skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Equity is the thing we naturally strive for

If equity was our standard we wouldn't give eyeglasses to anyone because blind people can't see at all.

Instead we strive for equality, where everyone is able to use the best devices they or their insurance can provide regardless of others. I can get glasses to restore my vision to 25/20 even if yours never was 20/20.

> That's not what affirmative action is, it's recognizing both the systematic and individual disadvantages

Affirmative action doesn't treat people as individuals. It's specifically about using people's visible identities (whether or not they do!) to determine how they're treated. Under affirmative action a rich black man would get a job before a poor white man and it would be defended by its supporters as undoing systematic obstacles even if the recipient never encountered those obstacles themselves.

> people who have the time to waste on leetcode

Why do we hate people who teach themselves a skill? Why is it literally considered a negative these days?

> a skewed sample of the population

They're individuals, not population samples.

> Who is the more impressive student

If I was running a scholarship this would be the criteria because it would indicate who would get the most out of the resources. If I'm hiring them to fit a defined role I only care about their current skills, not where they started.
Turbo Pascal used to run on CP/M, maybe someone could port it to 6502 or something.
The news doesn't exist to give you an accurate model of reality.

It primarily exists to give you a believable model that promotes behavior of the masses towards the interests of the owners of the company or nation state that controls it.
Also, a lot of colleges like to put you on an Academic Improvement Plan if you fail a class which feels a lot like being punished or shamed and my friends would drop a class instead of risk it. It shows up on your transcripts too, even if you re-take the class. So, when you apply to graduate programs or for a transfer, it can hurt your chances and lower the GPA.

Schools are run too much like pressure cookers sometimes. I hated the stress so much, despite loving the subjects. It seems like a lot of the students come out pre-burnt and still ignorant anyways.
IMO, since Apple's public, it would dig too deeply into Apple's short-term profitability and growth, making it a no-go for its voting shareholders.
Yes, unfortunately you have to already be friends with one.
Perhaps. From my vantage point, global elites and greedy humans are synonyms. That is, the greedy who - for their own benefit - pushed the globalization agenda, cleaned up financially, and now are too busy counting their booty to own their role in our current sideways-ness. That latter disconnect is common of elites of any sort.

We're on the same page.

p.s. It doesn't have to be "organized". When there's a common goal, and finite paths to that ends, human behavior automagically begins to synchronize and optimize. Another way to envision it is starlings. No conspiracy, yet highly (enough) organized and "in sync."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVko9jyAkQg
Detect secrets in your code more accurately with dry runs for custom patterns n
The problem with those is that they are often poorly configured.

Take for example the scenario in question here. Is it really legitimate to allow GET requests to a domain but block all POST requests? That sounds questionable at best. How many sites is it safe to view pages, download files, etc from, but POSTing to them is dangerous? There may be a few, but it is not particularly common. Far more common is sites where any request could be harmful. (Malware, sites spoofing other sites, etc).

I get fully blocking a domain. That can be reasonable sensible, especially for domains in a known blocklist of porn, malware, etc.

I can get inspecting content and blocking if there is clear evidence of maliciousness (but this must be done carefully, since false positives can cause a lot of headache!), but for other content-matching scenarios, you may well be better off generating an alert to be reviewed manually, rather than blocking things.

There have been cases where these system incorrectly block business critical functionality, causing a company to completely shut down, losing huge sums of money while figuring out what is breaking things, before getting it sorted.
I graduated into a recession. It was fine.

It never hurts to pay attention to the macro economy, but in the end, just live your life and pursue the career you want.

Software development may eventually go the way of textile manufacturing (i.e. only done in poor countries with cheap, unskilled labor) but I doubt you or I will live long enough to see it.
Egypt generally bans encryption, so that would not work for GC.
Japanese Game Dev Releases 5 Free Games to Steam Developed by New Employees
Well yes, FOX/CNN/MSNBC etc. are all trash sources but that's not the claim that was made. And yes $31T in national debt is significant. It's not the only piece of information, but you can never put it all in a headline or you wouldn't need an article.
ASCII and unicode are subtly different things.

you should compare ASCII with one of the UTF encodings of unicode.

the 'unicode' for ASCII's would be just the english alphabet extended with digits and a few more special control characters.
Yeah, but then everybody bitches about ease of use. That other project down the street just works out of the box, while your project is mired in configuration hell.

More like we need a better Dev mode vs Production mode switch. Dev mode would be fairly insecure but would also refuse to run on the internet. Production mode would ease deploy but also "self harden".
Source? Maybe legal emigration increases, but I doubt that illegal or asylum-seeking emigration would increase. People are fleeing from the terrible conditions in their home countries.
I’ve heard mixed things from Indians. I suppose the question might *not* be how much it remains a democracy - you are correct that the ruling party appears to have wide popular support - but how limited some freedoms might be for non Hindus.
If you've already bought, say $5k, through treasury direct, can you buy your remaining $5k allotment through Yotta?
Yes that is exactly what this is about. A few years ago the FCC mandated[1] that all voice providers implement a set of standards called STIR/SHAKEN that are essentially cryptographic signatures that a call originated with them and that the Caller ID information is valid. They have since been gradually increasing penalties for providers that are not in compliance with those standards. This move is the strictest yet - completely disconnecting some providers that are not in compliance. The companies in question aren't an exhaustive list of providers that still allow spoofed Caller ID, so it won't end the problem. I'm still curious as to how far they will be able to go with foreign services. At the least they should eventually be able to prevent spoofing of domestic numbers.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication
Is it the sort of deal where the cash goes straight to the pocket and you don't get a receipt?

And no, you don't need to go south to find those deals.
Dude, like what's your issue?

They've been in ruby red Idaho for like 30 years now.

Edit: Actually they've been in Idaho since 1978. So 44 years now.
Book Review: Richard Reeves' “Of Boys and Men”
Yeah. By dream of I mean “if I had a on of free time, it’s something I’d love to make because I want it” while knowing it will never happen. I know that Clojure itself will never support it, outside of external projects like Typed Clojure
If "your IT team" has merely created a snapshot of an external repo, how is this any more "secure?" I've asked a similar question below. I really want to understand the thinking here. No IT department is going to go line-by-line through all the packages in "artificatory" or Ruby gems or NPM packages or NuGet's repo, checking them all against known vulnerabilities. No one's going to vet the actual code. If there's a public advisory for one of the packages, the parent repo is going to fix it first, and the internal repo may already be compromised, and the "IT team" is going to have to duplicate the work that the repo runners are already doing, and do it slower. I'm lost here.
Oh I totally agree they bought Figma because they couldn't figure it out themselves and to protect the products / revenue streams they already have.

At some point in the future after designers have gotten tired of Adobe Figma, some new product will offer something that Figma is failing on and take the market. However,

(1) that something won't be multiplayer web based collaboration - Figma has solved this one. The killer feature will have to be something else

(2) In all likelihood, Sketch won't be the company that does this.
hopefully a lot more than 10%

> and it would take 8 years to move 10% of it to other countries
Unfortunately not. We can only support accounts that haven't previously created Treasury Direct accounts.
Interesting articles but would recommend to e.g. just switch into the energy sector. Keep informed and moving.
We have vastly different agile experiences, my friend.
Hah me too.
It is related to the "max_threads" setting of ClickHouse, and by default, it is the number of physical CPU cores, which is twice lower as the number of vCPUs.

For example, the c6a.4xlarge instance type in AWS has 16 vCPUs, 8 cores and "max_threads" in ClickHouse will be 8.
Fairly long video [1] to show how to operate a VOIP app, but yea, pretty simple. Should be harder whenever STIR/SHAKEN [2] goes into effect.

1. https://odysee.com/@cybering:1/spoofing-call-id-using-voip:2

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
Did this page hijack anyone else's back button? Weird.
It just takes away 90% of their revenue, which is effective enough.
This is very cool! I had the same idea for a while - I currently just run a .NET cli tool I wrote that reads the various cloud RSS feeds and then goes and scrapes the linked page because the RSS feeds deliberately don’t include the severity etc.

Are you looking for any collaborations or anything? Would be interested in helping if you ever are
Poor Man's CI/CD with GitHub Webhooks
We've been seeing very fast progress in AI since ~2012, but this swift jump from text-to-image models to text-to-video models will hopefully make it easier for people not following closely to appreciate the speed at which things are advancing.
as far as I know, a recession is codified as two consecutive quarters of negative growth
I’ve seen what I would consider messes in C++ and Java too, so it’s not exclusive to dynamically typed languages, but I’ve certainly seen enough in Python and Javascript to understand what you’re saying. It’s also a reason why I dream of a Clojure-like language with first class static typing, but, alas…
So.... you're saying we shouldn't end the drug war? Because without a doubt that would have a massive impact on cartels.
Correct - good point. Edited the post to add this piece of info which is important.
> define text

Text interface is any non-GUI?
I’m going to post an Ask HN about what am I supposed to do when I’m “disrupted”. I work in film / video / CG where the bread and butter is short form advertising for Youtube, Instagram and TV.

It’s painfully obvious that in 1 year the job might be exceedingly more difficult than it is now.
So how does Yotta make money? Do you charge to open an account or take a slice when the bond matures?
The answer is, nothing. Unless you put high explosive in it...

> The videos put up post the blast show damaged furniture in the room where the television was kept and cracked walls as well as bloodstains.

TVs don't explode, they just kind of burn. Even the CRTs just kind of popped and maybe threw a few pieces of glass. They certainly didn't crack the walls.

Edit: Another possible explanation is a gas leak and a sparking capacitor or something.
I have done CNAM lookups on the numbers and contacted the originating VOIP companies, and they just say "we won't let that number contact you again". It's infuriating. Don't let that customer contact me again, they can change their number at will. Scumbags.
You can do these kind of side by sides for about any American city that existed before 1880. For some reason people really think we are in a cultural dearth because we don't have the same brick general stores from 100 years ago.
India caste-based discrimination is as strong as before. All this jobs reservations are created by politicians who want to get the votes of the lower caste but this is just a show. The real test of the pudding is that the dalits fare better when the British was running the show.
I personally get 50+ spam calls on some days.

I’m not in the parent posting chain, but what other option do I have?
Minimizing friction has been the game-changer for me. I don't avoid easy-to-do things, I just do them. If I can pre-load getting rid of friction I do.

For example, a meal plan generator was an expense I justified because it grossly simplified meal-planning and shopping. Removing that bit of friction made me much more likely to stick to my plan to more healthily.
I recently watched Light & Magic, which among other things told the story of how difficult it was for many pioneers in special effects when the industry shifted from practical to digital in the span of a few years. It looks to me like a similar shift is about to happen again.
So the Federal Reserve pays out interest on balances deposited by banks. As of yesterday at close, the interest paid on these balances is 3.15%.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...

While they do own assets on their balance sheet, these assets have a fixed interest rate. The interest rates stays the same as it was when they bought it. When the fed was buying these treasuries during QE, rates were very low. Less than a percent, less than even half a percent for a while. The interest rate on these interest earning assets, while it is nominally billions of dollars, will stay flat. Meanwhile, the interest it pays out to banks will increase and increase and increase.

If no profit will be available, no remittances will be paid to the treasury.
About once a year I get a "I heard you were in an accident" robocall. But the main reason they're not a problem in the UK or Europe is that the caller pays for the mobile airtime; which is standardized at something like $0.20p/minute. Robocalling 1 million people would cost you £200k -- not generally cost-effective.

In the US, the callee pays for airtime; so the cost to the robocaller is fractions of a cent, and the 1-million-person robocall thing is a lot cheaper, and thus more cost-effective. Literally all the US has to do to make the problem go away is to charge people who call mobile phones $0.30 per minute. For legitimate callers, this will be nothing; generally included in their monthly plan; but it would cripple the entire robocalling industry.
Ok, more evidence then: https://mobile.twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1577093488...
I was using codespaces regularly for working on my site when I’m travelling but it just stopped being able to serve http content one day. I use gitpod mostly now and the speed difference is very noticeable.
Ouch, is this from donations or is Nabu Casa funding that?
Can I access my TD account after it's created by Yotta?
I don't know the author, but it sounded like advice geared toward creative writing , not necessarily factual or technical.
The bioorthogonal revolution: Carolyn Bertozzi 2022 Chemistry Nobel
It has accelerated my expectations of getting better image and video synthesis algorithms, but I still see the same set of big unknowns between “this algorithm produces great output” and “this thing is an autonomous intelligence that deserves rights”.
My reading of the situation is that India is not necessarily pro-Russia, instead its position on Russia vs the West and Russia vs Ukraine is to quote Trump "very fine people on both sides" which may be problematic in of itself but is less red-flaggy than "pro-Russia".
You have to load a livecd to use an older kernel? That is pretty sad. I keep as many kernels as I like. And I can easily run a command to purge all but the running and next kernels.

As another commenter mentioned, fancy pants filesystems that support snapshots simplify this situation.
A coherent explanation of what the skill is
Someone can explains the tech limitation of the size ( 512*512 ) for those AI generated arts?
But again, sprints can also devolve into that. Structure becomes valueless when people subvert it; there's nothing particular about kanban which makes it more susceptible to this than scrum.
Terra Invicta
you can already do this, just not in real time yet. You can upload frame sequences to Polycam's website for example, but there are several services out there which do the same thing
China's issue is that people who are too old to be productive still need to be fed, clothed, housed, doctored. An inverted population pyramid is not a good thing, no matter what the resource situation is.
China is fine. That is a table of external debt, not total debt. External debt is serviced, on a currency-neutral basis, by trade. China has an absolutely enormous surplus.

What you definitely don't want to look at is the US external debt to trade surplus ratio.

If you do, you might start buying canned tuna.
Those benefits all make sense, but the main issue is just getting buy-in on that strategy from executives with budgets. I haven't had luck selling a product with a blank check or a range, all my customers have needed a fixed price and delivery date upfront.

The same dynamic happens with large residential/commercial construction projects FYI. They're expensive, complex, and hard to estimate. Overruns are common, but commitments on time and price are still made up front. In that industry they often remediate, if not solve, the problem by paying third-parties who are experts at estimation and of course everything that can possibly be spec'ed up front, is.
> In a collision with a significantly lighter/smaller car? Usually

Can you give a source for that?

I'm struggling to find anything up to date which isn't blatantly biased, so here's something (old!) from Berkeley Lab:

'Those who think that driving big is driving safe, or that lightweight, fuel-efficient vehicles are inherently more dangerous than their heavyweight counterparts, need to think again. A researcher with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) has teamed with a researcher from the University of Michigan in a unique risk analysis study which shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, vehicle quality is a much more important safety factor than weight for the drivers of vehicles involved in a crash.

"Most cars are safer than the average sports utility vehicle [SUV], while pickup trucks are much less safe than all other types. Minivans and import luxury cars have the safest records," states the report, "An Analysis of Traffic Deaths by Vehicle Type and Model," which was prepared by Tom Wenzel, an energy analyst with Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, and Marc Ross, a professor in Michigan's Applied Physics Department.'

https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/EETD-SUV-Safet...
I agree that the Balto/Togo story doesn't fit quite so neatly into the Wegener story, but I also think the article brings up a good broader point that credit is often given to people/dogs that seem undeserving when you dig a little deeper.
I think we conflate two types of note-taking:

1. List-style notes of things we need to remember

2. School-style notes of information and ideas

I think the former requires a tool, but nothing particularly sophisticated - Apple Notes for example with its search indexing is fine

I think the latter we write only to stimulate our brain to process information and learn better.

I think there is a discrepancy where a lot of tools attempt to make Type 2 notes more "convenient", i.e. to trying to somehow make them an extension of our brain, but the truth is that it's like hacking a hard drive to work as fast as a CPU register -- retrieving and working with information is always going to be orders of magnitude slower than working through your thoughts in your brain.
What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot
Whatever insights and expertize you've gained up until now can probably be used to gain enough of a competitive advantage in this future industry to be employed. I doubt the people that will spend their time on this professionally will be former coders etc. (I've seen the stable diffusion outputs that coders will tweet. It's a good illustration that taste is still hugely important.)
> India's demographic outlook is far better than China's for the next two decades.

this is pretty much a polite way of saying indians are dying much younger while giving birth to more.
Peter Zeihan at work...
Some assembly may shift to India but the manufacture of the key components sure as isn't, correct? You've just shifted a part of the chain, not one of the critical steps upstream of it.
I observed that on some searches, it seems to get stuck in a loop, repeating earlier hits over and over again on subsequent pages. It seems to me that agood search engine should, at the very least, do something to trap repeats.
Sure then you should pay for that and people who disagree don’t need to subsidise you
"We all have our biases against the kids who couldn't pass o-chem."

Do you think that really true? I know some people who struggled with it who took it (or had to take it) as a major. Others, found it easy because they were good at remembering many details, yet others loved its systematic order.

I love the subject but the amount of detail drives me batty at times (one only has to thumb through a copy of Merck to be overwhelmed by the number of processes, etc.)—and I don't have a photographic memory.

However, I don't see that as a major issue in the long run, for if one is heavily involved with some of its specialized threads/areas then it all makes sense at that level (well sort of for much—duh, some—of the time).

Unlike physics where the rules seem clearer and more straightforward, the detail in o-chem throws people (especially those who don't have a good memory for detail). From my experience, this can become an acute problem around exam time when other subjects are competing for attention. Some people do much better in that situation than others, it doesn't mean that they're not good students, or haven't tried hard enough—or that they even dislike the subject.

It seems to me it's the nature of the beast that is actually the real culprit. Perhaps that ought to be taken into account when teaching the subject (for instance, we could offset o-chem exams from others by scheduling them to be held at a different time of year).

Just a thought.
Until the pipeline blew up, how many resources did the EU import from Russia compared to India?
to simplify this, they’re all owned by the Murdochs
Indeed, it's almost just a flex? "Oh yeah, we can do better! No, no one can use it, ever."
We presented using Parquet formats for bioinformatics 2012/13-ish at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) and got laughed out of the place.

While using Apache Spark for bioinformatics [0] never really took off, I still think Parquet formats for bioinformatics [1] is a good idea, especially with DuckDB, Apache Arrow, etc. supporting Parquet out of the box.

0 - https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam

1 - https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/bdg-formats
This, 100%

The word "ethics" has become very flexible...