skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Not Competitors to the State
I emit less methane than a few years ago, since I changed my diet. No gluten and lactose.
Both are needed. But Currently there are no checks in place to prevent this 'mind-share' take-over, so to speak...
On the ascent, it's up very high on the car, slightly under the spoiler. It's got the washer fluid spout right above it, and is at the apex of the curve of the rear wiper, so any grime gets maximum detergent and wiping action. Since it's a tiny little patch, maybe a couple square inches, it's easy to keep clean, as opposed to the whole windshield

Interestingly enough, the actual "backup camera" is mounted lower than the rear view camera, down by the license plate. When you run the rear sprayer, it actually squirts a bit of fluid over the lense of that camera too. Still not as good a solution as Mercedes, who just hides the camera behind a flap when it's not in use, but better than nothing
Are we talking about the same business? Here in Seattle, there were cars all over the city, and you'd just hop into whichever one was nearest when you wanted to go run an errand. It was a completely different service from conventional, long-term car rental, aimed more at locals than at people coming in from out of town.

I suppose it is technically true that the cars were built by Mercedes, but they were the cute little two-seater Smartcars, not the big luxury machines.
> To someone who has become way too accustomed to the replaceability of everything via Amazon, the joy of repairability was really refreshing.

I'm so pleased when people discover this.

There's something deeply satisfying about repairing something instead of replacing it. Not for everyone, I'm sure, but for many. I know that for me, personally, repairing a thing makes it "mine" in a deep way that nothing else can do.
Many people don't care for it, and I made peace with that many moons ago; personally, I'm quite fond of what I'd call 'applications perl', which at least when I write it tends to be a mixture of OO and function composition type code with as much of the state as possible pushed to the outer edge (plus async for I/O if applicable), etc.

It barely feels like the same language as sysadmin scripts are written in, it just happens to share a compiler and a VM.

... and it doesn't exactly even share syntax since perl supports libraries defining their own keywords, e.g. while I won't be surprised if somebody makes it a feature of the VM eventually, our async/await is currently provided by https://metacpan.org/pod/Future::AsyncAwait and as you can see at https://metacpan.org/pod/Future::AsyncAwait#WITH-OTHER-MODUL... there's quite a few other useful ones out there.

Of course, many people complain vociferously about the idea that you have to use *libraries* to get syntax, but as somebody who still loves scheme I regard the ability to build the language up towards the problem to that extent to be a feature.

My first ever cpan release was making continuations pass back out to perl as a subroutine reference from Guile so I could write linear top level logic in scheme and use continuation capturing to sit that atop an event driven I/O stack - axisofeval.blogspot.com's lispx (https://github.com/lispx/lispx/) provides an fexpr based lisp that does similar for JS.

(trying to think of a good example of perl code of mine that shows an example of this is annoying me because I don't have any public code right now that's new enough for me to not have already decided I don't like it anymore ;)
Also common where I live in the Northeast. Beyond autograts you'll see things like a "kitchen appreciation fee" which is often in the 3-5% range. But in MA it's illegal for back of house staff to take part in tip pools, and that's the reason for it.
it's scary because our form of capitalism (growth capitalism) is not the right type of capitalism for that situation. And, policymakers don't seem to fully grasp that you need to prepare ahead for demographic shifts (for example, china deciding to try to goose population growth by substituting one-child for "please make the state three+ babies" as if that doesn't only help after at least two decades)
Why tonight's solar storm could disrupt communications and GPS systems
This is how the first chapter would start in a book where somebody builds a death ray in Antarctica.
Genetic Algorithms Library in PHP (Yes, PHP)
That kind of sounds like a lot of code bases I have worked in. Once you get some many people on a project things can get messy. Perhaps its a sign they have some DX and tech debt they should address.

As for why the latest version of c++? Personally I have found the dx improvements of some of them to be worth the upgrade. I really like constexpr and the build time errors it gives (opposed to runtime). The newer standards let you use constexpr in more places with more stl types.
While videoconferencing does take some resources, the fact of the matter is both zoom and teams are poorly written web apps packaged into “desktop applications” and that’s where most of the utilization is coming from
Why your team might be holding you back
I don't see it as all that hard to imagine secular pronatalism. You just need the non-parents to subsidise the parents. We saw several examples of this under communism.
Yet another solution that makes easy things easier, while making just about everything else significantly harder if not impossible. RBAC, monitoring, telemetry, merging data from multiple sources, migrating between data stores, database structure optimizations, caching... These are just of the top of my head of issues that this is likely to make harder, all to prevent writing some of the most simple code you can write.
Minor detail: The myriad megajoules of heat which any major DC has got to breathe out...were previously inhaled as electrical energy. And multi-megawatt electrical service is quite difficult to source in most extremely cold places.
Even for non-vim users this default is absolutely horrendous
An average iPhone user isn’t going to shoot a commercial so it doesn’t seem like a particularly interesting question.
The first is an option, but the second isn't if you choose not to do the first, because PostgREST is designed to handle this:

https://postgrest.org/en/v12/references/auth.html#jwt-impers...
They're so ubiquitous, and tiny, that they've started to see common use in the model rail community
It does make thinking people roll their eyes at the point however.
> How anyone could see a smaller attack surface as a bad thing on HN baffles the mind.

Because if it removes features many (perhaps even most) people use then that makes it less useful. And potentially insecure as people will stop using KeePassXC and replace it with "passw0rd123", because "I really need to get this done now, and not fuck about with KeePassXC not working". Is there even a message? Or any indication in the UI what's going on? I don't think there is.

Here's what should have happened if you really think that "keepassxc" package should install a minimal version: contact maintainers of KeePassXC, discuss best way to do this, maybe allow them some time to create better UX on this. Maybe create a PR or two. And then change your package. That Debian bug was 4 years old – it could have waited a month or two more.

You're also far too hung up on the word "plugin". That word has tons of meanings, and the original meaning of "something optional I can add (plug in) later on" doesn't really apply here.
If there's AGI, it would decide what to do, it wouldn't be commanded by someone. That's the definition of general intelligence, it can make decisions.
I'd say medieval icelanders did everything before industrial technology
I haven't had trouble in stores either though. I've noticed they like to eliminate on grass or grass-like stuff. It's actually hard to get my dog to go on concrete. Also if she gets sick in the house, it's always on the carpet and not on the hard flooring surfaces.
MOD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months
Also: Products version 15 are boring and the only way it generated awareness was through bad press, not features.
Likely so. Even so, I'm more curious than ever to know more about its chemistry.
Absolute security means you can't do anything. Too much security friction can easily lead to *much more insecure* workarounds.
What's the alternative to Debian / Ubuntu now that CentOS is gone?
Sony Pictures, Apollo Offer to Buy Paramount Global for $26B in Cash
Just use GhostBSD if you want an out-of-box desktop BSD (and it has a Live CD too)

https://ghostbsd.org/
I rarely run into a person that values their own life as high as 10 million dollars, unless they're quite wealthy.
That ad is the most cringy ad I've seen for a long time, which is a hard bar to clear. It makes me physically uneasy.

And if you analyze it, it says "no matter who or what you are, a giant corporation would crush you and put you inside a very small shiny metal box, and you better like it".
This (distemper outbreak) happened every handful of years where I grew up in the US, Illinois.

They'd ultimately be culled by the authorities. But before that you'd always see people gathering around, messing with them, letting children get too close. I was a municipal empliyee and had to keep people away from the wildlife. I was shocked to see so many people congregating around animals that were acting erratically.

I know folks *love* animals, but the wild ones in particular need to be given a wide birth. Don't feed them, don't attempt to pet them, leave them alone. It's in you and their best interest.
I would not bet against any company on the basis of people whinging on the internet unless it's about their actual product or service being bad at it's job. (e.g. Humane and Rabbit are probably doomed)

Consider that when talking about something measured in decades the examples that come to mind are things people said in the last few weeks. But what were people talking about a decade ago? Which of those things actually reflected the long term trajectory of the company?
Sephiroth!?
> In any case, it seems likely that we're on track to have both the computational ability and the actual neurological data needed to create an "uploaded intelligences" sometime over the next decade.

They don't even know how a single neuron works yet. There is complexity and computation at many scales and distributed throughout the neuron and other types of cells (e.g. astrocytes) and they are discovering more relentlessly.

They just recently (last few years) found that dendrites have local spiking and non-linear computation prior to forwarding the signal to the soma. They couldn't tell that was happening previously because the equipment couldn't detected the activity.

They discovered that astrocytes don't just have local calcium wave signaling (local=within the extensions of the cell), they also forward calcium waves to the soma which integrates that information just like a neuron soma does with electricity.

Single dendrites can detect patterns of synaptic activity and respond with calcium and electrical signaling (i.e. when synapse fires in a particular timing sequence, the a signal is forwarded to the soma).

It's really amazing how much computationally relevant complexity there is, and how much they keep adding to their knowledge each year. (I have a file of notes with about 2,000 lines of these types of interesting factoids I've been accumulating as I read).
I've been playing Fortnite almost every night for 5+ years because it is more interesting than doomscrolling on my phone!
Aren't they just deleted on the front end though?

I thought reddit keeps them still in the backend.
No, I don't really agree with any of your points, I think they're either incorrect or not relevant. And the rest of the content in the article beyond the headline is reporting, not making a value judgment, so I don't see how it's wrong.
The context is Zwick's show "Special Bulletin", which was a TV film done in the style of a breaking news story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Bulletin
Both of the people you mention are/were fairly obviously of high intelligence. A conservative lower bound would be the top 5%.

As intelligent as Jim Simons? Almost certainly not.
It was always that way, the user content has always been CC-licensed. And SO has suspended users for deleting/vandalizing their own posts for a long time.
Real “hunger” among the MBAs to replace all the actually skilled employees with low paid code monkeys so that mbas can make even more money.

That’s the MBA model of business: don’t create anything of value just try to extract as much of the existing value as possible while short changing anyone who actually does real work.
Can someone make a security related case for disabling autotype?
Things like GitHub's Secret Scanning will still be there to check...

And if a secret ends up on your personal branch, you can delete the Save or Checkpoint or Commit and it'll disappear; no "rewrite history". Deleting versions is a native, expected use case in Grace.

Git not being able to delete versions is a problem that's so bad that we've had to build massive systems (i.e. Secret Scanning) as a workaround. Grace, being built now, takes it for granted that versions need to disappear sometimes.

In Grace, saves and checkpoints and, like Git, branches themselves, are ephemeral, they're meant to be created and deleted. Saves and checkpoints will be deleted automatically, with repo-level timeout settings.
Yeah :)
I faced the word limit and dropped system "temporarily". Forgot about it almost instantly.
As a recovering christian I don’t “worship” anything, especially a god.
Farspeak
He published it w/o core package functionality. There are no plugins with KXC, that is one of their main arguments: don't rely on 3rd party code, bring it all inhouse, where it can be checked / maintained.
The growth in power of megacorporations has been coined a new type of feudalism, so dark ages might not be a bad description.
I don't quite buy that contrast. I agree as long as we are talking story. The developers will have a very difficult time trying to control what some character is like, and if that matters for the gameplay it's a big problem. On the gameplay front the available actions will always be a whitelist, because somebody has to implement them. It's essentially the same problem the crypto kids had with their "cross game non-fungible items", where they just assumed that items would somehow be portable. Just because you can get some NPC to tell you about a dragon in the nearby cave doesn't make that cave actually appear. You're never going to get to fight a darksouls boss in forza horizon. The game might tell you that you get to, that doesn't make it true.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications - By Martin Kleppmann

This book have all the knowledge one might need to understand distributed systems to a certain level. Many of the topics I refer from this book as and when I want to use those in real life applications. Recent one being 2 phase commits.
Well no, what the user is actually being given is a completely different application than the original one they downloaded, which is now increasing the maintenance burden upstream because THEY are they one getting all the bug reports because Debian decided to swap the packages out from underneath their users:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725#iss...

> This is now our fourth bug report because of the decision to neuter the base KeePassXC package in Debian
> If you have incompetent people in your IT / SWE department.

Same for every other deparment. Incompetent people won't hire competent people.

> Non-tech companies aren't going to be able to afford to pay a cost center.

Isn't that a mislabeling issue? If software being better implied more profit, then it's a profit center. If your legal department being good means fewer legal fumbles, then isn't it worth it? Same for software. Yeah you can deliver mediocre software and still retain users, but that just leaves you vulnerable to competitors.
That's not what I asked. I asked "How did you determine that it didn't make up/get information wrong for all 1.5m?"
I know it's actually hard to tell. There's definitely some CGI in there. But a lot of it looks pretty real too. But the issue with it was the destruction of all of the creative tools. So it's in some ways not quite as bad if it's not real.
Vinod Khosla's View on the Global Race in AI
It's a shame that browser developers have to implement enough of this API to entice people to use it, only for users to install extensions that simply disable it ;)
Debian can't be mininal these days, because it has the systemd behemoth. Try a minimalistic Devuan instead.
Not sure (well I am sure given the audience) why you’re getting downvotes… other than it’s a bitter pill for engineers to swallow that the creative arts industry which eng culture tries to simultaneously love/emulate/crush economically hates engineers and tech culture in return for this multi-decade attitude. Even in the face of “hey but I use XYZ tech for art, that’s not true!” that tend to pop up.

You are spot on, and the ad, and it’s humorous “wait they hate us?” counter-reaction/confusion in reaction to feedback about encapsulates it all well.
They probably figured it would be really strong imagery to see the items being physically crushed in a giant press. It definitely invokes feelings, but not good ones.
Those senators just trade on their own behalf because its not illegal to.

Why would they involve their spouse? If it was illegal for them to trade but their spouse made a trade it would be trivial for the SEC to trace it back to intel they learned.
I'm afraid I have no good answer; I rarely use battery power for more than about an hour at a time, during meetings.
I have a right for you to forget that it was me who signed that contract with you!
People also got answers to questions from other professionals that probably helped them personally financially and professionally in some way.
It’s a ton if you avoid things Poettering was involved in (anyone remember when Pulseaudio came out and its memory use when idle was insanely high? AFAIK that never got better, we just all got more memory; Systemd’s similar), don’t run a “modern” DE, and don’t use webapps.

That’s a lot of “ifs”, but that really should be quite a bit of memory.

In fact you can’t even really run Firefox or Chrome with a single light page on that, now. In one of the minimalist WebKit browsers, yes, but probably only 2-3 tabs and no webapps.
+1 for this book. It's a great way to understand what he did.
OceanHero – The search that saves the oceans
Classic "Someone should be offended", yet one one is.
No, because such returns aren't scalable.

According to industry rumors, RenTech is somewhere between $10-20bn AUM (assets under management, i.e. the capital used for trading), and the profit that they make, they can't reinvest, they have to take it out as profit.
GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs
Worry about what? I’m pointing out that it’s nice for tech to finally be honest about the view and get a deserving reaction in return after decades of self-congratulation.
The visual studio debugger is just leagues beyond the rest.
Thanks for putting this so well, I think that is the divide as well. I've struggled to express this idea without being too offensive to the "liability" camp but i think you've made it more clear and less emotionally charged
The debugger.
Hijacked seems like a strong word for a 404 page. I was expecting a crypto scam or gift voucher directory.
The thing is that he genuinely loved math. I don't think there's really anyone in his orbit who loves math as much. His family is his family and his colleagues love money.

We'll see in the coming months and years whether he was able to create a structure that continues his legacy but usually the answer to that question is no.
It does make "C with classes" sound pretty appealing.

Well, maybe also with some very limited template facilities.

Shoot... Did I just describe Ada95 somewhat?
This article largely ignores the fact that there are common data center designs that use closed-loop cooling, and consume no more water on a daily basis than a barber shop.

It's not even hard to build them that way.
They should not alter basic functionality. Their sole job is to make the software work on their platform.

I would be pissed if a FreeBSD package was some non-standard configuration.
An ironic way to say “Our devices are good. Put them down and go and play outside before the world around you disintegrates while you were distracted.”
A shrinking population is fine, this planet has its limits.

A rapidly shrinking population is not ideal.
I have now read this comment three times and still don’t know what it is about.
Isn't Antarctica melting already? We need to slow down damn it.
Begging the question. Obviously, some geopolitical issues are subject to trade agreements and legislation.

While "American Imperialism" is an intangible concept, pollution very much is not. What can and cannot be made for an argument depends mostly on economic/geopolitical leverage, not faulty categorical thinking.

With less adversarial framing, you could think of it as finding common ground for an intermingled future.
But they already had a choice, since the removed options were disabled by default.

This really just breaks core functionality that exists and is expected by real users, under the guise of unnamed security risks...theres plenty of disabled options in Linux that are "potential" risks, so its a silly choice.
You are trying to get a working piano. This ad only required a non working piano.

Someone bought me a broken piano once thinking I would be able to repair it. We ended up letting someone else have it for free. It wasn’t expensive to begin with because it didn’t work.
Discuss: Interoperability of ecosystems within a single runtime environment
What would it take to create a runtime that bridges programming language ecosystems? A runtime that lets us import libraries from any language and use them idiomatically (as much as possible) with a straight forward DX? (check out the url for a simple example)
What EA is asking for is the ability to cut even more corners in their game development pipelines so that they can release a higher volume of unfinished titles, all of which require months of patches to be applied before any of them are reasonably playable.

Sounds great!
There is a delete button for unanswered questions. As soon as someone else has put in effort and, the combined result is no longer yours to delete.
And although it's not Firefox, the Orion browser from Kagi supports Chrome and Firefox add-ons on iOS.
Petty much yeah. Agreed on historical anime/manga generally being higher quality by default. The research required tends to filter hack authors.

Have you read Magus of the Library?
You think maybe there could be a pretty large spectrum of solutions between stopping population growth and massive forced breeding factories?
My parents own a small independent grocery store. My family ate a ton of "expired" food when I was growing-up because it made good economic sense. What you say is absolutely what we did-- throw out the items that really are bad (meat being the primary offender), cut off the bad parts of partially-rotten food, and eat the rest.

Food waste is really, really offensive to me. I probably take it a little too personally and too seriously. (Wasting meat is particularly galling to me, what w/ the likely terrible life the animal had making its way to your table.)
No free lunch: is a science of the stock market possible?
it was 62% per year for 33 years.
There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is s*t.

- Ernest Hemingway
I believe it bas to do more with vehicular speed than business. At low speeds, engine noise dominates; on a freeway, it’s the tyres.
An Update on How Cybercriminals Are Using GenAI