skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President George W. Bush and other key members of his administration were convicted of war crimes…

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convict...

I expect similar results for Putin.
Show HN: Progressive Web App to manage (read/edit/write) zip files
Initially, I wanted to code a simple demo for the zip.js library. Finally, I got into the game and it's quite a performant and functional application. I hope you enjoy it!
I don’t know. Our kid frequents these playgrounds and it’s interesting to see how the usage changes over time. The kid quite frequently signals when it thinks something is too high or a slide to steep or whatever. And most kids seem to be rather cautious.
This could be politically relevant:

https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2023/13-03-...
The philosopher: A conversation with Grady Booch
Obviously if you don't care about software freedom, libreboot is not for you. That does not detract from the goals of the project.
There would be a lot less problems if fentanyl was legally available for addicts
Remote work is not for organizations whose management do not have clear way to measure employee objectives. In other words management has to be good at their job of tracking and measuring to be successful with remote work. If instead they are more accustomed to fear mongering and influencing then it’s not gonna work.
Yeah it reminded me of a 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoon PSA I saw as a kid evidently called the Computer Critters that ran on ABC. Basically a bunch of attempts to convince people they needed to get a computer at home. https://youtube.com/watch?v=9rDIPyVqbHs
I thought this was particularly interesting:

I had the opportunity to conduct an oral history with John Backus—one of the pioneers of functional programming—in 2006 on behalf of the Computer History Museum. I asked John why functional programming didn’t enter the mainstream, and his answer was perfect: “Functional programming makes it easy to do hard things” he said, “but functional programming makes it very difficult to do easy things.”
KWCW Radio Show with WA Governor Jay Inslee [video]
Would you mind sharing your perspective?
I've heard stories from relatives about a funhouse like that on Coney Island. Supposedly there was a dark maze section with clowns that would walk around and shock you. As I got older I assumed some of it had to be made up. But at least part of the story is corroborated in this article about the Steeplechase Park:

https://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/steeplechase2....
My real issue with this article is it treats DEI workforces as monolithic. I want to know what the specific jobs actually are about and do. I want to know if any pre-existing jobs were reclassed into DEI that have duties such as counseling, pep, and whatever. We're talking about 41 people after all, at Georgia Tech alone. What are their actual duties? What are they actually doing?

Opinion pieces like this which highlight one episode are like if all we knew about the US military apparatus was Kent State.
If you call the openai API's straight from the FrontEnd, you are likely leaking your api keys to visitors who can then use your api keys (and api key limits) for their own purposes.
The law of leaky abstractions (2002)
you can literally land a carbon cub on a helipad on top of a hotel: https://www.flyingmag.com/carbon-cub-pilot-takes-stol-to-the...
> However, users probably have the reasonable expectation that if their laptop is stolen, their device-local vault data(supposedly encrypted on disk) is not compromised as a result.

If you’re using a four-number pin to encrypt your data with no additional “padding” around that PIN, that is not a reasonable expectation.

However, I also don’t think that it’s reasonable that Bitwarden allows weak passphrases to begin with.
Interestingly, that's probably another area where a language model could be put into service. Consider, every workman with access to say GPT-6 now has an expert lawyer, MBA, secretary, manager, etc. at his beck and call. What happens when every individual can navigate the system as well as an entire team of professionals? I'm imagining headless corporations where the only humans involved are those engaged in physical interface with the world.
As usual, great article from Discord team.

Rust in the Cloud will make more and more sense as companies focus on optimizing operational costs without compromising scalability and quality.
There are plenty of products where people choose marketing even though demo and explanation are possible. Most.
If the PIN is local, only a secure element type of chip could meaningfully enforce this restriction. Otherwise, whatever memory or disk stores the secret encrypted only by the 4-digit PIN could still be brute forced. Just disabling entering a PIN in the UI would not be enough for security.
How did we know the brain wasn't a Babbage Engine?

I still think that more cognition and personality takes place in the body than we understand; the brain is ascribed powers and responsibilities that will later be found to happen elsewhere.

It wasn't all that long ago, really, that your question would've been about the liver.
If it had been written even 6 months ago, I would have thought it was a joke.

Today, having seen how many people are worried about society’s future because of AI[0], I think they are pretty serious.

0: There have been many threads here and on Reddit in the last couple of days, with people expressing their anxiety and uncertainty about what’s coming because of how fast the latest advancements in AI and their applications are coming out
Not if they're using GeForce NOW or any similar service. One person needs 15 Mbit for 720p, never mind a few dozen.
(2013) article.

An article from Kottke.org on this exact topic was posted last week.

https://kottke.org/23/03/landing-an-airplane-on-a-tiny-helip...
And add other defensive mechanisms like lockout after n retries.
> III.B.3 of the Mueller report

The 'Russian collusion case' has been thoroughly discredited so why do you bring it up here, other than to muddle the issue?

If you want to have a clear case of meddling with presidential elections I'd point at the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funding of the Steele dossier. Should that be brought up here as well? The 'dossier' was also discredited but it was used in the same way the data from Wikileaks was used to target Clinton. The difference here was that the data on Clinton was true while the 'Steele dossier' was fictitious.
If we had a specific quantity of software that was needed, that might be a good argument. But to me, it looks like the quantity of software we want is unlimited. (Or at least, the quantity of stuff that we want software to do.) To the degree that GPT enables the same software to be written with fewer programmers, to that degree we'll write more software, not have fewer programmers.
Home page was actually built by my wife. https://github.com/tashvit.

Other CSS are probably just luck ;)
> I’ve heard that exact same argument for software engineers.

Do you think it failed to hold?
I was going to comment the exact same thing

I'm asked to sign in way too many times already, at least give me a hint of what I'm supposed to get in exchange or I'm going to err on the side of closing the tab
I mean yeah sure whatever but you've moved the goalposts into a tautology: "the war on drugs is the sole cause of drug-related violence" => "black markets and their constituents wouldn't exist if governments got rid of them".

You should also consider that your idea of the "vast majority of documented violence related to drugs" is probably very far from the real set of violence related to drugs, in no small part because as you admit: it happens in black markets, where documentation is notoriously unreliable.

And, FWIW, my case is in all likelihood present in 0 "documentations". I was able to talk to the police briefly after, but it was treated as a robbery (and completely disregarded).
Exactly. Never imagined I'd read such 'gringo' statement on here.
I took a steel see-saw to the face on one of those playgrounds in the 1970’s. My little sister pulled her end down, which caused my end to shoot up unexpectedly. Ouch. Ruined my day for sure.
Using PyGWalker(a tableau-style plugin) in Kaggle Notebook for EDA
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Birdseye
it's an idiotic construction— the prefix may be originally greek, but has taken a specific connotation in english, while 'pattern' is from french, and the '-y' suffix is more common in english anyway, so the correct form for the idea would of course be anti-pattern–y
U.S. lawmakers to examine merits of higher FDIC bank deposit insurance cap
Thanks for the answer :)
The keys for GPT3 (`GPT-3.5-turbo` is the actual model ID) is the same as for GPT-4. You define the model when you make the request to the API.
> Children even started wearing yellow safety vests to school all of a sudden.

Given how many accidents happen on the way to school ("Schulwegunfälle", yes we have a dedicated word for it), it's absolutely necessary. 62k accidents in 2021, and 16 dead kids [1].

A large part of the cause is how absurdly car-centric our cities are - and yet, we're harmless compared to the US.

[1] https://www.dguv.de/de/zahlen-fakten/schuelerunfallgeschehen...
I agree with education and healthcare tending to obscure the effects. In both cases, normal price sensitivity gets skewed because the person selecting which product they want (the patient, or student) isn't directly paying (because of insurance, or student loans/grants).

But there are plenty of service jobs that haven't seen big productivity gains. Masseuses, for example.
No idea what a random forwards is.

Look at what David Sacks has been saying. There are many benefiting from this war. Neither Russia nor ukraine are on that list.
Every time someone advertises Alaska like this, the frontier disappears a little.
The timeline is actually a bit different. The US espionage charges came into the light after Ecuador revoked his asylum and Assange was arrested by the UK police. He was hiding on the suspicion that Sweden would extradite him to the US and everyone made fun of him and called him paranoid for 7 years.
In my experience, a big problem is upload, which is sometimes as low as a tenth or hundredth the download. That really hurts remote work. Another factor is that high speed internet tends to have lower latency, because I guess you just have to build our more infra. That helps remote work and gaming.
you play in the mud, you're going to get dirty. if your entire marketing company focuses on social, then why that doesn't fall into "all eggs, one basket" concept is beyond me. Sure, it's much easier to get a company rolling when you have to do nothing but use the product of someone else as the core of your business, but why that's not an immediate red flag to someone in that position is something i just don't understand.
> TigerBeetle writes to disk for long-term storage

But how does it determine when it should write to disk? Does every write to a potentially OOM operation get preceeded by a check?
Take the case of a HashAggregate. The DB clearly cannot know at compile time how many unique keys will be present in the hashtable; it needs to resize at runtime. So does that mean all the hashtables are still using some form of Bump/Arena allocators backed by the pre-allocated memory?

Maybe I should just read the source code :)
If you look at the article, UBS does not want this deal. The Swiss government is effectively forcing them to buy.

So the chances of there being another interested party are ... low.
> but there are drugs so powerful that adults lose all control and reason,

You mean like alcohol?
Product manager: we need api 23145.1 be able to talk to api 83316..

This is something a product manager would never do, it still require a technical person to translate a business logic accurately for the AI to build.

Look to how 3d animators use GUIs to build, previously they had to use a lot more code, but the expertise needed for a good job are still highly sought after. This is what could happen to software
Mercedes set to invest billions in e-vehicles plants
But that proves my point. There was no “new deal” that got us to 75% broadband coverage. 75% is clearly way better than 11% therefore not a valid parallel.
> It's nonsense because the standard in academic settings is to cite works which contribute scientifically to the current work, not merely utilities.

Whether or not it's standard is irrelevant. Ole asked you to cite him if you use it. So, if you publish academically, either don't use it or cite him. If not using GNU Parallel hinders your science then the tool must be material to your work flows.

For comparison, how many dumb citations do people add to their papers that point to marginally relevant work coming out of the same research center or academic lineage? Those aren't scientifically relevant but they are standard. Let's not pretend the academy is full of citation purists.
Topical, someone just landed a Carbon Cub plane on a ~90ft helipad for a stunt with Red Bull a few days ago. The video[0] is insane, I've flown in STOL aircraft before but had no idea some were capable of landings like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKL7XEnxr4
pin is not required for credit card. It may be required for debit card. Also, nobody use mag stripe cards.
Apple music is only 10 bucks a month and lossless. But that is pretty cool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
Not the performance, but I thought this was illuminating:

https://i.imgur.com/zBAkjl1.jpg
Affordable device will let anyone connect their brain to a computer
https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg
Those Boeing people fighting this action are miserable bastards. The company's reputation is already down the gurgler about as far as it can possibly go, this abusive action only cements that view.
Was it noticeably different from

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/foo/input bs=10M count=100000

in the amount of time that it took?
Yeah good luck importing Singapore style culture to the US.
> in part because of the IT issues posed when employees are dispersed around the country, but also for productivity reasons.

I'm sure these supposed IT issues of the employees contributed on the strategy decisions on where to invest....

And do they still work in the 90s where there's an IT guy that goes from desk to desk to Fix "IT issues"?
It is maybe the cause you describe well:

> policing in America is hugely broken and there are well-documented racial elements to that failure,

vs

> it spread due to men wearing straw hats past the unofficial date that was deemed socially acceptable,

that made your comparison a bit triggering, and even if you did not mean it, not totally incomprehensible?

Those two also fail to compare in other dimensions, e.g. size, so not sure if worth it at all..
These comments are the worst sort of Hacker News comments: a bunch of people who spend 45 seconds scrolling a Wikipedia article about a major concept from a field other than software and dismissing it as “obvious.”
Infrastructure is about sufficient capacity for peak not average usage. The first thing you have to understand is that bandwidth is oversubscribed and largely asymmetrical. You may easily only get 70% of bandwidth and you'll need to get a LOT down to have even a modest up.

4K streaming video can easily be 25Mbps. A family of 3-4 people can easily have multiple TVs and each one can be using bandwidth even when nobody is attending to it. Presumably this family has none because none of them will work. The average family has 25 internet using devices including computers, laptops, consoles, smart devices etc. Meanwhile average websites have ballooned up to 2MB or 16Mb per page. If you get 70% of max bandwidth and divide it even 10 ways you'll easily be waiting around 10 seconds per page. It's common now to have a camera out front triggered by motion but this requires more upstream than your 8Mbps connection from 1999 is liable to have since most connections aren't symmetrical. Same with video conferencing which will largely be impossible.

What's that you say johnny wants to play the latest triple A game? Well its 80GB of data. With over subscription and other devices you'll be very lucky to average more than 2Mbps over the 4 days this will require during which the family connection will suck even more than it normally does.
You have literally a prompt right there -- you should try it on ChatGPT.

"Please give me a business model like Uber, for bicycles, but better"

Let us know how it goes :)
I would say this is definitely true for the common Joe, but of course it helps to not run much arbitrary software from the web and keep your browser up-to-date to avoid drive-by malware. If you've got a habit of pirating games, you may want to keep your princess in another castle.

My mom doesn't have any reason to download and run untrusted software ever, and she'd call me if she needs something, so for her it's definitely better to have secure passwords with the risk of having all eggs in one basket. The risk of her being tricked into running software that steals the vault is lower than the guessable and reused passwords that she used before.

If you are more like me and regularly download software to try it out, pull random github repos to toy with them, etc., then it might be wise to keep the password database on an Android/iOS device which have app isolation. You can download all the malware you want, but if you don't grant it root, it won't be able to access the database stored in /data/data/com.example.keepass/database/.
> Never imagined I'd read such 'gringo' statement on here.

On a Silicon Valley VC site?
>I have not been paid in any way. Instead, they would give me an equity in June 2023.

Is that in writing? Signed any contracts, operating agreements etc?

>expected to receive investment until December, but that did not happen.

Do you know why? Do you have a working MVP?

> They call the company valuation $2.5m. How can a company with a turnover of $0. have a valuation of $2.5m?

Exactly, another red flag. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/business-valuation.asp

If you have skills, and have nothing in contract to keep you there, walk away, find a new job that pays etc. Good luck.
> Again, I’m not suggesting all this is good. But of course users _need_ local compute and native apps less than 10 years ago.

Isn't this a problem for the future of Mac, though? It seems to me that dumbing down the Mac is the opposite of what Apple should do. Why not place emphasis on what makes desktop special, rather than morphing the Mac into an overpriced iOS device that only runs web apps?
The Axios article references, but does not link to, a Financial Times report from Thursday that's pretty much the entire substance of this "blaming" of remote work. This appears to be the article in question (and should arguably be the article linked by the OP): https://www.ft.com/content/6e23a2fb-484e-418d-b309-bf558b3a6...

But there's not a single quote that backs the claim that employees blamed remote work. A professor does, and one former executive complains about training on social justice matters, but no employees are quoted mentioning anything about remote work itself. They instead complain of this:

> However, insiders complained as the bank grew at breakneck speed, its top management became inordinately focused on social issues and overly reliant on the use of expensive consultants to explore new strategies, when they should have prioritised management of the bank’s expansion and properly hedging against its interest rate risk.

It's supremely ironic, then, that today's Financial Times itself refutes this hypothesis entirely: https://www.ft.com/content/fbd9e3d4-2df5-4a65-adbd-01e5de2c5...

> SVB hired BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory Group in October 2020 to analyse the potential impact of various risks on its securities portfolio. It later expanded the mandate to examine the risk systems, processes and people in its treasury department, which managed the investments.

> The January 2022 risk control report gave the bank a “gentleman’s C”, finding that SVB lagged behind similar banks on 11 of 11 factors considered and was “substantially below” them on 10 out of 11, the people said. The consultants found that SVB was unable to generate real time or even weekly updates about what was happening to its securities portfolio, the people said. SVB listened to the criticism but rebuffed offers from BlackRock to do follow up work, they added.

Remote work is in no way responsible for an entire year's worth of executive decisions to ignore such a damning report.
GPT 4 already has 32k tokens of context for prompts. Once we’re making arguments about scale only a few orders of magnitude larger than the current state of the art, it seems similar to arguments 10-15 years ago that real-time ray tracing is not feasible.
I have the same attitude and it is severely restricting my creativity. While I think "don’t build on other peoples APIs", others just launched many tools built on top of Instagram, OpenAI, Twitter and whatnot.

By now I feel like it’s better to build on top of an API, be aware that it might go away one day but make money while it lasts, which can be many years.
Nah, you ask them to enter their own; if you use yours, then yes, only use backend. In this case, the author is not using his, you have to bring your own, so frontend is fine.
I think common in whole germany, but maybe not ubiquitous. I certainly remember them well and in my imagination they were giant!
An admin password prompt is hardly a deterrence to people doing stupid things. A young physics PhD friend of mine fell victim to a tech support scam, happily installing whatever spyware “Apple Support” told her to install over phone. That was a few years ago. The average person is too easily social engineered into allowing anything.
> Interacting with Humans in Other Everett Branches of the Multiverse

Ok, now those humans are getting really desperate. ;)

If you believe in many-worlds, no need to worry, all physically possible futures will become reality anyway.
Even a new consumer of heroin needs to be sold it the first time
don't know about funhouse, but playgrounds were very scary. the most scary one, which would intimadate a brave man (amongst whom i was living - RAF pilots) was called "the boat" (if i remember correctly) which was a steel plank (which you sat on), supported by 4 steel struts, attached, swiveling, to a steel frame. it took some effort to get this monster swinging (like sitting on a normal swing and doing the stuff you do) but once it got going the momentum was tremendous. there was limiting mechanism to stop it going over the top. most kids too terrified to ride it to that point (humiliating admission: i was too scared).

the other scary thing you could do with it was to grab hold of the plank on the up-swing, which would boost you high in the air. you had to have a nice touch of judgement on where you let go, if you didn't want multiple broken bones.
Afforestt: Service provider for creating maintenance free, native forests
they will incur the wrath of Shai Hulud!!
>> I think permission systems are bound to wind up in all desktop operating systems, eventually

What I'm about to say may seem wrong, stupid, or crazy at first. I think permissions often belong in the GUI. Applications would get no access to the file system directly, but they could use an API in the gui to open files - only files that are granted access by the user, often by selection in a File->Open dialog or other direct user interaction. By putting the granting of access in the GUI toolkit, we can run untrusted apps natively with no OS permissions.

Maybe not directly in the GUI, but something like that. Trust the user but not the app.
Really? 30 years of AI research later? We have only started on action oriented neural networks. What will the landscape look like in 30 years?
I saw this too. When I saw the title, I assumed it would be a link to this stunt.