skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would rather have malware ---- at least it happened under my control.

However, I really wonder what kind of attack surfaces I may have, if I have zero exposed ports, never plug in any drive from untrusted sources, and always double and triple check any program before running? I haven't used any antivirus(including windows defender) since I got my first computer and never got any virus, also I monitor my running processes frequently and have an adequate knowledge of windows internals. Malwares are not like COVID-19...
Or use plural table names hehe
microG works well as a substitute for the Google Play Services client. I generally don't have issues with banking apps on microG, though people using apps for banks based in other regions might have different experiences. Navigation, music streaming, Microsoft Teams, Slack, rideshare, and public transit apps work flawlessly. Push messaging is fully functional. As a bonus, microG does not implement any of the advertising features in Google Play Services.

https://microg.org

Operating systems that have microG preinstalled include CalyxOS, /e/, and LineageOS for microG.
It's a likely theory.

But economics teaches us when a player overcharges, others will step in to undercut and take all the market share.

So, we're at a point where we need to admit that mantra isn't true in the modern age, or admit that we've done a terrible job at preventing effective monopolies/duopolies from forming.
I remember nothing of surgery itself, but for weeks after that I was on Vicodin and half-crazy. I remember a dream that felt like I had spent a hundred years on a submarine, with almost no input but the ping of a radar. I remember being mostly unable to participate in a Skype conversation my visiting parents had had with some friends from fifteen years ago, putting my head down, and seeing that everyone was in fact a tiny ship on a great expanding sea, getting farther and farther from each other, ala the big bang. I remember identifying with a pinball in a two-dimensional pinballish world -- somehow my sense of self was inside that world but my perception of it was from outside in the z-direction looking at it -- and the certainty that that pinball had to eventually get flushed down a certain exit pipe, and yet it never seemed to. Everything felt pregnant with metaphor for everything else -- the bed was school, a book was traffic, speech was rain.

It all sounds trippy and enjoyable to me as I write it now, but really, it sucked.
Ah, quarantined might be true. I'm on some NSFW subs without verification though.
True, the wrong spouse takes more years off your life than living under the Heathrow flight path.

But my point was spend time with your kids if you want. Kids are awesome. But if you still give a shit about your career, don't feel guilty about missing junior's bar mitzvah. If his genetic stock isn't marred by a poor spousal choice, the only long-term damage is the memoir chapter he'll write about the absentee dad who didn't witness his building Amazon.com, or winning several NBA championships.
In the meteoric rise of 538, Nate could have easily walked into NYT or any other tech-forward media outlet and negotiated to retain the models. Disney would have lost out then.
VCV Rack is quite fun and shows how the skeumorphic interface to things like music and synthesis is actually quite useful and understandable. While things like supercollider and pure data exist, it's hard to argue that VCV Rack's interface isn't a lot simpler to get going with.

I wish popular DAWs would learn a thing or two from it tbh. Connecting VSTs with the skeumorphic interface is a better experience than something like the otherwise excellent a Reaper does. Only FL Studio (with Patcher) gets this right.
I'm not sure about the expenses of more floors - those seem extremely high to me, on the face of it, though.

The benefit of dense housing is more so about the total resource expense of maintaining a city. If you have 1m people in single family homes, that city will sprawl, with attendant infrastructure requirements for roads, sewage and power distribution. A city with 1m people in (for example) denser 5 floor buildings will probably require 1/5 to 1/10th the space at a first level approximation, and probably even less after you eliminate excessive backyard space waste, less space dedicated to roads and freeways, etc.

The resident in the dense city will have to fund far fewer ancillary expenses, probably spend significantly less on transport and fuel, etc. That's how you get back the higher construction costs. This also ignores the value people place on convenience and the like, which is a significant component of why people choose to live in cities rather than suburbs.

However, in many cases housing is artificially expense, with very high cost components in the LAND, rather than the structure. You'd expect in a relatively efficient housing market most of the cost would be in the structure and construction, since there's enough housing that raw space wouldn't be an issue. In many places regulations make sufficiently dense housing impossible for fulfilling this requirement (since dense housing distributes the land cost amongst many dwellings)

Roads just don't scale the same way - someone else had a good comment on how free roads basically always fill up to take about the same time. Of course, more people are getting utility from it, but as you get more travelers you'd naturally expect the monetary benefit per person to come down;. PT doesn't have the same problem, since it can scale to more or less arbitrary amounts of people in comparison to a road.
That FPTP results in a long-term two-party equilibrium (that may be occasionally disrupted) is not exactly a secret:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

And in some cases, at least, FPTP itself is deliberately introduced by large parties to reduce the viability of their competitors. Northern Ireland was one particularly nasty case of that.
What interest would the Mouse have in numerical models? They want entertainment IP, not weird programs that they have no experience marketing or hiring people to run. They’re not just going to transfer it over to Pixar so the guys behind Cars 2 can predict the next election.

Disney wants the talent. It’s just not as valuable to them as keeping Nate happy
Sure, I'm a bit sad to see tech lost as well. However I gave up hope decades ago that someone at IBM might have read the "Innovators Dilemma."
Or considered employing the longterm-thinking kind of executive that would have read it.

Not sure if big-blue ever had that kind of person in abundance to be honest.
Was recently reading up on the DEHOMAG thing recently, and well probably not. At least Watson tried to give the Nazi medal back, haha.
OK, so maybe we're agreed: you can bet on his abilities in one election. Let's say he's been right 95% of the time (I don't know if that's true) and we believe that's likely to continue, knowing nothing except "this is an election and Silver's predicted the result."

Then if he says "Hillary is likely to win" we can have 95% confidence he's right.

If he says "Hillary has an 80% chance of winning" we ignore the 80, and just observe that it's more than 50.
I love the Trellick Tower! See also the former Greenwich Town Hall, which must have one of the best brutalist clock towers of all time: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meridian_House_(Form...
Borges was no saint.

For example, he appropriated the Spanish translation of a text from Kafka [1] by feminist & writer Margarita Nelken [2].

[1] https://www.wagenbach.de/kafka/titel/1212-kafkas-elektrische...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita_Nelken
I've found the act of prioritization to be one of the hardest practices to build. I know I should prioritize. I know it takes time to do it well... but if I spend just 10m doing this one thing I can get a nice dopamine hit for having accomplished... something.

One of the things that has helped me most recently is building out a better set of rules for my inbox that let me segment out unknown priorities from known priorities.

Previously, I'd get so many bids for time the act of even enumerating the tasks TO prioritize was too much and I'd end up in a push-workflow, rather than pulling tasks by their appropriate priority.

So, hopefully this is some encouragement for you to think about what's urgent/important in your inbox, what's unknown and needs triage, and what can be scheduled for later.
I thought about it. Carefully. If google and microsoft went bankrupt tomorrow i wouldn't miss a thing and would be feel abundance of joy. The world would be a much better place without then.
>Reddit is a company that has products targeted toward both children and adults. If they want to do that, they should act like any other business and ensure that children aren't allowed access to products that are only for adults, or at least enable parents to make that decision.

Is Reddit targeted to children? My assumption has always been that due to the nature of having intermingled NSFW content, lack of content filters, or literally any other control that Reddit was squarely aimed at older users.

>Grocery stores are free to sell cigarettes and alcohol along with candy, but they're required to not sell the former products to children. We don't just say "don't let your child go to the store alone".

Tobacco is a lot less subjective of a thing than 'inappropriate content' or 'porn' and its bad health effects are actually substantiated. Is fine art porn? Is a naked person porn? It might be to you, it isn't to me. Who gets to decide what is porn? The government? Religious activists?

>I said companies like reddit should design things such that filters work. If you don't need filtering, you'd be unaffected.

I would be affected because there is now a whole system that dictates what content is. How does one do that? How much does it cost? Is it my responsibility to determine that? The site hosts? What if one host has a different labeling system? It's not simple. It's regulatory bloat that would exist solely because people who popped kids out don't want to actually parent.

>Similarly, if they move their nsfw images that they've already categorized from i.redd.it to e.g. p.redd.it, DNS filtering could easily block them all while still allowing roblox memes, and users who don't care wouldn't have to do anything.

If reddit wants to implement that, that's fine with me. What OP said and what I responded to was this

"I think this is a poor solution; a more empowering one would be *to develop a standard for content categorization and require commercial websites and commercially developed browsers (so all of them that are in common use) to implement content blocking via e.g. header exchange*, with criminal penalties for negligently providing pornography without the correct headers (have some provision for vandalism when good-faith moderation is in place). Then parents actually could just configure their OS or browser for what kinds of content should be allowed."

>The problem is that parental controls increasingly cannot reasonably exist.

You can black list the reddit domain right now. How do they not exist? It might not exist in the form that you want, but that's life. I can't have the government force movie theaters to show edited versions of movies so they are kid appropriate. Some stuff just isn't for kids.

> It's not that much to ask that if a company wants to provide both adult-only and child-oriented content, they should at least provide usable metadata for which is which to make sure filters can work.

Reddit, for the most part, does not provide content.
The science is valid and they are a good aggregator of the various polls, it's perfectly legit and moderately beneficial.

Especially in a world of liars.
A prediction is not meaningless. An exact probability is.
Yeah, I'm still thinking about the scoring.

Initially I asked ChatGPT to estimate three things: event scale, event magnitude and event potential. That often resulted in clickbait articles going to the top.

To fix this I started to also ask it to estimate source credibility, so tabloids would get much lower score than, say New York Times.

Now you noticed another problem, similar articles get very different scores. I think ideally I could do some sort of deduplication, but I don't know how to implement it yet.
> Functionally the only way it is selfless then is if you are meaningfully better at science than replacement level (and again potential replacements run deep these days).

I'm better at science than I am at the replacement job. Ergo the maximum I can contribute to the world is through science.
Somewhere in the past six months, on a page where we have to force users to HTTP, Chrome on Android has broken about 90% of the time with "too many redirects" and no way to even type "http://" into the URL bar without Chrome changing it. Finally had to just give users a raw IP address. I would love if your team could fix this or provide some opt-out.

For context, each of the retail locations of our company runs its own local MAMP server that serves a web app used all day by the employees on their tablets. It's accessible only on the LAN. Rather than have every employee need to know or type the local IP address for these (which change sometimes), we serve a centralized web page at http://ourcompany.com/employeeApp that just keeps a live list of the local (192.x.x.x) IP addresses harvested from each server in each location, and opens a connection to the local server in an iFrame. Because of what's now a hard ban on loading insecure HTTP content within an HTTPS page, we must serve that central iFrame wrapper page over HTTP. Unfortunately, we now need to give Chrome users a raw IP address for ourcompany.com, to avoid them being redirected infinitely to HTTPS and back.

[edit] I should add that the oddest thing is that it doesn't always overflow with redirects, and on a new device it often is able to go to the HTTP site. But once someone does type https:// or leave out the http:// by mistake, no level of cache clearing seems to remove Chrome's insistence on trying to force HTTPS on that page forever afterwards.

[edit2] The rationale for not setting up local DNS and SSL is that these servers are on all kinds of different local networks in stores around the country, are switched on and off by non-technical managers onsite, and I'm the author of the web app and the only tech support for it. It needs to be as simple as possible so that I'm not spending all my time tunneling into those servers, walking them through router problems and stuff like that.
I’ve been saying some version of this to people for years.

But in his defense, I think he’s been more the victim of the secular decline in polling quality than anything else.
We're too busy cleaning up data and wondering if the flow cytometer is clogged for the third time this week. That and grants/reports/meetings.
All browsers to do this now, to varying levels of severity.

Firefox gets a padlock with a red slash through it, Chrome gets that warning icon with "Not secure", and Safari just says "Not secure".
A static build in Sveltekit is as simple as changing 1 line in your config:

`import adapter from “@sveltejs/adapter-auto”`

becomes

`import adapter from “@sveltejs/adapter-static”`

Also, Sveltekit was designed as a serverless framework optimized for the edge long before Vercel hired Rich. Doing SSR on the edge right can be a hard problem to solve, so getting it for free “automagically” in Sveltekit is a huge value-add! Static site generation, on the other hand, has long been a solved problem.

That said, I agree that a lot of sites are better off just being static. Nonetheless, being able to change one line in my Sveltekit config to deploy my static site onto Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, or my own node server thanks to Sveltekit’s adapters is pretty awesome in my experience!
Oh FFS - are there any doomsayers left who treat their audience as adults, or are the two mutually exclusive?
Interesting. Mutation testing on database tables. Instead of testing application code, business rules--and constraints--are mutated against a test suite--

Most databases probably don't have test suites. But, it would be interesting to see if any work has been done on mutating constraints or "dirty data" injection.

This would ideally take the form of some annotated algebra, so that it is db driver agnostic, if possible.
But you can use any of a wide variety of actually useful messenger applications with no platform limitations…

Line, Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp, Messenger.

Why do these people insist on iMessage?
> building a tree in Rust will do a lot of reference counting

This isn't true in most cases. If every subtree is only referenced by its (unique) parent, then you can use a standard Rust "Box", which means that during compilation, the compiler inserts calls to malloc() (when the Box is created) and free() (when the Box goes out of scope). There will be no reference counting — or any other overhead — at runtime.
Fair point. It's a sorry state of afairs when you have to speculatively reverse engineer the algorithms run by a state-sanctioned oligopoly of private firms holding your own data gathered with, at best, coerced consent, and artificially structure your affairs in an attempt to present yourself as a dependable and unadventurous cash cow
For the indefinite future, fusion will be 25 months away.
> These days jeans always include at least some stretchy fibers

Definitely not so. A basic pair of Kirkland 14.5oz denim jeans from Costco ($13.99!) are still 100% cotton. Dad jeans though they may be, they are my favorite jeans nowadays. For one, they still include enough belt loops, something that many other manufacturers (cough Levi cough) have been skimping on.
Digital Deadmans switch?
Looks like an email harvesting app :)

Let's see a link to an example!
Of course the headline is silly, because AI systems lack any awareness or intention, but "the first religion that attracts devotees with sacred texts created by artificial intelligence" came out last month - it's called "Harmonism":

https://hughhowey.com/harmonism/
But hasn’t Google literally admitted to using user data for training purposes? I remember this being a big deal with Gmail and personalized ads a while back. Personally, it sounds to me like another case of “We think new technology is scary, therefore it’s banned”.
Why Mojo? (Modular’s new Python compatible language for AI)
I see a few alternatives for the first example here already, but none that take advantage of the walrus operator:

# Assuming credit can't be negative.
if user and (balance := user.get_balance()) and (credit := balance.credit_amount()):
discount_program = choose_discount(credit)
My company has one as their main database too, these things just run and run and run
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Stupidity is itself malicious. CatWChainsaw's Nastier Razor.
> If you apply the same statistical model

You can stop there. Does 538 have a single model that never changes and never receives human tweaking? Does it in turn rely on third-party polls that also never change their methodology? No, of course it doesn't.

The last sentence illustrates why people's concept of probability is so off. Cards, dice, and roulette wheels are not a model for human events.
There's one. technique I've been wondering about for a while but don't see on the page. Say there's one or two people who are the primary focus, and they stay in focus, but the background shifts so it comes closer even though the primary character(s) don't move. Not sure what it's called, would love to know.
We just might not be able to see eye to eye on this

You can do a tremendous amount of banking with a scanned photo ID.

Furthermore, the use case we're talking about here is disabling third-party detection for a tile you already have.
Prompt Injection Explained
Selling domain names as a squatter? Uh yeah, how about isuck LLC
How is the experience broken for anybody? I've been on group chats with my wife and parents (all iPhoners) for years and it's totally fine. I recently got a Pixel and now even the stupid emotes display properly (though it was easy to know what they meant before). I had an iphone forever ago (when my parents were paying for it), and I don't recall the experience of group chats being notably better or worse.

It's more annoying that I have three apps (signal, groupme, and discord) which each have a single friend or friend group that use them but that isn't an android/iphone problem.
> On top of that, while 538 initially provided good and solid insights, it has recently been successfully gamed by right-wing players by standing up bogus polling organizations and getting their bogus results into the aggregator's (like 538) results. The goal of course was to make their candidates seem more popular, and the "reliability" scores did not work, as the aggregators results were significantly off in that direction.

[Citation needed]

Lots of people raised that concern at the time, predicting the effort would bias aggregators, but for 538 at least, I’ve seen no analysis indicating a significant swing to a right bias in 2020, and overall the 2020 results were quite accurate.
In this case the candidates were very close. Fivethirtyeight's estimate had Hillary at 48.5% of the vote and Trump at 44.9% (and the rest on other canditates), only 3.6% apart.[1]

Usually, when things aren't quite so close, polls are a more useful gauge since they're more likely to be correct about who'll win as the gap widens.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast
Honest question -- what are you doing otherwise then? Just checking for typos in variable names?
Serious question: when some app sends you somewhere after a click/tap on iOS, but doesn't leave you the breadcrumb back link in the upper left corner, how do you go back? Is there no shortcut or gesture? Drives me crazy I can't figure it out every time I grab my son's or my parents' phone to help them with something.
> Durable stuff still exists, it's just harder to find because it shares the same name.

I've got to believe one of the most commonly available jeans in the US are the Kirland ones, and they're just plain 100% cotton denim. Mid-weight, 14.5oz, but plenty durable.
>Despite the mental toll of the work, which has left many content moderators suffering from PTSD, their jobs are some of the lowest-paid in the global tech industry, with some workers earning as little as $1.50 per hour

It kind of blows my mind that this it's legal for an American corporation to employ third world slave labor instead of American citizens.
That list doesn't seem particularly arbitrary. It's basically "nudity or sex", which is what you'd expect.

Traditionally, obscenity laws have been extremely vague. Having a fairly clear list of what counts is an improvement.
Before Disney/ABC get any -ideas-, might be a good chance to get our hands on at least their data[0]!

[0]: https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/
Can you even get a car in the US these days that doesn't have a GPS and cellular connection? My 8-year-old BMW has both even though they're not exposed as features in the head unit. (I know because the thing malfunctioned last year, called the cops, and gave them my GPS coordinates.)
https://archive.is/8rNrM