skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Doreen,

I hear that. I really loved my last Google Pixel 3, preceded by the Pixel. For some reason it just refused to start up. I couldn't even format it when connected to the PC, it simply died suddenly, without any impact damage. I lost access to Google Authenticator, which I hadn't backed up but actually found the physical paper auth codes I had printed out in case this situation arose, but they didn't work either(!), so I was logged out of Google services for some time, and also lost my 2fa for some accounts to access my paltry spread of crypto junk accounts. I'm sorry and hope you can get decent Google customer service soon.
" We do not write code for our computers, but rather we write it for humans to read and use"

Then why is it increasingly difficult for humans to _use_ a computer.

And no, Android and iOS devices are not computers, just like the washing machine is not a computer. They are toys.
>responsible for the "dual accounting" issue where deposits were counted twice.

You're supposed to count everything twice in corresponding accounts. That's double-entry accounting.
I tried that career path, but it was far too competitive!
As with rotation between military units, it would also solve the problem of cops and criminals (due to being pretty much in the same milieu) finding their interests more aligned with each other than with society at large.

The immediate drawback I notice is that in my country, local police have substantial training: 2 years full time (IIRC) so they must sign contracts beforehand such that if they were to quit before X years they would owe their jurisdiction the prorated amount of their training costs.

(OTOH, IIUC US County Deputies have almost no requirements, so YMMV)
Before

xcopy /h/e/c/k/r/y c:\windows\system32\ c:\sys32\

attrib +h c:\sys32\

From a repair boot disk

xcopy /h/e/c/k/r/y c:\sys32\ c:\windows\system32\

attrib -h c:\windows\system32\
Not sure I'm sold on the work itself, but the graphics and animations on this page are really nicely done.
>since Nvidia let you use regular GPUs for research which end up cheaper than cloud GPUs.

Funfact, that's illegal in Europe, producers have no right to tell you what to do with their products and your property.
Have you heard of ECS? it seems quite close to the core idea.
There are redundancy systems to avoid getting locked out of 2FA.

- 1st Backup Codes: Store a bunch of 2FA backup codes on a safe location, best not in YOUR home, in case it burns down.

- 2nd SMS verification: some services offer you a fallback to SMS in case you don't have your 2FA device with you. But keep in mind, that SMS is also one of the least secure 2FA methods.

- 3rd instead of having your auth codes only on one device, use a service for it like Authy, so you can install it on as much devices as you like, if one dies, it's easy to configure a new one.
Observable Plot 0.6.1
Human_fallback
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Linux Support and Performance Review
> They will improve your sleep

Stims? Definitely not in the long term IMO - I am fully with the parent comment here.
As opposed to the fiercely independent journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post who would never regurgitate Democratic Party propaganda? Give me a break.

I'm sure Elon chose them because he thought they were sympathetic. So what?
haha damn we did a lot of those

i installed windows 98 so many times i still remember the pirated serial number k4hvd-q9tj9-6crx9-c9g68-qr2d3

and then cdc's bo2k came out and everything changed!
I went to checkout Whereby’s site to learn more and my NETGEAR router notified me of a Malware/phishing threat. Strange. I wonder what they are doing.

Request domain: m.whrb.xyz
> Google is convinced I'm trying to break into my own accounts

Yep, the more you attempt the harder it will get, please wait for the 72 hour account hold and if that fails it's best to wait a full week without any sign in attempt or recovery attempts.
I spent way too much time in the calendaring space.

> Makes scheduling collaborative instead of a nuisance.

This is not a strong opinion (sorry Derrick, I love you)

Every calendar/scheduler thinks they do this. Most are just variations of calendly (which no one loves, but does it's job).

Calendars (imo) need to stop getting enamored with scheduling and more enamored with helping people use their time wisely.

Stronger opinion: scheduling sucks - do less of it.

Stronger opinion: you should schedule your calendar exactly this way (https://www.nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/)

Stronger opinion: a full calendar doesn't make you productive. Making sure you've scheduled the things that matter to you first before you let any other events is, is the only thing that matter.

Tying the way someone calendars to a specific workflow is what matters. You saw Superhuman do this with "inbox zero." They convinced you that inbox zero means you're productive. It's the wrong metric IMO, but that's how they built out their fan base.

If someone is trying to get a calendar off the ground, they should just hire Nir as an advisor, make his workflow the default calendaring experience and start from there. That would do worlds of work for differentiating in this space where everyone largely does the same minor improvements in different colorways.
I feel that this comment misunderstands both hard sciences as well as social sciences and humanities. My wife is a historian. The idea that the way to succeed in history is to just make various influential people like you since there is no actual "correct opinion" is just rank bullshit.

And the idea that in, say, computer science, that there is precisely one correct approach to a given problem is also completely bogus once you've moved beyond trivial questions.
It is this first bit; specifically the part where enough of the capital is privately owned that there's a significant class of people who have no choice but paying most of the wealth that they produce as rent to the owners. That's the power imbalance that unavoidably created a hierarchy, and why left anarchists deem capitalism incompatible with the core tenets of anarchism.

Free markets are a different story, since they do not require capital to be privately owned to exist and function. Left-wing free-market anarchism is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market_anarchism
>What's worse is that the the error messages never explain the problem. It's just an endless sequence of "Oops! Something went wrong" "We could not fulfill your request" "Please try again later".

You're absolutely right. They each carry the tone of "This content isn't available right now", like when trying to view a tweet from a shadowbanned user. I've seen that drive people, particularly family, into a kind of aggressive version of frustration.
Not to forget the unstability, from changes in monetisation to possibly of being banned for wrong words. Maybe just for going against some mainstream narrative. And then maybe someone just spams chat and it ends up hurting you.
Note that the Guardian version is a little arbitrarily cut down IMNHO - the "longer" form might be a better read:

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/
Orphaned neurological implants
MUI = M.U.I. = Minimal User Interaction Delay

https://www.franz-enzenhofer.com/a/gtag-make-faster

it's a hack, not a solution
> Nuclear fission is probably one of the greatest victims of populist democracy.

Oh yes indeed. Nuclear energy is not legal in Italy, so I did some research:

We had nuclear reactors in the 80s, until we held a referendum on nuclear energy, 3 months after Chernobyl. The result: overwhelmingly against, so we dismantled our reactors. Decades later, the Government pushed for a new referendum. When did they choose to do it? 6 months after the Fukushima disaster... you can guess what did the Italian population voted for.
I would argue the reason it's powerful is that Vega embraces the Grammar of Graphics as first principles (think ggplot2). It's imo the way to think about graphics, but I may be biased.
A GPT-3 bot had been posting for a whole week, amassed upvotes, no one realized!
There's only a handful of ivies. Not an especially unlikely coincidence to guess correctly here.
French hotel in the 90s had unknown phone plugs -> stripped an RJ11 cable and wired the cables into the wall.

Using ollydbg to find some embedded encryption keys
Adressing high school teachers as "professor" is common in Austria and Czechia.
How will you avoid fake login pages? Those can even phish SMS and TOTP 2FA.

Yubikey 2FA (and equivalents) help to solve this.
I think this phenomenon with "senior" happens because we don't have an equivalent to "apprentice", "journeyman", and "master", and several of these terms would be considered inappropriate if we did. Senior has effectively become "journeyman", and Staff has become "master". And then Senior Staff, Principal, etc. are higher levels of mastery of the craft. It sort of makes sense.

Some people with 1-2 years of experience really are significantly qualitatively different than others with that few years of experience. Some people with 5 years really are able to run teams and build large systems independently. It shouldn't be about the years alone.

Edit to add: Also, after 4 years intense studying it could be said that every software engineer with a Bachelors degree has already passed through the apprentice phase, their first 1, 2, or 3 years might legitimately be their journeyman phase, and so after a couple of years they might legitimately be "senior" in the sense of being an independent expert practitioner. Remember that we're talking about a person who has now spent 5-7 years of their life developing these skills, and possibly more before they attended university.

(And it then makes sense that the next step up would either be Staff or Architect as their skills grow to handle more complex organizational matters or even more complex software systems respectively.)

Now obviously that is NOT true of a large number of people who don't apply themselves in school or in their jobs, and so just sit in their chairs watching the clock until they have enough years of experience to be "senior", but a person who applies themselves can achieve a level of capability in a couple years that the person who does not apply themselves might never achieve in their entire career.
I've been trying to learn Clojure (well, actually Babashka (https://babashka.org/)) from a book, but the whole REPL thing and its workflow benefits didn't really convey well from such a media. It wasn't until I saw a real workflow example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0RXmyjRJ8), that I grokked what REPL development brings to the game. It's quite possible I haven't unlocked its full potential, but I do see value in this way of working.

I'm using Calva + vscode and the onboarding seemed pretty simple. Installed Babashka using linuxbrew, then installed Calva in VScode and ran its tutorial. Calva has a pretty good guide on the structural code editing: https://calva.io/paredit/

Now I "just" need to figure out how to parse xml. Zippers melt my brain
From my own experiments with GPT, I would actually say that generated text often has more liking to some self-conscious neurodivergent writing because (in the absence of specific requests to the contrary) it tries to avoid assumptions and overcompensates by basically covering all the possible angles of the question even if only one of them is obviously and likely relevant.
> yet there are no software chefs or software tailors.

Actually.... Chef is a configuration management tool that uses system configuration "recipes". [1] [2]

There are tailored systems in software. We call those bespoke systems. [3]

Bespoke software – sometimes called custom software or tailored
software – is a software solution created for a specific user.

Much like a bespoke suit, these software solutions are made and
tailored entirely to your exact specifications.

> However, since you asked me, I think "codewright" has a ring to it.

CodeWright is a Windows Programmers Editing System for software developers originally marketed by Premia Corp. [4] Though, enough time has passed that you should be able to safely reuse that title!

[1] https://www.chef.io/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Chef

[3] https://itenterprise.co.uk/bespoke-software-go-bespoke

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWright
It's also largely about marriages of families that pass wealth through a community. In talking about the wealth of the community, it includes several ways of wealth transfer other than through an estate. Certainly another large factor are businesses that service black communities that extract wealth and don't reinvest it in the communities. Many many symptoms that all point back to the underlying weakness having been victims of slavery.
Having worked on large compute intensive projects in both academia and industry I am somewhat sceptical about multi-cloud tools. Normally you do your compute where the data is since egress is so expensive. And it just doesn't seem worth developing against a cloud agnostic API and limiting myself to the lowest common denominator.

If you have a large workload though they may be helpful as a negotiating tactic to play one cloud off against another.
You are right, most certainly not everything is corrupt and not everything in the “system” is wrong.

And yet, OP’s point of view is a very common one among people. So why is that? I think dismissing this as “nihilism” it’s not a clever continuation of this conversation.

Is it because the system is very inefficient at healing itself (or so seems to be) from bad actors, that the public thinks it will never be healed? Is it because politics is a zero sum game, therefore since many are corrupt and cheating, all the others seem compelled to do the same in order to hang onto power? (Very similar dynamics happens with pro cyclist).

Is it because it attracts a certain profile of people that are more likely to be corrupted?

Given the power nature of politics and the relatively few players involved, is it because we are holding everybody at a high standard therefore even one episode of corruption is enough to taint the whole category, even when corruption is limited in scope?

Lots of places to go before slapping the “nihilist” label on the car.

And if indeed the system doesn’t get better, what’s a good way to address the “nihilist” point of view across the population?

Is the problem too big and too complex to be solved because we can’t change human nature? Then maybe it is nihilism after all.
This reminds me of the response I got once when working for a government agency. I managed to automate their quality assurance process, reducing a two week manual testing routine down to a five minute test suite. Their response? I got fired for "poor performance". I guess I made too many unproductive government employees fear for their jobs. Lesson learned!
Sorry that you take it like that. I tried to delete my initial comment because I felt it was too curt and I didn't have time then to expand. Yes, spam is quoted several times in the initial article, but it is not "acknowledged" as the hard problem it is, and dismissed as an excuse - which it isn't. I did read the links and it doesn't help, even Doctorow
's argument (which is exactly about how difficult spam fighting is and how it devolves into centralisation and privilege).
An advantage to applying similar logic to judges is that the legal code would have to be simple and straightforward to make it work.

(lawyers might be more difficult to rotate? but if the legal code were simple enough, maybe almost all cases would come down to questions of fact instead of questions of law, enabling pro se representation? I suspect our anarchist citizens would have be substantially better educated than current modal standards.

cf RA Lafferty, Primary Education of the Camiroi)
I agree that it is common (I listed it as the second option for that reason), but I think it is not very precise, which is why I brought it up.

In particular — humans tend to cooperate, know we work better when we specialize, and have a natural sense of fairness (sometimes inaccurate!) so I can definitely see trade and markets happening under basically any system. I mean it has proven impossible to stop trade, if it isn’t in the open you’ll immediately get black markets.

But I can’t see a community collectively and voluntarily agreeing to respect property claims if they grow to the point that they are inconvenient.
Didn’t seem to have any significant effect on focus/hyperfocus for me, maybe slightly reduced irritability, but definitely added migraines with aura. Still have them occasionally, even after being off for over a month now.
While you own the hardware you don't own the software necessary to make use of it, just a license.
If you can find a spouse on the internet, regardless of how and where, then you can also find a friend. Some friends are cofounder material. Intentionally finding cofounders is daunting because there's little or nothing else besides the current venture to encourage their continuity of working together.

If you happen to find a good cofounder or a good spouse, then you don't keep changing them. That team is worth more than the current venture.

The problem of lacking a cofounder is lacking another pair of eyes and another brain who can help moderate wacky ideas. Everything seems like a great idea and a utopia, in isolation. But in the real world, some ideas are better than others. No one person can think of everything exhaustively and can prioritize it.
In the strictly browser realm, there's also Brr: https://erratique.ch/software/brr/doc/Brr_canvas/index.html which is a recent reimagining of the traditional interface to browser APIs (provided by js_of_ocaml) in a much more idiomatic OCaml style.

https://erratique.ch/software/brr/doc
Those poor millionaires :(
Iconoclasm is one of the early precepts of Islam, especially the Wahhabi doctrines pushed by Saudi Arabia.

This is why the Saudis destroy old buildings and are building a giant ugly clocktower hotel in Mecca.

Buildings that are too iconic, even "earlier gen Arab buildings designed to diminish iconography" can become too iconic in their own right.

Generic glass skyscrapers are totally fine (for now).
The last one is Nikolai Mushegian, he was found drowned shortly after tweeting this: https://twitter.com/delete_shitcoin/status/15859187180889702...
While it's possible someone just misunderstood colossally in the reporting (happens all the time), one of the allegations is that he had two different sets of documents to hide stuff and get things past auditors, not just double every as is standard.
Does this apply to big tech companies, which usually have generic numbered “levels” which have a relatively fixed distribution?
Reminds me of a similar story of someone creating a Tron lightcycle game on an Apple IIgs. They had created a bug so that the lightcycle could travel off-screen and into memory, causing all sorts of undefined behaviour.

https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-...
> I watch a streamer (cooking) with a bunch of autoimmune diseases.

Out of curiosity, as someone who never used Twitch, what is the discovery process here? As in how did you find this specific streamer in the first place? My (likely biased) impression was that the platform is mostly for gaming streams.
Why not? You'd prefer the prosecutors to waste their time trying to prosecute cases where they're most likely to lose? Instead, they either drop those cases, or try to arrange some other settlement before getting to trial.

There's many things seriously wrong with the Japanese judicial system, but this isn't one of them.
That’s the same kind of thinking that leads to people saying that sitting at a computer isn’t real work, couldn’t possibly be exhausting. It’s not back-breaking work, after all.

Their kind of work does come with its own challenges, even if they don’t include the same challenges you’re used to thinking about.
Which model of i5 would that be and when was it released? Intel has been releasing processors under the i5 moniker since 2009, obviously not all of them are supported.
> The raw output of markets or the tough hand of socialist dictatorship was the biggest positive driving force in the early history of fission energy.

Is this true?

I always considered fission tech to be used for the following reasons, and none of them are economic. The number's I've crunched say fission isn't the economic choice, but that varies depends on how much value is placed on 'base load'.

1. Cold war era vanity tech. Nuclear weapons were used to end World War 2, and now they are just another infrastructure project for us.

2. Code shifted weapons research. Countries blame each other for this all the time in the nuclear non-proliferation era.

3. Strategic choice to avoid traditional energy imports (France, Japan).
I will tell about my most recent more significant hack. I was building a Yocto image and it failed, because it filled remaining space of my 128G disk. I run some diagnostics. ncdu showed clearly that it is all Yocto builds. Then remembering how Yocto gets lots of the same files in the build process I was curious and run fdupes to find duplicates. I took a hacky python script that interprets fdupes output to calculate the size duplicates take, I wrote the script a few months earlier for unrelated issue. It showed around 36G of duplicates. From the same directory I took a script that replaces duplicates with hardlinks, small change to the mentioned script - I know that it is a common thing for duplicate software to do, but I wanted it to work on the fdupes output, so it would not have to recalculate anything for lots of time.

I run the build and eventually it failed. It failed, because Yocto keeps inode numbers in an SQLite file for an LD_PRELOAD library, that fakes root privileges or something like that. I did a simple SQLite utility in C before and I modified it so it would put correct inode numbers for all the files. After I made it to compile I was surprised that it just worked. I run a find with -exec of my tool for those database files.

Now the build mostly worked, but occasionally it failed. I don't remember exactly, but some of the hard linked files had to be replaced with a copy. I did not investigate further to make it automatic, but I considered checking the build log and doing the copying automatically or maybe to get to know how differentiate which files to leave alone. There was not a lot of files like that and after the build I did not have to do a big rebuild like that often enough to care.

It was not smooth, but I made it work. I wondered about creating a separate BTRFS partition (even in a file) that would do the dedup hidden or a fuse filesystem that would mask my own dedup.
It's safe to say that if you have enough signals from every possible layer (of which the above a barely a few) that it becomes trivial to build a model that can identify the majority of bots.

However, then you're left with the really hard problem of when real browsers are used. But hey, you went a long way before you had to actually look at traffic patterns and in the meantime you've significantly raised the costs for those operating the bots.

It's also worth noting that if you really get enough signals, that bot writers cannot control them all. Everyone can rewrite a HTTP header, but can you pick the right HTTP headers in the right order with the right TLS cipher and TLS HELO to appear to be the same as Chrome on Windows? Good luck.
I've been looking for a guide like this for a while now. Thank you very much for sharing it!!
Although while there are no involuntary de jure hierarchies among countries, de facto there are.
I don't mean to trivialize the work that programmers do. (Okay, maybe the ones who just copy and paste from Stack Overflow all day.) I'm an electronics engineer, but I've spent most of my professional life programming. It's legitimate technical work. But not all technical work is engineering. Would you call a programmer a mathematician just because computer science is a branch of mathematics?