skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You only need to be slightly more intelligent than the people trying to track you in order to not get caught. I heard and read enough true crime stories to noticed that successful serial killers and incompetent law enforcement tend to go hand-in-hand.

There is a caveat to this. As the perpetrator of a crime (what and how stuff is defined as a "crime" is a different discussion), no matter how smart you (think) you are, you have to get it right every single time, in perpetuity

For law "enforcement", they only need to get it right once.
Indeed. But consider: except for very high income households, the LTCG tax rate is never more than 15%-- and federal income tax brackets don't go lower than 10% and even just social security payments will move people into 12%. Many ibond alternatives yield qualified dividends (=LTCG rates). For anyone with income under 41k (81k married) long term the LTCG rate is 0. A rate of 0 is wayyy better than a rate of 12% but deferred.

State taxes are a bigger difference but really just for the few states that have higher income tax rates... and even those they're only really high for high incomes.
No idea, but my state doesn't have income tax regardless. And for any regular investment tax is 0 until you realize it.
That's actually what made me post this. My boss was presenting a Google Doc that I was reading during a meeting. I realized that I was repeatedly highlighting the line he was reading and it must have been super distracting.
> Security – The precautions used to keep you safe.

That's safety
I used both at the time, and Windows (Live) Movie Maker was never anywhere near as good as iMovie.
If it's gatekeeping, it's not doing a very good job. Star Trek: First Contact had a 96% rotten tomatoes rating a few years ago. It's gradually dropped a bit since, but seems a bit high for that movie, compared with all other movies ever made.
There's LavaMoat, which enables using SES confinement around normal npm packages by creating a policy file for what can be imported/required by that module (and can auto-generate a suggested policy file from what appears used, which fails to greater restriction/security, and can easily be expanded):
https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat
Ehh this is a dumb post in a way because our video streams are accepted by a big FAANG company unencrypted, like they have our data already, what does it matter if we use their transcribe service too.
Film critics were never in sync with audiences. Film critics have completely different ranking criteria compared to viewing audiences. This has never not been true.
I smiled while reading this item :) I knew I am not the only one doing this but wouldn't have guessed it as common practice.

P.s. I will not use the service, showing that I insist on typing the additional word every time is my way of saying:
1. I don't want Google to return anything else
2. Reddit developers can't implement search correctly.
Is there any way to lock a Sheet from edits except for API-based changes?
I've filtered myself out of the 'audience' because there's nothing coming out that is of interest at all.

Perhaps the audience is becoming more and more biased, and of a particular kind of person.
"When only the best will do."

Great lenses in Canon cameras. Cost-effective, too.
LumaFusion is great. Impressive speed, even on an older iPad. I honestly didn’t think it was possible. You guys are doing great stuff. And thanks for letting me own the software, not just rent it.
I promise, it's not :D

It's more of a fidget/habit than any kind of reading comprehension hack.
>and it's not very easy to smoosh, spin, or soft-pedal.

It's easy enough. Call it a work meeting. If the media believes it the people will too. It almost worked.

If 50,000 grandmas dying needlessly can be successfully downplayed and spun as a minor whoops then cheese and wine in no. 10 ought to be a doddle.
> I do appreciate the effort, and sorry for being a dick with my earlier comment (bad mood).

No worries!

> I think something like a “Todos API with OAuth2 from scratch with code snippets”

Here you are: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide... and here's the github repo for the code in it: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-example-modern-guid...

That assumes you aren't implementing the Authorization Server (it uses FusionAuth, but should work with other OAuth servers like Identity Server or Keycloak). If you want that experience, then I'd recommend buying this book: "OAuth2 in Action" https://www.manning.com/books/oauth-2-in-action which takes you through all of the nitty gritty. Seriously, you'll implement the whole thing. It's pretty cool.
Of course, reading this makes me very happy, and I am getting more hopeful by the day because it seems that more and more things are finally happening. But I also can't shake the feeling that a lot of these programs/investments are just a complicated way of doing a carbon tax.
Why not look into Real Return Bond? It is Canadian version of inflation protected bond.

You need SSN to buy I-series bond.
With ec2 you still need to backup. You still need to validate the backups. Security it still something you need to do since an instance is still just a VM. Same with s3 buckets etc. Google for public s3 bucket "breaches." You still need to apply patches, to configure access, to expand volumes, to configure VPCs and security groups.
Except users who don't watch the movie don't rate it. So they're self-selected. Critics are not.
from what i've been reading up on the subject, the thin margin that service sector businesses operate on means many failed despite government intervention and the rest raised prices in order to make profit on lower volume, higher materials cost, and higher labor cost.
I sent an email to the editor, we'll see if he can change it. :)
"somewhere along the lines" probably largely meaning via lieing salespeople and i'd guess some early clickbait articles by enterprising outlets who figured the "just hose it out" line could get some clicks/money
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I don't think this is too uncommon. I sometimes go through such a phase, also in reading, and what helps me get back on track is to do things really intently for a while. And I mean even basic things, being really aware of what I'm doing and thinking in that moment.

When you dont pay attention to what is currently happening, it's usually that your mind goes on tangents. I'd recommend becoming aware of those tangential thought processes. Mindful meditation may help a bit.
And coin toss of making to 80 (1/2). And if you make it to 90, every year is a round of russian roulette.

Great. I didn't need an existential crisis today :)

I really wonder about the quality of life as I age though. There is such a wide spread in my family. One of my grandfathers died of COVID early in the pandemic - he made it to 83.

I had always considered him too stubborn to die. He survived two congestive heart failures, two bouts with cancer, and a heart attack. He had never taken care of himself (obese all of his life, heavy smoker from teenager to age 50, emphysema (from smoking), etc.). He caught COVID while recovering in a physical rehab from his heart attack and that's what ended up doing him in.

His body was pretty much trashed by age 50 though. His ability to do things was pretty restricted from that point forward. As a child, he couldn't go on roller coasters with us, he had to be really careful with his diet, etc. He spent the last 3 years of his life in bed or wherever he could get on a walker.

Meanwhile, my other three grandparents are enjoying their late 70's and early 80's - they travel, go hiking, play golf, play with the grand children and great-grandchildren, etc.

I wonder how old I'll be when I get to the point where dying doesn't sound any worse than living.
I think pacifism has been a core belief of theirs for hundreds of years, and they seem to be quite good at maintaining their core values despite pressure to change.
> some kids have two moms or two dads

I 100% agree that's reasonable.

What's unreasonable is schools/teachers practicing "gender affirmation" of 5 year olds (or indeed any age) behind parents' backs. If a boy likes playing princess it doesn't mean he's a girl, and to be honest that seems patronising and cruel.
"Vladimir Putin's appearances with animals are often shared by the
network of fans"

Please! That's enough.
This is why a husband and wife should share a core value system otherwise one person would sacrifice their values for the other and that also ends up with resentment.
Why is this car beloved? It's so terribly ugly, and it doesn't have any redeeming features you'd expect from a 4x4 (space, cargo room, clearance)
what a terrible cultural disaster this would be for Canada. i hope ya'll can avoid this!
Americans today are so sharply divided in what they consider to be acceptable beliefs and values that to create films with broad appeal, most filmmakers (and those who pay them) either (a) go out on a limb to promote their own values, or (b) resort to known-good tropes and remakes.

Perhaps no one wants to write a beautiful, thoughtful, non-politically charged screenplay anymore. Or maybe doing so would itself be seen as a political statement?
I’d agree, but I think both are very far away from the typical person, who does not post online reviews at all. Maybe the difference isn’t film nerd vs. not, but I’d wager there’s a big difference between an IMDB reviewer and a randomly sampled person.
Art is a type of craftsmanship that has some form of self-expression.

Popular artists are mainly ruthless businessmen.
Always happy to hear the primer was able to help make something more easy to understand =)
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I swear Hackforums is an FBI honeypot for especially stupid criminals. Nothing happens there (remember back in the day someone was talking about stealing from a gamestop and a bunch of people called the store to warn them lol), and anyways anyone who does anything remotely illegal immediately gets arrested.
IMHO the biggest deciding use case for me is whether or not it's more performant than any other possible solution. So far I haven't seen this to be the case in other people's benchmarks. [1]

[1] https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...
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So wait, you think Putin could have easily taken Ukraine with no resistance from the US for 4 years under Trump, but instead Putin decided to wait until Trump was gone and Biden was President knowing he would get massive resistance across the board?

So Putin intentionally made things 1000x harder on himself...because reasons? I understand being blinded by Trump hatred, but how do you logically make that sort of conclusion? You have to know that makes zero sense, right?
And you still need to do this with an ec2 instance. Sure you can automate a lot of it via config mgmt/orchestration, but unless you're using serverless stuff on AWS, it's an awful lot like having your own VMs.
I'm very curious what made you say that building tooling for developers is "most prestigious". It doesn't really match my intuition, can you explain more?
Hi there, TC-39 delegate and MetaMask co-founder here.

SES does address this, and strives to achieve "object capability security", wherein access to a function is equivalent to permission to use it.

One difference between an object capability approach and the capability-token approach described in the OP article is that in an ocap approach, you would have no need for passing around a capability token just to pass it to the restricted methods: Instead, you simply disallow importing modules by default, and now pass in any restricted methods to modules that you want to have access to them. I find this approach greatly more ergonomic, and if you ever want to further restrict a function, you don't need a new token, you just write a closure with your own policy defined in it!

By the way, we've developed a tool called LavaMoat that allows applying SES security to existing npm modules, no token-passing needed, by restricting the environment of each module per a policy file.
https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat

While we're at it, I'll plug an audit we did of the SES shim code:
https://agoric.com/blog/technology/metamask-agoric-hardened-...
That's a lot of lint! I've had iPhones from day 1 and only needed to clean out 4-5 times total. Easy to do with a toothpick or canned air!
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Appreciate the thoughtful comment.

> I don't know how one can reasonably weigh between a medicine with known risks (and plausibly unknown risks!) and the unknown risks of something like psychedelics, which are not yet understood at all but anecdotatlly appear to potentially have a very high reward/risk ratio.

Yes, the key word in your statement is "anecdotally". Anecdotal evidence is not good enough. Need to have systematic, carefully vetted evidence documenting specific benefits and risks before it can be said the compound is understood well enough for general use.

There's a process to work out drug dose/risks. A prospective treatment goes through phase 1/2/3 trials. Basically it's about discovering the characteristics of a drug, good, bad and ugly. Well, at least as much as can be discovered in the course of it.

> That is not to say it can't cause other types of damage.

Exactly so. Hallucinogens can be bad for people with predisposition to psychosis, mania, panic attacks, dissociation. That's maybe ~3% of the total population. People may not know or care if they're at risk, so it can be a problem.

> And here you also say that unlike the advice you give your patients you might decide differently when it comes to yourself.

What I mean is that I have an obligation, taken an oath, that I won't knowingly expose patients to unnecessary risks of harm. It's always about having evidence that benefits exceed risk. It's a judgement call to be sure. In any case everything is done under full disclosure and consent.

I might be willing to take on a risk myself with less sure evidence of benefit than I could justify recommending to patients. There I have a higher burden of proof to meet. IOW I can experiment on myself but I won't experiment on others who might go along with it just because they trust me.

> The most trust worthy thing to do is admit that there are limits to our knowledge.

Fully agree and any trustworthy person would say "I don't know" when in fact one doesn't know something. When it comes to human knowledge it's always limited. For one thing we can't know what is unknowable, capabilities are constrained by our neurophysiological construction.

I'm OK with saying so when I don't know. It happens a lot.

One more point. It's true past practices in medicine are troubling to us now. I have qualms about certain things being done now. But cultures evolve, ideas of what's acceptable and not change. Applying today's ideas of standards to prior generations is likely to lead to a negative judgement, but is that a fair appraisal of our predecessors?

If we take a hard, critical look at our own time, and think about how some contemporary practices (not just in medicine) will be viewed by people 100 years from now, really what will they think of us? Plenty of current things would qualify, but it's hard for us to see them that way. Culture is invisible to the people embedded it it.
aren't there drain/weep holes in most/all door assemblies with roll down windows? seems like it could be a solved problem for auto makers
Regimes manufacturing propaganda have cheaper ways of generating realistic faces.
Be friends with university or trade school professors and ask them to keep an eye out for students starting start-ups. Maybe make occasional small but effectfull donations to budgets.

It might also be worth not going for the professors but people a bit further down the leader.
County law and State law around property development still apply.
You’d think so, but, actually the opposite.

Tax collection pays the interest on the debt. Higher taxes means more debt load.

The government, like any modern public company, does not care about profit. They operate to maximize cash flow. Income is from taxes, but most cash flow comes from debt leveraged on that income. More income, more debt. Less income, less debt.
You can only buy $10,000/year of these. Back in the day, a married couple could purchase up to $120,000 of them if you bought $60K in paper and $60k electronic. When they were paying around 7% in 1998 or so, we would max out every year. The lowered the limit because of "equity".

(Here's something from Forbes when they lowered the limit from $30,000/person/year to $5,000: https://www.forbes.com/2010/02/25/i-bonds-purchase-limits-ti... )
obesity and smoking status are more important than sex differences.
Yup, trucking has become a race to the bottom. Drivers also generally pay their own vehicle maintenance, often on trucks their renting from the company that "hired" them.

I don't know when this all shifted in the past twenty years but it feels like the teamsters union (both here and in Mexico) needs to step up their game.
Generally, popular films outside of documentaries don't lecture. It may be that you feel insecure and talked down to? Do you feel that way in normal human conversation?
Catalog all important accounts, master password to 1Password, 2FA backup codes, etc printed on paper and stored in a safe (or saftey deposit box or both for redudency).

2 weeks ago I just completed my will and trust, a TODO that I started doing 10 years ago...
> Maybe it doesn't happen cable end but it sure happens pocket end. I've mostly had Android phones and haven't had to clean as many USB C ports as the XS.

I mean, from an engineering/repair POV, these sorts of short-term, user-correctable connection faults are a good trade-off for having fewer long-term, actual-repair-needed "junk getting in there and breaking something" problems.

See, on the complete opposite end of engineering robustness: the butterfly keyboard. The hinges in those things just loved to hoover in debris, and then ground themselves apart, with user repair (i.e. popping off the keycaps to get the debris out before it can break your keyboard) being "inadvisable" at best (i.e. likely destroying the hinges just as well as the debris would have.)

> Lightning also has that problem where the 4th pin burns out and now you have a cable that charges one way.

This is true, but it's due to the electrical design (sense and VCC right next to each-other), not the physical connector design. If USB-C had used a Lightning physical connector, they could have corrected this problem just by ordering the pinout differently.
A belief doesn’t mean much, imo, of anything if their actions aren’t aligned.
I'm okay with 1, 2, 3. This is far better than anything offered by Canadian fixed income products. The reason I'm wary of equities, especially indexes is that its severely overvalued and due for a major correction (30~50% seems to be the consensus by famous bears), and that it feels like its running on fumes post 2020.

So $900 USD * 0.75 = $675 USD risk rate return after 50% capital gains tax ain't that bad. Wish wise I might be able to get back $840 CAD on a ~$12000 CAD investment.

Would be great if I could get the extra 5k limit increase by going the paper option like somebody mentioned in the comments but unsure how that plays out for Canadians.
I came across this earlier today, and part of me wants one, but I think a bigger part of me doesn't.

I am sure it was a ton of work to get this done, and congrats on that. I'm curious as to why you chose Razer as a partner in this (though I don't know who else I would recommend), and why a laptop?

My experience.

In my last start-up we bought 4 Razer Blades, well, we actually bought two, but ended up going through 4 machines before we got two working ones! And when I say "two working ones", one of those has a faulty camera, so only 1 actually fully working machines of 4. So, you can understand my feelings when I say "never again will I buy any Razer product".

But our current consideration, as we're looking at buying a few more machines is, do we really need laptops as our core development device? We're looking at getting desktops, and cheaper laptops for if we want to do some coding while we're on the train, or travelling or whatever. We find we are rarely doing heavy lifting work when we're not at the office.

For what I assume is similar cost, we can get a nice small underpowered for our needs laptop, and a suitable desktop. Does anybody else see the market going in this direction?
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Union.ai launches to accelerate machine learning orchestration using Flyte
What kinds of cool behavior do hard links enable?
Thanks for your perspective. We’re still in disagreement but I wouldn’t bet on either side of the AGI debate with any significant conviction.

Embeddings are very good at a few things: combining concepts (addition), untangling commonalities (subtraction) and determining similarity between concepts (distance).

> While embeddings are a great tool for compressing information, they do not provide inherent mechanisms for manipulating the information stored

What are the manipulations you’re referring to? I would love to learn more. From my understanding, embeddings actually provide great generalisation. If you have a well conditioned embedding space then you can interpolate into previously unseen parts of that space and still get sensible results. That is generalisation to me. Many current ML methods do _not_ result in a fully meaningful embedding space but my hunch is that we will get there with future insights and advances.
It doesn't, actually.

There are high-res versions of important events. The locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system act in concerto with the amygdala to induce protein synthesis in the hippocampus to produce vivid episodic memories. It gets rewritten every time it's accessed, but it doesn't become abstracted away like the memory of mundane events.

Semantic memory is what we call our repertoire of facts and gists and otherwise abstract knowledge. You can lose your episodic memories while keeping your semantic memories and vice versa. Which is pretty cool.

Systems consolidation is the term for the hypothesized process where episodic memories are compressed and shipped out to the cerebral cortex for semantic storage.

You can use propranolol, a beta-blocker, to prevent noradrenaline from tagging a given episodic memory as "high priority" and you can sort of force it through the consolidation process this way. And yes, you can use it to treat PTSD.
How do you see the metal under the drivers seat? Every car I have owned has had wall to wall carpet, including under the seats.
BBEdit is the first programmer's editor I used. It was 1998 and I got a job at a Portland design agency who ran Linux on servers and macOS 9 on desktop. BBEdit's powerful search and replace function was also my first encounter with regular expressions. Later I switched my desktop to Linux and my editor to Emacs, but I kept returning to BBEdit for its search and replace, while I was still ramping up on Linux.

BBEdit stokes super fond memories for me and I wish the best of luck to the project into the future.
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My dads Toyota Hilux was a rustbucket when he bought it 20 years ago. Still runs "fine", despite lots of use in the intervening years carrying highly corrosive NPK fertilizer on the farm.

A bit of rust isn't anything to be scared of so long as you know it's there.
Good point I guess 2.75 is better than 1.25. laughable that its "inflation protected" but bummer...you need a SSN
For me, I like that a lot of the text manipulation stuff I use is built-in to BBEdit, compared to VSCode where a lot of that responsibility is pushed off to extensions where the quality or consistency can be variable.

One example is hard wrap (like for git commit messages). It seems crazy to me that that’s a third party thing and not built in to VSCode.