skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me think of an example from the PuLP docs of solving sudoku using constraint based linear programming.

https://coin-or.github.io/pulp/CaseStudies/a_sudoku_problem....

This example helped me enormously in developing my understanding of how to use binary variables in an LP solver
The idea that style and linting define the “craft” is bizarre. What it sounds like you are saying is that you prefer style over substance. Not a single developer I’ve ever revered cared about styling. It’s a means to an end for large teams because to make it easy to read you need commonality.

It’s kind of like what Bruce Lee said about punches. Before you know how to code, styling is just styling. When you become proficient in coding, styling is more than just styling. But when you’ve mastered coding, styling is just styling again. Be like water my friend.
Using race as a metric in your hiring decisions, for any reason at all, is illegal. You simply cannot do it. Not as a tie breaking point, not a plus factor-- nothing at all.

The law is crystal clear on this:

https://x.com/andrealucasEEOC/status/1752006517761421719?t=v...
> The money is budgeted through September (end of federal FY). Things are currently only funded through March 15 (CRs and whatnot).

Since the budget is only funded through March, the budget can be modified in March in order to extend the funding for it (all those "government shutdown avoidance negotiations"). At which point it won't matter whether it was budgeted or not.
Same! I've accidentally rendered a PDF monstrosity where every data point was represented in full vector graphic glory. It was absolutely enormous and dumb, because you couldn't tell that from the figure.

Generate high quality graphics, with the limitations of print, digital displays, and attention in mind. Then toss your data up on Zenodo and cite its DOI.

Obfuscating is the wrong word. "Decimate", "project", "render" are all better options, depending on what you mean. Punning render is the most fun of that lot, FWIW.
The employees, suing in Federal court, since they have a clear and obvious loss to point to, they will have standing. Judges can either obey the law or not. If they don't obey the law, then we are much further along on the authoritarian spectrum then everyone thinks, but so far Musk has lost a lot of court cases and has several emergency injunctions against him doing anything.
I still rip every audio CD (including audiobooks) into MP3 and I have about 8 GB of MP3 audio files in my library (a lot of children's audio books in there for the kids).

The format plays on nearly every device that plays any kind of music ever made, files are tiny, and they sound amazing still.

It's so much different than like 480i videos from old VHS and DV tape imports from the MP3 era.
Germany's cybersec agency discovered vulnerabilities in Nextcloud's file sync
MP3 is still more widely supported in most devices. Taking existing MP3's, which is going to be most people that deal with MP3, and converting them to FLAC is not going to have a benefit (along with taking time, and needing to deal with tagging, of which I may be wrong but believe MP3 has better support and more tags - on top of being able to create your own key:value tags).
"Pay less attention, otherwise you might become apathetic." Granted, mass media is generally slop (this article being no exception), but that's all the more reason one should observe and think carefully.
How long until this is flagged?

It should be a game by now.

Edit:
Flagged and dead in 1 hour!
"I can't talk politics."

It's a question of right or wrong.

"I can't talk politics."

It's a question of health care.

"I can't talk politics."

It's a question of fact vs fiction, knowledge vs ignorance.

"I can't talk politics."

You are a slave to a master that does not believe in integrity, ethics, community, and social values.

"I can't talk politics."
I would guess that they felt comfortable that the bcrypt output (192 bits) is enough that collisions are very unlikely. If these were already partitioned by customer, rather than being a single cache for the entire Okta userbase that seems fine. You're going to have weird cosmic ray bugs more often than a natural collision.

Now, the data structure they're using for a cache will use some sort of hash table, likely in memory, so maybe they've got the 192-bit bcrypt "key" and then that's hashed again, perhaps well or perhaps badly [e.g. C++ really likes using the identity function so hash(12345) = 12345] but then a modulo function is applied to find the key in an index and then we go groping about to look for the Key + Value pair. That part the API probably took care of, so even if the hash has size 6-bits, the full 192-bit key was checked. But the original data (userid:username:password) is not compared, only that 192-bit cache key.
> When Bass was running for mayor of L.A. ... she went through a stunning transformation and really seemed to "get it"....

This is what always happens to politicians. Their mumbles become coherent. Shyness fades. Vague dithering words transform to bold calls to action. Infirm display vitality.

This is what politicians do. Otherwise they would be school teachers and programmers.
I noticed. The MP3 patents expired in 2017.

https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/consumer-electronics...
It's weird seeing America going so hellbent against Wikileaks (Hillary jokingly saying "can't we just drone him") vs now where the top brass are live tweeting leaks
One of the least forgiving agencies in which to roll out anything rapidly
Federal employees are not allowed to strike
>Please try not to write like this.

Sometimes I think it's the only way to make people really think about the apparently ridiculous things they say. It's not personal.

>Your chances of being subject to violence in NYC are harder to say.

Not that much harder, I would say. If you want to make a serious comparison, that is... Here's a list of per 100k rates for various crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... All of those crimes are WAY higher than 2.3 per 100k annually. Anyone visiting NYC is probably at much more risk because they will be more likely to go places and do things that are unsafe, and the locals can spot them from a mile away.

>All that said, the violent crime numbers are high enough that it seems like they couldn't possibly get qualified all the way down to less than 2.3 per 100k annually. But that intuition could be wrong.

I agree. Now you know why I consider the original comment absurd. There are also some people who are so anti-car that they want to make arguments like that, seriously. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you are one of those. If you just made a bad guess and aren't arguing that NYC is safe or that cars are wildly unsafe, then I think we're in agreement now.
How do you feel, knowing that some portion of the 25% “detected bot traffic” are actually people in this comment thread?
"media is in general is very right leaning"

Wow. You don't need to be very right leaning to feel the complete opposite. I'm simply amazed someone could feel that way, as nearly all media is very left-leaning (to my perspective).
Underwater citizen science reveals the specter of ghost fishing in Thailand
Cloudflare is security theatre.

I scrape hundreds of cloudflare protected sites every 15 minutes, without ever having any issues, using a simple headless browser and mobile connection, meanwhile real users get interstitial pages.

It's almost like Cloudflare is deliberately showing the challenge to real users just to show that they exist and are doing "something".
Many / most bots use Chrome on Linux user agent, so you think it's OK to block Chrome on Linux user agents. That's very broken thinking.

So it's OK for them to do shitty things without explaining themselves because they "have access to more data than we do"? Big companies can be mysterious and non-transparent because they're big?

What a take!
Reuters builds software for a variety of fields and maintains datasets that would be useful in identifying if, say, an email with an invoice purporting to be from a specific company aligns with the invoicing practices of that company.

It would be more accurate to compare that side of Reuters to LexisNexus, Wolters Kluwer, or perhaps Bloomberg.
Generally, no. Egg laying hens grow too slow and meat chickens suck at making eggs so it's two different sources.
It was awarded to Thomson Reuters, the parent company. They do a lot of work in risk management and fraud detection, so they have a lot of expertise.
That was a different situation because those people continue to be employees. The gov gave them back pay during shutdown because it wants them to continue to work after the shutdown (so services keep being rendered).

In this case, Trump/Musk don't want these workers back, so there's no political incentive or pressure to pay them. They can just not do so if it's "not funded by Congress" (usually there's fine print about this, at least there is in gov contracts, which are similar).
Viable processes don’t suddenly pop into existence just because someone says so…?

Most of Congress can’t acquire sufficient clearances to even learn the names of random middle managers in many offices in the IC, let alone to do anything about them.
MP3 is still the standard lossy audio format. Plays on everything, patent-free. OK sound quality (some stuff falls apart even at 320 if you have golden ears).
You make some really good points in your comment. One of the most unfortunate (that I believe to be true) is:

> don't even know what it does and by extension, don't care.

Apathy is a problem in so many different social, political, and even technological systems - for instance, if people cared just a little bit more about digital privacy, the entire adtech scene probably wouldn't exist.
It's usually a good idea not to attach your self-worth to your employment at a particular company or your belief in your job prowess. That employment can end at any moment, or the market might decide that your prowess is irrelevant. People end up with all sorts of trauma and depression because their whole ego is wrapped up in their job and then suddenly their job disappears.

A job is a simply a trade of money for services. If you got hired, it means that your employer has a seat to fill, and you were the one they happened to choose to fill it. Nothing more, nothing less.
No I do not think so- America owes its success to the common Americans, not to the govt. Personal question: Have you lived/worked at length in any third world country?
I think the recommendation is to go to events relevant to your interests, actively contribute, and speak to people.
> anti chromosomal expression

What's this? I've literally never heard this phrase before in my life.
https://apnews.com/article/deepseek-china-generative-ai-inte... TA
Any quick explanation why Canada’s eggs simply have not gone up in price like this? What is stopping Canadian egg sellers from selling them at twice the price to the US market? Regulations? Existing agreements?
I think isolinear core is the way to go. A homogeneous cartesian array of cells that can either do a 4 x 4LUT worth of compute OR be used as 64 bits of FIFO or RAM depending on individual cell configuration. All at 10 Ghz clock rates.
Every time I read about this project it blows my mind that this is even remotely possible to do.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -- Arthur C. Clarke
flagging is being abused IMO once i realized its happening
How do you do that? Are you hearing the words out loud in your head? Is every sentence being parsed? Or is it like touch typing where you're hitting just close enough to get meaning but not enough to go deep?

Also, what is light prose? Is it just something you don't care too much about extracting meaning from?
All by design. The idea is to keep older devices, ones with perhaps no government backdoors, and unauthorized software, off the Internet completely. Same reason there's a big push to kill X11 - it runs great on computers from before hardware backdoors were common. With the Trumpenreich looming, these devices will become very useful. IF they are allowed on the Internet.
The reason why no one noticed is that everyone has been trivially circumnavigating the patents for decades (the usual model being a converter that doesn't come with its own lame.dll but asks you to put one into its folder) and Frauenhofer hasn't been caring much when it was private users as opposed to hardware manufacturers. If not for this, something like Ogg Vorbis would have taken its place.

As to files, I'm sure they start mattering to you when your train goes through a tunnel or your wifi is down. The fileless world is the leakiest abstraction of them all.
"imagination" here is an euphemism for lawlessness. Democrats believe in democracy. This whole plan requires Trump exerting full control over the DOJ and FBI rather than what is typically done which is allow them to act independently.
While this is all true, this is not unique feature of Raspberry Pi / foundation.

Rockchip does work on mainlining support for some of their SoCs into various projects. Recently they finally got their TF-A support merged for RK356x and RK3588. They also have people on staff maintaining U-Boot and reviewing Linux patches and doing some upstreaming. Some companies that make boards also fund upstreaming via third parties like free electrons/bootlin/collabora/paid individuals, or donate HW and/or funds to projects like Armbian or again to random individuals who show interest (which is Pine64 modus operandi, I guess), or do it themselves.

And then, there are seemingly independent developers (on the HW/SBC manufacturer) doing sometimes very significant development for personal or other reasons (to have some well working HW for their SW projects - routers, or media center software like libreelec comes to mind)

End result is that quite a lot of boards end up having good quality upstream support not very long after launch these days, as a confluence of all these factors. And having resources for maintaining out-of-tree patches becomes irrelevant.

> For years many Rockchip SoCs were stuck at ancient 3.x, 4.x, 5.x kernel LTSes, which made a lot of use cases quite difficult.

That may be true if you only look at Linux provided via BSP, but there are Rockchip SoCs that are well supported in mainline Linux for many years, like RK3399 (because of strong push from Google to get it upstreamed).

Other thing now, is that there's such a critical mass of say Rockchip/Allwinner related drivers upstream, that adding almost fully working support for a new SoC that had no support upstream, is sometimes attainable even for individuals who have a weekend or two of time to give to the project.

Eg. here is me porting Rockchip RV1103/1106 SoC support over the current mainline https://codeberg.org/megi/linux/commits/branch/luckfox-6.14 and adding a few boards on top. Except for CRU driver, it's mostly just light changes to existing drivers. So these days for some simpler SoCs you don't even need vendor support, or rely on anyone, and can just port it yourself based on released BSP code in a few days.

Super complex SoCs like RK3588, featuring a lot of new IP blocks of course take longer time and larger cooperation, but now, at similar [to rpi5] time after launch, there's very nice U-Boot support for booting via anything that the SoC can offer, fully opensource TF-A, and my Orange Pi 5 + supports GPU in kernel/mesa, dual HDMI output, PCIe, and pretty much all of the onboard features + working suspend to RAM, and this will only get better.

So RPi having resources for maintaining their out-of-tree patches will be more of a burden to them, eventually, because you'll be able to use many boards with generic distro kernel, while RPi will become an exception requiring some special handling and custom kernel.

It's already an exception in my world, where pretty much everything I have uses U-Boot, except for RPi which has to be it's own weird thing.
> A song in a more modern format like AAC or FLAC might be double or triple the size of an MP3

That's a bizarre statement regardless. Most streaming services that use AAC are 256 kbps, same as most MP3 downloads. Spotify's paid tier is supposedly 320 kbps MP3. Tidal free-with-ads is only 160 kbps AAC.
Ah, I thought you meant that you wished people who talked in public about their approaches to a problem (as Norvig and Jeffries did) would talk more about their framings. I think I now understand that you mean that you wish individual people would analyze their own framing for their own use, not (just) for the purposes of other people learning from them.

(I also am more familiar with the sense of "circumspect" from the macOS dictionary, "wary and unwilling to take risks," which seemed totally out of line. The Wiktionary meaning makes more sense.)
Personality tests being useful makes sense, but personality tests where candidates are sparse and the training/hiring bottleneck has already been passed by candidates is terrible.

Also, I have a very hard time believing these "correct" answers are representative of the already hired candidates. Worst subject in school was science, worst in college was history, and participated in four or more high school sports, but no correlation on whether they believe it is important to be fast or accurate in their work? Applied to five or six jobs in the last three years? Is bothered "more than most" by criticism from others? [1] I almost find it easier to believe that they were blatantly playing into negative stereotypes of certain minority demographics than that this survey was fit to describe already hired ATCs.

[1] https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/
Microplastics in the human brain
I submitted this. Egg prices became a political trope during the election, and were summarily forgotten afterward. Eggs are skyrocketing now and it is not a front page story. The reason they are skyrocketing, out of control H5N1 contagion in cattle and poultry operations, is not a front page story. There seems to be very little being done about food cost or yet another widely-predicted-by-epidemiologists emergent global pandemic. Apparently those are less interesting for the person in charge than punishing federal employees for perceived slights while doing their jobs.

I have posted previously about the Russian genocide on the Ukraine people and I agree with you about the rest. Some people can't see past the tip of their nose, though, and care about eggs.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think one of the best things you can do now is to be available in your local communities. You don’t have to be a leader there, but showing up, lending a bit of your time, or just making yourself known as an ally, especially to groups that are being targeted by this administration is helpful.

If things do get bad (job loss, no money, food scarcity) you’ll be able to fall back on the community you’re a part of.

Check out your local library for a jumping off point. Local pride centers would be happy to have you around.

I was feeling similar things (do I need go buy a gun?! No, I don’t.) and I decided that investing time in local communities is better.
do you have a link to instructions on how to do that? It sounds really nice.
cloudflare is primarily a caching proxy. in order to perform any caching, they would have to have the unencrypted objects. check, mate.

It is sad that in this day and age, when you buy a car you need to sign a legal exclaimer that you understand it requires gasoline to run.
I have been working, slowly, toward a way to do something like this, for years. My latest attempt (http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/) is not professional or polished, but it does work. IIRC it is canvas rather than SVG, and the "animation" is driven by the photo slideshow.

Tangentially, I find that the bulk of the work is in compiling and prepping the assets, including multiple camera devices, incorrect timestamps, buggy rotation exif data, captions from multiple sources, GPS tracks from multiple sources...

Thanks for asking here, I'm looking forward to finding a better way to do it.
gettin a bit defensive there? does calling out the fact that Musk obviously did a Nazi salute strike a chord with you?
Having contradictory beliefs that don't really make sense if you look at them together but still listening to The Rush Limbaugh Show, still showing up and really voting Republican consistently, etc.

On the other hand leftists are always telling Hispanic people that they have to have solidarity with black people, telling trans people they have to have solidarity with animal rights people (or the animals?), etc. And... crickets. The people never quite tell you that they don't agree with you but they don't really give money, they don't really listen to you, they don't really turn out at your march, they don't really vote for you, etc.

I've been there, done that, and lived it. If you listen to people you make a little more progress than you make by just flying a really big flag. The antipattern is common in articles from Trotskyite papers which you will find collected here:

https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true

Often there is some issue that the people involved see as an isolated issue, but the Trotskyite always wants to smack it together like a Katamari Ball [1] with other issues and conclude a socialist revolution is necessary and the answer from most people is [2] [3] [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(Beatles_song)

[3] "But if you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao: You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
I don't know why this article says "now". It was over 7, almost 8 years ago that the final patents on MP3 expired. There was even HN discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240645

More notable is that many H.264 patents are expiring this year:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...
Weren't you the one who said ...

> the 1-2 year interruption in hiring pipelines can cause large ripples that take years-to-decades to resolve.

Looking at [1], the difference between planned and actual hires in 2013–2015 was 1362, much higher than during 2020–2022 when it was just 384 (and this is using the pre-COVID target).

I don't know what happened in 2013–2015, but whatever it was, it seems to have had a 3.5 times bigger impact than COVID.

Well, we do know one thing that happened: this scandal.

[1] https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FY23-Staffi...
Dayum that sounds like a helpful dict. Other reasons for picking it?

Edit: the gap seems smaller than I'd expect when one sorts them by usage?

https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/idiom.php?wor...

https://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/idiom.php?wor...

On Dulles.. I like YC's very parallel usage of "asshole" here

(helpful notation+ seems like they hired a cyborg (ofc) to do the translation?)

https://coralcap.co/2022/02/why-japanese-startups-dont-apply...

( in Dulles' intended context, both parties are (usually) assholes, and here, it takes some.. cycles .. to look out for the other ones :)
We're on Chrome on Linux, mostly we don't see those.
>that doesn't apply to cc fraud yet

It stops "card testing" where someone has bought or stolen a large number of cards and need verify which are still good. The usual technique is to cycle through all the cards on a smaller site selling something cheap (a $3 ebook for example). The problem is that the high volume of fraud in a short time span will often get the merchant account or payment gateway account shut down, cutting off legitimate sales.

As a consumer, you should also be suspicious of a mysterious low value charge on your card because it could be the prelude to much larger charges.