skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still live here. I remember how it was before 2007 and the city is now uglier than ever. Seoul has outdoor ads everywhere and looks much nicer.

Ads could have been a source of revenue for the city. Crazy to waste time and effort on stuff like this when the city has much bigger problems.
>Chinese smartphones

Find me a smartphone that isn’t made in china.
It's just rough around the edges. Nothing that isn't fixable. Nothing that stops you using the site. It just looks a little bit dated - things like the gradients on the menus, a trail behind the mouse pointer.

It would definitely be more appealing to the masses if it was brought more in line with a more minimalist 2023 aesthetic, IMO.
Just another thing that's going to leave the EU in the stone age, falling further and further behind the USA economically.

15 years ago, US and EU GDP per capita were about the same. Now the USA is 50% higher. Even West Virginia is richer per person than France.
Alternative script for Carpenter's They Live: He put the sunglasses on and went about his day.
I'm in the same boat right now, and the advice that's helped me is to focus on customer problems, not (yet) on solutions.

For example, you talk about "a problem with restaurants keeping their menus up to date." But is that a problem restaurant owners have? Or is it a problem you (as a customer) have? And regardless of whose problem it is, how big of a problem is it?

We can break it up into pieces:

1. Assume an up to date menu meant the restaurant had more customers. Would the restaurant be able to serve them? Obviously, if the restaurant is already full at peak hours, then more customers may not help. But what about restaurants that aren't full? Why do they not have enough customers? Is it because the menu is not up to date? Are there other possible reasons, and if so, could those lead to product ideas?

2. From the restaurant's customers perspective, what would they do to solve the problem? Would they switch restaurants if their favorite restaurant didn't have an up to date menu? How many customers would say, "I would eat at X more often if their menu was up to date"? What if all restaurant menus were always up to date? Would customers pay extra for that service?

3. One other entity to consider is the delivery app. Would they benefit from having up to date menus? Would people prefer a delivery app with up to date menus vs. competitors? Would that reduce churn for a delivery app? How much?

Of course, to get the answers to these questions you need to talk to restaurants, restaurant patrons, and delivery apps. But hopefully breaking it down can help guide the conversation.
People in their twenties have an annual chance of dying of about one in a thousand, so effective anti-aging would give an expected lifespan of about a thousand years.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Based on the rates of various types of accidental deaths, you could extend that quite a bit by avoiding dangerous drugs and and living in an area where you're unlikely to get shot. If we figure out really safe self-driving cars, that'll make a big difference too. In much of Europe you can already get the same effect by taking public transport everywhere. Air travel is quite unlikely to kill you.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...

Put all that together and a 10,000-year expected lifespan looks pretty achievable.
no one should underestimate apple. have you seen the inflate phone prices outside of USA? guess how much iphone 15 will cost... they ll make more money than ever and in 3 generations the vision pro will as well
Or have one every few decades, with plenty time to assess what worked and what didn’t.
That was my experience every other time I've applied to a job in the last 10 years, but not during my recent job search. I got a number of rejections from 5 minute first round interviews for no obvious reason. Whereas once I got to a "proper" interview it was plain sailing. I think companies are getting a lot more applications than they were and are having to put a stronger filter in the first rounds than was the previous norm.
I specifically like PDP-11 assembly. Motorola 68K is very similar.
That's often certain German cars in the US. IE some shops will just not work on modern Minis. Plenty of shops will avoid weird, niche cars.

Any mechanic can fix a Citroen, but is it worth the floor time it'd take to get the parts and figure out french quirks vs working on something they know that they'd make the same money in a third the time.

Having done shade tree work on various cars, I'd totally turn down any Subaru engine bay work if I was already close to swamped.
It seems similar to off-shoring (a while ago). People in another country would bang together tons of inelegant code that somebody else had to check.
Definitely. It's just so much easier to have a policy of 'no company data on personal devices' and just hand out the devices people need for their work. Easy to explain to auditors too (think ISO 27001).

For devs and support this means a laptop, and for ops and management a smartphone is usually needed too.

The only reason I have a phone on me when I'm at the office is for school to reach me in case my kid is taken ill or something like that.
Maybe you'd include Twobit in that list: http://larcenists.org/twobit.html
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> I also find it bizarre that so many people feel precious about the code.

Would you find it bizarre that a joiner feels precious about not just the cabinet they made (value), but how they made it? The joints they used, the process they went through, the wood (i.e., the code)?

A plumber, electrician, architect, designer, programmer -- we take pride in our skills.

Craftmanship is a virtue, not a vice.
I wish ublock could do basic url rewrites without having to use greasemonkey/scripts/plugins

Things like rewriting www.reddit to old.reddit without anything extra.
Ok, we've reverted the title. Submitted title was "Leaking Bitwarden's Vault with a Nginx vulnerability".
> The rate of pay available to the most possible people is minimum wage.

It isn't because so few employers pay that. The most available rate of pay would be closer to 10 or maybe 12 an hour.
> AGI research must not be slowed down under any circumstances. Immortality is in sight.

wow. So progress at any cost? Seems misguided to me
Global code search across hundreds of repos even if they are hosted at different SCMs
There are other high resolution headsets on the market right now at comparable or less cost than the vision pro.
This gets far more difficult as one competitor in an industry nears monopoly status.

Lets say for example that you somehow make $120,000 a year over expenses with instagram (don't ask how, it's just an example). This is far more than you previously made in your last job by double. The problem is it takes nearly 100% of your working time to make this income on that single platform. Any less amount of effort and your income drops significantly. Now, you are in a trap where you cannot split your efforts between platforms, you have to go full in on one.

Your solution would be to make far less money... um, safely? Whereas a far more realistic solution would be to ensure that you don't live to close to the edge of your means and put 1/3rd of your income back in savings in case the day the platform fails/kicks you occurs.
I recently learned Kyoto has rules about signage and specifically color saturation. Some of the rules seem too detailed, but the end result looks very nice. https://youtu.be/KuX3nu4jdo0
One key difference is the scale. You can think of a billboard as really bad graffiti that’s shoved in your face to manipulate you. Graffiti is ugly too (not to be confused with urban art) and should always be removed.

Generating money for the government isn’t something to be concerned with in this context, and most likely a billboard doesn’t generate enough money for the government versus the drain it has on the public sphere. (I’d be shocked to find it worthwhile).

I do think we need architectural standards and thankfully the federal government is looking to implement Greco-Roman architecture as mandatory for federal buildings [1]. Suburban houses for example are really awful architecture and continued research shows this [2]. Tall skyscrapers produce a fight or flight response.

Beauty isn’t in the eye of the beholder. We just don’t have the tools yet to objectively define beauty. The Notre Dame Cathedral is objectively beautiful (this also answers your question about what is not an eyesore) and Boston City Hall is objectively an awful building. You can have an opinion that differs from this but it’s like having an opinion that gravity doesn’t exist. Likewise broad scale highway billboards meant to try and sell you something promote private profit at the public expense and transform otherwise beautiful landscapes into something that is jarring and disfigured.

1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/23/2020-28...
[2] https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/97810030315...
Agreed. I only started using twitter after the changes musk made. I found it absolutely intolerable previously.

The search feature needs a complete overhaul though, and despite musk’s claims of cracking down on spam I still see far too many crypto spammers every day.
We're not (initially anyway) trained on photography and literature and reddit, our first experience of a banana is probably eating one.
Adjustability of codec parameters and quality are reasons to prefer software over hardware for encoding, but I've never seen any evidence or explanation for how software decoding can likewise be significantly better—unless you're referring to post-processing that can just as easily be done after hardware decoding.
An anti-modern C++!
It's much worse to comply with onerous EU regulations. They make it painstakingly useless.
Is the test administered remotely? I wonder how many employment tests have been taken by ChatGPT at this point.
I had forgotten aboout "TwoBit".

The name Larceny is a pun too btw.
Funny how that works sometimes.
and IT "assholes" think the run of the mill business drones are "assholes" as well. Their inability to be effective at their jobs tend to make IT lives worse because they can't understand what IT workers do but IT workers can understand what the basic run of the mill business drones do...and their work tends to be a bunch of pointless meetings.

Yeah, I work at a corporate office and have made it a mission to see what kind of work they do, and majority of the time...it's pointless meetings and meetings that involve pointing to IT workers and saying "do this". I check many of their daily schedules, and see what kind of stuff they talk about in meetings...just wow. Am I an "asshole"? Sure you can call me that, but I can call them useless in turn because I wonder how many more qualified people out there who can replace these workers.
Encoding yes. Decoding the image is equal, at least with h.264
The same technique (ferret pulled wire) was used in the 19th Century to install electrical wiring in Cragside House (UK, Northumberland) without ripping up the antique wooden panelling
Yet another concrete example of why copyleft licenses are better than pushover ones and why CLAs are bad. It would have been illegal for them to do this if the old license were copyleft and they accepted contributions without a CLA.
They've your ip, email, payment info and browser fingerprint. Change all of them and you'll bypass their detection.

Also, with so many good aternatives, why stick with a company that treats you like this?!
Also passkeys, and, very crude but effective, using a browser plugin for TOTP or a compatible password manager on your laptop/workstation.
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It says that many businesses opposed the change, this could be beneficial for them too. Advertising can be a prisoners dilemma, where all parties end up paying for it and getting the same result as if they all stopped paying for it
Specifically, the author wrote "bezier" in lowercase and without the accent.
More than I spent studying in college.

Interviewing has gotten out of hand...
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> so passkeys are a much better and easier method

Thing is, most people don't understand passkeys. If you want to be secure, then you want to understand why and how you're secure; a pinky-promise that you're secure doesn't cut the mustard.

I do have some understanding of this kind of technology, having written for myself an OAuth server back in the day. I gave up on the server, because the services I wanted it for (bank, tax, medical) didn't accept OAuth, and because it was much too hard to understand.

Passkeys involves more third parties, and is even harder to understand.
True. One can still die of disease or accidents. That’s why so many stories about immortal humans also have them making backup copies of their minds.
I've never gotten the hang of writing uBO rules for myself. There's a lot more to it than is in the tutorial. Learned about letsblock.it last week through a support request to the uBO project and it has been a great help. It is very good at filtering out low quality search results sites[0]. Additionally it takes the pain out of blocking sites or domains I don't want to see.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372
Today a front end designer needs to read 50 documents to understand CSS, not least be able to make a small change to a web site without it all falling down like a pile of Jenga blocks. That makes coding a fast suffix tree building algorithm out of your head look easy.

In the case of React you could ask questions like "why does this simple web page call the render() method 714 times?" and then the interviewee says "that's wrong, it calls render() 715 times" and they will have to bring in one of the React core developers to adjudicate.
Yes but if it is a pattern anyone can recognize it is cause for investigation and if there were pattern breaking applicants then that is probably a suit. Of course, a court will decide case by case if what happened was actually discrimination. Even with all this, there is a crapton of actual discrimination just based on people's names. Another commentie on this post was mentioning how their employer was tossing out all indian sounding names, i have seen similar things as well. This is very common and the law allows lawsuits based on patterns of unequal outcomes and in civil cases, the defendant has to prove the accusation is false (opposite of innocent until proven guilty).
Can someone from UK explain this to me.

A company is owned by a Philippine director and is claiming employment benefit. How? They are also paying vat at a flat rate.

Does this article mean to say the following?

1. Company is created and director from Philippines appointed.
2. Company gives service to someone and employs (or Does not even employ someone?) A person and claims deduction in income tax.
3.???
4. Profit ?

An example with numbers.

Company A provides service for £10,000.00 and pays 6% vat. So £600 during a year.

They employ 2 people and pay them £5000
Net profit is £5000. 20% tax so net profit after tax is £4000.

Question 1. Is first txn with 10k income and 600 tax received/dsposited in bank?
question 2. Was someone paid 5000 in their bank account?
Question 3. Was 1000 tax paid?

I come from Indian tax jurisdiction so this scheme sounds plausible way of funneling "black cash" into coffers and people do this regularly so I's it bad exactly how?
It is; they’re just reusing a name from an unrelated product.
Huxley style.
Netherlands imposes export controls on advanced chip manufacturing equipment
We’ll almost certainly see models trained to produce watermarks directly in the next few months. A highly diffuse statistical abnormality would be nearly impossible to detect or remove.
That’s what BlueSky is

Also mastodon isn’t exactly a Silicon Valley startup but they have created the only financially sustainable social network which is a feat in its own right
I don't want to go into specifics.

The problems we encountered were that they could not rewrite the targets in our build system for the automated refactoring, and any missing include path at all would cause the clang-based tooling they were using to barf.

We just asked ourselves why we would spend so much money on a product when we still had to solve all of the fundamental problems ourselves. We liked the UI, but it wasn't worth the insane license fee.
Let's hope people will move on from OnlyFans. Truth Social was a joke, but I think Twitter will still be as central as Facebook and Instagram and perhaps we never will see a platform that harbors that many users.

TikTok is another beast. It is used by almost everyone but I never met one that had meaningful interactions on it. It is the laziest form of entertainment. Successful, but lazy.
That is not why this project is header-only. It's so you can include it multiple times to produce multiple specialized types; it has to be header-only so it can produce a series of structs and functions for each specialized type into your compilation unit, with the compiler separately checking each produced specialization. You configure it before including using a series of preprocessor defines. It's a common way to handle generic types in C.

This can't be a single separate compilation unit that you link in; the generic specialization doesn't work that way. You seem to be talking about libraries that are header-only purely for convenience but this is not one of those projects.

With a library like this, you'd want to have one .c file in your project that produces all the implementations for your specialized types, then link that with the rest of your project. From a quick look at the doc, this project supports this.
Yes, pass is 800 lines of relatively straightforward bash and I am qualified to review bash. Now, granted, it uses GnuPG and git but in those cases I think the risk of problems is minimal.

I haven’t in all honesty read the Password Store android application (nor OpenKeychain) source code but I trust my phone sandbox capabilities enough for it not to do anything nefarious like send my passwords somewhere. Its also not so large that it would be hard to read it.

The point is, the operating principles behind how Pass works are simple enough that its relatively easy to verify the core of any implentation and relatively difficult to smuggle in nefarious behavior.
Huge missed opportunity in this tool to actually answer the "wtf degrees?" question.

Fahrenheit temperature degrees are based on concepts of angular degrees (just as Centigrade is based on concepts of slope).

Many people know the Fahrenheit temperature scale is based in part on the coldest fixed temperature readily available to a scientist in the 1700's, namely the coldest temperature achievable when water ice is placed in a salt water bath (which he called 0 degrees).

Because choosing this fixed point meant Fahrenheit was basing his temperature scale on water, he viewed the coldest pure water temperature (ice) and the hottest pure water temperature (boiling) as significant in that they were, in his mind, opposite "directions" for water.

In his mind, frozen water and boiling water were therefore 180 degrees apart from each other.

Why did water ice and boiling water get these crazy 32 degree and 212 degree temperatures? The Fahrenheit scale is based on two constraints, not one.

The first, as is commonly known, is optimally salted ice water should be zero degrees.

The second constraint is that frozen water and boiling water should be 180 degrees apart.

212 degrees - 32 degrees = 180 degrees. If you constrain the temperature of salted ice to 0 and constrain the temperatures of frozen and boiling water to differ by 180, you get the fixed points of 32 and 212.

When Celsius invented the temperature scale we call centigrade, he used very similar constraints and also used angular thinking.

Both scales consider the freezing and boiling points of pure water to be significant.

The Celsius scale uses the freezing point of water as its zero, the Fahrenheit scale does not.

The Fahrenheit scale uses 180 degree based angular thinking to describe the transition from ice to steam, hence T(boiling) - T(ice) = 180.

The Celsius scale uses surveyor's percentage slope terminology (where a "grade", as in centigrade, of 100 corresponds to rise = 100% of run, or 45 degrees in angular terms), so T(boiling) - T(ice) = 100.

This page would be a wonderful vehicle for showing these connections (and the ice equals about 30 degrees and human body temperature equals about 90 degrees coincidences that Fahrenheit the numerologist found so compelling).

I hope the creator tweaks their page to show the actual angular history and relevance of these temperature scales. There is quite a bit of history of science in these relationships, all with the advantage of being readily accessible to a bright grammar school kid, which is a great age to stoke the fires of interest in science.
Uh, no. The answer is to:

- Have marketable skills and experience

- Market and communicate these effectively

- Take many interviews because too many are arbitrary and some are terrible places you don't want to work

- Aim to be fit, in good health and spirits, and presentable

- Be honest

In general, everything works out because the synchronicity of individuals and organizations is a self-selecting phenomenon.
What a load of short-sighted nonsense. Instead of revising curricula to be actually attractive and modernizing teaching instead of a drone blathering at the front of the classroom, ban phones.

The problem at the core is that education has ossified. A toxic combination of parents unable to accept that their children can have a better school experience than they had ("we had to hike two hours even during storms to go to school, stop complaining!!!"), privileged parents wanting to keep classist privileges for their children (this is a huge problem here in Germany where we separate between useless Hauptschule, just as useless Realschule and Gymnasium after 4th/6th year), politicians intimidated by the huge influence the well-networked classist parents have, underpaid staff and underfunded schools, burnt-out teachers who long since have given up on changing anything because of the lack of time, funds, respect for their work and backing by superiors...
Buddhism's "solution" is essentially personal suicide. "How can I die, if I am not, save in some non-personal sense?" But nobody really cares about a "non-personal" survival, making this an effectively nihilistic way of dealing with the subject.

(A nice, short summary of various positions you might find interesting: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07687a.htm)
> Filtering shitty content is easier than creating it with a properly constructed LLM system

Can you explain this? It feels completely wrong - even OpenAI, who probably have invested the most, can't filter out all "shitty content". An LLM can on the other hand create "shitty content" incredibly easy - even if the creators try to stop it! So how is filtering easier than creating?
... and also to people that do not use google services, and have never read their privacy policy.
What do people use?

My company lives in code search. Most bug fixes and small enhancements start by investigating code search, and clicking a link from code search to start editing the file.
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Yes, because Dutch people don't have medical emergencies.
It's 800 lines of bash. I can read it.
While the patterns engraved in the past cannot be changed, they also cannot be easily retrieved and my own perception of self ends when there is no longer a brain changing my “state vector”.