skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote matches my own understanding of the system from when I worked on Google Search circa 2005. Human ratings were used to facilitate an automated test that could tell you if your new algorithm actually made search results better or not. That let search quality engineers iterate on ideas quickly. But the human ratings were not directly used to produce search results, since that wouldn't scale (only a relatively small number of queries actually had rated results).

Obviously 2005 was a long time ago though and everything could have changed since then.
Pasadena?
Video-game "Tanks" often have a degree of controlling the enemy movement. Slowing enemies down, binding them, preventing movement.

So the point of a "tank" is to run in front of the party. If the enemy tries to run around the tank, they get "CC'd" (crowd-controlled" and are then unable to move. The DPS-job is then to run in, kill them while they're under the control of the tank (aka: while the enemy can't move), and that's that.

So trying to kill the enemy DPS often just gets your own party out-of-position. As such, you're often forced to kill the enemy tank first.

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Needless to say, these fantasy fights / video-game fights don't exist in the real world. These roles were setup by video games, probably World of Warcraft and Diablo II before LoL and DotA. (Maybe an earlier game than that?)

But when video gamers hear the word "tank", they expect real-world tanks to act... well... like a video-game tank, and not like a real-world tank.
Hell yeah man!
The US fed is the biggest whale in the whole market

And every major economic union is duplicating what the fed does

Even if the second part wasn’t true, the first part would cause inflation in those economic unions

It buys bonds from ANY bondholder indiscriminantly. It didn’t matter where they are, they get new dollars, and dilute the value of their area.
There is no Microsoft tax for all intents and purposes. Manufacturers make more than an enough on the pre-installed crapware to make up for the Windows license.
> The COVID fiscal canon blew growth and inflation skyward.

This is not true and has wrongly given credit to people who have said, since 2020, that COVID relief would cause inflation.

Our current inflation is driven by supply chain issues (unrelated to COVID relief) and rising oil (unrelated to COVID relief.)
Bubb Rubb and Lil Sis would disapprove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXow3d3-b0
I wonder if humans are so primed to find meaning in poetry that a lot of people would find something in anything.

For example, take Bob Dylan and have him write 7 random words (for example using the Diceware password generator.) Then release this 7 words saying that this is a leak of one of the lines in an unpublished song.

I bet that you will get entire articles analyzing those 7 words in great detail and coming to the conclusion that that line is one of the most profound lines ever written.
Is it unusual for multiple outlets to publish the same article?
As someone who does not write C regularly and doesn’t not need to read stacks docs regularly, I’ve found it immensely useful. I have not gotten very far yet but have already found real world use for flag combinations for avoiding race conditions
https://wiki.python.org/moin/StacklessPython

Stackless Python allows you to run hundreds of thousands of tiny tasks, called "tasklets", in a single main thread. These tasklets can run completely decoupled, or they can communicate via "channels".
It's not appropriate, because it's a poor generalization to begin with. People just see "frontrunning" and have a vague sense it's fundamentally illegitimate because of vague connections to the illegal practice, and yell things that make no sense on wsb and the like.

The usage is popularized because it makes sensationalist headlines and forum headers, that the "generalized usage" was either misguided or intended to confuse, which correlates poorly with accurately conveying the meaning of word or capturing the details of the blockchain phenomenon.
Shorting the peak always works, just as buying the dip always works.

The challenge is identifying the peaks and dips. They’re only obvious in retrospect.

Buying perceived dips is easier than shorting perceived peaks because the stock market tends to go up over time.
That base2048 string is 114 bytes (vs 129 for hex), so it's only significantly "shorter" in what you see, which isn't exactly human-readable (actually, less than the hex string; for a quick visual inspection comparing just the first and last 2 or 3 characters is enough, but that's a lot harder to do with all those unfamiliar Cyrillic, Tibetan, Tamil, Armenian, Arabic, Samaritan, Greek, etc. characters in there).
Thanks, if that's the case it's at least an improvement.
I think Hollywood wasn't motivating anti-biker attitudes, just the opposite. Hollywood made these movies because the subject was of interest to the public. Motorcyclists were already notoriously antisocial by 1972, and that public sentiment probably informed the Noise Control Act of '72.
Max Headroom, Episode ABC.1.3: "Body Banks":

Paula: "...what's that?"
Blank Reg: "It's a book!"
Paula: "Well, what's that?"
Blank Reg: "It's a non-volatile storage medium.
It's very rare. You should have one."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWR-b42lU0
I think environmental damage scales directly with consumption of energy, whether it be to move mass or manufacture plastic. The sheer amount of consumption due to living far away from each other, with all the human mass, water, fuel, trash, machines, food, and everything else that has to move because of the distance people are from each other dwarfs everything else.

There is no “sustainable” world and a lifestyle that allows 8 billion people to have their own cars, fly to island vacations, and live in suburbia, with current energy transformation technology. Doing all the other things is a rounding error.

At the end of the day, the physics is simple. Moving mass a certain distance takes a certain amount of energy. Our current method of harnessing that energy results in a lot of byproducts, and we have yet to find alternatives with sufficiently better properties. Either we find that breakthrough technology, or reduce the mass and/or distance it is being moved.
Seattle area.
My point was that there's disagreement about whether the US has a right to privacy, compared to in Singapore which, at least based on the comments in the thread, it seems like there's consensus that there isn't one.
Smart TVs are the worst. I always hated them but recently my wife had to deal with one at her workplace and now she hates them even more than I do. We're still running a very old plasma TV that we rarely use so it still looks really great, doubt I'll upgrade any time soon. In fact I'm looking for a spare to chuck in the basement.
One of my kids - 10yrs old - has been wanting to learn basic HTML and "programming". We've been going through the W3C with no trouble, and he's learning at an amazing rate.

This tutorial is way beyond anything he could approach. For example "Pedagogy" - I don't know what that means, and neither does he. Another example, from the beginning "In this section of the curriculum, you will be introduced to non project-based concepts important to becoming a professional developer."

I suspect most of this is translation issues, but given the audience (kids, newbies), this language is super intimidating.
Sad to think that investing in the stock market, which I have only been able to financially over the last 5 years might have been much riskier than I might have previously thought. What I previously thought as "okay I just leave it in the stock market for a bit of time to recoup" is something I am now realizing would likely have to be 10+ years.

It's kind of funny because I was getting shaky about having money in the stock market back in December, and I held onto investing some of my money there. But I ultimately relented 4 months later to lose 10% within about two weeks (and after just index funds). Now it's much worse, and I guess I'll just leave it all there.

And in 15 years I'll be back to where I was when I originally invested it.
Coders gonna code.
A lot of them, probably.

That's about the age where I learned programming (with AmigaBASIC). At that point, I did already know a bunch of CLI commands, too.

Kids can very easily get immersed into something. They also have a lot of free time.
This is a great article, they compare florida and california mortality rates and actually adjust for demographics including age.

Just a couple months ago this would be disinformation. I wonder what the new disinformation ministry is going to think about this article.
There's no implementation of any political or economic system that's not unproblematic in various ways. Capitalism isn't any different here.
The technical expression is "buy the dip, short the rip".
One definition is that a poem is a mechanism for communicating a feeling from inside one human's mind into another's.

In which case no AI-generated poem (prior to actual GAI) can properly be called a poem, since it isn't generated out of a feeling.

On the other hand:

If a human, who is feeling something, but is unable to summon the words to express that feeling, prompts an ML program to help them generate some words that they think communicate that feeling - then shares that with an audience and successfully communicate that way...

who's to say that's not poetry?
Because we would all like companies to treat us like adults and let us work from home. Our company has done just fine with WFH - amazingly, even - but they want us back in the office because they fundamentally don't trust us.
It's not really geared towards 10 year olds, although we had a 9 year old contributor, actually! I'd recommend MakeCode for that age group
‘Canaries in the coalmine’: loss of birds signals changing planet
I skimmed this book the other day while looking for OReilly books. It was alright. It doesn’t offer enough over other similar books like How Linux Works, the ship book, or TLPI. Maybe one advantage is the detail of the networking chapter which is more substantial than the ship book or HLW. Still however it is not enough for understanding modern cloud infra
Ask HN: What are the privacy implications of FIDO adoption?
Lately there has been a lot of buzz regarding the adoption of FIDO authentication and the removal of passwords from our lives. I am curious what privacy implications there may be for a FIDO centric future?
Ok but how would a street “camera” know your rating vs the noise you just made?
> Apple would’ve made an exemption for exceptional talent. They didn’t make the exception for him.

Mmm. Don’t count on it. Apple will bend a lot for you, but stuff like office location was never very flexible even before the pandemic. If your team switched offices to an inconvenient location, tough luck. Ultimately it was on you to adapt.

If you were a top performer and threatened to quit over it… well, Apple has a deep bench.
> "Pedagogy" - I don't know what that means

It means “teaching methods”.
I'd ... thought that more of the Unix arguments (block, unblock, conv, etc.) were supported on JCL, though my IBM link doesn't support that.

I'll see if I can find a more canonical / complete reference.
DC banned gas powered leaf blowers, that finally went onto effect over the new year. It's great!! Your city can to. It's super.

Someone woke me up this week with a gas leaf blower & I didnt quite drag myself dowm there to give him a verbal warning. But I will be doing that soon, I think!

I wish DC would enforce noise pollution against cars. I live on a particilarly bad street, to the point where I somewhat deserve it, but it's still a tiny residential street. People just love tearing up the streets & dosrupting neighbors after a long long night. I dont even know if we have laws against it, but there's definitely no enforcement. Automated systems sound lovely.

They dont tend to be super late night, but DC also has swarms of dirtbikes/atv's, loud as heck, and the police officially are not to respond, are told to do nothing, for passerby & rider safety. We should definitely do something about the cars but, & we do nothing, but it's notable to me that civil behavior is generally unenforceable, at least as it appears now.
I like the sound of a properly built V8. They should be exempt from that law. If it's a 4 cylinder machine with a fart exhaust, those should be banned. 12 cylinder Ferraris should also be worshiped, not fined.

An air-cooled VW Bug with a stinger exhaust should get a special exemption, too, just for being California cool.
In the short term, Russia has the military advantage. In the medium term, Ukraine will probably gain the advantage, but it's unclear if it will be sufficient to drive the Russian forces out quickly enough. Because in the long term, Ukrainian economy and infrastructure are collapsing, and they still have something like 35 million civilians to feed.

Fossil fuels are particularly problematic. If Ukraine can't import energy from Russia, Belarus, or over the Black Sea, the only remaining choice is Europe. But Europe is facing a shortage of its own, because most countries are trying to phase out energy imports from Russia. If they can't buy enough for their own needs, they may not share enough with Ukraine.
Aren't inner cities in Europe the rich parts? Of course it's nice there...
sounds like that's what this fellow is planning to do. I don't mind if companies want a return to office, but some of us don't want to go in if we can avoid it.
Based on what I've seen Ukraine doing, Russia is forced to use tanks.

Ukraine is well dug in, and has been building out concrete-bunkers for the last 8 years (ever since Russia annexed Crimea and started to invade the Donbas region, Ukraine has been preparing). That's THICK concrete walls, well dug in sniper spots all over the place, underground networks, etc. etc.

Going into those areas without any armor will just get you sniped. Furthermore, going in by foot means walking and/or running, which is really slow.

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So you go in with say, an APC (20mm thick armor), right? Since APCs are vehicles, they can run at 30mph to 50mph, so they're actually fast enough to go in.

Well, wrong. Ukraine has 50-cal machine guns and 50-cal sniper-rifles that shreads right through that armor. So even with an armored personnel carrier, they just die. Cheaper anti-tank rounds (AT4) also blow them up no problem.

Well... how about going in with an IFV? (less armor than APC, but more gun). Still the same problem, IFVs lose to that heavy machine-gun fire, and the 30mm autocannon of IFVs (BMP-2 and other such platforms) isn't big enough to punch through the concrete-bunkers the Ukrainians are hiding behind.

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So what does Russia do? They send in the tanks. 200mm+ thick armor with advanced geometry and anti-CE protection systems (reactive armor). (A sideways shot against a tank needs 500+mm penetration to harm the tank, thanks to the "geometry" of the tank). That thick armor is immune to sniper-fire and enemy machine-guns, even large machine guns and even 30mm autocannons.

And that's when the Ukrainians pull out Javelins and NLAWs and then blow up the tank (tandem-charge, blowing up the reactive armor with a "fake explosion" and then hitting the tank with a 600mm+ penetrating shot near simultaneously)

But still, the tank at least has a 120mm cannon to blow up bunkers while they're on the frontlines, so the tank actually made progress against the enemy bunker.
Does Siri use machine learning? It is so far behind Alexa…
What W3C resources have you been using?
SSH is such a different use case that the analogies break down. With respect, thinking about this for a few minutes should convince you that while TOFU works fine for immutable artifact signatures, it is unworkable for a system where you ever upgrade packages.

Consider that most nontrivial projects on rubygems have multiple maintainers that can publish a version. Normal collaboration models would imply that they each have a personal signing key; sharing a single signing key per project isn’t realistic (as you mentioned, rotation is another reason for this). And TOFU doesn’t work when there are multiple possible keys, such a system requires an external trust chain.

Assume for the sake of argument the above is solved. What exactly do you do when tooling alerts you that an upgraded dependency has changed keys since the last version? Either you blindly accept the new key or you investigate. If the latter hopefully you have a way to directly contact the author to verify that the rotation was legitimate. Since you probably don’t you should just compare the diff of the published artifacts. But you should have been doing this anyway, so what has the signature bought you here except false security?

Imagine a system like npm, where hundreds of transitive dependencies are upgraded all the time. Would you really want a key change in a 3rd-level dep you didn’t even know you were using to block you from installing a security fix to a primary dependency until you could somehow vet the new key? Such a system would change very quickly to Trust On First Use But Also Trust On Any Change…

I’m all for pragmatic solutions that measurably improve supply chain security. I just think changes like https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2499 and https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2242 which recognize the social aspect of the problem qualify to a much greater extent than thinking of crypto as magic dust that can be sprinkled on a system to increase its security.
Apple Park is the only hamster wheel I'd remotely consider returning to
I look forward to tens of thousands of fines being sent out whenever an aircraft goes by.
Right, but earlier you said:

> I just wonder how (or if) they’ll make the shift to level 3 without angering customers. Or, if they’ll choose to stay at level 2 so they can have more features.

I don't know whether it would be a meaningful business goal to "make the shift to level 3". The business goals would be more nuanced than that, since approximately zero actual customers know or care what level 3 is. And the line between "you must watch what the car is doing and be prepared to take over" and "you must be prepared to take over if the car asks you to" is going to get blurred by manufacturers (and the distinction isn't that obvious to an average user in the first place).

Level 3 is absolutely not "you don't have to pay attention". SAE defines it as "when the feature requests, you must drive". Characterising that as "you don't have to pay attention" is what makes this potentially the riskiest level.
I believe this is a problem with OKRs more then with remote work. It is too easy to game the OKR process by choosing easy but showy OKRs, doing the bare minimum and declaring victory.

I've been remote for 10 years and before that worked on a bunch of distributed research teams and it is perfectly possible to have a highly functioning distributed/remote team that really takes ownership. I mean look at open source projects.

Further office culture tends to favor a bunch of young people who all live in the same city and have time to go out for drinks after work etc. I'll take a bunch of crazy odd balls scattered across the globe doing their own thing any day.
Neural Networks Can Use Software Tools in Response to User Commands
- vendor lock in

- vendors unnecessarily requiring you to provide proof of id

- inability to easily replicate tokens

- site enforced vendor requirements
There is currently a hiring freeze at Meta for most positions but this rescinding case was mostly caused by visa lottery problems it seems like.
It's highly workload dependent. Many things are cache friendly and won't care. Adding a integrated GPU definitely shows improvements with increased bandwidth and increased channels.

Similarly adding enough cores makes the extra channels helpful as well, for that reason servers often have 4x the memory channels as desktops (8 channels vs 2). Even with 8 channels often the performance scaling for using half the cores vs all the cores is poor, at least for the top spec chips.

AMD seems to have realized this and their next gen will have 24 channels instead of 8.
Wish we had cubicles. Nothing but big open offices at most places I know about.
you can ask for a refund (https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REFUND) and they'll email your article back to with citations.
Another thing to look at is the CAPE ratio. Even now, it's still above 30. We've gone from around a 37 to a 32. Mean/median is in the 16-17 range. DotCom crash in 1999 topped out at around 44.

Still a lot of room to fall.
From what I've read, our current inflation is due to combo of inflated asset prices causing mortgages and rents to skyrocket along with corporate greed raising prices "because of inflation".
> [cookies] made a humongous impact on my life.

That's very funny... Do you work in ads or something?
It's literally in the anti-union playbooks that union busting firms pass to their busters.
I think in a vacuum this is mostly true. Yes, if we open markets to automobiles the price of automobiles for consumers will drop. I'm not so sure it holds in the case when you consider us opening the markets for automobiles, vacuum cleaners, industrial chemicals, semiconductors, etc...

At some point you eventually reach a state where we don't actually make things anymore and the entire economy is devoted to serving those who benefit from that trade. You end up with an economy based on food service, hospitality, retail, etc. As the owners of those trade arrangements diverge further and further economically from the overwhelming majority of the population it breeds a kind of resentful desperation. When we have a healthy economy where most people can support themselves with a reasonable salary in a self-respecting dignified way without licking the boots of the upper class society is healthier. It's hard to see how we do that with free trade.
That’s just a bubble sort. I learned that in elementary school in the 80s.
Just reading the title, this sounds like a literal screen scraper. Hoping it holds up...

"He decided to tap into the the display communication lines."

Bingo!
> This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging.

I'm a bit unconvinced by the studies that say this, because I don't think the "buy the dip" strategy they're talking about is the same one that people are running.

The studies describe waiting for a low point in a given year (or even across multiple years!) then lumping in all your money then.

Whereas I think what people actually mean when they talk about buying the dip is shifting their dollar cost averaging buy-in by days, weeks, or at most a few months, while they wait for the market to get spooked.

I don't do this at the moment. I had a "wait for the US president to say something stupid" strategy which seemed to work for a while, but of course I don't really have enough evidence to back that up.
And I do, particularly on Android.

The main motivator there is actually Google Chrome's abysmal tab management and navigation, as it is all but impossible to clear out tabs in a reasonable manner.

On Firefox, with Tree-Style Tabs, the problem still exists, though it is less severe.

There's still ample opportunity for tracking, unfortunately. I consider both Chrome and Android to be actively user-hostile and privacy-hostile, for what I hope are evident and well-founded reasons. Google's advertising motiviation is powerful.
I have enough friend in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany to be grateful for the ability to pay for private insurance and get actual, timely, if expensive, access to doctors and treatment.

But if the coverage runs out while between jobs, it indeed sucks.
Both RSS2 and Atom has official validators. I also have a linter here:
https://roastidio.us/lint
That check the metadata consistency between the blog and the feed.
I'm pretty sure that's a lot more than the army of shadow content moderators in the Philippines are being paid [0]

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3HkKSZ...