skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a conspiracy theory

In what sense? It required no conspiracy at all. You might call it a political science theory... but only in the sense that the theory explains much more than others and is easily corroborated.

Just because you find an explanation distasteful, it doesn't make it a "conspiracy theory", and jumping to that label shows how poorly you argue.

> or because they just can't comprehend the US not having an ulterior motiv

The United States isn't a person. It can't have a "motive". It's a large group of people, a group with ever-changing membership. Each of those people can actually have their own motive, and many of them will have multiple motives.

But, at least in that era, you didn't have many people high up in the US government that had stupid motives. They were aware of overtures of surrender well before it was dropped. They were aware that it was unnecessary to force surrender, or at the very least that it wasn't their only option to force surrender without a ground invasion.

The Soviets were already the real problem. Indispensable while Germany was curb-stomping its way through Europe, but disgusting enough that there were elements in the government and military that wanted to fight them next.

It was necessary for the Soviets to see the bomb and what it could do. This was more necessary than it was to force the Japanese to surrender.

> but all of the actual documentary evidence from the time says otherwise.

What documentary evidence is that? Most of this shit wasn't written down. Sure, someone wrote down a narrative for the history books, after the fact. One that preserved the "we're the good guys" theme... can't exactly go murdering the unconscious bad guy that had already stopped fighting just to impress the other bad guys. Or rather, you can't admit that's what you were doing.
I like this HN comment explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36978704
I don't think the person you replied to was asking for it to be enabled out of the box. Them talking about using a Chromebook as a dev machine makes me think they'd be okay with having to enable developer mode to run Linux binaries.
Why Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is So Expensive [video]
It's the same consent I and probably also you have with working for money: coerced into it by the threat of penury and/or state violence. I choose the best of the options available to me, based on the other constraints in my life. As do sex workers.

They are subject to the same coercive pressures, and their constraints are individual to them as everyone's are to themselves. Consent is simply the wrong framework for understanding decisions made under life and death consideration. In the same way a machinist's anger at their on the job maiming is righteous, a sex worker can consider any or all encounters to be rape. Just because they've chosen to be there doesn't mean they want to be.
You can solve business problems within the Microsoft realm at commercially reasonable costs. That’s all that matters to the business. Easy to get support, easy to find humans to run it. Like McDonald’s, Microsoft sells consistency. Is an alternate solution cheaper? Would have to compare total cost of ownership to come to a firm conclusion.
yup. I have the same filter.
It's pretty much best of the bad choice when it comes to cloud providers.

One of fun things we had with our MS experience was writing code that should work according to docs, returned nonsensical errors (not documented, generic kind of error) from their API, only for that to magically start working next day...

Even the basic stuff appears to be shoddy in places, for example I received notification about meeting that I was added to 5 days ago about 3h before the meeting.... when the meeting author edited the meeting to add next person.

Also trying to find what made e-mail land into spam in cloud exchange is near-impossibility... and whitelisting them in global rules just doesn't fucking work for no good reason. It's utter mess.
The villanizificationery of Microsoft is out of control.
Google's Project Zero on Arm Memory Tagging Extension
Matplotlib is great
It's such a magnificent failure of the human race that this was possible but Photoshop for Linux is eternally out of the picture.
the population between 15-39 of men

you are inflating the numbers of women by increasing the age range of the population. you are including old ladies and comparing their issues to the issues of young men, full of life who are lost or disappointed by the state of the world.

I don't understand why they give up, it's really a sickness. something old ladies wouldn't understand because they are alone after they had families who abandoned because she had a terrible attitude
Dell/HP/Lenovo competes for price in Windows/Linux laptop market, even for professional lines. There's no competition on macOS laptop market.
I think you managed to disprove your point.
Some literature suggests its a "one dimensiononal" superconductor only kinda works in tiny monocrystaline grains.

...But maybe thats even more interesting for, say, microelectronics? Especially if the resistance orthogonal to the superconductivity is high, if such a thing is even possible?
> That seems like the media was either excessively nitpicky about what Trump said being a lie, or that number is a tad inflated. Maybe it's some of A and some of B?

Or maybe he just lies constantly.
As far as I know it still is. Just like the default image used for Google Kubernetes nodes, CoS.
Speed is one thing, but satisfaction is the real value.

This is also why I type with a non-standard layout (Workman) on a non-standard ergonomic keyboard (Keyboardio Model 01). It's comfortable and functional, but above all, is satisfying.

Unfortunately, the change in keyboard broke Vim for me: at its core, vi's functionality is made out of its keybinds. You can remap them, but you can't reconceptualize them. Emacs has about half of this problem.
Zero self awareness, as usual for the NYT.
> The comparison to the Black Death is rather silly.

Why? It's a very well explored and prominent example of a population 'collapse' leading to long term rejuvenation (and innovation).

I'm not pretending that some of the short term to medium term consequences of a population 'collapse' (I keep putting it in quotes because it's your word and I think it's too emotive) won't be dire. But at some point a population has to go through a period of decline. We see this all the time in the natural world. People who don't want to have any periods of decline and go all Chicken Little with emotive talk of 'collapse' and worse for any period of population decline seem to want to exist in a fantasy world, in my opinion, of endless upwards growth. Not the real world, where, to slightly belabour a point, animal populations go through cycles of growth and decline, repeatedly.
I'd like to see them do that, but the fraction of their (potential) users that would care at all must be microscopic.
Shallow depth of field looks really cool when the subject is actually in focus, but just looks like crap when nothing is in focus. Lots of close ups of random parts of machinery that is not obvious what so ever is the intent of what's supposed to be shown. It was almost a cool video.
Personal branding guide: Software engineer edition
TBH the issues that I've seen with Azure are pretty shocking. Like "I don't believe anyone did a basic pentest against that system even once" levels of shocking. That's insane for a company the size of Microsoft.

These vulns are cross tenancy violations, which, again, is insane. That's as bad as it gets for the cloud.

> This incident demonstrates the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in the face of sophisticated attacks.

The insane thing is that some of these vulns are as easy to discover as just running nmap. I'm sort of shocked that people haven't run into them accidentally. Hardly sophisticated.

I'm not trusting Azure with shit.
It's definitely something, rather big something, to observe zero resistance above 100k
I wouldn't say it's exactly the "whole" process.
Growing an Indie Audience: Seeking Guidance from Experienced Creators
I recently launched a project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956640

With continuous efforts to incorporate feedback, I've refined the homepage to clarify vague slogans and ambiguous product descriptions that were initially causing confusion about the product's purpose. This focused effort has paid off, and I've made my first sale!

However, I'm at a crossroads in terms of attracting a wider audience. As a newbie in the indie scene, I'm eager to hear from experienced folks.

What channels or strategies have worked for you? How did you grow your initial user base? Any insights would be invaluable.

Thank you!
Zero loss diodes seem pretty useful.
Well, it's at a 1mA test current (I'm assuming a 4 point probe to mitigate contact resistance) so 10u Ohm would give a 10nV DC signal. That's a pretty small voltage signal and comparable to a fairly standard chopper stabilized instrumentation amp rms noise at room temp near DC.

I'm not sure whether higher currents are all that reasonable. Cooling the precision amp is an option to reduce the noise figure, but at that point you'll want optical isolation and battery supply too.

https://www.analog.com/media/en/training-seminars/tutorials/...
I’m guessing they did that deliberately to hide some of their trade secrets.
This is sort of what I mean. The fact that one vendor is bad at security has no particular bearing on if their competition is better, or if there's a more secure option you could run internally.

Sure, we've learned that Azure is less secure than we may have thought last week, but is AWS or GCP better? Or have they just not been uncovered for their issues yet? Or maybe they had their big security issue last year. Once everyone's had a big problem, what do you do? Make up some scoring system and keep re-migrating your company to whoever currently has the lowest "security mistakes" score?
Still waiting to get my hands on a CM4 after all these years…
When you refuse to give your trial data to third party nations and you refuse to allow public trials in other nations, the third world will not trust you. This is why many, many nations like India went with their own vaccine variants instead of trusting Pfizer.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-india-pfi...
> The vast majority of the world accepts that it’s proper to restrict individual freedom even to protect people from themselves.

As do I, and I said as much (I'm not a capital-L Libertarian, I meant it as an adjective). I argued this exceeded reasonable bounds.

I'm surprised to learn it's that unpopular, but I am comfortable arguing an unpopular position.
But this is purely a result of the distribution of returns from a single toss.

If I win I get 1.5 times my money, if I lose I'm left with less than 1/1.5 times. When I lose, I lose more than I win.

I agree it's counterintuitive how any individual (on average) will lose over time, yet the entire system grows.
Something that bothers me a bit more about this, I feel like I have not really heard about many of these issues while thinking that I have been doing a decent job of staying on top of things like this by paying attention to hacker news. Does Azure things just not filter up as much as I would expect or did I just happen to miss them?

It isn't like Azure is just ignored in the industry, time and time again I see it billed as the "non amazon aws" for companies that don't want to support AWS due to Amazon.

I feel like I hear more about GCloud issues than I do Azure issues which is concerning given how little GCloud is used even compared to Azure.
Both FDR and Churchill are on record as saying variants of "it is permissible to walk with the devil if it gets you to the other side of the bridge" about the alliance with Stalin.
Unalienable IDs might be the default of small-scale face-to-face societies, but not ones which operate at scale. Not even "Bob" can serve as a fixed identifier without intentional state action — (sur)names were very often intentionally assigned to make administration (e.g. taxation) easier:

> Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing. Fearing, with good reason, that an effort to enumerate and register them could be a prelude to some new tax burden or conscription, local officials and the population at large often resisted such campaigns.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-seeing...
Ok, really? Who is using a proxy for HTTP but not DNS in 2023?
For what it is worth. I disagree completely. Your programming in assembly in the 80s made you what you are today. I am actively in a hiring role, and interviewing seemingly constantly. I want the full job history. My team and I read the complete resume.
I think that subculture you're referring to existed in 1990s in places like /.,, but I never encountered it during 2010s or 2020s.

(I think it is directly related to the lack of stranglehold which MS had over much of daily computing in 1990s. Apple, Linux, and mobile platforms forced it to compete and innovate more seriously, winning back quite some respect.)
Meanwhile something like three separate independent providers have dug through my lawn to lay fibre. I guess I win?
The magical math behind Disney's content purge
That's most of investing though. Investors won't all agree the operating cash flow, asset base, organic sales growth if there's been M&A, etc. let alone with a P/E, P/FCF, EV/EBITDA ratio makes a company cheap or expensive. Yet, this doesn't make it political in nature though.
Correction: management expectations of the time costs of training up new entrants are vastly underestimated.
Yes. If your boss tells you that security isn't your concern as an IC, because other (presumably more specialized) minds are going to be reviewing everything later anyway, try to get transferred.

It's not malicious, but the effect is sort of like wearing a blindfold and one hand juggling, throwing things in the air, and presuming that a right hand (a) exists and (b) is not currently holding several other balls.

Everyone was super lovely and awesome and smart, but there is (for whatever reason) an attitude that is one of those things that is handled/reviewed by a special team, like accessibility, or HR, or product design, or backups.

The thing is, we did have a great security team, it's just that expecting them to have local knowledge of every single line of code is obviously unfair to them, and the idea that you can "do security" on any product just by applying a fixed set of rules somewhere way down the pipeline is to grossly misunderstand how vulns happen and work.

Every single IC can and must be on the lookout for vulns. They're vulns. They are literally made out of eyeballs pointed elsewhere.

Security is like hygiene: everyone has to wash their own hands after they go, it makes no sense to think that everyone can save time by having a Department of Hand Sanitization.
Yeah, as soon as I realized that, I rolled my eyes at not immediately seeing that. When expressed as 150% and 60%, it became obvious to me.
From Dystopia to Utopia: The Transformation of the Matrix in Neo Metropolis
"The story of Neo Metropolis was a testament to the amazing world that could be if humans and AI worked well together, breaking down barriers, enhancing each other's capabilities, and building a future that was inclusive and inspiring for all."
The +50% / -40% is cleverly chosen, because it seems like the bet is weighted toward the gambler if you’re just using a naïve expected value.

However, if you were to make it “double your money” (+100%), it would become clear that the only fair downside would be “halve your money” (-50%). For these values, the “trick” becomes much more obvious: that increases in repeated games need to be far greater in percentage terms than decreases (i.e. not just a 10% difference) in order to balance out.
Interesting development.

For context here, twitch banned a few crypto gambling websites on its platform about a year ago.

Also of note, one of those crypto gambling platforms created a competitor streaming platform because of this, and has since created a competing streaming platform called Kick.com

They have poached some of twitch largest creators like XQC for 100 million, and is otherwise throwing around absurd amounts of money that they are paying for streamers.

And unlike other platforms that have failed doing this in the past, it is arguable that the gambling conversions make the cost worth it.

Given twitch's ~15% viewership decline since the peak of covid, layoffs, and attempts to monetize more forcefully Im not sure what they gain from continuing down this path.
https://archive.is/VBpdJ
This is a problem worth solving. Congrats on launch!
> a Chinese or Russian lab claiming something and posting to twitter has very little value

Why the national specificity here ?
This is not about 110K, this is about trying to verify the results related to LK-99.

The LK-99 that is room temp superconductive seems quite difficult to produce at this early stage. But these researchers were able to produce their not-as-good version of LK-99 and at least verify very close to superconductivity at 110K. This makes the LK-99 room temp superconductivity claims that much more plausible.
Off-topic, but I admire the effort to translate the formula to Unicode characters in the title. It's not just a simple copy-paste from the article.
Why not OpenBSD? Free, secure and great to learn UNIX.
I wasn't talking to you when I used "reskinned". Diatomaceous_ooze used "skinned", so unless you are they, why are you replying here? If you are ooze, quibbling over my adding "re-" won't get you far.

"Chromium" is not a distributable binary blob, so you're wrong in your essential claim. We don't distribute the same Chromium bits in Brave as Google does in Chrome. Chromium is open source software. We disable and nullify a lot, as the first document linked in my tweet details:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304
The Lynx R1 is pretty open.
FWIW, this is completely incorrect. This is just a Tesla choice, not a necessity. There are many cars with frameless doors and mechanical handles that manage to roll the window down before contacting the weatherstripping, and up again after the door again. The easiest examples are all Mustangs made in the last 15-20 years or so, as well as recent Camaros (the sixth generation for sure, but quite possibly the fifth generation as well).

The fact that Tesla cannot roll the windows down on a mechanical release is slightly embarrassing, to be honest. It's not exactly a new technique.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Shamir_Secret_Snakeoil

More on the subject of the post, this is now the third near-miss company destruction I've heard about due to SSS. Hopefully some of the others will make their stories public. The snakeoil page linked above doesn't really get into "when it's secure against you".

One of the other stories I heard that was most similar to the paypal one failed for a different reason than password truncation: Since they needed the key very infrequently and most participants never (since the threshold was met by other parties) too many people forgot their passwords. A better way to use it would be to always enter all the people who were not outright unavailable and consider it a serous failure for any party to be unavailable too often.
https://archive.is/ORkht
Your source story sounds like the story I heard/read Kurt Vonnegut tell,
I was having a twitter argument the other day with someone who maintained that they never really come across any Microsoft systems in their work and who would be crazy enough to use Windows Server. I've worked in orgs from 100 people to 10,000 and it's always Active Directory and MS all the way through with odd few Ubuntu or RHEL servers for a internal application.
The original report is billed as a "room temperature superconductor" (iirc up to 28c). If it is indeed a superconductor at room temperature, it would be the first of it's kind and enable functional usages for superconductors previously impossible.
Hence the finale ;-)
First, at a minimum it validates that the researchers found a novel rare superconductor at ambient pressure, and are not frauds.

Second, the new mechanism of superconductivity may lead scientists to explore other materials with similar properties that may work better.

Third, the synthesis may not be completely spot on yet. It has been just 4 days of attempting replication, and this result is pretty good in that context.
Possibly to avoid confusion, with the customizable keyboard?
OPs point was about internal cooperation, specifically between private and public. I think the vaccines demonstrated that, even if not internationally.
GCloud is probably used MORE than Azure. Microsoft has a lot of stuff that's not cloud in their revenue to make it look bigger. Leaked numbers show GCloud revenue are actually about even with Azure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/google-leaked-doc-microsoft-...
https://archive.is/isxlA
It means less invasive tracking really, not no ads.

Ironically it was Firefox that killed it, not Google. Google was all in on HTML imports. It would have also given a non JS way to dynamically load HTML. Streaming would have been great with this.
If you think that’s true, just wait until they stop paying those paychecks to their employees….
> just use Word and be done with it?

One don't "just" use word, and it's certainly never done with. Unless you found a room temperature superconductor and half the people will simply not care if you wrote it in a piece of paper (yet half will care... for some reason), you will have to spend all your time fixing formatting issues and keeping things on their correct state.

I was stupid enough to write a paper in Word once. Given the choice, I will never repeat the mistake.
Experience disputes that. I've found that a random implementation of SSS is more likely to be insecure than a random implementation of ECDH.
The latest iOS instantly transcribes voicemail. I find it handy to pick up the calll midway through. Just to be clear, I’ve used it exactly once so far. We’ll see how that goes.
https://twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/15780977916200263...
No. Thank you. Will reach out to them.
I use a calculator so rarely, I've found I mostly just type the equation into the closest browser address bar to see the result. Works great for most PEMDAS operations. For 90% of the time, I have my answer quicker than I would be able to open another app.

For anything more complex, I usually open a spreadsheet or drop into a python shell.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Some say Wine is "cheating," but I say Wine is a platform. A good platform.

That being said, I feel like the various editors integrating Stable Diffusion eat into a whole bunch of Photoshop functionality.
Actually, they did

https://www.investors.com/news/esg-companies-list-top-100-es...

ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil are one the list along with a trucking company at number 2 and various other oil companies.
Well, my guess is that most Tesla decisions can be explained primarily by cost, followed closely by 'oooh cool'. It may well be easier to have an electric release for the door which is actuated by momentary buttons inside & out. And if it turns out that the cheaper option also makes customers think 'oooh, neato, fancy' then that's a bonus.
> putting frontends on data science

Jupyter and Shiny seem adequate for that.
The article concludes that a +50%/-40% coin toss on average loses 10% every two tosses because 150% * 60% = 90%, but that ignores the two heads/two tails outcomes. Including those outcomes, ie AVERAGE(225%, 90%, 90%, 36%) = 110.25%, recovering the more intuitive result that the coin toss gains on average.

The author seems to be confusing mode and mean; the modal path does approach zero.