skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if there is unlimited number of The Great Filters. What if we are already Nth contingency plan seeded on Earth by N-1th parent life form(s) woring about the same problem - to survive, replicate further onto closest places as N+1 backup.
The main reason is speed. It ads extra latency that kills ad response rates.

Secondly is trust. The third party has no way to verify the first party isn't sending bogus requests to increase their payments from the third party and/or hurt their competitors.
Why should I summarize the report? I was responding to the claim that “there was no evidence of Russian influence in the election and collaboration by the Trump campaign”. That claim is demonstrably false. Muller did find evidence, and people went to jail for lying to hide the evidence. The president could not be convicted because the DoJ internal policy prohibits filing charges against a sitting president.

I am not ignoring or shouting about any red herring diversion. Read the report. Read the court proceedings that sent Flynn or Stone to prison.
I'm sure there are a bunch of marginal firms that require certification, but that's a strong tell that you don't want to work there.

Pursuit of certification is not good advice.
> The average YubiKey is £50. There are a few around the £30 price point. That’s a huge expense given the small number of sites that support them.

A wide variety of sites support them. I'd estimate around 1/3rd of the services I use daily (both personally and for work) support them. (That said, I got mine for $30 by signing up for a magazine subscription, and wouldn't have paid significantly more. And, of course, some of my services have been chosen because they differentiated themelves from the competition by Yubikey support.)

> Buy a device, register it, install the app, configure it, find the setting in the website, enable it, hope your machine has the right sort of USB ports, press the button at the right time.

Except, with U2F, that's not true. It's just "buy a device, plug it in, find the place on the website, wait for a prompt, press a button".

> Convenience. My YubiKey is on my keyring. My keys are in my coat.

That's a pretty personal problem. For me, my keys are either on my belt loop or on my desk, which means it's always handy. Of course, you can also get one of the models which is designed to stay plugged in, if that is compliant with your threat model.

> Risk. YubiKeys have no password lock of their own. ... if you’ve stolen my laptop and the YubiKey is plugged in

True, which is why they're not generally suitable for standalone use; only as a second credential. Also, if your threat model has you worried about them being stolen together, simply don't leave them plugged in together.

> Support. WebAuthn is a great standard – but only a few sites support it.

That's still as false it was when it was your first point.

> If fake-github.com said “Hmmm we’re having problems with our WebAuthn backend – please use a one-time code from your authenticator app for added security” would you be fooled?

At the very least, it would probably cause me to double-check that I was on a legit site.

Overall: I don't think you give enough credence to the fact that it's real, secure, convenient 2FA. No more digging your phone out of your pocket, unlocking it, navigating to the app, and then setting your phone down so you can type in the code. And then locking your phone and putting it back away.

Personally, my Yubikey goes into my laptop at the start of the work day (the first time I use it), and it doesn't come out until I'm done working (well, or if I need to use my keys). All I have to do is tap the button after I put my password in.
Funnily enough it seems like opposite and people are trying to put down Singal. Seriously we are all on the same side. It's not competition.

I've been running matrix instance for probably 6 years from times even before Vector.

The constant popups happening and mysterious verification fails gotten pretty annoying. So much that my non-technical friends started to complain. It has gotten objectively worse in past year.

I happily use both Signal as SMS replacement and Matrix for community/slack. Signal can't do chatrooms / more people well and it will probably never will. Matrix on the other hand is much worse at ux of the encryption process and overall user friendliness for casual users. It's not long ago when matrix didn't have 1on1 chats and would just make new room with 2people named after them.
The article discusses it in sections related to Emacs' attitude toward modernization and progressiveness (see the citation from Ahmed Khanzada).
QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk in Rust
Ironically I have seen some of those kind of start ups renting entire floors from WeWork ;-)
She definitely studies monetary theory and policy. Read a few more articles that are unrelated to crypto.
The thesis of this article is pure hyperbole. “Oh noes, one of the RS-25s failed, the whole program is a failure!”
> vs. words that concisely warn colleagues that something is going beyond political ideology and towards a pattern of racially-motivated behavior that places people in grave danger, we haven't learned our lessons from history.

Don't the more radical leftist circles fit exactly this description, except that they just paint a different racial group as the enemy?
I really hope that you're right, but to be honest I'm not holding my breath.

I also don't think the 2015 Macbooks were perfect, it's just that I don't care about any of the new things Apple has introduced. What I would really like would be a cellular modem so I don't have to bother with hotspots on the train and maybe a stylus for marking up screenshots.

For my use cases, Apple expects me to carry a Macbook, an iPad, a stylus, and a pouch filled with dongles. I'm envious of the Windows folks, they get to have a single device that does it all.
Not only that, but the nuclear rocketry program for Mars was making breakthroughs like the nuclear lightbulb hybrid reactor & closed loop rocket engine [1] - that the public wouldn't see until declassified papers hit JPL's archives in the 2000s. This program was cancelled by Nixon, setting us back at least half a century.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19730003970
GitHub cites 'significant errors of judgement' in firing of Jewish employee
And general costs. Whilst SMS might be free (or effectively free, plans including thousands of messages per month are not unknown) for vast swathes of people, but MMS is most definitely not.
I'm sure they said the same about Flash.
Actually if i Google: "keyword + engineering blog" the problem is resolved.
> You’ll never see it translated as “sons of God” in a book translated by Jews.

Do the 70 Jewish authors of the Septuagint not count? In the LXX, it clearly reads "οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ", "the sons of God". The LXX precedes Christianity by quite some time.
The closest thing I know of is the annual proceedings of Sigbovik. It's a humorous conference traditionally held on April 1st and "was formed in 2007 to celebrate the inestimable and variegated work of Harry Quacksalver Bovik. We especially welcome the three neglected quadrants of research: joke realizations of joke ideas, joke realizations of serious ideas, and serious realizations of joke ideas."

In 2020, there was even a paper about improving the peer review process called "State-of-the-art reviewing: A radical proposal to improve scientific publication"

http://sigbovik.org/
Reminds me of that classic OSX root login bypass by not using a password from 3 years ago: https://ma.ttias.be/root-login-without-password-allowed-defa...
One viable option is to work for a big competitor as a design consultant or product tester (for lack of a better term).

Basically be employed to intensively test out a product (backpacks and carry gear in this case) and provide feedback on the features. Since you have worked as an entrepreneur before you can be autonomous out in the field and not have the typical constraints of a normal job. That is a relationship thst is particularly well suited for backpacking since you can better test out the gear if you are remote.

You would probably need to reach out to companies and pitch this as an opportunity for them to leverage your background, skills, and personal drive in order to deliver a world class product.

My two cents...
E-ink is one of those techs that only advanced when large batches of patents expire. E-ink the company has tied up the tech stack in so many patents, NDA's, and exorbitant prices that no one wants to touch it. E-ink the technology wont go any where for 10-15 years when that next big batch of patents expire. Its just like 3D displays and VR there will be a massive consumer push new batches of patents will be filed progress will grind to a halt as no-one can afford everyone else's patent licensing fees on a unproven market until the next wave expires and better products can be built again repeat
Google is building an internet without WWW, that is for sure:

"Because data are ultimately transferred to the same businesses, it can be used to create detailed profiles, said academics. If information from a dating app, for example, were shared with the same parent company as data from a banking app, it could be possible to deduce the sexuality of a bank’s customers."
https://ig.ft.com/mobile-app-data-trackers/
That was what I meant, yes.
The article is long on feelings and seems very short on actual law breaking. I hope the lawsuit(s) cover more than this or they'll likely collapse.

The accusations seem to come down to: Google sell ads (legal); Google is building a new system for the market to do that in (legal); Google wanted to get Facebook to join (legal); Google offered them preferential treatment to get them (legal); Facebook accepted (legal).

Plenty of this might seem unfair. Or underhand. But those aren't just legal, they're totally standard in all company to company market places. When Dell buy components, they get a better price from Intel than your local shop. They even get first dibs on new components, even if they're paying less for them.

There is only really one claim in here that might rise to the level of illegal, but Google actively denied it was true:

>Perhaps the most serious claim in the draft complaint was that the two companies had predetermined that Facebook would win a fixed percentage of auctions that it bid on.

>“Unbeknown to other market participants, no matter how high others might bid, the parties have agreed that the gavel will come down in Facebook’s favor a set number of times,” the draft complaint said. A Google spokeswoman said Facebook must make the highest bid to win an auction, just like its other exchange and ad network partners.

I'm concerned that we have problems with Big Tech. But people keep grabbing the first idea that comes along: antitrust. Only antitrust won't do what they think it does. I'm not even sure people know what they want at this point...
I've been using the mingw windows version every day for years. I used to spend time now and then to make new things work, recently I switched to doom emacs, and almost every new functionality or package I try works out of the box.

It's true that Magit is slow, but I still prefer it to the command line.
Things I Learned from Analyzing 20k Late Night Jokes (2018)
We don’t have any evidence that there are any species capable of interplanetary travel. Maybe there are none.
You cannot relicense if you don’t have the rights. A license does not change authorship rights or copyright, it just controls how other people can expand the work or distribute it. This particular license explicitly forbids others to remove the copyright notice or change the license:

> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Then, they also removed the copyright notice...
Again, so what?

The point being made is that you can take dangerous elements and then create a compound that doesn’t share the properties of the elements.

So a counter argument is to show that’s not true for the elements that make up the compound for this blue dye.
The problem with dumping is that in the long term it will put competitors out of business, facilitating a monopoly for the surviving company which can then charge permanently higher prices and stifle any competition before it can get off the ground. So while there may be short term benefits the long term consequences are awful for consumers and reduce innovation.
> stagnation and eventually devolution beckon

What was critical in parent's comment was the irrecoverability of the civilization, after such an action. Scaling intelligence is more of a repeatable "trial and error" step (as the article puts it, in a biology context).
I also suggest reading: stdlib, projects by Rob Pike (Upspin), Andrew Gerrand, Brad Fitzpatrick, Dmitry Vyukov, Jaana Dogan, Jonathan Amsterdam.

Please avoid: Kubernetes, AWS code.

As a rule of thumb - less imports is better.
Typing on our 2013 Mac Pro is downright luxurious and I wouldn’t trade it for any super thin anything. Would also pay thousands for an M2 motherboard upgrade. :D
I don’t see why everyone needs to have the same opinion and editor, I’m fine with everyone using the editor they like best. It’s a tiresome endless debate
Do you want to generate leads or increase profit? I'll assume you want to generate leads in order to increase revenue and profit.

Generate more leads, convert more leads, increase average contract value with each client, increase repeat business with each client, re-sell the same thing for categories by abstracting into a product.

# Increase ACV:

Have you considered having a few large clients with "more figures" contracts vs. many small clients with fewer figures?

# Convert:

- Do you have testimonials from your previous clients where they write about how the collaboration went?

- Can you cluster them into sectors and industries? [ours are mainly in energy, transportation, telecommunications, banking, communication, retail, high-end goods, and others]. Do you have an offer tailored to each sector/industry that you can quickly send?

# Generate:

- What is your software consultancy specialized in? [we help large organizations with machine learning]

- What does your ideal interlocutor do, what do they read, where do they spend time, which websites they visit? You can put content there. One example is contributing content to a medium they use.

I wrote a bit about this here: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
Plus light pollution and air pollution. Maybe some other changes in the atmosphere. And very careful looking. You don't need lenses, just looking through a hole in a leaf could be helpful.
One option is to specialize in a niche, and build an audience in it, so you become perceived as a domain expert
I've wondered this for years. It was the first thing I expected ad networks would start doing once third party cookies were getting blocked widely.
That is quite incorrect. Google has more incentive than anyone else to deliver only the best results and ads to searchers. Delivering them to scams harms their reputation and would eventually erode the CTR.
It depends.

In some cases, you do want to spend time to save money, while in other cases, you want to spend money to save time.

It's not as simple as optimizing money spent. It's usually "money + time" together.
I think this is very interesting. One comment I have heard about Leelachess is that she, near the beginning of her training, would make the kinds of mistakes a 1500 player makes, then play like a 1900 player or so, before finally playing like a slightly passive and very strategic super Grandmaster.

One interesting thing to see would be how low-rated humans make different mistakes than Leela does with an early training set. How closely are we modeling how humans learn to play Chess with Leela?

Another thought: Leela, against weaker computers, draws a lot more than Stockfish. While Leela beats Stockfish in head to head competitions, in round robins, Stockfish wins against weaker computer programs more than Leela does.

I believe this is because Stockfish will play very aggressively to try and create a weakness in game against a lower rated computer, while Leela will “see” that trying to create that weakness will weaken Leela’s own position. The trick to winning Chess is not to make the “perfect” move for a given position, but to play the move that is most likely to make one’s opponent make a mistake and weaken their position.

Now, if Maia were trained against Stockfish moves instead of human moves, I wonder if we could make a training set that results in play a little less passive than Leela’s play.

(I’m also curious how Maia at various rating levels would defend as Black against the Compromised defense of the Evans Gambit — that’s 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d6 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 — where Black has three pawns and white has a very strong, probably winning, attack. It’s a weak opening for Black, who shouldn’t be so greedy, but I’m studying right now how it’s played to see how White wins with a strong attack on Black’s king. I’m right now downloading maia1 — Maia at 1100 — games from openingtree.com.)
It's not so much that I include Vim as an IDE, as that it's not a "basic editor" like gedit.

Although I will say that I've been using Vim a lot less since I started using VScode.

That looks like an awesome Vim environment though!
It's also important to note that while NASA might make multi-year plans they have to deal with a yearly budget from Congress and Congressional mandates. NASA has a relatively small budget but a lot of different tasks, manned spaceflight is only one of those.

They have to drop whole missions after years of planning and construction because the next year's budget is a billion dollars short. It also pushes out things like SLS development because some scheduled testing or purchase gets pushed to the next fiscal year.
Adding to your comment, this closing made me sad: "So what had been viewed as a strength of the program, using heritage hardware, instead became a liability. Saturday was only the first real hardware test for the rocket. It cannot afford too many more liabilities like those on display."

If anything they cannot afford _not_ to have more failures like that. In fact on the spectrum of failures this one was near the best possible outcome since something was learned without destroying the entire assembly. But with this kind of reactive thinking they may turtle up and slow down progress until the program gets canceled.
I don't think anyone said that about Flash. Its closed nature was always known to be a significant drawback.
Intel never could design a CPU that was worth a damn. Their ace-in-the-hole was always device physics. When that stalled, they went from MVP to corporate zombie.

I think this is another Marissa Mayer -- someone sent to harvest a little meat from the corpse before the flies come.
They said the same about PhP
Preschool and daycare teachers have the highest rates of covid infections in Germany, even higher than medical personel.

https://www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/corona-studie-der-aok-erzieher...
I honestly view smaller as lighter, and that I do -really- care about. I travel a lot, so having something ultra portable was my favorite part of the MBP 13". I even had a smaller and lighter 45W usbC charger I could use for it. I really really really enjoyed that.

and I just kept a dongle in my travel kit with my charger and other cables, nbd :) (but yeah everyone is different, I'd probably just invest in USB-c thumb drives, or the ones that have ports on both end for C and A).
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They are, and nearly all people with disabilities browse with JavaScript enabled.

https://webaim.org/techniques/javascript/

"Just because JavaScript is used on a page does not mean that the page is inaccessible. In many cases, JavaScript can be used to greatly improve accessibility and optimize the user experience. Some aspects of accessibility compliance would be difficult without JavaScript, especially for complex web applications."

"It is a misconception that people with disabilities don't have or enable JavaScript, so it is thus acceptable to present an inaccessible scripted interfaces, so long as there is an accessible, non-JavaScripted version available. A survey by WebAIM of screen reader users found that 99.3% of respondents had JavaScript enabled. The numbers are even higher for users with low vision or motor disabilities."
Agree completely on the important part being respect and empathy. Agree on the second employee’s tone seeming argumentative. However, from the given information it’s not clear if the original (fired) employee remained respectful.
Found the techbro.
I removed this part of my comment as it distracted from the idea of using reflective displays with PCs.
OSCP kinda sucks because the pentesting industry kinda sucks (I have OSCP). Things are different now since there's a ton of guides and videos specifically for it.

Long term, you're better off being a developer and getting into security that way. Plus you're going to learn to program as a pentester anyway. The job market and day-to-day and salary is also much better. It is hilarious how necessary/important security is but pentesters seem to get low salaries and have high barriers to entry.
This is a problem with all laptop batteries, not just Apple batteries.
Do you use Emacs in windows?
I haven't seen that much support for '"freedom of speech" for those who stormed the Capitol' - the big conversation here has been around the deplatforming of Parler, which clearly serves a bigger audience than just the rioters/insurrectionists. (Not counting flagged-dead throwaway account comments blaming it all on antifa, of course.)
Foldable E-ink screen and you'll have the perfect comic reader.
Most of the world uses Windows.

If you're building software targeted at most of the world it makes sense to use Windows.
Keyboards that put Ctrl and other important keys under your thumb are also great.
Not everyone wants their phone number to be their primary identifier
not going to happen it s the only thing they have and they know its a cash cow if it gets wide adoption unfortunately they have gotten greedy and no one will pay it.

They also seem to think their market is digital signage and aren't that interested in licensing for other mass market consumer products despite the fact the market it has been adopted most in is e-readers
> I think one of the advantages of a large/durable ecosystem is that it lets me worry less about problems I don't yet have.

That's true. If you're finding numerous workflow problems with neovim, it'll probably be true of Kakoune, as well.

> > Kakoune just feels better integrated with the environment
>
> Out of curiosity, is this an argument for enjoyment or productivity?

Both, though it's a more persuasive argument for productivity. Because it's easier to integrate with the environment, those workflow problems you mention can be solved by delegating to the environment, in some cases. For example, kakoune delegates to the environment for window management -- so things like resizing windows and switching between them is handled through tmux for me. Obviously, though, that's could be a poor substitution for some dedicated solutions in the editor. But overall, I prefer it, as it allows me to get familiar with unix utilities, which are useful in a wider range of applications. It also means there isn't an arcane scripting language associated with using the editor. I have a thing against vimscript.

> differences in keybindings are also worth a mention

I suppose. Having used vim for years, I was able to pick up the keybindings relatively quickly (< 1 day); they're almost identical. The main difference, that the selection comes before the action, also makes it easier to pick up.

But, yeah, that muscle memory is a loss. I find myself trying to do multiple selections and use kakoune keybindings in bash vi-mode, often.