skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I guess I didn't mean quite _that_ significant.

At that level I'm curious if you have some sort of special high value account (ton of karma, a mod of major subreddits, or have a lot of domain specific reputation), or if that offer is coming from someone who's trying to scam you in some way.

Edit: From a sketchy account buying site that I wouldn't trust too much, the price for Reddit accounts runs from ~$3-16 per thousand accounts, depending on age. For comparison, Twitter accounts with 100 followers are ~$4, Instagram accounts with 500 followers are ~$12, Hotmail accounts are ~$100, and GMail accounts are several times that, depending on age and provenance.
> Even the thought that anything would be communicated

The fact that the director of communication never says he disagrees with the actual sentiment tells me all I need to know about their culture.

He's either confused and claims he doesn't know what the email in question is. Or he's expressing disappointment about the communication.

He is against communicating such things, but he failed to communicate that tearing people that way is disgusting.
Ethics is about decisions, and most of the discussions about the "difficulty" of infinite ethics only work if you ignore that.

(And so it's particularly frustrating that they didn't bother addressing our work pointing out why they are wrong: https://philpapers.org/rec/MANWIT-6 )
You can run linux servers for years without reboot. Want to hear a joke? A secure windows server.
Credit ratings are only relevant when you're doing business with businesses that look at credit ratings. Most don't.

Large fractions of the US economy run on cash.

Debit cards and secured cards don't require a credit rating but allow access to most of the benefits of credit cards.
I think you get what you pay for in security, and it's clear that a lot of the c-suite are happy to pay to tick boxes... so you get a lot of going through the motions.

Also, this isn't really new. When I worked as a more Junior person about a decade ago, lots of decisions came down to what was cheaper or faster, not what was secure.

To have good security, it's a cultural and organizational thing where the people at the top have to be on board.
Heuristics are by definition approximations. If all you're claiming is that it's a heuristic, I suspect you're not making the argument you probably think you are.
I'm a big fan of Bitwarden and have been a loyal user for years. I'm a convert from LastPass and haven't looked back. I'd say more about it but I suspect there are going to be lots of positive comments that will echo my thoughts.
This is good advice. Knowing how to code is one thing, actually doing it is very time consuming. Even an experienced coder who's worked for other companies might underestimate the amount of work that goes into shipping a site that doesn't look amateur.
I would say that when you know the strengths and weak spots in a language and can program to take advantage of the former and avoid the latter, then you know the language. Syntax and operators is not enough.
Yeah I keep saying that modern UIs are designed to be looked at and enjoyed like museum art pieces, not to be actually used. They look nice-ish when static, but they're unbearable in real use.
The same thing happened in games with the rise of digital platforms. The issue isn't streaming, the issue is that competition became 100 times larger thanks to how much easier it is to publish your stuff today.
Sure, but IMO that's a reason why motorcycles aren't strictly better than ebikes
> Whenever I see a hamburger menu I silently think "Here someone has given up"

Can you explain what you don’t like about hamburger menus?
Huh Til that ifconfig is deprecated. I still use it periodically, but my work laptop is on 18.04
Let's see if they can pick it.
It's an opinionated subject. It's sort of like choosing the shiniest piece of trash at the landfill. Next.js works fine after you download 10 GB of packages from 10k strangers on the internet. Jekyll and 11ty are relatively simple. A lot of people like Nuxt for some reason. It's a shame that web components were implemented so poorly. It would have saved us from this hell.
Have you thought about talking about this with a therapist?
Hosted bitwarden is a... chore. I suggest just diving in, I don't see how anyone can't master bitwarden in 15-30 minutes (the cloud hosted version). There isn't that much

- acount

- password

- password generator for random passwords

- browser plugin

- OS app

- notes

- paid version gives you password versioning and a couple of other goodies.

I've used it on all 3 major platforms and my iphone for years without a hitch.
>Also, in 1998 I wasn't as aware of what was out there as I am now. It's pretty rare (even if its possible) that I do a search and come across a completely new site that I haven't heard of before, for anything nontrivial. That was different when search began.

That doesn't convincingly demonstrate that you're now more aware of what's out there, just that you're more aware of the things that Google prioritizes as results.
Are all infertile people without bioligical sex then? What about those past (or before) their reproductive years? What about those that only choose not to reproduce, or had surgery to prevent it?
Europe agrees new law to curb Big Tech dominance
What you're not understanding is, just because something seems nonsensical to you doesn't mean that the majority of users don't find it perfectly reasonable. But you've already waved that possibility away by saying that most users will take whatever they're given, so I don't suppose you'll consider it.
yep, If you have troublesome hardware then I find the fastest solution is to just cycle through the top 10 distros to see if it works on any of them. If it does then great, you can either stop there or use it as a "guide" for how to get your favorite distro working.
That's typical. Business customers have been conditioned by vendors over decades to accept lower expectations of their infrastructure.

At this level, it's all about sales team relationships to key decision makers rather than quality.

This is why larger b2b company all-hands meetings are always 80% about the sales team's exploits - they really do make or break the company.
Yeah I like the apple solution but I need something I can use across all platforms and phones. So Bitwarden it is.
Apparently I've been making mashed potatoes wrong.
Yes, as far as I understand it breaks it, but combined with a package manager like Nix / Guix / Spack, this tool enables atomically upgrading dynamic library dependencies on a per-package basis rather than globally. If you want all applications to use a new version of a shared library, you'd need to re-"dynamic link" all of the reverse dependencies with this tool, but those package managers can handle that for automatically, and without needing access to the object files (unlike true static linking).

As I see it, that pattern is more of an alternative to container images, where this still gives you atomic dependency updates for an application without resorting to shipping N copies of each dynamic library.
Love Postico. Please make ⌘ + F filter.
>That's just absurd fanfic. Sending in untrained "manpower" with no equipment would not help advance Russian goals.

Some of them probably have military training, and quantity has a quality of its own. Regardless, Russia will not be able to subdue Ukraine, but there's nothing good coming from a more enthusiastic Russian society.

>"Cyberwar"? Russia has never before needed any excuses to unleash wiper worms like NotPetya onto the whole world.

Our tolerance for that was absurd. As is our tolerance for this action.

>Exactly like sanctions. Are you against sanctions too? If not, how do you explain that inconsistency?

I'm for sanctions. It's not inconsistent. There's a law for these things. That law allows sanctions but not attacking random civilians. It also prefers actions by legitimate authorities and not random vigilants. It also states that any possible harm to civilians must be incidental to the method, and that any harm be proportional to the possibility of achieving a legitimate goal (kicking Russia out).

This action was by a random person (not even an Ukrainian), unauthorized by anyone (definitely not any Ukrainian authority), and was at best counterproductive (nobody has given me any way where this advances kicking Russia out), so any possibility of civilian harm is criminal.
Really like Postico, but the version 2 seems like a downgrade.
> Do people really think a top CS graduate recruited to a coveted intelligence role can't pass a FAANG interview?

There are no top CS grads working for any government, other than perhaps academy graduates, and then only temporarily. For a top CS grad, private sector salaries are 5-20x what government will pay, and if they are top CS grads, they'll be smart enough to do the math.
I used to work for an IT services firm. I looked after HPUX/AIX/Solaris/Linux/BSD systems. I often worked alongside the Windows specialists. My observation was that the Windows environment required substantially greater amount of attention and was more susceptible to disturbances.

Having said that the environment you describe seems to be exceptionally flaky. I suspect that there are probably some serious misconfiguration issues, possibly some poor quality or resource constrained hardware, bad power (e.g. working in an industrial environment without UPS, power conditioners). Incorrect Windows licensing for servers can sometimes be an issue. I have seen environments that were incorrectly installed and configured causing significant issue.

Why did the person before you leave?
What does it mean to learn a natural language? Absolutely nothing unless you have a significant understanding of it to be useful. Its like how people “know” tens of second languages without very much fluency in any of them to be useful besides bragging. I suppose because programming is easier to learn this might not be true.
i don't think flat design is really a question of style over substance. flat design has been popularized because designers like it, but designers like it because it's easy.

a flat element can be re-coloured without having to worry you've gotten the shadows correct on the new color. you can put two buttons beside each other without worrying that one appears to have more depth than the other. we make things flat because we're lazy, not because we think it looks good. a culture of lazy designers has convinced people it looks good, so we can continue being lazy.
If you’re using a web app, your data lives on someone else’s server. Not on a computer you can physically control or even—perish the thought—disconnect from the internet.

Oh cool, the app that handles all my private financial and/or health records runs on the internet and keeps my information in a datacenter in northern Virginia, but at least it can’t get access to the data on my local drive, which by the way there isn’t any because all of that data is in another web app and stored in quite possibly the exact same datacenter!
One of the biggest issues with trying to explain a point via the internet is that the more time you spend expanding on your ideas in order to make your point, the less likely it is that someone who disagrees with your initial message will even finish reading your well thought out argument.
> The fact that it enrages you, and you blame it on boomerdom, makes me think you're just a bigot who wants to blame others for your own failings. That's just my guess - I've never personally met a successful younger person who spews vitriol at boomers as a whole.

This paragraph made me wince. Success doesn’t qualify your opinions as valid or not. Personal failings don’t invalidate a logical argument either. I don’t like shallow dismissal or criticism either, but isn’t that what you’re doing here?

Some of the criticism is of the inequality of success itself, and the trappings of it. Those who are successful in retirement communities are perhaps too easy a target, and an unfair one in some ways, as they have had more time to invest and accumulate wealth than their critical juniors in age.

It’s fine to be critical of systems and structures that disadvantage those who are already successful, like states that don’t collect the same taxes as other states do. It’s also fine to criticize others for taking advantage of these systems. I don’t find it especially productive or convincing to direct these criticisms at an individual. Directing it at the entire group doesn’t seem ideal either, as it alienates those who may otherwise be allies.

What is the solution then? I don’t know either, but wedge issues driven between generations feel like someone’s trying to pull strings and play us all for fools, devolving into infighting.
One thing that changed it for me was making my own physical photo albums when I get back from a holiday.

I've been using albumworks because their HD books look fantastic. They're a bit pricy at ~$90/book but it's 100% worth it for me.. plus there are heaps of other alternatives if you're on a budget.

An important part of the process is trimming and curating the photos down to a reasonable number. With digital it's so easy to end up with thousands of picture you never look at.

Putting together an album is a bit of work, but I found they key is not to overthink it. The end result is that it's much easier to show people and it's more interesting for people to flick through.

Also, when I'm on holiday, I got annoyed with sharing on instagram because of how it compresses the hell out of images, so I ended up making my own photo blog for friends and family to follow along.

I've got my workflow set up where I can post-process photos in Adobe Lightroom and then update my site with a Makefile and a folder full of JPGs. It's easy enough to do even at the end of a hectic day of travel—no messing around with blogs and static site generators. If you're curious: https://dn.ht/journal/ :)

More recently, for shorter trips I've also tried shooting with a film camera. Like another commented here mentioned, I find it can help stay more in the moment and you get a nice little surprise when you get your rolls back from the developer.
This article kinds of buries the lede here: the author is working on a fully raytraced version of Jedi Outcast!

I’d be really curious to hear how easy it was to adapt the Q3 engine for this!
And the delight of a workstation that trashes your work, decides that it must update right now and locks you out for the next 2-3 hours, going through multiple reboots.
The Disillusionment of a Rikers Island Doctor
Fine. Traceability to oligarchs and state links to online crime get easier. No amount of washing will hide them.
>Ah yes, because seizing Russian assets overseas is the same as "not trading with them".

Your bank account is held under terms. There are cases where freezing withdrawals is allowed.

If you wish to avoid that, you are entitled to store your money under your mattress (or use the latest crypto fad and be subject to absurd exchange rate variations).
A lot of the field of neurology is about sensationalising your findings by binding them to some abstract notion of psychology which doesn't even fit the study.
Presumably, most animals have evolved to be able to smell rotting meat.
Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukrainian film-maker who refuses to be cancelled
Why would you need more than 100 new creators per year in a specific niche? How many tries to fill the niche doesn't matter, what matters is if the niche gets filled. And today more niches gets filled than ever before, at least from what I see. So the problem isn't that the modern system doesn't successfully make people able to support themselves with these things, but that it lowered the barrier to entry to much that many more people fight over the same pie so you have many more losers than before.
Mitigation strategies

while(1) - kill -9 / Task Manager / Activity Monitor

All files deleted - cry.
I don’t understand why this is being posted now, nor why it’s trending. There are far more up-to-date sources to be found. Human rights should not be a debate
I think you should very closely examine whether or not it makes any sense. Put aside for the moment whether or not doing stuff like that could be dangerous to you legally. What is the goal? To temporarily disrupt computer systems based solely on whether they're supposed to be affiliated with the Russian government? What is the point?

I'm glad you're at least thinking whether DDoS could be wrong. I've never encountered a situation where DDoSers were the good guys.
Parfocalness can be emulated in firmware (by adjusting the focus as the zoom changes).

What you probably should have pointed out is the opposite property: keeping the same focal length while changing the focus distance. This can't be emulated in software because camera lenses don't have a motor on the zoom (plus primes don't have a zoom). Some cine lenses do achieve this by moving a zoom-like group (I think all the ARRI master primes do) and not just by being telecentric on the exit side.
Just wanted to say thank you so much for your incredible lectures!
- A random student who took CS103 with you in Fall 2019
I seriously thought that GitHub CoPilot was suggesting how to find new kinds of sarin gas. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-...
How long until it does?
i was not even the commenter who said they were "pathetic", sheesh now you are attributing others' comments to me!

i have posted many correct technical details in various subthreads of this post. i don't care if you believe me, i do not live in your reality where constant downtime is totally fine and major companies are down all the time but no one knows about it
> Human cancer might never be solved if strong business entities were to rely on the prevalence of cancer

Given the amount of money someone with a patent on a cancer treatment or cure would make, it's hard for me to imagine that
if you'd like to know where your bots are with CM accuracy and you've already got GPS coordinates, we can make your life a lot easier with Point One Navigation.
Just use Bitwarden.
I'm building my own as a SaaS: https://www.adama-platform.com/

You can host it, but it is very much in the beta phases as I'm working on better storage options.
What are you talking about? the pill can have severe health consequences, it is absolutely not harmless. The pill also doesn't necessarily work for cycle control - and frequently has the opposite effect - and the majority of women already have reasonably regularly spaced periods.

"For men there is no downside to not taking the contraceptive," at least we're in agreement here that the entirety of the risk is placed on women, for whom requiring medication with major detrimental side effects is acceptable.

Let's be very clear though, your comparison to the health risks of being pregnant is at best irrelevant: if the parties involved are using some form of birth control it is reasonable to assume that the goal is not to have a child. In which case it is incorrect to be comparing the risk of pregnancy with the risk of hormonal birth control. The correct comparison is between hormonal (or similar) birth control, and other forms of contraception, just as it should be in men.

However as the comments in this thread indicate, all the risks that are present in women's hormonal birth control are considered too dangerous to be prescribed to men.
if you'd like to know where your bots are with CM accuracy and you've already got GPS coordinates, we can make your life a lot easier with our robotic-specific location API. https://pointonenav.com/polaris
1. This is not “no-code”. You still have to read & understand the code Copilot generates.

2. I’m very skeptical of a small group of people reading a bunch of online comments and deciding what is “toxic” and “non-toxic”, even more so when it’s done with no clear definitions/guidelines. As their GitHub repo [0] says:

> Rather than operating under a strict definition of toxicity, we asked our team to identify comments that they personally found toxic.

[0]: https://github.com/surge-ai/toxicity
Well if Jacobin has a problem with capitalism, it must be really serious.
User Interface History for Mozilla (1999-2012)
Also, Hindus consider crows to be inhabited with the spirits of dead humans (no other animal/bird is given a similar status).
Centre for greatest Chinese philosophers from 2000 years ago discovered
The political class (both parties, but republicans in particular) and rich elites are absolutely polarizing the country, discrediting the value of tolerance and education, buying up all media, and aiming people at each other like nuclear missiles instead of promoting the general welfare.
I have had some success with letting myself be bored. In similar situations, taking that time to lay down on the floor in a random room in the house and look at the ceiling and admit I’m bored. Some idea or fun thing invariably occurs to me eventually.

Random things that could fill this if you’re looking for more hands-on type of things is wood or metal work, designing and building something physical. Bicycle, roller blade and focusing on improving some aspect of it, or walking around outside intentionally observing your surroundings and seeing what you can learn from them. Music, very good keyboards/digital pianos can be had with headphones. Language (verbal/written) learning. Hope this helps!
Really? Can you share more about this mechanism?

I actually noticed someone opposite (are maybe it's the same mechanism) in the area I live in:

House sale prices are rising like everywhere else, but rents stay mostly flat.

I'd love to learn more about it.
He just wanted to use the loo.
That was originally part of the IBM Common User Access style guide 80/90s, back when user interfaces for software valued function over form.

https://ia800200.us.archive.org/0/items/ibmsj2703E/ibmsj2703...

the figure on page 2 shows exactly what you are describing.
I was agreeing with your comment until:

>>the necessary closures

Are you suggesting that the state needed to force private establishments to close, and that - putting aside the human rights implications of this abridgement of private-property/free-association rights -
we can definitively say the net effect of these closures was positive?
My senior year in high school was the first year they had a programming class and it was Pascal. The very next year they instead started teaching C++.

As a consequence out of necessity a couple of years later I ended up self teaching myself PHP then Ruby then JS. These days I'm pretty proficient with it.

I had an easier time doing it because of those early concepts I learned with Pascal.

I often wonder what would have happened if I had learned C++ instead.
Yup they're one of the best/only examples of large country-scale rapid deep decarbonization of electricity. ~50 standardized reactors in ~15 years and done.
It is a lot easier to get the spec right than getting the implementation right.

> How seL4 or CompCert protect me against against hardware issues like ECC errors, or the Pentium FDIV ?

That's a straw man argument. Nobody claims that formal proofs can protect you from hardware failures. However formal proofs can protect you against Pentium FDIV style bugs (see ARM formal specification efforts). Intel started massively investing in formal proof methods because of the not-formally-proven-correct Pentium FDIV fiasco.
People who promote the virtues of lisp online usually talk about the powerful repl.

Here they advertise jupyter notebooks.

Does that give that lisp repl experience I’ve heard so much about or is it just like my familiar r and Python repl experience?
Ending up in a monopoly.
Skyrocketing where people want to live. It is really hard to transfer demand from Hugh demand areas to low demand areas. It’s not like Toledo Ohio is going to be a hot market again anytime soon, but there is interest in butte Montana (and also a lack of housing).