skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter's social graph is fairly exposed. You can start with a few trusted "role models" (i.e. you'd want to follow anyone they're following) and build a pretty sizable graph from there, with minimal pruning necessary.

I built a tool to recursively scrape RSS feeds from web pages linked to twitter bios. You pass in a "root" trusted user, and look in their bio and every "followee"'s bio for a website, then look for anything "rss" "feed" "atom" or "xml"-y on the link itself or in the domain's sitemap.xml.

Surprisingly very useful. There's a decent amount of value in twitter's content, but arguably much more value in the followee network of "smart people", and the websites "linked out" from their profiles and tweets.

Reddit, similar but in a different way, filters itself into variously useful, well-moderated communities. Top X posts of subreddits A, B, C is a great heuristic for getting 90% of the value out of reddit with very little of the toxicity.

You needn't limit yourself to r/all and the twitter equivalent! :)
Actually funny you mention that because they rely a lot on coverity running on the github mirror already to cover those exploits

Bro we dev this in Brasil nobody's going to nuke us here
This is just a bunch of plots with no effort to engage with the existing literature and study. Frankly, it is a waste of time trying to draw conclusions about global warming from this.
Yea i heard of nitter, i guess it would be easy to write a ghostmonkey script to redirect all twitter links there.
I think this is more about teaching kids the universality and importance of marketing. If you want to develop a creative skill to the point where strangers will seek out and consume your work (let alone pay for the privilege of doing so) you'll need to work your ass off for years regardless of how well you end up marketing the results.
think old school ftp ports, 1 for data (your actual files being transferred) 1 for control (out of band messaging).
Juul has taken a lot of active steps to eliminate this portion of their business. At this point there are myriad fruit-forwards disposable competitors eating their lunch. See elf bars etc. Banning Juul is utterly irrelevant at this point and nothing more than retroactive punishment.
Who expects that? Don't most retailers explicitly tell their employees not to try to stop shoplifters?
How does one build containers reproducably? I can make parts of my stack reproducable if I use existing, pinned containers, but due to all the `apt-get`ing in my dockerfiles, I'd call them anything but reproducable.
this is nothing short of amazing
You can't argue against demographics from a economic and geopolitical viewpoint.

To create a young person, you need a fixed number of years. If you want an 18 year old to hit college and take on a $100k loan (or join your army and shoot your enemies), you will have to have started in 2004. There is no way to accelerate this.

Even if you poured all your energy and resources into getting people to reproduce more starting today, you won't see an active worker or soldier or college student/scholar until 2040.

What happens in the interim 18 years?
I used borg for over a decade, I know what k8s is for.
>wow, that's some high-density bullshit.

your response to the argument that economists are wrong is to post more stuff from economists that don't look at 2nd order effects? China doesn't practice anything resembling free trade and as a result they are dominating naïve Western economies

the biggest problem is people who worship "free trade" as a religion while smarter nations use it as a tool to bash them in the head
Wonder if that Rust lust comes from Rust developers themselves - i.e, programmers that use Rust a lot in their spare time, and really want to use it in their work too.
> Western economies are based on consumption, not production.

Hence their present downfall.

> Machines do not pay taxes, making it harder and harder for the state to pay for the welfare of ageing populations.

Taxes are a relic of the long-gone physical money era. Vulgar taxation is a legacy technology that provides more waste than utility in the 21st century.

> Automation simply doesn't work for service-focused work.

Yes it does, increasingly over time. I just ordered my lunch through a virtual cafeteria cashier that was literally a human until a month ago. Someone still prepared it by hand by putting ~10 spoonfuls of different ingredients into a tortilla, but that is already being automated in more advanced societies.
I don't think that's worth noting at all. After all, we could also say the same about hunter gatherer communities, the Assyrian empire, the Egyptian empire, the Roman empire, etc...

But anyway, way things are going libertarians and conservatives will get their dreamt feudalism.
You're changing the rules. The thread asked "What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data?", I replied "Omnipotent beings", now you're bringing in "deities" that you specifically have come across in "literature, religion or movies". Now, given that I don't know you, and nor presumably does the person who asked the original question, how are we to know which movies, religions and literature you have been exposed to in order to ascertain whether the deities that you specifically know about would be covered by my answer? Obviously we can't. So given that, maybe it broadens out to just "deities", but of course, not all deities are supposed to be omnipotent. Which is exactly why I didn't say "deities". So in summary, I was right and you've constructed a very bizarre new argument to try to justify your original, very wrong, nitpick.
Come again? Lucene, Solr, Kafka, Zookeeper, httpd, CouchDB, .. and that's just the top of my head.
Who and what is defined as prosocial has a long and sordid past and history of death and misery.
"Your honor I didn't kill that man, I only pulled the trigger. The bullet that passed through his heart killed him. I am innocent."
For now it is mostly just that "pull-based" TOTP is cheaper/easier and works in more "offline" or "partially-disconnected" scenarios. Your phone and the website only have to directly "communicate" once: that QR code to bootstrap the secret key. After that all of the math is independent: the math to generate codes is done entirely on the phone and the math to verify it is done entirely on the website.

There is a growing support for "Push" style authorization tools that more directly communicate between the devices. Up to now the tools have been mostly vendor-specific. Google has push notification authorization in the Google ecosystem. Apple has push notification authorization in the Apple ecosystem. Microsoft has push notification authorization the Microsoft ecosystem. The growing WebAuthn standards (for which the linked post is a Guide to working with them) are exactly the sorts of standards that are being built to increase inter-operability between vendors and trying to make "push" style authorization cheaper/easier/more ubiquitous on the web. (Those standards aren't 100% there yet for multi-vendor interoperability as other comments in these threads accurately nitpick, but this is still a giant step forward in that direction.)

Also, if your TOTP Authenticator app isn't already using your device's fingerprint or Face ID biometric locks, consider moving to a TOTP app that does. Most of the major ones do, exactly for that "trifecta" reason of layered security.
Oh wow, you're right. I bought two 12TB WD drives in March 2020 for $175 each. The same drive on Amazon is now $218.

The pair of 8TB I had previously are within $5 of what I paid in 2017.
If you are mocking the library in its entirety, you just define the same classes/functions that they do - virtual or not - and then link to your implementation instead of theirs for the test build.
They often hide the fact that they mirror SO posts.
That can be very annoying, like when you're researching a rare coding issue and there are 5 Google hits, and you only find out after clicking on all of them that 4 of them are copies of the first (only genuine) one.
Yes, indeed they do put that in writing in their employee documentation, for their legal protection, and then the actual floor managers tell them to do the opposite verbally.
We use it in Finance applications in my work - security requirements and hacking attempts are through the roof, and OpenBSD is a pretty easy sell when it comes to not losing insane amounts of money.

Microsoft/google/meta really like OpenBSD, they throw large sums of cash at it and I think it's partly because of the licensing. [1] Windows itself takes a lot of security enhancements out of OpenBSD even before Linux catches on, and I also think OpenSSH with a permissive license has been a big factor in them including it in Windows now.

[1] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
Ford "assembles" cars - that's why they're called "assembly lines." Yes, any manufactured good of sufficient complexity will have at least one part coming from somewhere else in the world that specializes in making that part. That's not a bad thing. Insisting we make everything in the U.S. to be counted as being built in the U.S. is a huge step backwards. It is simply unreasonable to expect the U.S. to be the most efficient at producing everything. And if we're forced to accept such inefficiencies then we're necessarily lowering our standard of living.
There's a subset of the population that assesses crime not based upon legality/illegality or morality/immorality or because it has overarching effects on society, but by fitting it into a shallow "just universe"/"unjust universe" paradigm. So the homeless guy steals the candy bar, and the article implies he should not be prevented from doing so because... Well, the world screwed him over, and a free snack is a minor adjustment to all the problems he's faced. Something like that?

It's a kindergartner's level of moral thinking combined with Karmic mysticism, equally juvenile.

But if you base law enforcement around that, I promise you that neighborhood will be one of those "food deserts" you've heard about. Which the same people will then complain about.
The Futhark Programming Language – functional data-parallel array programming
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI
It's only gotten worse since then. Now we have multiple phone companies, each with monopolies over various parts of the country because the infrastructure is privately owned, and little in the way of effective regulation.
> "lib-ray", which for all I know is wrong,

That's fine, but if you're curious, the Spanish pronounciation is "li"- as in "list" or "ligament" and "bre" as in "Brenda" or "bred".
> As of April 2022, over 134,000 loss prevention officers — many of them white men — were employed in the U.S.

What is the purpose of mentioning the "white men" part?
I think that for some people, a lifetime of watching morally bankrupt corporations post record profits while your wages remains stagnant (made even more painful by inflation) can make it easy to fall in to the "If they can do it why can't I" trap.
Psychopaths are overrepresented in surgery/EMT work if I'm not mistaken, for better or worse.
Is Tether the Next Luna?
This is just pure arrogance
What country are we talking about. In the US nobody needs to steal to survive. The homeless don't even need to steal to survive.
Economic growth can occur while simultaneously becoming more efficient with existing resources. See the massive gains in agriculture, for example. An acre of land today can produce vastly more food than an acre could 500 years ago, for example.
Great question! For a typical B2B SaaS, you typically will have a multitenant deployment in one region. The control plane APIs and data plane APIs will run in the same region. Each new customer will create a logical tenant in your DB but there are no physical data planes created.

For Infrastructure SaaS, it is a bit different. You typically will have different customers provision your infrastructure in different cloud or regions depending on where they have their infrastructure. This leads to having many physical infrastructure deployed in many regions and cloud providers. At the same time, for the user, you need to provide a single pane of glass experience where they can manage all their infrastructure from a single dashboard. This requires a central control plane that is responsible for all the life cycle management operations and it helps to communicate all the metadata back and forth to all the data planes. Things like upgrades, observability, user and tenant management all need coordination with the data planes. This makes the Infrastructure SaaS use case a bit different from standard B2B SaaS. Hope that helps.
There was the free business class trips for everyone (not just higher management), the frenetic office building (at one point we had offices in over 100 countries), and hundreds of millions in WIP/inventory. Definitely not a well run but a blast to work for.
Speaking of bosses and managers; do people think that people management is overrated and not that important as managers and managers’ managers claim?
I really wish middle engineering management had some technical clue and drive some technical initiatives instead.
Ads, same as every other internet company.
I was talking spinning disks - tape is too niche now
Corporations have been looting america for decades but everyone gets their panties in a bunch when one of their victims loots one of the corporate stores so they can survive
What bothers me is the sheer mass of factually incorrect statements Zeihan makes that would be trivial to check if he bothered. Things like "China only makes the low-end computer chips, anything that's going into a cellphone or laptop is made in the USA"
Is it OK to bust middle-class shoplifters, such as a number of my high school and college acquaintances?
What was humorous was a friend of mine who is super privacy conscious, pihole, cookie blocking, javascript blocking etc. etc.

They complained that the ads they're getting aren't interesting and are just in general crap.

Yeah, that's what the web was like before advertisers could go "hey, if you have people interested in X show them this ad".
You can do something with lxc - I had to use it instead of Docker on a Chromebook a while back. The wrapper isn't as nice, but it's not actually that hard to get going.
One of the best teachers I had in college was a criminal justice counselor. And the job of criminal justice counseling isn't like other jobs in psychology, sure some of your job is to help the convicts, but a lot of the convicts don't want help or are actively hostile to your help, but part of your job is to help the state. Either way someone in the class asked how he can do the job if "helping people" wasn't more core to the work. And the response was that he liked the act of the work.

Summary is, It changed how I see work, because I think the happiest people and probably to some extent the best employees are the ones that are there because they enjoy the day to day, and not as much for the meaning they get out of it. (Obviously exceptions apply)
So many surgeons with god complexes
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) just for overkill.

I would also like to draw attention to the distinction between Wake Forest University (of Winston-Salem, NC, via GSO airport) and Wake Forest, NC (closer to RDU airport). The latter was of course the home of the original Wake Forest Baptist Manual Labor Institute.

I’ve had to pick someone up at the wrong airport, you see. It was quite a drive.
> Even though the intended use for these devices is a 2-5 second draw at no more than 2 draws before the device must be rested so as to not overheat, not every consumer uses the devices in this way or knows this technique.

> users should not be taking more than three draws per hour on average

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Even in fully legal store (up in canada) I have never seen either of those warnings.
>“That’s a huge adrenaline rush,” he says. “I think that’s a major factor in why people are in this field.”

This should be a huge red flag that should preclude someone from working in the industry.

As Dan says later in the article:

>“They’re more concerned with punishing and catching, and they see asset protection as a game,” adds Dan, who requested that Input give him an alias. “I don’t think it’s healthy to have those people in the industry. So, when I see that, I try to challenge that. The goal is to protect the business — not to ruin people’s lives.”

People who go into law enforcement or security should not be doing it because they get a kick out of catching and punishing people. Because if all they care about it that kick, they are more likely to abuse their power to get that kick regardless of whether the people on the other end deserve to be caught or punished.
I always buy enterprise drives - much higher reliability and lifetime and usually I have found they benchmark higher. They are also way heavier and almost always use better bearings on all surfaces. Some people complain they are super loud but the three types I have randomly purchased over the years have been just as quiet as any other spinning disk (as in I do not notice the sound at all once its inside my desktop)
I recently reread all of the Goosebumps books and I'll warn anyone inspired to do so by seeing this headline: they don't hold up as an adult.

And I say that as someone who really loved them as a kid.

With that said, the Animorphs books are all being rereleased as audio books and they've been a pleasure to listen to.
> slightly less terrible alternative to those.

E-cigarettes aren’t slightly less terrible. They are much less terrible / much better than traditional cigarettes in that they do not cause lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the main problem with cigarettes and e-cigarettes don’t do this. So that’s a huge improvement.

Of course they have other problems but none of them are as bad as a 15x chance of lung cancer [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC
Excessive wealth inequality and weak welfare state.
Same! This is what makes me realize I'm on the algorithmic feed rather than the reverse-chron feed. Almost nobody I intentionally follow uses this awful device.
shoplifting absolute necessities and life essentials is a morally light grey area. it's stealing, but when the alternative is starvation, there's a bit of leeway.

for everything else, it becomes this twisted worldview where shoplifters believe they're owed something by "the system." or because it's walmart/target instead of mom and pop's corner shop, it's like they're the modern day robin hood. the ability of our brains to think themselves into defending its own behavior, as immoral as it may be, is fascinating.
> "Don't do X, don't break the rule, you're doing it wrong"... that's why people don't write tests

I think that's why people don't read blog posts like this - such wording is rude and patronizing.
> Furthermore, after the one-time pain, assuming they survive the pain, the sanctioned nation arguably ends up stronger because they're forced to develop in-house versions of things.

Which is why North Korea is now a world-leader in... Oh, right. They are an impoverished Chinese vassal, that can barely even keep its own people fed.

I don't understand where all this 'Sanctions do nothing' zeitgeist is coming from. Is six-dollar a gallon gas the cause for a complete reversal on this sort of thing? If so, I'd daresay that sanctions seem pretty effective - given that their targets have to deal with a lot worse than expensive gas.

Russia's on track for an 8% reduction in GDP this year. I can't speak for everyone, but between the two options, I think I'd prefer the six-dollar gas.
Might be temporary? How about if you look at different drives like seagate enterprise or HGST or Toshiba?
Ever been in a store dealing with significant amounts of shoplifting, such as basically all chain stores in San Francisco these days? The more the shoplifting, the more stuff ends up behind locked cabinets. In some stores it's so bad even candy is locked up.

Now consider what happens when convenience stores stop being convenient. People with money stop patronizing them. They reduce their stock of items. They close. And now people, including poor people, no longer have a convenient place to shop.

Everybody has options. Shoplifting is very rarely, if ever, the best option available to someone on the ropes. It's just often the more convenient option, until it stops being convenient for them and everybody else.
Intel Arc A380 desktop GPU finally tested
> “A LOT of people are like, ‘How, MORALLY, can you do this job?"

I only know of one or two people in my entire life that think that preventing theft immoral. "A LOT" is there to mislead readers into thinking there is a moral dilemma around loss prevention.

There is no moral dilemma. Not stealing is the most basic rule of society.
> Power is a hell of a drug.

I wouldn't necessarily attribute that statement to a power trip. There is joy in doing a job well.
See your message probably came from the future AI through a micro wormhole, just to keep us off guard. OpenBSD needs to become an adaptive defense system and it needs a catalog of exploits to hit back, ideally generated by AI locally
> As you sit down and type from a device created very much by the financial engineering “complications” of the modern market ...

That's a ridiculous claim.

As if the development of complex technical devices wouldn't have happened without complex financial markets and inscrutable financial business models.

Complexity in finance .. up to a certain degree it may well serve the purposes of society .. beyond some level though, excessive complexity mostly serves few big players who can manage and understand the complexity and gain an advantage over other actors with less resources (that'd be most of the rest of society).
Because these people aren't stealing a Ferrari for a joyride, they're stealing things like diapers and laundry detergent... sometimes for personal use, but often to resell to other poor people to fuel a drug addiction.

These are people who live in poverty. Their lives are so bad that punishment is near meaningless.
That would account for "Stephen Strange" types who take on challenging surgeries just to prove they can do it and deserve their posh surgeon salary.
You're assuming a) that they're shoplifting items needed to survive, and b) that there were no other, legal, sources of the items they needed (food banks, ebt, welfare, etc.) that they could have chosen to make use of instead. Of course the fact that you chose to insert some political anti-capitalist quip nonsense shows that you're not really interested in arguing from good faith and instead mostly just want to further your propaganda.
it's a sad state of affairs when the shoplifters make more than loss prevention.
The helium filled drives also appear to be much, much more reliable. Only thing that worries me about them is that if you need to do disaster recovery you are pretty much out of luck unless you can get the original manufacturer to do it or find a highly specialized place.
If you think the average shoplifter is like Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread, you're deeply out of touch with reality
What country are /you/ talking about? In my city, there are homeless people living in tents under every overpass, in every empty lot, parking lots, tennis courts, in broken down cars, etc. You think these people have trust funds?
What percentage does Astro charge on top of that (e.g. management fee)? Where's the breakdown? You're claiming transparency but it looks fairly opaque. I'm not trying to be combative, merely pointing out the marketing pitch is at odds with the data available.
Airplane catches fire after landing gear collapses at Miami
They believe that a business having resources that they don't is itself the immorality. They want any equalization of property between the rich and not-rich. There are plenty of comments justifying such stealing even here alongside this one.
so what's the new RICE?