skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any claim that something different is better have to be substantiated.

People know how to do write macros, automatically generate documents and do all sorts of things with LaTeX. Amazingly TeX even kerns properly which I can’t say for Adobe Illustrator never mind Microsoft Office.

You find plenty of people who think LibreOffice is OK, they might even convince a German state to try it. Later we will here they switched back to Microsoft Office because LibreOffice is not OK.
The "other families" is Facebook. The crime of the "other families" is censorship. "Turning other families in to the police" is cracking down on Facebook censorship. "Turning other families into the police so they can be the only criminals around" is cracking down on Facebook censorship so they can be censors instead.
Canada allows citizens a step up in capital gains basis upon moving back to Canada

Could you elaborate on this or provide a source? Curious because I'm in the US in tech with a canadian citizenship.
I had to edit the title due to the length restriction. The original title is "How Yale Law School pressured a law student to apologize for a Constitution Day ‘trap house’ invitation"
Bring a 360 degree projector, up the ante
Educated by a about five minutes of searching and reading, my impression is that not supporting MD4 means not supporting WPA networks.
The parallel is not obvious because no mirror is involved. It is the fact that camera is moving backwards in front of the actors who approach a closed door. Then Rod Taylor reaches for the handle and opens the door and the outside light shines in.

How come the camera is not in the way at that point? Did it move backwards to the closed door? The answer is quite interesting. Let me know if you'd like me to spoiler it for you.
Von Neumann's advocacy of a preemptive strike, to my knowledge, took place in the 1950's, when the Soviet Union was still under the rule of Stalin and did not yet have the ability to effectively strike back at the US. It was far from a guarantee that the Soviets would moderate after Stalin's death--it was sort of like hoping that, if Germany won WWII, that the Nazis would moderate after Hitler's death.

Behold your "potential friend":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
I once wanted to try using the backs of iPods as part of a keyless entry system. We all carried iPods anyway, and everyone's iPod had a different scratch pattern on back, so have a system where you hold your iPod back up to a camera and enter a PIN. The scratch pattern tells the system who is requesting entry. If they enter the PIN for that person let 'em in.
Au contraire, Meta already announced that they'll be supporting NFTs, and so has Twitter.

Meta wants to build a metaverse, a goal which has no chance of success if they try to wall it off and prevent portability of data and information. If they see the metaverse and decentralized portable goods as an inevitability in the evolution of the web, then their best bet is to play along and find new ways to capture value instead of hoping the old ways will work.

I'd compare it to the NYTimes reinventing itself 10 years ago. I'm sure they would've preferred the old world of print media dominance, but the writing was on the wall, and they made bold steps to go fully digital, hire a tech team, and lead the way on paid media subscriptions instead of continuing to rely on print ads and physical distribution.

Also, in most earlier versions of the web, I'd say embrace and extend failed. Incumbents were either disrupted or they adapted. The biggest internet giants today are examples of new disruptors who supplanted incumbents, or the incumbents who adapted. Assuming web3 is a Thing, the same should happen. Some incumbents will die, some incumbents will adapt, and some new players will supplant incumbents. Looks like Meta and Microsoft are attempting to adapt very quickly.
I agree you can't escape having some contracts but I think the NFT supporters would say that the NFT functions like the deed to a property.

A problem NFT appears to be an attempt to solve is all the parasitic people, organizations and rules that govern the transfer of assets. These lawyers, title clerks, law firms, title companies, auction houses and governments extract significant rent from asset transfer marketplaces. This rent is a cost to market participants but the larger cost is limiting the liquidity and size of the overall market.

Like imagine if the title to a car was an NFT instead of a piece of paper. I think NFT might just be a complete scam but it might have utility in disintermediating markets.
Not sure what bank you're referring to but most finiance companies I've delt with in the past (in the UK) have extremely good technical people.

most of the stuff is security using multple layers - which can be a pain to modify

Any technical debt is evaluated as a risk and signed off by the business
Desk is 5 years old
You have a responsibility to the group to contribute in an interesting way. If it’s just you and your ‘life stream’ of insta and Twitter thoughts, yeah, spew out all your bullshit in whatever way you want.
We stopped Portugal’s bosses contacting staff outside work hours
I've worked at a couple of companies that used Linux and Libre for their standard setup.

It's just fine for internal usage.

Of course 90% of the employees were technical people, which may have had something to do with it. Nobody wet their pants when you called it a directory instead of a folder.

Now if Photoshop or Excel with VBA had been needed it would have been a different story.
And in a day or two, you could find the most expensive old Dutch master sold at Sotheby's and have a perfect digital replication.

Nobody would stop you from hanging it out up in your living room, or even announcing to everyone on social media that it's the original and you're the owner. Nobody would need to, because everyone in the art collecting community would recognize this as super cringe.

People purchase art for social status. What you're describing is the opposite of social status.
> If I understand this correctly, the "right hand" means antiparticles? Do I have that right?

No, it's about chirality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(physics)
Why are the B.C. floods so bad? Blame the wildfires, at least in part
Yes, they do that in Dart's pub [1].

They also have the concept of verified publishers[2], which is pretty neat (similar to Maven Central), and keep track of a score for each package (e.g. https://pub.dev/packages/darq/score) including up-to-date dependencies and result of static analysis.

Dart is doing a lot of things right.

[1] https://pub.dev/

[2] https://dart.dev/tools/pub/publishing#verified-publisher
Blurb from the bottom of the wordtune landing page: "Wordtune was built by AI21 Labs, founded in 2018 by AI luminaries."
Even if this was Tesla's marketing department saying something like "founded by engineering luminaries", clearly referring to the engineering genius that is Elon, I'd be hugely turned off, and would seriously reconsider my view of the company.

But this is a company & product in the field of "AI", where there's so much bullshit floating around, unfortunately, so much hype and buzzword bingo, that writing in such tone about yourself seems like it should clearly be an absolute no-go -- unless you're just riding the snake-oil wave, so to speak, whether in good faith or not.

Not implying anything about the company or product, of course, as I know nothing about them otherwise.

EDIT: Maybe to clarify the thought behind the above further: It seems that the "AI" industry has an integrity problem. Language like this extends the problem, rather than working towards fixing it.
Off topic, but I love the suggestion in "tone of voice" on how to test if a sentence is written in passive or active voice. Just add ... by monkeys to the end of the sentence. If sentence still makes sense, its passive, so rewrite it

e.g.

A decision has been made to close your account …by monkeys

vs

We decided to close your account ... by monkeys
Can beavers make our cities better?
Right, a few things would be very useful:

- Increasing the resolution of ToF cameras (right now images are around 320 x 240) --> reflections from hidden cameras can then be more detailed, whereas now it's only 1 or 2 pixels each.

- Increasing the bit-depth of ToF images - right now every pixel is only 3 bits (8 colors). It's very hard to differentiate bright hidden camera reflections from everything else, so we had to do a lot of work for that.

- API improvements in conjunction with augmented reality libraries, e.g., a) allowing Android devs to enable the flashlight when AR apps are running b) more raw access to the ToF sensor if possible
Not the worst habit. One vague possibility of a bonus/promotion and they will mess saving feature up one way or the other.
It's called "knowing yourself"

People who think "I think I will likely be happier with children" will be positively correlated with people who have children and are happy about it.

People who think "Having kids will probably make me less happy, so I won't have any." will be negatively correlated with having children, or being happy about them if they do.

This isn't irrational. It's just knowing yourself and choosing wisely.
I'm not even saying it's irrational, due to priority #2. We love to find someone to blame, then hammer them hard. Best is if we ruin someone's entire life over whatever we've found that we can blame them for.
Imagine if every time a story came up about a once-in-a-generation brilliant innovator, the top comments were all about highlighting their flaws and mistakes and minimizing their accomplishments. What a depressing way to live.
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San Francisco has many more creatives per capita than Singapore... you can see the effects of a police state without freedom of speech in film and literature (or even a comparison with Hong Kong until very recently).

San Francisco has some very obvious problems, but there's no way I'd rather be in Singapore as someone who has worked at social media startups, crypto, and dabbling in biotech/longevity... the early opportunities aren't there because the imagination and freedom to pursue it isn't there.

It's a systems problem because allowing serious dissent and dissatisfaction can inspire innovation.
Good to see Cohere.ai mentioned in your comment
A lesser known episode about Benjamin Franklin is when the British failed to respect the "paroles", to exchange prisoners, I use it to put a date to when honour ceased to exist, 5th November 1781:
http://books.google.com/books?id=LaFYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA87

Briefly privateers were engaged for capturing British vessels.

When they made prisoners they had them sign a paper in which they self-certified their status of prisoners, and were quickly released, by landing them on the nearest French or British land.

When Benjamin Franklin tried to use these "paroles" to exchange them against American prisoners (as if they were actual English prisoners), the English had what must have been some of the best laughter they ever had.
are you saying that it's best for companies to openly publish all their (network) security?
The authors are from Singapore. The association is not that direct for non-americans. Actually, I only noticed it after several people mentioned it here.
sigh, probably "nerfed" wasn't the greatest choice of words... I'm writing such an FFI crate right now, and I use a `build.rs`. I can still wish that the package management system didn't have to fall back to running arbitrary code, or that there was some way to sandbox that code. That would make it easier for people to trust my crate!
The biggest secret being that they are a business failure
It was implemented in German law via

Gesetzesänderung des § 309 Nr. 13 BGB vom 1. Oktober 2016

See the news stories about it: https://www.pcwelt.de/news/Ab-1.10.-Kunden-duerfen-Online-Ve...
because one initiated a marketing campaign about their security so as to get some attention and find a different vulnerability the company didn't know about.
Gigascale software projects with thousands of engineers and a hundred layers of abstraction (half of which nobody understands and they only work simultaneously 2 days out of the year) got everyone burnt out. Messing around in bespoke, home-grown computing environments made out of text files that you wrote yourself is grounding, like growing your own vegetables, and we all need that more than ever these days.
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Only if you already know Italian or English. Personally I would easily confuse Italian with Spanish or Portuguese.
I have owned several F-91W (and its variant A158W) since I was 12- so that is about 3 decades of ownership.

Its a simple, battle tested watch without frills. Perfect for daily use without bells & whistles. At ¥1200 (~11 USD), even if you lose one it doesn't hurt. (I have lost my stainless steel A158 only once). The battery lasts surprisingly for about 7 years.
Seems to respect privacy. At least it only includes one external js resource, and doesn't leave cookies. And while the interface is in German, it does find results in various languages.

Edit: I must add that I had my ad blocker on...
I integrated copilot with VSCode (it's pretty easy to get off the waitlist I believe) and have been using it to unblock me from my ADHD when I'm writing code. Basically as I think through a bugfix in our app's codebase,

I navigate to the line where I believe "the fix should go here", and a few characters in, copilot is filling up the lines. 80% of the time it is non-compilable, but nearly 50% of the time it's close to the fix I was going to put in. It's then just a matter of me fixing much simpler errors and bugs in the copilot-suggested LOC.

I have found that I get far less distracted from writing bugfixes once I start looking at the code. I'm not going to let copilot push commits to PROD anytime soon, but it's like having a really smart intern who doesn't really know exactly what I'm trying to solve but has a decent idea, pair programming with me.

So it's not like these AI tools will replace me yet, but they are certainly living up to the goal of "copilot".
>...I REALLY hope the LibreOffice transition goes well.

If anything that rings alert on my mind is the LO's Calc, which at times decides to become slow and consume the CPU for no apparent reason. Or equally annoying flacky interoprability betwen LO Writer and MS Office Word (works in general, but loses some alignment, magles styles etc.)

As much as I'm for LO and want them to succeed, I feel for the clerks dealing with these counter-productive issues.
>I've never feared being out in Singapore, even at 4am at night, in any part of the city.

>I also never feared police or the state for that matter in Singapore, if I didn't do anything illegal.

Japan, Korea and Taiwan achieve the same level of safety while not being dictatorships. No need to compare it to the US.
My results are the same or better than Google in DDG as far as I can tell. I haven't missed Google a bit since I switched. So, either the difference for the average user is minimal or there isn't a difference.
it comes off as marketing based on security which is no different than bragging in my opinion. You have a program for dealing with security vulnerabilities - clearly this blog post was to tell people about how good your security is. It's marketing.
Also of interest:

https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/
> NFTs basically allow you to ignore copyright, as the NFT proves that no "copy" in the traditional sense took place, as you already owned the content. So you no longer are required to get your movie from the rights holder, you can get it from anybody that has a copy.

I think this is the core misunderstanding which makes NFTs appear useful. NFTs in fact do not allow you to ignore copyright and NFTs do not show ownership unless there's a separate contract conveying legal rights to the current NFT holder. That's why the entire scenario outlined doesn't work: if Amazon goes out of business, I can show Apple my receipts (PKI signed or not) but whether Apple will grant me the ability to get a copy comes down to the legal terms under which I licensed a copy from Amazon and what Apple has negotiated with the actual owner.

If those parties want to allow me to do this — as, for example, they did with Movies Anywhere — they don't need a blockchain because the key legal requirement is Amazon originally saying they sold me a license.

If the owner doesn't want to add a transfer clause which wasn't already there, or allows Apple to charge me a transfer fee, an NFT again does nothing to change the situation because legally I do not have any right to the content: what I bought was permission to use Amazon's service to display it.
When there's an update that requires restart waiting to be installed, don't restart Windows for few weeks and leave computer idle outside active hours. Windows will install the update outside active hours and reboot automatically.

It happened to me before. I know of three occurrences of this happening to other people in this year alone.

Quick google search:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/316460-how-to-stop-force...

https://superuser.com/questions/957267/how-to-disable-automa...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/960453-windows-update...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disabl...

https://techgenix.com/turn-off-windows-10-updates/
With the important caveat that most American politicians and intellectuals are essentially celebrities -- they are not focused on governance or discovery but rather on promoting and monetizing their personal image & power, because that's what our society incentivizes.

Someone who blindly follows the Kardashians is not necessarily worse off epistemically than someone who blindly follows Biden/Trump/AOC/Boebert or the Experts on NPR/Fox/CBS/HN.
Although the WYSIWYG TeXmacs is not based on TeX (nor emacs), it was designed for people who use TeX/LaTeX and has similar capabilities.
It might seem counterintuitive, but think of the way that many people react to fictional violence against a human, versus fictional violence against a dog.

I think charismatic megafauna might benefit even more from this effect.
I am a mild proponent of namespaces. But adding them means you are now managing an identity layer, which is not something that a volunteer organization wants to deal with. In a flat namespace, users don't expect that a google-foo library is actually from Google. But with namespaces, people expect that everything under the google/ namespace actually is officially supported by Google. So when the initial rush to register names happens, who verifies that Google owns the google/ namespace? And not just for Google, but for every litigous trademark-defending organization under the sun? And since the package repository is supposed to be immutable, you don't want to wantonly delete crates from namespaces that they originally registered. Likewise, you can't go transferring ownership of a namespace from one entity to another, because that violates the security assumptions of your users who originally trusted the original owner of the namespace and not the new owner.

Identity layers are hard. It's a problem worth solving, but it's not going to happen on a volunteer basis. It needs full-time paid employees to deal with this. Perhaps the Rust Foundation will make such a thing a priority.
No Hack
htp.www.you.hacked.com
Mod_TLS: Safer TLS for Apache Httpd
Consider the following game matrix, in which you pick a row and your opponent picks a column, and you receive the first payoff and your opponent receives the second.

(100,100) (-100,99)

(99,99) (98,98)

The Nash equilibrium strategy is that you pick row 1 and your opponent picks column 1, each receiving 100 points. Once in this state, neither of you can improve by unilaterally changing your strategy. However, if your opponent irrationally deviates and takes column 2, receiving 99 instead of 100, you will get the catastrophic -100 payoff.
This is easy. Go with the one that offers a team that you like and a technology platform that you enjoy working with.

The product doesn't matter. You will find interesting challenges in any problem domain. But your coworkers and management will make the difference between looking forward to each day and dreading each day.
I'm aware of Hack, but I don't have full control over the stack, so having all these features included in core PHP would be the only way in my case.
The sandbox doesn't protect against injection of malicious code.
James Watson made many unfounded racist claims that have been completely discredited.

The rhetoric surrounding racist pseudoscience mirrors that of the anti-vaccine and climate change denial movements. They point to a discredited "anti-vaxx" doctor or a discredited "climate change denying" researcher and view the criticism of their work as censorship, rather than as a sign they might not be a credible source.
Have you personally tried moving from a stable, developed country to somewhere with much lower cost of living?

I lived for some years in a "good" suburb of a pretty well-known third-world city. Everyone had security bars on the windows and razor wire (or similar) atop their walls. Many of our neighbours employed round-the-clock armed guards.

I personally witnessed a police-vs-robbers shootout (leaving at least one dead on the ground) from my office window. For a while, carrying a pillion passenger on a motorcycle was banned because it was such a popular way to do drive-by shootings.

The majority of the expatriate community I knew there had personally experienced violent crime of some form (armed break-ins, hold-ups, car-jacking, etc). So had some of my local friends, of course, though many of them were much less well-off and therefore less of a target (you can't snatch someone's car at gunpoint if they don't have one).

When disorder and violence is that pervasive in a society, it can be pretty hard to live with.

But many aspects of the cost of living were indeed lower.
30$/user/year seems to be accurate. Facebook reported 86 billion USD for 2020 [1] and 2.89 billion MAU [2]. When computing the ratio, the geek inside me feels particularly satisfied to reduce billion from the numerator and denominator. :)

So 2€/user/month seems priced well.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...
> he gets health care and shit for free

Not free - he's (probably) paying taxes on that remote income, and the maximal rate is rather high in those "shit for free" countries.
It's the emotional intelligence to know when to assert yourself and how to assert yourself. At the start, you have minimal credibility built up. Your power is through your sponsor until you have built that credibility through targeted actions that prove value.

From there, you expand influence and the rules morph.
Curious about why html/css is the default option here, its seems like something that is easier to save offline would dominate.
Indeed. I'm in a golden cage right now. No one would pay me as much, which makes switching jobs hard to swallow.
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I use oldskool alarm clocks. I have a rule: no smartphones present in the room whilst I'm sleeping. There is the added benefit of saving some power too, as the oldskool alarm clock's power has been going strong for 10 years now (running on 3 AAA batteries). If you add up all the times a smartphone has to turn on temporarily, and do the math: it's a battery drainer.
Google Ads cost $~4-8 per lead for our company. Google is raking it in.