skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A near-crash, way too fast

Score: 34.7 point landing
Speed: 5.2mph
Angle: 10.1°
Time: 28 seconds
Flips: 1
Max speed: 25.5mph
Max height: 138ft
Engine used: 16 times
Boosters used: 19 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
High level summary:

The Shah tried to rapidly westernise Iran[1], and in doing so became deeply unpopular with Islamic Fundamentalists. His reforms also upset some of the Iranian 'elite' (whose land was redistributed), and his fig leaf democracy upset secularists who wanted more power.

The killing of around 400 protestors lead to a general uprising, with the 'elites', and secularists allaying with the fundamentalists to overthrow the Shah. The elites/secularists thought they would take over, but actually had the rug pulled out from under them and the fundamentalists taking over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Revolution
In the 50-100 years since then, you think we don't have the tech or capacity to have been able to "upgrade" trailer parks into even studio apartments?

Feels like a huge oversimplification to just say "all would be fine if we had trailer parks".
I got one of these scam calls, without an AI voice (I assume). I played along with vague responses in "old man voice". The setup was pretty slick - the initial phone call "grandpa, grandpa ... I'm in jail ... I need money ... My lawyer is helping me, call him at #". I let the call end and didn't bother calling the number.

A little while later, I got another call from the "lawyer", with the correct caller ID. I played with that guy for a little bit too, and when he realized it he unleashed a string of competent profanity at me. When I responded calmly (I grew up on the Internet too, buddy), he broke character, told me he made tens of thousands of dollars per week, and offered me a job. I didn't really need any more excitement in my life so I politely declined to find out more and ended it, but it was certainly odd. Definitely a different class of scammer than the usual "medicare" and "buy your house" crap I get.
Ask HN: What would be the most important skill in the era of generative AI?
Generative AI has changed our life for good. The way we acquire knowledge, the way we work, the way we get answers are all different. It's like The Spinning Jenny all over again? What would be the essential skill for us in your opinion to make the best of AI?
Any APIs I can use so I can build a plugin for Sublime Text? Also, it seems to hang when analyzing. I left it for a day and it did not finish.
>AI researchers have been predicting systems like ChatGPT for many years now, and even successfully predicting their failure modes and pathologies.

Any particular examples you are thinking of here that you could point to? I’d be interested to read.
I would give this a watch:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...

Journalists, your parents, your friends... every contact can be weaponized.

You can attempt to trust apple's new features, but I don't think the world knows how effective they are yet. Going through a border with enhanced security features to defend yourself from state actors at great cost of convenience is going to make a person stand out.
> "Why does banning 1984 hurt first amendment rights? There are so many other books you can read."

Banning 1984 would violate the First Amendment because it would be banning a certain point of view. Banning TikTok is about preventing a foreign government from owning an information pipeline, not about the point of view that's being pushed on it.

Anyway, all the people who claim to be concerned about the First Amendment should be marching in the streets over what's happening in Florida, not trying to save TikTok.
I think you’d probably need a team that could clone the drive first and then you could do your attempts. From what I understand, that’s difficult here because of the encrypted flash drive he used (tho obviously not impossible).

I’m sure someone like Cellebrite or the other agencies that have done iPhone hacking could do something like this — or at least figure out how to clone the drive to do multiple attempts at getting into it - but I don’t know how many places would do it on someone’s word that the crypto is there.

Like, yeah, for 25%, I bet you could find people who could get it done. But I don’t know how many of those people who would undertake that work on a promise. What if it’s like Al Capone’s vault [1] and turns up empty?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s...
I agree that they could indeed be paying their engineers far more and still make a profit, but that’s just supply versus demand. They found the pay bands that provide the sweet spot:

Relative maximums for profit and talent willing to accept those salaries.
How do they get to the top? If they’ve cheated their way through school, they shouldn’t have the skills required to do good work.
So your idea of societal progress is one that believes all history is worth looking down on, that there's nothing in the past worth celebrating because every figure acted distasteful or had views distasteful to modern eyes?

I guess all of human civilization has just been a giant failure. The only chance we have is for us poor wretches to retroactively flagellate our ancestors and beg forgiveness from the gods of modern enlightenment, complete with the knowledge that we too will be flagellated in our own due time, and rightfully abhorred in the judgement of future generations, no matter our worldly achievements.

For all its supposed enlightenment, modern political correctness is really more akin to medieval Catholicism
IIRC this device was actually secure due to being developed/audited for use by the NSA as well as plebs, so it's not as simple as cloning something then doing unlimited attempts.
almost all of Google loses money and makes products that get cancelled. so if you want to lose money and make products that nobody uses or gets cancelled, then i guess leetcode is a good idea.
https://www.kingston.com/en/solutions/data-security/ironkey

What's interesting here that even if Kingston would be able to help, it might not worth for them to do it because of their reputation (and $13B revenue)
We almost lost map/filter/lambda in the python3 transition: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
Outside of the UC system (which doesn’t have as much emphasis on legacy/donations) I don’t think it’s about anti-Asian discrimination as many might think. I just think Asians are the most adversely affected by non-meritocratic admissions.

Legacies and big donors are much more likely to not be Asian. The other well-off white upper class is getting admitted based off all the holistic extracurricular/volunteering/etc bullshit. And there are secret quota systems for other minority (not all racial) groups. Then there are athletes, needing representation across academic disciplines to match teaching capacity, etc.

Basically, I think middle class Asians and white people who fit the “high scores, want to study stem” paradigm are just figuring over a very small pie when it comes to selective university admissions. Within this group Asians dominate (because demographically they make up a large portion of high scorers) but outside of it they are not as likely to fit into any of the other admissions buckets.

If admissions were based purely on test scores and academic achievement, yes there would be more Asians and less underrepresented groups, but most importantly it would completely shake up which white people get admitted, which is what the admissions system cares most about.
> My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages.

Personally, I hate type systems. I mean, I tolerate them, but >90% of the benefit I get is via better auto-complete (an possibly better performance).

Functional languages (that aren't lisp derived*) all seem to love complicated type systems. And in these systems, at some point I experience the same abstraction collapse as I do in a java code-base when I have to sift through 87 layers of interfaces and sub-classes.

I'm also, self-admittedly, a devotee of the New Jersey style of design, and consider usefulness to be much more important than correctness.

*The lisp ones are kinda fun, but I always end up back in dirty-old common lisp where I can do crazy do* shenanigans instead of functional lisp land.
It's not just that. Many modern games are simply not designed for low resolution. 1080p is the barely minimum for them and higher resolutions would be even better.

There will be too many objects on screen. When u shrink it to 720p, it's simply not viable anymore as the objects and textures have too few pixels to represent.
Why would you reduce the transaction to a single sentence and think that overrides a many page fully qualified set of terms agreed upon for service?
>(sic!)

What?
This kind of argument is very common in China's Internet comment areas, but it is also easy to refute. China's GDP is higher than that of Japan. It has experienced rapid growth in the past few decades, while Japan has lost 30 years. However, as an ordinary individual, what I want to say is who care? I did not share the dividends of the so-called high-speed GDP growth, but only suffered the inflation of housing prices and prices. May I ask the Chinese who can go overseas to consume the luxury goods you mentioned, what class do they or their parents belong to? I have nothing to do. I never thought Japan would be a perfect country, but I also don't think Japan will become poorer from generation to generation. As an individual, I don't care about the grand narrative, I don't care about the international economy, I just want to live in a free Internet, clean food and air, my children can choose not to compete so hard Just live a normal life.
Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What confuses the issue is total births have fallen even faster.

But frankly married couples regularly having 10+ kids wasn’t something to celebrate.

Really though these are the kinds of statistics people love to mess with. Do you count rates of pregnancy for unmarried adult women, or rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the adult/total population, or even rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the total number of pregnancies? Why not look at them all and pick whichever one supports the point you’re trying to make…
Observational studies are just observational studies. Most of them report spurious correlations. Their results cannot be taken at face value. Only through intervention studies you can demonstrate causation. Intervention studies (RCTs) --- the meta-analysis that I linked --- in this case report a null result (no effect) regarding hard end points (CVD and death).
All of your links breaking is the good case. Parse all the URIs out of your log, capture static copies, and then serve them alongside the new implementation before dropping to 404.
If performance is critical IMO it would make a lot more sense to switch to Rust or Go than Bun. Instead of getting a 2-3x improvement (best case scenario) you will get more like 10-20x.

Webpack 5 is probably the last version. Not my words, but from its main author. Vite is the new de facto bundler which uses EsBuild (written in Go).
> Because a lot of people don't have the technical ability. The tab is called "Advanced" for a reason.

Come now, it doesn’t take any technical ability to use the checkbox. It’s called “Advanced” because it’s more complex tweaks that most people aren’t interested in and which take a moderate amount of space so they want to keep it out of the way lest the page get too long, not because it’s hard to use in any way.

> It quickly gets more complicated for some sites, which users might use often.

It is rare for this to have any ill effect on any site (icon fonts that don’t use the PUA and aren’t Material Icons (for which Firefox has manual exceptions in place) are about the only case, and they’re distinctly rare nowadays—I only recall encountering about two cases last year, both of which were paired with labels and thus unimportant), and in those rare cases it’s unusual for it to be a real problem (they’ll almost always have labels or tooltips).

I will quite happily recommend changing this setting to completely untechnical users. It occasionally causes very mild harm, and can theoretically cause great harm for particular sites (but I haven’t found such a site for years, and any such sites were surely already broken anyway), but the rest of the time it improves matters markedly.
Colocation is dirt cheap compared to how expensive "the cloud" can become.
Yes you're right, that makes more sense, I don't know why doing it the other way is what came to my mind first
Well, maybe in 500 years people will have an explanation for why people don't create fundamental things in low-interest times. Lasting investment seems to be very strongly and positively correlated with rates.
I currently self host my password manager and a CalDav and cardDav server.

When I disabled contacts and calendar synchronization on my phone I couldn't feel happier !

The rest (photos, cloud storage) will hopefully follow when I have the time.
A Mac mini is $600, which is pricier than $50, but that's not thousands, plural.
People posting such articles (from sites highly neglectable) without their informed take is ruining this community as well.

We shouldn't raise any questions but leave participations to themselves.
An older, more powerful and wealthier man, yes I'm sure he could have done nothing wrong. Mind you the UK found him completely at fault. Only the US found her in majority of fault.

The problem Amber had was she didn't fit the perfect victim stereotype people see on TV. Abused people don't always remain totally cool and collected, big surprise. Judges are (usually) able to grasp this, amateur juries less so.

I dread how many thousands of women now the whole thing had a chilling effect on. Don't talk about your abuse! Even if you don't mention your abuser's name! He will still sue you and America will decide that you're the bad person in it! Freedom of speech? Hell no, not when it's one of those whiny women folk!
To the degree these "solutions" (in all their varying degrees of effectiveness) did not solve the problem they intended and caused new harms, then yeah, those values and mechanisms of social control are bad.
This one would be extremely difficult.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/IronKey_teardown.pdf
Motorcycles and bikes are not exactly the same in this respect. You can steer a bicycle without counter steer by shifting your weight to the left and right. Its possible to go around corners without touching the handlebars like this.

The fact that you can’t really make a motorcycle move by shifting your weight is probably why it is so important to teach countersteer- so people know what do to when they need to swerve quickly. Another counterinuitive thing (for me) is that motorcycle steering gets much heavier at high speed while bicycle steering is virtually effortless at most normal bicycle speeds.
Isn't Thunderbolt 3 basically USB 4?
Nice job on the game! Fully usable on my iPhone and only took me like 7 tries to actually land. Bookmarked to study the code and learn how you achieved such a nice end result. Thanks for posting.
The image caption text seems very fitting as well. Not quite the dictionary definition of auto-mation but maybe it should be.
How were the reviews on these places and how many?
Your reply makes me think of a blog post I read (I believe it was this one: https://collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-...) that talked about how there’s a big difference between the mindset needed to make money, and the mindset needed to save money. Many are good at one, but few are good at both.
Making rejecting opt-in cookies more difficult than accepting them is illegal. Fines have already been handed out for this. See https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen/iab-europe-he... for just one example.

Even Google has a "reject all" button in their cookie prompt these days. If rejecting takes you through multiple layers, consider reporting the website or their tracking partner to your local DPA.

The ad industry is intentionally making their popups as inconvenient as possible. They childishly point to the EU legislation that they "have" to make your life miserable with those popups but they really don't. They can choose to make your life easier, but that threatens their business model of using you and your browser as a source of revenue.

They can simply stop tracking you at all if you send the do not track header. You wouldn't even see the popups! They can even still serve ads, just not the ones based on the profile they've collected.
I think you're confusing it with baby oil, which is gently squeezed from very oily babies.

Buffalo sauce is actually the sauce which you put on buffalo wings, which by law must come from winged bison.
I suspect if I asked ten people to explain how they'd evaluate candidates for "curiosity" or "ownership", I'd get ten answers with little in common.
Plenty of successors to lisp have tried that. They gunk up the whole experience.
… the description of this topic didn't follow the title in a way that I was expecting at all…

I immediately thought of the old GamaSutra (now GameDeveloper.com) postmortems; interviews with members of the teams behind many classic videogames, great late-night reading. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/10-seminal-game-postmort...
> Building something exceptional always involves excluding mediocrity

This is wrong by definition

US army was exceptional in 1970's, did you need to graduate from harvard to join? No, they drafted everyone, even your sorry ass didn't want to join.

British industrialisation was exceptional, they didn't exclude anyone, even got children something to do by sending them into coal mines!

Amazon is exceptional, is it hard to become a worker in Amazon warehouse?

Organisation can be exceptional without any individual being exceptional.

Also you could be exceptionally bad!
I have to assume this /s =)
How is that risky? He is 28... a vast majority of people in their 40s have far far less than that and are not "out on the street".
OP could spend all 665k in the next 6-12 months and still be in a better position than many 28 year olds.
I interviewed at a startup with ex Amazon employees as founders, and they had some crazy systems design and a leet code style challenge. I ended up doing entry level, basically data entry, work for 6 months before leaving.
There are good reason's why hardware tokens are more secure than password managers. First they are often damn near impossible to clone.
Tuning out hype and working on meaningful stuff
Your perspective resonates with me! I have 3 kids under 6 years old, and I can definitely see this easily creeping up in my future.

My family situation is partly why I just went with plain old VMs and a Linux Distro with a 10 year support cycle. Its easy to keep all the moving parts in my head, and I figure I can mostly coast for 10 years and then reevaluate.

Thanks for reminding me, I also need to replace my UPS battery...
Here's a theory for you: the increased cost of capital doesn't cause people to stop seeking or loaning out capital, it just directs that capital toward shorter-term projects. A bridge or a skyscraper pays off a lot faster than a startup.
Sounds like a bit of overkill too if you ask me. You can self-host most things that make sense to keep private without going all in on the fun stuff.

As in, k8s is cool to play with and understand and all but why would I bring that complexity to a simple home setup that can run on a single machine in a corner somewhere?

You don't have to go to a synology box and give up everything but there are simpler options without going "Cloud everything". Of course you will be giving up some features as well, the more you strip things down, but that can beneficial in and of itself if you ask me.

Personally I went from being the "Linux from scratch" guy to running Ubuntu LTS. Natural progression and the kids can watch any of their movies at any time they want. Keep the hard drives rotated, do an LTS to LTS upgrade every few years and that's about it. Heck I've been running the exact same Postfix, fetchmail and IMAP setup for probably 20 years now and I don't even remember what all the options I set do any longer. I also don't need to though. It's just rock solid. All the other fun stuff has passed me by and I don't care. Don't get me wrong, it's still fun to play with stuff and we do use k8s at work and it's great. But it's just complete overkill for home.
Other than incredibly vague non-existent definition of what Mindfulness is, it attempts to frame the thought patterns that lead to emotional distress as inherently being the problem themselves.

Most of us have thought patterns because we experience the world around us. Our actual experience of the world might as well just be our thought patterns. If those thought patterns lead to negative thoughts, that doesn't imply I am inherently the problem.

Mindfulness chooses a line and tells the patient it's their problem to deal with. It's merely convenient (and profitable) that we are as individuals able to affect our own thoughts to a significant degree. It is a course in training you to deal with the pain of your own self-awareness without requiring an actual change to those conditions.

If mindfulness told us our job was to affect actual change in our world, it'd be nothing more than a completely irrelevant set of practices.
Well it won't be forever. Eventually we will figure out the math to generate a private key for any bitcoin address.
I know Marc is skeptical of AI safety alarmism, I doubt he would think we should nuke China over AI safety. He’s also dry and and sarcastic. I bet if I investigate this it’ll turn out he’s doing a reductio ad absurdum of his opponents position and you’ve just misunderstood or didn’t have context.
> Google is beginning to show its age,...

Yup. Goodhart's law strikes again. I am curious as to what the next as-of-yet-ungamed effective hiring metric is.
Academia needs its own version of ChatGPT that parses through the student's assignments, and asks the student a series of AI generated questions based on their own work.

The question and answer session would be done through a video session and recorded.

Seems fairly simple. Answer the question. 10.... 9.... 8.... 7...

Students who wrote their own assignments would be able to answer the questions and those who didn't, couldn't.
Interesting, twitter is 4th. Given all the turmoil, you would think it would have fallen down -at least out of the top ten. Seems to me like Musk will ultimately come out ahead on the situation.
Railscasts taught me so much when I was first learning web development right out of university. I used to watch Railscasts episodes religiously when they came out. I don't know if I would have grown as much as a developer without being exposed to the whole ecosystem of tools and techniques that Railscasts presented - I'd often discover libraries existed that solved problems I would never have known to seek out otherwise. Thank you for the time and effort over the years producing the episodes @rbates! Looking forward to hearing the full story in the next installments!
https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index...
– Given that Infinisys still sells After Dark (M1 ready, too!), I doubt they have approved those Archive versions.

This stuff makes me nervous about the Internet Archive. For instance, the hundreds of playable video games, all of which are also downloadable: https://archive.org/details/miscconsoles

I don't know how someone like Nintendo hasn't sued their pants off.
If he was an investment banker he wouldn't have been playing video games 14 hours a day.
Might be true, but since the hard problems rarely involve safety or expressiveness, it's not clear what the benefit is.
It's packed with data and cited sources, and it does not rely only on download stats as your comment implies.