skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins." - Nietzsche
Except it gets mostly everything wrong, even very simple things that are on the page itself.

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
I think their statement stands pretty well as a serious one because credit is social, and paid to those who play by a set of rules. If you are a physically abusive person, society will discredit you. Case in point Will Smith.
Yeah this is definitely part of it. At my current job, my manager has basically made it the problem of his manager. Everybody wants to cover their own ass and in doing so, no progress is made.

Downright depressing, lemme tell ya
>we can expect an end to cheap compute

Hot take: If that means on-shored computing HW jobs back in the west, I'm all for it. I'm only upgrading my phone/PC every 6 years or so anyway, I can live with them being more expensive if they're made in the US/EU and provide local jobs.

Them being more expensive could also mean more focus on SW improvements and optimizations instead of throwing more HW resources at bloated and poorly written SW, more focus on longevity and repairability, and less e-waste for the environment, at the cost of corporate profits and the consoomerist attitude focused on hyping up this year's must-have "new-shiny" that's just 2% better than last year's "old-shiny". All I see is a win-win.
> Isn't that depressing?

No? Why would it be?
This may be true in some cases, but there are aggressive forms of cognitive decline that are not affected by mental stimulation. Early-onset Alzheimer's tends to be a very good example of this.
> [ɴ] is a back nasal consonant

Not quite! This is a peculiarity of Japanese transcription: the moraic nasal [0] is often transcribed as /ɴ/ or /N/ in phonemic representation, while its phonetic realisation varies between [m~n~ɲ~ŋ]; it is true uvular [ɴ] only utterance-finally, but apparently even that is controversial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_phonology#Moraic_nasa...
I think bringing in typescript as a privileged "plugin" language and all the libraries available under it, would speed up any custom development on the long term. Those "custom" use cases can become native ones and the base platform can gradually grow to be more powerful.

I think it's smart to bring in a common language for plugin/application design and focus on making the plumbing and interface (not just UX) first class.
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time?: A new paper has been widely misinterpreted
Ok, now take the number of years during which Firefox was slower and calculate an averaged value of its speed. This will account for all the frustration it would have caused switching to it in the past. Being faster for 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, and probably even for 2 years wouldn't be enough to cause a big change in that averaged value. And that would also measure how much of a guarateed good choice would be switching to Firefox right now. As soon as it will stay faster for enough time to smooth out the differences then I'll start consider using it.

I've been a Firefox advocate and user for many years, but then about 6 years ago I had to face the hard truth of how bad it performed with lots of tabs open, and how much of a pain I was causing myself for not switching to a Chromium powered browser.

About one month ago, I've checked it out again under the same conditions... and sadly it's still not even close to competitors' memory management.
How to Prevent GHC from Inferring Types with Undesirable Constraints
> but this new level of anonymity and lack of connection when it comes to getting information is NOT good for us

I really think this is the kind of existential risk that people don’t think about when they think about AI existential risk.

The whole thing either rules the world or comes down when humans no longer know how to cooperate.
Generative AI won’t disrupt books
Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind [video]
Can someone explain this is — what it does and what it's used for? I'm not familiar with Notion at all and the page — which basically says you can use it for everything — is not helpful in this regard.

It sounds like a P2P shared note and document app but it's not clear to me.
no they can't, and I didn't say so

but it's Valve which is blocking them not Nintendo

and sure Valve might do so on behest of Nintendo but it's still Valves doing so

the idea that Dolphine (or Valve) have to asks Nintendo for anything is just completly absurd and beyond any legal basis

which is why Nintendo doesn't use the proper legal methods here IMHO, because then you can dispute it and they can (probably will) lose

but as long as Valve plays along there is nothing much Dolphin can do, so again it's Valve who first needs to be convinced before then either Nintendo gives up or you have a proper legal dispute with them

anyway like you correctly pointed out there is no way for Dolphin to affect Valve so the is no way for Dolphi on steam
I have a question: how to fix this? Could enhanced peer review provide a solution? However, the peers are not detectives so I really do not know.

It appears we are caught in an inevitable cycle: success in academia is intrinsically tied to more published papers. That inevitably fosters widespread fraud, as a small proportion of unscrupulous individuals will ultimately corrupt the entire system. As noted in the report, his lab had trend of favoring the winners.

Furthermore, we need to consider that there are very powerful external influencer such as politics and corporations, which can sometimes lead to the distortion of data.
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/kevin-mitnicks-famous-lockpi...

A link to his famous business card which doubled as a lock pick kit. Rip Kevin.
> When we teach math to children we don’t start with algebraic structures and proofs.

Depends. In my high school, math was tought not by telling us the proofs, but by asking us to provide them.
could be something like prompt rewriting or chain of thought or reflexion going on in the background as well
Because with schema-based sharding in Citus, the schemas are the sharding unit and the system can move them to new nodes being added to the cluster.

You can start with all your microservices sharing a single node, add nodes and have the storage layer distributed horizontally in a way transparent to the services themselves.
The way a system like docusign works is that it is a (trusted) independent third party that will verify that the owner of email address X is the one that "signed" the specific version of an agreement.

By self-hosting, you have access to the infrastructure and can manipulate it to your will. There is no proof that the counterparty signed anything - you could just manipulate it to say they did.

This potential for misuse could make it difficult to enforce your contract should you be required to do so.
Pro-er tip: if you are in the US and access a computer over any kind of service provider network (Internet, leased line, etc.) you should operate on the assumption your traffic is crossing state lines and the CFAA applies to your activities.

Tools like traceroute cannot show you where your traffic is physically being sent because: there may be no geographic information in the router reverse DNS records, that information might not be accurate if it is present, and layer 3 tools cannot show you the underlying layer 1/2 path (which might be wildly different than the layer 3 hops would suggest.)
I'm not familiar with Notion. How does this compare to something like Obsidian?
https://dev.to/macargnelutti/server-side-javascript-a-decade...
Well that made for a really fun rabbit hole to start my day. Thanks. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-...
Currently intelligence is measured all the time in school tests and at universities. You then get a title which you can use to get easier access to higher paying jobs.

So my point is that it _is_ already being enforced.

I doubt that doing away with schools is in any way useful, but perhaps we can come up with better ideas?
As any economist would tell you, "Labor Shortage" is a myth in any industry.
I need one, I just ruptured my ACL.
Are you implying that private agencies have less corruption than public ones? It's fascinating how jarring that is with my life experience.

Before you answer, remember, Stanford is a private institution.
I think you need a js engine to run the entire thing which entails shipping that with the product to make it "locally installable". Then you get into complex version dependencies and require support for upgrading and upgrade paths... yarn is pretty straightforward and so are docker containers.
Zero Knowledge virtual machine step by step
I stand corrected... thanks
I think you need to figure out what your real goal is and focus. If you wanted to learn some stuff then focus on tutorials until you become an expert. I would start with python and move on from there.

If you goals is to build a product for sale I would focus on one idea build a demo using apis that exist first. Like openAI or something one of it's competitors. If it's a hard problem and users find it very useful then it doesn't matter your costs because you just tack on the costs and charge them.

The first goal is exploratory and the other has a specific goal. They're probably incompatible. It's like saying I want to be a chef(you have to focus on the fundamentals first) and I want a cake tonight. Either sign up for chef school or buy a cake mix(or go to a bakery).

Sorry it doesn't directly answer your question.
I don't think Notion has formulas for tables. I think you mean formulas for databases.

The formulas for databases like Notion has is actually the second-most requested feature right now and is tagged as Acknowledged, so hopefully we will get it soon.
Don’t you (forget NLP): Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT
Completing a big project changed my life- it taught me so much about my field, showed employers evidence that I was capable, and gave me confidence. Granted, it took a lot of half-completed projects to get me there.
Your statement is only partly true. The article just says "I found out that I broke the other driver’s spine, and she’ll never walk again" - so you're reading into it that he read it in a newspaper, but maybe it was just hearsay from someone who talked to someone who worked at the hospital who had talked to the doctor who may have treated her (or maybe someone else who also had a car accident that day)? I think the vague formulation is intentional to make it apply more widely.

But I agree with the point that it's not "the past" that's at fault here, it's unreliable sources of information.
The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science
The discussion so far is pretty sad to me. I read the Los Angeles Times every morning as a kid, probably about an hour to two each morning. I'm not going to say it was or is some kind of perfect, infallible information source, but it's amazing how cynical the Internet has become. Apparently, they're nothing more than government propaganda, unelected "arbiters of truth." Like centuries-old institutions with professional standards, associated academic disciplines, fact-checking departments, editorial boards, are exactly the equal of any person with a phone and a knack for standing out in the attention economy.

It's recalling a comment from the thread about "the past isn't true" about post-modernism. Yes, no information source is 100% reliable. Every institution is imperfect. All of them have had or currently have people in them who commit fraud, have biases. Incentive structures are often poor. The fact that no information source is completely reliable all of the time does not mean that all information sources are exactly equal. The textbook industry is in many ways a scam, but that does not mean you're going to get an equally good education getting your information from an algorithmic video feed created as a dopamine machine to publish work with absolutely no even token attempt at quality control.

I get that categories are imperfect. There is no "line" between education and entertainment. They're fuzzy and they overlap. But they are nonetheless different things, and understanding this is a key part of existing in the contemporary world without throwing your hands up and giving into complete nihilism and epistemic despair.
2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734137

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17413911

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9093545

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399461

Someone in 2024 please continue this list
Thanks for the moral lesson on how to spend my time.
It’s boilerplate all the way down.
See the recent Canadian case of the thumbs up emoji signature [0]. The bar for a legally binding contract is much lower than what most people believe. The main thing you need is to be able to prove that the other party actually did express their assent to the contract. In the thumbs up case, who sent the text was not disputed, so the issue hinged on whether a reasonable person would interpret thumbs up emoji as expressing assent.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618650
TIL that Google Docs has a built-in eSignature capability: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12315692?hl=en

In beta though, so consider that when using.
Basically folks have bought into conservative propaganda that white collar journalists are somehow equally “elite” as the ruling owner class.
Coda has the most powerful tables I've seen of the Notion alternatives, and was a fair bit cheaper for my team since they don't charge per viewer or editor but per "creator". But unfortunately it's not open-source or local.

They have a pretty good [writeup](https://coda.io/blog/productivity/tables-not-spreadsheets) on why "spreadsheets" were avoided in favor of more traditional "tables" (a la RDBMS).
Why not just use %n in the pattern (hostname as passed on the CLI rather than evaluated in the config) and then `Hostname github.com` inside the `Host` block instead of the latter two commands?
At first I thought this was a reference to the movie Sneakers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64), but after searching it seems Wells Fargo also does this, https://www.wellsfargo.com/privacy-security/voice-verificati....
Here's the thkng you are missing:

Google, like Microsoft before them, pushes their own products in ways that no others are allowed to:

- Microsoft pre-bundled IE and Windows Media Player when no one else could bundle anything.

- Google pushed ads against Firefox and for Chrome on the front page of Google search (i.e. before a search was typed) something I am not aware if anyone neither humanitarian or commercial entities with the worlds largest marketing budgets being allowed to do.

For me, this example alone is enough to demonstrate behind reasonable doubt that Google, like Microsoft before them (and after them with Teams and Edge) have abused their position in one market to crush all competition in another market.

Everything else like the very convenient issues showing up in Firefox on major Google properties like Search, Calendar and YouTube is just icing on the cake.
I, for one, appreciate how jacked everybody in Renaissance art is.
Tsunami, emoji, soja, jo-ken-pô, judô, karatê, sushi, origami.

Because of Japanese immigration, there’s a lot of people in the Southeast with Japanese last names.
Mitnick could have been hired as a advisor for their system, personally by the CEO.

He calls the CEO to ask a "personal question" so to skip the assistant, asks something innocent, then let's the CEO he has a new number and provides a fake number. He asks the CEO to confirm he heard the number correctly, but it's a bad line, so speak clearly please.

The "new phone number" has all the digits of the bank account he's trying to hack. The account is likely the account number that he's being paid for the consultancy work with. He could have got this simply by asking to confirm from which account he'd be paid from to confirm the transaction.

He is asked to report his review of the new security system to the board (given it was a large investment by the Bank, or just the wrong word used) and the architect would of course be invited to his own project's review?

The board then asked Mitnick to design a new system and said that cost wouldn't be an issue.

That all seems pretty easy to put together?
RestAPI integration will be available in August
>but even if the wages are high it takes time to train

Exactly. There's also a brain surgeon shortage even though salaries are great, but not everyone has the will, skills, time, money and patience to study and become a credentialed brain surgeon despite the high pay.

Same with semi jobs, you need a hard science background that not everyone has or is willing to go through, including SW devs. Increasing wages might not fix the shortage because not everyone who can do other well paid jobs, can also do semi work.
Which is a little strange -- since you have physical access and are capable of booting from a USB stick, the procedure is to tell the bootloader to use sh as the init, mount the root filesystem r/w, change the root password (copying the hash for later if you want to restore it), make sure it's written to disk and reboot into the normal system -- only now you have root.

If you have access to the bootloader's kernel command line, you don't need the USB stick, either.

What this doesn't do is get you access to an encrypted filesystem, unless the encryption password happens to be written somewhere in the unencrypted partition. That happens unsurprisingly often.
> TDE[Tidal Disruption Event]s are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole and is pulled apart by the black hole's tidal forces,
TSMC is Taiwan's single largest strategic national interest. It was started with government investment and it likely remains under a degree of national control. If you replicate the fabs of TSMC in the US, Taiwan will lose its strategic bargening chip. Why have the US defend the island if it offers no additional value?

With no 2nd source supplier the US is in a position to provide strong deterrence against invasion.
That fact that it's part of the scientific method makes it part of the scientific method. I was addressing the "is it recent" bit.
“Pão” is pronounced pretty similarly to “pan,” and nothing at all like “pow
How could that possibly support the relativity of simultaneity? Different reference frames disagree on what is happening "now."
Not really on:click is not valid HTML
Any time a big hack makes the news it turns out that either some system had no security, they used social engineering, or a disgruntled former employee. Hackers aren't sitting there with a super computer in a Guy Fawkes mask trying to decrypt data. The scams are the same now as back then.
Do your clients even notice, though?

I'm a rare user of these platforms, but all I ever see is that I get an email with a link to sign something. Sometimes it's DocuSign and sometimes it's Adobe or something else, but I certainly don't feel any loyalty towards one over another, and as a signer, I certainly don't trust the platforms to hold onto my copy for me.

It seems that unless you've got clients who are trying to use DocuSign as their personal document management system, as long as the interaction flow is essentially the same it should be fine.
Windows Defender started checking for modifications to binaries like utilman.exe or sethc.exe a couple of years ago.
> As China absorbs Taiwan when their area denial capabilities become credible enough to keep the American navy away

I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon
With full appreciation of all the complexities and intricacies involved here, the state of these official documentation resources as they exist today isn't great.

Additionally, most initiatives aimed at improving the situation have only resulted in yet more overhead in the form of additional committees with each their own agendas and procedures, or the creation of another new deeply interconnected but otherwise completely separate sibling standard[0][1][3][4], fragmenting things even further.

I used to be quite heavily involved with some of the more meritful of those initiatives, but at some point realised that despite all the time and effort I was putting in, nothing really meaningful/impactful had been achieved or was even anywhere in sight, and it was also becoming too costly on a personal level. Guess that's my justification for having the right to post this rant :)

[0] https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/

[1] https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/

[2] https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/

[4] https://w3c.github.io/html-aria/
Thanks for pointing this out - it actually didn't expect that because of GitHub and GitLab and i haven't hears any trademark dispures between them.
When Gitlab differs from Github by only 2 letters - DocuSeal vs DocuSign is already 3 letters.

But i think that's a valid concern and i need to better investigate this - changing the name shouldn't be a problem when the project is still very new.
On my machine, I just removed the 'ssh-pkcs11-helper' binary, given that I'll definitely have no need for it in the foreseeable future.

Then I remembered I don't use 'ssh-agent' as my SSH Agent anyway; I use gpg-agent and I'm pretty confident in its security posture. Then I verified it: gpg-agent simply doesn't support any operations except signing with preloaded keys.
When I wad 13 I printed out “FREE KEVIN” stickers and stuck them all over the locker room of my school. …kind of a weird thing to do in Australia back then.
Majority of older adults with cognitive impairment still drive
If you had to pass through Wall Mart drive through multiple times a day, would it be ok if they hassled you if you used anything but Walmart cars?

Is it OK when Microsoft force install Teams across every installed machine?

You have to realize google.com isn't just the corporate website of Google, it is their main product.
I am serious about this, but I find the whole matter quite painful.

It is also something that is probably not well suited for a forum where most readers have (very) high intelligence and a fondness for liberalism -- so I was a bit unsure on how to pose the question tactfully, and added in some sympathetic gestures.
It does feel a little made up right ? Could be true. Could be maybe a little bit dramatized. Derek Sivers seems to have so many stories like this
Replace the lot with ai. They want to replace us anyway, without paying royalties mind you, so they might just as well start with themselves.
Outside of North America, it was relatively rare for farmers to own their land. Tenant farming and serfdom were more common in Europe/Japan. In China, as a general principle, the government itself owned all land during the Mao era.

Farmer-landowners are much more financially resilient to technological change because (generally) the same technologies which reduced the value of their labour increased the value of their property.

I suspect this difference in historic land ownership had a big impact on subsequent politics and it's something I'm looking to read more about.