skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>First off: And exclude 70% of the world?

Guess what, I'm part of this 70% and I also work in a bank and I know exactly how.

Not a single letter in my name (any of them) can be represented with ASCII. When it is represented in UTF-8, most of the people who have to see it can't read it anyway.

So my identity document issued by the country which doesn't use Latin alphabet includes ASCII-representation of my name in addition to canonical form in Ukrainian Cyrillic. That ASCII-rendering is happily accepted by all kinds of systems that only speak ASCII.

People still can't pronounce it and it got misspelled like yesterday when dictated over the phone.

Now regarding the accents, it's illegal to not support them per GDPR (as per case law, discussed here few years ago).
And that's different from "it was replaced by coal".

You should probably have started with a correct statement, not a falsehood that you had to rephrase into a correct statement.
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Lets just say this: the US Federal Government, several large health care and health insurance organizations, several large financial institutions, a major university, and several others have all had to send me "We take security seriously" letters. They could all afford to undergo (and had passed) various security audits. But in the real world they failed.
I'm very excited to have Mary on board. :)
I've been volunteering with a local political party to help them with their technology decisions, primarily on the web, and... based on this and prior experiences, I've come to the conclusion that agencies do their clients dirty quite often. In some cases it looks borderline intentional, in others I think it's a disconnect between client needs, agency capabilities, communication, and what's ultimately delivered.

It seems weird to say it since so many people rely on it, but wordpress is overkill for so many things. It frustrates so many clients to no end, requires ongoing maintenance that's quite expensive in some cases, and well, it requires an active server handling server-rendering and form submissions and such. The vast majority of clients simply don't need it. They don't even need themes.

This party I'm helping has something like 7 wordpress sites strewn about, all on hosts that cost way too much, some not even updated or maintained at all, sitting on servers that peak at like 40% utilization and otherwise hum along at near-zero utilization beyond what the wordpress isntance requires.

This is a lot of the internet. My experience with these folks has inspired me to build something that would meet their needs, but it's one of these things where... I don't know, if I build it, I doubt anyone would come. But yeah. Most people's needs for the internet are remarkably simple. Even Wix or similar are way, way too much. Yet those basic blogging engines totally miss the mark too. Most of these business users aren't interesting in blogging. They just want a simple home base where they can dump various types of information and let it hang out forever.

I can think of a few products which aim to fix this, but they aren't quite simple enough for the types of people we're describing. The people who know they need stuff online, but don't want to know much about it and don't want to learn much either.
They quickly kicked off WikiLeaks under political pressure.
Follow-up question is: Isn't it extremely unlikely to output 0?
Thanks, that’s insightful. In this case, it seems sensible to me at least.
They aren’t demanding you meet their practices. They are demanding you meet whatever the approved auditor thinks the practices are.

Certification schemes like that don’t have a good track record.
The thing is, it doesn’t really help. A system I’m working on can have hundreds of monetary amounts in the same currency. Storing the currency against each one is an awful waste of space.

Equally the allocation trick is good, but you’ll find that the people who really care about this stuff really care about the exact algorithm you’re using and who it favours.
They are not under an obligation to award the prize. They could have just said "sorry, we can't think of anyone."
Read my comment below about the french language domination
That's a weird way to say you have no idea what Chevron was about and what judges do.

Judges always determined if an agency was acting within its statute.

The question that Chevron settled, was what if the statute was too ambiguous? Congress used to update laws regularly, but those times are over. It can't legislate effectively anymore. A lot of our laws are ancient and they're designed for a bygone era that often predates even the computer, never mind the internet, modern medicine, etc.

Chevron said, judges don't get to make decisions in those cases. Because those would be arbitrary decisions. It's better to have third party experts make those decisions until Congress can catch up. And if Congress has a problem it can overrule them as it always could. Agencies set up processes to make the review open, to gather data and evidence, comments for the public, etc.

Now we have the worst of all worlds. Appointed partisan judges, with no oversight, no accountability, get to make monumental arbitrary decisions about how minutia of our lives work, based on absolutely nothing, with no review, no criteria and no relevant expertise at all. All while essentially having no code of ethics and being subject to lobbying.
Can you clarify if this is a 1:1 backfill for Josepha's role or if her scope will be different?
In the renewables case they’re needed for transportation AND grid. The dream that car batteries are used as grid storage afaict remains a dream with no forward movement on that front.
They already do this (the encryption-at-rest part). Deleting the data is still a hard requirement. Also, the keys are never seen outside of the centralized encryption service. Deletion is still a must.
It looks like you call a function near the beginning of your Python program / application that does all the type checking at startup time. IDK for sure, I haven't used the library.

Someone using Python doesn't "just use Rust", there are very clear pros and cons and people already using Python are doing so for a reason. It is sometimes helpful to have type checks in Python though.
Nevertheless, "nuclear was replaced by coal" is a lie, and remains a lie.
You say that, but I've been in plenty of situations where people say they're comfortable taking on the risk themselves, but then when shit blows up, they come and blame the biggest actor (with the biggest pockets) they can. I mean, just check out some sob stories that made the front pages of NYT and Washington Post when people got scammed out of a lot of crypto money - I've read a bunch of those and always the first thing I think is "lord, there is no way these people should have had a dime in crypto in the first place", but then when they lose their money they're the first to blame everyone else but themselves.
Surely you meant:

s[i] &= ~0x20;

We're talking about converting to upper case after all! As an added benefit, every space character (0x20) is now a NUL byte!
For ascii in C++ isn't there std::tolower / std::toupper? If you're not dealing with unsigned char types there isn't a simple case conversion function, but that's for a good reason as the article lays out.
Why does that in any way tell us anything about the veracity of a vague story with no details? I don’t doubt they were in trouble, just that I doubt that he gambles the last 5k and the extra runway of 1 week somehow got them through to 11M at a later unspecified date. What did they do between that 1 week and the 11M raise? It’s not like they became profitable suddenly and it takes a while to raise 11M and it doesn’t sound like they were just waiting for 1 week for all the wires to come through.
This is naked Australian government propaganda to make people fear China
> Text is meant to be understood and quickly scanned. Websites are attempting a “canvas-style” design, generally better for conveying feeling, but for text, which is meant to convey meaning and immersion.

This might be, because lots of websites are not there to convey meaning but rather want to bring you in the right mood to do x. And it seems to be that humans - on average - can be far more easily brought into the right mood by manipulating `feelings` than through rational arguments.
Doesn't this then turn into a problem of sample quantity? You would need to shift into a quality mindset because with a robot you can't perform a billion iterations, you're locked into much more complex world with unavoidably real time interactions. Failure is suddenly very costly.
Not a mainstream language, but Ada has Annex F - Information Systems, which can be used for currency handling. [1][2]

[1] https://ada-lang.io/docs/arm/AA-F/

[2] https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/22rm/h...
I wouldn't mind JS as much if its type system wasn't an utter disaster.

Basically everything in that WAT talk should be an error. If your code is throwing type errors, then either it's shitty code or you're trusting non-validated input, in which case you should be able to catch the type error and return an error back to whoever sent you the data.
When UTF-8 wasn't univeral (geez, I'm old... It was still this century though!), a page I found to figure out what was going on when I encountered Mojibake is: http://www.jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html . Amazingly it hasn't suffered linkrot and is still online.

And I fully agree with footnote 2, why is an extended Unicode character being used in place of the apostrophe? https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/which-unicode-cha...
You heard wrong. It doesn't have to be immediate though.
15 escudos was roughly 7 cents of Euro in those days. You could buy one chewing gum with that kind of money. An expresso coffee would cost 50 escudos on the turn of the century.
Is this what Mozilla Thunderbird was named after? It took me a while to parse this title as something other than an email client! Wikipedia doesn't list a name origin for Thunderbird, just that it was renamed from Minotaur
Just another reason to not deal with Google. Eventually, gravity is going to catch up with them, and they will never recover, because their business culture is shit. Zero interest or focus on the customers.
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It's the misalignment of software developers' interests with those of end users that makes old systems unusable. Do we really need web pages that stream 4 video ads on loading and have another pop-up over top of the content the user requested asking us to subscribe? I miss the simplicity of the old days.
...Try and launch a new platform, Nobody trusts you, Platform Dies, Loss?
My roomba can't do the whole room without screwing up or getting stuck, it feels like we are eons away from a robot being able to do what you describe autonomously.
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Worth mentioning Stripe among the destroyers. Sure a percentage of those who complain on r/stripe are breaking ToS, but it's evident that a substantial % are not. Stripe ToS allows them to profit from investing held funds. Once funds are held, nobody at Stripe responds. Has taken years for some to get their funds returned. I wonder how much funds they have on hold at any one time and how much they're making on it.
Everything's connected to the internet, what the OP was talking about was attack vectors and since Transmit is a local app it really isn't one unless your whole machine is compromised, which in that case you're screwed.
Yeah, I can't believe this has to be said.
Data needs to fit in RAM and graphics in VRAM. Let's say 100GB or more if you filter some rows during import. Data is ingested in a in-house database designed to refresh the ever changing selected rows as quickly as possible to conduct a true investigation. You can load as many parquet files as you want in one go provided they have the same structure. Any outlier in any visual representation will be drawn as this is a requirement to detect weak signals and anomalies

Comparisons with the tools you mentioned would indeed be interesting, writing a blog post would be a good idea I guess! I wrote a comparison with ELK here : https://squey.org/domains/cybersecurity/pentesteracademy-mac...
Infrastructure in much of the US is extremely old and crumbling, often barely holding on.
In the name of profit many important upgrades and replacements are simply not done until things fail - like 46,154 bridges that are in use today that are structurally deficient. [1]

[1] https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges-infras...
Cloudflare is AWS?
I agree it’s unlikely but by the same token renewables don’t really solve this problem any better - at the end of the day you need batteries for both.
AWS’s stated reasons seem pretty sound to me: https://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
At this point, I am not even sure what Wordpress.org is anymore other than a marketing department for Automattic. It's hard to know if this is a real position with real people reporting to it or if the entire org is a paper department.
In that case, you should also not wish away refining losses, where petroleum is turned into gasoline and other fuels.
Yep. I use drive but keep waiting for some clear alternative to arrive. My biggest use is just keeping D&D campaign-related materials there.

Google is a drag.
The fragmentation has been really frustrating but if things like WebGPU and SDL GPU become well supported it will make doing modern graphics programming mostly pleasant. I love/hate OpenGL and will miss it in a strange way.
That's already how it works for workspace, in my experience.
We should back up and ask, "Why do we have an economy?"

If the response is to benefit people, then actions which benefit the economy at the expense of benefiting people are misaligned to our goals. It's an alignment problem and boy if we can't solve this, then I have some bad news for you regarding the next 30 years.
That's fair. I think we have a little polish work still to do on that one. :)
> we build our homes out of brick and mortar or outright solid concrete instead of wood

I mean yes, you chopped down your forests millennia ago ;).
Trusted? The will of Alfred Nobel states that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is the body that selects the winner, you can't change that.

Also, I think the process looks fairly decent:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/physics/

Gather nominations, make a shortlist, research the shortlist with actual field experts, present candidates, discuss, and vote.

And in 50 years you'll be able to find out who the other candidates were!
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Usually limescale build up inside water pipes and should avoid further microplastics release into the water.

There was also a study which showed that boiling tab water with microplastics binds those in the line which builds up.
> There is unfortunately nothing special about Fusiwe breaking the arm of his spouse in anger

That is not one of the events that put Helena's survival at risk.
People forget to keep track of how long it takes them to do things.

I see people bifurcated into "people good at time estimates" and "people who think time estimates are always wrong." The former have been keeping track, improved continuously, and have become good. The latter have no clue.

Setting up a website from scratch is not hard, but it is time consuming, especially when you throw in maintenance.
This is quite a feat! I'm sure you learnt a lot along the way.
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I do consulting for a few restaurants, and despite my experience building full-stack web applications, I find myself reaching for Excel for most of my deliverables. These are "applications" that "non-technical" restaurant operators need to be comfortable in. Having a sheet where they paste in some data and get their needed output has required the least amount of continued maintenance and training. They can drag the file around in Dropbox / Google Drive and that works for them.

I still try to "engineer" to the best of my ability—separating raw input from derived data from configuration, data normalization, etc. With Lambda functions in Excel now, I kinda just pretend I'm writing Lisp in an FRP editor / runtime environment. The ETL tools with PowerQuery are quite good for the scale that these restaurants operate at.

Hard for me to turn off my brain in my full-time job when I am tasked with poorly recreating a feature that Excel nailed years ago.
I think "sick time" or "sick days" is a very US-centric thing. In good chunks of the EU, medical leaves (approved by a doctor) are a legally protected concept.
I don’t need to or want to take risks on internal tooling.

That's an interesting take. I'd argue that there's nothing more important to innovate on. The reason? Because I believe that "the ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only true source of sustainable competitive advantage" and, concordantly, that your internal tooling and processes are crucial embodiments of your organizational learning.

Of course that learning and improvement on "back office" has to be in service of delivering better products, or reducing expenses, or better understanding your customers or something in order for the payoff to manifest.
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This exactly. With a little screwing around, you don’t even need a “crystal”, just a corroded piece of metal, lead corroded by sulphuric acid works well. Aside from that, you can make an earphone out of some fine wire and a small magnetic fragment, and a suitable capacitor using aluminium foil and paper or plastic film. That’s it. 3 components and some wire. Not even a battery is needed for relatively powerful AM broadcast signals. If you want to get fancy you can wrap some wire around a paper towel tube for a tuning resonator.

Or, you can just use the old wood stove in my childhood home. We had some wire racks for drying gloves and mittens supported above it, and the whole contraption played the 670khz radio station broadcasting about 15 miles away, sometimes at an annoying level of volume. You could quiet it down with some wet gloves, though.

It also would shock you when it was being loud. Somehow, the demodulated signal ended up at a pretty high voltage. I’ve often tried to imagine the circuit that was going on there between the stove, grounded at the bottom and with a 30 foot high metal chimney, the aluminium foil backed insulation in the house, the two metal pipe penetrations connected to the huge foil planes 9 feet apart on the first and second stories, the gasketed top of the stove that was somewhat insulated from the grounded base, and attached to the chimney at the top, and the corroded bolts that held the bottom to the top.
Yes, I also expect that this is the way, but I think it makes the problem only partially smaller, since you still need to sync and back up the keys.

Also, is an encrypted piece of data with a lost key truly deleted? What if the encryption gets cracked?

I would say it is more deleted than toggling a `deleted` flag in the db and less deleted than burning the tapes in fire.
With a million robots you can perform a billion iterations. We won't need a billion iterations on every task; we will start to see generalization and task transfer just as we did for LLMs once we have LLM-scale data.

You are right that failure is costly with today's robots. We need to reduce the cost of failure. That means cheaper and more robust robots. Robots that, like a toddler, can jump off a couch and fall over and still be OK.

Tying back to the article, this is the real evolutionary advantage that humans have over AIs. Not innate language skills or anything about the brain. It's our highly optimized, perceptive, robust, reliable, self-repairing, fail-safe, and efficient bodies, allowing us to experiment and learn in the real physical world.
Excellent idea. I'm sure with so high stakes people will try every possible photoresist for that and find one like what you described.
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Reduced fire risk is the main reason. The $ value of damage after a big fire often isn't THAT much smaller than the cost of undergrounding cables in that area. There's also some fringe benefits for aesthetics, electrocution risk, and maintenance costs (underground maintenance is more expensive but less common)
People were already talking about Big Data in the 90s. If you send this idea back in time to 2005, people wouldn't be stunned by the revolutionary innovations it would unlock. They would say, "oh, someone else on the Big Data hype train."
you do realize that other things have a no safe value...opioids no doctor can predict which dose of opioid produces the addiction...opioids first use was for pain medication for those with terminal diseases
The difference there was that PATCO was a union for government air traffic controllers. Every government employee swears an oath not to strike against the federal government:

https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/sf61.pdf

There were existing laws on the books to remove the striking ATCs.

That’s not the case with the ILA. The most they can do is block strikes for 80 days.
The scope will be significantly broader as Mary brings a lot of talents to the ecosystem.