skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does an authority always inspects everyone's fingers to make sure nobody is wearing a gelatin pad, or is it a facility which has a rather expensive machine that does a lot of extra anti-spoofing tests?

In general, the common situations some people wish they could use biometrics--like a grocery store payment--are also ones where it won't actually be that secure. After someone goes on a shopping-spree with your stolen fingerprint, you can't really change it.
Please show a playthrough of the Okuplok WAD.
Last commit is three years ago
The prospective customer copies their data to Snowflake so Snowflake can demonstrate their awesomeness with the customer data.
A journalist is never supposed to report something they got from a single source with words like "it was considered". They're generally not supposed to report soemthing they got from a single source at all. But if they do, it should be "so-and-so believed it was purely ceremonial" or "we've spoken with one professor who believed it was purely ceremonial".

But the job of journalists is to do the research. That's the whole purpose of good journalism: ask around, build some context on a story, then report it. Don't just tell me what one guy believed, I can find that out on my own. Tell me if others with context also believe the same: that's the part I don't have time for.
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On iPhone, keys and transit cards that integrate with the system level Key and Express Transit systems work when out of battery as long as your phone isn’t intentionally shut down by you beforehand.

I’ve boarded trains and bought items in Japan with a “completely dead” iPhone using the power reserve feature where Express Transit cards remain available. It actually works really well, and means I don’t have much fear using my phone for those things in Japan.

Granted, ID cards aren’t like this, but there’s no reason why a system couldn’t be added for them.
> Unfortunately, however, launch within 2023 became unfeasible, and without clear schedule
certainty in the near-term, it is with a heavy heart that Maezawa made the unavoidable
decision to cancel the project.

I forgot this was to launch in 2023. Who had any confidence in that launch window, I though it was at last a 10 year plan, so another 5 years.

That's a long time for sure, but did anyone really believe a 2023 launch, of Starship around the moon, with people on board no less?
There are a couple, but the ecosystem is so fragmented that nothing gains a majority of mindshare.
A (lossy) fix for the bad OCR giving glitched PCM data would be to do a median sliding window filter. Not 100% accurate, but it would probably be good enough...
Can you not combine effects into unions and/or intersections resulting in more abstract effects?
Most skilled staff will not be returning to the office, and do not require micromanagement.

Yet we did just fire one guy for claiming he was still active on a project that was put into maintenance mode 6 months ago. Some people are not mature enough to handle managing their own time.

Personally, the office space was a cost only second to labor, and people would have to be epically unproductive to offset the operational savings. =)
My favorite tool for this is Balsamiq Wireframes: https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/

Having to write code loses the point of quick and dirty.
I use it almost every day.
Mine started in a different city about 520km away. And I wasn't incognito. Probably a lot more to do with your country, your ISP or coincidence than anything else.
As a Laravel dev for my main and side gigs, who also had to use React, Next, GraphQL and a whole bunch of other JS tools I can safely say nothing comes close to the full Laravel stack.

It's certainly been mentioned a million times before here but the JS ecosystem is just a shitshow. It's certainly capable, but so f*cking complicated.

Just on the page linked here there's yet another three tools I hadn't heard of before (Redwood, Blitz, Adonis) + mentions of Prisma for DB access and stuff built on Next, which is built on React. And then there's Typescript.

When is this insanity going to stop.
there is a screen and speaker :) mobiles have mic and cam.. and we can write a C or any oldschool that can transfer data to screen or speaker :) noisy ! no need to physically serial floppy disk things
The article claims this is the sole armor we have ever found, and that there are also no depictions of armor, while there are numerous depictions of weapons, helmets, etc. So the thought wasn't "Mycaeneans smithed bronze armor for ceremonial purposes", it was "this one guy had a ceremonial suit of armor smithed for him". Turns out this is likely wrong as well, but it's not absurd on the face of it.
I say no by default to companies asking too much information all the time, here in NZ companies seem particularly bad at asking for this info, and it's become so normalized that I always get weird looks when I say no, which annoys me even more.

Why does my barber need my email address and phone number to cut my hair? Why does the supermarket ask for my address when I'm just trying to buy a bottle of milk? When I buy trousers it's sign up for the membership plan and fill out all these personal details.

No, No, No. I'm not putting all of my details in your crappy insecure database - and yes, I know it's for "marketing" purposes, I dont want your spam either. It's infuriating.
Does MS plan to have such feature in their future versions of Windows?
Helldivers 2 has caused over 20k Steam accounts to be banned
> From my point of view, a regulated Tiktok would have been preferable.

A regulated TikTok is a controlled media, but there can easily be controls that aren't part of the visible regulatory structure.
You prefer Azure? Things on Azure don't work by default.
I struggled with bouts of insomnia, not quite as bad as author. I found taking sea kelp / Iodine has cured it, its a remarkable change, I feel tired after 20mins in bed and fall asleep, and I wake with the sun and don't feel tired when waking.
The Thyroid is the Master hormone.
- Superconductors are lossy with AC signals, is this loss not a big problem?

In this logic style, data are represented with fluxons. One fluxon is the quantum unit of flux. You can't have "half a fluxon" in a superconducting loop. In that sense it's actually "more digital than" anything in commercial CMOS chips. The circuit can still malfunction of course -- the failure mode looks like a fluxon failing to move from one logic stage to the next.

The real worry is that cryocooler though. Cryocoolers that can do liquid helium temperatures have efficiency ratings around 1%, so that 500kW shoebox is going to need an entire cooling tower attached to its refrigerator.
Looking at the problems Linux Mint is trying to solve with libadwaita apps, maybe KDE should build more general apps, compatible with any DE, not only KDE?
What do you mean until recently? The ATMs where I am still have limited business hours.
I asked the AI and it agrees with me on everything. Therefore I am so right.
That is a great observation

I can think of states of cycles “mediated” (or alternated), by “unknowns”

For example, if I have a cycle that produces 1,0,1,0,1,0… I could say there is an unknown between 0 and 1 that flips between the two, but it’s something different than 0 or 1 (like an operation/action)

To me, it seems like the universe is an “unknowably” large/complex fractal of recursive cycles

Or in other words, turtles all the way down

Actually, it’s more like superimposed (rather than recursive or going in any direction)

Recursion needs to have a base case to terminate. But the basic cycle of the universe doesn’t seem to terminate (although it’s also technically unknowable for my limited finite perception in time, which it seems certain will terminate at some point)
I was under impression that the grid operators would have more leverage over power plants when it came to setting prices, after all, if you cannot send your output t the customers, you are sort of stuck with it.
Just as pedantry (for a kind of algebraic topology of lists?), there's a short exact sequence here:

0 ↪ todolist ↪ checklist ↠ list ↠ 0
f g

`f` takes the active items of a todolist and decorates them as undone [ ] items, yielding a checklist

`g` takes a checklist and forgets entire undone [ ] items as well as the [x] of the done items, yielding a list

Exercise: does it split?
Can your grandmother set up any other computer?

What is a computer nowadays anyway? It's just a web browser for most people.

EDIT: A colleague of mine had his grandmother on Linux back in 2010. He remote connected to update it and keep things in order. He said it was the easiest to maintain.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-equity/income-ba...
In grad school I extrapolated the charts showing joules per bit of computation, looked at where it intersected the landauer limit compared to my own lifespan, and immediately lost interest in adiabatic computation. No regrets yet.
I don't agree with much of this but it's timely: https://zenstack.dev/blog/js-fullstack
Yes. But put differently "if you earn less you pay less." It depends one what you call the "normal" price.
> Before finalizing their design, Rubin and Hansen spent two years observing and interviewing…

I wish we could have this much attention to detail more often for software projects.
AI voice + video generation is a really cool (probably in a Marshall Mcluhan sense too) and natural extension of the 24/7 CNN type media/news distribution but amongst other things it lacks a major thing that the printed word has -- immutability.

A newspaper is distinct from the radio / nightly news / 24/7 news network type journalism and that key distinction is that once it's in your hands it's yours until you give it up. It's that piece of the past that you can hold in your hands to let you know that the things that you remember actually happened in the way they happened.

There's something magical about these artifacts, the ones you can hold in your hands, look at with your eyes, smell with your noses, and hear with your ears, it's a physical thing that exists irrespective of the whims of some tin-pot dictator. Possessing this kind of artifact gives the bearer some sort of power -- an ability to resist those tin-pot dictators -- and that's why certain kinds of people want to burn them or trick people into stuffing them into a memory hole.

I wonder what we lose forever if we don't have these sort of physical and immutable mediums for communicating ideas, and I hope we can find a way to maintain them. I acknowledge that it may not be feasible to do so on a large scale, but I hope that we can find a way to keep them alive in some local form.
I find it really difficult to take this sort of stuff seriously.

I drink at least one pint of milk per day and eat mostly red meat, chicken, green vegetables and pasta/rice/bread. I work out and this diet provides the proteins and fats I need to grow and repair. I feel the best I ever have done and I'm pretty sure that I'm fitter than most of my peer group.

The idea seems to be that I should stop doing this and replace it with a bunch of processed stuff.

It just seems obvious from first principles to me that the motivation behind this messaging isn't to improve my health, but to increase the efficiency of feeding a large population.

There are so many areas in life in which I feel this sort of manipulation now and it's getting tiring to constantly feel as if my rational choices are pitting me against others. I don't want to continuously argue with my friends about basic lifestyle choices, I wish everyone could just chill the fuck out.
Just get anything Intel-based and install debian yourself (AMD stuff should probably be fine too, but I'm not sure if newer (i)GPUs are all fully supported, and Intel seems to have cornered the compact PC market). HW support is extremely broad these days.
4-5kW to extract how many picowatts of heat from the system?

You can't quote a number for the cryocooler without knowing how much heat is being injected into the thing it needs to keep below 4.2K.
The book is no more. It has been taken down, and I cannot find it anywhere.

Could you kindly email it to me? I will be grateful.
The book is no more. It has been taken down, and I cannot find it anywhere.

Could anyone kindly email it to me? I will be grateful.
I wish more designers used these, precisely because it blocks them from prematurely adding too much detail.

When they start doing things like exact-padding and font-size and whatnot, it either (A) front-loads implementation into the development process when the UX hasn't really been tested or at least (B) making developers spend time guessing how precisely the beta needs to look like the design.
'BlackBerry' breaks Canadian Screen Awards record
You're limiting yourself a lot by expecting Debian preinstalled. If you're going to deploy homebridge / ha on it, you really should be able to install the whole system yourself. I don't expect you'll find anything preinstalled really and I wouldn't trust them without wiping anyway.

For the hardware itself, check for office mini PCs on eBay. Optiplex or thinkcentre are common ones that get sold cheap after 4-5 years. NUCs are fun, but usually more expensive.
I don't think incompetence is quite the right word. A compelling hypothesis is that a lot of the overall technology adoption curve is driven by lopsided age demographic, where Japanese have a high % of people over 40. Gen X and older are not digital natives. Digital UI/UX and internet services are generally behind the times in Japan, but physical appliances and devices are cutting edge.
> How many holes does the universe have?

Well, there's Bakersfield CA, that's definitely one to start with. And a goodly part of New Jersey too.
On the old web
Huh, that's odd. Since when do they go back and check older generations?
Funny how they are so evasive about such a critical distinction.
Black Hole, Why Don't You Come Over? White Dwarf Supernova
> but you cannot get around the problem of having to trust someone.

You still don't get it...

At the end of the day, I don't have to trust anyone with an OS that I fully control, with hardware that I fully control, because I can verify every bit of hardware, every bit of software, even stop the kernel from doing things if I want to (yes its possible, technically).

Sure, I can place some temporary trust in some components, but it doesn't matter really, because I can always swap/disable/remove audit/reaudit any component. You can choose to trust, as much or as little as you want. I don't have to use the kernel at all if I don't want to, I could swap in another one and still be good to go (more or less).

This is different from the case here, where by default, not of my choosing, actively and persistently nearly every aspect of a Windows computer is obfuscated, un-auditable, actively and without consent doing things that are not operating system things but spyware, bloatware, crapware, or just straight up malware. You can wave your hands around as much as you like waffling about "trusting someone" but there is a big big difference between someone acting reasonably, and choosing to allow them into your home, and "trusting" someone with a knife to your back not to shiv you.

One is reasonable, a choice, and low risk, the other is clearly none of those things. You don't have to "trust" low risk situations, they are just low risk, no trust involved.
Sometimes you don’t know where things will end up, so you should repeat yourself with the expectation things will diverge as complexity creeps in. If the system reaches stability and there’s duplication at that point, you can hunt it down by identifying common concepts.

Pretending to know from the start where things will end up is silly and leads to very abstract abstractions.
You see it a lot in movies, and that belief from movies gets in the popular conscience. Plate armor in most movies gets penetrated by light slashes and masses of plate wearing soldiers are easily beaten by the lightly armored hero. My friend who often wore armor on subways always had drunk people come up to him and try to play pranks like pushing him etc thinking he would fall due to impractical armor etc, but armor makes it easier to stand your ground.

So it is like physics, there is widespread belief in Aristotelean physics but you wont see anyone talk about believing it online, even though we know from surveys that there is a significant fraction who do.
Fingerprints are real easy to forge with super glue, a digital camera with telephoto lens, a printer, and elmer's glue (1)

1. https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2014/ursel
From the article:

> there is a glass bridge to a warmer area, a balmy 77 K that hosts the DRAM. The DRAM technology is not superconducting,

There is a lot of not-superconducting circuitry in that shoebox; without it you wouldn't have enough memory to do anything that qualifies as "AI".

The reasonable conclusion is that the power figure covers only the components they have described. Note that the article fails to mention the word "cryocooler" even once.

I know of other research groups (not IMEC) who are pretty shameless about excluding cryocooler power and cost from all of their press-release/popsci materials. It's considered acceptable in this field.
I'd recommend taking a look at Guix as a kind of alternative implementation of the idea of Nix. It has its own usability issues, especially surrounding nonfree software and a much smaller community, but it addresses some of the issues you comment on.
Could be big, depending on how much room you give to /. All my Linux life, I have allocated about 50GB to the root partition and it's been adequate, leaving enough room for my data (on a 512GB drive). Now I install one flatpak and I start getting low disk space warnings.
This post is from 2020. As of Oct 2023, they had over 3,300 employees according to this press release[0].

> Cloudflare has more than 3,300 team members globally

In Mar 2020, they had 1,200 employees[1]

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/pt-br/press-releases/2023/cloudfl...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-keeps-employees-p...
Could you show your math? This is driving me crazy because I get:

48 x 40 x $70 = $138,240

Which is far from $200k. How are you computing?
You just file in the country you were hired in and illegally work on tourism visas in the others.
DearMoon: Notice of Project Cancellation
Counter point: my basic old crank and go Frigidaire is still a workhorse with modern soap. I use barely any of the powdered stuff probably a lot less than is in a pod, and it still works. I’m wondering now just how little soap I can get away with to be honest.
for some reason in this culture, people think that working in an office, having a degree, living in a big metro area, etc makes them "elite". nobody ever called these people "elite" except themselves
Niche print zines and magazines seem to be surviving. Not sure about newspapers. They literally could not give Evening Standard away for free (it was paid for by advertising).
How can we prepare for such a future? And secondly, the most important thing in software is not the actual writing of code, but making sure that it solves the business problems, makes the right trade offs, is maintainable, testable and bug free. 90% of the time is not being spent writing code.

Yes. LLM can write some pieces of code. Yes, software can write some code. But can it maintain a million line codebase, can it prioritize issues, can it commit to timelines, can it talk to other people to resolve the ambiguities, can it make the trade offs, can it push to production, can it debug in production?

None of this actually involves writing code. At best, LLMs can take out interns and SDE1s but not more than that (think aechitects, staff plus roles)
G2GGOAL แหล่งรวมเกมสล็อตออนไลน์จากค่ายดังมากมาย เต็มไปด้วยเกมสล็อตยอดนิยม เล่นง่าย แตกดี พร้อมมอบประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ที่เหนือระดับ พบกับนวัตกรรมและฟีเจอร์ใหม่ ๆ โปรโมชั่นและโบนัสสุดคุ้ม เล่นสล็อตได้ทุกที่ทุกเวลา G2GGOAL เปิดให้บริการ 24 ชั่วโมง สมัครสมาชิกง่าย ๆ G2GGOAL เว็บสล็อตที่แจกหนักแจกจริง จ่ายเงินรางวัลเต็มจำนวน เลือกเล่นสล็อตกับ G2GGOAL เว็บสล็อตแตกดีที่สุดมั่นใจได้ว่าปลอดภัย เล่นง่าย จ่ายจริง
A couple of weeks ago I subscribed to a newspaper, and opted for print delivery. (delivered digital every day, of which 4 days are also print).

Wow, do I enjoy it, for all the reasons you mentioned. Just the act of folding the page means a natural break to look around, contributing to the "more present" feeling.

Plus, if I take a break from coding I get to stop looking at a screen. And it's a lot easier to recover where I was, since the text has a connection to a physical location.

My spouse also reads it, and sometimes writes commentary to share with me when I read it later.
Largely enterprise spend. Startups are a different market segment. They initially have small budgets, and eventually fail or grow large enough to move to different products.
Early in my design career, I ran a user test of a lo-fi prototype with some members of a customer success team, the visual presentation intended to convey the mutability of what we were presenting. I got a comment that “the sketch look was really nice” and since then have never relied on that as a signifier of where a concept was in the design process.
> Candidly I would grant for many of them skipping school makes more sense than getting a degree that amounts to under water basket weaving when it comes to job prospects.

If you have a degree and give people this advice then you're probably not a good person
> The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector. Adapting it didn't seem straightforward[...]

I suppose the author hasn't heard of eBay. The adapter is $15.

> The laptop has an AppleTalk port and a phone jack... but no networking software installed.

The author may have some search engine problems if they can't figure out that Macs have had networking software built in for ages, and that a PowerBook is too new to run any Mac OS that doesn't have networking :P

Transferring data via FAX is cool and job well done, but the other things really don't fit with a clever solution.
Call Your Local Wizard
Long term Linux (mint) user here. As you say, Linux came a long way and for me it's perfect.

I'm thinking about switching to Mac. Not because of the software, but because of the hardware. A few years ago I got a MacBook from work, and that hardware just blows away everything else on the market:

- Awesome battery life

- Awesome sound: doesn't sound like any other crappy laptop speaker

- Awesome touchpad: I now don't take a mouse with me because this thing is so good

I didn't find any laptop that comes even close to this.

Last time I brought this up, people suggested things like "Just use a headphone". Sorry I don't want to use headphones when I can use the speakers.

So please, if anyone knows hardware that comes close to a MacBook, please let me know.
Use Levels, but change the location to the other big cities in California. The LA number is ~$80k lower than the SF number, while the Fresno average is $120k. The SF area is a wild outlier even in big California metros.
They are a great shield from the rest of the people on the Tube. I think of them as portable private spaces for crowded environments. Oh, and you can read them. Also great for wrapping fish and chips in.
I should have been more clear, I meant specifically getting Humans to the Moon is looking much more difficult than SpaceX initially believed. In orbit refueling will require incredible vehicle performance, launch cadence and vehicle manufacturing. All things SpaceX can surely achieve in time. I speculate that in 2017 when the dearMoon deal was struck Elon had a much different ConOps in mind for this mission.