skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do those others heavily advertise the difference between var and val as a core feature and then sabotage it by dressing up getters (that are evaluated on each call) as immutable values?
well said, optimize according to the situation & time availability and play by your strength. Thanks for sharing your perspective:)
Related: yesterday's post by jwz, "I told you so, 2021 edition" [1], which discusses security bypass in linux screensavers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801693
I personally liked the podcast before he rebranded it around himself. Lex is a good host who is smart enough to hold conversations with his guests, but the main appeal was always still the guests as it was the only podcast I was aware of that has only experts in CS and related fields to talk about AI and other topics

he still does this under the newer iteration of his podcast, but since shifting it to "the smart man's Joe Rogan" - I don't find myself listening as much personally
Based on the analysis, it is very likely that the 7 stars were more distinctly visible but then gradually became harder and harder to see upto about 30-40k years ago. So cultures started making stories for why it disappeared. The fact that the stories of why the seventh sister disappeared seem different across cultures may possibly indicate the cultures had already separated when that happened.
This actually happened to me way back in the day when I called out Doctorow on Boing Boing for his relentless use of the platform as a soapbox for self-promotion.
This is an argument for putting more control in the hands of users, in the form of better sandboxing and permissions. It is not an argument for taking away control from users, as Apple is doing.
This does, but there won't be anyone using this distro for commercial purposes outside of China, so IP rights won' be enforced.
See:

> In economics and consumer theory, a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
This weirdly omits the entire world other than the US and “Western civilization”, besides being internally contradictory. Harnessing any significant resources from space would require huge new infrastructure on Earth, which the author says is impossible and anyway they say everyone is going to die. So who’s going to build it?

There’s also essentially no attempt to frame any of this in a historic context. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a huge confluence of massively destabilizing political and economic events in the past 120 years, or the second, or the third...

Add in evidence-free assertions about AI and the best philosophy of personal behavior and the difficulty of good government, but no mention of the toxic influence that a huge class of transnational extra-governmental billionaires with an exponentially growing portion of global wealth has over global politics... and I think the author lost the thread over “what is going on in the world” a little too quickly.
If you're optimistic abut the future you're in a minority – at least in the West.

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/people-western-countr...
Consider changing the URL to the original source: https://twitter.com/nathanlawkc/status/1350540281859465219
Overrated. When you are running a business you have to consider income, labour and employee retention. Businesses generally spend "extra" money in order to save labour or generate income. That skiing trip to the Alps that you organised for your workers last year? That saved you 10 times as much in recruiting, on-boarding and pay rises. That really expensive enterprise SAAS that you bought? Its boring, but it freed up time for your sales people to generate 3 times more business. etc.
I read through your previous posts.

I think the double caching is why "some more cleanup to cache compiled regular expressions that I thought would also speed things up a little" didn't actually speed things up - it was already cached. (See Python's re.py in def _compile(): where it uses '_cache'.)

Did you post something where you profiled your code? I didn't see it. The cprofile module gives a decent first-pass at figuring out bottlenecks, and it's sometimes not what you think it is.

If I find that the time is spent in one or a handful of functions, and the slow-down still isn't obvious, I'll then use line_profiler for more fine-grained profiling.

There are other profiling tools, but I haven't need to use them for many years for my current projects.
This is true in general but I've seen it mostly commonly in Java and done by people who are certain that you aren't doing Java right if you don't. That's why I said “Java community” — there are definitely people pushing for less gratuitous complexity but they don't appear to be a majority. I've seen people be told that they might not be smart enough to be programmers if they didn't immediately grasp the wisdom of a small project needing a hugely complex stack, and once you get the filtering mechanism of that attitude going it takes active effort to recover.
Does that also mean that you won't be able to download the distro if Apple successfully files a copyright violation against the company behind JingOS?
>It isn't just preference, the new keyboard is slightly uncomfortable to use, the key pressure is too high and the travel too low, so the impulse on the tendons is too sharp.

Sure, but some people (like me) find keyboards with shorter travel more comfortable to use. So as far as I can see it is just a preference – and a question of what your fingers are accustomed to.

I'm old enough to remember when the chicklet macbook keyboards that everyone now idolises were the Worst Keyboards Ever because they didn't have enough travel.

>The gist is that Apple has over designed its product and made design the number one metric.

Apple is now using an ordinary chicklet keyboard that's very similar to the ones used by most other modern laptops. It's a very conservative and unremarkable design as far as I can see.
Here’s what I don’t get. Being frugal with AWS costs seems to be another contradiction, like having a Michelin starred chef cook for your employees every day yet penny pinching the cost of the ingredients...

Sure it’s great that you’re saving money somewhere, but you’re still handing the limited runway money hand over fist for unnecessary luxury, no matter how much you save on the little details. If you were actually frugal, you could have much better service without having to worry about each line item as much.
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Hi - yes, this looks very close like what I was after. I've starred the repo, and will def check it out. Thanks!!
I used to use camscanner plus on ios (camera -> pdf). It was bought by tencent and the privacy policy was either a broken link, or when it later worked - horrendous and basically said they take everything. I deleted it.
People loathe Apple for locking down their own access to their computer, not for security measures. Signed app distribution solves an entirely separate problem- making sure you get the app unmodified. This is a problem with sandboxing. Apple also does have sandboxing, but mostly that’s not what people complain about.

You can have signed apps and sandboxing without Apple being the sole arbiter of what you install. For example, Linux has multiple options available to solve this. Signed repos combined with SELinux, or flatpak, and snap all solve the same problem.
It's LessWrong, what else did you expect?
I've listened to one or two and would say he's a very good interviewer who is always well prepared. The ones I've listened to were about the philosophy of AI and related issues. For me personally, his podcasts are too long, I lack the time, but I was positively impressed.

So, no, not a bullshit artist at all in my opinion.
great insights, instead of going all out on frugality, it can be strategically optimized in various departments depending upon the overall impact. Thanks for sharing your perspective:)
Same in Android - it's used by most malware.
> There’s a reason it is still holds (not much, but) some value on second-hand market.

Not much? A base model 15" 2015 RMBP is still easily $800+ on eBay. Unheard of for a 6 year old laptop.
Oh good idea! Bootable Linux would be so handy.
I don't think we need to worry about western democracy when talking about a software company shopping your browser history. Apps and games have developed on all corners of the globe have done this and are doing this.
It's just the way it is. You can learn something from the biggest idiot, they make mistakes that you never thought possible. You just have to watch and learn.
Try Unigram, which is even better.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/unigram-telegram-for-windo...
Hmmm...I guess I am one of those folks who practices trust but verify through independent sources and would have pick up the phone and called the Harvard HR Department using a known good number vice only relying on and communicating on email. Second, some posters have said that you can pass company phishing training and be still be victimized by this cyber criminals...true to some degree; however, a cursory check of the smtp email header and or embedded http links would probably have provided clear indication that something was amiss. But I agree victim blaming is not and will not ever be appropriate.
For CP2077 vs HL it's pretty obvious why it would need to be a lot larger, with the sheer volume of art assets, story writing, level design, voice acting, game balancing and engine sophistication required. But I'll be the first to echo your sentiment that there are massive diminishing returns on team size.

Of course in many ways AAAs have dug their own pit of despair with this, they throw so much investment into it that they need to make sure they appeal to as large an audience as possible and cram as much content as possible in, while also having an eye to DLC later down the line, the economics demand it. Hence why CP2077 had to desperately try to get it to work on last gen console, otherwise they'd be immediately removing a massive portion of the market.

As consumers we can get as much enjoyment out of some indie level gamer. I for one have play way more hours of The Binding of Isaac than any AAA title I've played and it would have been a fraction of the development costs.
Cirdan, an Embeddable Data Warehouse
Good advice!
A small addition in the third point: you can create a separate interface for HTTP errors, for example:

type HTTPError interface {
GetHTTPCode() int
}
func ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req \*http.Request) {
result, err := DoTheActualThing()
if err != nil {
statusCode := http.StatusInternalServerError
if httpError, ok := err.(HTTPError); ok {
statusCode = httpError.GetHTTPCode()
}
http.Error(w, ..., statusCode)
return
}
w.Header().Set("content-type", "application/json")
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
w.Write(result)
}

You can apply the same approach for the HTTP body in case of error.
Isn’t cherry-picking kind of the point here?
Not aware of the tiktok meme, however there are a few uk based acapella groups specializing in sea shanties. 'The longest johns' are one of my favorites.
OpenSCAD. Textfile in, 3d model out, just like I like it. As an indication: this is what I had to type in to get the VT102 model: https://github.com/Spritetm/esppdp/blob/master/case/vt100.sc...
+1. I think it is the same on spending and income: you must understand what scales with what. The number of coffee machines scales with the number of employees (and office layout), but the cloud service spend depends on many factors. If nobody ever was asked to keep an eye on that, it can run away quickly and it will be hard to regain control. I've seen people routinely reserve entire vCPUs in Kubernetes for tiny test systems, instead of 150m which would have easily sufficed.
This is a profound insight and finally explains why history keeps getting longer.
> In industry at least, a lot of work is communication so you have to know what things are commonly called to explain your thoughts to other people. and along those lines Mathematicians are the ones that are studying this concept in the abstract, so its useful to use their lingo because then you know where to find all the abstract knowledge on the subject.

I think this is what I'm getting at. Mathematicians can adjust their language to communicate with a wider audience, especially on things as so commonly understood as Big O. It's a two way street, because you need to know and understand mathematical principles to be a good programmer, but if this is your only mode of understanding you are equally useless. There needs to be hiring gates for both.
What does this have to do with Bitlocker?

EDIT: i get it now, it plays a small part in the exploit chain because it doesn't correctly verify what it sets permissions on when automounting usb drives.
yup true that instead of just been frugal everywhere try to optimize for the overall growth even if the effects of it might be indirect or may be seen in the near future. Thanks for sharing your perspective:)
I don't know how common this sentiment is but I definitely felt it with a previous group of friends. The behaviors you internalize just to be able to fit in with what seems like the only people that will ever like you really have no limit at all, and can lead you to do things you never thought you would.

Specifically, I strictly remember bullying this poor kid relentlessly during middle school because he (I kid you not) had lips so red he looked like he wore lipstick. You can imagine my shock when I later found out I was bisexual and that wearing lipstick is awesome actually.
>Whilst I agree, recent trend to push for more BYOD where the device is owned by the contrators, employee or an external actor, but still allowed access and controlled by the enterprise does tend to blur the lines quite a bit, especially as most tooling has been lacking decent isolation between "enterprise" and "private" on the same device. MDM tooling tends to want to administer the whole device and apply the stricter "enterprise" policies, with a pinky promise that private life is going to be respected.

Which is why employees should either be given employer-owned devices or use device subsidies (as many companies provide) to pay for a device that's only used for work purposes.

That companies attempt to hijack (and I mean that in both metaphorical and literal senses) personal devices for corporate purposes, aside from the obvious issues, it's also terrible security policy.

That businesses do this is exploitative, unethical and insecure. I suspect such businesses don't really care about the first two, but should care about the third.

As an infosec/infrastructure guy, I'd raise hell over such a policy -- because leaving aside the scumbaggery (I think I just coined a new word. Good for me!), having personal devices connected to internal corporate resources (even with corporate MDM configurations) is literally begging to be compromised, for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
> investments are down

Where have you been investing? India's stock market is at all time highs and up almost 80% since the Covid-fueled crash in March. Gold - India's favourite investment vehicle - was also at all time high levels a few months back before going down a few notches.
It really depends on how your business is financed and on your access to capital.

As many of the comments (correctly IMO) point out, VC-backed start-ups trade money to compress timelines: for example, hire in two weeks what a non-VC might be able to hire across two years. When you have VC funding and more of it is available, it is in your interest to leverage that money as efficiently as possible to make the case for growth and further investment. Frugality can further hurt you if you are in a VC-fueled industry race because you’ll be outspent and outbuilt by your VC-fueled competition, and it will be harder for you to raise $.

That said, if you’re a regular entrepreneur or business owner, the script is flipped. You are always working within the constraints of profitability and (assuming no major investments are made in you), access to capital is difficult and expensive - debt and credit financing can only grow as a function of revenue and needs to be paid back (whereas VCs give you ‘free’ money, free-as-in-equity). Given that, if you make a dumb financial decision it makes more of an impact on your business. While you still want to go in on big (validated) bets, in general it makes sense to err on the side of frugality and spend less than you bring in.
It's not about what he says, it's about what the guests say. He asks good questions.
Hehe, comments like these make me finish and document my projects when half of me actually would rather throw it into a box and start something new instead. Thanks!
Why can't QQ sign their app?
The Mobile Map App Part II: Pivoting and Flopping
The OP on V2EX mentioned[1] that they downloaded QQ from the Microsoft Store, specifically because it doesn't come with QQProtect. Didn't help, apparently.

[1] https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030?p=1#r_10067077
Maybe MacBook Pro with all the ports, MacBook without.
> seem to think humans are somehow special

Well, not just humans, but large-brained animals that show evidence of understanding of their environment and an some degree of planning ahead.

If we were talking about great apes, cetaceans, or perhaps cephalopods or corvids, maybe we could find some middle ground.

But, if you believe a frog's ability to survive is greatly enhanced by its ability to understand and plan ahead, or a human's ability to survive isn't fundamentally altered by their ability to understand and plan ahead (to the extent that analogies between frog and human survival behavior break down), then we're at a fundamental impasse and we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I was googling around, and apparently there are some shirts marketed as "yinmn blue":

https://www.scotch-soda.com/fi/en/men/shirts/long-sleeve-100...

I am somewhat dubious though if that is genuinely yinmn, but interesting nevertheless that they are marketing it as such.
RisingSun: Decoding Sunburst C2 to Identify Infected Hosts Without Network Telem
I am sorry to say you might have to go read the linked paper, where this is discussed. The upshot is, visually distinguishing two stars is a function of both their proximity and relative brightness.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/np0n4v72bdl37gr/sevensisters.pdf?d...
It depends, if you get a system for 50% less and can cram 100% more hosts in it you’ll happily replace those boards.
> I think Windows' BitLocker already does that.

And one day later, it appears the answer is apparently not: https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html
Why not both. Allow Magsafe charging and USB-C, have USB-A ports/HDMI as well as USB-C. There is no space constraint on the devices. Most of the edge is unpopulated.
Nothing, but it sounds more severe if you involve bitlocker somehow.
A third possibility is one of the stars used to be much brighter for whatever reason.

Ancient drawings would help locate the 7th star. One would think star charts are a natural subject for inscriptions predating written language.
The extra port competes with USB-C. If Apple wants to make USB-C more valuable to users, they must ensure companies make more products for it and, therefore, remove such redundant ports.

I have an HDMI monitor connected to my MacBook via a USB-C to HDMI/USB dongle, which also charges the computer, keyboard and trackpad, and another another via a UDB-C to DisplayPort cable.

I've been using my SDcard based camera less and less, both because my phones got much better and because they are much smaller. With an iPhone, which is a pretty decent camera, everything happens transparently and all my photos are automagically imported.

A reasonable docking station/port extender is small and has all those ports. I keep one in my backpack (even though I used it like once while traveling).

I really prefer it this way. I'd also love if Apple went back into making monitors that could charge my Mac and offer plenty of rarely used ports on its back.
My first association was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White, the second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeforce_(film)

As in https://cdn.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/li...

:-)
I’m in the market for a reliable single 2xUSB-C power brick — could I ask which one you’re using?
While what you say is true, what im trying to say is that my experience has been that most catholics (that i know anyway) are not “well catechized”, the church i go go has not been pressing your points, and other denominations seem to be more focused (than the catholic church) on pressing their religion into political votes and action these days.
Can you explain why this is related to the birthday paradox please? I don't get it, sorry! :)
>Sure! But the fact that they should (and many have been) already be doing just that does not change the fact that the technique imposes a third party listening into supposedly two party encrypted exchange. It's allowed, but it is still MitM.

Replying again, as I should have addressed this as well.

I disagree. When using corporate resources, the organization is not only well within their rights to monitor (or at least log) all communications, given the potential for malware, data exfiltration and (to a much lesser extent) employee misconduct, an organization would be remiss for not doing so.

Which is why it's extra important not to allow or (as I addressed in my other comment), require those working onsite to use personal resources on internal networks.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

--Socrates
Bullshit. We know nothing and have literally no way to know (only speculate) about anything 10k years ago.

Besides, every text is being altered at each rewrite (before printing technology) and even no story is told two times exactly the same.

Any decent scholar of ancient texts will tell you that. Indian ancient literature is the canonical case study.
I've can't "imagine and manipulate and rotate complex 3D scenes in the mind" and no one's ever told me they can.

I can fake it as in a dream, and I can recall images I've seen of real scenes, but that's not the same thing.

Applying someone's voice pattern is very common.
ok got it thanks for sharing:)
Was this team on holiday when they designed the mouse to have it's charging port on the bottom?
If you think that someone else is wasting money, there are two possibilities:

1. They are spending money foolishly to get things that will not actually help them achieve thier priorities in their context.

2. You misunderstand their context or priorities and for them to follow your advice would be penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Monetary Frugality can waste time, trust, team performance, or all three.

The countability of money creates a special case of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect.
A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling
A lot of those VC backed companies had a pretty good chance of growing into mildly profitable companies but they were overfunded and forced to grow faster than their market could support. In the end they wasted 100% of the money.
Honestly, the thing that I like the most about this is the wonderful IBM 3278 terminal in the background. Those things were the best terminals I ever used (even though they couldn't scroll) and had the very best (although the loudest) keyboards ever built.

Which reminded me I released a new version of my 3270 font yesterday, so it's doubly fortunate.
In my experience Gradle offers great experience only if you understand Groovy closures' "owner" and "delegate" concepts and how Groovy runtime metaprogramming model works.
Otherwise you are lost in its magic methods and conventions.