skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its unambiguous. If they want "and/or" to just mean inclusive or why not just use "or". Its shorter, simpler, easier to understand. I also feel "and/or" in general usually means either option are possible/acceptable.

The point I was making is that "DMARC passes if DKIM _and_ SPF passes" and "DMARC passes if DKIM _or_ SPF passes" are both true - you can't specify "DMARC passes if, and only if, DKIM _and_ SPF passes"
Remote desktop was also another key factor in getting Pro. I've tried a few other remote desktop solutions and RDP is super solid in my experience.
You know there is already a conspiracy about its phallus [0]? Which might be broken for unknown reasons.

[0]: https://arkeofili.com/karahantepede-bulunan-insan-heykelinin...
Robotaxis don't have anything to do with and certainly aren't dependent upon EVs. I highly doubt robotaxis ever make it. And at that point, why not invest in other infrastructure. It's pointless to have big vehicles carrying one or two people.
Even NZ gave up on our island defence once Omicron got in. We'd managed to stave off widespread Delta, but Omicron was far more transmissible, but also, far less lethal, and its arrival and spread came just after we started vaccinating.

So by then the cost/benefit analysis made it clear that reopening, while bringing more sickness, would ultimately cost less than not.

The isolation caused some havoc in our economy that we're still recovering from, but large amounts of excess deaths brings its own economic impacts that would likely have been far worse.
It's surprising to me how little people understand of how LLMs work. How does someone think that an LLM will just exec() random Python code into its own process? It doesn't have access to that, any more than Notepad has access to execute stuff you type up in the document.
I prefer to post on the site—not to shame anybody, but because it's important for the community to see how HN is moderated and even to be aware that it is moderated. (It's surprising how many regular users don't know that.)
> People are far less willing to let their children just hang around the neighborhood, or walk to a friend's home these days, which forces communication through phone or desktop app instead.

In America, often “walking to a friend’s home” is a 45-60 minute walk. Crossing multiple busy streets and the sad excuse suburbanites call “boulevards”. Suburban neighborhoods are often the worst as far as safety is concerned. Drivers don’t give af about pedestrians. Sidewalks non-existent or abruptly end.

Biking may reduce the travel time but still sharing those roads with highly irritable commuters finishing their 45-60 minute commute from hell. Bike infra in the suburbs? Paint up the road, add a sign indicating it’s a “shared lane” and that passes as “bike infrastructure” in some of these neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, this is not something new. It has been going on for decades. Want to know why the kid in the 90s-00s spent most of their time at home playing video games? That’s because it was the only thing to do in a suburban setting.
> ignorance of the item, quality, and frequency of future use

That is to say, formerly reliable companies outsourcing their production and selling their future good name for current profits.
Mortgage is not a cost accounting wise. Interest is a cost, but capital repayment is already "profit" which the landlord will keep at the end of the loan.

Let's say rent is mortgage + 30%. If we assume all the risks and costs (maintenance, insurance, etc) are eating up all of that 30%, they still make a whopping 200%+ profit in the long run.

In a fair business relation with 20-30% profit, the landlord would actually loose cash each month until the mortgage is over, with the expectation to realize profit when the property is sold. This rarely happens.
Well, of the ten people I know who have gotten COVID, one has long COVID. That makes my anecdatum a 10% rate of people developing long COVID.

Given the number of people who have been infected, that's a very large number of people with potentially permanent side effects.
>This is all fine, but the focus on deaths is sort of missing the larger societal problem. The COVID devastation is also about long COVID, and even people who had COVID but either recovered “fully” or never displayed symptoms.

And to your point, it is about everyone else who couldn't get the care they needed because COVID overwhelmed our infrastructure.
Why through the Higgs?
1. I agree

2. To reiterate, I agree :-)

3. That being said, the only places where I've seen it actually used is where an employee is fired for a cause, fights it, and then company retrieves logs and hammers them with proof.

4. But still I agree - it's a nasty sleezy slippery path. I am a manager of people and managers and have zero desire for anything like that.
I’m grabbing the popcorn when China starts flexing the social credit system to force people to have kids.
Flash games and animations were not bad, but it crashed a lot and was terribly insecure for a web platform.
> it's very hard to write code anywhere that's not linux.

Oh nonsense -- in fact, bullshit. No, it is not. This is a personal problem; seek help.

>Also I truly hate using windows or osx.

And we truly hate hearing about it, and how things don't work well on your platform of non-choice. So suffer it in silence please.
A FAANG recruiter is not in a position to know this information, and is likely a third party contractor themselves.
Just maybe keep the tefone cleaners.
If you don't have root, and sometimes even if you do, then you cannot be entirely sure. That's why hardware shutters and physical disconnects are a thing.
That might have been a cope.
You are very new (t)here.

It's a glowie/shill cesspool, not at all authentic.

I found some great friends from 4chan -> IRC channels, we all fell away eventually, but it was a good 15 years of my life.

Now I couldn't even imagine taking to these people. I don't think it's just because I'm older, either.

And I'm only taking about gee
FAANG recruiters, as most recruiters, know less of tech than pretty much every engineer out there. They have little to no exposure to this kind of information, so they probably read it somewhere (on HN, perhaps!)
If you miss the runtime, look into https://ruffle.rs/ and consider contributing to the project.

If you miss the authoring tool, it's now called Adobe Animate: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

If you miss Flash games and animations, there seem to be a bunch of archives. The FlashPoint Collection has preserved over 170,000 games and animations: https://flashpointarchive.org/
It would be odd vs any other country if any other country contained a quarter of the world population in 1977.
True. MailChannels, not MailChip though. They handle email for a lot of webhosting providers.
This is what I mean
Thank you for spreading the word, I greatly appreciate it. Building a bootstrapped product/business in the MySQL space has been quite challenging.

Most newer entrants in the schema management space are VC-funded, and went wide instead of deep in terms of the range of supported DBs. I personally believe in deep expert-level coverage of a specific DB, resulting in better functionality and a safer schema management toolchain. However it does make word-of-mouth more challenging, since MySQL is unpopular here. So often these blog posts don’t mention Skeema, since blog authors coming from other DBs haven’t ever encountered it.
> mp3 has a a couple of encoding ”tells” that a trained listener can pick up on (although it gets increasingly hard to do so beyond 128kbit IIRC).

AIUI there are some things that don't go away at any bit-rate, e.g. pre-echo.
One of the things that bothers me the most with the cooperate software development rat race is how many problems are being solved over and over again. Every company is staffing their own devops teams to build their own abstractions over these technologies so app developers don't have to worry about it. I personally know multiple devs who basically move from company to company reimplementing the same devops tools at each one.

It all just feels like a collosal waste of energy and collective resources.
This shouldn't be the case for .NET. You only have to download the tooling to build it (which can usually be done through package manager of your choice).

To run the built binaries, whether to require the runtime (by not including it in the executable) or not is a choice.

Tl;Dr of MSFT docs is:

JIT (w/ Runtime): dotnet publish -c release -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true
JIT (w/o Runtime): dotnet publish -c release -p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained false
AOT: dotnet publish -c release -p:PublishAot=true

These can be configured via .csproj properties too, there are multiple ways to set those depending on your needs. If you don't have any specific dynamically linked native dependencies included with your project, all of the options will be a single executable that you can just run. Do note that to use AOT on macOS you will need .NET 8 (right now it's RC1/preview).

In general, dotnet CLI commands are similar cargo (it had some of the features earlier, some later): dotnet new, build, add, publish, etc.
Should they also publish a news headline declaring the sky to be blue and clouds to cause rainfall?
Per mile, small urban roads were millions of usd a mile (see department of transports annual report and it varies by region). Maintenance is even worse. It’s the 5th highest expense for most cities (US census survey of local and state governments 2020).

Of course the suburbs don’t make sense, you have a half mile of road out to a neighborhood and another half mile of street in the neighborhood itself. The percentage of property taxes going to the road is probably just a few percent points. With only a few hundred houses, it would take decades to raise the 1-3 million to replace the road.
>This tragedy is so senseless and so avoidable. Zero COVID was and still is the rational strategy

That statement is beyond ridiculous. Zero COVID was a pipe dream (as in: flat out impossible to achieve by any realistically implementable policy) by the time Omicron appeared, which really means: by the time it was spreading in Africa and India.
Yeah I use doctl, which has a big note on the docs saying

> you can simulate what `doctl registry login` does by using an API token string as the username and password when calling `docker login`

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/ho...
> I haven't seen anything similar for developing the same content targeting modern HTML.

It's called something different now, but the authoring tool is still available and targets modern, standards-based runtimes: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
Initial infrastructure is often paid for with up-front cash transfers from the federal/state government and long-term loans, then the long-term maintenance is supposed to be funded by local taxes but in many cases is set up to be more expensive than the long-term available tax base, so infrastructure just starts falling apart and then either taxes go up or maintenance is put off and people left holding the bag are screwed, or external cash bailouts make up the difference.

In either case, the suburbanites (especially near the beginning of the construction cycle) and initial construction companies are getting a huge subsidy from everyone else (and from future generations) to promote an inherently unsustainable and destructive living arrangement.

It's a kind of Ponzi scheme, and like any other Ponzi scheme, at some point the music stops and then the whole system is in an extremely precarious place.
> You would do exactly the same if you ran an expensive website.

I'd keep it from being expensive to host to begin with. I wouldn't try to roll my own video player nor image hosting since I started as an aggregator where people were okay using external links. I wouldn't grow the website to the point of 2000+ employees to do... well, whatever reddit was trying to maximize profits. I also wouldn't kick out attempts for others to provide functionality that other power users may enjoy. Heck, I don't even think Reddit Gold is a bad idea (engaged users paying for a "super vote" that puts shiny things next to a post but has relatively small effects on the actual voting algorithm. Perfect), but I wouldn't axe it and then try to make a program where people are incentivized to further spam low quality content for money.

I'm not saying you don't require a lot of staff to maintain such a site. But for some reference, Wikipedia is ~400 employees and that sounds much more reasonable to maintain a top site with very little dynamic content. But the attitude of tech companies isn't to be satisfied with modest profits. So I don't have much sympathy here.
We are arguing in alternative history, it is always going to be silly. Alternative history is fiction, so basically we are writing our own fiction and presenting it as our argument. In a way we both may as well believe the earth is flat.

Given the destructive nature of nukes, and the mathematical fact that unhindered proliferation will always lead to nuclear warfare, I think a safer world where we thank the things which has provably made our lives better in addition to preventing wars.

Aside from that, I’m curious. I understand that it can be hard for you to accept my theory that human rights and democracy have prevented wars (or rather you may believe that nukes brought us both), but how do you suppose decolonization is not a significant factor. Like in the decades after WW-2 when the world had nukes (including a couple of colonial powers), Europe saw some horrific wars in its colonies. Angola, Algeria, Vietnam, those were all colonial wars with so many unnecessary deaths and destruction. More often than not (mostly because of France) those involved a nuclear state as the aggressor. How does this actual history fit into your narrative?
> If they're making skilled capital-allocation decisions that most people couldn't, that's work. If they're being charitable in the allocation of their ill-gotten gains, that doesn't make them any less ill-gotten.

Why do they have to be ill-gotten gains? Someone could invest money they've earned through productive work.

And could invest it in something charitably while still making money, e.g. you have the option to make 10% doing something anti-social or 5% doing something socially beneficial and you consciously choose the latter knowing you could make more by being less charitable.

> Rentiers inherently make their money in a zero-sum way; it's perhaps not the only way to be zero-sum, but it is a major one.

Do they? Suppose you have some money and you put it in some investment fund and then live off the earnings while having no real involvement with how the fund is managed. Meanwhile the businesses you invested in are off doing productive net-positive things with your money that wouldn't have been possible had you stuffed it in your mattress, while yielding you a positive return which is nonetheless smaller than the total amount of net good created by the business.

The best you can say is that the returns are zero-sum, even if the act of investing is positive sum. But isn't that true of anything? If you get a raise, that's zero sum. Someone else would have had the money in the alternative.
Looks like another job for the EU!
Yikes. I use a company Macbook to WFH - the company also offers Linux desktops that you have to self-admin, I wonder if "no one develops for linux" is actually a feature, and would let me avoid the bossware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization
Your argument doesn’t even make sense. You posit that if the OBE person is free of physics they must have a particular absolute frame of reference (which does not exist in accepted laws of physics) that is totally different from the in-body one?

It’s trivially easy to make up flawed theories on how OBEs work without having that absolute frame of reference. Arguing that it requires one seems like a scummy straw man argument and a bad faith attempt to conceptualize the idea - it’s up to you what to believe but you need to try harder to think about possibilities on how it might happen if you want to reason about it.
And in between refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election

Not very democratic

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-voti...
I always consider several to be in the region of about seven due to the first syllable. Few would be in the 3-5 range, several 5-10, many 10-15 and lots being more than that, but it’s also context based too. If there were 7 apples in a bowl I might say several. If there were 7 nuts it would be “a few”.
Yet how much of Sundar's time is spent on Chrome? Then what's that percentage of his compensation? My guess is it's likely millions more than any Mozilla CEO. Google is also under investigation for buying browser defaults and probably should be under investigation for bundling.
> DevOps just makes the problem worse which it is intended to solve. DevOps started from "deploying is too hard, and the developers don't know how to run complicated shell scripts to deploy our software to release, anyone should be able to deploy it and have it scale!". However, most companies started to cargo-cult Google and just built everything in the "most scalable" way, incurring tons of overhead, both in deployment friction and hardware costs, so we are back to DevOps being an almost completely separate field from software engineering, and the programmers still can't deploy software.

Absolutely this. Instead of collaborating to solve problems we are wasting time on pet projects.
Tom Hanks says that’s not him selling dental insurance in Instagram ads
Is this satire?

Next week: "Why I never cross the road, and 20 other things to avoid if you're terrified of actually living"
Large population that lives very close to natural reservoirs for viruses.

Spillover is a great book to read about zoonotic diseases.
> it's a baseline. Like the postal service or Medicaid

I think the interstate highway system might be an even better example. An absolutely essential part of business infrastructure and personal lifestyles, built and maintained largely at government expense, yet hardly anyone is asking for it to be torn down or privatized. Not even the parts that have tolls. (Yes, there are a few who suggest this, but even by right-wing/libertarian standards they're considered a bit crazy.) Just as anyone with a driver's license can drive on an interstate, anyone should be able to participate in the internet. It's not that much of a stretch from there to saying they should be able to participate fully, which means being able to host sites or apps. It doesn't have be be completely free of cost (see: tolls) but should be freely available and run for the public good. That's no crazier than the interstates.
You probably won't understand if after half a decade you haven't bothered to look into it yourself, but /g/ is as close to /pol/ as Steve Jobs was to planning the Oklahoma City bombing.
It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here.
The key question is output per dollar.

If employees are more efficient, I need fewer of them. People cost a lot of money relative to capital expenses like nice laptops, good chairs, or individual GPUs.

This kind of spending almost always pays off very quickly.
Hasn't it been a known thing that "QAnon" was an FBI operation? I thought that was public

I heard about qanon in news about Trump before I saw it on 4chan
You have to stack long COVID against the long term mental health and social effects of lockdown, including but not limited to the atrocious loss of learning in school children, domestic abuse situations that spiraled, and an already alarming teen mental health problem that Jonathan Haidt has been documenting for about a decade.

Lockdowns did make sense initially, especially during the dominance of the Wuhan strain. But some countries like Taiwan and SK with experience dealing with respiratory virus pandemics opened up way sooner, smartly, and did not suffer tremendously for it.
Ok, so now I want to see the details of his first claim, "Until vaccines became available, there was little difference in COVID death rates between blue states and red states."
Could you please elaborate on consulting = death?
> lightly vetted but less onerous than Toptal, less race to the bottom than Upwork platform

What do you think the reasons are for lack of a platform in the middle?
Almost every state is one or two party consent. That means you have to be a party to the conversation at the very least. I don't know any state that allows passive recording of conversations in private.
If you have root you still cannot turn on the camera without the physical light turning on, and I believe you’d need at least a kernel exploit to disable the screen indicator for the microphone.
You can verify this by mixing to mono or splitting stereo and inverting the "after" and mixing them back into the "before".

If you get silence, they're perfectly identical.
That’s the idea. If “consciousness is part of the fabric of the universe”, then in a sense the universe is just the manifestation of the imagination anyway.
Yep, always good to keep in mind that the audience for public discussion is not the small number of people you're discussing with, but the large number of people reading the discussion.
Eh, I'm fairly critical of LLM capabilities today, but the ability to control them is at best an orthogonal property from intelligence and at worst negatively impacted by intelligence. I don't see the existence of jailbreaking as strong evidence that LLMs are unintelligent.

I am actually skeptical that making LLMs more "intelligent" (whatever that specifically means) would help with malicious inputs. It's been a while since I dove deep into GPT-4, but last time that I did I found that it was surprisingly more susceptible to certain kinds of attacks than GPT-3 was because being able to better handle contextual commands opened up new holes.

And as other people have pointed out, humans are themselves susceptible to similar attacks (albeit not to the same degree, LLMs are way worse at this than humans are). Again, I haven't dove into the research recently, but the last time I did there was strong debate from researchers on whether it was possible to solve malicious prompts at all in an AI system that was designed around general problem-solving. I have not seen particularly strong evidence that increasing LLM intelligence necessarily helps defend against jailbreaking.

So the question this should prompt is not "are LLMs intelligent", that's kind of a separate debate. The question this should prompt is "are there areas of computing where an agent being generally intelligent is undesirable" -- to which I think the answer is often (but not always) yes. Software is often made useful through its constraints just as much as its capabilities, and general intelligence for some tasks just increases attack surface.
Thanks, sandreas!
> technofeudalism is just the latest form of capitalism

Just so you know, some people might not see that as the strong defense you seem to think it is.
I worked at one of these companies. Yes, office attendance is tracked by badge swipes, but that's no secret. There's an intranet page where employees can see their own attendance and the minimum required. Everybody knew that there was a minimum attendance upon taking the job.

I read a post on Reddit a few months back saying that everybody's body language in the office was being fed into a machine learning algorithm to analyse their emotions and stress levels to feed it back to their managers. Which is complete horseshit. They also said that everybody's laptop camera was being used to scan the surroundings for evidence of alcohol/drug use. Again, totally nuts.