skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully, lower working-class population means more bargaining power for them, as labour is rarer. But yeah the fact that by 70 years-old most people are considered unfit for work yet the median age of congress is higher than 60 says a lot
Thanks for the added detail of 3DES, I’ve found a couple of citations now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302558 claims direct personal knowledge, and is corroborated by a user zellyn who claims on his own site and elsewhere to have worked at YouTube from 2010–2015. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036740 with no bona fides. Very good, it seems they did indeed formerly encrypt 64-bit keys, storing the key in the source code (!!), and now instead generate randomly.

It sounds to me like they didn’t have any reason to believe the key was compromised (… though with they key in the repository, it’s trivial for a developer to steal, which is why the approach surprises me so—I’d expect it to be a production environment secret), but decided they didn’t like the risk any more. And apparently it took them until 2016 to actually decide to change their approach, a surprisingly long time given that the key must have been so easily available internally. I expect they checked their logs, because the access patterns of anyone attempting even sneaky (distributed and sparse) traversal would stand out like a sore thumb.

I’m putting this information and example in the documentation for my scheme, as food for thought. Thanks!
Couldn't it be a good emitter, but redirect the heat in a focused way? (beam of RF)
So I know I can make 65 an hour with side jobs. I've got a few side gigs where I can set my own schedule and work those hours at any time. I could probably push higher if I wanted (75-100 an hour).

When I need to pad my savings I cut some costs but mostly I just work extra hours in side gigs. I couldnt imagine its worth going to multiple grocery stores to compare prices. Shop at 1 store, pay more for some items, work an extra hour to make up for it. I'm building my career and getting paid instead of experiencing traffic, grocery stores at peak hours, check out lines, and loading/unloading food to and from the car/house for a second time.

Does it really make sense for you financially to do that?
I use ScrapingBee (with Python, requests, & BeautifulSoup).
It's always interesting how on this website the economic news is actually worse than what the indicators say. Good or bad news, they're always lying to make it seem better than it is.
the question tends to break really fast if you try to define almost anything in it.

Intelligence is already notoriously difficulty to quantify, now compare that to something as ephemeral as happiness.

what are you going to do? compare someone IQ against some self reported metric of happiness?
Why do you think it "needs" a complete rethink? We've had periods in relatively recent history in which many people simply live in cramped conditions and work dusk until dawn (see Victorian Britain).

I think it's far more likely that there's a general reduction in standard of living for everyone below the 90/95/99th percentile.

There's not really any pressure to prevent it, people just keep waking up every morning and going to work regardless of how bad it gets.

10-15 years ago when I graduated we had basically the same situation - the bar to win has just been raised. You either aim to be in the top 10/5/1% (adjust as necessary), or you have a life of struggling to pay the bills forever.
It's not a very big thing nor related to technology, but ravens are making a comeback here in New England. Very interesting birds. I have a couple with 2 young that still beg for food and at this point they are reluctant to feed them and instead peck them in the face and throw food at them - they clearly want them to start being independent. I leave them cut up pieces of suet and they stop by promptly about 45 minutes after daybreak, often all 4 of them together.

I had never seen (noticed) a raven before until this pair showed up in late 2021.
> a person on the internet bows to your clearly superior intelligencia

I don't appreciate the sarcastic and attacking nature of this comment (and some previous comments). I've been civil - albeit a little frustrated - and I hope for the same from others.

Perhaps you could provide some examples of where other parties' policies, ideology, or MP's statements undermine expert or scientific consensus? For the Conservatives, I can name several issues where MPs have publicly undermined expert consensus, e.g. Brexit, COVID, climate change, and abortion.

BTW I do already think that the Green Party's stance on GMO and nuclear verges on anti-intellectual, given that they have supported protests against ongoing scientific trials. Whilst it is a minor party and it doesn't reach the level of Conservative anti-intellectualism, it is an issue.

You've mentioned that Labour "promote extremist religious views" which could potentially be anti-intellectual, but this isn't something I've come across except maybe on the very fringes. A slightly stronger claim I've seen is that identity politics could be classed as anti-intellectual if it denies scientific realities regarding sex, although again I haven't really seen this veer into anti-intellectualism except on the fringes.
> While Concurrent CP/M was a very capable OS, ideal for multiuser accounts systems, it had a big limitation: it could only run CP/M-86 apps. The problem being that there weren't that many of those, while the market in MS-DOS apps was exploding.

Or you could run Unix on some of the machines that would've been targeted by the multi-user derivatives. I remember one article about an early TeX version ported to one of them, IIRC a Z8000 system running a port of V7 Unix.
Traditionally the solution is to have a tiny outbuilding with your electric meter, water valve (if you're on town water) and landline connection and then let the homeowner deal with the bulk of the length of the line run.

Getting electrical and water in those situations is always a town by town crap shoot because the trades are constantly lobbying to disallow it because they want more work. I assume ISPs are the same way.
Leveraging computational tools to enhance product design
I love my Ridgid wet/dry vac. They're the only brand I can find in stores that sell a "HEPA" filter+bag combo for trapping fine drywall dust. Lots of accessories available, including a unique water pump attachment that hooks up to a garden hose.
No love for the Alpine Butterfly?
> Just use DynamoDB

Or, at that point, just use a CSV and slurp the whole thing into memory.
> Stellar’s cooking system is not only fully automated, it will make pizzas on a truck while said truck is en route to delivery sites—talk about fresh.

Smart but I wonder how profitable and environmentally sound this is? Particularly because so many pizza startups have imploded.
The Failed $35 Insulin Cap
Gag orders. This has long been a standard practice in the US, for better and worse. When Eliot Ness was investigating Al Capone, do you think the warrants for wiretapping phones were issued in open court (edit: or that AT&T would be free to tell Al Capone that his phones are wiretapped)?
>in the literal look-it-up-in-a-dictionary sense

violence
vī′ə-ləns
noun

1. Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.

2. Intense force or great power, as in natural phenomena.

3. Extreme or powerful emotion or expression

Which? Because it isn't physical force. And I don't think 3 applies as that tends not to be directed at anyone, and there's no requirement for the 'expression' to be hateful.

Further. That means saying "I hate homophobes" is also violence. So we can't say that either. And then we're on a slippery slope where if you say anything that anyone disagrees with is violence.
NASA is sending a robot surgeon to the ISS
I've always gone with señor developer myself.
The assumption that all the money I'm not currently saving is living expenses and that these expenses will continue growing exponentially really throws this off.

Many of the biggest expenses people have - income tax, mortgage payments, raising children - all decrease in retirement. Also, many FIRE proponents explicitly include plans to reduce these expenses even more, such as by moving to a place with lower cost-of-living.
Doubtless those honest, selfless CEO's were completely duped by evil conspiracies of rotten & incompetent middle managers, who've spent the last decade or two building ever-larger pyramids of bloat to set their golden thrones on top of...
The situation is SC is similar. Many insurers have packed up for the same reasons they left Florida. The same roof repair scams have been running here as well. What I don't understand about the scam is how the insurance adjuster comes out and agrees that a new roof is warranted when so frequently that is not the case. If the adjusters kept the lid on things none of this would be possible I think. It's baffling, but in the end is bad for everyone (with the possible exceptions of the roofing companies) My house is not in a flood zone, but we definitely need insurance. (we actually have flood insurance despite not being in a flood zone.)
Likewise, I have been living off-grid with solar for well over 20 years.

My batteries have always been lead-acid, simply because L.A. is still much cheaper than Lithium and alternatives.

I've recently taken my first set of Lead-Acid batteries out of service. They powered a small fridge, etc, via 200W of solar panels for over 20 years with essentially zero maintenance, except for occasional top-up of distilled water.

Inverters were a problem at first. I had a series of Inverters die over the years, until I started buying Victron products. Have had zero problems since. Rule one, is "don't buy cheap inverters".

The best part is that secondhand solar panels are now very cheap. The reason is that Gov regulations for grid-tie prohibits the use of second-hand panels, so people doing upgrades will basically throw away their old panels.

My setup runs a conventional fridge/freezer, and a large computer which is on-line for most of the day, as well as my workshop full of electrical tools. I do have a large generator, but the only time it gets run is when I have some welding to do. I don't even gave a battery charger hooked to it.

There are so many myths about solar: Lead-Acid batteries don't last as they are destroyed by deep-cycles. Yes, but when you size the system, you should aim for a deep discharge maybe once a month. This still should result in twenty years life or so. I live in a wet and cloudy part of Australia, and this winter my batteries have never been as low as 80% capacity, and it is rare if the batteries haven't returned to 100% charge by 10:00am each day.

Probably the main problem with solar is that people are stupid. One of my neighbours installed a modest solar system, only to have it regularly fail due to low battery voltage. Long story short: The supplier fitted a Watt meter which tracked the consumption at each outlet. It showed that that the problem was in his daughter's bedroom. A quick search revealed a huge radiator under her bed that she was running each night. Problem solved.
What? Rust and typescript have basically the same syntax?
Alternative label: "Why the government spends more of your money to take even more of your money, only to give it to eastern europe or israel"
We hire Junior devs and its hard working remote with them. They can get stuck for days without knowing if its something they should work out for themselves or something they should ask about.

I'm happy to travel and work together but senior manglement like the look of their travel budget post covid.
You can be smart, but if you are seen as inferior in reason of your perceived race, gender, social status and so on, you will usually not be given the means to act.
Right. This is the thread I'm interested in.

Facebook, has among many choices, two clear and easily territories in which to advance user privacy: technically and legally.

Technically, Facebook could implement E2E for private messages. Doing so would make disclosure not something they were unwilling to do, but unable to do.

The other, and this is much more juicy, would be to lobby the California legislature to make it illegal under state law to disclose private conversations re: abortion to states where abortion is prohibited.

The fact that these are possible, but not likely to happen is another issue altogether.
I have an idea where I want to build an ML system that generates different sets of board game rules (think tic-tac-toe type games), then trains models to play that game, and scores each set of rules based on a set of criteria. For example: no side should always win, the skill ceiling should be high (models should keep improving when trained more). A less skilled (trained) model should sometimes be able to beat a more skilled model. The games should end within a reasonable number of turns. Etc. The high level system should then generate new rulesets, searching for a ruleset that scores optimally on the criteria. Would Sematic be good for this?
Crypto Miner detection: a machine learning approach
This is inherently a problem with full-remote or hybrid work.

People will point to "studies" showing how remote work improves productivity. Maybe it did initially but eventually, people will check out, feeling isolated, feeling less motivated.

Some people who worked remotely before covid swears that it helped their productivity. But these people are biased because they were probably one of the few who were disciplined enough to make it work and they gained the employer's trust over time.

There were a lot of reports of Zuckerberg bemoaning about productivity. Tim Cook wanted everyone back in the office full-time before Delta. Google also wanted everyone back in the office. Clearly, these CEOs aren't just making decisions on a whim and they have real data on productivity rather than some 3rd party studies.

This opinion is not popular here but this is how I see it.
As the other commenters have pointed out, a possibility is simply to "resell" transit from other providers. However, on the Internet all peering networks are somewhat equal and it's entirely possible to extend the "other end" over time to establish dedicated peering with other networks, so that for example traffic from your network to Youtube doesn't have to go through (paid-for) 3rd parties.

There's good chances there are Internet eXchange Points around where you live where for a small maintenance fee anyone can come and place their router and cables to interconnect with others.

So the likely steps are:

1) Find a transit provider, that will serve your trafic to any other network, and where to connect with this provider
2) (Optional) If you don't have the necessary infrastructure, find another provider to get from your last-mile network to your transit provider
3) (Optional) Find other networks to peer with so that you can significantly reduce your transit bill and provide better routes (therefore better service)

Some non-profit ISPs take the problem from the other side, and build a core network without necessarily owning any last-mile infrastructure, which is leased from other operators (opérateurs de collecte) with whom they interconnect at some datacenter/IXP. The most famous example of that in France is FDN.fr which has been operating since early 90s. That approach is more cost-effective in high-density area where the local infrastructure is already quite good, and construction jobs to lay new cables is very costly, but will still set you back 10-30€/month/line.
Isn't this just called starting a business? Don't get me wrong it's very cool but this just seems like the thing people should do when there isn't enough competition in the market
It took four clicks to get to the actual paper:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2022/2022-01...

Between February and April of 2020, U.S. employment declined by 22 million people (about 15 percent) as a result of the COVID pandemic. In response, the federal government introduced several temporary programs to lessen the negative impact of this decline. These emergency unemployment benefits (EUB) included providing program eligibility to many individuals who wouldnot otherwise be covered, such as contract and gig workers, extensions of benefit durations and a $600 weekly add-on for recipients.1 These initial programs were extended by the federal government through September 2021, with the only major adjustment being a reduction of the add-on to
$300 per week.

By spring 2021, following a major but incomplete rebound of employment, employment growth began to slow and job openings were steadily rising, reaching 9.6 million in May 2021, up 2.6 million from their pre-pandemic level. At the same time, some state governors voiced concerns that the historic generosity of EUB was contributing to businesses’ difficulty filling job vacancies. They announced plans to halt either some or all of these benefits several months before the programs’ completion in September. In total 26 governors ended benefits before September, with 20 halting participation between June 19 and July 3.

TL:DR The program intended to support people through a year of a gigantic crash in jobs throughout 2020 did exactly that.
Pretty sure we’re just supposed to flag stuff; not comment on breaking guidelines.

I appreciate the comment though :)

I often stay comments that unintentionally trigger particular personalities. That said, HN generally tends to be one of the more open areas on the internet to discuss facts and opinions.
So Facebook's point here is that their legal team is so utterly clownshoes that when receiving a warrant about burning a stillbirth they couldn't clue in that it might be about abortion. Their press release is designed to convince us that a local NE PD completely snowed this international corporate powerhouse.
One is evil and one is good. Which will win? The one you feed.
in what world will people eat bugs instead of beef, do bugs taste anywhere as good as beef? all the push from the supply side doesn't fix the demand problem.
In many rural places in the US, the majority of homes have their own septic tank and leech field. Some homes (although it's much rarer) even haul in their own water by truck. Power and phone are often on poles. They probably use LP gas brought in by truck. So often the main concern is the water mains.
Buying extra meat when it's on sale and storing it in a chest freezer is probably the best "investment" that most families can make. It usually has a higher ROI than buying stocks or whatever. Even during inflationary times, retailers occasionally end up with excess supplies of some cuts of meat or advertise loss leaders to boost store traffic so you can buy a lot if you have freezer space to store it.

Just be careful that your freezer has a reliable electrical supply. The National Electrical Code has required GFCI protection on garage outlets since 2008 and those can occasionally fail and trip off for no reason. Ask me how I know...
You mean you're not going to engage in argument of substance because you're just that much of an expert. Oh. I'm not dubious at all.
Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty, it is not intelligence.

The article does have a point that mostly humans aren’t as credible as they self conceive, though this is not wholly true.

The intellectual “bellwether” is apparent. The polymath, the uninhibited intellect does exist wether it is self aware or not. This kind of break away thinker should not be ignored or condescended, yet it is the dissemination of intelligence through the group which creates the bar for contemporary convention.
If you think of consumer purchases when you think of financial privacy, you live in a bubble of privilege.

There are literally countries where people get sent to jail for giving money to pro-democracy groups or journalists.

If you're an American, imagine a scenario where rights are stripped away from people at the federal level and donating to those causes becomes illegal.

Surveillance has impacts far beyond your consumerist lifestyle.
I can't get past the feeling that this is what Wave could have been, and now I'm torn between the infinite possibilities it opens up and the horror that Google will have even more power over their kind of emails no one should support.

I think the idea is good but the semantics aren't aligned: if a "thing" is to be modified, it can't be an email. There is too much history ingrained about emails being static and updates appearing in another email. But maybe this can open up a new form of collaboration that never mentions the word "email" but uses SMTP/IMAP as a transport. I'm thinking about what Deltachat is doing and it's using the protocols to transport "metadata" information that is not to be read directly by users. They even created embedded apps to further the capabilities and give users a way to do much more than just exchanging messages: https://webxdc.org/

All in all there is a place for self-modifiable documents with updates transported via SMTP, but the semantics need to be very clear. And it's hard to believe Google and follow it to be a good steward for an open, beneficial protocol and idea.
All I know is the stock market is really antsy and wants to be done with this whole “inflation/recession crap”. They want to leave that behind and go back to the old times of worry free trading. Any moderate or neutral news is taken to positive and there is going to push it up
> if you took a trip in a time machine back to then, I'm fairly sure you'd come off as a raving lunatic

Absolutely! Which is WHY acting as if every rule and guideline from more than 200 years is holy and must not be changed is terrible.

I'm definitely not in favor of pure direct democracy, nor of changing things on a whim. However, we have had more than 200 years more of experience around the world with variations on democratic systems, and I think we can do better than we've done.

It is possible, even common, to look at a situation, see that all solutions tried so far have been bad for various reasons, and so to choose a new solution that avoids all of those pitfalls, only to run into new pitfalls that hadn't been seen before. That's no knock on the latest attempt! It's progress, it's just not the last attempt that should ever be made.

I think the founders were reacting to the world at the time, and their reaction was maybe the best possible one given the time and the need for compromise. They saw the dangers of the unchecked power of royalty, but underestimated the power that comes with concentrating wealth. They saw some of the economic dangers that had been revealed in countries around the world at that time, but completely missed the economic power unlocked by enabling women to enter the workforce. I could go on and on and on, and I don't think it's speaking overly-negatively about those men and their accomplishments to say that they should not be venerated as all-wise, all-knowing, or god-like, which is definitely how some political figures--including US Supreme Court justices--describe them.
Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or "no"
Health Facilities Association of Maryland
Okay, there's a use case I didn't know about. Do you know any SIMD projects that require the lower latency?

I'm glad to hear some newer AVX512 implementations are better. I haven't used an Intel one for years, but I have used the current-gen Ryzen version. Unfortunately it's still suffering the same problems-last time I stress-tested it my CPU hit 100C and some absurd power number before I was too scared to continue. Granted, that was with Prime95, which I believe is close to peak utilization.
Yes, cost. Enclosing an entire estate in a climate controlled structure in northern England is very expensive.