skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wary of any company's claims of end-to-end encryption[1], especially when I have no experience with them. That being said, I think open-source is the right path. If I can compile the client myself, locally, and audit the code myself, that's a good first step. Perhaps even better would be for the data PUT/GET to be via an API, and I can bring my own client if I want. Then, the encrypted data is truly just an opaque blob from the service provider's POV. But you might as well be Google Drive at that point, no?

I haven't looked into the product much; I'm assuming that the server side is more than storage for opaque blobs. The less it is that, the less I can fully trust that my data is safe in their hands. And even if it's not my own secrets, but maybe some metadata (expiration times?), that is also sensitive data that would best not be leaked.

This is actually one space where I think certifications can be meaningful — such as FIPS, for the case of the US Federal Gov't. They tend not to mess around with security, so I trust that a little bit more (NSA backdoors notwithstanding).

[1] I remember when Zoom claimed that their video conferences were "end-to-end encrypted", and when it came out that they were not, they apologized, saying something along the lines of "we're sorry for any confusion we caused — when we used that term we meant XYZ, but we understand how some people could have interpreted it as ABC." So, in other words, they lied, used a well-established industry term to mean something else, and when caught in their lie, minced words to say "oh when we said _this_ we really meant _that_." Big frown from me.
Tesla, not Twitter
Let’s throw anecdotal data since we are at it, for me in my over 20 years of bodybuilding experience with plenty of “soft tissue” injuries what works best is cold-warm theraphy.
I think that the only solution may be for the essays to be written in controlled environments (school). If AI forces schools to do more school in school and less homework, I count that as a massive win. What I would give for the countless hours of my childhood and teenage years wasted on useless homework…
Reminds me of this video essay from the NYTimes about how liberal hypocrisy fuels inequality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw

The sad reality is that a lot of the people who shout the loudest about the problems of wealth and systemic inequality with their words, do very little or even the opposite with their actions.

There's probably similar psychology at play as to why it's common advice to not tell people about your personal goals. The act of proclaiming what you want to do gives you that little kick of dopamine that saps your motivation for actually doing it, making it less likely that you'll actually follow through. Waiting until after your accomplishment to share your success is much more effective.

In the case of moral virtue signalling, it seems like the act of proclaiming your virtue is much more likely to give you a feeling of moral license that makes you feel ok about acting immorally to serve your self interest.

In short, be suspicious of people who virtue signal too much, and judge them by their actions and results, not by their words or intent.
Sure there is - peer to peer. Spotify, and music streaming in general, is useless from technical point of view, thanks to cheap storage.
Butte,Montana defendants can pay off their court fines with food bank donations
I believe it was Louie Jordan who sang he'd go there for a Banana-split
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/12/cornell-startup-car...
Some people still think Lost was good after around the first 3 seasons. Like you, I gave up after that because it was pretty clear that the show would be nothing but red herrings and new distractions.

When my parents tuned in to watch the final episode, I predicted that the ending would be bullshit and not resolve anything. That's exactly what happened. Yet so many people who watched the show all the way through are in denial to this day.

> I could probably write something really mean about Westworld here but I'll just instead say that it's really, really, really sad that they canceled it after season 1.

Funny, because by the end of Westworld season 1 my first thought was that it was just going to be like Lost. The "maze" gave me "hatch" vibes, and I noped out permanently.
Why is that relevant? There are also child soldiers even younger than 13, today. Just not in the US. Additionally, before the 21c US surveillance state, it was very easy to lie about your age in a way that would take a long time to verify. An enormous number of underage boys lied their way into WWII. If you were born at home, you may not have even had a birth certificate.
The right thing to do, and I also don't really think reparations should be coupled to this as that opens another can of worms and probably isn't the solution needed.
I worked, as a teenager, in a Michelin starred hotel in the U.K. - they had, in the kitchen, an enormous stockpot, as tall as a man, which must have held 500 litres or more of stock, perpetually simmering. There was a stepladder to get up to chuck stuff (bones, vegetable scraps, you name it) in, and it had a tap at the bottom to fill smaller cauldrons from. It was explained to me that it had been going since the 50’s. Not quite ancient, but pretty elderly.

Long shift on a cold winter night, nothing beat a mug or two of that stock.
Improving Chess Commentaries by Combining [LLMs] with Symbolic Reasoning Engines
You'll still be able to test writing, but going forward it will need to be done in a proctored setting. Similar how you would test grade school math given the existence of calculators.
There's this gem in EAProcess.h

```/// ExecuteShellCommand("su root\nrm /* -r");```

https://github.com/electronicarts/EAStdC/blob/master/include...
With "pockets of", I read this

> It also shows that pockets of architectural knowledge rapidly advanced and then receded all across the known world.

as "individual pockets, all around the world, advanced and receded."
It takes a while to find your stride when starting somewhere new. Doubly (if not more) so if it's a big organization. Bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy.

I went through the exact same thing, fortunately I had close teammates that followed me between employers. They understood my life path pretty well. They helped me navigate it.

They helped me understand that I wasn't an impostor, at least not any more than anyone else. Doing the thing makes you part of it, and you're there for a reason; someone saw something.

Now hundreds of people know me by name; with all of the help I've been able to give, I've made a really good reputation inside our org.

It just takes time to build, stay with it.

Remember that sometimes it is valuable to learn the skills to navigate the business too. Being a tech wizard only goes so far
>That's because sbf was a US citizen.

Nope, that's incidental. If he were foreign, and had committed the fraud he did against the US, he would likely also be extradited to here to stand trial, the same as, e.g., these three Nigerian nationals [1] or this Jamaican [2] (or, if you search for a moment, hundreds of other cases).

>And presumably this is all paid by the recovered money, not the taxpayer.

It's paid by the taxpayer, through the budgets of the DOJ, the same way things like Enron, Madoff, and other massive frauds are not paid out of recovered money, which is used to pay off creditors.

You can check the line item in the federal budget that pays the DOJ, so that's not a question that taxpayers pay for these legal enforcements. If you want to claim "presumably" please show the valid source where this entire criminal cost will be paid for by the recovered money.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-nigerian-nationals-extr...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jamaican-national-extradited-...
>Which means that the property ownership is literally a spreadsheet (often with a date in the file name)

Are you implying that the spreadsheet is/was itself a legal document signifying ownership? Because that is radically different for my understanding of home ownership. I have never owned property, but to my knowledge ownership is conferred by way of a deed that is registered with the government.

Which leads to the main issue with the crypto hype that I see. The majority of the space is taken up by two overlapping camps: get rich quick shills and techno libertarians who believe we’d have utopia if not for the pesky government.
It would not have occurred to me to watch Better Call Saul via a middleman when the technology to obviate them has been widespread for more than a decade.
Importantly:

> All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. According to iRobot, the devices were labeled with a bright green sticker that read “video recording in progress,” and it was up to those paid data collectors to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any space the robot operates in, including children.”
At this point doesn't feel like there's many other options long term for Facebook. If they weren't doing this, how long would they have before all that money is gone anyway? Anyone have suggestions on something besides VR to replace their current business?
Yeah, this is really what I'm talking about. The comment was about why everyone doesn't do backup. I contend it's because most people aren't using Macs, because if they were, there is one obvious, almost foolproof option that covers 95% of end-user requirements, and that you don't need to think about.

I mean the system restore process is embarrassingly good (or was when I left the ecosystem): replace dead HDD, boot off installation media, attach the TM drive and say "yes please" when it asks you if you want to restore everything. The options you list are aimed at the "power user" and burdens them accordingly.
Key paragraph for our friends who don’t RTFA

> iRobot … confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. According to iRobot, the devices were labeled with a bright green sticker that read “video recording in progress,” and it was up to those paid data collectors to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any space the robot operates in, including children.”

Seems like the real story is that training data was leaked, rather than the attention getting “they’re watching you” narrative the title suggests
waybachmachine is a bless these days.
U.S. Congress set to include Boeing 737 Max alerting extension in spending bill
The even bigger picture: the press is not doing their job. Either they sit back and report what they see on social media, or act as a narrative filter to keep people from being confused by the facts.

The precipitous drop in readership at the WaPo and related layoffs are a hopeful sign that perhaps a correction is in the works.

Meanwhile, Biden makes false claims about his past all the time, such as how he used to drive an 18 wheeler.

Or this fun one about his use of Amtrak:

“When I became vice president, one of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I had taken more than 7,000 round trips on Amtrak over my career,” Biden said. “I think that’s an exaggeration. I’m going to rely on those two conductors. … One of them was a guy named Angelo Negri.”

Biden continued, telling the audience Negri estimated Biden had traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak trains around his fourth or fifth year as vice president, which would have been in 2013 or 2014.

“My mom was sick, and I used to try to come home almost every weekend as vice president to see her,” Biden said. “I got on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, ‘Joey, baby,’ and he grabbed my cheek like he always did. … He said, ‘Joey, what’s the big deal? One-point-three million miles on Air Force Two? Do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No, Angie, I don’t know.’ He gave me the calculation and he said ‘You traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak.;”

However, an obituary for Negri says the conductor retired in 1993, decades before Biden’s supposed story took place, while he was still a senator from Delaware. Biden’s mother died in 2010.
But please don't, otherwise you may get the lib killed for everybody.
I was so bummed when they ended the Heavyweight podcast and made it a Spotify exclusive. It was one of the very few shows I would have conversations with people about the day after it dropped.
Ok I’ll just try on desktop when I’m at one. Thanks.
There's a theory that snakes pushed the evolution of our visual cortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory
How does compilation remove the need to manage state? I'm not at all precious about JS, let's do it with the AWS SDK for C++ library instead?
In most of the cases Scott cites the underlying thing being facilitated can be done via a normal financial system, some countries just don't have one that functions very well. So I don't see the benefits of crypto as much as I see the benefits of having a well functioning financial system. Crypto just outsources that from local regulators, banks, etc., to crypto developers. Might be a good tradeoff for those countries.

The personal example Scott gives of sending money to Russians is probably illegal and circumvents currency controls that the Russian government has deliberately put in place, so not really a demonstration for crypto as much as it is an example that people find these types of transactions useful for various reasons.
Don't know how it works there, but the bank through which we have our home loan requires insurance, payment of property taxes, etc. and to ensure all that actually happens it's done through an escrow account. We pay one bill to the bank every month, they handle the rest. Seems like a solid way to make sure these kinda things don't happen, and then we can't forget something like the property tax, which happens every six months.

Back on the farm, which is 30 minutes from the nearest fire brigade, one does have to pay to opt-in for fire service. They still answer the phone if you're not on the list. You're also strongly encouraged to have a pond or cistern near anything you want saved. I don't know if the farm's mortgage required payment of that fee, but I do know we were given insurance discounts for having ponds near the houses and barn.

I do know of one case of a particularly belligerent property owner who refused to pay, had fires, still wouldn't pay, etc. who did eventually wind up with firefighters watching his property burn. Hard to really feel bad about something like that.
ChatGPT Clone Web App
> Remarkably, conditioning the model on such an “example-based specification” effectively enables the model to adapt on-the-fly to novel tasks whose distributions of inputs vary significantly from the training distribution. The idea that simply minimizing the negative log loss of a single next-word-prediction objective implies this apparent optimization of many more arbitrary tasks – amounting to a paradigm of “learning” during inference time – is a powerful one, and one that raises many questions.

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/in-context-learning/
Reminds me of https://ballerina.io/

... which looks actually pretty nice, but I suspect the name of the project is a terrible marketing decision that will hold adoption back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ada had exceptions in 83 that are analogous to their modern incarnation. C was still just a baby then.
Could be.

When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time.

The biggest change I personally suffered from is when they pulled out of their integration with Djay, a DJ app. This integration was amazing for bedroom DJs like myself, being able to use Spotify to organize DJ music and DJ directly from it. Then they sunset the entire integration.

Now Djay and even bigger apps like Pioneer Rekordbox integrate with Tidal... Do the labels prefer Tidal over Spotify for some reason? Or did Spotify decide to get out of this game for reasons of their own?
Stop calling it a layoff :) You left, the reason is immaterial.

If pressed for a reason, explain that you feel that you have achieved all that you could at the company and are excited for a new challenge where you can apply everything you’ve learned through your career. As long as you don’t explicitly lie, it’s not going to matter… and as long as you had the job for at least 6 months, nobody would question why you left — I’ve quit jobs after 6 months with no new job lined up and it has never been an issue in subsequent hiring processes.

The signal of a layoff isn’t great but it’s a very weak signal that a hiring manager would rely on only if they didn’t have any better signals. Don’t give them the opportunity to be lazy and rely on it. You’re pitching yourself, only give them the information you think benefits you.
The answer: special robots used during development for training ML image classification. Presumably leaked by human gig workers in Venezuela who were hired to perform image classification.

> All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. According to iRobot, the devices were labeled with a bright green sticker that read “video recording in progress,” and it was up to those paid data collectors to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any space the robot operates in, including children.”
But also with accepting the tradeoff of higher prices. In other words, lower prices and faster delivery don't trump quality. If they have to be fudged a bit a better guarantee of quality then that is acceptable.
Yes, `nullptr` will also be in C23.
Why not get into IaaS infrastructure? Like Facebook Cloud or something
Bigger for me, is the charging network layout... I have done a lot of road trips in the past decade or so, and have often stopped where there are there are at least 5-6 or more cars waiting for the ~6 or so charging spots... even if it's 20m of extra wait, that's close to a half hour to get a spot then another half hour, give or take. Not sure I'd like that.

I know a lot of people that love their EVs for daily commute. And before I started working from home full time, had been considering it. At this point, for the tank every couple weeks that I use, I'd just assume stick to petrol and keep my car longer.
What is the highest efficiency cell used in production plants today? Is that different than used by homeowners?

Edit: I mean widespread usage. One lone 10kw plant using 30% panels was not my intention.
>He wants to skip the gaming stages of the VR evolution

You don't need a gaming stage to make it useful any more than you needed a gaming stage of face to face video conferencing to make FaceTime and Zoom and the like extremely useful.

The proper plan is to try to get many use cases working, and try to solve technical problems for each, until one of them meet in a useful product or solution. Claiming it has to be a certain way will miss quicker and possibly much more fruitful cases.
HCF was an amazing show.
I recently looked into seeing a therapist for reasons similar to the OP's.

I tried lyra. All the wording and questions ask screamed to me "these are not my type of people". I'm not going to go into specifics but imagine you walked into a help conference and every table had energy stones, power of pyramids, astrology books, etc... If you're anything like me you'd walk out.

Once I made it past all that it recommended some therapists all of whom were white. The metro area I live in, 8 million people, is only 60% white in total and many areas are majority not white. I tried changing my location to an area known for being majority not white but it just gave me the same people.

It just got me wondering how much of therapy is a white culture thing because it seems statistically unlikely that of the 11 therapists it recommended, all 11 would be white if the demographics of the area say that only 60% of the population is white.

It was no different on BetterHelp.
Yes, but it used to be, that you landed on the original post, if you posted the same url. But now something is broken, or am I wrong?
I cannot at the moment, it's related to an internal project that is not yet public.
Kids today and their attention span when it comes to new toys ;)
Show HN: Monitor a Cyber Power UPS with node_exporter, Prometheus and Grafana
Wikipedia is right there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Crusade

It's pretty big jump from "it never happened" to "some things happened, just not the way the stories told us."
As someone who has very casually self-studied Chinese over the past 6-7 years and gotten to an "intermediate plateau" (started as a digital nomad in PCR, then Taiwan, and then married my Taiwanese wife).

Since you've already learned many languages I'm assuming you are already familiar with what works for you -- for me I really resonated with the "fluent in 3 months approach" of basically just forcing yourself to consume as much content and use as much of it as you can (which I was able to do in Taiwan, starting with ordering coffee and working your way past the "where are you from" conversations).

I've always struggled with Chinese characters, however (I also struggled quite a bit with English spelling). I picked up https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/products/how-to-learn-ch... over black friday and have really been enjoying it. I'm not sure if it will resonate as much for a complete beginner, but with my limited experience it's actually making characters "make sense" for me.

ChinesePod has been fantastic for listening comprehension, and is also highly recommended.
Slavery was also considered above-board at one point, so...

lets not use that as justification, shall we?

carrying private service X is required for you to exist in the united states. If you don't pay for X, you get fined Y as a punishment.

yep, I'm sure the powers-that-be considering that above-board should be the only justification we need!
Not to mention that this "new activity" on Mastodon is people on Mastodon talking about how bad Twitter has become.
Senator asks Gabe Newell why Steam hosts so much Neo-Nazi content
Why so hostile to therapy? I have a great supportive network of friends and family, but even so a few times in my life I have seen a psychologist that gave me actionable advice that really helped me deal with personal hardships. An impartial trained professional can often see much more clearly what you’re blind to; friends mean well but sometimes their intuitive advice is actually the opposite of what you need to hear.