skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not technically a bug, but a "political compromise" by a self-professed "not a technical manager" who had aversion to including version numbers in API endpoints. He asked us to come up with a way of enabling tests of a new feature in the API (new response payload schema). We submitted two proposals, one with v1/v2 endpoints returning payloads using old and new schema, or a URL param ?v=1 or ?v-2... He was not happy and asked one of the senior technical architects of the project to weight in and the guy said we should use the URL param. That was not good enough and we were told to go away and wait for a decision. Three months later we were told to implement a new cron job to deploy v2 into the integration test environment. Another cron job would then deploy v1 into that environment two hours after deploying v2. Yes, you read that right, v2 would be available for two hours per week, because a non-technical manager would not trust software devs to do the right thing for their colleagues testing their implementations of the API. I learned recently that almost a decade later those cron jobs are still there. If your tests are only working on day X of the week within a two-hour window, that's why. Sorry, cannot name names due to NDA.
it might, it probably isn't. Unless you only have a hammer.
> Has anywhere emulated this though?

London and Paris for example: [1], [2].

> Effort matters too

Nothing except for safety and distance matters actually. Every other factor is minor. You just need to make cycling appear safe to the average person living in a city.

The solution to that is obvious once you realize cars are the source of the unsafety.

[1]: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/cycling-action-plan.pdf

[2]: https://momentummag.com/paris-cycling-numbers-double/
In the US, "commercial use" specifically--as in marketing, advertising, etc.--typically requires a model release from of a person (and stock agencies tend to err on the side of caution in this regard). As I understand it, it's basically a right not to have your image commercially exploited.

As I also understand it though, it doesn't keep me from making money as a fine art poster or selling it to a newspaper for editorial use. Obviously there are gray areas. But it's not copyright. As the photographer I hold the copyright in any case.
Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq
I think the bigger joke is not facing for how you'll get electricity in the future, or how much it will cost. About 80% of electricity in the US is produced with fossil fuels. And this demand is expected to skyrocket with AI and EV demand. There will be no carbon reduction with EVs, at least for probably a hundred years (if ever) because of how much infrastructure has to be replaced and upgraded to support the dream of zero carbon. We're talking about hundreds of nuclear power plants, distribution hubs, upgraded roads and parking structures, not to mention replacing all the cars with much heavier and resource-intensive EVs. Heavy equipment and trucks won't make sense to convert to EVs, notwithstanding some huge battery breakthroughs that we don't foresee.

I do think oil scarcity could be a major problem, but if that starts to happen in our lifetimes then electric vehicles won't need to be mandated. They will be the more economical choice naturally at some point.
That's fair! This is intended to be a game more in the style of crosswords and Sudoku than Wordle.
Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wires Up Mesh Shader Queries
There were no relevant code changes. The important diff here was 40% worse input data vs pre-40% worse input data.
I'll add that swap is required for certain sleep modes (hibernate) so there are reasons to use it. I typically create a swap partition that's 1.2x system RAM on laptops for this reason, but don't for desktops (which also usually have more system RAM).
I remember that post, thanks for sharing!

Probably half of my posts that hit the front page got there via the second chance pool. It feels like dang is single-handedly turning back the tides of the internet by hand-picking links.
Why doctors are ignorant and dismissive of the gut-brain relationship Essays
Would this not also include filming people committing violence and crime? Police? Politicians? It's kind of impossible to draw the line between "illegal photography" and legitimate citizen journalism.
wow, sign of the times. iirc, these were usually reliable engines/vehicles
Not sure why the article was flagged, maybe because it is Australia specific ?

Anyway I think it does apply to the world as a whole and I think at this point we either have a controlled fall of living standards or an uncontrolled fall. Our choice. If governments started working on this 50 years ago as US Pres Carter wanted to, we would not be here.

In the US a vote one way will pretty much guarantee an uncontrolled fall. A vote the other way, maybe something will be done, but current evidence point against that.

The quickest way in the US to reduce CO2 is stop subsidizing the Oil Industry and allow Auto Fuel prices to double or triple. But as we see, the party that says it will do the right thing is doing all it can to keep prices low.

Right now, like the scientists said, the future ls looking very bad right now.
EU court rules in favour of Supermac's in 'Big Mac' trademark row with McDonalds
If you have say a 1Mpixel image which has been rectified, then a human will generally say that it looks correct if the calibration errors are less than 10 pixels. Perhaps as little as 5 if they know what they should look for and are careful. Most camera calibrations are this bad and no one notices. If showing a person the image rectified is the goal thats good enough. But, if you want to do post processing of any kind...

Sfm tests the calibration to the extreme and even single pixel calibration error will be highlighted as correlated reprojection error vector in most images. And that is assuming the bad calibration does not cause the system to fail outright. There is also the inbetween case where the system is only able to use small parts of the image.

The distortion field often visibly tells you if the estimation failed. It should be smooth, and monotonic, and you can draw it not just for where there are pixels but further and in higher resolution, and for regular lenses almost always highly symmetric. Looking at the distortion field you can see alot of problems that you could not otherwise. The most common problem is the monotonicity, since that constraint is very difficult to add to general optimizers. Since this means the distortion goes backwards, they are visible as sharp edges in the distortion field.
I am so happy to have migrated everything from Google Cloud
Well, yes, unnecessary complexity is unnecessary by definition. The argument is over which complexity is unnecessary.
Espionage/propaganda/public relations/influence campaigns are hardly new. Social media is just a new flavor to go along with the others.
Don't care about them one way or the other (not my sort of music).

Everyone I've met that's met him, says Chad is an a class prick, for context I live in southern Alberta.
Thank you! Sounds like iceberg is the best then. I'm very allergic to lock-in. Currently we're very Spark heavy and our query engine is AWS Redshift Serverless. The recent AWS Glue Catalog support for Iceberg seems to make this promising.
There really isn't savings on maintenance, all the cost is frontloaded and backloaded. It costs almost as much as the car itself to replace the batteries at the end of their life and EVs are pretty much universally more expensive to purchase in the first place for this same reason.

Also Europe has more expensive petrol prices than the US in general, that calculation is aggressively region-dependent.

The real kicker is GP is correct, mostly. You don't have to do much for optimization for the day-to-day operating costs to be less, but you do have to generally be wealthy enough to own your own home with a garage to install a charger in (or be super lucky and have one at an apartment, which is quite uncommon still).
When our distant ancestors first started using fire as a technology, they would have initially been using naturally occurring fire, probably from lightning strikes (unless the tribe lived near an active volcano).

The opportunity to harvest natural fire from lightning doesn't occur very often, so it was necessary to maintain an eternal fire. This was a very important job, passed down from one generation to the next, so of course it would become ritualized, and stories and myths about the importance of the job would be created. Myths and rituals are how you conserve and propagate culture in a pre-literate society. Actually, the first tribe to do this was probably before the invention of modern language, so who knows what this would have actually looked like. Are there myths in a pre-oral culture? There are other modalities of thought and communication other than modern oral language, so maybe!

We know from the archeological record that the rate of tech progress in stone tools was extremely, almost incomprehensibly slow during the earliest stone ages. Likewise, it's probable that many long generations passed from the creation of firekeeping rituals (the eternal fire) to the discovery of techniques for making fire on demand.

My guess is that the eternal fire has ancient roots, was strongly culturally conserved, and re-invented multiple times.
> ...Timeline is the only time I've seen a full accounting of my location in the cloud.

Yes, that _you've_ seen. I think the person you're replying to is referring to use cases of your location data that you don't see.
The really rich people all have jet planes which burn jet fuel (no lead.) It's the upper middle class that have lead burning piston prop planes. Dentists and doctors, not billionaires.

Anyway, unleaded fuel is now approved for those planes so the transition should be pretty quick now.
My understanding is that they get a lot of demands from law enforcement for this data, so they would rather not have it.
Anyone here work for Google in a capacity that can explain why they remove features that are oft used and that people love?

Things like Reader, location-based reminders ("remind me when I get home to..."), controlling my oven via the Assistant, Fitbit with Google workspace accounts, and now Maps timeline.

Like... I will just find replacements for all those and further myself even more from the Google ecosystem. What benefits does Google get out of killing these popular features?
I understand the Mac builds, but the entire appeal of GitHub runners is it's literally built in. I can just add a YAML file, and we have CICD!
The relatively exotic Cortex ARM, along with reliability, challenges with USB & microSD, and (at least here in AU) cost & availability challenges for the 'larger' boards, really put me off heading too eagerly down the Pi path.

A few weeks ago I picked up an ex-enterprise server with 256GB ECC RAM, 24/48 Xeon cores, and a handful of disks - for AUD$1000 (~ 600 USD)

Yes, it's a noisy box, and yes 2.5" SAS disks are expensive & small - so you want storage separately - but the same applies to a RPi or NUC based lab.

It draws about 100W while idle (and in a home lab environment it takes some effort to make it sweat)

Proxmox installed and runs like a dream.

I'm sticking with Nomad over k8s (or variants) for container orchestrator across several Debian VM's in the one box -- so I'm effectively relying on ECC, dual-PSUs, and hardware RAID5 for my ersatz HA.
Thanks I understand and agree. I suppose I read the other as well but it wasn't as clear.
GP's talking about Fargate, which is their "serverless" container runtime offering.
Fair enough, it is very hard to be worse than opencv in terms of user friendlyness, so even if it did nothing more than improve that, its better.
But if phone is lost the sound actually can help you to find it.
This is the older article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686016
The hidden spaces on planes that are off limits to passengers
Furthermore, RCTs just identify the substances that have positive effect on the largest subgroup of the studied group (which 'coincidently' is what the Pharma Mafia is most interested in). But we are all individuals, differing in genetic, epigenetic, foreign organisms, metabolism. The near only value the RCTs have to an individuum is to determine the substance(s) which most probably have an effect.
Hadn't seen that one before. Imagine trying to troubleshoot that "can't print" bug with someone the next day. I guess once you had somehow narrowed it down to Tues it would be reproducible.
Or what about, delete it after 10 days it was last accessed (regardless of whether for read or write)? Hint: that's already how tmpfiles.d works
I built an open-source Eventbrite alternative
If you’re looking for a rigorous mathematical idea, what people are trying to measure is the Kolmogorov complexity of the code. Measuring the compressed length is a rough estimate of that value.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
could easily have been sharks and little teeny weenie crabs too
"Silent" to one person can be annoyingly noticeable to another person. You often see this kind of back and forth in discussions of fan-having devices.
Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
Curious to know how you think it's possible that Chinese people are able to speak with each other if you think writing their language phonetically would render it incomprehensible.
Trojan Embedded in Crytic-Compilers Python Package Targets Blockchain Utility
Everyone keeps thinking current GPT models will improve to be superhuman, it won't. It's trained on human data.
Much like alpha-go had to drop completely the concept of learning from human plays since it was stuck at a local minimum. Once they started to train with adversarial networks, it evolved a well above the previous local minimum (with an extra order of magnitude of computation).
So, don't expect much more from the current generation of AI.
I know.

Let me rephrase my comment: I think the publishing restriction of the law is not quite enough, also make "storing your private copy on Google Drive or Dropbox" illegal.

If you store your private copy on Google and Dropbox, you are not publishing it but you are sharing it with them. And I don't trust them. They could for instance decide to train models on my image or fulfill requests from law enforcement and my data gets somehow involved and I don't want them to.

I believe the law could have been written at a time when the cloud was not common, and just restricting publication was enough. It isn't anymore IMHO.
I tried to export my Timeline history but I cannot get the full version. My Pixel 8 has the full version but no way to export. My iPhone does have a way to export but does not have the full version.
Prototype of AROS ABIv0 emulator for 64-bit AROS
re-edited :)
I'm not a machine learning person - so I'm confused about this.

As someone who doesnt understand ML - I have always assumed the whole point of ML is to try different things in the game, almost randomly, and over (long) periods of time the AI gets better and better at the game.

If having a single unexpected event causes such a large swing in outcome, and the AI cant "explain" what is different to cause the swing, then what exactly is the ML doing for it to fail on such a seemingly simple change? Doesnt that defeat the whole purpose of this?

I'm obviously missing something obvious - because I would assume the real goal of ML is that it can teach itself the game, even if that involves unexpected situations, as a human does?
A generic plea: please stop using AI-generated images in blog posts that don't add any real value to the article.
Text editors and calculators seem to load slower now than 10, and maybe even 20, years ago.

Note: my expectations may have changed over that time, but still, I think my expectations run behind Moore's Law.
This is a technological board, not a place for spreading hate messages under the guise of ignorance or ingenuity.

Let's please keep the talks focused on technology. Without hate speech or anti-european ideologies, thank you.
I get that, but you can run GH runners on your own hardware or someone else's. Switching to WarpBuild was literally as easy as linking my GH account and changing the running image from `macOS-latest` to `warp-macos-14-arm64-6x` and everything worked. Secrets and everything.
It's almost as if they don't want you to do that and instead use their search even for walking distances.
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OT

kinda annoying that on this blog post, if i press the up arrow cursor button or page up button it takes me to the top of the page , instead of scrolling up

the page down and cursor down button work as expected

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kinda found the bug, when you first open the blog, the cursor stays on the top site navigation menu, as long as the cursor is up there, page up or cursor up will take you to the top of the page

click anywhere on the page that will change the cursor position, and now page up and cursor up work as expected
The fact that YOU have a particular use case doesn't necessarily mean much either. Just customize your configuration accordingly, and move on.
Although it’s advertised as MAC only, most of the code looks like it’ll work cross platform. I’m sure people can hack together a CLI if they need to on Linux
As others have said, this depends on your luck and / or the particular model you've got.

My HP EliteDesk 800 G4 has an annoying fan even at the lowest speed. It rattles. The newer G6 model I have at work is quiet.
I don't know why you have this weird hatred towards Canada (looking at your post history, it's not the first time). Especially considering that the US is far from a model country right now, and I very clearly remember when passengers were assaulted and forcibly removed from a United flight a few years ago. Canada is not perfect, but there is a lot to like about it.
Rough news for the LSE, which was already trying to make that play.
> You do not keep individual private lists of people changing genders.

On this note: Some organization in Sweden actually does store changes like suggested in the top comment. Both the tax agency and police were interested in knowing who did, and who had access, since it's the cause of recent mass doxxing events.
It's a good idea. And if you already buying a new one, so you can definitely go to the "brick" mode
> I just think I have a very good natural bullshit-filter.

That's not really sufficient, though—there have been things I've searched for, and every result on the first few pages was bullshit. The problem was not that they weren't clearly bullshit, the problem was that there was no non-bullshit to find instead. At least, not buried deep in the bowels. When I'm just looking up a quick fact, I have a limit to how many worthless links I'm going to follow.

But also: how "super responsive and [...] super helpful" is it being, if to get your information, you need to figure out when what it's giving you is a lie? "It gives me great information because I know when it's lying" doesn't seem very helpful, versus something that... y'know, doesn't send you to lies.
If an attacker has a full data dump, they probably have a recent/frequent queries dump too. Column name obfuscation won't go very far.

Zipcodes are short. If not given extra padding, their ciphertexts will still be short.

Zipcodes are also low cardinality. Unless you use multiple salts/nonces/IVs/keys, the frequency of ciphertexts will match the frequency of plaintexts.

In many situations, a prepared attacker will be able to insert their own data beforehand, allowing them to perform a chosen-plaintext attack and potentially decipher much of the data. The best protection against this is to not reuse salts/nonces/IVs/keys and thus again defeat performant searches.

None of this is to necessarily say it's not worth it but rather to keep in mind the article's point: know your threat model.
Different needs, different tools!
I work on a open-source project, and not having to pay for CI/CD with a "simple" yml file configuration is simpler and easy to manage.
Apparently, container optimization was unsolved for very large fleets. I did not know this.

Google OR improves existing solutions by 10%-20% utilization which is incredible.
That is a logical fallacy and you know it.

Let's please keep the hate speech and anti-european ideologies outside of this technological board. Thank you.
Most consumers aren't interested in EVs, despite all the looming mandates and all the touted benefits. In light of evident public opinion, a populist backlash against mandates seems like a decent bet.
Hey, what's this fence doing here? Eh, just pull it down and we'll figure it out as we go.
Yeah, exactly this.

To try to make it more "concrete", compilers tend to end up processing an absurd mess of code, that does things that superficially look silly, due to extensive inlining.

The code above is entirely plausible for C code checking the alignment of a total size, where "a" and "b" are the sizes of two parts, both calculated by a multiplication that ensures their evenness.

Another realistic examples are flags-fields, where each bit represents a boolean. For example, the compiler should be able to optimise:

flags |= 0x100;
if (!(flags & 0x100)) { ... }

Addition might factor in either as a substitution for bitwise-OR or bitwise-XOR where the author has prior knowledge that the two are equivalent (and assumes it will lead to better code generation), as part of SWAR (simd-within-a-word) code, or in cases where integer fields are packed alongside flags (e.g. a refcount and a couple of flags, or a string-length and some flags).

If this seems rare and unusual, that's cool – in general it is. But these strategies are very heavily used in performance-critical code, where using multiple variables would cause a measurable slowdown, so it makes sense that compilers care about optimising this kind of thing.
From TFA:

Of course, "score" is not a real metric for success in NetHack, as Cupiał himself noted. Ask a model to get the best score, and it will farm the heck out of early-stage monsters because it never gets bored. "Finding items required for [ascension] or even [just] doing a quest is too much for pure RL agent," Cupiał wrote. Another neural network, AutoAscend, does a better job of progressing through the game, but "even it can only solve sokoban and reach mines end," Cupiał notes.

The NN seems to be good at grinding. They should make some for those free to play games.
Can your static type system handle linear algebra?
It is clear now that Google "don't be evil" [1] turned into equal or worst than Microsoft? The Microsoft antitrust case now seems like a joke.

Zillions of things happened from that time that the law system cannot digest as "easy" as Internet Explorer as a monopolistic move.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
> It's not technically a bug,

It is absolutely an anti-feature. Most things in life function on some level of predictability. Computers are pretty high on predictability scale, do the least surprising thing and all that.

I sincerely hope there is some kind of feedback mechanism for the "not a technical manager" to either learn or get less decision making authority.
Polling feeds without writing feed parsing logic
It's only free if your time is worthless :P every couple weeks I have to debug something that I can't replicate locally because I don't have local CI
I think "banned" is inflammatory. These are individual books removed by a few libraries. As others have said, a fight could lead to unhelpful controversy. Wait a while and put them back would be my approach, and possibly theirs too.
It seems as if every article from New Atlas has that problem, more so than other places. At least every article I notice here on HN.
At one point it was
Losing a phone is just a nightmare for me...
Muppet!

clearly has no understanding of linux

he does use the terminal though:

terminal deficiency