skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has ended up having to go mask off in some other recent legal struggles as well - their decision to describe itch.io as a source for 'unspeakable games' in an attempt to win points against Epic is a good example of how they haven't changed their stripes since the old days when you were banned from including religious or sexual themes of any kind on the App Store, even stuff as mundane as 'my project gutenberg app allows you to read the Kama Sutra'.

In general all of these big companies only hold progressive values if it's profitable to do so. You'll see rainbow-colored logos on big corporate campuses but when it's time to censor or surveil minority groups for the government they all line up.
The move back to one’s own computers…

https://37signals.com/podcast/leaving-the-cloud/
https://ethereum-magicians.org/

Are you in the right place?

You seem to be repeating a trope directly in contradiction to my earlier point about your view being social media biased...and also heaped on a little snark, as well.

Please consider politely considering different perspectives here, without necessarily agreeing with them.
It's less energy dense, but it's a lot cheaper and cleaner.

Electric cars aren't particularly clean or economical to make, and you can convert any existing petrol car for about £1000 to run on LPG.
I'm with the circular loop crowd. Pythagorean Theorem proofs must exist in geometry terms and not trigonometric terms. To use the dependent math to prove the math will always be true. This is like me saying "I made beer out of old yeast". Yeast being PT in this case. Beer being trig. The proof is using proof to provide proof. sin a. Invalid to me.
Honestly I find the question of Elon's competence fascinating.

One point of view is that he's just a con-artist, a marketer of his own genius, and other people do the actual work.

Another view is that he is really a genius, who has built a number of successful companies and is one of the wealthiest people in the world.

I feel that it's likely that both are partially true - he did play some important role in building up these companies, but greatly over-estimates his own abilities and understanding.

Without a mind-reader, however, we might never truly know.
Ready for launch: the mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons
Fanless ThinkPad x13s running Ubuntu 23.04 ARM64 with customized Linux kernel
not that this is the best written article, but:

> Experts say that this kind of flattening makes sense in the short term — but is likely to carry negative consequences for those companies in the long term. Getting rid of middle managers can be a drag on company culture, even as it stymies career growth amid its workforce.

And:

> There's a perception among many young workers that rising to the level of management is the path to success

Ya think? Perhaps because that's nearly always the case.

Sooo... maybe we ought to build a robust technical track so that we can reward technical talent without simultaneously forcing engineers that aren't great managers to either become crappy managers and throw away their skills or be stuck working for them.

It's an economic inefficiency and this is just a correction, possibly even an over-correction if taken to the extreme. But I welcome it. The only non-technical managers should be those naturally extremely skilled in managing, not burned out ex-engineers that took the job for career reasons.
Guide for Building a Startup with ChatGPT Prompts, from Scratch
Correct and that is why they should be made accountable for this. I'm with gp that this particular ban is a bit harsh but nonetheless it is the state determining accountabilities and it seems to have been a thorough investigation.

OTOH, the monetary penalties where a bit on the light side so maybe that also balances out the rather harsh ban.
Only digital?...
"Idiot box" is an immediately-accessible slang term for television for me, but maybe the usage is a little old.
> Every end of the shift manager checks the list and checks toilet if it is clean

I think it's even worse: the shift manager checks list to see if the toilet is clean, but they don't actually look at the toilet.
What security practices should tax preparer's put in place?
What are best practices when it comes to security, tax payer's information, and communication.,What should a savvy taxpayer be aware of?

There are times some tax expertise matters. I would think if the tax preparer had a website portal with a way for the tax payer to login with an anonymous user id, a password, and multi-factor authentication that would be the best way to go.

However, I've heard some tax preparers send draft tax documents through Citrix (or other) where the taxpayer needs to click a link and only put in their name and email address and the documentation is fully available? If this is "secure" - how?

When searching for a tax preparer, what security practices would you want to see put in place?
The point is the same as functional languages, making immutable copies is what makes it easy to reason about, where reactive changes don't. There are ways to make VDOMs fast too, faster than reactive frameworks.
"No way I'm gonna let GPT take this away from me" surely you can see a photoshop expert from years ago saying this about pixel blurring?
I don't know if I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous, but it seems to me that auditors don't really do what people think they do. Auditors seem mainly to just double check the numbers they're handed. This serves a purpose, it provides some level of guarantee that companies that are acting in good faith are generally reporting correct numbers. Auditors don't do what people seem to think they should do - investigate and uncover fraud. If a company wants to commit fraud, the auditors simply aren't resourced in a way that would allow them to uncover it because there's not really that much incentive to uncover the fraud, the fraudster is extremely motivated, and if you wanted that level of hostile investigative work it would be much more expensive for every company.

Also, from a dynamics perspective, this is a lot like the insurance industry. In the insurance industry you can underestimate risk during the good times, take profits, and then go bankrupt in the bad times. In auditing you can spend a lot of money being extremely thorough - you'll lose all your customers because you're expensive and painful. So instead you lower your standards, you're cheap, you're easy to work with, and it's easy for a fraudster to slip through, in the 1 in a 1000 chance that happens the regulator comes down on you like a tonne of bricks. Well ok, but was EY less competent than McKinsey or did they just get unlucky that they're the poor bastards who stepped on the landmine?

Well, maybe in this case we should learn from the insurance industry and institute some sort of fund that all auditors pay into that pays out in the case that fraud is discovered.
No experience in gaming but given the amount of creative control I'm given in other dev work it's not surprising when you're talking about projects at the scale of most video games.
I'm about as anti-gun as someone can be, but nothing in the article says SWAT.
It's older than video games, and there's a spectrum between easter eggs and watermarks. Consider mapmakers adding fictional places to prove map copyright. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trap-streets-with-no-n...
it's great. now you can type "chat stop my code at line 8" instead of "b 8" :-)
Looks like they meant "gaslight" but I did find it on Urban Dictionary:

ghost light

Lighting in a video game that has no apparent source for the light to come from. Its like going out on a bright day, but not being able to find the sun in the sky even though the surroundings are brightly lit. Dead Rising on XBOX is a good example.

http://ghost-light.urbanup.com/2450357
This is such a bleak and very American view.

Especially ironic is that the (frankly quite few) benefits and rights that workers have in the States are thanks to unions.
Got a better process?
Hmm. Good idea.

Or put it in orbit. Let gravity deform the bubble. Maybe.
Apocalyptic AI
With all that glory of Alpine, my personal choice is to avoid having it on server side, it's too much "if" with it to keep in my memory.
same result if you search for "@substackinc"
The trouble is, in no way do they act like they are "crucially important for a working economy" (which i agree with). They abuse their position at every opportunity.

We might as well turn "audits" over to the short sellers like Hindenburg Research, at least they make money by exposing rotten accounts rather than hiding them.

The fact that being an activist short seller has become a business model in the last ~8 years tell you how bad the likes of EY are.
Something similar: https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue (6kb subset of Vue) but the project seems abandoned.
I think he's definitely a marketing genius and unfortunately that's a huge part of business success.
I wish they'd had degrees (or even classes) in HCI when I was in school. HCI and UX in software have less to me rethinking a lot of my hardware engineering too.
Yes, because "I don't know" isn't an option. It just grabs the most likely
Interesting to note that according to a 2017 biography, Hyperloop was created to sabotage that high-speed rail project:

> At the time, it seemed that Musk had dished out the Hyperloop proposal just to make the public and legislators rethink the high-speed train. He didn’t actually intend to build the thing. It was more that he wanted to show people that more creative ideas were out there for things that might actually solve problems and push the state forward. With any luck, the high-speed rail would be canceled. Musk said as much to me [Ashlee Vance] during a series of e-mails and phone calls leading up to the announcement. “Down the road, I might fund or advise on a Hyperloop project, but right now I can’t take my eye off the ball at either SpaceX or Tesla,” he wrote.

https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...

Though personally I think the rail project was doomed with or without the intervention of opponents, due to everyone sabotaging it by adding extra stops etc. Public transit projects in California in general seem doomed to fail due to how interest groups interfere with them - I know in Sacramento (my home town) a modest attempt to expand public light rail to my community college was delayed for years and years due to all sorts of meddling.
I'm curious though, what's the alternative? Yes, the problem child will cause problems in the future if they're removed from class. But they're also going to cause problems for other kids now, and there's still no reason to think they'd be any less problematic in the future.
> Is this still a thing? I had an EEG done with charts, and it was all top-down view with quite a bit of symmetry broken down into 20+ nodes, but most importantly there was no L/R terminology at all.

Brain lateralization is complex, and the pop-psy ideas of "left brain logic, right brain emotion and intuition" is a vast and incorrect oversimplification -- one that is often used to disparage logically minded people and rational thinking in general. While it is true that Broca's and Wernicke's areas, brain regions important to language, are typically (not always!) found in the left hemisphere, other areas of linguistic processing can be found in the right hemisphere. Women and left-handers tend to have less brain lateralization than do men and right-handers, respectively.

They are not going to talk about lateralization in your EEG charts because fundamentally, it doesn't really matter.

Apparently this is one of those ideas that people cling to, much like "Pluto is a planet" for emotional (right hemispheric?) reasons.
I doubt that matters for point-to-point deliveries like this.
When considering future of tech, its valuable to consider there are at least two well-trodden paths:

1. semi-linear extrapolation of existing tech and progression (maturing tech)

2. new paradigms approaching the problem from a new angle or with new insight that invalidates or levels up past 1.

Since we're in the midst of a cambrian explosion for both 1. and 2. IMO I dont expect limitations as we've been seeing them will hold up even under the medium term.
I rad in a book that fast thinkers is best. So decisions should be fast
It sounds like that king that wanted people to overcome their aversion for potatoes. So he put armed guards around the potato fields but instructed them to be very lax and allowed the people to rob it
Appears to be a continuation of that project under a different name. Someone else pointed out that this one was acquired my Microsoft in 2021, but does appear to be receiving regular updates so it’s not sunsetted yet.
> The young fan’s name was Adam Clayton.

and who would go on to global fame and fortune playing bass for the rock band, U2
The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)
It's a really nice idea. I wouldn't call it a proof in the rigorous sense, because you need to define trigonometric functions first and be careful you don't use Pythagorean theorem to avoid circular logic. It's however perfectly fine to call it a proof for students, which is about deducing logical relation between statements.

I am however, against media hype of this type of student achievements. This is very nice for high school students, and they should be showered with praise and get some notoriety in their school. For societal validation, I think it's better to have objective standards. I am not talking about this particular proof, but all the news about various "inventions" and "discoveries" made by high school students that come up every year.
Didn't it succed at hiring a temp worker to solve captchas for it? Maybe it failed on that instance, but I wouldn't bet against it in the near future
Yes this is a direct fork. I happened to have been a CoreOS Berlin employee and know the kinfolk folks (now acquired by Microsoft) that did this fork after the Red Hat acquisition very well. I’m very glad they did, a lot of things I liked a lot about CoreOS container Linux unfortunately didn’t make it into Fedora CoreOS.

The kinfolk folks also run the update server to perform auto updates.

//edit

Continuation wouldn’t be a wrong word either as it all coincided with the Red Hat acquisition. But I guess “fork” is correct since it’s under a different name.
I've not noticed this personally, and have known loads of homeschooled people.

When you say "empirically" though, I'm assuming there some info out there that backs this up? Would love to take a look, as homeschooling is on the table for us.
Can someone please explain how Rust and frontend converge so often?

In my mind Rust is similar to C++ including the very ugly syntax and fixation on memory management, while frontend languages are well.. exactly not that. Why?
My last project had 800 people on it and little things were added pretty much all over the place without the art directors ever knowing - even us as programmers shipped some programmer art that definitely wasn't meant to be there but it got "accidentally" left in the game files and shipped. And then there is a whole category of "official" easter eggs that obviously get approved by creative directors and are meant to be there for players to eventually find.
So there are still FamilySearch center in many meetinghouses of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have also put almost all their records online at www.familysearch.org

If you go to the meetinghouses however you can also get access to the records of several other organizations that have partnered with FamilySearch for reciprocal resource sharing.

Disclaimer: My primary client is FamilySearch
Pentagon Wars, but for the F-35.

The thing is, and as we’re about to see with the Bradley in Ukraine, it’s not as big a deal when your adversary is absolutely terrible at war.

I guess we could just keep counting on that never changing…
> reinvigorating liberal democracy, both in my home in the United States, and around the world.

really do not want Americans trying to impose or “reinvigorating” any kind of political form in my country.

and i guarantee you as divided as my country is..nobody want anything from American government. despite hollywood propaganda about American people saving world from aliens and monsters.. US government meddling maybe biggest external contributor to my countrys problem.

you want to do good in the world? Ok go fix you own country and get out of everyone else business.
Fortunately a large mirror doesn't have to be a continuous surface, and it doesn't need all of that area either.

A constellation of optically linked telescopes each with small mirrors would be able to image the same exoplanet.

Controlling the optical linkages or equivalently the trajectories precise and fast enough is difficult, but as far as I know this is not a fundamental limitation.

What a fun project that would be to build!
Then you need an effectively unlimited number of queries to train you network, while the LLM can be trained on a few samples your network produces to counter it.
Tons of folks in industry use Ada, they just don't talk about it much (or are forbidden). Ada is the darling of USDOD, so there's untold LoC in missiles, fighter jets, and spy satellites.
It is vastly better than anything else so far though. The rest will catch up but openai is not sleeping and they are well funded.
Here are the latest numbers on inequality. Bottom 50% of people paid just 2.3 percent of federal income taxes.
Is this something to be replaced?
Primary source is the SSH manpage, Section "ESCAPE CHARACTERS". Read it from your terminal with the `man ssh` command.
Nope, my art is of the classical religious type. I just understand that the idea is the art, and not the object. The idea was that this unrecognized trash media had merit, while the unrecognized trash media publishers were happy to just publish and market within their existing channels that treated their product as disposable rags, fit for wrapping fish.

It's the same issue with the beatnik authors: until they wrote their thoughts down, they were considered cultural dropout trash human beings. It's all marketing. Roy successfully marketed the comic industry's own media - as totems no less, not as the stories they originated - to an audience that would have never considered them, and in effect was pivotal to modern culture.
My suspicion is that his talent lies in financial engineering - though, perhaps, not in the formal definition - i.e. creating enough of a reality distortion field to attract and leverage other peoples money. I continue to question his values, morals and ethics (and sometimes maturity).
Thanks.

So, HN search as in you find the most recent version in your own comment history, then update it for the current thread, is my read. I ... do that myself a fair bit.

I know it's a perennial, but I'd argue that the story is getting too little attention until its mooted by the change it advocates for.
Guide to Water on the Moon
My understanding is that flatcar is for running your docker containers, not necessarily for building them.
> https://ethereum-magicians.org/

Another random link, indistinguishable from "just follow the discords"

> and also heaped on a little snark, as well.

Of course there's snark. That line of "oh you just don't follow the right communities" has been repeated over and over and over again by the crypto proponents. The outcome was invariably the same: a pronounced lack of "true builders".

> Please consider politely considering different perspectives here, without necessarily agreeing with them.

Please consider that "but there are true builders and true communities" bullshit has been repeated too often for anyone to pay any serious attention to.

Even your link is "Ethereum Magicians is a forum for the crypto community to have a place where anyone can join, create topic and discuss mainly about EIPs and technical difficulties of Ethereum ecosystem." So a lot of ado about nothing. It's a self-reinforcing loop of people patting themselves on the back with new ways to do something on the world's most ineffecient VM. Does not make them "true builders".
No. Go for it.
Tool Sites Are IndieHackers's Dream Project
I've applied the S4 operator to successfully do long-length video classification. It's massively more efficient than a similarly scaled transformer, but it doesn't train as well. Still, even with S4 I got some impressive results, looking forward to more.
> You should never get discount with crimes, but the penalties should always scale linearly with amount of damage or importance.

I think "damage" and "importance" are important distinctions. I'd find it worse if a person non-violently stole $100 worth of goods from the homes of 50,000 people than stealing a Van Gogh from the home of one person. And I'd find the Van Gogh theft a bit worse than an equivalent theft from a bank.

This is one case of negligence that led to the theft of all of these records. It also seems, at worst, negligence that led to the theft, not a purposeful disclosure. And not negligence in their license specialty (law), but IT negligence. Did Redmond take affirmative action to ensure all instances of its server software was patched? Redmond knows who it sold software to. Why would they not also be at fault? Servers are their specialty.

Harsh penalties for negligence, even for serious events such as human death, should probably be limited to negligence within the scope of a person's or business' specialty. With less harsh penalties for incidental negligence.
After making that suggestion, I realize that Earth's gravity would make perfectly parabolic lenses if the suggestion was viable. That people aren't already getting perfect(-enough) parabolic lenses from this technique suggests to me that it's probably not actually viable. Oh well.

Come to think of it, a film suspended from a ring would create a catenary[1] under constant gravity -- which is pretty darned close to a parabola but, I suspect, not good enough for astronomy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary
It feels like Type 1 is the “yes” type, and Type 2 is the “yes, but” or “no” type.

Saying “yes” is easy, everything else not so much.

Personally, Type 2 resonates with me, but I can see how this can be generally conflated with pessimism.
> Both investors and creditors are exchanging money for a bet on future profit derived from the company being solvent

Nope, that's still just investors.

Creditors are not people who made bets on the company's future profits. Creditors are people who the company made legally binding contracts with to pay them. For example people who provided products and services who are getting stiffed. Also: taxes due.

Even a bank loan is not a bet on the company's future profits. A bank loan is a contract that says you will repay the money lent, with interest. Irrespective of profitability.

Which is why a limited liability company usually can't get credit unless it is also guaranteed by someone else. Because with no outside guarantees, it would be a bet. (Yes, convertible bonds exist, but different topic).
The opposite view, that there are some mythical "true builders" is the one that can't withstand, and hasn't withstood, any sort of scrutiny.

At best those "true builders" can't understand reality around them (like all the "builders" building tickets or property rights with NFTs). At anything below best it's a sea of scammers and grifters.
Aren't Apple's retail workers relatively well off in most ways? (compared to others in similar jobs obviously)
Although my intuition would seem to agree with you, Ada is still heavily used in industries where programming errors are fatal like avionics, medical devices, military, space, automotive. None of these industries typically like to operate in public view so I believe there is a reasonable argument that Ada may even be underrepresented in most indexes.
If you take this as the cost of doing business you could probably sell the data and turn a profit.