skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty damn cool. I love pitting the AI against itself and watch it debate back and forth.

Prompt:

Write a dialogue between a starving artist and an old school railroad tycoon debating whether or not we should be taxing billionaires more, with both sides liberally quoting Karl Marx to make their point

Generation:

Starving artist: "As Karl Marx famously said, 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.' Clearly, the billionaires have the ability to pay more in taxes, and it is our collective need as a society to ensure that we have the resources to provide for the less fortunate."

Old school railroad tycoon: "But as Marx also stated, 'The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment".' In other words, the market should determine what is fair, not the government."

Starving artist: "But the market has been rigged to favor the wealthy for far too long. It's time for the government to step in and correct this imbalance. As Marx said, 'The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.' It's time for the government to act in the interests of the working class, not just the wealthy elite."

Old school railroad tycoon: "But Marx also said, 'The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.' If we start taxing the wealthy more, we will stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. It's better to let the market determine what is fair, rather than the heavy hand of government."

Starving artist: "But the market has failed the working class for far too long. It's time for the government to step in and redistribute wealth in a more equitable way. As Marx said, 'The bourgeoisie has created enormous cities...and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.' It's time for the government to use its power to create a more equitable society for all."

Old school railroad tycoon: "But Marx also said, 'The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.' If we start taxing the wealthy more, we will stifle the very engine of progress and prosperity. It's better to let the market determine what is fair, rather than the government trying to fix what isn't broken."
This is cool... but what is the business?
It's a good domain name & they have a careers@puter.com email address (if you click on the i in the bottom right)
Not exactly a name you want associated with anything to do with national security right now.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838556
One thing that people miss is the fact that in the event of any type of a "big" war between superpowers satellites are going to be heavily affected and probably one of the first targets.
Having something like this, having that kind of speed in deploying new satellites is going to be a superpower to the USA.
A cursory search gave back this gem. Same spam email in 2003 except it goes off on a tangent about a Symantec deal worth a lot of money (since someone mentioned they used Norton 2003) that someone used to buy a company sports car. Then people just keep talking about sports cars.

https://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/...
My guess is that the data feed used to have two related shares that became one through a split or other corporate action? And just nobody has bothered to apply a manual correction to remove the dupe.

Whatever the reason I suspect anyone reading that page wouldn't care - there's no incorrect data published after all (as the headline implies)
None, because the government shouldn’t be interfering in speech.
Bret Victor's Dynamicland Visualizing Proteins at UCSF
There's nothing that says you can't have system messages as a boilerplate part of response bodies, even if you don't populate it.

In fact, it's the recommended way to do things like tell a client things it might need to know. Example: "The game servers will be shutting down in 15 minutes for maintenance."
It’s not important because it’s not important
Yep, I just "tooted" a few screenshots in a discussion yesterday. When rendered on a CRT, the effect is shockingly good.

https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot/109441218193887773

It makes for a far better color 80-column experience (maybe for ANSI term emu) than that offered by, say, the Atari ST which had a strict 640-mode 4-color limit (but was a rather faster machine). Of course, they had some pretty creative "solutions" over there, I must say (TAZ terminal).
Except so far none of the emails have talked about political allegiance, they’ve all talked about Twitter policies.
Which BigTech employers are getting “cheap labor”? Cry me a river about a returning intern with no experience “only” being able to make $160K right out of college and a mid level developer “only” making in the mid $200 in a couple of years.

Yes I work in BigTech and I’m one of only a very few native English speakers on my team and probably in my wider department. I never look at my coworkers and think if it weren’t for them I would be making even more than 3x to 4x the median income in the US.

Even on the corp dev side, after 3 or four years and one job hop, you can make twice the median income in any major city in the US.
What does it mean to filter in gamma space vs linear space?
I was very surprised to find in the recent New Yorker long article about Chinese-Taiwanese Relations [1] that TSMC was only mentioned at the very end. I was expecting this to be central to the story. I recommend reading the whole thing to anyone who has an hour to spare.

"One of the most important deterrents to war is Taiwan’s role in producing semiconductors. Seventy per cent of the world’s most advanced chips are manufactured there, many of them at the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. [...]
China is similarly reliant on the highest-end chips produced in Taiwan; it doesn’t have the equipment or the expertise to manufacture them. If China seized control of Taiwan’s semiconductor factories, it could conceivably force local workers to run them. But the factories depend on a constant flow of Western material, software, expertise, and engineers, without which production would cease in a matter of weeks. Pottinger told me, “If the Chinese took the factories, there’s no way the West would help run them.”"

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/a-dangerous-ga...
My Psych 101 class decades ago covered it in more detail so I'm just speaking from very loose memory but just from some naive googling:

https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/winter052/ https://www.iqtestcouncil.org/faq/are-iq-tests-culturally-bi... https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-a...

There might better sources than those, the first one in particular has a lot of its own cites.

My memory from class was a bit of a different angle than fairness which is what those talk about. The issue brought up there was that IQ tests were designed for the specific purpose of placing a corpus of students with varied prior education levels in the right grade. For that purpose it worked well: if you didn't do well on the English portion because your English is non-native and the school is charged with teaching you English, practically speaking we do need to send you back a grade because you need that specific skill and that's where you'll get it.
But being non-native English doesn't mean that you're less intelligent, so the score isn't really applicable for measuring that basically unrelated thing. Despite the name, measuring intelligence isn't what it was for. I also vaguely remember it having story questions like "the left tap is cold water and the right tap is hot water, how much do you need to turn each to get 25% warm water" being asked of people that didn't have running water in their homes and that being a problem. But again don't lean too much into my memory, I could be remembering this all wrong.
People who invested into crypto don't deserve justice. Government warned them and now they're on their own.
> Starshield launches satellites with sensing payloads and delivers processed data directly to the user.

It seems to be more about low cost sensors in space than what consumer-level Starlink is used for.
Read a compiler book* that explains SSA form and the rest of the usual architecture; it’s pretty straightforward.

* do not read the Dragon Book, there’s better ones out there
They rebranded Starlink so they can sell it to the government for 10x the price.
I don't follow or give attention to American politics, I don't live in America, and probably never will.

But the Left bias in Social media is extremely concerning, its so apparent from the type of people who work in tech, especially in Silicon valley, that they have a Leftist bias, whether the Left or the Right are correct doesn’t matter.

The issue is Social media in our time is it’s where a lot of people form opinions, follow news coverage, and basically inform themselves about the world.

Instead of it just being a impartial medium, it actively controls and narrates the conversation.

before Social media (IMO) no conversational medium strived to control and influence the conversation itself.

the coffee shop didn’t really pay attention to what you said(with exceptions of course) they just cared that you ordered something.

In a family gathering the medium itself doesn’t influence the conversation, your family members do.

And when People go to complain about this, Left-leaning tech workers will just say “don’t be mean”, or don’t break the rules, I doubt their reaction would be the same if Social media was more right leaning, heck Left-leaning journalists are already trying to dismiss the story as nothing important, while it’s the first known proof of political leaning affecting moderation by going beyond the rules.

the Hunter Biden laptop story should’ve been much bigger, and downplaying the affect social media censorship had on it, is just lying.

Its a problem and I don’t know the solution either, is it creating a new type of classification that forces Social networks to act as an impartial communication medium? Is it creating a public social media for each country?, almost nobody knows, but acknowledging the problem is a first step.

(Please don’t go into a flame war about American politics, this is a conversations about Social media political leanings, not American politics)
If this issue is the sticking point given the other differences in platform (many that involve fundamental rights and freedoms), then it sounds like Republicans have managed to find a good new wedge issue (you not voting is a known part of their playbook).
It does make local alternatives(without shipping) or shipping over land via rail more competitive.
trusting a dude who is compromised by interests in China up to his eyeballs to do anything involving national security seems unwise
It irks me that this is the bulk of what we're taught of phishing training - just to look for the obvious mistakes.

We've been seeing a rise in attacks that are launched from compromised accounts, where the email is a reply to a previous thread. So you have the context, name and address of someone you're presumably already familiar with. The last one I looked at had the body "What do you think of this?", their signature was missing, and the payload was a html file that delivered a passworded zip via a data: blob, and the password was in the html file. "for security".

The attachment was the only real tell. Also noticed the sending server was in the wrong country, but since the thread they were replying to had to come from compromised access, I wouldn't trust that either. If the attachment was an office doc, the payload would have been delivered before I heard anything about it.

It's not quite spear-phishing (you're still a target of opportunity rather than a selected target), but it's effective and convincing. But trainings haven't got much past the nigerian princes yet.
Is this why when I'm on Etsy, some obscure, niche item that I'm looking at will always say "13 people have this in their carts right now"? Etsy doesn't seem like the type to me, or maybe that code is just flawed
Very satisfied Datasette user here. There is no better way to immediately share structured data with a minimum of infrastructure. I have personally used it on tables with 20-50 million rows without issue.

As hinted in the opening, I am wondering if I could utilize the new API as a low-performance alternative to Redis. All of the SQLite guarantees, easy network access, and optionally backups through Litestream.
SpaceX has been launching Department of Defense payloads since 2006.
> The term JIT was first brought into use in computing literature by James Gosling for Java.

I question this. We used this term regularly in the Smalltalk community at or before 1992.

But whatever. As Jan Steinman so aptly put it so many years ago:

"Java: All the speed of Smalltalk written in all the elegance of C"
But that’s kind of the point. Zion is built like an amusement park, so masses of people come. Now shuttles are necessary, and now it feels even more like an amusement park.

Many parks require you to take long hikes to see the most amazing scenery.

I think it’s fine for some parks to provide this level of accessibility, but I do hope it remains limited to a subset for this reason.
I stressed myself out so much in high school thinking about the Ivy League when I really had no business in applying.

I ended up having the epiphany early on and accepting that a state school was likely a better match. It ended up being one of the best decisions I've made. So many friends ended up paying boatloads at a private school.
Ignoring the factual errors in your post, it's really not addressing the point on cryptocurrencies.
Kristi Noem for President!
FYI the part of the railroad system involving sitting in the cab at the front of a train moving from point A to point B is a very small part of the job. Most of the work happens at the yards, where trains are made up, cars are dropped off and switched, and all the maintenance happens.
I'd buy the argument made in the article more if they could explain what harm the scammers are avoiding by weeding those of us who can spot a misspelling as early as possible. Do they immediately start investing a great deal of time in a possible "mark" right after one reply from them?
Why should it have been a bigger story exactly? My understanding is there wasn't any wrongdoing found (not to mention the chain of custody was a mess).
This looks much more like evidence of Republicans trying and failing to shape a political narrative right before an election. And yes, I have dug through the contents of the laptop. Dysfunctional heir takes a lot of drugs, has a lot of sex, and has a lot of daddy issues, big whoop.

Twitter's grounds for suppressing it were kinda bullshit, but they rightly suspected they were being used as the launchpad for a PR campaign and and didn't want to find themselves in a Cambridge Analytica-type situation and decided not to touch the hot potato.

At least put more effort into naming your throwaway account next time.
Making finding of the companies owned by Russian oligarch basically impossible.
Regular pedestrians can no longer find the info, while gov agencies / bureaucrats have no interest.
As usual, (un)intended consequences.
There is nothing harmful. Everyone should be taught how to bully someone so they will recognize when they are being bullied and this will make them a much more resilient and even less likely to bully someone themselves because real bullies usually are not conscious about what they do. The conspiracy stuff is harmful bullshit but real facts like that about bullying should not be hidden no matter how do we dislike them.
In her wasm summit presentation [1], Ashley Williams had a slide that showed a different picture. AssemblyScript came out with the smallest footprint, while Rust and C (through Emscripten) had bigger footprints--the slide is qualitative.

An article posted last week on HN [2] also seems to support this hypothesis, this time with some numbers. The AssemblyScript program had 6% the filesize of the Rust program.

So it seems like, if you want small wasm libraries, AssemblyScript may be your best shot.

[1] https://youtu.be/J5Rs9oG3FdI?t=2133
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33761756
It's amazing how many companies assume geolocation is perfect, for consequential decisions. I wasn't allowed to book a COVID vaccine by Walgreens because they said I was booking from a different state (I wasn't).
There was that leaked email saying "Satellite V1, by itself, is financially weak" https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/
Ask HN: Printed Computer Science Magazines?
I'm looking for printed computer science, computer engineering or Linux magazines. Im not interested in latest tech gadgets and popular science or tech. Im looking for more technical magazines targeting engineers and scientists. Any recommendations?
It’s a completely different program.
Not super on-topic, but this reminded me of a thing that Games Magazine used to do called the "Hidden Contest". Great fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_World_of_Puzzles#Contest...

> In the past, the magazine also ran an occasional hidden contest, in which part of the challenge was to find the concealed puzzle with instructions on how to enter (e.g. "You have found the hidden contest. To enter, send us a chain of paper clips."). Until November 2002, readers were also challenged to find the fake advertisement among the legitimate ones (the last one was for the Red Card, a credit card used to pay off credit cards).
The 24-hour Clock Design Challenge
Clicked the link hoping this was a collaborative network for reputation reports on automobile drivers.
For a while on change.org (2021 was when I observed it) if you were looking at a petition with n signatures, they would show you n-10 or so, and increment the counter erratically over the next couple minutes to add the remaining 10... as though people were rapidly trickling in to sign this very hot petition right this minute.
> IMO, You can also put scripts in github for more precise use cases (data maintenance...), to showcase the possibilities.

That's how I use the library for my personal vault. Its a nice idea to share them as recipe scripts :thumbsup: I'll dig into that.

> It seems some people are using https://python-frontmatter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.ht... for raw batch editing

I use that library too, in fact it is the only dependency of py-obsidianmd. It's only used to load the frontmatter though.

> that was my point : to show how your solution augment what dataview and DB-folder already offers (augment, not replace)

That could be a standalone video, indeed. Show a workflow with dataview, and going further with python scripting and py-obsidianmd.

Some plugins are being developed to run python scripts directly within obsidian (https://github.com/mProjectsCode/obsidian-script-runner-plug...),, so one can imagine running his maintenance recipes etc. without leaving the vault. Many possibilities !
Something I've been contemplating is if I should add a mode that lets you make unauthenticated write API calls from localhost - like Redis and MongoDB do.

It would need to be an explicit opt-in thing because I've seen what happens if you release software that is open by default, and it's not good!
And idiocy begets idiocy, but this is a problem with US-style social/entertainment media already. Though Chinese and US players do it for different reasons...
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg34548.h...

I haven't looked at this code in a long time! Haven't gotten to a computer and it's hard to read this on a phone, so... And I left where I wrote it, so I can't confirm if there were any substantial changes after these. My fuzzy memory is this may be all the HAProxy changes, then I focused on kernel level changes.
Protecting the less tech savvy in countries with oppressive or corrupt government is a noble goal. I'm hoping major net neutrality efforts will be the lever for this.

There isn't enough information on either the linked site or the https://protectthestack.org/ site they link to for more information to tell, but as with enforced DoH in the browser I'm afraid this is a lot of high-minded nannying that just so happens to align perfectly with big tech's interest in protecting their ad networks from DNS filtering.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I feel there have been a lot of simultaneous efforts to wrest control of my networks and devices from my hands ramping up over the last few years.
Google just wants to push their format so they can read people's messages and get control away from the carriers. I've twice now had my phone switch to this format without my permission. Personally I don't want anything it offers. There are lots of existing message services (messenger, WhatsApp) that offer the same functionality, it's just Googles slimy attempt to insert themselves somewhere else.

I noticed the article said end-to-end encryption is "available". I'd be curious to know what that means in practice. Obviously again there are existing apps if you want this. What I want the least is having google involved in any of my communications, even if it's just scraping metadata or whatever other evil intent they have for this. It certainly isn't being pushed to help any users.
Hey now. I heard the rich kids also had to eat sandwiches with just bread and cheese. It was a real humanitarian crisis I tell you, right up there with the Ethiopian famine!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nza8yq/that-photo-of-the-fyr...
Elon Musk's Neuralink has been 'mutilating and killing monkeys'
I’m not interested unless there are microtransactions and loot boxes… that exist for this session only.
More Puter subdomains at -- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:puter.com (click the last pages)
Here’s the thing thought. So far the emails show a team making a mistake, and being thoughtful about it. Trying to look to their moderation principals and disagreeing about the path forward. Then, later we know Jack and Yoel and most of the team apologized and admitted it was a mistake.

If these people were all conservatives and I saw this interaction I would say the same thing. So tell me a story about principals that apply universally that should make me more concerned.

> the hunter biden laptop story should have been a much bigger story.

Should it? This is the most Barbara Streisanded news story in history; There have been two years of investigations and nothing has come of it. Maybe it was just a nothingburger that also happened to have been handled by Twitter badly. Even Matt taibbi said that the suspression was a bigger story than the original article.
The head of legal at of a publicly traded corporation acting without knowledge of the CEO to suppress a story about a presidential candidates son, while other internal executives argue in writing if they even have the legal/policy grounds to do so - Ive spent decades in corporations and I can think of few more obvious abuses of power.

If you can see the scam, great.

If you cannot then I cannot help you.
As the same time tax records and mailing addresses for the regular folks in Sweden (EU member) will continue to be open I suppose?