skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, is that something that changed in the last few years? One thing I always liked about the Mountain View campus is that every door, no matter how minor, had a badge reader on it, so you could always take the most direct path between two possible points.

At the same time, there were a lot of stories on the internal social network about people walking in behind them, so I kind of get why the policy might have been changed. I would have been one of the people mad about it!

(I posted one of these following-me-in stories once; I unlocked the door and someone pushed me out of the way to go into the office ahead of me, and I didn't see their badge. I tracked down security, they reviewed the tapes, and it turned out to be a legitimate coworker. I shared the story with the angle "this is what you should do if someone follows you in", but I got panned for not doing enough to protect my coworkers. I probably didn't post this, but my takeaway was "if your security depends on me being able to beat someone up that is larger than me, you're already dead". One of the few times the internal social media hive mind turned against me, and it was really really weird.)
You're both right.

You want to measure the distance from a starting point (zero), the person you're replying to wants to count/label things from a starting point (one).

The distance method doesn't work as well for picking items from a bag, and the counting method doesn't work as well for calculating offsets.

They can both work for arrays, so neither is wrong.
host -t txt _dmarc.fbi.gov
_dmarc.fbi.gov descriptive text "v=DMARC1;
p=reject;
rua=mailto:dmarc-feedback@fbi.gov,mailto:reports@dmarc.cyber.dhs.gov;
ruf=mailto:dmarc-feedback@fbi.gov;
pct=100"

The DMARC policy shows 100% of mail not passing SPF and DKIM checks should be rejected, and reports sent to the given addresses.
Yes, lazy copying tricks are employed, and some work round stack frames delayed until the stack is moved by the GC on the assumption most will not live that long.

There was a lot of work done on debugging so standard Java debuggers work well.
Is over half your feed is labeled "Sponsored", or are you looking at other things as ads?
Our culture is biased in ways that helped it survive harder times.

The bloodlust is easy to explain. The tribe better at war survives. Veneration of honorable warriors runs deep in our veins. Sales for Top Gun, Marvel movies, action games continue to soar.

The puritanical outlook developed to create stable monogamous families. That bit of artifice is dissolving now. More polygamy means the top men hoarding reproductive access, which historically leads to instability. Sexual socialism was an interesting run, but with the demise of religion, I'm not sure how we could save it.
In the make-a-video I said that things are getting more and more impressive by the day. I was wrong, because that was a couple hours ago. They're getting more and more impressive by the HOUR.

I'm curious where this will end up in a year. Will it plateau? If so, when?
There are quite a few resources and stories available if you have a real interest in learning about it. The term 'sex trafficking' is more widely used than 'sex slaves' for what is being discussed.

https://theexodusroad.com/porn-and-human-trafficking-the-fac...

https://fightthenewdrug.org/by-the-numbers-porn-sex-traffick...

https://exoduscry.com/articles/here-are-the-biggest-cases-of...

https://nbc-2.com/news/2021/01/12/heres-how-your-porn-habit-...

https://www.endslaverynow.org/blog/articles/the-relationship...
Allow me to introduce you to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
This reads like you're actually defending bitcoin, but you know that it's not cool, so you're describing your support as if you don't support it. (Not saying you do, just saying how this comment comes across now that I've seen it in 2 places).

Why do people need to mine bitcoin. One piece of creating a green power grid is lowering unnecessary uses of electricity on said power grid. Bitcoin is an easy mark for that. We can't entirely greenify the power grid to make the same level of power that we're currently using. So part of the process is trimming excess.

Given that framing, why isn't bitcoin excess?
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> - https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ => GA

You're right. My adblocker blocked it, so I didn't spot it. What I said about jQuery, however, is still true.

> - https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ => Plausible + jQuery

Wrong—this one doesn't use jQuery, and none of the others do, either.
First one I heard was in an obscure song by an obscure band, O Positive and their song (appropriately titled, "Up Up Up" — closes at around 3:00):

https://youtu.be/2na0hW0JGJ0

There's an Elliot Smith song with it as well ... I'll have to try to recall it.
This is why I despise movies like James Bond and Mission Impossible and love the movie The Lives of Others. James Bond would be the worst spy ever and is unlike any spy I know. Why should we glamourize those who spy on us?
I have a feeling that doing gangster stuff but on very soft targets for a corporation that only exists as a website is going to put them at the bottom of the prison social hierarchy.
>Unless technology is created to immortalize Gabe in a machine.

Who knows, this could be how the Machine God is made.
Something like this I'd guess

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E21/888169
Idk I'm not an expert in this matters but people talk about exposing kids to anything including nudity is harmful to them. I really don't know but I think there is consensus that kids shouldn't be exposed to nudity.
I think the best case something like this could achieve is a syntax translate and nothing more.

At best I'd get Ruby code with elixir syntax.

Programming languages require thinking about memory and code differently. That's why we have them.

I'd be interested to see this in elixir :)

while (s++ = t++);
And the various browsers have their own default styles for everything including buttons, inputs, paragraphs. Lets use those again instead!
Seems completely broken now; like others, I tried to test something, found I had to sign up, signed up, and found I have "0 free credits".

I really wanted to see what it was gonna do for Python -> C++ converting some nested dictionary and list comprehensions:

def foobar(x, y):
return {
_: __
for _, __ in zip(
[_ for _ in x if _ in y],
[_ for _ in x if _ not in y]
)
}

{3: 1, 4: 2} == foobar([1, 2, 3, 4], [3, 4, 5, 6])
"Not just sanitizing, but sanitizing to US social mores."

I somewhat agree, but might characterize it as meeting the tightest western restrictions. I have tons of cookie pop-ups now that GDPR happened, but that doesn't really apply to the US. So the influence isn't fully unilateral. Considering the companies started in and are headquartered in the US, it makes sense they follow US regulations more closely.
If only there was a way to save 10B operating expenses
Implicit in your question is that AB testing is used at the exclusion of other decision making tools. Definitely not the way to go.

The right starting point for thinking about AB testing is every experience is something that feels safe to put into production. That's what you're doing, but something about it being a "test" makes it not feel real to people. Maybe that threshold is low for some call to action copy, maybe it's much higher for something more critical. Use whatever tools you otherwise would to get to this point. Then you can AB test to see if it actually works.

The second part is that in theory AB testing doesn't specifically drive to local optimizations (you can test and iterate on big changes) but in practice it sure does. It also tends to encourage short term thinking, maybe comically so, because those things are faster to test. It's local optimization on the time axis. "Changing the expected ship date for custom work from 90 days to 30 days increased sales 4% with no increase in support tickets!" and they ran the test for 4 whole weeks, so how could it be wrong? Maybe someone should tell manufacturing about this test and how great it went...
> Fun fact: there exist currencies that have maintained stability despite the country in question lacking any kind of military.

Such as?

And for a further question, would they have remained stable if other countries had not invested in their military to the point that the world in general remained peaceful?

The US gets a lot of criticism for military spending, but the fact is, the rest of the world leeched off this by enjoying the peace and prosperity that was created by having one country be such an overwhelming superpower that it discouraged wars everywhere.

Now, the US is starting to show weakness and with the Ukraine we immediately see the effects of not having a 500 pound gorilla in the room to keep everyone else in line.
Tell HN: Is Twitter Cooperating with Islamic Republic?
Donya Rad’s twitter page has been suspended by Twitter [1] and she has been arrested [2] and currently in section 209 of the infamous Evin prison. [3]

This doesn’t appear to be a case of security services beating a twitter password out of the people they snatch. The account is suspended by Twitter.

What violations? What happened to her account?

[1]: https://twitter.com/donyarad

[2]: https://twitter.com/azijangravi/status/1575616663998722049

[3]: https://twitter.com/NewshaSaremi/status/1575609969189089280#m
AWS AMI marketplace?
Well they even have a “downlod model” so yep you definitely can. I wouldn’t think of this as an amazing panacea though, since once everyone has access to it that suddenly means whatever reason making assets like this was valuable before, will now be dirt cheap for all and thus actually net negative for people in that industry. Just saying and warning, not to be a bummer
Not a surprise, nor that they handled it so poorly. A shame, as the technology actually works reasonably well. I’m sure the concept will live on with Microsoft etc
I would think so. If you are highly talented you’re set and probably get promoted quickly. After your stint you can do the contractor thing as well. Govt needs a lot of software so you could start a company on just their needs. The key issue is identifying the needs which is easier if you’ve worked there.
Yeah I found this a little confusing as well. They surely knew about the previous bankruptcy mentioned, and the current debt during their security clearance check. That'd surely be a big red flag for high level clearance.
Microsoft's Gaming and Cloud 'verticals' have not 'been around for ages' (or maybe I'm just older). They're a relatively new* creation of Microsoft which actually do well. Now, we could say Gaming is as old as Google, so that's a wash. But Google should never have been so far behind in Cloud. It should be their native arena! It's a huge loss, I suspect thanks to internal politics.

* Gorillas.BAS and Microsoft Flight Simulator aside.

** There's the Dynamics line, which I don't think really counts under 'office' given its complexity.
Apple’s anti-porn (or more accurately anti-nudity) stance even extends on to your device now.

The auto-mask feature in ios16 will do shirtless men, but not shirtless women.

I’m a photographer who shoots a lot of nudes, and I don’t use iCloud at all.

This is the local, on-device software editorializing over my art.
Demanding a signup for a toy like this is rude.

Like demanding an email address to tell someone the punchline to your joke.
I've always thought of all netizens as honorary Americans in spirit, but I see what you mean.

I see a lot of parallels to inner-city life, and the despotism of local tyrants and their co-defendants doing clandestine business under micro-mob rule.
I don't think so. M1 Max Studio here, too:

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 26 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 72,850,196 [37.2 TB]
Data Units Written: 27,537,988 [14.0 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,890,170,768
Host Write Commands: 834,294,305
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 222
Power On Hours: 668
Unsafe Shutdowns: 10
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

Read 1 entries from Error Information Log failed: GetLogPage failed: system=0x38, sub=0x0, code=745

The thing at the end, though... that's odd and troubling.
As a GCP customer, I must say, it is not on the same level as AWS and Azure. Every single product offered by GCP is severely lacking when compared to the top competition. It is very clear to me that GCP is not a priority for Google.
> A decade ago comment sections like Slashdot and Hacker News were almost unanimously in favor of keeping the internet as unregulated and open as possible.

Some of those people have kids and stopped saying racial slurs and just grew up. You're talking about forums that were overwhelming inhabited by 15-22 year olds.
It’s not about “sanitizing the web”.

And these companies you mention are getting wrongfully blamed.

It’s must simpler, it’s just the digital equivalent of a brick & mortar business saying “no shirt, no shoes, no service”.

Additionally, there’s regulatory requirements for some of these companies to not do business in certain circumstances. You can’t fault them for refusing service in order to comply with laws.
Maybe there's no censorship, but there's a shitload of white supremacists. Almost exclusively from what I've seen.
i love ps streaming and chiaki because it lets me play visual novels and super robot wars on my ipad (with occasional lag spikes and drops in fidelity) but that is an incredibly niche use. game streaming has thousands of niche uses that make it a nice value-add to integrate onto existing products. currently game streaming does not have a mass-market use, especially not one that is google-scale. i am personally sad that stadia was not introduced as some weird side project like deep dream that could develop in perpetual beta until it was really and truly cooked.
SmallPP-HN-Troll.com

Troll the troll into trolling themselves?
It seemed to me by the description that being first, and picking 0 was sure win. But apparently ties mean nobody wins, or somebody not tied wins, or something. Doesn't say.

Zero points for helpful exposition.
It's more than that. Any previous convictions, charges or admissions of use will preclude you from clearance.
> If you're a bit unlucky, you'll find stuff straight up illegal to create through rather innocent searches

I know, college textbooks are prime content to illegally share.
No. Just set your expectations. You will not have a dream job and be able to afford a 1000 square foot apartment in the lower east side with an entry level salary. You will have to enter the job market and prove your value to the economy before you start to make a really decent living. Just like millions and millions of grads before you.
In the land of the blind ...
Ask HN: How are obvious spam emails still able to make it into my Gmail inbox?
I've been receiving more obvious spam emails recently, like an email that pretends to be Dicks Sporting Goods. The title is "CONGRATULATIONS!". The content says that I won a free Yeti cooler. The "from" email address is a mess, but it contains keywords like "protection", "ind01", "outbound", "outlook", etc.

And it doesn't even go into the promotions folder, but into my main Inbox. I thought that Google became so good that spam like this was basically impossible. It's been the case for a while now. Has something changed?
Unless you have a personal political opinion about it. I personally support Iran, I support the Iranian government (as an existing middle eastern democracy), and I support the Iranian people. I am against oppressive theocracies, and I support Iranian citizens doing what is necessary to loosen or free themselves from the hold of how they express their faith being dictated from above.

In my opinion, any methods to help Iranian people to help them shake this control that aren't covert Western attacks on Iran or Islam are a good thing. Helping the protestors to communicate with each other is one of the most neutral, anodyne things you can do. For me, legitimate government is created through discussions, plans, and agreements among the governed. Any disruption of that is despotism. Maybe, one day, Iranians will be helping us protest.
Bitcoin mining is a business activity, not consumption.
In July they had the gall to make fun of the rumor that it was getting shut down: https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1553080498938941440

Google killing products left and right is bad enough, this amount of lying is just unbearable. Google's lack of object permanence is probably the reason people didn't sign up for Stadia in the first place.
This is despicable behavior, what a painful history.
I had the same issue except it was pretty trivial to mod the game on PC so I could do that secret ending.
Yeah mine has a motor that turns a detent ball, newer ones use a magnet I think
> The larger a team, the more "successful" a manager will likely to be.

This is very common. Every large company I worked with is like that.
A lot of times manufacturers will offer discounts for a positive review.
Politico: US asks China, India to convince Putin not to use nuclear weapons
If you're using AWS parameter store is pretty good! You can set permissions, have different keys for different environments, and lock them with keys. If you need more advanced functionality there are other options too.
just seems to work when the 3D model is simple and smooth
The GP comment you were referring to recommended streaming Netflix in 1080p to, assumedly, compare to streaming games in 1080p, too; not to compare 1080p versus 4K. If you can stream Netflix in 1080p, there's not much additional strain on the network to stream games in 1080p.

Side note: Stadia also supports streaming games in 4K, which will have a relatively equal quality to streaming a 4K movie, for the same reasons. That is the result I see while streaming a movie and a game side-by-side.
To be blunt, these sorts of articles are precisely why I'm skeptical of the claim that sex-trafficking is a significant portion of pornography. Nowhere in any of these links is there a claim for what percentage of pornography features non-consensual or trafficked actors, and details about the methods used to arrive at that figure.

Instead, the articles either focus on anecdotes (e.g. "California Substitute Teacher Filmed and Profited off of Incest") or broad statistics non-specific to pornography, (e.g. "By some estimates, 4.8 million people are trapped or forced into sexual exploitation globally.) Nobody doubts that there are instances of non-consensual pornography. But 50 people out of 13 million is a small, small percentage.
While it would be nice to maintain the earth's existing setup, given that the original plan didn't do this, I will take "more efficient" :)
I ask the same. As far as I can tell it comes down to not having a business model that would be profitable. What model can be profitable to both users and providers at scale?

I would love to be able to use a chromebook and be able to access a virtual machine as needed for a few dollars per use. I don't think that's financially possible for a provider.
I have empathy for their team on this topic. If they release bluetooth drivers they are committed to some minimal quality and compatibility standard and controller owners unaware of a larger OSS effort will be frustrated if it isn't actively maintained.
> we are talking a demand in the thousands of tons per year.

France has 56 nuclear plants in operation. A cursory web search puts a 1TW reactor at about 30 tonnes of processed uranium per year. 56*30=1680.
I was using `async` as shorthand for "whatever it takes in a particular async implementation to launch an asynchronous task". Here's an example that more or less mirrors what I showed there:

async def main():
task1 = asyncio.create_task(
say_after(1, 'hello'))

task2 = asyncio.create_task(
say_after(2, 'world'))

print(f"started at {time.strftime('%X')}")

# Wait until both tasks are completed (should take
# around 2 seconds.)
await task1
await task2

print(f"finished at {time.strftime('%X')}")

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html

It was a response to a particular thing you said, but I didn't quote because I thought it was obvious (my bad):

> With virtual threads, you need to write fork/join code to do two subtasks. With async await, you call two async functions and await them.

fork/join and async(for you: "whatever it takes in a particular async implementation to launch an asynchronous task")/await have the same pattern (if you need the synchronization point). That example above is a fork/join pattern but without the words "fork" and "join".
yep our fixed strategy for view-dependent prompting is silly and there is tons of room for improvement!
All corporations are sociopaths, Google is only different in that they think their success is because of their lack of care about users instead of in spite of it.

Sociopaths are good at manipulating people into believing favorable things about them until too late. Google is just... different.
Which was what?
Or a minimal or nonexistent effect could be used to justify a continued investment in a bad direction.
Xbox launched in 2001. I would call that "ages" personally. Cloud is newer I agree.

>But Google should have never been so far behind in Cloud.

I emphatically agree. Google had kick ass infrastructure way before most players and squandered it on internal use only. I think it's one of the biggest blunders in its history and shows the lack of vision in places.
>> do we really need to keep him "alive" as an actor

No, movies are not essential to our survival.
Lots of people get car sick but nobody would say that the car isn't ready yet.
Yeah, scheduler activations were one approach, albeit one that wasn't deemed effective. I think FreeBSD ended up removing the feature.

A more recent attempt that's interesting is ghOSt from Google: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-....
Counterfeiting is prevented by police forces via violence, so I would argue that some of the police energy budget could be included. Police are kept in power by militaries, so some of the military's budget should be included too.
"His resume also states that
he has specialized training with federal law enforcement related to digital forensics and incident
response, dark web investigations..."

Lol, I suppose he's guilty of lying on his resume too!
I’m not sure how references that show that smart TVs contain smart software support the claim that set top boxes are declining in popularity.
Hmm, it wasn't able to convert from Fortran to Matlab for the first exmample, but it seems to have produced legitimate C++ from Fortran.

So I guess... this spells doom for the quants but the scientists can sleep soundly.
Or you could just not do crime.
Except some big companies manage to release products and keep them running forever.