skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what happens when we let accountants run companies rather than engineers and company directors bow to shareholder demands to squeeze out every last cent of profit. In practice, modern economics is more about money than people—and that has to end badly.

This story is more than just a bad decision by Stanley, it's of strategic national importance, moreover it's not just the US but also a problem for most Western countries. If it's not reversed soon then it'll be irreversible and the West will be fucked. A reminder of the know-how that we've lost:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aircraft_product...
It's in the abstrct, right at the top
PalmOS emulators already exist. This is probably what it’s running.
Go 1.22 Inlining Overhaul
TIL that attitudes from 2016 are “old-fashioned”.
The Long Tail of Beer Preferences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

> Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."
Notice how I never even mentioned democrats until you did. Your questions are irrelevant because I'm not here to do a compare and contrast.
>If you have even a half hearted belief in meritocracy that represents a failure of epic proportions.

I'm curious, what do you think "half hearted belief in meritocracy" consist of? From the rest of your comment, it sounds like any sort of economic system where you can earn money without the effort of yourself (ie. investment) isn't meritocratic?
>>Currency is the lifeblood of the system known as a state,

Correct, which is the primary reason I oppose it. I consider the state to be part of the problem with human society

>>what exactly would you consider an alternative?

I dont proscribe a single "alternative" nor do I believe an single alternative should be mandated by a state, nor do I believe it is the proper role of a state to control the medium of exchange
Sadly, Neanderthals probably do not count as valid inventors under patent law. As they are not typically (?) considered persons, their inventions would be interpreted as natural processes, which in another absurdity can often be discovered and patented.
This is just what humans are like. I say this a lot but I still don't understand how people are so naive about this kind of thing. You're not going to find anywhere that isn't like this eventually. We not only don't live in a meritocracy but meritocracy itself is impossible. It's just idealism that disregards nature (unless you redefine it to some meaningless vague Darwinianism.)
When Microsoft explained to their customers:

"Storm-0558 acquired an inactive MSA consumer signing key"[1]

They should have said:

"Storm-0558 acquired an EXPIRED MSA consumer signing key"

And when they said:

"a validation issue allowed this key to be trusted for signing Azure AD tokens."[1]

They should have said:

"MULTIPLE validation issues allowed this key to be trusted for signing Azure AD tokens."

And when Microsoft said:

"The actors are keenly aware of the target’s environment, logging policies, authentication requirements, policies, and procedures."

They should have said something like:

"The actors could have been aiming for a brazen hit-and-run and didn't stop for a second to think about policies and other nonsense. Alternatively, the actors were unsophisticated and completely unaware of facts like the US State Department paying us a stack more money for the privilege of being able to log mailbox access events in detail (thanks Boeing for the tip from MCAS!). Additionally, the actors appear to have neglected the fact that Chrome 92 was last updated in 2021 and therefore a fairly bad choice of user agent to use for an attack against a US department whose ICT systems should be using the latest version of web browsers. Additionally, the actors likely had no idea how US State Department mailboxes are accessed, and made a very poor guess of it by using random public data centres throughout Europe."[2][3]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/14/ana...

[2] https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/ambassador-t...
You're welcome, athough to be honest I hadn't been paying attention to individual names, just watching a newest comment scroll and responding to various comments re: climate science (I've been in exploration geophysics for some time).

Looking at some of your responses to my comments:

> The problem is that you are recommending we turn off capitalism

I made no direct recomendation although I suggested various approaches - I'm not sure where on the globe is practicing fully informed free market capitalism but I'd certainly want to regulate it in the same manner as we regulate engines of power to avoid them becoming unbalanced and walking across the floor just as first generation unregulated steam engines did.

From a complex dynamics PoV Adam Smith was a first order basic bitch (as I believe the young people of the day might say).

> we will doom the world’s poor people to lives of certain poverty with no hope of upward mobility.

Mighty white of you to say so, maybe you might want to ask some of the worlds poor what they want.

The people I know that have nothing (I grew up in very outback Australia) want their land back, they want the "developed advanced nations" to stop dumping waste and shit on the land they've cared for the past 40+ thousand years, and other such novel ideas. eg: [1] [2] [3]

Not one has mentioned wanting yourself or others to speak on their behalf.

Of course there are many people across the planet, I wouldn't assume to speak on their behalf - although I did gain some perspective travelling through roughly 2/3rds of the worlds countries in many of the more undeveloped areas.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKu3bCbFck

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7h9V4aKlJw

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaoSi6RFqsc

It's a bit of a bone of contention that so many of these massive copper and lithium deposits are on indigenous lands.

Perhaps the question you best dwell on is whether endless growth and increasing consumption is really all that certain groups of people seem to think it is.

> If climate science is correct ...

It's 2023, the time for "if" was 40 years ago - are you questioning "If GPS science is correct", "If Magnetotellurics is correct", "If the James Webb telescope actually works", "If the Finite Element Method is real", etc.

> ... it doesn’t take into account future improvement in technology

Nor should it, but of course climate models can be tweaked with "what if scenarios" - what if the suns input could be reduced (outward reflecting bubbles in space twixt earth and sun), what if X million tonnes per annumn of C02 can be captured and sequested 'somehow', what if we build out thousands of acres of solar PV and mass produce green ammonia to offset the climate effects of the Haber–Bosch process, etc.

'Climate science' contains multitudes after all: https://phys.org/news/2023-07-family-trees-relationships-cli...

Still, it's good that you seem to want to learn more.

Nobody has ever realistically thought that real world problems are easy.
That is some great advice. For me the brainwashing diagnosis works like this: If you have control over someones mind the first thought to program into it is to have them think it isn't so. The false thoughts are locked into place with anger towards anyone who dares to question it. If there is a man behind a control panel or if the brainwashing evolved naturally doesn't really matter to the result but it does ask for different less crude terminology.

Here are some triggers: People are going to die anyway, people want to make an infinite amount of babies at all cost, we really want others to have less if as a result of it we can have more for ourselves. We love animals, then we eat them. We love nature, then we burn and cut it all down for personal gain. etc

I really believe eugenics is the dirtiest word in the dictionary. If you try talk about it Ill probably get angry much sooner than reasonable.
Here is my own experience of getting hired into a startup.
The day I got hired the manager took the team out to lunch and I asked them how each one got hired. So results:

White male - Room mate of employee

White male - Room mate of employee

White male - Knew early employee from college in Switzerland

White female - Recruited off of LinkedIn

Indian American - Recruited off of LinkedIn

Immigrant Indian American - Recruited off of LinkedIn.

There is a lot of favoritism that goes on in industry as well. However, it is so large that it can accommodate both merit-based and network based hiring.
Hiring is a total crap shoot anyway and this is not to say that just because someone comes recommended by someone else they are automatically bad. They just look better in comparison because mentally we automatically lower the hiring bar as this person comes "recommended" from a known source.
The gameplay was fun to me when I was literally 5 years old and playing my first ever computer game. I can't understand how an adult would find the Diablo games fun. The atmosphere and art and whatnot are great, though.
The only surprising thing to me about this is that anyone is surprised by any of it. It's been going on for decades if not centuries. It's not like industry is any better really
Better would have been to claim "renewable resources" which dinosaur oil is not, at least not on human timescales.
One of the things I like most about Jira is the ability to execute useful queries via REST on the data stored in there.

Most of the times when I read some post about Jira alternatives is that they completely ignore this topic.
> Did the serfs get free housing under feudalism? Otherwise you can't really compare how much the serfs were taxed compared to how much people today spent on rent.

That's what the third to a half of what they produced paid for, the right to live and work on the lord's land.

> All of that funds social services and the welfare state, something that serfs didn't

No, but what "welfare state" did exist, such as transport infrastructure, was paid for by the lord, rather than directly by the peasant.
I don’t think anyone is expecting a 10x return from a brewery.
Shoutout to ChannelLock tools, they know how to build a wrench in America because they never stopped in the first place.
> that's the only reason to hang around in that industry

That and having a vendetta against their previous industry and now being a muckraking watchdog.
That's actually a bit less bleak than I would have expected.
Get a simple tutorial and free idea on how to design an interior decor with a picture with ilustration.
Quality of life across the entire planet has probably improved. Billions of Indians and Chinese have been lifted from gut wrenching poverty thanks to the shifting of the American manufacturing and services industry to these nations. As a result of this American living standards have decreased but it has also benefited a lot of people across the globe
Gitea 1.20.1 Is Released
You totally could undersize an on-prem private network, I don't get how that's an AWS specific issue.
Bizarre criticism and some vague geopolitical arguments that are hard to parse.

This is publicly funded research in an (at least nominally) valid and important technological direction. While tech is unlikely to solve the sustainability problem by waving a magic wand, it wont hurt to create as much room as possible.

Fundamental research is always a "moonshot". Practical, implementable, commercializable technologies don't grow on trees.
> Why is debugging IAM policies and auth issues such complete dogshit on AWS? Seriously, if you want to be a competitor, focus on this.

System managed identities + AAD is an absolute joy in my experience on Azure. I can grant a function app access to a SQL database by simply using the literal name of the function app (qualified by the object's identifier if aliased). No passwords, certificates, etc. involved anymore. It literally just works.

Combine their auth package with things like application insights, and you are not really ever stuck thinking "WTF happened", assuming you have enough awareness to look at those logs.

> I guess by keeping such a shitshow they sell more support contracts though.

This is also a problem with Azure. You really have to know where all of the mines are located before you start walking through their field or you will wind up in a similar state of contorted frustration. I'd argue that Microsoft leaves substantially better hints regarding where mines might be, but they still conveniently leave out enough hints such that only a wizard with 2 decades of experience can pierce the final veil of bullshit and avoid a 5-10x multiple on cost & complexity.
-2 is smaller...

(I'll let someone better educated expand on prime ideals)
No, that's The PTA Disbands.
The Psychology of Disneyland
Hold Your Horses: Stability AI Delays Stable Diffusion XL v1.0 Release
> Did the Russians not use to have screens/beaches/furniture before the Enlightenment?

I don't know the evolution of the terms in question, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't!

Like, what is a beach (or пляж)? It's basically берег (riverbank/seashore) but intended for recreation use. Did people of the past have enough time to recreationally use their seashores/riverbanks? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.

Same about furniture/мебель. I would assume that in the past (at least in the villages), people would often have benches, beds, tables custom-made specifically for their house, and they would not be meant to be moved out.

Мебель/furniture presupposes that people produce it in one place, and then people move it to their house, and this was often not the case in the past.

If your bed is made when your house is built, and cannot be moved out because bed frame goes directly into your wall, is that still furniture? Is furniture a useful word to describe that?

(Not sure about screens)
So many tech companies have their strategy to develop and train AI.

Microsoft has Windows+InternetExplorer/Edge and users.

Google has its API's like fonts and users.

Reddit has it sub reddits, moderators and users.

Facebook has its users.

So all these tech companies are still competing, just in their own unique way.

Apple I havent figured out yet.
Wouldn't Earth's even bigger gravity well be a problem for getting asteroid metal to the surface of Earth? I think you would need a tremendous amount of rocket fuel to bring back large quantities of asteroid gold. I don't think you can just "drop" all that metal onto Earth for free.
>Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

Readers should be skeptical of all sources including Journalists.
There was talk (I was in the room) of using it, or a successor, as the transport of the Internet.

Imagine replacing IP with ATM, and paying a telco every time you created a virtual circuit for the things we use TCP for today. That was the grand vision.

See https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/ for the debate at the time.
The use of grafting for grapevines has become necessary only after the insect phylloxera has been brought accidentally from USA to Britain and France at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century and then it has devastated most European vineyards.

The American vines are resistant to phylloxera.

Previously, grapevine was one of the few sources of sweet fruits which did not require grafting, because it propagates naturally through clones.
Malk now comes with with "Vitamin R", which is slang for "Rainier Beer" in the Pacific Northwest where Mat Groening went to college.
I don’t know, … I walk into a local MediaMarkt and there are like seven different brands to choose from.
> It is mind boggling to me that Daredevil is no longer available on Netflix. Something they literally helped produce.

Except they didn't. Netflix was the broadcaster. Daredevil was produced by Marvel Television, ABC Studios, and Drew Goddard's production company.

In fact, originally those shows did show a Netflix bumper at start but that has been replaced now with Disney+ as that's where it now streams.
Angela Merkel pretty solidly disproves this. Granted there aren't a lot of women like her, but even a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove broad assertions.
Wage income is nearly irrelevant in understanding wealth inequality. It's easy for the working class (which we are!) to see someone else working and making $10M a year and to think, wow, that's where inequality comes from! But that's a rounding error when it comes to wealth inequality. It's capital formation driving it. A wage income in the top 0.01% is extraordinarily well-off, but it would never put you in the top 0.01% of wealth.
Policies probably won't work much. It's easy for the wealthy to just move their money elsewhere.
Because you can literally see them flying off the herbs when you take them home ;-)
I don't have a lot of experience with Java (and none with C#), but a couple of years ago I did have occasion to code some numerics with sparse matrices in Java (because Neo4j), I ended up using http://la4j.org/ which was OK, but nowhere near the scope of numpy (and it seems to have been abandoned since). Possibly other/better options are available now ...
It’s unsurprising though. If nothing else, it would be a good opportunity for the post doc. While there can be some stigma in staying at the same institution (cross-pollination is typically encouraged) it’s also a good show to at least pretend to like your own students/post docs enough to entertain keeping them around. Also keep in mind the professor has an interest in seeing the post doc succeed.
They got it from the same playbook that they think will keep people engaged and drive traffic.
You missed the point of this project. This lets you build a native desktop app using php and whatever front end technology you want.
I wouldn't say missed the opportunity, they definitely tried to, but they botched the opportunity.

Many people have switched off using Bing, not just alternative users. But..

I'm sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.
Vegan arguments are absolutist. Everyone isn't going to give up meat. I doubt even the majority of people will by 2050. However, it's possible enough people could be convinced to reduce meat consumption to make a difference. It alone won't solve climate change.
Wilhoit's law
This quotation is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
It is kind of a strange argument that the author tacked on at the end. No body is doing well these days, even people with relatively good incomes are struggling. You know what would help those struggling people? Higher taxes!

It was a really strange transition and kind of torpedoed the entire article.
I don't know. If you ask a professor, they say it takes tenacity and grit, and accepting compromises regarding where you life, what work you do, etc.

But that's a sampling problem. If you listen to that too much, you end up like this person. The 9X.YY% of those who want to be a professor probably had all that, plus a healthy dose of realism to get out while the getting is good. The absolute worst part of all this is that very few profs seem all that happy.

Kind of like CEOs, but I think being a wage-earning, low-to-moderately successful founder has a higher likelihood of panning out than being a wage-earning professor by a long shot.
To tell the computer that you intend to change lanes and aren't unintentionally drifting.

You are, furthermore, required by law to signal lane changes, regardless of if you happen to notice other cars around you or not, at least in every state in the US.

Edit: rereading you comment, you claim to have nearly hit another car when it pulled the wheel, so it sure sounds like you weren't actually correct that there wasn't anyone else around. Please consider that automobiles are heavy machinery, you take on a great deal of responsibility when you get behind the wheel, and that safety code have been written in blood.
Eating fruit as a strict Jew must be quite difficult.

> But if you follow the laws of the Torah, you may run into some issues

I can can only imagine how difficult it must get if fruit trees get rules like these.
> That is not the argument though.

But it was; one of his arguments. Yes, he opens with the argument that he was unhappy with the Make for years, but he later clarifies why:

> I am still stuck with a tool that (according to Wikipedia) has been written 47 years ago.

You probably haven't read his article to the end? Those were his words I copy-pasted from the blog. So one of the reasons he is unhappy is because Make is 47 years old. For some reason, it stopped to be good enough 20 years ago, according to his opinion.

I can give him that we can always have a better tool, but it is a tautology. Unfortunately, his offered alternative is not better IMO.
Laravel is an incredibly productive framework and being able to build desktop apps with Laravel is a dream!
>I hope the house prices crash to a reasonable to income to price ratio.

I doubt the big shots will let the housing market crash. The falling property prices are promoted as a negative in the media.

In Germany they're already propping it up to keep it from crashing because big real estate firms demand they can't loose and their political pawns will comply.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/struggling-german-pro...
MSX was a Japanese home computer standard indeed, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, who provided the BASIC ROM implementation. It became very popular in Japan and in a number of European and South American countries.
I wasn’t aware that MSX-DOS was also started by Microsoft but I am not surprised. Later versions of the OS were developed by ASCII corporation in Japan.

Fun fact is that the source was released not long ago with restrictions, and there is a newer version developed by an enthusiast called Nextor. Still in use today by many hobbicists.
I think academia is political because it’s a very small world, and chronically underfunded, so people fight. If there were loads of open positions, with unlimited research budgets, and decent salaries, I hope they wouldn’t fight and there would be no politics. But I might be wrong on that one :-)

I work on a daily basis with Vp+ level leadership of a publicly traded company and yes, they’re much better at it. But there’s just as much politics as in academia : people fight for power, money, prestige which are increasingly concentrated as you go up.
I should have, but wasn't able to find any right now. This is what the pattern looks like, at least: https://imgur.com/a/WpbxDNu
>Did the serfs get free housing under feudalism

What. What do you mean by "free housing"? The serfs paid a land lord a portion of their labour in exchange for housing on "their" land. How is that different from the arrangement under capitalism today?
That's not a big differentiator.