skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the case with nearly all trade restrictions. It benefits some at a cost to a great many others. The people who benefit most, disproportionately so, are business owners, which is why you see so much lobbying for trade restrictions.
To be clear, Working Visit != State Visit.
Don't you know.. microsoft doesn't believe in discounts. The evil-empire runs a taxing system envied by the IRS itself. Entire industries have gone up in arms complaining that M$ cloud price structure doesn't allow for third party margins and still they hold strong to their price structure.
Those tax dollars go back to California and country. Amazon does everything in its power to not pay taxes or help society. It really shows little Amazon is taxed at, if at all.
Just a casual industrial design list of things I could not do easily in FreeCAD:

- chamfer
- easy wall thickness
- draft angle
- bosses
- vents

Probably about 10 more of those operations that are easy in Fusion360 and very difficult in FreeCAD.

Great that it could do everything you needed but for many people the second you need to do adult things FreeCAD unfortunately falls apart.
This often results in "silly" rather than "nice". The architect knows what it takes to get the project accepted and so they do THAT and not one penny more. The city staff and council are (somewhat) bound to accept what meets the rules and they do (after begging for park, low income housing, stores, sidewalk extra width, free wifi, parking, not parking, cash, cash-in-lieu, no gas stove, transit passes, police donation (I jest?), etc). And predictably the result is cliché and repetitive. There is probably even some kind of curtain wall system off the shelf for it too. Off course, there is, obviously.

Around here (and likely across america) you see the same facade features again and again -probably because they are off the shelf and picked out of a catalog. (of course they are, but the degree to which they are is the silly part of it. There is ZERO creativity in them.)

Actually this is to the point where one naive building here went so faaaaar out of their way to look different (while within budget) that it looks absurd. Absurdly, deliberately, gratuitously different - in a way that makes little technical sense.)

Similarly another one a partner lived in, was so well thought out, it attacked your eye. I could not walk through it without seeing the attention to detail. Outstanding designers. Interesting how "interesting" is now so obvious. In a neighborhood that was otherwise boring as hell.
I would be devastated if I was fined 6 cents after robbing an entire store
I have personally found them useful as “glue” layer in heterogeneous and large systems with moving and decoupled parts.

There are any number of ways to do the same thing — context matters.
"'The honeymoon phase of generative AI is over,' the company said in its 2024 Generative AI Global Benchmark Study."

The company here is Lucidworks who performed the study, and probably has some ulterior motive. Usually studies like this are marketing collateral, not legitimate studies.

I think generative AI is just getting started. I'm not a fan of it, but that doesn't mean I'm in denial like Lucidworks seems to be. Yes, it's just getting started.
Is it just me, or is this sentence difficult to parse?:

> A last-minute political compromise has headed off an effort to repeal a California law allowing workers to sue employers for workplace violations

I’m not sure what happened and who it benefits (also, since when does anyone say “headed off?”).

It seems like there is an existing law. Some lobbyists got enough signatures to hold a referendum via the November ballot on whether to repeal the existing law. They promised to withdraw the referendum if compromise legislation is passed. Now Governor Newsom has negotiated some acceptable compromise legislation with those groups. The article does not mention whether the state Congress has voted on the legislation yet.

The proposed compromise legislation increases penalty money to employees, from 25% to 35%. But it limits initiation of the litigation to employees directly impacted by the violations. The article does not mention how this differs from the current law.

Overall, this is such a horribly written article that one wonders if it’s intentionally obfuscatory.
There are documentaries showing the huge industry in Africa of cutting worn clothes at the seams, choosing the best parts of the resulting panels, trimming them down, and reformulating a new good-looking garment of a smaller size. Other than manufacturing raw textiles, I'm not sure much is cut out of the supply chain here.
Tableware enables the visually impaired to eat and drink by feel (2020)
Both of the examples given in the "avoid subshells" section use subshells. There are probably more problems, but I stopped there.
Staring at the phone until it stops ringing, then texting “sorry I missed your call, what’s up?” is perfectly cromulent behavior!
It is my understanding that the keyword is "official", which indicates a state visit. The two I mentioned were official, working visits.
Easiest to read is what I usually try optimize for, especially in a shell script.

I think the first one is much easier to read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCbnEGGL4E

I remember the first part to this so well. Wondering if maybe I skipped the rest or I just forgot it. The "wow" is burned into my memory.

But as I alluded to in my edit, this seems to be an entirely different generation of product I'm remembering vs this post.
In related news, second Boeing whistleblower found dead:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-whi...
Simple: messaging systems / event-driven systems aren't the "fad of the day" anymore, so you don't have a gazillion vendors pumping out blog posts and Youtube videos to hawk their wares, or a million companies writing about them to look "hip" and "cool" to help recruit developers, or endless legions of consulting companies writing about them in order to attract customers, etc.

Basically every "cool, shiny, new" tech goes through this process. Arguably it's all related to the Garnter Hype Cycle[1], although I do think the process I'm describing exists somewhat independently of the GHC.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Write your own. Wrote one fairly recently in good-ole-sepples that uses UNIX domain sockets and pushes around half a gigabyte a second on weak ARM hardware. Domain sockets are great. Shared memory is even better. If you need a portable solution between processes, not threads, I recommend domain sockets and a simple binary protocol for high throughput.
I'm 110% certain it's ChatGPT based on the other posts. If you look at the current top three latest posts:

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniq...

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-angular-change-detectio...

https://omid.dev/2024/06/18/haskell-monads-functors-and-appl...

They all end with: "Happy coding!", "Happy scripting!", and "Happy Haskell coding!". For some reason, when you ask ChatGPT for a blog post about coding, it'll always end with "Happy coding/scripting".

I run a similar blog, and there's a lot more massaging I have to do post-query to get it into a more "human-like" state (removing any match to "Happy%" as last line, expanding certain sections, etc). Also, all of the blog posts are about the same length - which is a dead giveaway if you don't ask it for a variable length.

The script I wrote that does the query changes topics/categories at random, and assigns a random length between 2000 to 4000 words, then it does paragraph length detection and re-queries when a paragraph is not-long-enough. Does a few more things like updating the Front matter and adding some times to the Front matter (this linked blog also runs on Hugo with the hugo-coder theme by the looks of it lol) before outputting to the markdown file.
Personal experience: I needed a message broker while working with multiple sensors constantly streaming data at high frequency.

I have seen a startup where RabbitMQ was being used to hand-off requests to APIs (services) that take long to respond. I argued for unifying queueing and data persistence technology using Postgres even though I know a simple webhook would suffice.

Given that AWS has to sell and complexity tends to make people look smart, another server was spurn up for RabbitMQ :)

Many companies that have run a highly distributed system have figured what works for them. If requests are within the read and write rates of what Redis or Postgres can handle why introduce RabbitMQ or Kafka :?

Always remember that the Engineer nudging you towards more complexity will not be there when the chips are down.
Want to help a poor country? Buy their products at fair rates. They will handle their gardments very well.

Buying clothes made by borderline-slaves and dumping them used on another country is evil. It is kind of green washing pooverty
I think you're trivializing the economic problem and failing to show an appreciation of how economies work. It is most certainly a problem that the cotton and textile industries in Africa were wrecked by the influx of free or cheap second hand clothing. Textiles are the entry point into industrialization. So not only does that particular industry get hit, but you kill the seed from which other industries are developed. Expertise, technological know-how, an industrial culture, and economic independence are stifled. We're also talking about a basic good here on probably the most resource rich continent on the planet, not some rare substance that only exists in one place on earth.

This is essentially price dumping.
Personally I’d slightly increase the pitch size and have a field of miniaturised Wago push connectors

High current, satisfying insertion, no chance of intermittent contact
There are ways to do that from linear algebra, like orthogonalization processes (e.g., Gram-Schmidt process) followed by basis expansion. Or random projections can also be used in a similar way. And I’m sure there are much fancier techniques that draw upon higher math (like Grassmannians or Teichmuller mappings).
Strictly speaking sweat is a bodily fluid, which I guess means that you should always throw them out.
But honestly, is that really a problem?

Why does Africa need a textile industry? Any more than Iowa needs a microchip industry, or Connecticut needs a cattle ranching industry? (For those not familiar: those places don't have these.)

If Africa doesn't need to get into the textile industry, that frees up labor and investment for more productive industries and everyone wins.

And it's not like there's some strategic geopolitical reason why Africa needs to become self-sufficient in textiles.
Is there an efficient mobile version for this?
Smalltalk syntax in 7 minutes [video]
The overall murder rate graph only goes back to 1990, but it peaked in 1980, passing 10 per 100K.

However the firearm murder rate is higher (not to mention the overall gun death rate).
> I generally won’t remove a property, but mark it as obsolete and stop using it.

Presumably because loading will break?

> - If I’ve added a new Boolean property, I’d tend to name it such that it defaults to false, or if it must default to true, have it stored in a nullable boolean, and if it loads as null (from an older instance of the type), set it to the default.

Why?
That's an odd take. So because you don't like something, you want it to be gone? I'm not sure you actually understood the EFFs goals ? I'm not trying to be rude but it just doesn't make sense to me. Some people don't like encryption, or porn. The eff always campaigned for keeping those things from getting restricted.
I thought it was intentional and super funny to say "I made a fool", it didn't hinder clarity at all, brilliant, trying it now.
The closed source one that asks for your email and has very little information about its developers.
Will McCoy reimagines EV charging startup
What is their industry ? Anything ?
The story looks brilliant.

_Almost_ brilliant enough to ignore the accent of Evgeny Morozov.

Any chance he is open to having a version dubbed by a native english speaker?

I love it that the creator is also the narrator, but...people are busy.

I know that is harsh feedback but it's the truth--there are voice actors for a reason and this content is too great not to have it spoken by native speakers in many languages. It's great to have the option to hear it from the creator, but for faster consumption would be great to have a native option as well.
A named pipe (fifo) would be an interest to test too. I believe theyre a good bit faster than a unix socket.
Without the paywall https://archive.is/NHnyC
this is very interesting and thought-provoking; thank you

what exactly do you mean by 'digital twin'? do you mean any kind of computer model of a real-world phenomenon, including sets of differential equations, as i've sometimes seen it used? presumably you mean something narrower, but how narrow? do you mean, for example, specifically cad models of parts that are going to be manufactured?

i guess this sounds like i'm nitpicking but actually i just want to know the scope of the space that you expect to be turned upside down
Amen. Boom and bust. Cycles of greed and overcautiousness. Like the Big Bang and collapse, ad infinitum. It may as well be the universal truth.
I think that's accurate. Example code:

static privileged int GetPid(void) {
int res;
#ifdef __x86_64__
asm volatile("syscall"
: "=a"(res)
: "0"(__NR_linux_getpid)
: "rcx", "r11", "memory");
#elif defined(__aarch64__)
register long res_x0 asm("x0");
asm volatile("mov\tx8,%1\n\t"
"svc\t0"
: "=r"(res_x0)
: "i"(__NR_linux_getpid)
: "x8", "memory");
res = res_x0;
#endif
return res;
}

You should be fine.
I’m not shoe-horning. The Conservative Party of Canada is leveraging the same right-wing populist rhetoric as Trump’s Republican Party. By contrast, perhaps Trudeau’s failing is that he isn’t playing the same game, preferring to continue with a mostly technocratic style that is increasingly disliked by low-information voters. I suppose if they can squeeze out another 18 months to get a few more things done before it’s all burned down, it will be a victory of sorts. And then the Liberals can go into hiding again for 8-10 years until Canadians get tired of the Conservatives.
Consensus in distributed systems is hard and MQs don’t help.

If possible boiled down systems to a transitional db replica set. That is a local minimum in complexity that will serve you for a long time.
What's Under London? Discover London's Forbidden Underworld
I wish Quanta Magazine would fix their floating header on iOS mobile. It’s been broken for more than a year. I have the URL bar at the top of my screen. If the height of the header is Hpx, its top is positioned Hpx away from the origin. It’s infuriating. And also, reader mode sometimes doesn’t render the whole article so I can’t use it to bypass the frustrations.
These are not theoretical concerns though. For example, since SSH uses a trust on first use model as opposed to a central trust/web of trust model, they can direct the victim to a different SSH server if they're connecting to a new one, and intercept all traffic.

(Edit: Even with HTTPS, there are other ways to MITM a connection because each trusted CA is considered an equal. For example, instead of doing a full-on MITM on a service which is likely to be detected[1], a better solution may be to obtain a certificate and target the specific user.)

[1] http://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
Your local library should have a copy of this book [1]. It is fantastic (though I came really close to setting it down in disgust within the first two chapters).

It’s an inside look at IT within government.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250266774/recodingamerica
Ya as far as I've seen from traveling they end up in every "2nd/3rd world" countries. Not sure if Africa is really any more likely than other places for donated clothes to end up.

I'm sure the flood of clothes could be seen as an issue to some but it sure does help keep the cost of living down. I cloth my kid for pennies on the dollar thanks to pacas here in central america.
or spherical harmonics of the illuminance field; you only need a very few spherical harmonics to get an excellent approximation of lambertian diffuse lighting

https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/4164/wh... is an introduction
Never think HTTPS will save you from proxies built by attackers... This may make it much simpler...
The preaching was free but the challenges were not due to blasphemy laws, thus more free speech would allow challenges, which we know reduces the problem of bad speech.

> It tells a lot that I never heard historians seriously discussing it in this context.

If you got the first part wrong then the second is only telling in the other direction.
LAUSD approves cellphone ban as Newsom calls for statewide action
I wonder the same thing. Perhaps less portable? IE can't package that up in a binary (I have absolutely no idea just spitballing)?

And very cursory search suggests maybe there is nothing to that guess: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/tqffv2/packaging_an...

It's an interesting question because I've run into some datascientists that were so used to working in memory with dataframes and similar that they moved mountains to do things like de-duplicate csv's in memory (that they couldn't all fit in at once) where-as they could have done so trivially with sqlite.
Agreed. In a bit of an ironic twist, the various folks I've encountered falling victim to the Dunning-Kreuger effect are themselves often eager to accuse others of being subject to it, as a sort of preemptive defense mechanism when an actual expert inevitably starts deconstructing the misinformation coming from the imitator.
There's another great example - perfect comment.
Navy project brings promise of cloud to the middle of the ocean
The implication is that a lot of that money is wasted on lawyers.

From the study: "Since 2013, employers have been forced to pay nearly $10 billion in PAGA court case
awards, but because of the class-action nature of many claims and heavy lawyer
commissions, workers receive only a small portion of these awards"
Except for the cases where it takes the wrong exit, the wrong lane, starts oscillating, and ignores a don’t-turn-on-right.

And that was in the first 3 of 3 tests.

As the author of this blog post: I drive a Tesla, I tried FSD, and it failed miserably in near perfect conditions. How exactly is that derangement?
Almost everyone in that thread is either a founder or an early employee of some well known unicorns! I wish I was around here (and not a 9 year old) back in 2007 :).
In the US, with its suburbs and spread out cities, AV cars, microbuses and the lot definitely have a role to play. There’s no way around that.

Where was your experience for mass transit? The US? I live in Boston, which has one of the best mass transit systems in the US, but still it sucks as a general means to get around, or even to and from work for many people. But the US has extraordinarily poor mass transit overall. Budapest, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna, etc… have efficient, multi-layered, redundant mass transit that serves the population well as a general means to get around. It’s faster than the auto frequently even in non rush hour times.

I don’t see (good) mass transit and AVs at odds with one another, but rather complimentary. Every auto off the road makes the remaining auto transit more efficient. Less autos on the road also frees up roads for bikes and pedestrian use, a big plus in denser urban environments in need of more green and public space.
Cotton, linen, or wool. It wouod be much less of a problem if we all wouldn't buy so much clothing. There is so much of it...
Wish this had the fun pack
Freedom of the press should be protected, no labeled.
Ouch. I bet the majority of coffee shops are affected.
Uh no - "state visit" indicates a state visit.
Income tax departments in my country give a small reward (3-5% of the amount in question) if you report tax fraud.

Maybe we could have something like that, where the vigilance department receives a small amount of money paid off from the penalty imposed on the researcher with bad/fraudulent research.
Now this Santa also somehow makes all software and media free forever. Opensource. No copyrights. (That includes AI)

Suddently, more people started caring about Santa.
Unfortunately my city stopped accepting glass for recycling so there must be either too much of it not enough usage for the recycled glass.
If you're not aware of it the government does crop estimates. Its not done solely by satellite, they have teams go out to fields and make spot checks. Now infrared photography can show crop stress but it can't pinpoint the reason.

If they can get these genetics into the seed they can know the impact of drought nationwide. They can also send more scouts to these areas to make an educated guess on how bad the drought might be.

Billions of dollars ride on these estimates. Suppliers and farmers can also hedge the price as a sort of insurance.
Most of this was bought outside the firm - and this talent has left the building a while back...
If much of that money goes to lawyers rather than workers I think there's a good argument to be made that the lawyers were the ones winning.
This is why I encourage not overriding common commands in $PATH. Setup an alias instead so it only applies to interactive shells (or just type the new command :p).

Shell scripting is already fickle enough with compatibility issues across the major implemtations of POSIX utils (GNU, macOS/ BSD, Busybox). Even /bin/sh itself cannot be relied upon to behave consistently across platforms. Notably, Busybox's ash supports the non-POSIX substring syntax that Bash does. This won't work on distro's like Debian where /bin/sh is linked to dash shell.
~ 2 hours of profits @ 5%
The UI is nice and clean, but I don't have a secondary device to test out the conversation mode. A video demo of how this works would be nice.

The first translation I tried was incorrect:

"Bonjour" (french) -> "- How are you ?" (english)

I suppose that's the limitation of local models.

Great job getting it to a functional beta though. I think the idea is cool, it just needs some polishing.
Just an amazing player, literally one of the best.

I think it will be very interesting here in the next few years as MLB adds more of the Negro Leagues' data to the official stats. Willie's official stats have already been increased. If you would like to assist in the effort to recognize the efforts of those men, then please consider volunteering time here: https://www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues/NegroLeagues.html

I know for a fact that they are in dire need of coders and programmers to help with web development for submitting newspaper clippings and other records.

Additionally, if you or anyone you know has access to old newspaper clippings and other records, say in an attic or basement, please get in contact with the above people.
The stray is what it’s so funny
Not sure if you're from the US but the government here (US) does plenty to protect American industries. I can't read the article, but whatever African countries they are talking about might have more economic strength if they don't have a hand-me-down textile industry.