skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This rule is required because "as in chess", a pawn may promote to bishop.

If you only remove the bishops from the starting position, then the rules of chess still allow bishops to come in later in the game (through a promotion).

I am assuming they did not have enough memory to hold the rules of bishops, and therefore decided to completely remove them from the set of possible pieces. They allow rooks and knights promotion because these pieces are in the set of initial pieces: their rules are already implemented.
I think this takes the cake for "first invasive species I've seen populate over my lifespan."

Just moved back to GA after 3 years away and asked folks what all the white-blossoming trees in meadows are this spring, as don't remember seeing so many blossoms previously.

Cherries (closest blossom I know) aren't that fruitful / clustering. Dogwoods look completely different.

> Extremely prone to falling over during winds or tornadoes.

Also kids climbing on them, from childhood experience. Weak wood.
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I have one literally withering on the vine.

I released it today. A week ago, I released a blog post that mentioned [1] a supply chain-safe build system and language.

Despite that post and the traction it got, the 6-hour-old Show HN is already long gone, not even on the first 10 pages.

Long ago, Java had something for supply chain safety in the form of SecurityManager. It was removed.

There are no supply chain-safe languages because the industry doesn't care.

[1]: https://yzena.com/2024/03/what-computers-cannot-do-the-conse...
I see a couple people using it at the shops near me in the UK (but it's not that popular here either). It's pretty universally available in the bigger shops, but rare in the little metro shops. I really like just slinging my bag in the trolley and running around the store with a scanner. It's dramatically easier than unpacking a trolley for self-checkout or the old school checkouts. It's annoying when there are security tagged items though, because it defeats the purpose of the self scanning.
> I think a further improvement on a system like that would be to use the cheap RFID tech

Unfortunately I doubt you'll ever see this happen.

Sure, it's supposedly possible to buy an RFID chip for 1p - but you can buy a can of beans for 23p so that 1p is probably their entire profit margin.

I've also worked with a variety of RFID readers; none of them can provide reliable reading, even in favourable conditions.
> They likely had this workforce to train a system that they hoped would eventually operate autonomously. That being said, it sounds like it never panned out.

And this is why I think current “AI” technologies are a dead end. Once the rest of the market realizes that maybe we’ll finally get past this “AI” hype bubble.
No they don't, boards do.
Replace "jet" with "time" and the argument still holds. Why should the CEO get a salary if the company isn't near break-even?
Jup it has been available for a very long time in the Netherlands as well.

When I moved to the UK, what surprised me is that Tesco self check out is so much more cumbersome. It weighs your stuff, stops working when something isn't exactly the right weight. Super annoying to use if you're used to the system used in Sweden and The Netherlands. But that was in stores in the middle of central London, it may be very different in more suburban "big" stores which is where it was first rolled out in NL as well.
They need a better name that conveys their vile nature. I love pears. Why are people so upset about a pear tree I initially thought?
I'd like to think that there are supply chain safer languages.

Which are languages that have a large comprehensive official standard library backed by a large corp.

Those corps have the manpower to better audit contributions.

Examples: Microsoft's .NET (C#/F#) and Google's Go.
Oh, you have your CI store all the sources for all the builds, and you have NFS-like access to it? Yeah, OK, this case I can see how having absolute paths would be useful.

In my case at work (and we actually use Linux), we sadly don't have that luxury: the CI is walled of and its disk is purged every midnight, so knowing what folder the project was built in is pointless since it doesn't even contains the commit hash, it has the CI's unique job number instead but even it is also useless since the CI for some reason stores info only about 3 days of build jobs so... yeah. We resort to baking in the git info as a recognizable string into the binary, and then checking out the sources manually.

P.S. IIRC, PDB's are matched to the EXE's by the EXE's checksum so generally if the PDB is checked in into a symbol server, then retrieving it back is simple, if you know what source server to query, of course.
We just hit 7.5% of our population being Temporary Foreign Workers. The government claims they want to bring that back down to 5%, but even that seems too high.
Fargate does not have cold starts like Lambda. There is always a container running, it does not scale to zero.
It may well become more successful in some niche market than HoloLens (another niche product) too. But it's not a serious consumer product at $3500 (just kidding, better upgrade that non-upgradeable storage from the 0.25TB, so at least $3700) unless it can, at bare minimum, replace another expensive device (iPhone or Mac) while also doing those things better. Or if some killer app is developed. Which I wouldn't hold my breath too hard for based on their relationship with developers.
A killer app like: multiple sports league partnerships which allow you to strap on AVP and be courtside/front row/etc at every game for some monthly subscription -- and all your friends who are also watching the same game are visble and audible via their Personas like they're right next to you. Suddenly, when compared to season tickets or going to 10 games a year, AVP looks great.
But I am not necessarily confident that something like this will emerge for this product. Because a lot of content related stuff, which is the only 'proven' consumer use for VR, is dependent on getting content owners to play ball, and content owners don't want to help cement Apple into a dominant position in yet another industry, after seeing how cutthroat their behavior is in music and smartphone apps.
The new Model 3 is a significant update in many areas (noise, handling, cabin design).
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> If you list a job in Canada, as I frequently do, you will get thousands to tens of thousands of applicants.

Ha. Maybe in Toronto. Out here in rural Canada, I had five people apply to the job I posted a few weeks ago. Total. Which was actually more than I expected! Last year you couldn't get a single person to apply. Curiously, none of them immigrants. I hired them all and could still use more, but it's hard finding anyone.

Not that there is much surprise. The people not living where the jobs are has been an ongoing problem in Canada for decades. As a result, not having enough workers and having too many workers are both true at the same time.
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It's currently unparalleled when it comes to realism as in realistic 3D reconstruction from the real world. Photogrammetry only really works for nice surfacic data, whereas gaussian splats work for semi-volumetric data such as fur, vegetation, particles, rough surfaces, and also for glossy/specular surfaces and volumes with strong subdivision surface properties, or generally stuff with materials that are strongly view-dependent.
Tangential, but one reason zojirushi is a buy it for life product is because you can get spare parts for a very long time. I have a 20 year old zj with no fundamental failures beyond the cookpot getting old and dented, and zj part replacements are easy and cheap.
This does not look significantly better then e.g. cities skylines, especially since they neither zoomed in or out, always showing only a very limited frame

Am I missing something?
I assume by “reopened” you mean closed and reopened repeatedly? Yeah I moved a while ago and didn’t hear the comedy of errors continues. Looks like they’re thinking of dredging an area of lake union twice the size of the park?
Most of these businesses are actually fronts. They siphon money from Africa and other third world countries with poor laws and wash it with money from private equity firms.
Whatever the intent of the phrase "I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan" was—whether it was intended to mean "the alt-right, which is still a prevailing thing thing that exists today, came out of 4chan", or "the alt-right, which is a now-defunct term/ideology/movement, came out of 4chan"—it's incorrect either way.

And I'm well aware that "you" (plural) have all sorts of new blanket terms to tar disconnected groups of people and their thoughts with, so as to lump them together, so as to subdue any kind of thinking that exists outside of that prescribed by corporate media and the entrenched political class, by equating any dissident thought or position with that of the most vulgar individuals within the meta-group "you" (plural) created, by associating disparate individuals and small groups of people together using an emotionally-loaded label—regardless of whether or not its constituents agree with said labeling, which they don't have any say in, of course, because "you" (plural) have the in-group consensus of the general public on your side, which is informed top-down by the corporate media and entrenched political class.

But it's nevertheless interesting and amusing both that the "stickiest" one is—still to this day—one that was coined by an ultimately exceedingly minor and uninfluential figure, nearly a decade ago now, and that it's still wielded to this day by conformists with exceedingly simple-minded worldviews who see no problem boiling things down to "people who uncritically accept the social consensus" ("good people") and "people who are willing to entertain any sort of thought outside of the social consensus" ("bad people"—"alt-right", or whatever new terms "you" (plural) have concocted).

At least it's kind of nice to see that you tacitly admit to pursuing such a goal, in continuing to invent new terms for the same tired purpose.
> The changes to build-to-host.m4 weren't in the source repo, so there was no commit.
>
> The attacker had permissions to create GitHub releases, so they simply added it to the GitHub release tarball.

What are some simple tweaks the "Debians" of the world can do to mitigate this kind of stuff?

Not trust "hand-curated-by-possibly-malicious-maintainers" GitHub release tarballs, only trust git commits?

Whitelist functions that are allowed to do IFUNC/ELF hooking to core OpenSSH functions?
C++, Ruby on Rails, Database management. Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation.

Surely, 7-12 months of experience is more than enough.
I'm not sure it's a catch-22, there are many possibilities and subsequent outcomes. I would just want to satiate my curiosity.

You assume they'll have a good reason, but they may not. They could be a malicious actor but also suck at it, and you might spook them into reconsidering. Or they may be fully innocent and just suck at packaging and distributing software and you might help them learn something.

If they do have a good reason, it should stand on its own merits when presented. Anyone could be up to no good and they might be plotting the end of the world, but they also might coincidentally and not relatedly happen to like xz-utils a lot.
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Scanning with your phone camera sucks its very slow and scanning as you pass the anti theft barriers normalizes running the barriers which will make catching thieves basically impossible. It also runs contra to shoppers expectations. Raises the question of charging the wrong person when multiple phones are nearby as when multiple people are shopping together or just adjacent to one another or when carts are just too close to the barriers. It also assumes that reading is instant and faultless when its not and fails to support anyone who wanders in from the street without an account set up expecting normal payment options. This makes it suitable for a membership club which expects to set up payment as part of setting up membership and useless for the 99% of stores that don't work like that.

Why not wait a few years until even a can of beans has an rfid tag, put a rfid tag in 4 corners of the cart. You should be able to compute which tags are within the bounds of the cart and allow you to pay.

The hardware to read the tags is still too expensive to put in the carts and not liable to be available as part of everyone's phones that soon so the easiest thing to do is retain the existing self checkouts and just skip the part where you scan anything. Roll up to the front. Tap your prominently displayed cart number or numbers tap your card done.

Reducing checkout to 6 seconds from multiple minutes will obviate the new loathsome situation where you actually wait in line to self checkout and will be close enough to normal procedures that it should be easy to transition to.
First class flights are completely different from potato class, and private jets are so far above first class it's really hard to exactly explain how much.
No.

It's not production code. And we pay for the project hours.
What do you think about how well uWebSockets.js performed in the TechEmpower benchmark? Just js is admittedly experimental, but it has the fourth highest score, and the highest score of any non-Rust framework as well which I found interesting. Elysia (a Bun framework) did pretty well too.

Deno would have probably scored well too (it uses Rust's Hyper crate under the hood), but they're only running a single instance of the server despite Deno supporting the Linux SO_REUSEPORT socket option, which is important because the test is run on three servers with Intel Xeon Gold 5120 Processors that have 14 cores and 28 hyperthreads [0].

[0] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/9f0c...
That's a great question and instinctively I'd say better to halt development than cave to pressure.
I'd argue ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) is superior still because it is much more difficult to confuse for etiher DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY.
You make excellent points; I agree. Especially, a non-maintainer with a high-quality contribution gaining trust. Many times, (tired) maintainers are forced to "rubber-stamp" and merge such high-quality patches. It could be due to any number of (valid) reasons—a CVE fix, an involved performance fix that will take you weeks to load up on the context, enabling a hardware feature that's under semi-NDA, you just trust their work too well, maintainer fatigue, etc.

What I'm saying is, in context of critical-path software, the identity of maintainers vs non-maintainers matters more. I'm not naively claiming that it'll "solve" the problem at hand, just that it's another layer in defense. For a critical software, you shouldn't be able to simply submit a "patch"[1] such as:

tests: Add-binary-blob-with-a-subtle-backdoor.xz

Signed-off-by: "Anonymous Rabbit" <LittleBunny123@lolmail.com>

Commit it yourself, brazenly push it into Linux distros, and then anonymously sign off into the sunset with no trace. I'm sure you'll agree that there's a world of difference between a deeply entrenched, critical libray and a random user-space application.

It's a messy situation. How much, if at all, "clever tech" can mitigate this human "trust issue" is an open problem for now.

[1] https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=cf44e4b7f5d
If the company requires a private jet they can either pay for a lease from some other vendor or pay the CEO to lease his jet. Unless they are paying way above market price I don't see how this is embezzlment or even fishy.
This was rendered from photographs, I believe
Because the person they're "hiring" is paying them for the position so they can immigrate. It's not a real job.
> Abbotsford is Canada's Fresno, for people who are out of loop.

Fresno is what? For people outside of the North American loop?
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PocketBase is not ready to be used for production yet
sort of surprised it wasn't just using their Mechanical Turk site
SEAL team 10 brought in a lot of drugs and who knows what else back from the 'stans.

The problem was that these guys were allowed to reserve a lot of C130 space - like, a LOT a lot - because they often brought personal equipment for the mission, up to and including quad ATVs, and probably beyond. Normal procurement channels often weren't fast enough to get the latest toys.

So there's definitely a temptation to leave behind the ATV, then stuff that CONEX box full of heroin for the trip home. It's not like anyone wants to check what's inside a SEAL team CONEX box. I mean, who knows what kind of security clearance you'd need for the thing, odds are you'll find the frozen corpses of Bin Laden, JFK, and Hitler, all spooning each other.

Serious talk, though. Special Forces almost always need to be dealt with very, very carefully. The temptation of creating a surgical team is very strong, the idea of winning a conflict with a killing here, a demo job there. But the funding comes from fungible budgets, and with the separate command, they will use that fungibility to justify their own existence with a separate mission set, thus risking becoming, in effect, a private army. Furthermore, their existence creams off the most intelligent and most driven soldiers from the regular formations, people that would otherwise be the core of excellence for the officer and senior NCO groups. We're feeling that very hard today in the US - our officer corps, particularly the USN surface fleet, is not doing great. In warfare with peer states - big, existential, wars - special forces historically have very frequently not proven their worth versus their direct costs, and their indirect costs are, frankly, too large to even contemplate.
In regards of contentproduction for virtual production, it is quicker to capture a scene and process the images into a cloud of 3d-gaussians, but on the other hand it is harder to edit the scene after its shot. Also, the light is already captured and baked into it.
The tools to edit scenes will probably rely a lot on ai, like delighting and change of settings. right now there are just a few, the process is more like using knife to cut out parts and remove floaters.
You can replay this of course with the unreal engine, but in the long term you could run it in a browser.
So in short, if you want to capture a place as it is with all its tiny details, 3dgaussians are a quicker and cheaper way to afford this than using modelling and texturing.
very good point. the world is devolving into everything is a jvm for the linux api, and the one with menuconfig at least sounds funny
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I can totally see it being used for small services where python has better libaries
Same reason I usually don't go to self-checkout.
I would more call our system closed. If you assumptions were right bacteria would rule the world and that is all we would find.

But beyond that you forget how big the earth is, not to mention the billions of habitual planets humans one day will call home (although net might not call them humans, but who knows)
Yes it's great. Put everything straight in your bag, no packing at the end.

The only thing I don't like is that they have added the option to the machines to scan all your things there instead of using the portable scanner. Which in my area has resulted in queues at the self checkout... Which used to be very quick when it was only used for the portable scanners.
Did it cost more? From a quick search the amount seems reasonable for "years worth of private jet use".

If CEO travel is a legitimate business function, you're now arguing "AWS vs server in your closet" kind of questions and haggling on price.
I worked there ;) legendary indeed. EDIT: Creo was also a software company by the way so the trademark was definitely used on some software (mostly related to the printing industry but anyways).
See Abbildung 10 (p16) for an amazingly analog way to calculate f(y(t))

> Some have harsh words for this man of renown / But some think our attitude / Should be one of gratitude —TAL
Thank you so much for your kind words.

Here’s the project I have worked on (full-time):

1. Steelonclick (www.steelonclick.in) (a website that sells construction related steel products online. Backend on Core PHP.)

2. HireACamp (www.hireacamp.com) (developed backed on Node/Express JS) (platform to book camps in India)

3. ShakyaCreations (www.shakyacreations.com) (wordpress/woocommerce - client started selling bangles in just 20 minutes)

4. DPMPAY (www.dpmpay.in) (school management software written in CodeIgniter 3)

These are projects that I worked full time in 7 years.
>They need to run an extremely lean operation.

they simply need to run a good ordering/inventory system. If they sell every item (on average) in each store every week, that's 2.39% return on the value of the inventory investment each week, or 52*.0239 or over 100% annual return on money they borrow for free because the store pays its grocery bills to suppliers in arrears, net 10 days, etc
> On Monday, Google also agreed to delete "hundreds of billions" of private browsing data records it had collected, the court filing said.

> "We are happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual and was never used for any form of personalization."

How does Google know which data records to delete? Did they store data collected from private browsing sessions differently from non-private browsing sessions?
They probably mean animated, changeable etc. Like movement, or changes in lighting.
I'm not saying people aren't better at things than others. The thread was about whether these people deserved special treatment or a different set of rules because of this.
Every clone in git is a branch. People like to enterprisify things, resulting in miserable people, wasted time, and money flowing into consulting firms.

Remember, git replaced tarballs
I don't know how it works in Canada but the H1B crap is setting us up for failure.

1. Claim you cant find anyone

2. Hire offshore

3. Now there's no demand for juniors

4. Now you literally can't find anyone

5. continue hiring offshore because that's your only option

6. ???