skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A wonderful statement straight out of ERP's sales guys (or other folks on the same side dependent on keeping the cash flowing). FYI what we trash here are typical SAP-level migrations and all horrible stories that always come with it, maybe your tiny company does things better but then its a different story in a different market.

I have yet to meet a single company which works like ERP are designed to work. This is their edge over competition, their reason for existence on brutal market. And ERP wipe that out, with the most expensive wiper you can imagine, while selling various bullshit left and right, and constantly lying to given company how everything is fine and under control.

Truly, a way to kill a company. The fact that some survived it all to tell a story just shows how resilient whole such org is to such a massive stressor that ERP migration always is.

They sell first and foremostly a lie - that you can have cover-it-all system just like competition, to match your unique way of working, without suffering tremendously, fit like a glove out-of-box (when reality is exactly opposite). It just never works, more like hammering a concrete glove on your progressively more disfigured hand, while being told how rosy your future will be.
https://archive.ph/SSXdN
In my life, I've gotten three home insurance quotes, and every single one has asked about trampolines. And I do know at least two people who have been seriously injured on trampolines, so I can't blame them: they'd be liable for accidents.
They do, but you can't get the card number from reading the chip. The protocol is a challenge-response one based on a private key stored within the chip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program

You need to read the entire card number + cvc2 + expiry date with your camera. That's not skimming, that's just taking a photo of the card.
I prefer Claude Opus' explanation over yours:

Q: Explain to me why people of a certain school of thought say that race is a made up social construct and human races don't exist, but then people of that school of thought make decisions based on race, such as banning gifted classes because there are too many of one race and not enough of another

A:This is a complex and sensitive topic. I'll aim to provide an objective overview of the arguments and perspectives involved.

The idea that race is a social construct, not a biological reality, is supported by many scientists and social theorists. They argue that the genetic variation within racial groups is greater than the variation between them, and that racial categories don't map neatly onto genetic clusters. Instead, the argument goes, race is a social and historical construct - an arbitrary way of categorizing people that has shifted over time and place based on superficial characteristics like skin color.

However, even if race isn't "real" biologically, it has very real social, economic, and political ramifications. Centuries of racial discrimination and oppression have created stark inequalities between racial groups in areas like wealth, education, health outcomes, etc. Those who want to ban gifted classes or implement other race-conscious policies argue that colorblind policies aren't enough to undo those inequities. They believe proactively favoring historically disadvantaged racial groups is necessary to level the playing field.

Critics argue that even if the intention is to remedy past racism, making decisions based on race is itself a form of racism that reinforces racial essentialism and division. They say individual students should be judged as individuals, not primarily as members of racial groups. Some argue that factors like income, not race, should be used to promote equity and diversity.

Fundamentally, there's tension between the view that racial disparities stem from unjust social structures that need to be intentionally re-engineered, and the classically liberal view that government and institutions should be colorblind and treat everyone as an individual. Smart people of good faith come down on different sides of that debate.

These are thorny issues without easy answers. Historically, racism has done immense harm, and racial inequities persist today. At the same time, enshrining race-based policymaking risks unintentionally reinforcing racial divisions and treating people as representatives of racial groups rather than individuals. In my view, the path forward is to strive for a society of true equal opportunity while being mindful of not unduly burdening or discriminating against individuals in the process. But I respect that others may see it differently. Open and empathetic dialogue to understand each other's perspectives is essential.
Without faith, you have philosophy, not religion.

But philosophy often isn't enough to keep the masses engaged and enthralled.

Buddhism started as a philosophy --- but over time, many just couldn't resist the urge to introduce faith and mysticism in the form of reincarnation --- something Buddha never taught.

This happens with most religions --- including Christianity. Paul (aka Saul of Tarus) borrowed a lot from pagan mysticism that Jesus never taught.
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2k Gold Bars in Their Carts
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-costco-shoppers-put...
It would be cool if there was like a threshold in training from scratch, where after this actually works for adding higher level knowledge. So you would start training it like usual to get it to absorb generic langauge skills and reasoning but save all the domain knowledge absorption for merging later
The website seems to be unavailable. I don't know if the language is any good.

There is definitely value in a language that is easy to move to from C (and C++) that is memory-safe and performant. Most vulnerabilities involve memory safety today (the top 3 CWE categories of exploited vulnerabilities are memory safety). Rust is a good language, but no one has the trillions of dollars necessary to rewrite everything currently in C and C++ into Rust. Some programs can be rewritten in other languages where performance is less important, but that is not always true. That said, something may be desirable, but it may not be doable.
Not wondering people rather start their own thing rather than contribute to someone else projects.

Cambrian explosion of JavaScript frameworks explained. For me at least as I never really tried to contribute to any open project.
Most large companies are required to disclose profit margins to their investors and shareholders. In Germany, unternehmensregister.de has such info. But in this case, I got the 5% directly from Brother: https://global.brother/en/investor/highlights/finance
People keep talking about robotaxis as if the important part is the vehicle (wheels, motor, seats, etc.) the vehicle is almost totally interchangeable if you have a capable software driving system.

Tesla is very far from having a reliable and safe driving system. 15 minutes of good driving footage is a neat tech demo, but for a deployable product you need 1,000,000 minutes of safe driving.
>Given that video is 7.5 hours start to finish,

Link??
As a 20 year full-time Linux desktop user doing Enterprise IT consulting, running a windoze VM has never NOT been an entirely functional experience for me.

I've used both QEMU and Virtualbox to run them, mostly Virtuabox (yes, oracle sucks, it was still sun when I started), and probably the most demanding things I do on it is Visio, which I use for some very complex design docs in windows it general struggles with already. I used windoze xp in vm for ages even past its date of expiration, basically until newer Visio's no longer supported it, and all windows versions tried (7 and 10) have worked fine outside their own UI quirks.

I don't even enable 3d drivers, or try to make it do graphics-heavy things. Everything else I can do fully in Linux (including gaming), and this has been in supporting most any and every sort of enterprise across those years in technology.

Anyone that tells you Linux can't/doesn't work is being obstinate, ignorant, or lazy.
Not exactly the same but recently I realised that I can visualize the face of most of the people I know, my parents, my family, my friends, however I'm unable to visualize my own face
If you’re building something simple (dump files into Program FIles + create a shortcut), WiX is not that hard, and it does not require much understanding of the MSI internals. But the docs just aren’t there to help you and to tell you the five things about MSI you need to understand, and there are no complete and self-contained example WiX projects.
Imagine if I put cameras all over a city that charged you $10 every time you exceeded the speed limit by 1 MPH. With an additional $10 fee for each additional MPH measure over the limit. Also, this is per camera, so if you pass 6 cameras on your commute going 70 in a 65, you’re getting a $300 penalty.

Rules are rules.
aye, I was getting mixed up based on recently seeing what Snowflake allowed for storing decimal in binary, as opposed to this strange case of binary stored in decimal
Same thing here. Zenfone android is similar to pixel android while I find Samsung's android insanely ugly. I just miss some of the Google app integrations
I think you have that the wrong way round:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/farmed-sa...
A few years ago, I remember someone conducted a study on the quality of SearX(NG) results using different Internet providers: mobile, fiber, and VPN.

I'm not sure if this person is still active on HN, but I'm really curious about the results.
I wonder if any major companies have experimented with an internal “red team” startup? It would be on level playing field with your upstart competitors, free from existing hierarchy and structure to develop disruptive tech like any other startup, only you are bankrolling them which gives them a head and shoulders boost relative to any other startup. Eventually you can let this startup grow to be more dominant than the old company and repeat the process with the next disruptive technology.
That's an interesting idea. Never thought of that. If the website is rendered on the server, extensions become useless! Wow, now I get the concept that many customers came to me with, but were too shy to reveal.

I always thought they were doing this kind of reverse proxy for IP protection, but now I see the bigger picture. Haha! :) Thank you for your insight.
As GUI application, I find they are pretty challenging and deviate from normal application design. Ghidra’s multi window design is both powerful and a royal mess, many things aren’t intuitive. Resizing columns in the listing window deserves some sort of inauspicious award.

Ghidra has a “headless” mode where it will just run without the UI.

Or have you tried Binary Ninja? Its UI is simpler and a bit more primitive, but it is designed more programmatic analysis, less manual/interactive usage. It’s GUI is more for debugging scripts, not so much for manual reversing.

Programmatic analysis can be powerful for automated taint analysis and such.
Or you thought cancelling cable was hard now…
Sorry - to be clear I meant if Hertz owned their own chargers and pumped in the same amount of electricity as they would've put in petrol. Not a 3rd party charging rate. Domestic rates today on moneysupermarket.com are 24p/kWh, and I imagine Hertz could get it cheaper.
I love "experience reports", wish that was more common everywhere.
What are the history problems with graphene?
Yeah it’s not intended to be used directly for end user builds. Its ultimate product is a set of makefiles (or Visual Studio project files) and the developer should distribute those.
Nothing stifles progress and contribution more than having a maintainer take your effort and implement it themselves or carelessly merge your work in without review only to have it reverted for not contributing code correctly. For a lot of FOSS the review process is that the maintainer does it themselves when they feel like it.

And you just know the discussion by that inner circle that could have happened during code review is happening in some private email or chat app somewhere away from public eyes.
But there's already a mature and complete autotools killer out there called "cargo".

I'll see myself out, thank you. ;)
Time delay is covered in the "How do PID controllers work?" section right after "A simple controller"
A blast from the past. UCLA had an S/360 model 91 that was "the campus computer" when I learned to program on it in 1975.

I still have a JCL book from that era somewhere in a box...

//GO.SYSIN DD *

DOO DAH

DOO DAH

(Edited: formatting)
Ah yes. No Nintendo character is more characterized by consuming other characters and absorbing their abilities than Mario.
Timestamp in the videos: 21:03-4:33 => 7.5hrs
After the sshd debacle, and in the context of GenAI becoming ever better at impersonation at scale, I don't think anyone working on a security-relevant project should simply hand off to an enthusiastic community member they don't know well.
How you incorporate SELECT FOR UPDATE locking into Raft? Also maybe slightly off topic, but how does the CockroachDB deals with read-only queries and raft log?
Yea I think that is exactly correct
I’m sure it does but he knows Bob and Bob can just flip a bit in a database to make it “compliant”.
archive
https://archive.ph/8wbiu
You seem to think AI is more clever than it is. As far as I know, AI tends to produce generic boilerplate code at best and that code becomes extremely hallucinatory beyond non-trivial complexity or when seeking non-commonplace solutions. I don't think anyone's going to be using AI for 1337 h@x any time soon. AI doesn't innovate, it generalizes.

The more pertinent issue is unintentional bugs and low quality in AI generated code, and the effect of knowledge loss as AI generated code becomes more and more common.
One of my biggest fears as a frontend dev is to build UIs that are inaccessible for people. It's easy to take so many things for granted.

The good news is you get a lot of accessibility out of the box using native html. For higher abstractions I love working with accessibility first libraries like HeadlessUI or Shadcn (which is built on top of Radix).
Lenovo's Moto phones
This 'literacy pen' teaches you to read and write
Check out some of the test prompts here for examples of larger tasks: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/test/test_pr...
I've used this successfully for some hardware projects: https://pidtuner.com/#/
Thats exactly the problem with insurance.

If I have any sort of risk mitigation (file backup, fire alarms, spare tire, a generator, whatever) I can test that it works periodically. So I know I'm actually safe for the event.

For insurance, you can't know what bullshit they'll come up with to deny a claim when the time comes for it.

You're left with having paid for the insurance all that time for nothing! Much better to have put that money in a piggy bank instead.
> ...he never responded. Eventually I tracked down his desk in the vast corporate complex and paid him a visit. He was pleasant but told me that he wasn't even on the access control project and he thought it had probably been canceled at some point...

I love it. A co-worker of mine told a similar story. For at least six months, his only regular responsibility was to compile a report every week and email it to a distribution list for the headquarters one echelon above us. It wasn't a ton of work, but it was all manual and he was meticulous. He dutifully did this without any feedback until someone finally replied to simply say, "We do not require this report, and have never required it. You may choose to either continue or discontinue sending it."
> completely left field to my normal technical work.

I'm assuming this is another baseball reference. As a non-American: what does it mean? :)
I re-thought it, and I stand by my arguments.

Decision makers should be the ones punished for making decisions. As simple as that.
Barriers would make the New York City subway safer
Total fud. It may be lower priority, and not be canceled.
Yes. It doesn't matter. These are marginal problems. The major adversary for DNS privacy is ISPs, and DoH neatly solves it. AWS and DO aren't (probably can't, in fact) sniffing DNS traffic to generate marketing data feeds). Betamax was better than VHS.
The opposite:

"I've just created your virtual machine" - 3 year old, "mummy, mummy, /I/ did this! praise ME!". Got to insert yourself as the first thing in the sentence, as if the customer cares who did it.

"Your virtual machine is ready" - Waiter, assistant, comfortable out of the limelight to let the focus be on the customer and what they are interested in.

"I've just created your virtual machine" - You didn't make the deployment pipeline, you didn't build the hosting, or write any of the hypervisor or guest OS, you ran one script and now you're taking all the credit. Embarrassing.
Ancestry pulls genealogy records after accusations of data theft
It looks suspiciously like the result of someone registering a domain, putting up a server and populating a page. Could be wrong.
"Dark Side of the Moon" 50th Anniversary Animation Competition [video]
Why is it crazy? If it no longer aligns with the maintainer’s interests or energy, doesn’t provide compensation, he’s within his right to archive it and move on. And people in the community can fork it if they need to.
> with the same accesses of the main ones

Could you provide any links or details?
This is what feminism is truly fighting for, equal rights. This is an great example of such case.
cool project and nice reading！ congrats！！
I don't think you have it if you can imagine something.

I don't think it's meant to be in that dark space / visual eye space.
That's more expensive and less convenient.
Yeah, and it's easily solvable with a sticker or a dremel to scrape the number off
As an unrelated side note: Walter Tichy just retired at KIT a few years back but continued teaching until recently. Because he simply cannot stop he is now teaching in Kutaisi, Georgia.

He was by far the best known professor in computer science, much loved by his students: https://www.reddit.com/r/KaIT/search/?q=Tichy . Guess the memes are only half as funny if you don't understand German.
That's a bit harsh, but I understand your sentiment. I wish that one of the numerous supersets of C would gain some traction, for those cases where C must be used. I'm thinking of cases such as bare-metal embedded, operating systems, and low-powered microcomputers. There seems to be no option right now that hits a sweet spot between the creaky old C and the unbearably complex C++.
Sure you do. You have to worry about which fork has the best chance of succeeding in the long run (and my bet wouldn't be on the one from the company that was struggling enough that it felt the need to risk upsetting the community with a licence change). You need to worry about if the new license is acceptable, and even if you aren't selling a managed service for the software, these licenses make lawyers nervous (and I suspect that is intentional). And you have to evaluate if the license change is an indication that the company no longer values the community and users.
If memory serves me correctly I think they did most of the modelling actually simulating the quantum computer on a classical computer, then when they found a run that "worked" and gave parameters they wanted to see they reran that run on the quantum computer. The reason they wanted to do that step of the simulation on the quantum computer is that they were arguing that the waveforms of the quantum computer created the dual of the wormhole when running the emulation and therefore the actual wormhole existed. I might be unintentionally strawmanning their argument because I have never studied QM and that specific part of the claim was the bit that was very contentious at the time and they sort of rowed back from.
I feel like, to do it right, you need to already be both

• a violinist (so that you have expertise in what sound you’re targeting, and in the existing “UX” of a violin at a professional level — in combination meaning “so you know what should be easy to play, and what should be hard-but-possible”); and also

• a luthier (so that you have expertise in what factors shape the acoustics of a violin, and the sonic space — including the “bad” parts that no violinist would ever intentionally access — that a violin can generate; and also so that you’ve given thought to the ergonomics of existing violins, so as to ensure that the new thing isn’t making them worse.)

Such a person is likely to have spent their career thinking more about music than about industrial design, though, so I wouldn’t expect such a person to have too many thoughts on a novel violin UX on their own.

So this would likely be at least a two-person project: one person who knows UX/HCI/IdX + hardware engineering, to design and prototype the device; and someone who knows violins, to be that designer-engineer’s critic and internal customer.

I am only one of those people, so as much as I’d like to try this, it’s not the easiest project to pop off the ideas heap.

I think this is what most people who’ve considered this idea from one side or the other would say — which is probably why it hadn’t been done yet.
I don't think the problem people have with this is the type of air vehicle used to take the picture
Eh... that's why I'm pondering going back to OnePlus (after short affair with Samsung for the past 2 years) because it's somewhat annoying not being able to tweak stuff...

Alas, it's also annoying that some dumb banks (I'm looking at you ING Poland) consider rooted device as "insecure" but thay have no problem if I open a bank page using admin/root account on the computer)
yeah, at first I was mildly amused by the “inclusion by exclusion” that I saw in professional circles in the SF Bay Area,

specifically amused by how it was ironic, and how it was unquestioned because people would privilege the opinions of the token representation saying the idea

But now hearing from more of the affected populations, it is indefensible to me now
Yeah I bet that 9$ widget definitely won't induce audio quality issues while you pump 60W through it...
In context, it looks like they meant software updates, which is closer to what your calling hardware support.
These Electronic Textiles Don't Need Chips or Batteries
He doesn't has to start everywhere.

It's already interesting if he does it in a big city he knows we'll.

Nonetheless the YT videos of the self driving stuff looks quite good.

You need to start somewhere and others are already doing it.
Yes, but if something has a bad (even mildly so) meaning in American English the name gets changed. This happened to the computer language known as Nimrod, for example - now Nim because Americans do not get sarcasm nor read the Bible. Then there are all the terms like "master" and "blacklist"

Why not treat other languages and cultures equally?
This is untrue, I do this now with my Pixel and have to no issues.
Social signalling because tertiary degrees have become commoditized. Someone you want to hire someone because of who they're potentially connected to. It doesn't have to be targetted, but hire a large enough cohort of very expensive private school kids and all of sudden you're one bacon factor away from some well resourced families.
To those who complain about the poor documentation: that's the whole point. The maintainer offers consulting services ($5,000/yr.). It is in his interest that users should need his help.

It's worth it for commercial customers. It's a fair business model for an Open Source project.
Mandatory link whenever Korn Shell is mentioned:

http://www.kornshell.com/fun/band.gif
I should always check if it's me being unclear or not.

Seems not.

https://chat.openai.com/share/080995f0-d339-435b-a0ff-438137...
It’s crazy to maintain such a project, shutting it down is the only sane option.

Chapeau bas for keeping it going for so long. The internet of old was built by irrational hobbyists like these guys.