skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar story (albeit at a much smaller scale). Around 2017 when you could still mine eth-derived altcoins feasibly with a GPU, I repurposed my old gaming PC into a mining rig with a few old cards. I took off the side and taped a box fan to it to provide air-flow [1]. My apartment at the time was $950 flat, all utilities included, zero language about max usage in my lease, so effectively whatever I mined was 100% profit.

I wasn't making much, maybe $50/mo at absolute peak? I'm sure if I had scaled up the property manager would have eventually wondered why/who was spiking the apartment building's electrical bill and I would have found the limit to my unit's "unlimited" electricity. But it was a fun project. I was working a full time job too, so I learned a lot about remote managing something like that. I had it all wired up with a VPN so I could SSH into the mining box from my phone. Here's another pic of my "workstation" at the time. The right hand monitor was my "status dashboard", really just a tmux session with htop, iftop, eth miner, etc... [2].

I was ~25 and single at the time and the biggest obstacle to 100% uptime was actually if I wanted to bring guests or dates over, they would wonder why there was a jet engine in the corner of my studio apt. So I would shut it down in that case. Eventually that + loss of profitability + general jankyness of the setup led me to dismantling it. But it was fun while it lasted. The part in the OP about restarting the box with a screwdriving short definitely spoke to me. My box had a whole ritual around restarts that I discovered through trial and error, where I would power up, pull the plug, restart, restart again, and then it would run stable indefinitely. Good times.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/vTDr7Ap.jpeg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/SUFzTZh.jpg
To extend that, there was an article here a while back about how many of the people growing these monoculture pine forests for paper production have stopped cutting them because gathering the pinestraw and selling it for landscaping purposes is much more lucrative.
If you have an automation to update it, why would you only run it once a year? why not once a week? then you'd know it's broken within a week.
I think pinning Taiwan as "last bastion" of some democracy that existed before is incorrect as any honest history of the KMT can see.
European workers face the same threat in the USA...
I question the value there. Who cares that someone likes Seinfeld clips with George? Is that worth anything at all? You can get basically that data from Experian anyway without all of the hassle.
We’ll see what “many aspects” means
That is generally true, except perhaps in the first couple years of having your green card if you got it through employment. It could come up in a citizenship application if you didn't work at the sponsoring company long enough.
> The kitchen tablet was replaced with a cheap Chromebook.

Chromebooks get eight years of security updates from Google, similar to iPads. Is the attraction that you can install a Linux distro on it after support ends?
I'd say 2009-2012 it was mostly Linux users, at least the communities I was in.
Yes, your interpretation of my article is correct!
> Building on the previous rule, a yellow UI element must always be accompanied by some darker-shaded UI elements such as text and icons to articulate its meaning.

This was known long ago--it's called the Rule of Tinctures in heraldry, which says that yellow and white (sometimes rendered as gold and silver) should only appear on red, green, blue or black, and vice versa.

Edit: I realize this might come off as trivializing the author, which I didn't mean to do. I just think it's interesting that different groups have come up with the same rules over time.
I don't know where you got the idea that the US will not go to war to protect the US economy, national security, or military capacity, but you are severely misunderstanding the situation. That is why the military exists. We spend the amount we do on the military to support American economic dominance and define the rules on how world trade happens. The reason we are not doing more for Ukraine is because they are not very important to the US, outside of being a buffer against Russia.

Ideas like "protecting democracy" are used to sell citizens on wars they don't care about. The full destruction of TSMC is likely preferred over a Chinese dictated world technological economy. The truth is, if one side has TSMC chips and the other doesn't, what we're talking about may necessitate a total war.
Isn't this density argument true of pretty much anything, though? A really dense farm could serve the same purpose as a large rural farm while supporting its own upkeep better along multiple axes (e.g. water use, land-use, infrastructure requirements).

It seems like there are two arguments here: the first is that it's unfair (or maybe unreasonable?) that suburbs are subsidized by urban taxes. This is the point that I would argue makes no sense to me: lots of regions are supported by other regions in one domain or another.

There's another argument which is that denser land-use leads to more efficient land-use in almost every case. This argument makes sense to me, though I'd argue that efficiency isn't the be-all-end-all for why people choose to live where they do (e.g. lots of people even in this thread have expressed that they chose to live in a less dense area because it better suits their desired lifestyle).
To bring something up to code, it takes weeks if not months. Getting permit, construction and inspection. You can't tie up a sale until that's done. Where do you get the money to pay for that? Buyer isn't gonna wait for X months, especially if buyers want to do their own renovations. You know what people will do? Pass the buck to the buyer (Sold As Is). The cycle repeats again and again.
I'm so happy to see people talk about this! I too am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems.

Hillel's thoughts are completely unsurprising to me so I guess I've come to similar conclusions.

I do notice that we seem to care about different things though - where Hillel appears to focus on tag types (and the implementation challenges that go with that) I focus more on human factors like what problem are we solving? for who? How do we maintain relevance (and power) in tagging systems (and for who?)

I'm of the opinion that tagging systems should not be made by the few for the many but by each person for themselves. Which, of course, sucks because that puts the onus on everyone who wants tagged content to do their own work. But I believe the output of that investment would be quite valuable and useful!

An easy example I could use might be recommendation engines. Assume I have a database of tags (a tag cloud?), and I know you have similar interests to me. If you also have a tag cloud, I could input links to both of our tag clouds into a purpose-built recommendation engine to discover new content I might not have consumed yet.
That's incredible, thanks for sharing! Looks like it's still working on supporting some APIs (claims to currently support about 70% of Web Extensions APIs), and so far both the Firefox and Chrome NoScript extension don't appear to work for me on iOS, but that's awesome that they're working on adding support for Chrome and Firefox addons. I'll definitely keep an eye on this project.
Great insight. Like Hal Abelson said, nowadays it's more of a matter of how "you use various kinds of programming styles and techniques like combinators to glue things together." This lowers the bar to programming to more people, making the excuse "i'm not technical" less and less relevant.
Blame Marie Kondo. It's just modern self-help vocabulary.
Accidents happen in non-capitalist contexts as well. Reaching for that as a cause without any evidence is weak.

Profit motive is like gravity - it's always there, in every society. It may have other names, like making your superior happy, but it's there.

You have to guard against profit motive weakening your core values - you have to put up guard rails. If those guard rails are missing, that's very bad. If those guard rails are there, and people avoiding them is normalized, that's very bad. If those guard rails are there, and people get in trouble for avoiding them, that's very bad.

If those guard rails are there, and you have a comprehensive process for reviewing incidents and updating rules and processes based on real world factors, then you're part of the way towards good safety culture.

Safety culture is the decisions that individual team members and teams make. Safety culture is also the corporate process for evaluating incidents. And also the way that resources are or are not assigned when concerns are raised. And so many other things.
If NASA would, then why SpaceX no?
They are not necessarily wrong. The most straightforward way to grow into the role you want (e.g. a manager) is to get direct experience doing the job. For example, if you wanted to get a manager role at a FAANG-type of company, you could:

1. Get a role as a junior developer at a FAANG, get 2+ promotions, hope your team has enough scope and resources to let you try out manager duties

2. Get a role as a junior developer at a growing company, be quickly forced into manager duties, then transfer into FAANG

True, some places will use this to their advantage to underpay you, but you should be aware of it as a tool in your career.
Good suggestion I've created https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/c/feedback

We have displayName and profileImageUrl but haven't gotten around to letting you set it yet. We built a Slack and Discord sync first so we had these attributes. But I agree with you we want to let you set a single account with profile images across different communities.
Usually, yes!
Also just today:

BBC headline "Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63293582

With more background info: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/is-china-really-using-...

Some highlights from the BBC article:

> Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed.

> Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army.

> The retired British pilots are being used to help understand the way in which Western planes and pilots operate, information which could be vital in the event of any conflict, such as over Taiwan.

> "They are a very attractive body of people to then pass on that knowledge," a Western official said. "It's taking Western pilots of great experience to help develop Chinese military air force tactics and capabilities."

The disclaimer sentence

> There is no evidence that any pilots have broken the Official Secrets Act or that they have committed any crime.

is funny - how would they gather that evidence without confessions from the pilots involved or from the Chinese? Even if they don't tell them any secrets, there remains the fact that they train them at all. With the next big conflict where this might be used being Taiwan, where the West has already taken the opposite side.

From the second link:

> The MOD also said that the United Kingdom is only one of several Western countries whose aircrew (and likely other sources of military expertise) are currently being targeted in this way. No details were provided of other nations involved.

Personally, reading this, I think the news is getting more ridiculous by the day. I think this is much worse, I don't think Saudi Arabia is likely to end up as a direct adversary, and even if it did it would not matter much. But China...
> archived

https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP

(And yep, I found out about Google Authenticator the hard way, trying to transfer from my previous phone!)
Win32 also has MultiByteToWideChar and friends, although being a C API, it's not particularly pleasant to use. For newer HSTRING-based WinRT APIs, if you're calling them from C++, you're probably going to use C++/WinRT, which provides conversion functions that operate on std::string_view and std::wstring_view.

So, you're right, I need to amend that to "mostly needed for file formats and protocols".
China can just send cruise missiles to start and ignore beaches.

A major power with 1.2 billion people can take an island of 20 million 80 miles away from its shores.
This looks great! But I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the bitwarden integration: I already have a bitwarden account (in fact, I run my own self-hosted server), and I can't figure out how to use it in this browser.

Is it just that the password autofill feature uses bitwarden under the hood, but you can't actually use a bitwarden account? If so, that should be mentioned/documented somewhere.
Procedurally Generating Audio Using a Real-Time Fluid Simulation [video]
Bartosz, you have to choose another name, I just upvoted by reflex, when I saw it's you again
emphasis more on the would then.
The last half of your comment describes such a scenario.
Don't they receive EAD cards, which are almost green card and work until your green card case is decided?
There will always be risk/development tradeoff. You can play with the balance but the only way to bring it to zero is to stop development.

That's not to say that improvements can't be made. The real question is how many of the injuries and deaths were preventable by following the guidelines that already exist, and are generally followed but not perfectly followed.
When I read the headline I thought they meant “and the rest walk”. Most Dutch primary schools are small and local. My school (not in Assen), back in the nineties, had a rule that you weren’t allowed to come by bike if you lived less than 1km away because they didn’t have enough space for the bikes otherwise. I always looked with envy to the kids who got to bike, I had to walk.

All I mean to say is, this is a pretty normal statistic (anecdotally) and going to primary school by other means than biking or walking happens but isn’t super common except in very rural areas or special schools (either for special needs kids or based on some niche philosophy) that attract kids from a larger distance.
This ^ is spot on. While the general 'abstraction' argument is spot on, MS is in fact poorly placed to be the 'OS' that becomes that abstraction. In fact, arguably it doesn't even need to be an 'OS' level concept. An example is google docs or WhatsApp. I can work on documents seamlessly across different actual 'OS' because the application abstracts that away - and it is sufficient. If an OS were to abstract all of this, it would also involve numerous compromises, notably on the tightly integrated end-end experience (hardware to UX), which is Apple's entire strategy against the likes of Microsoft.

So no MS is not the best situated to be that 'OS'.
1. It is unclear if such an OS (with the benefits and trade-offs) will be preferred to a world where cross-OS applications can abstract away the OS.
2. Someone like Google (minus their execution woes that seem to get worse in recent years) is better positioned to abstract away the complexities for a regular consumer.
>is because an Engineer (with technology selection blinders on) will jump to a What/How before the Why actually lands in a conversation.

I'm in marketing/biz dev now at an engineer-led company, and in a meeting last week a dev team presented a new UI that is a MASSIVE departure from our current approach. At the end of the demo, they informed us that a) it's being released in 2 weeks, b) do you think the clients will like it, and c) can we charge more for it?
I kind of love the Netherlands (long story) and we have a huge framed photo from Ikea of a canal in Amsterdam on our kitchen wall. Our youngest knows where the picture is from, even though he hasn't had the chance to go yet due to Covid/environment/finances.

Still, as a parent from Sweden, seeing so many pictures of biking kids and no helmets is jarring.

I know that selling bike safety ideas to the Dutch is like selling ice to the Innuit, but it's still weirding me out.

Edit: typo.
I'm almost certain that FMLA, ADA, etc have provisions that require the employer to treat the information as confidential. Even things like contact tracing for covid keeps the person anonymous.
Isn't it around that number everywhere? At least if you include walking: I can imagine that in high-density housing, many people live so close, they don't need any transportation.

It seems like the author just happened to have found an article about this new suburb in Assen but that it's actually just reporting on the status quo.
Butterick sneakily asserts over and over that Copilot is simply retrieving code from Github ("Copilot's whizzy code-retrieval methods", "Copilot is merely a convenient alternative interface to a large corpus of open-source code", "our work is stashed in a big code library in the sky called Copilot"). This verbiage seems specifically chosen to present a misleading picture of what Copilot is and does.

Copilot is a set of trained weight values in a matrix. There is no source code stored in that matrix. The fact that someone can prompt Copilot with specifically chosen text to generate a short sequence of code that matches a corresponding segment of code used to train the model does not mean that it is somehow "just retrieving" that snippet. It is _generating_ that code, guided by the weight matrix, via pattern-matching based on the chosen textual prompt and surrounding context.

That distinction is significant because one of the primary defenses against copyright infringement in US law is if the derived work is transformative. Copilot is a work derived in part from Github code, but it has unique capabilities far beyond returning short snippets of input code, and the work itself is clearly an extensive transformation of the input data.

This is without even considering whether concrete _outputs_ of the model that happen to match code in a repository used to train it are themselves protected via copyright or not, which is another issue entirely (and not as cut and dried as many folks on here seem to think).
My personal conclusion about the first season is like this:

It was a tolerable fantasy series, which is always welcome. Its writing and acting were uneven, ranging from high quality to really bad, and its visuals are for the most part spectacular and generally the best part of the series.

My main problem with it is are all the names and general concepts lifted straight from Tolkien's works, set in a story that bears not even a superficial resemblance to what he wrote. So I see it as an independent, and not very original, fantasy work of its own, rather than an adaptation.
Or don’t want to provide meat for the legal meat grinder.
Just going off reporting in German media, I remember one statement by Minister for Health Lauterbach that hospitalizations were increasing faster than in previous waves and a couple of reports that Munich hospitals were getting ready to implement their contingency plans, shed patients to other districts etc. That did sound like a dangerous rate of increase to me, but I didn't fact-check any of this.
They obey his Law of Gravity and his Laws of Motion. Newton was not incorrect and Einstein did not invalidate Newton's laws. It's only that Newton could not explain the source of the "force" of gravity, and he was honest about this.
The key part is "abstracting all of the hardware in your life".

...so that it's no longer in your control, nor perhaps even your property anymore at some point.

The 3rd E isn't "extinguish" anymore; it's "enslave".
Agreed. If someone goes on a PIP it’s rather unlikely they are kept after plan is complete.

They will be under a microscope where every single thing is scrutinized.
AI-Powered Job Recruitment Tools May Not Improve Hiring Diversity, Experts Argue
It's ok for two different things to both be bad, we don't have to pretend they're the same.
Yes, I think this is a great example of parent commentators point.
To extend that line of argument a bit, what about a more professional tool/system, e.g. cherry pickers?

Doesn’t it seem reasonable to you to design and engineer cherry pickers such that the bucket can’t be moved unless a safety harness is attached?
That's true! But I've helped a LOT of people go from unqualified to qualified for Eb-1A or EB-2 NIW. Here is my class that teaches people how: https://alcorn-immigration-law.teachable.com/p/extraordinary...
also the caveat that excel/sheets is not good on ipad.
i agree that humans have changed a lot. and i also agree that you should look at the current data. you should also look at the failures of reforesting areas that weren't historically forests. what is the data of reforestation failure vs success in those areas?

if you're interested in this topic, i've learned a lot from the authors of this paper (paper is also good and relevant to our discussion and points to a lot of their sources): https://repositorio.unesp.br/bitstream/handle/11449/159556/W...

it's a fascinating topic! appeals to my social science and nature interests
The “problem” is that Giphy is widely integrated into other software/web applications (like Microsoft Teams). That’s also what makes it so valuable.
The problem is all the bullshit that Samsung put on their phones. Shit that nobody asked for (Bixby), shit that consumes resources for no good (Bixby), shit with no ecosystem (Bixby), shit that is a half-effort (messages, gallery, calendar, the lot), and shit that sets itself as the default with each update (everything).

Google needs to reinvigorate Android One, and paint it in an extremely prestigious light. Near-stock phones are such a pleasure.
These are amazing - from the design to the interactive demos to the writing. I think "digital monograph" is almost a more apt description than "blog post". I've written tons of blog posts and they have almost nothing in common with what he's doing. 8,000 well written words plus formatting and links plus 50 or so embedded demos is really an astounding amount of work. What I appreciate most is the use of the medium itself. Imagine if the standard format for academic papers was updated from the black and white two-column format used for a half century to something like this?
Mine can't. The first generation entry-level Nexus 7 used a cheap storage chip that wore out within two or three years; it's completely unusable.
I perform my best work under pressure. When everything is on fire, I'm at my most comfortable. Self imposed deadlines don't work at all for me because I know the person who made the deadlines is full of shit.
> or they have something they want to hide.

Indeed. I recommend this interview with Jeffrey Sachs, who headed Lancet's commision to investigate Covid-19.

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/10/jeffrey-sachs-lessons-...

You may find your eyebrows a couple inches higher after listening :-)
I don't see why it's so absurd to think another alien species could develop interstellar communication without even being sentient in the way we understand it at all, or at least have anything like the level of abstract self-awareness that humans do. They may just experience something more equivalent to "emotional" reactions when attempting to manipulate the natural world to create technology in such a way that it guides them towards a successful outcome. Indeed comprehending Boolean logic seems no more necessary for that than it is for a dog in order to understand that when something in front of them is person 1 OR person 2, AND that certain sounds are coming from that person, they should sit.
Growing a forest is as much an effort as it is to plant it.
Of course, wherever the forests have ever been present, those places were being controlled by nature automatically. Nothing has ever changed, except for the fact that we have cut down a good majority of those.

To replicate a forest means to replicate the entire mechanics and settings that forests thrive in, not just replicating the presence of plants/trees alone.