skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Very few Mac users have installed the private log debugging profile.

(2) The number of Mac users who have both installed the private log debugging profile and also installed malware without knowing it is vanishingly small.

(3) People mostly use the profile temporarily and then uninstall it, so even in the vanishingly small number of cases, the window of opportunity is a lot smaller.

It would be a lot of effort for no return. Bad faith actors are looking for easy, plentiful targets. Expert users who comb the logs are the opposite of that.

In fact, it's a great deal of effort to find useful information in the logs even for good faith actors looking at their own machines, because of the loquaciousness of the OS.
Numbers in Various Languages
This really is quite a biased article. That being said, I will agree with the core premise that the Cybertruck could've been made slightly differently that would've prevented oil canning.
Hence why I said everything in the chain. I gave a singular example of and optimisation.
I think a lot of big problems are not being solved because people give up so easily. Why does no one protest the politicians or the extreme wealth inequality in the US?
> Cocaine HCL is Cocaine HCL and the market wouldn't really need more than one brand like it does with cigarettes and beverages.

Cocaine HCL is Cocaine HCL because you need a prescription to get it, so it only comes from a pharmacy and they don't put anything else in it. If there wasn't a law against it you could find various flavors of it at the liquor store or combinations with MDMA etc. Want to know why it's called Coca Cola?

> It would likely involve the downsizing of the DEA and expansion of the ATF, putting drugs in the same regulatory area as Alcohol and Tobacco - DATF.

Don't even joke about such an abomination. If you're going to legalize it then you don't need a federal agency to crack down on international trafficking and states can regulate it locally. We should do away with the DEA and the ATF.
When I was 9 years old in 1996, my dad got me TrueBASIC. It was one of my first programming languages. And it was cool to be able to create programs that draw graphics and output executables. Something I hadn't done before. The manual was good enough to get started. I made some games over the next few years before I moved on to RealBASIC (now Xojo). Perhaps if there had been some kind of online community I would've taken it much further. At the time, I was not aware of QBasic or any of the other common similar BASICs.

What I can tell you looking back is that it was a fine way to get started. We can debate whether it would still make sense to use something like this over Python for a modern 9-year-old. Certainly it's much more limited. But I will say there are just a lot fewer foot guns for a complete beginner. There's less surface area, so there is less to learn, but also less to do. I don't think that's such a bad tradeoff actually. Sometimes limitations actually spark imagination. And it's motivating to be able to learn all of something. But there are certainly free/open source BASICs that are just as good today. It's a legacy product.
It's a toggleable feature of the autodock computer, no? I used to always autodock my huge transport ships but fly my fighters manually. It's been a while so I'm probably misremembering.
Gave this story a "tentative upvote", because I feel the tone and some of the other topics the author mentioned have the potential to steer any discussion into a political mess, but I am genuinely interested in the real engineering concerns regarding the Cybertruck.

The author is basically arguing "large, completely flat metal panels that join in long, angular seams is a fatal design flaw that is unfixable." I.e. they say this design will lead to major problems ("oil-canning", seam gaps, and making repairs even more of a non-starter), and the possible fixes will either be gargantuanly expensive or have other problems (lots of added weight). Can someone versed in this area comment on this? At first glance he does appear to make great points, so I'd like to know if there is something I'm missing.

I think automakers are really going to have to come to terms with repairability costs or else people will start balking at insane insurance costs. There have been a bunch of articles on HN recently about how minor impacts on EVs are leading to crazy repair bills, like the 41k Rivian repair. If it costs 15k to fix a minor door ding on a Cybertruck, I can't fathom what insurers will charge for comprehensive or collision coverage.
Yeah I do this on a daily basis. Sometimes I want to have two different branches open simultaneously. Maybe there’s some fancy git hackery to have two open workspaces from the same .git local repository. But you know what? My time to figure that out is worth more than the measly megabytes of saved disk space.
UK Government Digital Service on GitHub
It comes off as click bait.

Personally I have no issue just figured I would relay my impulsive "news aggregation junkie" thoughts.

"STUPID: A mnemonic for great code" might be less impulse triggering and be more forthright. But you have to bring them in somehow so meh.
> Minor accidents resulting in cars being totaled

That's not actually what's happening.

> which means these gigacast vehicles aren’t going to sell well.

The Model Y is one of the one of the most sold car in the world and uses more casting then any other vehicle in the world. But why bother with data when one can just make up stuff.
found more of his logs by googling and my favorite is that he worked on xmas and new years eve in 1997. impressive focus
I think you meant to say that "a million dollars was worth about 30x more."
Make my own organization.
I remember seeing an online poster circulate that warned victims of domestic violence to turn off their secret phones during that time window.
My interpretation could be and probably is wrong. I'm not sure it's super important to the point I'm trying to make, though, especially given that Newsom's explicit argument is that this is unnecessary because we already can liberally interpret some categories to cover this.

I'm more getting at why value conciseness over clarity? Even if "genetic information" doesn't cover them presently, there's no reason it couldn't to achieve Gavin Newsom's new goal of not having laws be overly explicit.
I don't see a connection between how an agent works and what it experiences. Sure, depriving myself or LLMs of all neural activity results in uninteresting behavior. How does this fact buy us insight into how agents feel in other circumstances?
AI Battle of the Cloud Platforms
They literally call them castings and have done so since the first time Tesla talked about them. And its still a 'press' its just a casting press not a stamping press. Is complaining about literally everything Musk related now just the default even when it doesn't make even the slightest amount of sense?
https://packages.debian.org/sid/webext-ublock-origin-firefox
My personal fetish is the degree of undecidability of fetish lists. Ooh baby!
Let's set the rhetoric aside. What debt to gdp ratio would be reasonable? Do you have any sources to support said ratio?
Credit cards don't stop stolen money from being used, all they do is make it a theft from the merchant instead of a theft from the cardholder.
Throat singing is just a band-pass filter. Having a rich set of frequencies can be helpful, but it's unnecessary for producing the overtones. Throat singing and "whistle singing" are effectively the same technique, except that in throat singing a wider collection of overtones is selected for (not necessarily wider band, but wider "matching partials" to the fundamental frequency)
Is there s say to use your smart watch to detect if user has fallen asleep and perform "pause" action on any content playing on phone or something?
It's not your government apparently, it actually belongs to professional politicians with visions of the White House in their minds. I guess he doesn't want to be known as "Governor Mushroom" in the upcoming sprint and that vain need comes above everyone else.
Did you also use Dartmouth BASIC6 on a DCTS connection? That was my first language, and god it was miserable. But on the same machine we had BASIC8 which was essentially True Basic.
Worst part is once you learn what the Vocal Fry sounds like, you will start hear it literally everywhere. At best, it was interesting to recognize in the real world; at worst, it ruined some podcast hosts for me.
Replayability isn’t the only metric for open world games though, a bigger part is “Is the open world interesting enough to invest time in outside of the main plot?”

You might spend 20 hours playing through a main story, and another 200 running around doing other stuff without ever actually starting over in a new game.
SoftBank owns ARM (or owned at that time).
Absolutely f**ing rubbish. No. This is dead wrong. You are speaking authoratively but you don't know what you are talking about.

There is nothing inherently superior about debt/gdp. It is one good metric for tracking debt but is in no way the one true metric or intrinsically superior to other debt metrics and importantly it cannot give you a reasonably complete picture of the fiscal situation of a country because it is lacking the key component of incorporating rates and flows.

Japan has more than double our debt to GDP but this is able to not catastrophically blow up in the short term because their interest rates and therefore interest expense is low.

Again, really sad , but not rrally surprising to see low quality drivel stated authoratively as the top answer
Incentives Behind Programming Languages
Re: Git usage

Your colleague, well, maybe you as well, could instead make use of 'git worktree'

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

It allows exactly that, use a single repo yet have parallel checkouts in separate directories.
US military is the best thing that have happened to the world, and is one of the main reasons for the decades of general peace and prosperity that happened since WW2 globally.
Dunno, I always have it installed.

BTW, CodeWithMe [0] urls can automatically install some viewer to be able to participate in the call, don't know if it's the full editor or not. But they can install the full editor the same way for the above.

https://code-with-me.global.jetbrains.com
Yes, oops. I think that sentence started out saying "since" and I didn't update it properly.
It's because you are using CloudFlare DNS.
Not surprised Oracle is trying to save a buck on laptops and exposing both the company and employees to potential liability and not following basic security practices.
The "military audit" is a red herring. No one wants secret programs to be auditable.
I'm only worth something if I can earn and support others. That is what makes a man valuable, without that he's nothing and I am a barely fictional man to begin with. Without my job I'm just a burden on others.
Granted. But it’s a difference without a distinction. The budget does disappear: into assets and liabilities that are poorly accounted for.
oh, the BROWN stuff
Before these two comments, I would have assumed most people know before clicking that it's an acronym that derives humor from the contrast between "smart" and "stupid". Maybe periods would help?
At least one of "those document scanner apps on my phone" immediately uploads scan-generated PDF to a user-designated folder in Google Drive: Genius Scan (on Android), one-time payment "Enterprise" version.

Source: happy user for 3+ years. No affiliation.
While I don’t disagree, I think labeling and calling people “bad” is wrong. Derek is doing the best he can. He hired you to help make the company better, more profitable, etc etc. He’s trying anything to get you to understand that you need to deliver value, a product, a service, research output, something so the Bob’s have something to sell/offer/justify grant money. I’ve met a lot of engineers that think they were hired to perfect the art of software engineering. Not the case, not unless that is your mantra and you work at FAANG or Big Blue.

The rest of the 90% have to deliver value. For managers, that’s getting the product/service/research out the door. For directors, it’s that X N where N is the number of managers, for VP’s the same - Product/Service/Output X Directors X Managers.

Often the more inception you have (higher up you go) the more confusing the management and meetings as everything becomes strategic.

I usually work a bit with the team to prove myself, talk the talk and walk the walk, before I ever ask to lead them. Let me solve a hard problem with you so we both know how we problem solve and I’ll handle “The Business”. I’ve taken my fair share of punches.

What doesn’t help is the black and white thinking that this article is written in. If 98 of 100 dashboards aren’t used or even viewed. Build a grafana dashboard of stuff that is useful and present it as a means for cost cutting Power BI. Build a bunch of widgets they can use if they need it. I’m saying - take a step back and look not at the individuals behavior but at the situation that drives it. How can you, the engineer, provide better tooling so Derek looks like a genius. They clearly know what you’re working on, how production is going. Bob has stuff to sell and people to drink with. You get more time to work on perfecting the art of software engineering.

Stop looking at ineptitude as someone’s failure and start looking at it as an opportunity to provide solutions to help those who can’t Rust, rust. Or those who are stuck on C++. Or Brian who keeps committing small revisions to PRs and makes 30-80 commit PRs in a sprint. These are not signs of individual failure, they are symptoms.
> maybe we Americans should question whether we should have the arguers, as well as the arguments, in the US in the first place

That certainly doesn't sound blanket racist against an ethnicity of 1.5 billion people...

Land of free speech indeed.
If you're ever in the greater Boston area, it's worth going to Harvard's Museum of Natural history solely for the Glass Flowers. The rest of the collection is stunning too.
I likely characterize it as "opinionated".
Sounds like they should go to a think tank that can work with all defense contractors instead of favoring the one who will pay them the most.
It’s not a database, it’s just a ledger, and it doesn’t identify people unless you use it incorrectly.

Your unhinged attacks are factually inaccurate, and contribute nothing to the discussion at hand (that is, about payment systems for individual use, which are usually denominated in fiat currencies, which usually get paid in stablecoins) besides anger and hostility. I’ve been using cryptocurrencies as an end user for more than a dozen years and have never done any of these things you list.

Perhaps you paint with too wide a brush.

You suggest that the problems cryptocurrency solve were already solved long ago, but I don’t see it. How do I send money cheaply, instantly, permissionlessly, and irreversibly across borders without identity? I only know of one way.
Mmm, sure. I ask because I expect folk would balk at removing explicit protections for race, sex, and the like because it could be liberally interpreted from other protections listed, as seems to be Gavin's argument here.

Prior to this thread, I didn't really think folk would be up in arms in making the language of law being explicit in barring something we apparently all agree it does bar and should bar rather than leaving it ambiguous and reliant on judges not construing the law slightly less liberally than Newsom thinks they should. In other contexts, replacing the explicit callouts with ambiguous, broadly interpretable ones seems like the opportunity for harm is obvious.
Exactly, if everyone took psychedelics and gained a wider perspective they might see the governor is screwing them
Ideal temperature is said to be 65F (18C). Did you flip the numbers?
Ask HN: What is the "next big thing" after "AI" hype subsides?
You'd think after the COVID shenanigans, and a close call with a recall, he'd think he's hit his ceiling.

I'm very curious who is advising him on his white house ambitions and if that group has real bonafides on delivering the goods, given the numerous missteps ?
> ... oil canning.

This isn't likely to happen, but we could learn to just not care. We have bigger problems than worrying about our car's cosmetics. A lot of a car's cost is due to the high cost of perfect finishes. I'd love a car that was cheap to repair, even if it meant leaving some obvious welding showing up on the surface; especially if it was more socially acceptable.

Reminds me of the NHL goalie Gerry Cheevers* who painted stitches on his face mask every time it got damaged by a puck that would have damaged his face instead. Maybe we should celebrate our car's service dings, instead of spending the money to hide them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cheevers
> Because if it goes to five when I need to use it for groceries, I’m in a bit of a pickle.

Why? You're out $45. That sucks, but since you're not a Bitcoin speculator who holds all their assets in Bitcoin, you only have to open your phone and exchange something for another $50 worth of Bitcoin so you can use it to buy groceries.

Maybe you could use the $50 you made that time your $50 in Bitcoin turned into $100 and then you used half of it to invest in something else because you're not a Bitcoin speculator who needs more than $50 worth of Bitcoin at any given time.

> That does not happen with the USD/Euro/whatever.

When you're measuring dollars in bread rather than Bitcoin in dollars, the consequence is that a loaf of bread costs more dollars. People are complaining about this happening right now.
Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised by tax hike in 2024
Thanks, that makes it clear now. I looked them up, but didn't find that part out.
The official way to do this is using git worktrees[0], but, as you say, it may not be worth the time to learn if what you have is working for you.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
Ubiquitous made little sense to me. Proper works much better in French I presume. Not much in the way of clear justification or examples, just a list of things.

Altogether, some OK ideas, but quite generic and insufficient/incomplete. Coupled with the conversational marketing style, on the whole, frustrating.

Keep thinking and writing.
From Bogleheads...

>This also effectively increases the maximum marginal tax rate for CA high earners. The maximum marginal rate is now:

37% Federal +
2.35% Medicare +
13.3% CA Income +
1.1% CA SDI
= 53.75%
I think it's way too easy to allude to 'other economic systems' without at all describing how your fiction would be reality.

> but it makes me wonder to what extent that's just projecting our culture onto all other possible realities due to a failure of imagination/taking aspects of our culture as immutable laws of nature.

Right, so lets see, you're hiding something that only you know, for God knows what reason. Then pretending that its other people failing to reach your level of knowledge in the world. You're the all seeing, who knows better than the rest of humanity. We might as well anoint you.

Go on, prove it. I'll ask every single time, and I bet all I will get is cryptic and imprecise responses.
I'd like to see a post like this on HN where someone revisits their organization 10 years later and decides if they were right or not.

It's not that all organizations don't have disfunction, but as a younger person I was very fixated on everything I saw that was wrong and ignored either the problems I myself was introducing which were (and probably still are) numerous or the systems and programs that made the organization successful. Now that I'm older and in a position with a different perspective, I'm far less likely to find systemic fault. Perhaps I'm just lucky in my career atc? I don't have a blog to go back to, but this author seems insightful and I'd like to see what they think in 5 or 10 years.
Avon et al are the people at the top of the pyramid. They don't go out of business, they keep running the scam until they get arrested or run out of suckers. And P.T. Barnum said something about the latter.

It's the suckers whose "investment" in one of these things goes to zero, which happens all the time.

There are cryptocurrencies that go to zero, but there are also government currencies that go to zero. They go to zero when people stop using them as a currency, not when they become so widespread that you've saturated the market for suckers.
Well the in-game story is very interesting but the gameplay itself is rather basic. The "game system" is just a tally of points which you increase by doing little tasks and the "economy and power system" decides if you won or lost territory at regular intervals based on those points. Most people only participate in that part of the game to get the faction exclusive weapons. The real game most people play consists of buy low sell high space trucking in order to buy ships, then degenerates to seemingly endless grinding for ship engineering components. Then at some point people amass a fully upgraded fleet of ships. Then they start killing other players for fun since there isn't much else to do.

There's a functionally infinite galaxy to explore but no player run economy that lets us colonize far away systems with player or squadron built space stations. Our reward for exploration is sweet screenshots and our names on the discovery. That's awesome and I spent a lot of time doing it but it could have been so much more. I used to play with one of the biggest squadrons in the game and at the end of the day it was nothing but grinding resources or little tasks to increase numbers so the economy simulator didn't decide we lost territory or something. Would've been a lot more fun if groups could build strongholds deep in the galaxy and you had to literally attack them to take them out instead of grinding missions.
Very interesting, thanks! I had heard that “kinktok” was pretty big, but I assume the streams cross on TikTok a lot more than in dedicated kink spaces. There’s still a bias towards people who are open about sex, but I am not sure that group is actually any less vanilla than people who keep it private.

I saw a bunch of your older surveys and was impressed at the quality of the questions, but the places I saw them were always kink-adjacent, and I am glad you are getting a lot more reach.
Neither does GPT-4 or other sparse mixtures of experts, such as e.g. switch transformers [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03961