skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We place faith in algorithms and data, much like faith in a higher power, but rarely stop to consider who writes these digital 'scriptures' and what their intentions might be. Are we blindly trusting new 'gods' crafted in server rooms, not realizing that they might be as fallible—or as manipulative—as the human hands that created them?
Many companies are indeed leaving California [1], and moving to 'friendlier' areas. The same has been true of numerous high income/wealth individuals. If California levies a wealth tax, I'd expect them to accelerate the decline. Norway actually had their own experience with this recently. They decided to slightly raise the wealth tax (which they already had in place) to try to squeeze their highest wealth citizens even more. Enough people left the country that their net tax revenue actually decreased. [2] To stop this, they're now considering trying to pass an 'exit tax' where people who leave the country will be taxed. I'm sure that'll work out great for them. I'd never heard the term kakistocracy before this article, but wow does it fit for much of the world's governance in modern times.

[1] - https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-californi...

[2] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/10/norway-wealt...
If I had the money, I would buy a VR headset for this developer in a heartbeat. It would be fascinating to see what that would add the experience. Especially if he added all of the sounds, to get that full HVAC experience...
Relatives and friends have also told me this.

My latent impostor syndrome tells me that I should already be happy to have a job, but that's clearly not enough. The national average salary in my country for a junior JS dev is double that.
X Reverses Slowed Access to News Outlets, but Rival Sites Still Affected
Right before the credits for the relevant ending, the screen reads:

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire

This game also introduced me to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, from an optional dialogue with a bartender in a hidden area in the hong kong game map.
It's fascinating how VPN services have successfully marketed themselves as the ultimate privacy solution, when in reality, they are often just a middleman with full visibility into your internet traffic. How can we, as users, ever truly verify a VPN provider's claims of "no logging" or "complete privacy"? It's a promise based on trust, but why should we trust a company whose business model revolves around our data?
ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Is Testing Content Moderation Systems
> My argument is fairly simple. The easiest way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere is to not put it there in the first place.>We should be all of this money (and much more) to transition off of fossil fuels as quickly as possible. The sooner we electrify everything and get rid of fossil fuels the sooner we can start putting a dent int to 30+ GTonnes/year of CO2 we produce.

Again. Even if we stop ALL EMISSIONS NOW, and blow up every fossil fuel facility on the globe, we need use DAC to remove accumulated CO2.
Replication crisis. Worth websearching and being aware of how bad it has been on just this kind of research.
Restaurants don't charge you when you're already there as a customer ( as mentioned in my last example)? They charge you when you need to go and use them as a public toilet sometimes ( eg. when it's urgent).
https://archive.ph/NphwZ
Intel to Call Off $5.4B Tower Deal Without Chinese Approval
yeah and gcp is definitely not for that either. they had a full region down for weeks in paris while pretending they have availability zones (but one fire in one datacenter put everything down). at this stage the only trustable big computational cloud is AWS.
Ask HN: iOS Apps, testing device migration
Hoping someone has seen something for this or can point me in the right direction. I am trying to find a way to test what happens to our app during a device to device migration (it loses things we don't expect), and I can't find any process anywhere to assist - nothing simulatable!

Any ideas without having to buy a bunch of phones? Greatly appreciate any feedback.
I used the WayBack machine to bypass the paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230815221704/https://www.nytim...

Other options are available.
Wow i just said that it is server side javascript because you were claiming ... and that its mixing raw sql with html template like what was hated in PHP. Have you even looked at https://vercel.com/storage/postgres - its right there in their example.

You are either trolling me or you are not really sure how these things work?
Reddit tier research.
Perplexity is a measure of how certain the model is of the next token. It's calculated by looking at the probabilities that the model calculates for the next token in a stream. If there are several choices for the next token with similar probabilities, that's telling you that the model is having a hard time telling what the right answer should be: the model is more perplexed, perplexity is higher. If there's a single option with a much higher implied probability than any other, that means the model is more certain, and perplexity is lower.

Note that this has nothing to do with whether the answer is objectively correct. It's just measuring how confident it is.
As a regular reader of The Economist, that switched to the Guardian last year to due circumstance, I can only concur. My god is The Guardian a poor "newspaper". All they do is whine about problems without providing any analysis or solution. So yeah, why even look up the source if the standard of your output is abysmal?

Edit: FYI gave up my subscription after a couple of Months. Now I read the New Scientist. Significantly more optimistic news :).
https://youtu.be/pKN9trFSACI

Deus Ex was way ahead of its time, like a lot of cyberpunk media is.
There seems to be a lot of issues around replication of these kinds of studies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) - see the section on Replicability controversy
Not a science, neither relevant nor useful information
I feel like what was once called magic, then became God and now becomes AI. An all-encompassing term for all things inexplicable and complex and a handy backdoor to give up the burden of decision making and critical thinking. I fear it will soon, like God, become an ultimate, unquestionable instance: "Chatgpt tone me so, so it must be true "
No, it was real RSS resource utilization. Basically due to many extra beans being loaded by Spring and extra allocations due to the typical abstractions. If you run it on a smaller instance, your Java process goes out of memory and will have to be restarted. I usually profile all projects thoroughly. You can’t really run a Spring app on less than 512m virtual memory. You can run Java on a few megs, the overhead is negligible over compiled binaries. You can run a lightweight Netty based framework (anything tapir supports essentially) on just 64m heaps. But not Spring. Spring does substantially more work behind the scenes.
> The US system of state secrets for example is enormous, and while leaks do occur, they are negligible compared to what is kept hidden.

Not from those whose job it is to find them. The Manhattan Project leaked to the Soviets multiple times over. Any time the government does something illegal, a whistleblower has leaked it to reporters.
The use of relays is common when you connect to the VPN in the enterprise networks that often allow only outgoing 80/443. Also, you may not use the relays all the time, but you may use them sometimes throughout the day. If there is a vulnerability, one connection may be enough to compromise the security.
It could work within one country, but I suspect they would use stolen US credit cards to get funds on Paypal, but then transfer that money to a bank account in another country where Paypal is unlikely to be able to get it back.

So the owner of the credit card should get their money back from their bank (or credit card company? Not sure how that works in the US) which might get their money back from Paypal if they want to bother, but it's probably too difficult for Paypal to get their money back from some bank in a country where they might not even have physical presence.
What are you event talking about? Are you aware that any touring completel language can output JSON... what two different html templates?
Meanwhile here in Italy rechargeable sims have 10 euros per month plans with unlimited data (which is actually ~1TB but it's not advertised since it's more of a fair use thing) or very high caps (150-200GB)
I would expect the implications to be different depending on which God spinoff they are talking about.
If I understand you correctly, you basically mean some interpolation of knowledge within Z, that was not known to humans before, but can be synthesized by recombination of information within Z.

Yet, that still means, knowledge of O cannot be synthesized.
Thank you for your support.

Perhaps I don't owe anything to the bosses, having done the job as best I could despite my limited skills.

However, I don't want to "let down" my fellow developers if I decide to leave.
It is not UNIX-like, OS X was Unix (excepct for Lion), and macOS is Unix.
Nah, Brother is the same now.

A more useful recommendation is: buy when they are making their money from the razor, not the blades.

Most (all?) printer companies now have a range printers models where that's true. HP calls theirs a "Smart Tank" printer, Brother names them INKvestment printers. Epson was first with their EcoTank printers. I have one of them, but I know other people with other brands, and we all swear by them.

That's possibly because they aren't cheap upfront, so they tend to load them with features so you feel like you are getting something for all that money aside from the privilege of getting ripped off on ink. For example they often come with 10's of thousands of pages of ink in the box and are typically warrantied for years and have a build quality to match.

In principle, I'm fine with them offering the razor model - even "you can't scan if you haven't paid the ink tax". In practice, they never spell out on the box the Faustian bargain you are signing entering into. So once again we have big corp exploiting the "oh you didn't read the fine print" power imbalance between them and the consumer.
They actually used clojure; which is an interesting choice.

GC tuning on the JVM is much less of a topic these days than it used to be. The default garbage collector was changed at some point (G1). It has some configuration options but they come with sane defaults that mostly just work fine and adapt to your memory and cpus. You don't spend a lot (or any) time on tuning this typically. I know I haven't even looked at GC params in many years now. Never had to. And we run on modestly sized vms of 1 or 2 GB typically. This was different 10 or so years ago when G1 was still newish and not default. ZGC was introduced with Java 11 (I think), and aimed at very large heaps. It trades off additional overhead for guaranteeing very low latency. That tradeoff is why it is not default. For most users, G1 without any tuning whatsoever should be fine. Generally, if you are stressing your heap, you get more hardware. And if you are not, the GC should be keeping up just fine.

Anyway, like it or not, the JVM has been a work horse for big data for ages. Things like Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc. all run on it and scale fine (and typically without a lot of GC tuning). The only feasible alternative to the jvm used to be things like C++. Lately, Go and Rust are pretty credible in this space as well and both have had to do a bit of catchup in terms of maturity of tooling, libraries, and language features. Things like generics (Go), async (Rust), etc. are still fairly recent additions and both kind of relevant in a project of this type.

In any case, switching languages is hard for teams and these guys have been around for quite some time. When they started, Rust was a lot less mature than it is now and Go was still pretty new as well. Neither was an obvious choice for this stuff at the time.
Your first comment just reminds me of these magic 8-balls. It's a randomized thing, but it's some kind of impartial feedback.
you could also get HGX from any of the vendors.
I think Tailwind is more accessible to many[*] less experienced or CSS-oriented developers. Big generalisation, I know, please don't yell at me, but many of us can get 99% of Tailwind's value with UI libraries supporting:

1) style encapsulation,

2) colocated presentation/content/behaviour and

3) a more minimalist mindset/habits when building UIs (e.g. relying on simpler styling hierarchies, native DOM elements, semantic HTML instead of div soup).

[*] not all, it doesn't mean that it doesn't make "senior" (whatever that means) devs more productive or that if you're using Tailwind you'll lose your 10x dev of the month badge. But, CSS is a misunderstood yet very flexible language which means it can be used or abused in a huge variety of ways.
> Tax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes

This would be very fair but note that it instantly kills anything that produces nuclear waste, as you must factor in the cost of maintaining that waste for 100 000 years or more.
I can't, so that's the strategy. I have to activate stealth mode, though.
What Are We Becoming, and What Price Are We Paying?
The author teaches maths to art students. The paragraph on maths research:

But now I realize that, in maths research, you don’t just follow logical steps. If you do, you’ll never get anywhere interesting. You have to use your gut instinct and feel your way through something first, and then back it up with logic afterwards.

Opposite to TFA, in school, I gave up on maths because explanations were not provided; you had to take things on faith (e.g. algebra of limits, epsilon-delta proofs were not given), and the questions were carefully manufactured to be solvable by the given methods. i.e. puzzle-solving, not general powerful methods. Also, no proof of the uniqueness of prime factorization.

TBF, it's hard to load proofs on to school students, and since Euclid was dropped, the focus is on technicians and results - not truth. But it can be done: spend the time on building foundations; or omit subjects where you can't. I'd like an axiomatic approach.
...I completely forgot that I was also introduced to Last and First Men by that same dialogue in Deus Ex. It's a great book!
who's norm? I assure you it's the norm. :)
Draw.io VS Code plugin is excellent. (Probably it was made by a third party?)

They way you can save a file as <image.drawio.svg> or <image.drawio.png> while simultaneously keeping it editable as well as readily renderable in any other app or browser ... feels like magic! Why don't we see this more often?

Is there a way to create / find custom shapes and frequently used templates in this tool?

I work on AWS and would like to be able to customize the UI a bit (in VSCode) to make it much easier to use frequently.

The tool also has a lot of potential to become even more user friendly and powerful though.

Anyone is working on a LLM interface it it yet? :)
In France we have one operator (SFR Red) that's known for being shit and messing with billing and having predatory practices, but the other three major operators are generally fine and you typically pay exactly what was advertised.
Proof that PNAS will publish anything for a few clicks.
I'll add to this that their markdown is all over the place, and different between the products.
I completely disagree with your last point. Social democracy has been wildly successful. Many socialist ideas work very well. The big problem with most "communist" countries is that they forgot the most important aspect: giving the workers a voice. They're supposed to be in the dictatorship of the proletariat phase towards communism, but none of them give power to the proletariat. They're a dictatorship of an elite, and there's nothing socialist about that.

And in the past century we've also seen the harmful influence of extreme capitalism on democracy, including social democracy. Clearly the power of money on politics needs to be limited.

But tue hardest problem is how to ensure that the voters are well informed. They need reliable news media, but the two obvious ways to finance that are through capitalism and the state, both of which are suspect.
> If you belong to a culture or country that was founded by a particular ethnic group, I would expect that to be true, so long as the majority population is that ethnicity.

And what about women from your particular ethnic group? Just because things went like they did historically doesn’t mean we cannot acknowledge that some people have an edge over others.

> Even if they're statistically doing better on average than some other groups in some cases, it could mean that tens of millions are suffering with no help and no support.

That’s a fair point, if we’re talking about general care and crisis response. The topic has been career advancement and employee support however, and a white male in the USA or Europe already has all the odds in their favour.

A support group for white men to help each other with the burden of being a white man is therefore, frankly, pretty ridiculous.
I'm outing myself as an ignoramus* here, but could the title be edited to indicate that this belongs to twitter?

I glossed past this on first read because "some url shortener has shitty behavior" wasn't interesting to me. Hearing heard about twitter's throttling someplace else made me come back here because I was surprised not to have heard it about it here first.

*: stalwart radical who doesn't use twitter
Amazon racing to catch Microsoft,Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips
Go has been described as the drosophila of AI. Once a program will know how to play go, we'll be able to make more general artificial intelligences. This is exactly what has happened with alphago and chatgpt. We're not repeating the same thing that happened with chess, but we are past the singularity. Recent advances in AI are lighting up the very nature of intelligence. Our memory and our brain are a machine for predicting the future. It's very similar to what recent models do. Alphagozero has rediscovered the history of chess openings in the same order as humans. We are no longer discovering simple new algorithms supported by machine advances, but architecting predictive systems based on guided learning. When we developed the algorithm for playing chess, the possibilities for generalization were limited. With these new architectures, new possibilities are appearing every day. IMHO, the predictions were true: since alphago, we've entered a new world.
Yeah, when people lack understanding they come up with stupidity to have a simple explanation. Sad.
Same. I am thankful that for some unexplicable reason, my residential IP has free access to The Economist [1]. I still click on The Guardian by habit, but it has become a left-leaning clickbait site, far from the glory days of the Snowden revelations.

1: even as an "anarchist" I confess that op-ed journalism like The Economist's is often more objective because of its economic point of view, than if it was driven by political ideology like the vast majority of newspapers. Another decent one is Financial Times.

If I have to blindly believe someone, I'd rather it be Wall Street than the White House.
If someone is at the point where they are making society consider whether it’s worth punishing them anymore because they’d have nothing left to lose, then they already effectively had nothing left to lose. If you want to try and bluff society on acceptable behavior then you should read Vom Kriege and be prepared to fight hard or deal with the consequences.

That’s been the reality of any group that’s wanted to overthrow societal standards for good or bad. In this case at least the jury decided payment indicates to people with the resources to actually make peoples lives a mess, that they have ample resources to lose
Interesting: On Android the site opens as an instant app, have heard of them but never actually seen them in action
Because.

On a more serious node, your questions seem very... aggressive.

Especially the one about the name, is the name offensive or what? To me it sounds quite benign.
How Canada poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours
How can you consent to a contract if you don't know what the contract actually entails? I realize a lot of places in the US don't even spell out sales tax on items before they're rung up at the cashier but this level of intransparency seems like it contradicts the entire premise of legal contract theory.

If an ISP collects these fees and taxes, it's their obligation to inform the customer about them and to include them in price listings, at least in addition to the raw price. For example in Germany b2b price listings will often exclude VAT (which means VAT will still be shown but not included in the listed item price) but for b2c prices will always match exactly what you pay. The only example I've ever seen of a "surprise tax" in my entire life both in private and professionally is artists' social security insurance contributions, which are owed by any business or organisation paying a contractor or employee defined as an "artist or editor" (which includes most creative and media work): the fee is not collected by the person you pay but has to be paid to the social security organization directly and it's something you're simply expected to know if you run a business or organization.
I see that 50% of people in Belgium have credit cards and I suspect it's because bank cards until very recently used to be almost only usable in Belgium, and not for online purchase (except at some Belgian stores). So you would need a credit card for a "normal" modern online life.

Not sure if it's still true but it also used to be the case in Canada while I lived there a decade ago or so.

Bank cards today seem to be double more and more as Mastercard/VISA debit cards and I think the amount of people bearing credit cards might decrease in the future. At least that's what has been happening with a few people around me.
In days gone past this would be seen as anticompetitive behaviour. Like shunting rival train companies onto your slower tracks for shared right of passage, or loading their boats last for perishable goods.

It's pretty hard to call X "the commons" when it's owner can be this capricious. It's just another private managed space. No free speech issues but he's now asserting editorial control so has liabilities in my book.
Still can't see it. Once you do components CSS gets much simpler, what's the point of a layer on top?
Again, why would you do this? Just go to one of the countless public toilets outside. How often are people trying to use the toilets in a restaurant without eating there? It seems insane they would even worry about this.

Also, my experience in Germany at a mall food court is that they DO charge you to use the toilet there, even though I was eating there.
Europe is a broad brush. Tap water is free (by law) in the UK, and there are only two places I've ever paid for a public toilet: a handful of stations cost 20-50p and a handful of nightclubs might have a bouncer who you appear to be expected to tip £1 in exchange for a spritz of cologne.

I'm not sure I'd say either of those chargeable toilet scenarios is well correlated to clean toilets, but I assume mostly they do that to try to avoid various kinds of mischief.