skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the reason why this list is so clever.

It is made so that it is hard to tell the difference between sabotage and being genuinely helpful. If you ask people to advocate caution when you know there is a good chance for an accident to happen, it is helpful. If you ask people to advocate caution even though the risk is low and everything goes well, it is sabotage.

Precise wording may be important in a legally binding contract, or when misinterpretation can have serious consequences. The way you sabotage is by doing that on points where it doesn't matter. For example, let's say you want to publish a memo telling people to bring back the encabulator to the store room after they finished using it, a common sense reminder. A saboteur can start arguing what is meant by "finishing", for example, what if it is needed an hour later, maybe suggest a logbook, special rules about overnight use, etc... when in reality, all that is needed it to remind Bob (who may be a fellow saboteur) not to be an asshole.
Climate impacts are exacerbating the existing migratory trends.
"And it’s so dry that you barely sweat… a condition that conceals dehydration."

Without sweating I'd sure like to know what's happening to all that hydration...

It seems there's been a lot of stupid hyperbolic drama in the news lately about high desert temps and how unlivable they are.

But the reality is it's the non-arid regions that are unlivable in extreme heat waves.

Deserts are so dry it's trivial to stay cool enough to survive. All it takes is shade and water, perspiration and evaporation takes care of the rest.

You can't do the same with so much humidity the sweat can't carry the heat away from your body. That's what kills people.

(I own land in the Mojave by JTNP, on which I'm presently spending yet another AC-less summer. I wouldn't dare do this in muggy IL, but here it's really no big deal - I just get less work done outside having to stay in the shade.)
> It must be the full document plaintext and date signed with your private key and should be verifiable with your public key by a court before a claim is even approachable.

This is called a notary public. Its a routine requirement with immigration documents.
.They can also certify copies as true.

In UK for sone reason it costs over £100, and noone uses them, but in eastern europe its common and notarising documents is like €5 - they just check you identity
One reaction:

https://infosec.exchange/@siguza/110754790926717071
> Even if Mandel were to win, there was the possibility of multiple winners — a scenario that could significantly dilute the jackpot.

In fact Mandel was not able to calculate the odds of multiple winners. With publicity about an outsized jackpot, the general public is also expected to buy tickets in larger numbers, making it hard to estimate the expected winnings.

For that reason, I would not consider this to be gaming, or cheating the lottery. There was no guaranteed profit, and a moderate chance of large losses. So he took a big gamble, and was lucky to be the only winner in the end.

An interesting question is whether lotteries should
publish the number of tickets sold when it implies
expected winnings for every single ticket sold (as was the case in Mandel's lottery). On the one hand that should sell more tickets, but on the other hand it will deter some people from buying once the numbers stop being published...
They likely put a binding arbitration clause into the initial contract for speaking.
> There were many scripting languages, javascript will be the final one

If, by “scripting languages”, you mean “browser-native languages”, WebAssembly might become a serious contender as the lingua franca for the Web in the long term.
Why else have humans evolved such giant brains that it puts both mother and baby at serious risk and consumes huge amounts of energy?

There's also correlations between brain size and various intelligence metrics, which, while certainly not definitive, is still strong evidence.

Of course it's not just a simple matter of size, particularly across species (e.g. a blue whale isn't smarter than a human). But it helps/enables.
On holding back the strange AI tide
Make a repo. That's a file that lives wherever. Go to some directory, fossil open filename. Now you have a working directory. Type fossil ui, now you're looking at it in a browser.

It sounds like you want a version running on a machine that multiple people log into to access the UI. That I don't know how to set up. Spinning up the UI locally makes a lot more sense to me that sharing a single instance with the world.
He picked the value.
Of course, if you raise the cost of energy that much heating will have more of an impact then A/C. I still think the northern US cities will be more resilient (and I do live in one) but heating isn’t cheap
Wow! You've done tremendous work.
If MAUs are up and Threads was a flop, why doesn't it?
Arguably one is taking from the rich and the other is more likely taking advantage of the poor.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/89Gn4
Europe the continent or the EU? Does this include the UK?
And then private keys will leak. Nothing's perfect.

Requiring physical presence is a pain but it's probably tolerable for sufficiently high value transactions. Only works within the US. There's a related process with more hurdles for international.
Correct, saving a company from the brink is easier than running a financially healthy company.
Get a random fact about OpenBSD
https://why-openbsd.rocks/
Tell me you never played IF (even the basic ones) without telling me so explicitly.

If you play Entangled, Anchorhead, All Things Devours... the gameplay it's far above an AI can do. In ...devours... you have a time travelling puzzle where you must avoid a paradox with yourself. Good luck with that. And that's a game that will run under Frotz from DOS/Windows 95/old Linux/NetBSD in a 486. Or your basement Raspberry Pi, without even sweating a cycle.

Put a Pentium MMX or a basic RpiA, play Galatea https://www.ifwiki.org/Galatea or Counterfeit Monkey https://www.ifwiki.org/Counterfeit_Monkey and then enforcing an AI to create a coherent game with narrativeness, feelings and drama (without being formulaic on speech or narrative) without shitting itself over a few iterations of gameplays it's a dauntisk task.

And these are text games, I repeat, an Amiga, Atari or a 486 could run without too much hazzle. Yet they are created with trivial tools also runable in a Pentium machine from 1997.

Yet an AI can't reach these levels of gameplay even if they tried. Because maintaing coherence on described media with full of twists and easy to create "hard" puzzles like nothing (for an Inform6 progrmmer) it's a very hard task for a machine having to do plays on semantics.
Part-time can be a great fit for developers who use their own stack and stick to a consistent architecture across multiple projects. For instance, I personally begin each of my projects with the same template (https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit 23k). This approach reduces overhead when juggling multiple tasks, allowing me to seamlessly make changes in one place and effortlessly push and merge updates into various upstream repositories for different clients. Excited about this efficiency-boosting method? Check out my new blog post where I delve into the details: https://medium.com/@koistya/enabling-efficient-front-end-dev.... Good luck with your project!
Can we start from scratch?

In my opinion technical people would have to build a walled garden to keep out the walled gardens. The moment the bar is low enough for businesses to utilize a thing they will do so. The early internet we remember had little of this due to the bar being higher from a lack of easy to use tooling and a smaller talent pool. People will do what people can do. So for a while one could build an internet that requires advanced coding knowledge to use but then someone will build tooling on top of it that enables corporate capture of that audience as well. I know that is a very pessimistic view but I think it is true.
Working on the buy side, I can tell you that GS is definitely not competent anymore, with all the cost cutting going on. Getting a bunch of CSV files on a SFTP server seems to be extremally challenging for them. Getting the numbers to match with what we're getting over email/on the website is impossible.

It's so bad that they're losing serious business on this despite being competitive on fees and service.

Bloomberg is great if you're big and bring a lot of money to the table. For any small/mid-size firm (think less than 5M ARR on Bloomberg licenses) the answer for even basic requests is often "we'll file an enhancement request" only for things to disappear and never get adjusted. To give an example, it's still not possible to get an hourly export of the trade history in CSV or XML on a SFTP server. There's workarounds but it's definitely not half-way competent.
I think you’re correct - I worked there for about 5 years in the infrastructure engineering department. We had very rigorous processes around the underlying platform and keeping the operating systems and hardware up to date.

They’re talking about the “banking” operating systems.

Also note that Deutsche Bank (like many global financial institutions) is not really a single company, but more like 10 different companies all operating under one umbrella.

It’s all very well pointing at a company like Goldman and saying “look, they do IT well” when they don’t have the same range of commercial and consumer businesses as part of their company. If you’re just an investment bank, life is a bit simpler.

On a more general note I feel like in our industry there’s a tendency towards “perfection worship” where people think there’s some kind of immortal “perfect solution” that a company needs and anything less than that is terrible and must be chastised.

This is egoistical and forgets that IT and computing exists to enable companies and not the other way round. The world does not do computing for computing’s sake. Company change can be almost constant, changing systems to keep up is hard and expensive, being able to live with imperfection is critical to commercial success.
This is too cynical. For serious B2B customer service, and higher end B2C businesses, they are genuinely there to make sure every last inquiry is resolved to satisfaction.

Of course that's because they don't charge a fixed rate, usually a pricier variable rate.
That naivety must be of a 2012 vintage.
Looks fine on my iPhone. Font is a bit small for me, but turning the phone sideways fixes that, or using the Reader mode.

This is in stark contrast to sites that use the PRE tag and don’t wrap. Notably things like their mailing list archives.
This is the kind of stuff that baffles me.

We have people who believe that we can take rockets to other planets, which have surfaces so hostile that it makes this example of Phoenix look like a garden paradise.

Meanwhile, we scratch our heads at those people who are attempting to live in a place that is literally only 30° hotter than average for the continent - yet completely hostile to life.

Yet somehow this group believes that the future of humanity is on a less hospitable planet.

Help me reconcile this

Why aren’t we doing all that fancy Geoengineering and biodoming that is planned for Mars in Phoenix right now?
Only, now you have to check each output sentence, because if formerly you could suspect that an output could be a figment wit shaky sides, now it becomes the rule.
In the English-speaking world, "mediaeval" often ends up being a shorthand for "mediaeval English" in practice. The books references in this article are English.

The vast majority of the world's population was not in Western Europe in mediaeval times but Indian and Chinese history of this period for example is rarely taught or discussed in such a mainstream way.
When stock prices are treading downwards it's known as a "bear market," when stock prices are treading upwards it's know as a "bull market."

No actual animals involved.
> “We can’t just say, ‘Oh, we’re going to charge $2 extra’ instead of having tips, because we have a duty to our customers to have a very fair price point,” said Cheaney, who also consults for Main Squeeze’s corporate office. If customers think the price is too high, he said, they won’t return. Asking them to tip, he said, is different because it’s optional.”

Firstly, how is charging $15 for 1oz of liquor a fair price? Secondly, I don’t think anyone thinks tipping is truly optional.
Fewer people are starving than ever before, all because of capitalism.

What alternative are you proposing? You are always welcome to donate food to the hungry, as many of us do.
Putting aside any ethics questions.
Sounds like the guys on their way to court did actually sign the contracts.

Not sure there is much get out clause for them tbh, Im not aware of any court anywhere that will take "didnt read the contract" as a get out of jail free card.

Always read the contract kids.
Yes, this is exactly right. The wet bulb temperature in parts of Texas and Florida in the heat wave a week or two ago got close to the limit of human survivability. Five years from now Texas, Florida, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia are all going to be seeing that limit exceeded at least briefly every summer.
Right, who told these people that ChatGPT is 'neutral' or an 'expert' in any topic?
I tried to look into this once, and it’s hard to find these studies. It’s easy to find studies that _cite_ these studies, but it’s hard to actually find the studies themselves, and even harder to figure out exactly what they mean by “diversity”. Where I could find data, it was significant that the studies took place before diversity included sexual orientation (and _long_ before it included gender identity), but those both seem to be the main driver of diversity initiatives these days
Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, Cypress, etc can all drive "real" browsers - although note by default config is altered for performance / testing reasons and this can be detected in some cases.

But assuming you're driving a real browser you're probably being "detected" because of your behaviour.

Humans are slow. They follow certain browsing patterns. They interact with the site in a certain way (scrolling, moving the mouse cursor, keyboard presses).

If a client is hitting a site many times a minute without much scrolling or mouse movement and seemingly doing things in an unusual or systematic way it will often trigger security measures like Captchas.

What you're describing here is the product of an arms race between people who want to scrape and exploit websites using automated tools and the websites themselves who want to offer the best service possible to legitimate users.

It's partly why so much of the internet today requires people to login and verify phone numbers / email addresses. It's also why we see captchas and other tactics to slow users down and screen out bots.

If you built something completely undetectable the bad guys would love it and sites would then need to find new ways to detect / stop whatever you're doing.
Meh, would you seriously investigate any scientific fact your mother told you if the sentence started with “Alex Jones says…”?

It’s an internal ad hominem if you don’t. Which goes to show an ad hominem is not a hard-and-fast rule.
Isn't the patch/diff format already universal? I mean the one you generate with diff [0] and apply with patch [1]. You don't need the vcs to generate it.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/diff

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/patch
Only a small percentage of the population lacks the financial resources to move. It’s because people don’t care about the heat and will just turn up the AC. Arizona has the 4th highest rate of domestic net migration (people moving in from other states minus people leaving for other states).
Then use Perforce? Why are you complaining that something doesn't exist and then literally naming it in the next sentence!
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I think this is my biggest issue with the enterprise file sharing solutions; it's way too hard to manage access to files and to do simple sharing. like at face value it seems easy if you just want to drop a file to a friend or coworker, but it gets much more difficult when you want to actually enforce any controls on it.

Sharepoint and Google drive really feel like they have gone out of their way to make the permissions scheme as convoluted as possible, and it's never clear for me whether I've shared it in a way that permissions can propagate from those I shared it with or not. sometimes I can further share a received Sharepoint document without issue, other times I cannot, and I don't know what the difference is. some of my shared docs that are only shared with specific users can be shared freely apparently, other times when it gets shared further I get automated emails with access requests, even though the public access list is disabled/empty on both cases.

I really wish that the user:group:world wide model was the basis for these permission schemes and it was easier to just set people/groups and the specific actions they can take on a shared file/document. I get why the companies call it sharing, but it shouldn't be thought of as sharing, it should be Grant Access. I think it gives a better mindset for what you're actually doing, and the design should be around the idea you're giving access, not sharing, which is not the same thing to me.
The taxes should reflect the luxury of the purchase. That was the entire goal of US federal taxes prior to the country-ruining 16th Ammendment.
Our company is going all-in with outsourcing. Mostly Central/Eastern Europe. Only new employees are juniors or directors and above. The middle is being squeezed out massively.

The excuse is always that the company has particular expertise (they really don’t)
> Not sure if you realize, but a commit is a state of all files in the repository, not a patch.

I think that's a core problem. It's not just that git calculates a patch to show you, it's that — in every git-using project I've seen — a developer writes a patch, and writes a commit message describing that patch. It's not just github. And then developers make the incorrect assumption that git's later presentation of the commit as a patch matches the original patch and is accurately described by the commit message.
In the US, you usually just go into your bank branch. I'm not sure what the deal is if you don't have a local financial institution/lawyer/etc. (Exec admins are sometimes also notaries.)
I find index funds are nearly decoupled from the fundamentals except for the occasional adds/subtracts from the index. They might be optimal for the individual investor, but are adding so much noise to the price signal for the individual stock that you have to use option pairs to actually bet on a company doing well.

So based on the boomer 401k theory, we should see steady declines as their investment rate goes net negative by 2030?
Can we stop calling looting and vandalism protesting?

Destroying a community and the businesses within shouldn’t be equated with peaceful marches.

Someone taking a PlayStation and some overpriced sneakers from a store and burning down several city blocks is not okay.
Lived through similar runs of heat to this in Adelaide, Australia... not awesome, but the buses still ran on time (and were air conditioned!)
I disagree. These cities have vast amounts of solar power to the point that they could, with storage, not only self sustain on mostly just rooftop solar but could perhaps even be net energy exporters.

They’re also not in areas likely to be inundated by flooding, and they are not in places where their expansion destroys forests. They are low density today too meaning they have tremendous room to build up.

Lack of freeze thaw cycles means roads and buildings last longer, reducing energy use in constant repair and CO2 from constant reapplication of concrete and asphalt.

Water is their big problem but with cheap renewable energy that problem is solvable either with pipelines or desalination.

Lastly air conditioning takes less power than winter heating in extremely cold climates and like I said above is more easily fueled by renewable energy. Solar generation peaks exactly with A/C demand. Cities up North tend to burn tons of fossil fuels for heat and that is harder to decarbonize. Heat pumps help but it’s still more intensive than A/C.

If the water problem is solvable these cities could become far more sustainable than say New York or Chicago due to all their cheap solar.
Futurology and progressology are the new religions that's why. They think science can and will resolve everything, we'll bend the law of physics, extract ressources indefinitely, live forever, &c.
I assumed this was only in regards to higher value interactions where meeting in person always makes sense.

I'm having trouble imagining a scenario where such a high level of assurance for real identity verification is required but is not worthwhile to meet in person.

Can you name a few examples?
Or when they do decide to move there are folks lining up to buy their house. Why would anyone move to AZ or even FL given the expected climate impact?
That kind of behaviour might only present after a long tenure at the organisation, once such an engineer sees themselves at the top of the pecking order.

At which point, it boils down to how willing an organisation is to fire someone for going rogue, or whether it’ll close ranks around the senior engineer for whatever reason/excuse and fire the junior.
I'm not saying you're completely wrong from a business perspective, but the open source hobbyist community on the other hand is pretty big here. Just the structures haven't kept up.
I just disabled uBlock and browsed Twitter and saw federal government, HP and Apple ads and more. Lowest of the lowest seems like an exaggeration here.

Even with a 50% drop in advertiser revenue, Twitter's vastly reduced OpEx should make it cash flow this year on that basis alone.
Minor feedback that you're welcome to ignore: I found reading your comment a little bit slower & more annoying because of your lack of upper case letters for sentence starts. It's an interesting comment so I still read to the end, and upvoted, but I was close to not bothering to keep going half way through purely because of it all being lower case. I'd suggest changing your habit and starting sentences with upper case letters, not just because it's "normal" but because it's normal for a reason, that reason being that people find it easier to read.
I think you have a significantly bigger burden of proof to prove the other party had accepted it if you signed it and returned it having amended it without mentioning those changes in the email, and it would be much less clear cut. If you mentioned “here it is with a few small changes”, and you got back an email that said “received”, even if they didn’t explicitly ok the changes or sign it, and you started working, I think you’d be on much firmer ground though.

There’ll be explicit case law but it’ll come down to “would a reasonable person think the changes to the contract had been accepted”
https://www.morganstanley.com/pub/content/dam/mscampaign/wea...

Struggling to copy / paste from my phone but the GIC is always worth a read

“The GIC remains convicted that a rapid and strong rebound is unlikely…”
Northern US cities are much worse positioned than other cities. Those cities are full of old, poorly insulated houses with inadequate electrical infrastructure. No ducts for A/C, 100 amp electrical boxes, nowhere to put heat pump outdoor units, etc. It’ll be much easier for more recently built cities across the south and mountain west to go fully electric.
Cool! Very Interesting. Do customers get real-time checkout updates?
I guess that would incur even more cost (ecologically) in the long term, making more places that miserable.