skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might sound odd for those who know it, but the "48 Laws of Power" I've always felt worth recommending. It gives insight into how the power-hungry think and act, and is a valuable tool for helping to recognizing when a sociopathic/narcissistic person is trying to manipulate or undermine you. I think it crumbled away some of that social naivety I used to have, but in a good way. It made me more empathetic to people who's motives I previously would have failed to understand, and think more clearly about how I approach situations with people who don't have my best interests at heart. In short, it's a great book for making you think deeper and come up with solutions in the social realm.

Interestingly enough, I recommended it to a few friends of mine who quite clearly to me had toxic partners. In both instances, they thanked me for the book recommendation and took action to remove those people from their lives. Especially in relationships, it's good to have a frame of reference to tell whether someone truly has your best interest at heart, or they just want power over you and use your good nature to get that.

Keep in mind that the book is written in such a way to sound like your getting an education in politics from a full-blown psychopath, but once you get past that there's a lot of worth to be found.
winsock2 is basically the Berkeley socket API as well, so why wouldn't it be?
Pigeons, not swallows.
For instance the Pi-dp11 (and 8)[0]

[0]https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
The most of people commenting here are payed to portray that a certain idea about how the future should be is well accepted by the majority of people.

They are even from an military organization, running psyops.

Public opinion must be managed on open forums and this how they do it.

They have hundreds of accounts that play dialogues on important issues trying to manipulate public opinion.
I thought the soviets built it in a cave with a bunch of scraps.
> Let things get even worse

From Tim Cook’s point of view he’s seeing a line go up. Things aren’t getting worse for him, they’re getting better. He’ll probably be gone by the time the consequences of his management have an impact on Apple’s coffers. Assuming that ever happens, because what’s making Apple a crappy company is that it’s becoming indistinguishable from the alternatives.

> This needs entire departments to be shutdown.

This needs Tim Cook to retire.
Really appreciate your comment, thank you. I'm going to be posting more about this and my mental health as I go on, and would love your feedback as I go.

To his credit, the GP did apologise after he laughed at me.
The PC dev world in a nutshell.
Airbnb launches platform allowing renters to host apartments
I think it's likely he initially was using other investments that were similarly worthless, but which may not have been quite so obviously worthless to him at the time. Don't forget about the Luna/Terra debacle back in May, and the fact that he was running around buying up failing firms in the crypto space. The house of cards was already crumbling, and he was sitting on top in a panic trying to prop up the base before his pinnacle fell. The results were what we'd expect in that situation.
Kids These Days
I emphasize: We can encode THE IDEA or THE ABSTRACTION of infinite sets with a finite set of symbols.
Kg is around 1/2 of the pound value.
...if there's a GoL version where time varies somehow¹ with something²

¹ directly?

² amount of activity? mass?
This comment section is a great reminder about how crazy it is we have so many different global weight units of measure.
Definitely, you will be paid more with careful, selective moves. I have mentioned it in previous posts: The key is to find the maximum "move rate" (considering local cultural/social/profession factors). Move at that rate or just below it to maximise your economic return. Another dumb thing: It is so much easier to get a pay raise or promotion by moving. When you are leaving, a bunch of lame middle managers play the loyalty card or worse offer "soft" promises of future pay rises and promotions. Tell them to GTFO. And don't do exit interviews. Those only benefit the org -- nothing for you. If absolutely necessary, play sick on the day of the exit interview (have done it before!).

Plus, people who move more are more adaptive to new environments because (1)
experience from different org and (2) forced to adapt to new org. The lifers in my experience are mostly comfortable, (somewhat) coasting, trying to navigate the politics. I have no issue with lifers. Most are focused on the good life outside work (family, friends, etc.) I respect that. Each time I change jobs, I try to find one lifer/long-termer, so I can get the "house view" when I need it. Then I can better judge if "that hill is worth dying over". :)
I used to think Atlas Shrugged was a great book, same way I used to think Fight Club was the greatest movie ever made.

Both are still fun though.
According to the FAQ, the uploader’s identity is decoupled from the page after it is published.

So, at least theoretically, they can maintain anonymity, except for maybe a list of people who have paid money.
I would use LaTeX. Although LaTeX has a steep learning curve, it is specifically designed for high quality typesetting and is widely used to produce complex works. There are templates and tools to output epub, mobi, etc formatted books.

While you are proof reading and correcting, you would also markup chapters, sections, indexable entities, footnotes, etc. LaTeX then will generate ToC, index, bibliography, etc. You only need to choose a different template or just options to handle different layouts, etc.

If the images are not too distorted, it might be possible to use Gimp, etc to restore them to near correct shape, proportions, etc.
No one controls inflation, the only variable under control is the cost for a bank to receive money from a central bank (an interest rate).

Any value of an interest rate is a political tradeoff: a low rate favours spending, a high rate favours saving. So a low rate promotes expansion and an excess of cash in the system; a high rate promotes contraction and a relative deficit of cash. No value for an interest rate is "correct", it is an ethical decision. And the effect of a given rate will depend on economic variables that are basically unmeasurable (eg., aggregate preference for future consumption at a given rate) and have to be determined by best-guess expert judgement.

What would an algorithm do? Who would create it? Who do you think would create it?

My view is that replacing any aspect of politics (, law, etc.) with "algorithms" has a pretty clear line to feudalism or similar. Political judgement should never be naively deterministic in a chaotic, unmeasurable and unmeasured world.

A deterministic "politics" makes its power structure eternal and immutable. Do we change the alg when the world changes? No, that's just status quo. We mean an alg that never changes regardless of the change to the world. It's mad.
Yeah, I've spent a lot of my career supporting cross-platform software and pretty much all problematic cases were because POSIX fanboys wrote the software and then tried to shim themselves onto macOS and Windows while refusing to rethink their approach.

A lot of issues disappeared when better abstractions were found on top of POSIX.
Why is it that whenever gender and identity is mentioned in a technical community suddenly people start talking about "ham-fisted" and forced inclusions?

There's nothing forced about people getting into programming and becoming relevant for it, that just by chance it turns out they are not cis+heterosexual.

Nobody in the Asahi crew was "a ham fisted attempt to increase diversity".

The only forced thing here is the "forced inclusion" topic. That, for whatever kind of reason, people stubbornly keep trying to bring to the front.
Plato: Theaetetus, Charmides, Apology

And Aristotle's metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics

They had an integrated understanding of the different kinds of knowledge and the phenomenology of the mind and the resulting errors we tend to make.

And since their traditions were esoteric, it's a nice challenge to read them critically to get what they're pointing at.

For those sniffing that these aren't mathematical models or category theories, realize that the entire family of logic can only tell you what's not possible. The real action in thinking is topologically sorting what's relevant, and that mostly depends on understanding yourself and others.

However, reading them is an exercise in frustration without a good classics scholar; they are rare and getting rarer.
I think that plan will be quietly forgotten, to the relief of everyone who knew it was obvious nonsense when it came up first time.
You might be interested in this essay by Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
This might be overly pragmatic and underthinking things, but what worked very well for me personally is to make an account on meetup.com and go to random events (but of course things that you're likely to enjoy). Especially meeting up again with the same group on a semi-regular basis is very satisfying and I made a lot of new friends and certainly got out of the door a lot using this strategy.
I don’t know what you’re using but most developers most likely don’t need “lots of -webkit- prefixes”.

In the link posted by the sibling commenter, I see 2-3 properties that could be useful to the general public. The rest is esoteric, never-ratified, or straight up user hostile (font-smooth)
Note the word “mostly”. The now-normal kind of ads were unusual.
It's interesting to note that must nature documentaries are essentially composites too. It's a common practice to create scenes using footage from different times and locations, staged, with altered sound etc. All presented with a narrative that does not match what we're actually seeing on the screen.
Good. I would have like some 64bits though.

And Mr. Bellard did the same thing (but not packaged is a nice header): https://bellard.org
If you're building web apps chances are you want to see your changes frequently since modifying a model, controller action or view may yield a different UI state.

I'm constantly editing code then directing my attention to my browser to see the results. This is independent of CSS or JS changes that might be picked up by asset watching tools like esbuild or tailwind's CLI tool.
Not necessarily, the total comp is mostly because those companies are overflowing with money so they can afford it. And they're competing with other companies overflowing with money.

There are not enough developers, and especially senior developers with experience in other FAANG (the skillset is different from your regular service IT company).
That's around 500kcal deficit a day, which is the recommended deficit when losing weight.

So, yeah, you can lose more than that, but it's probably not sustainable by someone who loves to eat.
Masters of Doom. It’s the story of two renowned game developers, John Karmack and John Romero, and how they built id Software, the video game company that profoundly changed PC gaming and graphics. I was writing software for enterprise / consulting companies at the time (early phase of my career). This book opened my eyes to the crazy/wonderful/scary world of ‘startups’, the idea that people can bring their passion into writing software and start a business or movement. I joined a startup (nothing to do gaming) and never looked back.
What are you talking about with “highly reduced battery”? My iPhone is almost five years old, latest version of iOS, it works fine.
It exists, but it doesnt exist yet.

I AM A billionaire! Well not necessarily yet, I only have 4 dollars and 53 cents, though I think it will hit that net worth level at some point in the future.
Interesting!
I am not an Apple fan boy, but I switched from Android a few years ago precisely because Apple products tend to last longer, and they release software updates for +7 years.
My last non Apple phone was a Fairphone 2, and as much as I wanted to like it, it was barely usable after 1 year.

My goal is to renew phone every 4 years, and hope to use my current iPhone longer than that
Seeing AI
Syntax isn't what makes a language easy or hard. In fact more syntactic forms (up to a point) makes a language easier. e.g. ownership and borrow-checking isn't hard to learn in Rust because of the syntax.

A better estimation would be by language concepts, with some being more weighty than others.
She's anything but upfront.

Until the disclaimer was added there was no way to tell these photos were fake. On the contrary, there was a whole story-telling about how she made this difficult trip and suddenly saw what she was looking for in a magical moment, which supports the idea that this was genuine animal photography.

It is therefore no surprise that people assumed these photos were real and now feel deceived.

Even now that she added this disclaimer, she is antyhing but clear as to what is actually real or not. Are we speaking of editing and composite as in "I took a great photo and just added a few rocks here and removed a cloud there to make it cooler" or in "I built this whole landscape and then added a snow leopard on top of it"?

She claims she genuinely photographied the snow leopard, but this is very unlikely and the deception already identified makes it difficult to believe her.

Edit: reading more carefully she claims she saw "what she was looking for" which you would obviously interpret as a snow leopard, but is vague enough to offer her yet again another opportunity to say she "never said that".
Real practical advice there.
I want a SGI Personal Iris so much. :-)
This is my dream computer for so long.

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/sgi-personal-ir...
The datasets these models are trained on are sentence pairs. So even if just a couple of sentences between two wikipedia sites are direct translations of each other, they will have appeared in the training set. They don’t have to have appeared on the same topic page, it could be that English Wikipedia has a whole category for a topic while Estonian Wikipedia has just a long single page, direct translations will still be identified and used in training.

I also think that the domain and the type of language used on Wikipedia is pretty consistent which will help a lot with unseen sentences.

By no means are these models bad! It’s just that Wikipedia is a particularly easy test for them.
Tried and uninstalled it immediately, I have no idea why a Terminal would want an account creation and Sign in. No thank you.
Those kind of “self-advertisements” were, first of all, relatively uncommon, so much so that they were annoying and lampooned when they appeared. They were also not what we now normally name “advertisements”. Is “Sent by my iPhone” an advertisement? Strictly speaking, yes, but the word “advertisement”, in normal language (and assuming a web context), means a banner ad or similar. These buttons were not paid banner ads, is all I’m saying.
That's around 5000 refreshes, being a bit charitable. If I'm playing cards, I might see that in a few days, as I'm going to be doing tens or hundreds of refreshes a day, rather than one.
This article looks like the rant of someone completely unhinged. It's absolutely fucking wild to me that somebody would invest this amount of effort into investigating the authenticity of some random images ripped from Instagram or a blog.

I'd understand probing someone who had cheated to win a competition—a straight-up wrong act in my view—but I had no idea this particular hobby was filled with people who were quite so sensitive to the authenticity of photographs.
Lithography Intensity and Long-Term Wafer Demand
> a cursory look gives me the instinct that Tailwind is kinda like Very Fancy Bootstrap

I was refuting this as it is not really the same, and pointing to you something (a UI library built with Tailwind) which is more logically comparable to Bootstrap.
I'd be surprised if there was a computable density limit for the random plane, just because the system is Turing complete so the answer could easily end up being like Chaitin's contant where it depends on halting problems. For example, note that an infinite random plane will contain, with probability 1, purely-by-chance prebuilt artificial intelligences with goals like "maximize number of blinkers in the plane". Though I guess it's also an open question if such a system could even survive and spread, as opposed to just getting eventually crushed by the surrounding noise.
I can see where you're going with this. An algorithmic approach without a political fallback can lead to feudalism because the people who control the algorithm, control everything.

This is why I teeter on "end the fed". You need an independent body not influenced by the politics, yet accountable for their performance in the end. I'm not sure they're currently accountable in a manner that matters.

Edit: when I say inflation in this context, I mean monetary inflation. That can be controlled.

Edit 2: I'm not really sure how the current system is that far from feudalism. They are literally talking about putting the plebs out of work so their (feudal overlords) cash isn't made worthless.
You missed the point. You can't recruit because you aren't paying enough to be competitive.
This isn't about sophisticated investors wanting to bet 1% of their net worth on a speculative investment. It's about preventing ordinary people wiring their life savings to scams like OneCoin (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49826161).
Because it would be absolutely terrible.
Ask HN: uBlock not blocking ads on Twitter desktop anymore?
I noticed today that my uBlock Origin extension for Firefox doesn't block ads on Twitter (desktop) any more. Does anybody know if I can manually add a list or something?
> Why is it that whenever gender and identity is mentioned in a technical community suddenly people start talking about "ham-fisted" and forced inclusions?

You answered your own question; it’s a technical community. Centering political activism is counterproductive to the fundamental telos of being a technical community.

Existing members, unsurprisingly, push back against colonization of their community by those more interested in gender ideology or identity politics than technology.
Sure, but let's not pretend it is the very first time anything better than C and C++ came to be, and Ada is only a possible example.

Rust sucess story is briging Cyclone type system into mainstream, and in such a way that other languages (even those with automatic management runtimes) started looking at affine and linear type systems for low level performance optimizations.

However for explicit type conversions, bounds checking in strings and arrays, modules, co-routines, assignment before use,... there were plenty of alternatives, which for one reason or the other didn't took off, most not really technical related.
This really neat ! The idea is just straight back to the roots of web publishing
Unfortunately, due to the ways the laws are worded, even a lot of seemingly private pages fall under the imprint requirements, or at least inside of a big legal grey area.

Of course the absurdity is that not that long ago there was much handwringing about the privacy implications of publishing the contact details of the domain owner for .de-domains (now it's no longer publicly accessible), there was the whole infamous brouhaha about Google Streetview, but requiring every private Tom, Dick or Harry to put up a full imprint is apparently perfectly normal and just the way it is done.
Works for me, so not sure if this is actually happening
Can you sight which companies where Vanguard + Blackrock is more than 30% of the ownership? That would require a few things a) they be very big components of the index b) they’d have to be in several very popular indexes. Structurally that would be huge Nasdaq listed firms. That would get them into the us total market indexes, s&p 1000/500 indexes and the Nasdaq/qqq indexes. That’s literally just going to be Amazon, Apple, Msft, Alphabet & Meta. Vanguard/Blackrock own no more than 12% combined in any of those companies and the range is between 9-12% for all of them. A 30% ownership stake would be structurally strange.

There is also a pretty major flaw in your conspiracy theory. Vanguard and Blackrock are competitors…

Do you have a threshold for what counts as a “major shareholder”?

How do Fidelity, T Rowe Price and Northern Trust fit into the picture? Are they part of the cabal or on the outside looking in?

Also, what happens when Vanguard & Blackrock fund holders get to vote their shares? Both have dramatically increased that capability and have major plans for expansion of it next year…
Ha, both the original post and the parent comment made me think of Harry Potter - I wonder if I knew either of you! The world is very small.
Cross-examination
macos is posix compliant though
> POSIX fanbois

That's a weird and derogatory way to talk about people who appreciate having a standard which makes it easier to write cross-platform software.

EDIT: To expand on this comment and make it more productive. You're right. If the goal is to have first-class support for both Windows and POSIX-like platforms, the right approach is to have an understanding of what your software needs to do, what the POSIX APIs make easy, and what the Windows APIs make easy, and build abstractions which make sense based on that. But man, do I appreciate that if first-class Windows support isn't top priority, I can support essentially every other widely used platform in the world (including macOS) by just writing against the POSIX API, and I can even get okay-ish Windows support by using a POSIX compatibility layer on Windows. So my point isn't, "People who want to have first-class Windows support but do so through POSIX compatibility shims are doing it right".
I agree that there's the opportunity for competition, I just don't think we are yet quite in a situation where the best store wins.

I believe we are getting closer with the recent lawsuits against Google though, which is a good thing.

It's obviously still miles ahead of iOS.
There are many excellent benefits of exercise, but substantial weight loss is not among them. The human body evolved to be really efficient, especially in aerobic activity. A predator whose main method of hunting is long-distance running prey to exhaustion isn't going to last very long if it burns ludicrous amounts of calories during such activity since no predator is 100% successful.

There's approximately 3500 calories per pound of fat and the average human will burn about 100 calories per mile of sustained running. If you want to lose a pound a week (a pretty healthy weight loss rate) you can either run 5 miles a day without changing your diet or skip 2 energy drinks a day without changing your exercise regime. Unfortunately many people that think a big workout is burning huge amounts of fat often indulge in excess eating as a reward which leads to even less weight loss (or even weight gain).

Again, exercise has a ludicrous number of benefits and absolutely should be encouraged for those benefits but weight loss shouldn't be included among them.
Appreciate that, thank you! Honesty is what I'm aiming for with this blog; a space to be frank about my issues, myself, where I'm going, and how I'll get there.
I'll be saving the Bible quote to Obsidian for encouragement.