skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently discovered Tim Urban's "The thinking ladder"

* Think like a scientist

* Think like a sports fan

* Think like an attorney

* Think like a zaelot

According to his model, being a sports fan is not even close as bad as lower rungs of the ladder. Sport fans do root for their teams and do engage in all sort of tribalism but ultimately care about The Game and they would be deeply dissatisfied if the game ethics were breached in favour of any team, including their own; it would just ruin the whole point of the game.

While the "attorney" persona deliberately ignores the truth or pretends to do so if that requires serving their clients.

Only the true "zaelot" fully lives in their delusion and nothing, truly nothing will make them wake up from anything because waking up would mean losing themeselves.
This is exactly how I've been explaining LLM tech to my "non-geek" friends and family. I start by explaining rubber ducking, and how I now use chatgpt as a more advanced version of the process.
I'm still looking out for a better explanation of why 'choose 2' is so much more empirically effective than intuition says it should be.

Other than the fact that randomization avoids pathological cases, nothing I know about distributed computing or queuing theory really gets to the bottom of it. It feels like there should be more to it than that.
It could. Some people pursue it very aggressively, optimizing submission times and autoposting submissions of new papers or blog posts, for example. I recall one semi-spam account that was set up to submit anything relating to Ruby, including videos that happened to mention gemstones in the title.
Yes, going to Blockbuster with friends was a fun start to movie night. It was more of an event. But "Blockbuster and chill" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Not OP. I've been using NoScript until today, works as expected of course, but the hassle to have to enable specific scripts to make a useful website work outweighs its usefulness for me.

There's "NoJS", a extension where you can enable all JS through a switch, but it doesn't handle iframes very well at the moment.
...and those did real damage to individuals. I'd say it's one thing for a large corporation to have certain things claimed against it and an entirely different thing for a giant news network going after individuals with complete garbage reporting (not a single thing they claimed about Nick Sandmann was true and it was easily verifiable).
That’s what propaganda will do: confuse the facts so much that the fact checkers get overwhelmed, so no one is sure what to think, thus replacing truth with power.
They settle to avoid their people testifying under oath, and to avoid a more expensive judgement against them. They got to see the evidence, and expected to lose.
A settlement can contain just about anything. For example, it could require Fox to air an MSNBC produced 1 hour primetime special about the whole affair.
Because it was a way to get the budget "balanced". They declared R&D expenses to be different from operating expenses -- if you have the money to spend on R&D then you have money to spend funding the country.

It's never supposed to be about what's "fair" or what they "should" do. It's about the fact that they want to spend $X, and need to raise $X one way or the other.

In this case, though, it was purely a trick. They were required to balance the budget over the long term, so they spent money now and identified a pot of money they could take from later. They just kicked the can down the road, and now we've arrived where the can landed. They actually don't think it's fair, or reasonable, or productive. But changing it does make somebody responsible for a huge increase in the deficit... and it's the people who spent the money 5 years ago.
You mean if you applied to work at Arthur Andersen, because it's misspelled?
https://archive.is/gtjDX
Not only that, but I don't think the custom datastore handles concurrent writes.

One thread FTW. :)
Well in one case, it was a neighbor. We had some great chats over beers, lots of laughs. Knocked on his door several times and enjoyed the visits. I also emailed him to initiate contact. We had some interests in common.

But he never initiated, not once. Never offered his number, never emailed me to see what's up after I moved a few miles away.

I think that combined with him being from the South, where I understand people can be extremely polite in not being your friend--I just figured he was politely saying No Thanks.
Aside: I can't remember what site I was on recently, but I saw the craziest cookie prompt. The options were:

Basic / Premium / Ultra

With you guessed it, Ultra being the most tracking cookies. I was flabbergasted.
prompts are not necessary for functional cookies
First, most US paper ballots are fill-in-the-bubble, with pen, and any sufficient mark counts. This is so the large number of ballots can be counted quickly. Multiple marks for the same race is immediately rejected and you have the opportunity to correct the ballot. Ability to follow basic directions is the responsibility of the voter. Or, the voter can ask for assistance.

Hand marked paper ballots allow for an audit trail. Paper allows the voter to check before submitting the ballot. Paper allows easy correction by trading for a replacement. Paper works well. As is confirmed in audit after audit after audit.
To reach Cookie Acceptance I might need a Cookie Therapist.

(sorry, I'm in a silly mood)
In no future will this happen in the primary. The Nation has been exposed to far more "anti-Trump cultist" rhetoric declaring NeverTrump for years who won't vote for him.
Maybe. But probably not.

If they were using a crib sheet to the point of only trying 1m attempts, this can be done in “days” with one CPU even if PBKDF2 is set to take one second each attempt on that CPU.

A “better” KDF isn’t fundamentally going to change this. It’s just going to enforce stricter limits on any time-memory trade offs and require more memory. Neither of these are going to be meaningful differences when you’re cracking a single password for a single user with a crib sheet, unless you’re in the realm of billions or more guesses.
The sleuths bringing back India’s stolen treasures
I use incognito mode, which means throughout the day I have to click through cookie consent screens on every single website I visit.
but how much did they hire in the last 2-3 years?
Hah, came here to say the same. instant anxiety for some reason!
FWIW the source of that quote was actually that, if Tucker Carlson were _president_, would he ban self-driving trucks solely to preserve truck-driving jobs? He said he would make up some pretense/excuse/spin when justifying it.
And the stock ticks up every time
This article is still about the 2nd layoff, just confirming the concrete time looks like where as previously just known to be sometime around end of april / early may
It's certainly a little misleading to refer to it as "encrypted email".

If he has the resources I believe this would be a good option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop
Larry Tesler worked for Engelbart at SRI, Kay at PARC and then John Couch at Apple. He led the system software team and was instrumental in developing the Lisa UI/UX. Xerox guys MOST DEFINITELY had influence over the Lisa in that at least one of them (Tesler) moved from Xerox to Apple to work on it.
So from 86000 last year they'll be going to 60000ish this year? That is pretty severe. For those of us in mature industries cyclic layoffs are just how things are but 25% shrinkage is scary.
This thing triggers all the time on me when I do something like drop the phone on myself.
couldn’t the workers longpoll vs interval based?
What information is being provided? I'm not suggesting that you would do any kind of check to see if the new training data is correct. Just take the output and remove every line between the first and last.

Deterministically removing data is not adding information, unless you are defining information in an extremely unusual way.
Maybe META can shed users, too, and replace them with AI chat bots
In a year or so when all that is left on Twitter is Infowars and OAN, it will be interesting to see how many mouth-breathers Musk can keep entertained.

Perhaps he should be considering a strategic buyout of MyPillow, it’s more in line with his current business trajectory than his other endeavors.
CORBA did not fail. I don't know what the author is trying to push. We used CORBA extensively in its day, nowadays there are better alternatives but to say it failed is completely wrong
The title is a bit of bait, as well as the carefully chosen goofy photos. From what I read in the article, they are just rich people that think people should have more kids and are doing that themselves.

That being said, if the elite think that everyone should have more kids, they should stop getting so much of the economic pie for themselves and sharing a bit more (pay higher wages? pay their taxes? don't go laying off people any time the economy does a burp?)

A lot of the people who have only one kid would love to have more, but they are afraid of doing so because of economic reasons.
It is a shame that in any number of forums these days that if someone expresses an opinion that counters someone else's they are labelled a "Russian troll".

We all know that foreign interference is a genuine concern, however, an opinion that appears to be right of centre doesn't always equate to it being grown in a Russian troll farm.
A while ago I calculated that a 1km sided cube of wood would be the equivalent of 12 years of global co2 emissions (with a caveat that this was a very back of napkin kind of calculation). This is, of course, a massive cube, but smaller than I expected.
Their revenue in 2022 was ~$15M - This amounts to about 50 years of revenue for their company risk free. They had a strong case but nothing is certain in a courtroom. It is hard to look at nearly a billion dollars and not take the sure thing.
I keep having to turn off keepalive between the service and the reverse proxies and I bet this is part of why.

I think Node 12 introduced LIFO queuing for connection pools because they found the cost of silent disconnects from the server to be too high. They got much better histograms by using the most recently freed connection instead of round robin of available sockets.
I don't see how this works.

What's the path to monetisation for this?

Exploitation of end users? That's counter to the impetus for decentralisation.

Charging end users directly? How are they going to compete with free?

Burn through of VC funds, followed by an eventual pivot?

> We’ve designed a protocol that has three big things we think are missing from the Mastodon ecosystem: account portability, global discoverability, [and] composable, customizable curation and moderation.

Those are missing from the MVP of Mastodon (and nothing's inobvious): portability, search and white/black lists.
Aka revenue
Engineers obviously affected.

As long as the stock goes up after buying at $88, then keep it going to save money.

Meta will survive. It just needs to unload more unnecessary hires and adjust to save more money in the long term.

All caused by the over hiring mania followed by the unsustainable zero interest rate phenomenon and a decade long quantitative easing bubble that had to end.
Hah heard that.

Amusingly, there is an old mental hospital being revamped into apartments which has 1.5 foot thick concrete walls.

It may be the first truly soundproof apartment complex. :)
> please test it on something beyond Linux and Mac

That’s asking a lot. If your platform is poorly supported by Rust, then maybe that’s where your efforts should be directed. If you fix that, lots of interesting stuff beyond one library is unlocked.
Maybe tooling for other languages are faster because the dev has to spend a lot more time specifying a lot more things / are a lot more verbose. The reason tooling on Python is slow is exactly why people love it, because it's lightweight, easy to quickly whip up a script. Take a one line hello world vs having to create an entire project and 10 lines in C#.

Not having to type annotate every tiny thing is also great. You can type only what brings you value and leave the rest to be inferred. It really is the best of all worlds.
Right, there are two failure modes in the US governmental system, basically:

1) Things the founders got wrong on purpose. We've fixed a bunch of these, by e.g. broadening the franchise and ending chattel slavery with that whole Civil War thing. The way our Senate is composed is arguably an un-fixed one of these—it's that way on purpose, but it's, you know, bad.

2) Things they got wrong by accident. These are usually cases where politicking, application of game theory, and bad actors in general conspire to make things work differently than they were intended. This is stuff like the system stabilizing at two viable political parties, and the way the electoral college has worked in-practice almost from day one (but not the way the electoral college favors low-population states, because that part was on purpose, so would go under point 1 if we're regarding it as an error)
It's hard to imagine captchas being a workable solution as better AI models get cheaper.

At this point computers are probably already better at solving them than humans are.
Advanced users are already well-served; it's not for them.

Also, the mobile version may have limitations on extensions.
Hypothetically speaking, if you're not a UK resident: Surely you can keep the password on a separate device in another country, and if asked for it, say that you do have know how to get the password, but you can't physically access it without travelling to the other country.

You then aren't breaking the rules, as far as I can tell. Of course you can't give them something that is only available in another country, where those laws would not hold up.
Hmm, I also use ChatGPT as an anti-procrastination tool and task manager, and it's never made a mistake with keeping track of my task list (except that when it sums the estimated times of subgroups of tasks, sometimes those sums are wrong).

Note that it outputs my updated task list every time I add or remove a task (I only asked it to do that one time), so even if old messages go outside of the context window, it's not a big deal because the full updated state of the list is output basically every other message.
Opera browser did bundle some Mcafee stuffs.
Browsers provide multiple ways to store data like that locally, you don't need cookies. And even if you did, you wouldn't need consent to store that preference.
That's what Netflix's niche should have been. They can own one copy of every movie. I gather that they used to have the greatest library in the world, and have gradually let it diminish to a kind of glorified Redbox.

I discovered that I'm just not a cinephile. I would love to love old, great, less-well-known films, but I just use TV these days as mindless distraction. It's the cinephiles (and fans of other material that doesn't get picked up by streaming, like some anime) who really lose out in this.
I recently got a tour of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. Made me wonder if I could think of any good ideas to apply for synchrotron time for...
Can you name what's wrong with eugenics exactly?
I'm not entirely fine with it, because I suspect Valve will only continue investing in Linux gaming if there's a potential market for it.
Could keep the units that aren't changing and only change the ones that are.
Quite the opposite! Scalia had a great speech[0] where he argued that our Constitution is weak compared to other nations of history but had outlived those nations because of its slow nature to act. The point being, it doesn't matter how great your constitution is if your country is dead.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0
Maybe it isn’t ‘making friends is hard’ as much as it is ‘modern high-mobility, independent lifestyles make it hard to make friends’. Isn’t that the elephant in the room? We want independence but really want interdependence.
Depending on how much you believe autism is hereditary you could argue that these couples are going to really cause problems for humanity’s gene pool.
They should keep a small DVD by mail service and run it out of the last remaining Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. That way tourists could come and see DVDs on the shelf and a bunch of people and machines stuffing DVDs in envelopes to see how we all lived in the 90s and early 2000s.
Ah, yes, you’re right. I didn’t realize they announced a two step layoff in March. So, two, I guess.
Can confirm. Apple TV+ makes me want to not use Netflix. But of course with everything being spread around, you need all these different types of streaming services. Torrent is sometimes an option.
No. Stop. You are giving a false sense of security, as it seems to me like you're applying US laws to the UK, which is wrong.

In the US, you're correct that giving up a password is something understood to be protected under the 5th Amendment, whereas being forced to unlock by face or fingerprint is not[0].

In the UK, this is not the same. See point 59 of [1]:

> The power to search anything which the person has with them includes the power to search electronic devices, such as mobile phones. The person must provide access to any electronic device to allow for a search to be undertaken, including where access to a device requires the person to unlock a device through application of their thumb or finger, or any other form of access control (e.g. voice or face recognition).

[0] https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/fif...

[1] https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/20...
the good news: your tax strategy *can be optimized* against this new tax change.

full disclosure: im the ceo of neo.tax (https://www.neo.tax/)

we anticipated this tax change and built (the only) solution for it,
because we unfortunately didn't have enough faith in congress to repeal it.
there's still a small chance it gets repealed, but headwinds have only increased.

i'll try to offer some perspective to help, without being self-serving
(though, candidly, we are more than happy to — and can! — help everyone)

the good news: your tax strategy *can be optimized* against this new tax change:

1. balance the impact of capitalization with the benefits of r&d tax credits

r&d is simultaneously punished with capitalization and rewarded with credits
...and to varying degrees! — depending on revenues, expenses, NOLs, etc.
the only way to get the optimal tax strategy is to solve both at the same time.

in recent years, startups have been claiming the r&d credit against payroll taxes,
which was subject to a $250k/yr limit and stopped once you hit $5m in revenue.

it did not make much sense in the past to claim an r&d credit against income taxes,
as most startups aren't profitable and simply didn't have income taxes to offset.
but now — and this blows — nearly every startup has income taxes to offset.

2. the irs hasn't offered too much guidance on how this tax change works.

for most CPAs, this is a bug. but really, you should think of it as a feature.
understanding the black and white rules (guidance) permits you to navigate them.
surprisingly, this leaves a decent amount of room for tax strategy to do its thing.
the irs has no problem that you take full advantage of every tax advantage,
as long as you report everything accurately, transparently, consistently.

3. don't half-ass this: there's extra scrutiny because the irs knows its a big pain point

the key here is documentation, substantiation, and rigor.
Use uMatrix by uBlockOrigin author - now deprecated, but still useful
I think an important part of tagging systems is that you want some way to store what tags have been considered. Like, this story has "female-protagonist" but not "teen-protagonist": someone clearly looked at the characters and applied tags, but does that mean it does not have a teen protagonist? Maybe the tag was created after someone reviewed the story in order to apply "*-protagonist" tags. Maybe that person was only doing "female-protagonist" in bulk.

Having a system that can point out unknowns is useful both for search (by including them in results) and for filling in that data (by suggesting those stories for review).
> short of piracy.

I try to be sympathetic to the entertainment industry when it comes to the topic of piracy, but they're really working overtime to make it harder and harder to be…
Reassessing Roman Military Activity in Laboreiro Mountain (Northwestern Iberia)
Last time this was discussed here people were suggesting that BTC was not a security but BCH was, despite being basically the same thing, and certainly both being exchanged on Coinbase.
Totally agree. I was just taking issue with the blame on money specifically. Money is working as intended. The rules in which money is operating are fundamentally broken though, no doubt.
Yes but your mere refusal to allow entry to a room is not grounds for arrest if the police already have a warrant and can search it regardless of your permission.

Put another way, the police do not require you to produce the keys to the subject of a warrant, they will enter by force if necessary. It's perverse that technology is different only because the police have no means of forcible entry.
Also, winning wouldn't have helped their reputation. Chances are if you still believe in the election rigging story the results of this trial wasn't going to be the thing that changed your mind.
You can get a lot of traction with long polling. I use that in a couple of places where we talk to Consul to avoid a lot of polling nonsense. If I could figure out one last spot (where it's buried behind a service call due to separation of concerns), I could remove a lot of the remaining jitter from a rendezvous algorithm (tell me when all servers have made a change)
I disagree. The whole thing is a PR spin - cmon, the guy who intentionally undermines society in order to retain his obscene pay at Fox News is selling a book about stable societies - and even in a PR spin hypothetical scenario where he's the president, he STILL prefers to mislead the public instead of making an honest argument to them.

It's a perfect demonstration of a complete lack of integrity. The ends justify the means whenever he believes in it.
Yes, but the police are working hard to prevent it.
im sure they have a ton of ideas. my bet is that they might launch something in the CI/CD space. like building python packages/images fast, speeding up python testing or tackling something in ML inference.
Skilled trades pay well, and are harder to automate than jobs that can be done remotely.

Plumbing for example, requires both knowledge, and hands on work. Plumbers won't be replaced until both AI and Robotics advance cosiderably.
My first experience of the internet was telnet from Win 3 box to a X.25 PAD and then telnet to something JANET (UK) then something US based (NSF I think) and fire up Gopher or WAIS.

Later my boss asked me to look at this web thing that he had heard about. I fired up telnet and eventually found an on ramp to CERN. To me it looked rather like everything else but I'm not exactly a rocket scientist!

https://www.w3.org/History/1992/WWW/FAQ/WAISandGopher.html
Green energy - wind, solar, hydro, hydrogen etc has a lot of life left in it- there will be work installing wind farms and maintaining them.
Perfect time for me to be looking for a new job :/
Sometimes I feel so damn lucky that I use an OS like FreeBSD (or alternatively GNU/Linux when working) where literally
nothing gets in your way. It's ridiculous that a paying product stamps ads in front of your face just like that.

I really feel sorry for the people that are not techies that then they just get hit by the next furious wave of ads
when they proceed to browse the web, without installing any browsing counter-measures.

When I go back in time in my mind and remember the old days where I played on Windows 95/98/XP platforms, those were damn clean OSes by today standards. I can't understand how they have gone this way and ruined what is supposed to be their flagship product.