skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation, please. And, no, having a plurality of top performing CEOs being engineers is not showing an intrinsic link between being an engineer and top performing CEO.
Dangerous flash flooding is happening in Texas and Louisiana, more rain coming
Germanic kings in Spain followed Rome's legacy.
How to get a free genealogy test, courtesy of the Hampden DA's office
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> And if they're sending you legal speak forms that's more likely procedure to keep things above board rather than something malicious to scare you

Google translate of the original article (https://www-bnr-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/juridisch/10538281/...) says “There is a legal reason why the police use coercive measures so liberally. “The police must make progress,” the Public Prosecutor's Office indicates. If the police voluntarily requests images, they may not be usable as evidence.”

So, yes, there seems to be a legal reason. Not that I understand it, but it may be because it’s not entirely legal, maybe even fully illegal for citizens to video the street in front of their house because of privacy laws.
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Off topic: I hadn't heard of reason.com before, and this article seemed like decent reporting so I looked around a bit for more. Then I found an article affecting my state on their front page, and oh boy it is chalk full of so much spin and loaded adjectives, it's such an obvious example of an opinion piece masquerading as journalism. Very disappointing.
I know a site like this can never be accurate, but the non-tech company I work for had a significant reduction in tech workers and isn't on the list. I really think that sound count.
"Some Dutch companies invading their workers’ privacy" - https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/some-dut...

"Dutch companies also collected tweets and violate privacy law" - https://malwaretips.com/threads/dutch-companies-also-collect...

"Dutch National Police violated data privacy in using European information system" - https://nltimes.nl/2023/12/20/dutch-national-police-violated...

"Political parties violating privacy law with tracking cookies" - https://nltimes.nl/2023/11/08/political-parties-violating-pr...
> maybe a person cares, but a corporation can't

A corporation is a legal fiction. It doesn't actually do anything, it doesn't make decisions. The people who work for the corporation do. Liability should not stop with the corporation but with the actual human beings making the decisions.
> “If we would have run the integrated test with ULA through the first orbital insertion burn timeframe, we would have seen that we would have missed the orbital insertion burn”

I can't believe I've read that. There's no saving this company.
Pressurization problems are not uncommon in aviation. Most planes will drop to a safer altitude or divert to "safer" routes in case something goes wrong. They did what they are supposed to do in those circumstances.

I'm finding these type of apologists comments placing fault towards the airline really hard to sympathize with.
As a rule, work related trauma is a tabu that can not be mentioned in any circle.

And, since software development is a mostly creative work, software developers are strongly impacted by it.
Ryanair sells spare bolts to passengers after check-in. Its a new service.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. The pressurization warnings are a recorded fact.

What I have not heard is if the problems with the door plug are connected to the warnings.
Making wine in earthenware vessels: a comparative approach to Roman vinification
After 40 years, the Mac is immortal – Macworld
I recommend reading the benefits section in the Unison docs[0].

0: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/#benefits
PoC Code Published for Just-Disclosed Fortra GoAnywhere Vulnerability
Are there any stats on how many people are being hired?
It’s unlikely in this situation that the bolts were ever tightened correctly the first time.

There are plenty of ways to ensure bolts stay tight that work, and these plug doors have been in service on other planes for a long time with no issues.

The entire rotor assembly (literally what holds it up) on some helicopters is held on by a single nut, for example. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut]

This doesn’t appear to be a case of the engineers not designing it safely - but it not being installed correctly and no one catching it before it rolled out the door.
Hey this is just great, gg.
> Is the complexity of AWS worth it for $20/mo?

For some of my projects it is, for others it wouldn't matter but I like keeping my AWS skills sharp since I use them professionally as well. There have been many times that I've had a solution at my fingertips for my job because I had previously played around with something on AWS for a personal project. I see it as a sort of "continuing education".

I also just dislike managing servers, call me whatever you want for feeling that way but I'd rather spend my time writing code and not worrying as much about patching/upgrading my servers. I know there are downsides to using Lambda, I've hit almost all of them, but I still prefer it over managing a server.
Hey is there a particular timestamp for the taskbar specifically? I'm interested in what he'd say about it.
That's a lot of money and time to spend on supporting someone else's bug-riddled software.

Consider that it's money and time that MS spent to get into their position today. They built their empire on "back-compat is king", and betraying that principle gives far less reason for their customers to continue using their software instead of moving to alternatives.
Tech companies fall over themselves to comply with China's regulations because: money. The EU is a big market so cynically I feel they will just comply for the same reasons.
Not even just lately, I remember around 2010 it was found that at least one car model could be exploited through the TPMS (tire pressure sensors)
Is there any chance that the lack of US regulations will, at some point, cause the general populations to flee the US rather than deal with tech companies monitoring and controlling every aspect of your life?
Thinking that large companies are going to buy black market genetic data and deny your insurance is completely unhinged. Not only would they never do it because they would instantly get caught and sued into oblivion, the health insurance industry is actually incentivized against cutting medical costs because of the statutory maximum of 20% gross profit on premiums in the ACA.
Without the immigration controversy the right would not have gained control. With it, it's almost inevitable. This is a major political force throughout the west, driving the popularity of Trump, Brexit, Alternative for Germany, etc. It's just part of the cost of large immigrant flows and needs to be factored into those policies.
It shares your name and how much DNA you have in common. These are opt-in features.
There are some people like that, sure.

But most of us know driving isn't safe, and still do it daily.
Online retailer eBay to lay off 1k workers, firm says in letter to employees
In theory, at least (and there's an exception if there's no other option, I believe). In practice, there are camera doorbells everywhere, and they're pointing at the street.
perhaps to integrate with tooling that wants to work with containers
I'm surprised it's not mentioned that doorbell cameras that record are of dubious legality. It's not permitted (afaik) to record public spaces like that, https://www.bnnvara.nl/kassa/artikelen/de-slimme-deurbel-ruk... "Je mag alleen het privéterrein van je eigen woning filmen met de camera van de slimme deurbel" / "You can only film the private space of your own residence with the camera on a smart doorbell"
Just curious, why AHK over C? Easier for users to run themselves?
Yes, all the time. Like silverware, ornamental swords/weapons like axes, jewelry.
“semantic overload” just goes to prove how techbro you are to even think that using rape so casually is just something to be dismissed rather than owning up to the serious lack of awareness and classless you are. You chose to be very unclassy with that choice of phrasing. Then, doubled down on it by continuing to diminish it and blame me for misinterpreting your classlessness.
It's a very limited and stilted kind of competition. One of the few real bright spots is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiant_Air

which works on a fundamentally different model from other airlines (limited network, fewer flights per week.) It is getting harder and harder to see the difference between traditional airliners like Delta and "low cost" airlines like Southwest.

People do compare prices on competitive routes. Airlines, in the US at least, try pretty hard not to compete on quality and the mediocrity of the 737 is part of that. Every other commercial airliner built today has a modern fly by wire system which can accomplish what MCAS was supposed to do in a safe way. The 737 is noisy for its size

https://www.aviationfile.com/noise-pollution-levels-by-aircr...

not just in the passenger cabin and on the ground but particularly in the cockpit (years back I wrote a comment on an av blog about the noisy 737 and pilots joined in.) The 737 struggles to take off under good conditions and has to be grounded under conditions that other airliners handle easily. The 737 also lacks the anti-turbulence feature of the A320 which uses the fly-by-wire system to smooth out the ride.

People are so used to the dismal 737 and only somewhat better A320 that they have a hard time believing that modern airliners like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_E2_family

can be much smaller but much more comfortable than the 737 but people who fly it become believers, the more people who get to experience them the more people will demand them. They cost less to operate too and being a little smaller could support a more efficient network just as 2-engine widebodies replaced 4-engine widebodies.
Has that changed recently? (I haven't lived in the Netherlands for 10 years). AFAIK it is perfectly legal to do that if you believe you need it for security.

https://blog.iusmentis.com/2019/12/18/voor-de-laatste-keer-d...
As long as taxes are applied in the developed world and the big polluters, the rest (like Burundi) are rounding errors at best.
Except most of them don't? Only a few big tech companies that are not Chinese operate in China due to the regulations, among other issues.
I mean would only people working the most crucial jobs be better for some reason? That would mean something like over 50% unemployment - possibly much higher. Most of modern economy is unnecessary bullshit if you want to go down that rabbit hole. ER nurse? Keep. Gelato factory? Shut it down
It's a tough question. If a plane starts behaving a little wonky, per sensor, but you can't figure out what the sensor is complaining about, and the sensor doesn't match human observation, do you have to throw it away? What fraction of planes would be discarded under this model?
Seconded. There's at least two of us for sure!
It's also the case that Alaska doesn't trust the FAA - for good reason. There used to be FAA-linked auditors that reported back to the FAA directly, even though they were paid by Boeing (i.e. they could be fired by the FAA, but not by Boeing). This was the case up through 2004:

> "This all changed in 2004, when a committee made up largely of industry backers passed a rule establishing the Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) system. The ODA system transformed the way DERs worked. Now called Authorized Representatives (ARs), these employees reported not to the FAA, but to Boeing managers."

Regulatory Capture at the FAA, Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy
Leo Kalb Bourke, November 12, 2021

https://www.5clpp.com/?p=4026
Airlines need to push Boeing into chapter 11, acquire a controlling interest, and install adults in charge who can deliver.
You know that law is barely enforced. So many houses with cameras obviously filming the public road.
But that same re-compression happens with modem traffic. Your 56k modems deal with compression artifacts just fine, though sometimes dropping down to lower speeds.
Because your employer might want the deployed final binary work fast on a 1 vCPU container with 1GB of RAM.
It's not a "non story".

As the article states, refusal can result in a fine or three-month prison sentence. If you film a crime, the defendant will be provided with your full name and address.

Considering that Dutch gangs have gotten quite trigger-happy over the last few years and routinely assassinate lawyers, (assumed) whistleblowers, and witnesses, if your camera happens to be recording at just the wrong time you might have too choose between either 3 months of jail time or getting killed.
> So, where are the bolts? Probably sitting forgotten and unlabeled (because there is no formal record number to label them with) on a work-in-progress bench, unless someone already tossed them in the scrap bin to tidy up.

So this is like when I would take apart and re-assemble everything when I was a little kid. Sometimes I would have several screws left over. It's a good thing I wasn't making airplanes!
> One could argue that C's success is largely because[...]

Why do so many ignore the obvious? Ergonomics matters. At a time when most programmers didn't touch type (even the big stars), the economy of being able to type `int foo(int bar) { ... }` is a major productivity boost in comparison to `PROCEDURE foo(VAR bar: INTEGER); BEGIN ... END foo;`. Hell, that even bothers modern programmers. I mean, I know people whose entire reason for switching to Chrome when it came out was that the toolbars at the top of the screen were 18 pixels shorter or whatever. That's it. People are incredibly capricious.

Factor in the environment—Unix has a widely acknowledged beauty/elegance in its design—and it's not hard to see why people gravitated to C, even at a time when Pascal was anointed as the official development language by Apple for a platform where people were known to be able to make money writing apps and selling them to businesses and consumers alike.
Just the "regular" right has also (or perhaps even more strongly) proudly cultivated a "tough on crime" image over the years. Think Fred Teeven, Ivo Opstelten.
I have been struggling to understand the immigration controversy. My understanding is a lot of the hate is related to refugees, which don't seem to be too high numbers wise?[1]

1: https://ind.nl/en/about-us/statistics-and-publications/asylu...
I think it is something like Hoogle for haskell but instead of looking for the types of the functions you look for a hash of some kind of canonical encoding of the definition, so it is like an encoded knowledge graph but you should have to give rules in order to construct that graph in a canonical way.

Edited: What I thought was wrong, anyway the idea of above could be useful for something like copilot to complete definitions.
You need two types of experience: deep and abstract.

You need the deep experience of having worked inside the beaurocracy of a huge effort on some tiny piece of the project.

You need the abstract experience of having built a smaller, less complicated version of an entire plane yourself. Think RC model plane here. And yes you should be at least an RC pilot.

With both of those experiences you will be able to extrapolate very closely everything you need to know to be succesful in establishing an engineering culture.
Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support for More Devices and AMD CPU Checks Updated
It is called a dog.
Tiktok know what videos you have watched and liked which is all the targeting data they ever need. They don't need or want your genetics. And even if they did, better Tiktok targeting isn't something that would make me worry enough to not make my password "abcdef".
> What does it tell us about progress if the most influential technological innovation of the century is clearly destroying lives on a massive scale? (The author is referring to smartphones.)

The author draws the wrong correlation. Smartphones enable communication. More communication is not the problem, but it is a catalyst that enables the problem to cause more damage.

The problem is that everything we see from government and corporations is a lie.

The fix would be to make it a felony to lie in the course of business. Criminally prosecute every stockholder of every corporation that makes claims that are proven false. Lock them up.

I can not say what the solution is to lying politicians.

> so why do companies that use AI hide it? Why do consumers hate it?

Anyone using AI correctly is doing great.

AI helps us learn. AI helps us be more productive.

The correct use of AI when authoring an article is to ask the AI: "Please rate this on a scale of 1 to 100 and give me 10 bullet points on what to improve. Do not reword any if it for me. Just give me bullet points on what to improve."

The issue is once again that people lack values. People screw other people by not spending the time to even proof read what AIs can generate. Those people need to be fired.
I'm in Belgium and we have the same law, so I'm willing to assume the nuances of this law are also similar: Not being allowed to point at public space only applies to always-on security cameras, which a video doorbell technically is not. We've had video doorbells for a good while and this was never an issue until Ring and the likes came along with cloud backups that essentially make a video doorbell a security camera.

I'm afraid this is one of these laws that'll never get enforced or reviewed, especially considering it's turning out to be in law enforcement's advantage.
> So we're better with benevolent dictators.

Making a decision based on input from relevant coworkers while being competent in the domain you are making the decision in isn't exactly dictatorship?
Tech innovators for sure. Companies for the most part will just offer difficult products in the EU.
Respectfully I don’t think that is very productive. I’m not a fan of this lawsuit or patreon’s behavior either, but I think Patreon has to fight this in some way or risk going bankrupt.

If this really is an existential threat to the company they aren’t going to listen no matter how many creators talk to them about it. I think what patreon needs is some solution where they admit using the tracking pixel on those pages was bad (and stop) without giving bankrupt.
At least on Chrome for Android, you can long-press to trigger the hover effect. Works on many websites. (There are inconvenient side-effects like selecting text, but it's better than nothing.)
> “If you could provide images, that would be very nice,” they told her. She gave them her email address and, within a few hours, received a demand email containing threatening legal language. She had to submit images within seven days. Refusing is a punishable offense. “I wasn’t even sure I had images, so I’m worried about what will happen if I can’t provide any,” she told BNR.

This is clearly not okay. I don't think the police would take her to court either, it would be far too much cost to prove that she was knowingly withholding information.

> Refusing a demand for footage is a punishable offense that can lead to a fine or a prison sentence of up to three months.

How can they prove that you are refusing? What if my camera simply didn't detect motion, or I didn't pay my cloud subscription to have it uploaded and it was lost? The camera itself could be a fake and there to deter criminals.

In the UK, at least where I live, the police know that they will get nowhere by making such demands.
How would you feel if you were on a flight where a door fell off, and the pilot said "only 2% of flights on this specific plane have had unexplained depressurization, and now we have an explanation, folks"?
Of course. But now do a blind taste with someone off the streets, and ask which one is the "oaky Rioja".
From my experience, a lot of companies will pay lip service to privacy, but when it comes time to comply, things can drag on. Just enough plausible deniability until someone holds your nose to the grindstone.
The actual solution that people go for, of course, is to do it anyway.
That is what the feet message and communicate. If they say we do a deathmarch on this project, that is what your managers polished shoes tell the world.
I thought Spotify used to have an “offline mode” toggle in the settings a long time ago. Is that no longer the case?
I know the full text is not linked in this article, yet, the kind of regulation mentioned here sounds like the kind of regulation I'd love to see from AI companies.

- being required to disclose energy use

- not being allowed to scrape CCTV cameras for training

- not being allowed to use AI for things like social scoring

The things mentioned in this post feel like restrictions on the possible ways people could abuse others with AI. Even though I may not agree with all the items on the list (there are more than 3 hidden in the body of the article), the direction feels in service of me, as a citizen. That's great!

Contrast that to US regulation posted a few months ago which basically said: you have to be one of these 5 companies to develop AI because we trust these 5 companies.
It doesn't work if you don't have another offer and aren't actually more excited... probably.
Exactly, I find the conclusion in the subheading weird.

> Flavour variations are mainly the result of changes at the chromosome level, sequencing effort finds.

Though from my limited understanding of coffee tasting, environment is one of the biggest factors in taste. Especially the altitude changes the way to plant grows and develops toxins.

> Even if a single-origin Colombian coffee bean harvest was roasted and ground in the same way as a batch from Ethiopia, a coffee connoisseur would be able to tell the difference.

But Colombia especially is known for its variety in environments for coffee harvest.

So regardless of finding genetic differences between variants, I am not sure they can draw the conclusion that this is what creates variety in flavor. They don't make the claim that a coffee connoisseur could taste the differences of two different coffee variants grown in the same environment.