skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to the chorus of woes, my legal first name is Paul and middle starts with A and often the ticket comes out as "Paula". I have had at least two heated encounters with gate attendants saying the ticket could not possibly be mine because I don't look like a "Paula".
No. It’s a risk pooling mechanism.

If a group of ten people all have a one in one-thousand per year chance of a million-dollar loss each year, then their annual premium will be:

10 x 0.001 x $1,000,000 = $10,000 (plus some administrative overhead and assuming a very basic risk model)

It has nothing to do with who is rich and who is poor or making anyone come out ahead of their own losses.
Why?

No one forces anyone to gamble.
How's that pronounced? "Eee" or "Eh" or "Nehemiah"... ?
The irony here is that's what insurance customers want, too: to incur arbitrary risks and have other more responsible customers pay for them.
They can also use the info to decide if they allow a renewal.

They can decide not to renew for any reason - including that they just decided not to do house insurance at all anymore.
If you looks at the deaths per bomb dropped it shows you the amount of restraint that Israel is exhibiting and that it is not at all a mass murder.

It's just war.
The airlines commonly (universally) cram a first and middle name together with no space, and this never seems to matter. I know there's a certain degree to which the info that goes to TSA about who you are isn't exactly a match for what's in the airline's reservation system and what's on your boarding pass... to what extent it's that system at work here vs. the name actually not mattering that much isn't really clear to me.
I doubt Texas will. How would they enforce it? And good chance the federal courts will rule it is pre-empted by federal law (the FCC).

For historical (and arguably even political) reasons, federal courts give the states a bit more leeway when to adult content. But regulating general purpose content-neutral VPNs would really be stepping directly into the FCC’s domain, in a way which would directly impact interstate commerce, and I doubt the courts would let them do that
Since students themself use AI to write essays, those grading AI will be evaluating the most average writing anyway.
We've now come full circle, just losing our ability to write in the process.
> Don’t use adverbs

> There is nothing inherently wrong with adverbs. They are just part of a category of things that I believe are lazy in writing.

Comparing this quote to the rest of the article, it appears the italics convey vocal emphasis. I find it somewhat ironic that “inherently” is an adverb.
What's the tool? With temperature set to 0, the output should be reproducible, given the same input conditions.
The 8th OSI layer.
For $12 a year you can get a VPS and just put OpenVPN there.
But the kids!
same with Porkbun. a bank employee, who was going through my card transactions, asked what Porkbun was. i love Porkbun, but they sound like and share the same number of characters as the pornography company.
Sounds like your friend was VPNing to the wrong jurisdiction.

PulsedMedia (Finland), IHostArt (Romania) and many other seedbox server providers exist and will not shut you down.
Sounds like a database to me.

Databases have a long history that reaches back much further than the modern, full featured SQL databases we have today. What you built sounds like it would fit in well amongst the non-sql databases of the world, like Berkeleydb, indexeddb, mongo, redis, and so on.
> Sometimes you can aim for an 85% mission success rate and launch 5 probes for half the price a decade earlier.

…Which NASA also does.

That’s the helicopter on Mars, and the first Starship mission.

Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?
This is sponsored by Varonis, and aside from being potentially useful, it's an ad.

"This article originally appeared on the Varonis blog."
No, they are VPNs. They also include proxies in the same bundle, and sometimes it is easier to just use proxies rather than install an entire VPN client on your machines, but VPN (powered by Wireguard or OpenVPN) is what they are selling.
Not when it comes to motorcycles. BMW and Honda are both extremely common police bikes. LAPD’s motorcycle fleet used to be almost entirely Kawasakis.
I’m assuming in this case you do have a middle name that could be your first second name, right?
1. They exist.
had to look it up too...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

> The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
If by "similarly" you mean "equally bad at most", then I can agree with that.

But I think most people would rate non-consensual sex as significantly worse than a non-consensual day job.

So if you say the sex on camera is not consensual, you're implying a very different kind of consent violation than is actually happening.
> Each time Amazon decides to use an open source prouct, instead of doing it for free, they should contact the parent company and offer them a fee.

What if, instead of doing that, they hired some of the people making significant contributions to the project? Would that count?
If you need that kind of granularity maybe commit that file automatically to a git repository.
And who is going to pay for the bandwidth?
Except that those special cases often land on the same groups of people. Accented characters, multiple given names, multiple surnames... these are all common for people whose ancestry isn't the US or Western Europe. No driver's license, no permanent address, no social security card... these are all common for poor people.

It's great that admins can fix the special cases, but the fact that they're special cases at all makes life harder for assumption-breakers. An action that took 10 minutes on the Web for Jim Smith living at 11 Place Road might be 3 hours on the phone for Hector Marίa Gonzalez López whose address is a P.O. box. Those hours add up and can really make folks' life hard for no good reason.

Do your users a favor and make as few assumptions about them as possible!
His first restaurant was called 'Momofuku Noodle Bar', named as an homage to Ando for inventing instant noodles/ramen. I don't think there were many Americans in 2004 (or today) who have even heard of Ando, I don't think he was trying to trade on his name.
Teachers are using AI to generate multiple choices tests from reading assignments and assigning to students via all-in-one portals.

There are a host of services that leverage multi-modal open models tailored to everything right now, from generating syllabi and course shells to handling your ARD. It's removing the administrative overhead that computerization promised in the 70s and 80s that largely stalled out because IT management had to manufacture some dependence to keep their jobs.
The hero's journey: end up back where you started, having gained something in the process.

AI's journey: end up back where you started, having lost something in the process.
> what if speed laws in the US were fully enforced 100% of the time - they would be yanked immediately, because they are dumb and mostly just used to fund the police

Or maybe people would adjust their behavior and respect speed limits? Laws that are sporadically enforced at the discretion of police officers are awful. It just enables discrimination.
Microsoft Office already did the ribbon thing. Time to try it again?
I will take it as a compliment, lol. But I do hope ChatGPT or some agents could help me with this. Btw, our recent study on machine-generated text detection might be interesting to you.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14902
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11175
Sounds like nu metal lyrics, so it tracks.
I think that's the case. Any other organization is bound to some kind of context with it's own set of arbitrary choices and restrictions, but only restrictions in GDS are "two names both at least one (or two?) letter each, spelled with Latin alphabet, non-case sensitive". Funnily enough, the set of restrictions used by Visa/Mastercard one step later in the process is subtly different.
> Just ask yourself, if you were in charge of the mission, in what world would you decide to use a black and white camera rather than colour to capture the data of what is probably a multi-billion dollar mission?

In this world, where I choose the best tool for the job. Color cameras are worse for this task. I don’t make engineering decisions based on gut reactions to things I know nothing about. I ask questions then make a decision based on facts and objectives.
2. If a list calls itself authoritative, it is.
But that's a lot more data than just storing which of the ~2^50 possible faces was generated. You could serialize the entire face including the colors and scaling factors into a much smaller string, or just take one number that is used as a seed for a random number generator that sets the other parameters
In these cases, the argument is always of the type you just mentioned.

“What’s the big deal the data is already available, relax”. On top of that, it comes with an air of condescension as if no one had ever thought about that before.

One concern with things like this is that it’s different when you have to send someone out to inspect a home vs inspecting thousands of homes at a time. Once you have data in that volume, you can start to infer things that do borderline encroach on privacy.

What is the case here, and it might be what you were trying to point out, is that this kind of data is already collected regularly and is by the books legal. The concern here is simply at the application.

At this point the cats out of the bag and the best we can hope for is at least some level of protection through legislation.
yes. but as a matter of culture one doesn't write binary formats any longer. that's just - silly? and its not as if I don't think people should use abstractions to format messages.

and as a matter of definition, yes, protobufs are just bit strings and a schema definition in a limited type language (just like xdr and asn before it).

but again, as a matter of usage, we're only really supposed to use them to map to and from structs.

and its not as if this doesn't work, clearly it does. as someone who used to do protocol implementation before all this, I find unsettling. and I don't know if I'm just being predudicial, or if we we are somehow losing something by adopting this model as essentially mandatory.

I do find it frustrating, that when I do want certain binary properties, or I want to encode a cyclic structure in a particular way, or use a richer schema. that I have to fight upstream to not use protobufs even if they don't bring anything except a useless wrapper around a byte string I am defining anyways.
Passing a law and actually enforcing a ban are very different things. In the case of porn the big corporate sites have no choice but to comply. VPN providers don't really care. Unless the state of Texas can manage to find and block every IP address of every VPN server worldwide, people are going to get through.
I actually doubt there's a neat defineable ceiling for the skill of a welder nor a barista so it also comes down to where you make the cut-off because any improvements beyond that become negligible in terms of ROI. But that would also require being able to actually quantify that vague notion of "skill" which in turn would require an honest assessment of the actual real-world exhaustive job description of both jobs including all implicit, unstated and culturally expected parts (e.g. barista is a service job so customer service can be as big a factor as the actual coffee-making but we don't think of social skills as actual skills or emotional labor even if it's obvious when they're inadequate or badly performed).

So in other words, we could have an objective, empirical look at whether welders or baristas actually need "more skill" and which skillset is easier to master for the average person (which is its own rest nest of considerations again) but if we did the necessary (if not impossible) prep work to even get started on that, we'd have to already agree that "unskilled" is a descriptor for jobs that has very little to do with the actual skill requirements and more with attitudes towards those skills or the people doing those jobs.
Having two identical last names is very common in Spain, for purely combinatorial/statistical reasons. No one bats an eye about that. It would only suggest inbreeding if they were extremely uncommon last names.

I bet she just made a face because the second surname is part of people's identity and has a meaning, it's not something people would fake. And it's also used when e.g. checking your ID to see that you are the legitimate owner of the account, so it probably wouldn't even work.

Of course it's totally reasonable that you suggested that in that case, what's unreasonable is the bank's system requirement of two last names, but to an average Spanish person it sounds odd to want to use a second surname that isn't real.

I know a person who has some certificates to the name of Firstname Lastname NULL :)
banks are always asking for your mother's maiden name, and you refused only in this one case where it actually made sense to give it?
Nor is it provable that you weren't. Which is the point of the previous comment. Anyways, enjoy the nosebleed material...
To quote Zizek:

"that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want"
I was curious about the resolution of that and looked it up. Turns out that the child's legal name is first name "X", middle name "AE A-XII", because "Æ" isn't a letter in modern English, and "12" isn't letters at all. So he'll still encounter several of the problems mentioned here (single letter name, hyphens, spaces), but at least not ones with computers systems requiring names be made of letters.
What is your podcast going to be about?
Spaceship dot com?

I'm no marketer but this sounds a bit generic for a brand name, specially compared to Namecheap.

I wonder if names like this perform better than more unique descriptive names, or it doesn't matter either way.

>we wanted to start building our next phase without any legacy limitations and a legacy codebase

I wonder if this means Namecheap will disappear in the future, getting completely replaced by this brand new Spaceship.
I think the rule is: as long as there is a sequence of at least 3 adjacent 1-bits, you can replace them with 2 1-bits (1 on each side). The new 1-bit can of course merge into an existing run.

This only fails to decrease the needed work for the N/3 and N/5 cases here, which form small regular patterns. For larger regular patterns, or for irregular patterns (2^odd-1), chances are that there will be at least some simplification (unless the pattern is mostly zeros in which case it isn't needed anyway).
You mean transitioning to a car-less society over a reasonable period of time or out right car ban? I am talking about the later in my comment.

An I say "reasonable" intentionally vague because there are degrees of car dependency that varies between regions. On average, I believe Europe might be closer to banning private cars. USA I would bet not so much.
I'll see who I can get in contact with. Sorry about this.
> If your roof is 20 years old and one hailstorm is going to take it off,

It amazes me that people in the US would even consider installing a roof that would only last 20 years.

In the UK, you wouldn't consider reroofing anything that your grandparents remember being installed. Ie. Stuff doesn't get reroofed till it's 100 years old. Even then, you'll normally inspect and only replace the damaged bits.

My 350 year old house still has part of its original roof and slate tiles etc.
I've always liked; https://brutalist.report/
CVE-2023-3741: how we hacked a VoIP telephone
more details can be found here:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine
To be fair, one hardware mysql server for 5k, outperforms a dozen auroea instances.

It really bugs me how everyone has drank the coolaide. Cloud is stupid expensive, but of course this is cloud vs cloud.
Does it need live stream or would recording to the camera be sufficient? Can it do both at the same time?
I've already seen a shift in the ads from "hide your banking details from hackers" to more "hide your country from Netflix". I can't prove causation, but it did seem to date from when Tom Scott did his "Honest VPN ad" video.
Those VPS come with like 1 TB a month of bandwidth.

It's storage and CPU that are kind of a premium.

Bandwidth is cheap.
In hindsight perhaps this wasn't the best username to pick...
>it's best to build a website that can handle most customers needs

This is why regulations and standards imposed externally exist. Notably accessibility requirements.
Yeah this decision really rubbed me the wrong way when it happened. Like many of the western sanctions, it disproportionately affected ordinary Russians over oligarchs. Even worse, it probably disproportionately affected what little scraps of free press remained in Russia. I understand Namecheap's logic, especially from the early days of the war, but it left a sour taste in my mouth about relying on them for business.
"Our government" isn't doing it, some very specific ones are. And the people they represent are 100% behind all such laws. This is the democratic process working exactly as intended.
Momofuku was always underwhelming for me. This only adds to it.

I do find it surprising to be able to trademark words like this. I could see it if you invented a category of things but chili crunch to me is the same as chili crips and the product has existed for a long time.
Increasingly likely that UI evolution will prioritize a shift from a "click"-centric approach to one that's "command" oriented. This means AI agents interpreting your instructions and executing task processes, rather than continually reconfiguring the UX to match your preferences. High computing costs with AI also favor instruction-to-task completion dynamic, not just indulging in elaborate screen layout adjustments.
You have to assume they share the same architecture for most of these methods
I couldn't reliably tell you the difference between a $30 bottle of wine and a $300 bottle of wine but that's why I don't claim to be an expert on wine.

Also, there are other coffee places than Starbucks. Saying barista is an unskilled job because Starbucks coffee is particularly bad is like saying programmer is an unskilled job because all Squarespace websites are equally bad.
Google is working on a 'lookup' button for unknown callers on Android
As a pedestrian, I want bicycle riding banned from sidewalks and any other pedestrian area.
Consider using isdigit.
Anecdotally I have had the opposite experience. My smaller bike with a v-twin engine and loud aftermarket exhausts is apparently much less noticeable than my larger sport-touring bike with quiet stock exhausts.
> How difficult would it be to have a colour camera?!?!

As has been exhaustively explained to you already “more difficult than it is worth”. At this point you are willfully ignorant on this topic.

> I have a crap mobile and it has 3 cameras!

And I own a spatula. Both devices are equally capable of taking color photos in this environment.
Just to be clear this is just a trademark not the recipe or anything. Trademarks can be challenged, especially one this new. Just because it's been granted now doesn't really mean too much
In this case I think it is to point out the absurdity of trying to claim ownership of a condiment that has existed across multiple Asian cultures for centuries.
Absolutely. Depends on the court, country, and how relevant it might be. A friend recently walked me through the order of precedent for one area of law
Ann Marie and Mary Anne are common names in the US that has space in it. For example, Donald Trump's mother's full name is Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. Her first name is "Mary Anne," which is considered a double-barreled or compound first name.
>Elon Musk had to change the name of their baby to comply with Californian law

>On the birth certificate, it states that the baby’s first name is “X”, it’s middle name is “AE A-XII” and its last name is “Musk”.
In what respect is this an "autotools killer"?
The earlier comment is concerned for the users being orphaned by the project they used. The project is concerned with protecting the trust the users placed in the project by using it.

To trivialize the concern of the project seems worse because it prioritizes convenience in a particularly sticky area (security/privacy) as well as forcing a less informed choice on the user (who they are trusting).

There's probably a nice parallel here where we consider the NRL's role in Tor and how FOSS practices, EFF funding, and transparency meant it preserved user trust.
The links below beat me to it.

Auto insurance is mandatory, and it can be government run, or private.

Other areas of insurance can be indirectly required, say one side of renting, etc. Effectively lenders can set the conditions they desire.
The issue is that for a large portion of the population, porn consumption is not considered immoral or even if it is immoral; not an offence worthy of calling someone a criminal over.

We all know that laws are not a good indicator of morality, but society is better when we try to align laws over time with our moral code.
They haven't got exclusive rights to the recipe, it's just the name
That isn't typically allowed. Spanish people also can have several given names, but they count as first names, not last names/surnames. A bank would typically check your data against a passport or ID and wouldn't allow you to put the middle name in the place of a last name.

And if for some reason you managed to do it, you would be called Mr. MiddleName in all communications.

As a curiosity, Spanish people often have the opposite problem - for example, in academia, if we sign papers in the "natural" way (FirstName FirstSurname SecondSurname) we'll be indexed as Name F. SecondSurname, which is quite jarring for us because we typically go by the first surname, not the second. So many (probably most) of us hyphenate (FirstName FirstSurname-SecondSurname) to avoid automated systems (or humans from other countries) to extract our surnames wrong.
Ah yes, Mr "E".
One of my professors would mark us down for each line of code that is over 80 characters.

What it really was was a forcing function to figure out auto formatting tools, so in the end I didn't mind.
SQLite is great. I've also recently settled on it as a key-value store, after considering a few purpose-built key-value solutions. Turns out that it's really easy to make SQLite work as a key-value store, but very difficult to make key-value stores relational, if you ever need to.

Just be careful with `:memory:` databases. From the mattn/go-sqlite3 FAQ[1]:

> Each connection to ":memory:" opens a brand new in-memory sql database, so if the stdlib's sql engine happens to open another connection and you've only specified ":memory:", that connection will see a brand new database. A workaround is to use "file::memory:?cache=shared" (or "file:foobar?mode=memory&cache=shared"). Every connection to this string will point to the same in-memory database.

I noticed strange behaviors with just `:memory:` where tables would disappear at random, and this workaround helped. Make sure to use a unique filename as the `file:` value, especially if using this in tests.

[1]: https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3#faq
It's for getting arbitrary traffic out of corporate firewalls by disguising it as regular HTTP traffic.