skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to think of a less-unsatisfying answer, but it was just prior knowledge. All the major browsers use Webkit or a fork of WebKit, and WebKit had to be the thing that lays out the DOM since it’s not chrome-specific. (If you were looking for something specific to chrome, it’d probably be a lot harder to find. Or at least for me to find.)

The other comments are good too: try searching the metadata for the code, like git logs, pull requests, etc.

I suppose a new age solution might also be to type “// The DOM layout algorithm:” into Copilot and pray.
This is why I love HN.

Watching right now !
I wouldn't say everyone, but there was a vocal, idealistic minority that had high hopes, that's true.

> But also generally there was a belief that everyone was going to be smarter

That still gets regurgitated: "Gen Z -> technology -> smarter." Utter bollocks, of course.
>>> is bitwise right shift (fills in with zeros), >> is arithmetic right shift (fills in with the sign bit).
I meant the latter, thanks.
Is it like a https://www.focusmate.com/ ?

"Distraction-free productivity
Focusmate virtual coworking helps you get things done."
The November start time keeps halloween and the kids trick-or-treating in the evening from being after dark.
I don't think that's clear at all. Social media is a competitive game and if all your competitors are staffing up, you're going to get left in the dust if you don't do the same. Cheap money was helicoptering from the sky in those days, so why not?
I remember people in elation over the idea that information would be democratized and control taken away from "the establishment". No longer would any small group of people be able to restrict flow of information.
Yes, thank you, corrected.
That “drug addict” was murdered.

LGB rights aren’t being curtailed by transgenderism, but I’d argue that if a large part of your identity is wrapped up around ideas of gender, then you might not want the “T” part of LGBT to gain any traction.
This is true if you need large amounts of resources ($) to achieve your research goals. At least for me, I have not found this to be true.

However, what I was thinking about when I wrote that was that I control my schedule, calendar, research objectives, and have a yearly check in on my performance. In contrast, my experience in industry was VERY different across the board.
Wow! Nice
So that’s what it is!

SMS 2FA from Apple actually implements that standard from what I can see.
So are they dying of alcohol or bad government decisions?

The news at the time were how millions of litters of beer, for bars and restaurants, had to be thrown away because of the lockdowns

So the population drank less, but certain people drank more?
>The idea that giving people access to more knowledge about the world and about other perspectives would be a big help in addressing social problems isn't crazy.

Yes it is crazy and we need to wake up to that. Just look around, people have access to all sorts of information and divergent opinions but that doesn't help. Trumpers have access to CNN. Liberals have access to Truth. Antivaxers can go read all the vaccine studies and doctors and academics could lurk in forums skeptical of modern medicine. Simply making these available online does not force people to seek out the correct information or interact with people with diverging opinions.
Ukraine is already on the 7th or 8th wave of mobilisation for their men, they're long past the stage of "we're only going to rely on our professional soldiers".
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

Though you might want to look at your wars by death toll as percentage of total population?
> I guess in maths this is called a generating Lie algebra

This is often called an affine structure.
As a fan of everything along the Roguelike spectrum, I’m happy enough with the “compromise” labels.

Traditional Roguelike for full-on Berlin Interpretation Roguelikes, like Nethack and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Roguelite for Slay the Spire, FTL, and similar. Much easier to say than Roguelikelikes or Games with Roguelike Elements.

And the word Roguelike? The battle was lost a long time ago, and most people will understand it to encompass both categories above. (Even though I personally have a tough time taking it to include the three great games in the mechanics radical column of the chart).
Haha I see what you did there
Lately in my area Lock Smiths have been replaced by random dudes with a van and a drill. They won't even try to pick or do anything for even trivially pickable locks, just drill out the old one and sell you a new one at a high price.

Having left my picks at home once, and locked myself out, it was not entertaining to watch - but still necessary.
Seems hard to put a price on some of those negative externalities. A tariff or something doesn’t really fix or curb the problem.
I work in accounting and have been "automating" different boring tasks using Python. And, naturally, I've been thinking about ever increasing levels of automation. Always on a read-only basis. But in the back of my mind, I'm also thinking about data entry. So, I have a personal interest in the topic.

The basis of the article, the 1983 article, makes this reversal of expectation claim:

_"Perhaps the final irony is that it is the most successful automated systems, with rare need for manual intervention, which may need the greatest investment in human operator training."_

This seems archaic to me, and doesn't connect (not sage advice from the past)...

If you automate a really boring task, you can eliminate errors, and improve operator efficiency: don't need to perform the boring sub-tasks. For example, generating reports in Excel you may need to write VLOOKUPs, which is in itself learning yet another "tool". When you're using Python scripts to process data, you can simply learn to execute the script (which is in itself a basic skill you can apply to many more tasks).

The next level of automation is accessing data from diverse systems without the operator: pulling the report from third-party, doing some analysis, and finally sending the report.

I think of the first kind of automation like a manufacturing machine or a tractor. Early steam engines were stationary processing engines. The next level was putting wheels on the engine and taking it into a field (complex environment) and try to keep it running. I don't see any reversal of expectation in "automation" here. I expect the tractor will run until some part of the vehicle fails (in my script--until an update borks a module dependency). I'm always concerned about the "complex environment" being too complex for my economical attempts at automation. Finally, I have to walk the field to see the tractor did it's job, which is not the same as thinking about tractor maintenance and operation.

I think the 1983 write was pensive about the future. But their future is my present, and I have things to do which are effective.
Related:

Google Research Blog: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16890739 - April 2018 (1 comment)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14906429 - Aug 2017 (86 comments)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12147703 - July 2016 (35 comments)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857392 - July 2015 (43 comments)

Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113001 - Feb 2015 (2 comments)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594625 - April 2014 (2 comments)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799336 - Nov 2013 (46 comments)

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463 - Feb 2010 (49 comments)

Google Research Blog: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken [2006] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621557 - May 2009 (9 comments)
I tried Googling for an official report or investigation but I couldn’t find one. Do you know if any of these multiple governments issued one?
> this is a special purpose measurement tool with some automation, and it is not a computer... The Antikythera mechanism, OTOH, is a complex, slightly automated, astrolabe.

This is entirely wrong, and I don't know from where these ideas come. Nowhere in the article are the words "measurement" or "tool" used. The Antikythera mechanism does not take measurements.

>> This little instrument not only predicted eclipses, but also calculated the phases of the moon, the movements of prominent stars and the revolutions of the planets – although not with accuracy.

If the Antikythera mechanism does this, then it most definitely is a computer.
Is this satire, or are you serious? This is exactly the nonsensical reason communities everywhere oppose light rail and mass transit, aka the CrimeTrain™.
This seems to be from April, any follow up that prompted it to be posted?

Possibly related to this recent article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/world/europe/missing-russ...

That talks of a mother looking for her son who may have died in the same place at the same time?

I just read "We are Bellingcat" which delves into the type of OSINT confirmation of location that is showcased here with the images. Fascinating stuff, could almost make you hopeful that in general less bad stuff will happen as it's harder to get away with.
The biggest case I know about is Enron. IMO, it seems like they are obviously liable, but I expect they were pretty strongly manipulated by the CEO:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-107SPRT80393/pdf/CPRT-107SPRT80393.pdf

I personally have not looked into this very much, but the difficulty of recruiting active, competent members for the board of directors was mentioned often by 2 directors I knew.

edit: Thinking more about this, I think that the difficulty recruiting directors with related competence came from a fear of Sarbanes-Oxley laws and “imputed” conflict of interest complaints for the prospective director. In practice, SOX could be really difficult.
I think that the medium of communication is not the main problem with this idea. I say that as someone who has had & still has strong relationships formed and maintained almost entirely through text. This has been going on for centuries, with pen pals and written correspondence in general. People vary and I think not everyone has the same need for physical proximity and nonverbal comms like eye contact. (In my case you could probably go further to say I don't interpret well or express well in non-verbal communication channels.)

Rather, while bringing people together in virtual spaces does probably help different peoples see each other with empathy, and diminish tribalistic attitudes... The wrong people are in the chat. Every nation that goes to war is itself fractured into classes. The people who send a nation to war are different from those on the battlefield. Empathy for the enemy on the part of soldiers doesn't prevent them being compelled to violence.
You think it doesn't match because you're limiting your mental filters to the energy you've already spent in your own life. But instead lets go to someone else's house where you've not already spent one side of the energy equation. How much information do you need to find a particular pair of socks?

Indexes in a database take processing power and IOPS to generate, more than dumping it on the disk without an index. Much in the same way, taking your socks and putting them in a drawer takes more energy than dropping them at some random distance between the dryer and the drawer. But when it comes to finding the socks again use of the index (drawer) can save orders of magnitude more energy and time. In someone else's house its going to take far less information if they can point you at a particular drawer rather than you performing an exhaustive search.

There is a direct correlation here, but I won't say it's obvious as the idea that we live in an entropy driven world is a rather recent human discovery when looked at cross human history.
I am passionate about personal development! I've made incredible strides through the mindful use of certain key resources, and by taking periods of deep reflection followed by creative action. I've found so much joy and contentment that I could have never imagined having just a few years ago. At the same time I know there's lots more growth ahead.

I finished a coaching certification program recently and I've come to realize that this personal development work is basically a form of "self-coaching". Now I'm passionate about helping other people with their personal development, through teaching self-coaching skills and partnering one-on-one with people who are ready for that kind of thing.
When Inflation Surfaced, Tips Flopped
With some irony, tablets subjected to the usual destroyer of documents, fire, survive even better as they're vitrified.
Apple’s Next Change for Siri: Dropping ‘Hey’ from ‘Hey Siri’ Trigger
Yeah, the first week's they were giving arms to everyone, I guess in desperation and anticipation of partizan war.

Then they found out that alcohol, guns and high stress situation are pretty bad deadly mix. Removing alcohol was easiest (as removing stress would require Russia to stop trying to destroy them).
>Law and positive norms rarely can constrain a breakthrough tech like this.

True enough, but the point of this type of lawsuit is to define the legal framework within which the tech can operate. The law could end up saying that AI generated code from public, but license constrained code, must abide by the license of the original code. Or maybe there are rulings that help to better define "fair use" within this context. There is clearly significant legal ambiguity so this and other suits will help to clarify things.

Of course those laws can't constrain someone from using the tech on their own computer how they want, but most public companies will create policies to keep their workforce within the lines of the defined legal framework.
There's been a ton of innovation in that space recently, and I'm seeing a lot of bars and breweries starting to carry N/A options now. Athletic Brewing is doing a lot of stuff in the US that I see around. There's also a lot of places making Hop Water that's essentially house sparkling flavored water that's really nice.
WWII wasn't the bloodiest conflict when you adjust for world population at the time. E.g. the Mongol Conquests or An Lushan Rebellion probably killed more.
So far the only NA beers I have found that taste like real beer are from Athletic Brewing.
I avoid alcohol but also really like the taste of beer, so I'm loving the Athletic beers.
I highly recommend them.
Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?
My understanding was that the primary motivation to build those communication channels was to gain an edge on the stock markets. I don't know about the telegraph, but for radio I remember reading that that was the reason JP Morgan was financing Tesla, and he was mightily annoyed when he got scooped by Marconi.
Fantastic innovations. But where's the underline? :)
“This is all we sell, take it or leave it.” is not a confirmation of what the buyer wants.

Supply side reviewing past sale’s history and deciding to sell some twist on a past thing that sold creates an “take it or leave it, because we decided this was most likely to sell” market dictated by supply sides review of the past.
Not in an absolute sense, yes.

But we still have relative necessities. If you want your car to drive, filling up the tank is necessary.
Michael Burry’s warning for the index fund bubble
I had the same question, but my response was: "at the end of the day, authoritarian politicians will order you what to think, and their media/technology lackeys will enforce those orders".
Ah yes, let's make deadly stuff more deadly. The US tried this during prohibition and shifted from one problem (mass drunkenness) to black market mafias committing violent acts.
No. This article explicitly mentions the "int" type, which in C, C++, and Java is 32 bits long. 32-bit ints are not large enough for this purpose: they can only index 2 billion items directly (which will overflow a lot given that a standard server now has 256-512 GB of RAM), and this average calculation hits problems at around 1 billion items. Overflows on 64-bit ints (when used to store 63-bit unsigned numbers) are not going to happen for a very long time.
There are adjacent areas of research, such as "joint attention" and "joint action" that touch upon similar phenomenon. However, for body doubling research it seems that it is still in its infancy.

We're really looking to push this phenomenon into the limelight and accelerate its research because there's definitely something powerful here. Speaking from personal experience, body doubling is almost like magic with how it works.
> As a general rule everybody can be replaced

My mom always said this to me. Very good advice over my long career. Don't get too uppity, because even if you are a star, most businesses will hire 3 people to replace you rather than deal with an uppity star.
In the spirit of your comment:

Because. It’s actually very good.
> Watching Russian convoys sport the Soviet flag pretty much signals their intention:

It was this flag [1], not any Soviet flag. Which, in this context, makes a lot of sense, as the current government in Ukraine tries to extricate itself as much as possible from them actually having been on the good side during WW2 (with the well-known exceptions), i.e. on Russia's side . I used to know a person closed to me who had fought on the wrong side, around the same parts where this war now takes place (Odessa, Crimea, all the way to the Don river), so I'm not commenting about this from half a world away. And no, it was not "obvious" that that was Russia's intention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Banner_(Soviet_Union)
https://archive.ph/M7JzV
Ah I see you haven’t spent countless hours looking at the management console cost breakdown because management says “our cloud spending is too high”, to then read the highest cost is your “cost savings plan”.
I known its crazy… maybe bootcamp?
Oh, the interplay is important.

So when you are trying to hack into a security system (or try to prevent other people getting into such a system), it's important that you forget everything about intent and especially the intended abstractions.
The final panel in the comic is an allusion to the "wisdom of the crowds". To my recollection, for a while people were very excited about how it was going to make a lot of everyday things better.
There's still Linux distros supporting 32bit PPC Macs.
Sorry, how do you propose to transmit a signature over the wire such that if it were compromised, the blast radius is limited to only the called service within the called region within a finite time window?
I don’t have a primary source handy but there’s tons of news reports. The Côte d’Ivoire crash was in May 2020.
The glitch is a small very black thing under the arrow in my screenshot. It looks like a rotated "P". If you move, it's a hole and you can see the map under the image through it.
*HN is hard to follow. Do you mean "research supports stimulant first" or "research on people who self identify with adhd and are fitness nuts shows"
For the non-Czechs: this is a running joke about Kaliningrad electing to be annexed by Czech Republic after the occupied territories in Ukraine "voted" to join Russia.

There were a bunch of memes and tweets going around, adverts for holidaying by the Czech seaside, or joining the new Czech Navy to serve aboard the aircraft carrier "Karel Gott". A few companies played along, it was actually pretty funny :)
when a request hits the server authenticating you, it has to recreate the signature. aws doesn’t want to provide those services your raw credential because that makes any aws host a very juicy target. instead, they provide the partially evaluated signature including region and service and then they continue the process. this means that if you compromise an ec2 host, the only credentials you get are usable against ec2. the idea is that if you were able to achieve that, you likely don’t even need those credentials to do worse things to ec2.
But the main point I was making was that you disagreed with the GP that Twitter was "as good as you make it". Your stated reason for disagreeing with this was that "it involve[ed] interacting with all kinds of people, and just a few of them can make it terrible, completely outside of your control".

My point was that this was entirely inside your control, and it is relatively easy to avoid these parts, thus, "as good as you make it" is a relatively reasonable statement to make.

It sounds like you didn't get what you were expecting. It is perfectly possible to use twitter without treating it as a "fake town square and social club" (albeit, a lot harder if you only interact with the web site and not a third party client). You don't have to look at, or participate in the drama. I've used twitter for 13 years, and probably only ever looked at the "trending" topic, three times? I only see people I follow, and if they retweet stuff that I don't want to see, then I turn off their retweets.

I almost never tweet, except to attempt to helpfully reply sometimes. I delete my tweets after a few hours.

It absolutely is what you make it.
Thread from 9 days ago with 121 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368740
How would that solve anything? If an adversary has the ability to push an update then it is game over regardless on if it is signed or unsigned because most don’t check existing keys prior to updating.

Once an adversary has gotten so deep in to your infrastructure that they can push an update the signing keys are mostly irrelevant since chances are they have those already.

If you are asking if each individual contributor should sign/publish their signatures for each update then yes, perhaps. But then which takes precedence - The org or the contributor? Which should/would you trust more and why? And can that prior trust be worth anything if/when either the org or the contributor goes rogue, is compromised, decides to push an obnoxious update or is rubber-hosed in to compliance?

F.W.I.W. the approach I take is to let others be the Alpha/Beta testers for any update and check out the various channels for abnormal reports. For High Severity issues I take a look at the mitigations sections and adopt those in a 'wait and see' approach.

I can imagine edge cases for both which leads to my conclusion that doing so is meritless unless you are considering nation state actors pushing an update but that then leads to the edge case of which update do you trust? And why do you trust that as the ground truth of good/not good?
It's certainly possible that you're just more frugal than most, but I'm not sure if those numbers add up right. Even if you (1) ignore the cost to purchase and furnish the van in the first place and (2) assume you obtain 100% of your meals for free via "the kitchen at work", ~$400/month seems very low.

Even with an incredibly spartan lifestyle, you'll have maintenance, insurance, inspection and registration fees on the van; health insurance; fuel costs (power when parked, gas when moving); phone service; gym membership (showers, bathroom); hygiene supplies/toiletries; laundry; clothing; household consumables; etc. $100/week seems like a stretch unless you're compromising on personal welfare and/or safety.

At some point you might as well just do away with the van and sleep in the office.