skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you belong to the wrong social class? You may not enter.

Which, much like many "ladies nights" is illegal. Why pick the worst type of establishment as a model for this behaviour?
misaka is kernel, kuroko is a programming language. Now I want to know what touma is?
> investing in education

You really think the problem is lack of investment? Education is insanely overfunded, but it still fails to provide its basic function - that is, of educating its consumers.
Database Security Best Practices in 2022
"Massive image-based single-cell profiling reveals high levels of circulating platelet aggregates in patients with COVID-19", doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27378-2, Open Access

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27378-2
Oh, zig is not in https://learnxinyminutes.com/, someone should add it :)
We've gotten similar emails to our support team. It looks like someone is doing a massive project to gather info on CCPA compliance. I have no idea what their intent is, but we just pointed them to our standard writeup and submission form, which we've had out on our site for a while now.
Exactly this and I'm a little disappointed, though not surprised that the response was "well it works for me so what's wrong with it? it's only for frontend". It's actually part of the language.

You also forgot another super important point:

- It actually works. How many times have we all run into some weird error or stack trace because node/npm/babel/webpack/typescript/jest/regenerator-runtime/babel-core/quantum-flux-inverter tower of cards collapses when a commonjs module somehow leaks in from node_modules?
this stuff is so interesting, it’s like the last bastion of people who want to be in complete control of everything that the interact with electronically, and they need the control so much that they insult anyone who doesn’t see it that way.

this is orthogonal to Stockholm syndrome, and it’s interesting to see such passion miss the point for mist people so fully
Very cool. I know I would love to see more 3D elements incorporated into UI. Nothing obnoxious (please no literal parallax scrolling) or impractical (e.g. the fsn 3D file system navigator). More like skeuomorphic UI but with real time lighting and shadows.
“[snip] because reddit said [snip]”

Many antivaxxers are uneducated people of color. Your comments are, perhaps unwittingly, quite racist.
Perhaps the greatest trick that materialism has pulled off is conflating "natural" with "material." To the idealist, mind -- this experiential fabric that is directly and unmistakably apprehensible -- is perfectly natural, and so idealism is "naturalism." The in-principle-unobservable abstraction called "matter" is what's spooky and unnecessary.

Struggling hard to avoid a particular outcome ("*-worshipping") makes it harder to be completely unbiased and look where the raw data is pointing. That's why the Enlightenment, in setting itself in direct opposition to the Church, ended up with materialism (though it first made a foray into Cartesian dualism).
>> Replace 'rent' with 'support.

Not really. Redhat sells support, Microsoft charges rent. This is made even more explicit with SaaS - Software as a Service. Nobody is providing service, they're simply providing access to the capabilities of the software for a fee. That's rent.

Development teams are usually classified as cost center, not any kind of customer service.
BASIC was never removed from MSDOS. They continued shipping it with the OS at least until Windows 95 or 98.
I don’t have any good advice for you but I do sympathize. My wife runs a small coffee shop and about a month ago Instagram flagged her business username as spam without any warning which prevents anyone from tagging and sharing her business. She’s had the username for over a year, and does NOT spam other pages with it. The closest she ever gets is people taking pictures of their drinks in their stories and posting with the business tagged in them.

We’ve tried and tried to get in touch with someone at Instagram but it’s impossible to do so. The only reason we could figure out it was a spam issue is because I opened the Chrome developer tools at one point to review the network request made by the “Report a Problem” button and there was a property in the POST body labeled “spam=true” (the message on the screen was a generic “sorry we couldn’t do that please try again” error). Eventually we gave up and changed the username to get around it, but all of her branding material has the old username.

It’s incredibly depressing and frustrating that there are no avenues to get these kinds of things resolved, especially for small businesses that depend on word of mouth and social media to grow and succeed.
That's why they do that legally.

Why do you think you have the famous "Intel inside" logo or sound or animation in ads? Because Intel pays you to display that...

Or at least it was not too long ago.

https://www-techspot-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.techspot...
> Maybe I'm splitting hairs

Not enough split, not really hair ;) The rewinder became obsolete, replaced by random access. Your need to seek remained. Your need to watch videos remained, relevant technologies got replaced etc. One's need for "informational pull" remains - there is no dead end.
I don't know. The sales dept I worked most closely with was for a utility company, which is extremely price competitive, so the hustlers who go out there to sell to people can be pretty aggressive tactically, but I still find that if you ignore the pushiness, it's mostly honest and above board. (Used cars salespeople have a bit of a different reputation on honesty I hear but I don't have direct experience there).

Whereas marketing, it's in the DNA of the whole industry to be sneaky, even creepy. The constant tracking, the bending and distortion of truths, the dark patterns and deceptive practices, it's pretty rotten. Count up all the trackers and spyware installed on the average website. Guess who pushed to get them all installed? Almost certainly the marketing department.

There are honest folk who work in marketing and genuinely care about the product, the customer, and approach their job ethically, but from what I've seen they're in the minority.
Very sensible and extensive input, garbagecoder, thank you very much.

I do think IQ itself is a lacking approximation of intelligence, but the larger problem is that the data is probably highly distorted. Also some with the same potential as another but who has never been challenged with these type of questions will perform worse. You will get better at IQ tests the more of them you do. It is questionable that your IQ increases.

Granted, that problem is understood and addressed and you should not do the same test with the same type of questions again. But creating such tests is probably beyond the IQ of anyone.

Also IQ tests are highly tuned to speed. While having unlimited time to solve questions doesn't say much about cognitive abilities, people with quicker judgments don't necessarily have better ones, often to the contrary. But the form of questions in IQ tests favors them disproportionately because every question itself all have a very limited scope and the measurement is about how many answers you get correct in a limited timeframe.
FLAC isn't turning into Skynet that soon.

Besides, humans are lossy. We forget, make mistakes, think via heuristic.
> You would need to publicize the weights and input data of the algorithm

Again, I don't think that really tells you anything, and I'm telling you now there is _zero_ chance that these companies open source their training data (that's their secret sauce). But even if you could, what can you possibly do with this information that would be useful? It's completely inscrutable for laypeople, which means it will only be analyzed by ML-competent engineers and mathematicians. And if it's a deep-learning algorithm, it's completely unexplainable and will yield practically no useful insights.

I don't think there is an "ideal" recommendation algorithm. There is no way to say "ah if we just tweak these weights, everything will be fixed!" Every single one has tradeoffs and will direct you towards filter bubbles. The problem is that many sites give you practically no other way to see content, which means you're constantly being manipulated by an algorithm that is itself learning from how you interact with what it proposed to you. That feedback loop is toxic, and steals user agency.
The Case for Techno-Optimism
Vivaldi is not at fault. It is the users who should review their usage.

As long as you are still part of an organization, or keep your own little piece of internet alive, there is no reason to prevent delivery of messages to your address.

Just like with mail in the real world, if you can be found at a public location, mail can be delivered to you there. There is only jail and army to filter your mail.

The free-of-charge nature of these services is just a reward for your membership in an organization, there is nothing permanent or guarantee here.

To the people who want a free-of-charge address, find a public service or a respectable association that at least guarantees reception. If not, keep a low profile, you are under voluntary surveillance.

Services like Vivaldi or Gmail and consort have the worst level of freedom, out of 6 levels :

1. My domain / My server / My IP

- Freedom. They can just list you on antispam service if you manage badly.

2. My domain / My server / My ISP IP

- Freedom but nomadic. Your ISP can cut off the relevant ports or break your contract. But you just have to change ISP.

3. My domain / Public or community non-profit organization.

- Potentially Freedom but nomadic. Unfortunately very rare, public or community organizations offer their own domains instead.

4. Domain and servers of a public or community non-profit organization.

- No Freedom, but they sometimes guarantee a minimum service and a perenniality.

5. My domain / Private for-profit organization.

- Freedom but nomadic and if you get kicked out of such an organization, it is likely that you will be kicked out of another one too.

6. Domain and servers of a private for-profit organization.

- No Freedom at all. They do what they want with you.
I tried but bank sided with them, since they don't want to get into legal issues. Booking.com claims the reservation is a "non refundable time limited special offer" in order to rip you off. This is anti consumer behaviour that should just be illegal. Just avoid them at all costs. Neither Booking.com nor Sixt would resolve the issue. I called support, they just fed me social engineering mumbo jumbo.
Begs the question, how can we find our own Marko Saric's? If you're a marketer and reading this, want to help me with paced.email? I'm in the same boat as the OP.
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"“I think it’s really cool when the community offers an opportunity like this for things that educators a lot of times pay out of pocket for,” Alexandria Kuyper, a fifth-grade teacher at Discovery elementary school said."

Article kind of burys the lede, this is the issue at hand and what makes this tasteless. If this was just extra money for a field trip or something that's one thing, but this isn't a donation to the class, it's replacing things that the teachers personally buy because the schools don't purchase basic supplies.
I heard there was a movement internally for a while to block adoption of ES modules because the core team members "didn't like ES modules" (again, what I saw tweeted a long time ago and don't remember the source). So that certainly can't be helping adoption of it. This is one of the reasons Deno is superior - it makes use of language features not a badly designed module format.
Because then you have to define what the package is going to do and it’s a lot of work. And now you don’t have to do that work.

And of course, in this case it only takes one app using this library that has a legitimate use case for unlimited acces. Unless you find a way to limit libraries separately.
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Framer, no but framer-motion, yes !
You get more out of funding a good safety net so you don't send starving children to school and parents can spend time with their kids and get involved in their education.
Individual solution for being cold is easy - wear more clothes!
Individual solution for being hot is hard - you can get only so much clothes off
I fear you have constructed a tectonic collision from a small mammal's soil-based home.

If you are arguing against the phenomenon of CoCs in general, then I agree - they are a blight, rife with overreach and often easily misused to justify prejudice or condemn innocent misunderstandings. While I won't deny the emergent behaviour of self-policing based on fear, I suspect the origins of the CoC are actually less subtle and more an attempt to assign power to marginalised and persecuted groups, without recognition that actually causes a net increase in inequity, that power corrupts and in turn causes more persecution thanks to the bad taste left in people's mouths when being victimised unfairly due to prejudices mislabelling themselves as anti-prejudices.

But that's an aside. Power will always be, inequality will always be, prejudice will always be - and the point of the CoC was never to improve that, merely invert it. It has, in some ways (along with other cultural and corporate shifts) worked beautifully and now has dominance over the Open Source community landscape at least. I don't see us putting that particular genie back in the bottle any time soon.

But we can try to keep the potential harms in check. And raise the alarm when we see potentially dangerous overreaches.

In the current climate of escalating prejudice on both sides of the fence, I'm not sure there's much more we can do.
If I am running a game at under 60 fps or less I probably will assume something is wrong. I feel pretty bad if I sit and stare at a low fps game too long. 4k I do not give a rats ass about however.
A GUI can follow 1995 principles without being an oppressive grey and ugly icons and either too much or too little spacing.
Yes, in Lakota men and women speak differently. My mom used to laugh at women (usually non-Lakota) who would speak like men.
Yes I suspect Goodhart’s law is unavoidable to some degree.

That said, are there really any other viable ways to measure intelligence in a standardized and reproducible manner?
Employer underhanded tactics are so common it's an SOP.
https://inoreader.com does that for about that price.
Google offers a way to access Google services from your VM 1918 IPs so you don't need to use NAT. I wonder if Azure would consider doing the same.
Exactly, there is a technical limitation (I understand why) of only blocking by IP not hostname, if the IP changes it breaks.

Why has this not been solved in the last 50 years? You should be able to block by hostname, it’s how networks are defined.

We are an industry of problem solvers but this one seems to have been ignored.
Well, they may have claimed that, but that wasn't really my experience at the time!
Ask HN: Is the Startup Owner's Manual still a relevant guide?
My latest venture has petered out after 8 years and is no longer profitable. I'd like to start something new. Is this book by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf still a good guide in 2021?
How to Build a Compute Rasterizer with WebGPU
I've been seeing more and more references to this story over the last few years which is a sign.. Of something. It would be really interesting to see the Http referrer logs his website gets for it. Probably a great collection of threads about everywhere this kind of automation is happening.
I had a bad concussion in 2016 on the receiving end of a t-bone car accident. I too had a bad experience with Mayo Clinic Jax concussion expert, clueless and insulting. After 5 years, I’m still feeling the usual post-concussion syndrome affects, like issues with sleep, cognition, focus, agitation, and memory. Studies show that 1 in 5 concussions are “long-haul” chronic conditions and no one is sure why.

Here are some things that helped me: 1. Many of my symptoms improved immediately with the Jim McMahon (the football player) concussion treatment. It fixes a neck issue with C1 and C2 shift. Google it. 2. Antidepressants did nothing, but Provigil has been a lifesaver for focus and xanax when I’m overwhelmed. I take them when needed. 3. Good doctors understand the issues, but you need to find them. I’ve had success with USF Dept of Neuroscience.

I still have the concussion symptoms, but I have adapted to a new way of living and I’m at peace and grateful. Good luck to everyone in this boat, you’re not alone and it can get better.
There was that Tiktoker who was shocked and offended to learn of Montenegro, but i have no idea if it's real or fake.
You capture by value a variable that allocates and you get a heap allocation.
I got the same argument after I asked why there's no more RSS/Atom feed of the news section in my municipality's website. Some positive people tell me that RSS is not dead and it's still everywhere. Unfortunately, especially after modern redesigns, RSS gets dropped as "obsolete technology". The sad thing is that this doesn't only happen to optional websites which I could choose not to follow out of principle like blogs or niche websites on technology and such. Governmental, municipal, local news websites do this, after which I lose easy and convenient access to this relevant information.
I was taught in my psychology 101 class that IQ is supposed to test innate intelligence: something that does not change over time or by learning.

In that context, this study literally is non-sensical.
They cost far less than that if you buy international editions off eBay. Same content for less money, even new.

(And if you want to know why they sell the same books for less money to different markets, pick up Principles of Economics by Mankiw)
I'm not interested in getting put into the HN penalty box arguing data with a skeptic/conspiracy theorist/antivaxxer. I provided data supporting my thesis around belief systems and their rigidity. Maintain whatever position you choose.
When I studied psychology in university, the general thinking at the time was that IQ tests measured education and not actual intelligence.
The US is delaying China’s dreams of a domestic chip supply chain
On the Media – Take This Job and Shove It
> Amid the so-called Great Resignation, nearly 39 million Americans have left their jobs. On this week’s On The Media, hear why this trend is a logical response to the cult of work. Plus, when technology makes our jobs harder, maybe being a 'luddite' isn't such a bad thing.
If you mean that in your opinion (or according to your interpretation of Jewish law) they are permitted to...well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

If you mean that they believe themselves to be permitted to, this is definitely not the case. Talmud (ie Mishna/Gemara) outside of "agadata" is considered off-limits to women by all Haredi communities I'm aware of. In the past all Torah study was considered forbidden, but in the last few hundred years leniencies were found to enable some amount of Jewish religious education for girls. This was quite an innovation and was not taken lightly. Today, in some communities the original texts are all forbidden, but in most the Written Law (Tanach) is permitted why the Oral Law (Talmud) is not. Halacha (practical law) is usually allowed, as is theology, philosophy and ethics (Mussar, Chassidus, Rambam's "Shmoneh Prakim", etc)

Bottom line: women don't use scholarly jargon because they are intentionally and expressly excluded from such activities.
A Retrospective on the Design of the Swift Programming Language
Happened to be reading a photo essay about delivery drivers [0] today and was struck by how intensely vulnerable the workers are. e.g. Saying he knows 5 people that died and non that have filed insurance claims. i.e. They're not even bothering with the shiny "support" processes the companies put in place. Sure that is in a dangerous country, but still says a lot about the people that are (by necessity) attracted to these jobs.

It's not just the algo angle...the entire system isn't fit for purpose.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/ghost-riders-t...
I have not seen any info on this, but I did see that they are moving Fortnite to UE5. Since that game needs to run on a huge range of hardware, including on mobile, I think we can deduce that a large range of performance scaling is going to be a primary design goal of the engine.
Is Anand Babu (former Google Kernel head) okay?
There are many options for this, but at the end of the day it comes down to "it's a pain in the ass and isn't worth the effort for most applications". Obviously non-interactive exploits like log4shell change the math on this.

My current company is using Cilium (and CNPs) within Kubernetes to solve for this, although it does have some issues. Calico has fqdn filtering in it's "Pro" versions.

For covering a whole VPC you can look at AWS's Route53 DNS Resolver Firewall (which sort of addresses the same class of concerns. There are gateway's that will address this at a VPC level too (probably the best solution) like Aviatrix or Chaser Systems' "discriminNAT".

The point is that there are solutions for this, just the UX around managing them could be a lot better, and at the current price point isn't worth the risk for the fast majority of projects.
Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) had a video submission contest and the winner that blew me away did a video on bezier curves. https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
People absolutely do this all the time. With k8s and container policies its easier than ever to audit and can have an element of dynamicism. Docker has many many usecases; if you are using it for workloads in production you’ll want to follow benchmarks like CIS, which will tell you to do this. There are scripts you can run to automate a lot of this.

However, you’d still show up as vulnerable here. This is because even with proper egress filters many systems will default resolve DNS out to the internet. Some people fix this too, by running restricted local DNS servers at another privilege level. But if DNS is your only way out, the worst impact I’ve seen so far is info disclosure - I have not seen RCE possible with this bug when a normal firewall is set up. But hackers are creative so I am keeping an eye out.
"Scare" maybe isn't quite the right term here but the general concentration of wealth we're seeing in society right now definitely does not fill me with hope. I don't think the end result is going to be a good one.
Exactly. I know at least one that bought a box of paper clips 30+ years ago and still uses the same ones today.
The world as a whole nonetheless grows more prosperous, 5% last year. There are going to be bad outcomes for a whole bunch of people, and some of the doom is real - I wouldn't invest in Florida beachfront property, for example. But "the system" is remarkably resilient as a whole. And it concentrates wealth upwards. It's like the demolition of an Amazon warehouse by tornadoes: it killed six people, but none of them were Jeff Bezos, who still gets to go to space.
No! Facebook always surfaces news like two weeks after it happens, so you always have to check the individual Facebook pages to get timely updates.

It’s time to move towns ;)