is the state’s job, and companies do pay taxes. Blithely ignoring train robberies on the premise that if it gets bad enough, the company will hire private armed forces won’t lead to the kinds of societal changes you’re hoping for.

The kinds of theft happening in LA on a regular basis are essentially unheard of in places like Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong or Taiwan. Any such occurrence would be shocking news and police would be all over it.
What you're saying makes the issue sound even worse.

> It's not a perfect system, but it works reasonably well as long as most of the reputable experts deserve their reputation.

I don't understand why you'd think this is a reasonable expectation. There's plenty of public examples where assumed competency turns out to be a costly, or even fatal mistake. That's just what's documented. Underneath, especially in academia, there's many examples of grifters in high positions. Every grad student (that is 100%) I've talked to has a story about this.
Sieve is Simpler than LRU [pdf]
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Trains shouldn't have any crew at all. They can't do anything useful when the train is moving now that we have modern automatic train control. (they cannot hit the brakes fast enough to stop if someone is on the tracks). Unlike cars, self driving trains is an easy problem that was solved 20 years ago. If a train brakes down send a mechanic to the train - they only need a couple in every state.

They train companies should still have crew, but they should be for use on secondary lines and the crew lives near that line and just works 1 week a month (most of that time doing mandatory training). With a little work on scheduling they can find local farmers looking for a side job when there isn't farming to do.
It would be interesting to see train conductors on electric mountain bikes, with drones scanning each side of the stopped train for damaged or cut air hoses, hotbox bearings, etc. Could save a lot of walking, if the railroad and the union agree.
Not too long until they rename the company to Microsoft AI.
My understanding is that Target’s loss prevention forensics team makes some police departments look amateur. Also, the aggregate shoplifting for an individual is “allowed” until the dollar amount crosses the line for it to be considered a felony. At that point, the fat stack of evidence is handed to local DA/PD. The same tech used for tracking your browsing and purchase behaviors also works pretty well for identifying and tracking known shoplifters. I’d wager that going after every instance of misdemeanor theft would be an ineffective use of resources at their scale.

With that said, it makes less than zero sense for Target to ask retail employees to risk their lives in order to stop someone stealing a cart full of Tide or pockets full of sonicare replacement heads. Not to mention, the potential for interventions to quickly escalate and become a danger to other shoppers.
I switched _to_ VSCode because Sublime was occasionally so slow at times that it was unusable. It was very fast 95% of the time, but then I'd `git pull` on a very big repo and my machine would become unresponsive while Sublime did...something.