skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 1980, we did some Mac consulting for a largish ad agency, and one lower tier executive wanted to demonstrate the importance of his work by having us install some password protection on his Mac.

Suspecting that this would not end well, I installed a very light weight solution; he promptly forgot his password within a week, called me in again, and I bypassed the password prompt with the above NMI+ExitToShell() method. He was suitably impressed and asked me to write down the magic incantation on a post-it note that he attached somewhere to his desk...

What can I say? They always promptly paid their bills!
One nice thing about the work showcased here is that it bootstraps TCC on its journey to GCC. At some point we could see attempts to bootstrap tccboot as a kind of "escape pod" from other systems, and after booting tccboot, have the bootstrapping work documented here continue from TCC onward.
I wonder if the site admin would be willing to sell to a fan?..
TextSniper[0] is great on macOS, and is part of Setapp now. I also wrote my own script that hooks into Google cloud vision API for the really tough stuff. I use this many, many times a day. It's changed my life - never realized what a problem this was and how much time could be saved by grabbing bits of previously un-copyable text from stubborn places.

[0] https://textsniper.app
Zelda-Like Map of London Underground Zone 1
Is inbreeding the norm in nature?
> Sounds like pro-social behaviour

I don’t want to get sidetracked on whether or not the incentives are good, or even whether a regressive tax is bad. (Though I admit I sidetracked with my comment above.) The question is why a land value tax is progressive in a modern industrialised country with a services-based economy?
Lockdown worked amazingly in Singapore as well.
They basically pay a tax on each dose to cover the cost of the NVICP.
> that's not really something anyone advocates for.

Right because cash comes from government which comes from taxes which come from companies' profit. Cash has value because governments put some limits on how much there is. Of course, they do end up printing some and dilute the value. They don't just hand it out willy nilly.
Measure 50 is super toxic -- if the real number is 5%, it's ridiculous to limit to 3% and ensure that you never get there. It creates a system where the friction for selling a house is even higher than it already is, and where new and less-established people are paying more for the same thing as richer, more-established people.
Nice website.
Where does the doubt about its profitability come from?
well you're using a throwaway, so please, lets hear your challenge
I don't think statute of limitation applies to collection of debts but rather prosecution of crimes, so I'm not sure why that concept applies.
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The research is mixed and inconclusive. A 2019 meta-analysis by Kurzgesagt [1] claims that organic food is slightly more nutritious with increased levels of antioxidants.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es

In my personal experience, I can taste the frigging poison in non-organic produce, and processed food just makes me more hungry.
Except now it says SMNP, not SNMP.
> It seems to me that if you are ten times as rich as me then you will use less than ten times the land value I do

Why? Someone living in Manhattan or Queens is certainly using 10x the land value of someone living in rural Idaho. If I were to magically teleport a $3m brownstone from NYC to Idaho Falls, it would be worth perhaps $200k at most (it is old and crumbling).

> While big farms may pay a lot of the tax

As far as I understand, the vast majority of the farms are on rural land that has an unimproved value of close to zero. I don't see how they would pay much taxes.

> A wealthier person in a city could pay for an expensive skyscraper apartment or a taller or higher quality home on a narrow footprint and not pay significantly more tax than someone in a shorter house or lower apartment.

Why is this bad? They are now being very efficient with the use of their land. They have taken less of a rivalrous resource from the rest of society but have managed to shape it to their satisfaction.
I've said for a long time that we are currently in the fitbit stage of AI.

"Ng was responding to a question about why machine learning models trained to make medical decisions that perform at nearly the same level as human experts are not in clinical use"

"“It turns out,” Ng said, “that when we collect data from Stanford Hospital, then we train and test on data from the same hospital, indeed, we can publish papers showing [the algorithms] are comparable to human radiologists in spotting certain conditions.”

But, he said, “It turns out [that when] you take that same model, that same AI system, to an older hospital down the street, with an older machine, and the technician uses a slightly different imaging protocol, that data drifts to cause the performance of AI system to degrade significantly. In contrast, any human radiologist can walk down the street to the older hospital and do just fine."
Could you speak a little more about your impression of the company while you were there? I know you didn't want to talk about it after you left, but so many of us are/were curious, especially as to how Basecamp's private image compares to its public image.
Will they be bullet proof?
But arguably fewer ethical problems around their technology itself (setting aside supply chain and business dealings)
"To a manager, the exchange that led to Singer’s departure could lend credence to the idea that addressing social injustices on company Zoom calls is bound to be disastrous."

Yes, reading this entire exchange between Singer and the unnamed employee shows exactly why there shouldn't be political talk in the workplace. Disastrous indeed.
Shit, that sucks. What a classless way to go.
1 in 4 plan to bolt job post-pandemic
Yet many of the games were more entertaining than many games today.
As far as I know VCV is less of a community per se than a commercial venture. Sometimes I think that the many different interpretations of "open source" leads to clash and conflict. There is the side where open source is merely a way to share code, a side where it is primarily community oriented,a side where FOSS is a mechanism of freedom and liberation, and so on.

I think this incident makes me feel that in any commercially-focused open source project I create I should be clear or that intention. Otherwise my focus on releasing code, and building a business and the corresponding lack of focus on community niceties may come back to bite me.

Open source is not necessarily about the community and not necessarily about you. I think it would be good to fork the project to make a community focused variant. I don't think the VCV rack guy, though, Is necessarily falling short of any duties, because from my external perception it was never a community focused project. For example, the core afaik (unless I'm thinking of something different) is not "open contribution" at all.
You may have replied to the wrong comment.
Wonderful! I didn't know that it was possible to copy the file path of an arbitrary selection, thanks!
Just because it has alexa/google integration doesn't mean you HAVE to use it. You have full control over what it talks to and in theory you can restrict which domains it can talk to if you wanted.
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When You Choose to Read, You Choose to Change
Similar memory. Librarian went on a rant about the evils of Wikipedia and instead directed us to these random websites.

Wikipedia at least has some level of review.
There was a time that some Microsoft software was free for evaluation for college students, but in fact, anyone with a .edu domain name was able to sign up.

While I took advantage of this as a high school student, I assume faculty and non-teaching staff, as well as alumni, could have done likewise.

At this point, TLDs matter about as much as your area code. They ceased being useful in the mid-2000s.
One thing that doesn't help at all: cars. I grew up riding bikes and skating on our street. The street was almost entirely free of parked cars. That same street now would have a dozen parked cars most days. Some houses will have a car or two in their driveway and another couple on the street. All of those cars reduce visibility to the point that I wouldn't let my kids play unsupervised on that street - risk of a car reversing out, of the kids riding out of a driveway into a passing car, of a skateboard hitting a parked car, etc.

Despite our best efforts, our kids are largely oblivious to the danger of cars. I don't know what's changed on that front.
Who cares if a tax is progressive?

There's no reason to care if a tax is progressive.

The thing to care about is whether the government is redistributing wealth in a desired way.

Progressive taxes are one way to redistribute wealth to the less wealthy. Payments are another.

If you want a more progressive system in a LVT world, double the tax rate and then send people checks.
Yahoo didn’t need to sell 8B of Alibaba. They renegotiated with Alibaba some to avoid them splintering off assets to avoid Yahoo owning 30% of them.
Obscurity through variety :)
This one? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/google-ca...

My desk is right across the street. Used to see that shack every day before covid.

Can't see to find it on http://www.taxfairnessproject.org though
I’ve “owned” a .org since 1999. It’s never meant anything.
Or "www", as in "www.burrito.catering".
Such a great example showing how useless the idea of “banning politics at work” is.

If the employee groups’ request to delete the list of “funny” names was political, then creating and updating that list in the first place must also have been political.

I guess it’s “politics” only when the founders disagree with it.
I have memories of the kiddie version of this, which was using "locked" down computers at stores or libraries and abusing the hell out of the context menu from, say, an arbitrary print window that shouldn't appear, which would normally be enough to get you a separate Explorer (or File Explorer) window, from which you could do whatever. Or enough to launch a command prompt as well, depending on the system.

Nothing quite so fancy, but in the same spirit.
I would consider it a standard of politeness... but is that a moral obligation? What if you were treated very well but quit because you didn't like some of their... secure datacenters?

Given that sort of a conflict can occur, exactly where does this moral obligation stem from?
Not really. If you have a system that defends ingenuity, then new ideas will flourish, providing more jobs, and more chances for entrepeneurs to create. It comes down to this- people will not accept the state of banging their head against the wall over the same problems forever. We live to solve problems, and by defending new ideas, we give credit to creators and encourage creativity.

You can argue that solving one problem creates a set of new ones and I won't disagree. Those are for the next generation to address.
> There is no inherent pleasure in the process itself.

Speak for yourself. I find pleasure in writing code inherently, playing around with different languages, data structures and algorithms that may not have any definite end goal in mind.
One thing that has helped me is to ask myself do these things make me happy/feel good? The answer is usually no, and by asking the question, it makes it easier to put down and stay off of it.

Another thing to try is to avoid pulling out your phone when you are idling. Try to get more comfortable being alone with your own thoughts rather than trying to have a constant drip of content from your phone.

It's unfortunate that we've created a world focused on capturing and selling our attention. For example, as various authors have noted, infinite scroll is really more of an antifeature. With traditional paging, people usually only go through the first few pages at most and then stop looking at it. How many people go beyond page 4 of HN? Probably a lot less people than if HN was a single stream of content.
I'm with OP in their diagnosis of the problem. Other commenters seem to focus on "tricks". The problem with these tricks is that they can all be bypassed and you always go back to normal. Would you suggest someone who wants to quit smoking just keep cigarettes in their pocket and just snap a rubber and on their wrist when they want one? Of course not, that is just asking to relapse. Self-control is a finite resource. Eventually, you stop using the rubber band and just continue smoking as before.

I've long thought that what we need is a forked Android distribution without a web browser and with a whitelist of apps that can be installed. Something of an "addiction-free phone". I'd be curious to hear if anyone is working on anything like this. It's certainly something I would want. To be honest, I'd pay a lot for it.
sorry for this superficial question, but does anyone know if it is pronounced dee-no, den-oh or day-no (or something else)?
Yeah, see, there’s a shocking proliferation of really misguided ideas on this topic. It’s fascinating.
Even if your heart isn’t 100% in it, the least you could do is acknowledge and thank the people for their contributions while they were there.

Kind of gives the lie to the progressive, all-in-it-together environment they portray with their public image.

So, just like any other company really, except due to the excessive power of the top two execs, no recourse if you have a problem they don’t perceive as a problem.
Because accusing some witches of casting evil spells is more fun.
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True, but if someone wants to get into a house and your neighbor's door is locked and yours isn't, which is the more likely to be entered?
I have not heard of that distinction. I am guessing that a scribal culture creates and generate writings while a literate culture consumes them.

I am not sure if that is a good analogy. Maybe it is.

By the “road not taken” though, I mean something that is more difficult to pull off, and it does not monetize well, if ever. I am thinking, for example, Christopher Alexander’s work on pattern languages. That is, designing a pattern language in such a way that the end users can always create the right thing for themselves. Something like the ideas behind Smalltalk, where you don’t need a computer science degree to customize. Instead, it got turned into OOP Gang of Four. A smaller artisan class of software engineers and product managers to determine what the best design for the end user. Add A/B testing, growth hacks, dark patterns, and customer validation, we have the engine of growth for startups to return multiples for investors.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s where the magical experience of computing had a lot yo do with creating those environments.

Now, flip side. I have also read a history of MMOs that, the author concludes that the all time most successful MMO is Roblox. Players make games for each other, and there are some revenue sharing. There is a pattern language in the design, but otherwise, there is a great deal of freedom to make stuff. It still netted a good return for shareholders.

So maybe that ship has not sailed yet.

But to come back to that question I posed: is Roblox value-adding? If so, what is it contributing that could not have been done without it?
Maybe picking up a hobby, outdoor activity, or workout program could help?

Obviously I have no idea about your situation, not whether these are realistic for you, but there are two reasons I’m suggesting these.

1- Exercise has been frequently shown to be as beneficial as medication for anxiety and other problems, and of course it’s harder to use hands for phone stuff while they’re in use doing other things. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/can-exercise-help-treat-...

2- I personally tried to lose weight all my life and finally figured out that redirecting my activities and mentally recalibrating my expectations was the key to success. I’m speculating maybe the same mentality could help you. Trying to lock down my eating was setting up an impossible expectation to try and control temptations, that shamed any lapses. Realizing that feeling stuffed was bad and that I was supposed to feel less stuffed, and figuring out how to recalibrate made it so much easier to actually do, and even figure out how to allow myself treats and overages while still making progress.
Also, the title is "Document" -- not much good for bookmarks :-)
Here's a link to the paper:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/687569#d5...

The article concludes:

> By making it easier for Democrats and Republicans to live side by side, President Biden might also restore some of our trust in one another.

But the paper already says:

> crime, school quality, and commuting time rank much higher on both Democrats’ and Republicans’ “hierarchy of needs” (Maslow 1943) than explicitly political concerns. ... for all their differences in stated preferences, we show that partisans are not, on balance, moving to more compatible communities. While Republicans are moving to more Republican communities, on average, Democrats are as well. An analysis of the moving histories of our survey respondents shows that movers tend to relocate to communities similar to their current residences. Overall partisan residential migration is best described as regression to the mean, with both Democrats and Republicans in extremely copartisan zip codes moving to more moderate neighborhoods, on average. Indeed, we find no evidence that even ideologically consistent partisans (liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans), those who might be most likely to sort because of the strength of their political concerns, are more likely to sort.

So I don't think the paper really supports the article.
We could find out what role mosquitoes play in the environment when it collapses suddenly.
Checkout mapbox not sure if the pricing is better the but the api is easy to use and the pricing is pretty clear IMO
Among my favorites is this little zinger (awk):

!seen[$0]++

which gives the union of the lines of all the input files, with none of that 'sort | uniq' business.

It's not a one-liner, but here's intersection:

! buf[$0]++ { acc[$0]++ }

ENDFILE {
delete buf;
files++
}

END {
for (k in acc) if (acc[k] == files) print k
}

and here's set difference:

! filenum { acc[$0] = 1 }
filenum { delete acc[$0] }

ENDFILE { filenum++ }

END {
for (k in acc) print k
}

I keep these in my ~/bin with evocative names (e.g., 'union' and 'set-diff'). Once I did that, lots of other things became one liners.
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> Because that's called plutocracy, which is bad. Things should be governed by democratic principles rather than plutocratic principles.

This is a value judgment not shared by everyone. One/few person rule can be quite efficient in certain tasks such as rapid development and deployment of resources, because you can cut through red tape. At the same time, it can be inefficient in other tasks.
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That is horrible and I did not fully realize this was going on. I've been waiting for VCVRack 2 forever to get the VST support and invested a lot of money in the current VCVRack. Aria I wish you the best with you future / current endeavors and in something people will actually respect you. I really hope a good and fully open source alternative will come up soon.
On the other hand, there’s been at least one case where unsourced information on Wikipedia was cribbed for published articles and then the published article was used as a citation for the Information on Wikipedia
Maybe a global pandemic of something stupid like that. Who knows
It seems like you're firmly on the side of the one with kids, but outside the rhetoric this is an interesting personal question to ask yourself. It puts the opportunity cost of working into perspective and makes you re-evaluate the importance of your work.
The modified genes (or a later mutation) provide some advantage to their offspring, combined with a failed self-destruct.

That causes the population of Mosquitoes to become more troublesome.

Hopefully unlikely!!
If mosquitos are a keystone species in the food web, population decline could have drastic effects.

We don't currently believe that they are, however.
I believe that we’ve already found that out via irradiated mosquitos, but I don’t have a link to a paper handy.
The eradication of a seemingly unimportant species of mosquito that has an unknown but very important link to some other much more important species. If that were to happen (seems very unlikely, but not zero chance), they could see some ecosystem disruption they didn't anticipate.

The worst, worst possible case would be this gene getting somehow into the general mosquito population and making mosquitoes extinct. That would be a disaster since they are an important food source for so many other species.

Presumably, the much-smarter-than-me scientists have thought of this.
Our classroom discussion of Wikipedia was "You should never cite Wikipedia... because it's an encyclopedia, and you should never cite encyclopedic knowledge anyways." Otherwise, the general sentiment of Wikipedia at school was that it was a good resource for finding resources.

As for .com versus .org, I think we may have been told that .org was somewhat more trustworthy than .com. But we were generally told to favor .gov over both anyways; outside of that, it was a matter of understanding the webpage context to know who was publishing the content and attempting to assess their biases and how that affects the trustworthy content. Definitely would have been something about how even a .edu page might not reflect academic research anyways (since students might have their own personal webspaces on a .edu site).
Wow.
I learned to fly in high school. God I can just picture it. “Fly through the deer!”
I’d laugh all the way into orbit after getting out of that one in one piece.
Have you hodl’ed the whole time?

Tbh it makes sense on an individual level but on a societal level it’ll lead to inefficiencies.
I think that's a good thing. There should not be an unmitigated explosion of TLDs. A few will pop up that appeal to lots of users, say .taco, and the .com monoculture can be split into a manageable number of TLDs.

Humanity is great at this stuff. Natural language is enervated with side channels everywhere. At some point, people may converge on "what a TLD looks like" and new TLDs will often have an ineffable TLD-ness about them.