skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...And that's why Linux still languishes on the desktop, QED.

Google proved the point with Android and thus fixed Linux with APK files and then it was a runaway success.

The need to fix this problem with Linux is so obvious and that it hasn't you'd have to reckon Microsoft must have found a way to divide and rule over any agreement process.

More to the point it shows the inherent weakness in open software - that is better open products have difficulty in competing against commercial ones because of stupid squabbles amongst the Open community - disagreements over minor technicalities and useability issues† means the greater objective has been lost.

This is all very annoying for average users, especially so when we've huge monopolies such as Microsoft and Google running the show. With little effective choice users capitulate to the inevitable.

Anyone who'd argue with this assessment, don't bother arguing with me, read the stats instead. Comparing the numbers of Thunderbird versus Gmail users would be a good place to start.

† For instance, when considering to use Linux the average user is horrified at having to choose from hundreds of different distros so it's no wonder he/she gives up. The sheer number of distros is madness, it's such a fractured effort. I can't think of another comparable instance in the tech world where things have gotten so out of control.
Another way of looking at this is as, "institutions tending towards prudence" which is an after effect of inheriting the anglospheric intellectual tradition (Hume, Burke, Adam Smith). This is classic empirical conservatism-- there must be a very good reason to implement new policy if the system tends toward stability, solutions must be vetted, and new policy should be, "test-driven" at small scales before being implemented more generally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Here's my question-- without making an appeal to, "oughts" or ideals; what part of any of this is controversial or surprising given the highly capitalist nature of American civic life? People don't want their nice neighborhoods to change. I don't see this as unreasonable.
> People should be trained to detect fraud if that's necessary. But saying "don't try to detect fraud" to random-ass employees whose job is not fraud detection seems eminently reasonable to me.

It's not reasonable because of the first sentence. If you're dealing with other people's money, your employees should be trained to detect fraud. If you can't be bothered to ensure that, you shouldn't be dealing with other people's money.
It doesn't? What am I missing from the article then? I think it says pretty clearly that human artistry is a necessary component of a copyrightable work.
Eh, the right not to touch money that was involved in activities you don't like has just as much standing in my opinion.

Or do you want to force people to deal with money made from 'blood diamonds' or from fossil fuels or tobacco or abortion clinics or gay wedding cakes or pineapple pizza etc? (I deliberately picked examples from different points of politics and with different levels of severity.)

Instead of regulating more heavily, we should look into lowering barriers to entry, so that people doing legal things can find someone to facilitate their payments (without the need to force anyone to facilitate payments they disagree with).
Jennifer Putin declares Megan Zelensky is a slut and no one should sit with her at lunchtime. But seriously female aggression is also a thing though not as visible when men will readily engage in violence on women's behalf.

Another thought: risk-taking is also related to curiosity and hence progress. Would a placid society even think of making sperm on microchips?
This is better quality (see comparisions in the video demo) and it's done with mostly normal cameras, not specialized high framerate cameras.
>This is such a weird thing to say... it really isn't all that relaxing tbh, like why not just use a password manager separately or through browser? What's relaxing about handing all your logins over to big company or big company's operating system? That seems like the opposite of relaxing

It's not so much about handing over credentials but authenticating a physical device. Less a password and more like a list of allowed keys.

>And also what happens if the public private key pair is compromised?

The keys are generated separately for each provider and login. Hell, even if they get the server's stored public key they can't actually do anything with it. That's the whole point of a public key.

>How will they implement device syncing of passkeys or the bluetooth technique mentioned in the article without creating new vulnerabilities? Why not just do 2FA and not put all of your eggs in one basket?

The Bluetooth authentication technique mentioned in the article doesn't ever have a private key exchanged over Bluetooth. The authenticating device grabs the public key of the new device, authenticates the user on a device inside the user's account's circle of trust using the device's security (passcode/biometrics), then the already authorized device tells the server to add the new public key of the new device to the server's list of valid keys.

Airdrop transfers private keys but you don't have to use it if you're not comfortable.

>They criticize 2FA as flawed in the article, but how common are the SMS vulnerabilities that they talk about? Based off of this article, it seems like passkeys are 100% better and the solution to all of our authentication needs. Reads like a sales pitch

Fairly frequently. Providers are improving their security but there's still giant holes in it. Do you really trust your phone provider not to balls it up? Passkeys are 100% better. That's why we use them all the time for SSH instead of password/2FA.

>Hate to say it, but I personally don't feel comfortable storing all of my logins on Apple or Google's servers. Sorry, not for me.

You don't have to. At no point do their servers have to get involved. You'll still be able to login by bootstrapping devices into the circle of trust. You can run your own keychain software that you write and can use your CPU's inbuilt TPM or a hardware security module if you want. You just won't be able to restore private keys automatically if you lose a device and have to bootstrap the replacement device back into the circle of trust.
Being interested in a better future system necessitates understanding the risks thereof, including those currently revealed under the current system.
The Space shuttle had a 60 ton payload as I recall. A large nuclear warhead is 1000kg, in theory 3 space shuttles could deliver ~90 large warheads or up to 900 smaller warheads. Space Shuttles would also have the ability to identify hard to find targets such as mobile ICBM launchers.

The idea of using shuttles to manage or deliver a nuclear deterrent/first strike capability in space was probably considered at some point during its development. If there was one reason to scratch this idea, it would be that launching a nuclear shuttle would have been highly auspicious - and likely treated as the equivalent of an ICBM launch. It's highly unlikely that permanent orbital munitions would be tolerated either.
Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory
SecObs (https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/the-security-obstructionism-...) at it again!
>probably do software development

Could they get hired at a tech company and put in level-appropriate work for two years? Without domain-specific knowledge and experience? You're saying 'work hard for two years' presumably by that you mean produce level-appropriate or above-level-appropriate work?

You're basically saying that you think just anybody off the street with a 100+ IQ can 'just get hired' at a tech firm and do dev work, for two years, and then coast?
> Typically hair dressers and tattoo artists are artisans who rent a chair.

I suspect that depends on jurisdiction? I'm fairly sure that eg in Germany it's more common that they are employees. No clue about the Netherlands.
22% of (probably adults) own a gun.

40% of people (or adults, not sure) live in a household with a gun. Not all of those people consent to the gun's presence.

"percent of households" is probably in between.

Gun control issue is not dead, because the percentage varies regionally, and gun control can stop people from buying and using a gun immediately in a fit of passion.
Can you imagine if it rained ice cream? If you bought 10 lottery tickets and every one won? What if all disease on earth spontaneously went away? I could imagine all sorts of wonderful things, but being able to imagine something is not a reasonable basis for expecting it to occur, especially when it contradicts what we already know about the world.

GPT-3 style language models assemble nonsense with similar statistical properties to the (hopefully) meaningful text in their training corpus, and that's it. At best, they are engines for contextually regurgitating chunks of real information, but in practice it's more like reaching for a volume from a lightly curated shelf of Borges' Total Library; self-cast shadows of information that roil and collapse into meaninglessness. The technique is fundamentally untrustworthy for any application with real stakes.
Yes.

Employer isn’t doing anything to correct it.

Actively interviewing as I wait for RSU cliff,
No, but a thing vibrating in any dimension will still produce sound waves.
Per your link, Johnson was under suspicion for a congressional election a couple decades before he became president. This was likely a function of a typical election at the end of the era of machine politics (and not sure why you would mention LBJ rather than Kennedy’s victory in IL in 1960, which may well have been dispositive in an American presidential election - but then again, so was ballot graphic design in one county in one state in 2000).

In LBJ’s 1964 presidential election victory, he won an absolutely overwhelming landslide. I am not really sure what point you think you are proving.
If it's truly an early-stage paper, then its title should reflect that. An authoritative, blanket statement like "wear-leveling considered harmful" is disingenuous.

If this is speculative / unfinished work, I would hope for a title like "certain wear-leveling algorithms may be counter-productive".
Good sleep is #1 by a mile.

Stress reduction and or getting hold of and managing down an over demandng job is #2

Be sure and play! #3 easy.

For #2, walking, good diet, good match of working hours to life and people who matter.
V8 Isolates aren't exactly new (been around for about a decade); I'm sure the good folks at Netlify are up to speed on them. :)

Containers were clearly the safer bet when FaaS options hit the scene 6-8 years ago. Now with WASM opening up possibilities, Cloudflare made the smart move to base their edge compute off isolates, given the significantly reduced overhead.

Will be fun to see how the cloud competition responds!
Thanks for the reply. Very interesting.

I’m really surprised the ordinance requires proof or it did not happen. You would assume it is doing something and that something can be checked. For example you don’t need proof of circumcision … just peek.

Is the Mormon God not all knowing and powerful? You would think God would know who has had what ordinance without the paperwork.
No offense, but I highly doubt that.

>The first is handled by arbitragers who can mint/redeem it for other decentralized assets (it is fully collateralized by a treasury of decentralized assets).

Sure, but the parameters of this mint/reward system are a function of the exchange rate, are they not? Even then, those decentralized assets are either other stablecoins, or non-stablecoins. If it's backed by stablecoins, then it's centralized. If it's backed by non-stablecoins, then it's non-stable.

>The oracle is handled by Chainlink which is decentralized.

You can't have a decentralized oracle in any meaningful way, it is like what truthcoin tried to do. I admittedly have no idea how chain-link works, but I am pretty certain that it is not decentralized. It is almost a truism that members of distributed system cannot verify arbitrary facts about the outside world (for example, exchange rates) without having trusted oracle/oracles. You can try to make the system reliant on many different oracles, but that is similar to classical consensus and there's no distributed way to prevent them from colluding. It is essentially the problem with proof-of-stake.

If you ask me, Fei looks like yet another ponzi system like USDT/LUNA. Why are stablecoin owners always rewarded for merely holding?
> About 1/6 of the pay comes from his pocket

Sorry, pls explain me this business logic. 1/6th is his ownership which is mostly tied to stocks. The pay comes from liquidity(arising from sales, selling bonds & any additional stock dilution from the organization) Unless I am completely misinformed about how business accounting works. Ownership doesnt pay unless they sell their stocks to pay(which he did through raising funding through stock hypothication in the past)
Not just this, but common red flags that indicate a scam. There are many variations but they all follow the same broad plot lines. Any unexpected request for money should be verified. The more urgent it sounds, the more likely it is fake. If you are traveling, give your kids/parents a code word that you will use in case of an emergency. No legitimate collection agency, business, bail bond company, or government office is going to demand payment in the form of gift cards.
> Both statements are conjectures.

Not really, no. You're spouting random conspiracy theories. You provided unverified primary sources. Any rando can make a website and post a PDF on it for $10.

Only 1.3% of all abortions happen after 20 weeks.
The Taliban were repelling an invading army. The Viet Cong were strictly trained.

Do you think ordinary Americans have the skill or appetite to take up arms against other Americans? Especially better trained and equipped Americans?

How far do you think the Jan 6 insurrectionists would have gotten had the capitol police taken the threat at all seriously?

The argument that "America's armed forces have lost wars" does not support your conclusion that "ordinary Americans are capable of defeating America's armed forces."

And you also conveniently ignore the rest of argument, pointing out that a democratic government doesn't need armed insurrections.
Gpt-3 does not have the long-term memory required to create a convincing book-length narrative. Not that that's a guarantee that gpt-4 will be thus limited.
Republicans failed to deliver abortion bans for 50 years. "Failed to deliver" isn't a major driver of voting decisions, since the failure is usually due to an election in a different jurisdiction controlled by the other party.
When I was at Amazon I asked about this but in relation to the dotcom bust and if memory serves me right, they did a one-time top up for everyone who was massively down due to "x% salary SBC" as the x while variable, formed a decent part of people's living expenses.
It's has a more recent version in Linux distributions. And it still has quirks like spewing garbage into my terminal after :wq. Vim dorsn't do that, nor require 5 additional libraries.
If it happens only on Visa, is it regulatory ?

I'd expect that to be Visa covering their butt in advance to not even have to think about it ...
How? The sticker creates a partial database.
Yes, DE = Delaware. An owner or manager of a limited liability company formed in Delaware will appear nowhere in any public records, which is why you see with some frequency fairly uninformed articles about how ackshually Delaware is one of the most egregious tax havens in the world. But Delaware assesses franchise tax at the entity level and organization in Delaware has no effect whatsoever on that entity’s tax obligations elsewhere in the US or the world.
Yeah - this is also the consensus a lot of law has landed on in Europe, I think it's also reasonable (especially as a baseline compromise to prevent total bans).

The vast majority (~80%) are within the first 12 weeks anyway, the later ones usually have extenuating circumstances and third trimester was already banned (without cause) in most cases anyway.

I'm pretty sure polling also shows most Americans have some nuanced view on this that sits somewhere in this range.
I would sooner create a second ticket that represents the blocking task and link it as a blocker to the first ticket.
It really depends on how close you think we are to the bottom. Of course no one can say for sure, but as someone who came of age in the first dotcom bubble, and now finds himself surrounded by a generation of young engineers who has never known anything but a bull market, I think it's worth pointing out that the S&P has only fallen to Feb 2021 levels. We are still well above where the market was just prior to the pandemic, at which point we had already experienced a historic decade plus bull run on tech stocks which was then amplified by quarantine and everything needing to be done remotely.

I wouldn't be surprised if we're flat or down further 12-24 months from now.
Moving ram over to pcie makes a lot of sense. Glad that’s on the roadmap.
Its not video streaming. Real SATA BR drive is mounted remotely, either with a movie already slotted in or connected to custom bulk disk loader/changer. It shows up in your desktop as another drive letter and requires normal bluray player to operate thus No DRM bypassed.

The question is can you legally play your own disk using your own disk player .. over the network?
If you look around you and see only criminals, then the only answers you will come up with involve rounding them up, and moving them elsewhere.

Those people on the streets that you're 'swimming in' - the homeless, the untreated mental health cases, the drug addicts, the ex cons, the unemployed, the slum dwellers - they are not criminals. Except where catch-22 laws make their existence criminal.

They are the marginalized, and made so by the day-to-day actions and inactions of their fellow citizens who look down on them, block them from participating in society at every opportunity.

There are well known solutions to these problems: economic, social, and humane. But as long as the voting public can keep coming up with reasons these people do not deserve a proper solution to their problems, you're all going to have to live with the consequences.
Right. Now that most of us in public know how he thinks & acts, we still believe that the president of the company took action on her own. Since "union" is being supported by the socialists, employers are crushing any organization attempts, thats all.
There was a similar scandal for the Scots wikipedia:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...
Yep, several projects I know are leaning into AppImage to get around dealing with installers. The biggest problem with AppImage is that it _is_ just a binary, so things like desktop shortcuts don't come with it. AppImageLauncher does solve this issue (and create a "canonical place" to place your programs, like /Applications/ on mac).

I do agree it's fragmented and frustrating where we've ended up for installers. My main critique is more that the state of linux packaging _isn't_ what thunderbird is doing here.
> Even easier, just simplify the tax code.

I'd say 'simpler', not 'easier'.

> Taxation is theft anyways.

Not really. Just pretend that living in a country is like renting a shop in a mall. The owners of the mall decide what they want to charge you for. In the simplest case, they just demand rent, but they could also charge you for the number of blue scarves displayed. That's just silly, but not theft (as long as the possibility of such a charge is mentioned in the rental contract).

If you don't like the mall, move and set up shop in a different one.

Similarly, most countries let you leave, too. (Even though eg East Germany and North Korea weren't/aren't so keen on that, and the US charges you an exit fee.)

Vote with your feet!

(For example, I grew up in Germany, but wasn't too keen on the package of taxes and government services on offer there. After a few years in different countries, I settled in Singapore, which is much better value for money. I'm happy with what I am getting here for the modest amount of taxes they take.)
I love GitJournal, used it to plan and organize two month-long trips in the recent past. It was very nice to edit on my laptop, use my standard git workflow to push and sync, then have it on my phone - and then make quick edits which were easy to get back on my laptop.

Would love if https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal/issues/352 were prioritized, though. Making adding new repos easier would be a big deal for my workflow, as I have multiple customers that all need their own repos, sometimes more than one.
It's a website. No matter what you call it, the end result is it's a website. Some HTML and a gif or two. Maybe a bit of javascript.

Why are you making it so ludicrously complicated?
Why? Commerce clause?
Step by step approach to creating a landing page using GPT-3 and Dall-E2
Is a gun really an easier profit flip than grappling a laptop or phone (more common than guns), or shoplifting a store (rarely prosecuted)?
I'm going to disregard your link between welfare recipients and drug use for now; is there anything to show thay this spike in homicide is drug related?
>GPT-3 style language models assemble nonsense with similar statistical properties to the (hopefully) meaningful text in their training corpus, and that's it.

GPT-3, I think, is most dangerous when it comes to reducing the amount of propaganda a human has to write in order to be 'taken seriously.' Long essays and long articles in major publications are taken seriously, but how many people read to the end? With GPT-3 a human propagandist can get away with writing a headline and initial paragraph. The filler text - that's required to make the article 'weighty' enough to be taken seriously can be GPT-3. That's one of the initial applications I see in terms of manufacturing consent and propaganda.
I fuckin’ love Canary.

Just need some small startup to come in and cut their legs out because $5K a pop is nuts.
The official docker image seems quite good and handles a lot of the bootstrapping needs.
There are behind the scenes videos of the stop animation!
Right, so in an experiment to see who acquires AD through the decade the trial runs, they initially excluded people who may already have it. This seems a reasonable part of the method, given what they were looking for.

If your position continues to be that their numbers are skewed - and this is a HUGE correlation here - exclusively because people with dementia will forget to get a flu vaccination, then a) I think you are making unsupported claims, and b) you're arguing with the wrong person.

Perhaps throw the authors of the study a line and suggest this alternative hypothesis for the numbers they saw across their sample set of ~ 1 million people.
The point is, as it didn't seem to get across in my previous comment, is that Bitcoin doesn't suffer (as much) from consideration B because any shady dealer can act as an "exchange", whereas traditional non-physical finance requires a chain of somewhat reputable institutions to be the middle person.

You can't "fix" traditional finance system if the government of one party makes it illegal to do trades (unless you're thinking about plotting a revolution in another country).
If inflation is going up, like you suggest, now is the time to buy the stuff that you want - before the price goes up
The combination is extremely impressive.
As someone who hates reading the news, this idea really appeals to me! I'm tempted to subscribe, but I think I wouldn't click on the weekly email -- even one page weekly in my email seems like too much. For me, perhaps a weekly text message with just a few headlines would be better. That seems extremely low effort to check, and if I'm interesting in something I can still follow up on specific items.