skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this quote from Barack Obama...

"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes."
> If there's one job that doesn't exactly depend on what location you're working from...

No, the opposite is true: Any job that requires reviewing potentially private content must be done in a controlled environment.

I wouldn't be surprised if content reviewers weren't even allowed to have cameraphones at their desks.

Can't risk having someone snap photos of the screen while reviewing content flagged as sensitive. Doing this job from home is not an option.
Browsers also expect plain-text. Is https by the same logic also pointless, and should no longer be used?

(I get what the author is trying to say, I'm just reacting to the strange way the argument is phrased. I don't think they thought their wording and reasoning in that passage through enough.)
A healthcare professional who may already have antibodies from prior infection, and who therefore does not need a vaccine, perhaps.
Same reason smart musicians embraced Napster. Led to more sales as the world shifted to streaming.

In what world would they not want their browser to be used?
It's been 8 years, and Eric Rescorla hasn't yet come clear how EC DRBG came his way, and why he kept changing his explanations about that.
For me, when I've tried old valve native games on a 2018 macbook pro 15" with a GPU on macOS, I still get these stutters in input and other small things that happen that I don't get on even 10 year old gaming PCs today that were mid-tier back then. Those stutters and such make the game frustrating and I perform worse during key moments, which makes me go back to my gaming PC.

I can see how something would be rated 'platinum' for linux still be unacceptable in those ways. If your playing a single player game I can see how it's ok, but not for twitchy multiplayer games like MOBAs or FPSs.
https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/cisotociso/i-was-a-human-ca...
I wonder if it ever occurred to the author that maybe societies that are poorer and less stable treat women badly...
I'd thought you were referring to after you've installed a plugin (or it got installed for you) and you wanted to know which plugin was doing a particular task.

This is actually a problem in vim and emacs, but to my knowledge it's exactly the same problem in VSCode.

If you're talking about discoverability of plugins for certain functionalities that you're looking for, then yeah, it's easier in IDEs like VSCode because plugins tend to do lots of things (e.g. you don't install a plugin with the Java debugger, another with Java syntax highlighting, another to run tests .... it's just THE JAVA PLUGIN).

Spacemacs solves that for emacs by creating "layer"s which essentially bundle a bunch of emacs packages together so that you only need to install THE JAVA LAYER instead of the 10 packages you actually need. Not sure if NeoVim or LunarVim do that, but should be pretty simple to do.
maybe that's the price they're willing to pay for whatever benefits they get from remote work, and maybe they're missing out on what they consider bad things more than good, everyone is different.
Hardware random number generators tend to attract a lot of interest, but people should be aware that they don't solve any real problem.

Every modern OS has a secure RNG. Except for the problem of early boot time entropy (which you can avoid if you have the right API calls that block before enough entropy has been collected), there's never been any major problem with those.
Otherwise the only problems with RNGs are either simple bugs (i.e. you're not really using the secure RNG) or people calling pseudorandom functions that weren't meant to be used for secure use cases.
Antibiotics, anesthetics, birth control?

Lucky if you stashed or found some leftovers. We'd be back to some available herbal remedies.

And birth control? You'll want the opposite if you want your clan to survive. Without antibiotics & other modern medicine, or even soaps (anyone in your group know how to make that?), you'll be back to having a dozen children and being lucky if one or two survive to adulthood.
Average property tax in Texas is 1.69%. It seems in my area the nice areas are around 2%. I'm not sure where you're getting 3% from.

Also, our house in TX is almost half the price of our house in CA (and much nicer), so even though the rate is double the actual tax amount is the same.
one big difference between email and the systems that the author suggests is that email is a standard and a protocol, where the systems referenced by the author are pretty much single implementation systems maintained by a single authority.

some of these authorities have all sorts of structure to prevent corruption. passionate people, nonprofit or open governance. however, they are still single points of failure, or targets, or whatever you'd like to call them.

it seems that after years of pain with poor effectiveness of specification or poor verification tools for implementations, it has become en vogue for modern cryptosystems to insist on tight centralized control of reference implementations to ensure correctness. (otherwise known as the apple computer model). while this does seem to work in terms of ensuring high quality and problem free implementations, it does open up the single point of failure issue.

i'd argue that email's replacement must retain email's greatest quality: it's an open specification, not a system or implementation owned or controlled by a single entity and that the true challenge in bringing it to fruition won't be clever protocol and cryptographic design (although these will be crucial) but also substantial advances in protocol definition and implementation verification such that any competent developer can implement compatible components and plug them in.
Tell me more about what happened at your Facebook interview
Is that situation well studied for it's risk profile?
Let's be real. It passed because the GOP has an unbreakable majority in the Texas Legislature and the Texas and national GOP wanted another test case to try to break Roe v Wade while there's a conservative majority in the Supreme Court.
Columbo plots were oddly fixed on telephone technology in particular, in a way that might not have aged well if the acting weren't as good as it was.
Plato and the Modes
But that's the thing. A senior engineer is also costing a business ~$100/h (all in) so even if you accept that there will be a fair amount of waste (misconfigurations, devs spinning up boxes and then forgetting about them, PoC projects never torn down, etc) it can still be a net-positive proposition. People always want to compare the cost of compute/storage/bandwidth but that isn't really the value proposition. Of course you are going to pay more for cloud-hosted infra than for equivalent infra in a colo or on-prem DC. But I used to spend hundreds of hours a year doing random busy work to deal with on-prem infrastructure. Need a new server, put in a ticket and when the ticket gets no response follow up with emails and finally setup a meeting to discuss with the ops team. Need a new firewall rule, same deal.
I have a strange feeling about this tech.
Doesn't this help cement Windows as The Standard for gaming?
Feels like we're giving up and accepting our fate.
It burned to the ground due to a wildfire caused by sparks from a train, not from the heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton_wildfire

Wildfires don’t spread much better in 90F vs 121F. The big thing that causes uncontrollable spreads is lots of fast wind.
It's quite boringly predictable that someone would immediately link to a conspiracy debunking article. I have not mentioned anything whatsoever about a conspiracy theory. I merely stated that it is "curious", which it very much objectively is, no matter what else you choose to believe about the event.

Also interesting is that if you actually read the official report that your link references, it does not provide a detailed explanation of how the WTC7 building actually collapsed. The event remains extremely curious 20 years later.

Edit: In response to the reply below:

Yes they basically say "it collapsed because the fire was hot and caused a critical column to collapse". It's a childish level of explanation, not rigorous and scientific. It says nothing about how such a thing could occur. I've studied mathematics, physics, engineering at university up to Bachelors level and to me this is a very amateurish childish level of analysis. The report is fluffed up with many pages of serious important looking official boilerplate, surrounding this one paragraph that basically says nothing. It's a tautology. No rigorous analysis in this report. That in itself is extremely curious to me.
If in the future all bitcoin-like currency transactions have to be reported for tax purposes, and there's all these micropayments, wouldn't that effectively make your browser history part of a tax audit?
> Amazon as a company tends to side with the customer.

Completely agree. Google might be learning parts of this with GCP, but historically, customer-obsessed isn't in Google's DNA.
I think this is highly unlikely to be a targeted attempt to censor Mastodon. The simpler explanation (and the explanation with most historical evidence behind it) is just that Facebook's AI algorithms are kind of bad and nobody in the company understands how they work or what associations they build.

However, the underlying idea that Facebook would block links to competitors is historically valid. As recently as 2016, Facebook blocked links to competing networks from Instagram (https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11157124/instagram-blocks-...), and leaked internal emails from Facebook have shown that the company has an extremely broad view of what does and doesn't count as a competitor (https://panatimes.com/facebook-bought-instagram-to-neutraliz...). The company is extremely anti-competitive, it's not shy about this, and internal emails show that this anti-competitive attitude is entrenched very deeply and very consciously within upper management.

I think taking down this post in specific is very unlikely to be deliberate because:

A) Mastodon is likely not a large enough service to warrant it, and because

B) The explanation based on Facebook's AI being weird, opaque, and generally untested is a much cleaner, simpler explanation that requires fewer jumps in logic.

But it would be completely in character for Facebook to target a real competitor in this way. The reason it's unlikely to be deliberate is not because Facebook would never do something like this, and it's not because Facebook would be too frightened of regulators to do it so openly. Facebook has very openly done stuff like this in the past. It's just that there are other explanations that are more likely, and it's that if Facebook was going to start doing this, Mastodon probably wouldn't be among the first competitors they would target. I need a lot more evidence to show that this is deliberate before I jump off of the (extremely compelling) explanation that automated moderation is really buggy across the board and regularly does unexpected things.

The article comes off as a little uncurious to me, I feel like the author is jumping too quickly to a specific conclusion without a lot of critical thought. But part of why Facebook has these problems with people jumping to conclusions about how it tracks and moderates is because Facebook has a very real history of being openly corrupt in these areas, and Facebook has a real history of being deceptive about their motivations behind decision-making processes. The reputation hasn't come out of nowhere.
That would be why i listed many things more than disclosure.
if you're into Free and Open Source Software, fosstodon.org is an option, but you'll have to wait until your account is manually reviewed though.
PGP has been the target of everyone's ire for years and years, yet since we're still talking about it, I guess it works.

Every thread that mentions PGP will eventually devolve into a discussion about how it's a foot gun and mere mortals will blow themselves up with it...

... but it works.

Seriously though, I remember discussions in the mid to late 90s about UI/UX difficulties and about how every single person that doesn't understand the operation perfectly IS going to be black-bagged by their local black-ops group; the same discussions that pop up in every PGP thread.

It's like one of the oldest running jokes in CS at this point -- not that PGP is broken and failed but that it attracts tons of individuals to congregate and be upset en masse about the UX.
Well, they are doing a terrible job. The more they become like chrome, the less people have a reason to use it instead of chrome.

And most people probably don't make a conscious decision about which browser to use. A lot of Firefox's momentum comes from tech saavy users who recommend it to friends, family, coworkers, etc. So losing "core" users cause a chain effect of losing non "core" users.
Socal, at least, covers the cultural diversity and large urban as specified. Gobs of people and a mixture containing both Asians and Hispanics along with other things. Fully agree on the $$ issue.
375 million people world wide, and I'd expect not one of them to start eating meat because of some reduction of methane impact.
Interesting. It reminds me of how traffic jams flow better when drivers simply drive a slow, steady pace rather than repeatedly accelerating to the car in front of them and stopping.
For now.

Medium was originally praised for no bullshit presentation too.

Imgur is another example, founded as the "no BS" image host as counter to what photobucket/imageshack has become, it's now pretty much at the state those two were at imgur's founding
I like Medium. These days I rely on them to get my news since I can't rely on mainstream media. Articles written by regular people sharing their thoughts is the best way to know what's going on in the world.

I feel that Medium's recommendation algorithm is one of the least biased ones of all social websites. Maybe that's why some people are advocating to stop using it?

Without medium, I'd be left with only Reddit's /r/conspiracy as my source of world news.
I agree, they are fantastic and i've used them for the last 16 years or so. Their product database is unmatched and many of my suggestions have been kindly accepted and implemented.

The only feature that's missing is a toggle that will show you all their products in the product database including those with no offers. Right now you will only find them when you search for their names but you can't list all 5k (5120x2880) monitors for example, only the very few models that are still being sold today.
Could be interesting, but it's on Medium.
My problem with what happened to Firefox is really simple -- the changes that they've made have made the browser dramatically less usable for me.

I've been using an older version of Waterfox for years now because it kept the things that made Firefox great for me. However, as more and more websites are unusable with an old browser, I finally reached a tipping point that forced me to switch to something more recent.

I investigated every (as near as I can tell) offering on the market today. Sadly, the modern Firefox was the least bad option after all, so I'm now using that.

I despair for the state of web browsers these days.
You and I said the same thing.

But the post I replied to was disingenuous. It made it sound like the law was that insurance purchasers have to pay for abortions, but that’s misleading. Don’t think so? Consider if they’d written: “California forces people buying health insurance to pay for insulin.” That sounds silly. It’s technically true, but implies something more direct than the reality.
It costs an arm and a leg. I think Kx systems fucked up in making the language proprietary and closed source and charging for licenses. The smarter long-term play would have been to charge for support/special features/etc ala julia computing or lightbeam.
You can "subscribe" to hashtags which allows you to follow them in a column ("timeline") as you would your followers, mixing hashtags into a single timeline if you wish.

There's also the option of adding "featured hashtags" to one's profile, allowing a user to search for users of a particular interest.

Along with the "Federated Timeline", which others have mentioned, and your follower's boosting posts (akin to retweeting) I've found it quite easy to find a diverse list of people to follow and interact with.
Most latex symbols are named after their shape (e.g. \nabla or \Rightarrow) rather than their meaning or just one of their meanings (e.g. \times or \frac or \over or \binom). So I’m not sure detexify really helps that much.
TIL there's no way of discovering content outside of Medium.
Totally fair take.

Seems like it should be an easy plugin. I'll see if firefox has anything.
Woah, that's a nice domain.
What happened to Bluesky? They made a bunch of promises and it sort of... disappeared after that.
I don't think better email will help with the problems described in this essay. Two of the big problems the essay claims are forever archives and ease of forwarding to regular, non-encrypted email. From what I know of darkmail, it is not going to help with either of those.
So you are wondering if Covid might be the one and only virus in history where antibodies don't work?
Which way does the arrow of causation go though? Seems like it could go either way. Maybe it does.
There's a video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGRhTXKh8A

I will remain skeptical until it is independently reproduced and verified and gets demonstrated at scale.
The Journey Between Fantasy and Reality Begins Now
K and Q have to die along with MUMPS and maybe some other sadistic experiments in pl development I may not be familiar with
We use memory safe languages, type safe languages. AWS is not fundamentally billing safe.

Just to give you nightmares. There's been DDoS in the news lately, I'm surprised nobody has yet leveraged those bot nets to bankrupt orgs they don't like who use cloud autoscaling services.

I don't know how you monitor it, part of the issue is the sheer complexity. How do you know what to monitor? The billing page is probably the place to start - but it is too slow for many of these events.

I guess you could start with the common problems. Keep watchdogs on the number of lambdas being evoked, or any resource you spin up or that has autoscaling utilization. Egress bandwidth is definitely another I'd watch.

Dunno, just seems to me you'd need to watch every metric and report any spikes to someone who can eyeball the system.

For me? I limit my exposure to AWS as much as I reasonably can. The possibilities combined with the known nightmare scenarios, with a "recourse" that isn't always effective doesn't make for good sleep at night.
I've been remote a loooong time and that's always been the case. I miss out on so many 'oh, because Timmy in the SOC told me so' type things, spontaneous whiteboards, and much information. It certainly makes things a bit more complicated. Further, I found it harder to get promotions in general.

All in all, I still prefer it despite its drawbacks. But it's certainly not for everyone, especially people who get or had little social interaction outside of work, and those who are chasing ladder climbing.
It works best, when the entire company is remote.
It's important to remember, at least for corporate environments, that EDNS Client Subnet is important when working with services such as Exchange Online where the local resolver is what determines your EXO Front Door. If you're using a service like 1.1.1.1, you may be routed to an incorrect Front Door causing increased latency (primarily with search and archive mailboxes which aren't cached).

Quad9 does have a service which provides EDNS Client Subnet support, should you want to leverage it.
Archive.is is unironically one of the most important websites in the world. I hope this mess gets fixed but I am not holding my breath because we are in the same position for years now.

Interesting read on the probable owner of the site : https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/149405
To save millions of lives worldwide? It isn't exactly hard math.
Definitely agree that the first assumption you should jump to re FB is that the algorithm is bad, or something broke. Of course FB knows this, so their lack of investment in people who could clean up after these repeated errors is damning.
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Seems pretty lucrative right now to be crying censorship.
Or maybe a third factor causes both, you always have to consider that as well.
I think you are correct about having your instance listed, but I created my own server from a digital ocean droplet (newathens.net) (its quite easy) and I can follow anyone. So I don't know about that second part
Being deprived of the opportunity to get an education, physically assaulted, subjected to unfair and biased laws, forbidden from autonomy, and having ones life path dictated from birth? All that sounds like being treated badly. Would you be okay with that?
In reality, Mastodon instances block a lot of other neighboring instances a lot of the time.
No closures is one of the biggest pain points of k/q, it's incredibly limiting and frustrating. Besides that though, it's a wonderful language which allows you to solve problems very quickly with pretty good performance, assuming the problem is naturally vectorizable.
> What did Firefox do to fix the compatibility e.g. with Teams? That should've been the highest priority.

Why use a browser for Teams at all?
The social networks you may be used to are historically manipulative, censoring and shaping your feed to benefit the social network, not the society.

The nice thing about these open protocols is that they are simply reverse chronological. You see what you choose to see, in the order it was published.

It's a totally different experience than the engineered rollercoaster that is corporate social media.
It's that and the GOP sees that very conservative government action is popular and you've got a bunch of people trying to angle for 2024.

But I promise you, the reason why that is possible is because the conservative morality is often pragmatic when it comes to money, however, there's enough pro-life belief across the spectrum that the average voter isn't that upset, regardless of gender, race, income, etc. These are the demographics.
Ran out of sympathy months ago.
An issue is remote people may be at a disadvantage because they are remote and therefore may suffer consequences of not being in the office (visibility, chit chat, camaraderie, etc.) but they (we, or some portion) may feel they are unfairly suffering from unequal opportunity. On the other hand, they/we specifically have made the choice to be remote despite the inherent disadvantages (and also advantages though in another dimension).
They don't link this data with something tangible like "profits" nor do they really try to quantify productivity in any way, so it is left up to the reader to decide whether the effects they observe actually hurt or help productivity.

Case in point, what they consider useful spontaneous interactions between disparate corners of the social graph could in reality be annoying distractions that decrease productivity.
Not sure the efficacy of mass surveillance can be determined within timespans of less than several decades. As there seem to be two major effects at play, one is the direct usage of information learned from mass surveillance which can be used by the surveyors. I can only assume this is the "works pretty well" you refer to. On the other hand, there are the (indirect) effects of mass surveillance on the surveyed population. Maybe the best example here is the GDR, which had a massive surveillance operations run by the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit). They might have well delayed the ultimate dissolution of the GDR, but ultimately they could not stop it.