skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it leads to things like an average overinvestment in things that benefit shareholders rather than things that might benefit the company or society over the long term.
Weirdly timed stock buybacks instead of money going to R&D or attracting talent and the like.
How long to do Earth?
And landing on the moon!
Interesting viewpoint, following this, it would probably be beneficial to have many different personal AIs as compared to a few AIs that serve many.
You can participate in transaction. If the business asks you if you want to participate in the transaction, literally no one is stopping you from saying yes.
The theme of crossing a river, mentioned repeatedly in the article, and occurring in various religions and belief systems, reminds me of Jung's concept of the archetype - a universal pattern emerging out of what he called "the collective subconscious". Some brief searches indicate that Jungian psychologists seem to have studied the dreams of dying people.
Interesting. I wonder if it allows adding dependencies at runtime? (As explained in eg http://simonmar.github.io/bib/papers/shake.pdf )
matomo and goatcounter are nice, but there are even solutions which don't need any extra CPU or any extra client request:

• https://goaccess.io/

• https://www.awstats.org/

Both of them are free/open-source.
If the definition of providing value to society = making a profit, then is selling heroin providing value to society?
> removal would result in a noticeable gap

It would, if someone were looking in detail, but that isn't what the Streisand Effect is. That effect is the demand to stop/remove something that draws attention to it, not the actual removal (if it is indeed removed at all).

If the photo of her property had been quietly removed by the photographer I and most others would likely never know anything about it, much like you and most of the rest of the world wouldn't know I deleted a post on my blog that was so full of embarrassing typos that I couldn't be bothered to correct it. I know about it because of the heavy-handed demand that it be removed from that collection.
Generally, a bribe isn't paying a person for a service, it's paying a person to not arbitrarily block you from receiving a service.
OMG

The article provides two internals audit reports, which are PDFs with blacked out names:

> Exceed IT Services [0]

> Diyar United Company [1]

Yes, this is just the black bars on top the info.

Not only author explicitly confirmed receiving teh internal MS documents but he didn't do a proper cleanup of the documents he provides to whole world.

This guy, along with his accomplice in MS, is in deep, deep trouble if anyone bothers to come for them.

[0] https://58a44b37-ba55-451b-989d-b8bc5339d45f.usrfiles.com/ug...

[1] https://58a44b37-ba55-451b-989d-b8bc5339d45f.usrfiles.com/ug...
EU should've mandate that providing the header is enough. And no window should be shown in this case (you can still ask to allow on top of a page, but it should not be overlay). And yea, it should _never_ be an overlay, because overlays is a predatory design practice (EU, please, could you be useful one more time?). Except after GDPR web designers gone mad and we have modal overlay windows for cookies, for newsletter, for ads (always had these), for paid subscription, for go follow us on Twitter.
Not really a book for kids but there is a book called "Drawing on the right side of the Brain" by Penny Edwards. It teaches life drawing and has a series of exercises that help the reader to draw what they actually see.
> conducting literature reviews

I get where this is coming from, but as someone who recently did an extensive systematic literature review: you benefit from doing the work, not from getting an automatic summary. It's the little details you keep stumbling upon, that make you think "Wait a second!", that are really important. You miss them the first 100 times you come across them, but by the 101st time, you have learned something.
When in that situation I tend to go ahead and factor out the similar code anyway. I almost never end up committing it, but it usually helps turn the "gut feeling" into a better understanding of the differences.
The only part of advertising we can be absolutely confident "works" is awareness. If your customers aren't aware your product exists, they obviously won't buy it.

But interestingly several modern advertising approaches actually undermine this.

For example take product placement. If Walter White is driving a Canyonero the advertising industry figures now the fact I go for a pee when the adverts are shown doesn't matter, Walter is literally driving the product, look at that shot of the vehicle accelerating down the dirt road, how it lingers on the logo. However, Walter is fictional and much of his world is an elaborate fiction, so, why would the Canyonero be any more real than those chicken shops, or the law firm ? Instead of awareness that the product exists, you've spread doubt!
If you don't tip, you still get your food.
Are you sure the big tech way is the best for your start up? Different sized businesses have very different needs.
Doesn't democracy simply institutionalize corruption?

Where is the incentive for honesty or long term thinking for politicians or political candidates?

The politician's primary concern is to win the next election. Promises of any sort can be fielded to win this battle. Ideally his promises should motivate voters to support his campaign. After the election, excuses can be made. The opposition offers an easy scapegoat for not delivering upon previous promises.

While in office, the politician has every incentive to milk his position for all it is worth. He doesn't personally have a stake in the country's budget. The politician is driven to drive funds towards his donors. His only time preference is to make it happen before his term expires. Long term results of policies or contracts are besides the point.

After spending considerable time in 3rd world countries, my takeaway is that corruption in the developed world is simply more expensive. Yes, you can legally lobby for your company to receive gov. contracts. The difference is that you need to pay expensive lawyers to execute the process. You can't just simply throw a few hundred dollars around or ask your brother-in-law.

There's a right way to lobby in the west and a wrong way, which is tabooed as corruption. The end result is much the same. The difference is often partisan perception.
This seems like the exact intention to me.
Yes, lobbying.
Same thing with the visa application fee.
Well, I find that innecesary. If you set OpenBSD encryption with bioctl, no one will tamper with your data if the machine is turned off. On the exploits, very difficult to do so, pledge, unveil and OpenBSD mitigations work.

And the login manager it's usually XenoDM (forked XDM), GDM or whatever X.org based DE manager the user got installed, and that's impossible to tamper with with user permissions.

On potential malware, well, first you need to run it, and yes, any software could dump keyboard and mouse input under your account by design, but for sysadmins, XTerm has a secure keyboard input mode where the keyboard and mouse are bound to that XTerm window and you can't do anything else except to type in that XTerm, because the input it's locked to that window.
Nothing can't sniff from that terminal emulator window, the channel is locked.

The only thing you could do it's to switch to VT with Ctrl-Alt-[F1-F7], but forget doing anything
in the window manager. You can input to the XTerm and select info with the mouse and no more.
While I mostly agree with you (especially about the energy savings from using alternatives to proof-of-work), we do have to admit that at the moment, crypto-currencies aren't really used to buy much of anything apart from other crypto-currencies. There's not even all that much drug business going on.
I have over 600 hours logged on Kerbal Space Program and can confidentially say if this works it’s a real game changer.
Two things happened to Opera:
- nobody wants to pay.
- google breaks their web apps on Opera (and many companies don't test stuff on Opera).
> Anything can be used for fingerprinting.

Yes and that's a major issue

> If Mozilla are really serious about fingerprinting then they need to remove <canvas> right now

Ad absurdum is not as great an argument as you think it is

> Fingerprinting cannot be solved by disabling browser features in a standard browser.

It also shouldn't be facilitated by just blindly turning them on without propert mitigation. And proper mitigation is complex

> It can be mitigated by using content blockers

So now you're shifting the responsibility onto the user. Even though it's been shown time and again that users can't really understand all the complexities of modern systems, their capabilities and the far-reaching results of what these systems can and do.
> If you choose to burn that money instead of donating it to charity X, 30,000 people who could have survived are now dead. That doesn't seem like a fantastic outcome to me.

This statement forgets that the person who donated doesn't care. They actively like to hurt companies who don't deserve it and profit from it (unlike Hindenburg Research).
100% of human learning models degrade over time :)

And it's not only aging. There's a well known saying: "Science Makes Progress Funeral by Funeral". Humans have very hard time changing their believes to adapt to new data, not so surprising that ML models experience a similar phenomenon.

As the great Max Planck, himself the originator of the quantum theory in physics, has said, science makes progress funeral by funeral: the old are never converted by the new doctrines, they simply are replaced by a new generation.
But we're not more prosperous. Most families couldn't afford to have a stay-at-home parent even if they wanted to.

Women have simply had servitude to the corporate machine packaged up as some kind of freedom. To say this represents any form of progress is delusional.
I'm on a paid account but not the 20$ / month one. I've paid < 1$ worth of tokens so far and I definitely get some value out of it. So, it's very cheap to use.

Getting a paid account allows you to create an API key and use it with things like codegpt in vs code and intellij and other places. There's a gpt for docs and slides as well. And you can of course build your own tooling. And you can configure all of these to use gpt-4.

So, definitely worth it to me.

Codegpt is pretty nice. You can get it to review code, suggest improvements/optimizations, spot potential bugs, etc. And it can write code, generate tests for existing code, etc.

The hardest part of using gpt is 1) remembering to use it, and 2) coming up with good questions to ask of it. The better your questions, the more useful it gets. I've caught myself using Google a couple of times to figure stuff out before realizing "I could just ask chat gpt ....". Mostly, that works spectacularly well. You can save yourself a lot of time this way.

I've done some fun stuff with it:

- I needed German translations for a mozilla fluent localization file. It understands the format and generated hundreds of translations for me in a few minutes. And so far, I've not found anything that is wrong.

- I needed a bit of kotlin code to encrypt plain text using AES. It generated working code for me. I asked it about improvements and it suggested using an IV and then added the code for that. I asked it to generate a test, and it did. And it passed. Having done similar code in the past in Java, all this looks perfectly legit to me.

- It's aware of geospatial relations (cities, countries, major landmarks) and you can ask it questions about that. And get it to answer in in geojson format. Or calculate surface areas. I'm not sure, I'm ready to trust all of it but at face value it seems to be doing reasonable things.

- I've worked on spicing up our sales pitch a bit. One of our customers started talking about kpis, so I selected some text from our white paper and asked chat gpt to suggest some kpis based on that and how that would benefit our customers context. Then for giggles I asked for fifty of them ... and it did. All of them were reasonable. A quarter of them were really good.

- We had a customer in the air carrier sector and we needed to understand their business challenges in a hurry. So we asked chat gpt to list key challenges and then grilled it a bit on things like cost breakdowns, and details about fuel cost, and other factors. Most of this stuff comes from public reports but basically we were asking it the same questions we would have asked our customer .. and getting really informative answers.

- I went to Rotterdam over easter, which is a city I had not visited properly. So, I asked it for some suggestions for stuff to do. And got lots of usable suggestions.

So, you can code with it, explore complicated topics with it, use it to sharpen pitches, outsource translation work to it, and ask it for directions, and get it to play tourist guide.

My bill for March was 0.90$. Amazing value. Absolute no brainer.
Let me rephrase: we created the system where anyone and their dog can subvert the democratic process. Oil companies are doing it. Hackers are doing it. Random bloke down the pub and his dog too.

And someone had an expectation that adversaries will not take advantage of it?
That's not standard SQL. This was standardized pretty late, so different RDBMS have various syntaxes, but the standardized one is to add a clause like this:

FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY

In PostgreSQL and MySQL the usual syntax is a LIMIT clause, but PostgreSQL also supports the standard. MSSQL and some others use TOP n directly after SELECT. I think in some others you need to use a window function.
No, yoou can't. Claiming otherwise is pretty naive.
The author states this:

> To make this very clear: user/visitor consent is only needed for data going to 3rd parties. All cookie laws, including GDPR and CCPA, allow essential first-party cookies to be exempt from collecting user consent before performing their actions. So your session tracking cookie on your site DOES NOT need a consent popup AT ALL.

Most consent dialogs can be avoided, were it not that the surveillance capitalist services need your data, and shove these dialogs full of deceptive design in your face. In hopes to have as many people as possible complain about the regulations, and use that pressure to lobby them away again.
Those funds are lost regardless. There's no action that Microsoft or any other Western company can take that would do anything but leave them with a slightly cleaner conscience. As long as corruption is accepted those funds will never be directed towards schools, hospitals or infrastructure anyway.

It's a shitty argument, I'll grant you that, but it's not a problem that Microsoft can fix. They should take the moral high ground, but the money was always going to be siphoned of.
Additionally if it is even possible to make those drugs in the first place.
This is actually particularly bad. They followed company policy and pointed out the compliance issues but Microsoft did not reprimand the employee involved and instead promoted them into a position that they could more easily evade accountability and also punish the person that had drawn attention to compliance issues.

It gets worse as they are put on a performance improvement plan (PIP), even though they have 18 years of experience and presumably had no significant performance issues up until this point.

If the information about corruption within the post is true, Microsoft undoubtedly deserve to pay a significant fine, but unfortunately:

> What is a shock: This time around, the SEC and DOJ
> have both declined to investigate Microsoft over
> the same types of bribes in the Middle East and
> Africa. They acknowledged my evidence (which I
> submitted three times) yet did not take up the
> case, claiming that the current pandemic has
> prevented them from gathering more evidence from
> abroad—even though I have already provided
> documentation that I believe shows Microsoft is in
> breach of the 2019 agreement and is still
> participating in corrupt business practices in
> direct violation of U.S. law.

I think that by not punishing this the SEC and DOJ are sending a signal to whistleblowers in large corporations that they do not take compliance seriously and that they will not protect employees that try to draw attention to wrongdoing. At the very least it suggests to me that when whistleblowing, you must avoid alerting anybody in your organisation that you disagree with what you see, and do everything through external parties instead of internal policies.
Even assuming the ice is pure water, wouldn't it be radioactive given that some molecule come from the sun and the moon is exposed to radiations with no protective atmosphere?
depends on the country

"tips" in the US are culturally accepted, although when I tried to tip the guy giving me a speeding ticket he was not happy.

"bribes" in India are culturally accepted

Neither are accepted in China
There is the ability of the population to organize and vote out and and all corrupt influence. Usually the citzenry is kept down via media and culture, but as several revolutions have shown, the old culture can get thrown out hard and fast, if the population has enough.
Yes of course, I'm being loose in my language, but you know what I'm getting at.
Matomo is nice, and a 1 click install in Wordpress as well.
This Website Is Carbon Aware
>You do not bribe your way out of law enforcement etc.

Don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gra...
So hold the company liable for its subcontractors' violations. This isn't rocket surgery.
You’re undermining your point by calling it “supposedly”. You’re otherwise not wrong, though.
Being exposed to radiation does not make something radioactive. Radioactive particles settling on the thing is what usually causes things to become radioactive.

We actually use radioactivity to sterilize food.
Show HN: Bring GPT with you to every website
TypeGenie is a Chrome extension that brings the power of ChatGPT to every website you visit.
It's a whitepaper by the company "Weights & Biases", who are, in their own words "the premier, developer-first MLOps platform. We help ML teams unlock their productivity by optimizing, visualizing, collaborating on, and standardizing their model and data pipelines – regardless of framework, environment, or workflow."
CompCert, seL4, EverParse, AWS TLA+, Azure infrastructure code proven correct etc.

You might already be using proven correct software somewhere in your stack without knowing it. You most certainly will be trusting your life with it flying Airbus.
> there are lots of videos online of infants (who can scarcely control their movement) contorting themselves to avoid contact with grass.

Isn't that less a taboo and more a normal infant response to avoiding something which is mildly itchy on exposed skin?
Hydrogen from the sun is generally not deuterium, let alone tritium. Irradiation does not, as a rule, make the irradiated thing radioactive; the hydrogen nuclei aka protons are "radiation" because they're moving very fast and cause damage when they hit things, not because they're inherently different from other protons.
So if Europe has great founders and great engineering culture why doesn’t exactly this happen more often? ;)

Seems to me we’re mostly busy doing what ChatGPT can now do automatically: building mediocre SaaS apps.
Teach me, please... What is immoral if you open your Limited company and sell your programming services to some customers and make profit doing it?
You very much do want immutable and persistent records of financial transactions. That's the whole point of having a ledger in the first place. Error corrections should appear as actual corrections and be dated appropriately.
Blame Earl "get big or get out" Butz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Secretary_of_Agricul...

(where I am, 60 cows is a large dairy operation)
No-one but alkonaut and their autocratic fellow-travellers
The key thing to remember is the transitive nightmare of dependencies that you let Maven manage is largely created by the way Maven works!

So if you don't do it that way, just you need to manage the dependencies yourself, but they are much much simplier!

In a bit more detail - at the top of your source code is:

import someorg.somepackge.class;

If you have the source code for someorg.somepackage in your sourcepath/classpath ( and the source of any transitive dependencies ) then the compiler will magically find all the transitive dependencies for class at the class level at compile time. [1]

This results in the minimal number of classes you have to ship and as a result the minimal number of transitive dependencies.

Now your build tool/script ( whatever tool you use ) will need to bring in those dependencies from a versions repo somewhere - but that can be your own source code repo ( vendoring I think it's called ).

Yes - you need need to keep that build config yourself - but frankly that's time well spent as it results in you have proper control over your dependencies, and they don't balloon out of control.

Occasions like some random third party has added dependency D to C which is brought in via an A->B->C chain and then you have some library version clash are much much less as a result.

That's not to say I don't occasionally use jar files in the classpath - but that's typically only if that library is self contained, single focus and small - and again you can put that in your build script.

In my view, Maven magic is part of the problem, not a solution - and to sum up why - it hides the cost of the dependencies - if people had to manually add the chain of true dependencies when they decided to use a apache utility class, they might think twice about whether that chain of dependencies is well designed or not.

[1] With the reflection proviso I mentioned above.
Only europeans people with no contact with non-europeans believe the rest of the world works the same way as we do.

If you want to do anything in those regions, bribes should be part of your budget, all the way down.

Even the workers that need to travel to those places should have a budget for those bribes, as in some places even the police will try to get you in trouble if you don't give them money, or in some African countries, even food is accepted.
I do work 'work storage' to defer work when updating my static site, eg https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html#Sto... in response to local solar energy and battery levels.

But the site could also respond dynamically in a similar way triggering the same mechanism as it does to the Save-Data header.
In this article, I’ll go over extracting data from JSON files and visualizing it with bar charts, line charts, and pie charts from the Syncfusion WPF Charts control. This can be achieved with the following easy steps:

Process JSON data.
Deserialize the JSON data to a dynamic object.
Convert the list of dynamic objects to a data table.
Create beautiful charts from the data table.
We will also cover how to export the charts to popular formats like PNG and JPEG.

The final output of the demo app will look like the following.

Fetch and Display Advanced JSON Data in WPF Charts
Fetch and Display Advanced JSON Data in WPF Charts
This 2016 posting is outdated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes points out:

"Until 2020,[15] Vulcan Point was an island that existed in Main Crater Lake on Volcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon in the Philippines.[16] Main Crater Lake evaporated during the 2020 Taal Volcano eruption,[15] but the water in Taal Lake has returned and has a new island. Vulcan Point became a peninsula"

Wikipedia's sole entry for "Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes" is https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Recursive... , commenting also that "Moose Boulder" - another contention - was found in 2020 to be a hoax.
I think you're underestimating how much energy is involved in pulling water out of the Earth well