skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are on the spectrum, no, there isn't.

It's not about you. It's about others. And a lot of it about what things appear, not what they are.

That's not shocking to an autist. That's factual.

We don't mind factual, we mind intent.

Just like I don't mind what you state, I do mind the virtue signaling it attempts.
I'm sure it's possible, but they probably count on having more money for lawyers than most of their customers.
Hot take:

The metaverse will take off when bi-directional BCI takes off.

I also think the smart players are trying to stake claims right now with in the software landscape, and keep holding on until HW improves, at least I hope no one actually thinks the current head mounted display system is the way forward! I'd look at HMD VR as the equivalent of black and white resistive screen Palm Pilots that communicate with IR. The foundational ideas are there, but smartphones were the revolution.
Yet another etymological curiosity:

hǫfn is "old norse" for harbour or port.
Now going to wiktionary and following the etymology:

hǫfn: From Proto-Germanic *habanō, *habnō (“harbour, haven”).

habanō: From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂póneh₂ or *kh₂pnéh₂, from the root *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, grasp”).

Other germanic words (like german "Hafen") for harbour/port also have a very similar lineage and derive from this "to take, seize, grasp".

So basically the harbour is the place you go to, when you are going "to take, seize, grasp", like when you invade other countries by sea.*
Sad to see Clozure CL abandoned, that was my main squeeze back in my lisp days (I was on Windows and SBCL wasn't cut out for it at the time). How's SBCL on Windows these days?
Meanwhile, my stolen phone was for sale on a prolific local seller's account (IMEI was listed, but two digits transposed - looks like a genuine error, but also stifles searching, fails checksum. Every other phone for sale by same seller has the same thing).

100+ phones. Mostly "activation locked", all "no charger, no accessories".

50+ laptops, all "no charger, no accessories".

All blatantly stolen goods.
If it's like similar cases recently (e.g. BPA) they're either still there, or have been replaced with some other less-studied product that may well be worse—not trading known-bad for known-good, but known-bad for... who knows.

[EDIT] Incidentally, there's nothing at all magic about microwave popcorn bags. You can just put popcorn kernels and a little oil in a paper bag, fold it closed tightly, and put it in the microwave. Stick a plate under it if you're worried about the oil getting on your microwave. Obviously don't fill it too full or it'll unfold and popcorn will get everywhere. Or use a wok with some oil (I like coconut oil—doesn't make it taste like coconut, mostly imparts a slightly buttery flavor) and cook it on the stovetop. You can use a regular pan but the wok is way better because it tends to keep the popped corn away from the heat while letting the unpopped kernels settle down where it's oily and hot.
Accepting a bribe without intent to follow through is dishonest and therefore unethical. Two wrongs don't make a right.
> Giving the donation should not be the illegal bit…

I disagree. Giving donations of with stolen corporate funds (listed as "loans" in documentation of the transfers, but with no supporting terms or accounting for the liability that should have been created with a loan, or anything beyond the notation on the transfer supporting that it was treated as a lona) should be illegal. Fraudulently misrepresenting the giver of donations should be illegal. Both of these were on the giving side.

> Accepting the donation should be the illegal bit… Which means I’m hoping to see 300 politicians heading to jail any day now…??

From the accepting side, most of these looked like legitimate donations. that was the whole point of the fraud, to conceal where the money was really coming from, in both a personal sense (e.g., that it was being donated by SBF) and in a broader sense (that it was with stolen corporate funds.)
Watch Julia Child's videos on cooking omelettes. The technique works in every kind of pan and the eggs are always super slidey. That's what I love about learning more about cooking... there's always some alternate method to get what you want. (Julia's stuff is always great because she would spend weeks just to figure out the best way for the home cook to cook something)
As a senior looking for FTE? Probably not. As a senior looking for a semi-retired interesting place to work? Definitely. We've hired the latter for shorter term but not really contract worthy work in the past that was beneficial for both parties.
You should see their API documentation - it belies an awful lot about their architecture. It is also truly vast. The last version I had to wrestle with was a 2000+ page PDF.

In short, it’s trash with some junk bolted on held together with garbage - insane workflows, where you can see how they started as a sleek hull and grew barnacles and then barnacles on the barnacles before sinking under their own mass, so much batch processed stuff it makes your head spin, and stuff which must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

I pity any maintainer.
Ask HN: Prevent bots without annoying users
Does anyone have a good idea of how easy it is to get around these security measures, for motivated users that want to make 50+ fake accounts:

1) cloudflare
2) captcha
3) requiring unique phone number upon account sign up

I'm considering requiring unique phone numbers but am concerned that will stop too many legitimate users from signing up.
Depends. In Ireland, the tech recruiters will all move back into pharma. Dunno what'll happen in the US, maybe a bunch of them will do sales?
I get a ton of those fake invoices. I hope and suspect that isn't reason enough to ban an account.
That data doesn’t have meta, google or amazon though???
I went through a Kafkaesque experience with PayPal's Know Your Customer verification process. They screwed something up internally and decided that my company was in a different country.

https://www.cogini.com/blog/paypal-know-your-customer-failur...
Wow. I just finished reading all of those, and the amount of nonsense and unsupported assertions in them is truly mind-boggling.

I'd love to see what, if any, evidence they have to back up the claims they're making.
The key insight here seems to be that you usually need to specify the tasks for a repo twice: once in your task runner (Makefile, package.json, bazel BUILD file) and then again in your readme so that people can learn what custom tasks exist and what they do.

This tool tries out the idea that maybe if the readme was structured the right way, it could double as the task runner specification. That way, even if you don't have the tool installed (maybe because you're browsing the repo online instead of in your editor) you can still see what the tasks do alongside their instructions
> Seems like just freezing hiring for a year or two would save you more money in the long run rather than having to rehire and rebuild all this expertise.

It took Google 6 years from 2012 to double headcount.

In that time, revenue went from $50B to $136B (almost triple). Profit from $10.7B to $30.7B (triple).

In 4 years from 2018 to 2022, Google more than doubled headcount.

In that time, revenue went from $136B to $279B (barely double). Profit from $30.7B to $50.9B (only up 65%).

Almost all these companies have similar stories.

They're still good companies. They just hired way too many people thinking that the pandemic trend would continue for a long period of time - rather than revert to the mean.

If Google continue to grow at it's more long-term average rate - without the layoffs, you're looking at being overstaffed for years.

Why?
This is a well known problem with this technology (although I haven't seen an official term for it, so we have been calling them "recovery attacks'). It's apparently the reason companies like Amazon have banned internal use of services like ChatGPT. I should add while it has been proven to occur the likelihood of something like this is very low. It's going to be a rare occurrence.
What's next? No more food in the office?

The best and brightest minds of our generation being treated as children. Oh yeah. This is going to work out just fine.
I mean, by almost any measure, some of the most brilliant programmers of the past 20 years have worked in ads at Google and Facebook, yes.
Why not a simple well commented shell script?

Most code editor will syntax highlight it a lot better.
The ignorance about dark patterns is partially innocent and partially motivated. Some people cannot believe that their favorite kind of company (OSS, for example) would ever lie to them; the thought of it is too painful to bear. Or they can't believe their favorite company (Apple, for example) would lie to them or lie to others.

Garden variety self-deception.
It's a matter of degree. You can feel sad but that doesn't mean you understand depression. You can get nervous but that doesn't mean you understand anxiety. You can have back pain but that doesn't mean you understand what it's like to break your back.
What aspect of this article is noteworthy or valuable?

It starts by minimizing people who "felt mandatory vaccinations violated their personal freedom" - a matter that is philosophical and political, and not at all scientific.

It goes on to assert that "Fauci was even falsely accused of funding research to develop the virus", citing a favorable reference and ignoring NIH ties to GoF and the days-old news that China was blocking further investigation related to a lab leak, which is now widely regarded as the most likely origin.

In sum, it looks to me like a political op-ed making a vague appeal to "scientific" expertise.
It's not that it's impossible, but that it's just not cost-effective, and even if it does happen, it's not happening at a scale that would affect even a statewide election let alone a national election. Why go through all the effort (and risk) to modify Joe Smith's vote from Team A to Team B when Team B can just buy advertisements, write newspaper op-eds, spam social media, saturate the news cycle, take over talk shows, and otherwise propaganda thousands of Joe Smiths across the whole region into voluntarily voting for Team B?
Anarchy is great on a very small scale, but that's not what most anarchists have in mind.
same :)

dm if you want to hire an ex-Google linguist-engineer with search ranking experience
I would stay out of it except that the studies are starting to claim that people are autistic because they are suppressing (or not displaying) behaviors that have been categorized as autistic.
Also worth mentioning regarding Deutsche bahn ICEs, my understanding is that prices only increase over time. They never decrease like plane tickets do. And there's only a predetermined number of saver fares, so once those are gone, you have to buy the more expensive tickets (which are also more flexible, as opposed to the train-specific saver fares).
There is no reason why simple non-smart phones should not support NFC.

> watching people at stores and coffee shops in my area, it seems that only about 10-20% of them use their phones for payment.

It seem more like 50% here in central Norway, perhaps more.
I've been seeing a few things like moonrepo crop up and have been curious about why these seem to be cropping up now when the target market (tech) is cutting costs (although maybe these products can be advertised as money-saving?).
One reason is to reduce callback hell where you have to pass a continuation function to an asynchronous operation to run after it has completed. Coroutines can be used to make your code look more like blocking code. ASIO’s coroutine support does this and it makes async operations much easier to read

Also, generators can be used to turn traversal functions into iterators, which is often tedious to do by hand.
> "I'm going to Burger King's"

pretty sure this is also incorrect and something to be avoided in print, no?

"data" vs "datum" is pretty obscure. While an outfit like the New York Times may know the difference, I doubt that most people even know that "data" is always plural, since its forms are not even coming from English.
> The best minds of a generation

that's debatable.
TIL Make is the Zoidberg of technologies.

Also non trivial Makefiles quickly become an unintelligible mess of rules both explicit and implicit, and an endless stack of variables that never feel fully defined.
> But what was this audio? Was this a sneakily placed bug that listened to me? [...] I can’t believe I spent time for this. It’s just elevator music.

Joke's on you, it's a bug listening to you in your room while using steganography to merely appear to be elevator music!
Probably because they only get 2 checks per year. And the likelihood of someone trying a scam given that they are using a check is already high.
There is a concept of internal layoff to invent, where a part of the workforce as to apply to a different teams, being fired from the previous one and hire by the next one.

For the anecdote, i know someone that was let go by IBM and hire by RedHat the same month two years ago.
Also the older you get, the more of your peers reach the same realization, and you may find you have an easier time finding a community you’re more comfortable letting your freak flag fly in.
A lot of illegal content is hosted outside the US naturally.

But they would not be able to do business in the US (financial transactions with advertisers/data brokers), that's right.
"sneakers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
The key word in the phrase is 'reach'. If by 'reach' you mean the equivalent of getting an email into someone's account, then the statement is true. You can easily spam millions of email addresses for pennies. You can get ad space on lots of browsers. You can cold call millions of people with automated systems.

On the other hand if by 'reach' you mean actually getting someone's physical and mental attention, then it can be harder than ever. Your message gets filtered out or swallowed up in the sea of other messages and ignored either by technology or by the users themselves.

It is like those pictures of NY Times Square (or any corner in Asia) where you have 10,000 billboards of all shapes and sizes all flashing some marketing message. It is easier than ever to buy a few seconds or minutes of ad time on one of them. It is harder than ever to get the passing crowd to take notice of your message when it is drowned out by all the others.
Which of course raises the question of quantifying when averaging models (or, more generally, staying within a convex hull) is likely to remain in the same low cost (high performing) basin.
I'm still struggling with conveying, "you have to get the stainless pan hot and lay down some fat before you add the food, or it will stick".

Would she be willing to use a timer? She can just set it for 10 - 15 minutes after turning the burner on, and avoid putting anything in the pan until after the timer is done.

I've certainly ruined my fair share of eggs by rushing, but having the patience to let it get up to temperature is pretty much the only "hard" part of using cast iron.
Illegal political donations by the wealthy is not a dramatic or ridiculous concept. The implication you're making is uncharitable. You're pointing to a conspiracy theory within the realm of reason and asserting that it will surely receive the same quality and quantity of opposition that more absurd-sounding conspiracy theories do. This style of dramatically jumping to conclusions and casting all disagreement as coming from some kind of brainwashed enemy is exactly the attitude that makes many conspiracy theorists look unreasonable.
But what about taking full responsibility?
> Correcting false data is important because the map will be used to determine which parts of the US are eligible for $42.45 billion in federal grants to expand broadband availability starting in mid-2023.

> One of those investigations began after our report about an Ohio ISP called Jefferson County Cable, which admitted to lying to the FCC about the size of its network in an attempt to block funding to rivals.
The 2020 presidential election was decided by as few as 45,050 votes with no more than 20,565 votes in any given state. The 2016 election was decided by 77,000. [1] Targeted manipulation, done well, would not be detectable given how close elections tend to run.

It's also noteworthy that if one has the technical capacity to change a vote, then you'd only need to edit half those numbers. Changing a vote from A to a vote for B is a net effect of +2 since A loses 1 and B gains 1.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/18/how-2020-...
If you are in Europe most countries let you bring them to small claims court if you have funds trapped in the account.
In discussions like this, it's worth reviewing where total government spending in the US actually goes.

This is actually not the easiest thing to pin down, but the best analysis I've seen is at https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year2022_0.html.

In summary:

17% to pension programs (e.g. social security)

23% to healthcare

19% to education

12% to defense

7% to welfare

3.6% to police/fire/prisons

4% to transportation infrastructure

14% to everything else (scientific research, the courts, the Department of Agriculture, etc.)

The US budget deficit doesn't come from overspending in any particular area, and there is no single fix that is going to get us back to parity. A focus on efficient spending and reducing waste might help, but it would need to be applied systematically across the entire government.

We are simply spending too much money everywhere, and getting too little value for the expenditure.
This is still fairly optimistic. How about: "AI, write an individually tailored speech for every individual citizen in order to convince them that $PLAN is a good thing"?
Ideally if you are a senior big tech employee you are not living paycheck to paycheck any more, so you could endure a few months of not being employed. And even then, if you are good and have a network, you would find employment very quickly if a startup fails, unless there is some event that causes all startups to not look for new employees.

The problem with startups is I think more around the stock options trap (short excercise windows), stressful work environments, and the general lower compensation. And, if you are a parent, they will probably offer less programs for parents.
Thank you for sharing these great tips.
I am a photographer and have wanted to write a more personal email for years but have no idea how to start... I get lost in the platforms... TinyLetter, Mailchimp, Buttondown... And have no idea how to collect people's contact information.
You wrote a lot of words to not say anything at all
> The real question is, why weren’t these illegal donations found and red flagged well before he blew up so publicly and the feds started picking through his financial life with a fine toothed comb?

Because what was illegal was (1) that the money was stolen from firms SBF had essentially absolute control over, and (2) that the money was channeled through straw donors to maintain SBFs desired political image. Neither of those are obvious without tracing money flows.

And even with the investigation it may not have been obvious as soon, except that SBF personally bragged about doing straw donations to Republicans to maintain his preferred image in his post-bankruptcy “fire your attorneys and tweet out a litany of crimes no one has even accused you of yet” phase, which kind of pointed investigators at what to look for.
What is the particular worry of false positives/over-diagnosis in this sense?
12% is the new 5%
In past experiments that I'm aware of, you steered the cursor, or typed a letter, by using a few seconds of _visualizing_ a sort of "command image". The command image recall would essentially generate a recognizable signal in a sensor array that is in a cap the patient wears.
> In order to maintain that belief the messengers are crucified, so smart people who know keep it to themselves.

Fair enough; I can think of at least four things that might reference, so congratulations on remaining ambiguous ^_^
I find this line of thinking interesting, but the sentiment in my social circles is not against SWEs at all. Is there a campaign going to make software engineers the facto scape goat of the current downturn ( and ads, and layoffs and ai taking everyone's job )? If so, it may be worthwhile to nip it in the bud.
Isn't it heat that is like current, in which case temperature is more like voltage?
And thus the Lisp machine was born.
Hence the joke that a vanilla soy latte is really a three-bean soup.
I would be cautious here — the financial normative descriptivism of Ashkenazi Jewish names is in large part an artifact of their (restricted and often discriminated) interactions with the rest of europe at the time.

Yes there were a lot of Jewish bankers (and still are). Is it because of discrimination (getting forced into certain economic sectors)? That's complicated... but we should probably not make too much fun of them all the same.
I think GP was paraphrasing a catchy line from a poem. Were Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc. really the best minds of their generation?
If Bob is your employed artist, you do. If you set your own picture down in front of Bob and asked him to paint a banana wearing a green hat on top of it, which of you owns the copyright? If you tell photoshop to apply a blur filter over a picture, was the resulting image "created by non-human hands"?
I wonder what it was that he purchased?

I am sad that eBay deletes inactive accounts. I lost all the historic feedback I had because I didn't go back in within 30 days of notice. I don't know that it's necessary to do that. How much disk space could a list of account names take up in an indexed database table?
I've heard something similar phrased as "Discipline doesn't scale."
we gotta nimby on our hands
Fighting the privacy wars, state by state
stack the devs & desks like bunk beds. problem solved.
Stedi's X12 HIPAA Guides
My concern is not lobbying but the specific agenda of this group that uses crowdfunding to push for a blanket ban on all AI-related art. This approach pretty much bypasses the traditional process of open debates and public discourse around new technologies and their potential impact on society preventively out of fear.

By using financial resources to hire a lobbyist and push for a ban, they effectively shuts down any meaningful discussion of the pros and cons of AI-generated art, as well as the potential impact of a ban on artists and businesses that depend on this technology. This approach is not only potentially detrimental to the development of the technology itself but it also undermines the principles of transparency and accountability in the political process.

A lot of the content being published by such groups do not present the situation accurately but present AI-generated art as "collages" or tools that directly plagiarize or replicate the work of other artists. For example, Karla Ortiz (board member of the CAA, the group who is behind this GoFundMe) describes it as "it’s like someone who already robbed you [...]". More examples can be found on this website that adds commentary to the original lawsuit against "a 21st-century collage tool that violates the rights of artists": http://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.com/

Lobbying in itself can be a legitimate form of political advocacy. The specific use of crowdfunding to push for a broad ban on any AI-related artistic generation is where I raise concerns.