skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, cheaters are generally more interested in the short term than the long term, and non-cheaters have to content with it too, before they can get to the long term.

> Surely the conditions for being a professional academic are much more favorable than times in the past. (By virtue only that University is more accessible to more people today than any other time)

If anything this has made things worse in the current system, because it has grown so much more competitive. Competition is good only so far as success in the competition is based on contributing to the overall goal, and academia lacks a good alignment between that and rewards, so the competition has some fairly significant negative effects.

I agree there are likely ways to fix the current system, but it will require a concerted effort from many directions, as the current incentive structure rewards many in the current system for perpetuating it.
I love squinting headlines like this. Are they adopting a new cat, and thus need a checklist? Have they found flaws in their previous checklist, and need to adopt a new checklist, or is it something more mysterious?
People totally buy Tesla and expects them to be self-driving next month. Every month since 7 years.
I recently switched to lunarvim, it took a few weeks to port my neovim config over to lunarvim, but now it's perfect. My neovim config was a port from my .vimrc and was outdated, switching to lunarvim has been great.

I've used the jetbrains sweet of IDEs, vscode, atom and many other text editors and IDEs over my career but always come back to vim or neovim. After the initial hurdle of learning vim, everything is easier. My hands and shoulders hurt less and I can navigate code much more quickly. It also helps me stay more focused and actually remember what tools I have available and enables easy tweaking if the tools are broken or not 100% what I need.

I do project planning and time tracking in neovim now and have my notes synced across all devices using obsidian
It looks like it's damaged in the English translation/version.

In a few other languages I checked it has :)
I Fixed Git [video]
Longer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO8Dlw_nUto
Agreed, especially given that frontrunning and similar techniques are almost inextricable from the technology’s default behavior.

However, actors other than law enforcement can also perform chain analysis, and you’d probably prefer to stay anonymous if you engage in such practices…
On android, some video ads will even pause if you pull down the notification bar.
“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program, to which I was denied access,” Grusch told the committee.

Not sure if this is an insane person, a grifter looking for a book deal, or someone trying to trigger an investigation. But I’m going to go out on a limb and say we probably haven’t been studying a crashed alien spaceship for decades.
It's a reasonable enough paper, and replicating should be pretty easy (an undergrad could do it). Because the implications are so massive if true, people are going to jump on it.

From the linked article:

> You can bet that furnaces in solid-state materials labs around the world have been cooking yesterday and today to try to reproduce its synthesis and the properties, and we should be hearing about the results of these experiments very soon. The first samples should be coming out of the quartz vessels. . .sometime tomorrow, perhaps? Depends on what was available around the lab!
From Mayo Clinic:

> Personality qualities include thinking very highly of oneself, needing admiration, believing others are inferior, and lacking empathy for others.
A gold mine!

Always make sure you sow doubt and confusion in your employees. Make sure they question their own lived experiences and wonder if there is something inherently wrong with them. If they seek out advice and feedback from you about their work make sure you respond with vague suggestions, not based on reality and facts, and make sure it's about a character flaw you see in them. Never use examples or facts to back up your claims and never give direct advice about how to address the issue. They will soon wonder what it is they have done to become so flawed that no amount of therapy will ever undo the damage you have wrought. Do this to enough employees and watch as egos and careers are laid to waste.

Make sure everyone works alone and never talks to one another. If someone asks for advice it's because they're not competent enough to have known the answer. Make sure they know that is why they're not being promoted. Don't let them talk or share ideas. It's a waste of time. Workers who are isolated and silenced are easier to manipulate, learn to feel helpless, and depend on you to tell them what to do.
It ends DDOS's as much as putting basic-auth in front of it. If that were the case: SSL should already prevent it as well.
$10, $100, $1,000? 1 hour, 10 hours of labor?
Yes but as you see on code4rena the cost of an audit is about $100k.

What is ballpark what a company would pay to have a security audit of their website or network for example.
So I would guess Ethereum has become an "Enterprise" technology because of the prohibitive cost of security of its applications?

From what understood originally, blockchain & Ethereum aimed removing those actors like banks who can afford high cost of licenses, compliance & security of complex systems.

Meaning you could write and execute your will without a lawyer and a court system, or write a smart contract to manage a condominium and its treasury with the other landlords (a $100k audit is out of the question for those use cases).

We are hearing less and less about those use cases and talk more and more about "Enterprise Ethereum" (https://ethereum.org/en/enterprise/) as we find out that developing for the platform will be as complex & expensive as for a big corporation.
I am. I've had apps try to use Google Safetynet to prevent me from running them on my phone (which is not running the manufacturer-provided Android build), and I am certainly opposed to that.

I wouldn't mind being able to use the TPM to tell me whether the hardware and software are what I expected them to be, but that's different.
Like the other comment says I don't think it's quite that bad but also CloudFront (or whatever CDN you use) is going to cache the response. In my case I'm rendering restaurant locations on a map. I only have X number of items that each have a map of the restaurants they are available at so unless people pan/zoom around a lot I only expect a handful of lamba calls and the resulting tile data will be cached in CloudFront for everyone else.
I think Hume's 'Of Miracles' (1748) provides a good framework here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Miracles

Hume's argument against miracles is based on : 1) The uniformity of nature (the laws of nature are regular and unchanging) 2) The probability of testimony; based on the number and character of witnesses, and circumstances in which the miracle was witnessed. 3)A miracle is defined by Hume to be a violation of a law of nature. Not just very low likelihood events. (Though not explicitly a violation of the laws of nature themselves, Aliens visiting Earth would require violating the laws of nature as we currently understand them)

So, Hume argues, the probability of a miracle occurring is very low and the probability of a false report of a miracle occurring is much higher. Therefore, it is more likely that a report of a miracle is false than that it is true in nearly all circumstances.

I think this argument pretty much holds for Aliens and UFOs too.
Didn't he have a special PRIVACC designation that allowed him to bypass traditional "need to know" silo boundaries, under the auspices of being a sysadmin or whatever?
A $10k retroactive grant for VaccinateCA
Hey! I'm Austin; I'm building better funding mechanisms at Manifund. One kind of grant I'm intrigued by are retroactive grants -- payment for good work, already accomplished.

VaccinateCA stood out to me as one examplar effort that could have used more funding, and as such a good target for such a retroactive grant. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Something a lot of people miss or don't understand: software engineers typically emulate other software engineers, not managers.

If you are tech lead you should be keeping this in mind at all times - your behavior, attitude, and approach to things gets amplified across team members.

If you are a manager you should also be keeping this in mind at all times - the values and behaviors want demonstrated on your team will need to be cultivated by key devs in your group. Working with them to help shape their understanding of how to be effective and how to lead others will really help things solidify in the group.
Just watched the video. Any driver who cannot correctly tell on an oblique intersection which light is theirs is a driver who should be fined until they can..or have their license taken away. Any programmer can clearly tell why FSD got it wrong (It saw the glow of the other road's green light on the angle) but nonetheless it was wrong and legally wrong.
If Monsanto could invent terminator seeds for their products I don't see why the same couldn't be done for trees specializing in carbon capture.
> The current players can whitelist/attest their own clients while categorizing every other scraping clients as bots.

Can't they already do this by having scrapers send plain-old client certificates? Or even just a request header that contains an HMAC of the URL with a shared secret?

Actually, taking a step further back: why does anyone need to scrape their own properties? They can make up an arbitrary backchannel to access that data — just like the one Google uses to populate YouTube results into SERPs. No need to provide a usefully-scrapeable website at all.
Absolutely, but I think what most humans would do is slow down - especially at night - and not go through the intersection at 27 when they were approaching at 30. FSD appears to just make a binary "go/stop" decision and commit fully rather than slowing down when there is decreased confidence as a person would/should.

Definitely poor intersection design though as well. I've seen lights with extensions around the bulb to prevent them from being seen from obtuse angles, I wonder why these lights don't have those? Especially at night it would completely block your vision of the light(s) that don't apply to your road.
Bet it's a whole lot more than 'decades'.
>(Which will also require a toilet).

Haha, nice.
> (as well as an obvious instant Nobel prize).

South Korea has been waiting for a (real, STEM) Nobel prize for decades.

These guys will be worshipped as gods if they deliver
Inspite of all the competition the SAAS pricing is not coming down. There are around 30 calendly alterntatives. However if you check the price of these alternatives they are not too far from what the market leader is charging. More on this at https://blog.neeto.com/p/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is.
More precisely, a civilization that can master interstellar travel and navigation but somehow keeps crashing on our planet?
Perhaps it wasn't clear, but here I mean they think people with gender dysphoria should be "cured" in the sense of "go through some therapy" or "change your outlook on life" and it'll go away.

Certainly transitioning is one way (and a seemingly very successful one) at dealing with gender dysphoria. Whether or not accepted psychological practice would call that situation "a cure for a mental illness" is something I don't know.
The rebel group stopping self-driving cars in San Francisco – one cone at a time
Probably just means that a drone hit a cow.
I wouldn’t worry about it. HN is prone to these sorts of thoughtless dismissals.
In short. It's not all-or-nothing.

Hamilton is just a python library at its core, unlike something like Airflow or Prefect, there is no system to set up. All it requires is some python code to be written which would replace some procedural code. The scope of which, is up to you. But yes, you can piece-meal migration quite easily to get your toes wet and gain conviction/win over hearts and minds that way (if that's a concern).
What does it mean to “remove imperial usage”?

Are you suggesting we should stop calling it a pint and instead demand that we order “568ml of Hobgoblin, please?”

Why would we do that instead of just ask for a pint?
Sadly, to paraphrase a now deceased UK judge: "Due process is whatever the government of the day says it is."
Article published by GitConnected on Medium.
Bryan Johnson's Blueprint Simplified (80/20 version)
So just to give everyone here a bit of context. This hearing was not for the UFO Believers to be used as official disclosure. This was not to convince any skeptics out there this is real. This is a political tool for the congressional oversight committee (who themselves may not have any evidence) to put into record what they need to follow up on using their power of the purse and oversight rights.

Is this an issue of national Security? Who has what information? Who is housing what artifacts? What funds are used to pay for these projects? Who has committed crimes to hide this information?

All those questions weren't asked because anyone expected Grush, Fravour or Graves to tell them: Yeah I've got a UFO in my garage. In fact all witnesses answered all those questions before. This had one specific goal: Get this into congressional testimony, under oath, from credible witnesses and thus give congress the means, information and constitutional duty to investigate further.

And for all those sceptics out there: this is unusually bipartisan and seeing Gaetz and AOC both laserfocused on investigating government misuse of money on such a historically fringe subject is most interesting.
This stuff was popular in the Reagan era too. Odd to see it reappear right after Ronnie Junior left office

They need performative theatre of such dramatic potential they can distract from the Senates bill about banning Congress owning stocks

Edit: I don’t mean just the stock bill. They need to keep Overton window where it is.
So the road was pretty shittily marked, I was having a hard time figuring out wtf was going on (within the limits of the mediocre video), so its something that needs to be worked on.

What I don't get is why the driver/passenger are freaking out on camera. I'm going to guess its clearly for the social media outrage. They were already saying it was a red light before they passed it. They could have pressed the brakes at any time, but they decided to spend the time cursing. The car was already clearly approaching way too fast for the intersection (~25 mph) and they chose to do nothing.
Seriously. There's nothing here that they can't find out in space in greater quantities and easier access. Except our animal and plant life. And no worries about harvesting us like in movies, it's way easier to grow meat or whatever than travel across the universe for it. We're most likely a curiosity.
> bulk importing stuff that AI derived from satellite imagery.

That's a thing? This must explain why Google Maps turned into shit over the last few years. Google seems obsessed with replacing humans with half-assed automation.
How to Build a Public API with Laravel – Tutorial
In this video you'll learn how to build a Public API.
We're using, Caching, rate limiting, API resources and we'll have a look at Laravel Telescope.
We'll also use PostMan to test our API.
Related threads on this hearing:

Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human intelligence' evidence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882051 - July 2023 (1 comment)

Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880471 - July 2023 (13 comments)

Public US hearing on UFOs [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880454 - July 2023 (55 comments)

Live: UFO/UAP Congressional Hearings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879441 - July 2023 (95 comments)

House UFO hearing livestream [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877774 - July 2023 (121 comments)

I'm not sure which URL is best so not sure where to marge the threads, most of which aren't very good anyhow. This is a topic on which people mostly just repeat their priors.
The Law of Bad GUIs (and how LLMs give us a way out)
That really shook my faith in institutions, and I had a lot more faith in institutions than most people do.

Then we saw it again, with "inflation is transitory, we aren't even thinking about thinking about hiking interest rates...".
If so, why didn't they tap the brake?
You don't have to use selenium. You can use any software that can read video memory and act as a mouse and keyboard. It doesn't have to be an extension. The browser isn't directly involved, so vetting the browser or hardware does no good.
The problem they have, of course, is not that cancel culture exists. It's that the center of force of "cancellation" went from the right to the left. The thing they used to great effect against queer people, anti-religious people, etc, is now being directed at them. It sucks being on the other side.

I personally think that things are too "hot" right now, but nobody should pretend this is a modern problem.
I enjoy the sentiment of Charlie Munger of "invert, always invert" or "All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there."

I wish there was more to this list? There's so many more things that can go wrong, a short list:
- Asking for input from the team, then ignore it
- Gaslight engineers to thinking that other people think they are "bad at X"
- Set out clear expectations, and then change them
- Forget about previous conversations and insist they didn't happen

etc. etc.
Aggressive growth doesn't have to mean aggressive reproduction, it could mean fast growing giant redwoods being farmed in different climates.
That quote is specifically addressed, I went into detail about how that only applies in steady-state, and that reality isn't a steady-state making this, and (MV = PQ) and incomplete model.

> I would rather have (monetary) deflation when then economy grows. Then the money I save in would increase in purchasing power. If I save in the money described in the quote above, I don't participate in the growth.

So you want a risk-free return for doing nothing. Of course, who wouldn't. Elementary school kids want pizza every day for lunch. Why should you participate in the growth of the economy while risking literally nothing, in exchange for literally no input of your own? Just because you got there "first"? That's just "UBI for me, and everyone else can get rekt."

All the worst economic periods in history were deflationary, and if you believe in the Philips curve, then maximum employment and prosperity is achieved at a low, positive rate of inflation.

Your job in the economy is to productively allocate your excess capital. Under your mattress in exchange for positive real return at no risk to you is not a productive allocation. The whole point of inflation is to discourage that behavior. So I'd say it works.

Either way, none of this has anything to do with this silly graph.
Yes, that quote from the article makes it seem like everyone is dropping everything and jumping right on it. I'm wondering how likely that is we'll find out this Friday vs. in the next couple of months, as people get around to it.
That's exactly what I wrote. And it's cool
I’m not making any claim of causality, simply stating that the claim of causality in the opposite direction does not follow.
Fwiw I think of cancel culture as a concern when it happens to the everyday professor, presenter and so on. But you are correct, product and celebrity protests for cultural statements are nothing new.
My hypothesis is not that people are spoiled but psychologically anchored.

We buy thousands of items and for most people it’s impossible to know how much something “should” cost. So we anchor our expectations to what we know.

Web software was mostly free for years because it was either ad-supported or a speculative venture capital investment. Or a dev releasing it for free thinking that “if we get lots of users we can raise money and figure out monetization later”. The Social Network came out in 2009 and there’s a scene where Zuckerberg was made to look like a genius for rejecting monetization. People who wanted to be like Zuckerberg made stuff for free then hoped to raise money. Finally add in many developers made software for free for personal or ideological reasons.

The end result is that consumers are psychologically anchored to expect that web software “should” be free, an app “should” cost $1 at most, etc It’s not really about the $10 as much as people don’t like feeling ripped off and paying $10 for something that should cost nothing makes them feel ripped off.

An experience is burned into my brain when a friend who was an aspiring yoga teacher was doing a Twitch stream for 10k viewers as part of an online festival but at the last moment needed to stream to Twitch from his iPhone. There was an app that worked perfectly that cost $15 but he almost sabotaged his whole show frantically searching the App Store for a free alternative because $15 was a ripoff. He caved eventually and unhappily, then to celebrate the stream led friends and family to a sushi restaurant that was $200/person . It was never about his inability to afford $15 but his psychological feeling that a $15 app is a ripoff. But fancy sushi “should” be expensive so $200 is a fair price.

We are very slowly seeing this change as interest rates rise and everyone understands software monetization better but it’s a gradual process. For whatever reason it’s often devs themselves who push back the hardest against monetization, in their warped world view someone charging $10/mo for a SaaS is deeply unethical but going to work for some FAANG company and fighting hard to maximize TC is completely fine and in fact encouraged. That way your boss worries about monetization and you are free of any moral qualms about it. FAANG devs complaining about subscriptions, privacy , and paywalls are quite common and similar to vegetarians who only eat beef and pork but avoid eating cows or pigs.
Disagree. I went to university within the last five years - cheating was rampant but tended to produce students who seriously struggled to keep up with coursework in their third and fourth year. I did not cheat and was typically one of the top performers in my courses.

However we may be operating under different assumptions; there was no assumption of grade curving (it happened a few times when an exam was a little over juiced, but it pulled people into a passing grade instead of pushing people into a failing one). On reflection it sounds like you are anticipating a curve designed to flunk a certain portion of students. I'm not sure if one or the other is the 'default' experience these days.
There is so much international shipping of consumer goods that the entire shipping fleet is the 5th largest source of pollution on the planet. It outranks most nation states.

From here you could address the wage issues that cause this amount of shipping to occur in the first place. You could make the fleet more efficient and use newer technologies and fuels that pollute less. You could simply incorporate the cost of that pollution into the "cheap" consumer products so conveyed through one of any of a dozen means. You could do all of these at once.

So, my point would be, where is the prioritization here? It seems like corporate profits come first, then environmentalism entirely at the consumers expense comes next, mostly to make the corporations feel better about their blood money. And.. I'm supposed to be on board with this because of "sustainability?"

I'm on board. The issues do actually need to be addressed. I don't believe we are currently doing that in any meaningful way.
Bespoke GUIs on the fly
is it a crime if the smart contract acts as coded, but not necessarily as intended?