skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s why I think Mullvad is best. The signup process has no email, you just hit signup and it gives you your account secret. You can then pay in a range of methods which do not identify you.

Still not bulletproof but it’s better than most.
print magazine, cinema, VHS, Internet
Meanwhile the other day I did a Google takeout of my Photos and when I clicked the download link, Google warned me about malware on their own *.googleapis.com domain

I think an ML black box is getting out of control
Why would a16z be involved? They didn't invest in FTX and turned them down for reasons likely related to their investment in Coinbase.
Can you still use win+r for the important stuff? That right there is a classic of Windows UI
That's a cops job. If they cant do it they shouldn't be a cop.

Case and point, uvalde.

What's to point of arming some fragile white guy who peaked in high-school to the teeth if he's just gonna stand outside and watch kids get shot anyway.

You're telling me that even in an armored car, while wearing bullet proof plates, next to a whole squad of armed and armored dudes, cops still are soooo weak and scared to do their jobs we have to pay for them to have new gun robots?

Fuck that. ACAB
It depends on what you mean by encapsulation. CLOS classes don't own their methods, which makes CLOS much more flexible than other OOP systems. But it also means there are no "private" methods, or slots for that matter.

One way to "privatize" slots or methods is to put them in a special package, which serves as a private namespace. This doesn't prevent programmers from seeing them but it can flag any use of them as "odd" style in the source code.
I skyrocketed up the ladder at my current company in about 18 months using the following technique.

I take crude sloppy notes on a topic or project. I listen for concepts it words I don’t understand. This includes the jargon in my field (FinTech).

For projects I take my sloppy notes and format them in a Google Docs that serves as a design/QA testing document. I add technical notes and other details to this document.

If I come across concepts or terms that I don’t know and I determine are important I add these to an Anki deck. Then I review this Anki deck daily and commit this information to my long term memory.

I can’t describe how having critical information at my disposal has changed my life. I’ve gone from zero to one of the top individuals at my company in a few months and I credit this success to my little system.

As a side benefit Anki has an amazing search feature for times can’t recall something.
"Only" is not an appropriate term there. Everybody races when they're a kid, and it tends to be a win a bit, lose a bit, and always by a margin of couple of steps. Beating somebody by even 5% is an unbelievably huge margin in a race that is extremely visible.

In a 40 second race a 5% margin would be 2 seconds - enough to quickly turn around, sit down, and feign some yawns as you wait for the #2 guy to come in. A 20% margin? That'd be 8 seconds in a 40 second event. It'd look plainly comical.
I’ve started taking saunas every day as part of my gym routine. It’s been a nice side effect that for at least 15 minutes a weekday I am not reading, watching, or listening to anything. I believe it’s a big part of why I’ve felt more refreshed after exercising of late.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The model's license is unambiguously noncompliant with the Open Source Definition, yet they falsely claim it to be open source anyway. That's just as misleading as calling a product full of HFCS "sugar free" and saying it's okay because by "sugar", you just mean cane sugar.
> I should've mentioned that the official mascot is called The Benthos Blobfish.

The mascot really really creeps me out.

This is entirely subjective, of course, and I really don't want to be mean about it, but I thought it might be a helpful data point for you to collate in case others feel the same way: If I were forced to use benthos, and had that ugly thing on my screen all day long due to working with benthos documentation etc. I really don't know whether I could handle it.
We do often make a quick guess about a person's gender, but that doesn't invalidate anything I said. The two genders themselves once referred strictly to biological sex so when we said someone is a "woman", everyone knew what traits would be highly likely to be associated with that person.
Apple's Famous '1984' Super Bowl Ad
Buy the platform?
And it's comments like these which spoil training data for AGIs :)
As if that morally exonerates him...
That’d be nice. But why do you think they will?

The other missed opportunity is that we’d have moved our entire email re engagement journey from Drip to Intercom, but not at the rates they charge. We’re better off running both tools.
Which was too bad, the zuneHD UI it was based on is still my favourite ever touch screen experience.

It's however, really opinionated about being for listening to music and playing some games
You can't. They have no financial reason to give a shit about you. If screwing you over is more profitable than not, or looks like it probably will be, they will screw you over.
Yes, I agree with your conception. Likewise, I am working on a language with no shared mutability, and something like a pure core and often find myself solving problems that feel like putting a database in the middle of the application.

Any links to your language, perhaps?
It's a large enterprise. Big enough there will be a range of views about any change. I would be amazed if an EX- ui chief in any enterprise would always align to design decisions his successors enact. It's stunningly unlikely because it suggests innovation is stultified by the dead hand of prior staff.

That said, I think its not the best UI either. But the POLA here is "don't be surprised if people who replace you try to put their mark on things they control"
That still works fine in windows 11.
I match the parent's example almost perfectly. I'm a "good" programmer, "good" teacher and I have a "good" humor. My students (university level) really laugh sometimes at the stupid analogies that I make in class. For instance, this year I teach operating systems concepts, namely processes, synchronization, scheduling, etc., with examples from construction workers and things like that (I've self built a terrace this past summer, that is why I use construction analogies - cement, paint, etc.). Some kids even say that they won't probably forget some aspects of the class because how funny (and stupid) some of the examples are.

But getting tenured? Here, where I live (Western Europe), only the number of papers and european projects you've been into matters, even if the outcome of the "research" of those papers or projects is nothing to be seen (who really controls that?).
The European Dark Ages needs a stronger economic and material understanding. The trade system which maintained large cities broke down for reasons that will be forever debated re: the decline of the Western Roman Empire. But that is the key, and why it probably deserves to be called a Dark Age. Without trade, it all fell apart. Or perhaps trade was the thing holding it together and disruptions fractured it. Either way, no regular shipping means no large urban populations supported by imported grain. No cities means no large concentrations of scholars. Even the main durable writing material of the Romans was imported at industrial scale from Egypt. It's hard to overstate the decline of Mediterranean shipping associated with the end of the Roman Empire; the transport of bulk commodities at such scale would not resume until the 19th century. The infrastructure that supported the literate society fell apart, and so literacy declined. Life reverted to a much smaller, local nature for both elites and the common folk. It is more responsible to understand it as a transformation than a regression; every people are equally modern to their time and adapting to the needs of their context. Still, if you valued imported olives or being able to build bridges it was probably unfortunate.
Get a purely decentralized platform at the expense of zero moderation.
They're $3 plus s&h for .3m on Amazingon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B18CW25H
Use alarms and your calendar religiously, alarms for unmissable events, calendar for every appointment. Use your phone for this, you're probably addicted to scrolling or games on it anyway.

Exercise and get good sleep. Caffeine helps but isn't as good as ADHD medication.

Remove distractions aggressively. Don't beat yourself up when you fail; expect it and move on.

Use people in your life to help be your executive function for you. It isn't really fair on them but if they love you they may be willing to anyway. A gym buddy or sports team is another way of achieving this without needing them to love you particularly.

Block all the sites you lose hours to, aggressively. You're not smart enough to build a system you can't get out of but you can make it high friction. Same for games or media or whatever it is.

Pair programming is tiring but it works for using an external party as your executive function. Keeps you on track.

Negative external consequences are motivating but stressful, use sparingly.

Try find a job with or structure your life with enough variety to keep you entertained; I find people to be stimulating but YMMV.

Medication is far more effective than any coping mechanism.
I'm sure your useless statement will be of great relief to the victims of the various megacorporations that control many of the critical components of our society.
I think in addition to already mentioned reasons, part of it was also that various forum software were generally late to the party in regards to responsive layouts and working well on mobile. even these days phpbb isn't great (though at least it does have a responsive layout by default)
Did you read the article and see what he was complaining about? He typed the word "Chrome" and the top hit was a web search with a bunch of ads on the right-hand sidebar. His complaints were 100% justified and imho correct, and the immediate jump to ad-hominem attacks rather than debating the content of the article seems uncalled for.
Is there anyone in this forum actually facing a potential loss due to this FTX episode?

I have a couple honest questions:

Were you already familiar with Mt. Gox?

Do you see the irony of losing your so-called decentralized cryptographic currency because you trusted it to a centralized third-party?
It's shit like this:

> In 2009, this improved TRISO fuel set an international record by achieving a 19% maximum burnup during a three-year test at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This is nearly double the previous mark set by the Germans in the 1980s and is three times the burnup that current light-water fuels can achieve—demonstrating its long-life capability.

That makes the entire industry seem like a bunch of liars and grifters.

Tripling the burnup when you're increasing the amount of U235 6x isn't an improvement, it's a step backwards. It uses 2x the uranium and almost 3x the enrichment.

Just present the fuel honestly on its actual merits rather than telling five lies and half-truths and one real advantage.
Can't stop something that's already finished.

- Skynet
Yeah the start menu of Windows 2000 was just fine.
I agree. Cars break down and crash, they'll never replace horses.
Only if you know the exact name of the executable or .cpl you want to run.
Disable web search. I think I’ve done something like that on Win10.

https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-disable-web-results-in-windows...
“A technology that works 70% of the time is a bad one.” https://missiveapp.com/blog/life-and-death-of-read-tracking
Stumble Upon
Does anyone remember this site? Don't quote me on the years, but I remember it was absolute gold in 2008-2011 ish. Reminded me of the early web days and finding cool, indie shit online. Anyone have any history or fun facts? I'm assuming it went to shit when they tried to monetize it.

Any other substitutes out there? Would love to stumble on some new stuff.
I've been writing "web" code since 1995 in all shapes and forms. IMHO, React + Typescript enable well engineered, maintainable code. As the other comments said, you're free pure JS/CSS/HTML as well.
Yeah I agree. Thread safety in ruby is a non issue these days. Maybe this is 10 years out of date experience?
Is she confusing 'extraordinary' with 'famous'?

I am extraordinary! Some people see it. Most don't. I'm fine with both.
If you're looking for a content management system that you can host yourself it might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you should check out Satellite, a blogging platform that I've been building the last couple years. I've just deployed a major upgrade recently and to be honest am super happy that it seems to be getting a bit of traction.

https://satellite.earth
You might find the book The Body has a Mind of its Own by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee quite informative in this regard.
Getting better all the time? Yes, so do wounds. Microsoft wounded technology for so many with Windows 11. It's gotten to the point it auto installs even without elevation, so many of us are home with family for Thanksgiving only to spend hours with confused parents trying to navigate the mess of broken 'features'.
Interactive Animations with Variable Fonts
Mpemba effect – hot liquids can freeze faster than cold liquids
sorry, but this is one of the few cases where its justified. Anyone whos developed on Windows since 7 or before (raises hand) knows how awful Window UI has been since 8.

You wouldn't want Richard Nixon (if he was alive) commenting on Obama's term would you? Even if Harris is 100% right, its just tone deaf and in bad taste. No one want to hear his opinion on Microsoft products. Hes done enough already.
This isn't a good example to use to critique the Start Menu because it's a special case --- downloading Chrome is an action that Microsoft does not want you to complete, so making it a good experience is a Microsoft non-goal.
That is the obvious catch of keeping time in a universe where everything and their dog moves.
Yes, I remember it :) Don't know what would be a valid replacement. I remember reading about them on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/uhbtdx/what_ha...
ditch them. why do you want to be on an unjust online platform?
My biggest gripe is they finally removed the option to have windows not combined with labels in the taskbar. I guess it was bound to happen eventually.
What is your suggestion exactly? I see you are in the mood for lecturing on morality, but what is the constructive solution that you offer?

I repeat, the contract was signed during the war with the person that does not want to leave the country. Do I need to just pay everyone I hire this way and not expect them to work, as you suggest?
The Windows 2000 UI was not "good," at least compared to what they have today.
7 years ago I’ve deployed the first version of the REST API service written in Rust. We had multiple deployments in consecutive 5 years. For 2 years this service runs without any updates.

There were just a couple of failures in the first 2 months.
They protest mostly over covid lockdowns, bonus payments.
Spam. The problems with an arms race is that you generally can’t have many winners.
> Hence, I'm working on http://diffudle.com/ which is a mix of Wheel Of Fortune + Stable Diffusion + Wordle. I Can't figure it out but feels to me like its lacking something.

That's awesome, I love it!
Using TRISO fuel, which is (best case) half as fuel efficient as a PWR and costs $40-500/MWh just for the fuel

https://web.mit.edu/nse/pdf/researchstaff/forsberg/FHR%20Poi...
I'm still not sure I understand what made that so heretical other than being different. I can't really imagine any scenario where I'd be using the start menu and want to see something else at the same time.
> postmodern

I do not think that word is appropriate in this context.
Right click taskbar > taskbar settings > taskbar behavior > taskbar alignment: Left
> I have to search three different things before I can find it

I've had the same problem; Microsoft has been changing the keyword that triggers the audio input/output control panel, but the official and unchanging (so far) name of the panel is "Change system sounds" and "sys" in start menu search returns that as the 1st or second result.
Dude. Psychologist still study Froyd.

That's like doctors studying phrenology or physicst studying phlogiston. Outside of a history lesson of what not to do, it's not really useful.
I don't see how it contradicts the open source definition at https://opensource.org/osd, could you point it out for me?
What "other political agenda" would that be?
All the examples are US companies. One way to look at the problem is US companies disregarding principles of US government/society: due process, transparency, accountability.
WASM also takes a whitelisting approach to security rather than a blacklisting like the JVM. Java applets had lots of security issues over the years, whereas WASM provides much better isolation. Overall JVM or CLR always seemed too heavyweight for many use cases.
I saw that video the other day - it was seriously amazing! That you for sharing it! I shared it around with a bunch of people who I figured would find it interesting as well. I would love to tour a facility like that one day, though chances are slim the stars will align in such a way. Who knows, maybe one day! haha :)
Any setting that they hide this much is not long for this world.
Same here! (And I also remember playing with MS paint on my dad's work computer)
Hope so too but

> I made it in about 2 weekends on my own time.
Letlang, a programming language targeting Rust – Road to v0.1
I would have typed "network," which seems to work.
I had so much fun on there. Scrobbling to last.fm on rhythmbox on Ubuntu Hardy Herron and reading stumble upon ....

Is it just me or was it just more fun back then?
> Search is not a good UI, because you never get muscle memory with a search.

I feel like I do though... I often get in a pattern of just searching for the same few characters I know will bring up the right thing. Though Windows has a habit of deciding to change around the ordering on you.
> No, you can not officially disable web results in Windows Search.

did you actually read the article? Even if its possible, I shouldn't have to break my OS to make it happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWtrW0oI1E
The CL error system is built with CLOS. If you want to customize error handling you'll basically be writing CLOS.

But I agree about general data structures. Some of the sequence functions are generic but not enough of them. I presume this happened because circa 1990 generic dispatch was too slow to handle high speed data traversal. That's no longer true, and many libraries exist to "generify" more of Common Lisp.
GP's comment is useful. It is putting the finger in the wound. The megacorps are only megacorps, because we (not me actually) flocked to them, fell for their promises, gave away our data (mine too) and grew them into what they are today, while ridiculing those who point out the unhealthy dynamics.
I'm the opposite.

I still have that 100GB+ music collection on my laptop, all curated by myself (with the help of last.fm), organized in folders and with proper ID3 tags, which I spent years building when I was young and had no better things to do.

And you know what? This is the very reason why I never got on spotify or any of that stuff. I just don't see why I would give up the perfect (for me) collection and use some online service where I have no guarantee that I could even listen to the same track a year later.

I have music that I like and listen to, and I like to keep listening to it.

In addition to a large mp3 collection, I am also buying CDs and vinyls. Everything I can to build my own music library. The only online service I use for listening is YT, which has some unique content (live shows that are not found as albums) - but even these, I tend to download and save, because you never know...
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but at first I had heard about SBF making $50 million out of that Japanese arbitrage thing, and then, a few days later, of him receiving the same sum of $50 million as an investment from a guy named Tallinn (actually a loan, according to this Times article [1]).

So most probably he didn't make $50 million from the arbitrage alone. He did make some money out of it, but not that exact sum. Which also reminds me that he didn't make the money in his name, he had used a EA person based in Japan who actually opened up an account with a small Japanese agricultural bank or something like that. So the money was in that person's name. There's no way for that Japanese person to have transferred $50 million to SBF without automatically triggering countless money laundering alarms. And "transfer" is the wrong word, that person had to donate those $50 million to SBF (or to FTX?) in order to make them be SBF's (FTX's?) money.

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sam-bankman-fried-the-ner...
The tricks are mostly proactive / strategic rather than reactive.

• Don't rely on platforms you have no control over in the first place. PayPal can close your PayPal account, but nobody can close your self-custody Bitcoin wallet. Self-ownership comes with some risks, but it negates some others. The solution is to use both (and others), which brings us to our next point -

• If you must use some platforms you have no control over, have functionality redundancies in place with other providers, to eliminate single points of failure. You can encourage customers to use alternative payment mechanisms by offering price incentives to lesser utilized mechanisms. Obviously you don't want to lose too much money, but there is a case to be made that getting 100% of your potential profit, but getting it from one payment provider is riskier than getting 90% of your potential profit, split across two payment providers. This works for ad buys too, rather than just receiving revenue.

As far as reactive techniques go, getting in contact with customer service and saying your account was hijacked because your computer got hacked and you had your password saved can be effective if there was a specific behavior/condition you are confident that caused the ban, which you are also confident you can avoid in the future. This excuse is particularly good because it offers an explanation not only for the behavior, but also for almost all of the metrics/identifiers that would be used to validate it was you - IP address, useragent, etc.
How do you install this version? Do you merge it with latent-diffusion?
Bright Ages (The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe https://a.co/d/0axSFSi) is a fantastic book on this. It highlights the growing, current historical view of continued European growth and development and not the post-Roman ruin.

Basically it’s an anti-dark-age view that talks through specific examples or art, culture, science, etc through the period that’s typically called the dark ages (~400-1300AD)

It was recommended by the always excellent ACOUP (https://acoup.blog) who’s often linked on HN too. This was the specific post covering Rome’s decline and fall and discussing the contrasting positions in academia on bright vs dark vs just continuing ages: https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...
In a vacuum that is true, but for MrBeast in particular his entire shtick around content is „look at me spending outrageous amounts of money on this video“, there are probably Holywood movies out there that have a better revenue/cost ratio than some of his stuff.