skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It is using your hardware against you such that you will be denied service if the operating state of your system isn't to the service operator's liking.

It's up to the game's developer whether they allow you to join. Either you have hardware that can prove something the developer thinks is trustworthy or you just can't prove your system is trustworthy. Nothing is working against you. Either the developer trusts your hardware or they don't.

>Cheats take advantage of buggy or poorly designed software.

No, they take advantage of a poor security model. If your security model lets random processes read out the location of all of the players is that the game coded poorly or the operating systems fault for letting a cheat read that information? Being able to trust the code that the client in running instead of just the code that the server is running is powerful. It makes developing a secure system easier since it allows you to trust more.
Doctorow is blaming Google here - and they are selling the unconstrained advertising service.
This might be already happening. It might be rats controlling humans to do research about controlling rats.
Most blockers are running through Safari Extensions, so they’re limited to whatever Apple allows them to do. It’s no uBlock, but I made an app that lets you run your whole device’s traffic through a blocker [0].

[0]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tulabyte/id1566083358
by a factor of 100-10000x? maybe a 2 or even a 10x multiple would be reasonable but that's not how it works.
> The other has no plugins; I use it to visit my bank's website.

I use a separate portable FF[0] for that. That makes "cross contamination" impossible.

[0] https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
I read the paper "On being an Octopus" by Peter Godfrey-Smith in "Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings" (2021). This book contains a lot of interesting material on consciousness.

Previous to that I had been meditating a lot on what it is like to be a rock.

No sense of time, no memory, no input at all. For all the rock knows, time would run in reverse, or jump all over the place. Obviously, the rock doesn't know about space either. Now if you are able to think up a universe without animals or humans, this opens up a lot of room to doubt some basic beliefs.

I recently found out that someone [1] ridiculed the philosophy on "what it's like to be" by using a rock as well. I was slightly disappointed by this, because the rock metaphor works fine for me. Perhaps I misunderstood the article.

[1] https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/like...
Flatpak is a solution to package management as Docker is to servers. What's the predominant reason people use Docker? Because it's impossible to get a Python/NodeJS monstrosity working properly without it. On rolling release distributions, you don't ever need Flatpak. Its predominance is found in stable release distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. Because they stall packages and their dependencies, it'll always be an issue to install new software. If anything, I prefer AppImage a lot more.
You mean Access as in MS Access? Why not give Libre Office Base a try? Seems like an ok alternative
Most women in this country don't live in SF, Seattle, NYC or LA. Most women in America have kids by the time they're in their early 20s. These are the women who are emerging after 18 years and trying to find a way into tech jobs. And failing that, are falling for ponzi schemes and memes.
PayPal Fees Are Insane
So I have been doing personal transfers with cryptocurrency recently for large sums over 20K USD and more each time the fees are around 10 USD. The worse fee that I have had to pay was 100USD but that was during the NFT craze and it still was less then what paypal charges

I've just recently for the first time in ages used Paypal for invoicing and was charged about 5%.

This is insane. I was charged over 90 USD to invoice 3000 USD? Isn't their process automated or are they still doing accounting by hand. I could pay an accountant to do the invoice for less.

Why are their fees so high (aside from demand/supply) surely this gives room for a startup to come in and take the a fixed transactional basis rate?

Does anyone have any alternatives to Paypal that doesn't charge on a percentage basis?

TLDR: Been spoilt using crypto for transactions and the fees are significantly less then Paypal.

How is paypal still charging this rate?
For sure. Thank you for sharing.

I'm not going to try and convince you of anything, but I'll offer my perspective to you. My guilty pleasure is watching MLM debunking videos, so I've happened to see a decent amount of MLM recruiting and training material. (I've known a couple people involved with MLMs, but not anyone I was close with, so I can't really say it's touched me much personally.)

Honestly I find it chilling. It's not just how they are manipulative with the people in the MLM, but how they coach them into manipulating their friends and family. They give them scripts to twist the language of love and support into cash transactions.

This is a tame example but the only one that's top of mind at the moment. I was watching a video the other day, and they said something like, "your friends and family need to understand that your launch party is a big deal. You're launching a business, and they need to be there to support you. Ask them if you can count on them to be there to support you."

And I just can't help but imagine getting a phone call from someone in my life, talking about how excited they are about something new they're up to, and then the feeling of dread as I realize what's happening.

"Can I count on you to be there to support me?" How do you respond to that? If you agree, you're enabling them to make a terrible decision, at what's probably the best time for them to turn back. If you refuse, you're hurting their feelings and pushing them away, into the waiting arms of their manipulators, and the line between MLM and cult can be pretty blurry.
>convergence, which is incredibly popular among users

I'm gonna say citation needed on that one. In fact, I have seen many rants about desktop software trying to look like touchscreen software.
Spain's digital nomad visa lets remote workers bring their families
Audrey Tam
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=retained+eu+law

(GDPR is UK's implementation of an EU directive, the kind of law that the Retained EU Law bill seeks to get rid of.)
No, what I'm actually getting tired of is people getting on the hip new proprietary but trendy JS/CSS thing like Tailwind and leaving other devs to clean it up in a few years.
> The reality is that if the codebase and style code is in flux, that idealized CSS stylesheet will churn towards a being a mess of tech debt.

Interesting. That’s not been my experience. People tend to clean up as they go, eg if the design says we now need a thinner padding / gaps or a different colour blue, we change the variable, and if we spot cut and pastes we fix them.

It’s certainly much easier to refactor than visual classes mixed into HTML.
Why do I keep hearing Händel's sarabande in my head while reading the post?
For me, the danger is that I don't feel when my blood sugar is off. Or even when it's way off. I can be as high as 300 or as low as 50, and I don't feel the difference.

That's where I need a CGM, preferably like the Freestyle Libre3.
Let's do a thought experiment.

Let's say Netflix decides today (24th of Feb 2023) to stream 16k content by default to everyone who has fast enough internet. Quick math suggests you need a 412Mbps internet connection to do this. A lot of people have 400Mbps+ internet connections nowadays.

This could quickly overwhelm the available bandwidth that an ISP has - leading to a degraded experience for other users and leading to a huge upgrade bill needed to provide an acceptable level of experience for the ISP's customers.

Who should pay that bill? Should the ISP foot the bill for the upgrade because Netflix decided to stream 16k now? Should Netflix foot the bill?
Tailwind is literally someone else’s PostCSS output.
It will likely be harder than you think to find them. KYC is a joke, a regulatory checkbox that must be ticked to not get in trouble with federal authorities.
I read the intro and skimmed the paper. The OP doesn't propose to "make loans without predictive optimization." It proposes that the people who use software to make loans specify how they are dealing with these issues, instead of sweeping them under the rug.
Honestly I think most aviation should just go away. There are legitimate reasons for people and high-value cargo and mail to use planes to get places in a hurry, but I'd rather people treat plane flights as a rare luxury rather than a routine thing. The energy costs are enormous, and civilization is kind of in a wile-e-coyote-ran-past-the-cliff-edge-but-hasn't-looked-down situation with respect to climate change.

Electric aviation might be a huge improvement over burning kerosene with respect to CO2 emissions, but also reducing how much we rely on planes would go a long way too. I don't see electric air taxis being a good thing in almost any situation -- they're tremendously inefficient and they make a lot of noise. Air taxis for emergency responders might be an acceptable tradeoff.

If someone can come up with a good way to run a large airliner off of batteries in a practical fashion, then by all means I think that's worth doing, but I feel kind of obligated to be a wet blanket on the idea of the aviation industry suddenly revitalizing itself and everyone flying everywhere just because they can.
What exactly is a native mobile modal?

That said I’m inclined to agree - emulating system controls with CSS always feels very uncanny valley to me.
>I now rarely do consulting. I turn down the vast majority of clients. When I do charge, I charge $3,000 an hour.

A 40-hour week at that rate is a cool $120k. Whew.

I suppose I can kind of see it making sense in situations where there's a time crunch, the stakes are high with a lot of money on the table, and highly specialized knowledge and/or exceptional leadership is required—with a very low amount of billable hours.

So basically the plot to Inception.
Microsoft has been testing its Bing chatbot ‘Sydney’ for years
It is not. Even long/"complicated" passwords usually do not have much bits of entropy, which is why you need an expensive hash to make bruteforce attacks difficult.
This is excellent advice.

I moved to Germany many years ago, and picked up the language along the way.

Yes, people often speak English, but they subtly dislike the burden of translation to be shifted upon them. People became markedly nicer when I no longer needed English, even if I stumbled often.

It's harder to get things done, harder to make friends, harder to know what's going on. You're missing an awful lot of the country's rich cultural context. You end up sheltered in the very real "expat bubble".

As you said, expect to put a lot of work into it. I worked harder than many to learn German, and I'm still ashamed of where I stand. If you start in the expat bubble, your colleagues and your friends speak English, and regular practice is more difficult.

I tell people about as much on my website about moving to Germany. Your comment gave me much better words to explain it. Thank you!
It's the same with any DE nowadays. Switch Gnome by KDE or any other. The base system is uniform enough that things just fit together.

Debian would still patch far too much to my taste without the integration anyway.

They remove/rebrand what they don't find free enough, want to make things "modular", want to split development and base packages, want to support a ton of architectures upstream doesn't care about and want to integrate things in their historic tooling. It has introduced some severe bugs in the past.
It's the literal opposite of whataboutism. In no way, shape, or form, did the comment try to use startups to make MLMs look less bad, and in fact it did the exact opposite.

You're on a site where a disproportionate number of people are involved in startups/startup culture, and are also disproportionately in socioeconomic positions further removed from the effects for an MLM than a random population sample*.

(* I hesitate to even say this since I don't trust you won't try and build an enormous strawman argument out of it, trying to paint this as a "oh well readers here are to rich to care?!". I'm from a 3rd world country, so no, that's not it either.)

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Drawing parallels to a topic that's relatable to the reader is exactly what you'd expect in any half decent comment section.

At the end of the day you're saying you intentionally interpreted the comment in bad faith as a springboard to push your own take. A take which just repeats the literal contents of the article rather than interpreting it in a novel way.
And I don't why Snap exists when everyone already uses docker and OCI containers.
The article is correct, but it comes from someone that is already on the AI field. LLMs will peak and pass to become mature, that's high-frequency signal. But there's also a low frequency component, a more fundamental signal if you like, that tells us that AI is definitely out of the academia --it's been for some years, it's only reaching general public now. It cannot be ignored.
There was one man, V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky. He got the profession of a surgeon, and he was also deeply religious and was soon ordained a priest. He remained a surgeon though and worked as such for the rest of his life. Thing is, it all happened in early Soviet years when the government was actively opposing and suppressing the church. He was in the middle of this struggle and it was rather hard for him. At one moment, for example, he though of burning himself in a church that was about to be closed. This didn’t happen and he was eventually sent to an exile somewhere far in Siberia. Yet when the war started he wrote a letter to the officials saying that he, as a surgeon with a lot of experience, wanted to be of help and asked to be sent into a hospital closer to the frontlines. And also added that “when the war ends I’m ready to return back to the exile”.

Russian history is rich and convoluted and may look controversial to an outsider. But it is not really that to an insider. The controversial parts are just tragic.

(Later that man got Stalin prize for his book about surgery, although they did not let him put “Archbishop Luke” as the author and published it under his civil name.)
Well I indeed expected more than a few basic definitions for sure.

For instance I was expecting a few case studies where a blind application of sklearn defaults led to issues fixed with proper probabilistic thinking.

I remain unconvinced about the importance of probabilities for data science, even more so when I doubt 1% of practicing data scientists could explain what a measure is.
I have, yes. It’s fine and no more annoying than css, styled or whatever else. If anything it’s easier because there’s consistent and constrained bunch of classes you can use.
And it would be really easy to regulate this issue away. Pass a law in the EU or US that stipulates that ship owners AND the shipping companies that contract them have to perform due diligence on the end of life value chain of their vessels. AND make it possible for foreign nationals to sue these companies in U.S./EU courts if this due diligence hasn’t been done for damages due to injury or environmental damage.
> Obviously to be an "expert" one generally has to have engaged in something other than testifying as an one.

I don't know, it seems to work for a great many consultants.
Why do we need this bullshit when we have apt, rpm, pacman and everything?
The best I've found by far: Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs

https://archive.org/details/plan9designintro
Uruguay had duels up to 1971, and they were only abolished in 1992.
Using Brave Browser and never looked back. I use MSEdge for work stuff (client testing as it's their default). It was vanilla, but recently I had to install uBlock (minimum).

It was too unbearable to do a simple search for some technical info and end up on a website that would LITERALLY slow the OS as a whole due to spike on Edge's CPU and memory usage.
Yeah! I have it set up in my website GitHub repo [0]

[0]: https://github.com/mattrighetti/mattrighetti.github.io/blob/...
No, it's your own PostCSS output. At least if you want to only have the definitions you actually use.
Looks fun. I just tried to sign up, but the link I received by email redirected to http://localhost:8080
Buying Experiences Probably Doesn't Make You Happier Than Buying Possessions
As usual it is fine if you buy into the ecosystem. Same goes for Apple, Google and whatnot.
while I like and use flatpaks, each time I try to use gnome software, I need to kill it and restart just too that it loads
>This is neat, but why would you want to read books in a monospaced font?

You might be surprised. For example, Chinese and Japanese very commonly use monospaced fonts.

On a less pedantic note, personally I find monospaced fonts slightly easier to see and read. Everything is uniform and organized, which makes eye movements simpler and easier.
Exactly this. If you're going to use an algorithm to discriminate between people in order to advantage some over others (by granting a loan to them, or admitting them to a university, for example) you'd better be able to fully and independently verifiably explain how your algorithm works and doesn't discriminate among people due to their protected attributes or proxies thereof. Current machine learning technologies render this assurance all but impossible and so they must be regarded with the most extreme suspicion until this can be provably remedied. Given how difficult it is validating traditionally programmed inference systems we're a long way from it.
I sometimes use a shortcut/profile like this:

cp -a /my/firefox/profile/template "$TMPDIR"
firefox --no-remote --profile "$TMPDIR"

Gives you a fresh profile every launch.
And your Typescript CSS in JS thing using some new thing? TW is at least well documented and widely used and based on a fairly formalised bunch of classes that builds upon a concept that’s been used for 10+ years.
Highly reminiscent of 2001 and 2008. From feast to famine.
Out of curiosity, I went through my results on m.facebook.com. I really need to get ad blocking on mobile going again.

Post, ad, post, ad, reels (which I've never intentionally clicked), ad, 3 posts, (ad, 2 posts) repeated indefinitely.

My wife, through the Facebook app, had a roughly similar pattern, though with far more suggested groups.
Then just use CSS at that point, since the classes literally just map onto CSS properties anyway (and sometimes not even, since they have to spend time to make new, or even older, rules work). That's what I don't get about Tailwind, at its best it's as good as CSS, but oftentimes stuff like SCSS, CSS-in-TS etc are simply better.
Yes agree with that which is exactly what the second half of my post is about. Google should not be advertising competitors when you directly search for someone. If you search for Thai restaurant then yes. But not for a specific business. And only legitimate verified businesses which are not fronts for this behaviour.

But really, is the famous Doctorow not using an ad blocker in 2023?
Can the restaurant ask Google to take down the ad based on trademark infringement?
They've bought their way into controlling the majority of the social media space with the acquisitions of IG and WhatsApp. TikTok has helped put a dent on that, but outside the US (and its strange fixation for the colour of the online messages' background) they still control almost all the private messaging space (of course, I'm ignoring markets like China and Russia, where there are other things at play).
The story has many variations. Likely apocryphal.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
> this article is weird

Yes, it's very weird. I can't tell if the author can't express themselves well enough in English, doesn't understand the topic, or something else happened (editorialization, SEO garbage...)

> Likelihood is applied when you want to increase the chances of a specific event or outcome occurring.

???

> if 12 cars go down a particular road at 11 am every day, we can use Poisson distribution to figure out how many cars go down that road at 11 am in a month.

???

> if we’re looking at how many chocolate bars were sold in a day, we would use the normal distribution. However, if we want to look into how many were sold in a specific hour, we will use t-distribution

???
They aren't but that's really semantics. It's labor being used by these western corporations. You are explicitly responsible for the labor you directly source but you are also implicitly responsible for the labor you source through the services/products you purchase.

Outsourcing labor intensive work to lower income regions is almost universally a good thing but that doesn't mean that western corporations shouldn't be held liable for that outsourced labor. What needs to change is that corporations need to be required to perform due diligence that the work they contract out is meeting at least some established international labor standard (likely a lower standard than the country the western corp is operating out of has).

In the case of ship breaking, what needs to change is that any western corporation that owns and/or operates a ship during the last few years of its life needs to be held directly responsible for that ship until after it has been scrapped. They can contract the work out and all that but they should not be able to sell the ship off to a scrapper in the last few months of its life and wash their hands of their responsibility.

How long that last few years should be probably needs to be class dependent and you should probably be able to push off that "last few years" time window with a re-certification process (i.e. showing the ship still has at least x years of life on it).

If western countries actually held their corporations liable and stopped them from blindly pawning off work, they could drag up labor standards in other countries without depriving those countries of the outsourced work that their economies are heavily supplemented by.
Disclaimer: Googler here, but not on the TF team and opinions are my own.

Tangential, but related. For the Deep learning folks I recommend having a look at tensorflow probability or some pytorch analogue. For instance, following [1] you see that bolting the capability to model at least aleatoric uncertainty is super simple.

The benefits are enormous. In fact, apart from technical aspects that such an approach can unlock (eg if the output is favorable but the uncertainty is too high still don't act on the predictions because the cost of a acting on a false positive is >> than non acting on a false negative) I found that being able to output the model uncertainty goes a long way in convincing non technical stakeholders about trusting predictions.

[1] https://blog.tensorflow.org/2019/03/regression-with-probabil...
I don't think is fanaticism.

It's about easy of use and workflows.
Most of the desktop apps and websites don't care about keyboard navigation (and usability) and you have to use the mouse no matter what.

When your main workflow is keyboard based, changing to the mouse and back to keyboard is very disruptive. When you use a tiling window manager such as Sway or i3 this is even more important.

Also, TUI applications go straight to the point, load extremely fast and barely use any computer resources.
> But loading ad's are the much greater security issue.

How so? You're just retrieving the data and displaying it.

> And if you care about "uniqueness" you have that already with your IP

There are many ISP's that use NAT to save IP addresses, hence an IP is not really an identifier. Even if not, an IP is identifieing the all network, and all the ones that are connected to the same network. You can see how in YouTube (incognito mode) you will always get personalized videos based on your IP approximate geolocation (usually just the state) if it's your first time.