skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly right, I'd missed: "number of red balls by picking a number between zero and 100 from a hat."

Or, rather, when they talked about this being different from a coin flip, I misremembered that the set was a human choice.
Balancing Privacy and Convenience
Do you think people in the US are far more relaxed when sharing their data to apps if this means they will get a very tangible benefit (like saving money) compared to European citizens? To what extent does regulation play a role here, and how does that impact the creation of new startups that will "deal" with vast amounts of user data in the US and the EU?
No constraint optimization can replace Pentafunk Jenny ;)
No hiring for you.
Magical dependency injection frameworks, that is.

Plain old putting-dependencies-in-the-constructor-instead-of-newing-them is great.

If you 'wire' it yourself, you see the top-level structure of the project in main, e.g.

cache <- createCache "./cache"
workQueue <- createWorkQueue parallelism
projectFinder <- createProjectFinder basePath
gradleBuilder <- createGradleBuilder cache
normaliser <- createNormaliser
gradleParser <- createGradleParser normaliser
relationFinder <- createRelationFinder cache normaliser

At a glance I can see what uses normaliser, and what is used by normaliser.
In the meantime: France has been having very low carbon electricity for decades while all large industrialized countries trying renewables are still far from reaching the same average gCO2/kWh per year. Still much better than doing nothing though, I hope they manage it someday.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...
"for all practical purposes instantaneously"
Hey! Do you accept Canadian applicants? Cheers
Very interesting article. I'm guessing this will remain a cat/mouse game for a while.

However, any moves will increase the cost of training on un-licensed internet data. This will shift the balance slightly closer towards AI companies licensing data as opposed to using scraped data. Emphasis on slightly.
Have you looked at NGOs/non-profits?* Many of them are very small and cannot afford full time coders/developers/support. They might not pay a lot, but if you gather a bunch of clients together you can easily start making quite a bit. They usually have comparatively simple requirements, but are very underserved because they cannot pay as much.

I would say, though, that NGOs/non-profits can have very interesting employees, to put it kindly. They are usually very stressed, underpaid, and overworked, but also very committed to the cause. For those reasons, I'd recommend approaching them only on a contract basis.

Another option is Higher-ed. I've seen some absolute coast jobs in higher-ed related to archives and databases. You can easily be only working essentially part-time hours for full-time (modest) pay.

* By no means should you only think "charities" --- many NGOs/non-profits are arts and culture/legal related as well, for example.
Come on, no one buys a compact convertible sports car based on safety. The IIHS doesn't even bother to test the Miata. But you can check their ratings for some of the same tests across model years of different cars.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings
I think every project passes a threshold after which the time invested will only be considered worthwhile if you ship it.

Before this threshold, you're learning new technologies, trying new techniques, and generally developing skills that could be applicable elsewhere. After this threshold, you're becoming an expert in the project itself, which will all be for naught if you don't finish it.

So my advice would be give up on projects that are near that threshold, and only continue beyond if you intend to finish it.
Huh, I leave mine on the charger all the time. Sometimes for days.
Upwork is terrible. Most projects are scams and the ones that are real are so overwhelmed with proposals you don't get anything
> Today however, disk space is no longer considered an issue;

Tell me you don’t use Docker without telling me you don’t use Docker.

I’d argue the certutil problem the author mentions is a flaw in certutil, not argv’s fault. Doesn’t that mean it falls to symlinks as well?

If you look at sudo, it’s generally deny by default. Rename a program all you want, you won’t get to use it unless you can overwrite a program that is in the sudoer file. So I don’t know what nonsense certutil is playing at if it’s using argv to do its job. That’s appalling.
I'm currently using the API from Luxand, but I believe there are many good alternatives available.
A friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step form. All the questions were literally "This is question 1" and "This is what a radio group question with a heading looks like" but Google's bots eventually found it and flagged my entire domain on the phishing lists because it thought it was trying to impersonate a real government service. It was an utter shit-show trying to get Google to undo their stupidity, all whilst my customers couldn't access their services.

I put up a dumb password prompt at the start of the journey (with the password given on the page) and haven't been flagged again since :fingerscrossed:
I've got to chime in here, because of how much this overlaps with the project I've been working on called Haven[1].

A lot of these problems go away with a decentralized/open-source private model. If your posts aren't public then there is no spam. If everyone runs their own node of open-source (or better yet: open-protocol, ie RSS) software, then there is no centralized entity able to have incentives of profiting off the platform.

Information propagation speed is a good call-out as dangerous. Even with all the spam/shilling/trills removed, it still leads to the girl who's having a great time on her snowboarding trip until she posts pictures on Instagram and drops into a foul mood because not enough people immediately liked her posts.

I'd love to connect and share thoughts, feel free to reach out[2]/

[1]: https://github.com/havenweb/haven

[2]: https://havenweb.org/contact.html
Interesting find! Will definitely check it out. Thanks for sharing!
I classified cyan as green because, well, it's greener than pure blue, and it's also the most greener you can get than blue, in RGB space, without losing any blue :)
The purpose of an interview is not to root out a bullshitter but to find someone you can work with. If that guy doesn't know about TCP/IP, move on to the next topic. If the guy has poor attitude, be polite. Just don't waste time with making fun of the candidate, it does not reflect well on interviewer and company.

For what we know, the guy may well have been employing "test-taking strategies", and he may have been led down the garden path by the interviewer.

There's far too many posts in Rachel's blog where she goes on about "the one", who knows much better already, and here she channels the asshat that she complains about when she encounters him at work.
> commissioned by the World Health Organization

The WHO was a huge advocate for contact tracing during COVID. Many countries simply accept their guidelines for public health standards. Given how corrupt the funding of medical/scientijfic studies are, this is not to be trusted.
We're not looking for a PM at the moment (probably also not in the near future).

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Hey! This is a standalone executable; you download the zip file, unzip it, and double-click to run. I was thinking about instead making it into a minimal installer that would move the program to C:\Program Files\PlasCAD or similar, then set up shortcuts and file associations. (There is something similar for Linux).

Did you hit a snag in that process? This sort of feedback is helpful, as you may have hit issues I haven't when testing.
This is not "new technology". Cell phones have been around for 50 years and in widespread use for more than 25 years.

Non-ionizing radiation (in the range of frequencies used by mobile phones) has been used for wireless communication for more than 75 years.
I used to pipe things through black for that. (a script that imported black, not just black on the command line.)

I also had `j2p` and `p2j` that would convert between python (formatted via black) and json (formatted via jq), and the `j2p_clip`/`p2j_clip` versions that would pipe from clipboard and back into clipboards.

It's worth taking the time to build a few simple scripts for things you do a lot. I used to open up the repl and import json to convert between json and python dicts multiple times a day, so spending a few minutes throwing together a simple script to do it was well worth the effort.
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What do you mean by loopable mindmap? What software do you use for this?
> It simply creates unnecessary clutter in a toolbox.

And then you proceed to... invent several pale imitations of a symbol/usages search.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435862 so as not to repeat myself
> One idea that might reduce the problem that the UK has would be to adopt the Polish system of dividing the country into four school regions with staggered holidays.

Predators will be predators, and the prices will be jacked-up to cover the holiday span of the four regions..

The choice we have is to not given them money by not going there..
This clickbait title is about comic book movie actors making money at conventions.

"Fan conventions, where stars can take home hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for a few hours of time, once were the domain of has-beens and sci-fi novelties. But the business has become so lucrative — think $500,000 for Captain America‘s Chris Evans or The Walking Dead favorite Norman Reedus to appear — that current TV and film stars are popping up at events like Salt Lake City Comic-Con and Heroes and Villains Fan Fest."
I haven't read the study but it appears to include studies as far back as 1994. Mobile phone technology has changed a lot in just the last few years (MIMO, 5G etc). Frequencies used are increasing meaning decreasing wavelengths and decreasing penetrating power. I would hope that means less effects on the human body...
Those towers still have ugly looking antennas on them; they're just too high to really be noticeable on the ground. [0]

But for modern cell networks, you don't really want very tall towers. Taller towers mean they pick up the UHF radios from further and further away. You can realistically only carry the same number of subscribers per cell, so to support more users you're going to want to have more but smaller cells. In even medium density areas, you want your antenna elements closer to the ground to have smaller cells.

Giant tall towers make sense when you're trying to broadcast or receive signals in a large area. They make sense for television or commercial radio or emergency services VHF/UHF radios. However, that's totally unlike modern cell networks today. And even then a lot of emergency services radio systems are going for more of a distributed network of antennas throughout the city instead of just a single giant tower.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Ol...
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Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators
Does the foot soldier carrying out a raid in some far flung corner of the globe understand (or care) about how his actions fit into a greater strategic whole?

You're conflating tactical level action (some guy you don't like coming to your small company and demanding a different lug-nut while high-fiving the union rep) versus big picture strategic objectives.

Which is weird because in other parts of your post you are grappling with big picture impacts -- cars got big. But then you're going down to "some of these a-holes I had to deal with didn't care about emissions! So this whole thing all the way up to Obama himself was never about emissions!"

There are plenty of studies that show that the auto regulations did in fact reduce emissions substantially. You're also pointing out that there were other unintended side-effects. Totally valid! And I appreciate your on the ground perspective.

But it's just so.... Breitbart to then go off on how this was really Obama progressive liberal control freak stuff and not actually about what the bill did in fact do, which was lower emissions.
Disingenuous how? it's a factual comparison list.

You say it's pointless to compare to VCV Rack Pro where the whole point of the Cardinal project is to create a plugin version.

I think your commentary is disingenuous.
+1 for this. I too use Readability via Simon's shot-scraper tool.
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I used to do it a lot myself since it's closer to the thought. But I'm also dyslectic. Getting lost at which stack-depth I'm at while reading made me respect short and to-the-point writing.
> In ye olde times, back when we actually raised taxes to have money to build things, we built aesthetically pleasing radio towers

People still build this kind of stuff, it's just less common because it's way more expensive (it's labor intensive, so it doesn't get cheaper over time).

Most companies have turned to the other way of doing this, they just offer money to the buildings, and if they consider it an eyesore, they can pay for the "beautification". Most building managers won't do it though.

The funniest thing of this whole business is that a lot of residential buildings oppose the installation arguing "health issues", which ends up with the antennas built on another building. They not only don't get the cash, but most times their actual exposure goes up.
This feels a _bit_ like 'water is wet, study finds'. Like, I'm a little surprised that they felt the need to run the trial; even the most overconfident AI booster would probably have been reluctant to tell them they'd find anything different.
I think you forget the exec system call’s first argument is a path to an executable, followed by an array of arguments, where arg[0] lives.

I can’t find issue with exec(“/proc/self/exe”, [ program , … ).
Thanks for the suggestion and trying out. I will change that.
"Doesn't mean anything" is a shorthand for "not well-defined" and "means completely different things to different people" which makes it a useless word for any serious conversation.
If you think that this project makes any money you are completely clueless.
I tried finding such roles when I was younger and cared more about flexibility than pay. My assessment back then was that most people who hire a part-time dev are hilariously underfunded and insanely price sensitive. Offering a part-time role is a sign that they don’t actually have enough money to be in the software industry, rather than an indication that they have less than 40 hours a week of work to outsource.

Disclaimer: I am American living in the US. These sorts of arrangements might be more palatable to people living in places with lower costs of living.
Talking about tooling, it’s kind of incredible how good John the Ripper is at cracking passwords. I think a lot of people would benefit tremendously from seeing how fast their “clever” tricks for coming up with passwords are demolished.
Not the way I understand it. In the execv documentation[1], you pass the program name twice:

int execv(const char *path, char *const argv[]);

The argument path points to a pathname that identifies the new process image file.

The argument argv is an array of character pointers to null-terminated strings. [..] The value in argv[0] should point to a filename string that is associated with the process being started by one of the exec functions.

Windows does not allow you to do that, AFAIK.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/e...
Nice!

Also, greetings to a fellow Buckethead fan!
"Can produce nonsense for cheaper than a human can produce a useable summary" is probably not a _great_ endorsement.
E.g. food and art are very important in Japan, so stomach is i and a drawing/painting is e.
Style is!
I mean sure. All software is built on assumptions. Make sure the assumptions you’re making are appropriate in context.
A bit of a curveball I spotted was professional skill marketplaces like https://www.bark.com/en/gb/software-development/ which, when on the platform, you'll find people posting their esoteric software dev requests which could lead to some interesting gigs.
Higher-tier freelancing networks like Toptal were my go-to for these roles.
LLMs are just art as code. From the article:

> he crafted detailed text prompts and then instructed DALL-E to revise and manipulate the generated images again and again. He generated more than a hundred thousand images to arrive at the twenty images in the exhibit.
This is probably the minimum you should do. I remember a time when IPMI on (some?) Supermicro boards was really really insecure. From the IPMI client, you could set the encryption mode to "0" ("null encryption" or something, I dunno it's been years)- setting it allowed you to bypass the password completely. Assume if you can touch the IPMI, the system is yours.
Like I wrote, I looked at Helix. Seems cool but not enough for me to switch. And I would have to install it on the machines I work on, which very often I can't do because of company policies, or can't waste the non-billable time on.

I only recently moved from screen to tmux, and I still have to fall back to screen sometimes because tmux doesn't come with every Linux distro. I expect I will retire before I think tmux (or screen, for that matter) "sucks" to the point I would look at something else. And again I very often can't install things on customer servers anyway.
There is a reason for part time programming jobs not to be common: in most case, you want the work to be finished as soon as possible.

Part time makes sens as an employer for jobs that require constant presence and not much context to be executed (think of a cashier, for example). Then you can fill a full time with multiple part time workers.

But for jobs like programming, part time makes less sense.
I think it depends on the amount of the radiation. While non-ionizating radiation doesn't have the ability to remove electrons, it still can heat up surfaces. Microwave ovens for example use non-ionizing radiation to heat up food, but this amount of radiation could potentially be dangerous if exposed to, because it could destroy human tissue.
Funny enough I’m (east) German and my first association was the Russian word “tovarisch” (meaning comrade or friend).

Wondering what Dr. Freud would say about that…
We can see some of that in IIHS driver death rate data. Of course it's just observational data and not a controlled experiment; for example, an affluent person who buys a Mercedes-Benz E-Class is probably going to drive more carefully than a "credit criminal" who buys a Nissan Altima. But you can see some general trends from real world crashes involving a lot of different speeds and angles.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
"Star Tours" at Disneyland doubled down on this uselessness factor. When it opened in 1987 I was fascinated, as a teen, and there were several demonstrations of the technology they were using, and principles they exploited, to make a roller-coaster ride out of a "room" that never traveled anywhere! It was a large-scale flight simulator, in fact; you cram people into the fuselage, shut the doors, and then toss them around with hydraulic actuators while showing them a film, and the combined sensations really convince people that they're in motion, flying through space, and being buffeted by battles and explosions.

The waiting in line part was even made fun by all the branded Star Wars animatronics. There was never a dull moment, even if it was two hours before you actually boarded the "ride".

But it was all completely fake, pseudo-futuristic, and based on a fictional universe of characters who don't exist, yet with all those layers of simulation, people paid good money and invested an entire day at the park to be hoodwinked and thereby entertained, and indeed, inspired to bond with friends, family, and significant others.
There's a faithful (mechanics) remake of the original on Steam - Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord . The original view is in the corner - https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/stea...

The price tag is a bit high, but the nostalgia was worth it (for me).
So what? Fans are happy, stars are happy, everyone's happy.
Whistleblower who warned about Florida state parks fired by state agency
Wouldn’t this then be best for calibrating VR headsets most?
I think it’s just someone being overly critical in a way that’s more than a bit silly.
Simply searching for strings rarely works well as the codebase grows larger. Because besides knowing where all things named X are, you want to actually see where X is used, or where it's called from, or where it is defined.

With search you end up grepping the code twice:

- first grepping for the name

We're literally in a thread where people invent regexes for how to search the same thing (a function) defined in two different ways (as a function or as a const)

- secondly, manually grepping through search results deducing if it's relevant to what you're looking for

It becomes significantly worse if you want to include third-party libs in your search.

There are countless times when I would just Cmd+B/Cmd+Click a symbol in IDEA and continue my exploration down to Java's own libraries. There are next to zero cases when IDEA would fail to recognise a function and find its usages if it was defined as a const, not as a function. Why would I willingly deny myself these tools as so many in this thread do?
I really want to believe there are people out there for whom UBI would motivate the, to take a part time job to do something they love but couldn’t afford to eat on.

But I don’t know if human nature supports this. If you’re a five year old and you know that you don’t have to work, does it change how you dream of the future for better, or for worse? Does it end up like the Expanse where people have UBI but are still miserable because they can’t afford to go to school to learn a trade, and colleges become socialized and bureaucratic, enforcing artificial scarcity?