skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew someone who participated in a similar program, and they left because the director was incredibly toxic. It was unclear if the director had intentionally been put there to sabotage the program through their own incompetence.
For sake of analogy, I simplified. There are many pathways up the ranks, and the general of today may not ever engage in a theatre of war depending on country.

Experience however, does contribute to one's station -- whether basic training, joint exercises or in inopportune times, the battlefield.
No, there are other differences. The problem: You would have to find one that is pretty unique to India. :-)
I only use SMS based auth for services that demand it, and I find alternative services if they are really critical. All though lately, more services are forcing it without any advanced warning...
That the creator of bitcoin would be cryopreserved makes a lot of sense.
Why not use ActivityPub?

Why should we trust Dorsey again?

What is one good reason to use Bluesky over Mastodon?
> I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook user", more the nerd.

I think it's more "regular Twitter user". It has implementation details that interest nerds, but my read is that the target audience really is regular users.
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I maintain a couple of apps that are pretty much free to break or to revert back to an older build without much consequence, except for one day a week, when half the team uses them instead of just me.

Any other day I can use them to test new base images, new coding or deployment techniques, etc. I just have to put things back by the end of our cycle.
Every country in the world used vaccines, masks and social distancing. Based on science, not believes. It wasn't about US elections.
If someone has wronged me or my family or society at large in some kind of severe manner by committing a crime, I don't really care if they are rehabilitated. I want them punished. Why complicate things?

Also, I recognize that there are a lot of people in prison in the U.S. who shouldn't be there. I think our the way people end up in prison needs reform, of course. However, once there, the point is to punish people for doing something wrong, IMHO. "Rehabilitation" is not the point of prison.
i doubt he was crafting cron jobs to send emails when he had no idea bitcoin would get big and he had a marathon to do. tbh I think I can guess a good way to figure out who it was but I am unsure what the incentive would be, and unfortunately it would require effort.

EDIT> Am I being downvoted by people upset that I am suggesting it wasn't Hal or because of my nebulous statement? Oh nvm
That shot is a ducking annoyance!
>>> most Russian techies left

>> This was about them getting paid fat paychecks from western clients/employers not out of draft fears.

> Not a new phenom, whereas the draft is.

Russian techies started to leave immediately following the invasion that started in Feb 2022, because Western firms put in policies forbidding anyone in Russia from having access to their systems due to security concerns. If they were working for or contracting with those firms and stayed in Russia, they'd lose their jobs.

It looks like Putin first announced the draft in Sept. 21, 2022, but by then the techies working for or contracting with Western firms had already left or quit.
Specifically with PostgreSQL, number of connections is still the killer (if you don’t have smart proxies). So you can’t be cavalier about putting as many use cases as possible.

For example, when using PG pub/sub, you will run out of connections quick.

Generally, all DBMS needs a smart self adjusting query killer. Without it, one bad query will ruin it for everyone.
Is there a way to install only your own dev dependencies?

As far as I can tell installing a package will also pull down all of its dev dependencies. This unfortunately leads to many typescript related annoyances such as jest typescript global types being pulled in despite not needing them.
The assumption that it’s v1 and will only get better seems to miss the physics and battery limitations. Magic Leap spent billions trying to overcome the physics of seeing in high definition. How soon we forget…

Moreover, are the latest iPhones or iPads really that much better than the first versions, each seems like incremental improvements, not dramatic leaps forward.
It's pretty easy to have shell aliases for commands like rm, cp, etc to use the "safe" mode (the `-i` option) by default.

Writing a replacement utility seems a bit like overkill.
> what it would be like to try to understand and debug a PCBA for a 20 layer board that was just a bunch of code or text and didn’t have a schematic and some decent documentation.

That's a seriously important point. Open source is filled with just plain horrible code. EE's who are not generally trained in software development can deliver reasonable schematics. There's the potential for utterly unintelligible designs if they had to create them using software techniques. I have seen FPGA code that is most-definitely cringe-worthy and unintelligible without, as you said, stopping to draw a schematic.

One way to think of this --in terms of circuits, not FPGA's-- is that a schematic can stand on its own. A text based netlist, even if sophisticated, requires documentation and, more than likely, a schematic.
I imagine you got "autocorrected" but to slow the error propagation I'll point it that it's a "Bussard" ramjet, not "buzzard."
There are people at places like this who want to do a good job. They want to do rigorous academic work and hold their students to high standards but the incentives are arrayed against them. Among other problems, there are tides of clownish administrators whose only goal is to gather more money so they can hire more administrators and give themselves higher salaries. Having academic standards of any kind doesn't help with this. Federal loan dollars are tied to enrolled warm bodies, not enrolled warm bodies that are also doing useful work or learning anything.
For those commenting without following the link, be aware that this is simply a link to a SlashDot comment.
Adam Neumann seeks to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy
Insurance can or can't be easy depending on 50000 circumstances. What you just described is worst possible situation for many people.

- a 1200 dollar deductible on a car worth 4 grand is a life ruin-er for some people.

-if insurance decides to total your vehicle and you have to dispute the value, absolute nightmare.

Personal story,

I am 7 months in awaiting my court date for an uninsured dude that totaled my buddys car I was driving. It's my buddys extra car, no UIM or comprehensive coverage. I paid 7 grand to fix it out of pocket, because his insurance would have totaled it and charged him deductable. car is valued around 4k or so, despite being the cleanest 0 legacy on the planet. all new paint, mechanic owned. Other motorist hasn't paid a dime and is ignoring all court orders.

Insurance has done fu** all for all of this.
Meta says you better disclose your AI fakes or it might just pull them
There is a counter argument to this - the iPhone shape did not change, the shape evolved. Apple is never known to change shapes or geometry, they evolve from the same geometric construct.

The AVP fitting into standard sized glasses like swim goggles is a possibility but it'll be more like Cyclops visors. I am not sure if it will ever achieve a Rayban form factor.
Engineers Unmask Nanoplastics in Oceans
I wouldn't blindly trust what the LLM says, but I take it that it would be mostly right, and that would give me at the very least explorable vocabulary that I can expand on my own, or keep grilling it about.

I've already used some LLMs to ask questions about licenses and legal consequences for software related matters, and it gave me a base, without having to involve a very expensive professional into it for what are mostly questions for hobby things I'm doing.

If there was a significant amount of money involved in the decision, though, I will of course use the services of a professional. These are the kinds of topics you can't be "mostly right".
Yeah given the 20+ sizes of light seals & possible use of prescription lenses.. this is not a device for sharing.

And that's ignoring the software issues from Apples willful ignorance around user profiles/accounts on other devices in the iOS/iPad ecosystem ..
I don't really understand the question. Nobody got to fly until we figured out how to build airplanes, people before that lived on the ground. Likewise, we'll live with iterations on the current command line, until AI is fully integrated with it.
Reminds me of this insane video (tasting chloride salts of Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48

FWIW no one has ever noticed my use of 50% NaCl/50% KCl mixture ("Lite Salt") in place of NaCl. I think when you actually put that mixture on food it would be almost impossible to notice the difference.
I understand the feeling! I would love to find an alternative, but I haven't yet. I only use Google Voice for services that demand it, and I try to find alternative services when possible. I never use SMS auth for anything truly critical.
As it concerns prisoner abuse I don't really care so much who is being locked up as how they're treated.

Like a hypothetical prison system that is hell incarnate with all manners of torture and grueling labor that destroys your body isn't made any better for having a magic oracle so that only objectively bad people go there.

I believe prison serves one essential function and that is removing people from society that are an active danger to others* and all attempts other than physical constraint have failed. And prisons would serve their essential function equally as a gulag or a 5 star hotel california and given the cost per prisoner interned there's really no excuse for it to not be the latter.

* And should be released immediately when that stops being the case.
Elysia – typesafe framework on top of bun
Is there a reason for a new language? As opposed to a python library?
There's also the antiquated "can't have ever been involved with cannabis" and related rules for government contractors that thin out the field of possible applicants quite a bit. The FBI has trouble with this too.
A slave that isn't given tasks to do is still a slave.

We can discuss the negative incentives of having them do labor and how that might pervert our legal system (companies that benefit lobbying for harsher penalties on victimless crimes), but they are still denied their freedom regardless of which way that discussion goes.
Musk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems but Jack has proved he has no idea what he's doing
What does it offer over Mastodon, and following hashtags as topics ?
It's possible in theory. Someone with unique skills can be directly commissioned at the O-4, O-5, or even O-6 ranks without ever being a junior officer. After commissioning they can eventually be promoted to O-7 (brigadier general or equivalent) just like any other officer.

https://talent.army.mil/direct-commissioning/
wasn’t it multiple reply/response of emails during that same short 78 minute time period?
To avoid two bad things, the following should be true when a company uses prison labor:

- The prisoner should be able to freely choose to work or not to work.

- The prisoner should be able to choose whom to work for and be able to quit.

- The prisoner should be making the same wage as someone not in prison. This wage may be garnished by the jail to pay for prison (separate topic), but it should still cost the company the same as a non-prisoner laborer.

The bad things that are avoided are:

- being unethical

- making sure corporations don't lobby to expand prison labor - which could have the side of effect of criminializing things that most people don't consider crimes.
Pricing should be way more obvious and up front. I had to search the comments here to find pricing.

Do I really need to login to get pricing information?
Noted this in a comment above, but restating it here: If someone has wronged me or my family or society at large in some kind of serious manner, rehabilitating is not really a concern for me. I think they should be punished. Plain and simple.
> Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched.

What is the paper? Any link? I've never heard this claim before.
How could that work? The script on the left executes first, piping its output to another command won’t prevent that
Kali is convenient in that it has security tools preinstalled (it's what I use in my pentesting gear), but this can be done with any distro.

Primarily what I'm looking for is if the capabilities of the device match what I expect them to be (does this flash drive -- or even just a random USB cable -- also represent itself as a user input device?), and to spy on the USB packets for things like keystroke replay, bitstreams that don't match what would be expected (virii installations, unusual behavior if the storage device thinks that it is being booted from, etc.)

It is not comprehensive. Just a sanity check.
My org switched over to the Nautobot fork for the long term support aspect and integration with our other enterprise apps, both products are pretty great.

EDIT: should note we are using the on-prem version, not cloud/SaaS.
The University of Nevada is not a "not-really academic institution." It is a flagship state university.
Drank a can of beer while wearing AVP this past weekend. No issues whatsoever, the device profile isn’t obtrusive enough to interfere.

I was struggling to do that with Meta Quest 2 before tho, as the shape of it on my face ends up hitting the top of the can sometimes, and it is just straight up not the best experience. For that case, yeah, a straw would help.
Oh hush. You can still see their "eyes" [0]. What are you complaining about?

;-)

[0] not much better than the creepy face-screens in Jamin Winans' amazing low-budget movie, Ink
> In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity.

Firefox Relay is a great way to do that :) https://relay.firefox.com

Integrating that with Monitor is pretty high on at least my personal wish list.
Wow this comment reads like it was written 150 years ago. You should really both read the article and watch the documentary about which you’re replying to, you'll learn a lot.

Between racially-biased mandatory minimum sentences, forced prison labor, and the fact that felons lose their right to vote, the United States prison industrial complex is a system that truly isn’t far off from slavery.
On Teslas, technicians can enable a service mode that show a lot of data on the dashboard. It’s not accessible to everyone and requires a password.

My old i3 BMW also had a service menu that you could access after pressing a button for a while and entering a password that was some kind of checksum of the VIN.

But an ODB2 dongle is probably something important to have in your toolbox.

And for a new car, you may prefer to let the company fix it under warranty while you get a loaner.
Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl (WARC/WAT/WET) formats
"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement
You don't need a bsky.social handle. Bring whatever domain you want.
The only problems are it could be convincingly wrong about anything it tells you and isn't liable for its mistakes.
At the very least Sbazo.
I always titter when I see arithmetic in shell operations.

In Python, one would merely do:

export mynumber="+4912341234123"
python3 -c "import pip; pip.main(['install', 'phonenumbers']); \
import phonenumbers; x = phonenumbers.parse(\"$mynumber\", None); \
x.national_number = x.national_number + 1; \
print(x)"

Just plain and simple, really.
None of us worked at Twitter actually, but we chatted with a lot of folks who did.
The energy that comes from a mass-energy conversion greatly exceeds kinetic energy losses.

For the same reason that the power of an atomic bomb does not depend on how fast you smash the sections together - it depends on how much mass is converted to energy in the resulting reaction.
oh I have no idea but that would invalidate my theory
I still have a deactivated FB, which I would long ago have closed except Messanger became the default family chat app, and I have over 15 years of family messages.

FB failed for me in the early years. Even though I only ever added friends I knew in the flesh,I didn't really care which coffee they picked at Starbucks or what cute thing their pets did.

When FB moved into the next phase as global forum I found that, just like with email, most of USENET, and pretty much any digital communication tool/platform, no one had the attention and/or capacity for reasoned, balanced, nuanced, irenic discussion of any length.

It's one reason why Twitter was "successful" at political/cultural/philosophical "discussion. Despite the complaints about character limit it's what people actually wanted. It's also why I couldn't use it.

For years I used to write family and friends email like I would a postal letter. I replied in-line instead of at the top (thanks MS for destroying that sane practice), but even if when printed the email would be a page, page and a half at 12 pt font, I got constant compliments about length.

I never used Instagram, quit Mastadon after it had its "Eternal September" as people fled Twitter to talk about nothing but Twitter. I never was able to find active IRC channels even in the late 90s. It felt like rooms with statues even when I asked a specific on-topic question.

Mid-90s USENET and Prodigy forums were the best social experience I ever had. Now I mostly use internal forums in the tilde/rawtext public *nix space, a little gopher and gemini.
The opinion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40...
I wouldn't blindly trust what a lawyer says either so there's no difference there.
You would think so but no. Government employees are impossible to get rid of and the atmosphere is such that those with any kind of mental issue are attracted to government work and they can't leave because they wouldn't last anywhere else.
Would love to purchase a Framework, but 16 is way too large and 13 is way too small. A 14 or even 15 would be greatly appreciated. I love my 14" G14.
Anyone can put up a web page with whatever they want.

Public corporations not wanting to broadcast lies and misinformation is not an attack on free speech.

Free speech is about legal consequences to what people say.
The network effect is very strong.
Having it be a shell function would work. It could create a copy-on-write file system or override the syscalls for file system access.
The “I don’t like comment moderation” to “psyops don’t exist” pipeline has to be one of the internet’s goofiest.
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Agreed. I ceaselessly flag comments like this online. Scary passive voice messages would be worthless even if they weren't from an influence campaign.

Say what you mean or hold your tongue! I have zero patience for cowards using vague passive voice.
Timestamped emails? That's not cryptographic proof.
This is almost spooky... it produced the results of my typical google research process. Thanks for this, I'm impressed.
People who have strong opinions about things they don't know about are called idiots
He's on the board but he's never been involved directly
Given how long this has been in development, I’m surprised that Apple didn’t buy a studio like MGM or Paramount+CBS. If AVP is best as a consumption device, creating next generation content and especially on top of events like the Grammys and Super Bowl would accelerate adoption. Folks are raving at how Avarar looks, and Cameron has another 4 or 5 in the works.
And the famous early computer scientist Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral in the US Navy despite not having combat experience either. But that's because she was career Navy, and basically the only way the military can give you a promotion is by increasing your rank.
It will be interesting to see how the fragmentation in the post-Twitter landscape eventually consolidates. To your broader point, I think it's an interesting time where there's trepidation over just becoming Twitter 2.0 versus making some improvements that improve the experience of the platform. Even before Elon, Twitter definitely had some pain points, such as repetitive gif-replies and toxic political stuff, as you alluded to.
Having a percentage of their pay going to reparations for any identified victims of their crimes seems like it would be a fair system, and much better than what currently goes on where these companies are pocketing all of the profits from their labor.
> It needs to be built into the browsers and web standards such that it’s incredibly smooth and fast. I wanna send $1 to a website, it happens instantly and anonymously, and the developer can do things around this. Like unlock features! For instance, stop showing ads, offer more complete downloads, unlock tutorial courses, etc. Make it easier and faster than using a credit card.

Are there any promising avenues towards microtransactions that gets around small card transactions getting a hefty fee? Or an approach that doesn't require one company to have a monopoly over it?

I'm really curious how the internet would change if there was a fast and easy way for site visitors to give something like $0.10 to unlock content or just to say thanks.
Or patriotic. There are lots of highly competent people who work in govt because they want to bring some competence to it.
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Regional_v...

Safari N/KN anyone??
Having been one of the earliest non-author adopters of https://p3rl.org/Future the difference between having a simple (FSVO) callback and a 'thing' with a reasonably predictable API shape was huge once you were doing more than one thing at once (which, if you aren't, async may be overkill anyway).

Plus with a known interface between the code completing the work and the code wanting the result of the work gives you a much clearer boundary rather than having to keep all of the specific async model underlying it in your head (you'll still need -some- of it while debugging, sure, but much less).

So while your view about over-abstraction is often on point, I think in this case people will find that in practice it's no harder - and in some cases easier - to debug code written to the proposed standard.

I have had to drag people kicking and screaming into the Future before now, but in the end they've all thanked me.
Dorsey isn’t even involved. He kicked it off but hasn’t had a hand in it for a very long time.
You'd last 3 months.
I really want Framework to succeed. I think right now their laptops are ugly, but they’re acceptable and very thoughtfully designed!

I’m only sad I don’t have a need for a Windows or Linux laptop right now, otherwise I’d put my money where my mouth is immediately.
Most of the world is not SF, and in most of the world $40k/year is life changing amounts of money. Your parent commenter replied with their own situation, but it's true in most of the US, too.

In the US as a whole, 27% of the population already lives on less than $40k a year—they probably wouldn't stop working but they could! The median income for a black person in the US is $48k/yr [0]. Where I live, $40k a year would be enough to take someone from median income to 80th percentile in a single event.

If you don't think $40k/year is very much money, maybe take a pause to consider how lucky you are.

[0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krukenberg_procedure
It’s hilarious how this news gets flagged honestly.

Literally putting heads in sand.
Poor "dog" will become lonely once he becomes radiant.