skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible you read the best first. We collectively seem to have anointed plenty of books as "best" — perhaps that's where you began.
I'm of two minds on this issue.

I recognize myself in what the author is describing. In fact, I always describe what I want to talk about in my initial message, and ask before calling because I hate when it happens to me.

On the other hand, if Soviet soldiers can hold off the Germans at Stalingrad, I don't have to replicate their mental fortitude but I can at least replicate <1% of it. And that includes not freaking out with minor white collar bullshit in a developed country.

Never confronting anxiety just increases it in the long run.
That's the logical conclusion any foreign adversary can make. Problem is, this is why it would be an example of a very very efficient propaganda. It's being uncovered by the public, the government "knows nothing", and the adversary knows it's not them.
I think the poster is saying he expects the stock market to fall a few more months before turning around. Not that green energy will complete its transition in a few months.

If you think oil/gas will demand the backbone, you ask yourself why none of the oil and gas majors are drastically expanding their production capacity during this time of high prices. Oil and gas, and their investors, are planning for their phase out, and nobody wants to be holding on to a new asset that has a lifetime of 10-20 years but won't have value after five.

Oil and gas companies and investors know that fossil fuels are on the way out, it surprised me that the general public doesn't know this.
And Michael Burry has been predicting crashes every few years since the 2008 one.

And Bill Ackman predicted 'hell is coming' at the onset of the pandemic and made $2B [0]. And there were US Senators that also did possibly illegal things to pull money out of the market before the public knew about the pandemic.

Outside of disclosures filed with the SEC, stock trading is anonymous yet they will have all sorts of headlines like today on Yahoo Finance it states "Stock futures tumble on heels of grim warning from FedEx". So all players in the market are just selling everything across the market to the tune of -1.4% because FedEx is having issues? I question headlines in the financial sector, more often lately it feels like its just what they want you to believe to get you to take actions that benefit themselves.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/bill-ackman-exits-market-hed...
FedEx warns of global recession, cutting forecast by half a billion dollars
I actually think being well-read is virtuous. Feeling superior about it is what isn't. I think in your position I might have continued keeping the list but under no circumstances let anyone else know I'm keeping it.
Have you considered using plain S3 buckets with Intelligent Tiering AND the two opt-in archive access tiers? You can use the normal S3 apis to upload, then after 180 days or so, your objects transition to Glacier Deep Archive. You do pay a penny per 1000 objects, but the benefit here is using S3 like normal. You still have to wait hours for restore.
I have a theory that people who are noobs in a certain technology, but are overall experienced, tend to produce very solid code, because they actively avoid doing clever things.
>using discord after 2014+2
> How do you honestly think this would go?

They destroy the certifications of the electoral votes from the states (as almost happened[0]), causing various states to (disingenuously) disagree about how to replace the lost documents.

Enough FUD (and lawsuits, and delays) would be generated during this period of public disorientation that the Republican party could exploit the ambiguity of the Constitutional phrase "a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed"[1] and trigger the contingent election procedure described in the Twelfth Amendment.[2]

Since a majority of states at the time had Republican representation, they would have elected Trump and the Democrats would have not been able to stop them, even if Trump did eventually let them back into the Capitol.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-aides-rescued-elector...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Act#Majority_o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election
So what? "Publisher" isn't a defined legal category in this context. Even if Facebook is a publisher that doesn't create any legal obligations.
/pediatric/orthopedic/
If I remember correctly, it's not complete immunity, but they require a compensation mechanism approved by congress for any issue that doesn't have prior history of being compensated explicitly similar to the situation at hand. It's like 99% immunity.
Even people who don’t care about free speech deserve it, I think.
No, for some time it’s been clear this is a safe space for, “just following orders” and future camp guards.
A government that doesn't keep good enough control if it's people will soon be overthrown.

When you give the people more freedom to protest, organise, mass communicate easily etc, you also have to add equal amounts of monitoring and restrictions to make sure that next movement to overthrow the government can't pick up speed without you catching it.
I think this might be implicitly accusing holocaust deniers of mass reporting and spreading misinformation about the content of the film so it gets pushed up the reporting queue and a Google search returns at least some results that appear to verify the false claims. This happens often enough to be recognized in marginalized communities.
I don’t think that’s considered the PNW, is it?
Maybe the UK can take this opportunity to Brexit from the German royals?
While it's sometimes called countersteering and is superficially similar (you wind up steering in the opposite direction to your intended turn), the mechanics are quite different: it's not a technique you'll use in normal driving and you wind up steering into the bend sharply and then away from it, as opposed to steering away from the bend and then into it.
> You can point your phone at printed Chinese text and have it read aloud to you in English.

Yeah, but it's not really that good. Machine translation has improved a great deal, but reading those translations actually involves bringing a lot of human intelligence to the table, "Oh I bet, 'maximum fire alarms spread' on this menu actually means 'very hot sauce'"

If all you're claiming is that ML models exist and have useful commercial applications, then I don't think anyone is going to argue against that point.

But a lot of these AI promoters go further: in the case of the LessWrong folks some of them are convinced that a superintelligent machine capable of enslaving humanity is right around the corner.
To start with, let's say you have your corp laptop and corp phone (both are access devices and both should have device bound certificates), and your yubikey for webauthn, and your corp photo-badge and your government issued photo identity (all three are authentication factors).

Let's say you are traveling and you lost one or both of your access devices. First immediate step is contact your security hotline and notify them that you lost the device(s). They should immediately remote-wipe/disable said devices.

If you are visiting another branch office of your company, local IT should be able to physically verify you with your government issued ID and your corp badge and issue you a temporary laptop/phone and get you basic access privileges.

If you need high-trust access, it should require more verification steps (your manager has to confirm you are not on vacation and that it is really you who is meeting with the IT shop etc), and more elapsed time (this sucks but it is important to slow things down anytime primary access devices are reissued due to loss/theft).

Obviously, if you are a super critical person and have become a single point of failure, that's bad.
One of my hobbies is tax optimisation and finding and exploiting tax loopholes.

I’m a contractor, I work through my company. It’s way more tax efficient than being perm.

But, it could be even more efficient.

So, I did some research. Turn out, where I am, a business can have multiple business codes. Activities the company is registered as performing. Now, I was and still am a software development company. But I also added artistic production as a business code.

Why artistic productions? Well, because it’s the most liberal business code for expenses.

As a software company, I can expense travel for some things, the most useful for me being conferences. But that means I need to buy the conference ticket even if I’m not interested and can only expense accommodations for the duration of the conference. That’s good but a bit restrictive.

Now, as a artistic production company, I’m not limited by that. As long as I can prove I traveled in order to produce, well, just about anything that can be construed as being art, I can expense travel and I can expense accommodations for as long as I need. You can’t rush art, you know how it is.

So, obviously, first thing I did, I whipped up a blog, posted some random pictures every day and called it good. I’m not using company money to travel the world you see, I’m using company money in order to produce art. Haven’t paid a euro of my own money on accommodation or travel for close to a year now. And the best part, I get to deduce this from my profit.

I love the tax system. I really do.

But, doing this, I got curious. I thought, hey, why not make it better. So I thought let’s see what all the rage is with dalle and stable diffusion and all that. So, what I’m doing now is, I’m changing my approach. My art will no longer be just pictures taken quickly with my iphone. No no. I’m getting the picture and I’m sending it to an API I built. The API runs some computer vision, labelling what it sees, some classification, some stuff with the pic metadata, tries to put it all together and turns it into a description of the picture.

The description of the picture I took is used as a prompt for stable diffusion. And that result ends up being the art. I’d like to thank of my art as a modern commentary on the age old “is art imitating life or is life imitating art?” - At least that’s what I told my accountant and he concerned, it would stand up in the case of an audit!

So, yeah, tldr, I’m working on image to text and text to image to expense my nomad lifestyle on the company.
Also no more (well less) massive seat license type software / massive ass installs anymore to try new software.

I know folks hate the SaaS world to some extent but the amount that is available for me to try / use for a couple bucks a month is bonkers. I can try out dozens of different applications in the time it used to take me to install one beast of an application that took up a good chunk of my disk space...
Discussion of source article on GQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32852962
They do indeed have established processes. And the US violates the shit out of them and illegally detains people against international law. You really think the UN established processes involve caging people without checking their credentials or asylum claims? Do you think international law is big on freeing up border guards to violate civil liberties of both citizens and immigrants? No. After the Holocaust, where many countries turned away fleeing Jews, who would then end up getting gassed, the US made sure the UN implemented international law that would make seeking asylum more human rights friendly.

Then we started violating those processes and cracking down on immigration, which actually increased illegal overstays because people stopped going home after their short term visa jobs because they knew they couldn't come back next year to pick strawberries if they left. This isn't wokeism, it's just history.
I hope he pays attention to the real warning the dream was trying to send him: use Beamer, not Powerpoint. That way lies salvation.
What about S&P 500? The Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes a mere 30 companies.
"Why I hate killing spiders & how to ethically rid your house of pests" -- Not flag-worthy at all.
CPU announcements. Typically brought to you by neo, ksec or rbanffy!

Dupe from yesterday though no discussion arose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850915

And rbanffy submitted a related post from nextplatform.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32865340

Related submission for https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-v1-and-n2-roadmap-... - https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-v1-and-n2-roadmap-...
...which was the fashion back in the day.

Not sure if this was an intentional simpsons reference but it made me laugh anyway given the context.

(seriously though, thanks for taking the time to write this up - I find these firsthand experience ramblings fascinating).
So dystopian
And eliminate child labour laws. All these kids expecting free lunches and what not.
Yeah, but someday they'll be right.
Author here, thank you! They have some more features here[1], but I couldn’t believe that regardless of how much you pay, they still don’t allow you to just have it redirect where you want. You are forced to use their Popl profile. Like you said, just buy an NFC tag for a few dollars that has no limitations.

https://popl.co/pages/pro
Devil's advocate here (I won't comment on if I agree with the argument or not), but this article seems to miss the point of the section 230 debate. All of the stuff here is about what the law is now. The objection most people have is that it shouldn't be like this and we need to change or remove section 230. It specifically allows sites to be biased while also not holding them legally accountable for anything they choose not to remove. Once a social media site hits a certain scale, they can completely control any narrative they want. Should this be allowed is the real question (imo).
The most compelling reason to argue against these kinds of laws is to think of their full consequences if suddenly illegal transactions were virtuous, as they have been in the past when totalitarian regimes have gained power. The present day doesn’t put a high value on freedom to transact in the west, because most illegal transactions in the west are for things many would consider criminal or immoral. But if times change (as they do in history) then not securing the freedom to transact and a vibrant economy rooted in this freedom will be come to seen as a grave error imo.
The evolution of content management systems usage statistics, 2014-2022
Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction [pdf] (2020)
Maybe "unproven" was a poor choice of words. I'd be willing to go so far as to say that it is "proving" itself as bleeding edge technology. However, if measured by adoption and risk-taking, it is largely unproven.

The history may go back almost a decade, as experimental technologies driven by industry working groups tend to do, but that work does not extend beyond the theoretical. If Facebook and Google implemented WebAuthn, they're still not staking their reputations on it. If they did, we wouldn't be using password-based logins nor MFA. Instead, they're slowly testing the waters in the real world, waiting to see how hackers respond to it. Consequently, WebAuthn remains on the bleeding edge, in the very early part of the adoption curve as it proves itself.
No Martin Fowler please. He doesn't work on real projects now
Photopea guy must be making large coughing noises right now.
Hmm, conflicting info?

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

> Individual Amazon S3 objects can range in size from a minimum of 0 bytes to a maximum of 5 TB.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/uploadi...

> Using the multipart upload API, you can upload large archives, up to about 40,000 GB (10,000 * 4 GB).

Since the archive must be restored to S3 before download, I wonder what will happen if you upload and restore a 5 TB + 1 byte archive?
Hyper conforms to HTTP but a bit too much. Cloudflare has to proxy users who may send invalid HTTP like status code 666 or something.
Figma Alternatives
Wow, it's almost like "human rights" are a cultural/political/ideological construct and not a legalistic one, and people might have varying differing opinions of what those rights are. And that there might be room in a democratic society for discussion of this, what is most just and sensible, and how we might accommodate a changing world situation.

But no... the legal categories of border rights are immutable and constant. Citizenship is a fixed construct. Migrants fleeing starvation and war and climate crisis are criminals. And all these borders set and conquered by force 200-300 years ago are inviolable.

Migrant go home.
Virtuoso (1958) [pdf]
Is there any significant effort in progress to combat this practice? I see that EFF has some old articles on the topic but I don't see anything current.
> why none of the oil and gas majors are drastically expanding their production capacity during this time of high prices

Because its a short-lived blip? Didn't we just have record lows less than 2-years ago?
Martin Fowler has never worked in ci/CD and SRE, nor has he ever written anything on the subject.
I see it the other way around.

Steve Wozniak implemented Breakout with fewer 50 small scale integration chips, which is a fraction of the complexity of a 6502 CPU. I mean, a build system for a trivial JavaScript app is probably more complex than the software the flew the Space Shuttle
I think we'd have to look at the data, but it's possible given that drop happened over an almost 20 year period. Dividends around 2-4% annual over that time could make up for it depending on specifics.
The human review is probably someone who doesn't understand the language verifying that a word is present for fractional cents on Mechanical Turk or something.
Interesting; I'll have to try this. In my experience pressing 0 has a decent chance of working as a shortcut to a human operator (versus choose-your-own-adventure DFS searching for the right node in the menu tree, which can take ages), but obviously it doesn't work when they don't have human operators at all.
But it kind of does, since you don't own cash but a portion of a company. As long as that company does well for the next 10 years and doesn't go to shit the "value" stays the same. 10 shares of Company X are still worth 10 shares of Company X in the future in that case. But the monetary value of those shares will most likely change based on inflation.
Property is great because the government subsidizes fixed rate 30 year mortgages - you beat inflation on the backs of tax payers. I own a lot of property!
I did too, don't they also have a picture of your ID they took when you signed up, for "verification purposes"?
I don't know about apocalyptic, but US Treasury bonds either exceeded that return, or trailed not far behind for much of that period. If you look at the S&P at a reward/risk perspective, it wasn't very attractive at that period of time.
This is a really weird little simulation of a faux-64.

The virtual machine is not in uppercase mode, typing stuff into it goes in as lowercase and doesn't get properly parsed. (This might be a Safari bug).

As far as I recall there was no DELETE keyword, which this thing uses instead of NEW.

Different revisions of the C64 ROM did different things with regards to clearing the color memory when clearing the screen, my early c64 would set it all to white, while later revisions would (I think) set it to whatever the current character color was.

I guess this is trying to simplify things somewhat to make its points about the power of booting up straight to a BASIC prompt, but it sure does annoy anyone who spent time hacking on a real c64!
Yeah but just because a broken clock is right twice a day doesn't mean you will keep looking at that clock
The benefit over SMS or Authenticator apps is that it doesn't pre-fill codes (and passwords) if the URL doesn't match. But yeah, I also have mixed feelings about it. Just slightly better than SMS maybe.
Belgian lawsuit is halted because of old computer that cannot read evidence
A Belgian trial of two people suspected of involvement in drug trafficking is being postponed for two months because the courtroom computer would not be equipped to read digital evidence.

HLN quotes the lawyer for one of the defendants, who states that the PC is "still working with Explorer as a browser. The Belgian daily also writes that the computer's "Windows license had been expired for years. It further states that in Excel, columns could not be widened, clicking on the "see more" button produced error messages and the computer was generally very slow. The clerk of the justice department preferred not to comply with a suggestion to reboot the PC; "there is a good chance that the computer would then fail to boot."

The lawyers of the two suspects were not pleased with the situation, the newspaper continued. "In this way, according to lawyer Sam Vlaminck, a caricature of the suspects' right of inspection is being made. [...] His colleague Xavier Potvin adds that the lawyers' patience is gradually running out."

The prosecutor then consulted the CD-ROM of evidence himself on a personal computer equipped with Mozilla Firefox. Although that solved the short-term problem, the court still decided to postpone the trial until Nov. 25. By then, the room should be equipped with a decent personal computer.

This is a lawsuit in the Sky ECC matter. It emerged last year that French, Dutch and Belgian authorities were working together in an operation to crack and roll up the crypto phone service. The service was allegedly being used by drug gangs. As the net closed around the suspects in the case, 200 raids were conducted in Belgium.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Not sure where those people worked but we do not have to share chargers lol. Just scan your badge and get one. Why do you need two chargers anyway? Just take the one with you.
Careful or you will regret it... (either if the password is lost or if you get a new device)
I'd like to see a country experiment with an open-but-chargable border.

Ie. You pay a substantial fee for permission to cross the border. Once the fee is paid, it's unlimited border crossings for life. For example the fee could be $5000 + 5% of your total wealth.

The fee reduces immigration and limits it to the rich, who you probably wanted to allow in anyway. And it costs about what people traffickers currently charge, but the government gets to keep the revenue.
Yes. The tell for these kinds of lists is if all the books are “impressive”.
> externalization of decommissioning costs

The companies that operate nuclear power plants usually pay into a fund that finances the decommissioning no?
that's not clear either, w/population growth set to reverse in the next 20-30 years

consider the Nikkei...

no crystal ball
A government controlled by its people, instead of controlling its people, doesn't need to worry about being overthrown.
Double thumbs up good.
You start towards it in your post, but don't explicitly call it out: the central task is decreasing complexity.

A "dumb" heartbeat message, and a check for its absence, is reliable precisely because of its simplicity.

So if the question is "How do I monitor my complicated observability stack?" then the answer, to me, starts with "What is the simplest method of accomplishing the minimal version of my goals?"
This sounds like a very complicated study to design.
why even let people quit? perhaps labor should be mandatory on pain of death
Reviews at work already feel like the carousel. Might as well extend that to other parts of society.
Tell that to 1991 to 2010 Japan.
Employment remains high on average.
I agree with the sentiment, at least partially. Using a high-level library in JS to display a complex graph is nice when you build a production system, but for learning the direct, almost tangible control is so important. It enables our intellect to build high-level concepts on low-level ones, and allows us to slowly understand how hidden functionality complicates high-level design before actually having to deal with it.