skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook or Meta is so out of touch with reality it seems, the Gen-Z he's trying to woo over have completely written off FB, it's just not relevant anymore.

Youtube shorts is the only good competitor, Facebook has long past it's novelty in most developed countries, and it's only hope seems to be winning over Gen-Z from the rest of the world....which really has no ad spend, i'm talking countries like Burkina Faso and Syria...but even there people just don't trust Facebook and how can you?

FB have coincided in almost every instance of regime change from Arab Spring to Ukraine, more recently allowing posts promoting violence against Russian speakers in those regions.

I don't know what Zuck is thinking but he's pivot to monopolizing metaverse and VR seems to have fizzled and the markets are not showing respect at all. At this rate we might MAAA without Meta.

I long questioned these extravagant acquisitions with the exception of Instagram, but now he's launching an NFT on the platform? It's just so weird to me how quickly it's becoming MySpace'd
And really, neither should be political, if someone requests you refer to them in a specific way, why not? That's just being nice. It take no effort on our part to just use the term they want.
Making Sense of Crypto and Web3
While I feel the same sentiment about the brightest working on those or similar problems, is it that in the past there was not a similar proportion of the brightest working on similarly pointless and wasteful problems and that now they are all forgotten while Einstein is not?

I feel like a large portion of the brightest may have always sold out, maybe Einstein was just obsessed with a particular problem enough to chase that an avoid the more lucrative but pointless problems.
>they vast majority of the article is n=1 where they sampled one year

For the sections on murder rates (not their change), n is the population. These sections make up the majority of the article. For the section on year-to-year changes, those are comparisons of two populations (each with n being that year's population count). There's no way sampling error would have a noticeable effect on the rates for states or major cities. Instead, those changes are caused by things a model should account for. TFA doesn't present a model, because that's not the point.

>"6 out of 10 Highest Murder Rate Increases are in Trump-Voting States". From a statistical view point, that is to be expected if there are no differences.

I think that's the point of TFA.

>What do you believe - poverty or political preference leads to increases of crime?

TFA's conclusion is the narrative of murder rates increasing because of Democratic political leaders doesn't jive with reality. The title is provocative, but and it takes an unnecessary jab with, "A more accurate conclusion from the data is that Republicans do a far better job blaming others for high murder rates than actually reducing high murder rates."

But you're really just agreeing with the article.
Same reason we don’t use nuclear weapons anymore I guess. They’re not tactically useful and escalate into unstable situations at the strategic level. They also have really bad pr for the user(s).
i used to live very close to a fault in Los Angeles County, and the numbers i remember from the 80s and 90s don't seem to correlate to the numbers i hear now - i left CA in 2006. The running joke with my CA friends is "don't even tweet/post about it unless it's a 7.0" whereas a 7.0 would mean widescale destruction back when i lived there. I remember the Apple Valley Quake, it was a rolling quake, and it was somewhere between a 4.8 and a 5.4. It derailed trains, and caused a bunch of property damage. I had a ham radio at the time and i was tuned into two of the biggest repeaters in southern california (one being "the nut") and listened to the damage reports and movement of emergency crews.

We were quite far from that one, and it wasn't violent, but it still caused property damage and power outages due to shorted lines.

So i see a 7.3 magnitude, and since i no longer deal with earthquakes (just floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes), i have no frame of reference for how bad that is. Gauging off the running joke above, it's gotta be somewhat bad, right?
I think a lot of stores incorporate a "cheater" mechanism where if you're on the store wifi they use that as the location. You could pick it up via IP or hardware MAC (even if you are on a VPN the local router still knows your MAC from when you passed the ToS accept portal).

Doesn't help cell service of course, and cellular data clients are REALLY tricky to geolocate properly. Cell towers are often trunked a considerable distance (apparently?) so your IP can indicate you're quite far from your physical location.

Pages really rely on the browser to cue location in that scenario, but of course many of us turn it off, and at that point you get what you get.
> Is this yet another service to be added to Google's graveyard in a few years time?

came here to say this :/
And, just like how infantry have to use cover and concealment to move on the battlefield, tanks do as well. Tanks like to be in a position where they are well covered and only the turret is exposed, called the hull-down position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull-down
The same thing that happens when someone quits.

The people finding these things have the same skill sets and access to the same handling/disposal facilities as the people leaving these things so it's very much a "oh my former coworker forgot to/didn't have an opportunity to dispose of X before departing, I'll just do it myself in the same manner he would have". Furthermore, these people have lives, they go on vacation and cover each other. The institutional knowledge of how to handles dangerous organic things necessarily exists in the institutions that do so.
That sounds like a bad strategy. All this does is make people think about how there are deepfakes they need to watch out for. So now people will be heavily scrutinizing videos of Zelenskyy.
This is the first I'm hearing of it, but my initial impression is pretty poor given that there is no loading indicator when you click any link on the website, so if a page takes a while to load, there is absolutely no indication that anything is happening. I know it's petty, but that doesn't set a good tone for the rest of the design system.
Respectfully; this forum encourages discussion. It is not good enough to say Ukrainians are neighbours and would integrate better than refugees from other countries.
At the expense of devolving into whataboutism, Eastern and Western Europe do have their genuine cultural differences. Will the western world still be as accommodating of Eastern European refugees in ten or twenty years?

Let us not speak in parables and downvote legitimate conversation.
Pop performers are optimizing for something outside what hits a recording -- that is to say, in the same way that opera singers have to have some theatrical ability in addition to singing the music, pop performance these days involves a huge amount of choreographed dance. A pop singer I'll not name performed on a late night show and was a target of internet ribbing for having brought only some semi-awkward samba-like side-stepping -- though it's more than I or the karaoke singers could do! Once you start looking at the best singer-dancers rather than the best singers, you'll get closer to the real prerequisites for that genre.

(And of course, "the obviously artificial sound" can be an aesthetic choice made by vocalists fully capable of recording impeccable vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

There are probably a couple working at Tesla and SpaceX but Elon gets all the credit, he could still be one of them, I don't know enough about their process.

Maybe a few people in the biotech industry, I wouldn't know about them but the innovation there with crispr and mrna vaccines and other things seems quite crazy and cool
No. Is that part of the plot?

edit: just read the wiki for the latest Bond movie. Apparently, there is nothing new under the Sun.

Thank you.
> Note this is amending existing law, so think of it as a legal diff. There may be important context not presented in this text.

Thank you. I thought it was strange that it seemed a little vague what happens when I fail to report an incident. To me, it reads like if I fail to disclose, they can request me to disclose and give me 72 hours. I will be in contempt only after those 72 hours.

So what is the incentive to report before being asked to report? What are the penalties for failure to report?

Also it is not clear to me when that 72 hours starts. Who is the firm? Sometimes things take time to "bubble up" and get prioritized. I am sure there are people who have backlogs that span months.

Thank you in advance for answering if you have a better understanding of the process. (:
Its on my computer screen from a Google prompt, in the browser I tried to log in with.

Its not that mysterious, many services uses the same authentication flow if it works to some extent.
"You can't be promoted if you can't be replaced."
Claude Shannon. Maybe rms.

Its not that we don't have genius anymore; we simply built a new pantheon out of the geniuses of the day about 150 years ago and then haven't been keeping up with the work of canonizing new members.

Dale Carnegie and Elon Musk get the "demi-god" status, somehow; we know their successes are the work of many others but who but the most obsessed know those names?
DLL hell is about program installers depositing some common libraries, like the MSVC redistributable run-time, into the system folder. So then every other application is using the most recently clobbered version of it instead of the one it came with.

GNU/Linux doesn't have DLL hell only to the extent that there is an entire binary distro with maintainers beavering to keep all of the dependencies straight so that every program that needs a certain shared library is maintained to need the same version of it as any other program.

You will experience shared library hell as soon as you have your own binary application that is not in the upstream distro, and it happens to depend on one of the lesser libraries that do not do symbol versioning like openssl, libbz2 and whatnot.

I've dealt with this plenty in more than one Linux embedded dayjob. In one case, I hacked an elaborate library searching system around dlopen() into such a program.
There is this one built by some edu creators from YouTube called Nebula[0] it’s part of Curiosity Stream to subscribe and to publish you probably need to contact StandardTV which are the creators behind it.

[0]: https://nebula.app
[1]: https://standard.tv
On a tangent: it occurred to me recently that we also don't see much use of ICBMs with non-nuclear payloads, despite these being a fairly-obvious "dominant strategy" for warfare — and one that isn't banned by any global treaties.

I'm guessing the problem with these is that, in practice, a country can't use any weapons system that could potentially be used to "safely" deliver a nuclear payload (i.e. to deliver one far-enough away that the attacking country would not, itself, be affected by the fallout) without other countries' anti-nuke defenses activating. After all, you could always say you're shooting ICBMs full of regular explosive payloads, but then slip a nuke in. There is no honor in realpolitik.

So, because of this game-theoretic equilibrium, any use of the stratosphere for ballistic weapons delivery is effectively forbidden — even though nobody's explicitly asking for it to be.

It's interesting to consider how much scarier war could be right now, if we hadn't invented nuclear weapons... random missiles just dropping down from the sky for precision strikes, in countries whose borders have never even been penetrated.
Depends. If you make the fines company-changing, then they can work.

I'm also all for throwing C levels in jail ALONG WITH the board as well. They want to benefit and sign off on choices of the company? They can also hold said responsibility on illegal stuff.
>> It puts the burden of actual complex ethical decisions onto other people.

People who may not have even considered the ethical situation. It seems the people who are concerned about the ethics or morality of a necessary but questionable job are exactly the ones you want in that role (although not activists who would try to shut it down entirely).
I hadn't heard "The Ukraine" until American media started using that variant in 2014. I can't recall ever hearing it in British news. Realistically not many people know the history of the country; within the current generation of Americans few even knew it existed before the war, so I honestly figured it was just a completely reflexive uttering caused by the three other prevalent "U" nation states in US media - The USA, The United Kingdom, The UAE.
If you make it too deadly, maybe it doesn't spread as far (because the hosts die). Make it just the right amount of deadly!
Right on schedule.
Russian Drone Flights Crossed into NATO Skies
React Native – An Update on the New Architecture Rollout
I once had an employer that would ask us to perform monthly myers briggs and big 5 tests. I was in a tough financial spot and needed that job. Did my best to roll with it.

One day they wanted to try out an IQ test. 40 questions in 20 minutes. Timer starts when you click a button. I was fed up.

Poked around the testing site and it was an SPA, all JS. Poked through the network calls, saw an odd base64 payload. Decoded it and saw a JS object with "cyphertext", "iv", and some other field I don't recall.

I went looking through the JS sources and found a "decrypt" function. Added a breakpoint before it returned and reloaded the page. Had all the questions without starting the timer.

Took my sweet time going through each question. Compiled all the answers and started the timer. I still got 2 of the 40 questions wrong.

A couple of days later my manager sets up a meeting with me. I assumed they caught wind of what I did. I'm ready to get defensive and say how wrong this is.

My manager starts the meeting congratulating me! My results are within top 2 percentile. That, and a previous big 5 result tells them I have a bright future in the company and they want my input in all big projects going forward.

I went from being the random junior, to everyone in management thinking I'm the next Carmack.

I didn't know how to feel about it. Is it morally wrong?

It taught me a lesson of how biased we are. How much we need to be told how to feel about others. I was the same person, yet a number changed everyone's perception of me.

I don't ever want to take a real IQ test. I don't know how I might start behaving differently if I see a number associated with my "intelligence".

Left that company a few months later and told them about it. They were a bit angry but I hope they learned a lesson in how harmful biased tests can be.
Are there any experts that can ELI5 this “breakthrough” for us? How much closer does this bring us to a useful number of logical qubits?
Is there any (political?) pattern there? It's "Wir fahren nach Russland", but "Wir fahren in die Sowjetunion", Wir fahren in den Kongo" but "Wir fahren nach Kamerun".
> The early days of search in Google or social in Facebook probably didn't elicit the same kind thought process as a lethality engineering post.

It did for at least one person (me). I was 16 in 2004 with 11 years of dev experience, trying to decide whether to go out to SV, go to college for CS, or do something else. I was from the same city/community as Larry Page and in Zuck's age group, so it wasn't an absurd consideration to try. Lots of things went into my decision to do something non-CS related for college, but morals were one of the reasons I didn't go to SV (I objected to the professionalization of the web + Zuck creeped me out + I didn't agree with cutting out humans/curators from the search process like Google did).

It's just that until very recently, people either thought I was lying OR that I was just batshit insane. Who is invited to a gold rush and doesn't go?

I can't imagine I was the only one.
I wish I could downvote links on HN. I wouldn't flag that, because it isn't something outrageous, it's just a bad post that doesn't even try to substantiate its point in any meaningful way.
Agreed! I have a 6502 Assembly Cookbook from 1980. It is mostly about how to do floating point math on a 6502, and it is full of flowcharts which very cleanly introduce and build much more advanced concepts in a simple way. It was a wonderful bridge for me between application and theory when I read it ... 40 years ago as a highschool student without internet.
Anti-missile active defense (Active Protection System) is still in it's infancy, especially with respect to tank based defenses. Many of them only work against direct attack, not top-attack missiles, and it's also common for them to effectively attack as giant shotguns to destroy the incoming target, which is bad for nearby infantry. They're also expensive, have sensors that must be maintained to be effective (which are sensors that can get shot at before the ATGM is launched), and can potentially be depleted in a specific sector of attack.
The total amount of all GDPR fines ever (all 907 of them) is ~€1.5 billion [1]. Google's revenue for 2021 alone, was €230 billion [2].

Fines may deter small and medium-sized corporations, but not large ones. Therefore something else might. Like prison.

[1] https://www.privacyaffairs.com/gdpr-fines/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/507742/alphabet-annual-g...
I think the virus/bacteria decides when the pandemic is over via mutation or failing to reproduce aggressively. Public health and medical efforts help hasten these occurrences, but it’s really up to how the dice roll. Evolutionary pressure has to favour going endemic for it to happen.
I actually started a small collection of old children's programming books [1, 2] a few years back. I've done some research regarding "typing practice" for programmers and how older generations did not have the luxury of copy/paste. I think one of the aspects that helped students overcome the technical barrier was the fact they had to reimplement the code themselves, rather than cloning a git repo.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2016/02/07/usborne-releases-free-pdfs...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure
EISA was the rest of the industry's middle finger response to IBM's MCA:

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

As a former field engineer I was glad to see the back of MCA.
One of the monks I met in the bookstore was Ven. Bagdro who authored the book A Hell on Earth[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Earth-Biography-Political-Prison...
This is a collaborative project documenting the crypto and web3 with academic sources and citations, the link to contribute is below:

https://github.com/life-itself/web3
But that's just London.

The rest of the UK... hit or miss.

Haven't deal with UK / EU a lot since COVID, so not sure if remote has changed that game up.
That's the whole purpose behind ZAP and I use it for archiving pages all the time (they use hsqldb as the file format); it works fantastic for that purpose, but does -- as you correctly pointed out -- require MITM-ing the browser to trust their locally generated CA: https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy#readme
The 13 days off (2 weeks and 3 days, you don't spend it on weekends) is just the first 3 years. For years 3-15 you get 4 weeks (20 days) per year. After that you get 26 days/year. They also get 13 days of sick leave per year with no max accrual. Regular leave maxes at 30 days accrued, you have to have 30 days or less at the end of the calendar year, anything beyond that is lost (use it or lose it). And now they get 11 federal holidays, sometimes more depending on who is president and when Christmas Eve and Christmas fall. It's not uncommon for late-career (15+ years) folks to have max accrued leave every year, which means they can potentially take 56 days + 11 holidays off the next year if they want, sums up to 13 weeks depending on how they use the leave. Of course, you can only do that about every 2-4 years. 2 years if you spend one year without using any leave, which would be pretty miserable. If you're smart about that 26 days, it becomes 6 weeks off instead of just 5 by pairing it with holidays.

They can also earn "credit hours", up to 24 hours of accrued time off by working ahead (an extra hour here and there, unpaid but becomes leave) and comp time (same, but no technical limit, becomes overtime pay if unused).

And there's now 12 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave, which is better than most companies in the US.

Of course, the pay is lower which is why it's harder to keep technical talent. And as you move up the GS ranks it's a lot like moving up the officer ranks in the military, a shift from technical (at the lower levels) to managerial/leadership (at the higher levels). Which means there are effective caps on people who want to remain purely (or more purely) technical and avoid supervisory roles (outside of, perhaps, team or project leadership positions).
Now I am wondering what else I am incompetent in. This comment and the original give no context to why I would not use the word routing with DNS?

I looked up the definition of routing in a few places and I do not see why it does not fit. Does this also qualify as incompetent https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/zones/manage-routing-polic... ?

"It always puzzles me when people speak of "routing" in conjunction with DNS." - original message for context
Couldn’t stand the small rubber nub function keys, and the as you mentioned the echo was off-putting. Also zero customizability in the split nature since it’s one massive plastic hunk…. Excited for the advantage 360 this summer as they finally are addressing this by going split and ditching the function keys
Meta also owns Instagram, which is still popular (Reels are much more popular than YouTube Shorts it seems)
Has there ever been a nerdier game? Scratching my head.... Maybe Core Wars.
Oh wow. I know they have quite some employees in Amsterdam and were actively hiring there a few years ago. I didn't know they had completely dropped Russia. It's where they started, and they had a lot of employees there. Crazy
Yes, but how many native English speakers understand at least basic Russian grammar and know the history between USSR and Ukraine? I'd wager not even half a percent.
> Can function overloads be marked private or deprecated independently?

Private independently, no. Deprecated independently, yes.

> Does the implementation need to repeat the effective union type?

Yes, or use something even broader like `any`;
I don't believe it's addressed well. Many from different intellectual lineages were then hailed whom we'd not recognize today. Many of the pseudo-quantitative takes pointed to are pretty ... flimsy. ("I couldn't find a list with both Kanye and Beethoven on it, so I made up my own!")
> Everyone says they want "progress". Progress is an unqualified _good_, right?

"The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its critics" by Chris Lasch specifically attempts to refute the idea that humanity has always shared a notion of progress. He essentially claims that it's a relatively new idea, and has been shared only by distinct socio-economic classes.
I'm a daily PHP programmer and I'd pick it any time for server stuff...

But wow, this is not a convincing article at all. It's just an opinion with nothing to back it. If this was on a forum, I'd think it was a waste of space and ignore it.

But a blog post? And someone shared it here? What were they thinking?

Edit: I see the author shared it here. Wow.
If your program is a binary executable, and you have to script around its startup, that is ugly and unprofessional; it looks very bad for the underlying OS and its basic userland infrastructure that you have to do anything like that.
HackerNews crushes "the last" 486, then proceeds to smash all the other machines posted in the comments. It's like the day of reckoning for cute old hardware.
1m rise is expected, said the news.