skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was not old at that time, but a teenager, and her cover to observe german positions was, according to article being an itinerant seller of SOAP in a bicycle.

Being a young woman, according to the wikipedia, she was also able to entertain conversations with the young german soldiers to gather more information.

It looks like the knitting kit was just a clever way of having a place to hide the OTP codes she used and keeping track of the ones already used. Also, according to the wikipedia she was once detained by the germans for interrogation, but they didn't think of checking her hair tie.

Pretty clever IMHO, not to mention the mind-boggling level of courage.
"Had to" seems the wrong phrase. First world problem if I ever heard one.
Whats up with this typo?

https://i.imgur.com/VltYM3q.png

How could it mangle an input such as shown on the git?
As time advances with technology things becomes boring and uniform, no more unique website, no more having the option of “actually” choosing
if you read what i wrote, you will see that it is not asynchronous communication.

and it is not a message queue in the sense you mean, it is a request response queue, it just happens to be using messages

when people think of message queue they are thinking of async event driven communication, and this is not it
I've been using the Gemini for 5 years or so, and also signed up for the slide; after years they are still to deliver. Bad communication, no numbers about units shipepd, barely any info on progress in their status updates on Indigogo - we'll have to see if I will ever receive the device. Initial reviews are not good either: the keyboard seems to be crappy and missing or duplicating keystrokes - a shame, given the keyboard would be the main selling point of the device.
First paragraph: "climate change is cringe, elon musk is cool"

what

dude turned into a raging right-winger because his daughter came out as trans and disowned him, that's turbo cringe, I have seen people on this very site discussing how his handling of Twitter has been so catastrophically bad that they are now embarassed to own teslas, ffs

what kind of world does this anonymous blogger live in
F the police?
Thank you. I know my comments are usually short, but I like to ask questions to learn new things. Appreciate you letting me know. I guess I need to try a new account.
> Coinbase facilitates the sale of "assets" that the buyer expects to increase in value. By definition, that's a security, right?

In terms of outdated US regulation based on some farm land, yes.
Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power
Katie Cotton, RIP
What I don't understand is why software developers salaries are treated different than other salaries?
Wow I would not want to be in a 6-month crunch let alone longer.

Besides the human toll, frequent (or perpetual!) crunch(es) are also bad for the codebase, and not only in "burnt out people are not productive and instead produce bad code".

In addition, the code never gets cleaned up and all those temporary workarounds become permanent architecture choices. Everybody knows it's bad but there's no time to go back and fix it. That is, crunch makes not only adds to tech debt, it's like "tech debt go brrrr" (to borrow an inflation meme).
In a past life I was an embedded designer, and I think your observation is spot on. While the libre enthusiast in me would love to be able to inspect and possibly modify bona fide firmware, I do respect that say tweaking the code on a power supply or motor controller is fraught with hazards (you want to use a debugger? while the microcontroller is stopped, your circuit cooks. you want to use printf to a serial port? the additional cycles make your circuit cook ...)

But there are tons of companies abusing the term for software that is actually being continually updated, and/or isn't hardware critical at all (eg Intel ME). The use of "firm" here is entirely prescriptive, for the manufacturer's business desires to lockout end-users, rather than because the code is akin to fixed hardware.

A simple test might actually just be the desire to modify/repair. Nobody wants to really dig into a power supply controller unless it's doing something very broken that needs be fixed. Meanwhile what creates the most e-waste is the ending of software updates, which are most certainly not firmware.
When people complain about the effects rocketry and space colonization will have on astronomy, this is what I think about.

Like... How many people complaining about the effects of Starlink satellites have ever actually seen a Starlink chain drift by, like beads on an invisible string?

It's mesmerizing.
You deduct (eligible) expenses from revenue to get (taxable) profit
I agree that we need to cut back our current emissions. Even if we stopped emitting all greenhouses gasses tomorrow, the global temperature would continue to rise for decades before stabilizing, so there is still plenty of need to capture what we've already let out.

I'm fairly bearish on direct capture solving much though. It requires so much capital and energy just to replicate the carbon capture that we can already do just by growing plants. I hope that companies like Charm will also get significant funding to pursue using plants for the capture part.
Trade and economic growth: Does the sophistication of traded goods matter?
Southwest Airlines pauses departures after reporting technical problems
You’re right, we don’t have any easy counterfactual. But we can draw inferences from observations and conduct thought experiments. If we dropped some people from San Francisco off in the hostile desert of Utah, would they be able to create thriving cities like the Mormons did? If we dropped them off in the frigid plains of Illinois, would they be able to create Chicago? If you dropped them off in the mudflats of Singapore, would they be able to turn it into the modern and wealthy city it is today?
Yes and no. Gold isn’t a security, for instance. Unfortunately (for coinbase) ICOs and related grifts pretty clearly meet both the spirit and the letter of the SEC’s definition.
Some sequences of events make sense: It is not possible to benefit from direct carbon capture cleanly before dirty energy sources are replaced. It would just add to the problem, mainly in the carbon cost of building appropriate energy sources for capture. No free lunch.

In this case doing "more than one thing at a time" amounts to trying to have one's cake while feeling good about baking it with coal-generated electricity.
> R&D salaries

> For software companies, where costs are basically eng salaries,

... it smells like this might be fallout from mis-classifying workers and/or fudging categorization of labor for some benefit. Am I on to something?
Maybe Germans, I doubt any other European nation has common knowledge of this.
A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity
Understood. At least near me, when I cycle, I'll pick a local overpass/underpass instead of using the diverging diamond (when possible). There are usually enough of them to make that work, but there are definitely places where that means riding 5 miles out the way. On the plus side, VA and Fairfax County are doing a better job building bike/ped infrastructure on most new projects. Sometimes what the build makes me scratch my head, but usually it's a welcome addition.
We, too, were fully prepared to pay the full price without the credit, but I had spent way too much time surfing the Ioniq forum before purchase. Like you, had I only found out later, I wouldn’t even be bitter. The car is worth it even for $7500 more. Congrats on the purchase. Our Limited AWD has us tickled.
Author here. You're right, I actually glued it the right way
I've seen this countless times in my 40-year career.

I believe what's going on is that people will work harder on something if they are behind schedule, so the manager gives them an impossible schedule to begin with, knowing full well that they will never meet it.

Does the benefit of the added pressure outweigh the loss of management credibility?

The one case in my career where this practice created serious problems was on a large complex program with an impossible schedule where management was having a daily "stand up" that went on for about two hours (cutting productivity by about 20% and demoralizing everyone). Each day, the team members would describe yesterday's accomplishments and re-baseline the schedule. Over a period of one year there was a 60% attrition rate, and I permanently lost all drive to meet schedules. Thereafter, I simply worked on the stuff I needed to work on without any regard for schedules. I never really recovered from this "burn out", but fortunately I was productive enough that it didn't impact my career.
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation
I don't believe there's any point in debating semantics or dismissing the topic of discussion based on it being a "first world problem".
To place a name on "another" DB, this is a reimplementation of Oracle Pro*C.

Oracle also has Pro*COBOL.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/...
Ask HN: Which best practices to follow and when to adapt or modify them?
When faced with the need to balance practical outcomes with established best practices in software development, how can developers determine which best practices to follow and when to adapt or modify them?

Hey everyone get in here.
Share your opinion on this topic.

This topic also includes soft skills.
I mean, if the whole thing is that the filter makes you sound like Drake, you are objectively using Drake’s likeness for commercial benefit without his permission.

IANAL, but that’s about as straightforward of a copyright violation as it gets. Doesn’t matter if it’s AI or not.

But as far as generative AI? That’s a way more interesting question. If I train a GAN to create original new songs, is it “sampling” songs in its training data, or is it “learning” from them and then transforming that information into something new? I would say the latter, but I’m sure the RIAA disagrees.
Its not emissions that are the problem, its the extra carbon that we dig out and insert it into the existing capture - emissions cycle.

And since no technologies exist that can do permanent recapture to undo that at a useful scale (and probably never will because its a conservation of energy problem), its a debt we'll never be able to pay back.
yeah I doubt Drake would care as much since he has close to a billion vs a struggling artist.

I could see Drake using it for demos/reference tracks though since he has ghost writers
Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, where would you have them allocate their sales if not there?
> Does everyone who puts out anything original deserve to have it heard by a wider audience?

Yes! This is a failure of capitalism coalescing and centralizing under fewer and fewer big profit centers.

There are many, many creators putting out work as good (if not better) that deserve discovery. (NB: not everything is worthy of "discovery", like some early experimental learning work, but there's definitely undiscovered well-polished work out there.) Culture can be made by the masses, not by the few, but profit sharks don't let that happen.
If you mean fundamentalism in the strict sense of rigid adherence to a core principle, religious fundamentalists act as they do because the core they follow, scripture, has claims over all aspects of personal and private life and makes assurances about the absolute correctness and necessity of its followers bringing everyone under its mantle.

I don't see that "social justice fundamentalists" would have any such requirement imposed by their core principle. I'm pretty sure their core principle would be one of or some set of the things we already acknowledge, that we claim our society values: equality, personal freedom absent harm to others, justice yes. The difference isn't what they believe or even maybe how strongly. It's that they're calling our bluff on what we believe.

These things are more social norms than moral necessities: you don't need to believe everyone is equal but you need to act as if you do. A liberal would say the right way to fight bigotry is to convert the bigots, a social justice-oriented leftist would say it's to limit the impact of their bigotry. I think history is in their favor too. If we had waited until every racist was on board before ending segregation we'd still have segregation.
Well either the UK give up their current visa requirements (the proposed ESTA analogy) or there will have to be.

Here's an Irish Times article about the issue: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/03/09/uk-amends-vis...

Looks like they've fixed the EU citizens living in Ireland crossing the border for work issue, thankfully.
And now you can create, distribute, and market you song for free to a world wide audience. The weirdest stuff can get a thousand plays on soundcloud. Much more than you'll get from being played at any random bar or club. Also you would have to make a vinyl print of you song to provide it to a dj.
Our block is extremely friendly, but this is honestly that all the kids in the block play together and it brings their parents out to socialize while watching the children. Other blocks in the neighborhood don't seem to be outside at all, and the people who socialize seem to come to this block to do it. Much of it is one specific family who is just outside all the time and are friendly and so they catch a lot of people and get them talking.
People are up in arms because Windows is showing news that you can actually swith off, but on the other hand Apple is actively showing (unwanted) ads.
Author here It's a matter of scope aaand the fact that I have only si much room to dedicate to a physical map if doom :)
Check out Renaissance Technologies founded by Jim Simons [1]. They've been doing that for years.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)
Futurologist back then must have placed almost no importance on the cost of energy.

Might be due to the fact that man made energy was quite a new thing and it's getting cheaper quite fast and seemingly boundless.

Like Moores law. It ends eventually.
First reactions before reading in detail:

Does it give more lift than just using the training data from the diffusion model? You can search through LAION 5B in Clip embedding space and pull out lots of new training data without ever using a generative model.

Are they able to use prompts to generate augmentations around whatever invariant features - different colors or positions or scenes- in order to train better?
You're basically saying "we need SFH so that rich people can have room for all of their hobbies. Screw anyone else that wants to live in density!"

That's not helpful and it's woefully ignorant of people's opinions.
Do you think explicitly singling out software development for unfavorable tax treatment while explicitly excluding oil and gas exploration from the same treatment is "fair"?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174 (c)(2) and (c)(3)
> How likely is it that caring about AI risk gets thought of as a left-wing thing, or becomes associated with some other political identity that has powerful opponents?

Its already started. Elon Musk has talked about making an anti woke AI. And with more filters being put in place ("censoring") and jobs being taken, the trajectory is pretty apparent.

The implications though... I'm having my trouble wrapping my head around that. With climate denial/anti-vaccine stuff, for instance, the polarization culture has really significant effects, but... what are "anti lefitst AI" activists gonna do? Boycott computers? Yell at AI companies to stop training stuff? Maybe drag some CEOs in for hearings and make them... make the AI politically neutral and mild, which they are already doing?
> I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people.

In December 2014, Scott posted a comment [0] in a discussion on his blog about how, as an adolescent, he had struggled greatly with anxiety issues, and how he believed that some messages some feminists were broadcasting had contributed to his mental health problems. And in response, a huge number of online feminists decided to publicly denounce him in a massive pile-on; Amanda Marcotte's contribution is representative [1]

Ever since then, some "woke" people have been convinced that he's a "bad person". And he's said other things to upset them since, e.g. publicly disagreeing with proposals that his field (quantum computing) abandon some of its technical terminology ("quantum supremacy"), which some claim "makes women and minorities uncomfortable in our field" [2]

So yes, Scott really is on the receiving end of a lot of online hate from certain people, and it has never stopped–including trolling campaigns against his blog [3], demands sent to his department that he be fired/disciplined, etc. And Scott calls the people behind this campaign against him "woke" (or even, as he does in this blog entry, "wokesters"). I know a lot of people have an allergy to that word, but can you see how it makes sense from his perspective? Why shouldn't he use it?

[0] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2091#comment-326664

[1] https://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/mit-professor-explains-the-...

[2] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4450

[3] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6552
I don't use it daily, but I have reached for it multiple times in the last few weeks. I like it for finding blog posts, tutorials, comparisons, and hobby projects without getting caught up in fake articles like SEO-heavy wikis of copy-pasted content.
Are virtual currencies actually being used as currencies? I've been long BTC for ~10 years, I've only made a few small novelty purchases through BTC. Based on any ads I've seen for crypto from coinbase, along with the tools they've built into their app - the primary use case for crypto appears to be as a security.
Implementable in vim keystrokes! https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/vim-is-turing-c...
Even then I don't see how this is currently any more than a productivity enhancer like an IDE, refactoring tools or a higher level language. Game engines like Unity are a huge productivity gain compared to hand coding a new engine for every game, but nobody is bringing in a special game engine tax.

I do think capital returns should be taxed similarly to income, but it's not simple to accomplish. One thing to bear in mind on taxing return on capital is that it's already taxed several times, once as corporate income tax and then again on dividends or share price gains. So the real tax on capital returns is the combination of these, and sometimes other taxes as well. There are some common loopholes that should really be closed though, such as exemptions for inherited capital.
There is no scenario where NK has a reasonable shot of invading SK. There are, arguably, questions as to if NK's total petrolium reserves are enough to move their army to Seoul.

There is the potential for great misery and destruction from NK, but that's mostly due to the fact that a lot of well off urban areas are within NK artillery range.

I'm not so sure about Taiwan, either. Ukraine is right on the border of Russia, no shipping, no mountainous terrain, and no direct treaties with the US. China has already said in the event of a shooting war they'd consider US allies as legitimate targets, so a Taiwanese war means Japan, Australia, SK, and maybe NATO entering the fray. It would be an ugly, mountainous fight, possibly leading to a guerilla war / insurgency.

In 20 years after technology (chips, etc.) transfer back to the US there isn't really any reason for the US to give a shit. Why risk Ukraine-ing yourself when you can just let economic and demographic forces do it for you?
It's a bit more complicated than a single index isn't it? Social mobility varies widely in the US, with the biggest differentiator being domestic value for education. Time spent studying (not household wealth) is the biggest predictor of SAT scores. SAT scores are the biggest predictor of college/university admission. Admission is the biggest predictor of economic mobility. And the biggest predictor of time spent studying? Domestic value for education. If your parents (rich or poor) care about your education, you'll succeed. If the don't you won't. This is particularly evident when examining the social mobility experienced by children of poor asian immigrants. This is all pretty standard Chicago school stuff. For further reading see the work of Thomas Sowell.

This is exactly what I'd expect in a free country. Opportunity is abound, you just have to take the appropriate actions to seize it. Conversely, if you're born into a domestic culture that sets you up for (economic) failure, it's no one's job to intervene. People can of course raise their children in any manner they see fit.

> be viscerally revolting

I'm not sure why I would. Hunting and fishing is simply no longer a sustainable economic model. I did say "that they came about as a result of a long and brutal process of conquest". But all the people who perpetrated it and suffered it are dead. The question is how to make the best of reality today. Living on a reservation in modern comfort (house, A/C, refrigeration, heating, etc.) is just not economically viable, regardless of how one may feel about it.
yeah I think the power law is on axle load
This was dramatized in Darren Brown's "The System"[1] some years ago, but instead of stock picks he used horse race betting.

Its amazing to see the people that won on the previous Nth rounds believe that their next tip was a "sure thing".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-3EfC17Rc
I thought of this, as I also dabble in woodworking, but that's one step too far in terms of nerdiness for my SO
If you make $2,000,000 gross, spend $800,000 on operating expenses, and $1,000,000 on R&D, you practically have $200,000 profit; but you have pay $210,000 in federal tax on $1,000,000.
In some latin languages we have a similar modern name ("e comercial" in portuguese, "y comercial" in spanish, "E commerciale" in italian), literally meaning "commercial 'and'". I'm not sure about the history about it though
Not really a massive surprise that artists are more comfortable with algorithms recommending their work to listeners (and paying them for the listens) than algorithms converting their voice into an audio filter so that songs can be marketed as having their vocals without them being paid to sing on it...
I am not talking about redistribution or riling people up, but I don't see building and some forms of hedonism as fundamentally incompatible.
Ask HN: How to get into OS/systems programming in 2023?
I graduated from college about decade+ ago, took few OS & systems programming courses, but didn't find them interesting back then. However, now, more than a decade later, I'm finding myself bored at my cookie cutter C#/Asp.net/SQL(+ cloud) job.
What would be your suggestions getting into OS/System programming in 2023 ?
For starters, I'm thinking about learning assembly, which I never learned.
The really great aspect of the California land-grant program was that it provide de facto integration because the schools were de facto segregated.

(and I say that as an Asian-American who was bussed in to an inner-city Indianapolis school, taking a bus which went past a school I had previously walked to)
> If you were invested in a fund that had given you say an average of 0.5% a year over the past 10 years, that would not cause you to re-evaluate your investment?

What about dividing funds for investment in three parts?

1-> Give to an active investor you respect

2-> One third to an Index Fund

3-> Last manage it yourself.

Compare performance after 5 years :-)
It could be a stalking horse for geoengineering: "Carbon capture numbers don't work, but iron in the seas, etc. is much cheaper."
each time I read same type of article, I still can't understand how it promote research.