skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that a horrible question.

I've not had skittles in years, are they as big as smarties? I think a little smaller? Sure, you can start your estimation by laying them down in a 10x10 grid, and stacked 20 high, but that's very far off. Maybe 13x13x20? So that would be the most loosely packed version, if we shift them off so that layer+1 is in the depressions of layer+0, maybe we can stack 30 high. So yeah, that's my best mathematical approach and I guess it's at least 50% off.

Did I pass?
what could be the reason that first rollout will be only fur US users?
It was reasonably public knowledge at the time, iirc. The dev team was not very big at launch.

That said, I'm kinda curious about what roles the other ~25 staff had in such a small team. HR and legal and such I guess?
I read between the lines and don’t think that’s what’s happening at all here.
> Why not both?

Because you cannot spend the same money twice, obviously. Labor and resources are finite.
This is also related - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01214.pdf (Mentioned in the paper of OP)
Some statistics from one of my servers regarding Tor abuse. From 1130 abuse IPs in my http access log 4 are Tor exit nodes and from the 1905 ssh bruteforce attacker IPs 3 are Tor exit nodes. Stop operating Tor nodes would therefore reduce the abuse by basically nothing but take Tor from the people that need it.

>eh, it's still worth it

Yes it's totally worth it.
Yes, he considers himself "one of the creators of Minecraft". Because he is one of the creators of Minecraft; he created a part of the game. He doesn't consider himself "the creator of Minecraft", as you claimed.

You can think he puts down regular employees and makes himself seem more important than is warranted. You may think his contribution is tiny compared to the contribution of people who marketed the game or made the website. I may even agree. But that's not what I take issue with. I take issue with you misrepresenting his words by claiming he thinks he's "the creator of Minecraft", which is completely unfair.
Is Amazon pretending their chatbot is an actual person? That would explain my experience with them. It's either that or somebody who barely speaks English but is only given a 1995-technology translation of my messages and can only respond with 15 pre-written text-blocks.
It depends. As a counter example think of Scientific Linux [0] which was also an RH clone supported by Fermilab and CERN. It eventually got replaced by this "obscure" distro called CentOS.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux
The unemployment rate for young, black men is much higher [0] than that of young, white men. Combined with the crime rate of young, black men being so much higher [1] than that of young, white men, and it seems strange to be more worried about "white nationalists".

[0] https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm

[1] https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2&selY...
the same as any year - keep working two hours a workday on my business until I don't need a day job :)
I don’t understand any of the technical details involved here, but reading your comments makes me seriously wondering, does RPi rely on these everywhere, or just when plugged to a Mac? Because all three things seem like pretty reasonable optimisation opportunities for a file manager to implement, and given how USB storage devices have been around I’m very surprised if they managed to get away without issues until now.
The free market doesn’t collide when there is competition. Just like oil cartels, they barely hold together because the first person to leave the cartel makes way more money undercutting everyone else.

And many of those issues of rushing patients and not explaining risks happens in public systems too. You think doctors work for free in those systems?

And in terms of quality you’d be a fool to not check even in a public system. I worked in the healthcare field and quality of doctors varies widely.
This is HTML to JSON, written in Rust, and there's also pup[1] which I found out about just the other day on HN[2] which uses a very similar syntax (CSS selectors) but outputs HTML and is written in Go.

I can see room for both though it would interesting to have a more detailed comparison to go on (e.g. types of HTML, speed etc).

[1] https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805732
On Accidental status symbols, and designing new ones
I'm really rooting for Asahi, but I'm not an advocate for desktop Linux. And I love Linux.

macOS really nails as much of making a consumer-facing operating system as I feel it's possible to get right without taking something else away. XProtect, GateKeeper, SIP and the enclave just feel like the optimal combination of methods to secure the machine while not overwhelming the user.

I wish it was possible as a power user to get more information from logs in the background to ensure everything is working as it should, but Eclectic Light Company have that covered quite well (https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/ if you want to check out their tools).

It's also kind of love/hate. There's a lot of locking down that happens - some it for genuine user protection (cool), some of which is to do with market competition (the whole Epic debacle).

Sometimes they change things that shouldn't be changed and I don't know why (the Settings screen on Ventura is horrid and makes it harder to see permissions settings). Then they announce end-to-end encryption for photos and iCloud and I'm back onboard.

It's also why I don't understand the Windows 11 hate. I run it on another machine and I'm loving it as a direction for Windows - more of the security apparatus runs in the background like macOS, but the information is still available to you as a power user. Mandating TPM2 is absolutely the right call (they have workarounds for non-TPM2 machines), and being able to have cryptographic trust roots down to the boot image is a massive user-friendly feature.

I wish there was a means by which Linux could have software certification so that malicious applications could have their certificates invalidated, but I get that as the FOSS community is decentralised there's a who-watches-the-watchmen question. Having a mechanism baked in at the kernel level could be useful to solve this if it allows me as a user to "subscribe" to an authority if I choose (i.e. if I'm using Ubuntu, I could choose to use a Canonical or Google whitelist for signed apps, or none at all, sort of analogous to how the web has had multiple certificate authorities for many years, except that I could freely choose my own authority for whitelisting if I wanted to).
Thanks for the YT link, very interesting and very enlightening presentation. I knew about some of the facts in there, or at least I could sense them, but seeing them laid out so clearly form a person that knows the microfinance system from inside out helps a lot. And to think that Nobel prizes have been given for stuff like this, stuff which it was proved that it does not work.
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There's certainly a lot of silly stuff going on in EA, but as far as I know, FTXs methods have been universally condemned within EA.
But why do you need multiple dispatch? why do you need dynamic dispatch at all in fact?

Any language with semi-decent support for generic programming (via traits, type classes, overloading, what have you) should be able to do the above.
You can leverage the current users by opening up the chat to any user or the member of the website/app. They can bring their messages to any other website as well.

In this way, your visitor community could help you manage customer relations and also talk about your product live.
Notch probably dealt with tons of temporary contractors during the development of the game. He doesn’t have to keep life time commitments to all of them surely
I personally love live chats, both as a user and a developer. Yes, the pop-ups can be annoying, but still the overall experience has been really good for me.

I especially like how chats are asynchronous, yet feel immediate. And you can think about what you want to say, much like an email, without feeling like you might need to wait 3 days for a response.
While WinDev keeps ignoring such improvements and rather doubles down on the C++ / COM combo, including forcing everyone else to deal with writing .NET bindings to those APIs.

CsWinRT and win32metadata are still quite far from a great usability experience.
Super cool extension! And it's amazing that the interaction with ChatGPT is so easy to put in place (for the users).

It inspired me to fork the background code and create an extension that proposes improvements to tweets while composing them: https://github.com/matthieubulte/chat-gpt-twitter-extension
easier to start at 3
> PRISM is an efficient, automated legal warrant process to streamline subpoena and provenance of user data for national security purposes

Dropping the euphemisms, it's a for cops to do their job easier. That's cool when they're doing it transparently, with sufficient oversight and protections against abuse, and with a high success rate. The extent to which any of those three is true is pretty dubious.

Even if you truly do believe in this, which I totally understand–I have plenty of friends who work in this area, they are really behind the whole "we protect America" thing and I'm guessing you're probably in a similar camp–the issue is even more fundamental: it's one of attitude. Just because you're doing something good doesn't mean you have the right to have your job made easier. That's just not how it works. You don't get to take nuclear secrets and work on them from your personal laptop on the beach, no matter how pure your intentions are. When you work on things that are "dangerous" you don't get to just do whatever you want. The PRISM leaks were a scandal because they made the American people feel like the government was not accountable to them, and that is the price you have to pay to do anything in this country. End of story.
- Grow https://golang.cafe

- Start DevOps consultancy
Sure, I agree that it's impossible even to be aware of the extent of one's own biases, let alone be rid of them. I'm not expecting perfect rationality, and I work hard to consider other perspectives.

Imagine the perspective of someone who's consdering where to donate. They're going to have a certain expectation of responsibility from organisations which claim to make rational, ethical use of their money. Unless there's further justification to this purchase, then I could well believe this falls below that expectation.

I think a lot of people are attracted to EA because they're put off by many traditional charities spending large proportions of their income on bureaucracy and marketing. This incident doesn't help to make EA look any different.
Many of the commenters are so quick to discount the value of the End Poem, but from the replies of the writer's tweet it's pretty clear that many players have read the poem and been positively impacted by it. https://mobile.twitter.com/juliangough/status/16004656735571...
Of course I do, but I don't expect people to excuse me of them or ignore them, just because I say them. The OP isn't expecting that, but other people in this thread are expecting it on his behalf. I don't even think the OP wants people to excuse his flaws, like people in this thread seem to want to insist on doing.
What happened to scientific Linux? It's a bit odd that it seems to be being discontinued rather than rebased on Alma? Do they no longer believe scientific Linux adds value?
We've been playing with chat gpt and gpt-3 in recent days and weeks to refine our sales pitch, generate variations of text for our website, etc. It saves a lot of time when you can just take your rough notes and turn it into a perfectly smooth and readable paragraph instantly. It does not replace what we do but it does speed up the process enormously. We can iterate faster on our drafts, use AI generated mockups to enliven our pitch, etc. We've barely scratched the surface of what we can do with this.

There are lots of people obsessing about feeling threatened in what they do by all this. It's an understandable response but not necessarily a productive attitude. It's really just an opportunity to reconsider what it is you do exactly and become better and more efficient at that. Perhaps if you spend most of your time trying to produce slides, designs, etc., freeing up some of that time for more high value activities is not such a bad thing and something that you should have been striving to do anyway. In our case, using our refined pitch to drive sales is what we should be doing. Spending time to refine the pitch is a necessary evil and not the main thing we should do or even want to do. So, this is an enabler not a threat for us.

I'm actually a CTO; so me spending time on sales pitches is not the most obvious use of my time. But in a small startup, if something needs doing, I probably need to be involved. So, anything that makes that more efficient is more than welcome.
Without the clarification I would have assumed you were objecting to the idea of an AI "inventing" something, which I would agree with. I would have had no idea you were suggesting that children consuming AI-generated stories is obviously harmful, which I disagree with. So I appreciate the clarification.

Children are delicate in some senses but incredibly resilient in many others. Hearing a robot read a generic barnyard animal story wouldn't crack the top 50 most harmful experiences most kids have in a week.
You're describing every customer forum with answers like "I reinstalled Windows and that fixed the problem!!!"
I dive into math occasionally when working on animation and (real) crypto, and then forget about it when I go back to whatever I'm working on.

Actually looking up the formula for the first time in 20 years it's readable (i.e. doesn't use symbols I don't already know) so yes I'd be able to solve it. That's not guaranteed with every formula though.
Having just watched through undone series that name also gives me weird feelings.
1. Finish my academic duties (masters degree).

2. Get a job, start a small side business, grow my online presence.

3. Get the hell out of Latin America, this continent is far too violent.
In answer to your first question: a friend of mine hired me to work on a store locator software in 2012. It was basically a widget you put on your website that allowed searching for nearby stores/locations. He took it over all by himself from that point and was making six-figures for years. Maybe he’ll come along and elaborate.

Beyond that, I’ve known people who were single-owner entrepreneurs for years and made enough to pay the bills and live comfortably. Browser extensions, CRM plug-ins, stuff like that.

To answer your second question: yes and no — it depends on the niche. I did some research for my past employer and they accidentally voided the NDA when they laid me off… according to my lawyer anyway.

I’m still not going to take the chance of dealing with the court system to prove one way or the other…. So sadly, I can’t tell you which niches are better than the others.
I just now chatted with Amazon, and not only do they not send (or ask to send) a transcript, they even clear the chat once the agent has left so you can't even save it yourself.

I can't imagine any other reason but "we don't want the customer to be able to have a record".
A guy I made a website for a looong time ago sold systems like that. The system he sold had some really neat tricks to avoid needing to be connected to a network and the like.

The main entrance had the only networked badge system. What it'd do is when you entered the building it'd write an update list to your fob. When you then open any of the non-networked locks they'd grab the update list from your fob. This way things like revoking access to fobs or adding new fobs to the system would get to all the doors pretty quickly without them needing to be connected to wifi or whatnot.

Of course this also makes it feasible for the locks to run on batteries for a long time. The next trick the locks did was when you unlock a non-networked door it'd write its battery state to your fob. When next operating a networked lock it'd pass the battery state along to the main database. Hey presto you're getting low battery alerts, and there's still no always-on network slurping battery life.

In case of a power outage the reception people could let people in the main door, and all the other locks in the building would keep working as they always have.
Wow: those Alma Linux curves look nice. The Rocky Linux trends are definitely more aggressive, but they look a little bit tulip-fever-ish.

Also noteworthy is the linear nature of the RH progress.

I welcome any further interpretation in a similar (or contradictory) vein to my thoughts.
It depends on those initial emails and what was agreed upon. Assuming no information was left out and he truly said "The contract was for a comprehensive buyout, signing away all my rights forever, which was exactly the thing I’d told Carl that I never did with my work", it could be presumed that what he was paid for was essentially just a license to use his work for the Java game.
Fuzzing ping(8) and finding a 24 year old bug
As a .NET guy, I want to say to following to Java folks: You're welcome to copy P/Invoke!
I had a very short episode of that. It turns out it was my posture. Hunch forward posture strained some muscles behind my neck that are close to the ears. Probablly they pulled on some nerves in that area, causing the constant noise. It went away with massage and then gym.
I can’t speak for the USA but in the UK, professions are required to act in certain cases where a layperson isn’t.

For example, a layperson can ignore someone having a heart attack but a doctor is required to help (even if it’s just calling for an ambulance).
He would not have worried about it for so long, so yes I believe he would have help from his agent. I'm not talking about getting more dollars, he is buying peace of mind for his art.
Making it through the year without big health and financial setbacks. Enjoying the presence of the people close and dear to me. Play with our dog and cat. Trying to put the finishing touches on some of my personal projects.
> the author made little to no meaningful contributions to Minecraft's success

Any success exists because of the sum of its parts. I have never played Minecraft, but I've played Portal. The ending to Portal was emotional, it was the cherry on top of a great game. That song and the emotion that came with it is still ingrained in me and is part of why I still recommend Portal to people who haven't played it.

Would I have played the game without the song? Probably. Would it have made the same impact without it? I don't think so. Emotion is a large part of why people play games, so that poem might actually have an impact.

Does that mean he deserved more? I don't know, €20k seems reasonable. But I think you underestimate the impact something like a poem can have.
> But let’s not pretend it’s a move that doesn’t come with a cost. Scanning for CSAM by companies does catch a lot of child abusers and result in children being rescued from abuse, and it’s likely that Apple implementing such scanning would have done the same.

Let's not pretend that scanning everyone's photos is the only (or even a good) way to catch child abusers. Child abusers have been convicted without CSAM scanning before, so I am sure it will continue to be possible without. Just scanning everyone's photos may or may not be a convenient way to catch many, but the social cost for that is too damn high.

There is no guarantee that fewer children would get abused by scanning for CSAM, since abusers would probably adapt and avoid scanned services, while the innocent majority of people would have lost their privacy.
Not sure what France is doing because Im in Paris and I can tell ipv6 only router does not work. Maybe it's also about mobile.
I don't think so.

At least not while the money was rolling in.
settle in the netherlands (my family and i are moving to amsterdam in january).

it's going to be a huge change for us too -- going from a tropical country to an european city, not only not knowing the city itself (we've never been to AMS, only to London), but also, we don't speak any dutch (although my coworkers said i don't really need dutch, my wife and i are trying to learn it).
- Improve my online presence, mostly through some blog posts.

- See if I can squeeze a publication or two out of the stuff we're doing at work.

- Make some more meaningful open source contributions
It’s hard to ascribe value to it when you know the whole ending was rushed in as Notch walked out the door and the brief for the poem was literally just something long and nonsensical that appears out of nowhere and doesn’t mean anything.

Like it’s not a good ending to Minecraft, the game was maybe better off not having an ending.
1. Come up with an idea for a side hustle

2. Make a sale from side hustle

3. Make another sale from side hustle
No.

Alma Linux is done by CloudLinux, and still uses their infrastructure, secure boot certificate, etc (according to their page at https://web.archive.org/web/20221208102246/https://wiki.alma...). They have never had anything to do with CentOS.

Rocky Linux _is_ community oriented, and _is not_ beholden to a specific company, but it is not necessarily unpaid. The majority of the most active contributors to the project are being paid by their respective organizations (CIQ, OpenLogic / Perforce, etc) to do so.
Well no, if you are actually truly in your heart subscribed to any major religion, after your death its not 'your' body anymore, just some leftover soon-to-rot garbage on the level of trimmed nails or cut hair, nothing more. In fact, its rotting garbage regardless of your beliefs, nature doesn't care about those pesky things.

The other side is about saving actual lives in no small numbers, so what OP describes are tons of lives saved by just amending bureaucracy slightly, while preserving all those 'freedoms' that people like you keep repeating ad nausea anytime anything worthy is discussed.

If you actually really care about those freedoms, doing 2 minute bureaucratic work (or 5 seconds) every 5 years is no brainer. But if you just have knee jerk reactions to any change, well thats another problem on your side that is no concern to rest of society.
You are calling people a--holes and biased fools.

Doesn't look to me at all as if you're interested in a discussion of sensors. My impression is that you have an axe to grind.

Hence that quote. It points to the observation that when people get defensive about another person's ego, it usually means they see themselves somehow in a competition with that other person. Jung would have called it projection. Girard would have called it mimetic rivalry.

None of that is an excuse for your dismissive attitude and name-calling, which really don't belong on HN.
If they could, they'd trigger something on your phone or computer that causes a knife to stab you in the face the first time you open their site. But alas, their power is limited to rendering the site unusable and unreadable.
I'm not sure about that - most of the charities in the EA sphere have 'community building' as one of their cause areas, although from what I've read, it is the smallest pot of money. On givingwhatwecan.org, EA infrastructure is one of the areas you can donate to. [0]

It seems that in this particular case the purchase was funded by an individual donation though. Would be great to have some more transparency on this issue.

[0] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/effective-altruism...