skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your link to Schneier got me browsing through his "voting" tag. I found it quite interesting to compare these two posts and comments, from November 25, 2016 [0] and November 27, 2020 [1].

The topic is nearly the same, - some people found some irregularities in some counties - but the tone and treatment of the claims is drastically different. It's worth considering how we discuss election security through a partisan lens.

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/hacking_and_t...

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/undermining-d...
We're talking about the advertising industry here. Calling these companies stubborn is a gross understatement.

This is the industry that perfected psychological manipulation in the pursuit of profits. It's built on decades of research into the best ways to associate brand names with positive feelings, and plant a desire to make a purchase in the subconscious mind of consumers. They will do anything humanly possible to deliver ads to your senses, and they've corrupted every media technology to do so since the existence of public broadcasting.

The internet has just given them the most profitable delivery mechanism, and in turn has made technology companies insanely rich. These adtech giants rule the internet, and can build the playground they need to make ad delivery more efficient than ever. Now these profits can trickle down to website owners, which will in turn take the path of least legal resistance, and employ every dark pattern imaginable in order to maximize _their_ profits.

And if this corrupt business model wasn't enough, adtech companies can perpetually multi-dip by selling the data they collect on shady data broker markets.

So, no, it's not just stubbornness, or lack of understanding. Deceit is built into this industry, and these cookie consent forms are just the tip of the iceberg.

The solution requires much stronger regulation than the GDPR. Unfortunately, this is very unlikely to pass given the influence advertisers have on governments.
Nice work. Is it open source?
"It'll be starboard side, hung up on the left."
> Historically, the government was meant to be a thin layer uniting a bunch of States together.

This has been an argument since the beginning. The thinnest layer (Confederation) was found non-viable and was replaced by a somewhat thicker layer after about six years. There was a lot of argument then, and a lot of argument after the fact, leading to thinning and thickening of the layer.

> but then it doesn't make sense as to why the Senate grants equal power to each state no matter how populous.

Or, under the previous system, why Senators were elected for 6 year terms when they would more easily represent the states' current interests with 2 year terms.
With just a tiny sed find-and-replace (possibly generated by GPT) this sounds exactly like:

What Assembly developers said about C;
What C developers said about Java;
What Java developers said about Python;

It's interesting though, this cycle can't keep going perpetually. We're already within striking distance of translating natural language into code; lots of us incorporate it into our workflows already. Of course, natural language doesn't ever completely translate into code without leaving an enormous trail of ambiguities in its wake. But I find this process of iteratively "sculpting" the generative model's output totally riveting. The other day I plugged my ChatGPT plugin into the GPT-4 backend for the first time. I don't know how popular HBO's Westworld is in these parts, but I thought of it instantly because the coding session I found myself immersed in was shockingly close to the dialogic narrative-rendering computer Dolores uses to make deadly, immersive entertainment.
> Everytime my BT headphones connect, Apple Music opens up.

I've owned a good dozen BT headphones, non-Apple and Apple branded, and every iPhone since the 3GS.

I've had this happen zero times.

I did have a VW car that insisted on starting to play music every time BT connected. My current Hyundai doesn't do this.

It's your headphones sending the "play" signal, just like with cars. The car connects to the phone and says "let's play music" -> everyone complains about Apple.
Yea, I used to maintain a fairly complicated emacs config that I was never quite happy with. Nowadays, I just go with spacemacs. Tired of messing with stuff :)
https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/fin...

This is a misleading graph. Not a single doubt about it. The fact that it is a few years behind does not change that fact. They knew what they were doing in 2019 when they published it. The science of misleading graphs has seen very little change since that "old" time.

Yes they improved, but pointing out this chart is of public interest and interesting.
many libraries also have access to apps like libby that allow you to checkout e-books, a streaming service for films, and access to digital newspapers, language learning apps, etc etc
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I just use netcat, but that set off the security alarms at work once. SecOps messaged me and after they realized I was legitimate and not nefarious I never heard back.
I haven't booted up my gaming PC since I got the Steam Deck last fall.

BUT I don't play AAA online multiplayer shooters, so I'm a bit of a weirdo that way.
It's easy: You're pre-selected. You've been trained for decades in one way or another to unquestioningly chase the mission. You went through five interviews and putting mission-over-self was the #1 selection criterion in each.

You call it imposter syndrome or cPTSD or ADHD but the truth is you've just had people screaming expectations in your ear your whole life. It's not a question of you vs. your employer but of you vs. not-you. And you always pick not-you because that's all you know how to do.
Edward Dutton did a piece on this topic. After WWII jobs were very plentiful. If one wanted to work in a particular field highly likely they would get the job without much effort. My father was an accountant for a large corporation with a flimsy jr college degree. He had that job for 44 years. Impossible pulling off that feat today.

Things IMO changed in the 80's with corporate raiding and then articles in mass publications like Parade magazine on how much more you make with a degree. It wasn't false information at the time but there was this real pressure that if you didn't go to college you put shame on the family. You had to rise higher that your parents.

Eventually those jobs that didn't take much effort dried up. Unfortunately the articles on the college degree coin didn't so here we are. A bunch of paper on the wall and everyone fighting for the same small square footage on top the hill so to speak. No way to fix it other than raising college standards which everyone knows ain't happening.
> Half way into renaming it decides I will not rename it and just clears my editing, or exits editing mode.

In case you're curious what's actually going on here, it happens when one of the status symbols (e.g uploading or synced) on a file in the same folder changes, which causes the view to refresh and the text box to be cleared. That's why it happens much more often when renaming multiple files.

I remember finding a bug report about it years ago, with lots of people complaining about it and no response from MS. Infuriating.
AFAIK the left/right hemisphere division is extremely complicated and cannot be reduced to being responsible for different activities.
Functional exception-less error handling with C++23's optional and expected
How Our Delusions Keep Us Sane: The Psychology of Our Self-Enhancement Bias
> Why does it have to be passed onto a relative instead of any other individual the current power holder chooses?

Rarely people were "adopted". But generally because any relative who might be in line to the power would also have enough power to object to the inheritance passing to another. The hundred years' war was bad enough between two states. Having it within a state is not something the state wants.
Judging from the crazy long waitlist every time my local library gets a popular movie, I'd wager a lot of people own DVD players.
Part of it probably comes down to company culture. Working at a place full of people that are engaged and fixing/reporting/debating things is healthy. It's a good environment for people to learn and grow so you can move ahead in your career long-term. Being stuck somewhere where everyone is coasting is demoralizing. You'll most likely plateau in skill since you won't take on hard problems and need to constantly learn new things. You can learn stuff outside of work but it's also nice to have a life and not feel like you're working the mines.

Work is supposed to be fun too. Some people get a rush from working on hard problems. There's at least some joy when you debug a heisenbug for a day or two and finally solve it or take on an impossible project and succeed. Having a team that you gel with where everyone is high flow state makes you look forward to doing work things too.

When you look at it economically as a 8 hours in $$$ out, you're looking at the short-term and discounting your long-term personal growth. If you aren't growing in your job, leave and find a place where you can build your skills and work on things that you find enjoyable.

There are probably some software jobs that would be fun to do. Why not go for a fun job doing something you love if you're currently stuck?
Maybe back problems are prioritzed higher than knee problems?
They've had Blurays for what, 15 years now?

Agree that streaming never looks as good as what I get from Bluray.
This is my understanding as well. This whole issue seems rather… sensationalized.
oops, wrong r-username. Sorry for being a bit in your face about it. I was matching someone else's tone...
It's closer to the exact opposite: You can try and scrape LinkedIn. But if they try and stop you you can't try to get around the block.

Sort of, generally, except it's a lot more complicated
We’re in Danger of Losing Our Most Important Resource
In medicine there is one obviously very important perspective, and in theatre two. But mariners still need words for relative left and right directions all around them, like "the preferred channel is to the left of the buoy" (the channel and the buoy don't have port or starboard sides, and it wouldn't be useful to communicate about their relative angle as seen by the boat's crew).
Have a video showcasing use.

Google sign-in takes someone willing to sign in with Google, then willing to spend some time and faith uploading a document, then finally they get to try it, but they might miss some feature.

So, have a video showcasing use.
Hegelochus (Actor)
Plus that company would look after you if you committed to them and they might employ your kids and grandkids too if you could help keep them around.

Now... Doesn't matter if your employer succeeds or fails. You just go somewhere else and do the same thing for a similar salary, and some numbers go up or down in wealthy people's portfolios. Not sure if that's freeing or depressing.
What connection are you drawing between the two? BNF is used to define language grammars. Prolog is written using Horn clauses. There is not an obvious connection.
staying enigmatic might be the right move for the author, but that doesn't mean the cost should be borne by us.

The reason that we have traffic jams at rush hour is that it is in each person's self interest to enter the highway, but as a collective it creates a greater negative for all than the benefit to the one (see economic negative externality). When you merge into a crowded highway, 1000 people behind you move back one car length; if you had the choice of waiting 1000 cars to enter (and for each of all the people in front of you and behind you) would you do it?

on HN people are endlessly interested in daylight savings, processor clock speeds, UTC, the year 2038 problem, etc. A whimsical clock could be considered a waste... of time, and would it really spoil the whimsy all that much for the whimsical minority?
I just had to remind myself of the HN commenting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If you buy a building, you can’t depreciate the whole thing instantly

The same should hold of course if you buy software.

But if you ask your employee to perform a task like writing a program you are not buying anything. You are paying the employee's salary whether the software they are writing ever gets out of the compiler or not.

So wouldn't there be a way around this by changing the titles of software developers to "software janitors" for instance ?
Not disagreeing with your perspective but as an exec here is my perspective

A) The most valuable people can notice problems, find solutions and get it done (either themselves or by articulating a pragmatic plan).

B) People that show up and dependably are very important until someone cheaper makes more sense.

The rat race at any job you have is evaluating where between A and B you want to achieve your career goals.
Yep, but they make so many of them that some good ones land.

The ones with good plot are usually way better than most tv shows I watched (yes this is a 1-person point of view).

And every epic anime beats tv shows that try to be epic, for some reason!
I highly suggest the wikipedia entry [0] on regular expressions and their history; the concept goes back to at least a couple decades before Perl, which incorporated them via a c library written by Henry Spencer a couple years before Perl even existed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
Apple’s 4.15% Savings Account Marks Golden Age of Cash
Getting VC capital is hard - only a single digit percentage of people get it.

The median return for a founder that takes VC funding is $0. VC often fucks founders: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2017/08/01/not-building-unico... (this site is amazing for the negatives about VC) also http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html and a myriad of different articles on how VC failed founders. Be careful not to listen to the self-selected fairy-tales of occasional unicorn success that drive all the average returns in the market.

An alternative is self-funding. Google stuff by Jason Cohen or David Heinemeier Hansson, for example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw or https://www.startups.com/library/founder-stories/david-heine...

If you want funding despite the drawbacks, Google for articles about angel funding criteria, because they tend to be more honest. Or find some angels, and ask for honest feedback on your struggle. Or talk to people that have got funding.

Complaining won’t help you - it will cause seriously negative judgements about your capabilities and suitability.

Good luck.
I've found nothing more frustrating in jobs than when I can't help but care about things the company doesn't care about.

If your company doesn't care about 50K I don't think there's a need for me to convince you to care about it. If they have no mechanism for either raising those savings opportunities to leadership and prioritizing fixes, or rewarding someone for saving them 50k on their own, they pretty clearly don't care.

So if you're in a company where nothing that you could do from your own initiative would matter to the company (maybe you can save them 50k but they are spending 400 million a year so it's a drop in the bucket), you can still care about success for job security, any sort of bonus or stock compensation, etc. But how much you should care maybe should be proportional to how much you can influence.

Maybe the company is being irrational to not care, maybe they aren't, but you also choosing not to care about the things they don't care about seems healthy to me.

(It's good to remember that while "Quiet Quitting" is the buzzword of the day, this is also literally the premise of a 25 year old movie, Office Space. Literally down to the level of "it's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care" and "Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? ")
The question is: are those taxes bigger than hospital bills of people injured in accidents(higher speed= more frqwent and severe accidents)
We’ve Been Measuring the Economy All Wrong
Wages haven't kept up with inflation. That's it.
I would not be surprised if they actually make it slower on purpose to make the experience more pleasant.

Imagine if a hotel would only allow you to sleep between 10 PM and 6 AM. That would suck for people who go to bed at 1 AM, right? That’s what you would get on a 8-hour sleeper train.

Since the train is 11 hours long, it can accommodate a comfortable night’s sleep for a wide variety of people. Some people can have a late dinner and drinks at the dining car, while others can turn in early and have breakfast in the morning.
All of these sound like basic lessons from anyone who has performed large layoffs for the first time...
> use an AI system to generate a short story and then ask the writer to adapt that

so how is this any different than asking someone to write a short story before asking someone else to adapt that? Why is having an AI in the loop any different?
That's much better. would love to use it.
It's not exactly recent, but Dual_EC_DRGB wasn't handled well.

(pdf) https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vol13Iss2_...
>The most valuable people can notice problems, find solutions and get it done (either themselves or by articulating a pragmatic plan).

Do you compensate these people? Why should I be this person if you don't pay me for it?
they are their own language class...the regular languages, at least in pure form, not the pcre extended regular expressions (which would be a different language class).

https://a.co/d/a5FGZRQ
I see no reason to buy any other console. Just the game availability and pricing makes it a no brainer for me. How long is it going to take the wider public to realize, is another story.
As a side note: Penny Dreadful is a fantastic show!
above is a fantastic lucid comment (not kidding)
Maybe in the US and other places that have a grid system as their main road planning principle and route naming principle? In Europe, where roads tend to follow the terrain more, I've not really heard this.
> Daszak effectively silenced debate over the possibility of a lab leak with a February 2020 statement in the Lancet. “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that covid-19 does not have a natural origin,”

Regardless of what you think about the lab leak hypothesis, this statement is deeply concerning. Resorting to name-calling ("conspiracy theorist!") as opposed to logically assessing the merits of a statement does not sound like a scientific approach. (Not pointing at any particular wing of the political spectrum - I have seen this from all sides unfortunately.)

> Filippa Lentzos, codirector of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College, London, told the Wall Street Journal, “Some of the scientists in this area very quickly closed ranks.”3 She added, “There were people that did not talk about this, because they feared for their careers. They feared for their grants.”

This is also concerning. I wonder how many different scientific fields are experiencing something similar - people staying silent to receive grant money?
Have your 'office manager' do everything with 'no code' environments .. maybe with them using some sort of java to 'no code' compiler for parts.
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“PortlyBadger-23 attacks on macOS 13.3.1 are on the rise across corporate America.” This has a nice ring to it.
Maybe 15 to 30 years ago. These days it seems more like:

"The ones who represent me give me feelings of schadenfreude over how they deal with the other party and people"

"The ones who represent you give me feelings of angst over how my party is treated"
It throws an error in the console...
No. Many places are operated under a monopoly and you only have one choice of provider (but multiple plans so it’s ok?)
Uhh, no exchange was reporting crypto tax basis to the IRS in 2015.

I'm assuming gp won on appeal.
Apple actually has Siri.

I wish they just made it super usable. It is not a far-fetched or impossible scenario for Siri to start using the latest LLMs under the hood and revamp the user experience.
You're missing any mention of alignment and as a result I think you're leaving out a very key situation where someone can be in your group (A) but actually working against the overall company goals.

If you hire someone to solve problem X but they get sidetracked and spend all their time on problem Z instead... they can be excelling at driving solutions and still be doing the wrong thing in the eyes of the company.

Caring about completely different things than your boss can get you in trouble even if you excel at everything you do.
If you're giving directions to somebody driving, like when reversing into a tricky spot, you can tell them to "turn driver" or "turn passenger" so there's no ambiguity.
I was getting blank search result pages on Google.com in chrome so I switched to Firefox and it was fine over there for a while but then those searches started coming back blank too.
> You can't argue with the readability, portability, simplicity, or usability of JSON.

Hah, the joke's on you: ASN.1 has JER, which is the ASN.1 JSON Encoding Rules :)

So you can specify JSON schemas in ASN.1 syntax, which means that you could transcode from any of the other ASN.1 encoding rules, which include:

- BER/DER/CER (TLV encodings)
- OER/PER (like XDR, but with one octet alignment)
- XER (yes, the X is for XML -- XML Encoding Rules)
- GSER (a pre-JSON JSON-like encoding rules for
ASN.1 invented at IETF)
- and other ERs that are proprietary
- and any ER you care to create, which could just
be bindings of other encoding schemes like
Flat Buffers or anything else you like.

I've been wanting an XDR-based encoding rules...

Which goes to show that a lot of the encoding schemes you listed could just have been ASN.1 ERs from the get-go and:

- benefited from existing ASN.1 modules
- benefited from transcoding
- benefited from existing ASN.1 compiler codebases

But no, people had to reinvent the wheel all the way to the syntax and semantics without adding much of anything truly new.

> I like DNSSEC and DANE because the combination adds another security layer to corroborate what PKI says. If browsers adopted it, it would be widely deployed to web-facing services. Like GPG, it has a UX problem and is a PITA to setup. (Sadly, a major DNSSEC multi browser extension effort shutdown.) I thought we were pro defense-in-depth rather than less security, so I don't understand the hate DNSSEC receives because it's not an alternative so much as a secondary trust-supporting mechanism.

I agree with this, though I'm not sure what is the antecedent of "it" in "[l]ike GPG, it has a UX problem..." -- could be DNSSEC, but it could also be PKI! :)
I think the principle is pretty pervasive also outside medicals. I do not recall anyone ever refer to my left hand as right hand (other than maybe by mistake), regardless how they are oriented around me.
Doesn't have anything to do with it. My objection to Musk is that he doesn't have any idea what he's talking about, as usual, and also like usual, loudly and confidently. It's infuriating to see so many people taken in by such an obnoxious charlatan.