skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then they stop all development. It already happened with IE6. Took a decade to decrown it even though for all intents and purposes it was a dead browser.
America wasn't waging covert war against Russian infrastructure in 2015.

Timeline is not relevent to current political war situation.

Squirrel damage is limited to a short out.

Human damage can break many many obscure parts with a single bomb.

Not even remotely close comparison in terms of damage.

This guy lefts thousands without power for days. Squirrels don't do that.
Great perspective! Wasn’t familiar with the beginning history of RailsCasta as I didn’t begin working with the framework until maybe 2014/5.
Still a big fan of rails and a good reminder to check out the screencasts again.

But my goodness so much has changed in the past 5/10 years (no surprise of course).
Just last year I was converting coffeeacript files to es6 in a rails codebase now we’re converting rails to Node.
"At least" makes it sound like that's a silver lining, but that makes it worse. It's exacerbating the Blink monoculture problem.
I'd recommend applying to the postings on HN's Who's Hiring thread, especially if you can talk with the founder. Since they will gain value from hearing of your past four year's experience that might be a good opportunity to showcase your fit, since you have been in the startup trenches very recently.
If you put the money mostly into bonds or stocks that don't issue significant dividends, you'll pretty much just have to worry about capital gains (form 1099-B), and those aren't taxed until the fiscal year in which they're realized.
Deferred compensation plans allow you to strategically create a low w2 income for awhile and are mostly available to high earners.
Countersteering is the basis of all steering on a motorbike.
(2014).

This is a response to Matasano's "JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful"[1], except Matasano no longer exists and the link in the post 404s.

Archived[2].

[1]: https://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120414231547/https://matasano....
May not happen depending on what sort of “professional help” they’ve gotten.
Are there any other industries that do this? Do cabinet makers ask you to do like a full day of work for free?
> firing someone for "you're just not cutting it" is much, much, much more difficult.

It's actually not. When upper management is motivated to fire people, they get fired fast. Whether that's an individual person or a large group of people. We've seen this happen over and over. Self-imposed bureaucracy is the only thing that prevents fast firing.

> it can be extremely difficult to gather enough evidence to fire that person.

You don't need evidence. There's no such legal requirement. It's at-will employment.

And I don't want to hear about potential lawsuits. These are ghost stories, designed to scare, but ghosts don't exist. Show me the lawsuits. Incompetent people who are suddenly out of a job don't have the time or money to file frivolous lawsuits (which could get them blacklisted from the entire industry). The ratio of lawsuits to firings is close enough to zero to be negligible, and certainly big tech companies can afford to defend themselves.
Isn't this the same argument as "ban murder, not guns"? Murder is illegal, yes, but fatalities are lower in places with gun control than places without.
Because you sometimes need to be able to put words to a surface.

I hike, often remote and alone. One of the many safety precautions I take is leaving a whiteboard on my dash with my destination and the date. Anyone seeing that will immediately know whether there's a problem. (And there's label tape on there with a bunch of contact information, including the satellite equipment I'm carrying.)
TBH GPT/AI just felt like the most obvious topic for VCs and crypto grifters to shift their combined hype and focus. Obviously, they don’t want to devalue their work by mentioning this.
There are sit-down restaurants near me that now the only way to order is by scanning a QR code, which identifies your table, and ordering on a website. Someone drops your food off when it's ready, you've already paid with a credit card on the website. (You can add a tip).

Started during the pandemic, pretty sure it's never going away. (The folks who made those apps bet right).

I try to avoid them.

But in the area of CVS (USA-style drug stores) or Royal Farms (chain convenience store, often attached to a gas station) -- as well as grocery stores in general -- self-check-out is already predominant around me, and I also don't see it going away. I suspect you're right it will never totally win in the restaurant space, but in the grocery store and convenience store space, it pretty much already has over here.
Oh, right I can see how that could be the reason for the word I tried.

After getting good scores with <zvpebjnir naq bira, V gubhtug vg zvtug or cbg>. It's a strange world where we can't speak of <pbbxjner> to AIs anymore because they think you're speaking of a-drug-which-must-apparently-not-be-named

https://rot13.com/ (side fun fact: DeepL detects this text as Danish; Google and Bing just give up and default to English)
This reddit post says that the 7B model consumes about 9.7GB of VRAM (using int8). I'm sure very soon people will add support for using system RAM as swap space, which will allow you to use it on an 8GB card, though with a fairly hefty performance penalty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/11h3p2x/d_...
I'm not aware that quinoa is expensive. Some rich yuppies have the time for following lame food/health/lifestyle trends. However, doing that is lame at any income level. A proper bro dude will never eat yogurts sprinkled with acai berries and quinoa or whatever crap.
This particular example is just not representative. It does "benefit" whites who are apparently 83% of the athletic quota. The graph is just terribly made. We need not blame or scapegoat whites but at the same time acknowledge that they are the beneficiary

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/9/8/2025-freshman-su...
Yes, but when there are many degrees of freedom, that minimization might not happen in the way you expected, and if your loss function was only an approximation to your utility (because you weren't sure how to precisely codify "goodness"), the difference between the behavior you hoped for and the behavior you actually get might be very bad. For example, you attempt train an AI to get good behavior via a penalty button and reward button; an approximately-optimal strategy might include shooting the researcher to prevent him from pressing the penalty button, and then mashing the reward button itself.
This is 100% down to the poor manageability of Firefox on corporate networks. Edge has all the same ADMX templates plus more than Chrome. Corporate management of software is important.
It precludes being a power couple, but high status wealthy men have happily wed their secretary or a school teacher for decades. Especially in the single breadwinner era, this worked fine. The woman was bringing skills like caring for children and cooking, not wealth.
Then fire those people. It's an easy solution.
Weekly review #5

Topics for this issue: "Storification" and the Abuses of Storytelling; Humanities on the Decline; and Why Writers Shouldn’t Worry about the Machines
> The PCT thing isn't automatic, though, and it is quite expensive.

Nonetheless, that's what a multinational company would do.

> you have to follow it up with patent filings in the foreign offices of your choice

that's what I said.

As for Kenyan patents: I don't think it matters. If you can only manufacture the seeds in the US or UK, then patents in those countries would suffice.
I'm genuinely interested: How does UA sniffing for, e.g. a device class, introduce security issues that wouldn't exist w/o it?
Please read the Schrems II case and the updated privacy protections being implemented literally right now.
People (including men) without full time jobs are more likely to have an illness.

People (including men) without full time jobs are more likely to have a mental health issue (including addiction and depression).

People (including men) without full time jobs …

And so forth.
It's "Weierstrass". I don't believe they're describing a different model of public keys. The private key in all of these schemes is a scalar.
I should be clear that I personally agree with you 100%—I prefer to outsource as much as I can to the compiler. It's just that I also recognize that that means being unable to express some things that are otherwise possible, and that most developers don't like that trade-off.
And the CSS profile, like FAFSA but for fancier schools, is even more exhaustive.
Scary. Next they might hire two white people, put them in front of a green screen, and do the exact same thing. That will be really terrifying because they won't even need to use deepfakes.

Have the Chinese discovered fiverr? They could generate hundreds of these a day.
I still use a T420 (can't stand chicklets) and a repaste does the trick.
The only equitable tax is one that taxes other people.
In the US at least I think people understand (even outside the startup culture) that if you’ve worked for a few startups you have worked for at least one that went under and there is no shame in that.

I would not feel so bad about not writing unit tests, that is a common sin, and I have also seen places that wrote tests but didn’t attain a positive balance of costs and benefits thanks to test-drive design deformation, waiting waiting waiting for tests to finish running and other problems. The person who suffered through the latter and never got any insight into it scares me more.

Your tough decision has to do with timing. “Big Tech” and some firms have been laying off lately but I think right now most normal firms are still hiring. You would be competing with those people but I see many of them are self-funding startups that might be your next employer. VCs are pulling back, particularly from late stage boondoggles like Uber, but there has to be a rush for A.I. startups right now.

The Fed is still struggling with inflation and may feel the need to raise interest rates more and it is possible (though not certain) that the general economy will be much worse in six months. If you believe that, you might feel a since of urgency to get your next job now.

Myself if I was expecting a job hunt in 6 months to 6 years I would get into side projects and blogging, that can get recruiters calling such that you don’t have to deal with the ‘meat market’ aspects of sending applications, struggling with interviews, etc.
When you mention “objects” do you mean a literal Noun type object? Or purely data objext
These were some of the most valuable things on the web. I actually didn't follow the video content as much as the written form which was just what I needed. When someone on my team would come and ask me how to do something, I would often just point them at the railscast for that topic and know that they were going to build it in a reasonable way. So many tricky things became so easy to do, that I could really focus on the product and not the technical means. Web development has slid backward from those days in many ways.
This is what puzzles me. What is the intent of the SAT, is it to assess aptitude for something? Is that something the desire to achieve good grades? Is it intelligence? Is it the aptitude to fire guns in a tank? For sure if you have a test that tests something, then you assign outcomes based on that assessment, then anyone has the opportunity to understand what is being assessed and practice until they are good, but what does that tell you?

I don't doubt there's a correlation between some aptitude that measures propensity for success and SAT score, but I'm still struggling to see how that benefits the poor or the migrants in general? In truth, it benefits a narrow section that "fit the mould" that is expected by success on a SAT; that is, members of the notional outgroup that do the SAT in the expected way can benefit, those that don't still fall by the wayside.

There are very many intelligent people that for whatever reason - cultural, bad parenting, poor education - still fall to achieve this mark of success. Is that acceptable? I think there's at least scope for saying that maybe a SAT is not the optimal strategy for finding all those that would benefit most from higher education. I've no idea what is, but there seems to be some very strong opinions here that don't seem particularly intent on seeing the bigger picture.
That does sound frustrating, but I think you are conflating naive management practices with inclusive hiring.
Don't forget the co-marketing from Intel's DRG (dev relations group) (the group I worked in) which started in ~1995 or so for game optimization dev on SIMD and, later AGP, openGL and unreal engine (our lab had some of the very first iterations of this - and NURBs were a major topic in the lab especially for OpenGL render tests etc. (if you recall the NURBs Dolphin benchmark/demo)

Intel would offer upto(?) (cant recall if it base, set, or upto) $1 million in marketing funds if me and my buddy did our objective and subjective gaming tests between the two looking for a subjective feel that the games ran better on Intel.

The objective tests were to determine if the games were actually using the SIMD instructions...
Does it benefit capitalism? India has always had a less prosperous economy.
If anyone wants to use this for their website, I found the best luck in adopting the layout from https://latex.vercel.app/ and overriding typography with Tufte CSS.

My 80% finished website is in my bio if you’re interested.
What no Lunatic Fringe?

The most awesome screen saver game.

Another one was Johnny Castaway, but it was not a game.
> Isn't this a fairly central mechanic in many of the traditional roguelikes though?

It's half of the central mechanic. The other half is hunger—if you starve you die, so you need to keep moving to find food. That forces you to balance between moving too fast (and running out of health) versus moving too slow (and running out of food). If you take away half of that equation, the whole mechanic breaks.
I don't understand how this is "good"?
Has your inconvenience been vindicated now that EU is failing to regulate short thing? Is the world somehow closer to fair and balanced now?
It definitely does slow things down at the early stages, I find. But it’s time you’ll spend either way: now, or debugging later.

Personally I find the borrow checker to be a useful guardrail as I would certainly write code with all kinds of memory related bugs without it.
yeah, this push to remove human interaction is really strange to me.

i wonder often what minimizing humans interacting with each other will cause on a grand macro scale/timeline.
The Hollywood Sign at 100
I love the unexpected directions HN threads can take :)
Ask HN: How do you turn off your problem solving brain with people you love?
This evening I a flaming argument with my father. The context isn’t totally relevant, but the jist is that he has a medical condition and was having a very bad time at the “default” pharmacy the doctors use.

As engineers we like to solve problems. After hearing him talking to this I naturally slipped into problem solving mode and tried to offer advice - the simple solution being to just change the pharmacy that his medicine is delivered to.

This didn’t go down well and I initially put this down to his personality. But after some reflection this is also to do with my problem solving instinct kicking in when it wasn’t really required.

I want to help the people I love, and if that person is struggling then I want to try and find a solution they might not be able to see. This isn’t always what they want, but I struggle with not trying to help them in some way.

Does anyone else struggle with this?
I support your concern that I don't share, so why make me suffer? I tried the "I don't care about cookies" extension but it didn't work for me.
UA isn’t the cause of security issues the same thought process or lack there off that led to UA being used as a proxy for compatibility in this cause is.

But in a more general view reliance on an unreliable and user controlled data for decision making is a pretty common pitfall in the security world.
Interesting! I've watched my wife writing things while studying that I can't imagine her ever referring to and I have the impression she regards writing it as a means of helping her learn. I'm aware of the value of taking notes but what she's doing is direct copying, no digesting.
I got fed up installing OpenLDAP for user management, so I made LLDAP, targeting the Goldilocks zone of the article: simple to setup/manage, but powerful enough for most self-hosting needs.
No. In fact it has done the opposite for me. It's like having my own personal assistant and makes me more productive.
You can read the license at this link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqNECQnMkycAp2jP4Z...

There isn't any confidentiality terms.
Yeah, I feel like I'm defending democracy and freedom whenever I click on the "Accept All" button. Not all heroes wear capes!
Possible alternative reason: you can't outsource housing (proximity), education (language), healthcare (proximity and language).
I have a mental block that keeps me from thinking of Keurig but I suspect you're entirely correct.
Yes, which is also a valid argument. Tools have no alignment. The people using them do. Thus, one should regulate the people, not the tools.
"little embarrassed applying to places with a startup no one has heard of that failed"

Don't do this. You worked at a startup which went under and this is expected based on stats (95% of startups fail etc). Be proud of what you learned over 4 years there. The brand or name doesn't matter. If you solved real problems and 4 years is a decent amount of time, any startup would appreciate it.
That's how a fair amount of stores work, at least in France / Spain. Uniqlo and decathlon for example.

You do need to put the items in a box at the exit to pay (you can't just walk out of the store with the shopping cart), but no manual scanning.

Edit: should have refreshed the page before commenting, Decathlon and uniqlo are popular here
The ADK used a lookup db to apply those fixes though; it wasn't a global fudge.
Windows compatibility has probably been the main differentiator over the decades and every break (vista driver signing, dropping support for a bunch of scanners/printers, os quality issues) then 10 and even more so 11 making upgrading a mess of seemingly huge hardware replacement costs for next to no user/use gains, has caused uproar.
Hell even xp was a mess; windows compatibility mode barely did what it suggested; but the intention was there.
Was under the impression implicit bias stuff had largely been debunked.

It’s hard to keep up.
WPF Begins Its Long Goodbye
> It is undeniable that notifications became an inescapable part of our overly techy lives in the past decade.

Eh, I dunno. They make sense on a phone, which fundamentally is for contacting a person. The device is all about tasks which are not kicked off by a user. On a computer, though? What, is there some expectation that my computer will start doing things of its own volition? No notification handler is a perfectly good answer.
Yup, I found latex.css (https://latex.vercel.app/) has a better layout but worse typography so a hybrid is the best of both worlds.
https://archive.ph/jLVJV
At some point the loan gets paid, and then the income taxes apply.
No employer cares about what the company was that you used to work at, they only care what skills/experience/accomplishments you have made there. Don’t be embarrassed.

Just get the resume spiffed up. Unless the perfect opportunity arises, I would see if you could wait it out and take a severance/unemployment so you can put 100% of your focus into your job search rather than dealing with your day job and job hunt simultaneously.
> How do you prevent people from entering in the wrong address, and thus a random person receiving your emails?

Double opt-in.

You cant just enter an email address to subscribe, I used to send you an email with a link to click to complete the process.

For transactional email this would be handled by getting people to either create an account or use Paypal for guest checkout. (this was 2012)
But then Asians come along and outperform whites at the supposedly racist metrics. So much so that whites require affirmative action policies like Legacy Athletics and Dean's List. Simultaneously defeating both white supremacist arguments as well as anti-merit ones
Then why don't we see this when women don't work fulltime? The divorce risk factors are very different for the genders.
Wages stagnate when there are an abundance of workers and a shortage of jobs. Corporations don't care about empowerment of women they care about keeping wages down across the board.

It's why they were offering women several thousand dollars in reimbursements to travel for an abortion. Those employers were unwilling to provide the same amount to women who wanted to keep their baby.
What happens if you have a sidecar?
The turnstiles are unfortunate. They send the wrong psychological messages -- complexity, exclusion, a barrier to entry. I can't imagine that they stop any actual thieves, considering how brazen shoplifters are these days.

And they really aren't necessary. The Amazon app has location services permission; it knows when I'm in the store. That's apparently enough to track me along with my purchases, and to flag anyone who tries to enter the store without the app. So what's the point of the turnstiles, exactly?
Sorry everyone, I think the server crashed and auto-rebooted.
Your anecdote is that you weren’t a good student, but you tested well and you credit that as having unlocked success in your career.

I have 2 anecdotes of high school students who earned near perfect SAT scores, were terrible students in high school, barely passed their undergraduate courses and are struggling to maintain careers in tech.

My point is that standardized testing is a measure of potential. But a college must gamble on a bad-grades, high-scores student. The payoff for a college might be better if they target higher grades with slightly lower scores. Not every student lives up to their capacity and the transition away from home to college isn’t an easy one.

My preference is to build more colleges and let them choose their own entrance criteria. Also, adults should do far more to help high school students understand how much social status, marketing, and press relations do to make some colleges appear far more prestigious than they are.
The upside potential of guns is not even remotely comparable with AI...
Procrastination is not going to make anything easier. You have nothing to gain by waiting around for something to happen.

Good news is that the job market is still incredibly tight by historical standards. A job search is never the funnest thing to do, but you'll probably be pleasantly surprised and how many companies take an interest in you.
Preventing crime isn't about cost-effectiveness in individual instances, it's about deterrence. Which is necessary for safety, but which is also "cost-effective" when you account for all the crime that has been deterred, if you tried to measure that in dollars somehow.

But people also have rights, including the right to a trial with a jury of peers. Innocent people can be wrongly accused of stealing large amounts. It's worth the expense of a jury trial to force the prosecution to justify their case and give the innocent the change to defend themselves. And cost effectiveness plays no role here.