skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube's KPIs for promoting videos are totally off base in my opinion. They use click through rates and watch time as key indicators, which can easily be manipulated by bots, which is pretty obvious now as rampant on the platform with popular videos showing millions and billions of views, while the majority of posts (from small creators only get 100 or less views over years on the platform.

On YouTube, you get thrown in a trash bin unless you're able to pay or generate traffic from popularity elsewhere.

YT also puts too much emphasis on post titles now, many posters outright clone titles, which in turn botches search results massively. It was a terrible decision YT made to deprioritize taxonomy (hash tags) years ago in order to reduce moderation staff-- Of which, if taxonomy actually worked, feedback could better identify inaccurate and mis-leading content when compared to thumbs down rates... The options for video result sorting have been terribly limited and almost useless as well for ages now.

A big conflict of interest is that YouTube sells and promotes ad-based content boosting to creators, which contradicting-ly makes them more geared towards promoting content that falls under this (paid promotional) category first. It also drives YouTube to lower organic reach for users to drive them towards paying for promotion more year over year... That also encourages the platform to subvert organically good/upvoted content. YT can't logically sell the idea that organic growth is a possibility any more citing the underlying fact that they feature paid promotion without labeling every promoted item of that content as such, it's shocking how they get away with this contradiction of authenticity regularly.

The older engagement methods were far better for YouTube's content quality and authenticity. Now too many users are driven to post repetitive and dragged out videos, with titles based on trends, with decreasing originality and substance.

The current YouTube/TikTok success model is training everyone to conform to a single theme and format, encouraging idea, topic, and content cloning, and into repeating and simply reacting to what popular channels do.

YouTube content will all only continue to get worse and more monotonous if the same ideals on paid promotion continue, and creator success/profit will continue to shrink. (Just my opinion of course).
For my dev machine's interactions with AWS, I use https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

You add the long lived IAM user API key/secret to it and it stores it in a password protected storage (MacOS keychain or similar).

Then you invoke aws-vault with an IAM role and command, and it will handle obtaining short-lived credentials scoped to that role (including TOTP 2-factor code auth), and then run the command with those temporary credentials as env vars.

With the right AWS permissions on your user, it can also automatically rotate the IAM user API keys for you.
I reckon he’s a lot less employable than he thinks he is.
As an Argentinian I hate this meme.

The statistics of the past don't account for the fact that Argentina -still is- but used to be a deeply, deeply unequal country with a small cadre of families owning the vast majority of land, and then pretty much everyone else.

That oligarchy engaged in multiple decades of election fraud, propped-up military dictators, and many other shady practices to remain in power. That doesn't matter much when looking at the general economic indicators for a country that exported huge amounts of food in a global context to two world wars and a destroyed Europe.

Perón came from the military, he was a demagogue, and was a fascist sympathizer. He was also the among the first governments to actually develop institutions for a strong middle class, including hospitals, schools, universal policies that benefited the working poor as well as myriad other highly progressive laws.

As with a lot of populist programs it came at cost far beyond what even the relatively wealthy state could afford, which combined with the opposition to Perón (both in the shape of the military, conservatives, and also liberals who opposed Perón's repressive personality cult) turned into his downfall.

What followed Perón was another series of military governments and "democratic" governments with very limited power. The development of institutions that guaranteed middle-class wealth gradually slowed down, and the country has never been able to transition away from primary exports as its basic means of foreign currency.

The substantial difference from its neighboring countries is that decades of failed monetary policy have resulted in some of the highest inflation in the world, and a great degree of that failure is no doubt due to the tension between conservative and Peronist policy goals.

But make no mistake, it is also true that Argentina has a substantial, educated middle class when compared to its neighbors and I'm not really sure that would have been possible without a measure of populism being introduced to break from decades of oligarchs who cared little beyond getting grain from their fields to the ports.

Perón is a polarizing figure because many can simultaneously attribute the rise of an industrial middle class to him as well as the subsequent degeneration of monetary policy and demagogue populist entitlement programs of dubious effectiveness.

But I doubt its lessons translate much to current times.
10-20 years. As soon as we have atomically precise manufacturing, there are multiple approaches to making stable, scalable quantum computers that work. I see APM being possible on that time horizon. One company, Zyvex, has already prototyped those capability in the lab.
Sorry to break it to you, but I'm pretty sure the wording on the site (which I don't have open anymore) suggested 5 was below the "normal" range, which presumably means it's well below the median. I'd be extremely happy to hear some more flattering interpretation.
It's also interesting to note that at this point Microsoft seems to be pivoting away from GitVFS. They've put a lot of collective engineering work in git sparse clones and git partial clones and the intersection of the two ("sparse cones") and optimizations like git commit graph pushing git itself to better at virtualizing its object store, not touching objects it doesn't need, and better handling just-in-time scenarios for object retrieval when it really does need them.
you are kidding, right? It is like saying you can't critique US laws because you can move to Canada (technically true but it misses the point)
Nature really doesn't care about our feelings.

All that whining is something that my grandmothers' generation would have scoffed at: you have it relatively easy, stop complaining. 5 years of war, occupation, hunger and brutal death is the kind of thing that generation lived through - or not, in many cases - and they came through to rebuild their world without bitching about it. COVID was - compared to that, sorry - a walk in the park and we should have shouldered it collectively and dealt with it. Instead we ended up with a large fraction simply denying objective reality in the hope that it would go away. That's not how you deal with problems as an adult. In toddlers I find that acceptable, but not in grown ups.

And the ease with which demagogues used it to bend people to their will shows clearly that we have not learned anything from the very recent past, which in a way is even more worrying: apparently we are structurally incapable of retaining very hard won knowledge over a stretch longer than a human life-span leading to endless repeats.

But this time, with climate change, the stakes are a lot higher than 'the usual' price of a few million people dead, we're talking about changes on a scale that humanity has never had to deal with before.

So if we aren't going to get our act together the next 100 years or so will not at all be pleasant, to put it very mildly, and going on the assumption that it isn't way too late already.
Is "the market" going to magically provide all the substantial benefits of an Apple-run store for apps, too?

No. It's not. "The market" is going to say: sorry users, fuck that, y'all can just magically research all this and provide your own security and privacy from here on out.

Which is impossible, of course.

Result: much poorer user experience for the vast majority of users. Which is why Apple did it their way in the first place. No, it was not because of revenue. Anyone who says that is either lying or is incredibly lazy and hasn't looked up where Apple actually makes its money.
I think it is most similar to the Hollywood anti-trust case of 1948[0]. Back then movie theaters were owned by studios, and therefore they would only book movies to their own theaters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Anti-trust_Case_of_1...
Here's the warning: Lattice-based cryptography is much more risky than commonly acknowledged. This applies, in particular, to lattice KEMs under consideration within the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project (NISTPQC) as of October 2021. The above document...

There's a linked PDF paper with more detail.
It's already a ~ bank run. Not sure what could reverse that trend.

Some discussion on eg. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403254.0
Further there's a bunch of old laws still on the books, but rarely enforced.

These are the ones in my state of Idaho.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jan/21/did-you-know-t...
Spending? Wasting
I totally agree with you. Crony Capitalism is disgusting and I think we should always call it out.

My argument is that we seem to have significantly less corruption overall in the US.
Sure, but Expanse also ended on a weak season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
There were also the "pink lists" tracking gay men [1] (link to German Wiki sorry) and which the nazis also greatly appreciated. Although to be fair^blunt they were collected exactly for reasons of prosecution, so not that far off from their use by the nazis.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste
This isn't "I can integrate WhatsApp with Slack" this is "I can set my default text app/call app/video app from iMessage/Phone/FaceTime to a third-party app". Same with setting default browser.
Having lived in the US, while I admit that the entire premise of the article is wrong (I wrote a rebuttal below), modern Argentinian bureaucracy is actually much better than in many parts of the US.
I wrote up an introduction to a (severely unoptimized for pedagogical purposes) version of FrodoKEM

https://mark-schultz.github.io/nist-standard-out/

It's the same base scheme as Saber/Kyber, although as Saber/Kyber are over algebraically structured lattices they are significantly more efficient.
Git annex "competitor" Git LFS is bundled in many distros of git today and supported by most of the major hosting providers at this point (if you are willing to pay for LFS space).
Your reasoning makes absolutely no sense. Either you have the budget for luxury, or you don't.

If you have the budget to eat at the airport, drink cocktails and pay for early boarding, then you're most likely loaded.

If you're not rich, but still pay for convenience services like that, I'd say you have irrational spending behavior.
Not a big deal at all. These are long term reserve assets. They will not be sold perhaps forever.
This seems to imply that if processing loads for a given line of business start to level off, it may lead some to move away from the cloud.
That's just the name of the founder, Herman Hollerith. He had nothing to do with any of that.
I have never, in 15 years on iOS, run into a single "kind of software" that Apple has supposedly "locked out" that I actually wanted or needed.
Was End Game (with it's time travel plot) not released in China? Seems like I would have heard about that.
There is a great hubris at play. Man is so foolish.
BlockTube removes videos based on words in titles and channel names: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/
That's wildly not the case in the performing arts; just, like, a crazy thing to say. Stars get cast over and over again because audiences are comforted by familiar faces, not because the stars themselves are somehow the best actors in the world. Ben Affleck is a leading man, for Christ's sake.
If vendors agreed to a common prefix on all secret key values then it'd be easy for everyone to add checks, to everything. Something like "_SECRET88_".

Of course, then your secret key checker would need to build that string by concatenating so that it wouldn't set off itself.
It's so weird to me how hard it is to find this sort of reference information.

I experienced the same thing when looking for a definitive list of voice commands for Android auto.

In the old days we carried around pocket sized cards with the full set of all possible instructions/ parameters.

These days you have to search on Google, and then look at whichever ad-ridden hellhole has played the SEO game most effectively. That might have the answers, or it might be stale since it was originally copied and pasted from some other site long ago.

Why doesn't YouTube provide this information themselves?
Idk. I don’t think most actors are fine. It doesn’t take much skill to pass suspension of disbelief that they’re not acting. It takes a lot of skill to be an engaging character.

Severance comes to mind as a good show that is immediately more appealing to me due to Adam Scott
How do we actually know that El Salvador is buying BTC when they say they are? Is there a government wallet that we can see to confirm the presence of the national BTC reserve? I have a suspicion that the announced purchases aren't aligned with actual purchases, especially since we've seen that relatively small volumes of buying/selling will move the BTC market by thousands of dollars.
all new technology solves a problem, sometimes it's a social problem
That's actually a refreshing way of looking at something. The
pathologically acquisitive are naturally a small part of the
population suffering insecurity, often driven by early deprivation.
Our natural instinct is to share intelligence, wrt food, predators,
resources.

I have a theory that the misnomer "intellectual property" is most
ardently championed by (perhaps older) intelligent/creative people who
fear losing their power. Fear that this may be their last great idea
fosters withholding and subtracts from the opportunities of the many.

This comes up in other contexts. In cybersecurity, if one discovers a
new exploit the natural instinct for most people is responsible
disclosure, even without a bounty. However, the temptation to
privatise that knowledge as a sellable "zero-day" is powerful. But
what we see is that it's the mediocre who do that more. Top 0.1%
hackers are so confident in their ability to find more and deadlier
exploits at will, they don't hoard as it's beneath them.
Good question, Like you mentioned, Sean Bean(very well known from goldeneye and LOTR), Lena Hedley was known for her terminator work, Peter Dinklage(Elf, Nip/Tuck), and lets not forget Natalie Dormer(playing Anne Boylen on the tudors, a popular TV series a few years before GOT). Basically if you watched popular scifi/historical shows/movies these characters(some) were well known.
At several places I've seen they keep certain data such as phone, address, etc as a bullshit "business need" to "prevent abuse" and "prevent promo reuse" and keep forever even through CCPA.

Also they keep the record of the delete request, which contains the PII you ask to remove.
How Five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions
OpenRC and alpine are nice.
> Astro Boy which was inspired by animated Disney and Warner Bros

More the Fleischer Bros than the brothers Warner, but your point still stands.
This is a pretty common Microsoft move. Let's them pretend to be good guys for basically no effort, while frustrating anyone who isn't using Microsoft stuff. It's to encourage people on the fence to jump ship.
Well... it's "theirs" if the laws were made 50 years ago when you didn't exist.

There's a lot of crazy laws on the books.
And I would agree with tattooed people about the aesthetics. This definitely isn't retroactive rationalization. I thought about it for months before getting it done. Of course I know people with piercings and tattoos; I live in the United States.
Here you go :) https://zodb.org/en/latest/
The article is extremely poor. But you cannot say that there isn't fascism in the US; Mr DeSantis has signed a law asking for the political ideology of faculty and students, and a lot of people are clapping.

It is also a country with deep structural racism and a police force that's infiltrated with literal fascists.

All that can be true and completely unrelated with the bad premises of the article.
Real Men of Genius still stands as the greatest ad series of all time. Surely created by a real man of genius.
Would a white house reflect more height and be cooler inside ?
The selection criteria for SHA-3 included internal state being greater than the output size. SHA-1 and SHA-2 both repeat this mistake of MD5. SHA-2 has variants that don't have this problem, but sha-256 and sha-512 aren't among them.

I'm having trouble finding it now but I recall someone complaining about the constants for 512 leaving something to be desired.
And yet those rights cease to exist when you cross state lines.

And yes, the Civil Rights Act, the 14th Amendment, formally Roe vs Wade, Brown v. BoE, etc.

I will go a step further and say that ONLY the Federal government can secure your individual rights. If your rights can be erased by crossing a state line, then you don't have an individual right.
The recommendations look clear to me: you should use CRYSTALS-Dilithium (unless you need smaller signatures, in which case use FALCON), but you should also be prepared to switch to SPHINCS+ on short notice if someone breaks CRYSTALS-Dilithium (or structured lattices in general).

So best practice would seem to be to implement both CRYSTALS-Dilithium and SPHINCS+, set CRYSTALS-Dilithium as the default, and provide a switch (config setting, whatever) to switch to SPHINCS+. If you have long-term keys, you should have both forms set up & ready to use.
The problem is not specific to people that want to stop climate change. The general disdain for people in places like Western Virginia can be attributed to the dominance of neoliberal philosophy (insofar as it can be described as a philosophy).

My experience is that the most vocal proponents of proper strategies to address climate change are also the most vocal supporters of social justice.
> There is also a western do it yourself individualism that puts common resources in contention

This is exactly the John Galt/John Wayne hybrid cultural identity that you're saying doesn't exist manifesting itself. That same "individualism" is why we can't come together long enough to build water infrastructure for people who belong to that same community. It's genuine insanity. Americans deserve every bit of pain we're about to experience over water rights in the coming decades because we won't acknowledge that mentality is the problem.
OpenRC is the only Linux init I've used that I actually enjoyed using, not just could-tolerate.
I guess I'm in the camp that says that unless there are a bunch of people in the back row trying to sew a bus-sized parachute together out of old clothes, we're screwed.

In other words, the only hope I have left is that somebody invents a climate-fixing machine. Or a bunch of different climate-fixing machines, I don't care. But, I don't see a lot of other appropriately-scaled options at this point.
The Lunar Module simulator used by Apollo astronauts used a similar technique.
This isn't actually true, though. Existence proof: Tim Rogers. The man can write a 6 hour video essay about how much he loves a game and not even be halfway done. The truth is, we all have the ability - though most of us don't exercise it for whatever reason.

The real problem is that people like quick negative comments more than quick positive ones.
PowerShell 7 is cross-platform: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-...
People seems to equate everything that Apple are doing today originate from Jobs. And therefore every single sin ( if you call it so ) means it was also Jobs idea.

What people dont realise it was the best model at the time. While Jobs approved the iPhone 6 design ( or a "bigger screen" iPhone ), he died during the iPhone 4 era. When Apple was about to repeat the same mistakes as it did in the 80s /90s.

As if Steve made iPod to only buy or listen music on iTunes. He got rid of Music DRM, single handedly.
I think I lowered the bar a bit on “layman” there but I difinitely got critical expert information ;)

Well done sir.
Energy output is over 100 times the input needed to manufacture solar panels
> It’s not a story about what would happen if superheroes were real and had too much power. It’s a story about some specific assholes mostly who have superpowers.

No, the absolute power/absolute corruption in The Boys is not in the superheros.
This thread struck a nerve with me. As a kid I loved math, did all the math contest stuff, even won one at one point, skipped a year in math. I went to visit my old retired math teacher a couple of weeks ago, he's in his 80s.

In school I never had a problem with speed or understanding, nor at university. But what hit me was the realization that "actual math" is probably not a load of little riddles. I often wondered how I'd ever solve something that someone hadn't contrived to have an elegant solution, something completely new and insightful that nobody had proven before. There's quite a leap from your tricky olympiad problem that you can find a good video for, and proofs of things in higher math.

The other thing that struck me was that our current system destroys all appreciation for beauty. There's so many beautiful things in math, but we're forced to calculate, quickly. Especially in the engineering side I went into, it ended up becoming very mechanical.
A better analogy is a ship sailing against the wind: "To reach its target, sailors that intend to travel windward to a point in line with the exact wind direction will need to zig-zag in order to reach its destination. This technique is tacking."
https://www.lifeofsailing.com/post/how-to-sail-against-the-w...
The app download nags on mobile web are so unbearable I stopped using Twitter entirely
Who also created another PQC algorithm (that didn't make it past 2nd round) — NewHope https://newhopecrypto.org/
Perhaps Jimmy Buffett is an example of someone who created a successful brand/following on top of modestly successful music.
Someone needs a tutorial on what "monopoly" means.

Controlling app distribution solely within your own platform is not a monopoly. You might wish it were. You might not like it; you might want it changed. But that doesn't magically mean you can call it a monopoly. It's not a monopoly.
Climate Change Breaks Plant Immune Systems. Can They Be Rebooted?
It was filmed 3 years ago because the release was delayed due to the pandemic. They didn't want it to flop because people weren't going to the theaters.
LinkedIn doesn't have my Social Security number. It doesn't have a list of my bank accounts and credit cards. So, more people, but less damaging information.
Let me introduce you to the gambeson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambeson :)

Multiple layers of quilted cloth are extremely effective.
I'm more or the less the sole decider for all tech decisions in my org (I don't have full budget authority, but I tell the budget holders what things cost). I'm 100% on board with cloud and even going further up the value chain to PaaS and SaaS. Cloud is expensive, but predictable. DevOps is very expensive and unpredictable. I can't even keep staff retained these days. Having a fixed dollar cost, even if it's high, saves not only the operations cost, but also the accounting cost and recruiting cost. And not just cost, but risk! Managed services are generally lower risk, and even if they aren't you can buy some indemnity that they'll cover some of the cost of failures.