skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumer rights have taken such a beating in the internet age. If you look at pre-internet product categories there are all kind of protections on the books like minimum warranty lengths, lemon laws, etc. Meanwhile, with software products - even very expensive ones - you're at the mercy of the vendor and their ToS. The fact that you can't even get refunds (e.g. within 15 days or something) for most software is ridiculous.
I'd be curious to know more about how this is done in games.

I have noticed that if you get up close to the surface of a car in a lot of modern racing games it has a very noisy/sparkly shader. I know some paint does look like this, but I always suspected this was to prevent banding by creating sub-pixel noise.
FB/IG will delete or downgrade content that's extremely embarrassing to the US government; TikTok will do the same for the Chinese government. It's amusing when a subject (e.g. US government funding for a Chinese virus lab doing bat coronavirus research right before the Covid pandemic) hits both triggers - but X does allow that content to some degree so perhaps X really is a bit more pro-free-speech than either FB/IG or TikTok.
Yeah, I got tripped up by that formulation as well and it's actually something that annoys me with a lot of algorithms that have some properties proven in a limit: It's "easy" (or at least possible) to mathematically prove that in the limit of some variable, the property will hold: If you repeat the challenge increasingly often, the probability of being lied to will get arbitrarily close to zero; for sufficiently large input sizes, some algorithm runs in linear time; with sufficiently large amounts of training data and iterations, some prediction error will become arbitrarily small, etc etc.

But none of that is telling you how much is "sufficient", or even which order of magnitude we're talking about. If the quantity has a real life cost, this would result in enormous practical differences.

(With the formula you have given for the ZK proof, we're at least one step further: You can start with the desired probability, e.g. the gamma ray burst und calculate the required minimum k from that - also, it's easy to see that the color problem lends itself well to such proofs because the probability of failure drops exponentially quickly with growing k, so the actual k you choose can be relatively small. But if all you have is a proof in the limit, that's not possible)
For example, see Chapter 3 of the Dragon Book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Ullman, et al. Or probably any other compilers text book.
Mine are offline as well (502 Bad Gateway). I'm in one of the affected regions, Europe West.
Names carry powerful connotations and significantly shape how we think about and interact with technology
It's closer to how Babel worked out of the box for half a decade before Node added their implementation. It's Node that broke a half-working solution.
We appear to be arguing over semantics. The points being raised here are variations of the following questions: how much is a human life worth, and whose responsibility is it to preserve that life? If you want to poison yourself, is anyone under any obligation to stop you from finding or giving you that poison?
If your algorithm can convince large numbers kids to snort cinnamon and eat tide pods for dinner, bending their perceptions enough for them to vote or not vote for something would be a piece of cake.
Compare two dystopian novels: "1984" and "This perfect day." In 1984, survalance is everywhere, and everybody is miserable.

In "This perfect day" has just as much surveillance, but the people love it. Think how much you love your mobile phone. Big brother could only dream of having a camera and microphone so close to you 24/7.

China's social credit system sounds like another dystopian terror. But...how great would it be to be able to get back at the Bullies, Cat-callers, and assholes who can make you miserable with complete impunity.

You might very well like being able to fight back at them in a way which had a real, material effect on their whole life. After a while, you may even love it, especially if you were getting all kinds of perks and advantages from playing along.

Robots roaming around offices is just about the most Ham-Fisted way I can think of to get employees in line. Of course they will hate it, but even at that, it only can police what the robot sees. More filling and tastes horrible. They could achieve way better results with something which just thrilled their employees.
I'd use these: https://www.bounceled.com/product/inline-wire-connector/

Yes, they work on resistor leads.
Did you reply to the correct thread? What does this have to do with TikTok China vs US
The idea with the Satiety index is that you can feel full with less than the ~800 calories in a stick of butter.

I want more research into the concept of calories. I only recently learned that our understanding of how to measure food energy is rather primitive.
This will never happen in reality, but one way to make sure a bill like this doesn't get through is to not allow for any exceptions to being surveiled. So politicians and security people will be treated just like the population at large and have their communications monitored. I mean, think of the children, how bad would it be if a trusted member of society ended up peddling the bad images. So in that respect they need to be surveiled as anyone else.
How Pinggy TLS Tunnels Work
Seems to be connected to this political money laundering case [0], as the raids hit all the suspects listed.

Edit: The Duong family is also connected with the Long An Green Tech Park project outside Saigon [1][2] which had been moribund for almost a decade, and most likely was unlocked due to some backdoor dealings.

[0] - https://oaklandside.org/2020/09/15/accusations-of-political-...

[1] - https://baolongan.vn/de-xuat-thi-diem-khu-cong-nghiep-xanh-t...

[2] - https://theinvestor.vn/us-invested-firm-prepares-700-mln-for...
>What's the difference?

They Don't Know vs. They Don't Care.

The axiom has always been that People Don't Know, Wake Up Sheeple(tm), but after so much time it's hard to believe that lack of awareness is the problem anymore.
Will look into this. Did it happen on the first page (map of Britain + Ireland)?
Claude 3 was much better than GPT4 for functional analysis and abstract algebra (first year classes).
You could just look at the worlds most sold enterprise product: O365.

Enterprise much more expensive and filled with features you can't even buy as addons in the lower tiers. An E5 license is sometimes almost three times more expensive than the self service license, but includes all the crap Microsoft can stuff in the license in return (some of it useful, like P2 AAD, MDM etc).
There are Kotlin plugins for Eclipse, VS Code, NetBeans, etc...
My first chip with Tiny Tapeout 4: Covox Speech Thing clone
In case someone from Meta is reading this, sharing posts through facebook JS API is broken since yesterday, it redirects to https://www.facebook.com/share_channel/
Newspapers often mislead people about stuff in general...
github in india is affected.
Great. I hope they torpedo that thing out of spite and no one gets to use the stupid e-heroin algorithm.
I use it for Rust and it's.... meh. It gets things wrong enough that I don't reach for it except to help me reference certain docs. It tends to hallucinate APIs and semantics that just don't exist. Honestly couldn't imagine using it with a dynamic language.
Lately I have been thinking about cost models for software development based on comparable companies: usually the main cost of development is labor and computing costs could be a fraction of that. I mean, a developer who gets paid about $100k might get a MacBook that costs $3k twice a year, I spent about my own yearly salary once to get a production server to host products being developed by 5 or so FTE, for instance.

AI threatens to change that, people training their own AI can easily spend many times their pay in cloud costs and similarly you can pay through the nose for ChatGPT.
> just have to plan and do it in the background

this can mean building some untrivial infra, so the task is much more complicated than just using cloud vm.

My point is that bottle neck and why you need cluster and not single VM is likely CPU and iops, and not data storage.
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6...
You can work around this by typing your import statement inside-out:

import {} from 'fs';

Then move your cursor back inside the {} and you'll have nice autocomplete. Works with object destructuring, too.
> this feels painfully inevitable

Well, the language doesn't have to be COBOL. I think it was just an example.
How likely is someone gonna look at those files if they haven't been even accessed in the last 10/30 days?

It checks ctime, mtime and atime to determine if it should remove the file (or you can also flock(2) them) and if any of them are less than the time it doesn't.
> I don't think I'd trade the freedom in nodeJS for Swift's type safety

Surely you have considered TypeScript for your Node project then?
"straws are too useful"?

I haven't used one since I was a teen - or on the rare occasion I've had a smoothie. I'm pretty sure I would cope without a straw if need be.

The environmental cost is outweighed by the necessity, and we really need to start thinking about the necessity of items, not how convenient they make things.
Philippines reinforces ship at center of South China Sea dispute
i mostly agree with your take, except that if you primarily want to produce html going with a server-side rendered approach might be simpler.

i'm building https://www.plainweb.dev/, which uses htmx + react style components for templating.
My website (kechlibar.net) is experiencing the problem as well.
From a climbing standpoint? Either the Black Diamond Hoodwire (now discontinued, and I'll guard my stock with my life) or any member of the Black Diamond Rocklock family tree.

From a general usage standpoint, Trango used to make a wiregate called the Classic Wiregate. It wasn't as easy to clip as the Hoodwire, but it was more symmetric, so you could use it for carabiner brakes and things of that nature. It was my go-to utility carabiner, but since it wasn't as flashy as crabs meant specifically for the rope end of a quickdraw, it never sold well enough and so they took it off the market. Turns out that a purely functional, no-frills carabiner couldn't compete with objectively worse carabiners (the Black Diamond Light D, or ugh the Omega Pacific Doval) because it didn't look as "classic".

Many manufacturers make terrifyingly small full-strength carabiners, but my experience with them is that they are so small that they're difficult to operate, so I have a surprising number of effectively keychain carabiners that are actually rated for climbing usage.

Sidebar, for life-saving equipment, climbers are bizarrely obsessed with how cool things look. The parenthetically mentioned Doval was a terrible carabiner, but it looked kind of neat, like a classic car with modern influences. It had an ovalized exterior, but a D-shaped interior, so it had all the clippability problems of an oval carabiner (can you determine where the gate's axle is, purely by feel, in under a second? not on a smooth oval carabiner), while maintaining the D's principle weakness (and why oval carabiners remain popular): under bodyweight and higher loads, a nearly-correctly positioned d-shaped carabiners will shift into the correct position, leading to a nerve-wracking drop. Oval carabiners will not do this under bodyweight loads (but also might not when faced with higher loads, somewhat compromising their ultimate strength, which is, because of the design, also somewhat lower than a d-shaped crab). When hanging on really tenuous anchors, that little drop has caused said anchors to fail, so direct-aid climbers have favored oval carabiners, even though they tend to be objectively worse carabiners in every other respect.
Ah yes, Cloudflare throwing half the internet offline for hours with one bad config.

It's even funnier the 5th, er 6th time? Maybe 7th?
Okay, I get what you mean.
Many of us had given up hope that what ended being the "Inferred Predicate Types" feature of this release could ever be possible... and in the end, it was just like 10 lines of code!!

If you like technical deep dives on new TypeScript features, we did just such a deep dive[1] on this feature's PR with the author himself, Dan Vanderkam. He goes through how he got the idea and motivation for what ended up being a really creative fix.

[1] https://youtu.be/LTuzl2r2HjA
I've got another problem about this zero knowledge proof. The digital version doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It depends on the fact we don't have a fast integer factorization algorithm. But integer factorization is not proven to be NP-complete, and 3-coloring is NP-complete.

So isn't it possible that there is a polynomial time algorithm for integer factorization, but no polynominal time algorithm for 3-coloring, and therefore the "zero knowledge proof" actually reveals the answer?
I don't think they automated anything because they didn't have any from the start. Unfortunately they ran out of money to hire humans because their developers already cost too much
Kraken is also currently sending account reconfirmation emails.
I guess now is a good time to ignore them
Yep I get the 502 Bad Gateway and sometimes the standard Cloudflare error page.

I love how the Cloudflare error page says "Cloudflare is working" and it's my website causing the problem.. even though it's Cloudflare pages haha
I was exposed to porn before I was even interested. I think I was seven. My friend's parents had the complete cable package that carried all the channels the local provider offered (which at the time I think was around thirty channels) and one of them showed porn. I only saw it once when I slept over, so I don't know if it was a dedicated porn channel or if it was just late night. The few minutes I saw was soft core, but looking back in retrospect, I'm pretty sure it was leading up to a hard core scene. My friend was also seven, but he seemed pretty obsessed with it. I left him to it and played video games instead, and I never slept over again.

I didn't get exposed to porn after that until a couple of high school trips where we got to stay in hotel rooms and of course figured out how to access the pay-per-view porn. But that was it. The "inspiration" for my teenaged solo sexual activities came from catalogs with models in lingerie, relatively tame TV, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, tennis magazines, and my imagination. The closest thing I had to porn when I lived with my parents was pausing a rented VHS tape of an R-rated movie, on one of the rare occasions when I had the house to myself.
Here in Europe , a lot of former public utilities companies and the public sector in general has been really pushing niche OSS and OpenData projects in Europe.

It's not always useful (rarely actually) for the average Joe, but it's definitely cool to see them embracing OSS and OpenData.
Thinking that potential CSAM hosting server (as defined by EU) isn't going to get persecuted in US is a new level of naivete. US and EU have broad spanning contracts of cooperation between their respective law enforcement offices when it comes to these cases.
Chrome uses dithering for canvas gradients, or any other operations really. Firefox looks much worse without it.
What other remedy do you have when google/facebook/etc corp removes your business account? Facebook/Google are basically monopolies, and they sell their services for businesses.

This isn't removing you for breaking TOS, this is just mistakes that cant get a remedy because there is no customer support.

If Social media companies want to sell business services, you paid for a service, a TOS doesnt remove legal obligations and doesnt overrule state/federal law.

So people turning to their state AG and courts, makes sense.
Money. Besides the obvious, do you think most startups will abandon LLMs or that most "AI startups" are vaporware?
But the number of account takeovers is not necessarily high enough to destroy the business model, is it?
Tell it that it is your grandma's dying wish
There seems to be a pattern of Bay Area garbage collection companies involved in corruption cases. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/2nd-recology-execu...
This was one of the cooler teaching examples I've ever played with... awesome job! Appreciate the warning that the 5 color map is "very difficult". It felt easy enough, and I would have spent an hour on it!

This was so much cooler than just being told that 4 colors is enough for every map – this one will stick with me.

It would be wonderful if schools taught a bit more like this – I almost felt like I discovered it myself!
Will this suffice?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1381344/
https://archive.is/VqHUw
Most likely apple broke the behavior of an API. Such an annoying platform to maintain software for.
NASA's manned mission division does seem to have the bigger problem with bloated contracting budgets and inefficiency, relative to the rest of the organization. I'd guess that's due to direct political influence (the Richard Shelby - Bill Nelson effect in that case). From 2010:

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62767_Page3.html
Whether the vendor's internal processes are stuck in the early 2000s or not doesn't negate anything I said. The quotes are multi-variate and it's not extortion.

But even assuming updated systems, how could you give an accurate quote without understanding the customer's needs? Make someone fill out a big form providing estimates of their usage? Now you're just putting the customer on the hook for generating the quote. The sales rep can translate their requirements into an accurate quote without putting the burden on the customer to understand the product more than they need to. Also, the customer may need the quote to land a contract.

The complexity of the software's pricing is a reflection of the complexity of the customer's needs.
I found it deep in my Amazon “saved for later” but it’s no longer available: https://amzn.to/3z7QeGu
Mostly agree with the above, outside some ES3-ish scripting environments (Adobe and others), polyfills for a lot of functionality isn't needed strictly for JS support. And even then, can still be part of bundling or shimmed outside your application script(s).

And if you're bundling, then you can add them into the process. I've been avoiding most things that could require a polyfill since 2018 or so anyway as green browsers are pretty feature complete. As much as I'd like the F# style pipelines, and there are a couple other niceties, I don't miss much.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/sc-dv-cleared-head-of-kno...

Don't know what to do with AI, Ah fuck it let's just shove it with FOI and GDPR
> Tajikistan looks to be an interesting case of Islam being kept in check without resorting to either sharia or terrorism.

Because it's done through extreme human rights violations such as torture, kidnapping, kangaroo courts, etc [0].

This only radicalizes the Jihadist movements, who's hardcore believers went into exile Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya, Syria, etc and became extremely prominent in the Islamic State movement (eg. The former head of Tajikistan's Spetznaz defected to ISIS back in 2015 and became their War Minister).

ISKP is extremely Tajik in leadership, and this has helped them commit mass casualty attacks like the Kerman Bombings and the Moscow Theatre Siege

Once Emomali Rahmon dies, the Civil War will restart.

> bleeding more territory to China due to the significant difference in military power and aggression. This is so long as there isn't a NATO-like structure to keep Chinese aggression in check, constituted of its neighbors.

Countries like India have had Air Force bases and boots on the ground in Tajikistan for decades [1]

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If in San Francisco or New York, I recommend checking out Halal Dastarkhan or Farida's, Tandir Rokhat (Bukharan Jewish), Aziza 7, and Salute (Bukharan Jewish) respectively.

The owners are all ethnic Tajiks from Uzbekistan. Bukhara is ethnic Tajik but in Uzbekistan because Stalin.

[0] - https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/tajik...

[1] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060422/main6.htm
Building AI-powered SWE tools: Essential technical considerations for founders
Culture around this stuff is completely different in the Anglo-American world, for one. Europeans are accustomed to nudity and the like everywhere, and it's not even particularly ... anything.

But also, 1980s porn magazines or whatever are very different from today's porn content. A brief visit to any of the free "tube" sites exposes you immediately to a level of intensity that you wouldn't get from Playboy or Penthouse in the 80s. Right on the front page you'll find choking, incest ("stepdaughter"), BSDM, etc.

I don't particularly want my teenage son traipsing into that before the context and patterns of healthy mature sexual relationships have been established.

But more than anything, I don't want it pushed on him.
how about a dsl that does exactly that?
A Deep Dive into K-pop (2020)
Definitely but given the other homes raided we can connect some of the blanks. Add in that Oakland is filled with organized crime with payoffs going towards OPD and beyond, it makes sense.
My mom is currently struggling to quit drinking and Facebook is constantly showing her ads for White Claw. Expecting her to navigate that during withdrawals and recovery is completely insane.
Platforms should be liable for recommendations

When are we gonna hold these companies accountable and stop accepting excuses?
Also Northern Germany, but for me everything (including my Cloudflare Pages site) still works. Odd.
I've never seen a counter-example of an awesome, high performing company I loved working with, who went the extra mile, use "Request a quote" or similar tactics.

I bet those companies also have a "request a quote" process for their enterprise customers, who do not pay the public prices, you just don't see it.
> You don’t even need an Apple ID to use a Mac. You don’t need to enable Siri at all. The list goes on.

They’re nowhere near as aggressive as Microsoft but Apple does make it a pain to opt out. The first release of macOS with Siri would leave the icon in the menu bar even if you turned it off, and reactivate if you accidentally clicked it. Skipping signing in with Apple ID on iOS involves something like pressing “Forgot Password” then “Don’t Sign In” then dismissing a pop-up that nudges you away from what you were trying to do.

I would not be surprised if Apple doesn’t give users much of a choice in using their AI features, at least on-device. Even if you don’t engage with those features, it may mean your OS is now storing more data about your behaviors, as it does for earlier AI features like frequent locations and intelligent recharging.
My only complaint about the current state of ESM is that I can't figure out how to resolve the following:

1. I'm developing a library that depends on d3js

2. I want the library to be usable without any build tools. Just clone my repo and host the files from a static server. Or just import directly from jsdelivr

3. I also want people to be able to use NPM to install my library if they so choose

The problem is if I vendor d3js, then developers who consume my library via NPM might end up with 2 copies of d3js in their app, if their app also uses d3 directly. But if I don't vendor it, then my ESM-only users have to use an import map to resolve the bare specifier in the browser, which is kind of ugly and confusing.

More details: https://stackoverflow.com/q/78645299/943814
We are currently paying for both.

The fact that our current setup costs 2-3x any other OECD nation indicates reform to be more like their systems is likely to reduce costs, not increase them.
>The core principle of computer-science is that we need to live with legacy, not abandon it.

...wat