skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular article was likely co-produced by the CIA itself as a sort of puff piece. "Look how awesome and brave our James Bond supersoldiers are. But also they struggle too!!!"

Random journos don't get this kind of access to multiple Agency personnel unless it's part of a PR campaign approved by higher ups.
Voter ID would be reasonable if everyone had them, or had free and very easy access to get them. Most countries have some kind of unified government ID, in Germany for example it's mandatory to own one of two kinds of government ID. Sadly this is not the case in the US, where many disparate state IDs exist, and many people never have any government ID for their whole life.

Now, Republicans could take away this argument by instituting a government ID like you're suggesting. It would have to be well thought through - the structure of US society puts many roadblocks in front of those least likely to have IDs, like:

- often large distances to government offices, which can be expensive to travel if you don't own a car

- many people basically can't take time off work, sometimes from multiple jobs, or they risk losing their health insurance

- usually you need some kind of documentation to get a new government ID, and many people don't have this available for a number of reasons - according to this source[0] at least 1.5%

Any solution would have to work around these issues, but it's definitely not impossible. And once this is implemented, the Democrats' concerns would be taken care off - why don't Republicans seem to ever work on this? If you started requiring voter ID without doing this, you'd de-facto be banning people from voting - often times those who are already marginalized. Yet I haven't seen Republicans running on implementing such IDs. Why do you think that is?

I would agree with you that the Democrats should bring this up too, if there were evidence for voter fraud beyond the usual margins (that also exist in elections in other countries). But I haven't seen such evidence, and all attempts by Republicans to find evidence in investigations has completely failed. So why should Democrats compromise with them on this point? Why can't Republicans alleviate their concerns before implementing voter ID?

This reminds me a lot of the attempts during Trumps presidency to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Somehow they always tried to repeal it first, and never presented their better replacement. Four years ago, they promised that their plan is two weeks away, yet it's still nowhere to be found. But they are still running on repealing the ACA. I wonder why? Why does this pattern keep coming up?

[0]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mill...
This is already the case, all linked questions are shown in the right sidebar and you can easily navigate through the graph, both up and down.
The human toll of the war on terror, on the domestic side, is a topic that remains under-explored.

Western society, and the US in particular, would benefit from greater introspection into the true costs of its policies.
Museum Invites Back 4 Year Old Who Destroyed 3,500 Year Old Jar
Yeah. If isn't doing this, then what could it be doing that is worth a paper? "real-time user input and adjusts its output accordingly"
There are still parts of the world where $10/hr is a good wage locally and would put someone in the upper rungs of workers in their local economy. They're just not places it's particularly nice to live if you're someone with internet access.
Can you do the equivalent change in functionality that is possible with Gnome Shell extensions?
I wish I could use the same account on more than one device. For my family I've subscribed to Snikket and stopped using Signal
For my team it would be a module for visualizing GPS sensor lat/long readings on maps.
Backdooring a social media platform to undermine encryption "in the name of children"... It's for child safety alone. Sure. ::insert eye roll::
Have supermarkets reached peak self-scan?
I don't think Microsoft viewed Mono as a competitor. Even before Microsoft acquired Xamarin for hundreds of millions of dollars, they already had a history of collaboration on .NET, including sharing test cases in order to help with compatibility, and co-developing integrations into Microsoft products such as Azure and Office 365.

The "keeping [developers] from developing products that can actually compete" assertion is frankly absurd. .NET's real competitor is and has always been Java. Java, possibly the world's most-used platform that isn't JavaScript, has always had heaps more people working on it than .NET's entire ecosystem, let alone just the Mono project.
> Therefore I don't think it has any clue about the 3D world of the game at all.

AI models don't "know" things at all.

At best, they're just very fuzzy predictors. In this case, given the last couple frames of video and a user input, it predicts the next frame.

It has zero knowledge of the game world, game rules, interactions, etc. It's merely a mapping of [pixels, input] -> pixels.
I used this to identify some intermittent loss in one direction from I think Kyrgyzstan to the UK, There was a claim that sometime flows were fine and sometimes they weren't. Problem was an ECMP in Pakistan or Iran which was using udp port numbers to balance the flow. Could consistently get 25% loss with certain numbers and not with others.
> The tech world is too big.

Had the same realization today.

Hugo was my first introduction to the idea of static site generators.

That got me thinking what other tools pre-dated it and then I found this excellent series on the evolution of SSGs [1].

The only name I recognize in there is Jekyll !!

1. https://cloudcannon.com/blog/ssg-history-1-before-jekyll/
The methodology used in the underlying paper is, to put it generously, not even wrong. Way past “assume a spherical cow” territory.

It supposes you could simply hire programmers to build OSS from scratch.

If you have ever worked on a large project in a corporation, you instantly know how shockingly ignorant this is.

Hint: many of them end in failure and are never released at all.

Then there are the massive amplifications that happen due to the mere existence of open source: learning, spreading of ideas, reusable tooling, and more.

Has any business school ever produced a paper worth a damn?

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-...
Is there a chance that you're old enough that these layoffs happening to you aren't quite as random as chance would have you believe?
That's cool- please add more songs! :D
I don't need to give my intellectual labor away for free in order to be altruistic.
> especially in cases where the squashed sources were credentialed medical practitioners and researchers.

Every profession has its quacks and those borderline educated people. You can get a 70% in school (or whatever your school's almost failing grade is) and still become a doctor.

The only reason things are more "heavy-handed' today against misinformation (also for the record, putting quotes around a word doesn't change it from being lies) is there being so many people pushing those lies for certain reasons. Largely political (control) and fear mongering. In an attempt to themselves build mistrust against something to further their own goals.

This misinformation is causing serious problems that are being pushed to the side.

Unlike those that are pushing this misinformation, the scientific method is willing to admit when it is wrong. It is entirely how it is built to work.

Maybe instead of being so worried about the "censorship" (which again, to be clear they can continue to say whatever they want but they are also not free from the repercussions), you should ask why there is so much passion behind fighting the misinformation and the damage that misinformation is causing.
What do you mean, is a company named “TIFHSGFN” not normal??
My company has layoffs a couple times per year it seems. Somehow I’ve been around almost 20 years, though I’ve rarely felt my job was secure in that time.

Sometimes the layoffs seem random or simply wrong. The people making the decisions often don’t know the people. Though I have seen where people end up on the list and the boss saves them somehow. Other times it’s totally out of their hands. Like the director who gave someone a bad review to send a message to the person to get their act together. It worked, the person really improved. However, the layoffs were based on those old reviews, so the wrong person got let go.

I’ve found that it’s not really about what you do for the customer, it’s about making your manager’s life easier. The people who seem like a lot of work to manage seem to be first on the list to go, weighted against perceived impact.

So if you’re relatively new to the company and haven’t actively and noticeably made your manager’s life better, and your impact to the final product is mainly seen by you and those right next to you, it could be easy to end up on the list to be laid off, even if the work you did was good. At least that’s how I’ve seen it through the dozens of layoffs I’ve watched happen.

Even within my team now, the person who should be laid off is our scrum master. He’s not good. However, the boss has this idea that the scrum master will make his life easier eventually, or getting rid of him will at least create a gap that he would need to fill until someone else can get into that role. So that guy is still here and has been given years of time, failing repeatedly. Meanwhile, the last guy who did get laid off did actual work. He was still a bit green and needed some direction and the occasional watchful eye, but he was a net positive to the team, and was getting better, while the scrum master actively hurts us and shows 0 improvement.
So you are claiming that Cosmic has a stable plugin API and ABI?
> the problem is fundamentally the same as things moving out of sight/out of frame and coming back again

Maybe it is, but doing that with the entire scene instead of just a small part of it makes the problem massively harder, as the model needs to grow exponentially to remember more things. It isn't something that we will manage anytime soon, maybe 10-20 years with current architecture and same compute progress.

Then you make that even harder by remembering a whole game level? No, ain't gonna happen in our lifetimes without massive changes to the architecture. They would need to make a different model keep track of level state etc, not just an image to image model.
I think most of us, when offered the choice explicitly, would choose cognitive effort out of pride, and yet we all choose pain over cognitive effort many times, the pain of boredom and confusion, of unrealized visions and unexpressed ideas.
I will throw in a random story here about chat gpt 4.0. I'm not commenting on this article directly, just a somewhat related anecdote. I was using chatgpt to help me write some android opengl rendering code. OpenGL can be very esoteric and I haven't touched it for at least 10 years.

Everything was going great and I had a working example, so I decided to look online for some example code to verify I was doing things correctly, and not making any glaring mistakes. It was then that I found an exact line by line copy of what chat gpt had given me. This was before it had the ability to google things, and the code predated openAI. It had even brought across spelling errors in the variables, the only thing it changed was it translated the comments from Spanish to English.

I had always been under the impression that chat gpt just learned from sources, and then gave you a new result based roughly on its sources. I think some of the confounding variables here were, 1. this was a very specific use case and not many examples existed, and 2. all opengl code looks similar, to a point.

The worst part was, there was no license provided for the code or the repo, so it was not legal for me to take the code wholesale like that. I am now much more cautious about asking chat gpt for code, I only have it give me direction now, and no longer use 'sample code' that it produces.
Interesting companies! Thanks for sharing. What role would you like at those companies?
I know, I was just wondering because my first language is not English. I agree that X is an awful name.
This is perhaps the best response to a situation like this. It feels rare nowadays to come across a forgiving institution.

There's so much vindictiveness nowadays, nice to see the opposite!
In most places you would be arrested for installing 18 gas turbines without permission. This is the type of behavior you would see in a third world country with no laws.
> your question seems

Well it's not.
There's a difference between an investment and a grant.

What ownership share, promise of future payment, board seats, or other rights to control Signal was assigned to the Open Technology Fund by receiving that grant?
My friend also developed almost continuous eczema for the past couple of years, and tried cutting out a large variety of foods from her diet to see what might be causing it.

Everything failed. And then, one day her normal brand of shampoo (which she had been using for 5+ years, and is advertised for sensitive skins) ran out, and she didn't get a chance to buy it for a couple of weeks. To her surprise, no eczema during those weeks! She changed her shampoo brand, and her eczema problems are gone, at least for now.

My point is, if you are trying to selectively eliminate things from your diet/lifestyle to figure out the trigger of your eczema, don't ignore things that you have been using for years before your eczema started.
To know what's normal would require a review of statistics, I think. I'll skip that and just give my opinion instead.

Anecdotally, I was laid of 2x in the last 2 years. Plus I resigned one year before the big rounds of tech layoffs started.

By the way, I'm objectively a highly talented engineer (largely within a niche). It's been almost 4 months between jobs now and this honestly is the worst I have felt in a long time.

Each of my 2 recent layoffs was because a decently funded but unprofitable startup faced extreme pressure. Which actually was maybe smart because those companies were not performing at those times. But it still sucked. I knew I was joining risky businesses. I bounced back from the first one pretty fast, to the second one.

I don't think going to a big co is necessarily any more stable than going to a small co, based on reading about the last couple years' layoffs.

So I think the thing to do is focus on doing something useful, important, and profitable with one's abilities, ideally building on the capability set one has been building up for a while already.

In big tech cycles, I this is expected to go on for a couple more years at least , then I imagine a gravy train will run for 6 or 7 years or so then, more of this, etc. It's episodic, I think. Early '90s bad, mid-late '90s awesome, 2001+ bad, then mid-2000's awesome, then 2009+ bad, then 2010's awesome, then 2022+ bad, etc.

Fundamentally, to be blunt, the problem with the last couple years (or longer?) is stupid companies doing stupid things. So that's not necessarily going to be too stable.

So I think it would be best overall to create or participate in efforts that are not stupid. That is harder said than done, but I think it is possible and worth doing. This is partially what keeps me optimistic.

Looking at other careers, they all have their pros and cons. But there are multiple decent ones.
It's an aspect of undercover that makes the job much more difficult than a 007 type of spy. There's been plenty of movies made out of undercover agents trying to juggle their real life relationships while keeping it hidden from their undercover relationships. The real life relationships tend to not workout so well.

It's an interesting concept that a lot of people take for granted on the struggles it can cause.
Not at the Country level, but unions have been able to make it mandatory in certain industries and companies.

It is how they hold their power. If it was optional, they would whither away over time.
not paywalled on my end
If you're OK doing it manually (not scripted), Inkscape can do this.
>> I don't know their individual stances but ideologically their source is pretty staunchly in the pocket of allowing police access to data sources like this.

> That seems a bit counterintuitive since the circuit court that ruled geofence warrants unconstitutional is a conservative one

This decision by the 5th is surprising, near to the point of shock. It is wholly out of harmony with previous rulings - which could heap privileges onto police that went beyond the scope of the case.

> while the circuit court ruling in favor is more liberal.

Which are usually a crap shoot. Non-conservative courts have a long history of siding with police. Prosecutors are on appointers' radar much, much more often than defense attorneys.
Okay so lets say $10 for every Android cellphone that puts you at 30 billion. Not sure how you want to estimate server installs but a quick google puts forth 96% of web servers run Linux.
Below the IP layer there is always the physical layer somewhere with all the complications.

Traceroute also doesn't show VPNs or other transports.

But it shows the TCP hops and the timing, thus gives me the tools to see who to call or which routing table or wore to analyse or fix. When doing that I got to lok at that connection.
The method that paper used was as useless as it could possibly be.

https://hachyderm.io/@hyperpape/111784908079127255
I wonder, Is it possible attention global GDP is also a human quirk with negative economic impacts? Good luck.
It might be better to say "changes in state are time".

This is a deeper understanding of what time is than the common one we have... but... since "the common one we have" is the result of living in a universe that is absolutely constantly pounding state changes into us every Planck-time of our lives, and I don't know about you but I'm not building anything that I expect to exist in some sort of ontologically different state, you can do rather a lot of work with the "intuitive" concept of time. Even complicated server communications which are fast enough that the fact that relativity bans "simultaneous" becomes relevant can be understood just fine in an intuitive framework.

I do find it helpful to conceive of time as "state changes occurring" for a particular case, though, which is multithreaded programming. It is helpful to conceive of threads as "perceiving" time not as ticks on a clock, but changes in the state (which can be to a first approximation be 'lines of code executed'). From this point of view, threads do not experience time as a clock ticking onward, but as "a particular value that exists but only when they look". That is to say, if a thread "consults the clock" and determines that it is noon on Jan 1st, it can be helpful as a programmer to understand that that does not particularly mean that three lines later, it will be noon on Jan 1st. Arbitrary amounts of universe-time can progress between any two lines of code. Threads really relate to each other not across universe-clock time, but by what observable effects other threads cause on them, and only on what observable effects other threads have on them. In principle, two threads that cause no effects visible to the other are essentially running in different universes. This is a place that a mathematical mindset can really help.

But, again, this is just a sort of helpful thing for relatively advanced mental modeling, but you can get a long way just based on assuming a monotonic universe-clock.

This is why I assert, with some vigor but without much persistence (since it's obviously a massively uphill battle), that a clock-simulating library really should not be based on assuming threads will witness a monotonic universe clock, and a clock-simulating library ought to make it possible to test that a task nominally scheduled to come after some other task actually runs to completion before the first task even starts, because that can happen in the real world. In an imperative language, you can assume that one statement within a thread will follow another, and that the external threads you can see are also operating in that order, but the slip between those "ticks" can be arbitrarily large.
It's the same with TikTok. If you search literally anything, some absurdly curvy, skimpily dressed woman will be part of the search results. Weird because I thought adult creators would be the first to be censored once social media platforms got to the profit maximization stage. G rated content is the biggest revenue multiplier in the media business
It's good that you have access to both; out of curiosity, is there any differentiation in the way it list them in the menu where you pick which one to use, or is the order consistent? I can imagine being mildly annoyed if I had to guess every time I logged into a new device which one was the one I wanted, although obviously that's still better than just not having a choice.
Layers of London: a map-based history site by Institute of Historical Research
> They actually want him to comply with the French law (a country which he is a citizen of) and timely remove the illegal content that he's been made aware of.

Do you have a confirmation for that or this is just your guess? Maybe they want access to all Telegram messages.
I’ve stayed at all my jobs for too long (6+ years) and regretted it every time. I have been promoted but the pace is glacial. Upon reflection the right time to leave was always 2-3 years earlier, usually right after a promotion rather than stick around for the next. I will say that first ~4 years was always worth the investment, after that, especially when you hit your RSU cliff (if you have one), it’s time to go.
To most it's a blunt shorthand for radical progressivism to the point of an obsessive panic about who's the biggest victim and the biggest victimizer. It typically points to somebody who holds an ensemble of ideas surrounding race, gender, diversity, feminism, safety, sometimes mental health, disability, obesity etc with particular emphasis on performative acts of policing the language people use to refer to groups of people.

The terms 'whiteness', 'white privilege', 'diversity', 'social justice', 'equity', 'equality' are poorly defined too, and mean different things depending on who you ask. Our language is full of these poorly defined umbrella terms. But I know what to expect when I hear somebody described as 'woke'. In fact you use 'conservative' this way in your comment, but conservatism encompasses a very broad range of thought too.
Our immigrant ancestors were almost all unskilled. I’d rather the government not tell me where I can or cannot live, as a matter of basic human freedom.
Yep, I think that's perfectly defensible. I even will elaborate on HN comments only for a price (listed in profile).

But there will be others who will participate in the open-source economy of sharing and they will benefit and we will benefit.
yes, linux also is a good example of a student project that addressed a lot of enterprise-level use cases
When did free and open mean you must be able to host child porn? This is a perversion of free and open IMO.
ooh those would be nice