skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great read. Exotic spheres are the dark energy of mathematics.
At a guess, Kris' wife. if she chooses to keep it up.
Before you started talking about how he skied like an asshole. I was thinking, you where being interviewed by The Stig lmao
Excel gets containerized, cloud-based Python analytics and visualization powers
A cool cargo ship with big sails is hitting the seas! Cargill, the shipping company, chartered this vessel hoping to make shipping greener. The ship has awesome British-designed WindWings sails that cut fuel use and carbon emissions. When it's in port, the sails fold down, but when it's sailing, they open up, standing tall at 123 feet (37.5 meters). This maiden voyage from China to Brazil will test if old-school wind power can be the future of shipping. If it works, ships could emit 30% less CO2.
Something I don't understand: wouldn't clicking all the ads still help build tracking profiles of you? (except, inaccurate ones, which still carry the chance of harming you?)

They seem to compare themselves to TrackMeNot, which Googles random things in the background to try to mess up Google's profile of you — but I always thought that sounded crazy, because what if it looks up stuff that gets you put on a list, or stuff that's outright illegal? I tried looking at the TrackMeNot paper but it 404's.

Another question I have about AdNauseam: people seem to think that if we succeed in abolishing tracking, the web will still be free, just with non-tracking ads. I don't buy that, because ads aren't very profitable as it is. We might end up with wide swaths of the web just paywalled (or worse? If we get to that point, there'll be lots of "innovations" I'm sure). Why don't people demonstrate what a better model would look like, and whether it would work at scale, if they really dislike the current state of the web?
Thunderbird Web Lite is the least nonsensical name I guess.
Still better than people who commit terrorist acts only for money.
When I was a homeless man, I used to go ride the bus to the end of the line, just hanging out in the seat, just waiting for it to stop and turn around, just trying to stay warm/cool.

I used to walk around at night, walk and walk, because there were precious few places to sit down and rest, and I didn't want to arouse suspicion for loitering or trespassing, so I'd just walk until I was too tired.

I used to hang out in restaurants, either on my own dime or with a charity voucher, and I'd swill coffee, and read/write or something, not with any goal in mind, just passing the time through the night, because I was homeless, unemployed, and constantly at loose ends.

And this, in a nutshell, is what you get with meditation when you divorce it from an authentic spiritual tradition.
It's a sick fact for both points.

Also remember that Barr was first working for Central Intelligence and then became the US Attorney General. If that wasn't so sick I could at least laugh.
Modern buses have emergency exit doors on the roof, though they don't open automatically.

I wonder how easily this would fly off into the wind at higher speeds.
Well, experience with political organization makes clear that it's motivated by anger at injustice. Which is why consciousness-raising has historically been such a part of starting movements, to make people aware of the injustices, to stimulate the anger that motivates political action.

If you're angry and want to change the world, stress and frivolous thoughts aren't going to interfere. If anything, your focus on the cause isn't going to leave room for as many frivolous thoughts.
These copy-pasted one-liners aren't useful. Skip them.
How "far fetched" this is from click fraud is the central argument, and I can easily see a range of arguments from both sides.

On one hand, distributing and marketing a tool that is explicitly designed to harm trackers can be seen- ie lobbied- as fraud.

On the other, this isn't a targeted campaign of misclicking, this is essentially random noise on a user by user basis.

At scale though, this fucks with a whole lotta peoples paychecks.
> Consumer reports at least is known to be gamed

I'd be interested to know more about this, but I haven't found much discussion of it when I search. My google fu may be weak today.
I think DevBox make use of an index where it shows the nixpkgs version for different versions of different software. https://www.nixhub.io/packages/erlang

Note that this approach isn't without its downsides (compared to overriding the version in nixpkgs, or using a separate nix package). -- Mainly, since it uses an older nixpkgs version, the dependencies will also be that old version. (They won't have any security fixes which have been released since then; and it'll take up more disk space to install).

> Similarly, the default Elixir and Erlang packages don’t even have a version, you have to use one of the special elixir_1_14 packages to get a specific minor version.

Supporting multiple versions be more helpful at the cost of more effort to maintain. It's a reasonable tradeoff that nixpkgs provides the latest, and if you want anything other than what nixpkgs provides, you write some nix for that.
> K-L divergence is the pretty much really dumb, obvious thing you would probably think up if someone asked you to compare two probability distributions.

I don't think if anyone was asked simply to "compare two probability distributions", they'd come up with something asymmetric like the KL divergence. You'd need to at least add that one of the distributions is the "real" distribution.
I have done zazen over 20 years and know many people who have ADHD and do it a lot. You need less than a second attention span. What you need is the ability to bring mind back endlessly. It's like learning to juggle, picking up juggling pins from the ground again and again.

"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character and will." – William James
Four tech journalists left Vice to launch their own writer cooperative
That isn't what I'm saying.

I'm saying it was a reasonable hypothesis that "you're going to have a bad time" with a system like Autopilot, because of the vigilance concern you're referencing. But there is clearly more at play than vigilance, because it's not shaking out that way -- Autopilot (and similar lanekeeping + adaptive cruise systems from other manufacturers) aren't killing people left and right.

So, I was sharing my own hypothesis for why that may be: that the benefits of reduced fatigue are outweighing the drawbacks of distraction and complacency.
My motorcycle didn't come with a camera.
Does that ratio of market cap to employee count hold up often? I don't think it does.

You think most 200+ Employee companies are unicorns?
San Francisco Died, Again
conversations between idiots will remain idiotic.

your abstract syntax tree is bad and you should feel bad.
The -Context suffix is only needed when something existed before Context was created. New stuff should be just `foo.Bar(ctx, ...)`
This. I am very often astounded with the straight up rude behavior of many "respected" in the open source world.
I assumed they are talking about the commonly spread myth that you need a gig of RAM for every terabyte of storage. I think that's recommended when doing deduplication, but for a simple NAS ZFS would use a comparable amount of memory as ext4 on RAID.
Not when 2FA is enabled for the Apple ID, no.
Hi, I'm working on How We Feel. I'm eager to make it more useful. If there is anyone on this thread interested in helping, please send a note to ben@howwefeel.org.

So far, I've learned that the biggest benefit of mood tracking is the process of tracking: taking a moment to reflect on how you feel, name the emotion, and think about why you feel the way you do. The next big opportunity is to teach people effective strategies for dealing with their emotions in a healthy way (even if that just means accepting the emotion without judgement).

As an aside, I also loved my Pebble and physical buttons :D
> Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone.

Bluntly, it doesn't matter what you or I think -- what matters is what politicians, police, prosecutors and judges think.

I don't see anything on the main github page that says the extension is intended to cause harm to the advertisers or the website, but IME governments have often not cared.

And when 1M people in a country install the extension, are they acting independently or as a group? One person protesting may be legal, 1M organizing may not be protected.
Yes, there are mounts designed to dampen vibration to help prevent this.
They already do. Any time you start talking about wanting to do exploratory analysis for preventative reasons they’ll react in some way like “Hurr hurr whoa there buddy, you don’t want to get yourself anxious over benign stuff! This will do more harm than good!”
It was always breaking on my Synology too. I ended up just attaching an 8TB spinning rust directly to the Mac and it's been flawless since.

Time Machine really doesn't like using remote disks that aren't official Apple gear.
For the developing world, this is likely a great option [1] [2] (although you need to account for additional optics for a smartphone ["fundus camera"]). For the developed world, it's likely this gets lumped into a traditional eye exam. The benefit is from squeezing more data out of existing imaging encounters using ML; think about these as data pipeline implementations.

> High-resolution images of the retina are now a routine part of eye care – in particular, a type of 3D scan known as ‘optical coherence tomography’ (OCT), which is widely used in eye clinics and high-street opticians. In less than a minute, an OCT scan produces a cross-section of the retina (the back of the eye) in incredible detail – down to a thousandth of a millimetre.

[1] https://www.cureus.com/articles/106024-effective-low-cost-op...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5609317/
The most noticeable raspberrypi SD card life lengthener for me has been to write logs to RAM (assuming you have a stable setup and don't count on them to survive a reboot!).

Our $job dashboards used to nuke an SD card every couple weeks/months, but since the move to logs-in-RAM we've been running the same SDs for years.

DIY via {fs,journalctl} config , or using https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

Also, mount the SD with the `noatime` flag of course: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#Disabling_access_time_...
With that attitude, Linux and FreeBSD would never have started and would not exist today. You're advocating the total opposite mindset of being a "true techie". It has all been developed on proprietary hardware from the beginning. Everything was reverse engineered by talented hackers like these two. Vast majority of platforms are proprietary. Open source contributions from manufacturers started relatively recently. How can you call yourself a hacker if you're too lazy or stupid to reverse engineer anything?
I use Wireguard to secure and authenticate the transport. Much easier to set up! SSH is also an option.
Seems right up there with marcus aurelius. I love the focus on bodily functions, feels ancient but timeless.

What would a modern version look like? All the advice here has trickled down over time, and is taught to everybody growing up (in the west?). My guess is that it would focus on gender relations.
That'd be a slog.Handler, not a reason to avoid the new standard API.
An interpreter for a programming language based on Spotify playlists
The point of ublock is not just eliminating tracking but also to radically reduce resource use on a page from abusive marketing.

Cutting out 200+ objects, some with significant overhead, on a lower powered device or low bandwidth or long ping time like overseas can completely change a browsing experience from intolerable to completely acceptable.

Clicking ads would defeat the whole point and require all resources to be loaded.

However some day if politicians take enough money from the powers that be and make laws requiring all ads to load, this would be a good alternative to have. (However then they'd ban automated clicking)
I use TM as well. I got an app (https://tclementdev.com/timemachineeditor/) that will manually trigger TM backups whenever the machine is idle. Seems to work a lot better than the Apple automatic or timed backups.
For a hiring manager: if they are either divorced or have no kids AND have zero discernible hobbies when you ask them what they do outside of work. Every time I’ve worked for someone like this it has been a beating with slack messages and emails nonstop outside of normal working hours and on the weekends along with expectations of me working nonstop.
If you don't mind sharing, how did you get off the streets?
https://pkg.go.dev/log/slog#hdr-Performance_considerations
The World's Oldest Photograph (2022)
Do you know anyone who has been fired for using AI?
Actually three questions if you will humor me:

1. As the title states. For companies that have instituted bans on tools like AI assisted pair programming, ChatGPT, etc. Within two degrees of separation, do you know or have you heard of an individual being terminated for using AI against said company policy?

2. Do you think it is ethically wrong behavior to use AI against company policy?

3. Do you yourself currently use AI for work related tasks despite a company policy that explicitly prohibits its use?

I'll start.
1: No
2: No
3: Yes
I'm not clear to what you mean.
Hmm, I thought "outline mode" was finally implemented after ten or fifteen years. When was this?
And I'm talking about Śūnyatā. Philosophical concept that emerged during times when western people were still stacking shit like rocks on top of each other.
Hackers use Microsoft-signed malware to target victims in Hong Kong
It's an interesting idea, but if we don't push the boundaries out of fear of regulation then we're effectively already living under these controls
> I wish them luck separating more fools from their money.

There was sentiment about "rich people paying $12,000 per ticket getting screwed".

https://youtu.be/UBPg5ftCMv8?t=480

For many, it was $500-$1,200 for two weeks holiday in the Bahamas, covering food, accommodation, transportation, and the event fee.
Can’t you get by with ChatGPT-4 for these personal assistant type questions? That’s what I do and my 20 a month goes a long way. I’d be interested to see if I am missing out on anything using GPT to is way in contrast to the API.
> FireWire was developed by Apple and some other companies, as a competitor to USB, and lost out to USB.

Firewire existed for years before USB: it was designed in the late 80's, roughly 10 years before USB. Development was mostly Apple and Sony, but numerous others were involved in the IEEE-hosted process.

As USB became more capable (Firewire vs USB1 was no contest), it gradually began to replace it. But ultimately, Thunderbolt was its real replacement.
Google doesn't make Firefox. I flatly don't understand why Mozilla has that limit.
Yes, this happened to my phone.
It's all fun and games until Google gets upset and locks you out of your gmail.
the word "clicking" to me suggests a change in behavior/new bug. ".. to silently click .." would remove that suggestion.
Thanks. Good to know that's possible, it's exactly what I use for sanoid also, so I guess the quickstart just assumes that layer isn't available.
Every so often there's a comment on here that's simultaneously so ignorant and so arrogant that it crosses from offensive to hilarious. Congrats, this one is up there with the likes of "it could just be rsync".
Quality aside, it's the paywall that grinds my gears.

Wirecutter articles are essentially long, well-researched ads for the products they (affiliate) link to.

I always found these ads useful, at least as a starting point. But putting a paywall in front of the ads rubs me the wrong way, like an unwritten contract was broken.
I’m in the same boat. I can’t do the sitting still type of meditation. I’ve found that strenuous exercise works best for me. Jogging for an hour and a half for example - long enough and at slow enough pace (so I’m not huffing and puffing) that the only thought in my mind is how sore my legs are.
If the query planner doesn’t want to use an index, it’s either for a good reason, or your table statistics are woefully out of date.
No it isn’t and this is a Chinese talking point. All social media is a privacy nightmare, this one is a privacy nightmare controlled by a geopolitical adversary. This is common sense and no one can seriously pretend to not understand the difference.
> Banks would have to find an alternative.

We might have worse actors or arbitrary decisions or more expensive loans. Or, why not, all three!
It will drive down key advertising metrics like conversion rate, and return on ad spend.

Which will lower bids for ads.

But it would be easy for Google, FB, etc to filter out this traffic.

Which I guess is the goal of the plugin.
From our islands of luxury and privilege it would.
The big question is, how would good reviewers get paid? Affiliate relationships are a conflict of interest, but people won’t pay for reviews.
For me, the word "transaction" means a thing where you want to store data in your database is a single unit, where it either all succeeds or it all fails.

A multiple business step flow should be called something different, to avoid confusion with well established database terminology.
I wonder which is worse: not setting up a freeze and risk being the victim of identity theft, or setting up a freeze by submitting your info and risk having it stolen from NCTUE?
anyone know of some programs / competitions for adults that are similar to FRC / FTC?

not sure if anything exists, but would be interested since I regret not being involved in stuff like this in school
> I'm not saying average investors are qualified to pick index funds or stocks. I'm saying they really ought to be.

In the sense they "ought" to vote, or they should do it because it would result in better returns for them personally? I don't think the former is a good reason, because I don't think the average investor is going to do a better job at allocating capital than wall st analysts. The latter has empirically been proven false. Actively managed funds have collectively underperformed passively managed funds, and daytrading retail investors almost always lose money.

>Money is a form of power, and blindly applying it in a spot just because everyone else is doing the same strikes me as not optimal.

People investing money in passive funds aren't messing with the price discovery process. Since they buy everything in proportion to market cap, they're not picking winners or losers. As long as some active participants exist, price discovery will still happen. If their numbers drop critically low, the market might be more be less accurate or be more susceptible to manipulation, but we're not anywhere near that point yet. In contrast, encouraging "average investors" to pick stocks absolutely does mess up the price discovery process. The average person is dumb and spends way too much time chasing whatever they heard on news yesterday night. A horde of retail investors likely reduces the overall "intelligence" of the market (through idiotic trades) and likely results in losses for them (from more sophisticated investors taking advantage of their behavior).
To me, at least, it is like listening to a person who constantly says "uh..." while talking. Occasionally, sure fine. But it's so pervasive in commonly used APIs that it becomes annoying.

Let's be clear: this is just a peeve of mine.
Isn't slog, like, completely new as of this release?
"I've read that because Parkinson's is caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the brain"

Not to nitpick, but it's my understanding that we all lose dopaminergic neurons in the Substantia Nigra as we get older. Some people lose them a a lot faster, and they develop what we call "Parkinsons". There is also presence of Alpha Synuclein in the dysfunctional dopaminergic neurons, which are not generally present in the "non-parkinsons" population...
> Q. Can I opt out of pre-approved offers based on NCTUE data?

> A. Yes. NCTUE provides information to companies that provide consumers with pre-approved offers of credit. If you would like to Opt-Out and exclude NCTUE information about you from being used in lists provided to companies that make pre-approved offers of credit (as provided in the Fair Credit Reporting Act), you may call us toll free at 1-888-327-4376.

> You may also submit your request via mail to NCTUE at the address below. Please include your name, address, Social Security number and date of birth in your request.

... well that is infuriating.
El Maracanazo
I’m waiting to read an official report on the matter, and I think it’s prudent everyone else do so as well. For instance, some sources[1] indicate that:

> Tremble’s letter said it is unknown whether filling the reservoirs at 1 p.m. would have ultimately made a difference.

And there’s this whole whiff of “kooky liberals prioritizing silly native crops over fire prevention” in the coverage about the issue, which certainly makes me suspicious as well.

I suspect time will show that the decision was not at all clear-cut and all relevant details are not yet known.

1. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/16/hawaii-news/reques...
There’s no way you’re “curious” here. A foreign adversary now has real-time data about the inter working of the U.S. population down the the individual level for tens of millions of people. This is a treasure trove of intelligence gathering so don’t play coy or devils advocate.
> Ignorance is bliss

I agree. Hobbits [1] generally care and know less about politics. Perhaps in an ideal world, like the Shire, that would be the way to live.

> Liberals are conservative;

I agree with you that the common usage of the word "liberal" is inappropriate, and would be more than happy to reclaim the word.

I disagree with you about using the word "progressive" instead though, as its just a euphemism for "left-winger" (or "communist"). [2]

[1]: https://americanmind.org/salvo/beyond-elves-and-hobbits/

[2]: https://www.city-journal.org/article/progressive-unh-unh
To be fair to the op, prefacing as an LLM output was the right choice, and although I do have access to these same tools, it was nice to get a description and know possibly that it’s a little off the mark, but I’m further ahead than before.

To be fair to you, i agree. HN is probably the last place you want to use low-effort AI comments, regardless of how helpful they may be. Let’s leave the AI comments for Reddit.