skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is everyone swimming in debt?

Probably

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG
I saw many reactions whose content was, in essence, "this attack has been known for a long time". At the same time, I see a number of VPN vendors confirming that they are vulnerable, at least in part ( https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/tunnelcrack_vpn/ ), and the paper was accepted at usenix, and so far no one has been able to show me a source pointing out that this vulnerability was already known…
There are many ways for spacetime to warp, which can be put into two categories. The simpler kind, Ricci curvature, is the only kind of curvature in <4 dimensions and is produced by mass-energy, momentum, pressure, and shear stress, according to general relativity. The other kind, Weyl curvature, only exists in 4 or more spacetime dimensions and can exist in a vacuum.

Gravitational waves are Weyl-curvature distortions of spacetime that propagate in a vacuum according to general relativity.

(Also, gravitational waves do carry a little bit of energy, so they cause a small amount of Ricci curvature, but this is a secondary effect.)
Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
Rivian Tires Are Lasting as Little as 6k Miles
For anyone with self-respect, it is. Come get me, media-conglomerate scumbags.

Remember how they whined against DAT and basically had it killed (abetted by Congress), claiming that "perfect digital copies" would destroy their business? Meanwhile, everybody on the planet knew that essentially all "piracy" took place on double-cassette boom boxes in dorm rooms.

And sure enough, even when "piracy" went digital, it was in the form of lossy MP3s... far from perfect. So their story was a lie from top to bottom... but we've seen our "representatives" abet ever-greater crimes against consumers at their behest. The absurd tax on blank media, and the DMCA (and even more-egregious proposals since) stand as disgraceful examples.

Do you remember when Circuit City or Best Buy offered "every CD $10.99 or less?" The idea was to bring people into their stores, where they'd buy other stuff. But all of a sudden that deal disappeared. It turns out that the record companies threatened those retailers with financial sanctions (by withholding cooperative advertising funds) if they continued to offer those prices.

The record companies were sued for this behavior, which prosecutors said ripped off consumers for $400 million. Gee, this is the same figure that the record companies whined that Napster cost them. Karma is a bitch.

I still have the stub of my $13 settlement check from these assholes.
> If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day

Thank you for the feedback! I thought about that initially, but turned out that generated jokes become a bit repetitive after a while and the project actually requires manual curation (for which I don't have the time). Or, it needs some source of "external entropy" which I haven't figured yet.

What is also interesting is the exact ways in which LLM humor becomes repetitive. I believe it could be a subject of study on its own, as it reveals something interesting about how human humor is structured.

P.S. For example, for some reason LLM really love all kinds of jokes about pirates, pizza, cheese and lost socks.
Security Analysis with JupiterOne’s Starbase and Memgraph
A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea – USNI News
The reverse actually. Reactors need to be shut down when rivers get too warm because they are not able to properly cool the reactor. Nuclear reactors don't produce anywhere near enough energy to heat a large river by a measurable amount.
Sure, there are all sorts of problems with capitalism. But as Churchill said about democracy, it the worst form of economic organization except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.
I don't know how most people are doing it. For me it's because the asset bubble has inflated my stock income. I suspect a lot of folks who owned homes, stocks and other assets are feeling the wealth effect. For the rest of society, I don't know why they're not in the streets with pitchforks.
wages have gone up too
The concern is that ChatGPT is training on your chats (by default, you can opt out but you lose chat history last I checked).

So in general enterprises cannot allow internal users to paste private code into ChatGPT, for example.
UPS is paying $100-200K for drivers and I can't find a decent plumber, electrician, roofer or concrete installer without paying insane costs and/or waiting for months. Something to consider!
I (for one) noticed. I also found a way to see the "dead" later.

I also noticed somebody posted that the content of the submission on Twitter was manipulated.

I am also noticing that you are not aware that the community tries to avoid flamebait material. Your submitted question is, by the way, another Bayesian needle swinging (i.e. the entailment is weak, other sides are blinking).

If the material were authentic, I would vouch "like there is not tomorrow". What will instead happen is, after having checked a few references to K.S., I will check further material soon and see if something more objective comes out.

...Have you verified that content you submitted? Was it supposed to raise questions about the WEF, or about the Twitterworld? Depending on veracity, it is either one or the other.
Well done. I really don’t understand it either. I have close to 30 years experience, and have always stayed relevant in terms of approach, skills, and knowledge.

According to the folks I’ve worked with in the past, I’ve done great work, and I’m still in regular contact with many of them.
> So is it really a successful system if the only way to make the budget work is letting folks die?

The NHS doesn't get to make that decision. The problem is that it has seen literally a decade of budget cuts, despite a rapidly aging population. Compared to countries like France and Germany, the UK has far fewer doctors and nurses per capita.

The Tories are intentionally trying to make the NHS fail by essentially strangling it as they really want to privatize it. As the decades before have shown, the NHS can operate perfectly well when it is supplied with a proper budget.
Yeah all the FAANGs do this. They won't sponsor their bottom half to go to conferences, much less speak at them.
Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
Hi, I'd like to ask what are the shell scripts you enjoy using or find useful?

It might be something you incorporated to your terminal-based workflow. Or maybe some specific scripts that you often reuse. Or you have used it once, but it might be useful to other people. Or maybe you just have a script that is fun to use? Please share

My (not anymore) hidden intention is to gather your recommendations to build an open-source shell script registry https://spellbook.maczan.pl/ Source code is here for you if you want to self host or fork it https://github.com/jmaczan/spellbook

A script I sometimes use is a commands repeater https://registry.spellbook.maczan.pl/repeat-sh/spell.sh You can specify an interval and a flag to reset/keep the terminal's content after a script invocation

Thanks!
The worst adverts on youtube are those long pseudo-documentary ads about the unusual backstory of some radical new inexpensive device that is going to change some industry and doctors/oil companies would prefer you didn't know about. The ones with the AI voices.
You just defined unconditional love. If what they are and do is required - then if they stop doing you’d stop loving.
Machine translations for Finnish seem to be quite shoddy. The rotate tool is called ”A PDF is spinning” etc. Even the language name is wrong in the language selector.
I also got suckered into a business plan competition in College with the same mindset you had but I suspect they are actually recruiting events for consulting firms -- it's not the answer they are looking for, but the ability to make convincing slides and passion for the same :)
Debt is a socialized hallucination. If people refuse to give up on it, we can just take the money back from the rich too through taxes. Reaganomics legalized looting pensions to invest on Wall Street. There's precedent for expropriation of wealth of the dying. What are a bunch of retirees going to do? Fight back against 20-30 somethings?

Boomers benefited from New Deal then killed it. There is no market, just a legalized generational Ponzi scheme.
Huh. I missed this one. Got a link?
I'm 100% with you. Would love to see photos of those meadow and bat house, they sound lovely.
No mention of Emmet for avoiding writing HTML by hand.
Yes, that is what it says.

all-in-one (new oxford dictionary): "combining two or more items or functions in a single unit"

Astro

- can do SPA

- can do MPA

- can use a variety of different view libraries

- can write endpoints to serve any data

So is your ill-defined issue with "all-in-one" the fact that it doesn't support every single view library?
If you don't lose the whole repo, you can probably pull those versions of of the git reflog even if you do lose them. One of the blessings of having `git add`ed something.
Mitchel Weiser, Bonnie Bickwit: Inside 50-Year Hunt for Missing Teens
I'm purely comparing Australia and the US. As a personal preference if we were given a choice to achieve an average material standard of living equivalent to the US, but the price was its measurably less egalitarian wealth and power distribution I wouldn't take it, even though I'd likely personally financially benefit from it. And yes it's an ideological position, but I don't see why that's a bad thing. If there were persuasive evidence that less equal economies/societies were better functioning and provided more fulfilling life experiences for the population as a whole I'd abandon it.

As it is, statistically the US seems to be somewhat of an outlier in having both a very high GDP per capita and a relatively high GINI coefficient, so there's little reason to suspect Australia would benefit at all from higher inequality.
Rent control is great for people who were lucky enough to live in them. It’s not so great for underprivileged people now who would like to move to NYC for all of the economic opportunity, but can’t because housing is so expensive. All of the rent controlled (and to a large degree, rent stabilized) apartments are off market and don’t rotate frequently because people stay in them even when they don’t need the space because moving somewhere smaller would cost more.
People are used to the old days when a computer would come on in a bag and overheat itself.
Nice quotes, he comes out looking the best from all this nonsense so I'm gonna score him the winner.
Been using Preview for years and only the other day did I realise you can redact stuff. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
>workers can organize there and ultimately seize control of the means of production.

Workers can try to seize the means of production, but without state support, the police or the military will come shoot and arrest you, like it happened many times in recent history. You need populace and political support for such movements, otherwise you're a terrorist/criminal.

>A knowledge worker who works at home on cloud servers has no spatial nexus to control. All communication between workers is electronically mediated, I guess union organizers can develop a parallel infrastructure, but the workplace itself is a natural place for organizing work to take place.

Knowledge workers have the balance of power in their favor, despite not having ways to physically seize the means of production, but as soon as the individual's knowledge becomes obsolete, commoditized or easily found elsewhere for cheaper, then those workers are shit out of luck if they don't keep up and adapt to a new hot thing.

>Once the factories left, however, people realized service work or no work was a lot worse and now a new factory in your town is one of the best things a politician can take credit for.

Unfortunately, we can't have a well functioning society where everyone is a remote worker. Someone still needs to fix your toilet, teach your kids, drive the train, build new houses, manufacture the stuf you use in your daily life like food and medical supplies.

Sure, you can have all your stuff manufactured offshore and import it, until your manufacturing trading partner has the upper hand and gives you the middle finger because he needs that stuff more urgently or he found a richer buyer, and now you're left wihtout stuff and with a bunch of laptop workers who can't manufacture the stuff you need because that knowledge is not open-source and you since lost all that knowledge over decades of deindustrialization when you gave it to your manufacturing trading partner in exchange for cheap stuff and access to his domestic market.
Because it is a team. And, exactly, now tell that to our managers.
I guess I used “good person” as a catchall because I’m on mobile and didn’t want to type out the various criteria of people you want to work with.

I personally don’t consider someone who makes the workplace toxic “good”.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57664187/how-do-i-turn-o...
Hooded pitohui: one of the few known poisonous birds
A university friend of mine is head of a European non-IT company with a an upper five digit number of employees. A few weeks ago we had breakfast and among other things talked about remote working. He points why he wants his people back in office were pretty clear:

- he sees productivity slowly but steadily deteriorating

- especially weaker and new employees are falling behind

- restructuring has become very hard

- employees who cannot work remotely (they have quite a few factories and workshops) feel treated unfair

- he does not give a shit about commercial real estate

Of course this is only anecdotal, but I only know one person who could be called a member of "The Elite" and his views do not support the author's claims.
Someone always playing
Corporation games
Who cares they're always changing
Corporation names

We just want to dance here
Someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible
Write us off the page

I'll dance from home (DFH) thank you very much.
VS Code is fine for creating HTML but a pain in the ass for editing existing tag pairs.
I read the article more as an implied warning: a lot of paper wealth is tied up in commercial real estate, and that wealth could evaporate. The people who own that paper wealth aren't just going to sit back and let that happen. Yes, for many companies there is no direct way to force them to bring workers back to the office. But it might be worth taking some time to think about what else might be tried.
Sunak to force English universities to cap students on ‘low-value’ degrees
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/are-plans-to-reduc...
> I'll say that nearly all their acquired products I've worked with kinda suck and barely integrate in any meaningful way (I'm thinking Tableau and Marketing Cloud especially).

I worked for Tableau before the acquisition and left a year or two after. It was pretty clear to insiders that there was never a good path to a smooth integration of Tableau into the SF platform. The teams have wasted years on that and are still struggling.

There is a massive amount of actual tech debt on the Tableau monolith side that just can't be overcome without huge investment. Tableau spent years trying to fix that and couldn't make a dent, SF brought an even more short-sighted planning process in and only made it worse.

Granted that Tableau could never fully commit to the efforts and the highest level of executives were only interested in making Tableau an attractive acquisition target. Exception being Francois, who still seems to care about Tableau the product.
Same. I make decent money and used to save thousands per month. Now I'm lucky to stash away high hundreds a month, but any expense like new brakes wipes that out.

I wonder how in the world everyone else is getting by. Maybe we're all just smiling and pretending here...
B+H has been periodically running deals on the loaded M1 Max 10C/32C 64GB/4TB for $3000-3200.

https://slickdeals.net/f/16807523-apple-macbook-pro-16-2-lap...

M1 Max doesn’t get the HDMI 2.1 port (although you can coerce some cablematters adapters to do it), or the Wi-Fi 6E, and the M2 Max is generally faster especially in gpu (at the cost of higher power - perf/w doesn’t change much) but in general it’s not worth paying $2k more for.
I have not. I will look into it later.

The issue that many people were raising is with regards to privacy (not saying your app infringes upon it in any way). If PWA deployment can ensure that the app truly stays offline, then that’s a good thing.

I personally like open source better, as it is easier to examine the inner workings of the app. It also helps tech-savvy users fix bugs and verify that it doesn’t do anything they don’t want it to do. Etc etc

Also, Electron apps can be sandboxed using Flatpaks for instance. Flatpaks aren’t perfect of course, but they do provide some guarantees. You can even use Flatpaks while keeping the source code closed.
> Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs…

I am casually investigating the possibility of moving from Berlin to Copenhagen and some of the apartments in Copenhagen that I am looking at have risen close to 30% in the last few years. This burden of course mainly falls on the younger generations.
In like 1997 I accidentally removed the wrong memory stick and booted up my 486dx2 with only 4MB of RAM. I heard the hard drive seek more or less constantly. But X started and some xterms. Never tried to use it, just wanted to shut it down cleanly. This was a FreeBSD 2.x system IIRC.
It’s amusing to me that whenever C has a feature that C++ doesn’t, C programmers hammer on the usefulness and power of said feature, but on the converse those same C programmers hammer on the divine simplicity of C.

C++ has constructors, it doesn’t really need designated initializers in the first place. They were added primarily for C compatibility.
HTML version which I find easier to read:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
I'd start here

https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Cell_Programming_IBM
Funny! Thanks
I've always wanted to ask this really dumb question, so I'll just ask it here (laugh or answer, your choice):

Would there be gravitational waves so huge that we'd have trouble detecting them? As in, if there was a huge, massive gravitational wave and we were in the process of "riding" it how would we ever know or detect such a thing?

Would this possibly (not plausibly) be an answer to some of the weirdness and contradictions we have observed in astronomy over the past few decades?
I think you’re onto the solution here: praise hard work first and foremost but also praise cleverness and resourcefulness just as much.
Eh I would say Socialism as practiced in Western Europe and the Nordics is doing better. They're out doing the US in most important metrics, and they're trending more Socialist (though we'll see what intensifying climate migration and other climate change consequences bring).
I'm not sure I can make the mental leap that CEOs are making decisions based on what's best for their landlords.
How many of these are duplicates or just multiple versions though?
Have somebody ,,ticket in'' for you and accept that sometimes bs things are parts of your job. Managers don't care as long as the numbers are good.
Your kernel is fine at managing the container root filesystem and paging in and out parts as necessary. It's not just loading gigabytes of root fs into memory and calling it good.
Yes, I was thinking closeness to the Polish border must have something to do with it, as is also pertinent with Tesla's giga factory.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

- Henry Ford
Praising children for things that aren't true isn't good either IMHO. If your kid doesn't work hard, but does a good job anyway, don't mislead them by praising them for their hard work.

Too much of parenting advice is about doing subtle things to manipulate them to be who you want them to be. Just make yearly goals with your kids and help them accomplish those goals.
Digital Twin Brain: a simulation and assimilation platform for whole human brain
Abstract—In this work, we present a computing platform
named digital twin brain (DTB) that can simulate spiking
neuronal networks of the whole human brain scale and more
importantly, a personalized biological brain structure. In comparison to most brain simulations with a homogeneous global
structure, we highlight that the sparseness, couplingness and
heterogeneity in the sMRI, DTI and PET data of the brain has
an essential impact on the efficiency of brain simulation, which
is proved from the scaling experiments that the DTB of human brain simulation is communication-intensive and memory-access-intensive computing systems rather than computation-intensive.
We utilize a number of optimization techniques to balance and
integrate the computation loads and communication traffics from
the heterogeneous biological structure to the general GPU-based
HPC and achieve leading simulation performance for the whole
human brain-scaled spiking neuronal networks. On the other
hand, the biological structure, equipped with a mesoscopic data
assimilation, enables the DTB to investigate brain cognitive function by a reverse-engineering method, which is demonstrated by a
digital experiment of visual evaluation on the DTB. Furthermore,
we believe that the developing DTB will be a promising powerful
platform for a large of research orients including brain-inspired
intelligence, rain disease medicine and brain-machine interface.
Space is the fabric.

Moving electric charges produce electromagnetic waves (light). No charge is transmitted with light, but it can cause charges to move. Space is also the fabric for electromagnetic waves.
That's the book that Mike Duncan wrote following up his work on the History of Rome podcast. The first of the two books he wrote while running the Revolutions podcast, with the second being a biography of Lafayette.
Yes! I think side-effects are just one little use-case for monads. They can be useful any time you want to compose functions together but you want to do something else with the composition and data. As Bartosz Milewski so wonderfully explained here [1], Monads are just "a way of composing special types of functions" or "function composition with some kind of flair!"

I was recently writing a Unger-parser-like natural language parser and I wanted to compose functions that took the parse results from one parse function and then parse something else. I noticed that every time I wanted to pass the results to another function I had to do something with the leftover tokens and also coallate the error messages that might have been building up. What if I used monads to automatically handle the resulting tokens and error messages each time I reached for another parse function? I wrote a monadic binding function that handled the tokens and error messages for each parse function, and then I was able to happily compose my parsing functions in a much more clean and concise way.

Monads are great anytime you want to do something more along with your function composition other than just passing one piece of data directly from one function to another.

"And then you say... What if I used a different kind of composition? Also function composition, but with some kind of flair, something additional. If I redefine composition, I have this one additional degree of freedom in defining composition. If I use this additional degree of freedom, I am using a monad." - Bartosz Milewski [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/i9CU4CuHADQ?t=2363
What happened to Elon? A couple years ago he was pretty darn respected and had tesla and SpaceX beating the odds in two very difficult industries, and now he just feels like a dork.

Icarus syndrome?