skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure I understand the difference between modern and classic inks. Is there a definition somewhere?

I'm not sure if there is an official definition. But what I mean by this, is that classic inks (like iron gall) were usually a combination of pigment and an acid as a carrier. Modern inks are usually alcohol or water carriers with nano-pigments or dyes, combined with surfactants which helps ensure the ink flows well without any issues across varied paper types.

Ink has moved forward rather significantly in modern times, but I am not a chemist so I can't really get into details. I've used (out of some desire for the archaic) some correct reproductions of classic inks like iron gall or other pigment inks and it is kind of nasty and clogs the nib of the pen, but leaves a very permanent mark on the paper that has a somewhat unique appearance. I know some people prefer something anachronistic, but I am a fan of modern ink for sure.
The article kind of dances around it, but AIUI the reason that their "weite-only load" caused reads (and thus readahead) was because they were writing to a mapped page that had already been evicted - so the kernel was reading/faulting those pages because it can only write in block/page sized chunks.

In some sense maybe this could be thought of as readahead in preparation for writing to those pages, which is undesirable in this case.

However, what confused be about this article was if the data files are append only, how is there a "next" block to read ahead to? I guess maybe the files are pre-allocated or the kernel is reading previous pages.
A lot of the daily fluctuations in weight, even in just everyday life for people not in hospitals, involves changes in water weight rather than actual changes in the tissue mass.

For example, I regularly fluctuate +/- 3lbs or so around my true weight over the course of a day.

Looking at daily values can give a distorted picture, but if you use those daily weighings to average into weekly numbers, you can track changes.
The restriction that you have to own it for 3 years because you're getting it at cost seems aligned with nearly every government mortgage subsidy. They're normally loans that have to be repaid if you sell within a time period. And ROFR at market value after that doesn't seem like it has any negative effect on the seller.

And, to be clear, these restrictions would apply to someone who was still an employee and wanted to sell, not just to someone who wasn't an employee anymore. The restrictions are because of the financial considerations being offered at the purchase of the home, not because of the employment relationship.
Everyone knows that. What is the point you're trying to make?
I work for a company who for a very long time was strongly opposed to employees using any cloud-based infrastructure, including OS or programming language package managers (eg. apt-get, Pip for Python, etc), opting to host their own instance if possible and disallowing usage if not possible. IT did finally cave and switch to Office365, which has been slowly opening the floodgates to other services being allowed.
I know it's a nearby city but when I used Orbicule Undercover to find my laptop's thieves the Newark fuzz had it back to me very fast. They of course did not chase down anything else that was stolen and fenced elsewhere because the crime was solved with my thing. Crazy.
Strictly speaking, if said hosting company has access to the unencrypted data store they don't need any passwords. And if said hosting company has access to the encryption keys, any encrypted data store might just as well be considered unencrypted. So your question then becomes: how much effort should we spend on making it hard for our business partners to exfiltrate our data?

The problem with these kinds of questions is that the GDPR does not define any threat models, it only mentions "proper processes" and "adequate safeguards". Whether active subversion (by law or by greed) by your service provider should be included in your data loss exposure/risk assessments is very much an open question. At my company we decided to exclude such questions from the GDPR compliance process, and only include these scenario's in the threat models for our security assessments (note: that's not to say they are treated in isolation -- the results from our security assessments do inform our GDPR decisions like which data can be hosted where, but we do not repeat those same risk assessments in the GDPR survey).

To give a more direct answer to your question: I would consider encryption-at-rest a minimal requirement for a company hosting our internal data. Regardless of whether they're inside or outside the EU, and whether we're looking to host internal data, sales data or customer data; not being able to offer encryption at rest would mean my company won't use your hosting services for non-public data. For us, this specific ability is a supplier maturity test: if you haven't given serious thought about securing your customer's data, maybe we shouldn't be in business together.

But that decision is driven more by a defense-in-depth strategy about overall data security than by a specific GDPR requirement.
If you want to pair positives with negatives, then reals would still be odd, as long as zero is unsigned. Zero is the unpaired element, hence odd.

But it all just seems silly. We can say the set of positive integers is even because we can come up with a pairing of elements, while the set of positive reals is odd because we can't come up with a pairing? Where's the mathematical utility in that?
I was under the impression that the $10k cap is for SALT and mortgage interest is separate? The mortgage interest deduction was reduced, interest on new loans is only deductable for the first $750k of debt, instead of $1M, and mortgage rates were really low in 2017; capped SALT + a relatively low interest rate on $750k might not combine to more than the standard deduction if you're married filing jointly. Certainly on my ~ $350k mortgage @ 3.15%, I stopped itemizing after the tax changes.
We have collectively taught all the non-tech folks not to enter sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, in non-secure forms that don't show the lock.

This used to mean a lot when certificates were harder and more expensive - the rationale was fly-by-night bad actors wouldn't bother. This is most definitely not the case now.

Realistically as well, it's mostly to guard against man-in-the-middle interception - as we all know once it hits the server handling the SSL termination, all security bets are off.

FWIW Chrome does (and I assume will continue) saying "Not secure" where the padlock used to be, for HTTP sites. So there is at least that as a warning.
> Meanwhile the rich will no longer have any need for the poor, and since 100% of your worth as a human being derives from what job you do in service of the rich, you'll become a worthless little fucking bug for them to exterminate.

This matches the data.
You're vastly overestimating the competency of the majority of thieves.
AirTags encrypt the location data end-to-end between the finding device and the Find My app on the owner’s devices. There’s no mass surveillance, unless you count masses of individual users surveilling their own AirTags.
Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data
> Perhaps you don't know how to pick phones? My last Android device lasted 4 years (in fact it is still going strong after I installed DivestOS, became my backup phone), and my new device will probably last a long time too.

They might just replace their phone a lot. Some people do that.

Actually, despite the common wisdom that Apple users are always getting the latest thing and just can't wait to give Apple more money at every opportunity, every person I've known who replaced their phone about annually to chase whatever the just-released flagship phone was so they can always have the shiniest thing, has been an Android user. Though, to be fair, I've also known plenty of Android users who don't do that. I've just not yet seen an Apple user behave that way (but I'm sure some do). I think this has something to do with Android fans having more overlap with computer hardware enthusiasts in general, than Apple fans do.

I've also known a few Android users who get a new phone every year because they think the next $200 phone won't suck just as much as the last one did. And that, sure, is kinda their own fault.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks! I had been wondering where the FDIC got the money to cover since the fund was already berks it's minimum required balance and didn't have the liquidity.

I hadn't seen any reports confirming a Fed loan but that seems like about the only way it could have worked.
>"There’s a lot of drugs in Bob Lee's system. I mean, Bob Lee's system is like the Walgreens of recreational drugs," Canny said outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Tuesday, following a pre-trial hearing.

This is disgusting, offensive, and seems to be a hit piece against Bob to deflect from the cesspit of depravity that SF has become. In the eyes of Sinclair-owned media, when homeless people do drugs, they're "self-medicating", but if a wealthy CEO does them, they "make bad decisions and do bad things".

It doesn't even specify if Mr. Lee was intoxicated during his assault, or if these were metabolites from one or two weeks ago.

IMO they are trying to associate Mr. Lee's weekend partying with getting stabbed 3 times in the chest by a stranger.
Yes, but this is true regardless of whether the company helps build the housing.
two tom7 videos in as many months, what a treat.
In (50%) of Beta, Chrome attempts HTTPS and silently falls back to HTTP on all HTTP links. We're still poking around with opt-outs, currently if you allow insecure content via Page Info / Site Controls, we stop upgrades.
No to all of that, it was a civil not a criminal case.

The family brought the lawsuit, which was thrown out because they didn’t have standing. They lacked standing because the government hadn’t prosecuted them.
I don't mean to be flippant, and I wish you the best of luck in your creative endeavors, but I think the emergence of this sort of functionality will solidify the role of professional artists in our society. If you compare the work of art school freshmen with art school seniors, it's pretty apparent that using tools to physically create media is a pretty small part of what they learn.
I love violent revolutions, they always lead to lovely results where ever or whenever they occur.
It's fascinating to me how ~80% of the population of the atheist-dominated parts of the Internet seem to have found religion as soon as they started thinking about the implications of AI passing the Turing test in varying degrees in the present and near future.
> When the language model’s predictions contradict our expectations, experiences or prior knowledge, or when we find counter-factual evidence to that response (sequence of predicted tokens) – that’s when we find hallucinations

No. Hallucination is any idea which was not assessed for truth. Whatever statement is not put over the "testing table" and analyzed foundationally counts as hallucination.
Remember, the nickname "Browser" was invented after the fact, to describe the program that loads URLs and displays them to the user. The proper name of such a program is "User Agent". It is a program that acts as the agent, or the servant, of the user.

My "browser" runs on my computer, by me, for me. It is not beholden to "all of the stakeholders", or "the rest of the people in the ecosystem". If my agent acting in a manner that User Agents were originally intended to, only fetching the URLs that I - the user - want it to fetch, "would cause a disaster to the health of the web ecosystem", then maybe the current web ecosystem is bad and deserves to meet with disaster.

The web managed to explode in usefulness and popularity before surveillance capitalism became a thing, not because of it.
They spun off only Global Technology Services, which was only IT infrastructure consulting.

Most of the business consulting, including outsourcing software engineering, is still with IBM.
Weird Probability Distributions
Firefox is fine on all platforms. Smooth even! But in terms of loading time and raw JS performance, Chrome wins hands down every time in my experience.

Using https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ this is quantified not only by some arbitrary number but also through the visibly slower update speed during the DOM tests.

I use Firefox on every device, but Chrome is just faster. I can live with the impact on speed for all the privacy features, but if Mozilla ever wants to get their market share above 5% again they'll need to provide the common user a reason to switch and that'll be hard when the browser is noticeably slower.
There's no difference at all for someone who works a dayjob. The only thing that matters is that you have you demonstrated that you can make a fixed monthly payment reliably. Paying your bills, paying your rent, paying your CC all demonstrate that. If you rent a $1500/mo apartment you actually have managed $18k of debt.

Doing the same thing but this time with interest proves nothing the others don't. Borrowing history makes sense for businesses or people who with complicated cash-flows. But if you're stably gainfully employed the only things that matter is how you manage your external financial risks (which banks don't check for) and your ability to not over spend (which banks also don't check for).

Combine this with the your typical mortgage is overcollateralized means the magnitude of the loan is essentially meaningless outside of "is the monthly payment something you can afford."
No, I don't remember the names of my text books. They were usually something like "American History I."

Some easy examples are being taught things like Betsy Ross creating the first flag or Paul Revere's ride, but in general most of it said the founding fathers were great men who could basically do no wrong, except slavery which was a necessary evil. Not flawed politicians mostly looking out for themselves first, which is more of what they were
I've interacted with a few business/life coaches over the years, and I have found that clicked perfectly for me.

To find them a combination of:
- Using search engines for "life coach" or "business coach" in your area

- Find people that you respect in your industry, reach out to them over twitter/linkedin/email/whatever, clearly stating you're looking for a coach, and if there is anyone they recommend.

After you find a few, I suggest just trying them out. Book some sessions and see how it goes. I use these criteria:

- Has worked with engineers in the past.

- Is able to clearly articulate boundaries and approach in the first session

- Willingness to test and measure. Understanding and appreciating the lean startup approach essentially.

- Is solution and goal oriented. Spending weeks/months talking about the problem without attempting solutions is a waste of everybodys time.

- With you can quickly develop a shared understanding of what success looks like.

- Can build a rapport with you, and you can build the trust required for total honesty.
There isn't one now, fine. But why shouldn't we be trying to invent one?
Do you have any of the investors emails? Email the founder, CC the investors, quoting your various state labor laws. Founders love it when employees go around them and talk to their investors directly. /s
Thank you.

Can you perhaps expand on the sense it wasn’t a unique experience as well? Do you feel you’ve “reversed” the course you saw?
But their marketing copy has a bunch of differently colored corporate Memphis people doing happy and fun things, surely they have our best interest at heart!
Getting people to give talks is a good idea as its extra pressure to learn so you know what you're talking about. Thanks.
Believe it or not, the title began as a placeholder title before I realized it was a Google-ism for shutting things down.
> started Brave and turned it into a bigger system than FF

On what metric is Brave bigger than Firefox?
> In math people like well-formed questions, and generally don't like ill-formed questions.

This is not so simple, though. Ill formed questions can be interesting as a motivation to formalise them (ie make them well-formed) in generalising/abstracting concepts into new concepts. Eg how even/odd has been generalised to transfinite numbers.
I'm surprised people are still reasoning about Mozilla in their former "glory".

Firefox market share has been tanking for 13 years(!) straight. Already 6 years ago the CTO of Mozilla concluded that Chrome had won:

https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/

There's nothing Mozilla can do to reverse Firefox's course. It's not an engineering problem, they have no reach to push anything and for ordinary people default-shipped browsers are just fine.

The real question indeed is what Mozilla really is with this reality check in mind. A type of do-good activist organization that does a lot of preaching yet fails to convert this into actual meaning or impact?

All of this made possible by "easy money". They literally do not have to do a damn thing to receive $0.5B from Google. Just keep things as-is.

As they are trying to find alternative income streams, for the first time in their history they're learning what hard money is. Generating $0.5B in the tech market by delivering an actual service/product people will pay you for...is fucking hard.

As such, it's odd that in their borrowed time they continue to give away money or do takeovers of products that do not add revenue. I guess they'll never learn.
The problem the complainers want to solve: More housing, more affording housing specific, for as many people as possible.

The problem the company is solving, specifically when they rent the house and don’t sell it: employee retention.

If a company wants to become a real estate developer and sell the housing to its employees, that’s fine. Assuming they’re actually increasing housing stock and not just gentrifying at the expense of locals. But as we all see with the American health care system, linking basic living needs to your employment is a terrible plan, and renting a company house sounds like “company towns” for that reason.

Going from employed, housed and insured to the opposite of all 3 because you got sick of your boss demanding you work weekends is pretty dystopian and exactly where this plan would lead.

Tl:dr- we don’t need any more fucking rentals, we need more home owners (generally, idgaf about anyone’s personal preference for renting or owning. If you want to hire a parasite to fix your pipes 3 weeks after they break in exchange for paying his mortgage that’s between you and your god).
I have seen it used on a commercial project, but I couldn't fathom why they were doing it. I guess business people did their thing. Large healthcare related project in the US.
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And if you read past the introduction, you'll find the article is about one specific instance, which is what people are talking about.
Why would I use this over Nim?
Exactly. As useful as ChatGPT is for a lot of menial tasks, people give humans far too little credit.
Embracing marginalized people doesn't mean automatically taking the side of the accuser in an employment discrimination case, based on a one-sided blog post with no factual evidence presented. That's just mob politics, and I'm perfectly within my rights to flag the post, just like I'm within my rights to explain why I flagged it when someone asks.

It's ironic that you labeled my comment hate speech and essentially called me a bigot, despite knowing nothing about me aside from my username.
I wonder when the contract system really emerged. WWII struck me more as the government coming into these centers of production, which at the time might be auto factories, and mandating that there would be no more fords during the war years and instead p51 mustangs, versus ford retooling as a business decision to serve this newfound customer. The government also rationed remaining cars to people depending on things like their occupation and its value having a car would be to the social system, and the state of their existing car. That's a little different than how it works today, and I often think that today its a bit inefficient too. For example, Lockheed and Raytheon could be competing for the exact same contract. I'd expect they aren't privy to share technological secrets between eachother's engineering teams, just for the sake of beating the other to the contract. In the end you have engineers working competitively instead of collaboratively, information gets siloed, and novel findings that might have been happen with more sharing of information never see the light of day. Maybe it's different though, and the government enforces a degree of collaboration, I hope.
I’m using a docker container on Ubuntu, which is on my home lab that’s an esxi 6.5 hypervisor.
Going to be building a new machine with a few hundred GB of ram and then, at some point in the next 6 months, looking at getting a good GPU with a bunch of vRAM.

Wrapped the thing in a flask app so I can expose APIs I build out.
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
Credit scores make more sense if you think of them not as scores of your ability to pay back debt, but as scores of likely profitability for the creditor. Someone who never carries a balance and never will pay the occasional late fee is less profitable and thus has a lower score.
The first probability distribution he links is spelled wrong.

Also the weirdest probability distributions I saw were over structures that aren't real numbers. It can get real weird.
Let's just hope NYC doesn't make any similarly draconian web laws.
Thanks. We do get people on simple tasks, I think programming in general is under control. Its the formal side that I think needs some formal training. Ie how to design a database isn't something you get much exposure to when you're incrementing a bit of new functionality.
A defendant is entitled to a vigorous defense. Lee's drug use, on its own, is likely not enough to warrant a not guilty verdict. But it's unlikely that's the end of it, the defense will likely claim there was an altercation, probably initiated by a drunk, wasted, coked-up Lee, and that lends credence. I mean, without knowing any facts about this case whatsoever, is it more likely a guy was literally stabbed by a stranger, entirely unprovoked, or that there was some kind of interaction prior? Again, I know absolutely nothing about this case, but the latter seems more likely.
Ironic haha
Chrome remembers certificate click-throughs for 2 weeks. That being said, there's definitely a bunch of room for improvement with local networks that we haven't quite sorted out yet.
Better Than Singletons: The Service Locator Pattern
Please do not anthropomorphize LLM.
Please stop fantasizing about 'global revolutions'.

Wealth redistribution movements can successfully happen within national borders, or even within tightly knit groups of nations (say EU, or NAFTA).

But there will never be any solidarity between say US and African workers, heck there won't even be any solidarity between Indian and African workers. China in particular violently suppresses unions because they believed it'll result in China outcompeting all other developing countries in manufacturing, which is exactly what happened.

If AI is to replace white collar jobs, the outsourced white collar jobs (low precision, low criticality) will be the first to go. Replaced by one person in the home country doing the job of 5-10 in the past. This fact alone crushes any sympathy across borders.