skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Using it wrong on every codebase that wasn't even made by me but instead by my employers? If it's happening that many times, the tool is to blame.

You could say that about chainsaws lopping off arms. Perhaps the user is not sufficiently competent to use the tool correctly…
Hasn't the claim of supremacy been debunked already? That's what this article seems to be saying:

https://www.techradar.com/news/scientists-say-theyve-debunke...

What do we have to be excited about then? Please explain.
Maybe real estate agents are also useless parasites?
Like what, a paywall? So only people with disposable income like the HN crowd has access to information?
TerraCurl – Writing Terraform for unsupported resources
I'm sad they've stopped making functional-first cars like the Yeti, and now just do versions of VW models. I think Dacia might have taken up the mantle of no-frills and reliable though.
From the article:

> Conditional probability is the possibility of an event/outcome occurring based on an existing event/outcome.

From https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conditional_probability...

> Conditional probability is defined as the likelihood of an event or outcome occurring, based on the occurrence of a previous event or outcome.

"Sure you can copy my homework, just change it a bit".
Note that the content isn't free either; more than half of the revenue goes to the creators.
You, my friend, need to install SponsorBlock.
This is the data set the Fed looks at when deciding how to set the fed funds rate. Direct link to the data: https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/personal-income-and-outlays-ja...
Ironically, Minix runs Linux on Intel CPUs, and the Linux kernel jungling containers on top of an hypervisor, with DPKG, FUSE,... looks like a fat microkernel.

On the cloud workloads, with kubernetes on top of hypervisors, the workload is more akin to microservers than anything else.

Likewise on Android, since Project Treble and starting with Android 8, all newer drivers are userspace processes with Android IPC.
I don't think Cory uses Google as his search engine either. I think he did this to make a point.
> If Linux starts attracting commercial development and we see an influx of new apps, wouldn't you feel safe knowing that the ones you install as flatpaks aren't allowed to capture packets on your system?

See, here's the problem with letting packages determine their own defaults. I want the ability to give a Flatpak those permissions, not that they be able to give them to themselves. As it is, Flatpaks can give themselves permission to $HOME without ever notifying me, which I think is just as silly.

In my opinion, Flatpak should support a user-definable default permissions template that says "always permit", "always deny", and "don't care" for any given permission.

> you have Toolbox for that

Actually I agree that when it comes to these collections of software to build an "environment" something like toolbox/distrobox is a better fit. I have my issues with both[0], but the base concept is sound.

[0] For instance: why is podman required? The container functionality required is built into the kernel and podman has a lot of features that are entirely unused. Even bubblewrap has all that's needed and it is included anyway because of Flatpak. I will probably end up writing my own replacement for these tools.
Think of it less as a subsidy. Instead, think of this—

Team A is running a database and needs to buy disks with a certain amount of IO capacity.

Team B is running YouTube and needs to store tons of data.

You add up the IO + storage requirements from team A and the IO + storage requirements of team B and you buy disks capable of providing that combined amount of IO + storage. The resulting cost is much lower than the cost of buying disks for team A and disks for team B separately.
I don't think that's fair, especially since they have already dropped it.

Dropping it doesn't change the duplicity that existed for almost 2 decades.

Hadn't heard of this one before. Do you have sources?

https://borncity.com/win/2022/03/22/firefox-installer-weist-...

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
I hate to break it to you but the SEO industry is as big as advertising generally and organic results are heavily gamed. As it relies a ton on link building and many of those links are paid for it's hardly the meritocratic process many think it is.
> Tell them you can't purchase with them because they don't offer alternative payment.

it's the other way around, in my case, they pay me using PayPal.
We're unfortunately probably beyond the point of any new copypastas being created. Most of those were created on the "old Internet", where things were pretty small, chaotic, and decentralized. Nowadays, all engagement is primarily reaction driven, so the only things that typically take off are references to other cultural touchstones
Neither definition is correct in any case, probability can be interpreted as a function of propositions.

And "bare" probability can be seen as conditioned on the outcome space, P(A) = P(A|Omega)
Seeing an ad for another vendor is bad. Seeing an ad that looks like what you searched for but is actually malware[1] is worse.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse...
I've only read his Dogs of War, which was also about animals with artificially enhanced intelligence and other abilities --this time a dog, a bear, a lizard of some description, and a swarm of bees with a hive mind, working as soldiers for a private military company with questionable ethics.

"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."

Both intellectually and emotionally satisfying.
Old Norse dueling, the Holmgang, was outlawed when griefers turned it into a cynical thing, challenging weaker neighbors over trivia so they could kill them and take their land, legally.
"Think of the children" is one of the 4 horsemen of the infocalypse. It was never about stopping CP. It's about justifying laws that take away privacy, no matter how flimsily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
NSA Releases Best Practices for Securing Your Home Network
Is it you, Mr. Winston Wolf?
No

Some of the characters and locales are quite nice but I just can't get over the nonsensical things that happen. It is like the writers only considered what looked good for this weeks ratings rather than what made sense in that world. This leads to the whole thing feeling like plastic.

I found the way they used horses very problematic.
> male-dominated “bro-culture.”

That was and is completely fine and never excluded women. On the contrary, I think these people weren't really representative to people in tech. They just jumped onto successful companies in a management position.

Doesn't mean they were bad or worse or anything, but it also didn't matter that they were women. Maybe that is something special for CNN, it seems to be the case.
With many reputable universities and large companies, brain drain isn't a realistic outcome.
I suspect that this is mostly prompt engineering. You could likely obtain similar results using chat gpt by prefixing your question with "answer the following in the style of Seneca".
Call it a discontinued tier of GCP that only has a handful of customers, and things could more or less stay the same.
Unless Google pays more for the reduced market share, your argument doesn't stand.

The fact that Mozilla are failing at their business model doesn't mean that's not the model.
AsciiDoctor now has an unambiguous way to insert an asterisk. The original Python implementation does not.
Here's the actual recommendations: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/22/2003165170/-1/-1/0/CSI...

I didn't want to submit a PDF directly since some people don't like that.
The fun thing about antitrust is that this is entirely Google's problem.
Your point is certainly valid, but I have a slightly different perspective on the matter. Google Search Ads hold a certain magic that is unparalleled in the digital marketing world. Unlike video ads, which can be intrusive and irrelevant to a viewer's current needs, Google Search Ads are precisely targeted to solve the exact problem or question a user is currently facing. I've personally experimented with YouTube ads and discovered that while they can be useful for building brand awareness, they don't always lead to direct website traffic. As my company grows, I've realized that spending money on platforms like TikTok or Facebook simply doesn't make sense, as we can't yet promote our products in high enough volumes to truly stick in a user's memory. However, with Google Search Ads, we're able to reach potential customers at the exact moment when our product can be of service, leading to higher click-through rates and ultimately, a higher conversion rate than we could ever achieve with video ads.
As a consumer, this is 90% of the reason I avoid Youtube as much as possible.

EDIT: Also just because people are forced to watch 5 seconds of an ad doesn't mean it's got any measurable positive effect (for the advertiser) whatsoever.
>Nevermind that if you are relying primarily on agents of the state to prevent fraud, your society is already fundamentally broken.

Huh? Why's this? It seems like a core component of a functional state to me, and if the state is doing a decent job, why should a bunch of private parties be sticking their noses in too?
Was this a sillicon valley video clip?
Not the OP, but that's how I use Signal. It's my default SMS app on my Samsung phone.

I have my SMS history there going back multiple years from multiple phones.

I'm curious where others in similar situation are moving to.
Yeah I'd love to know how this "spinoff" would work. YouTube is an arms-length independent company but Google happens to have deployed dedicated, co-designed accelerators around the world to support their use case?
Google replaced "don't be evil" with "do the right thing", which is entirely fair to hold them to.

Firefox install fingerprinting: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...

Persistent web socket connections: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf (page 8-9)

In both cases this "telemetry" is something that the user did not ask for or authorize, nor is it disclosed prominently.
> in the cities where big tech companies are hiring
That wasn't a dig at you - that was a dig at snaps. My primary objections to snapd are:

* updates are pushed/applied and services restarted on an arbitrary schedule which means you can't test updates prior to rolling them out or otherwise control when a service is taken offline by an update

* snapd doesn't log the actions it takes to standard OS logging facilities and the internal logs accessible via "snap changes" are cleared after 72 hours so you can't tell what actions it has taken

* snapd pollutes home directories with a directory called "snap" that can't be moved/symlinked/hidden.

snapd is a poorly conceived project written by people that are profoundly ignorant of how real services and servers are actually operated. Despite having the above flaws repeatedly pointed out, the developers have shown zero interest in taking actual concrete actions to address them.
These hypothetical splits show the perils of having outsiders (including regulators) make decisions like these. Just some quick notes:

> You don't need the retail arm any more [...] spin off the media company, comprising Audible and prime video, to make a Disney competitor

The whole point of the conglomerate model they use (following Costco) is that the membership fee grants consumers access to a bevy of services. The services may not work a la carte. Further, spinning Amazon media to become one of the weakest Disney competitors doesn't obviously enhance competition or consumer welfare in media.

> Spinning off the loser (Facebook), and the non-social networking product (WhatsApp) would let Instagram grow wings against TikTok.

The "loser" (Facebook) generates most of the revenue and profit at Meta.

The Google analysis arrives at a viable conclusion (the ads business could be run as a utility), for the wrong reasons. (For ex: Search/YT would not get a bigger premium by treating as first-class other, weaker, ad networks. The near-monopoly is what drives pricing power and is frequently a reason cited for forcing a hypothetical breakup.)

Anyway, this stuff is not obvious or easy, even assuming people can agree on goals (which is difficult).
There is a reason why you don't see an abundance of 'hardware engineering bootcamps' or 'Learn electronic engineering in 24 hours' scam courses and why lots of formal verification, prototyping and testing is done before it is mass manufactured and to get that FCC number.

One bug in hardware for non-safety critical applications are just left there and a revision is done to replace its production. In the most serious cases, a bug in hardware inside a home appliance or safety critical component in a vehicle will trigger a re-call.

Nothing fun about that in HW engineering. Unlike the wild west of software engineering with all that Javascript.
ROFL with a LOL: rewriting an NGINX module in Rust
Remote job
That's not what I'm accusing Bellamy of. Others have pointed out that certain aspects of his book do resemble things we have now. My critique is of his portrayal of the social and economic structure as well as the interpersonal dealings that come along with such systems. If you want specifics, he thought that the problem of labour could be solved by simply drafting everyone into a national labour army for 24 years but at the same time allow them to just do whatever they want and somehow that would result in perfect harmony. Those are two completely contradictory thoughts, you either believe people can self-organize and determine for themselves what field they should be working in and what work they should be doing or you believe that we need a strongly regimented society where everyone is legally obligated to fulfill duties at the behest of the state. He also doesn't consider any second order effects of this. What happens to immigration and emigration? If you're drafted you can't move to another country, so you've got two periods when you can move: as a kid or once you're retired (and it's not so clear that it would be possible once you retire since you're still technically on call according to Bellamy). That means no families can move since your child bearing and rearing years are owned by the state. So it's either you move by yourself as a kid or only once you're fully retired and not liable to perform any work for the state. He also thinks that everyone is just ok with this because it is expected of them, even in his day he should have seem the absurdity of this. It's all just socialist fantasizing with no grounding in reality.

The point of science fiction is to create a believable vision of the future, even if it is fantastical. You know good writing when you see it because you can suspend your disbelief until the end. If you get pulled out of the author's vision multiple times per paragraph you know it's crap.
Thanks for the food for thought. Love these kinds of postmortem posts
The importance of pipes in plumbing
Why does it say that it has no answer to most of my questions?
Google is currently facing a search engine monopoly case where their purchase of the default search in other browsers is being used against them.

Being the default search has value. It's why Google pays Apple billions a year for the same thing.
Isn't that just SEO in a nutshell though? Hopefully with more advancements in LLM's we can get more bullshit detection/discrimination against SEO.
Anyone else irritated by the "Executive Summary" heading for what I think most would call an abstract? As a non-native speaker I had to look up the term to confirm it meant what I guessed it would mean: summary meant for executives as in a corporation's "executive officers".

Always breaks my heart to see corporate speak creep into normal speak :(

Btw, "Executive Summary" being listed under "Summary" also seems weird. I'd call that a table of contents.

Feeling particularly nitpicky today.
Yes, exactly. Very few people will be aware of the fine so it’s use as a deterrent will be very limited.
The crisis is so hard they won't be able to increase dividends. Sad.
Atomoxitine (ex: Strattera)
Easily fixed with a sentence or so about his revelation that the universe itself was the substrate (brain) on which consciousness ran.

But yeah, this is what we expect from bullshit generators. Actually this is better than most.
very cool, will need to test :)
Finance is what kept this country afloat. The UK is mostly a services & finance based economy and has little to no manufacturing.
While the cover art was great, let’s not forget the in-game work of Jim Sachs.
> My point was just that as a profession, they aren't currently setting a very high bar.

I think I know where you are going, but I will be going offline for today soon, so I will be just leaving some thoughts regarding the matter. My background: Masters in CS, with a minor in Psychology. I have a psychology-ish circle of friends, some doing research, some doing therapy. I also have my fair share of negative experience with therapists due to some... uncommon combination of phenomena that require attention.

- One common mistake is confusing psychology (along with the more or less recent reproducibility crisis) with therapy (which is a profession that aims to help people, with some methods being grounded in psychology, some partially so, some other not at all).

- It would be weird for me to not acknowledge that there are some bad apples amongst therapists and how much it can suck being treated by one. Then again, I do not thing that the field of software development is any less diverse in the quality of output we deliver. Identifying software engineer that fulfils ones need is almost an art, maybe quite similar to finding a suitable therapist.

- "Finding a suitable therapist should not be an art!" Yes, would it not be nicer if everyone instantly found a suitable therapist? It would, but that is not the reality we live in. If even finding someone who can code a decent program that meets your relatively well-defined business needs, how much harder is it to find someone who treats multiple humans, with their unique problems, biographies and current lives?

- I am totally with you about the scaling issue! I am not against E-therapy and the usage of AI in it, but I think it has to be done with caution - not out of despair.
I don't bother with that stuff. I just wish the ads were more relevant.
The actual article that this summarizes is free and linked on the briefing
thanks! Just did that :-)
AWS sells video accelerator machines. GCP could sell access to Argos.
That's because they switched to a subscription model and are practically forcing companies to switch from their legacy perpetual licensing model. I can assure you that it's pissing a lot of people off and a lot of people are trying to find alternatives.

Where I work we dropped Adobe Pro because of the subscription model and switched over to FoxIT
I don’t think this is because of the potential damage to the bus but moreso that the driver was just involved in an accident.
I forgot Atomoxitine, added it as a choice just now.
You should read up about DMA coming out of the EU. Privacy is possible even in a conglomerate.
> Nowadays, not so much… The thinking seems much more primitive.

But the threat is so much greater.

I live in Sweden too, and there was a bombing near my apartment. A shooting at the metro station, etc.

With the massive influx of weapons from the remnants Yugoslavia, and criminal young men imported from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. - Sweden just isn't the same as 20 years ago, and law enforcement has to adapt to that too.

Sweden still has laughably light sentencing for gang crime compared to Denmark for example (nevermind the UAE, Singapore, etc.) so it's no wonder that the situation has spiralled out of control.
i had no idea that GIF dated as far back as 1989, purportedly before images on browsers were a thing, and 2 years before JPEG

wouldve loved for all these to come with sources.
more of a carrot juice enjoyer but I think I will give it a try
I have been spoilt using a traditional bank for transactions and the fees are 0.

It is insane, I was charged 0 USD to invoice 30,000 USD.
The market has grown, I wouldn't be surprised if their amount of users has stayed similar for quite a few years now. Google pays per user, not per percent of market share.
This is already illegal. Mom and Pop businesses don't have the resourced to wage legal battles and in the time it would take to get an injunction, the scam has more than paid for itself. The solution here is for Amex and Google to do their jobs properly.
You keep (mostly) repeating yourself, so I think you missed my point.

I agree with Mr. Cock's points about industrial-scale, monoculture livestock being a fertile breeding ground for novel pathogens. Makes a lot of sense to me. Let's go, let's recognize it as an existential risk, let's do something about that.

>stopping eating meat is a logical position to take

Oh, I'm out.

No thanks.

There is certainly an accelerationism at work in your logic, as the professor merely suggests reducing meat consumption. Which you take to the mat, and think we should stop eating meat. Do you see the difference? Van Oosterhout comes across as an academic. You come across as a scold, and no one wants to listen to a scold. And this is from someone who eats meatless a couple days a week, and when I do eat meat, it tends to be a sensible portion size. I'm all in on the Beyond/Impossible stuff too. In other words, I'm pretty open minded generally to the idea of reducing meat consumption.
You just described Haraka.
Yeah, black boxes belong no where near these fields. Rubric plus human review is much more transparent and flexible
I think another 4 chars can be removed by replacing `head` with `!!0`.
Google have accepted these ads for ages, probably to try and get the actual business to pony up money for ads that are ranked higher. This happened to my partner after she wanted to book a Ryanair flight. Typed Ryanair into Chrome on her phone, clicked the first link that looked very much like Ryanair and paid for tickets.

I hope Google get enough money from these sites to make it worth it.
Relay computer calculates 7 digits of PI (2019)
What's on the Menu?
The Dark Reader extension is amazing. I use it on Chrome macOS and iOS Safari with no problems.
It's time!
Point of order: I didn't say "you should use nix", I said "oi, nix is actively doing that thing you said was impossible", and suggested that they should do that themselves.
The Billionaire’s Daughter Knows What You’re Thinking
Why use @apply if your CSS is component scoped anyway.

Additionally, CSS Modules is not a replacement for TailwindCSS. TailwindCSS ships and strongly promotes the use of design tokens. It is harder to NOT use design tokens in TailwindCSS.

Because of this, there is no CSS Modules v. TailwindCSS. It is CSS Modules + X v. TailwindCSS. Where in the worst case "X" is just a stand-in for "everybody does whatever" which produces horrendous unmaintainable stylesheets whether they are global or not.