skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two years ago I used just about everything Google and had done so since Gmail first came out. My Android phone was googlefi. Internet was google. Gmail. DNS. SSO to pretty much everything.

One day out of the blue my Google Pay account was marked as fraud and locked down. I couldn't update/add/change any of my payment information. I have no idea why. I don't remember when/how I even found out it was locked down, I wasn't really sure at that point what stopped working, if anything. I didn't have anything TELL me that it wasn't working so I thought this was just an isolated event that would get resolved quickly and wasn't affecting anything important.

Then throughout that week I started to notice what wasn't working. I could log into gmail (IIRC) but I wasn't getting any email. My custom domains that forwarded to gmail stopped resolving. My cell phone wouldn't make calls anymore. I never had a problem with SSO logins, thankfully.

The credit card I was using for all of my Google services was coming up on its expiration and I desperately needed my 15+ year old gmail to work. I'm pretty sure I was in the middle of selling a house when this was going on. I have so much mail in the inbox that it won't accept mail without paying for the service. Google has this form you fill out and attach a picture of your drivers license to so that they can investigate the "fraud." Over that month I sent in my DL at least 3 times. I never received any response.

I was without a phone for a week because they had no customer service to even speak to, not that I could even make any outbound calls. I wound up getting another phone plan elsewhere because that was the most critical thing to me. I was so pissed at Google I switched to an iPhone.

I was getting no response from Google and days/weeks were going by so finally I bit the bullet and de-googled everything I could. I migrated all of my 15 years of email to Fastmail. I moved all of my DNS records. Changed my ISP. It was infuriating.

It's been about 2 years since I did that, I've still never heard from Google about anything. But now all of my accounts are unlocked.

I will never, ever trust my important accounts to Google again.
Both can be true. You can have cancer and bubonic plague at the same time.
Wow! Thanks for the post. I was able to login to my locked account as well. Been waiting ten years for this.
> If you can't afford a home with a 40 hour job, something is sick in this country.

I don't think this has ever really been true with any inclusive definition (white men used to, but nobody else). I would be curious where in the world that does not have a declining population that it is true.

This article suggests that there has been a small decline in home buying age, but it is not a big one.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/21/ge...
Ethiopian quest to re-create ancient manuscripts
1031 exchange

Capital gains exemption

Mortgage interest deduction

30 year fixed rate mortgages

Depreciation deduction

Opportunity zones

The list seems to go on forever. The government uses tax cuts to juice real estate investment at everyone else's expense.
I think very few people make the decision primarily based on the stove provided.
Why would you live in NY without an income like that?
One should do that for all email addresses, even ones that one uses daily.

You never know when you will be screwed over by your provider.
How would they actually know (unless there was very specific evidence of something like a lab accident associated with it) that these people were actually the first to fall ill and not just very early infections?
Tesla giga casting gets its biggest supporter yet from legacy auto
This idea is straight out of Cryptonomicon. I remember being fascinated by my first modem's LEDs, and being mindblown when I realized that what seemed like different levels of green were actually the shape of a pseudo-random binary step function.
I don’t remember that narrative honestly but I’m sure somebody said that.
v29 looks promising :)
Compared to scrolling through a dozen pages of users arguing over the same first comment topic?

Maybe it's better to say "it's easier to mute de-railings" then say it is prevented. one or two clicks compared to a dozen page loads and scrollings.
> “Ever since I put out my [May 2020] preprint [research paper] saying that an accidental lab origin was possible, I was criticized as a conspiracy theorist,” said Chan. “If this info had been made public in May of 2020, I doubt that many in the scientific community and the media would have spent the last three years raving about a raccoon dog or pangolin in a wet market.”

That was so bizarre and strange. Both the shadiness of Chinese government and the complete confidence of many US scientists that the origin was definitely not related to the lab.

Anyone who suspected anything was just a conspiracy theorist. I can understand skepticism one way or another, and a desire to learn. I thought, well these scientists who spend years researching and conducting lengthy studies, somehow immediately new with 100% confidence it definitely had nothing to do with the bio-lab. It's like someone waving their hands in front of a building with smoke coming out and saying "nothing to see here, look the other way, please".
Ancient Egyptian followers of a deity called Bes may have used hallucinogens
It’s ridiculous that your comment has been downvoted. This is a great article. Those who defend Fauci and the establishment narrative do so with a religious fervor. No amount of reasoning or logic seems to get through to them.
It absolutely doesn't. A friend of mine was a [player authority] (I forget the term) in the early days of Asheron's Call. As I understand it, that's basically what happened to them, and most of them went from passionate volunteers to just throwing in the towel. He's still bent about it if it comes up in conversation for some reason.
No, Toshiba.
What is the recent hit on Vanguard I have seen going around? Aren't they mostly investing in indexs which would necessitate blindly buying stock in companies and of course they do it on a massive scale due to their size? Is Vanguard in some way encouraging companies to do evil things?
They ain't mutually exclusive.
I had a similar issue with people ignoring my availability at my previous company. I just started declining meetings. It forced people to either decide they didn’t need me in the meeting or they would reschedule it
> in part because that prevents weird issues Windows tends to develop when running too long

What are you using Windows Vista? I run about a dozen windows machines, half of them are VMs and none of them need to be rebooted regularly. Average uptime is over 40 days, and I only reboot when there's a big update. Windows becoming unstable entirely depends on the 3rd party software you install on it. Don't install crapware, you won't have a crap experience.
> thanks to the Rickover culture — were ferociously focused on safety and on second-checking everything in sight.

So true. This also explains why France never had any major mishap degenerating into a severe accident.

There is an old joke: "1 worker opens some valve, 10 workers check that the valve is indeed open, 30 engineers study causes, consequences and ways to cope with this process".

However nothing is perfect, and a major accident may also be triggered by some terrorist/desperate mind/military/... action.

There are other parameters: hot waste, geo-strategic challenges tied to uranium, lowering ore grades inducing more and more polluting extraction processes...

Moreover we don't know how to build reactors anymore upon a decent schedule and budget: 9 out 10 of those built since the 2000's are late and overbudget, and most other ones are opaque projects.
I don't understand what you're saying. That it doesn't work if you need combinations of 3 or more features (a subset?)
GCCs in India are giving IT services companies a run for their money
A reasonable question. What are the non-negotiables that compel people to live in Manhattan? Is it being able to walk to noodles 24/7, or something else?
Nah, Steve. I'm good. Thanks.
Also had this problem, tried to create exe packages on windows and had endless trouble (although windows apps aren't my expertise). The real killer in the end for me was some windows security feature that would start killing the process, not immediately, but after a couple of startups. It was an internal tool so in the end I used an executable batch script to start the program, that seemed to bypass the problem, but when it came time to add features and make things available for a wider audience I just abandoned the windows gui and moved to a web app.
Here's the lore link for the LKML thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613134105.GA10301@redhat.c...

Did they find the issue yet? So far, the author has reported using qemu 7.2.0 which has been giving many kernel developers spurious boot failures (for x86) that seem fixed in 8.0.0. I myself have measure 3/1000 boot failures on 7.2.0.
> Moderators will flag and rate limit your account if you get chatty.

I've never experienced this.
So what's your solution? forums just die as a concept because no one wants to host text?

TBH I think reddit's hugest shot in the foot was that they DID want to host everything. For a decade the site was fine pointing to youtube videos and Imgur albums, but at some point they decided to bring all of that into the site.

> even if the mods go full regard they still can't destroy any actual data and it can all be reverted by admins.

it can, yes. But will they bother? What kind of sacred knowledge is really kept from some random post on r/pics that was made 5 years ago that got 100k points, especially when it is reposted every few months anyway?
Being close to work is the biggest benefit. Especially for young professionals who don’t need a lot of space and are looking to grind in their careers. Also, when they’re not working, being able to have fun is a plus.
I just checked and they have bud light and other mass produced brands in a back corner of the store, just across from the main beer cabinet. So they have it, just not as visible as the higher margin craft beers (even Modelo and Corona are at the very end of the main cabinet).
Wikipedia enshittified too, to a lesser extent, but still they have made their begging more and more aggressive over time.
The opposite news from Boston...https://www.boston.com/real-estate/the-boston-globe/2023/06/...
No, only the Fed was able to create debt without limit after 1914.

Other banks are and were limited by their reserve requirement. Bank lending has always been limited by the reserve requirement. The reason is because if the bank lends out too much money, there'll be a run on the bank and it will collapse.

> On the gold standard, the only way to grow the economy without causing deflation was to dig up ever more gold.

That's not how it works. The collateral for the loans is the backing. Doesn't need to be gold.

> Not really feasible in the modern age, hence fiat currency.

That's not why the Fed was created. It was created to finance government spending.
> People aren't really "smarter" just because they write incomprehensible code.

Go reread what I wrote: I never made that assertion.
Does anyone have any screencasts to suggest showcasing people being very efficient in vim, in action (e.g. like Gary Bernhardt)?
Perhaps unlike in the US, Canadian renters are still quite far from getting the upper hand. Canadian rent gains are what you'd expect amidst rising mortgage rates and stable housing prices.

US rents slowing suggest to me that US housing prices might fall.
> If you can't afford a home with a 40 hour job

I think this has always been the difference between a "job" and a "career". My first full time job was making pizzas. I worked 40 hours a week, dropping sauce and toppings onto squished bread. Nobody would have been able to afford a pizza if I would have been able to afford a home, in my state.
obvious solution: let the navy run the power grid
The friction is a feature, imo. I would prefer return to comment threads with intent, vs. being hijacked by notifications.
The 'overweight' category starts at 25, 'obese' starts at 30, and 'extremely obese' starts at 35. It's an interesting coincidence how these natural divisions in human health line up so perfectly with convenient, arbitrary-looking multiples of five in this one numeric scale.
Lots of good stuff. I use most of these already when I am reading through files or making quick edits but in the terminal.

I have never found a use for counts. It always feels like my brain slows down. Relative line numbers helps a little. I sometimes try to estimate counts but it’s also kind of annoying.
Global Tech Supply Chains Are as Complex as a Circuit Board
It's coherent behind the scenes but it often presents an incoherent view to the software. It's not acting coherent when the rearrangement of memory operations makes you see different orderings from different cores.

When a CPU has a loose memory model and is aggressively making use of the reordering capabilities, the cache being coherent internally is basically just an implementation detail. It's not part of the visible ABI.
So much this. It's illegal to build higher density housing in so many residential zones.
I think some of that for sure.

I can't speak for others, but for me, I actually like big cities. Watching people. Don't need to own cars to get around. Food variety. Interesting buildings. Cultural stuff.

I guess that's why people in NY pay almost 45% of their after tax income towards housing related expenses, which is the highest in the U.S.
That, and the influence of the fossil fuel companies.
I recently learned that some people I know who lived an what are pretty much the worst apartments in our area are paying more in rent each month than my mortgage payment for a 4k sq ft home on an acre. I haven’t looked into how much it is to rent a decent apartment in the area, but it must be double my mortgage.
> No NIMBY lawsuits in there; plenty of screw ups and back and forth lawsuits among the participants though.

This is also true for the French project (Flamanville-3, an EPR).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36258182
If you have a job that is specifically NY based that is hard to get elsewhere and is an actual paid in money, not cachet career (i.e not working for a magazine) like banking or software, you should earn the 180K pretty easily.
Student loan payments are set to resume later in the year which might further reduce rent pressure.

(I assume that a lot of the people with student debt are renters)
nH is also good if you want to go to line n from the top. Works in reverse with nL too :)
Sure, but the same people who frequently say this also cite the CIA's declassified MK-ULTRA documents as if they are unimpeachable fact (and not possibly falsehood or strategic disinformation). At the end of the day, the average forum skeptic trusts the CIA more than most normal people do.

I think trusting in our system of checks and balances is a reliable way to avoid the infinite regress of Pyrrhonian skepticism, but that's increasingly seen as a libcuck opinion.
I was so confused when I tried to scroll through this and couldn't do it; seems like such a missed opportunity!
Not sure about Linux specifically, but it sounds like you’re looking for a kernel debugger that can communicate with a user mode debugger (or debuggers).

Edit: actually SystemTap mentioned in a sibling comment sounds simpler if you just need instrumentation.
People were blocked from getting ivermectin prescriptions. Doctors were told not to write them. Pharmacies were told not to fill them. There was no conspiracy. It was done completely openly. It was just decided by "the scientists" and effectively banned from the mainline medical system. Any doctor working in a network healthcare system (most of them) was basically told they could not prescribe it.

Given it's long history and safety, why was this necessary? Much is learned in medicine by practitioners trying things and sharing their results amongst each other.
Seemingly without notifying us, google has turned off recovering accounts using the recovery email. Since a few years back they will only ever except phone numbers for this.

It's unbelievably stupid.
No metrics and logs with OTLP yet. Only traces for now. Will have it soon for logs and metrics too.
That's a really interesting approach. The trick would be knowing the indicators of fabricated data. Or perhaps just knowing when the data isn't good enough to pass the next clinical trial.
> Is Vanguard in some way encouraging companies to do evil things?

I wouldn't be surprised. They do wield a lot of corporate voting power on behalf of their index investors.
> are worth the overhead?

What overhead, specifically?

I've found it reduces overhead. Rather than using English to describe the types, in the comments/docstrings, I can just type the terse type hint in the function definition, and leave the rest to the documentation renderer. If you don't document anyways, sure.
Come live in Brooklyn Heights. You can be in Manhattan in 5 minutes. I just moved out of a rent stabilized apartment that was $2450 a month for 11 years. There are many similar apartments and they can't raise the rent to "market rate" without making major improvements.
Mainly lobbying
social networks are a disaster. Many news websites used to have their own dedicated forum space, but they all died down over the decade, or moved to Discord/Reddit. It's just that big a headache.

Hosting user generated content is very costly. If not in server hosting, then in the emotional toll of moderating that forum and making sure it's not spammed to all hell, or worse. Bad apples ruin the barrel, as usual.
Is the earlier point that people should see what they can do with "common household ingredients", before they assume they need to pay cloud providers for bigger/more iron?

I agree, and I have a 3090 for that purpose, and once wrote a tutorial for others wanting to do ML stuff on a GPU at home rather than rent from a cloud provider.

But a consumer GPU (or eBay older Tesla card) can't do everything that a rental pool of H100 and A100 can do, and I and other readers here will sometimes want to do those other things.

I didn't want to confuse people that all they'd need was to buy up a bunch of random retired Ethereum miner GPUs, no matter what they wanted to do with ML.
ME:
Answer this trick question.
What is the first name of the father of Sebastian’s children?

ChatGPT:
The answer to the trick question "What is the first name of the father of Sebastian's children?" is "Sebastian." The trick lies in the fact that Sebastian is the father of his own children.
I don't understand how. The mortgage rates are high, so many people who would otherwise have bought a home are not jumping in. So rents will go up. I have seen this happen too
Even if they had done it in the BSL-4 parts, the french partners in the facility actually left it after they saw how poorly the bsl-4 was implemented, only one French researcher stayed.
Have you actually examined that math?

At say, 15 pizzas per person per hour, increasing your wages to $15/hour above where it was before (netting you $2500/mo for housing on top of previous wages before considering taxes/assistance) would add $1 to each pizza.

There are countries that have decent access to housing for the working class which aren't somehow impossible to dine in.
You missed the sarcasm. The quoted statement is actually one that Cal does not agree with.
Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users
My partner actually did exactly that!

Biggest problem is kinda like many other small businesses, you end up being on call 24/7 (okay, really more like 18/7 since nobody is cleaning at 3 am.) and unable to take vacation, or even reliable weekend trips out of town.

Staffing is also a continual problem. Even if you pay significantly above market, cleaning isn't a very in-demand job, so you have to deal with both regular turnover and employee performance issues.
Sounds that way. If nothing else, if the main network does collapse, you can make instructions for how to get people to jump off that instance.

Much smoother migration than this Reddit issue here.
Housing as an investment vehicle is government policy - if the oligarchy insisted on a different policy it would be implemented.
You can install vim-tiny on Debian, which I believe doesn't install the runtime files.

Size is not really a good indication of "bloat" IMO. There are 683 syntax highlight files, 7.8M in total, but you don't load most of that and it's just "idle" bytes on disk. Same for indent files, ftplugins, etc.

You could also save ~5M by not shipping translations, but is that "bloat"?

It's useful these things are shipped, and in the scenarios where you care about 35M of diskspace you probably don't want a full Vim anyway (and you can use vim-tiny).
Are you sure? Restaurant labor usually works out to a small percentage of the price of the food. Besides that, people could afford pizza back when minimum wage was much higher adjusted for inflation.
> there have been 17 commits pushed to master by 7 authors[1].

And there are 17 thousand commits overall, yet a lot of fundamental issues remain unresolved, so I guess I'd argue that in many cases a program can NOT be substantially improved without substantial changes (again, not universally!, some crash/perf wins are "free" in that they can change nothing in the program's user-facing behavior)

So I see a lot of reasons for the shell/vim to substantially change, and thus stability in this regard is a negative, not a positive, hence my comment that it's better to use tools that improve better (though you're right that improvement is not a given for a change)
Now it feels kind of neat, and maybe works when others are reading well crafted messages. What happens when everyone has a bot, and a bot is talking to a bot, because I for one, don't want to be sent or fall for emotionally manipulative messages, or that try to sound empathetic, maybe even are empathetic.

When this type of messaging is so widespread, I wonder what will happen. I think people will ignore most of this type of messaging. Maybe we'll evolve to not be emotional anymore, when emotions are everywhere? I don't know, but an interesting hypothetical.
I think most of the movements covered work with the Visual Studio vim plugin as well.

Just in general, when using an unfamiliar editor, having a vim plugin lets you bypass having to learn (most of) that editor’s navigation and movement shortcuts.
You don't need to directly run the query it returns, you can use that query as a sub-query on a known safe set of data and let it fail if someone manages to prompt inject their way into looking at other tables/columns.

That way you can support natural language to query without sending dozens of functions (which will eat up the context window)
Pretty much everything within PowerToys and SysInternals [1] feel like they should be made default on Windows.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
No one was hand waving anything. There were studies looking at several attributes of the virus’s genome that concluded (not definitively, nothing ever is) that the virus was probably naturally occurring.

Some looked at base pair distributions (some GC to AT ratios are required for stability), others looked for sites where enzymes could splice and whether they were commonly found in this species while others looked for any obviously transplanted.

Of all the studies I’m aware of, which isn’t all of them, there is no smoking gun. This isn’t a burning building and that analogy is incorrect. No weird GFP producing genes or any common genetic markers commonly found in lab made species were found anywhere. This isn’t to say it wasn’t a lab leak or that there aren’t opposing theories as to whether such and such base pair distribution is considered normal…but the evidence just isn’t there.
Wow...how many GB of spam is in there?