skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slashing calories: Can it lengthen your life? (2003)
Assuming you are referring to phone books white/yellow pages, which do still exist - the major difference being of course that these could be trivially opted out of by calling the phone company. These days, you cannot come even close to reliably opting out of the digital “phone book” and it contains much more than your name, number, and address.
I'd make the more believable assumption that it's basically collusion between all kinds of device makers, OS makers, and software makers to transcribe voice to text that is stored in once central location on the device, then made accessible to a wide variety of apps. This is how keywords trigger ads and various content items. The EULAS that need the most scrutiny are those with device makers and OS makers, because they can deny certain access to app makers at the root of operations on devices, which they regularly dont, and they also complicate the transparency of how apps access our data and run in the background by design.

I'd assume that at major social media and software companies, this data from individual devices is accessible in almost real time, feeding a dashboard of information that only top executives can secretly monitor world-wide conversations and user activity for people that have their specific devices.

I'd also assume that this method of bootleg monitoring has been in play legally and illegally for some time now... It's far too tempting to company execs and CEOs to not get hooked on the god complex of having access to this level of data... If you think about it, imagine being able to access any photos and conversations from anyone on the planet any time you want...

Congress does nothing about it because many of them are afraid it will destroy the economy and upset the wealthy backers to these companies that fund all of them. One day long into the future, there may be a low-key class action settlement that won't change a damn thing, and lawyers will sweep up most of the paltry settlement money.

We pay thousands of dollars now for devices that spy on us, while they barely provide any means of opportunity and extra utility to us. Use black tape and cover your front camera, and leave devices at home sometimes... We're really defenseless against corporate greed and corruption though, watch what you say around tech devices now more than ever.
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Hmm, now this is making me think, does the Higgs field act like an additional degree of freedom for energy to be dumped into? I mean like a photon is massless, so any amount of energy, it will already be going the speed of light so the only place where additional energy to go into is the frequency. Perhaps with massive particles, a portion of this additional energy now gets dumped into this resonant frequency rather than translating into motion? So the energy stored in this resonant frequency would be like the kinetic energy...? or maybe totally wrong :)
+1 to Superset

https://superset.apache.org/

I know that Apache Pinot integrates with it directly, so if you need a backendian solution as well as frontendian, that's a powerful 1-2 punch.
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Given that the number is not being picked randomly, this is more a game theory problem than a software problem.
In college, I took one lab course different from all the others after a senior told me it was life changing.

In this lab the class was broken into teams and you were handed a smelly pile of bacteria. You were told the species and then had to read the literature, to learn how to purify specific restriction endonuclease (an enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific location based on its sequence). You were given access to basic molecular biology lab equipment. At the end, each group shared its RE and everybody used everybody's RE to map a plasmid. This is 1970s state of the art, but by the 90s was pretty much routine.

The class kicked my ass. I struggled at every step and barely managed to reach the end. Lab work is quite hard and it can be challenging to master the techniques. A coworker was moved to tears during a challenging step involving a purification using a membrane bag, but reasoned that since tears are salty, they probably helped the purification when they landed in the solvent.

I passed, but barely, and it took me ages to learn even the basics of doing stuff in the lb. it's one of the things that convinced me robots will do a better job in the lab than any human, although in retrospect, it's actually quite hard to build a robot that's better than an average lab tech.
Some places do. Waste to energy plants are a thing. One of the big challenges is running a large, stable, chemical reaction on unknown fuel. It’s difficult to burn things hot enough to reduce potentially dangerous compounds while also having variable input. Then, the gasses need to be monitored to avoid dangerous compounds reforming as the exhaust cools.
I got that too, but had never seen that permission before.

I just went ahead and allowed it.

Current best practice is not to ask permissions like that (location, notifications, or programming midi devices) on landing, but to stick them behind an interaction like a toggle or button press.
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We don't have any plans either way, but we've been thinking about this a lot. We've realized Repaint might be useful as a Figma that makes real code, so we're open to alternative business models.

Frankly, we've been very focused on making Repaint a great design tool to build websites and haven't thought about hosting that much.

Would you want to self host? Or maybe edit the code output?
Food is very very important in France so we call it nourriture :)
What is it? The web site doesn't work (FF, Windows & macOS). If they really propose replacing pitch by color, how are they going to get people to tell minute differences apart? How are they going to display chords, or polyphony? Octaves? And as if written notation doesn't exclude enough people, they're now also excluding color-blind people, some 5% of the male population where I live.
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This is cool!

Reminds me of Uniqode, which is used more for traditional martech. What's your back-end look like? Uniqode was using Apache Pinot (StarTree).

https://startree.ai/resources/beaconstac-10x-faster-queries-...
Not really suprising that Japan has that many suicides after reading stuff like this... Soul crushing.
this falls apart in america when the government just buys the private data.
The stepwise increasing TTL is the fundamental mechanism that makes traceroute work. Any answer that omits this is so vacuously incomplete that it might as well be considered wrong.
\o/ looks like that won't be needed much longer: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83324#c27
Wiz8 runs pretty well still. The GOG version even still has the computer builder ad on exiting. I think they got their money's worth, because I got curious enough to go to the website in the ad and they're still in business! Who knows, they might still get the occasional sale from that 20+ year old ad buy.
I don't know, but search for "saas vendor due diligence" and you should find a bunch of stuff. Every big corp I've been in the approval seat has a different process so it's not standardized for sure but generally the basic process is the vendor sends out the questionnaire as an excel sheet and provides a box folder or something to dump the evidence in, and then there are a couple of zoom calls to talk through any questions or concerns. There are certification type things like iso 27001 and isae 3402[1] and although they make this process easier because you will rip the bandaid off and take all the pain in one hit I wouldn't recommend a startup go for those right away[2].

[1] https://isae3402.co.uk/isae-3402-and-iso-27001

[2] Going for them will suck up a lot of energy, focus and time and you can't really tell which ones your clients are going to ask for in what order so there is the danger that you get the priorities wrong which would be a bad mistake in the early stage of a saas startup. So what I would recommend is you read through those and whatever nist guidelines and stuff like that and bear them in mind as you build your product, then start researching who you will get to do your ISAE/ISO27001/SOC1/SOC2 audit when you need one, then when the first client says have you got ISAE3402 (or whichever other one) you say "we're working towards it" (which is true) and as soon as you get off the call with your client call your preferred audit vendor and start the process. "We're working towards it" is an acceptable answer for most big corps because they know the process is slow (iirc it takes a minimum of 6 months for any of those because you have to demonstrate the process over time) and they are slow anyway so they don't mind it taking a minute for you to get it done. Then once you have one, the next time a client asks you for that one you have it, and if they ask you for a different one you say "we have <x> already and are working towards <y>" and rinse and repeat. It's going to be easier this time because you'll be able to repurpose some of the stuff you produced for the first one for the second and so on.
Founding vs. Inheriting (2021)
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The Fourier Uncertainty Principles [pdf] (2021)
I've been working on OpenTelemetry for a few years now, and regularly field questions from end-users wondering why data doesn't seem to end up where they want it. I'd say that at least half the time, switching from the gRPC exporter to the HTTP exporter simply solves it.
My county has one that does 90% of our garbage, and its not an easy problem. The key part is scrubbing the smoke to get rid of the polutants, and then cleaning the ash to also get rid of things like mercury.

The only way they can seem to make a buck is to charge high rates to dispose of 'medical waste' that helps with costs.
Not a good trend...
> which is new enough to force https but old enough that all it's protocols are deprecated on modern machines

This is the danger of https only. http services may be insecure, but don't ever expire; https implementations will expire without updates, and there's not going to be updates on these, and it's unknowable when the expiration will be.
For me the most conspicuous thing missing is dynamics... particularly when there are "ghost notes" in between much louder ones during a fast passage, it seems like something is missing.

That said, however, I find it to be oddly satisfying to watch. Curious if experience playing different instruments has anything to do with it. To me, something like a xylophone or a steelpan feels pretty analogous to this.
A boss of mine once told me: „pick the title that will make our customers believe you are the right person for the job“.
Are we really "pissing it away"? For example the fact that VS Code is an Electron app written in HTML, CSS and TypeScript opened the door for many extension developers. I prefer it this way compared to the older native/Java-based IDEs.
What trips me up is that we don't think of the field being a real physical thing. But isn't the field really the _true_ physical thing, and the wave is just a concept we overlay on it? Like, water is the real physical thing, and the wave is just an arrangement of the water that we recognize as humans. Isn't it the same with the EM and electron fields etc?
> Productivity is falling at its fastest rate in four decades.

1. Productivity is an ambiguous term.

2. Measuring/comparing productivity over time is hard.
The examples are pretty silly, especially the first one.

If you know that you need either a shipping or billing address and the user has specified which one they need, just query based on that.

There’s no need to introduce a function (getTableName) to detemplate a string or match on a case.

Instead just create a function that gets the item you want from the DB and has the table name as input.

On your UI make sure when the users specifies billing or shipping address the correct parameter is passed to the API.
Not particularly; it's not even _supposed_ to be a measure of wellbeing/standard of living. It's at best a measure of economic activity, but it's kind of problematic even for that, especially in an increasingly globalised economy.
this is just basic thermodynamics, converting liquid capital energy into emotional energy which has monetary value to justify the loss of heat produced by the conversion cascade from liquid capital to revenue
Or maybe I'm just not a fan of war propaganda?

I don't care if you question the facts or not. I want you to question the motives.
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If you do try to revive the floppies, be aware that most USB floppy drives can't read 400k and 800k Mac disks, so check a mac specific forum before buying one.
Bro. Read the article.
We dream about this all the time. Unfortunately, it breaks too much default behavior like browser extensions, password managers, SEO...

Maybe one day :)
even without tech, justice system is already ruining people's lives unjustly. so maybe we have to discuss failure rate, processes in place to correctly use the tech, instead of just saying it has to be bad ? the question is will the tech help ruin more people lives that was already the case or not or improve the odds in some cases even
IANAL, but they either have to honor the verbal contract (pour an additional cup AND pay $20) OR the contract is void and therefore they can be sued for assault. Of course, the "can" in "if I can" may be construed as "being able to", but that's up to the jury I guess.
It can be heavily skewed. The UK and Ireland are two examples. Ireland's GDP per capita is heavily skewed by the Big corporations that are registered there for low tax purposes. And the UK's GDP is heavily skewed by London's financial sector.

Its a very rough indicator. Silicon Valley and the poorest county in Mississippi are in deep contrast to each other. California has one of the highest GDPs per capita in the world. Mississippi has the lowest in the USA.
yeah kind of a waste of time, what is this 50% mixture of green and blue? pick one - Blue or Green

answer it should have: Its both
Ask HN: Recommendations for math books with rigour and proofs
I have been trying to learn math for last month just for the sake of learning Math. But most of the books don't go into depth and prove many of the things they teach. So hackernews, please recommend me books that go in depth proving things with right. Not restricted to any particular topic in math.
Since our city started collecting green waste separately, it's interesting to see what goes into our garbage. It's basically non-recyclable soft plastic, cat litter, and dog poo bags.
Yeah, I know about the max tokens. As long as the code stays below that limit, I can get sonnet to emit complete python scripts; run those directly & return the results to sonnet, and I have a great feedback loop. That breaks down when sonnet can't emit all the code at once, because then you have to figure out ways to predictably assemble a larger script from a smaller one...that's where I couldn't find a decent solution.
You're thinking of forests in California and the rest of the Southwest

Many (most?) PNW forests sit on very deep peatlands. When they burn, it's a catastrophic release of captured carbon like the fires Canada has been experiencing over the last few years. Once those fires start, it becomes a vicious cycle of fire drying out deeper peat which burns the next fire season, sometimes smoldering underground for years before burning out.
Ah, thanks for the info! I do think this default does have some ramifications, especially in that binding casings are typically changed due to it even for "non-native" wrappers which I find materially makes things more difficult.
Yeah, in spite of releasing some very important and reasonably popular games, I think Sir-Tech always kept the soul (and structure) of a small business.
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Very nice explanation by Matt Strassler. I am not sure it is possible to do better without getting into the details of quantum field theory.

For those who know quantum mechanics I would add that the oscillations mentioned in the article are just the familiar exp( i E t ) of any wave function that is an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian. For a particle at rest in a relativistic theory (and in units where c=1), we of course have E = m.
Things that annoy me about Figma:

- No way to set defaults for new frames etc ( that I know of )

- Some things rely on mouse input (setting width modes etc) which breaks flow

- Generally not for power users

- No decent code export

- No stylesheets for retheming components /showing variation (I know there's a Variant workflow for it but it's not simple to restyle an entire hierarchy)

Would love to see you tackle those if you're not already.
Great to see you following CSS more closely, makes so much sense.

But if you aren't allowing us to extract the code / self host then I'll be passing on it. Digital feudalism
That SME guy sounds like an asshole, but I used to have an interview technique where I’d ask increasingly specific and low level questions about the candidates area of expertise until it got to the point where I’d be pretty confident they wouldn’t know the answer off the top of their head. I wasn’t adversarial or rude about it, I just wanted to find out if they were comfortable saying “I don’t know”, because not knowing something is an everyday part of technical work, but not being comfortable saying it can be big source of issues.

The candidates who were otherwise the most competent tended to be the most comfortable with the I don’t know answer. Getting defensive about it I always considered to be a red flag.
I remember being in school and thinking that "what if my (color) is your (other color)" was a cool question, and then later I think I reasoned out that color is measurable so the actual color is objective, and the differences between different people is just like... rods and cones that are somehow different between people aka partial colorblindness.

So I don't know what this is.
"The rise of repair shops also points to a new, more resourceful mindset emerging."

A slow return (peeking out from the ashes). I went to a Dewalt shop a few years ago to get a pneumatic tool of some sort repaired. They pointed to the big bin full of older tools in the middle of the floor and suggested I throw it away and I could get a new one.
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I mean, I think many people would rather that this was in the hands of _neither_, tbh.

The AI Act (note that this fine was under prior legislation, not the rather new AI Act) bans this except for specified national security purposes, but I'd certainly have preferred to see it ban it entirely.
It'd be nice, but I don't think that model would be workable here.

Somewhat oversimplified, but the two Japanese syllabaries hiragana and katakana are around 50 distinct characters each, so that a core 3x4 board of "keys" responding to tap(-and-maybe-swipe (up|down|left|right)) will give you roughly the full set of each. Generally, tapping the key designates the consonant; swiping (or not) gives you the vowel. There are 5 vowels, and roughly 10 consonants. There's a couple of other symbols added on as modifiers for voicing, etc. Again, oversimplified, but that's roughly it.

(Side note, and I'm guessing here, but I suspect this model probably evolved from T9 texting)

From a brief inspection of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script, the Ge'ez syllabary/abugida (used e.g. for Amharic) needs 6-8 vowels across at least 26 consonants, and then some more combinations for labialization/velarization, and then some more for application in specific other languages.

Following the Japanese model, that'd be a pretty big grid :) Phonetic input seems a more workable model to me at least.
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Also, he didn't steal it, he paid for it.

The charge isn't that he stole it, but that he violated export controls. I'm not sure of the details, but it seems to have to do with using shell companies to conceal the identity of the purchaser.

As an aside: Maduro is a thug, and everything he buys is bought with stolen money. This is how rich people get their hands on stuff they're not supposed to have -- by making it look like they're just "buying" it. Through shell companies and other shenanigans.

How is this a win that the US enforces its laws beyond its borders?

I'm just as much an anti-imperialist, and critic of most of what the US does in the world as you are; probably even more so.

But hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And Maduro is an imperialist warmonger himself, remember. So if the seizure helps to clip Maduro's wings (and is in itself in accord with international law), I'd call that a win.