skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the expectation for non-weirdness is not based on the actual specs a hashmap must have, just on contingencies ("but no other language I know does it like this") that apply to quite narrow criteria (iterating over statically added hashmap entries, if you added entries from a dynamic source, or added them in parallel, etc, they could very well change for every run without the language randomizing anything explicitly).
Yes, that was it! I used the same hack in 2012. Fun story: as a prize for winning the science fair with my robot arm, I got to go to Munich to visit ASDEX Upgrade (fusion experiment). I was staying there for a week and just spent each day with a different department.

They have a post-lunch lightning talk thing where interested people gather in a lecture hall with a cup of coffee to listen to a random talk. I was asked to demonstrate my project last-minute but did not have time to ship all the stuff to where I was. I had the headset though (an upgraded NeuroSky model). So I spent the night hacking away at a demo project that just involved kicking a virtual football (soccer) into a goal.

So at some point in 2012 there was a room full of nuclear scientists watching a teenager kick a virtual ball with "their mind". I just find that amusing.
You do realize this is about vertical alignment, right?
Throughput of those cables isn't so huge. It takes an attack of enormous scale which will be impossible to hide or misattribute to cause significant power shortage over a wide area this way.
Going extrajudicial also turns it into an immovable object "policy says no" rather than a deliberative process to achieve balanced justice.

I'm sure there would be plenty of cases where, even if the argument didn't end at "an IP address is not a person", a judge would recognize that cutting off service would injure third parties (for example, the children of the household enrolled in online schooling), or just acknowledge that in a 21st-century economy, blocking someone from Internet access may as well be sending them to a relocation camp in Amish country.
"Were there any reports beyond the Seymour Hersh substack post?"

Not that I know of. I'm basing my speculations on Hersh's article, Biden stating openly that "we'll bring an end to it (the pipeline)" and a bit of "ciu bono?".
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It's weird that this is your first ever comment. Given that you're posting your own tweet, I assume you're not quoting something. Did ChatGPT write this?
It is mitigating that we get so many questions, but I agree it's inefficient. As a human forecaster I also prefer being judged in part on my confidence in each of the alternatives.
> what we can expect from our employers when we unionize, as technologists. Hardball tactics.

>Good to see how it's played, to prep for that likely future,

For those that monitor critical infrastructure where down time is not allowed...just imagine your manager having to do that while you are on a picket line. Imagine the power you will have
Do you really think that a team blowing up a pipeline as part of an on ongoing war is necessarily going to follow all best practices and safety recommendations?

I think your comment is bizarre. Did you use an LLM to write it? I don't think many humans would write Lift Bag Management with L, B, M in upper case like that.
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What is the crime being committed? Lying? Is that a crime?

They’re literally using their freedom of speech. Not sure what else you would call it.
> but if they are then they *have to* give the results of their work back to the common pool they took from

Well, here we go. Your "open" isn't so open in the end.
> There has yet to be a single successful minecraft-like game

No? Off the top of my head, there's Teardown, which has sold over a million copies and has rave reviews.

And there's a lot more games that use voxel-tech but don't make it part of their core aesthetic, especially for terrain deformation/mining. Notable examples include No Man's Sky and Deep Rock Galactic.
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Why would you need 500kg of explosives? That's massively overkill.
Thank you!

(And I clearly should have read more carefully)
Those same systems can deliver nuclear payloads.

Which, specifically?

I suppose any of the thousands of regular aircraft that Ukraine has "could" deliver a nuclear payload. But that would be a pretty stupid way to launch a first strike, and doesn't change the MAD equation in any way.
I was going to say SnapDrop was discontinued but I see it is back again thanks for the reminder this must be the third or fourth time I have thought they pulled the plug and see it get fixed back to normal bravo developers !!
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Doesn't work with gas pipeline, especially not with undersea ones. They scale down terribly poorly, becoming incredibly expensive to build and operate per bcm/y if made thinner/"smaller" to have many of them for redundancy. Also too long, equally well attacked at any point, thus impossible to defend, and impossible to fix once attacked (saltwater getting inside -> pipes are wrecked after a few days, long before they can be sealed and drained).
I’ve been reporting major problems nonstop for the past like 20 years. It usually takes me less than 5 minutes when I first learn of some new security feature to find a problem with it. Most of that 5 minutes is physically writing my email to security highlighting major oversights. I don’t know how these people get jobs and gatekeep me out of both hiring or my scientifically accurate and backed feedback for not passing the buzzfeed security quizzes for certifications. I’m otherwise a full stack software engineer.

Even my simple requests like not auto flagging emails from confirmed and fully validated Microsoft services gets denied because it’s “too hard” so everything except internal users and random whitelisted services like github and azure AWS is instead flagged as suspicious, causing alertness fatigue.

I’ve reported major logic problems to many major companies and usually the only response I get is an indirect followup email through HR or some other non technical people sent to the entire distribution list as a followup saying how it’s technically better than what was there before (it’s scientifically and mathematically not) and that we just need to do it.

I never get recognized or win bug bounties because there’s always some loophole where I didn’t actually help them and they just magically fixed the long standing issue by coincidence after I reported it.

Most recently, I discovered a “feature” with Microsoft OAuth that has a severe flaw and could essentially shut down all MS OAuth functionality, and all consequences branching from that. Still no response.

I’m not even trying to find these. They just keep getting in my way of trying to do work.

For example, I have to authenticate up to FIVE times per authentication, per authentication —- Auth syncing can be slow leading to multiple auth requests that would otherwise only need a single one to propegate.

5 authentications * 5 programs needing individual (slow-sync) auth = 25 authentications I have to already pass to be able to start standup or pass in order to un-hard-freeze my live demo to potentially hundreds of engineers.

Imagine driving your car, and the steering wheel locks when it loses internet connection (like in a tunnel or just randomly) or because the re-auth period has passed. Security devs don’t want to full stop the car because they’ll get yelled at, so just lock steering so they can’t steer home.

Well now if you’re on a highway, that’s pretty stressful and dangerous. But it’s like they are just salting the wound by adding a series of glitchy minigames where you have to first read all the spammy popup dialogs, and then solve a Baldi’s Basics math puzzle, and then rotate a ball to not be upside down (?) and then manually match a missile launch code.
That's always been the power labor has, when it's chosen / been allowed to wield it.

That there aren't more strikes in the modern economy (until recently) was one sign of how unbalanced things were.
The objective was always "make money" - it never changed. What changed was the means of making money - originally journalism, now advocacy and activism.

The New York Times, in particular, clearly now is an advocacy organization instead of a news organization.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/slouching-toward-post-j...
Then you must have not used "mpv --vo=gpu-next".

Playing HDR and Dolby Vision encoded movies has been solved a long time ago in mpv, but they usually need the option shown above, which may not be the default on your system.

There are plenty of additional options in mpv that provide a finer control of how HDR colors are handled.

While playing a movie with mpv, press "I", so that mpv will display the information it has about the color space supported by your display and the color space used in the movie, which will allow you to verify if they are correct.
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>They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated and critical of each and every tiny detail, including on the need to rewrite the component.

I think this is fine? It sucks, but sometimes priorities change, and due to the additional attention paid to that feature, it may have turned out to be not as important as originally thought. Staying critical throughout the development process is important, to ensure the implementation is as good as the design. And, keeping a broad view can help alleviate tunnel-vision syndrome, although it can suck for everyone involved.
Yeah, I hate to be this person that has to constantly say no and no. Sometimes it's like I will say "yes" just so that everyone would see that I'm not saying "no" for nothing after the consequences.
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I really hate every article from this site when they get posted. The advice is never really useful, and the authors strike me as the worst kind of micromanaging, ineffective leader to work under.
> DSA

Data structures and algorithms, for those wondering.
> 1M Miles per Hour

That's ~450 km/s, or 0.15% c.

Importantly it's also the first object discovered by this project that's unbounded to the Milky Way. Like ʻOumuamua in relation to the Solar system, it exceeds the escape velocity and will never return to the Milky Way.
And why aren't more people switching to an OS that respects them (like Linux)?
I simply don't agree that the issues faced are the same; published reports detail how the complexities inherent to high-income non-filers and filers alike leave plenty of room for more accurate assessments. [0][1]

0. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106112

1. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a...
I think the answer (read from between the lines) is more: "There is no way to make it work for the general case of all video formats, and we don't implement a feature unless it works for the general case, so we choose not to implement it at all. If that means that we don't have that feature for the file formats where it would works, that's a sacrifice that we are willing to take."
> 7 days to die does not look like a voxel game

It is definitely a voxel game. Both games also share the same core gameplay loop of mining blocks of materials and using those materials to build other blocks elsewhere.

The wikipedia page for the game literally says "The game is voxel-based (similar in some aspects to Minecraft, but with smooth terrain)".

The fact it doesnt look like one proves your point wrong. There are many other places in the voxel game space which are as yet untapped.
A friend of mine got a hip replacement, and asked for the old hip.

They refused to give it to him. They said it was "medical waste," and they weren't allowed to deal with it, except in whatever federal manner was required.
On home consoles smoothed pixels were common due to CRTs but for the handheld world sharp pixels were the reality. So if you played any 3D DS or GBA games the output would look similar to the results in the article just with a larger color palette.
It depends on what format/decoder support went into your particular build of mpv. It offloads almost all of its capabilities onto ffmpeg and its supporting libraries, which in turn won't necessarily be built with exactly everything enabled.
Paradedb choose GPL. So i could see pg_duckdb accelerating past them. But then you never know each of them can change the license at any time
https://www.sharedrop.io (source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop) is a great user friendly option as well. I use it with friends, and even between VMs on the same machine.
At least they did _something_, but it would be better if they moved into the modern age of Go and provided the version above as well.
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We passed all of the points of no return, mainly the point of deciding to chase ever increasing profit over everything else.
I love beta testing for free!
Something missing from the obituaries is a funny trivia story about the guns they found at Delon's home in February 2024. 72 guns, 3000 rounds of ammo and no permit. He even had his own gun range. The lack of a permit didn't seem to be a problem until he was 88 and in need of a nurse.
I've read up a bit on it, and it seems I was wrong. I was under the impression that some kind of regulatory body that told Google that they don't have a good enough reason to lay off people, but it might have been their own council.

To lay off somebody, a company needs a reason, and the bar for being laid off because of redundancy is pretty high. You have to be able to proof that either the economic situation is bad enough that other measures don't help, or that their labor had been automated away, or other possible reasons that don't apply here (like seasons for seasonal workers).
> I couldn't care less what the goal of the documentary was. (...) And I don't care for the judge-king's censorship of "misinformation" either. I'll judge for myself, thank you very much.

But the Brazilian constitution does care for both these things.

That's why it requires special care during the elections in order to prevent abuse. What's at stake is a principle you find in every liberal thinker since modern times, and that grounds most (if not all) democratic constitutions worldwide: If there's no fire in a crowded theater, one can't shout "Congressman X started a fire! Run!", incite people to leave in a hurry and later claim that "I was just manifesting my political opinion, people were free to ignore and judge the situation for themselves", as if you were not expecting their panic and the risks associated with crowds in panic. You're responsible for whatever ensues, and if this kind of behavior can be preempted, it must be. Or so thinks pretty much every democratic country in the world, not just Brazil.

If we judge by the rule you mention, this would be censorship. That would mean there's probably no country in the world that could be considered democratic (even the so called "absolute" US freedom of speech is something of a myth, for there are lots of decisions from the US Supreme Court that would be deemed "dictatorial" according to the criterion you present here).

Bottom line is: Brazil lives under the rule of a democratic constitution built after much fight against real dictatorship and real censorship, not the rule suggested by you here (which, again, absolutely no country in the world lives by). You're free to disagree with the basic liberal and democratic principles grounding the Brazilian constitution, but whenever you and the constitution disagree, bear in mind that it is the constitution's point of view that's going to prevail.
It feels like we're (IT, hackers, et. al.) finally growing up.
Yep had one of these. For some reason I really liked the sound it made as a kid.
Craig fan here, agree it's zeitgeist and I'm loving the PG ecosystem
Copyright defines the use of a work. If training a model is not allowed under copyright law, it doesn't matter whether or not a work produced by that model is derivative or not (or even if the model produces no works at all)- the training itself is a copyright violation.

In the case of the US fair use doctrine, there is a four factor test which applies[1] one leg of which is the effect of the use on the potential market for the original work. In the example you gave "studying the old masters", it is trivially true that studying an old master has no effect on the future market for those paintings. However I believe copyright holders may well have a stronger argument about the possibly impact of generative AI on the market for their future work because of the ability of people to generate pastiches of their work. Even if those are not deemed to be derivative (which they may or may not be), the use of the original in training could be deemed not to be fair use because it affected the market for the original.

It's nowhere near as cut and dried as people on either side of this debate seem to be making out.

[1] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
You're thinking technical solutions to a sociological problem. Businesses like this are built on the fact that they can charge you an unspecified amount for an indefinite amount of time. Any attempt at a technical solution means those businesses refuse to adopt that solution.
How is related to sociopaths though?

To me it's just something that for example someone only got motivated during the commitment line. Maybe they were lazy, had other priorities or just didn't come to realize a key piece of information due to the complexity of the project. What does this have to do with sociopathy?

Also doesn't that value instead mean that you can disagree before hand, but even if you keep disagreeing you still have to commit once everyone decides on it. So you might have been critical before hand and also still disagreed, but in order to at least go some direction you have to still commit.

From Wikipedia:

> Disagree and commit is a management principle that individuals are allowed to disagree while a decision is being made, but that once a decision has been made, everybody must commit to implementing the decision. Disagree and commit is a method of avoiding the consensus trap, in which the lack of consensus leads to inaction.

It's about avoiding a case where things can't move on because people are disagreeing.
The ability to make a good first impression and to be thought of as friendly and likable by a wide variety of people.

That and regex.
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My favourite recent example was an app that made me create an account, and allowed me to provide a 24 character password, which then sent me a validation email requiring a login on their website, where a 20 character password limit was in force.
Indeed, describing a gas pipeline which already wants to explode. You just need to provide the ignition. You do not want to make a second attempt, but something more modest seems like it would have been just as effective.
> It's certainly not fraud if you are making progress towards delivering at some nebulous future date, and there was no contractual delivery date in the pre-sale.

Only legally, this is basically just fraud with legal disclaimers covering your ass, there's no integrity here and no intention of delivering anything more than the hyperloop.
TBF, it doesn't feel like the rarest of names.
A few Reddit communities moved to Lemmy successfully. The key was that the community leader decisively said "We are moving there. No more posting here." and people who wanted to remain in the community did so. Another important factor is that people wanted to remain in the community - it wasn't just slop content for scrolling past, that no one missed.
Yes. It has an active player base that is growing daily.
Quick process? Just look at it… every rewound tape has all the tape on the same side.
Nowadays mpv is able to decode it correctly, but it usually requires for that the command-line option "--vo=gpu-next".

A couple of years ago, mpv was unable to handle it.
I don't know if I'm using the word the same way, but I understand the benefit of mastery to be that you automate and abstract away things and can get to a point where you're just firing off mental routines instead of having to consciously focus on the specific task. This means that in a multi-faceted task I can focus primarily on the elements I haven't mastered, since the things I have mastered come easily and automatically. As a consequence, anything that relies in part on the mastered skill gets easier.
My friends parents had one… looked like a sports car
It was an estimation made up early in the coverage by experts when they didn't even know what kind of explosives were used (it's Octogen).
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A complete novice question: I think I remember reading that Rust is moving from one of the standard type checking algorithms (this one?) to general purpose Z3 SMT for speed. Does type checking happen to have the same complexity as SMT? Or Z3 is just so insanely well optimized with heuristics and all that it happens to give better overall performance then problem specific checking algorithms with better theoretical performance (eg this one)?
Be careful proclaiming how critical your jobs are, or you might be forbidden from striking, like air traffic controllers.
Back in the early 90's, before Linux took off, I ran Coherent. It came with incredible documentation, and I still remember the huge book with the shell on it.

And you're absolutely right about all the agile bull...
It's what the Brazilian Law says.
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If half the registered voters want to elect Adolf Hitler, is it acceptable for a democratic government to agree to ignore them? The Nazi party is banned in Germany. Is that good or bad?

I agree such a government is not acting democratically. However, it's better than the alternative. Don't we do democracy because it's usually good, and not for its own sake? Then if doing something nondemocratic is even better than doing something democratic, we should do the former.
without trying to draw the line between designed systems and duct tape, this question of whether or not the organization is functional is far more important to me as a motivating factor than these other things. Do I fell like the quality bar is high enough that people will demand that I write adequate tests, or will they just wonder why I'm taking so much time. Does my work dovetail with other people's? Are they depending on me? Is this useful structure or just some ill-conceived minor feature request that I know is going to cause trouble later.

Does anyone actually care about what I'm doing, or are we just running out the clock.
Also demonstrates how pointless that theater was.

A lot of GOOD malware don't "sniff keys" because that gives them random stream of garbage that has little value. No human is going to sit there and hand-decipher that garbage. Instead, they either inject browser extensions, intercept at the Win32 layer, or intercept the HTTP traffic upstream of the browser giving them the raw form-fields with URL which can be packaged and sold.

So all TreasuryDirect was doing, when they were doing this, was inconveniencing real people while the malware didn't even notice. Utterly insane. Glad someone had them quit it.
Related recent coverage about the failed arrest of one of the main suspects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41244947
My point is that you don't need gas specifically, but energy. Find ways to get energy without dependency on gas if the source is unstable.