skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government can already track your movements (you have a nice big identifier on the side even if you don’t have various wireless devices) but congestion pricing doesn’t require identifying people. Anonymous vehicle sensors can tell how congested an area is and they can charge you to enter that zone.
I read the last thing that made front page, didn't know that Thunderbird is developed by a dozen people, or that it's basically an add-on for Firefox.

I get that they need to chase marketshare and audience and can't stop lest the big guys win forever.

Still, I quite liked the old interface, the nested menus where everything is where it should be and doesn't take four 'steps' and an eventual search to find, the grey-on-darker-grey colorscheme, the hard corners that scream out 'this isn't the ephemeral interwebs, these are rock-solid time-stamped spf-checked emails.

Thank you for an amazing software package, regardless of the Dr-Who-like metamorphosis it goes through.
Temple University is one of the worst universities to go to. They have one in Japan, and the locals _know_ its a terrible university, yet people still got o it for some reason.

No idea how they're still around. Good marketing I guess?
this reviewer has no soul.

Deviled Kidneys in the top 10 of worst?!?

That is my favorite breakfast ever. I Lament every day I cant have it.
Perl qr//x equivalents aren’t available in most languages sadly.
Not necessarily. There are so many ways to obfuscate it and generally public facing graphql endpoints have introspection and all of those convenience features disabled.

To add, Twitter's backend has a bunch of layers on top of it. I did a bit of reverse engineering for my blog article on scraping Twitter [1] and there's a bit of magic token/header generation involved.

Good resource if you'd like to learn more about how the whole backend works is Nitter [2] which implements most graphql functions in Nim (it's very readable even if you don't know Nim).

1 - https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/#scraping-pro...

2 - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
> You can take health care away from employees (absent a contract) in general, but you can't do it in retaliation for striking.

That's simply not true. Many companies in the past have cancelled health insurance for workers on strike. That's the whole reason there has been a push by some legislators to change the law in this area.

https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-ca...
I assume you have multiple subscriptions to respectable newspapers and magazines because you care about society, right?

That said, the answer to your question is 'no'. If respectable newspapers and magazines followed suit, they'd disappear.

The cost of production of extremism/misinformation is much lower then it is to do investigative journalism or fund bureaus, or send teams out to physical locations to report. Fact-checking costs money, editors cost money. It all adds up.

The paywall model exists in many respects because if you are reliant on advertising as primary means of revenue which does fluctuate. A solid subscription base offers stability and predictable in which to run a viable organization - if you can pull it off.

That said, most of these paywalls are not 'hard-paywalls' where you need to subscribe immediately to read anything. They are typically 'soft-paywalls' where you can read a few articles before being asked to subscribe. From that perspective, your argument falls flat.
They had the oval office replica in Sept 2013 before the office officially opened. They also had a huge well-stocked bar, a secret room that you open by pulling a book or similar, a cowboy themed room....
You can use both Langchain and GPT Index with Fixie Agents. We're fans of what they've built, and they can be great tools.
Yeah, Mr. Bright, usually I think you’ve got your head screwed on pretty well, but this is a religious statement, not a matter of fact.

1. Find me a free market. Otherwise we’re just going to devolve into “no true Scotsman.” The USA, for instance, is light years from a free market in basically every respect.

2. In a truly free market the way to maximize profits is to create and maintain a monopoly. Nearly every large business trends towards this or explicitly attempts it.

3. Customer satisfaction only matters if the customers have true choices, and true customer choice is antithetical to profit maximization.

How would you describe an economy in which customer satisfaction actually matters? Regulated free market? Free market with guard rails?

Or do you really think that a 100% unregulated market is at all supportive of human benefit? I believe a 100% free market would mean the removal of all worldwide government entities and the creation of a few mega-cartels that ran basically everything.
More generally on the Howey test, I wonder a bit about the expectation of profit.

If I asked you to give me 16oz of gold today and promised to give you 17oz of gold in the 12 months time, is there an expectation of profit?

What if the price of gold is expected to drop by 20% over the term of the loan?

The Howey test specifically talks about an investment of "money", but you have not invested any money, only gold, which is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

What if I had 16oz of gold and offered to sell it to you today, then gave you the option of leaving the gold in my custody for another year, on the promise of an additional 1oz of gold after 1 year? In this case there is certainly money involved, but is it really any different to you giving me 16oz of gold that you bought from somewhere else?
> Hersh has pointed out that he was in no way suggesting that Osama bin Laden was not killed in Pakistan, as reported, upon the president's authority: he was saying that it was in the aftermath that the lying began

Is saying he misspoke. His words were interpreted in a way he did not intend them to be.

Addressing only the quote itself is unfair, as again that does not represent his actual argument.

I'm done with this.
Yahoo said the company would shift efforts to its 30-year partnership with Taboola, a digital advertising company, to satisfy ad services.

“These decisions are never easy, but we believe these changes will simplify and strengthen our advertising business for the long run, while enabling Yahoo to deliver better value to our customers and partners,” the Yahoo spokesperson said.

--

Hmmm that sounds like a contradiction. Taboola are the people who push those "one weird trick" ads
https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/test/scan-test...

scan test: it involves scanning test patterns into internal circuits within the device under test (DUT). The design’s flip-flops are modified to allow them to function as stimulus and observation points, or “scan cells” during test, while performing their intended functional role during normal operation.
Okay then. Do you think there is a shadow government, as the title of that video alleges?

Title of another video from that channel: "Geoengineering: Waging Weather Warfare On World Populations" (312K views) Do you think the shadow government is waging weather warfare?

"Hurricane Irma Manipulation: Objectives And Agendas" (196K views) Do you think the shadow government is controlling the paths of hurricanes?

"Engineered Drought Catastrophe, Target California" (190K views) Do you think the shadow government has created an artificial drought in California?

"Drilling Under Lake Mead To Drain The Last Drop" (145K views) "CONTROLLING HURRICANE IAN?" (118K views) "High Bypass Turbofan Jet Engines, Geoengineering, And The Contrail Lie" (114K views) "Wildfires As A Weapon, US Military Exposed" (76K views) "Geoengineering Is Fueling Firestorm Catastrophes" (47K views) "Blatant And Inarguable Geoengineering Jet Spraying Captured On Film" (43K views)

Keeping an open mind here, do you think any of these videos accurately describe true events? If you don't think they're true, then why link to them?
I'd like to read the paper but not $15 want to read it. Apparently ACM wants to charge $5 or $10 for this one article even if I had a membership.

Is this one of those situations I hear about where researchers would be super happy to provide copies of papers that ACM etc keep behind paywalls, if you just ask?
Seems completely wrong to me. Commoditize your complement. If you make using a car cheaper (by removing the labor of driving), people will use cars more.

Also, empirically, traditional car companies are actually investing heavily in self-driving tech. Their capabilities actually surpass Tesla’s.
Housing Starts to Look the Same
The insight is that 32-bit space is so cheap to exhaustively explore now that you don’t need to resort to possible misses through sampling or spend the effort to make and verify a smart way of sampling. Just brute force the darn thing and be done.
Or every time I google “nyse:aapl”
They are trying to eliminate the leaded gas too though. No idea why they didn't just subsidize new planes that didn't need leaded gas, rather than spend decades looking for substitutes.
Aww, thank you!
Actually, I feel that the parsec syntax in Haskell, for example, is much more readable - using many, noneOf etc.

The chapter of the book "Real World Haskell" builds a simple CSV parser:

https://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html

It may be adaptable for regex and for static analysis as well.
I don't follow advances in phones - new models coming out are never on my radar. So if a manufacturer drops functionality like that, I don't notice. And literally every phone I've owned for my nearly 25 years of cell usage has had a 3.5mm jack, so it's never had to be a conscious choice.
For everyone who living city unable to comprehend this, think about how many times a month you see a large government vehicle from your window.

For a large fraction of the population, these services either do not exist or are unreliable. You need a truck for all of these.
Teen kids are worried about inheriting a dying planet. But something something bootstraps, right?
Lutefisk is #48.

Haggis is delicious.
For those interested but not completely on board with still maintaining native apps check out this project in dev by software mansion for react native: https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/react-native-turbo-...

I got it up and running with expo in an hour and it’s solved many problems.
Bay area engineers tend to make much more money than in most places. The cost of living is also much higher, so it all kinda evens out. You can't really judge the value of a salary based on just the number.
Taxiing at a class b airport is stressful though.

Boeing field, next to SeaTac (but not in class b airspace) was my favorite place to land, and home field for me. Not too busy, but enough real air traffic to make good practice.

My favorite times were landing shortly after the last flight of the Concord before it went to park at the flight museum and watching it taxi off the runway from overhead.

And another time being told to extend downwind and look out the window to see a Blue Angel buzz the tower.
How it is compatible with "shall not be infringed"? It sounds like an infringement.
Maybe it's imgur but this looks so bad. A tweet with examples would be better choice if you can't update on the website quickly
Yeah, about 3/4 of them seem like things I'd be willing to try, not on a dare or anything but just because they sound tasty.
Then again, to each his own. I was eating with my brothers once, and the middle brother was saying "You have to try this stuff, it's great. It's Limburger cheese, 6 months past the expiration date". The youngest brother was unimpressed, he said "this tastes just like the Limburger that is only one month past the expiration date that I normally eat." As the boring old brother, I enjoyed it but didn't try to rank it.
Speaking from present experience: "tuition remission" is a sort of imaginary quantum payment. I call it that because first they "charge" you tuition, then they issue you a "remission". The result is that no money ever actually enters or leaves your bank account, and they write something in a database somewhere to say that you "paid tuition" and are therefore legally a "student" (eg: legal to treat as a student, put under university behavioral discipline, exempt from certain labor laws, etc). You could try to say that it really is "tuition" for "coursework", but most graduate students, most of the time, aren't actually taking any classes that use a classroom or get taught by a professor. Most of their/our "credit hours" are in things labeled stuff like "Readings" or "Dissertation Continuation" that, again, help the university maintain a bureaucratic fiction that someone who has a cubicle and a workstation and spends their time in a lab is not, in fact, working for the university but instead being done a favor by the kindness of the university.

But as I said, you don't actually make a penny, so I wouldn't really call it "wages".
Me being a high perfomance computing enthusiast, it's always an orgasm for me seeing these perfomance improvements releases(and related histories), they are always a unique opportunity for me to learn new optimizations techniques from the commits/PR
Because people can't and don't wear masks 100% of the time.

If you are surrounded by the virus it's only a matter of time until you git infected, if you have only short periods masks help.
I think you're looking for the Procrustes transform, which uses SVD to optimize a minimal transform for rotation, translation, _and_ scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_Procrustes_problem
Yeah, I'd definitely replace that whole function - with a try/catch-wrapped (or NaN-checked, etc.) attempt to parse the string as a double. Not a regex, which then still would have to be tested to make sure it's exactly as strict as whatever parser it's going to be passed to, anyway.
Europeans and the redistribution of consequences, they go together like bread and butter.
Apparently they are half as efficient compared to conventional cells.
Yeah, that doesn't really work out as well as you might think.
> So we make a law that says a product's intellectual property is protected and cant be copied

It is out of patent.
Sure, some people use them for real stuff. Most of them are mall-crawling status symbols. I'm pretty sure 7/10 of the trucks on the road here are piloted by people that can't competently DIY a hamburger, they certainly don't DI anything that would justify a truck, moreso a lifted diesel with modded exhaust and a roll coal tune. It's just canon male identity, that's why they're rolling around with that shit.
Assuming the task was of similar difficulty and the deadline was equally short. I doubt those assumptions hold.
> Uncited. And poorly argued

It isn't an academic paper. This data is readily available to fact check. The idea that your choices can impose a cost on other people is appropriate for the argument he is making, and the fact that you don't recognize that argument — despite how clearly it is made — reflects poorly on you, not on Kareem.

> This is flat out wrong. There is no evidence that the vaccines saved any lives. In fact, from the very first big data dump in December 2020 (https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1348080756921303041)

You misunderstood the report, looking only at deaths before enough people could get infected to cause a significant difference in deaths. That data you pointed to is a table that shows the vaccine is safe. The rest of the report shows the number of severe infections after both groups had a chance to get infected, which showed that the vaccination is effective. Funnily, somebody pointed this out to you years ago, and you still didn't understand it. https://mobile.twitter.com/rchrdbyd/status/13480913552565329...

This was sufficient to start vaccinating people because people were dying and in-person business had ground to a standstill, and after the start of vaccination, the rate of COVID-19 death among the unvaccinated was clearly higher than for vaccinated, no matter which covariates you controlled for.

> I have a scientific background and numerous published papers.

And yet you completely misread a very simple paper that thousands of other scientists did not.
I am a Linux user, and I gave on Thunderbird due to terrible Exchange support - now I use Evolution, it has its own problems but my calendar is synced.

P.S. No my choice to use Exchange on the server side.
EBNF is awkward if you're describing a typical regular grammar. It's very natural for typical context-free grammars.

The dirty secret of CS school is that your theory course is mostly about parsing until you get to turing machines (I joke, but only kind of)
Alternatively: be unemployed, it has really great benefits!

Not every job is going to be at the Next Big Thing, or have you Change The World, or suddenly give you stock worth millions.

Would I be making plans of working at Yahoo or AOL or some such in the hope of some miracle turnaround, no, but if they were to turn around and offer me a bunch more than what I'm currently making why shouldn't I consider it?
Honestly I seriously find it hard to believe someone can read it to the end without mentioning how it queried itself. You're just naming the trivial things that it did.

In the end It fully imagined a bash shell, an imaginary internet, an imaginary chatGPT on the imaginary internet, then on the imaginary chatGPT it created a new imaginary bash shell.

The level of recursive depth here indicates deep understanding and situational awareness of what it is being asked. It demonstrates awareness of what "itself" is and what "itself" is capable of doing.

I'm not saying it's sentient. But it MUST understand your query in order to produce the output show in the article. That much is obvious.

Also it's not clear what you mean by reasoning by analogy or indirect reasoning.
She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine
These sorts of screeds against regexes always strike me as very strange: regexes can be written in the terse, difficult to read manner that the author demonstrates, but they can also be written with inlined comments, named capture groups, and plenty of whitespace, so that they're actually readable by normal humans. The former is useful for when you are sitting at a terminal and need to sift through gigabytes of log files in an ad-hoc manner while debugging an issue, the latter when you want to commit something to a codebase. Confusing these two use-cases, and then writing a few hundred words of inflammatory flamebait about it, seems unfair to what are otherwise an extremely powerful and versatile tool on the one hand, and a relatively unobjectionable[1] way to write software on the other.

[1] I think that sticking even moderately complicated regexes in a modern codebase is probably not a great plan most of the time (lots of modern languages have easier-to-use options for accomplishing complex parsing tasks!), but given that regex libraries typically ship as part of the standard library and are extraordinarily well documented as a language, they're not a bad tool to reach for in a lot of cases.
They are in some sense since exec comp is heavily biased towards stock and their stock has been getting hammered recently.
Damn, I want your health plan. Mine is more expensive, and it sounds like not as good.
Have you tried Davmail? There's even a container image for it which worked pretty well for me a few years ago.
It's a niche product for a very specific environment.
What does it mean that my cats 100% understand what container their treats are kept in? I can not leave the container on the counter or they will knock it onto the floor and tear the lid off to get inside.

I am conviced they understand something is hidden in a box. Object permanence is something humans and cats both learn and understand.
Ah, I see, for a test that you'll only run once or rarely, might as well!
That's during the period of the strike, right, not on an ongoing basis afterwards?
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza
A small company can already hire talent, it just means they have to pay market rates for that degree of (somewhat nebulously defined) talent, or providing benefits, lifestyle, etc that nets the same total to the person you're hiring.

What you're actually saying is "this mass firing will lower everyone's income", which, TBF is the actual goal of the exercise.
Phishing _can_ be more or less "sophisticated" (obviously some of this is a semantic argument) attack, it depends on the details.

For example, if you select a target and collect information in order to tailor the attack, or you use inside information to prey on a flaw (such as security fatigue), that's at least more sophisticated than a typical phishing email.

Not that I disagree with your take about the PR angle.
It's fascinating how risky these systems will become if they're deployed anywhere sensitive
Eh, maybe. They both strike me as being medicated.

There are two routes for those with ADHD who want medication and want to keep flying:

A) Get a regular or Special Issuance class 3 medical, ideally before treatment but it's possible while pausing it if you have $$$$. Immediately afterward, go get a BasicMed medical which prevents commercial operation but basically can't be denied. There's fairly limited data on ADHD medication and BasicMed but you can generally do this without fanfare, but if your regular doctor objects, find a temporary second one and just:

B) Lie (by omission). This is actually much easier than it sounds. Just go to the Aeronautical Medical Examiner's office, ask for a class 3 and Shut The Fuck Up. This is generally how the airline guys do it. If you're truly paranoid, pay for therapy and medication out of pocket. If even a minor accident occurs the FAA can and may elect to pull your insurance records. Nope, nothing is sacred to the government, not even HIPPA.

FWIW, you shouldn't have to do any of this. Mild to moderate ADHD has no impact on your ability to fly safely, ask me how I know :/
I wasn't there for the recording, but I suspect it was only audio.

> just feeling grumpy about this not being a podcast like it used to be :)

In what sense is it not? If you mean about the medium here, you can still get it that way! https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends has the various links to different ways of getting it in pure podcast form.
True.

I hope someone asks that question, no one has done it so far.
I have been explicitly told by a tax accountant that I cannot. If a third party makes a payment to one of their own offices, even presuming that money exists at all to begin with, I can't claim it on my taxes as income or a credit.
> 1k sqft

I know what you mean, but at first glance this looks like an unholy matrimony of metric and imperial.
They did throw photos in for their "weird boards" one, which was awesome (and really benefitted from it). Otherwise - it's a podcast, I suspect Youtube is just the easiest version to link to.
I’ve personally never worked on one much, but you have to keep (at least) two branches active for a release. Main development would happen on a shared feature branch (to be larger merged), but you also need to keep master/main updated with bug fixes and other changes that aren’t release gated.

More around versioning itself, but having a single big merge is a single high risk point. Releasing everything all at once is more likely to have larger and more severe bugs than many small releases, even if you gate the deployed releases behind feature flags.