skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We can’t pay the wages we’re paying now unless we dramatically increase prices and hope guests actually come in and pay those prices."

It’s not just the restaurant industry that would benefit from hiding the true cost of goods from the customer until after they’re obligated to pay. Bait and switch would be popular in every industry if it was legal.
Dude you cannot compare DJB to Pottering.

DJB is a genius, responsible for all of the non-NSA asymmetric cryptosystems, symmetric cryptosystems, and authenticated encryption algorithms supported by TLS (curve25519, chacha20, Poly1305). He's also the one who got us off of the footgun-by-design, broken-random-number-generator-will-spray-your-privatekey-everywhere nondeterministic nonce signature schemes prior to Ed25519 (the first standardized signature scheme which required deterministic nonces). Oh yeah and the only post-quantum cryptosystem that OpenSSH was comfortable shipping.

And pottering gave us pulseaudio. The gift that keeps on giving.
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Roblox maybe advertising to kids very aggressively. Recently a redditor claimed that this was their child's assigned homework (https://i.redd.it/6o2r9jazhoxc1.jpeg)

It seems to come from MagiCore (magicoreacademy.com) who also offers this "Virtual Field Trip to Disney World" (https://magicorelearning.com/shop/product-line/virtual-field...) and while they claim to not be affiliated with Disney (who is usually very litigious about any use of their name/characters), they don't say anything like that about Roblox here https://magicorelearning.com/shop/florida-b-e-s-t-standards/...
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> Not having access to something does not grant you rights to it.

The California law I referenced grants me rights to the pay range information.

> You probably know a lot of things I don't, and some things that I can never know. That does not allow me to compel you to tell them to me.

Which is why people in society get together and implement rules to make the game work better for everyone. For example, real estate prices information is public data in almost all US jurisdictions.
Regardless of where you stand in the situation, this talking point always seems so asinine to me. Like do you actually believe that the protesters are simply ignorant of the social policies of Hamas (or support them)? Or do you just not believe it’s possible to hold a position between “the IDF should carpet bomb Gaza” and “Hamas should run the entire Levant”? It seems pretty straightforward to me that you can advocate for self-determination of a people while simultaneously recognizing that some of those people may hold opinions you dislike.
> [1] 2 min intro to 3D Gaussian splatting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVv_IQKlafQ

I don't know what the hell a "gaussian splat" is and I have to say this video did not help at all.
Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections
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Biological systems are not "engineered" in the same way a computer is. Computer chips, despite all their complexity, are designed to be understood by humans - they are modular, and abstract-able to facilitate design. Biological systems do not have these properties unless it is advantageous for the task at hand. You often have systems where everything interacts with everything else in meaningful ways. So it isn't really accurate to directly compare reverse engineering technology to reverse "engineering" nature
Chatbots Have Thoroughly Inflitrated Scientific Publishing
The burden of PCI compliance is a lot lighter than you might think. You basically just have to fill out a bunch of forms, there's no inspection or anything.
Did they? Is that why so many walked? Were the ones that were hanged not actually intimately involved in orchestrating a war of aggression and the murder of human beings on a scale unprecedented in the history of the modern world?

Do you have any proof of this?
It's quite useful! I can give someone access to my server by grabbing their public key and creating an account for them, no need figure out how to send them the password to my server.
This gave me a genuine chuckle. Clever humor, thank you.
Most people aren't really aware or care that they're sponsored though. They want reviews and recommendations, so they follow people that recommend things.
The only thing this demonstrates is that the OP has just learned about how uid-based privilege boundaries work on Linux. Nothing wrong with learning new things for the first time of course, but it would be best to avoid making grand claims in the process.
I feel similarly hopeful actually!

I think people do seem generally annoyed by the scroll wheel, but I think that's just a bad implementation in this case. I don't think that means that all physical controls (meaning: not a touch screen) are just pointless gimmicks. It's a bit myopic to think we've hit some perfect un-challengable UI paradigm with flickable scrolling and sheets of software buttons and fields that you tap.
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I bet that the LLM can write a program that CALLS GPT and tells it to lie 20% of the time in the prompt

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Early Athena (managed prestodb by AWS) had a similar bug when measuring colunar file scans. If it touched the file, it considered the whole file instead of just the column chunks read. If I’m not mistaken, this was a bug on presto itself, but it was a simple patch that landed on upstream a long time before we did the tests. This was the first and only time we considered using a relatively early AWS product. It was so bad that our half assed self deployed version outperformed Athena by every metric that we cared about
Doesn't seem to work:

fragmede@samairmac:~$ ssh tildeverse.org
fragmede@tildeverse.org: Permission denied (publickey).
Apparently, the exact same year.
I promise you that the kids do know what literal means. They deserve more credit.
Appropriate for an operating system called Haiku ;)
If by like to you mean are forced to to escape poverty...
I think it’s actually pretty darn stupid that we aren’t running one way missions.
I think it's more that they're replacing the traditional GNU programs with systemd.

That will result in systemd/Linux.
Do you see a psychologist and doctor to help you with this (can you afford them?). I think this needs professional help (I am not saying that in a negative way, but I think you need the best help possible). The problem with doctors and psychologists in general is it a lottery and you might have to try different ones to find the ones that take you seriously and don't just shove a drug at you to try (unless they have a really good reason to and they have understood your issues).

So, assuming you don't have a great team, what you could do with is a good friend/family member to advocate for you while you navigate this to get the best help.

You probably also need money to do this, as few countries will provide this for free. Or if they do there will be waitlists. Hopefully you can afford it or someone can help you there, or your advocate can find free resources that are good for you.

What happened to you in childhood/school is not OK, but it is sermountable.

Hope it goes well. Good luck!
What makes you think it's not compressed? (or that the data is stored as XML?)

There's very sophisticated compression systems throughout each experiment's data acquisition pipelines. For example this paper[1] describes the ALICE experiment's system for Run3, involving FPGAs and GPUs to be able to handle 3.5TB/s from all the detectors. This one [2] outlines how HL-LHC & CMS use neural networks to fine tune compression algorithms on a per-detector basis.

Not to mention your standard data files are ROOT TFiles with TTrees which store arrays of compressed objects.

It's all pretty neat.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.03636

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.01683
When polls like these are run the numbers don't always wind up tilted in the favor of the bigger number. I wish I could provide a specific source but I've been listening to the 538 podcast for years and I know they've covered exactly this topic.

Your inability to believe a thing doesn't prevent it from being true.

I would grab a D20 and on a 16 or less I would say left otherwise I would say right. Some people would pick right just because they can. I imagine most people would pick left because it's the 80%. I imagine plenty of people would double and triple guess and waffle then say something.

Few people, even the dumbest among us, are easily modelable deterministic automata.
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I think you may want to clear the environment (e.g., of `SSH_AUTH_SOCK`) as well as isolate in a PID namespace as well. I also reflexively `--as-pid-1 --die-with-parent`.

bwrap --dev-bind / / --clearenv --tmpfs ~ --unshare-pid --as-pid-1 --die-with-parent ssh terminal.shop

(The `bwrap` manpage says “you are unlikely to use it directly from the commandline,” yet I use it like this all the time. If you do, too, then we should be friends!)
It's not like the kids at Ivys or Stanford are really smarter than a random STEM student at the University of Texas, Iowa State or Georgia Tech anyway, the difference is mostly just privilege or luck.

Did the kids parents live in the right school district or pay for the right private school? Did the kid play a sport well enough to play on the college team? Are they an underrepresented minority? Are they a legacy? Did they have adults in their lives that encouraged them to apply? That knew the secret do's and don'ts about how to write an essay or talk in an interview?

Admissions to elite schools is based on several dozen variables, among which "smart" or "hard working" are not weighted any higher than the others.

A student is probably not thriving at Stanford if they're actually "dumb", but the median computer science student at any of the schools I mentioned above could be swapped into a Stanford classroom and remain an average student.
In my experience McDonald's prices have gone up 50% and McDonald's wages have gone up 50% in the last 5 years. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I think the author was using the search_after strategy (or something roughly equivalent). They were using ‘cursor’ in the generic sense as a place in the list of documents, rather than the specific durable cursors api offered by elasticsearch
As your link shows, money that is spent on making a good freight rail system is mostly money that doesn't help with passenger traffic.

You claimed that there were "many" countries that had both good freight and passenger rail, but have yet to come up with one. (Sweden isn't an example - its "good freight" service (mines to ports) is where there's insignificant passenger service.)
Your assumption that only men in unhappy marriages cheat is unfounded.
How is having data more valuable than selling a physical hamburger? If the data engineering program of McDonald's was so encompassing as to engulf the entire Earth like a paperclip maximizer, creating the astronomical sized volume of data required for a data science that can do something or enable a scientist-operator to know something, then yes, the maximization of mobile app installations for a data farm should be done. But a company like McDonald's isn't taking over the planet, nor could it ever. It doesn't have the skills or the talent needed for a global viewpoint and operation. McDonald's is intermediate or marginal to intelligence, rather than having an adjacency which is close to super-intelligence.

So, are the modern corporations making a big mistake with their current information technology trends and goals?
The ability to do many things for free does not excuse the exploitation any time sales are involved.

You gloss over it as "making money off various sorts of in-app purchases", but roblox taxes a massive cut of transactions between users (more than half), on top of large upfront fees, and then pays out robux at 28-35% of what it costs to buy them.
We're going to agree to disagree. I see the usage of the term Apartheid is potentially antisemitic. This is because I consider it to be not true and therefore I consider it equivalent to other blood libels spread against Jews. To me this is masked antisemitism. I think there is more correct/factual terminology that can properly convey the problems on the ground (and there are many) without hyperbole and distortion and so when people choose to not do that I'm going to make assumptions about their motives.

Gaza is not starving is also I think the objective truth right now. There is a lot of food going into Gaza. The markets are full of food and the prices have gone down significantly. That can't ensure that everyone can get it, especially if it's stolen by armed gangs or resold for profit. But yes otherwise, life in Gaza right now is terrible. I don't see the protests showing us a path forward here.

Rafah is definitely a problem. It's a problem with two sides though. We have Hamas and Israel. What are the protests asking Hamas to do here?
They didn't pay for spectrum -- MVNOs (such as Mint) don't operate at that level.

MVNOs mostly just exist to re-sell existing services that are provided by existing cellular networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...
> Also, no blame here.

Oh don't worry, no offense taken. It's an interesting problem: dogfooding is definitely a good way to catch problems, but if your release is unstable enough to break machines, you can end up with a wide swath of the company being unproductive. The stability of the overall release wasn't one of my core responsibilities, so naturally I gave more priority to the things that were; I needed a release that worked so I could get my job done.

There might be some cultural solutions to that. For example, if the company expects that employees are dogfooding, perhaps testing out a beta in a specific timeframe, it could be culturally expected that devs might have broken machines during that timeframe. If was that taken into account in both the schedule as well as support paths, that would make things a bit easier. Honestly, though, even if that were the case, it would still be a hard sell for me. Quite simply: I don't like failing at my duties. I would need to be convinced that this was one of my duties, and I'm not sure how the company would pull that off. And that's ignoring other very practical concerns, such as the fact that a fair number of Canonical engineers only have one work machine. Having that machine down, depending on the definition of "down," can make it difficult to get support in the first place.
Philanthropy?
I wrote a document management system in VBA for Word for a law firm I worked for in the late 1990s. Created a unique filename for new documents, stored and retrieved, maintained an index of titles, etc. We replaced it a year later with a much better system, but it was a valuable stopgap for something we desperately needed.
I managed to get a 4090 hooked up on an Arch machine. It buzzes when the LLM is generating stuff. It isn't a straight forward thing, though, you still have to dig through the deps and get your versions just right. On top of that you need to get your versions from bottom-to-top correct for everything to work. Some versions of Cuda don't play nicely with some versions of the Python modules, so take care if you go this route.
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So when I discovered BASIC , it was less than 10 years old? Early 1970s.
> What is ironic about this?

It could be considered situational irony for a company reporting on industry data breaches to expect readers to disclose personal information as one would expect them to display sensitivity to unnecessary capture of precisely this kind of data.
I think that was exactly the point:

> I use this website as a way to ramp up my skills as well (hence why I chose to run it on a k8s cluster… to learn more about the beast, to my wallet expense).
If you're not Japanese, a lot of things will be a nightmare. Japan is incredibly racist and xenophobic.

It also has a criminal justice system that convicts everyone who ends up in court (being a Japanese judge seems to be easy street redefined) and prison conditions are terrible.

Oh, and if you're black, expect to be constantly followed/stopped by plainclothes police who will demand your identity card, while not identifying themselves.
Thanks. I'll take feature requests!

I added a compiled version targeting macos arm64 here, though it is not signed.

https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty/releases/tag/0.1.0

I'll see if I can get a brew version up.
GNOME devs are only paid to care about GNOME. It's been this way since 2014 when they started breaking Gtk3 applications by removing gsettings the community used but they did not.
But rubber does not damage concrete, it's the weight of the vehicle that damages the concrete.

As an extreme example, if I floor a 2000lb Miata when the light turns green that will deposit a ton of rubber on the road. But that does nothing compared to just driving through the intersection in a 6000lb suburban.
Would it really? Asking cause genuinely curious, literally the only online forum I can't remove my past public information from is HN.
:( given the KDE developers (and other devs) did spend a lot time to ensure the applications they create work not just in their personal favorite desktop environment, this is all rather unfortunate, as it is now like it is in a released distro...
#GitHub encouraged and exacerbated it.

Mostly this.
Haha, you’re welcome to change the code. I was more interested in the change in ratio rather than the raw numbers
No one is teaching kids how to handle ads. There's no class at every level of schooling devoted to how advertisers are manipulating you. The schools themselves are often directly responsible for shoving ads at children far too young to have any defenses against it. Meanwhile ad companies pay for experiments on children to learn how to most effectively influence them. Fun fact, children as young as three can recognize brands https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/even-3-year-old-k...
The evidence for this hypothesis is not great
While I'm not interested in this device either, you could make this argument for many standalone devices. Why does Nintendo keep selling their own devices rather than putting their games on phones and PCs? They think having it as a physical, distinct device offers something that a phone app doesn't, which is pretty on brand for them.

Now, whether or not the buyers will agree with their thinking is another story.
Lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have right to control their feeds
All with similar sounding names but vastly different purposes.
I can even see why they want that change, but even just keeping the old icons as compat would have been good enough, I just miss the issue why on doesn't do that directly after the issue is pointed out.
I feel fearful voicing my opinion IRL. I didn't realize I need to be hacked or knifed myself in order to "not be threatened". But sure, keep stealing my stuff, breaking into my friends' cars, beating my friend, beating up our elderly (SF doesn't care about Asians and that's a fact), illegal side shows and shooting a infant, and stealing from stores. And so on.

The consequence for these actions? These people who commit the crimes are let out ASAP and go back to committing more crime.

And if someone says something or God forbid reacts to stopping bad behavior as we have seen, mobs of these people show up and harass people who want to live in a good society.
Most people on HN didn’t live through the Volker years
Shouldn't be surprising with how hard everyone was pushing remote work.
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I think there's lots of ways they could tell if they really wanted to. One way is simply looking at the traffic. "Why are apps on your Android phone accessing Windows update servers?". I guess a VPN can solve that and the game continues.

Something interesting might happen next week. T-Mobile Home Internet is not supposed to be moved from the registered address but until now that has not been enforced. It's quite popular with RVers. They just announced a new "Away" plan for $160/mo that you are allowed to move compared to $60 for the normal home plan and, not surprisingly, it seems like they're about to start enforcing the geo-restriction on the home plan. This apparently uses GPS in the device. I hear that a lot of people are using the home internet SIMs in other devices with the IMEI set. This is because there are much better devices with external antenna ports etc. These might be in trouble if they don't respond to the GPS request.
> Ad-free societies can exist. Granted, the only one I've seen do it successfully was North Korea,

I don't think you could call North Korea ad free when it's wall to wall propaganda. Just because there's only one "product" allowed to advertise, that doesn't mean people aren't being constantly manipulated by advertising.
maybe its good thing, vpn is the security tool most people think

vpn are good to workaround censorship ,

but i agree with the opinion that they are not a great security tool
I used "in Anthropic's capabilities" intentionally: it's two steps up in what they can do from Claude Haiku
Oh, I thought this was an OSS remake Dune II. How sad... heh.