skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boy are we lol
From the wikipedia page "...Although many subpostmasters had reported problems with the new software, and Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999, the Post Office insisted that Horizon was robust and failed to disclose knowledge of the faults in the system during criminal and civil cases......" Fujitsu and Post Office management both new of software faults. Either or both of these groups should have dug much deeper.

The Post Office Management should have known OR hired Software EXPERTS to advise them on how to determine software reliability. Especially once it was evident a large number of people accused of theft. My Opinion is Post Office Management was negligent, particularly the CEO and other senior managers. ANd they should be charged with criminal negligence. CEO and senior managers are paid "big money" to deal with such companies, they should have dug "much deeper" to investigate, especially since their would have been large numbers who claimed innocence
The software company Fujitsu, is also criminal negligence. Producing a financial system and not validating it.

The defence lawyers ( maybe with software computer system speciality ) could have asked for test records, test data how the system was validated. That would have been my first question.
OK , Fujitsu and Post office management claim system is reliable, WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE OF SYSTEM RELIABILITY. Where are the exact test records and test data to support this claim. Where are the system design documents. Where is the company's bug / issue tracking, reports. How exactly is the software tested?

It seems the problem could have been detected at several levels , but for various reasons they all missed. I'm shocked that this issue went on for so long. (There must have good people somewhere , that said nothing, )

My opinion is shaped by my work experience as a software test analysist for many years ( a few decades ) , who has worked on software that does financial transactions, every release ( except ones where change was deemed minor ) of our software was examined by auditors from the government. These government auditors could do anything. ask for design documents, ask for test records. request tests be re run in their presence. That we run certain tests designed by the auditors. Interview any staff about the change. These software audits could be from a few hours to several days , depending on the change. Our company maintained a complete test system of the distributed system for this testing.
Growing up in Nairobi, it took only a 20-minute ride to visit the vast coffee farms in areas like Kiambu, Limuru, and others nearby areas. These farms were located less than 10 kilometers from the city center, many of them close to the edge of the Aberdare mountain ranges. In the mid-1990s, when I was in primary school, we were taught that Kenya was a leader in coffee and tea production, and I used to consume coffee almost daily.
Then, all of a sudden, it seemed like one scandal after another emerged—farmers were not being paid, and the industry became overrun by brokers and middlemen. This meant local farmers were cut off from selling their coffee at competitive market rates and instead had to deal with corrupt government officials and brokers.
So, what did the farmers do? Most abandoned coffee farming and converted their farms into prime real estate. Remember, these farms were near the mountain slopes, making the land highly valuable. These new houses became popular with the UN and foreign nationals from Europe and the US, who sought refuge from Nairobi’s “heat.”
As a result, more coffee farms were converted into real estate, and today these areas feature some of the most expensive properties in Kenya. For instance, $200,000 would now be considered cheap for a three-bedroom apartment.
On that last note, perhaps some exceptions should be drawn for advertising in particular.
What I think is that you are confusing the schema_version and user_version pragmas.

user_version is what you would use to keep track of which migrations have run and it can be safely updated (or not updated) without corrupting the database.

schema_version is the thing that sqlite updates automatically on every single change to the schema. sqlite uses schema_version to make sure that prepared statements don't accidentally run on a different schema than what they are prepared for. schema_version is also the thing that rust-query uses to make sure that the schema hasn't changed since the application started.

You can see now that you can not trick rust-query without also tricking sqlite (and risking corruption if there was a prepared statement).

If you shutdown the application before you change the schema_version, then rust-query will just see that the schema is different when the application is started. Because rust-query always reads the full schema and compares it to the expected schema on application start!
If only a democrat majority had been elected at any point in the last 40 years that could have fixed this.
No, you're right. Most microphones and speakers ever made are dynamic. The speakers do function as microphones, by the way. The difference is simply whether you amplify the electricity generated by the vibrations moving the membrane (microphone) or if you send a pre-amplified signal to the copper coil around the magnet (speaker). They work on the same principle, so any dynamic driver can work as a microphone and any dynamic microphone could work as a driver, all just depending on the rest of the electronics they're hooked up to.
This was the first post I saw about this set. Over the course of the weekend, I have been seeing articles all over the internet about it. And now the site admins had to just completely take down the page for all the LEGO sets in the store. They are probably now rethinking having the employee store open to the public.
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This sounds like the exact same argument that copyright trolls were against. Where's RIAA and the MPAA? I guess we are talking out of both sides of our mouth now.
You're right - but also very wrong. People can be optimistic while still having an existential crisis about what they see/feel is happening. That's what makes them believe they can influence and change the world, and why they even try.

What we're seeing in tech today feels like it started in the 80's, and before that point computers, etc. were viewed by some as the downfall of humankind and by others the saviour.
The Intel A770 is currently $230 and 48GB of GDDR6 is only like a hundred bucks, so what people really want is to combine these things and pay $350 for that GPU with 48GB of memory. Heck, even double that price would have people lining up.

Apple will sell you a machine with 48GB of memory for thousands of dollars but plenty of people can't afford that, and even then the GPU is soldered so you can't just put four of them in one machine to get more performance and memory. The top end 40-core M4 GPUs only have performance comparable to a single A770, which is itself not even that fast of a discrete GPU.
> Today, in fact, many Deanwood residents travel to a Safeway outside the neighborhood to shop.

Isn't this the real issue? That we build on the assumption that everyone has a car?
I suspect it’s a per person thing. I’ve taught myself how to bake sourdough with a book. I’ve taught myself how to knit by reading as well which is also very tactile.

When reading a good rule book/instruction manual I get little moments where the respective explanations click.

But I assume everyone has a preferred method that works for them and has a similar experience when learning.
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I am not sure that "Dante is clearly writing in the expectation that his audience will know these references" as claimed in the article. He put a lot of learning into the work, and maybe he had in mind an ideal reader who could follow the most obscure of references, and appreciate all the allegorical meanings, but it's noticeable that the narrator of the poem is always asking naïve questions and getting rebuked for his ignorance by Virgil and Beatrice. Readers who don't understand everything in the poem can thus feel that they are in a similar position to the narrator.

And as soon as the poem was published, people started writing explanations for the difficult bits. Dante's son Jacopo wrote a commentary in 1322, Graziolo Bambaglioli wrote another in 1324, and by the end of the 14th century there were at least fifteen. This shows that the poem quickly found an audience that was not familiar with all the references.
baseline images seem to be rendered, because there is shading, lightining, shadows etc.
when I tried other tool (image -> 3d model) it tended to work only for their example images, and when I used anything else it produced some black and flat shape.

so the headline should be: Generate 3D worlds from a single image rendered by us that we used to train our model.
Maybe big businesses and economy of scale did help the American consumer, have you checked in on the eurozone lately?
Has the Chicago school of economics been repudiated?
It certainly has its faults but so did antitrust regulations from the 50’s
Our roster does test roast, good quality beans used to test the process. Light, tasty, and cheap.

I do not need to get further from that.

The only expensive thing you need is a good grinder. Rest goes with a 26€ V60 and a kitchen scale.
Some of the sites we work on are insurance based. We save every step of the calculation (inputs and outputs, e.g. rates and sub-totals). An administrative user can see the entire calculation from start to end, including overrides at various steps (e.g. a manual discount), and breakdowns per state or item insured if appropriate. This seems like the acceptable bare minimum to me, rather than just showing a magic number. And it definitely helps to expose bugs.
Holy moly, you’re one unreasonably angry individual. You do realise you’re lashing out at someone who said repeatedly they believed you and was polite about it, right?

I’d suggest perhaps closing Hacker News for the day but I get the feeling you’ll find some way to be insulted at that as well, so instead I’ll just wish you a better week than you’re having so far.
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It's really more about acknowledging that, unless you're explicitly talking about something like HPC, "high" is a relative term. It quite reasonably means different things to different people in different contexts. In Python I can often improve a task's run time by multiple orders of magnitude, getting its run time from "irritating" to "not really worth thinking about" in the process, just by making sure I'm doing vectorized operations that can make use of SIMD instructions in the appropriate places. That's more than high enough performance for my needs in most cases. A similar situation may be true for the author of this library.

I find it to be much less coherent, nearly to the point of knocking down straw men, when people get lost in arguing semantics over a term that we should all know by now is perennially ill-defined.
It becomes less surprising when you see a photo of the flower. It's huge, so it's not that unlike large mammals eating fruit or honey.
Not sure if this article provides enough definitive info - happened to see it yesterday.

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You know what’s great about SVGs? So many things! I can share the highlights, on the spot, in under 60 seconds.

If you hired me and asked what’s great about SVGs, I’d say: “They’re lightweight, work well on all devices; you can draw or animate them based on dynamic data with precision.”

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One thing the article doesn't explain well: why aren't any of the other chains competing with the UnSafeway near Deanwood? Even if it doesn't make sense for the chains to open a store in Deanwood proper, why aren't they competing where all the traffic is going?
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Its kind of interesting if Walmart and/or Costco has squeezed prices so low that you could potentially use it as the basis for informal neighborhood bulk buying co-op. Like an Uber app which coordinated grocery buying and splitting up bulk packaged foods into smaller purchase sizes.
I agree, but you don't get to weigh everything out on a scale and be measured by the balance - even if you could. How would you compare say, GraphQL, with providing a mechanism for 24/7 cyber bullying, or sharing photos with grand parents? Which side of the ledger does React even go on?
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I really enjoyed Murderbot, and seeing people here (completely within their rights!) saying it's "just ok", let me say why I think it's more than merely "ok".

By the way, long scifi fan here, so I'm aware of the conventions of the genre.

- Murderbot is neither a "he" nor a "she". This isn't immediately obvious on a first read, and I initially assumed it was a "he", but there's absolutely zero indication of its gender. What I mean to say is that Murderbot is subtler than it seems at first... um, read.

- Women are in power as good characters and it's not something you're hit over the head. Pacifism/cooperativism is an actual option. The most intelligent character in the series is a woman, but again, this is not preachy nor does it seem like "it has an agenda". It's actually something you realize once you've read the first few novellas. It just happens.

- The action-oriented tech is pretty good actually, way above the low techno-babble bar set by Star Trek and similar. Martha Wells used to work in IT and it shows. While the tech is hand-wavy and not so detailed that it becomes boring (this is not a "nerd's paradise", which I actually approve of, because such things don't result in good literature), but communications, "the net", what's wired vs what's not wired, bandwidth, hacking, etc, all make sense in Murderbot. There's not a cringeworthy moment in sight.

- The action is good. It's not military porn [1] (I wouldn't classify this as military scifi) yet it's quite thrilling.

- The humor is excellent too. I loved the whole "I'd rather be streaming soap operas".

Is it the deepest scifi there is, exploring the most thought-provoking ideas? Well, no. But is it fun? Hell, YES. And that has to count for something -- smart, thrilling fiction that is not necessarily groundbreaking.

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[1] I hate this term and I hesitated about writing it down, but in the end decided most people will understand what I mean.
Lavazza seems to get a lot of hate on coffee snob forums, but they make consistently decent coffee that's not burnt to ashes or weirdly acidic.
Usually in the US, unless it’s a massive city, vendors selling things out of their yards/trunk are ignored. It’s when you have a permanent/semi permanent stall that things get serious. Also selling things out of your trunk opens you up to significant liability risks if someone gets sick and can find you.
It is what it is :/ … I do periodically ask these questions to track how v4-vs-v6 things are developing, and they're moving, albeit at a snail's pace.

(FTR, it works for us because our CI is relatively self-contained. And we have local git mirrors… f***ing github…)
I have noticed that when people are explaining the rules of a game, they tend leave out the goal of the game, or wait to mention it toward the end of the explanation. You gotta lead with what the goal of the game is.
> It's probably due to how division is implemented, [...]

Or rather how division could be implemented. Risc-V is an abstract instruction set architecture not born from a concrete chip, like x86 was; but they are trying to make things easy on the hardware.
I believe that's a thing for alibaba already
Eh. Pat hasn't seemed to be doing anything special. Presided over a bunch of hiring and firing (pointlessly), plowing money into fabs like anyone else would, often misleads during presentations, hasn't managed Intel's cash very well...

I have to agree with a few others, don't really see why people looked up to him. Seems like a pretty mediocre CEO overall.

I also, personally, do not actually see the problem with a financial CEO. Ultimately I don't believe technical acumen is that important to the decisions a CEO makes - they should be relying on subordinates to correctly inform them of the direction and prospects of the company and act accordingly.

I am concerned about Intel's long term prospects - obviously he wouldn't be leaving if everything was looking up, IMO.
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Yeah, the devices were still new enough that they seemed kind of magical.

I think it may all have been a terrible mistake though -- the world is more fun when people aren't glued to their phones.
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