skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like it was actually the acquisition by Zoom that seems to have sent Keybase down this slow death march. It was obvious that the acquisition was in order to acquire the team to improve Zoom's own security posture, and they had no interest in the Keybase product itself.

Since then, activity on the open source keybase repos has been minimal and they have not made any major product changes.^1,2 Basically just keeping the lights on. I give big props to the few folks at Zoom that are still pushing commits. Keybase is/was awesome.

[^1]: https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/contributors
[^2]: https://github.com/orgs/keybase/repositories
My daughter was just invited to a movie party. They watched The Amazing Maruice and the girls loved it.
I hope the Oscars are able to swallow their pride and just shrink down to size. I do still think that a best picture nomination means something and I enjoy picking a couple off each year's list to watch.

The alternative is that the Oscars keeps trying to build a big tent (like when they expanded best picture to 10 movies so they could throw a few gimmes in there to mass audiences) and IMO that's doomed to failure. The MTV Movie Awards already exists and does its thing for big blockbusters, the world doesn't need another.

All this said I am going to be interested to see where cinema is in 5-10 years. My personal theory is that once superhero movies face an audience decline (which, to some level, is inevitable) they'll end up in a difficult spot: their budgets are astronomical and will have to be trimmed back, which will result in less impressive movies, which could lead to a downward spiral. Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies. ...but probably not.
Yeah it sucks there isn't anything 100% like it. For just simple file syncing with end to end encryption I like syncthing. For encrypted data in a git repo there are more DIY options like using sops or similar tools.
Once you are doing microservices and serving any customer call requires 3 http requests and converting everything into JSON and back every time, it doesnt matter if you use float or int, CPU, GPU, a microcontroller or even abacus by hand.
Indeed. Here's the bug where we fixed it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109098...
I don't know anything about this but this topic (environmental law) is something my wife really enjoys. I was going to order the ebook for her but pricing it the same as the hard cover makes no sense. $30 for an ebook is prohibitively expensive.
Chipotle to test robot makelines for automatic bowl and salad assembly
Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content
I'm not into US politics so just a glance at Wikipedia. You compare anti-lock down protests with someone stealing land? Or was is it just comparing the way the police worked in general? I can't follow your argument.
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The lens feature is not new but it steadily keeps getting better

But yeah the 720p demo was bad, probably why they deleted the original
This is a shame, Keybase's future is looking increasingly rocky. Has anyone got alternatives for team-based secrets sharing in an open-source project?

Github secrets is one place but that's a one-way, write-only street.
> "Omit needless words", from Strunk & White.

Which is better phrased "Omit!"

After all, are you going to omit essential words? No!

And are you going to omit something other than words, like kumquats, maybe? No!
I mean it's true, but that's part of the appeal. The TCO of a hobby is a consideration.
> “It should be for the industry,” he said, “and not for the consumers.”

So they're thinking of taking the E3 route. Bold move, let's see how it plays out.
> it's accounting related rather than technology related

Precisely. The accounting scandal has as much to do with the underlying technology as the Libor scandal does with our understanding of the mechanics of banking. Nobody informed walked away from the Libor scandal rethinking the fundamentals of banking in the same way chickens didn’t get bioengineered in response to chicken Libor.
Good riddance. It was mostly a back scratching exercise that self-aggrandized the industry. Don’t need them. Don't need their opium...
You're right. Let's just do everything on the computer.
This is indeed the reason that Python didn't (initially) have rational numbers while its spiritual predecessor ABC had. [1]

[1] https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/problem-with-int...
I’ve seen a version of this list with “Never use a short word where a diminuitive one will suffice”.
Slight tangent: does anybody know how these models are tuned to censor certain topics so precisely? I thought it was a bit of a black box how things worked internally?
This is the problem I’ve been wrestling with. I’m never going to get the control I desire, unless I give up on benefiting from that control. I can’t advocate properly for myself as an IC, and even as a lead or staff engineer I’m still likely to be coaching someone who goes to the meeting instead of going myself and having much gravitas.

Only at very small companies do I get to cross these streams.
If he considered himself a counter-example to your claims, he probably would have said so upfront.
I don't know your audience of expected users (e.g. just family, friends or customers, etc.)...But have you considered something like nextcloud? As @JimDabell noted, you get WebDav "for free" by using nextcloud....But of course there are other options to sync files.
Actually, all those should be taught. It’s a good list. You should be a school administrator.
Oh, interesting, Windows supports it natively and we actually have a server (logandark.net) with WebDAV support. We may look into this actually, thank you!

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Oh nice, looks like that was released in the US a few days ago. Rainy day activity added to the list. Thanks!
A person who dislikes Turkish ultra-nationalists and fear what fake news might make them do to refugees is not exactly an "erdobot".
Things like text search and exact string matching.

As minor as it might sound, if 199/200 countries work in your system, capitalism dictates that below a certain business size, the logical thing is often to just ignore the one country and move on.

These things have odd cascading effects.
I think the main point about all this is that Google search results are now a complete joke for the most part. After you scroll down through the list of paid ads, the top results are typically a bunch of SEO gamed waffle, stuffed with long tail keywords and designed to provide enough bland text to rise up the rankings.

The actual information value of these 'results' is usually close to zero. I went onto a top search result yesterday, and the scammers hadn't even bothered to do a decent page. It was just a list of links to 404 pages, with an intro paragraph to satisfy the Google algorithm. It was pathetic and a waste of time.

That's why they're running scared. They know their key product is broken and useless, which means they're ripe for being ignored.
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with revisions ("please include Guam and Puetro Rico")

Your wrote "please" to ChatGPT?

FWIW, Miss Manners had a column a couple of weeks ago where she stated that we should not say please or thank you to machines, including Siri and Alexa.

I was surprised.
What would an app give you that a website doesn't?
Also, see Faust, Drew Gilpin. “Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive.” The Atlantic, September 16, 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/gen-z-h....
I don't expect AI to be conscious in my lifetime. I think AI is already intelligent. Not all intelligence is conscious; not all consciousness is intelligent.
Google isn't a retail store that has 'stores' and 'corporate offices'. It's all corporate, but you are absolutely right that the 'mothership' in Mountain View is very distinct from offices that are 'remote'. I don't know if Google has internal lingo to describe this but at SV companies I've been at we called it '{city where the main office is}' vs 'remote office'. So if you are at an Oracle office in New Jersey I would imagine you would say something like "I have to get up early to meet with Redwood City."
Why do you think that monetizing is more of a challenge when you own the platform that you publish on?
I'm sure multiple variants have been implemented, Borland C++ V2.0 from 1991 (version chosen as it's on bitsavers.org) has a bcd type which IIRC uses the 80 bit 8087 packed decimal type but it's been a long time since I looked at this deeply.
Laptop was purchased before XI became president.

Agree we can't avoid completely but still doing something is better than nothing.
No I'm pointing out that elevating this specific skill for weird intellectual/moral reasons is a mistake. There's value in learning it, but most of that value isn't unique to this particular skill.
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I see where you are coming from here; but aren't the stakes a bit different here?

A games console is for games. Although there are probably some tiny fraction of people who have installed other apps on there, the overwhelmingly vast majority of people are just going to use it for games.

A smartphone is likely to have address books, email, your photos, maybe sync with your e-health devices, banking applications ... from my point of view, it's an entirely different risk profile.
Just one small problem: the comment is wrong in important ways and shows a fair amount of disconnect between their knowledge of these systems and the practical implications.

For one example: a child living abroad with one parent whilst the other half is living in the Netherlands has theoretically as much right to that support as one living in NL, but in practice the hoops they have to jump through + the risk of having to pay back the money increased with some arbitrary (but substantial) fine is so large that many people in that situation end up foregoing the aid.

It all works well when you are on the happy path, but if you are even a little bit outside of the 70% case ('normal') then the system will work against you in all kinds of unpredictable ways. And some of those ways would have you labeled a fraudster, even if you do your utmost to play by the rules. And finally: the government itself doesn't know what the rules really are so if you call one of their hotlines you may well get faulty advice that will eventually cause you to be labeled a fraudster.
That's not a keyboard issue. Everyone in my country uses a standard US keyboard, we just press AlgGr to type some characters. I even learned some foreign lanugages, so I use a (standard, included by default in every linux distro) keyboard layout that allows me to type most characters used in European languages by using chords - for example, alt-shift-2 + u = ü.

So this is not a keyboard (hardware) problem, just a keyboard layout (software) problem.
They’d still be behind Apple with OS-level insights that they claim the right to use in their own ads.
It isn't straight forward. It is claimed to be possible and useful by advocates.
QE is effectively an interest-rate cut but for long-term bonds rather than short term. It would typically be used in conjunction with control of the overnight rate, which still struggles with the zero-lower-bound unless the ability to hold cash is removed from the system.
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Just started a game project with some friends in Godot 3 in December. Already see some things (Await comes to mind) that would've been great had we opted for 4. Still, it's hard to sign on to an unsettled technology for our first ever game. Who knows, maybe we'll consider upgrading if it looks manageable.
Not sure if you're intentionally demonstrating by example, but you definitely nailed it. People are suckers for "there's this one simple explanation that explains hugely complex problems."
People do a good enough job of making up their own nonsense about 9/11 being perpetrated by the usual suspects using space lasers, holograms, mininukes, etc. We don't, and shouldn't, censor any of that.
Understanding dbt's acquisition of Transform Data
well they had raised $10 million and burned through almost all of it so I'm not sure you can describe the acquisition that effectively saved their company as "sending them down a death march"

however, it's clear you're right - Zoom doesn't prioritize the product.
On Firefox with Dark Reader Theme Generation set to Dynamic, the initial page is just a black slate. (The default setting, Filter, inverts the background making it look awful.) I have to scroll down to see anything.

I know that it's my own browser configuration changing your website, but I expect you'll find many users here use Dark Reader. I'm also not sure what you can do about it, but I know that I am personally more amenable to turning it off on websites that provide a dark mode, especially if the CSS automatically respects the color scheme of my device (which is dark).
In public companies, majority (rather than plurality) shareholders who are also the officers of the company (i.e. where the CEO doesn't have to listen to the Board, because the CEO "is" the Board for all intents and purposes) are the exception, not the norm. Most companies have sold off an internal controlling interest by the time they go public. And, if they survive in the market, most other companies that kept an internal controlling interest initially, end up selling it off once all the founders leave or retire. (In fact, insofar as you can think of a retired founder as now having the interests of an external shareholder, the process is almost a tautology.)

For the relevant example, Nintendo's shareholdership — https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/stock/information/index.htm... — is composed of "47.43% Foreign Institutions and Individuals" (this category usually meaning "foreign investors"), and "31.07% Japanese Financial Institutions" (i.e. domestic investors.) So, (more than) 78.5% of Nintendo is externally owned. These are not voting shares, but that doesn't matter; they're a majority of shares, so they're controlling shares in practice: even if you can't vote, you can still do a coordinated dump of the company's stock to signal your displeasure. Thus, the institutional shareholders with these shares drive board allocation in a game-theoretic sense, rather than a legal sense.

That's why you see some very mysterious people (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/en/officer/index.html) on Nintendo's Board, specifically on an "Audit and Supervisory Committee" (a.k.a. "the actual Board; composed of people we didn't pick and don't really want here, but were strong-armed into taking by threats to do things to our share price; who can veto any decision made by the rest of the Board.") These are either large individual shareholders, or are "ambassadors" for the interests of institutional shareholders, or both.

Takuya Yoshimura is "Vice President at Mizuho Securities" — pretty clear why he's there. Asa Shinkawa works for an M&A company. Masao Yamazaki, retired Japanese railway tycoon, is likely there as a representative of his friends' institutional interests (and maybe the interests of some, er, "groups" in Japan); while Katsuhiro Umeyama, accounting-firm CEO, is there in a more formal (but not formalized) capacity to put a literal external auditor / comptroller lens on Nintendo's spending on behalf of whichever companies think that's needed.

Make no mistake — these people on this "Audit and Supervisory Committee" can get a Nintendo CEO or "President" fired, if they don't like their last-quarter decisions and resulting stock performance. That's pretty much all they can do; but in theory it's enough to steer the company, as they can just keep rolling the dice until they get a President whose policies happen to already align with theirs.
I'd also add that high-performing teams require psychological safety (e.g. mistakes don't get punished), the research is pretty clear. So punishment is explicit blocking of high-performance.
Product is all that matters. You can have the world's best AI but if it's horrible to use who cares, right?
If your website only works on one of the browsers, you are probably doing something wrong. It is not like it was in the 90s, it can pretty much be expected your website will work on all browsers, if you are following the current HTML/CSS specs and best practices.
Does it? You can harm those deeply inbreed and sickly lab mice with almost anything, and these types of results often don't generalize to animals outside of the lab setting. The few I skimmed don't indicate dose, generalize out form some tentative stuff from past studies, and some are making wild claims about things like autism which seem to be out of line with meta-analysis[1] of the links between dysbiotic bacteria with respect to ASD. And this analysis points to the effects only being on rat pups[2] where it was administered in drinking water. And digging a little further it seems that the evidence on actual levels in food being dangerous to humans or other mammals is lacking[3] so I don't think it refutes the claim at all.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-021-05002-y

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-018-0394-x

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...
I believe the Western values are what makes it an effective tactic, and it's the same reason why they're calling the Ukrainians Nazis while simultaneously running towards fascism: if you say that X is a Nazi and is committing genocide, you'll have a visceral reaction in the West that creates sympathies/doubts of other narratives in at least part of the population (this will not work the same way/to the same degree in non-Western societies). If the West was fascist, I'm sure Russia wouldn't be talking internationally about Nazis and genocide because it wouldn't have any impact.

You're very right about the historical narrative as an internal component. Connecting current conflicts to WW2 will make people fall in line much more quickly than saying "it's about natural resources that were mistakenly buried on the wrong side of the border and also we want a land connection to Crimea". Much like Americans will always invoke freedom because it's part of their national identity and people are less likely to question why they're invading Iraq if you mention it. Russia being threatened by fascist forces in the West is a continuation of the existing historical narrative and neatly ties into it.

It's definitely a much better PR strategy than Germany had in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom where our secretary of defense prominently said that Germany's security was being defended at the hindu kush. It's makes sense in abstraction ("we need to confront those who disregard human rights even if they're 5000 km away") but it's not concrete and it didn't increase support for the war at all.
I'm somewhat shocked that they aren't set up to play whatever movie that someone might bring in over their system, so long as it was a closed theater for just the guests... shame.
You're probably right.

I would love to see it become a golden era of the niche matinee where smaller theaters can flourish that show older films, art films, foreign films etc.

I would love to see distributors offer up high-quality digital copies of their films for small theaters to screen. Might be another source of cash flow to the rights-holders. It would be nice to see, just as an example, "Andrei Rublyov", on the big screen in 8K or whatever quality.
How could "trade keeps peace" prevent Russia paying Serbia to start a war to gro it's empire?
>That said this is a hilarious mess up because Microsoft actually had a presentation.

They are the company the produces Powerpoint after all...of course they know presentations! :D

I didn't see the Microsoft presentation but I hope it had a powerpoint!
I don’t think that critique applies because it’s not really young people driving this stagnation industry side and I don’t think they are the target of the OP’s ire. It’s people like Lorne Michaels who have decades long careers that have their hand prints all over entire genres, the ones who make up the Great Filter that decides where 90% of the big money goes. Most of those people aren’t very young and I suspect face the same concentration of age problem at the top that our politics experiences.
I think you are wrong. It's a great excuse to get out of the house and go out to do something still somewhat lowkey social. You can't always just hang out at home.
Which decimal? Fixed point, or floating point? Should the numerator and denominator be given the same bit width? How do you deal with overflow and underflow?

Its easy to think of "decimal" as one thing because every language provides a library called `decimal`, but there are a million subtle decisions and tradeoffs to make when choosing one standard binary representation. Most languages don't have a binary representation at all, and implement `decimal` as a high level abstraction with regular integers.
If they turn the screws then perhaps people will begin to care about alternative browsers again like they did when IE was a going concern.
> Not to mention, creating a Google account still requires a phone in many cases.

Not just creating a Google account; logging into a pre-existing Google account can require you to add a verified phone number. I had that happen to a relative (who does not even have a phone): when trying to login to their account, Google required a second factor to prove that the account was still theirs, and having access to the recovery email was not enough, the only thing it accepted was a SMS verification (which made zero sense, since there's no way Google could know whether that phone number was actually theirs).
Linux (POSIX systems in general, really) userland syscalls are very stable even in non-LTS, this is as you point not the issue. However, that is only the interface to the userland - the "kernelland" driver/modules interface is not garanteed stable.

This and LTS releases usually receiving important security backports reasonably quickly (compared to non-LTS versions) unless you somehow have certain expensive "Enterprise Linux" licenses and can coerce the licensor to do the backporting of the security fix for you.
In autocratic regimes, the leaders get all the cred for things going well, but they also are seen as responsible if things crumble.
>The fix for all was a culture that devalues bad uses of technology

>The solution is not Luddism either. Especially a ridiculous techno-Luddism.

Cough.
Doesn't this apply to every mature and widely used language after a few years of evolution?
are there any alternatives ?
Paralizilled by fear into conformity and sameness but it’s been killed slowly by greed.