skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term scrutineering isn't F1 specific jargon but largely used in most forms of motorsport where the vehicle/bike is inspected to ensure it complies to a set standard.

For example in another sport motocross, dirt bikes need to pass scrutineering to ensure the bikes are within specification. This often includes checking the riders gear to ensure it is safe.
My phone bank now uses voice recognition. It used to be letters from a password.
It was sadly hinted as a recent or non standard feature by Github's syntax highlighting not recognizing it either
Hm, not sure if I did something against that already, but for me the option in about:preferences was unchecked and also I am unable to check it. I am not sure why that is, anyone has an idea?
Fractional scaling was introduced in late 5 update and wasn't touched in 6 at all, per-monitor setting is only in Wayland for an obvious reason.
> Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population

Is the supreme federal court's judge of the country with said population a billionaire? I had no idea.
> Although I know it starts as cleartext on whatsapp's servers

WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol[1], so the text is never plaintext on the wire (or servers).

1. https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
Honestly yes

> To make matters worse, Mozilla has turned on its “privacy preserving attribution” by default. Users have not been informed about this move, nor have they been asked for their consent to be tracked by Firefox.

So more privacy by default is bad? What kind of inverted logic is that?

> If killing PPA meant the internet would suddenly be advertising free, I would be 110% on board, but that's not going to happen. Advertising is the dominant business model on the web and it's not going away

Obviously

At some point, this exagerated antagonism causes more troubles than it solves

This is the same logic of people who think rent controls do anything but cause more problems than it "solves"
Why do we need to regulate all this, I thought the market will do what customers want?
Explore Music Non-Linearly
People really underestimate the difficulty of playing a violin well.

The instrument is held in a quite unnatural position. Beginners must learn to become comfortable with the contortions necessary. You hold the violin up by squeezing it between your collarbones and your chin. Your hands/arms are to NOT provide any support.

You have no frets on the fingerboard with mere centimeters or millimeters of gap between notes. You must be absolutely precise in your placement at all times at all tempos to make sure you are in tune. Due to the nature of most classical music, you are constantly shifting your hands up and down (forward and backward) on the fingerboard, thus eliminating the ability to "anchor" in one place. Only hours of dedicated practice can develop the muscle memory for such precise placement.

These placements must be done very quickly. A full 4/4 measure of sixteenth notes at 120 bpm means you are placing a finger down approximately once every 0.125 seconds.

Now, while all of this is going on with your left hand, your right hand is manipulating the bow to draw the sound out of the violin.

You must, at all times, draw the bow across the string with the exact amount of pressure, speed, and angle to produce a clear sound. If you are playing a full 4/4 measure of sixteenth notes at 120 bpm all separated (so a different stroke for each note), you are also moving your bow every 0.125 seconds. At the exact pressure, speed, angle and position on the violin. Be wrong in any of these and you will not produce the desired sound.

Often times, due to the rhythm of the piece, you will be moving your bow hand in a pattern very different from the left hand. So you are effectively doing two very different things at the same time. For example, if in that 4/4 measure described above, every group of 3 notes were to be played by a single stroke before changing directions, you are now taking an action every 0.125 seconds on the left hand and an action every 0.375 seconds + one extra 0.125 second stroke at the end.

Now do this while reading sheet music, listening to your fellow ensemble mates to balance sound, watching a conductor to match tempo, express emotionally the intent of the piece.

So then, one must commit enough practice to make all the necessary motions to produce good sound an act of muscle memory. So that there is no conscious thought put into expressing anything the music needs. Thousands upon thousands of hours of drills so the cognitive focus can be on musical expression. To make it as effortless as speaking.

Only then can one sing with the violin. Child prodigies aside, it seems like it takes approximately 3 - 5 years of consistent training before one plays at a level considered "adequate". Elite orchestral players require nearly over a decade of training just to be basic orchestra members. Virtuosos and stars report practicing every day for 4+ hours and will note that any extended break will result in rapid degradation of sound quality and motor skills.

It is a very difficult instrument with an incredibly high skill ceiling and a very long tradition of virtuosity.
Because this went viral a few times now
Depending on your application, you can very accurately estimate it. And in a case I had yesterday, it involved stringy numbers because of a third party system, so I could indeed add a computed persisted column that converts our number to a VARCHAR, add a 9th index with a lot of fields on that computed column and then save… almost nothing compared to just scanning 6k rows.
I made me check the source code. It's actually built with table layout, not just mimicking the vibe.
The page even says in one of the examples / comments:

"It is accurate to model them as functions that take zero or more parameters."
> probably a net downgrade in security posture, as user friction just normalises a culture of circumvention

There is even a CWE for this concept: “CWE-655: Insufficient Psychological Acceptability”

> The product has a protection mechanism that is too difficult or inconvenient to use, encouraging non-malicious users to disable or bypass the mechanism, whether by accident or on purpose.
No notification on upgrade for an opt-out feature is sneaking in ...
Debuggers are not great when you have a bug that occurs between multiple CPU cores, hardware device timing, etc.

In those cases, a debugger just can't stop the world, so back to printf it is.
> Reproduce the issue.

Once you have done this, you are already over the hump. It's like being the first rider over the last mountain on the Tour de France stage, you've more or less won by doing that.

I'm not sure I even consider it a challenge if the issue is easily reproduced. You will simply grind out the solution once you have the reproduction done.

The real bugs are the ones that you cannot replicate. The kind of thing that breaks once a week on 10 continuously running machines. You can't scale that system to 1000 or more with the bug around, you'll be swamped with reports. But you also can't fix it because the conditions to reproduce it are so elusive that your logs aren't useful. You don't know if all the errors have the same root cause.

Typically the kind of thing that creates a lot of paths to check is "manual multithreading". The kind of thing where you have a bunch of threads, each locking and unlocking (or forgetting either) access to shared data in a particular way. The number of ways where "this read and then that writes" explodes quite fast with such code, and it also explodes in a way that isn't obvious from the code. Sprinkling log outputs over such code can change the frequency of the errors.
There are a few services in Germany that you can use to cancel a wide range of things. They use exactly the right wording and channels with each of them. They'll send faxes, snail mail, etc. Take care of escalating, etc. Whatever needs doing. Kind of hilarious and sad at the same time that that is a thing.
> If you’re still using a diff tool that can’t do sub-line diffs it’s time to join the 20’s.

I think you failed to understand what I wrote.

Leading comma ensures one line diffs, but trailing comma forces two-line diffs when you add a trailing argument. With trailing comma, you need to touch the last line to add a comma, and then add the new argument in the line below.

We are not discussing bundling all arguments in a single line. I don't know where you got that idea from.
I'm no fan of PONs myself[1], but realistically they do still represent more than order of magnitude improvement over copper (or wireless shudder), while also proven to be very economical to deploy. Lets remember that perfect is the enemy of good, I'd much rather have PON with 90% household coverage than active fiber with 10% coverage.

Practically also with 50G PON already being standardized and 200G in the horizon it will take decades before the limitations will be relevant; with typical 1:32 split you get comfortably 1G service to subscribers. I do expect gigabit connectivity to be generously good for 99% of users for long time.

It is also noteworthy that while PON was originally standardized as asymmetric, it seems like ISPs have had a change of heart and are widely deploying symmetric PON (i.e. XGS-PON). I don't know what is driving that change (Twitch streamers and Youtubers? :D) but I'm happy about that.

You blame ITU for PON, but IEEE has been pushing EPON (ethernet-PON) for almost as long (GPON ratified 2003, EPON in 2004). Ultimately standards organizations are driven by industry, not the other way around. With the industry having some very big players in it, I have no doubt that PONs would have happened regardless of their standardization status.

While PON is shared medium which is conceptually yucky, in consumer world its impact is less because lines are massively oversubscribed anyways. It doesn't make much difference if you have PON or active fiber if the bottleneck is the uplink.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634415
Yup! Rehearsals also help to make sure everyone has a mutual understanding of the general tempo.

But good musicians will quickly fall into the correct tempo when playing with each other.
I saw a concert with a small regional orchestra recently. The first violin stood which triggered the tuning, but she did not join in playing until a handful of instruments were already in the chorus. I don’t know who started but I’m willing to believe it may have been the oboe.
Isn't s3m a bit too modern for chip tunes? :-)
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"Privacy preserving Advertising" is bullshit. Just do context based ads.

Oh you're in a car subreddit? Maybe show car ads... instead of hyper personalized diet ads for my fat ass...

Advertising is not hard to do without collecting tons of data, it's just a little bit more expensive if you can't target that well. I don't care. Only they care about that.
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Thanks! That's not harsh at all, it's exactly what Tim and I are looking for. It's honest detailed feedback with great reasoning. I appreciate you taking the time to provide so much detail.
Huh, I thought the regulation that cancelling has to be possible the same way as signing up was EU-wide, but apparently it’s only in Germany then.
ActivityPub, the Fediverse and all of that are great places to go and discuss ActivityPub, the Fediverse and all of that. That's pretty much it.
That's pretty good considering quite a few states straight up ban Tesla storefronts.
Of course it is. CIA, Mossad, & other clandestine orgs now have cryptos to launder their money. They learned their lesson from the Gary Webb incident. Translate “Satoshi Nakamoto” to English.
In my experience, you get labelled as not being a team player.
Interesting, I thought that was unique to the US. What I’m hearing is that Gym memberships are universally predatory. I’m a bit of a cynic and honestly I think Gym memberships somehow will find away to weasel out of this requirement.
>There are stories about department stores stopping this and losing lots of sales because their customers were addicted to it.

This sounds like what happened to JC Penney.
Subpixel antialiasing is going to be problematic anyway on newer displays that don't necessarily feature a plain RGBRGB (or similar) subpixel arrangement. For example, many OLED screens use RGBG/BGRG or even more complex "PenTile" subpixels.
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>Why would you want to remain wrong longer?

It's not about "remaining wrong longer," academics don't care that much about being right. Opinions on works change throughout the years, and its hard to keep track of who did what if nobody can make proper attributions.

>If you published your work online backed by git with hashes with a free public service like GitHub, how could someone steal it?

I'll tell you something, because you have very much outed yourself as a dweeb with this comment: there are physical libraries in the world that are over a thousand years old. GitHub is 16 years old. I would much rather have my work stored in a physical library.
It was opt-out without any warning in the browser for users.

They sneaked it in.

It's that simple.
Maybe that’s why there’s so many wind instruments in jazz, and rockabilly. I’ll show you busy.
Set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false in about:config and problem solved. Not the first thing you should disable there and not the last.
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Hah, how interesting. I can’t believe I’ve never seen that one before.
> It's equivalent to an old POTS party line

I strongly disagree. On a party line information flows along the copper cable to every connected endpoint bidirectionally. While it's true that incoming information flows to all subscribers, never does information that flows out and you only get scrambled data even on the incoming stream. So if you're trying to make a security argument: the system is also safe on a physical level.

> We can do better!

Depends on what "better" is. I was quite critical of PON in the past but I have come around. Practically at this point I think PON is a better way to run networks in most places. At one point you hit a bottleneck anyways and not having to run individual fibers makes for a more resilient and cheaper system.
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This obsession with regulating everything is why California will never have its own tech giants like Alibaba or ASML.

Californian voters should just accept that an unregulated market is the only way to get any innovation at all.
The groundwork isn't there. Computers were the result of blending Maxwell, Boolean algebra, and some fairly obscure speculations about computability in the most abstract sense.

There's nothing equivalent waiting for someone to industrialise it. AI is being hammered together out of bits and pieces, but there's no Grand Theory. Robotics is the same, but further behind. Bio is similar but maybe a little ahead.

Physics and math just haven't primed the pump for another revolution.
Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent
Also in France, curious which gym you are talking about.

Went to the three _main_ commercial gym brands, and cancelling did NOT take more than a week including the letter arriving time in one case. The other two were online and with the branch staff.
My stance on moderation is that if it is not illegal the user should block accounts posting things they don't want to see. The algorithm is designed to create an echo chamber for you and will eventually do so given the right signals.
One mainframe system I need to access has an exactly 8 character password requirement. (Consulting work for an insurance company.)
For now, give it a couple of years. The very fact that you're thinking about "is my car compliant?" is already a win for them.
EDIT: this was a snarky comment that didn't add anything, can't delete anymore but can still edit, so here goes.
I'd go back even further and say Napster was the original social net. You had to kill time somehow while downloading MP3's slowly. Might as well chat with folks who like the same music you did!
They should do automatic un-enrolment if you aren't using services too...
opt-out is sneaking in
As I remember it, Sears was basically gutted by its CEO, Eddie Lampert, for his own personal profit at the expense of the company.
repeating what user u/randomdata said already,

> - they want to save money training the employees,

> - they want to save money doing research (let rather the taxpayer pay for the research).

means they want to offload costs to the public in order to increase profits, which is what I said above.
Did the supreme federal court judge force twitter to break that nations laws?
I'd not use Orion. They can barely build a working search engine, I don't trust them one bit to code a secure browser
> The alternative to privacy respecting advertising is the malware-ridden surveillance machine that exists today.

That's just not true.

TV, newspapers and magazines supported themselves just fine using zero tracking on the advertising they ran. That is still an alternative for websites today. We could shut down every single method of tracking user's actions in a browser, and WidgetCo would still pay to advertise using static ads on the widgetclub.com website with no more privacy invasive data that the webserver page views and the click throughs to their destination urls.

Doing that would make _some_ of the forms of advertising polluting the web these days uneconomical, but seeing fewer Temu ads or "sponsored content" or "around the web" blocks filled with scams, conspiracy theories, and political donation begging at the bottom of every page on half the websites is a good outcome not a bad one.

The idea that advertisers are owed any more data than that, or that the developers of web browsers need to bend to the will of the surveillance capitalists is insane.

Sure, if you choose to run a "free" web browser developed by the DoubleClick advertising company (masquerading as a web search company), then I guess you have to expect the browser to serve that advertising companies interests more than your own.

But most of us expect more than that from Mozilla. They are _supposed_ to be on our side.
Statistically (and from experience) I'm probably the weird one here, but I cannot fathom why Datomic isn't more popular.

I get that postgres is a good default in many cases, and I don't expect SQL to die tomorrow. But there are _so many_ apps (most/all backoffice apps I've worked on for example) with 10s or 100s of transactions per second at most, that would love to have the data available directly inside your business logic, and where both business logic and devops would improve by many orders of magnitude by having a full transaction log of all changes done to your data over time.

Is it _just_ because Datomic is different and people don't get it, and that preconceived notions makes you think Datomic is something it isn't?

Here's to the crazy ones!
Opt-out is simply a violation of the EU GDPR. For me as an EU citizen it was checked after the update. I hope the data protection agencies have the capacity to punish this behavior, sadly a lot of bad actors still get away because there aren’t enough resources.
The answer to that question does not imply innocence of the prosecuted.
It's promising but like 10 years behind chromium
I'm "pulling this from" the settings on my browser. When I look at the check box in preferences it's unchecked and greyed out.

I then check about:config and dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled is still set to true.

Looking at the Mozilla wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...) I don't see any discussion of telemetry as controlling this behaviour.

It is not clear to me what is going on or what the state of this feature actually is. Have I opted out or haven't I?

After the initial complaints they must have known it was controversial. I stand by my original point, they could have been much more upfront about this.
Instead of joining tables and using distinct or similar to filter rows, consiser using subquery "columns", ie in SELECT list.

What does this mean? Running

SELECT
column1,
(
SELECT column2, column3, ...
FROM table_b
WHERE table_a.id = table_b.a_id
)
FROM table_a

Results in "subquery must return only one column" as I expected. You mean returning the multiple columns as a record / composite type?

Keep in mind GROUP BY clause usually dictates index use.

The reason for this wasn't immediately apparent to me. For those who were curious, this blog post walks through it step by step: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/06/indexing-for-group...
I think it's vital that you can run your own modem but I'm not convinced that it's a good idea to force a custom ONT. An ONT is about as dumb as it gets and it's entirely transparent on the stack.

The benefit with an ONT (or even DOCSIS dumb modem) managed by the ISP is that they can do fleet upgrades much quicker as they don't have to keep all old protocols running. For instance the GPON -> XGSPON upgrade that some ISPs are running right now (or DOCSIS 3 upgrade) really only works well if you can turn off the old protocol which requires swapping out all ONTs/DOCSIS modems.

If customers bring their own stuff then you're stuck with these things for much longer.
All wallpapers are available here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-backgrounds/-/tree/gnom...

Windows and macOS users, notice that they're in JXL format. You'll need a converter to use them as wallpapers on your machine.
What’s the value in doing this unless it makes the diff clearer?

It only makes the diff clearer if you don’t have single character highlighting in your diff tool. Which most have now. Have had for a decade.

Also it’s not going to be a single line anyway. You add a line to the query and one to the caller. At a minimum. So you’re really arguing for three versus four. Which is false economy.
There is no site more perfectly suited to turning people off the fundamental democratic value of free speech than Elon Musk's Twitter, circa 2024.

The front page is just brazen anti-Semitism and racism at this point. And no, I am not referring to some reasoned debate of the Gaza War or social issues, I mean literal memes with hook-nosed men, their captions explicitly referring to the Protocols of the Elder of Zion. I mean photos of black children with captions about low IQs. It's truly abhorrent. Open a no-follows, no-cookies Twitter account right now, and see how long it takes you to get something like this on the front page of Twitter. It won't be more than 30 seconds.

I have truly never seen anything like it. Perhaps it's old hat for some of you 4Chan types, but it's profoundly shocking to the average person. If Gen Z or their successors kill the First Amendment, it will be because Elon groomed them to think that this deluge of darkness is what free speech is all about. It is not.

Twitter is an echo chamber that offers direct financial incentives for being the most vociferous hater, the most demented racist, the most extremist politician. That's a thumb on the scales, which kills off any notion that what emerges out of Twitter is the product of open and free discourse.
> so does GNOME unless that's changed recently.

Which imo was a bad choice. It works pretty well on MacOS because Apple only ships machines with a fairly constrained, known set of resolution/physical dimension combos. And they sell their own monitors for stuff like the mac mini where that isn't the case. This means they can design all their UI elements to be the "right" size without needing fractional scaling for a very large percentage of their users.

Gnome is running on all sorts of screens, with all sorts of resolution/dimension combos and on a lot of them you have to choose between "way too big" and "way too small".