skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a plenty of people can afford to hire their own cryptographers to do verification

That's still deferring to the authority. The cryptographer I paid to says it’s all verified, these 1,000,000 people believe them, so naturally I must believe too because why would they lie – is that how it goes? Why not then just drop this whole voting thing, managing keys, checking proofs – why waste time on all this, just let cryptographers announce the results? You trust them, right? They're smart, they'll probably make good decisions.

Paper ballots which can be counted by hand reasonably efficiently enforce a low-tech process that is understood by literally everyone, is resistant to fraud at scale, and leaves massive amount of literal paper trail for audit with no extra provisions. If a citizen wants to be an observer – they just go and see ballots counted. If ZKP were used then what, why only qualified cryptographers are allowed to be qualified observers? Is this really a necessary requirement for a voting process?
Acts of desperation about their bad business practices being less and less accepted in markets, where before they reaped profits from acting in this ethically abhorrent way.

Now they shift focus towards Africa for example, where they compete with Facebook, ah sorry, I mean "Meta" of course, building Internet access, to be able to profit from that population. The giant wants to eat, and so it stretches out its tentacles to all the places it can, while milking other places for as long as it can.
Loon shut down last year: https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
The above comment and my repsonse was about the broader Google products, not Workspace
If you're using a language that doesn't depend on indentation (C, Java, Go, Rust etc), try "diff -b" or "git diff -b".

The indented basic block won't show as a difference, only the start and end of the block.
"Every day we receive around 20 million contributions from people using Maps.". I always wondered why some of my suggestions were never accepted, maybe the just got lost in numbers.
Thank you sincerely for trying out Andi, and for the encouraging feedback!

We know we have a lot of work to do. As a tiny team with a single developer, we're not expecting it to be perfect on day one.

But as you say the results are pretty blow away, especially the question answering, and it already does very well, especially given that Q&A feature only went live for real use 15 minutes before this post. We know we have a mountain for work to do. Because we don't capture or log searches or results, the feedback we're receiving here (especially where it goes wrong as well as right) is incredibly helpful for us.

We're going to keep iterating and improving the results as quickly as we can. They've already come a long way the last few weeks.

Thank you again for trying it out, and please reach out to us if we can help as you experiment with Andi.
What I would change in the Strikedao voting app (for what I can see from the videos): show people how much will next vote cost them. So, if you haven't voted for option A, your first vote costs 1. After voting for the first time, option A's cost grows to 3 to cast your second vote, then to 5 to cast your third vote, and so on. Showing an ascending odd-numbered cost for voting would be more intuitive than thinking about square roots and whatnot.
Put it in the pile with the other dark patterns.
I recall watching the congressional hearing about the Iphone encryption thing that went on a while back and being incredibly surprised at their level of competency.
It somewhat rekindled my faith in politicians, compared to the daily media circus that only focuses on the worst of the lot.
Bugs absolutely occur in memory-safe languages. Log4j was a thing.

But a huge number of exploitable vulnerabilities are completely prevented by memory-safe languages. We've spent decades trying like hell to come up with other solutions to prevent these kinds of bugs in languages like C and utterly failed. Nobody knows how to write C or C++ programs of any meaningful scale free from memory safety errors without calling for total rewrites and ballooning budgets by 50x.

> Give it 40 years and people will be saying "rust bad, new thing good".

Of course. Rust will have systemic problems and some new thing will mitigate those problems. This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Why should there be any expectation that a language be the desired language for engineering projects until the end of time?
>If we though that unfiltered candidates were broadly similar then "hire at random, dismiss after N months based on performance" would be a great criteria, but I don't think anyone who has done much interviewing thinks that would be remotely viable.

I know a fair number of companies that do essentially that. They hire contractors for 6 months, at the end of 6 months the good ones are offered a full time position. The contractor company probably does some form of interview, but they are more interested in their 6 months of overhead from the contractor than quality candidates.

> since bad candidates interview more due to leaving jobs more often and taking longer to get hired

But there are also great people who interview badly.
Wrong title. "This animal", not "animal" which is easy to interpret as "all animals".
No, we really don't. Just look at the way the obesity rate has steadily increased over the past several generations.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

Doctors are now seeing children come in fatty liver disease. That never used to happen.
Nice work!

If you're looking for a simpler way to set up complicated alerts, try Luabase (https://luabase.com/). I wrote some SQL to get the median and average gas price for the past 24 hours, but you could tweak it to do whatever you want. All the queries instantly have an API endpoint and you can send the result to destinations like over email or webhook.

with mgp as (
select
median(gas_price) as mgp,
avg(gas_price) as agp
from ethereum.transactions as t
where 1=1
and t.block_timestamp > toUInt32(now() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR)
)

select
m.mgp,
((m.mgp \* 21000) / 1e18) as mgp_in_eth,
((m.agp \* 21000) / 1e18) as agp_in_eth
from mgp as m

https://luabase.com/run/d06b57e2c4624299895e5690191c7624
Can you give a little color on where the difficulties lie? Is it an efficiency question, or is determining "which changes" hard in the first place?
Yeah, I got the same feeling - 4/5 of the text is worded as global imperatives, and almost nothing puts his own weaknesses and peculiarities into context.

It seems like a contract required before interaction rather than a helpful guide to understanding him.

That's one of the reasons I liked "Working with Claire" [1]: It is full of open subjectivity ("I hope", "I believe"), is very clear yet polite ("please ...").

[1]: http://growth.eladgil.com/book/the-role-of-the-ceo/insights-...
Zoom fired someone for a tweet discrediting a partner company.
Yes vim will help with small tasks even for beginner, still require advanced study how to use to get vim power. After hype impression of vs code I have found it only extend my workspace ability on the half. Usually I need code something from thin pc where vs code works slow or even I need to connect to cloud terminal instance to programming here on the place.

Form thin pc I preffer to use Zed code editor from google apps, this small js program works offline and do not freeze for large code base.

For terminals i prefer micro, it is golang written code editor.

Recently dev.github.com provides online code editor that works with ci/cd piplines.
I didn't see your point in the beginning, but as I read this thread I realized how much pressure we are putting on these kids. Even for kids whos parents can afford the extra curricular stuff, it just seems bonkers to me how much they have to do to "stand out". I don't know where I am going with this, but just wanted to say this is too much pressure.
I see that as an opportunity for business.

Induction heat transfer is basically generating a magnetic field in the bottom coil, which is then picked up by the vessel, currents induced in it causing the heat.

Cheap induction stoves emulate lower power levels by turning the heat on and off, averaging the heat.

One solution is to use a thick bottom vessel that retains enough heat between the cycles to allow simmering.

Or buy a smooth controlled stove. But I dont think there are any such ones in the market.
Agreed - this is the most egocentric approach I've come across for dealing with colleagues. I'd love to know what his co-workers think of him.
Agree that math on its own isn’t the truly compelling thing for everyone.

I do believe that, since it fundamentally links and describes all sorts of observable phenomena, math is a gateway to a general understanding of the universe. And so might lead someone to their true passion.

I also hear you on the “binary tree” front - focusing exclusively on particular algorithms like that is a hiring antipattern, imo. Where I differ is that I treat math as one level lower and more fundamental - the ability to understand why the algorithm works at all and to prove it to yourself if you wanted to. And correspondingly the toolset to construct algorithms of your own.

I don’t think people need to readily recall partial differential equations on a daily basis, or be able to spot recall how to factor a complex polynomial.

I do think taking practice at those things builds mental strength that is useful for detecting patterns, chasing theories, describing and testing facts, and solving puzzles, and that that’s the true value of math education.
Gentrifying is rich people moving in and poor people moving out. It's only racist if you think poor people and black people are one and the same.
Wow, that's super neat. Thank you for sharing.
So in other words you're just engaging in idle speculation.
Taken to the extreme, at some point Google will have to say, “We know you said ‘No’ to having children, but we know better, so we have opted you in to having children. Our lobbyists have made abortion effectively illegal and our merger with Pharmaceuticals Inc has replaced all birth control with placebos. This is for the best for our profits, uh, we mean our planet.”
> our personal data matters to us! (In ways you can’t imagine)

No, "we value your privacy (at a very high price!)".
nobody who's employed has time to sit down and write a page like that

it just screams desperation
Of course there are. Swift might be a viable alternative. There are also up-and-coming languages like Zig. But, like it or not, Rust has the best combination of features, mindshare, and community to make it a viable path for businesses today or in the very near future.
I have already addressed the question of orders of magnitude but I will try to be more explicit. The emissions from a single specific coal plant is a tiny fraction of total emissions. The emissions from a satellite fleet is a similarly tiny fraction of total emissions. Why should we crack down on one, but not the other? Your argument is a slippery slope that can be applied to any individual source of mercury emissions in that way.

You see coal emissions and satellite emissions as fundamentally different for some reason, but from the perspective of protecting the environment they are not. They are all just mercury emissions.

The solution is not to slice up mercury emissions sources into categories and issue exemptions or special treatment. We should consistently crack down on all sources of emissions, unless there is an actual specific reason to exempt them.

Of course there's a scale below which chasing down a small source of emissions might not be worth it due to costs, but banning mercury use in satellite propulsion is not a very costly use to crack down on. In fact it's already been done.
Google Drive doesn’t have a client for Linux and not everyone wants to use Google products.
I agree with all your points.

Only diff is I got to the point where it said I needed "cargo", On a whim, I typed "aptitude install cargo", and it did something. Now waiting for the >1GB source repo to clone to see if it works.... ;)
Used `cargo install difftastic`? Finished in a minute for me.
Let's begin with the notion that a biking world is a decline in personal standard. A car makes you fat and poor. A bike makes you fit and rich. You'll be healthier in bed with your wife. If not, women will check you out as you walk past them in your toned fit body. Living in a compact city means you'll meet friends more, you'll do more things. Your weekends won't be in front of a TV. They won't involve a 100 mile round trip to the strip mall. You'll hear the planet sing like a bird to the tune of your bike's bell. Fishes in oceans will celebrate MissedTheCue day and drink to excess in your memory. Polar bear will giving sermons holding you up as a shining beacon of hope.
Seriously. These things always give me the same vibe as RMS' speaking rider: "LOL. Whatever, dude. Not going to ever be a concern for me."
thanks for sharing, I love the UI!
The corporate language is a turn off. If we are dealing with human problems, the sterile corporate speak isn't going to get us to a solution.
I wonder if stagecoaches are 2 horses wide.
ok how to turn off this crap?
A First Look at DNS over QUIC
They got MBA'ed
That kind of consent popup is illegal in the EU, please report them to your local DPA. Rejecting data collection must be just as easy as accepting it.

Also watch out for the use of "legitimate interest". I have seen banks trying to deprive customers of their right to refuse data collection, data sharing and marketing messages, claiming legitimate interest.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/02/europe_iab_decision/
But do your users prefer C? For software engineering to be a professional discipline, we really need to make choices based on the product outcome rather than based on what feels fun to program.
How did it get emptied in the first place then?
How do you check your Youtube subs without getting the cookie and Google knowing exactly who you are on each of their sites? Have to switch back to Firefox to get containerization?
I'm somewhat nervous that some exec at my company will see stuff like this and then mandate that everyone at the company make one.
It would be slightly nearer the top, if you hadn't written essentially the same comment three times in this discussion.
As much as a don't trust RT since the start of the invasion, the whole news cycle today seems to indicate a change in Russian posture. I think they're looking for that off ramp now.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-peskov-putin-nuclear...
It's primarily due to their competition (Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) and to match their stock valuation.
I can see them being useful, but honestly, this manual is too long. Give me the quick start guide

I don't want to learn 35 rules and their context. Give me the five most important points that make you tick.
i got even better one.

do you accept your cookie policy ? [ yes | no, customize ]

and after you go through all that :

big green button [ continue with recommended settings ]

smaller gray one [ save my choices ]

guess what the green one does.
One datapoint: In Germany, Altbau (old construction) apartments are quite sought after especially in cities. Whether that's because of their location (older apartments tending to be in historical areas) or their construction quality or just fashion, I don't know.
> Doctors are now seeing children come in fatty liver disease. That never used to happen.

They used to die of malnutrition of all kinds. Not just because of being poor, but because of us not knowing this or that is necessary in food.

The physical work people used to do was body breaking fairly often. The chemicals people used to be in daily contact with were body damaging too.
All these companies (or maybe just the stakeholders), IMO, seem to believe in the idea of infinite growth. And when they start seeing the plateau in front of them, it's the perfect time to crank up those milking dials to maintain the perception.
Google decides where Chromium is heading.
It doesn’t have to be a nuclear emp. Anyone can make an emp that will total a car.
OpenSilver: A modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight
You got a response? I'm locked out of ebay until I call them, but they won't tell their phone number.
> Bugs occur in rust code too. It's not a silver bullet to fix all problems associated with software development.

Not being a silver bullet doesn't mean it's not an enhancement.

Of the two bugs mentioned in this announcement, one is an uninitialized local variable, which is allowed in C but not allowed in many other languages (like Java or Rust). The other one is an implicit cast from an enum to a signed integer; in languages where this particular kind of cast must be explicit, not only it's easier to see when it's a signed integer, but also it's more probable that it would be cast to an unsigned integer instead.

> Each language will have its own set of issues and quirks. It's easy to pick on C because it's been around far longer than most things.

It's easy to pick on C not because it's been around for longer than most other popular programming languages, but because it has a larger amount of footguns. It's true that Rust has plenty of quirks of its own, but most of them will not cause security issues.
AI interpolated slow-mo of W. Smith's Incident
We value your privacy, that’s why we don’t give it to you for free
Fascinating and really impressive.
It was hits, but also misses.
Dunno much about search - anyways if it matters - my reco: provide a way to flag incorrect results - and/or crowd-source correct info? (although this could be abused, and you;d need a way to filter legit flags from others)
I don't. But I am addressing the fact that there exist situations in which it would be beneficial.
Low Overhead TCP/UDP eBPF-Based Tracing for Discovering Dependencies [pdf]
They're a monopoly in multiple domains. They can do whatever they want because they can crush competition using their monopoly power. Legislators in the U.S. have been sleeping on their responsibilities for decades now. It's nice to see the E.U. taking their responsibilities seriously with the announcement of the Digital Markets Act. This will allow for much more equal competition across search, maps, phones, marketplaces, and anywhere else these major corporations currently enjoy a monopoly.
I don't need SemanticMerge often, but when I do I'm incredibly thankful that I have it.
Oh, for sure. Which is why I said, I would not judge on debian, as I do not know their dynamics etc.
At my last company we made software to help people hosting tourism-related activities take reservations. We always told them:

1. Taking payment up front is generally good. You get fewer cancellations, and earn more money.

2. Keeping those payments when people cancel is bad, you get unhappy customers and you lose CC disputes.

The last point is important. Not only do you get charged by the payments processor even when you win the dispute, you actually lose disputes frequently even when you do everything right. It’s just not worth it, and anyway the simple act of prepaying will do the most to limit no shows and cancellations.
Except they left the “legitimate interest” loophole which gets abused by every website.
Type-2 diabetes can't be cured, but it can be put into permanent remission with diet for many patients. Virta Health has peer-reviewed research supporting this approach.

https://www.virtahealth.com/resource-type/research
I used to think the same, but eventually realized that both "facts" and, perhaps most especially, the omission-of-coverage categorize a journal as left or right...

Even the words a journal uses are dog whistles for "we think alike". "Latinx" versus "Latino". "Illegal Immigrant" vs "Undocumented Worker".
Lately I'm not comfortable with naming and shaming, my apologies.
how do i install on macbook to try?
Can you give some instructions in the getting started?
How to Write TypeScript Like a Haskeller
MirageOS is really interested when combined with Qubes OS. I've started looking at MirageOS, and since I use Qubes, being able to run things directly on Xen right next to my regular VM's is really neat.

There are also projects to replace sys-firewall with a MirageOS unikernel instead. That's something that seems very interesting.
“Have they grown to the point that the huge profits from web search aren't enough to sustain them or something?”

The demand of never ending exponential growth pretty much dooms a public company to squeeze money from everything. You can have yearly double digit growth while you are small by increasing your market share but once you get big and already dominate the market, where can you get more profits at the scale you need it?
Scammed America? Looks like, scammed investors.
As far as I understand, clients of this electronic chain were not scammed at all, they get all goods they payed for.
I have two phones. Personal and work. The work one has all the MDM, email, and work profile/apps.
Or the equally obnoxious 'pressing consent is instant, pressing don't consent takes 5+ seconds to process'. This one is plausibly deniable too.
Yes, asm.js, which by now has been abandoned and superseded by WebAssembly. And while Chrome never really supported asm.js, they added some optimizations that benefitted code written in that style.

I think that may also have been a problem with asm.js. While the code would work as is because it's just JS, you won't get any performance guarantees because the runtime could just do its own thing instead of doing ahead-of-time compilation to optimized code.
In this context, the user never said 'no.' Some other party said no on their behalf and the user never got a say.
Perhaps you are thinking of Scott Aaronson's "AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English"? [1]

I agree with the sentiment, but to continue your analogy, if OpenAI is using people to improve the answers to specific questions, it is a bit like learning that Cicero, Lincoln and Churchill were merely reading the work of speechwriters.

There is an argument that it does not matter how GPT-3 gets to its answers - after all, for a long time, the main approach to AI was for people to write a lot of bespoke rules in an attempt to endow a computer with common sense and knowledge, so GPT-3 + instructGPT might be described as a hybrid of machine learning and the old approach.

If OpenAI wishes to pursue that path, it is fine by me (as if my opinion matters!) but, because the perception of GPT-3 depends very strongly on how its output looks to human readers, it is obviously misleading if some of the most impressive replies were largely the result of specific human intervention. The issue is transparency: I would just like to know, when I read a reply, if this was the case, and it would not help OpenAI for it to ignore the call, in this article, for it to be clear about this.

There is another argument that says that, given how GPT-3 works, it is unreasonable to expect it to give good answers in these cases - but that's the point! It looks really impressive when GPT-3 apparently does so, but not if they were effectively hard-coded.

[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6288
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It supports Elixir and C#! Too bad it doesn't do Erlang and F#

It looks very handy though. I still do a lot of C and C++
I don't particularly care for PGs tweets to be honest. Don't think he has that much substantial stuff to say.

I'm desperately looking for a lot of things at work that are unavailable no matter the price. No Si, no party.

I'm certainly not holding up USSR as an example for anything. Having grown up in a socialist country, you'd be hard pressed to find me advocating for it. On the other hand, rampant uncontrolled capitalism just isn't my cup of tea and I'd hate to live somewhere where a Sundae Pichai or Satya Nadella controls my water.