skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a very intelligent woman: graduated in 4 years having a 4.0 with a double major in CS and Chemistry. She was extremely gung-ho about going to university and achieving her PhD, and I naively believed at the time that she'd have no trouble accomplishing her goals.

Enter competitive research academia. She felt constantly defeated by classmates and advisors who seemed to be working against her at every turn. One advisor, whom she trusted, moved to take a job with another university. She followed in the hope that she could shed the toxicity of the current working environment. Turns out that the new place was just as toxic.

She finished with a 4.0 through grad school but never defended the dissertation due to burnout, tired of the constant struggle for resources, attention, and just plain basic humanity. She now has a subservient role to PhDs she could run circles around intellectually.
I think the 2 players thing is a major difference, unfortunately. My understanding (I don't play Commander) is that it is generally best played with 4 people. That said, someone pointed out that the 4 player requirement makes implementing it on Arena very difficult if not impossible. A single person going AFK or quitting ruins the experience for everyone. There is less of a social contract in place when playing anonymously via Arena, so it seems like it is ripe for frustration.
You can still publish a package without signing it; none of this is mandatory (or even implemented yet).

IMO, one of the things that Sigstore will need to do to become a "serious" codesigning solution for OSS ecosystems is support one or more vendor-neutral IdPs: Sigstore itself is a Linux Foundation project and thus might be able to serve as the right venue for that, or it could be a CA/B-style affair where individual neutral IdPs can qualify for inclusion.
The Bill of Rights only codified natural rights that exist for all. It is not a grant of rights given by the government.

The Bill of Rights is a statement from the people to the government. "These are some of our rights and you will respect them."
Microsoft didn't need to bribe anyone in the 80s and 90s because our country was still snorting that "woo hoo free markets fix everything" pixie dust. We weren't allowed to interfere with big business anymore. Clearly they knew what was best for us.
I had considered going the route of a nice midi controller and software, but ultimately when I wake up in the morning and sit down to practice I don't want to be on the computer with the seemingly infinite potential for distraction. I bought a Nord Grand a couple years ago and I'm really glad that I did. The action feels great and the sounds are good enough (although I really would love a new grand piano sample). My teacher even has commented that he's surprised by the dynamics in my touch on his grand at his studio, which in his experience often can get lost when practicing on a digital keyboard.

Anyway, I'd recommend it for anyone that's at that point of taking their practice seriously, but might not have the space/neighbors for an acoustic piano.
In this case the business advantage may simply have been that it was much easier to avoid following the rules while growing from its start 2017 to (at times) > $50B in holdings. They simply didn't care enough to devote the resources needed, i.e., apathy (and even antagonism) towards the normal business protocols.

That's assuming it wasn't done for less honest purposes.
CeFi is not a cryptocurrency technology and thus is cannot solve shortcomings of the traditional financial system because it is the traditional financial system.

Noone who is ideologically consistent with the crypto ethos would expect that ideology overrides greed.
Momentum Cyber’s RSA Conference 2023 Recap Report
Podman Desktop 1.0
Damn straight!

Anybody want a rational conversation about meditation (zazen etc), I'm game.
“runaway rent seeking”?
>The feature parity is there, most people consider using one or the other a matter of personal preference.

For musicians (professional or semi-pro) that use Logic on a laptop the feature parity is nowhere there. They depend on tens of AUs ("VSTs") that aren't available on the iPad for example, on top of lots of other stuff.
This PDF [1] they link to has several maps and break down risks by financial losses and historical risk of earthquake hazards.

[1] - https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_p-36... [PDF][18 MB]
I've done this and still get the messages in my MOTD when I log in.
There was an article about Ithkuil a while back in the New Yorker [0]. It's a funny read. The most successful constructed language remains Esperanto, I believe.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
I don’t have time right now to go into details but it was surprisingly simple, from a filter rules perspective, to create an “iMessage only” access point.

So there is no isolation from peers, but also no other usage of the device.

We turn it off completely at 9pm.

Edit: oh, the other important detail is that they have no-data SIM cards. Tello sells text and talk only sims for $8/mo or whatever. Weirdly, when they are away from home, apple finds a way to tunnel blue bubbles through (sms only) … not sure how … bottom line is, at home, it’s iMessage or nothing.
Prevent Link Rot, Applied
If you send us a note at support@commonpaper.com, we'd be happy to make an intro to one of the attorneys on the committee.

They can potentially help with configuring the standards for your business and/or drafting something custom if none of those are a fit
We (Splitgraph) implemented WASM UDFs in Seafowl [0], a database written in Rust based on Datafusion and optimized for executing queries "at the edge" and returning cache-friendly HTTP responses. Users can call CREATE FUNCTION within an SQL query to create a WASM UDF (docs [1]).

We blogged [2] about this feature, and you can read the relevant PRs [3] containing the changes necessary for its implementation.

[0] https://seafowl.io

[1] https://seafowl.io/docs/guides/custom-udf-wasm

[2] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/seafowl-wasm-udfs

[3] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asplitgraph%2Fseafowl+wasm...
Then you get people like me that fail at step one because we cannot "visualize" the steps. I logically understand what those words mean but I have no practical experience with actually doing anything approaching it.

The point is, don't think you are the baseline for everyone else. Nobody should give two shits about efficiency with cooking unless your job is to cook efficiently.
Going to School in a Dead Mall? Not Such a Bad Idea. (2021)
Modern consumer product branding with respect to e.g. food mostly dates to when self-service supermarkets put in an appearance. So mostly 20th Century. Although certainly there were sales adjacent and promotional activities long before that that are pretty much marketing, at least if you squint a bit.
I think you’re right here. You can recreate the technical aspects of YouTube relatively easily. You can’t recreate the brand.

Just because it’s big doesn’t mean Google will inevitably succeed. Look at Google+, Allo, Duo etc etc. to my mind there’s no guarantee a Google rideshare app would capture mindshare.
> Its a pity that a decade and more of hypeactivity, speculation and noise in cryptofinance will not leave much to show for it but the smoldering ruins of bizzare house-of-cards.

Weirdly, there's still plenty of speculation in this space, and still plenty of people getting rich off of it. Look at the price of bitcoin for example, it's rebounded substantially since the FTX collapse. People have become millionaires from this nonsense and a great many people seem to feel like there's still a lot of value.

I just don't understand it at all at this point. I understand how people would have been duped by the scams before all of the prominent failures, but why are people still willing to trade crypto for so much actual money?
If I squint really really really hard they both have "com" towards the end of their names.
>macOS has increasingly become user-hostile when it comes to audio

Like?
If you asked me, I would advise as strongly as possible that you stop using the term "legos" for a class of component.

1. We all know what the owners of the trademark will do when they find it (justifiably, perhaps)

2. The plural of Lego is Lego - legos makes me wince every time I read it

Just call them blocks?

As for what this does... kind of an interesting idea, but I feel like the overlapping set of "people who need to do this sort of operation" and "people who want to build these in a UI rather than write a script" is pretty small.
I have two main issues with Gnome. The first is that I find it unintuitive and difficult to use. The second is that it's really hard, sometimes impossible, to configure it to remove some of the pain points and add missing functionality.
"What can I do to get you in this car today?"
I have been thinking about this in the context of Java libraries (really using Scala, but bear with me).

If the repo requires a GPG signature, they could also ask for the public key of the developer making the releases (e.g. when they make the account), and they could sign it with their key at that point.

Then make available the package, the signature, and the signed public key. Then I only need to trust the repo's key (in this case PyPi).

Does this make any sense?
Maybe, if we are positing alternate-history elephants that will hold formation like trained warriors.

We have pretty strong empirical evidence that real life elephants do not seriously outclass formations of humans armed with iron weapons. They were used in warfare in the Mediterranean for a few hundred years and in Asia for many centuries after that. They had some shock value, but never became a dominant, war-winning component of any army.
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman

LLMs notwithstanding, I have yet to see a replication of the human mind created by humans. Therefore, I would take any claim that neuroscience 'understands' how the human mind works (a claim that I've never heard from an actual neuroscientist) with a huge amount of salt.
Be careful with these sorts of generalizations when it's to related, but not identical, species. We can see with Bonobos and Chimpanzees that even within a genus there can be big behavioral differences.

For instance, your Hare link goes to Lepus.

Non-domesticated European rabbits (Oryctolagus) exist. If you don't trust that there hasn't been cross-breeding with domesticated rabbits, then Caprolagus would be a better comparison. Even Sylvilagus, phylogenetically closer to Oryctolagus than Lepus, is behaviorally distinct (not existing in warrens).
To start addressing this problem, I think one has to understand why someone actively supports this state of affairs. Don't start from "They're under-informed;" that's hubris (and studies show trying to reason someone out of a hard-felt feeling makes them far likelier to just tune you out than change the feeling). Consider the voter who thinks being spied on by the FBI is great. How do you reach them.

I give as an analogy nuclear weapons. People are pretty universally in agreement that the threat of global armageddon is, well, bad, and we could really minimize it if we just ditched the nukes. Even unilateral disarmament, given the massive disparity of the US stockpile vs. other stockpiles, would take a huge chunk out of the apocalypse pie-chart.

... so why is suggesting unilateral disarmament absolutely horrifying to so many people?

People vote their hearts. Dig into the feelings underpinning support for a surveillance state and address them, because if the feelings don't change the votes won't change. Propose alternatives to the surveillance state that address those feelings.

Americans just watched a faction try to take over the government with violence. There's a story that can be told there, and told one way it creates feelings that encourage more centralized surveillance, and told another way it creates feelings that encourage far, far less surveillance.
I wonder about that too.

My guess is that when the Tenor sale happened back in 2018 there were still enough of small companies that competed, Giphy being one of the last major ones to get taken over.

I don't know if antitrust watchdogs can still start a successful case five years later, but I would be very happy if they could undo that sale too. These tech companies are big enough already, they don't need more power.
Thankfully, there are other ways of interacting with one's peers, most of which create more meaningful connections than social media.

To put it more bluntly: if social media is the only thing standing between a child and total isolation, that child has far bigger problems.

Maybe sign your kid up for little league?
It feels to me like it's a coincidence of evolutionary pressures and timelines that humans evolved to a take-off level of intelligence before elephants or whales. Whales especially just haven't had the time, they are a much younger species/order than primates. If humpback whales had been contemporaneous with, say, australopithecus, who knows how things would have gone. And elephants maybe just didn't win the roll of the dice, it feels like there were some very pivotal moments of evolution where our ancestors were under tremendous pressure, where small populations and a tenuous grasp on species survival led to unique intellectual adaptations.

It would be fun to imagine a world where the Americas were just out of reach of human migration, but an elephant species on the continents developed speech and abstraction. In my mind it would be a smaller species of elephant, of which there were many, and who may have more need to take advantage of intelligence to prosper.

I also think about r- and K-selected species [1]; whether the survival of a species depends on the fitness of the individual or the fitness of the parent. Humans are incredible parents (being K-selected), and we preserve our line by preserving our children. We're physically decent I suppose, but definitely not as children. Whales are similar, with small numbers of children who require almost heroic parental effort to raise. Elephants are definitely on the same spectrum.

[1] https://www2.nau.edu/lrm22/lessons/r_and_k_selection/r_and_k...
I quibble with the notion that there is "good" and "bad" social media, at least as you implicitly defined.

Facebook was amazing when it first came out because it allowed people to keep in touch easier and share photos with each other. It also is arguably the progenitor of "bad" social media with tallied likes/reactions and algorithmic skinner boxing of posts.

Unfortunately, it boils down more to usage than whether or not a site is a "good/bad" social media. And even a good one can turn bad if it gets too popular and the culture dies (reddit)

I don't really know how to feel about it. To me, it feels like smartphones. I recognize the utility but at the same time know that the manufacturers/developers are intentionally designing psychologically addictive patterns to keep me engaged, and am inclined to utilize it less as a result. Which in turn limits the utility I get out of them!
The Making of Age of Empires II [video]
When it comes to any kind of art, beauty is entirely in the eye of the beholder. I love some music with really complex harmonies and rhythms like jazz or progressive rock, but also love a lot of EDM made with simple 808 beats and the simplest melodies.

How popular something is, or how much money the artist makes, doesn’t even enter the equation.

People like what they like. Whether other people also like it seems beside the point.

From the artist’s point of view, hopefully they are making the art that they love. Trying to do something because you think it will sell is business, not art.
Try:

> "Business Collaboration within the Nazi War Machine: Corporations and the State in the Austrian Semiperiphery, November 2019, Canadian Review of Sociology, Clarence Lo, University of Missouri"

Certainly the heads of those corporate entities (IG Farben, Krupp, Deutsche Bank) that the Nazi regime depended most heavily on had a degree of power and autonomy on a par with the political and military leadership, and were joint partners in, and joint beneficiaries of, the enterprise. It's true that other German business interests were in a more subservient position, however.
Ahh interesting. So you could not have one key encrypting the messages than a separate org-wide key encrypting the naughty word list. That makes sense. Thanks.
You're not in a bubble, you're just old. The youths think gifs are corny and uncool.
How are they isolated? If kids are involved in sports and extra curriculars they will have plenty of social interaction. Nothing on social media is good for young minds. Everything is a pitch trying to sell some sort of viewpoint. I'm the parent, I'll provide morals and insight into topics I think are important that aren't or shouldn't be covered in school. I don't need Jim.lottahoes78 teaching my kid anything.
Open Source Security Index
Great, now the Terminators will be barking orders at each other in languages I can't understand.
A bull elephant is the true king of the jungle. But a lot of humans with zero self-regard could take down maybe one or two elephants at a time.

Perhaps an ancient Roman legion with a ballista - and balls of steel - could do some damage.

But you can only stop a herd of elephants that work together with modern technology.

The only early walls that can stop elephants would would be castle walls and thicker, and those are major projects that you'd have to undertake while getting tusked and stomped. Maybe ditches would work better, or caltrops.
Duhhhh yes I keep forgetting that there are businesses that solely exist to extract money from idiots instead of actually trying to solve a problem.

(I'm not even being sarcastic, I often forget this).
If you pay $1000+ for a MIDI controller it can have a very good keyboard as well.
What do professionals do when the hardware fails? Do they have regular backups, then buy the same hardware on ebay and then restore the "golden" setup?

I recently tried to reinstall an old MacBook 13" that had a hard drive replacement. I couldn't log in to perform the install, Apple servers were throwing me an error. The only choice I had is to put another OS on it.
Well if we're going to be so reductive I don't think they were ever productive for society to begin with. How many people do we really need working on targeted advertisements and algorithms for social media engagement?
My read is this is primarily radio filters, and all the stuff they were already buying from Qualcomm. There are a lot of them in 5G iPhones. Biggest loser here in my read is Skyworks, who provided a lot of the front-end-modules.
The very first sentence from the blog post:

"User-defined functions (UDFs) have been a fixture in database systems for a considerable period of time, allowing users to extend the database’s built-in functionality to complement good ol’ SQL."

Granted, I'm biased, but I think we did a decent job elaborating from there on the novelties WebAssembly brings to this age-old field.
Indus script: The only remaining indecipherable script of the ancient world
The faq in the book says this about it:

> Gren started as a fork of Elm. This is mostly considered to be an implementation detail, a way to speed up initial development.

> It's not a goal of Gren to replace, or stay compatible in any way with, Elm.

A little vague but I read it as they're planning on diverging strongly and immediately with a clean break. Which doesn't make it not a fork I guess, but isn't what I normally think of when someone says a project is a fork of another.
And those problems are solved by crypto because… ?
Baking soda will modify the Ph enough to speed the maillard reaction. A few pinches per onion should do it. Thank me later.
Can you elaborate for the viewers at home in the UK?
> Everyone I know started drinking at like 14/15.

Very few people I know started drinking that young. Though most had had a drink by 19.
Then you are either older, lucky or never introspected.

I assume lucky for a moment.

The problem is less that conversations are more delayed or ad-hoc but more that they can potentially miss out on "group events". And that is where the problem starts. Because they also can't join in on conversations about that event, etc. This means while the rest of the group will frequently have situations where they emotionally bond you get are not included and in turn get subtle unintended socially isolated.

If you are a socially very adapted child you can probably compensate this just fine.

If you have other more important friend groups it probably also doesn't matter too much.

If there is a group of people (not just a small minority) in the same situation as you in the same social circle it also probably is fine.

but if not it really can hurt, and you likely only notice how damaging it was for your social life after the damage is already done and hard to recover even if you now convince your parents to give your more leeway

and that's under the assumption the social group in question is "nice" but you e.g. can't choose the people you go to school with and a not so nice social group can use this to intentionally exclude it or use it as a starting point for bullying which often is only addressed when it has gone out of hand to a point where a parent or teacher stepping in can't fix anything anymore

and sure above's arguments often matter much more for e.g. multiplayer computer games then for "having a phone", through not having a phone also means e.g. not having a camera and not being able to make and share group photos with your social group

instead of denying access to a phone, social media, etc. it's better to control it in a careful and reasonable way. E.g. don't forbid the playing of idk. Fortnight, but explain the problems with it and maybe limit the hours and similar a child can spend, but allow the child to decide when to spend them and allow some degree of saving up hours etc. Similar for social media, etc.

Same applies for going out etc. as far as I can tell it's best for you child to allows it a wide leeway just not unlimited and properly educate them about dangers.

EDIT: deleted the last paragraph it was off topic
thanks for the detail! I'll give it a shot. I do like my onions a bit firmer but sometimes an onion jam is a good thing
You don't have to spread old lies to make microsoft look bad, they do just fine at being terrible on their own.
woah, awesome! sorry this didn't come up in our research. will try to update and fit it into the post if that's ok?
There was probably never a woolly rebellion where they banded together against us though
right, this is the clear improvement. on the other hand, now it means science-oriented high schoolers lives get an extra helping of misery and stress.

on top of this you also filter out anyone who doesn't perfectly stay on this high-stakes pipeline from age 14 to tenure, which is probably not good overall for science.

economics is actually pretty close to working this way already. indeed, the job market for economics PhDs is much less dystopian than say life sciences. but there are tradeoffs.
Now we will generate the pollution without having to pay anyone anything! Progress!
Question to the knowledgeable group here, is AM radio frequency useful for anything else? Would terminating commercial radios benefit any other industry?
> Does this make any sense?

It makes sense in terms of trusting the package index, but it's inverted from the original design goal: the point of end-user signatures on package indices is to eliminate unnecessary package index trust, not reinforce it.

If you already trust the package index, then mandating HTTPS and strong cryptographic digests is going to be far more effective (and secure) than some kind of PGP key attestation scheme.
The whole point of having a sandboxed runtime like WebAssembly is that the code can be executed without user trust, as the user cannot pierce the isolation boundary or exceed the resource limits provided by the sandbox.