skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, without exception. I want to know who is leaking/selling my address, and usually stop doing business with those who do. It also makes filtering really easy. People sometimes have strange reactions when I verbally give them an email address with their company name in it, especially when I'm a new customer.

All you need is a domain and an email provider that allows catch-all addresses, both of which are easy and cheap.
very likely compromised comms.

this was coordinated. several archive services hit around the same date. ddosecrets was the first to be hacked, as far as i can tell. span of one week.

here's list of suspects i guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_b...
I have a question to the crowd.

If you really like Go and you're already willing to adopt a solution based in making IPC calls to separate processes just to put together a GUI...

...why not write your GUI app in something production-ready that makes sense to write a GUI, and have that call your Go process ?
That’s a less likely setup for a GOV.UK user though.
Also recently.

Surpassing Cosine Similarity for Multidimensional Comparisons: Dimension Insensitive Euclidean Metric (DIEM) https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08623v2
Copyright should be reduced in general. 20 years was already excessive for exclusive control over culture, 200 is just absurd.
> “Sorry, we can’t ‘sell’ our cars anymore. The law says we have to call them a ‘lease’ and that’ll be be $X,XXX/year”

Wouldn't that be enough reason to take your business elsewhere?
Not sure what point you're trying to make, though: you buy ad placement from Google, not data about people. Sure, you can make the inference that people who visit your site via a Google ad fall into one of the categories you've targeted (though you won't know which one, unless you've only chosen one), but that's it.
My company has been doing exactly that for decades. We don't work like you suggest; we charge by the hour and the price is based on the tech, difficulty and urgency. For cases like this it would be €1000/human/hr probably. We also ask intake money. We generally don't work on-site but we can and have been flown in, as far as Australia (we are in the eu); those add a lot of costs. We usually have a handover to the existing or new team, so projects are usually a few weeks to max 3 months (we refuse longer; we specify this in the contract; if it runs over, it's their problem, we are out; it helps getting large companies to cooperate and cut red tape as they tend to find it enough we are there and paying the fees for years if it keeps it all running; I hate that so not doing it).
They still don't know what you put after the "+" to log into another service.
If it’s the only tab you have open, it’ll look very suspicious that you’re just staring at the desktop…
I should clarify... 7/67 SO FAR

Presumably the other children may manifest cancer down the line. Off target insertion was random

Also the blood cancer has already killed one of the patients
Likely off target insertional mutagenesis
Hmm, I don't get a cookie banner on my browser, even in an incognito window with uBlock turned off.
If it’s the only tab open, you’ll raise suspicion if your partner walks in to you staring at the desktop
You don't need everyone on every team to be a cross-functional thinker, but you need the people who are working cross-functionally to actually think about the big picture and realize they're optimizing for company success and not some arbitrary, often ambiguous goal like "good engineering".

Those people that are in the decision-making process need to then communicate the result of the decision with their team, and be able to justify the decision.
I often leave cookie popovers unclicked. Sometimes they take an annoying amount of work to decline cookies, and they can be used to cover video ads anyway.
That is true; that's why we keep jacking up the hourlies; most of us become more flexible when paid a lot.
> what else could happen?

It prompts the user to pick a search engine on install? And let's be honest, most people will probably pick google anyway.

But then the question is, how will companies like Mozilla and a spin-off company for chrome make money if they can't auction off the default search engine anymore?
Considering the number of cars I've owned over the decades that couldn't have the entertainment system disabled remotely, I would be fine having those companies with hostile practices exposed.
> Sure there is, if you let an outside expert read the source code for a week.

It's mesmerizing how random anonymous people online always have all the answers to the most challenging technical problems conceivable by Man, and they all involve having someone else do the hard/impossible part.
Infra in CA is not going so well. Roads as an example are terrible compared to most developed countries. When last years winter storms damaged many roads, the newly paved replacements are not very smooth at all and some have been redone multiple times in the span of a single year. I don’t know what the causes are, but when comparing to EU where they have to account for freezing temps, CA doesn’t seem THAT complicated. Yet EU highways on average are a lot better.
I don't really see how you're coming to the conclusion that chain of events constitutes the sale of user data. Google has sold ad placement, not user data.

When a TV station sells ad time to a company, and then someone sees the ad, comes into the store, and says "hey, I saw your TV ad while watching Law & Order", we don't say that the TV station has sold data to the merchant.
I am highly technical (multiple linux machines at home) and I don't use ctrl-w. I didn't know it was a thing.
Yes, that is why I wrote, "debatably."
Where did you find classes? University classes or what?
> The fastest transport protocol was someone's car and a workday of wages.

This is actually the entire premise of AWS Snowball: send someone a bunch of storage space, have them copy their data to that storage, then just ship the storage back with the data on it. It can be several orders of magnitude faster and easier than an internet transfer.

Sneakernet really works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
If it’s the only tab open, switching isn’t an option. Women living under the threat of violence will be very stressed, so won’t be well placed to setup their browser ahead of time.
I have always viewed android as a hedge against another player (eg apple) controlling advertising on mobile and undermining their dominance of the sector.
I started doing ink drawings (0.1mm ink pens).

I tried pencil at first but with ink I liked that I can’t erase and can’t shade by using pressure.

So every mistake has to be transformed into something agreeable.

It is very productive to think about drawing in a logical way, e.g. how can I achieve what I want to achieve in a part of my picture. What also helps is knowing that a perfect drawing is a photo and I don’t want to produce a photo. And I try drawing what I actually see, not what my mind abstracts and thinks the picture should look like.
I have an old hn account. Dilbert was something I was dimly aware of my dad reading in newspapers when I was a kid in the 90s. Never heard the term PHB before today.
In this case it's a bad test thing.

The car impacted at a barrier splice which was not correctly joined. Barrier splices can come apart in the real world, but the fasteners will tear apart the sheet metal in the process. That splice gently deflected apart, like two sections of barrier were gently leaned against each other.

Two posts fall over on the initial impact, one on each side of the loose splice, without causing noticable specific damage to the car. The third post absolutely caved in the front end of the car before being violently bent down underneath, as properly anchored posts do in the real world.

This also isn't how this type of barrier is tested. "Barrier deflections listed below are results from crash tests with a 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) pickup truck traveling 100 km/h (62 mph), colliding with the rail at a 25-degree angle." More diverse testing done with seriousness would be a useful way to challenge if that standard continues to be appropriate, but this isn't it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_barrier#Stiffness
> They're spending their money rather than your money.

Ok, and from whom did their money come? They didn’t magic it into existence.

Google spending money that came from advertisers who got it from people buying their products isn’t much different than a research team spending public money, just with fewer middle men and a (generally) lower negative impact on society.
I understand where you are coming from, especially with the data. As I grew older I rarely trust data as it is not independent, manipulated or given a false view. It should be supported by physical evidences which is often missing.

An anecdotal evidence, a large semiconductor in Germany with fabs is moving to "best" cost countries and the message provided is clear by the management. Positions are moved to "best" cost countries and new offices in these locations are being opened. Support jobs i.e. back office, accounting etc are in the process first. R&D is next and many engineers have taken the hint. The biggest customers for them is automotive as is usually the case for most of the German companies. If automotive market falls then they are in serious trouble. Make what you want out of this.
Fully agree.

And for the people who think nationalizing businesses leads to socialist/communist hell, at the very least, if you've decided that a business is critical to national security, it should be funded at least in part by the government (with the government having a real, if not controlling, stake in it), and heavily, heavily regulated.
Right in most southern states in rural areas that would be pretty good and you could enjoy fresh air and nature while working from your back porch and scanning a few acres of land and wildlife, sipping on sweet tea.
I suspect this has less to do with the ability to...put the software on another VM and more to do with licensing issues.
I have been learning classical singing (opera, oratorios, etc) with no previous voice training. I think I am fine, and I can get low-paying gigs, but nothing big. I also did the process of becoming an ok composer a while ago (a few public performances of my work, etc), and the same advice applies.

I do have significant musical training and experience. The prior music training does help, but it mostly just helps me figure out when something is wrong, not how to fix it.

I have three tips:

1. Find a teacher or group you click with. Music instruction is 1:1 because it doesn't scale well, but visual arts you can do with a studio. A teacher will really help since most forms of art are subjective enough that you may not know what you are doing well or poorly and that feedback is very valuable.

2. Do your art every day, even for 15-30 min. Inspiration starts with doing, not the other way around.

3. Try to be better than you were yesterday. Practice things you are bad at, and consciously do projects to improve yourself. There is no competition here except with yourself yesterday.

A final one:

IMO the notion of "talent" for the arts is just how people cope with the fact that the best and brightest in that field did more work than them. I had several friends who were "talented" pianists growing up, several of whom are concert artists now. All of them worked their asses off 5-6 hours a day to become "talented." It took me a while longer, but I eventually became a "talented" harpsichord player in my early 20s. Go at your own pace and don't give up and you will also eventually be "talented."
> It’s not like it’s chemically transformed from one substance into another like with fermentation

Banks, the financial institutions, are not transformed into banks, exposed riverbeds, when they're proximate to water. Cocaine, the drug, and cocaine, the chemical, are simply homonyms. Claiming the Inca did cocaine is a dad joke, not serious argument.
> It's probably way more complicated than that.

I once saw a small team of FANG engineers, that included two well seasoned senior engineers, revive a project left unmaintained for two years after the owning team was disbanded.

That small team took two weeks alone to get the project to build and run locally, with tons of bits missing.

But hey, if a random anonymous internet expert says that all it takes to revive a project is a week of browsing through the source code then that must be true.
Related:

Nintendo has filed a new 24GHz wireless device with the FCC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634133
Both chord length and arc length can be good ones. For some purposes versine (1 - cosine, sometimes called the "normal distance") and the half-tangent of arc length (i.e. the distance to one point when stereographically projected so the center of projection is the other point) are also useful types of quasi-distance. https://davidhestenes.net/geocalc/pdf/CompGeom-ch3.pdf
as an engineer, Drawing Ideas: a hand-generated approach for better design has changed my life. My girlfriend is an artist but I never tried drawing until this book caught my eye on the shelf of a book store. I love having some basic sketching skills to help make my thoughts come to life. When I write blog posts, I try to throw in a sketch or two now.

http://www.drawingideasbook.com/book.html
https://breadchris.com/blog/the-figma-plugin-system/
MacPorts is great!

Another excellent alternative is pkgsrc: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

I've used pkgsrc on SmartOS/illumos and NetBSD for many years, but this is my first time using it on macOS -- about 18 months now, and all experiences positive!
Ah, the contract relationship. Minimize your output while maximizing your ROI. I think this works fine if you plan on being in the software "service" industry, kind of like the plumber. It helps if job mobility/demand is high so that when the "product" decisions tank the company/product, you just shrug and move on. That's what the plumber would do. In fact, if your customer does the stupid thing, and ends up having to have you come back to pay even more money, hoorah, more money. It's a reverse incentive. Do it enough, and you'll be just like Boeing and the US Government. I've also observed that this type of relationship tends to cause people to optimize short term over mid to long term.

Where this deteriorates (imo), is if you're in it for additional reasons other than only the money, but want to build quality things, make the world a better place, yada yada. Or perhaps you like the company and what they do, or something about your job, and actually depend on long term viability. By somewhat strained analogy, imagine the plumber works for a housing co op, and they themselves live there. Suddenly, the plumber becomes a bit more coupled to the choices of "product" or the customers. Poor decisions could devalue the neighborhood and your own resale value, or even damage your own property.
join purchase using (customer_id)

They only get cumbersome when you have schemas without consistent key names, complex join conditions, insist on uppercasing reserved words, or do all sorts of formatting acrobatics.

So I guess I agree with you. A well designed schema makes reading and writing SQL a pleasure
To me it seem reasonable middle ground. You get either 0 degree or 90 degree. That is glancing or head-on. 45 being between is not unreasonable option to set as coming at some repeatable angle. As you cannot test all collisions.

Head on crashes have already other methodology. Which covers some ground. After all you can only do limited amount of testing.
Ask HN: Ian Goodfellow and Alex (from AlexNet) – What are they working on now?
I hardly heard about their current work anymore in the Generative AI era?
Overview of guardrails - reasonably good video. [1]

Motor Trend: "America's vehicles are fat, and its guardrails suck."[2] Motor Trend is critical of the U.Texas tests, because they didn't test larger gas-powered trucks.
The current guardrail test weight for pickup trucks is 5000 pounds. That was increased from 4500 pounds in 2019. Current Ford F-150 trucks can be over 7,000 pounds, empty. The Rivian EV pickup is listed as 7,148 lbs. The Hummer EV is over 9000 lbs.

Guardrails have ratings - TL1 through TL6. TL3 is most common. That's the 5000 pound pickup truck level. The standard test is not straight-on; it's 45 degrees. After all, these things are alongside roads, and are rarely hit straight on at high speed.

The last big problem with guardrails was collisions with guardrail ends, especially at freeway offramps. There are good solutions for that in place now. Take a good look at the high-traffic Interstate offramp you see. There are various different crushable systems used, and they work reasonably well. The main problem is replacing them after use. They're a consumable.

Low center of gravity is a big problem. Guardrail heights have been increased over the last few decades as cars got bigger. Low-CG electrics push their way under. Notice, though, that the Tesla test resulted in the vehicle traveling parallel to the guardrail after the vehicle went under it. Enough energy was absorbed to redirect the vehicle. The Rivian went clear through.

Maybe for pickups above some weight drivers should have to have a commercial driver's license, the one you need to drive a real truck.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/news/guardrail-safety-study-evs-p...
One of those instances when you really wish curses worked on whoever was pulling this stunt “may you and your descendants suffer the bites of 10000 fleas for 10000 nights as punishment for your misdeeds”
Kind of... but the atomic bomb required progressing multiple fields substantially and resulted in some very important technological improvements that are genuinely good (the most stable non-carbon power generation).

What is the possible societal-positive outcome of another social media filter? Or improved ad targeting algorithm? Or more attention-grabbing social media feed?
Ask HN: Which uBlock filter have you applied on the browser?
Title.
I mean, that assumes there's anywhere else to go that's doing it differently.

It feels like market forces can push things in either of 2 directions:

(a) People hate practice X, so they shun companies that do it, and enough go to companies who don't do X, which leads to fewer companies doing X

(b) One company gets away with doing X, and despite some complaints, they do just fine – and other companies realize they can get away doing X too, and soon every company is doing it
Not me but my mother. I don't recall her making any art when I was younger (although she is an amazing cook which is a type of art). However, over the last 10 years or so she's taken several courses and workshops in a wide range of art, painting, sculpture, sign writing and more. I guess she started around age 65, and the courses are a great source of social interactions for her. She is especially taken by mandalas and has drawn and painted some very beautiful ones. Her house and garden has a nice selection of her work.
It is true that there is an interplay between bandwidth utilization and latency.

However (assuming no prioritisation), if your bandwidth is at least double your video conference bandwidth requirements then a download shouldn’t significantly affect the video conference since TCP tends to be fair between streams.

Even when I was on a 10Mb/s line I found gaming and voice was generally fine even with a download.

However, if you’re using peer to peer (like BitTorrent), then that is utilizing dozens or hundreds of individual TCP streams and then your video conference bandwidth getting equal amount per all other streams is too slow.

Bufferbloat exacerbates high utilisation symptoms because it confounds the TCP algorithms which struggle to find the correct equalibrium due to “erratic” feedback on if you’re transmitting too much.

It’s like queuing in person at a government office and not being able to see past a door or corner how bad the queue really is, if you could see it’s bad you might come back later, but because you can’t you stand a while on the queue only to realize quite a bit later you’ll have to wait much longer than you initially expected, but if you’d known upfront it would be bad you might have opted to come back later when it’s more quiet. Most people feel that since they’ve sunk the time already they may as well wait as long as it takes, further keeping the queue long.

Higher throughput would help, but just knowing ahead that now’s a bad time would help a lot too.

I do wish most consumer ISPs supported deprioritising packets of my choice, which would allow you to download things heavily at low priority and your video call would be fine.
On a UK keyboard, you use the Brexit key
What was their justification for this?
Seems to me this is an automated process to guarantee some profit margin for them. Not saying this is correct, though.
> Corruption on the highest levels is very similar. Not everyone is on the buyers club

This is unfalsifiable. To the extent electeds can be bought or lobbied, it's on the fringes--they didn't know about crypto and now they do and have a mildly favourable view towards it instead of not giving a shit. Certainly not around something involving the DoJ.

The naïve view is electeds in America can be bought and sold like a Patek Philippe. You can just buy one of those, for the simple reason that there exists a secondary market. Power, on the other hand, is perishable. Go back to Bankman-Fried's downfall and note how many people thought he had banked favours with his cash. (I sometimes think he thought he bought favours with his cash.) That isn't how D.C. works. It isn't how power centre works. Power is personal and perishable, and that makes it unique in comparison with the things we usually trade money for.
They’ve done this since the head of the Cabinet Office around 2010 set up a team to improve digital government services. There’s a lot of information published as to their methodologies and their teams present technical topics at conferences.

It’s likely part of their efforts to be more transparent, work with other governments and better support departments without having to be in 50 places at once. It’ll also help with recruitment.
The topology issue was tested with AlphaFold 2.3.2, published last year. I am not sure about AlphaFold 3.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I have late 2010 backups with a copy of the "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements" paper. It was rendered with a January 2009 copy of ghostscript. Just based on the dates there are reasonable odds my copy is the same one Satoshi had. Satoshi contacted the authors he cited for information on how to correctly cite their work, he didn't actually have to have seen the symposium document. Considering that it's title used the same language as Satoshi, it wouldn't have been surprising for him to have turned it up -- or one of the people Satoshi contacted might have suggested it.

Lots of possibilities.

I would take the source that you're taking these arguments from with a huge grain of salt.

> I'm not saying Sassaman is Satoshi, but simply that Sassaman is a much better candidate.

A hand full of random coincidences which are unsurprising for people of their interests isn't good evidence for any of them.

And it's also not unusual for people to have access to proceedings for events they didn't attend, or even to have them outright, e.g. I have a big set of FC proceedings but only was actually attending for a couple-- https://files.catbox.moe/w1dhwn.jpeg.
I used the book without classes and it's great.