skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://taa-madison.org/history/

> TAA activists in the Fall of 2008 also turned their eyes again toward attaining Domestic Partner Benefits for TAA members and UW employees. The TAA pushed on the issue, joining the LGBT Campus Center to table on Library Mall during their Coming Out Week, and creating a memorable Bascom Hill display. The TAA then networked into the University’s Domestic Partner Benefit Task Force, and arranged meetings with Governor Doyle’s Office and UW Chancellor Biddy Martin, while activists also spoke with nearly a thousand TAA members about the importance of winning Domestic Partner Benefits. The State Legislature, which in years past had meticulously denied state employees Domestic Partner Benefits, was poised for a sea change in the November elections. The TAA’s Political Education Committee launched an AFT COPE award-winning program, through a vibrant and ambitious series of phone banks and Labor Walks throughout south-central Wisconsin. Though Domestic Partner Benefits were not ultimately won in the 2007-2009 contract, the TAA was responsible in ensuring that the issue would be considered in the 2009-2011 budget.

https://etf.wi.gov/publications/et2166/download?inline=

> As of Sept. 23, 2017, the State of Wisconsin no longer allows the establishment of new domestic partnerships under Chapter 40 of the Wisconsin statutes.

> Carefully review this document if you are in a Chapter 40 domestic partnership established before September 23, 2017 because it contains important information about the benefit changes for established domestic partnerships.

> If you are currently in a domestic partnership that was established under Chapter 40 between Jan. 1, 2010 and Sept. 22, 2017, your domestic partnership remains in force for the Wisconsin Retirement System retirement benefit administered by the Department of Employee Trust Funds. Your domestic partner is also still eligible to be the beneficiary of your life insurance policy, either through retention of your validly established domestic partnership, or through the submission of a Beneficiary Designation (ET-2320 or ET-2321) form.

(note the date when domestic partnerships established would benefit from the benefits that spouses traditionally got - https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/40 )
I believe all of these entities are currently _losing_ money hand over fist, but remain in the game because of the expectation of future profits.
You can still use stuff like authy/google authenticator so it's not as bad as the complainers say.
Wells Fargo’s CEO portal gives you a choice between their app and hardware RSA tokens, I have one with their logo like this https://decovar.dev/blog/2018/09/09/wells-fargo-2fa/
> If they haven’t figured that out by now

That's an unusual way to put it. That a platform succeeds by attracting developers wouldn't be new information for Microsoft. They are famous for being extremely outspoken about that very viewpoint. Steve Ballmer gave a famous speech with the line "Developers, developers, developers, developers!".
> What frustrates me is that there's still significant resistance to not destroying our own home...

It's really not a big deal - humans will adapt to deal with the changes, or they'll go extinct and something else will evolve.
I guess ignoring copyright and treating the whole internet as your training data does have its advantages.
> Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) do this implicitly, but we don't yet know how to effectively train RNNs on ultra-deep sequences.

What would you call "ultra-deep"? [1] shows how to train an RNN in a GPT-like mode, using parallel scan, with great performance on Path-X, which has a sequence length of 16k. It's based on prior papers doing the same thing but from a state space model perspective.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06349
I've had more Microsoft Office 365 outages than Fastmail outages in the past 10+ years, and I'm sure Microsoft has a much deeper pocket than Fastmail.

Things break. More things will break in the future due to increased complexity, brittle network automation processes and poorly written code. You can mitigate failures to a certain extent, but you can't guarantee 100% uptime, even with a triple redundant system. Every business decision is a compromise among various constraints.
The rules for how Wikipedia is edited are ultimately set by the people who run Wikimedia. They have the final say. It's a centralized service (there is a single Wikipedia at a singular domain, being the sole source of truth).

In the context of this discussion, there is no such notion of a federation of wikis on various hosts contributing to the content. There's obviously no decentralization of Wikipedia.

Wikimedia is therefore the centralized authority.
I don't think you understand just how insanely difficult it is to break into that market. There's a lot that goes into GPU's that makes it a very difficult industry to get going in. Even with apple money or something like that, it's a losing prospect because in the time it'll take you to get up and off the ground (which is FOREVER) your competition will crush you.
I've run it in NonAnonymous mode as an experiment. Not to replace a CDN for DDoS protection but to replace the CDN as a way to anonymize where the server is because people play games to try to cancel hosting accounts when they get mad about topics being discussed. When they can't control the narrative they will start emailing abuse@ making false claims and some hosting providers are lazy. From the DDoS aspect, people could send Tor to 100% CPU but the httpd server wasn't even passing 1% CPU. This was long ago however so this observation is likely outdated. early days of v3

Nobody was able to decloak the server even being in NonAnonymous mode but the bigger issue was the ability to reach the server. At least at the time not many people had a browser that could talk to .onion sites. I don't know how many people use Brave or the Tor Browser these days so maybe now it would be less of an issue now. Maybe I will try it again soon. It's easy to send people to the Tor Onion version of your site using the Onion-Location header [1] to see how many people would be able to reach the .onion side of your site.

[1] - https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...
At least they're open about it. In the USA we pretend it's not happening
Keep in mind that many/most of these tools also need to work in diff review and CI tools, not just in an editor. That said, we primarily support developers using VS Code (with internal LSP/plugins/integrations) or our internal version of Jupyter notebooks. We also have a non-negligible number of folks that prefer alternative IDEs or editors like pycharm, vim, or emacs. We try to build our tools such that they are accessible by CLI or APIs, so that they can fit into any of these systems as needed.
I’m sure the airline can get a much sweeter deal if they show a high volume of rooms booked. Although the costs of an entire days worth of flights being cancelled because of a errant fire alarm seems like a high cost to pay, I’m sure they gamed the numbers out and it makes financial sense for them in the long run
I think it would greatly complicate things if cold-storage backups count as holding data.

Some poor kid would have to go and load all the tapes and redact it.
Has something structurally changed at Stanford where making a graduate student union is now a good idea and it wasn't a good idea before, or was it always a good idea and only now they are doing it?
"Stone age"? Your exaggerations are hardly fitting. What educational tasks is a phone necessary for? Sure, you can search things and have a calculator ready. Out of Excel, Python, math, English, history, art: what use is a smartphone in learning those subjects/skills? I think it can safely be said that most people with smartphones out during class aren't engaged with the content; certainly not while the teacher is actively talking. Students have plenty of time to use social media or whatever outside of school.

To make no bones about it: I'm currently a student. I've so far never seen a need to use my smartphone for an educational reason. I've often seen people who have phones out when the teacher is talking. There should be no debate about smartphone usage in class generally being distracting, potentially to people other than the users. You may not agree with the proposed rules, but you're vastly overstating your case.
There is no good reason why tuition is as expensive as it is. Georgia Tech offers a $7k online MS in CS. Community college classes cost hundreds of dollars. You could study in Germany as an unsubsidized international student for a fraction of the cost of a U.S. four year university.

The problem is that America is infested with rent seeking parasites who have turned every social good into a scam. Our healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, and yet we have a lower life expectancy than Cuba. We have the most expensive education system in the world, with little to show for it.

Why are we devaluing education itself, just because far too many colleges are being run by despicable businessmen? Why are we accepting their rigged game as fixed? Boomers went to college for next to nothing. Gen X didn’t have to pay that much either. The neoliberal corruption of higher education, from a social good into a scam, is a very recent phenomenon.

The root of the rot is all the pointless add-on services. Colleges don’t need to run dorms, meal plans, health centers, or any of that. The only thing that should be offered is academics. 18 year olds can go to war. They can manage to live independently, and the ones who can’t will receive Darwin Awards.
Ask HN: Where can I find discussions on build systems?
I am interested in build systems and related topics. Are there any mailing lists, forums, or other online communities focused on build systems that you would recommend?
If you're curious to read a well-earned take on comments: http://antirez.com/news/124.

Inline comments are a reflection on the authors' abilities to write good comments. They can be kinda useless, actually-bad, or really helpful.

One canonical example of a "good comment" is explaining why a strange or not-the-least-complex approach was taken to implementing a certain solution. The code is like chesterton's fence, and the comment is a post explaining why it's there. That way, future readers can better assess for themselves whether it's worth their time trying to tear down the fence.
Possibly? They're using Cloudflare CDN, so it's not like it's a custom niche job.

It's not a timing thing, I saw your post the minute it went up and tested it right away.
They also started shipping LXD recently.
> No, I don't. I do not think reasonable people ever had an expectation of privacy while in public, especially when they are interacting with other people/strangers.

Yeah, I don't buy that. Let me be quite specific: do you think someone would answer the following question differently "what is the likelihood that you will be on camera if you walk to the library and back?" I absolutely guarantee the numbers will change and approach 0 pretty rapidly. This is not just a psychological question (which does matter too btw) but a technological one. Clearly Ben Franklin would have answered that he would not expect such a thing despite being a person of high fame in his time.

> Setting and context could change the expectation of privacy, sure - if you're in a private place, it's different from being in public.

Except that this isn't a binary option. A public bathroom is a public space yet I think most people would be hard pressed to argue that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy there, especially in a stall. In fact, this is even legally codified. There's a spectrum of private-public and it is not clean cut. What I've suggested above is that there are variables you aren't considering. A person's model on the expectation of privacy is dependent not just on their condition of public/private property, but also on their expectation of people having recording devices, the expectation of that use, the expectation of ability to notice them, as well as other more refined setting attributes like doors, locks, and other such things. It is far more nuanced than "inside vs outside." As another clear example, I have a higher expectation of privacy being in the middle of a national forest than if I lived in a apartment on the first floor in a big city. Obviously there are more conditions and we can't have a reasonable conversation without recognizing this.

> Are you saying people have more of an expectation of privacy now?

Obviously not. Reread. "availability, accessibility, and utility" is referring to recording devices and the ability to search through them. Additionally, your analogy doesn't even make sense since a lot of investigative journalism does "spy" on people in private settings (e.g. source information from a dissenting party about a conversation that happened in a private room on private property). Again, way more nuanced than you are giving credit for.
It’s the exactly the same. If they could make 75 cents selling the compute to someone else for $1 versus not making it providing the Bing chat service, that is 75 cents they lose.
No way of avoiding cloud storage though, which is a problem for confidential information. That's why I dropped it when I moved to Mac, and the Windows version later moved to the same restriction. It's a pity: I happily paid for OneNote in the early days, and in some respects I have not found anything as good.

Oh, and one peculiar restriction: I found that there was no way to import the .one files I had brought over from Windows, even though there was at least one third party system which could do it.
Care to elaborate in numbers? Where did you get that data?
Hard agree. AMD keep sleeping at the helm and there are no other competitors.
>> my 6 years of PhD in physics

> Maybe you were doing a CS PhD or something

LOL

> PhDs in most fields are not a good good way to maximize earning potential, especially when taking into account lost potential wages and the time value of money.

Nobody made anyone get a PhD in a field that doesn't pay, and so that doesn't mean they're entitled to high pay.

It's not hard to google "starting pay for major x" before making a choice. Nobody should be surprised at what the pay is, especially for someone capable of getting a PhD.
Ask HN: What’s the best GUI you’ve ever used for managing/querying databases?
Yeah, I’ve looked at that and done the points guy, transfers, spend X in 4 months get XX points but was hoping there was a general guide to flying in economy without losing your fucking mind lol
I actually think this law might have some bad unintended consequences if people are able to recoup fees in earnest. The last thing I think we want is a plane trying to rush off without necessary checks.

Airlines already have a pretty good incentive structure to fly people out on time. Not sure it needs a time pressure on top of it.
This attitude is the kind of engineer stereotype we can live without.

People's feeling matter in the long term, because it's the difference between them wanting to work with you, and them being forced to work with you. If I had to pick between a genius coder with awful people skills, and an average coder with exceptional skills, I'd essentially always pick the average one.
The Linux Distro Model Is Broken [video]
How many brains has the Fibonacci example broken...

You'd unroll it to a loop on both C and Python. Fibonacci doesn't need a cache. It needs K previous values, where K=1.
you dont even need to look under the hood, you just need to know a handful of normies
I’m still intrigued by RADs. Business-friendly development feels like being a frog in boiling water with all these things that should be under Ctrl-N, drag and drop and F9. Annual researches yield some more results, but nothing compared to what I’ve extrapolated in the past.

Not intrigued at all by any of today’s fuss, tbh.
If high quality grad students are lining up to apply to Stanford at non unionized salary rates, and you can also give more people the educational opportunity with slots than if you had to distribute higher salaries to fewer people, why would I choose the 2nd option?
I think that's a good point.

A common tactic now is to have this idea of lock-in. That if you don't continue to use said service you loose everything. This forces you into that subscription and makes it extremely hard to transfer and move.

I have seen many apps that lock data export behind enterprise subscriptions - that have no pricing and only "contact us".

I do think there are times it may make sense to have some unique file format (maybe your app does something special and needs that format) but there should always be a way to get that data into something more standard. Whether that's a text file, a CSV file or something else.
can we create an AI that has knowledge of the size, shape, color and name of each lego brick ever made??? We then feed it 3d renders and select a desired model scale (ex: 1:4 scale), and it prints out a lists of each piece you will need, as well as instruction/brick location to assemble an item that looks similar from lego parts.
The problem with this is that if the nonce ever collides under the same key, GCM's security falls to pieces, and so if you're using the nonce as an extended counter --- a thing people do, in part because they're worried 96 bits is too short to safely choose randomly --- you have to design a system that can't use the nonce "0" (or "1" or "2") twice.

If all your keys are ephemeral this isn't a big worry, but if they aren't, you can end up talking about reliably keeping state between invocations of your whole program.

(Apologies if this is obvious!)
Absolutely Nova IMO, its amazing
I am in Melbourne and it seems like we have had the most mild summer and winter. Last winter however was incredibly cold and you can already see that this coming summer is going to be a bad one!

It is very dry and all the signs are point towards a big El nino + the Indian Ocean Di-pole being in full swing. Going to be a rough one in the south at least.
How can a public IPv4 address be a human right while at the same time "we ran out of them" and there aren't anywhere near enough for everybody?
And you can combine them - the TV Tropes for the SCP Foundation is one way to find SCPs to read! Browse the Nightmare Fuel pages [1] for horror, or the Funny pages [2] for a more comedic approach.

1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SCPFoun...

2: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SCPFoundation
Yeah, there are bikes.

> in the middle of the sidewalk or in some bush

Yeah, sometimes. The super majority are parked well tho.
Aside: I see a ton of hype about threads.net all over HN and elsewhere, but it's still useless thus far.

It loads a javascript-driven animation of what appears to be a galaxy, any not much else. There is a QR Code at the bottom right corner that appears to be invalid.

Not sure what I'm missing. 10MM+ signups through what mechanism? There is no signup form as far as I can tell. Do they restrict full content access for linux-hosted browsers?

edit: after saving and reversing saturation, I've resolved the QR Code to https://www.threads.net/download/redirect, which only offers binary download options, and only for mobile platforms.

Where is the web interface?
We shall see. I am by far not the first to say such a thing. And I have been a gamer since the C64 days.
What should I do if I want to learn enough to be able to understand this post?
When will it surpass Twitter? 3 weeks?
On HN the zeitgeist decides what we see and don't see
> coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions

The CO2 output of a coal powered EV and a gasoline car are roughly equivalent. If you add in the CO2 used when refining the gasoline and when transporting the fuel to gas stations, gasoline cars are about 50% worse.

> and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂,

For most pollutions, especially for PM2.5, locality is super important. Gasoline engines run in populated areas, power plants aren't.
True, I haven’t been back since that opened, it might be sufficient improvement!
It’s an experiment. You are part of it.
I’ve never had issues with KLM (aside from the one time when there was a warzone in flux directly beneath their flight path, I can kind of forgive them for that).

AF and especially CDG though. That whole place is a shitshow. At least Schiphol allows you to run to wherever you need to be instead of cooling your heels waiting for the shuttle to arrive.
Fun fact: the process will be made artificially slow to last til you are 23 years old, which means voters making 18 this year would have to vote for them, again, in 4.

Total corruption.
Indeed. The "HowTo" part of it seems to be what they struggle with.
Did you get a refund for your defective university education? Mine was incredibly educational, in the topics I studied. It's almost like you can learn immense amounts in higher education if that's your goal.
If one builds a dry pile of sand.

A wet pile of sand has a different angle of repose. Between the lubrication and the rather substantial weight of the water, that's how most mudslides happen.
My comment's other grandchildren sum up my thinking fairly well, in particular the one pointing out that the URL of the site is literally "no hello".
Yeah it is Turkish. "İt ürür, kervan yürür."
Eliptic curves yield their secrets in a new number system
There is no web interface, but they will almost certainly add one. MVP baby!
You have to sign in with your instagram and download the app, it's basically "signing up" since it's a separate service and walled off from instagram.
The Digital Antiquarian has a _lot_ of interesting writing about the early history of video gaming and home computing. https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ has the full list of posts, starting from the beginning of the blog; the history they cover is mostly in chronological order.
I agree freemium plans have hazards like that. But as somebody who never converted, it was because Evernote always felt kinda shaky for me. I was willing to pay for great, reliable software. But them asking for money for adequate but buggy software was a hard sell for me.
Anything that is available in over 100 countries is global to me.
It is now, but when all this stuff was getting nailed down and all the standards were being written and all the AEAD libraries were being implemented it was off the table, so a lot of people feel like rehabilitating OCB isn't a great hill to die on.
OT: I see what looks to be a truncated version of the tweet with no apparent means of viewing the entire thing.

> This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn. That’s because of QE and interest rate rises. At the same time they say they can’t afford decent pay rises for nurses, doctors, teachers and others. This makes no sense. A thead….

How do I view the full tweet? I don't visit Twitter often and don't have an account. Is this part of the recent changes? I haven't been paying much attention, but thought that those mostly related to limiting the number of views.
At this point Apple is more of a competitor to Nvidia than AMD, at least when it comes to AI.
The funny part is that it isn't homosexuality being public that's at fault for men being afraid to show platonic affection just because they might therefore be mistaken for being gay, it's the fault of there being a stigma against being gay, otherwise why would anyone care about being mistaken for being gay? It's such a disingenuous argument to blame gay people being accepted in society for men being afraid to do things that might make them look gay and not homophobia. It's basically the definition of victim blaming.
Perhaps for the individual, but for enterprise contracts, that's pretty cheap. Slack charges $12.50 per user-month so this handily undercuts it.