skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The public access feature looks sweet...and I was able to use it to access demos of the upcoming redesign of the Zulip web application.

Do any alternatives offer this ability to see content without having to sign up for an account?

Slack et al are walled gardens because none of their content is publicly available...forums are the opposite, but they lack the real-time dynamic of chat.

This public access feature from Zulip seems like it might bridge the gap nicely.
Technology-wise, "growth and engagement" wasn't a thing yet. Tech was mostly about making the world better instead of being a cancer trying to consume all of humanity's attention for advertising and marketing purposes.
What does GPT-3 come up with if you ask it for a proof that there are a finite number of primes? Or that pi is rational?

I guess it would stitch together some more seemingly sensible statements that also don’t quite add up to a rigorous proof?
Do you have a source for this? I would imagine all of them would already support it if they are in to supporting a niche such as avian messaging.
Somewhat. They don't all need super specific types for every method they've defined, but Sorbet does at least need to know all the classes, modules, and constants in use in your codebase, whether those come from code you've written or code inside gems.

But there's tooling (first-party and third-party) that will either download or generate RBI files defining constants that come from gems. `srb init` is the first party solution, and Shopify's `tapioca` gem is the most popular third-party solution[1].

Unfortunately, because Ruby doesn't have import statements at the top of every file, Sorbet can't just do something like silently treat unknown imports as not having a type (like TypeScript and Flow can do), because then it would never be able to tell between "exists but unknown" vs "typo; does not exist" for constant definitions. This definitely makes the adoption process a little tricker compared to other languages, but it's generally a one-time thing once you've got the tooling set up.

Also if you're ever having trouble getting the tooling to work, there's a lot of people chatting about Sorbet daily at https://sorbet.org/slack

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/tapioca
You are making points that were directly addressed in this well-written article ... sorry to ask but did you actually read it fully?
I wouldn't say its not a republican thing, just also a many other people/groups thing. You're right, just wanted to emphasize that.
I don't know the other people at Loom, so I'm modeling you after your typical scale-up with talented young people, the likes of which I see every other week or so on average, but it is definitely possible that Loom is in a different order all by itself.

Also, keep in mind that my viewpoint is Euro-centric and that just that alone could easily qualify to make up the difference.

As for terminology, eager might be a better term than hungry.
Your situation sounds like one that a CPA would be perfect for - especially with business taxes involved.

Our household has just the basic salaries / expenses / 401k / IRAs. THe year I received some temporary additional benefits, Intuit decided that I had to pay premium in order to enter that single additional 1099.

I left, found a much simpler, straightforward service with which I filed legitimately free, and have never looked back.

Plus, I've read about Intuit's history with the whole market, and I will never willingly give them a damn cent.
The same could be said for the browser
Time to find out how many applications have regexes with a user agent parser with version /d{2} instead of /d+.
From the end of the article:

“Forged court orders, usually involving copy-and-pasted signatures of judges, have been used to authorize illegal wiretaps and fraudulently take down legitimate reviews and websites by those seeking to conceal negative information and past crimes,” the lawmakers said in a statement introducing their bill.

The Digital Authenticity for Court Orders Act would require federal, state and tribal courts to use a digital signature for orders authorizing surveillance, domain seizures and removal of online content.

So yes, people are faking court documents.
I agree. My 80 yo mother in law has stopped using her Apple TV because she is simply unable (or perhaps unwilling) to learn how to use the remote and how to navigate the Apple TV menus. I'm baffled as the Apple TV UI seems intuitive to me, but after spending a lot of time with her, I've realised she is simply just not up to it. Her memory is shot, which doesn't help :-(
Exxon Mobil reportedly gets in on Bitcoin mining
Implicit signals are far more significant than explicit. Search engine already know which links are not getting clicks and which links are causing re-queries and which links causes pressing of back button.

People do dumb things if you ask them not to show results from a domain or even “report spam”. For example, Fox News and CNN will all be marked as spam millions times a day even after people are finding what they are looking for.
don't blame google when robots.txt directives are to blame.
what is to stop someone from just underreporting and blaming laziness or the process being too complicated. either the govt. audits it themselves or does nothing. the benefit of the doubt is on your side.
I used Cash App Taxes. I sold some mutual fund shares in 2021 and it handled it fine.

Here's a page describing forms and situations it does not handle [1].

One thing that might annoy some people is that to login to the Cash App Taxes website you must use their mobile app. The website shows a QR code which you scan from the mobile app.

It uses the approach of asking you various questions in order to figure out what forms it thinks you need to file, which is an approach that some people do not like.

If there is a form you know you have to do that it missed or you have a 1099-something that it has not asked you to enter it took me a little while to figure out how to deal with that. What you do is type the name of the form into the help search box. One of the results will be a link to take you directly to the page that deals with that form.

[1] https://taxeshelp.cash.app/s/article/Forms-and-situations-Ca...
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2020_na... estimates a "total economic output" of 64 billion dollars from Nasa activities in 2019, for a budget of 21.5 billion.
> Most hacks are discovered within minutes or hours

Really? The figures I’ve seen have typically put it in days to weeks unless you’re talking only about the most obvious things like DoS attacks or defacing someone’s homepage.
So short vol?
What's your vision for this? Is it a hobby for you or you want to commercialize it?
I should also qualify my jaundiced view of the future, with an actual belief that we'll eventually solve some of these problems.. particularly global warming, and energy creation. I have exactly zero faith that we are finished trying to kill one another for money.
https://archive.ph/1HeyE
There's quite a big elephant underneath this argument, which is the "zero utility in crypto" assumption. If utility exists then the question of energy use and externality is simply a matter of cost/benefit like everything else society does with resources.

And then you go back to why the stuff was invented, and it was for exactly the thing that you're dismissing, which is to evade authorities and enhance privacy through cryptography. That is the utility Satoshi identified, and it drove initial adoption, and continues to be pursued through privacy coins. A zero utility stance amounts to "Satoshi had no justifications". The rest is negotiation of the price.

Everything after that - copycat coins, distributed computation on Ethereum, NFTs and so on - is "what else can we do with this stuff", which is actually a much more challenging problem because it suggests no particular specification, hence the entire space is in the midst of a random walk in which features are developed with few concepts grounding our ability to determine whether they do the things we're imagining they do. The scams have a playground, but that's not actually different from capitalism in other times and places.
It is certainly not a general instance of censorship if certain node operators or miners choose to exclude transactions meeting certain criteria.

This isn't comparable to e.g. a hard coded blacklist.
> Phreaks often dumpster dove for this info

For the telephone number of their local police department? Is it supposed to be secret? My point is that it should be public!

> How does it not change often? There are constantly new departments starting, departments/precincts merging, and departments shutting down

There is simply no reason for a newly-started/merged police department to be able to unilaterally issue an Emergency Data Request, and I say this as a father of three young kids.

For $deity's sake, some new and/or newly-merged and/or micro police force must surely have their local, regional and national-level police forces on speed dial on all their phones. If someone is missing and needs to be found quickly, all they need to do is pick up the phone and reach out to "higher authority" (who can be quickly authenticated, because they definitely have been around for decades), not start acting like the local heroes.

This isn't a technical problem, folks :(
Why won't they directly ask themselves? All these random ware hackers do.
You can have the site reload whenever your backend server code changes. That's how I was using it. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for.
The Talos Principle is really good.
At the very bottom of the article:

8<--------------------------------------------

The current situation with fraudulent EDRs illustrates the dangers of relying solely on email to process legal requests for highly sensitive subscriber data. In July 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced new legislation to combat the growing use of counterfeit court orders by scammers and criminals. The bill calls for funding for state and tribal courts to adopt widely available digital signature technology that meets standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

“Forged court orders, usually involving copy-and-pasted signatures of judges, have been used to authorize illegal wiretaps and fraudulently take down legitimate reviews and websites by those seeking to conceal negative information and past crimes,” the lawmakers said in a statement introducing their bill.

The Digital Authenticity for Court Orders Act would require federal, state and tribal courts to use a digital signature for orders authorizing surveillance, domain seizures and removal of online content.

8<--------------------------------------------
From the end of the article:

The current situation with fraudulent EDRs illustrates the dangers of relying solely on email to process legal requests for highly sensitive subscriber data. In July 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced new legislation to combat the growing use of counterfeit court orders by scammers and criminals. The bill calls for funding for state and tribal courts to adopt widely available digital signature technology that meets standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
I also would vote for FreeTaxUSA, they have served me well. I do however note the irony of them being named FreeTaxUSA and in the same breath, mentioning that it costs to file. Especially given the context of the thread in general.
Not sure why you're including the word 'technically,' in there - you are clearly and definitely committing tax fraud if you knowingly fail to include all of your financial information.
I don't think there is a conspiracy here about tit-for-tat stuxnet or even if he is a "dirtbag". All AV shift trust from the system to the AV. That is the root of the issue and it is an unsolved problem no matter where you try to secure something in the end there is always a compromise somewhere that boils down to "but eventually you need to trust something".

If that something is owned by your enemy in a hot war it's game over.

The minute a vendor can be leaned on by a hostile government (even they are not in the country like the founder of Telegram) and the interest is strong enough to lean on them (hot war) the trust assumption becomes problematic. How problematic? I think it doesn't get more urgent then in a hot war.

Kaspersky needs to pack up in all NATO countries. Not just because they pay taxes in RU (also this is a good enough reason for me). But also because if you share data with a non-NATO country it immediately becomes problematic too if your business partner is using their products.

The options under which they should be allowed to continue to operate is purely academic because it involves not only shifting all operations out of RU but also getting rid of any executive who moves to the new location that can be leaned on back home (e.g. family and friends etc).

There is no middle ground because the minute these steps are initiated Kaspersky has good reason to feel mistreated by the West. So even they kept their hands clean until now they might start doing what they've been accused of anyway.

Also if Positive Tech and others have been sanctions already some months ago there is no reason to give this much bigger potential threat a pass.
No, but you could argue it's among the most used pieces of software in the world. That's a great distinction. Chrome is entirely replaceable.
> I guess on intel architectures the compiler just calls the fsin instruction of the cpu.

Do people do that in practice? It's on the FPU, which is basically legacy emulated these days, and it's inaccurate.
What this email doesn't say is that Google's solution for fixing retention problems was to reach out to Apple and many other large tech employers and sign illegal agreements to not hire each other's employees.

The subject of this email (Facebook) famously declined to participate however.
FSIN only works on x87 registers which you will rarely use on AMD64 systems -- you really want to use at least scalar SSE2 today (since that is whence you receive your inputs as per typical AMD64 calling conventions anyway). Moving data from SSE registers to the FP stack just to calculate FSIN and then moving it back to SSE will probably kill your performance even if your FSIN implementation is good. If you're vectorizing your computation over 4 double floats or 8 single floats in an AVX register, it gets even worse for FSIN.
That was my take away. "No, you weren't."
Managing electromagnetic interference in food metal detection
There may not be buyers. Who would buy now ?
You just inspired me to dig through the flags -- at least the side panel is removable.

chrome://flags/#side-panel
Good, but the situation is so much worse than just this. Most Americans could just use the IRS Free File system, which the article mentions, instead of ever giving money to Intuit or H&R Block ever again. But we don’t heavily advertise that system, because that would encourage people to use it, and if you’re going that far, you might as well let the IRS build its own tax software with all your information prefilled like they do in civilized countries.

As long as the job of Congress is to kiss the ass of every powerful industry lobby, we won’t have good things.
Yup. Chebyshev is the way to go (after 30s of consideration)
Sure bud, we are all white men with colonial baggage on this website. I'm slowly backing away now.
To be fair, it’s ridiculously cheap to start something right now. Even 8-9 years ago, you only needed low six figures to jumpstart something. Now? I am pretty sure the biggest hurdle is opportunity cost for founders not the actual funding needs. This is referring to mostly SaaS of course.
Nobody seems to care so much where I work.

I think now that we’ve migrated to okta it will remain that way in perpetuity.
Use a phone book?
This is the best defense of Bitcoin I have come across so far, makes some good points. Some takeaways:

- Bitcoin's energy consumption is huge but so is Google's, Amazon's or even the regular banking system's; and it's not even that huge when put into perspective on a global scale

- Bitcoin's energy consumption is just the price paid in exchange for decentralisation and security

- Upper layer networks such as Lightning allow for much speedier BTC transactions

- Bitcoin in part uses energy that might otherwise have gone to waste

- Bitcoin may in part replace energy usage in other areas

-...
That's why I do my taxes manually and mail them in. I want it to be as painful as possible.
You'd have to be forking it once a week, because there is so much stealing going on. We'd probably end up with a weekly split. Imagine how crazy that is. And of course people would make false stealing claims. Maybe you are on vacation when they reverse something that takes your money, because you have a chance to weigh in.
After following the DeFi space for over a year now I've come to the conclusiong that "code is law" is a fallacy. If you come to the possession of funds that were not intended to be in your possession by exployting bugs or vulnerabilities, and other parties are significantly harmed in this process, then you will be in a position to face criminal charges... Well that is unless one can maintain anonymity indefinitely. Once anonymity is lost law enforcement may come for you.

The best thing you can do (and the moral thing to do) is to submit for a bug bounty in case you find a crictical bug in a blockchain/protocol.
Ludum Dare 50 (20th anniversary of LDJam)
I prefer my web browsers to be written exclusively in provably-safe ADA, for maximum security
I guess an April Fools joke that leaked early.
That is absolutely how performance management works in every large corporation. You set "SMART" goals, and then you periodically review how you're progressing to those goals.

You have a point that in life sometimes, particularly in creative tasks, goals are unclear. But goals aren't unclear in a college class that hundreds of students take per year. In fact the goals generally should be listed on a website before you even apply for the course.
GPT3 does not think like a human, but it definitely executes code in a way that is more similar to a human than a computer..

Proof is, that indeed humans do get the wrong answer in quizzes like these sometimes!

So i cannot understand this point of view of diminishing it as "spark of intelligence". It is exactly what advertised: a very big step forward towards real AI, even if definitely not the last one?
The fact that our government doesn't have the collective intelligence to just mail the tax bill using the information it already knows, with the option for the recipient to submit corrections/deductions, is a testament to the utter failure of governance in the US. Fortunately having an ineffective government can often be a feature instead of a bug.
It’s not about being willing, it’s about being able too.

Imagine there is a lottery where for every 10 million tickets you buy you get one that is giving you 20 millions back.

No brainer, right? Except if you don’t have the 10 million to spare, buying lottery tickets instead of food doesn’t make sense.

Labor/job is your single lottery ticket.

Investors can afford to buy all tickets to make sure they win.
How is induction any less responsive than gas? My gas stoves had big metal grates that themselves heated up - and took forever to cool down. There is way less mass on my induction stove cooktop for any residual/carry over heat than on the gas cooktop. You kill the power to the HOB and heat stops - immediately. And induction ramps WAY faster than gas could ever hope to, especially if you have decent cookware (i.e. solid metal/no discs welded on the bottom).

I do agree that there are far too many induction cooktops with gawd awful controls that are not responsive; that's more a matter of picking a well designed unit rather than a fundamental flaw in the technology itself. Same with granular control - higher end models offer not just finer control, but different control modes. It boggles my mind there aren't more temperature probe options for automatic temperature control. My GE cooktop had an optional bluetooth probe - but it only worked for low temps. If they had a high temp probe it would be a candy makers dream!

I only use gas when I want to cook with super high heat - like with a wok.
And for that I use a left over turkey fryer burner - outside! Double bonus for all the gunk thrown off during cooking not being trapped in my house either. I don't have a restaurant style hood and make up air system; it's far cheeper and easier to just go outside for that kind of cooking.
I'm most excited about the suspense feature since handling load was always a bit of extra code when it pretty common among most apps.
A founder that's rewarded 1000000X is cashing in on a lottery ticket. That's all there is to it. Just as in most lotteries, even most founders are losers.
Can it do math on "prose numbers", eg. "two thousand three hundred and four"?
It matters in that the 56 is what's going on your transcript and the feedback isn't.
After this Google started giving $1K in cash every christmas and one year gave everybody at the company a 10% bonus. Those times are gone.
This is kind of like the problem of programmatically analyzing AWS IAM roles and policies to understand impact of changes. Very difficult to do in JSON format but worth tons of money to CISOs if it can be solved.
I love this. I am always on the lookout for material written by individuals; but, it's surprisingly hard on the modern web.

Tbh I'll probably use the random bit more than search but definitely going to keep checking back to pad my RSS feeds with interesting content.
Regarding threading generally: perhaps it's just me and my Usenet habits, but I find threads really helpful in keeping a chat channel relatively 'clean'.

However trying to get conversations to actually occur in them seems to be an uphill battle with other (non-techy?) people, and often things 'degenerate' into a stream-of-consciousness series of messages.

Is it just that I'm atypical in preferring them? Do 'normal' people have a hard time with (understanding) them? Other?
Congrats to the Chrome team! In my opinion, easily the most important tech project/product in the world. The amount of innovation built on top of it is simply mind boggling. We've all benefitted from their incredibly hard work.

I look forward to seeing the progress made over the next 100 versions.
"Why stop there? Why not say we even know that there are billions of years? Why not thousands?"

My questions above are only to point out what I think is the conclusion to your line of questioning. Only the ignorant would suggest that we know exactly what happened in the past. Let me emphasize, that's not the aim of science.

Regardless, we can argue limitations on what is possible in the past from surrounding evidence, which you're surely aware of based off your questioning. You definitely sound like you would be willing to defend some kind of supernatural intervention in the past at least as a possibility, which at least in theory I have no problems with. The issue is your reasoning would at a minimum ask you to posit what you think is actually defensible about the past, and how you would reach that position. Ultimately we have to use inductive tools, and the natural surroundings are the only things we have to measure against. Your position sounds as though there are things that are worth defending about the past, they just don't align with commonly accepted mechanisms.

Speed of light, river erosion, uranium-lead dating, etc. are very sound in describing what we see around us, you'd need to explain why they don't suggest sound limitations on the past.

It's not that scientists can be incorrect in concluding ages from these tools, but what you posit should be more predictive if we're to conclude your position is the sound one.
dont confuse BitDefender with Windows Defender, not the same thing