skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very sad and horrifying to read about. Worse because I don't know what constructive things I can do in this context.

AI is a race that absolutely must be won by good actors rather than totalitarian states.
The occupants are NASA astronauts, and SpaceX was hired by NASA to carry them so it’s a clear case of public interest, IMHO. Also if they did bill them NASA would just get the bill and probably marked up.
As someone who has spent their entire career in infosec, one of my most important rules is “security should break your company”. The alternative is, someone else will break your company for you. If you can’t produce a document that explains what this server does and every external interaction it could possibly have, you’re failing. Be extremely conservative in what you accept.

If you’re allowing basically anything in, eventually the wrong person with the wrong code will get in. And that might very well be the last day you have a business.
They weren't unusual in how often they put out albums, it was the music industry norm at the time, and had been for years.
I don't follow why Bob can play any legal move when s_n is not possible. The proposition is that, if S is countable, Bob has a winning strategy. Suppose S = (s1, s2, s3), which is finite and therefore countable. On turn 1 Alice picks s1. Since s1 is already taken, Bob picks any legal move, which means any number in [0, 1]. Suppose he picks s3. Then, Alice picks s2 and wins?
It seems the site is designed for someone that wants to take ample time to meditate on and memorize the "laws" (it's basically flash cards).

So it's not designed for me — a person on lunch break, hoping to read at least 5 articles via Hacker News before my burrito is gone.

While I was annoyed there, I still appreciate it. It's a free resource. It's pretty. I gleaned a few useful takeaways (especially the idea of putting more important things on the edges).
Thinking in general is greatly affected by two things:

1. Physical exercise. Some blend of cardio and strength training is preferable, but at least cardio is pretty much a requirement.

2. Sleep quality. Not just duration, but quality as well. If you have sleep apnea especially (many people do and don't even know it), you need to address that.

Also, if you're getting _interviewed_ in such detail as a consultant, you're playing the consulting game wrong. People should just hire you based on your track record as exemplified by direct recommendations from previous customers and people within your network.

One of the benefits of a consultant from a customer standpoint is that if they determine they've made a mistake, they can just terminate your contract. So an elaborate interview is a waste of time for both sides.
It also hits the uncertainty like in some games when a cutscene ends but you have yet to figure out that it's time to move. At the first time I tapped on a box I had to decide whether my action is required. And it was, I had to scroll anyway. It failed easy interaction before all else.

We can discuss form and composition forever, but we all know that a simple scrollable page with screen-high tiles and/or a floating "next" button would do the job a million times better than this. If that was a job-related tool and not a site that you can read once and close forever, I would consider an alternative immediately. Fun fact, I didn't even bother to go further than few "articles" and read 6-8 times more text here itt than on their site in the same amount of time.

Your points are probably correct for a ux that has such problems, but if you do not create a problem, you do not have to solve a problem, and you cannot fail at it (which is easy to do).
The 400ms rule is that if the user does something, the UI must do something, anything.

It can mean "display the linked page within 400ms" or "start the animation within 400ms". You can't expect 1 TB of data to be transferred within 400ms but you can display a progress bar within 400ms.

Apple used that to great effect. iPhones, at least in the early days always felt more responsive than Android phones. That because they hid latency using smooth animation. And it worked. It was also apparent when I compared Chrome and Firefox a few years ago. Chrome felt faster but mostly because Chrome was faster at showing something on screen. They took about the same time to fully load the page.
Weekdays on average around 3:00am to 7-8AM

Weekends it can very but any typically around 4-6am to 9am-4pm.
If it is not possible to compute most reals, then is there a number system, with only computable numbers that extends the rational numbers to include computable reals such as Pi, e, sqrt(2)?
So the author is a GP in a VC firm focusing on the future of work", who thinks that many (most?) of the challenges of the "permanently flipped workplace" can be solved with the combination of SASS tooling and essentially mission statements. I'm sorry but this type of advice is neither actionable or helpful:

"Establish and communicate clear guidelines.."

"Engage managers in building the right workflow for their respective teams."

"Do whatever is necessary to achieve executive-level clarity on your priorities, values, and goals"

"Interview team leaders and managers on what unites them as a team in both theory and in practice."

...And on it goes. The only thing I can conclude is that in this flipped-around future of work everyone works in HR.
"The erosion of web tech". LoL.

I'm sorry you can't simply sink into a comfortable Google browser monopoly because one company has managed to ship something other than Chrome. But that's no bad thing.
I believe that's the actual drawing next to the digit 8?
Peak Elements and Trim Linked List – Weekly Challenge
I don't think the iterative nature actually helps SpaceX. Whatever use case they're targeting, and like I said, I don't know, and would like to know, isn't likely to be made more viable by bandwidth that changes substantially by the hour, and the total cost of getting a satellite into orbit makes generational turnover doubly challenging.

I just do not get the business model. It makes no sense for commercial internet access, even in rural areas. I think perhaps temporary access in undeveloped areas, where the total capex is lower than that needed for a temporary LTE deployment, for example, might be it, but that is not a big market.
Now that I think about it, why aren't most messaging apps peer to peer? Shouldn't that be the standard? I mean it's literally the point of messages: sending from one person to another.
>I’ve never put up prices for existing customers.

I think this is key. New customers will evaluate based on the current price not historical prices, but if you increase the price for existing customers, they will feel cheated.
The link doesn't take one where you say it will take them.
Pangu: New Unpatchable Vulnerability in Secure Enclave of iPhone
When my linter screams at me for not using the correct quotes, I usually think "who cares... it's a string and you know it".

I don't really understand why some languages allow multiple syntax for the same thing.

But it's good to know that in some languages (most shell scripts, Groovy, ...) double-quotes and single-quotes are not exactly the same. String substitution does not exist with single quotes, and I always take far too long to notice that this is why my code is not working.
How is it progress if they all do the same thing?
In other words, as I said in the beginning of the thread, you like not having a choice, and you do not want me to have a choice, too.

But why are you wording this as if AppStore will somehow vanish? I don't think it will be going anywhere even if some apps will start working without Apple's permission. Chances are, it'll get better if it has some real competition.
I recently replaced the battery in my Kindle Keyboard (I love physical buttons). It was easier to replace than I expected, and after half a year of daily use, haven't noticed any issues with the battery.

There are probably at least a few good places to buy replacement batteries; I got mine from batteryship dot com. I have zero association with them except that I bought this one battery, and will probably buy a phone battery from them in the future.
You think liberal democracy (however imperfect) vs. aggressive totalitarianism is merely a "petty squabble?"
Because it's a small price to pay for being able to send mail across the country for 55 cents. If most of the funding for the USPS came from people buying stamps to send out birthday and christmas cards, they'd either have to jack up the price considerably, or they wouldn't stop by your house 6 days a week to see if you have anything to send.
I’m going to predict Pompeo will be running for president soon. You might not agree with his methods, but the man certainly has the capability to show results.
You're misreading what I wrote. Here it is again:

> The argument isn't that hate speech is exposure therapy, it's that the likes of exposure therapy are a better solution than censorship to prevent people from being harmed by contemptible third party speech.

The point is, people who are being triggered by third party speech should go get exposure therapy, from a professional, or "the likes of exposure therapy" -- some other treatment -- so that they are prepared for the world, instead of insisting on constraining the world to be only what they're prepared for -- which isn't even possible because the set of ideas different people find distressing are different.

Suppose I'm triggered by the imposition of censorship.
Not even FedEx, you literally hire a guy to deliver an envelope say from Guatemala City to Xela.
Colossus and Other Early Computers
A few observations:

1.
"So what happens if CFIUS concludes that ByteDance should not have been allowed to acquire the business now known as TikTok? That situation has arisen many times over the past few years, and the answer normally is that the acquiring entity must divest itself of the acquired entity—or else cease operations in the United States. "

The article conflates Tiktok and Musical.ly. The two are actually not the same.

2.
"First, if the president sanctions the company in the manner outlined above, TikTok could no longer maintain its servers or any other operations or property inside the United States; it will have to operate entirely from foreign locations beyond the reach of IEEPA leverage, which is to say: from China. "

Tiktok could base their servers in a third country, say Canada.

3.
"TikTok depends on user-generated content, and the U.S. customer base depends largely (though not entirely) on the popularity of users who might no longer feel free to post to TikTok. That certainly will be true for high-profile US-based TikTok “creators” and celebrities with massive TikTok followings. And when Charli D’Amelio and others drop out in favor of whatever might turn out to be the next big platform, they’ll take their audience with them. "

It is not clear that Charli D'Amelio would start using Instagram Reels.

4.

I would be interested if Professor Chesney could provide an analysis on whether banning Tiktok would violate the First Amendment of the constitution. Especially considering any such ban would mean the deletion of political speech.

The constitution would, of course supersede any federal law, since it is the Supreme Law of the Land.
Is Mercedes a monopoly for Mercedes leather seating?
Perhaps the coherently serialized stream of qualia isn't the only possible way to intelligence?
Ya but other people not having the choice to side load apps makes the app economy better. Seems reasonable.
Whether or not that is true, this boycott doesn’t indicate that. The boycott was organized by activists, but the boycott was advertisers not purchasing ads on Facebook. The reason it had little effect on revenue was indicated in the article, while the boycott was made up of the largest advertisers in the world, they weren’t responsible for the majority of Facebook’s revenue in the first place.
OP here. I'm very interested in two things: thinking about new types of security tools and studying how different systems, especially those that are not computer related, are secured.

This repo is for people who also fall into the second camp and are curious about how prisons are secured, how museums are secured, etc. And the techniques used to do this systematically -- kill chains, failure analysis, and so on.

Happy to hear your feedback, and sorry if it's a bit disorganized!
Types of software projects with the most general architecture?
I want to read some code to improve my design/architectural skills. Thought it would be a good idea to find projects/codebases with the most general architectures (can be reused in other projects). Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
The Private Lives of the Pyramid-builders (2011)
They're monarchists?
The difference is...

If my colo goes down. My customers are going to complain and think I am incompetent. If my cloud hosted infrastructure goes down and everyone else is down your customers are a lot more understanding.

“No one ever got fired for buying IBM”
I appreciate your perspective and I'm afraid folks like yourself will be among the most affected long term. Based on everything I see, the "new normal" will be a lot more remote and at least partial working from home. I don't expect a lot of tech companies will go back to 4-5 days of office work as the standard. Where I work admittedly had a fairly significant remote/WFH component but it's pretty clear that it's going to go way up.
Are you honestly, and I mean honestly honestly, trying to argue that needing to scroll then move your mouse to reach a target can not be thought of as a target being further away when it comes to Fitts' law and the relationship between distance and time to acquire a target? It seems to me that you are choosing to focus on the specific text used in a rule as opposed to the concept that rule is trying to convey. I don't enjoy arguing over that sort of thing whatsoever, so I'll have to call it a day and go back to spreading mulch. Good day :)
I don't think so.

Musk has hired pretty much the same people who were making the same rockets for LM, Boeing, and NASA.

Their experience surely contributed to their speed.

To me, they give a feeling that they have some very experienced, and conservative type managing their engineering who does everything by the book.
I don't know that extremists on both far left and far right yelling over each other to drive public policy is a sign of a healthy democracy.

Neither of those groups naturally represent a majority of people, they're just having an outsized megative impact on society by being loud.

While Soviet Union had centralized unidirectional brainwashing, US now has bipolar, decentralized brainwashing. Not quite the same but also not quite that different.

If anything it's all those "western values" clashing together in a rather unfortunate way, exposing our society's inability to deal with free speech amplified by technology, corrupt politicians, greedy billionaires, and consolidated media empires.

This sucks, and it's not just messy, the whole thing is failing at the seams with no hope in sight.
Is this what you're looking for? (&) http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Data-F...
Fair point, I'd agree that 4 and 7 verge on censorship (I'm less convinced about 6 -- I draw a line between functions that Facebook performs as a content transmitter and as a discovery platform. I would argue that disrupting content transmission constitutes censorship, but curating the discovery platform does not.)

Still, it gets to my point that 7 or (arguably) 8 of the 10 demands do not directly call for censorship.
Come on, man. I'm not a native English speaker who is well-educated in laws and social study.

By bad speech, I mean the ones that a lot of people (e.g. Warren) were yelling at Facebook to ban the accounts/posts.

I would appreciate if you try to get the main point. Thank you
So long as the company pays for T&E. Otherwise the bill will add up.
> Should we have a sense of humor about Latin American countries being overthrown so powerful interests can exploit their natural resources?

I personally think we should have a sense of humour about everything.

The Russian reversal is one example of finding humour in darkness [1]. I found Elon’s joke to be in the category of the “be careful, or America will bring you some freedom” jokes that were popular during the Iraq war.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal
They are (or were) academically accessible. Remember the Cornell/Facebook study on emotional contagion?

It's not a matter of whether the study could be done. It's a matter of it being incredibly unethical to do it.

Signing up for Facebook is not sufficiently informed consent for these sorts of studies.
As an occasional B2B SaaS buyer, the key point in getting your pricing right / wrong is knowing where the limits are for;

a) I can just get this on my company credit card without needing approval

b) OK for this price it's going to show up as a line somewhere in a budget and / or I'm going to have to get approval from my boss ( 1-2 meetings work )

c) For THAT price I need to trigger a whole enterprise process, have a ton of meetings, make the case

Mostly you want to stay in a) for volume sales. Once you start getting into b) and c) you start needing support agreements, enterprise sales people etc. plus b) and c) make work for the customers that are your "adopters" in the enterprise - they need to love your product for that to happen.
@MuffinFlavored: “I thought static analysis/fuzzing/unit tests were supposed to catch these kinds of things?”

How dare you criticise MICROS~1
They buy you time to get out.
I never understood the appeal of decentralized social media platforms until now. How does it make sense for large centralized platforms to police their platform for every little thing that the current social environment finds unacceptable? People should be able to organize themselves into groups as they see fit and no unilateral decision should have final say in a global community's thoughts and discussions
Discussing "waiting for an animation is okay" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24031824

Side note, it would be very interesting if comments were a DAG rather than a Tree... that way one could respond to several comments with the same thread.
For multiple reasons but first of all because it would require both devices to be connected and online.

The common alternative to overcome this is to pass the messages through the server and encrypt/decrypt them on the device (aka e2e encryption). I acknowledge that might not be secure enough for certain use cases.
NASA hired SpaceX for transport.
Your own current president always votes by mail. If it’s fine for him why on Earth do you think that it’s not fine for everyone else?
I followed a (pure) mathematics education, and I totally dig lisp. On the other hand, I abhor haskell and hate almost everything about it!
So if I put (x1, x2...) through pipes f and g, instead of calculating all the f(x)s first followed by all the g(f(x))s, it calculates g(f(x1)), then g(f(x2)), etc.

How is that order of operations different to stream fusion? Why does stream fusion require more purity than Unix pipes?
Ethnic minority is not really considered as minority status at all. I'm ethnically Russian, an ethnic minority, yet nobody has tried to wash my feet in the US quite yet. Nor am I eligible for any kind of affirmative action. Come to think of it, maybe we, ethnic minorities, should try to get in on this racket, to expose the absurdity of it all.
But we all agree that hate speech should be punished by laws though, and it currently is punishable.

It's that Facebook shouldn't be the one who makes that judgement.

And that's my point. We should get a court to make that judgement.
> in general even in principle mathematicians can only deal with a countable subset of the reals. So (metamathematically) if almost every single real can't actually be used in mathematics, it's hard to say the concept has much mathematical validity.

Let me give it try:

> let R be the set of real numbers. Let x be an element of R.

There it is, I've dealt with and used every single real number.

The notion that reals are only real when they are individually described (Borel's credo in the article) is an odd one. Sure, almost every real number is a "Mathematical fantasy" as the author calls it, but that doesn't mean Mathematicians can't use them or deal with them.

Mathematics excels in dealing with imaginary things. To extent Borel's credo to question the Mathematical validity of these Mathematical fantasies seems to defy the entire idea of Mathematics.
"Jakob’s Law

Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."

A lot of designers should write this down 100 times before they start working. An extension should be

"users prefer your site to work the same way as it did yesterday since that's what they already know."
>> The problem is the USPS doesn’t have the power to price their products appropriately in order to pay for their expenses

Technically that shouldn't matter. It's a government service and if postage doesnt cover the cost the federal government should.

But I'd be happy to see first class mail stop subsidising other stuff.
> No, this is different. Trump at that time was a "why the fuck not" to people who hated the current climate and wanted "change". He was an "unknown" as far as the governance he would provide.

But that climate, the white collar criminality, the nation wide rampant electoral schemes, the inequality haven't changed. What gave birth to Trump winning the 2016 election is still there. If I understand correctly, there's no reason republicans would support a democrat president trying to salvage thing considering they didn't prevent the swift acceleration in deterioration during the last four years.

Maybe Trump was an unknown as far as the governance he would provide but it was known what kind of individual he was (and to an extent what would happen if elected, in broad lines).

I don't know, I am in the final chapter of Sarah Kendzior "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America" and things do look grim indeed.
https://twitter.com/matteyeux/status/1287786527850926082

Found this. Confirms A11 is not vulnerable.
P2P requires both clients to be running at the same time in order to communicate. If you friend's phone is off and you send a message, they won't get it when they turn their phone on.
Are you paying for their ad-free premium experience today? It's $10/month, much lesser than the $200 you are willing to pay.
It’s definitely not like that in the US.
Mastodon 3.2
Assuming that (-->) is either a typo of Clojure's ->> or ->, or some CL macro that operates the same (I don't know any CL, admittedly), in Haskell there is the somewhat common & (as in, available in the standard library and the widely-used lens library, but not part of the prelude and a lot of folks seem to eschew it in favor of composing in "the other direction" with . and $), which is defined as `flip ($)` (i.e. reverse function application) and visually ends up working the same as ->>:

myList
& map someFunction
& filter somePredicate
& sum

Other ML-ish languages typically provide this operator but under a different name, |> being a common one. One important note is that the mechanics here are a bit different than threading macros in lisp, since you're explicitly building the AST you want and using operator precedence (and implicit/automatic currying) to get the visual effect, rather than calling a rewrite rule. This means you can't have a straightforward reproduction of Clojure's -> macro, although in practice this never really matters, and when it does you can still fake it with flip (or, more readably, parens and a lambda).
WeChat is the whole OS. The mini apps are the actual apps people want. China runs on them. Apple can’t afford not to have it, so they’re basically allowed to do (almost) anything.