skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... what if the way worldcoin stores your iris scan is actually not encrypted?

Even if it's encrypted, if worldcoin gets breached in a particularly bad way (say root to their production servers) then the unencryption mechanism and keys could be leaked along with the encrypted data.

The point being that just because something is encrypted doesn't make it foolproof against everything.
Helmets are for when they fall awkwardly; in practice, this rarely happens (disclaimer: I live in a bike friendly country). High-vis is for other traffic to see them. Motorcyclists often have both.
> found myself teaching other nuclear, mechanical, and electrical
engineers these tools again and again,

This is the very essence of teaching. You must have something worth
passing down. Something you have personally built-up, found valuable
and can speak authoritatively on (the same root word as "author")

That means "principles not products".

In my experience only FOSS tools are stable enough for this to even be
a possibility.

Most proprietary products have very little worth passing down,
because they change every six months, which they have to do to keep
making money.

> so I wanted to package them into book form. In the end, it's a
> fairly eclectic set of topics.

Like many technical authors, the first book I wrote started out as a
book for myself, just a collection of notes to remind me, then to
use to teach others, and finally to release as a guide for complete
strangers.

> You'll find full HTML, PDF and ePub versions (all built with Sphinx)
at the link.

Thank you (and on behalf of future students)
The meaning of the number with the + and - is completely escaping me. It looks like a year but goes into the future.
Kernel-style fexprs give macros plus a bunch of reflective abilities that even macros don't provide. Lazy evaluation (alone) doesn't do that.
Boeing's dismal track record has been years in the making and the problems we're seeing were inevitable. However, I'm not holding my breath here hoping for a real change. Boeing is a huge defence contractor with deep connections. I hope I'm mistaken but I doubt we'll see any real systemic change.
Their attitude is the result of being a public defender. The result of the people they are trying to defend. They are trying to do the best they can for their client, despite their client. They're allowed to voice their frustration, and even mock the ridiculousness of their clients actions.
"Shows like that" or this show in particular?
> If you think I'm wrong, can you please help me not be anxious?

You are not wrong, but I think that there are other reasons behind the slump in software development jobs which are

1. How expensive it is to hire a software developer in EU and the US when compared to the other parts of the world. The cost of maintaining a software engineering team now bites into a company's budget more than previous years because of section 174 in the US. Earlier, companies with potential could seek investors in case they need capital to grow, but most investors are picky about where they invest in because of points 2, 3 and 4.

2. High interest rates.

3. 2024 is considered to be a geopolitically volatile year, due to the ongoing global conflicts as well the elections that are going to happen across multiple countries (REF: https://www.statista.com/chart/31604/countries-where-a-natio...). When governments change there are going to be changes in focus of the entire economy, for example, it's quite hard to guess the stance of a Republican led USA on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

4. The fear of more regional conflicts breaking out around the world. This might spook a lot more countries into investing more into defensive technologies and in fact, one of the startup ideas of 2024 from YC was for defense technologies.

5. Nvidia is a company that started out as a GPU manufacturer and is currently riding a very huge wave of speculation around the future capabilities of "AI". And to investors with money, it seems safer to invest in it.

> What advice would you give to junior or mid-level software engineers, or college grads trying to break into the industry right now, who have been failing completely at getting a foot in the door in the last 12 months, when they would have been considered good hires just two or three years before?

I also only have similar experience as you have right now (~9 years) so I cannot give any specific advice on this. I would recommend applying to all jobs that even remotely fit their profile and in the meantime to attend conferences or meetups so as to network better. 90% of the time the resumes that is sent is being screened by a Recruiter or by an automated system. However if you already have someone inside a company willing to refer you, you will have an easier time getting to skip this filter.
This!

I’m fine with it, I actually appreciate the logic and simplicity behind it, but the amount of times I’ve tried to explain why “folders” on S3 keep disappearing while people stare at me like I’m an idiot is really frustrating.

(When you remove the last file in a “folder” on S3, the “folder” disappears, because that pattern no longer appears in the bucket k/v dictionary so there’s no reason to show it as it never existed in the first place).
It's a good point; I have to say that, whatever other gripes I may sometimes have about it, HN is probably the most well moderated community I'm a part of.

> How else would you deal with people who abuse the vouch system?

So I think what I'm curious about is what constitutes "abuse" and how it's enforced. Like, are we saying that dang and friends have the ability to manually revoke someone's ability to vouch if they vouch for unhelpful comments on a frequent basis or if it's determined they're a sockpuppet account or something, or is there some more automated system that revokes a person's ability to vouch after some number of comments they've vouched are re-flagged?

I suppose I'd always imagined that the (fairly high, in the case of downvoting) karma threshold you have to reach to obtain privileges like vouching and downvoting would do a reasonably good job at filtering out those who might abuse such privileges, and that other remedies would be used rarely - and certainly not often enough to merit your earlier comment:

> It’s not possible to vouch it in its current state, because [...] at worst I’d lose my vouch privileges.

and the sentiment of fear I read into it.
sure seems like it
Is a "write if not exists" atomic operation enouhg as a concurrency primitive for database locks?
Broadly, yes. You program it beforehand to come on and stay on all thru the day (think of it like a slow cooker), and, ancillary functions, like the light coming on if you open the door, are disabled.
^list of zip codes that map to more than one U.S. state
Question is how will it go when someone does decide to say goodbye to the community rules. Will family be under peer pressure to try keeping them aligned and break off all contact if they fail? Those "community made decisions" can be seriously one way street affairs...

I wonder if the following pattern can be observed: assuming that decisions are effectively not made by the community, but by some high status heads (whose decisionmaking privilege can be formal or not formal at all), then in a community with very fluid status, you'd see a self-radicalizing effect of status candidates trying to outdo each other one zealotry. Whereas in a community where status is not fluid at all (aristocracy in everything but name, or some formal education) decisionmakers would be much more at liberty to go soft. Is there a name for this?
A fucking app for a fucking wheelchair. When will people realize that this is just a slow boil towards digital slavery? Anyone hoping for politicians/governments to protect us from this, when politicians/governments are likely one of the greatest beneficiaries of such digital slavery, is just dumb.

Once everything requires an app, a press of a button ends your life.
This is the biggest factor in my opinion.

I suspect most GitHub users didn't realise that it supported SVN until earlier this year though.

https://github.blog/2023-01-20-sunsetting-subversion-support...
I have kind of pet peeve with people testing LLMs like this these days.

They take whatever it spits out in the first attempt. And then they go on extrapolate this to draw all kinds of conclusions. They forget the output it generated is based on a random seed. A new attempt (with a new seed) is going to give a totally different answer.

If the author has retried that prompt, that new attempt might have generated better code or might have generated lot worse code. You can not draw conclusions from just one answer.
It's a fair point but pragmatically a nitpick indeed - for a full four thousand years people have worked iron into tools without melting it through the wonder of a chemical reaction that sidesteps the issue.

While we're here I guess we should also point out that glass blowing furnaces don't melt silicon, they dissolve it into a flux of other stuff to make a gooey glob we call molten glass.

The original question posed was "who first decided to melt the rocks and get the iron" .. technically the rock was smelted not melted in order to remove the rock and get the iron.

The first quibble was that iron isn't melted out, my response was that a bloomery is used instead, my bad for not clarifying that they are used to smelt and not melt.
How 3 Books Rewired My Brain
Well it's a book review about a specific book. So I don't see why bringing in Buddhism would be relevant in this case.

But related to this: the oldest Bible books are older than Buddhism. And they also contain references to meditation. So it is seems that meditation was already very common in the very old ages.
The current git-saturated market certainly makes it quite challenging for other options to take off. That said jj[0] is super nifty, and it's git-compatible backing store means you can transparently use jj while the rest of your team uses git. This kind of model might give other VCS tools a fighting chance at iteration.

[0]:https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
Every datapoint reduces the number of people it could belong to. CPU + browser + browser version + OS + major OS version can narrow it down by a lot.

Then add resolution, IP address location (which VPN they use is also a datapoint), which time they are active at, etc. and you can get a good almost-unique identifier.
Say what? The author is a self proclaimed anarchist and believes in "100% open borders"... Not exactly a role model for the alt-right.

https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/obfuscating-euphemisms-in-t...

Sure, there is the argument against pointless euphamism, but that's not the same thing as "anti-woke" or alt-right.
Two things: Boeing doesn't have just to worry about the FAA and US prosecution, depending on the outcome their civil aircraft business might face a ton of EASA scrutiny as well. And that actually is a big deal in the industry.

And public pressure, Boeings reputation is not great at the moment. If that pressure is kept up, it can lead to change as well.
Does this "we can't find the documentation" match what the whistleblower was saying in Jan?

https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-...

It doesn't really seem like it?
Is there a generic name for these distributed cloud file storages?

AWS is S3, google is buckets, Azure is blob storage, the open source version is … ?
They're comedy shows. They send someone to record an hour-long interview but the whole segment is 5 minutes long and the clip they air is only a few seconds. Selective editing is built into the format, they don't spend the airtime to run the full interview and their purpose is to choose the short clip which has the most comedy value or makes the target look bad.
It raises the question of whether the current networking stack is the one we want to have for the next 100 years. The internet in its current form has ruined a lot of the dream of personal computing because companies (and the state) are so asymmetrically powerful versus individuals. Should it be possible for my technology to send data to a server without my explicit approval?
Nice :)
I built the same thing a few years back for RxJS debugging. Turned out to be really useful!
Happy smiling people on wheelchairs need to buy happy smiling mobile app.
I do love this and it's great for understanding how git works because it's a really cool design. But I'm not convinced this is necessary or sufficient for learning how to use or be effective with git.

The way git stores commits---as blobs and hashes etc---is a really good abstraction. That means you just don't need to know this. You can think of a commit as being a complete copy of your working directory that is identifiable by its hash. That's it.

You can then think of branches and tags as labels for those commits, mutable and immutable, respectively. This gets you pretty far in effective use of git.

But the details are cool. Just don't go teaching any of this in a beginner developer course on git.
What does that got to do with Crystal?
It is indeed a year. The latencies are based on the calculations done by Colin Scott in https://github.com/colin-scott/interactive_latencies and support projecting out into the future. Sorry it's not as obvious as it could be.
While I do realise this happened in the EU, in general, it's protection for consumers from practices like this that is the reason I'm so grateful for the EU. Few other places are taking the strong stances on consumer rights and protection from exploitation, the US is most certainly not pushing these areas forward. There are many faults and the legislation is never perfect (anywhere, not EU specific!), but it's mostly directionally correct. I'm hoping that the DMA for example drags the rest of the world in that direction.
Hmm well there's no folders but if you interact with the object the URL does become nested. So in a sense it does behave exactly like a folder for all intents and purposes when dealing with it that way. It depends what API you use I guess.

I use S3 just as a web bucket of files (I know it's not the best way to do that but it's what I could easily obtain through our company's processes). But in this case it makes a lot of sense though I try to avoid making folders. But other people using the same hosting do use them.
Can you provide more details on how that would work? Given that the input is CSV rows and not an array of integers alone, and the fact that getting to the next row is dependent on finding the delimiter in the current row.
The recorded comments were from the 787 days, and LWTN didn't produce those recordings themselves.
reading sideways sucks
The topic is on what monks know about focus, so I'd say that any relevant monastic practices are relevant to the discussion, that includes Buddhist monks' practices on focus and mindfulness.

As to the second point - the Bible is older than Buddhism? What now?!? I'm surely in a different universe.
I'm sure recording and documenting your work is legally required to get certified for aviation things.
I remember that I bought it through the App Store just to find out that they offered a CLI that is only non App Store. Wrote them a mail and asked if they could change me to non App Store. Never got a reply lol
The thread discusses the main points. I also think that the performance is a big deal. It's fast enough to open up new workflows which didn't exist before this.
Good point. Thank you. Indeed this looks like a deficiency. But I suspect deficiency in the very carbs to be the cause of the problem and am curious whether this is possible or nonsense.

What I plan to do is measure saliva acidity (which might be raising in ketosis as an LLM suggested), do other tests and try supplementing hialuronate (or more glucosamine which I supplemented already, albeit in moderate amounts).

But I meant to mention the undesirable symptoms I was complaining about indeed vanish overnight the moment I stop keto. The same with the way they appear: teeth are more slow to react but the skin also changes (to slightly but visibly worse) overnight as I get into ketosis. I certainly get enough vit. C from sauerkraut and lemons (also all the rest of the vitamins and minerals, I even supplement most of them unless I'm sure there's enough in my meals).

But I do feel like experimenting with liposomal ascorbate. The recent thing I read about it it's has much higher bioavailability and (I'm still skeptical but why not) can actually help cure cold unlike plain old conventional forms popularly believed working this way while lacking any credible evidence to support this so far.

You don't have to continue. I get you point, recognize your reason and value your time. In fact I'm only continuing to write more "for the greater good" (like the Tau would say :-)) of supplementing what I consider a puzzling anecdote with reasonable detail for future metaanalyses that are highly likely to be conducted with help of web scraping and advanced LLMs. I'm sorry if I seemed like arguing.
Because the added weight at high velocity would result in more severe whiplash. This, wearing helmets in a car could actually increase rather than decrease injuries following a crash, especially in children who wear harnesses. This is the reason why HANS devices are used in racing.
It prevents the light from going on or off when you open the door; allows you to keep it set without auto-shutoff; and doesn't immediately respond to temperature change button presses, and only checks them on a set schedule (this last feature is generally accepted amongst Orthodox Jews as allowed for holidays — "Chag" — but not for Shabbat).
It could still "match" if it emerges that one of them is lying, and I can't tell which possibility is more terrifying.
> They hold a lease to temporarily occupy a residence that is the property of someone else. Nobody likes to frame it this way, but it's what's actually happening.

> Rent-control allows people to have their cake, and eat it too. It just comes at the price of creating a type of informal aristocracy.

So somebody who inherited property which their grandparent bought 40 years ago (for super cheap) and never had to worry about anything because of that is OK. But laws that try to limit speculation and exploitation of people who were not so lucky… that is creating informal aristocracy.

Sorry to break it to you but the aristocracies are already in place and rent control is one of ways how societies try to tackle them. I personaly dont think rent control is very effective one but somebody is atleast trying to do something.
My understanding is that amish „Gelassenheit“ and the orthodox melakhah of בורר‎ are similar (as are both to taoistic 非常道) in that one should take things as they come.
Thanks for pointing this out. "Right" is the wrong word. I think I would have been better to say something like, "whether I'm simply ignorant or whether they're deceiving themselves."
Does it really though? The heat setting process doesn't seem reversible so it's just one step in the initial manufacturing and after that it doesn't seem to be expected to change.
So what's your definition?
Shows using the format where they do an interview and then selectively air parts of it rather than the whole thing. In general The Daily Show and its offspring -- not the interviews that happen in front of the audience in the studio, the ones for the pre-recorded segments.
We are well pass the stage when software and smartphones made anything easier and seamless. Now they are door keepers, data harvesting vehicles, and guardians of walled gardens.
If a website writes errors to the user then this is a very good idea. A characteristic of scripted websites I think? This one is written in php. I am actually surprised Wordpress as one of the most used frameworks in the world has not a more graceful handling of this situation.
But the details are cool. Just don't go teaching any of this in a beginner developer course on git.

I would think that mentioning the big-picture concepts at the outset, and revealing the details as the need arises is an effective pedagogical model.

On the other hand, the minestrone of git terminology which the user is forced to learn and get comfortable with a priori (and moreover which has been used ambiguously in blog posts and whatnot) [1] make the learning curve much steeper than it should be.

Everyone learns differently, that's for sure. I remember my experience learning git from scratch was particularly scrappy, until I sat down for a few hours and read the "Pro Git" book.

[1] staging and index
From TFA

> People with disabilities are being provided with new powered
wheelchairs through their medical insurance, but are then
discovering that unaffordable in-app purchases are needed to use
their features.

Just in case you wonder who these kind of people are. It seems the
company that makes this wheelchair is Alber GmbH and the company that
makes and sells the app to control it seems to be Invacare Lyd. UK
Iris (Infra-Red, in Situ) Silicon Verification Project Updates
As opposed to mainstream christians, who are often revealed to be woman abusing*, child molesting hypocrites even without having a stance on technology?

* those who are worst on this account are far worse than the amish, for the latter deliberately let people leave their community, while the former seek to bind even non co-religionists to their beliefs.
Yeah, smart people are just as at risk of self deception as anyone else, and feeling yourself reason things through doesn't guarantee that you're not simply rationalizing.
It is capitalism actually. There are a lot money is looking for opportunities, and the hype generated from the US has a ripple effect on the global market. China has a big venture capital market, and domestic money is looking for these opportunities and quick bucks (maybe quick RMB). Started from social media, then e-commerce, a few years ago autonomous driving and now AI. There will be people taking risks with so much money on the table.
>Doing mental gymnastics

You are the only person here doing this. This is a magazine targeted at male audience and every person in this thread was telling you this. Does this mean girls don't read Naruto or One Piece? Of course not. This does not mean SJ is trying to be proggressive. And there is no reason for it to trying being one.

>But, as with many things Japanese, the boys and men take first precedence.

You might want to read about economy and markets.
The best selling shojo magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_manga_magazin...) has numbers 8 times less then best selling shonen magazine. Which one will you be invesing in?

>Is this not indicative of the male patriarchy?

No, it is not.

The fact that SJ sells 8 times more than Ciao indicates that boys (and some percent of girls) tend to spend more on manga with a certain set of traints.

>Why not name It Shojo Jump then? Does that make you uncomfortable?

No, it does not make me uncomfortable, it's just stupid.

You can name it "for girs and boys" or "for teens" - that would be completely ok with me personally and with anyone else.

>Can you please mansplain why “women’s colleges” exist in Japan?

I wasn't mansplaining anything. It is unfortunate that you see it this way but that's your problem, not mine.

As for the "why" - I'm not a culturologist to give you and aducated opinion on the topic (neither I'm a japanese, just to be clear), but as as I know many countries (including the US) have boys-only and girls-only schools\colleges etc.

>And why feminist studies are almost always resigned to these institutions.

If you give a few examples I can talk to an old friend on my. He is anthropologist in the University of Toronto. This is not his field, but maybe he can help finding someone with expertise in this question. _If_ you are actually interensted.

>You think asking whether any 60 year old women are actually readers

Of this specific mangazine, yes. Older women can read whatever they prefer, not questioin here. I just doubt that the % of them reading something like One Piece is very low.

>You’re agreeing and confirming my very points.

No I'm not. That's just your complacency.