skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The proper way would be to have a minimum glibc version (or whatever it depends on) where you expect landlock to be available and then shout loudly if it is not so that you can either fix the check or correct your expectations. This isn't just for malicious users, these checks can be brittle enough that a small change in the library or even compiler update can occasionally break something. Of course this is ideal and does not match common practice. I can't even claim of doing this consistently myself although I did start that practice before this mess.
> But video recording and streaming? Why would anyone prefer to use MS Office for that when OBS exists?

OBS was a lot more complicated. Yes, professional streaming you should use it.

She was doing a ph.d in social sciences. She had little desire, or really need, to use it when MS Office did what she wanted out of the box. Screen recorded presentations with powerpoint.

> Is it as obnoxious as having to use Teams for chat?

They did not use teams for chat. They used gsuite for almost everything else.

> That's certainly a case of having a hammer and thinking all problems are nails xD

No, it really is not.

> Annotations, citations, bibliography management I can understand, even if I use LaTeX for that and consider it a far superior tool.

Really? My mother was struggling to remember how to use a Windows desktop. You really want to suggest learning latex when she had term papers to do for a $60k degree? The required document format was ms word.
I was still relatively new there -- I'd likely only have thought of this potential downside a couple of years into the job!
It's actually somewhat similar in Germany. You need a Ehefähigkeitszeugnis, essentially that document proving that you are not married yet. You would have needed to get this from the US.

Because most countries don't have that sort of document (including the US), you then instead need to apply to your local Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court) for an exemption.

All the way, any foreign government documents need to be notorized by the German embassy in that country.
> In other words: you always need to perform OOB identity verification

Web-of-trust alleviates that, to some extent.
I don't get why:

1. Random gui apps have anything at all to do with terminal emulators. Did the terminal emulator on your partner's system display any of the problems you're complaining about?

2. Resolution issues have anything to do with performance testing - those are different.

3. You think you get to demand anything of developers making something in their free time and giving it away. If they don't want to cater to you, they don't have to - there's no contractual, employment, or other obligation. You can choose to be useful and fix it yourself (or pay someone to), until then you are no different than any random ms employee thinking that ffmpeg gives a shit about teams.
Does OECD include third world?
what's the website? Sounds cool
> Better than integrated circuits?

Funny you mention that. The Apollo Guidance Computer was the first computer to use integrated circuits and is often used as an example of the major innovations the Apollo program contributed to.
… because influencers also don’t “look like influencers” if you don’t do proper lighting and posing plus a bit of photo/video shop... additionally, only take pictures and video footage after hungering periods, then use the picture material over the next few month..
I once saw a survey, possibly from the Annals of Improbable Research, asking how many people constitute a bureaucracy. My favorite response: One German.

See also: The Checkpoint Charlie scene from the 1985 movie Gotcha!
What does this statement even mean? Every function from a finite domain is just a lookup table, period.
Ah yes, I think I even bought that at some point (didn't realize there was a free build on F-Droid!), but part of the nostalgic appeal to me are the native Palm OS UI widgets and buzzer sounds :)

Compiling Space Trader for Palm OS (it was open source too) was actually something I've repeatedly tried in the early 2000s but unfortunately never managed to pull it off – CodeWarrior was way out of my pocket money budget at the time, and I couldn't figure out how to do it using gcc and PilRC.
> a smaller input median latency (Console ~12 msec) than an Apple //e from 1983 (30 msec).

> Still, it would be nice to return to the human resposiveness of machines 41+ years old.

A while ago someone posted a webpage where you could set an arbitrary latency for an input field, and while I don't know how accurate it was, I'm pretty sure I remember having to set it to 7 or 8ms for it to feel like xterm.
Apple under 4th DMA non-compliance investigation; Spotify claim
Disruption, or even fully destructive complete tear-downs are a lot easier than building value.

May not be quicker, but definitely easier for the less-skilled to pull off.

One requires a demolition mindset, the other an engineering mindset.

In some capitalist cultures there has been a tendency to value disruption as if it was the thing that added value, just because it was a noticeable component of a few high-profile bonanzas.

It's like a prevailing superstition can take hold, and a belief spreads where "if it's not disruptive, it can't be good".

The less-recognized builders who don't divert energy to disruption do have to operate with much less visibility, since there's not some established structure crumbling (usually under its own weight) that looks like a result of their efforts.

The engineering-focused creative builder that can make something out of nothing, without having to tear down anything at all, ended up hopelessly outnumbered by weaker-performing substitutes having far-less-unique qualities.

Imagine what it would be like if something capable of applying that kind of leverage to resources had access to scaling capital.

Among some classes of performers, anybody can build a viable business if they started with $1 Million, and barring undue disaster, all will grow & prosper.

Even without any failures, each one will obviously have differing performance.

I guess you could say that one who ends up with a $1 Billion operation would be so rare, might as well be a unicorn.

That's about a 1000x return one way or another.

How does that compare to someone who can build anything viable at all from basically nothing to start with?

Makes 1000x look like a small number.
With three friends, we built and launched a SaaS product over a weekend and live-streamed ourselves doing it[0]: https://feedback.fish

It was a ton of fun, about 1,000 people tuned in over the course of those ~60 hours. The product was acquired about a year later.

[0]: https://productweekend.live
Haskell Security Response Team – 2024 January–March Report
playing charades with ai: https://charades.ai

originally, the answers and gameplay were based on wordle, but i recently changed it to be more open-ended and like a real game of charades

almost all aspects of the game (images, answers) are generated using the openai api
One of my favorite features in OCaml is labeled arguments. You get a similar flavor of partial application, but without the strict argument order requirement (most of the time -- higher order functions are strict about labeled-function arguments).
With regulated I mean, curated by a group of postgres committers for example. I do think extensions inside postgres are very prone to supply chain attacks, so it should not be managed the way npm is.
Foreign Office: Former diplomats lead call to replace 'elitist' department
And it's not like it wasn't exactly the same under monarchy. Even with a straight arrow like Guizot (the straightest arrow of any French government ever probably) as a prime minister, corruption seep deep once people in power can stay in power for as long as they wish.
A mini chess game that got popular for a while

https://knight-queen-game.netlify.app/
I use xterm and i3wn on debian and I never experienced anything faster. Surely the idea of waste GPU for the terminal never even crossed my mind so alacritty is IMO overkill.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of okLAB? okLCH is basically HSL, with numbers that are consistent. Not sure why those numbers wouldn’t be human comprehensible. You’ve got a lightness of about 62%, which sounds right - that’s how far between black and white you are at pure red. You have a chroma of 0.25, which you need to understand as being ‘quite high’ (0.33 is about as high as chroma goes), which I appreciate is a thing you have to learn, but it’s not beyond human comprehension. Most importantly if you lower that chroma you get colors that are as red, but less intense - which is what you would expect. And then you have a hue, which is an arbitrary angle. Add 180 to it to get a complement though, or add or subtract 120 to get to green or blue.
How will this pattern become obvious (assuming you also comply with point 15)?
But EFcore and Identity are documented assuming you'll use scaffolding. They set up a bunch of models for you representing users and roles. You wouldn't know how to set this up if you tried to do it in F#. You'd have to set it up in C# first to see what it would look like, and then you might as well just use C#
I don't buy the 60ms latency either, but it's very easy to compensate for consistent latency when playing games, and most rhythm games choreograph what you should do in "just a moment" which is probably at least 10x more than 60ms
The Big Fund also funds Fabless design vendors like Biren [0], Ingenic [1], and Zhaoxin [2] in order to build a domestic Nvidia or AMD.

The Big Fund funds HUNDREDS of companies, not just SMIC. In fact, SMIC is basically the last man standing, as almost everyone else collapsed (YMTC and Hong Ha were restructured last minute to save Tsinghua Unigroup and other players), which is what triggered Xi's graft probe and hundreds of executives and government officials getting the ax.

[0] - https://www.birentech.com/

[1] - http://www.ingenic.com.cn/

[2] - http://zhaoxin.com/
Welcome to the GPU poor!

I'm focusing in quantization approaches and testing on my obsolete last gen GPUs.
Economy (1854) [pdf]
I'm not trying to say that the US educational performance is great, just that it's not terrible. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, but there's a narrative that US schools are failing horribly and that just isn't true.
Because athletes need their body to actually do stuff, not just look good. The main thing fitness influencers do with their body is pose for the camera.

Edit: Excess muscle is a liability in many sports. Off the top of my head, neither running and climbing benefit from being "big" like what most fitness influencers aim for. Muscle is both heavy and requires additional energy/oxygen input to keep fed.
I'm very split about the Centro. I used one for a while, but after years of Symbian phones, I just couldn't get over how poor the hardware and how dated the OS were in comparison, even though having all of my old Palm OS applications on my phone was great.

Nokia's N-series had GPS, Wi-Fi, and good cameras years before that and it was hard to lose all of that; Symbian had proper multitasking, persistent storage, and Unicode support; and between native Symbian and J2ME apps, the software ecosystem wasn't half bad either.

Aesthetically, I'll always be a fan of Palm OS, but I couldn't bring myself to actually use it as a daily driver due to all of these limitations.
Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis
Another fun example: if you have a child, you won't automatically get Kindergeld (child benefits) even though you have to sign paperwork for the birth certificate. You have to apply for child benefits and parental leave and maternity compensation and you have to notify each relevant institution individually yourself.

There are good and important reasons certain public institutions aren't allowed to share data by default but instead of making that data sharing opt-in, it's completely offloaded to you personally.
You should go tell Google that.
Marriage generally has a fixed definition by law, anything else would be madness.

The vows shouldn’t matter.
> thousands of fantastic little games were implemented in Flash

True... but also when your right clicked in a Flash widget on Firefox on Linux in would cause the browser to hang. This problem existed for years. That is why I listed it.
You can't centralize them, as in, it's simply not possible because Germany is decentralized. It's not that many rules would have to be changed, the Constitution would have to be changed. It's completely impossible.

The processes are going to be online, this is mandated by law, it will take years, but it is being worked on (some are already available online). They will still be provided by the respective municipality.
Thanks for mentioning it - I wouldn't go and see that otherwise

It does look great!
There's also the related failure mode of deciding you're going to fix all your other system problems as part of the migration, bloating the scope and creating too much complexity. Just do the necessary stuff, migrate, and then go back and fix the nice to haves.
True...but all sentient beings should be aware that counterfeit, cut-rate, or old "Singularity Merger Glasses" do NOT suddenly become "good enough" at 1.0 kpc. Doesn't matter if you've previously looked at mere Typo O stars with your unprotected photoreceptors, or your spaceship's viewports have a Gamma Protection Factor that's over 50, or ...
The data is published in English as well. https://www.destatis.de/EN/Home/_node.html

>For example, someone I used to know in the UK said much the same about his taxes paying for schools, just because he personally didn't have kids.

This isn't what I said. If I pay half of my wages to the state I would expect them to manage to staff government offices. Maybe besides defense, basic administration has to be the most important function of the government, as nearly every other activity relies on it. There is zero doubt in my mind that there is something less important in the budget than performing the core functions of any government.
'Time is running out': can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?
I really wish my subscription to Spotify was just split to the artists I actually listen to, rather than going to a pool
This is not the appropriate way to flag a comment you disagree with.
Yeah, this was a primary goal of at least 'Click to Pay'. Lots of people abandon carts once they hit the screen that requires payment details because the 'wallet is too far away.'. Or requires registration, payment info capture, etc. Mobile wallet apps address the same convenience factor (as the article mentions).

Another goal was to prevent merchants from getting and storing your payment information. So that's perhaps a plus.

I worked on SRC (the EMV spec Click to Pay implements) at Amex.
> I think it would be really hilarious if it was decided that since those were not human created they did not receive the benefit of copyright

Thats already the case for images in the US, and likely will be for other formats too
The cloud-native technologies employed by AutoMQ
Goofing around with the Y combinator, and quines (programs that print themselves): I wanted to see how much a quine written in C could be made to look like lisp-style self application. Worked out pretty well!
You keep citing these two random blog posts to me. I've never quite understood why you think they're such a mic drop. "Shreyas Zare, who develops software part-time as a hobby" thinks I'm all wrong. OK? Did Shreyas Zare connect Australia to the Internet before spending 15 years advocating for DNSSEC as the chief scientist at APNIC? I think my Pokemon wins here.
Two more examples of top athletes with so called "dad bods": Tom Brady, Nikola Jokić

Granted Tom has becomes a lot more chiseled as of late, but his time as the football GOAT is done and his time as an influencer is now.
I am offended. How is this hippie? Hippie would be respecting solitude and trying to give everyone what they want. This is just some kind of neoliberal bullshit that fits the narrative of "leaders".
SFMTA's Train System Running on Floppy Disks
> Hardware RAID is worth the money when uptime and performance are important.

I think this is no longer true. Software RAID is now better in almost every way, including performance.
Starting from Wordle, I've created some additional word-based games that can be played in the terminal: https://github.com/ludovicianul/words
It's for the simple reason that what "looks good" isn't what's going to get you the best results in a sport. Take "strong men" and compare them to bodybuilders. When you see a bodybuilder on stage, they look like they can pick up a car but in reality they are typically at their weakest point, as most have to get massively dehydrated before the event so they can showoff their veins in their muscles. Compare those guys to "strong men" who aren't training for looks but rather to see how much they can lift. Most of those guys look out of shape and overweight and you can't really appreciate that physique until they go off and bench 700+lbs or squat over 1,000 pounds.
My friend’s kid really likes to email people so I thought it would be neat to build a little auto-responder powered by gpt with different personalities (prompts), got this up and running using flask + gpt assistants api that uses assistants paired with an email service: http://fraind.email
"maybe (Z/(2Z))^n, then maybe the basis you would get would be like the one shown?"

it would
China's Big Fund corruption probe casts shadow over Chinese Semiconductor Sector
Sure, but not in FPS games, an additional 60ms you might as well as be down an entire standard deviation.
Ah, interesting, this is still under Safe Browsing, but it's distinct from the malware reporting that the blog post directs people to. Reports for this would get the site classed as deceptive (which it sounds like it is), but not for malware distribution. That sounds like a good option, perhaps the best option for the Notepad++ blog post to direct people to.

Fortunately/unfortunately I still can't load the site on any device or browser so I'm not actually sure what it looks like or how obvious it is.
From TFA: "Technological advancements can offer us a lot of convenience and improve the security of financial transactions."

As someone who works in security and privacy, it always stands out to me when the "and privacy" part is left off.
The funny thing is, I have 8 3090s which last epoch would have put in like - top 1% of compute. Now, still a lot of compute but pales in comparison to the 100x H100 GPU clusters we're seeing today.
It's not really clear from the article but I imagine that frictionless payments online contribute a lot more than physical ones. If you're making the decision between using a physical credit card and your phone then you've likely already committed to making the purchase. But it's a lot easier to back out when you're online. The option to use Apple or Google Pay on a website (even if you have your cards saved in the browser and it's just a few clicks to autofill) is so easy.

To add to that, installment plans that are offered on pretty much every purchase nowadays just compound the problem.
> Kolbicz believes this change may be to comply with Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to ensure fair competition and the prevention of anti-competitive practices by six large companies, known as "gatekeepers." These designated gatekeepers are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, who had until March to comply with the new regulations.

So, they comply with the act by... increasing the gatekeeping? I'm a bit confused TBH...
I'm always rejected at airport e-gates– so the Office suggested changing my name
Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders

We’re working on text/image prompted vision models at DirectAI (https://directai.io). We help clients do detection of bespoke objects by defining them with a single phrase or prompt image. I’d be happy to talk about helping you build out a system like this without having to collect large amounts of data, annotate it, and then train a bunch of custom models.
Yeah, I think he’s close to a good point of advice there, but misses it. Instead, it is better to bring up unpleasant surprises when they become a possibility (call it a “risk” if you want to sound all businessy). If you do that, then people will be less surprised when you tell them that it has happened
School, hobbies, social activities, friends of friends...? I have made very few lasting friends at work that last beyond the current job.

Offices are not actually great places to make lasting friends. I can understand missing the social aspect of work though (although at my age it doesn't bother me at all).
Somewhat related - be wary of implicit parameter passing in function pipelines. For example, Try ['10', '10', '10'].map(Number.parseInt) in your browser console. What's actually being called is:

Number.parseInt('10', 0)
Number.parseInt('10', 1)
Number.parseInt('10', 2)
This feels like it should be a Rorschach moment (from Watchmen): "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME!" where basically because the vendor can't back out either, and the government likely makes up a huge part of their revenue, then the government just starts swinging the negotiation stick.
The reviewed helped find the complexity and give pointers on how to reduce it, is the way I read it.
I think this is my favorite idea. I already pay for commute time for the plumber, electrician, HVAC, etc. I'm paying for their time, and it works pretty great: I know where their office & my home is, and I know they're hustling to get jobs done (travel pay is less than job pay). I'm not sure to how to align incentives for employee-to-office, though? It's a different problem, and I've never been able to figure out a satisfactory answer!
We had a situation here in Australia where there wasn't an open source way to verify the outcome of Federal senate elections. The algorithm is slightly complicated, mostly because it's set up so that it's possible to count it manually as it was devised prior to computerisation of the voting system.

In 2013 this became important: in Western Australia, we had a very close senate election. There was one critical exclusion in the count where just 14 votes determined the outcome between two candidates. Obviously the accuracy of the counting software was key; it actually crashed when they were doing the count. They restarted it, but that shook the confidence of a couple of people I knew, and so I decided to write my own software to verify the count. I knocked it up in two all-nighters:
https://github.com/grahame/dividebatur

Of course, I/we were fortunate that the electoral commission was forward-thinking enough to have published the data required to fully reproduce the count.

Some open government folks later on used the existence of my software to try and get the electoral commission to release their software system under Freedom of Information laws, so that it could be verified. I was quite amused when the commission alleged there was no way I'd done it in two nights. I had; but of course, what I had was a Python implementation of the count, not a fully-fledged electoral management system like they had.

Later on in 2017-18 we had a constitutional crisis[0], as various senators were found to hold foreign citizenship and thus be ineligible to hold office. Those ineligible senators were replaced by running a count-back of the vote, with them excluded. I happened to be the only person who had a system that could work out the results ahead of the electoral commission, so I had quite an exciting few weeks providing the media with predictions on who would take over the various seats that were lost.

Now there are better and more robust systems that have followed mine, but I must say I was quite happy with this two-day hack!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Australian_par...
I wonder if their mail scaning system is to blame.