skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Google onsite has an entire interview dedicated solely to Googliness and Leadership (which is supposed to fill this role).
This process is near identical to the ones I went through to introduce Flow (initially) then Typescript (later on) for a number of projects I've worked on over the past few years.

Nowadays, its extremely rare for me to come across projects that don't use Typescript already!
> There are there are nations, groups, and individuals for which climate policy is a simply negative. Talking about net benefit risks bringing up this topic, which is largely unsolved. proactive climate policy has clear winners and losers.

What basis do you have for these claims?

If FUD is the basis for stopping us, we should never do anything; we never operate in certainty, and we never operate in a situation where people can't create FUD. Climate change is possibly the most studied issue in the history of the world; we don't need to know more. How much longer will you try to delay action?
Supporting Emacs keybindings is like 1% of “emulating Emacs”.
I also find the "manifesto" format of this piece off-putting, and am not sure how I would take it if it were presented to me up front by someone who wanted me to work with them.

That said, many of the points seem (from eyeballing) seem quite reasonable, and to touch on certain (sadly) highly prevalent anti-patterns in the modern w$rk culture (especially these days, when anyone remotely competent can catapult to a senior-sounding position within a couple of years, without much in the way of actual people and business process experience to match).

For example, the items on:

- expecting others to read your mind and/or take hints (sometimes sanctioning them for not doing so)

- dragging people into meetings that aren't effective or especially relevant to them (as if their time is infinite and worthless)

- assuming everyone is on the same "channel" as you (in regard to social media, answering texts at crazy hours, etc)

Seem to be basically on point, and sadly, do not go "without saying" in the modern work universe (given how frequently these basic points of decency are overrun or ignored, in some environments).
Wow, I forgot that chromeexperiments site was a thing. I remember spending hours and hours on that back in the day, amazed at what Google and other very smart people had managed to do with a web browser (when things like HTML5, Canvas, WebGL, etc were all very new).
How about when the only change to your credit profile is paying down multiple accounts, on time and seeing your available credit increase, your credit utilization decrease, your account aging increase...

... and your score goes down by 20 or 40 points?
Well, the theory around neural nets strongly suggests that enough nonlinear activation functions combined in the right way should be able to learn any function, including basic arithmetic. Now, whether or not you have the right approach to training the network to get the right set of weights is a different story...
If your Emacs is slow then there is probably something wrong with your config that can be fixed. When do you notice it being slow?
It might be more convincing if all the things you listed don't make ubiquiti look really bad for a company that needs you to trust them, given their gear is very cloud-y.

From my perspective this lawsuit looks like they've Streisand Effected the fact that they let their internal security be even worse than the initial accusations.

It's like finding out your financial advisor had all your money stolen, which is bad enough, and then it turns out it's because they gave their gardener the password to your bank account.
Maybe it needs some flextape
VRM = Voltage Regulator Module in case others also aren't familiar with the acronym (I had to Google it)
How to Drive a Top Fuel Car
Not GP but I've been using TaxHawk/FreeTaxUSA (same company runs both sites) for more than a decade with no problems, no upsells, and no dark patterns. Filing federal taxes is completely free with them for everyone, so there's no harm in giving them a shot. If you want to add your state tax filing in at the end (if applicable) it will only cost $15. There's no obligation to buy anything, you can file your federal taxes for free without purchasing the state tax filing option.
I don't like computers (2016)
Seems to work fine in Firefox
He's still living in Russia in fear for going back to the US
That's great that you found it.

Oh no - 2014! That feels like yesterday :)
The entire credit score industry is completely dystopian.

If the court system worked at all, you could just pull court records checking for judgments saying the applicant defaulted on a loan.

That won't work because courts are too expensive, and also because it's less profitable than extortion via debt collection.

Also, it would prevent the banks from creating protection rackets (no house for you unless you have and use credit cards!), or being "accidentally" racist/classist/etc (oops! The algorithm says your type need not apply. Our hands are tied.)
> Problem is the employees aren't willing to bear the risk that early investors were willing to.

Employees take on considerable risk by joining early startups, and they take on opportunity risk when working for other companies, as well.

An early employee risks their ability to house and feed themselves and their family, along with their ability to afford medical care or retirement, by working at a company that could fold or fire them at any moment. An investor might experience some capital loss they can write off at tax time.
It's very similar to what brought down knights on the battlefield(cheaper massed gunfire defeated plate armor), although the result for the next few centuries favored substituting lighter cavalry forces, right up until the World Wars brought the tank in as the new knight. Tanks won't disappear immediately - there's still justifications to have something in the role, perhaps with adjustments to the details - but it has to be part of a combined arms doctrine.

The key element in these tank kills is lack of support. Russia has long been thought to be behind on modern doctrine and the performance to date in Ukraine drives this home: in an environment that demands high levels of force coordination and expensive gadgets, a cannon fodder offensive creates extremely high attrition, and the demographics and economy of Russia today aren't as favorable to absorbing this as in the past(older, fewer young men to lose, dependencies on the rest of the world to rearm).
> A recent one can learn new concepts by simple conversation, then apply them where necessary. You can talk-train your model.

Which model? Sauce please
A while back in our neighborhood group a landlord posted a unit for rent mandating a 750+ credit score. Half the comments were like "Uhhh... if your score is this high you should get a mortgage. Rates were historically low at the time of the post.

Keep in mind this was in a non-trendy neighborhood in Chicago, not NYC or SF. We are clearly not building enough housing.
That's how we nerd snipe people into contributing to Base (only 10% joking).
Wasn't a glib comment, I think almost everything is either produced or consumed with the help of fossil fuels.

>Music, art, books, comedy, pets, food, land, clothing, shelter.

Every one of these requires fossil fuel input to some degree.

Music: Every instrument, music player whatever is produced using plastics and fossil fules.

books: Dead trees? Fossil fuels. Kindle? Plastics from fossil fuels

food: produced and distributed using fossil fuels

clothing: produced and distributed using fossil fuels

You see where I'm going with this? It's impossible to live a fossil fuel neutral existence in a modern world
Is that even in the best conditions i.e. a dark site?
Well, a bit more radical than that.

In Erlang world, I think this is basically advocating that your GenServer "handle_call/3" "handle_cast/2" methods should only ever return "{stop,...}" and never "{reply...}" or "{ok...}"
>>I listed specific weaknesses in the paper you haven't addressed, so if there's anybody here arguing in bad faith: look in the mirror.

I'm not going to evaluate your claims more closely when I see very elementary mischaracterizations of the paper in your initial comments, showing you didn't make a genuine effort to appraise it.
“we” didn’t get anywhere. The “internet” didn’t turn into anything. Nobody has to use Twitter.
Krebs was at basically the definition of a unwitting accessory on this one. His “I got the facts right” post afterwords when it became clear that he enabled the reputation damage at the behest of the extortionist doubled down on the damage.

I’m not sure I agree with ubiquities decision to go after him - see the Streisand effect - but he has made some really dubious choices.
It's one of those things where, if anything was different, the arc of the Beatles would have been completely different, or not at all.

The Butterfly Effect.
> the fact that they use a side chain with centralised validators is immaterial. The hack happened because private keys were stolen, which is just as much of a vulnerability if this happened entirely on the main ethereum chain where acquiring the various private keys required to create a legitimate multi-signature is just as possible.

No, you're wrong. The number of unique validators is at the heart of this hack, since these validators were also responsible for bridging money. If the chain had a decentralized validator set and the bridge used that same set, the hackers would have had to compromise 20-100 systems to execute the attack, which is very unlikely.

I'm also genuinely curious: why do those who criticize blockchain most stridently on HN also know the least about it? It seems like there is an echo chamber of people who hate blockchain, refuse to learn anything about it, and yet talk about it a lot.
I wasn't aware randomness had behavior.
There would be if employees themselves were worker-owners.
>But everyone I speak to in business management seems to take the view that this strengthens their view of Ubiquiti.

Ubiquiti basically needs to weigh whether it makes sense to get burned by Streisand effect now or cut their losses and hope journalists don't burn them again in the future when they don't do due diligence on a lead. After reading through the complaint, it looks like their demands are reasonable.

What I'm more interested to know is whether never issuing a correction/retraction is going to work for or against Krebs.
> Maybe someone could invent the "FDIC" of crypto in smart contract form where everyone pays a periodic premium but if a hack occurs and there is consensus they get a payout.

Nexus Mutual, and a few other on chain insurance protocols offer exactly this. You pay them some premium, and they pay out in case of losses due to hacks, smart contract vulnerabilities, etc. So far they've worked fairly well, and paid out in hacks like this that occurred.
I think the original point of Chrome Experiments was showing off what the performance of Chrome and cutting edge web platform features unlocked, not showing off things that only work in Chrome. Don’t want to sound like I’m writing an advertisement for Google, but in 2009 it really was genuinely stunning how far ahead Chrome felt. (And how far behind, too, considering it did not have any kind of extensions at that point, IIRC.)

Nowadays the moniker doesn’t hold a ton of meaning, since most browsers are Chromium anyways, and Firefox is quite competitive in both performance and in implementing cutting edge features…
hah I was thinking "wow this is so cool, I wonder if Firefox can do this". And then I realized that I was using Firefox...
Conveniences. Will Valhalla or Loom ever drop?
I have this configuration. It works fine, especially if you use homebridge or scrypted to tie it to HomeKit.
One of these days I’m going to write a modern HN headline generator, in Rust!
Shapes and tuples will be huge. I use them constantly in the languages that support them!
Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface
This is a clean Hacker News interface that I called `Lipu`.

Repo: https://github.com/HoangTuan110/lipu
In fairness, when you say "no Saudi company"...there ARE no companies in Saudi Arabia which we could sanction. Not really. There's the oil business, which basically is the same thing as the regime itself. Saudi Arabia doesn't do anything else. Doesn't produce anything else.
Having been on both sides of the equation myself, my observation is:

Trouble from landlords varies inversely with the square of well-crafted (and robustly enforced) tenant protection legislation.
You dont sound like a patriot.You sound like the opposite.
>>Not in my experience, no. We've asked for all measures of all kinds, and have been met with blanket "no's" in many places.

I find that extremely hard to believe, as pressure from teachers unions successfully kept schools closed for over a year in many jurisdictions. The political cost to political leaders, and welfare costs to society, of simply accepting some demand for more safety measures in schools would have been far lower than keeping schools closed altogether, yet the latter is what happened.

>>I had specific people in mind when I wrote that sentence.

What do you mean? You made an allegation of a causative link, with no evidence provided beyond an anecdotal correlation.
State capitalism exists.
If you don't trust the hardware, any software you run on it is already compromised.
Apple M1 Ultra and NUMA
Remember that he doubled down after the report came out that this was a insider attack.

The first time he could have been taken at face value. The second time? Seems closer to willful ignorance.
Neat! I see it's done using three.js for 3d graphics and tween.js for animation.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

https://github.com/tweenjs/tween.js/
Yeah, I think the lawsuit is probably bogus, but so is the Twitter logic that people who sue the media are never portrayed in media as good guys. If Krebs was unwittingly used the attacker, I think he should update his stories, but that depends on that allegation being true.

I don't think that should be worth a lawsuit, but it would reflect badly on him if that's proven true and he doesn't update. Of course, filing lawsuits over disclosure of security issues is also a bad look, but I never used their stuff to begin with.
The difference is that Powell wasn't intentionally lying, of course. Easy to gloss over that. But it does matter.
There's a very interesting beetle there...
> It was just a 5 of 9 multi-sig where the security was very poor and susceptible to social engineering.

Taking this a step further, the article mentioned that 4 of the 5 were under one companies control and compromised together. It wouldn't shock me to learn that all 4 had the same access rules, and as such all were accessible if one was, essentially reducing the 5 of 9 to 2 of 9.
How exactly can existing code break if you change randomness? It's already random! Changing random from random to random shouldn't make a difference.
PLEASE elaborate, I'm intrigued.
> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.

That would be horrifying news to many women.
It costs the taxpayers less money to file electronically. And it's less error-prone.

But as long as Intuit isn't making any money, I'm fine with whatever.
Trump didn't "trigger any new war"? You might want to review who got impeached (and was guilty) for intentionally weakening Ukraine and propping up Russian interests.
…is this statement not true for any, say, Fortune 100 company?

Does P&G put the psychological health of their customers over their own profits? Does Walmart? Apple? Exxon?

One might be able to make the slightly stronger argument is that the average user’s psychological health is more at odds with Facebook’s interests/profits than most other companies — putting it in the same category as, perhaps, Phillip Morris — but even that is not an argument against Facebook or Zuckerberg; any company in the same position would likely be doing the same kind of thing.
> Social media is the KING KONG of censorship. Downvotes that hide your reply. Post removal. Automated post removal. Secret forbidden word lists. Banning. Shadowbanning. Blocking. We have so much censorship now that we need to create a new language to talk about it.

Social media cannot censor you. Social media, or any content publishing platform, can only moderate content. Only a government - which has the power to legislate arrests or fines - has the power to censor you. Demanding that the content publisher publish the content you have submitted is akin to demanding the New York Times publish your letter to the editor. Both are unreasonable requests.

Unless a content platform is an absolute natural monopoly, there should be no reason to legislate that it must publish all content submitted to it. Forcing a content publisher to publish all content is akin to forcing it to not publish content; both are a removal of freedom from the content publisher.

If your posts submitted to a content publisher are removed, consider spinning up your own content publishing platform - many are available free online, or even pay for the printing of your views in pamphlets or books. If your government does not imprison you for your views, then you are not being censored.
Very true. I find it to be a fun thought exercise though. Kind of like asking your friends around the dinner table how they would rob a bank.
And the paper cowl catching fire is probably the least of your problems.
This is band-aid for a fracture. Suing Intuit does not address the underlying problem.

It's not hard to collect income data automatically. Here in Singapore (as in many other countries) I get a message reminding me to check my tax data before the filing date. I just login and click "Submit". If I forget to do this, I may miss some deductions, but it goes through anyway.

Tax filing can be made simple enough that a layperson can do it without employing an accountant.
I think this is the primary reason why big tech likes to grandstand on woke issues. They get to be the "good guys" at virtually no cost and it's proven to be an incredibly effective distraction/misdirection from the real injustices/inequality of the sort described here.
If the universe is deterministic it was going to happen no matter what.
I believe 8(a)1 only covers existing employer/employee relationships.
What is obsolete is the doctrine of “armored warfare”, the idea that armor is the primary weapon on the battlefield that allows you to break through enemy defenses. In the days of trench warfare, tanks were a “disruptive technology” - an almost invulnerable mobile fortress that allowed armies to completely change the script on the battlefield by blitzing up the middle and breaking stalemates.

Now that ATGMs are everywhere, armor is no longer invulnerable enough for this to be the main strategy - you need “combined arms operations” - infantry and air support to protect the armor. The Russians are not acting like this is the case, which is why their tanks are getting destroyed left and right.

Armored vehicles will never be obsolete - if you’re sending in infantry or artillery or whatever, it’s still better to have armor for eg. small arms fire and shrapnel - you just can’t rely on its strength as the core of your strategy.
Another consistent take is simply that international borders should mostly stay as they currently are, particularly in cases where the de jure status matches the de facto. This stance has the benefit that it condemns almost all wars of territorial conquest, including those which have some kind of twisted historical justification.

Similarly, this stance implies that regions within sovereign nations do not have the unilateral right to declare independence, as doing so would change the current international borders. (This often leads to war when existing states are unwilling to cede territory).

>> Somebody’s going to ask “but what about the Confederacy?” The position that most tempts me is “The Confederacy had every right to secede, because every region that wants to secede has that right - but immediately upon granting them independence, the Union should have invaded in order to stop the atrocity of slavery”.

I won't make any claims about what the US "should" have done in the 1860's when the Confederacy declared independence, but I will note a few key points. Firstly, Confederate troops opened fire on US military positions, commencing the outbreak of hostilities. Secondly, the United States had by that point a storied history of seizing the lands of its neighbors for expansion (in accordance with the idea of manifest destiny). See, for example, the Mexican-American war. It is, then, hardly any surprise that the US chose to use its larger military, population, and industry to conquer a smaller neighbor that had limited transportation infrastructure and almost no foreign allies.
Doesn't seem like she was an "IT admin." According to the article she was, "director of finance for its emergency medicine department"
This sucks to say, but I don't like it very much.

It lacks contrast and lacks space between lines.

Additionally, clicking on the comments just brings me back to HN.

Good job putting something out there.
I don’t think it’s impossible?

I think there’s a question of what fossil-fuel dependent comforts you’re willing to give up. But I assure you it’s entirely possible to live and have all of those goods, today, fossil-fuel free.
Huh? A gentle look at WSB will tell you a lot about stockholders who lost money.
It would be interesting to see qualitative surveys of new Java code that appears eg on Github that would give information about whether the real-world practice in Java is converging toward expressivity of higher level languages and reduced incidental complexity.
> Even if some of the BSD systems support multiple architectures...In contrast, Linux has to work on a very large number of embedded architectures

Doesn't NetBSD target an absurd number of platforms?
> What I don't understand is why the project is NOT already secret voting?

There was a debian poll that people were afraid to vote in because they expected harassment for their position[1]. That poll raised the question of secret voting.

In my mind, the best option for Debian going forward would be to have public voting records, but have each future poll include a single option at the bottom for "Redo this poll as anonymous".

If more than (for example) 10% of the votes are for redoing the poll as anonymous, then redo it as anonymous.

They way they are doing it now makes it an all or nothing way for every issue that will be voted on in the future. My simplistic proposal above allows polls to be anonymous based on whether a minority feel that they will be harassed by a majority.

[1] Whether or not their expectation was realistic or not is irrelevant.
Thanks. I'll start doing that from now on.
There are other works that can teach that sort of critical thinking where a teacher failing to properly get the point across won't lead to people becoming more antisemitic.
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Generative Pseudo-Labeling (GPL)
>Most people don't have a clue what day they need to file by.

Every single wall or desk calendar I've ever seen has "Tax Day" labeled on it.
There is another reason: a group of Republican lobbyists (Americans for Tax Reform) deliberately want to make taxes more difficult. The idea is that 1) if taxes are difficult, you will spend as much as your time trying to get every deduction and 2) a prefilled tax form from the government would look too much like a bill, so people will pay it without contesting.

Of course, TurboTax/Intuit also lobbies to keep taxes more difficult to protect their profits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/0...