skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough.

It is a hard line to walk as a journo.

I have discovered, the hard way, that:

* _many_ people can't skim

* but they don't know that they can't

* so they misunderstand and blame the writer

* no matter if you provide links to explain everything, many won't follow any of 'em

* but you _must_ provide citations for every fact or claim

What I try to do is boil down long stuff to shorter punchier summaries, and explain harder tech stuff so non-experts can follow it.

If the reasons for something, or what it means, or why it matters, are not very obvious, I try to explain the whys and wherefores.

But when it's simple, some will complain there's not enough. If it's not simple, some will complain it's too hard. No matter how well referenced, some will argue. Even if it's my direct personal experience, some will tell me I am wrong.
What material are the pieces made out of? Wooden pieces (when properly dried) have a much larger ratio of elastic range to plastic range, which is probably desirable for toys (as you/your daughter would need lots of leverage to be able break the pieces and could effectively never bend them).
wow, this is some interesting web voodoo! What about auth?
We have an incomplete toot toot garage track set. Over stressing the parts is the only path to greatness.
Hmmm, possibly. However you are describing an operational reality and the author was using financial reporting terms. And specifically if something like "people gave a bunch of money to what they thought was us" isn't on the balance sheet, it's a big red fraud flag
Well, as an employee of Salesforce, I witnessed operating margin goals of activist investors drive a layoff this year. (And Salesforce just met those goals last week.)

Part of me wonders if that's just broad inflationary concerns and uncertainty about the world economy, pushing for profits over everything else.

Really seems short-sighted, but, so did the "hire everything that breathes" era in the 2010s, too.
Any person in authority. In the abstract, the government or big business.
I don't have the source but I read that in the process of designing a car there are different teams that design outer look, inner look, the actual functionality and at the time of designing interiors it isn't known where or how many buttons you need.

By having a huge touch-screen instead of knobs there is much less need to synchronize between the teams because the inheritor design team just needs to place the screen somewhere. And it's easy to imagine that it can significantly shorten the time to delivery and the costs.
I don’t have to be Adam Smith or elites to know how lottery winners from low end social strata end up.

One cannot simply drop wealth on poor.

So it should be a process.

Only problem we have now is that rich are getting more rich than poor are getting wealth. Where ideally rich could get more rich as poor get out of being poor but they also should be bound by process and timelines.

I think taxing any wealth that will last longer than one lifetime will be needed. But it has to be real and not that ultra rich hide wealth in bs trust funds.

But it will be super hard to implement.
Cool little project! I did a similar thing recently, I wrote a pastebin that puts the file contents in the URL with brotli. [0]

It works quite well, but I'll need to update the syntax highlighting soon as at least Gleam is out of date (boy that language moves fast), and sometimes brotli-wasm throws a memory allocation error for some reason. I guess that's one cool thing that WASM brought to the table, memory handling issues.

[0] https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/
This is what's really getting under my skin. The messaging is not even hidden anymore.

It's right out in the open that many companies are making enormous profits and giving out astonishing executive bonuses, at the same time as freezing salaries and layoffs.

It's not adding up, and I'm kind of just waiting to see if more people are going to become as fed up with it as I am, or if we're all just too comfortable.
> Yep, for example, it's standard for US speakers to say "I wish you would have done X instead" whereas Brits would say that should be "I wish you had done X instead".

Maybe that is something some Americans might say, but it is certainly not the most natural way I would say it.

I would likely say "I wish you'd done X instead" or "I wish you'd X'd"
They should publish an annual report outlining the spend. You might be surprised at what they fund, or rather what central government doesn’t fund.

Nobody seems to sweep the roads or maintain the bike paths though.
Well, in almost every functional democracy in the world, at some point the founders of it decided on a way to split up power. In the US, that meant 3 different branches of federal government, individual state governments, separation of church and state, and giving every citizen the right to establish a corporation and engage in trade (aka capitalism). So three separate estates, and subdivisions within each one. So we were lucky to have enough angelic (enough) souls who did arrange such a system (flawed as it is).

Contrast this to something like China where there is a single party and a single government with no checks or balances. And such as there is some free enterprise, it is not a universal protected right and even the richest citizens have no ability to affect politics. It does not seem like a favorable alternative.
It’s a no brainer, the vendor gets paid for the continued work they do and the user pays over time as long as they get value out of the product.

However, For some apps it makes sense to have it as a one time payment - things like offline games or utilities the solve a problem and don’t need continuous updates.

Other than that, subscriptions are the way to go because software is a service more than a final product.
What this means is that the keys are not stored in non-recoverable hardware, they are available to a regular server process, just some compiled code, running in an elevated-priv environment.
There is no mention that the systems that had access to this key were in any other than the normal production environment, so we may extrapolate that any production machine could get access to it and therefore anyone with access to that environment could potentially exfil the key material.
Yeah I was curious what law is actually being broken by doing this?

> [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says.

Since when is it illegal to do things that are unsafe in America? Why can I own a gun and fireworks and liquor and gas stoves and toxic chemicals then?

> Officials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.

Sounds about right for Floridaman vibes.
to be abundantly clear, it's an opinion piece
From: https://www.nissanusa.com/privacy.html

"How is this possible" re:

> collects information including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data

> Sources for collection: Direct contact with users and Nissan employees.

Also:

> by occupying a vehicle that is utilizing such services you agree to Nissan collecting and using the information

> You promise to educate and inform all users and occupants of your Vehicle

Interesting Note: I think this implies if you are a Uber / Lyft / ect... customer you consent to Nissan collecting your sex activity and genetic information and all related secondary analyses by occupying the vehicle.
Does anyone know how I can restore the old behavior?
> By definition, the majority isn't high earning in a cohort

I don't think that's true here. A cohort doesn't have to have a particular distribution, and even if it does in this case, that doesn't mean the cohort isn't high earning relative to the rest of the population.
You should spend a few minutes and educate yourself on TJ and his views of slavery.
Sometimes $0 is too high of a price and they could be paying you.

(Your CU probably pays you indirectly. Mine gives me a $5 share yearly just for existing and I don’t generate any direct fees).

Kinda like how stock brokers should be paying you to have your stocks on deposit with them because they make money loaning them out to others.

Which is partly how “neo”-brokers could zero out trading commissions. Lending out meme stocks to short sellers is especially profitable.
As a former Submariner and Sonar Technician (trained in oceanography and underwater acoustics), it's interesting that such low power could be used. Long range underwater transmission of sound isn't a new thing. It's possible to passively track targets for up to 3000 nautical miles when the audio gets trapped in the deep sound channel.

The device discussed in the article has only achieved a distance of 300 meters using a slightly modernized version of sonar transducers and receivers that have been around for a very long time. I've seen MIT ocean projects meet the real world and go poof, but it's good to see people are out there trying to figure things out again, in the world after the pandemic.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/08/25/t-mobile-lay... (T-Mobile to lay off 5,000 people nationwide, after Sprint merger promised more jobs)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/t-mobile-anno... (T-Mobile US announces $19 bln shareholder return program)

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-layoffs-jobs-cuts-jassy-0e... (Amazon cuts 9,000 more jobs, bringing 2023 total to 27,000)

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-reports-... (A year after historic loss, Amazon posts $6.7 billion quarterly profit)
Season 1 was awesome, the interpersonal dynamics were so good. Season 2 is starting out boring. Sidney suddenly became a sarcastic teenager and everyone is randomly best friends with each other which makes no sense
UK Government Softens Stance on End to End Encryption Ban
Base122 or whatever the other option is (and I'm sure there are others), which tries to take advantage of the whole UTF-8 space, and probably wouldn't even work on URLs, is only something like 15% denser. Obviously, you're limited to printable characters, here.
Saying that ChatGPT sucks after trying only the free version is like saying that pizza sucks after trying only the frozen pizza because you don't want to spend $20 on a pizza in a good Italian restaurant.
Open Ai is a cash grab that's shitting on everything the open source movement used to stand for. They have single handedly done more damage to the open source ecosystem in 4 years than Microsoft did in 40.
>"For one thing human embryos would have already been implanted in a womb for a week at that point"

At what point? Implantation typically occurs 6-12 days after fertilization. This experiment starts at the equivalent of day 7. IVF is a thing.

It sounds like you're just guessing.

Edited to add, this article says "It would be illegal to implant them into a patient’s womb" which is a far cry from what you are implying, that it would be impossible.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-hu...
I think you should expect to die if you spend a lot of time on the road. Does it matter what bug the driver has that runs you down?
That doesn't have anything to do with financial statements. If you're Joe's Lawn Service and someone hands you money, it goes on your balance sheet. That's how accounting works, every penny gets (you know) accounted for. Otherwise how do these "neobanks" know who they owe?
There's an article here on the film and it's various inaccuracies...which was based on the Enigma book, apparently...
https://slate.com/culture/2014/12/the-imitation-game-fact-vs....
When buying software like this your perspective should really be "WYSIWYG". You should assume support ends completely tomorrow, and any patches you do get are a windfall.

That means key considerations for every purchase are:

* How easy would it be to migrate from it to something else?
* How easy would it be for someone else to develop compatible extensions and drop in replacements?
* How easy would it be to troubleshoot and patch it yourself?

Perfectly bug free software is of course difficult. But reasonable level of polish is very doable. It used to be the norm for decades, and they didn't even pay devs as much as now. Modern subscription software does not have fewer bugs than traditional waterfall software.
Feels too high IMHO…
True communism was never tried.
We don't know what will happen. Further research will provide more answers.
check others of his top listed..

i had a good laugh-through-tears reading
"Any human with above room temperature IQ can design a utopia"

in this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

add-on: and "when time goes to the sea" reminded me of Peace on Earth of Stanislaw Lem, about unchecked technological evolution and where it leads to..
I think its increasingly true of several countries, not just the UK. Any State with strong Freedom of Information legislation not surprisingly creates incentives for certain political operatives to want to avoid exposure by use of unofficial channels further out of reach of FoI - private WhatsApp groups etc etc. I don't see this as any different than the instances of private email service mischief that has occurred in a lot of States too over the last decade (avoiding use of official email accounts for contentious discussions).
Is this supposed to be a gotcha? Do you think everyone is ignoring some half of the picture that somehow makes this news a wash?
Lego Duplo is the same plastic as regular Lego, I think.
What you are requesting is the fully remote company, that's a totally different story. I don't see which faang company is transitioning into that. With the faang pay you can choose to stay in sf, or move to other offices, or going remote, or leave for fully remote companies.

The policy is that Remote workers are still remote. Only non remote workers are required return to office.
One example: declaring broadly that an entire group of people (say, Trump supporters) are homophopic. It only requires that literally two Trump supporters are homophobic for the statement to be literally true.

System 1 thinking is terrible for practicing set theory, and Sysyem 1 seems to almost always take 100% of CPU power during such discussions. The irony is delicious.
Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)
The book is very approachable and free in digital form.

I strongly recommend anyone that has an interest in this space skim it and decide on your own. Even if you end up disagreeing with or finding faults, it adds perspective and perhaps there are a few ideas that can be applied.

On point 3, that really depends on how rigorous the testing process is. One of my favorite essays on the topic of software engineering is "They Write the Right Stuff" [0] which describes how NASA writes their software and why/how they achieve incredibly low defect rates. NOVA has two documentaries: "Pluto and Beyond" and "Chasing Pluto" that puts this into perspective. The New Horizons team was formed in 2000, the satellite launched in 2006, and 15 years after the kickoff reached Pluto. In the documentary, some of the folks had sent off their kids to college by the time New Horizons reached its primary mission objective; truly a life's work.

The stakes aren't that high in life sciences and most programs, but in processes that involve GxP, there's generally a risk of injury so it is still higher than say something like Notion or Reddit.

True: even with the most rigorous process, there will be outliers in the real world (for example, we would once in a while run into unprocessable PDFs which had embedded entities). But the software I wrote in this span had an incredibly low defect rate. By the time it had reached production, it went through several cycles of informal testing, formal internal testing and validation, and then customer testing and validation. Also true: this doesn't work for all types of software. For consumer software, I'd release that last stage incrementally instead. Incorporation of automation is absolutely critical; in my quest to speed up this process, I ended up spending a lot of time experimenting with E2E test automation[1] to focus our test and documentation efforts.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

[1] https://youtu.be/RGu0ta6MN1k, https://youtu.be/qYkphCJjD_k, https://youtu.be/i-sMXPV547s, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/v-word-how-technology-decisio...
> paid 150 euros out of my personal pocket last year for a SecureCRT license and i love it

I'm curious what makes SecureCRT better than PuTTY or even Windows Terminal enough to be worth paying for - am I missing out on some amazing experience, or does it have certain amazing features others lack, or...?
I, a human, have no idea how to answer this weird question, why do you suppose an AI would do better?

I can’t work out if it’s a joke question or a serious question?
I have an iOS app that I love and rely upon, but it’s effectively abandonware because the developer didn’t charge enough. I too am pro-subscription: take my money, please.
Does the answer to this question also depend on the order in which the pieces are laid out? I suspect yes.
Reducing human suffering is a noble goal and infertile couples could benefit from this research. I would rather have western world make giant leaps in this field and also set the direction of ethics here rather than just banning it and leaving it up to Russia and China to conduct this sort of research in their secret facilities.
TIP: Every subscription goes to google calendar with a notification with T-2 weeks.

This also works for paying bills on time to avoid fees like credit cards. Yes I could auto pay, but this helps me validate if I want X each month.
This reminds me of this project: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b...

Myself and two other people have literally kept this page alive for many years - the github repo says 2017.
SpaceX Loaned Elon Musk Some Money
3-days per week seems to fall into the category of a fairly awful daily commute is... still awful. I'd fairly willingly do a day or sometimes two of a two-hour commute each way into my city office (which I sometimes go into for customers) but not more often than that.
There's a good chance that the fear of China taking over the AI space worldwide may end up being stronger than OpenAI's push for regulation.

Politicians know the later is real, and they also know that the "Terminator" fear is unfounded, at least for now. At least in the US, I doubt very much Congress will cater to OpenAI. They know it's going to undermine the prospects of the entire AI industry in the US and its long term competitivity in the international arena.
OpenAI is technically a non-profit :-)
Based on in the loosest sense apparently, from TFA:

" I read the masterful biography that the screenplay is based on, Andrew Hodges’ Alan Turing: The Enigma, to find out. I discovered that The Imitation Game takes major liberties with its source material, injecting conflict where none existed, inventing entirely fictional characters, rearranging the chronology of events, and misrepresenting the very nature of Turing’s work at Bletchley Park. "
I’ve reached the limit of my personal experiences that I will be sharing.

But, if you don’t know anyone in the offensive security space and still want to get some general feelings, perhaps you can start by looking into things like “Tesla CAN bus security,” “Tesla infotainment security,” and “Tesla NFC fob security.”

Plus, here’s a heuristic for why they would have horrible security: they a are poorly built product which focuses more on flash than substance made by a company with an owner that is known to cut corners, and security is absolutely not one of the key selling points of this(or any other) car.
> Installation and administration used to be hopelessly complicated, but self–hosting tech is simpler now and vastly improved. Plus, IT departments are hungry to run their own IT again, tired of being subservient to Big Tech’s reign clouds.

I must he living on another planet, because in my experience none of this is true. In fact the only “simple” sort of self hosting would be with a PaaS provider, which is of course back to paying a subscription.

To be honest I really dislike the live service model, but at least I’m not selling alternative facts.
It’s not about the first amendment, it’s about living in a society where open discourse of ideas you personally disagree with is allowed.

What’s to say in 20 years the winds of discourse shift, and the things you once thought were right are now wrong
https://archive.ph/eaZ6H
Can you say more? It sounds like you're referring to more than just the contamination of the word "open".
At 1 million times less power than existing sound transmission systems I'd say it's probably less audio going into the water than a baby whale fart.
our wallets in their A(P)Is.
1. Find existing smol being shared around

2. Modify the parameters to hijack any relevant content

3. Reshare the smol site with your changes under the guise it’s the original link
Still possible to use CS6 today, it still works on Windows. So you would have definitely saved money by now if you still used it.
All the bragging about working multiple jobs or just clocking 20hours at most on so many forums like Blind, etc. is now coming to roost.

So yeah, many abused WFH and now the backlash is here. Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Zoom, Bloomberg ... all have the same conclusion: you can't trust people, at scale, to work full time from home.

These stories were posted here too! You think no exec reads HN?
Making Self-Expression Accessible for Everyone
Dave Clark Resigns from Flexport
I've never had a song I like go away, is this a real issue?
I created a website years ago that let anyone come and just "post" something online anonymously, quick notes or whatever, but have since had to add a registration process and record ip addresses, as the website was overrun by what looked like russian hackers and the dark web in general looking for a place for uh... post links to child... well anyways, took me almost a month to track down all my own website links, as everything was encrypted and growing faster than i could delete it. def sucks to know that even though i took down the means for a place for them to 'conduct business', they will continue to find other websites.
My impression is that they're what scott calls "my dinner guests." Seriously I cannot find anything in his writing that is incompatible with those movements and beliefs. If one of them wanted to get as much "mainstream" acceptance as possible they would write carefully about exactly the things he writes about, leaving out exactly the things he leaves out. I am completely convinced this is his project.
Reviewing the dictionary(1) it seems you are right. For some reason I was thinking that anything toxic could be considered a toxin. Apparently that's not the case

(1)https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxin
Irrelevant. The non-profit is controlled by the same people, and only existed to class their massive startup capital as 'donations.'
Nobody is censoring you, you are free to build your own model.
Parking what you might think of OpenAI There is something to be said about an organisation that is so mission focussed as them, yes many firms will claim to be but seems this is so deeply engrained in their people as well as their contracts!
I have no doubt that it passed an ethics review. I'm sorry if my comment seemed to suggest otherwise.

I suppose what I was trying to get at was a suspicion that ethics reviews in today's research landscape (not only in the medical field, but others as well) seem to me more like a lip service. And don't get me wrong, that's just an opinion, I'm sure a lot of you think otherwise.
How did you come up with 5-10%?
This argument is 75 years old. I take it to be less of an argument, and more like history.
OK, but how do I know I'm getting "really high quality curated articles with an unparalleled reading experience"? I can't see what I'd be getting unless I sign up, hence the issue.