skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when it's a perk only some people get

They aren't comparing their situation to others within the company, but rather to individuals at other companies for whom this perk is widely available.
Just get some of the many RF controlled switches available on amazon. Many of them you don't even need to do any wiring to use them.
Trove of DNA Evidence, Collected by a Doctor, Leads to Serial Rape Arrest
You don't need specific plants that act as perfectly reliable base load. If a bunch of auxiliary fossil fuel plants come online for 10 days per year, that's almost as good as never using them.

There's a maintenance cost, of course, but as far as carbon goals it's very doable.
Sure, they can have multiple versions. However, having multiple versions means multiple designs and production lines and paperwork and regulation complience etc. so Apple probably decided that it's not worth the investment.

It's very unlikely that they were not able to, they could have done it the same we they did with other Apple devices that have a modem.
Most people with D2T can afford keto though.
It’s not about features or the api. It’s about treating everything like a nail. It’s about a bloated build ecosystem. It’s about overwrought webapps that punish users without fiber connections who just want to check their damn bank balance. All we want is a goddamn number and instead we get megabytes of components and pages bundled and prefetched that we’re not going to use.
I love this!

Log analysis isn't one of the core use-cases for Datasette, but I've done my own experiments with it that have worked pretty well - anything up to 10GB or so of data is likely to work just fine if you pipe it into SQLite, and you could go a lot larger than that with a bit of tuning.

I added some features to my sqlite-utils CLI tool a while back to help with log ingestion as well: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jan/11/sqlite-utils/
Hey buddy unless you are publishing “Specific Knowledge” (shout out lord Naval for some reason), you have no business writing shit down in a way that you might be able to retrieve it in the future.

You must write on napkins and throw it in the trash or else you are a tryhard pseudo-productivity junkie.
I had this problem 2 years ago and it ended getting fixed. Recently I seen it again and the problem was that my container running synapse did not have working DNS which caused all notifications to stop working. Once I fixed up resolv.conf all was working.

I am not suggesting that was your issue but it might help somebody.
Return-to-office mandates made these employees quit instead
Why not spend the money building better power plants? Wouldn't that be a better way to "push" decision makers into newer technologies? According to their own success stories, most of the agencies that "stopped" using coal were going to anyways. I'm not at all clear on how this money was used and why the amount spent was correct in any way.

It really looks like more "green washing" purely to the benefit of the "Bloomberg" brand.
The stated reasons is patriotism. The real reason is that the military buys a lot of airline tickets and the military member gets to choose from a list of flights from a variety of airlines.
I used https://bard.google.com/

Have not tried it yet. Does it need debugging?
This reminds me that car manufacturers in Germany (maybe in other places too) are actually financial services companies with factories attached to them, or so the joke goes.

Almost everyone buys new cars through some form of financing, and the structure of the company reflects that.
Installing Firefox has never been easier.
I certainly don't want Ghibli to become Japan's Disneyland.
i'm also curious if the counterparty gets to keep the $22k?
> It does not matter how you got it

Well, it sort of does. In fact, that's almost all that matters.

Insider trading is all about obligations. If someone who had the obligation to keep the info secret gave it to you and then you went and traded on it, then yes, you're breaking the law.

But if, say, you figure it out by accidentally stumbling on a draft Splunk web page that has a Cisco copyright buried in the code, you don't have any obligation to not trade on that.

It's the same information but the only thing that's different is how you got it. The company and its shareholders are the ones who are harmed by insider trading, so if you're entrusted with the info and trade then you're basically breaching your duty to the company (or the chain of people who shared the info with you). But if the company fucks up and leaks the info then you don't have any obligation to not use it.
Just note it is most likely the person who did this was poor compared to whoever was on the other side of this trade.
NB/ Designing your house to improve ventilation might be a problem during a hurricane!
Splunk is honestly kind of the mainframe of SIEM. If you need it, you need it and can probably afford it and they know that. Can you do the job with something else for cheaper? Probably, but not as good and not as easy.
no, that means you can sort on a max of 32 fields per sort request, like fieldOne, fieldTwo, fieldThree...

There's no limit on number of sortable documents. Use an index to sort and it'll also be fast and use no extra memory. If you want to do an in memory sort there are memory limits, but you can also tell it to overflow to disk.
I'm just baffled about how this hypothetical scenario would even happen.

Did the author of the website never try rendering the page themself before pushing it to live?

If user-generated content is able to trigger this then you have have an XSS vulnerability on your hands, strict validation or not.
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I suppose they should be doing productive things like running useless and malformed polls to confirm priors.
Don’t worry, that’s just tech debt and we will deeefinitely come back to it next sprint.
This is nothing compared to what dragnet surveillance has to deal with.
Any good search you used before all this LLM stuff started happening is a perfect candidate for RAG. How do you know if a search was good? If you weren't pulling your hair out and actually got decent results for your queries (search is a thankless job like that - everyone expects it to work and complains when it doesnt).

The reason good search is best for RAG is because the prompt is seeded by the top results for the query. The only thing RAG does is summarize things for you and gives you answers instead of a list of documents.

And now I gotta confess something, after making RAG systems for clients and having to use them with all the web search engines these days - I kinda miss the list of documents, and find myself just skipping the summary at the top half the time and going back to reading the 10 blue links.
> it's not like Canada goes about saying stuff like this, historically

Almost nothing Trudeau is doing could be considered historic.
But you definitely want to, even if it simple ELK stack
The printer has an obligation of trust. Someone overhearing your loud phone conversation in public does not.
GP comment said real per Capita GDP, that's adjusted for inflation.
Yes honestly webex may be the single worst piece of software I've ever used in my entire life. I remember having to use it for some school projects back in the day and it working slower than a snails pace. You literally could not type anything into the computer because it was so slow it would just lose letters and take 10 seconds or so to update your keypresses. Years later i had to use it for remote work for a company and it was exactly as terrible as it was all those years before. Entirely unusable. I jumped ship before covid and all the wfh stuff happened to a much much better laid out company but i always wonder how anyone managed to accomplish anything for those couple years.
I agree in principle, but it can be difficult in practice to vote with your wallet.

In the case of movies, once you have a ticket or purchase it or even rent it, they've got your money and have learned the lesson that people will pay, regardless of how you felt about what you watched or whether you intend to boycott future productions.

In general, though, I do try to send the signal that I'm not personally a garbage dump for low effort content, by doing a few things:

- No "guilty pleasure" watching of things that I'd prefer didn't exist, i.e. junk reality TV

- Actively avoiding clicking on things that have clickbait titles, especially if they're part of an algo-feed

- Read reviews / get reviews from friends first

- If a streaming show is bad, stop watching ASAP. Stopping at episode 2/10 is a reliable signal for Netflix et al.
What’s the relationship between Google, Cisco and Splunk?
> I noticed that some of the program lengths ended up in expressions of lower and upper bounds.

Several of the most celebrated theorems in AIT, such as Symmetry of Information, employ programs that need to interpret other programs. So constants in these theorems significantly suffer from complicated index encodings.

A binary encoding is not as simple as you might think, as the code needs to be self-delimiting. So you first need to encode the number of bits used in the binary code. And that must also be self-delimiting. As you can see, you need to fall back to a unary encoding at some point, as that is naturally self-delimiting.

An example of an efficient binary self-delimiting code can be found at [1]. Note that the program for decoding it into a Church numeral (the very best case) is already about 60% the size of the entire self-interpreter.

Many programs used in AIT proofs use only single digit indices (the self-interpreter e.g. only uses 1-5) and these would be negatively impacted by a binary encoding.

[1] https://gist.github.com/tromp/86b3184f852f65bfb814e3ab0987d8...
As long Miyazaki have creative control, everything is going to be fine and even after he's gone for a bit.

It took decades after Walt Disney's death for the end of Traditional Disney Animation
95% of NFTs Are Worthless: Report
Note that all of those (but with some limitations on multiple selections via RE) are available in Ex/Vi and Ed previously.

> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises

Same goes for Sam…
From what I've read in multiple news agencies is: Canadian diplomates state they have been working behind the scenes with Brits and the Americans for weeks to try and avoid a full on conflict with India, they opted not to get involved, then Trudeau met with Modi at the G20 and he brushed it off, Globe and Mail just pressed the issue further. Seems like a bit of a cluster f.

https://youtu.be/wid6H7fiTgU?si=UTZIIdRSd371cZm9

https://youtu.be/1OWPVqZWK9g?si=ypJ3jX57sKbPIqSb
You're being nakedly dishonest by drawing a false equivalence between this and the entirely different category of problems that SA power infrastructure is facing.
Expect entering splunk API key in next generation of their OSes for seamless monitoring
Have you never worked for a publicly traded company where part of your compensation is in RSUs?

You are only able to trade share's during specific windows of time typically 1 week after earnings are released.

Additionally virtually every company I've known has explicit policies stating that you cannot buy/sell any derivatives related to the company stock (which is a shame since buying put options is a legitimate way to insure your compensation).

Further more, even these rules are only this lax for non-executive or other high level employees. If you're higher up in the company you have much more access to non-public material information. The solution to this is usually to set up a 10b5-1 that automatically liquidates shares based on a schedule approved by the board.

In regards to the "previously" question. I wouldn't worry about legitimate trades, but if you are trading based on insider information and looking to gain a lot of money, then trading would, by definition, be "insider trading"
>Sooner or later some airlines will spin out their rewards business into a separate company to get the maximum valuation from it.

Isn't this effectively what we have with Chase, Amex, Capital One, and Citi? Each earns points that can be used directly or transferred to airlines and hotels.

And then as further evidence, Avios points can already be used across several airlines (BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Qatar, and soon Finnair). Not to mention the ability to book flights on different airlines with miles sometimes (eg booking Delta from KLM).
If you install Windows a lot, get yourself an answer file for unattended installs (you can generate one oneline). It turns all the clicking and typing into booting the ISO (potentially through Ventoy, which would allow you to pick between answer files), and waiting for the desktop to show up
I agree with this statement. Unfortunately, an ineffective (though apparently safe) vaccine got pushed at all cost through various misinformation and confused messaging, probably irreparably damaging the public's trust in vaccines in order to score some political points.

Before covid, nobody would hav considered being against childhood vaccines to be a mainstream or intellectually tenable position. Now those vaccines get lumped in people's minds with the crappy covid vaccine that was forced on everybody.
> And strategy 2 seems especially suspicious because the risk is so high and the non-illegal reasons for doing it are so few and far between. Very few reasons you’d buy a bunch of call options that only pay off if something causes a stock to move dramatically in 24 hours.

But why are they then legal to sell? It almost seems like someone wants to be able to sell them, but when they lose the bet they want to revert it. Free money if you're on the correct side.
And if you're solving hard problems, it's fine too. That's my only point.

You'll see on that same benchmark page that C is 2-3x faster than Julia. If you want performance, use C. Julia is this weird middle ground where it has the simplified syntax of Python, is a little faster than Python, but still slower than C. Anything that needs to be done in real time will be optimized into a "real" language like C, C++ or Rust.
Share an Opinion and find out how many people agree with your opinion
While going through HN a few days ago, I realized that a lot of HN users have some very strongly held opinions and beliefs, a few of which they might only be willing to share on HN using a throw-away account. And yet those same (usually highly valuable & insightful) opinions that they're reluctant to personally share, might (unknown to them) be opinions that a lot of HN users fully agree with.

So I spent a couple of days creating a small microsite where an HN user can anonymously post a personal opinion (no matter how heretic sounding that opinion might be) and find out just how commonly held that opinion is. Your 'heretic' opinion might actually be one that a plurality of of HN's users completely agree with.

Link to the site:
https://yoomter.com/opinion

Enjoy!
At the scale needed to matter, $500m might as well be $0.
It's very difficult to referee other people's discussion without appearing churlish, but I'm sincerely grateful to you for trying. A central facet to the entire debate here is the unlikelihood of a trial, in tandem with the seemingly overwhelming evidence. I have not judged Brand to be guilty, but I have concluded that it is more likely that he is guilty of these crimes than the various theories in this thread suggesting that he is being unfairly canceled because of his opinions about vaccines.
I agree here. This is always the way. I mean literally most companies I work for are all about "how do we take a human process and make it automated, and thus more accurate and better!"
What's interesting is the substance of the complaints of those products. Most of the comments are complaining that Splunk is expensive, but no comments I've seen are complaining that it doesn't work or do as advertised. Same for Oracle DB. It's ungodly expensive, and there are (many) other options out there, but you don't really see complaints that it's not able to perform (after an expensive consultant has had a go at your companies checkbook). The Fedex and Paypals of the world can afford to pay for Cisco/Splunk and Oracle licenses.

What's interesting is things that break this mold, like Microsoft Teams, because that's something that can be disrupted, and thus be successful, by having a better product.
Encryption in Matrix is a nightmare. I set up Synapse and pulled half a dozen or so people onto it. We have a few chat rooms. Randomly different users clients are unable to decrypt the messages of other users clients. You click some button about syncing encryption keys, and nothing happens. Then randomly a week later you can start reading each others messages again. shrug This has been going on for years now.

This alone makes Matrix the worse chat platform out there from a users perspective IMO. I invested too much effort in getting things up and running and using it now though, so I'm just hoping that this gets fixed one day, or something better comes along that I can migrate to.
That's quite an understatement. It's currently taking 68 minutes longer than it shouuld to get from Braintree to the other end.[0]

https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowzones/?chart...
I know this isn't what happened, but what if one day I'm waiting for the bus and I over hear a guy talking on their phone about an imminent acquisition?

1. Would that still fall under insider trading even if the information was accidentally heard, and even if I wasn't 100% sure of its accuracy?

2. If I had no clear connection to the company how would it be proven that I was trading on insider information? Surely it's not enough just to say the trade was statistically unlikely, or is it?
The winners of this news coming out are the victims and family members of the murder victim, as the norm until now was to hide information. As normal people, we all win when governments hold less secrets.

By sharing inconvenient information, I am more likely to trust the Trudeau Government, eventhough I don't agree with them on most things anymore.
I don't doubt you about the situation in Oxfordshire. I suppose I'm suggesting that these measures are symptoms of a wider malaise that has developed in our society over a longer period, where "personal responsibility" are somehow dirty words and everything has to be someone else's fault now.

That leads to unrealistic expectations that the government will somehow solve all problems. That in turn creates a political culture dominated by fear and CYA with an unhealthy side order of paranoia and everything conceivable being monitored/measured.

I don't know for sure what caused this. I suspect a product of several factors including 24/7 news, near-universal access to online systems and particularly social media, and a few high profile events like 9/11 where governments responded very badly and effectively encouraged a culture of fear. It's definitely something about our culture that has changed very clearly within my adult lifetime though. The idea of having principles and understanding why they matter feels very old-fashioned today. And again I don't think that's healthy for our society at all.
> Hopefully this is all false

Not hopefully for Trudeau. If he has no incontrovertible proof that the international community would accept, then this move should be the end of his political career in Canada. It won't be, but it should be.
Regulation has to increase some expenses. If nothing else it's one more thing on the todo list and time has a cost too.

Note: I'm not saying anything about cost/benefit. It could definitely be true that the benefits are well worth the cost. And it could also be true that a benefit is a lowering of an expense somewhere else lowering overall prices. (which is the thing that is not obvious and need to be explained) But there is a cost that needs to be covered by something. And that cost is usually going to result in increased prices in one form or another.
You don't want government-mandated security specs for software projects, that would be an absolute nightmare with prescribed "sanctioned" languages and checklists applied with zero understanding of the underlying subject matter (the threat model of a video game is exceedingly different than one for a medical device).

The real solution is to come up with a framework around data leaks and their disclosure with provisions for mitigations (à la GDPR, keep only the data you actually need).

Anything else will end up boiling down to "Java is the best language for everything" because Oracle spend $N on lobbying.*

*Replace Java/Oracle with another pair.
If they did not usually trade in such options but suddenly started doing so the day before it had a major market-moving event, that could be the type of "reasonable suspicion" that you need to get a search warrant from a judge. From there on, investigators could demand access to (say) electronic communications to determine if the person doing the trade got a text from a friend saying "yo buy 20k of short term call options on Splunk you won't regret it bro" or something similar.

Especially if the person doing the trade is found to be employed by (or closely related to someone employed by) Cisco or Splunk or one of their banks.
On the contrary, to be a successful criminal you have to learn to stay under the radar. Yes millions might be available for the taking, but in doing so you will most certainly get caught. On the other hand no one will blink an eye at a trade that nets you a few hundred K, and that is still a significant amount of money.
The problem is when you grow. They can be really tough to work with on pricing. Also, their licensing does not allow servers past a certain size. Can you imagine Oracle telling the CIA they can't use servers with more than 256gb of ram? Just silly.
If there was a thread about a mass shooting in the US, and a non-American asked something like "people in the US are allowed to own assault rifles?!?" and someone answered with the literal text of the 2th amendment and no other explanation, would you think that's a good comment?
We have familial ALS in our family. I lost my grandfather, two aunts, and uncle and a number of more distantly related family members to this disease.

Thank you for posting this article – I'm lucky - my dad tested negative for the gene that has afflicted our loved ones – but I feel so guilty vs. all of my cousins who still have to face these risks.

We have the power to enable them and others like them to make their own decisions, to have even a slim bit of hope (or even a slim bit of uncertainty) for the first time since we've recognized that familial ALS was a thing. I can't overstate how big of a deal that is. Agency, even if risky, is so much better than the fear and powerlessness of waiting for the inevitable.
That's extremely common for roads in the "country" because there's not much available for the cost of installing jersey barriers across the road, etc.

But when the bridge is out such that you'd die, it probably calls for a more permanent blockages or at least sending out the bulldozer to put up some earthworks.
Eh, my take is that the electronic disclosure stuff makes this more annoying for the activists- the people who are building dashboards of Congressional performance etc.- but doesn't fundamentally change the nature of the problem. The activists still build their dashboards, still comb through the documents and find things that look really bad, it's just slightly more out of date and slightly more work for them.

I do think that something like the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (everything in a blind trust), or its even more draconian (no blind trusts, just sell!) Ban Stock Trading for Government Officials Act will probably pass, eventually. Those are general markers for where we are going. But to just say "It's not illegal if you are a Member of Congress" is flat wrong and encourages a level of cynicism that makes it harder to actually fix the problems we face today.