skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theft is unfair? I mean fairness in "no market participants have access to information that is not public". Using a satellite to work out the usage rates of a real estate company's car parking centres? Fine. Bribing an executive to give you non public information? Unfair.
Have you ever seen how fast and accurately octopuses change colour and texture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xJ13pAZNw

Or one of those insects that look like sticks or leaves?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniidae#/media/File:Katy...
Conway’s Law from 1967.

[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
2000s homebrew powered things like XBMC which were many people’s first introduction to the reality that hard drives had far outstripped DVDs in capacity.
Good post, but a bit turbulent to read:

"If you’ve ever built a web app, then your users will suffer. Remember, it’s a world wide web, including the European Union."

"Create a PDF with the following information:"

(me, reading that paragraph: '...what? why?')

--

[Edit]: I concluded from the bullet-list on why that is requested, but it would help to introduce that intention before instructing me to do something
Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”?

PWAs are already a separate “island” of storage and share nothing with Safari App…

Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.
Also, I think the 'no fly zone' stuff is entirely implemented on the drone itself and the app could be fully opensource if needed without compromising that functionality.
> Panuwat traded on his work computer just seven minutes after he allegedly learned that Pfizer would buy his company.

Really? What an idiot.
At 100k and above price will naturally come down to be equivalent
It's a shame, Apple is in a place to be the leader and decent, instead it decides not to be both.
I think it is - look at the collapse of coal power in the West, the massive reforestation efforts going on, reintroduction of wildlife, all that stuff. Sure, we keep finding new ways to consume, but I don't wanna live in a stagnant society. I wanna live in a dynamic, changing, improving society.
I was so confused when I saw the domain, I asked myself what the Vue framework got to do with this. But visiting the link explained it.

We have truly hit the limit of names in this industry.
I agree generally, though it's not simple to compare countries.

It's easier to compare UK history. It seems clear that we're paying more tax for significantly worse services compared to a decade ago.
It wasn't, my friend certainly wasn't the first to do something similar, this was much more recent. I was just impressed by a demo he showed me of his work. He did procedural rigging for Darktide 40k, and physics based animations for The Finals. Unfortunately I don't think his software is available outside of the companies that hired him.
Mysterious Writing System from Easter Island May Be Completely Unique
Vizio recently changed their firmware on my tv to require you to use the smart cast app just to watch antenna. It's slow and buggy and causes nothing but problems, the people writing the software clearly never use one of these tvs. Dumb stuff like it would mute my receiver every time I switch channels and immediately unmute, except sometimes the unmute would fail. It’s a shame, it was a great little tv, but this push for more ad views means I’d never recommend a Vizio to anyone.

I know the common refrain is don’t connect tv to the internet, but for whatever reason the Vizio showed up in chromecast at times when the Roku stick wouldn’t, otherwise didn’t use tv smart features
You might be born to run
Heart-on-a-chip: microfluidic marvel shapes future of cardiovascular research
Muon mystery: New measurements challenge quantum theory
X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
Astronomers find monster black hole devouring a sun's-worth of matter every day
Ugg. I read titles like this and think we’re talking about Tamagotchi feelings.
Perhaps a giant in a holocaust cloak lurking in an outcropping waiting to hit you in the head with a small boulder.

Which doesn't seem very fair.
Part of the reason is probably similar to why they are building empty apartment buildings in the middle of nowhere: developers secured funding to do that and now they need to deliver a plant. The fact that it might never be profitable to operate is not their problem. There just is a lot of inertia to these projects.

Another part is that they are probably replacing dirty, inefficient, old plants with more economical and efficient newer ones. The less efficient a plant is, the more pollution it creates and China has huge issues with smog.

And of course a lot of the plans of even a few years ago are getting obsoleted by rapidly the changing facts of renewables scaling faster and cheaper than anticipated. In a way, they are a victim of their own success here as a lot of the renewables industry is happening in China.

The theory that coal plants are going to be used as peaker plants makes a bit of sense as it means they won't have to import expensive gas and build new plants for that. My guess is that they will use more coal in the winter than in the summer when they have more solar on the grid. But it's going to be some time before they can stop relying on coal completely.
This is actually what I want tbh
No, a vector display is one that takes vectors as input and displays them. What happens inside the display is irrelevant.

PLATO used this type of display because it was running over very slow dialup modems, and vectors, while having their limitations, are much more compact than rasters.

Example: suppose you want to draw a line on the 512x512 PLATO display. With a raster method, you have to send 512x512x(number of brightness levels) down the pipe. With a vector display, you only have to send DRAW(X1,Y1,X2,Y2) or (equivalently) DRAW(X,Y,length, angle) 5 numbers versus hundreds of thousands.

The PLATO display had direct hardware support for line-drawing commands. That made it a vector display.
You're not wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if someone at Ikea got mad and pulled up some laws from the phreaking days.
Life in a 'Death Trap': Tenants Rose Up Against a Federally Funded Mega-Landlord
How to tell if a prospective workplace is toxic
I’m curious, how come Gemini doesn’t have these knowledge cut-offs?
Have you read an "OS book" written recently?
Whatever, dude.

I'd still recommend that you work on alternative methods of getting paid.
Read the article linked. It has proof and receipts.
> Next thing will be assassinating people with their own phone by causing it to blow up next to their head

I don't know if this was an intentional reference or not, but that has definitely already been done (with a rigged phone). Plus the widespread use of phone position data for targeting.

> the problem is that "we" still think killing each other is some sort of solution

The problem is that violence works against everything except more violence.
Ah yes, the poor end users suffering and the security being bullshit.

I really can't wait to clean the first malicious browser out of a relative's iPhone and try and unsubscribe from Tim Sweeny's app store with his own 30% margin to spend on blackjack and hookers.

The new status quo will be worse than the old one.
For open-source operating systems there will always remain the older stable 32-bit releases like FreeBSD 16 in this case.

Even if there still are plenty of obsolete 32-bit CPUs running Linux or *BSD, since many years I have never seen a case where using them is the right technical choice.

When a UNIX-like OS is desired, it is a mistake to use anything less than a very cheap 64-bit CPU, like one with ARM Cortex-A55 cores.

For the many embedded applications where a 32-bit CPU is appropriate, either one of the many open-source RTOSes should be used or a bare-metal program, which is the best choice in many cases. For such embedded applications, a UNIX-like OS is much too bloated and it does not allow deterministic control of the hardware.
Yeah, all the examples leave quite a bad impression on me. But I suspect that is mostly down to python being, well, python.

But I am probably biased because I prefer the ML family of languages for FP.
> Gen Z trying out the original XBOX

Gen Z is a pretty wide group. I am Gen Z and played on an original xbox. However at the time the PS3 was already out, as it came out not much later.

And in my region, the PS2 was much more popular than the xbox.

My sister however, who is only a few years younger, is definitely part of the iPad generation.

Everybody played the Wii though, hell I still play the Wii.
I used Slack at that prior role, and I know I had a bunch of notifications rules and schedules to mute channels that didn't require immediate action. As often written about, Slack can be a productivity killer with the constant chatter on various channels. I also aggressively pruned my channel memberships to ensure I actually needed to see all the chatter contained in them.
React Testing Library/User-Event: A Comprehensive Guide
I can't say I understand the overall point you're trying to make.
I wouldn’t have paid for ad-free YouTube until the alternative became unbearable. So too with lousy search results.
I am by no means the best to judge functional programming implementations but I find the examples provided as pretty confusing. The parts where the library is supposed to make things better actually look worse to me. The original Python examples also looks like cherry picked code that was already not written very well.

if user is not None:
balance = user.get_balance()
if balance is not None:
credit = balance.credit_amount()
if credit is not None and credit > 0:
discount_program = choose_discount(credit)

I would probably write the python closer to this for readability. Don't judge me too harshly I just rewrote this quickly.

if user is None:
return

balance = user.get_balance()
if balance is None:
return

credit = balance.credit_amount()
if credit is not None and credit > 0:
discount_program = choose_discount(credit)
There's also papers for hosting full-parameter fine-tuned models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05215

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.
Yes exactly, I use pnpm as well, which is why I specically mentionned the registry, as I can absolutely see how npm the CLI tool can be improved indeed
Yulia Navalnaya’s X account was suspended
Apple Officially Warns Users Not to Put Wet iPhones in Rice
Blind Justice
The Only Unbreakable Law - Conway's Law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
So the point is just: Pulsar is the resurrected/continued Atom code base.
Having too much resolution is a solvable problem. You can down sample it with software to get a fingerprint that does not change when the solder joints changing ever so slightly.
A monopoly of what, exactly?
lol - is this satire?
You might apply for Federal grants for wetland creation. They give out hundreds of small grants. Some deadlines are mid-March.
This is pithy and needs a citation as much as other responses. agriculture use is massive.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/

I used to work with precision ag and fish ecology depts at univ of Minnesota. In much of the Midwest, it is farm upon farm as far as the eye can see. Both these depts primary focus was on reduction or mitigation of nutrient runoff from farms.

But, in urban areas, it is absolutely correct that a good portion of the lakes have issues due to lawn runoff (summer) and salt runoff (winter). The local lake manager said that winter salt is the single most damaging contribution of people in our one instance. A lake in the next county over was devastated by phosphorous from lawn treatment. One next door was being savaged by carp.

Water is a precious resource and has multi vector threats. Where you live it may have a bunch of different problems, but for much of my state, and surrounding Midwest states where farms are widespread, farm runoff dominates simply because on a per acre sampling, farms dominate.
Perhaps this is just "all we could deliver by the compliance deadline without compromising platform security"?

The truth is usually a lot less interesting than the hypothesis.
I didn't need the source to fix the issue here, I can trivially introspect and open a console to modify the page with a single keypress.
The "hashing" presents something of a challenge.

The input from a scan can be quite a lot of data, a high resolution
photograph, a point cloud, a set of RF timings/phases or whatever.

The key for future matching must be something small that can be
distributed or sent ahead of the delivery, so a hash seems the way to
go.

But standard hash algorithms are designed for non-collision and
sensitivity - any changes of input lead to wildly different outputs.

But the physical product has to endure;

- handling by humans or machines

- mechanical vibration and stress

- temperature variations

- gravity, natural creep, thermoplasticity

- bleaching due to light

- variations in the reader, angle, lighting, nearby metal objects

That means we need a threshold of fuzziness, where the hash is not
broken, until suddenly it is. The more fuzzy we make it the more scope
an attacker who knows the method has to craft a deliberate collision
to repair tampering effects.
> Because on average they're less likely to prefer working in tech. They don't like it, it's that simple.

Again, why do you think that is?

If you're saying women are less capable, be direct.

Humans are social creatures and are designed to go where we're a part of the ingroup. That is the manifestation of the "preference" of working in tech. The tech sphere is often a bros club and exclusionary to women. There are many examples of talented women in our field being trampled out by the mob. Nobody, not even the godly You, wants be a part of a group that constantly hassles you.
I feel anxious for him geez
This is like comparing Latin alphabet with Egyptian pictograms or Chinese hieroglyphs. The time has proven multiple times that using words is easier for humans than using symbols.
The security architectures of both are reasonably well documented[1] by apple, do you have any relevant distinctions to point out?

[1] https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec... [PDF]
Firefox did have such an option - they removed it (or rather significantly gimped it) with the Proton UI update.
Walmart to acquire Vizio TV maker in $2.3B deal
Maybe we can agree to disagree about the terminology here. To me if it takes vector inputs and displays them, it doesn't matter if it's pixels on a grid or tiny elves holding up colored signs. It's a vector display.

In any case, the PLATO display absolutely did not use "segments", as the OP claimed that it must have. He also claimed that bit-mapped plasma displays "didn't exist at the time".
Scaling transformers for graph-structured data
app store monopoly

did you read the article?
>> Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.

Edge on windows, the same edge on windows that got caught slurping up chrome tabs recently?

Browsers are now the same size code base wise, as operating systems. They are in fact tiny OS's with permissions models and execution environments.

I think the author makes the point that safari made a lot of progress, they paid for a lot of work, that they are throwing away. Spite is a reason, but security is also a reason... We have seen how bad things can be when browsers cohabitate on desktops, putting up hard walls now solves the problem before it starts. Phone users aren't loosing (much) of anything, taking away something that they didn't have and didn't exist MIGHT be for security reasons...

See MS stealing chrome tabs.
I'm a little confused. If you're paying dividends then you have to pay a tax on the company profits first, which is going to be 19%.

So if the company declares a profit of 60k then it'll pay 11,400 in corporation tax, and then 20% on the remaining £48,600, for another £9,720. Total tax of £21,120. (There's a 1k allowance now for dividends, but it basically makes no difference here).

If you just paid tax& NI on that £60k you'd have total deductions of £16,417 [1], because there are significant allowances for income tax/NI.

So you'd definitely be better off just paying PAYE.

There is a gain if you can split the payments between two of you and pay you both as PAYE.

[1] see https://listentotaxman.com/index.php?year=2023&taxregion=uk&...
> First, his employer, Medivation, had a policy that forbade trading other companies’ shares when employees had material nonpublic information about Medivation

Note: many financial crimes rely on the government finding your employer agreement that limits you

The SEC would have had no case even in their wildest stretch, if the employer didn’t have this policy

Many financial crimes are contingent on this
Can you set it up for them and charge a one time fee? Or set it on your account and charge a monthly fee?
> I apologize for my incendiary comment but I see that many people who lack college degree tend to have big character flaws

What in the world are you talking about? Citation definitely needed.

Note that only 38% of Americans have a college degree.
I think the best we can hope for, at least for the foreseeable future, is a workflow where you ask the AI to do a thing it gets it 80% right (someone who's good at writing prompts might even have it get a bit more correct) and then manually correct the things that it didn't get exactly like we wanted them.

I think we're quite far from replacing skilled professionals entirely, but making them a lot more productive is within reach!
My wife and I use Notes.app for a shared grocery list; but proabably once a quarter it'll just stop syncing changes until one of us restarts our phone. One time it silently stopped until my wife found she had to accept new iCloud T&C. Quite annoying!
They all look manageably sized until you see the photo/video of an enormous dude holding them!
Did she break the X ToS?

Did Russian state actors compromise her account?

Inside job?

EDIT: Or mass reporting / brigading?

With the publicity of this, I don't think it will remain suspended for long - unless it turns out she somehow broke some rules...that said, I'd be amazed if she's not under 24/7 electronic surveillance by Russian state.
Apple is so full of shit (I'm a user BTW).

We're getting to the point where browsers can do really cool things and they're scared of losing their 30% mafia like tax.

It's the browser wars all over again.
If you use telemetry then you don't deserve any trust.
That is about the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, not fair use.
> This tiny tag, which offers improved security over RFIDs, utilizes terahertz waves, which are smaller and have much higher frequencies than radio waves. But this terahertz tag shared a major security vulnerability with traditional RFIDs: A counterfeiter could peel the tag off a genuine item and reattach it to a fake, and the authentication system would be none the wiser.

Instant defeat of this device: Manufacture a tag that returns the signature of a known legitimate tag.

In order to be useful it would need to be challenge and response. Maybe they do this, but this MIT release doesn't actually give any link to a paper which is super annoying.

> Their antitampering tag contains a series of miniscule slots that enable terahertz waves to pass through the tag and strike microscopic metal particles that have been mixed into the glue.

Another issue: You would figure out how to destroy the connection between the material and the glue whilst leaving the surface of the chip intact. You would then simply re-attach it using another glue without particles in it.

> But when it came time to test the antitampering tag, Lee ran into a problem: It was very difficult and time-consuming to take precise enough measurements to determine whether two glue patterns are a match.

> He reached out to a friend in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and together they tackled the problem using AI. They trained a machine-learning model that could compare glue patterns and calculate their similarity with more than 99 percent accuracy.

As others have pointed out, this is a bad idea. You'd want some form of a probabilistic hash and for that to be stored in a database.
Not really related to their GPU offering but Hetzner is such a great company. I have a dedicated server I rented where I host all of my side projects. For the same price as one shitty VPS I get 8 cores, 64GB ram and a disk of 240GB or something like that.

Just incredible, response times are incredibly low and there is no cap on data. The few times I have contacted support they've been great. The only times I have experienced downtime is when I have stopped or rebooted the servers.

Can't recommend enough, especially if you are inside the EU and care about data privacy. The fact that they're a european company is of great value to me.

If you are new on server provisioning and want to learn how to setup a new server, I wrote a small guide for how to do it for node-projects (works for pretty much any web app if you replace the node.js stuff): https://deployjs.com/ (hosted on that server)
Pretty hideous IYAM.

optional.py seems to address the same issue and with a slightly better approach (but still ugly).

https://github.com/Python-Optional/optional.py
I thought publishers could already pay to be spotlighted (frontpage or the announcement popups)?
I love apple for the hardware, but they would be a better company if they released their iron grip over the software. One day I dream I can install Linux on iOS devices.
I have several fillings since around 40 years. Only one did break.

Plastic ones probably will not last that long.

If the leakages from mercury or plastic are more unhealthy nobody knows. I will not replace mine until absolutely necessary.
Open source doesn't mean there are any obligations. It's surprising how we don't see more of this. I imagine Google wouldn't even bother with making the source available if there was an obligation attached.
Outside of low-quality & sensationalist coverage (and propaganda), I would not look for either swarms or AI to make any sudden-splash entrances to the battlefield.

Swarms sound cool...but require more units, each one of higher cost, all matched to some particular Swarm Spec., and each with a stronger signature (to coordinate behavior) for enemy EW equipment to pick up.

Kinda similar for AI. Do you call low-end visual recognition "AI"? What's it cost (in R&D, lead time, tooling, unit cost, weight, power drain, training, ...), how accurate is it, and how easy is it for the enemy to update their camouflage & counter-measures to effectively defeat it?
Note: For now for existing Hetzner customers only.
Is Nvidia RTX 4000 solid for training? Alternatively this card seems listed for around $1800 so at $180/month on Hetzner, it may be even cheaper to buy it, depending on the expected usage.
Europol crackdown on Lockbit admins
Reuters version: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/walmart-exp...
Is this a response to UI = f(statesⁿ)[1] or are they both a response to something else?

1: https://daverupert.com/2024/02/ui-states/
India Frees Accused Chinese Spy–A Racing Pigeon
Disagree.

I started with Commodore 64 basic, then progressed to PASCAL, 'C', C++, this and that ... finally landing on the "Python" tile on that particular board game.

I won't say I'm a virtuoso, or aLawful Good Paladin Programmer weilding patterns or clean code, or whatever, but by and large BASIC's influence on my tinkering is down to the ways I don't do things.

It's a harmful perception.

As the great Yoda says, "you must unlearn what you have learned", but that doesn't mean that you are "mentally mutilated" by something. It's only if you stop learning and growing, that's where there real harm is.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer it when web pages open in a web browser and don't pretend to be native apps.