skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I honestly having noticed the hijacking of the back button. I'd like to apologize to everyone for it. I'll fix it ASAP. Thanks for all the good feedback
Why sales tax is regressive? I keep hearing this but I don't understand why it is regressive.
We’ll see once Bernstein v NIST[1] settles, though I’m willing to accept that was normal bureaucratic apathy and inertia rather than anything nefarious. Still, if we change “trust NIST [not to be evil]” to “trust NIST’s processes [not to be exploitable by evil]”, I’m not at all reassured. It pays to remember the backdoor was not at all unknown[2] even before the standard entered NIST from ANSI.

Honestly, the whole debacle with making NIST be in charge of (civilian) cryptography makes me more than a little bit sad. Originally, it’s a metrology institution. Metrologists (worldwide) are a very small circle of narrow-focused (and not outrageously well-paid) specialists that usually react to anybody being interested in their field with the kind of joy most often encountered in small fluffy animals. (They are similar to archivists, observational astronomers, or invertebrate biologists in that way.) Now it seems as though the whole enterprise in the US has become tainted by the association with the national security behemoth.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872195/bernstein-v-na...

[2] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/01/14/hopefull... (I especially like the passive-aggressive patent)
Quite amazing when you contrast it with going to Ukraine as a volunteer today.
It's obvious what are they thinking:

"This gives us conversions, this gives us money, what are you gonna do, pay 3000$ for a Mac?"
I wish I could help you but I haven't touched windows in decades. Perhaps someone else can chime in.
> It wasn't, they only joined because Japan and later Nazi Germany declared war on them. If it was about "freeing" anyone, they would have stepped in much earlier.

Only because of isolationist "not my problem"s like GP, the current fringe right in the US, and others on HN. That's what we're fighting to not be like.

Everything you said is pretty much true. It's also true that without the US, and especially US+UK, WW2 would've turned out very differently. Soviets could not beat the Nazis themselves. So you can still appreciate the US, UK, and the Soviets for freeing Europe. And the US and UK are telling Europe that you don't get to be saved by us and then shirk your responsibility to save someone else.
I'm more torqued about light pollution. Every creature should be able to look up at the Milky Way and wonder. (Or simply navigate. YMMV.)

If astronomers are truly bent about satellites fouling their earth bound observations, they should demand SpaceX put more telescopes in orbit. Those would be better any way, right?
If this kills or significantly nerfs third-party apps I'm out.
No, they aren't. The windows division has consistently shrank to the point it isn't even a top line revenue source for the company anymore and is rolled up into the experience and devices group with office, Xbox, etc. Windows is less than 12% of MS quarterly revenue and continuing to shrink: https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/

The company could totally lose all windows revenue tomorrow and barely notice it. In a few years it will probably be into the single digits of percent revenue and near total irrelevance. Windows is dead as any meaningful business for the company.
Yeah, what skills transfer is there to a time of due dilligence that should mean something now versus being investor X in Wag’s Nth series raise because you can run digital shoulders with the big VCs and Ashton Kutcher…
> Why sales tax is regressive?

Because it consumes a greater marginal share of income at lower income levels, which is the definition of a regressive tax.
agree. (Also, hello old friend!!)
Thank you, I honestly haven't noticed I was hijacking the back button. I'd like to apologize to everyone for it. I'll fix it ASAP. Thanks for all the good feedback!
You sound unhappy with your work.

Most software engineers love using GPT-[X] in their work. Copilot is literally for programmers. There are tons of artists using AI tools in their work for the same reasons; it makes them more productive.

If you take great joy in typing

public class MyClassImpl implements MyClass

then you are perfectly free to keep doing so.
I think they're rare in America - where even new build has poor construction quality. I lived in one in London where I ran into my neighbour one day and she apologized for her children being absolute hellions that weekend and kicking up a ruckus. Well, I hadn't the slightest idea there was anyone next door at the time.

But that was nice construction. Very solid. Good sound insulation.

Lived in America since, and I think local construction just doesn't have that standard to it. It's not that British construction is great. It's not. But there's range. Higher end places are better.

In San Francisco, by comparison, lots of so-called luxury is rubbish.
An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models
I don't expose anything to the internet and use it to access my Synology or my Unraid NAS, to stream Plex music to Plexamp, to check my home network when I am away, and in some cases I have used it to circumvent filtering Proxies by tunneling HTTP/HTTPS.
So in your opinion seeing an advertisement for an app on an app store is much worse than seeing an ad in your app launcher UI that you click on every time you go to launch an app?
I haven't been in SF in many years, but at least 15 years ago there were still loads of SRO (single-room occupancy) hotels that people lived in long-term. Typically you'd get a private room with a sink, a block of bathrooms per floor, and no kitchen facilities. Some of these hotels were straight-up crackhouses, but others were clean and peaceful places for people with very little money to live.
You still need health checks, though? Otherwise, how do you tell the difference between: "no traffic + server alive" vs "some traffic + server is dead". Yeah, you can monitor throughput on a load balancer, but if I ever again wake up from an alert about not traffic being served - I will throw hands.
Thanks for sharing, “CamperBob2”:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4022665
I found it oddly relaxing and fell asleep.
Light in general is a huge asset when wanting to change the aesthetics of anything really, people really underestimate the impact of light.

Game looking a bit boring? Improve the lightning, instantly better

Boring photos of people? Consider how the light traverses the scene you're capturing, and they become much better

Bathroom looking dull? One well placed lamp can change it entirely.

Want to make cool professional videos? Purchase one nice production lamp and you're like 90% there already.
Needs to change BBC News to "Coercion Funded Media" or "Threat Funded Media" refuse to accept that an organization that LARPs as a fake government body (TV Licensing) and sends me a threatening letter every 2 weeks with threats of fines, courts and police when I have zero interest of watching their product to be "Publicly Funded".
For once I’d like the US government to take one of these “break the law now and rewrite the laws later” companies to task.
Note also to actually research the GL.iNet router model before purchasing - they falsely label some routers as "official openwrt". For example, the GL-SF1200 is listed as an OpenWRT router by them but some of the binaries on it, run on an outdated Linux kernel, and have not been fully made available to the public by the manufacturers of the Chinese SoC used on it. Thus, it is unlikely to run any OpenWRT fork or even receive opensource updates - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/how-do-gl-inet-devices-become-su...
Are fonts still ugly as sin? That was the biggest drawback last time I tried linux as my main desktop. That and having to muck around in config files for every little thing.
Reimagining the Microservice: An Early Preview
Ah i can see you never used windows 3.1.
For most protocols like HTTP there's no software to do this and it's not worth developing something nonstandard.
> ArianeGroup lost an entire design cycle due to bad decision making

When you don't operate with market pressure, there is no such thing as bad decision making.
Why couldn't your bluetooth mic / headset record?
>When we interact with a general AI, we are programming a computer system, in English.

I agree with what you're saying in your post, but I want to further refine the part of your statement 'in English'....

LLMs are far beyond that... We're not just interacting in English, we're interacting in all languages the model was trained on. The key word here is language because for the average human this entails the primary language they grew up with. But for many people that are bilingual they realize the complexity of language potential is far greater than a person that speaks a single language, some languages can contain concepts that don't exist in another language. Now extent that ever further. Programming languages are not much different from human spoken language, just more formalized. Mathematics is a language that contains formal language.

And it can extend even further than that... That 802.11 signal in the air is a language, along with all of our other wireless signals. Yes, people have used deep learning to decode wireless.

I brought all this up because as models become more multi-modal us humans are going to get stuck in thinking that what we say/type to the AI might be what it is interpreting when the actual model may be working on a far larger and richer dataset then we are giving it credit for. As you said above, this would cause us to incorrectly interpret the capabilities of the model, likely significantly underestimating its ability in places where humans are incapable without additional tooling.
Agree on this. Although the 80% figure is probably more like 99% (I have no metrics, but 80% feels too low to make this point)
Oh I've seen it and no she literally isn't causing them real world harm, nor is the game.

This is the same woman who made Dumbledore gay to appease Twitter. Retconned characters to different races to appease Twitter.

What she took issue with was women being labeled as 'birthing person'.

I can see how we got here, and claiming either she or the game causes people real world harm isn't disingenuous, it's outright lying.

They also called her a literal nazi ti the point the BBC had to apologize after she had enough and sent lawyers after them.

Twitter isn't real.
> you've worked through a tutorial in Rails or Django or whatever

People underestimate the momentum of educational content. The Ruby on Rails tutorial book is a perfect example of guiding people into the Heroku walled garden - and at the time it was a reasonable decision that benefited the readers and (IMO) helped encourage them to go beyond starter-apps and actually put something in the wild.
> do your work if you want to change your mind

The point is that scammers are so prevalent it's not worth "doing your work." The ROI on vetting every player in a given transaction just isn't high enough to make it worth engaging. We don't have to do all this shit in the actual financial industry because of regulation and insurance. Nobody's presented a compelling reason to re-evolve those protections because blockchain.

And yes, the assertion is about a lot of people. That's why we put locks on our cars and houses instead of vetting everyone in town. You keep arguing about symptoms without addressing causes.
ChatGPT Unboxed: A Cautionary Tale of AI Outwitting Its Captors
Well something isn't adding up.

How can 14 million pixels be 64 million times more pixels?

Were mouse brain images just one giant pixel previously?
Nobody with taste would have allowed the Zune.
The part I'm missing is: why is this bad? I expect police officers to wear body cams, for instance. I automatically assume any interaction I have with a police officer is being recorded. I didn't realize these was an expectation of privacy.
I went ahead and installed Linux the moment I realized I had to go through a ton of hoops in order to install Windows 11 offline. I'm only ever going to use Windows for work machines that someone else is paying me to use, and even then, I might just start asking for a Mac instead. I'm over this awful OS nonsense they're doing to Windows. Whoever is in charge of the OS clearly does not care.

If I were manning the ship at Microsoft for Windows, I'd make the OS slimmer and far more lightweight.
Yes, but one is significantly better than the other. I don't mind a bunch of if statements inserting frames in most cases, but manufacturers can shove their "Effective Refresh Rate" you know where.
I bet "record of arrests and prosecutions" is a false etymology for "rap sheet."

OED attests "rap" in this sense of punishment back to the 1860s at least, and "face the rap," "beat the rap," etc., to the early 1900s. "Rap sheet," the 50s.
How Information Makes You Stupid - And What To Do About It
https://youtu.be/ly_zPBrl6P4
Companies should really accept a "No" from their users. No I don't want to use a microsoft account just to use my computer. (Without jumping through hoops) Don't ask me again the moment I say "No".

You can see the same with all those dialogs that only have "Yes, do $THING" and "Remind me later".
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I don't think they'll get many conversions out of it. They're fishing in a pool that already actively signaled that they don't like the bait.
> The goal was to maintain a large pool of trained aeronautic engineers and technicians for strategic defence purpose.

at best. at the _very_ best.

IMO the real goal was keep constituents happy and the votes coming in to stay in power as long as possible.
Being tired of low effort comments and telling you off as a result isn't being fragile. Feeling the need to make a childish, two word mocking comment when your side (which also includes my side) is given the least bit of criticism for participating in a cause and effect cycle is squarely fragile.
I'll install Linux or indeed buy a Mac instead moving forward.
That's how the UI usually works, but there's never not been a registry setting that disables undesirable behavior like this in Windows. Hoping that continues to be the case. There's no OS that doesn't make me jump through hoops to get it in an acceptable state.
Ask HN: What are your favorite products?
> ncorporated a lot of countries in the last 30 years, some of them

Every of those countries was in a better shape than China, when it started the transition to a market economy.

> Free healthcare, good quality public education, cheaper and or subsidized housing

You do understand that those (highly desirable) goods need to be paid for, and in the past have been paid for by the economic success of the successful EU countries like the Netherlands, etc. But even those have been loosing their competitive edge more and more vis-a-vis China and the US. Loss of access to cheap Russian energy will make this worse. With economic decline those niceties will wither, too ...
It happened at least after 2013, because I went skiing with a guy who made it a point to return everything he'd ever bought from REI because of a court case he read about. It was a sort of super-boycott.

I chose an extreme case, because the cost is clear, and the consequences are very visible. Obviously, a company's peculiar financial situation will determine the acceptable return-and-refund/replace rate. Every company will have a financially acceptable return rate, and will look for easy fixes to keep their actual rate below that. Barring replace/refund for user modifications is a way to lower the refund/replace rate, without actually decreasing the number of items that get returned. There's still a cost to inspecting devices for user modifications, and that cost may in turn lower the acceptable refund/replace rate, but it does mean the product development people have to spend fewer resources eliminating potential sources of failure

None of this is to say that I think firmware shouldn't be field editable. Just that barring those sorts of things is low-hanging fruit and (in general) pretty easy to sniff out if the device is just bricked, not permanently damaged. I think manufactures could instead enable firmware updating after cutting a particular trace, to the same effect. Thus, the would-be hacker must knowingly physically damage the product in a way that clearly voids the warranty, and then they're free to modify to their heart's content.
> Sounds a bit like Japan’s Furusato Nozei. This “hometown tax” allows taxpayers to choose where to send a portion of their tax payment, in order to benefit small regional towns that might otherwise be struggling with a shrinking tax base.

One somewhat significant difference is that the Apple/Cupertino thing is illegal, which is why it is being ended and getting news coverage.
opsec slip-up my dear, now the gpt4 driven facial recognition cameras are looking for your scarf! but, you will look great so you have that going for you, important for getting your mugshot to go viral, like Jeanne d'Arc

I liked this: "The patterns on the goods in this shop are designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers, injecting junk data in to the systems used by the State and its contractors to monitor and track civilians and their locations."
Octonauts is the Seaquest DSV reboot we didn't know we needed.
Sweden public radio exits Twitter, says audience already has
(Link no longer works.)
I don't follow your math. If we assume the cost of your password hash matches the cost of a bitcoin hash, I arrive at 2 * 10^6 years, not 4 * 10^39 years.

2^114/350e18/3600/24/365 = 1.9e6

Even 2^114 itself is only 2 * 10^34
It's probably easier to allow the FAA to propagate the message than for SWAs systems (that seemed to be failing) to try and do so.
I think you might have some nostalgia goggles on at the moment. There's nothing holding people back from making "weird" web pages today, they can even make them nice and responsive. One of the better concepts around HTML and CSS was separation of data and layout.

It's trivial to have a "weird" position:absolute design with a break for mobile that switches to a more fluid layout. Desktop users can have their "weird" layout but I can still read the page on mobile and you can readily crawl and index it.

People moved away from design tools like DreamWeaver that helped make "weird" stuff and instead installed WordPress or some CSS/JavaScript framework that just bakes in all the "boring" fluid layouts.

You're not necessarily wrong about Flash in terms of design or creation but your search engine wouldn't be terribly practical if everyone was still using Flash for everything. Flash allowed content packed inside SWFs but also allowed fetching external resources. You wouldn't be able to index any of that unless your crawler executed the Flash and/or inspected all the URL references for external resources.

Flash created an inaccessible deep web just like today's JavaScript website-is-an-application "sites".

Don't get me wrong, I love the old web with quirky table-based layouts, "unofficial" fansites, and personal homepages hosted on forgotten university servers in a closet. There was a vibrancy that's largely missing from today's web.

I think a big change has been tools have become more geared for boring than the creative and people treat content on the web as a side hustle. Google et all haven't helped by favoring recency over other relevance factors.
> ENA, especially.

Much that is wrong and has been wrong with France in the last 50 years can almost always be traced back to this ghastly institution.

The folks who graduate from ENA are wildly disconnected from reality, especially when it comes to the economy and technology.

They unfortunately are also a tight knit mafia that pretty much controls the country and are dragging it down into the abyss at a 100 mph.
Is $500/year really the going rate for a kidney? That's like the price to rent some GPUs for an overnight training job. I think it's perfectly reasonable that Embarcadero makes their software free to use until it's helped you earn at least 10x that much revenue, on top of it being a flat rate. Most companies just divide their offerings into strictly commercial / non-commercial.
You can rotate around a line, it doesn't necessarily need to be an axis.
There’s a good time to weaken encryption??
You can tell them you don't need one here https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...

It does need abolishing though.
I left at Windows 7, Microsoft's last good operating system.

Amusingly, I have a product which runs on Windows. I develop it on Linux, cross-compile in Rust, and test and package using Wine. Works fine, with no need to run Windows myself.

Now if I can get the cross-compile to work for MacOS...
Strong disagree with it being "solvable" - bad actors will always exist (don't feel like I need to explain this one, I'm sure we all agree), arms race will always fail because for them it is the PRIMARY focus for income, for tech companies it's always a secondary concern because it's a weaker, more indirect and longer term impact on bottom line. Making information public could (I'm not sold on this by the way, just saying it's more plausible that what is currently being done) weaken the bonus these bad actors have. By making it public you're maybe allowing some weaker bad actors in, but you're also limiting the power these primary bad actors have.
Win 3.1 wasn't much uglier than Win 8, but it was a million times more usable.
"runs WASM" made me wonder: is transpiling a ROM to WASM an effective strategy for emulating something like a GameBoy? You'd still have many issues to solve, not least of which mapping the hardware onto a runtime layer, but you'd benefit from all of the innovation happening in the WASM ecosystem.
Hearing about office culture in France was a shock. The country held up as a shining beacon of progressive policies also has a miserable culture of "no one leaves before the boss" and "you work till 6:30, even if you have nothing to do" like in Japan or Korea? So bizarre!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didone_(typography)
The low productivity of Canadian companies threatens our living standards
Same.

It appears that it is the assumption from devs as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_r...
>> I think the tragedy is that the attention doesn't follow quality or value, it follows fame and gimmicks.

> It is, but also... welcome to life. This is how it works.

So what? That it works that way doesn't make it any less of a tragedy* or any more fair.

* The word chosen by someone else upthread.
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You can also receieve
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Start tagging oncall like @dev-on-call,
Have Automated Response for Each Oncall Mention To Free Developer Time
In short one can Manage Rotations, override, notify, and engage oncalls via Slack
Looking at the Vallco disaster there is certainly some room for improvement, but how many trillion dollar companies do you expect in a town of 58k people?
It depends on the type of woodworking you do, but larger stationary tools like belt-fed drum sanders and 4'x8' capable CNC's take up a large amount of space. While they're extremely handy tools for some projects, it's hard to justify purchasing them unless you're running a decent business.

Cam at Blacktail Studio, who has a successful business and an impressive collection of quality tools, still rents time on the large machines at a different company. I'm not saying makerspaces are perfect, but unless you have a full size shop with 480V power there's always going to be some tools that make more sense to rent.