skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of depended where you where. In Pennsylvania among the Quakers not necessarily. But antebellum history can easily be viewed as a long, unsuccessful attempt to settle this question democratically at a national level.
Also living and working in urban Seattle. There’s churches all over the city. It seems odd that people can drive by them all the time in their neighborhood but assume most people in the city are not theists.

For quite a while during my tech years i was one of those people. I assumed most people in the city didn’t believe in that stuff. But it’s so obvious that is a huge group despite the association on a national level of theists being republicans and Seattle not having many republicans. In the city it’s a lot of gun owning, liberal or at least not-republican, theists.

To hit on the gun topic, I’ve discovered so so many people that carry in their vehicles, which as a gun owner I find disturbing. Many more who own but don’t carry. Almost none of the people I’m aware of have stickers or advertise their gun ownership.

I now work at a hospital and it’s made me realize how popular religion is here. So many people working here are some flavor of religious. It really was just a tech thing to assume religion is not followed regularly in the city or amongst coworkers. I wonder if it’s just the heavy antisocial aspect of tech workers to assume everyone around them comes in the same flavor as themselves.
Undecidability results that are not known to have a diagonal argument proof
Alive and well in my backyard also. I got into it after getting into welding. Working with metal is very enjoyable and fascinating. I was once in a jury selection and we had to list our hobbies in a murder trail. They (lawyers) found it interesting enough to comment on – why yes, I am a cellist that enjoys hammers and tongs.
It's the only way we have to measure value. And in order to test a theory of value at some point you'll have to measure value.
This has been studied in pretty extensive detail & what I remember is that it’d require a custom plane design to get to efficiencies where this is worth pursuing. And the number of flights required would be hard to hide from a motivated government adversary. Still worth pursuing. Any takers on here?
> your candidate lost and you would rather violently overturn the election

Yes, so violent that entered the US capitol building unarmed, and just broke some decorations, taking selfies while laughing, and never attacked anyone (EDIT: talking about inside the capitol building, I didn't watch footage of the streets outside). It's just like the storming of the palace during the French revolution!

Seriously, the most extreme footage I could find shows the attackers running past the police guarding the doors instead of stopping when told, but the police repeatedly turn their back to them and no one even attempts to hurt them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWJO02nNsY . At one point the guy in the lead ends up just debating the police calmly.

Wikipedia says they caused $2.7M in damages. Assuming that figure is anywhere close to true, it's probably less damages than your average "fiery but peaceful" BLM riot, which totaled 2 billion in damages. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/22/fac... )

Do you think you might be overselling the severity of either the Jan 6 capitol breach or downplaying the severity of the BLM riots? Or maybe your post is satire of how liberals do this systematically, if so then A+, you got me.

If the capitol breach had been done by BLM protesters, the media would be running stories about how the rioters didn't do nothing wrong, and the reaction to the verdicts would've been more riots. Surely even in the worst Twitterati echochamber they must realize this when they lie down in bed at night and do some honest introspection without having to virtue signal in public.

EDIT: the only policemen dead was 1 from natural causes (a stroke, 2 protesters died the same way), and 4 suicides long after the riots. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/how-many-died-as-a-result-... . This is your violent revolution?
There are entire systems engineering courses focused on failure resulting from a series of small problems that eventually in the right succession result in catastrophic failure. And I think we can say this was a catastrophic failure.

Think about it, first you need a race condition, and that race condition has to result in the unexpected result. That right there, assuming this code has been tested and is frequently used, is probably a less than 10% chance (if it was frequently happening someone would have noticed.) Then you need an engineer to decide they need this particular crash dump. Then you need your credential scanning software (which again, presumably usually catches stuff) to not be able to detect this particular credential. Now you need an account compromised to get network access and that user has access to this crash dump and the hacker happens to get to it and grabs it.

But even then, you should be safe because the key is old and is only good to get into consumer email accounts...except you have a bug that accepts the old key AND a bug that didn't reject this signing key for a token accessing corporate email accounts.

This is a really good system engineering lesson. Try all you want eventually enough small things will add up to cause a catastrophic result. The lesson is, to the extent you can, engineer things so when they blow-up the blast radius is limited.
> The inaccurate part of the movie is that all that stuff worked. In real life, what "ended" the pandemic was a combination of mother nature and the human willingness to accept a lost cause and move on.

The war in Ukraine and the market correction in Nov '21 helped to divert attention from the immense amount of coverage that COVID otherwise got. In fact, Ukraine was doing tracing and the QR code vaccination passports (per EU standards) in the Fall of '21 and it's infection rates and deaths only increased in the Winter due to low vaccination rates [0].

Then the invasion happened and no one cared and all the grifting from things like VC juicing of stocks like Zoom, Peleton, retail getting locked out and losing GME gains etc... also got swept under the rug as intrest rates were on the rise and cost of living rised with it and Putin became the reason for all of it and not the immense amount of fiscal policy repercussions of Quantitative easing, ZIRP and immense spending on all of these fake measures to contain COVID.

Putin is a bastard and a despot and deserves all the ire and hopefully a swift death for the inhumane things in this senseless war, but it also gave the West pre-text to divert the ills of society's occurring since at least 2008 an over-simplified narrative to convince the masses with the abomination of the war footage from Western outlets and get it to be the new normal.

0: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-capital-tightens-lockd...
I don't believe that evolution is a random walk. There's clearly momentum based factors
The first time, I did, because I was young and the people that were doing the exit interview seemed to care.

The second time, I didn't bother, because I knew nobody at the company would care and it would change nothing.

The last time, I really loved the company but really really hated my manager, who was incompetent, and I made one final plea to the CEO/founder, who was my prior friend and well respected colleague. They basically gave me a "Yeah, he does indeed suck, I'm sorry this is happening to you". So I quit. Which resulted in my manager being terminated. Unfortunately, and for reasons I still do not understand, they didn't take action prior to me leaving, which would've made me stay.
that's why all these companies are adding arbitration clauses, obviously. because it helps people and they give out more money with them versus normal lawsuits.
So, this is how termites see themselves...?
I could see them putting a keyboard on the hardware equivalent of an iPad and it selling like hotcakes. Call it a MacBook Air SE. I’m not sure that it would be a particularly good idea though. Apple has tried to maintain the image of luxury and quality, even as they released budget options like the m1 mini and the compromised MacBook Pro 13. Where are they going to go lower? 4/128gb? Cheaper/thinner material? I think it could be a mistake, or have significantly lower profit margins than Apple likes.
The Dirty Underbelly of AI
> Everything is imperfect, but where I work crashdumps are uploaded straight to a secure vault and then deleted from the origin system. The dumps are processed, and insensitive data is extracted and published with relatively lenient access controls. Sensitive data, such as raw memory dumps, require a higher tier of permissions. In order to be eligible for that higher tier, your developer machine has to be more locked down than that of people who are not in the secure group. (You also need to have a reason to need more access.)

From my understanding, this is more or less how the Microsoft system was designed with credential scanning and redaction over coredumps, but a chain of bugs and negligence broke the veil.
It is source available to everyone though!
I feel orthographic projection is such a strange feature to advertise at this point. It's essentially just not doing perspective scaling in your projection matrix.

Compare that to all the sci-fi looking things like Nanite and Lumen which completely change how we approach building game environments.
They don't have an official one, but many de-facto rooms exist on other networks operated by volunteers. Mainly on Libera chat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC has more detail.
I've built a couple projects that use Ollama. Thanks for making such a cool tool!
It's actually kind of refreshing and nice to see that the dispute is actually about the project's approach to teaching reading skills and not some culture wars thing lol
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248525
I’m all in. It’s clear that none of our governments are up to the task of taking on this global coordination problem. The science is clear by now, so let the engineers take over & do what they do best: solve the damn problem.
Legal consequences, which are backed by the state's apparatus of violence comprising of police, judges and prisons, should only be used against those who engage in fraud or violence. Running a closed API, as much as I may dislike it, is neither of those things.

There are plenty of other ways to counter closed APIs that do not rely on initiating force.
It's also a lot more bearable if you know it's not forever.

I worked in a restaurant as a kid/teen. It was a lot of fun, in a way, even though it was dirty and hard. Nasty dead-end jobs were kinda fun back then because we were kids and we had the luxury of being on the way "up" in life, or at least we assumed we were. We had college and/or careers ahead and weren't going to be busboys and dishwashers and grill cooks forever.

I felt like I'd be a dishwasher forever, that'd be tough. Not that there is anything wrong with washing dishes. I don't think that it is more or less dignified than being a fancy software engineer. But the money is crap and it's tough to have much of a life on dishwasher money.

I think the so-called "skilled trades" could be a different story. Plumbing or HVAC or whatever. Hard-ass work for sure. Always wonder how I would have fared.
Oh man, that's pretty cool. You still running it?
I don't see anything in that article that challenges anything I said. If there was a mechanism by which mimicking humans helped this creature reproduce, then it would fit the scientific model of evolution.

Also, it was a bit of a whimsical fantasy rather than some serious theory I have about the world. In any case, even if such beings were to exist, I suspect we'd not be able to detect them any more than the termites would be able to detect the beetle. We probably wouldn't have the faculties to comprehend and apprehend the nature of the being, any more than an ant could understand general relativity.

It's kind of tiring having habitual iconoclast skeptics come out of the woodwork with some superficial dunk every time something out of the ordinary but also of no real consequence is said.
I was just using the cost to replace all gas cars in the US to frame the magnitude of the conversation.

Honestly what’s cool to me is being able to travel anywhere in America any time I want for a few dollars without owning a depreciating asset I have to pay $1-2000 per month in payments for, a few hundred in insurance, a few hundred in parking and a few hundred in maintenance, a few hundred in gas - plus tickets and tolls. I need all that just to get around the city I live in. Then there’s the 1% lifetime risk of dying in a car accident and the easily order of magnitude higher risk I’ll get injured. For the privilege of being stuck in traffic jams all the time.

That’s indentured servitude, not freedom, and that’s true whether my car is powered by gasoline, electricity or whale oil.

They’re luxury products and we should treat them like luxury products - not minimum requirements to participate in society whose needs are socialized. If you want a car you should pay for the road you drive on. We can use what we’re not spending on roads to pay for trains.
> I really loved the company but really really hated my manager

Describes my situation exactly right now. Such a sad situation.

Thanks for your insights.
Haha, yeah. I do physical stuff in my spare time. I build some things, I hike, I do sports.

That's really cool about the knife. Could see myself really digging that.
This strikes me as the equivalent of putting a note in a bottle.
> I find it hard to believe this would be upheld in court.

I think you mean in arbitration.
One argument is that an individual is always free to hire a lawyer to read over the agreement for them and summarize, point out warning flags, and other things. If they were so simple everyone could understand them, there'd be no need for the lawyers~
Did you try gojq or jaq?
Me not being entitled to Chase does not make their predatory practices ok, if that’s what you’re getting at. This is a pretty stupid way of looking at things.
I used to use DOpus as a Workbench (desktop environment) replacement on Commodore Amiga. Probably one of the most powerful and configurable / customizable file managers in existence.
And, crucial to this exploit actually working to the extent it did, Microsoft's own developers failed to implement a secure authentication check on top of their own libraries and infrastructure.
Because mental illnesses are a throwaway diagnoses for the doctor to say "nah, whatever, this is on you, think healthier and go take a pill for your symptoms we won't be doing any more diagnosis".

It seems much more likely that things like sleep disruption, persistent inflammation(gut dysbiosis, misc infections), metabolic disturbance(brain isn't getting enough energy to do its job) are causative of depression which manifests as reduced tolerance to stressful life events and ability to manage one's life, to me.

But instead we get the thought-terminating cliche of "depression causes everything else, so just go to therapy and stop looking for health problems"
it's not as mysterious as it sounds. every data structure (including modules and anonymous functions) has a binary serialization and every erlang vm is also an rpc server that can receive arbitrary data -- including whole programs -- and execute them. your vm of course needs to know about the remote vms to do so but that's where the rudimentary clustering mechanism in erlang comes into play
> Most TCP stacks will cut their send windows in half (or otherwise greatly reduce them) at the first sign of loss.

This was obsoleted by fast retransmit which was standardized in the 90s and ~everyone uses, right?

(loss generally is still used as a congestion signal, but first loss is usually not)
Interesting. Amazon did the opposite back in 2021. They were hit with 75,000 arbitration claims, at once, regarding allegations of the Echo device secretly recording customers [1]. Now, all disputes of this nature are handled in federal court.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/business/amazon-arbitrati...
You know something is wrong with the economy when the Apple/Disney investors roll out this same spiel again...
But, one of the classic plays is to buy the company for the bits you want, and to sell the other bits to get out.

So, they'd sell the parks to Warner or somebody, and keep the IPR they value.

There is also the whole "so explain to me why Apple is in the car business" thing, and the "Apple got Applecore to agree by signing never to sell music" thing: What Apple do now, may be totally unlike what Apple do in 2050.

IBM started with cash registers. NCR remained in Cash registers, aligned with their name, and now run ATM backend networks worldwide, as well as selling the ATMs. They operate the fintech behind card processing for a very significant chunk of worldwide banking.
def unc(algstr) { if (algstr(algstr) == 0) return 1 else return 0 }

unc(unc) -> what does this return?
> Since the pseudo code doesn’t I’d bet there are more implementations which trust any key Microsoft has ever published

Bingo, this is the most worrying bit to me. Pasting from a comment I posted earlier:

> Microsoft's own developers failed to implement a secure authentication check on top of their own libraries and infrastructure.

If Microsoft can't use its own identity platform correctly in a flagship Microsoft product (Outlook), what chance does anyone else stand?
you probably should not use the word absolutely regarding legal issues on a site that, while strongly biased towards the U.S., actually international.

This specific situation is of course in reference to the U.S so the following pertains https://ironcladapp.com/journal/contracts/terms-and-conditio... and actually I'm not sure if this fulfills the conditions of a contract?

>According to contract law, in order for a contract to be valid, there must be an offer, consideration, and acceptance. Being able to prove your customer accepted your terms (and therefore entered a contract with you) will determine whether or not your Terms and Conditions are enforceable.

In this case someone is accessing their account, not signing up for an account, not purchasing anything - so not sure if there is actually an offer or consideration the way there would be if a user purchased a pair of shoes.
Agree, distinction is fuzzy. I meant, instead of picking a research area because it seems cool/interesting/etc, either:

1. pick a product or user problem and try to solve that problem, then work back into the research you need to do so
2. pick a research problem and try to solve that (again, focusing on the problem, not just an area of study)

The blog post seemed to be more for people doing applied things, so I was speaking to those doing option 1.
Sorry. I'm just somewhat incredulous that you can be making a good faith argument that shouting down an invited speaker and forcing him to leave is somehow justified based on it being the audience's exercise of its free speech. Where exactly do you draw the line about when someone with whom you and your tribe disagree should be permitted to speak?

There has been so much written about this much more eloquently and throughout history that it seems ridiculous to try to persuade you, ab initio, in this forum.
It’d be a nightmare for Apple’s margins which it is very unlikely to sacrifice as a favor to Iger. Apple would be more likely to buy the IP it wants and move on even in the best case. I see no possible advantage to Apple’s business, and only an absurd amount of risk.
I think food in general is a terrible example of the efficiency in the free market. Nearly 40% of all food in the US is wasted. The evolutionary pressure of the free market values high availability over efficient use of resources.
add instruction for manual install
You can find credit unions close to you by looking for them up here:

https://mapping.ncua.gov/
unless the government is providing these agreement-parsing legal services to citizens, i see no reason why governments should protect the language in these dark-pattern legal agreement texts.
Imagine you have an code which does #2. Now give it itself as an argument. What is the result? If it emits 0 then it's behaving according to #1, then because we assumed it satisfies #2 it must emit 1, a contradiction. Similarly it can't emit 1.

Thus it is impossible to have an algorithm which solves #2 for all inputs, because it must fail on at least one input (itself)
Yeah, I definitely have tangible and physical hobbies! I think what I might really be missing is a sense of meaning in my work.

In "physical" work there's an inherent satisfaction. You look at the pile of leaves you raked. You see the plate of food you prepared. You see the wall you built. Etc.

Code can be equally satisfying, but I think generally I need to be more in touch with the actual users to feel that satisfaction. In my last few roles I've been way too distant from users. Luckily in my next role I think I'm going to be able to remedy that.
I was told members of my prior family were Cabalistically fascinated by the number 3, looked into almost everything in life for patterns of 3, lived in a menage a trois.. Maybe this 'assign a number to a word' thing is more pervasive than people think?
Everyone who accepts their agreement. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/downloading-unreal-e...
That's really interesting.

It somewhat flies directly opposite to one of my main attractions to coding and computing in general - there IS a backspace key, metaphorically and literally.

And yet, I dunno. I think I'm feeling what you're saying.
I've done this when I was younger and it never turns out well. You're essentially burning bridges for personal satisfaction with no real benefit. If you're taking a job in a similar or the same field it is likely you may meet some of these people or have to work together with them or people who know them in the future. So feeding your ego is fun but thinking long-term what value does it get you personally? I can tell you for many years of experience working at both good and bad jobs that it is very rare for a company to be completely oblivious about managers who are horrible at their job and/or for a company to be unaware they are a toxic workplace. Generally these managers and their boss and the company leadership all know exactly who and what they are and they do not care about grinding through talented people because they want people that they can just grind to dust and make money off of. It's the kind of place that the term a "human resources" was invented for because the people are just a commodity resource doesn't matter if you're good or bad at your job they will grind through you and find another and they know exactly what they're doing and they don't care.

So it's best to move on politely and quietly because you may work for another company that will have business dealings with your former employer. Even if you think that's unlikely no one knows what the future will exactly bring and vindictive places like that can be vindictive.

Even if you wanted to take the opportunity in your exit interview to give a totally non-eagodriven emotionally detached assessment of the work environment, it is a waste of your time. They honestly don't care what you think because if they did they would have listened to you before you got to the point of quitting. They're not hiring you as a consultant so that's another reason why they would not listen to you. Anything you say that is even slightly negative you will absorb all the blame for it. The best way to leave a bad company is to make them miss you and give them no reason to think anything bad.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665
> Another label like this will likely do nothing.

What is the basis of that?
>I don't see any massive increase in people having sex with their mothers or what-have-you.

I'm afraid to ask how you're measuring this.