skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a guarantee that you'll be able to next month?

How about if you want/need to move and get a new landlord?

The point being that no landlord or merchant or individual has any legal obligation to accept crypto as "money" and can refuse any time they want.

For all intents and purposes, crypto is monopoly money backed by greed and delusional thinking.
I think you’d be covered under Ver.di. I worked in an IT security consulting firm and was covered
Essentially the author is saying that most people are honest most of the time. Maybe so, but truthfulness is only relevant in cases where there are stakes, and in those cases, there is much, much more dishonesty. Put another way, I'd say strong evidence is all around us when it doesn't matter, but considerably scarcer when we are actually interested in the truth.
Realistically, the only thing that's going to affect Google's market share is government intervention. So, cross your fingers that the DOJ wins their lawsuit (https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-it...)
The post you're replying to answered your question.

>Unfortunately the ultimate test here is "confusion." Will a reasonable person be confused as to the origin of a product. Satire must be sufficiently obvious to receive protection and branding sufficiently different as to not cause confusion.
> Before Stackoverflow, they were pretty good.

Stack Overflow was publicly available two years before Quora was.
> Notwithstanding that, they still put out firefox

Firefox was created by pre-Baker Mozilla which was an organisation focused mostly on - to coopt the terminology used by those who coopted Mozilla later - "software justice". When Eich was ousted (for voicing an opinion he shared with people like Barack Obama [1]) and Baker took his place she set a course towards different goals: Mozilla was going to focus more on social justice because it was not enough to only build software. She clearly did not realise - or did not care - that it was through creating viable open alternatives to proprietary browsers and related software that Mozilla was in fact doing the best it could towards achieving the aim of a more just world.

Baker needs to be ousted, she can go lead some NGO somewhere if she wants to fly social justice flags. Let Mozilla be led by those who understand that software freedom is an integral part of freedom of information access and an open internet which are essential to counteract the tendency towards authoritarianism which has plagued society since the dawn of time.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/33750...
She played with it and killed it when she finally caught it. But no, she didn't eat it. But it flips the observation of the study: she preferred to work for non-food (but I suspect there's a latent food-instinct driving this) rather than get a free meal.
you are just exploiting bash's argument expansion

/etc/sudoers does not use "bash's argument expansion".

to feed some additional shell stuff to bash /after/ the logrotate command

Wrong. It's clearly about a sudoers rule which uses wildcards (see sudoers(5) "Wildcards" section.

The entire security issue is with the dumb bash script; it has nothing to do with anything else.

The security issue is that a sudoers(5) rule allows a nonprivliged user to run logrotate with any arguments, and as it turns out, those arguments can be used to achieve root.

It doesn't tell you to give global passwordless sudo privileges

A /etc/sudoers rule of

user ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/logrotate \*

does not provide the user with "global passwordless sudo privileges".

rtfm of sudoers(5).
You seemingly care about this but also can't be bothered to bring any empirical evidence for any of your claims. Goes both ways.

The US is not that different from everywhere else... we all live in the same capitalist hellhole last time I checked.
>(even a pass phrase only memorized works already).

That is so 2019... to make a quip

We are already seeing what is tantamount to mind reading equipment

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-can-re-create-...

At this point I pretty much imagine that some time in the future that you can be hooked to medical equipment and someone/something will state the following to you

"Do not think of the nuclear weapon pass phrase"

But you can't not think of it. The phrase clicks in your head and the electrical signals are picked up and decoded by the bedside computer. You've betrayed mankind. The nuclear war of the AI has begun.
> Now obviously we're possibly on the verge of another massive change in tech with AI

could easily turn out to be another nft style "boom"
Please add double line breaks between each point or question as your comment just renders as a big block of text.
Amsterdam Central Station already has this infrastructure for the train to the UK.
> There is already a bottleneck on these trains because the staff need to bring you to the compartments.

No, that's just not how it works most of the time with ÖBB, not even in Nightjet. I walk in and the ticket inspection happens later. Yes there's staff outside with NJ to sort you in, but you can walk around them. At no point are they a real bottleneck.
Uh, I initially dismissed this as a basic attack on credential stuffing. But...

> However, in this case, the cybercriminal sells a very large number of 23andMe profiles, which is unlikely to have been compromised directly using the aforementioned method.

> The firm’s spokesperson explained to RestorePrivacy that this is due to an optional feature that interconnects relatives and DNA matches on the platform, which was active on all the compromised accounts. This led to the magnification of the impact from a few breached accounts to the massive numbers we see on the forum post.

Also, previous discussion: "23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack" (292 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37794379
>>> ... every 3rd line is also a goto target while also still being the ordinary next line in some routine.

This is also what killed the Apple II. People figured out places that they could branch into the BIOS and OS code to do weird things or bypass the time consuming parts. The result was that every byte of the code was potentially a branch target, and Apple could never change it. Even upgrading to the Apple IIe was fraught, and I made a hack for my mom with a toggle switch for choosing between the Apple II and IIe ROMs.

It's one of the reasons why Apple preferred a "closed" system for the Mac.
Trafalgar 1805. Waterloo 1815.

International Meridian Congress (Washington) 1884.

France waits until they can adopt a name that does not mention Greenwich ... 1978.

The French are very tenacious in their (to put it politely) arrogant obstructionist individualism. Shrug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere...

Resolution 2, fixing the meridian at Greenwich, was passed 22–1 (San Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, voted against); France and Brazil abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds". France finally replaced this phrase with "Coordinated Universal Time" (UTC) in 1978.
Social media: a golden goose for scammers
With the eject detection pin taped down on my player I'd read the TOC from a working disc, then swap in the broken disc and write the TOC onto it.

I had to do this often enough I made a blank disc with TOC covering its full capacity and a track mark every few minutes, to make it easier to skip through and set correct track marks on the recovered disc.
1 - People should be able to retire.

2 - Their retirement should be financed by 401ks and the like.

3 - Stock Markets can go down as well as up.

You can't have all three, so the government will always ensure that the stock market goes up long term.
Abolish IP and treat ideas the same way bacteria swap their plasmids.
For the benefit of those like me who had never heard of oil-canning before: "Oil canning, a common inherent trait of flat sheet material, is a moderately visible deformation. This is can usually be seen as a ripple or buckle along with the broad flat areas of the material. Oil canning is an aesthetic complaint and does not have any effect on the integrity and strength of the material." [0]

[0] https://stampingsimulation.com/effects-of-oil-canning/
> smoking regularly in the same time-span increases your chance of lung cancer by over 20x.

But what if you were to smoke only for the same amount as you mention using the fireplace, around a month per year?
This is how I am NOT measuring productivity:

I don’t measure lines of code being added.
I don’t measure the amount of tasks finished.
I don’t measure story points being done.
I don’t measure the number of hours being online.

Instead, this is how I am measuring productivity:

Are they focusing on building the RIGHT things and challenging requirements.
How much are they helping others.
How are they contributing to the success of the whole team/organization.
What improvements have they implemented and ensure they get adopted by other engineers.

What are your thoughts?
Not for shooting it down, but for possessing a weapon as a felon (he admitted to having shot it down and thus being in possession of a weapon).
It’s more about sophisticated replacement for tab completion.
I believe human ingenuity and power over the elements goes up 7% a year, of which, the stock market is a proxy for. We are a networked organism and good at leveraging innovation at a global scale through supply chains. I see no reason to be pessimistic, we have AI, we have better space flight, we constantly improving energy sources.
I imagine the comedic context made it clear there was no intent to deceive.
In 2021, 136 countries agreed to implement a 15% global minimum tax rate. It's not yet implemented, but it should start in ~2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_r...

A couple of years ago, this was touted as impossible - "who can impose this global tax you dream of?" was said back then as well. Why should it be impossible for countries to come together like this, with agreements to implement tariffs against countries outside the agreement?
Are you sure about that? The standard boglehead portfolio has ~1/3 of stock holdings in non-us funds.
Part of communication is knowing your audience.

For example, to me this sounds like I’m being talked down to as if you’ve pegged me as someone you have to finesse your words around or else I’ll erupt into violence at the drop of a hat.

I get the purpose, to not sound adversarial in your response. Just a thought though.
Those notes had little effect in her conviction apparently, according to a criminal psychiatrist on BBC radio. It is behaviour typical of someone suffering depression, for which she was having treatment at the time.
I would take the other side of that bet for sure.

Modern computers don’t have less ram than the old fashioned room size computers. Amount of RAM seems much more analogous here than the size of the hardware running the software. Of course the latter will go down, but the former? I don’t see why.
That depends on the relative frequency of the two modes. If 90% of videos of each precidential candidate were a deepfake good enough that you cannot tell if it's real or not, then that is a worse problem than the possibility that one real video can be denied.

In both cases, though, the solution would be to find a way to allow people to tell deepfakes from real videos. For instance by having some sort of certificate provider agencies digitally sign them.

This would still make it hard to tell a deepfake from an unsigned video, of course.
> the only way to win a nuclear war is to win on surprise attack first-strike

No win: any counterstrike need only be airborne before that 1st strike hits (ignoring submarines).

In your example: NK might be able to strike SK by surprise - short distance, missiles could could cover it in a few minutes.

But in case of NK striking SK, countries allied with SK wouldn't leave NK unpunished. So even if NK's 1st strike were 'successful', it would still be annihilated by the response. If not by SK, then by its allies.

On top of that: not all 1st strike missiles would reach their enemy, hit their target, or manage to destroy all their enemies' missiles.

TLDR; there's no win in all-out nuclear war.
Also,

> To make things worse, there actually is a class of people who have no job at all, which creates a kind of fear among the hangers-on.

Is a rephrasing of Marx's idea of the reserve army of labor. They are the lumpen who _could_ be used as replacements but mostly aren't.

I do mostly agree with GP's main point. The skill floor for meaningful work—even before this recent round of AI hullabaloo—has increased to the point where there are many people unemployable at any wage.
Trains within Germany (Deutsche Bahn) are also simply a shitshow. One can get the feeling that they kind of ruin it for the neighbouring countries as well.
Capital in the 21 Century by Thomas Piketty is quite long and dry as there are many facts and figures, but it's essential reading to understand that the United States' 1960s, where people could buy a home, car, got to college etc working a minimum wage job and where people often say they want to return to in the modern day, is instead an anomalous post war boom and that the level of wealth inequality today is actually the norm for most of modern history.
I don't know what to search for - can you elaborate?
Open Letter to the Linux World (2014)
* on the JVM

Right? Flatbuffers supposedly being slower than protobufs is circumspect since most benchmarks I’ve seen for it in C++/Rust show it outperforming, especially since it too does zero-copy deser.
It would probably be safer to buy options instead of short-selling a stock, because with options your potential loss is limited and known.
I wouldn't call it a mess at all, 240 is a highly divisible number which eased commerce based on mental arithmetic a great deal.

You said it yourself, 60 pence to a crown, what's a tenth of a crown? half shilling, easy. Price is 3 and a half crown, paid with a pound. you don't have a half-crown coin, there are a bunch of ways to come up with 30p or 2s6p, the sums are all instant when one is in the habit of it. Let's ignore the guinea!

Decimalization was probably the right call in an age of calculators and computers, same with the metric system, but the old LSD system and imperial units existed for a reason, which is easy divisibility into convenient fractions. Decimal systems get annoying for mental math unless you happen to need tenths or fifths, or the only kind of quartering you need to do is out of 100.
I've used kitty for quite a while but it has subtle problems with tmux that I use all the time (one of the primary reason is persistent session).

From the FAQ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/ and other GitHub issues, it seems the recommendation is not to use tmux. Since I need to use tmux, I then change the terminal emulator I use instead.
I disagree - larger models are significantly more capable, likely as a function of their size, and the cost to inference them is only going to go down.

Maybe for niche use cases like handling customer support requests small models will do well, but GPT4 is not going to be condensed to a few billion anytime soon imo.
That they work reliably?
I've been very confused about how people are getting by.

If they're not in tech, and and they're not a member of the professional class (doctor, lawyer, etc), how are they doing it?

Is everyone working two jobs and doing uber on top of that, or what? How much of a bubble am I in? I'm in tech and I feel like I'm barely making it.
> Getting a job becomes more of a random toss than assessment of my skills.

I’ve coined a term for this throughout my long job search, it’s called the “leetcode lottery” (patent pending).

You can do a couple of hundred leetcode problems, but you’re still at the mercy of the Gods when your technical interview comes around. The worst part of this whole charade is that I come out of most interviews having learned nothing valuable and I can say the same for the interviewer. They haven’t learned about my strengths and weaknesses, etc.

I don’t have a better solution for how you can get an idea of my knowledge and skills over 2-3 hours of technical interviews though. And until someone does come up with a better idea, we’re stuck playing this game.
It's not at all a bad idea as something like "optional plugin," but it's definitely absolutely a bad idea if we're also mentioning VC's.
I agree with you, but all the downvotes I get don't!
In my opinion, models that are trained based on highly selected, curated data are going to lose out to the larger more unsupervised approaches. This is just yet another instantiation of the bitter lesson.
Depends on the currency, IIRC with Monero the fee is like a tenth or a hundredth of a cent.
The market is composed of companies, each of these companies are composed of people trying to better their own lives by working hard. When you buy an index fund you are essentially betting on all these people collectively working hard to improve their lives and if incentives are correctly aligned this should also mean the value of these businesses growing.
The OCR example uses the full capabilities of the browser environment. A quick scan shows html, canvas, events, XmlHTTPRequest, and JSON.parse on the client side. What the python "server" exactly uses isn't completely clear, but it includes numpy, and probably some ANN library. So yeah, it's a bit of a stretch to compare that to 500 lines of stdlib-only C.
Hmmmm, paid version of https://fakerjs.dev?
Marathon world record at Chicago Marathon, nears 2-hour barrier
Oh, wow, ouch.
Wait is Nomad really closed source?
Oh hey, I'm not arguing for less privacy in payments. GP was saying "tell me about how I get some cryptocurrency in a practical way without big middlemen" and there isn't one because of how states define crime and money laundering. I do think it's kind of a tricky problem, but I'm not really defending the regime here nor am I saying that it's actually important to fund things like Wikileaks (which, to disclaim my bias here, I'm not a fan of). I'm sympathetic to the idea that commerce is a basic human right, but I think it very quickly runs into "can I buy black market goods/services" (which are basically like, drugs, guns, human trafficking, violence-for-hire) and almost everyone says "no". I don't see how crypto gets us closer to "you can fund Wikileaks" while not moving us closer to "you can buy a human slave". I think for that we have to look to democratic action to change the laws.
According to the NIH more than 10% of people age 12 or older, approximately 30 million people, are alcoholics. Some studies have shown that tobacco is more addictive than heroin and you can buy it at a convenience store.

Being addictive is an argument for legalization, so that people know how much they're getting and don't become addicts by unintentionally taking too much.
True for real libraries. But little free libraries I mention are little neighborhood boxes with free stuff in them that you can take for keeps, at which it becomes part of your personal collection.
Security like that is how companies end up with shadow IT and private State Department e-mail servers.
The usual suspect: it's publicly traded.
This data set should be expanded to include 100 of his peers who started trading at the same time.
Exactly, and this is an especially important point when taking about EMH. Markets are mostly noise/manipulation, whereas we assume that "statement of your given name" are mostly signal.
Prerequisites:
./scripts/install-deps.sh

Please don't do this! List your dependencies normally. Packaging OSS projects is difficult enough already.
Whenever I see an internet article (not written by a statistician and not a research paper) start with a reference to Bayes Theorem and its purported "perfection", I can safely bet it was written by a LessWrong'er and specifically a fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

And behold! Just clicking on the Bayes link takes me to another article that immediately mentions Yudkowsky.

I wonder what attracts internet people to Yudkowsky's brand of crackpottery, and specifically, what about Bayes elicits their quasi-religious awe.
The government doesn't guarantee you a platform for your speech. In the US, you have the right to free speech in general, but there are specific carveouts.

For example, I can say here on HN "fuckity shitting fuck shit" and not be fined or imprisoned. But try saying it to a judge during a trial, and the outcome will likely be different.

And it's the same for saying it on broadcast television at certain times of day and in certain contexts.
EU sleeper works, but the experience is ... rather traditional. Maybe one day theyll have their own coaches. Right now they rent whatever is available. Some of their couchettes are ex-GDR. Their sleeping cars are ex-CIWL from the 50s, rebuilt several times.
On one side we have things like the efficient market hypothesis, that says that people are rational, they make logical decisions, and there is no room for inefficiencies.

On the other we might think that people who runs companies are blithering idiots who just got lucky, and their head is so far up their asses that they can't see they are headed to self-destruction.

Reality is somewhere in between.
If you search on HN for Elm, you'll find several articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The one that's most talked about is the top one as of this writing, Why I'm Leaving Elm. You'll find some examples in there.
> Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite

Are you referring to the supposed shutting down of Starlink over Crimea during a Ukrainian operation? That was misinformation and never happened. The US government has control over Starlink in several different ways and you can be sure that if they really needed it turned on or off in any specific area they could have it done immediately.

Anyway these concerns are totally irrelevant to the original point about negativity on Threads because nobody there even realized that a Starlink competitor was what they were talking about.
There will always be gray zones, and there always have been. Otherwise legal actions can be illegal if the intent is to support a crime.

It's legal to drive your friend to the bank. But not if you know she intends to rob it.
« Retire early » is the main part you’re missing from their argument, that implies saving large portions of disposable income. I always feel sad when people have high paying jobs they hate just so that « retire early » though, in a field like software engineering you can find a happy medium I feel like.
There are technologies that does not suffer from the fee issue. Here I don't want to start a crypto war. We can even forget about the crypto charged word and think about stable coins, points and/or tokens that could be changed. I used the example of crypto just to emphasize that the current financial methods are very expensive and compliance crazy to process basic donations to developers and/or other creative endeavours. The typical "the righteous pays for the sinner".
> f you use this locally instead you could then terminate the entire iterm program and reopen it and restore the same exact window/tab/pane splits you previously had. This is a nice perk for restarting/updating iTerm.

iTerm seems to be able to pull this off itself during upgrades, even without tmux. The first time it happened, I was surprised, and now I just install iTerm updates with abandon, knowing that all my 40 terminal windows and all the stuff in them will come back after the update.