skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People break laws all the time but don't think they did anything morally wrong.

His trial proved he knew he was breaking the law for personal profit. His behavior absolutely fits the definition of greed.

your original argument is

> I dont think it was greed. I think he legitimately thought he was doing the right thing, thought it was fun, and thought it was interesting.

Again it's all in the trial and the mountains of evidences against him.

Personal enrichment was the motive for the fraud, plain and simple.

He even admitted the whole 'effective altruism' was a farce to get on the good side of the progressive elite and their media, as he was also funneling money to republicans but more discretely all for the same reasons: political connections.

And it worked given the initial portrait left wing media made of him, "someone who got way over his head", they gave him the benefit of the doubt for a long time and he thought he could roll with that image which would get him off the hook... while he was intimidating his co-defendants by releasing personal informations about them... do you also deem the latter just "fun"?
> I assume it still blocks actions when someone tries to interact with the user

That would be weird, the block is there so you don't see their posts & replies, but your block shouldn't affect what they can do. Maybe other people want to see their replies, why should a third party block them from this?

It would be like if IRC's /ignore function prevented someone from sending messages containing your name – weird. You should be able to block yourself off from anybody you wish, but not to control their public speech.
Yeah, unfortunately you're right that they are real conventions. Quite common too.

I also _understand_ why they exist. It's simple: It makes code marginally easier to write.

But writing confusing, unintuitive and honestly plain ugly code. Just so you can save a second after clicking run and the compiler tells you the mistake is a bad reason.
This is where the west can get into real issues vs china; if china manages to fix their homegrown gpu gap (and they will), Xi can simply order the largest datacenter and nuclear plant (or order an existing one to direct all power; china will have 90 more than they have now soon-ish anyway) to get built and it will happen in short order. Without some ceo having to explain or look for money or taking any environmental concerns into account.
Sad part is they're stored often plain text and agents can read and even sometimes use their own judgement so a little social engineering acting like a confused older customer could be an easy bypass - especially if the agent sees it as a keyboard mash.

I till use random security questions though, better than the alternative.

One time I was trying to set up a security question and it kept saying the info doesn't match their records and it seemed they were actually validating against public records. How friggin stupid.
Yep, you pretty much have to enter a name when the question asks for a name. Doesn't actually have to be your mother's maiden name or whatever though.
Had to scroll all the way to the end to find the "running out of time" bit:

> That "something good" needs to happen soon. The Liberts said they're feeling their age. His dive pals are, too. They can’t keep diving. And the couple can't afford more court battles for salvage rights, they said. They said they expect no treasure, no material benefits at all from their find. They just want, in their lifetimes, to see the wreckage identified and protected.

> They’d like to be assured that this exciting and very early slice of Michigan history doesn’t stay lost in the sand under Lake Michigan. I’m on board with that.
Presumably you are thinking about queries in code that add WHERE clauses dynamically that aren't escaped correctly- which doesn't have to be the case.

1 = 1 is at least handy for simply joining a variadic amount of other clauses with ' AND ' rather than counting if there's any to add at all.
Ok, so in this case it's party politics after all. Which means Mr. Williams might still be alive if this wasn't an election year?
A relevant article from July with information how to disable the "feature": https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/07/14/mozilla-di...

Personally I've been using FF for the last 4 years even though I consider it a worse experience, but I'm becoming disilusioned with it and considering moving to LibreWolf. I'm also interested in trying Orion (by Kagi), but haven't had the time yet.
It’s quite common for the first oboe to play the tuning pitch.

> As far as I know, there's no standard way for the composer to notate a solo for, say, violin[1][15]

Because it doesn’t make sense. You don’t know who sits there. You just want the sound of a solo violin, and the first chairs have gotten to their position because they can deliver.

There are all sorts of weird annotations in scores though, so if you think that one part sounds best when played from the last row, you can just say so in the score.
> I will always assume anything and everything they do or say is to my detriment.

Precisely this. Never open your mouth.
Obligatory video showcasing this: https://youtu.be/WyvfKFVRqVs
Twitter is no longer showing things to logged out accounts, but you can still create a separate account
Anyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?
I really like the idea that street cars, trains and subways could share a single network (kinda like they do in Tokyo, except Tokyo doesn't really have street cars, mostly trains - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KMYAEIXVzA).

It would allow trains to come from one direction, pass through the city undisturbed and emerge on the other side and continue.
It says a lot about the HN community that the overwhelming majority of people here seemingly emphasize with the person being blocked rather than the person doing the blocking.
Going to have to agree with this. A semi-related anecdote- I spend an embarrassing amount of time on a music message board with a probably ~97% American user base. It's dedicated to a specific American band but is bizarrely active considering there has not been a UI update of note for maybe 20 years. Parts of the UI have always been frustrating but the culture within the community was palpable and a lot of people grew daily posting habits.

With the 2016 election came a ton of division. Trolls were allowed to run wild. This never really ended. Through the pandemic, insurrection and everything that's followed it's been utter and absolute chaos. Trolls with multiple handles everywhere trying to flood this clearly left-leaning board with far right ideals or purely create chaos.

The owner wasn't hearing the frustration expressed by users though, just the increased ad revenue from engagement largely driven by emotion and anger. Thus why he has let it fester. Twitter seems an extreme variation of this to me, and I foolishly thought Twitter with Elon would do something better with moderation initially
I used to prefer font rendering on Gnome to that of MacOS and Windows, but as of Gnome 46, they changed it so that if you set a fractional scale factor, everything gets blurry (a different kind of blurry than the OP means) just like it does on MacOS, making Windows font rendering the desktop font rendering I like the best as long as I stick to relatively modern apps like browsers, VSCode and the newer apps that comes with Windows like Settings. (Legacy apps on Windows are super super blurry at fractional scale factors.)

I use non-HiDPI 1920-pixel-wide displays at scale factors between 1.25 and 2.0. (Yes, I like big type and big UI elements: my eyesight is bad.)
How is it worse with a high dpi display?
It's unfortunate how all the browsers are in cahoots with the ad industry.
MacOS always renders at an integer multiple of their internal "logical" resolution, and then just shrinks the framebuffer down at the end to whatever the native resolution of the target monitor is.

Fractional scaling is rendering directly to a framebuffer at the target monitors native resolution, and scaling your UI fractionally to look right on the target screen size.

Apples approach is more resource intensive, but probably makes UI layout implementation a lot simpler and more consistent + potentially looks better than rendering at "real" native res for a lot of content.
KDE got fractional rendering of fonts and UI back in Plasma 4.
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You can, of course, also write programs that have known bugs. Or even programs that have bugs that obviously shouldn't be there, but are anyway.
Mac font rendering is the worst out there.

For example: https://i.redd.it/f61p6sa34cta1.png

Or: https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/screen-shot-2022-10...
In my experience, Gemini models are far worse than any other frontier model when it comes to hallucinations. They are also pretty bad at getting caught in loops where pointing out a mistake makes it flap between two broken solutions. And obviously the overzealous softly stuff that other people have mentioned.
I think that it means the reason for doing where 1 = 1 is sometimes to allow for easy insertion of dynamic queries which can be a security and performance issue. The actual usage of where 1 = 1 doesn't cause the security or performance issue.
This is a slanted version of the facts surrounding the case. A laptop belonging to the victim was sold by Williams to another man; how did he get it? Both the girlfriend and the cell mate testified that he admitted to the crime; that the cell mate had details about the crime that were not known to the public, etc.

The DNA evidence was never the main thrust of the case.

FWIW I am against the death penalty since it gives too much power to the state. But slanting the news is not a good way forward.
This is insane wow. Thanks for sharing, I would have missed this otherwise. So many layers of mishandling here, and I am very surprised that the US Supreme Court didn't vote to block this. I really hope that we are able to have justices that advocate for human rights more strongly in the future. This is a tragedy.
Oh that's adorable. Wake me when your agent has solid connections with skilled professionals in every construction trade known to man, a stable of home inspectors on speed dial, and can handle every aspect of scheduling involved in all of that.
> Mr. Williams might still be alive if this wasn't an election year?

Parson isn't running for governor this year [1]. He's focussed on his legacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Missouri_gubernatorial_el...
In the Netherlands, most of the traditional department stores have imploded and are long gone. I live in Germany currently and the local chains here have been struggling for decades as well.

The exception to this seems to be flagship luxury stores with exclusive and expensive stuff on display. Here in Berlin that would be the Alexanderplatz Galeria and the KaDeWe on Kudamm. Both attract a lot of tourism. But the chains that own them are struggling as well. Tourists of course look but there's only so much they are going to stuff in their hand luggage when they fly back home. And they don't come back that often. The issue is that the locals ignore these stores because they can get better deals online for essentially anything sold inside those stores.

KaDeWe filed for bankruptcy and is being restructured. And the group that owns Galeria is also being restructured. And not for the first time. Most of these things have been handed off between various hedge funds for decades now and they are just milking these things for short term profit.

Online shopping killed off that market. If I need socks, I get them on Amazon.
You’re seriously trying to tell someone with a straight face that Twitter isn’t completely overrun with bots?

That’s some of the most disingenuous shit I’ve seen in a while.

Maybe you don’t realise they are bots?
In a narrower sense of the word, one technique I developed early on in my career that I don’t see mentioned very often is exploratory debugging. At its most basic, you run the program, look at the output and find the output string in the source code. Then you set a breakpoint there, and go again. You’re now in a place where you can start understanding the program by working backwards from the output.

One thing that makes me sad about the pervasive use of async/await-style programming is that it usually breaks the stack in a way that makes this technique a bit useless.
Yeah, the biggest surprise of the pandemic was how much I miss the social contact and how much I'd like to visit the office again (with people, not the empty shells of today).
> I agree, the author has probably not worked on hard problems.

Conversely, if you focus on creating a repro you make problems easy.

I’m a little surprised the OP doesn’t mention debuggers. For whatever reason many modern Linux programmers seem to have never and used a debugger and rely almost entirely on printf. Which is utterly bonkers to me! If you can repro and issue and trap it in a debugger then you’ve done 90% of the work.
"Make Everyone Replaceable," by the same people who brought you "Return to the Office." Sometimes it's code for "Prevent Competition From Rising Through the Technical Ranks."

It's one of those interesting and infuriating things. There's a category of PHB managers who can't code, can't design, can't inspire, can't really do marketing well at all. They're marginally more skilled and way less funny than Michael Scott.

Their advantage is being unencumbered by knowledge. They don't suffer the technical decision-making process. They don't try to compete on the value-added charts. By not really caring, they sail through dotting the i's and just forget about the t's. The product ships with a hundred blemishes and two major flaws. It was rushed out the door by the asshole with the padded resume and the HR surfing history.

They abused the flaws in the system to subvert the meritocratic outcome. From their perspective, they did what they had to do to "win."
The "why this needed to happen" has no reasonable answer. This is an act of love and dedication to a platform. Respect!
Agreed.

These negative comments seem way off base to me. I wonder if they have ever been to John Lewis or Debenhams?

I really miss department stores and I'm sad that they're disappearing. I have positive experiences using them.
Not exactly rust-in-kernel, but I've been using Aya[0] to write ebpf programs in Rust and it is quite nice. The verifier is still a bit trigger-happy with some constructs, but it is manageable.

[0]: https://aya-rs.dev/
How much market share do you have?
interesting, seems more of an enterprise offering. its OpenAI only for and you plan to expand to other vendors? anything opensource?
What an interesting way to put the trolley problem:

> There's a runaway trolley barreling down a railway. Further down the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. They will die once the trolley reaches them.

> You are stood on a footbridge with an innocent bystander. You can push him off the bridge, blocking the trolley and killing him, but saving the other 5 people. Or you can do nothing and the 5 people will die.

Because there are not two, but three solutions: you can jump off the bridge and block the trolley with your own death.

I wonder how many are going to give that answer. I can see it coming from two kinds of people: the severely depressed to the point of being suicidal, people who have reached a spiritual state of bliss and awareness to value their own life and those of the other men as equally important AND they feel they are unattached enough to let go while the other 6 men may need more time in their lives.
That's funny, I taught a bit if Basic to my son coding rock, paper, scissor, too.
Macs used to have good font rendering on Low-DPI displays (I would say the best, but I suppose that’s a matter of opinion)

Then Mojave switched to Metal and removed subpixel AA, and now it’s the worst.

Thread from when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873
It's a useless number for consumers then, a Level 3 system could be way less safe/useful than a Level 2 system, because it only works on a sunny day in slow traffic with other cars for reference on a highway
What are the alternatives with passive splitter hardware that can work underwater if shit happens?
Governor Parson's argument for proceeding: https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/state-carry-o...
Both use subpixel rendering is that it is specific to the display where it is shown. You need the same subpixel ordering and you can't really scale it. Your preference may be correct on your display, while mine is correct here: I strongly prefer the second image.

The first image has less hinting, causing the top of the x-height to be rendered at a half pixel. This makes it seem less intense that the rest of the letters. The second image aligns way better and have a more consistent intensity and sharp edges, but gives an overall slightly more bold appearance, and also compromises a tiny bit on the actual shape of letters.
If correct, then basic physics is settled.
>Bell cited repeated DNA testing finding that Williams’s fingerprints were not on the knife.

Why would DNA testing have anything to do with fingerprints?

This is like using pylint to look for errors in your FORTRAN code.
Just to provide some important context. Every Democrat on the Supreme Court voted to halt the execution and every Republican voted for it to proceed.
Agentic RAG with VoyageAI, Gemini and LangGraph
Any public transport that doesn't have its own right of way is immediately and trivially broken, since it will be always strictly worse than an individual car. So more people will take cars, so traffic will be worse, so buses will be worse by the same measure, so will still be worse than cars, so... That's how you get LA levels of gridlock despite every street being a 14 lane freeway.

Whereas if buses/trams run in a dedicated lane with the same speed independent of car traffic, there is immediately a natural balancing incentive / restoring force: too much car traffic and the bus will become comparatively more attractive, so less people will take cars, so traffic will be lessened, so
Thanks for the info, but it's still an election year, in which Republicans generally want to demonstrate how "tough on crime" they are, so in this case they are more likely to set an example, especially if a Democrat opposes it?
And you must use a Modern Corporate Browser to access Essential Workplace Applications.
I did not say or believe that the prosecutor lied or they should renege on their word, far from it. I said that if she got two years, it means that the agreement Ellison-DA was not for no prison time in exchange for cooperation.

Thus I asked why two years and not five or ten of whatever time under the expected sentence time in case of no cooperation.
Not really electronic devices, but how about facades of high rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of those insane new Chinese skyscrapers?

Edit: I was also thinking about the Favicon, but this has been done already: https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
That's always been true, the wealthy have their giant plots of land with giant walls around them, the poor live side by side with thin walls

No one cares if the worst thing that happens is they get slightly better ads
410 forks currently.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643991
I guess there are bigger considerations at work here. Like where the money's coming from that fuels Firefox development.

Still using it though.
Not having an agent works great here in EU, you just hire an engineer to inspect the home to find any issues and then the bank reviews some of it as well (if you are getting a mortgage) and finally you get the sale contract notarized by the banks laziest employee and done. Not sure what an agent will help with these days where everything is online.
> Why would DNA testing have anything to do with fingerprints?

Just the Guardian being the Guardian. Fortunately, they link to their source which states "three DNA experts examined testing from the knife 'and each has independently concluded that Mr. Williams is excluded as the source of the male DNA on the handle of the murder weapon'" [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/missouri-death-row-inmate-dna-evi...
Simple Budget Forecast App
Needed a simple budget cash flow forecast app, that just worked. Any suggestions for improvements always welcome.
I was literally using Arc because of the ability to hide most of the userchrome.

Every time I open split views or tabs I curse. I've said this in the past but layering view multiplexors has to be the most stupid modern "super-user" trap. You have the ability to open multiple browser windows and composite them side by side, use it.

Does anyone know of any other browsers that are chromium based and have very little features aside the ability to hide most of the UI?
New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations
The most offensive are the ones where it says "your password is not safe" but don't tell what the problem is!
Title of original article is "play Doom on rotary phone", not "Doom on rotary phone", so it's a problem with a shortened HN title.

When describing playing a game in Serbian we use "on a controller" instead of "with a controller". It may be the same in Lithuanian.
Killing someone on flimsy evidence while being fully aware that it’s incredibly flimsy evidence in order to “win votes” is some of the most abhorrent shit of all time.
Let's remember this comment when this is done. I'm sure someone will do it soon, even if it meant just controlling the lights in the windows.
Why do prosecutors want the conviction overturned?
> Do you have an idea for a better one? It is pretty darn close to natural selection, which while ugly, does produce surprisingly good results in many domains.

Cooperation is also an extremely fit behavior in natural selection.
BlueSky is mentioned. The ATProto thing has been discussed often in relation to an opensource social media protocol and all of this started from Jack Dorsey and Twitter. If it helps, it's thoroughly documented on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

And the protocol is documented here:

https://atproto.com/

Hope this helps with the confusion.
Given the frequency with which large real estate outfits have deep ties to local and state legislative bodies I'd love to see someone who doesn't fully understand what they're fucking with stick a fork in that outlet just to see what happens to them.
Oh, oh! Now do US pharma companies... and and, landlords. Yeah, that'll be great. And then private equity. Those are just plain bastards. Is this the end of free market capitalism?
> toyota prius has software enough to keep my brain gooey
Yeah. At best, most I've been to over the past couple decades seem to have roving cashiers that went through a program about how to be irritatingly salesy and might know where a specific thing was in their department. Sears was barely better than K-Mart in its death throes after the CEO decided to embrace the Hunger Games organizational strategy.
Have LLMs cross check papers and point out experiments to be repeated.
> are more likely to set an example, especially if a Democrat opposes it?

This is an unfalsifiable hypothesis--everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. What we can say is the people involved have had consistent positions for years as this case snaked its way through Missouri's and our nation's highest courts.

To the extent there are near-term electioneering interests, it's on the part of the prosecutor who sought to overturn the conviction: Mr. Bell is the Democrats' Congressional candidate for Missouri's 1st District [1].

[1] https://missouriindependent.com/2024/08/06/wesley-bell-defea...
But what is “truth”?
Sounds like more of a translation issue than a shortening issue then.
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