skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like both. When I run out of tweets I switch to 'Home' mode and get to see a whole new slew of things related to people I follow
I believe that the people of a country are responsible for the actions of their leaders. I do not believe that platforms like Facebook, et al, are morally justified in allowing calls for violence against "those who deserve it".
we're attempting to tackle some of that at Breeze and it's hard / challenging / etc -- it's not sufficient to make it technically easy to filter results by topic, the user also has to rethink it's even possible to filter results beyond whatever default list that's returned. Giving users a UI that facilitates that is equally as hard as solving the technical aspect of making it easy for users to tune results and spend as much time there as coding.

we ran smack into that with a special topic we released this week, Ladypedia, where we ended up added a dial to filter out male results on a sliding scale for Wikipedia results. Doing it by default was too strong, and so we ended up selecting for female gender and then letting user dial in how many male-related pages to filter out.

1. Breeze -> https://breezethat.com/
2. Ladypedia -> https://breezethat.com/p/ladypedia
I'm a new manager, having been an SWE IC for 15 yrs. I just did comp planning for the first time. I was given such a small budget for my team, it's not even funny! The system is designed so that most of the staffing budget goes to new hires, not to reward existing employees. Even promotions are fairly small, compared to what you could get by leaving. It's a game of chicken between you and your company: how long are you willing to tolerate small annual raises while more money goes to new hires before you decide to become a new hire at a new company, yourself?

Now that I see it from the manager perspective, I pledge to stay sharp and become a job hopper ... as soon as I find the time to start interviewing. :^)
(2011?)
This is mere kilobytes of data over the length of the entire movie, and can tolerate hours of latency for most aspects (e.g.: analysis, charge-back, ML, etc...).

A lot of the time I look at "modern cloud architectures" and I see a firehose of raw data being spewed out in hideously inefficient formats. Think 1 kilobyte of JSON to represent a metric, often a single number or data point. It's not just NetFlix, this is the default for most of Azure Monitor and its agents as an example that would affect a lot of people.

The write amplification is just insanity. Orders of magnitude of overhead, not data.

It's as if the entire world forgot that binary formats exist. Google in no small part benefits from remembering this lost art -- they default to gRPC and similar packed binary formats. One reason Kubernetes (written mostly by ex-Googlers) is so fast is because internally it's all compiled code and gRPC. Compared to, say, Azure itself it is ludicrously faster. Literally hundreds of times lower latencies for common operations.
https://archive.ph/l04O2
Yes, Wikipedia offers a grokable example of increasing speed by 1 m/s:

> at 1 m/s, adding 1 m/s increases the kinetic energy from 1 J to 4 J, for a gain of 3 J;

> at 10 m/s, starting with a kinetic energy of 100 J, the rocket ends with 121 J, for a net gain of 21 J
I'd like a 99-03 VW Jetta wagon...
Knowing your value is actually being the stupidest person in the room. If you are at the top then it is logically impossible to guage your worth.

If you are earning 180k vs. 250k earners who you have nothing to learn from, move on, even if you move to another 180k but with smarter folks.
>Give it a couple of weeks and someone will have put together surveillance and parental control system for it.

????? CSGO chat is unencrypted. It's been more than a few weeks since source games have been out. Show me this parental control system you theorize would have been created.
If I put in "best toasters", there's a section called listicles that it lumps all such articles into. What a great feature.
This sounds like a great example of where Reddit would be 100x more useful than Google's version of the web. There's no doubt in my mind that Google tries really hard to Disneyfy the web, unless you push it really hard not to.
Inflation is just one factor in your comp, and not the most meaningful. Some companies are thinking about inflation for employee compensation and some aren’t, their revenues are also affected different ways, but this is not really your concern. The main question for you is whether you are underpaid overall and could get more elsewhere in absolute terms. If so then you have leverage, if not you can still bluff but it’s a dangerous game that depends primarily on management’s perception of your value (so don’t overindex on your internal monologue).

The other piece is equity, and the detail you’ve given here is insufficient. Total new hire grants are irrelevant, the question is how much are you vesting annually and where is the stock trending compared to other companies you could work for.

Of course there are other factors like how you much you enjoy the environment and work, but the important thing is to consider the holistic situation and not get hung up on a narrative about inflation which is at best an excuse papering over broader feelings you are experiencing.
And my 09 Nissan Altima CVT doesn't make that great of fuel economy. Plenty of manuals/automatics that can do just as good.
This career really feels like interviewing skills are the real skill and everything else is just a mandatory socially enforced cooldown period.
We were on a tangent. E2EE isn't even banned by the bill so it's all somewhat off topic to talk about.
If people are waiting for the bubble to burst while holding cash to buy in, the bubble will not burst.
HK for the pineapple buns (bolo bau - 菠蘿包; boh1loh4baau1), Malaysia for the roti, mainland China for the bing (like - 煎饼; traditional Chinese: 煎餅; pinyin: jiānbǐng; lit. 'pan-fried bing')), Taiwan for the danbing ('egg bing', or shāobǐng - baked).
Yes, but measures like the policies in question encourage people to get infected with symptomatic COVID so that they could go to doctor and get that very useful piece of paper.

That's the point. If you wanted to ensure people to not get COVID, do not give those who have had COVID pleasant exemptions. They failed, they should not be rewarded.
Consider Alice's census response as a row in a table of responses. You can reconstruct every attribute/column for which a sufficiently large number of summary statistics are released.

Names are not a part of the statistics the Census releases, so you won't be able to reconstruct the name. Make a fingerprint out of some of the reconstructed attributes and run a database join against another dataset with names. You've now enriched your data with any remaining attributes that were not a part of your fingerprint.

I'm grateful no one has attacked and shared the 2010 decennial census, or ACS, which has considerably more questions. If it seems far-fetched... well, you only need one person to do it, there's an existence proof, and the attack is basically just a convex optimization problem.

As to what can specifically be in those columns, it's pretty narrow for the decennial, but the ACS is more broad. Check out the ACS summary data:
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=United%20States

Extra:
I've written some reconstruction attacks like this myself. One approach is to find the least squares solution to |Ax - b|. Let b be a vector of Census statistics. A is a query matrix. An attacker has both. Solve for x, which is a column in the dataset. If b is long enough, then the system is fully determined, and you can solve for x exactly. In practice, b can be much smaller than x for the system to reconstruct x with high accuracy. Repeat for each column. There are more efficient approaches, like SAT solvers, for large systems.

Happy to talk more about the general approaches used to privatize census data if anyone is curious. I don't work on the Census mechanisms, but I do privacy research and am familiar with DP hierarchical histogram mechanisms.

See also Abowd's summary of the attack: https://blogs.cornell.edu/abowd/special-materials/245-2/
This is true. I’m currently working 3 remote jobs (just gathering as much cash as possible) and one is a good one with a tech firm and the other two are at technologically incapable places.

The two tech incapable ones are pretty annoying, or at least would be if I gave a damn about my performance there.

Also never met such mean people. Tech is so nice in comparison.
Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency
> a decentralised currency in a form that cannot be taken away from them, that fundamentally belongs to the people

This is what I want. I'm not sure dogecoin has these properties. I think monero is closest.
How did you get your information that he is 'unstable"?
Rust (and, for that matter, C++ compilers) have always applied optimizations that rely on alias analysis. What I assume this thread is referring to is the noalias LLVM attribute on &mut function parameters. Rust now applies this.
Aren't they demanding their remote employees go back to the office?
> So when you remove an element from the list, how do you make sure both lists are updated?

The remove_from_list() function has to be either payload-specific, or it needs a function pointer parameter which is called to handle the payload-specific unlinking. Assuming the lists are doubly-linked, which they typically are in the Linux kernel.
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> 500k+

Oh yes, I know, and I am envious. My soul and mental health is worth more. Solving problems makes me feel alive. Parroting answers does not.

I was somewhat headhunted by UiPath. Huge money. Crazy salary. First round I had whiteboard problems with the most awesome engineer that there is. Absolutely aced that, the engineer missed a meeting over shooting shit about algorithms. Second and third leetcodes were engineers that were clearly running off known solutions, and couldn't rapport over best or alternative solutions. I absolutely made a fool of myself, and I'm really good at that stuff.

Leetcode encourages parrots, and I need to believe that I'm better than that. Arriving at the thesis of a doctorate of a tenured scholar in the heat of a 1.5hr interview is hardly a representation of how valuable an engineer is.

I am so glad I failed. I was kicking myself at the time for tolerating the bullshit (I had a gun/green card issues at my back), I knew that I should have walked away.
mozjpeg greatly improved the state of art jpeg encodig, while maintaining full backwards compatibility https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg

but there's a limit on what can be done with the primitives that jpeg offers. for example, jpeg is stuck with the older huffman coding for the entropy encoding part, instead of the better arithmetic coding or asymetric numeral systems
It's pretty embarrassing in retrospect, but I got "Lo. Lee. Ta." tattooed on me at 18 because I love the opening page of this book so much. It's perfect.
I think most people would rather not deal with excessive traffic and crowded roads and wouldn't if given the choice. Many just don't really get much choice in the commuting patterns they have. If your job requires you to be somewhere at a specific time, you're going to go. If you have to pick up your kid at a specific place and time you'll be there. Most of us are already constantly trying to optimize for less traffic and travel time. Those of us with limited options to do that suffer enough as it is. Adding more pain to those with few, if any, other options isn't helping.

Better to update existing roads, improve alternate routes, and if needed build new roads to attract people away from over-crowded ones (peak times or not). Give people better alternatives and I promise they'll take them. We're now routinely using satellites to try to find ways to avoid traffic congestion. We all want it so badly we're resorting to space computers for help! This clearly isn't something you have beat people with a stick to do and it does no good to punish the people who don't have better alternatives available. We really can just put away the stick.
The war is a factor going forward, but we got notified of the price increases before the war started, they relate more to the piss poor planning of our rulers than any external factors.
Unless the people in charge are going to suddenly start planning for the future this will be the new normal.
> 1.) What data are they anonymizing? Especially by "randomizing numbers by taking numbers in one place to another place", doesn't this defeat the purpose of a census?

You can mix up data at the individual level so that the aggregate statistics that matter are still accurate. That way the individual is protected, but the data still has meaning.
pretty much what we're up to at Breeze. we started out with topic searches, added web search, and are now blending the two. some examples:

1. web, blog tab in search results is ours, and our first iteration of making it easier to dial in topics directly from web results -> https://breezethat.com/

2. early pre-web-wide topics before we added web search, https://breezethat.com/topics

3. ladypedia, an experiment on tuning out ugender bias for Women's History Month on Wikipedia pages, https://breezethat.com/p/ladypedia

4. we're currently sussing out the extent to which sites are human-ranked vs. using other machine-extracted information from a page / site -- it's a lot of rapid iteration at the moment

5. we have similar thoughts as Ahrefs on publisher profit sharing, although we haven't established if we'll hit their 90/10 mark or not. we also have option for users to go premium and skip all ads
ZeroIntensity: Bringing the Hell of Pointers to Python
I agree with the feel. I have used Pro/E, AutoCAD, and currently use TurboCAD for doing 3D CAD design (mostly for printing on FDM printers these days). There is, with all of these systems, a "zen" where you get the point of view of the developer in your head and then it all makes sense. Before that, it seems hopelessly complicated and impossible for anyone to use.
and allowed you to stream your whole library to, well, pretty much anyone.

early iTunes was pretty slick, in my opinion. We had so many shares streaming in the office. people curated playlists and clicked that share button. loved it.
Can somebody more knowledgeable than me weight in on the efficacy of this approach as opposed to using docker containers?
You’re being downvoted, but this is an entirely accurate view of Seattle. I just left that hellhole after 22 years.

The last five years have been consistently hell.
Nobody wanted to do anything that will actually help people in the city; just things that allow them to humble brag on Facebook.

Seattle is dead.
I'm assuming the author is from the US. Convenience stores in Japan (and Taiwan) fill a niche that's desperately missing in the US: they're actually convenient. I can't get good tasting, cheap, fast, not-unhealthy food anywhere in the US. I'm not saying it's the greatest food of all time, it just sits in a nice spot on the taste/price/convenience/doesn't make you feel like shit when you eat it axis.
If Alice's household Census data is re-identified, the attacker may learn that she's in a single-sex relationship. Sure, her neighbors may know, but now some organizations that maybe don't have her best interests at heart are able to easily and automatically locate her and everyone like her, so as to be able to harass them or worse.

Or the attacker may learn that Alice is relatively young, has a kid, and doesn't seem to be living with anyone. Sounds like a bastard child, which is a sin. The neighbors are accepting, but now anyone else can find out.

Or, maybe Alice is part of a racial or religious minority group that tends to vote Democratic. Now attackers can make a list from afar of individual houses to visit on election day to more efficiently intimidate folks in that group from voting.

Or, maybe with a bit of cross-referencing with commercial data, it sure is looking like Alice is not a citizen. This time, the neighbors don't even know, but now the folks who are trying hard to have everyone like her rounded up and expelled ASAP do.

Or, maybe a special-interest pedophile group that has a thing for certain age kids in a certain racial group can now make a list of which houses are worth staking out.

And, if any of these things happen even on a small scale, and word gets out that it was due to Census data being insufficiently protected, it will mean that in the next census, all these groups of folks will think twice before participating, with the result that they will lose representation at the federal level as well as federal funding for their communities.

If this all sounds far-fetched, what do you make of the fact that of the 16 State Attorneys General who sued the Census Bureau over Differential Privacy, 14 were Republicans? With additional briefs from Republican lawmakers from 4 states? (By the way, they lost so resoundingly, and the written rulings by the three-judge panel delivered such a thumping to the attorneys involved, it seems that they slunk away and didn't dare to tarnish themselves any further by taking the next step and appealing to the Supreme Court, where the embarrassment would have been yet worse.)
I'll never understand why Steven Sinofsky, who must have retired from Microsoft with hundreds of millions in the bank, feels the need to ask for a few bucks to read his writing on Substack.
Lease a smaller battery EV. I would definitely do this in the states / Canada as the lease prices are dirt cheap.
The problem with TSA keys is that they are all the same, can easily be cloned, and couldn't be rotated.

It is possible to design a system where judges have their own hardware keys. Hardware keys can not be cloned assuming strong tamper protection. If a hardware key gets stolen it can be revoked as being valid and a judge can be issued a new one.

DRM is different because the client ultimately has to have the keys to decrypt the content they have been permitted access to.
The CPUSA and SWP have been pretty irrelevant for the past couple decades. They're being left out because even hardcore leftist just aren't thinking about them at all. Modern leftists aren't flocking around the organizations that were the extreme left of the 20th Century.
> Google messed up the internet because they don't allow installing other websites' searches easily. We had an opensearchdescription.xml for literally most of the websites, and somehow Browsers (including Firefox and Safari) managed to mess that up.

I’ve long thought that search should be provided by individual websites and cached/indexed by ISPs, like DNS etc.

You search for “foo”, your nearest Search Protocol Service (or called whatever) hosted on the ISP looks at all the content served by the ISP in the past which contained “foo”, then it asks those web servers for a detailed index for all occurrences of “foo” on their site.

If none found, query the next nearest search servers.

Search could and should definitely be decentralized.
Orwell gave this behavior a name - doublethink - ability to believe in two opposite things simultaneously, in this case it's "our city is great, safe and progressive" and "we aren't going down this street to the pub because even police wouldn't come to save us." The actual art of doublethink is believing in the opposites, not just pretending to believe.
Perhaps it keeps out the people who don't value it...
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If you googled a bit, you could have found the answers to 2 and 3: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/tech...
Yeah. It's the anti-cryptocurrency, the negation of everything it was meant to be. This technology was meant to emancipate us but it failed and seems to have inspired the creation of something even worse that what we had before.
Kagi's interesting. On the surface, it seems like a metasearch engine. But upon closer inspection, two of its sources--its news and "non-commercial" Teclis indexes--are actually developed by the Kagi team, and can be used independently on their own dedicated sites.

I do like the ability to boost and downrank certain domains myself. Its TinyGem platform also looks like an interesting "social bookmarking" approach that's more minimal and focused than other mainstream solutions. I'm currently working on a way to POSSE[0] my public bookmarks to TinyGem.

[0]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
I have a Toyota with a CVT and it's amazing.

I think for a long time CVT's suffered from a poor reputation due to the reliability of those 1970'ies DAF cars.
That's what I'm experiencing now. I have nothing to learn from the $250k earners.
Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users
> Maybe someone should build a search engine that downranks all websites that have google analytics and google ads? Would certainly be an interesting experiment.

Try Kagi.com. Also, you can manually rank or even block domains you choose.
This is the best I could find. Sadly there’s no video clip.

https://dogatch.jp/news/tbs/tbstopics_69799/detail/
I have a similar feeling and I am quite pessimistic about the future in this regard. Currently, I have been able to avoid it pretty well, but appliances break and need replacing, and I suspect there will be a day where I cannot find a washing machine that isn't "smart", much less a car!
I drive a Dacia with LPG. The car is ok, but of course don't await it to be comfortable. It vibrates more, is loud especially at high speed. And there are many little "quirks" like: To let down the window at the back seats, the buttons to do so are in the middle console instead at the front door.

For my needs thats enough. The trick is to never buy a better car, so you don't get used to the more comfortable features. :)
Some predictions:

- The government's not going to have an official true cryptocurrency where anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can just generate a private key and anonymously send / receive coins.

- The system won't allow an address to send / receive coins without approval from a government key, and that approval will only be given if the government's gotten a name / SSN / real-life identity to associate with that address.

- The system will provide a function where a government-controlled key can freeze any address's ability to send or receive funds.

- The government's going to say "But we need to take a stand against terrorists / Russian oligarchs / drug kingpins" and then it ends up being used against successively lower and lower degrees of criminals, such as money launderers / tax dodgers / deadbeat dads / unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.
Fascinating. They are low-resolution but watchable. From the video titles:

> Uploaded BY ahmad essawi

You gotta wonder what Ahmad is thinking about all this. Or if he was interviewed.
"Pegged" does not mean "Equal To"
Let's stick to the issue at hand -- the above poster said that eggs in a Japan 7-11 mass produced sandwich are better than anything you can find in America. That's false. Can you agree with that?

Also you're making the assumption these sandwiches in Japan 7-11's aren't highly processed -- they are. You're also implying that Japan doesn't have unhealthy fast food like McD -- it does. You're also making the assumption that every town in Japan has a readily available 7-11 -- they don't.

Been living in Japan a decade and counting.