skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we keep on neglecting that responsibility under the excuses of bad
usability, lack of features, or convenience for users.

A value leverage point to look at is; why are these perceived to be in
tension in the first place?

Revising the concepts of "convenience" and "usability" to incorporate
not having your life, business and affairs ruined petty tyrants seems
the way to go.

It seems quite possible to design software such that it's more
difficult not to encrypt than it is to use insecure defaults.

That's more or less what happened with browsers vis a vis https by
default, no? I really have to go out of my way these days to view a
plain http site.
TLDR frontend dev in the US, mostly working with small businesses and nonprofits. About 20 years of experience on and off, much of it informal, and maybe 10 ish years of full-time experience. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914768

I'm not very hard to dox but I'm also not very interesting. Just another dev in a sea of us :) Maybe a bit more talkative and transparent than some, that's all.
Even after prioritising tensorflow, keras, jax etc., they can still afford to have a very large team working on torch_xla and still hedge their bets with a separate team on torch_mlir.
"The primary mission of a mutual company is to protect members, by maintaining the capital needed to meet their needs and cover any insured losses — not to maximize profits for shareholders"

depends on the structure of the company.
> Are we limiting the output somehow?

He is saying that we limit his inputs. He wants to, for example, be able to produce his own food as to not have to rely on deals made with other people to acquire food, but notes that society carefully controls who has control of the land that is able to support that production, leaving nowhere for him to do so, and leaving him at the mercy of being able to reach agreements with others – others who may not want to make an agreement with him – in order to eat.

He says that without a strong society he could push anyone standing in his way of the land aside (by brutal force, if necessary), but an entire society standing in his way is a force too great. As such, he believes that great force should provide suitable compensation for the restrictions it imposes (e.g. if you aren't permitted access to land to produce your own food, you should be guaranteed access to food by some other means).
After the elections in 2006, which were not permitted again by Israel, Hamas said they would accept a two state settlement. They have reiterated this many times, and still stand by that, so there's absolutely an opportunity to negotiate with Hamas.
I don't see it as unrealistic, as for your comprehension ability, that's debatable. For this to work on everything, it needs to be hardware implemented (security chip/SOC), to avoid taxing the CPU and rest of the system. Software engineering has been lax for so long, but paradigm is changing and it should be security first.
> then I'm done work for the day

That is a bit of a you-problem though. Pointless interruptions are bad of course, but if you not being responsive blocks other people, that is a problem too. You write that you also have an issue with synchronous meetings, which would be the alternative to get input from you in a plannable way. Doing all communication asynchronously is not acceptable if you are at all involved in team work.
You could have just said no.
Consumers don’t care if it’s batteries that are expensive or the motor or the paint. The product is too expensive for them overall. Unless it is a monopoly and they have to have a truck and the only option is the electric f-150, they are going to buy something else.

Sure, if Ford still wanted to sell them they could find a way to make cheaper batteries or sell at a loss for a while.
The first link [1] in section "4. Code and test improvements" leads to a patch series with a cover letter which reads

There are a number of tests that still follow an old convention of using
four-space indentation. Update a bunch of tests to use the new convention
with tab indentation

This feels a bit ridiculous to include this in such a blog post...

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1513.git.git.1684440205.git...
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst [video]
"Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a talk as part of the Science and Society Initiative: A joint project with the Laboratory for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology at Stanford University Medical School and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies."
And by extension ending every internet-connected good or service, from email to online banking to remote work to shopping on Amazon or viewing TV on Netflix — therefore The Powers that Be are more likely to outlaw specific uses of encryption to show to voters that they're "doing something about $the_problem".

If they actually want to catch all crime, the only way to do it is mass physical surveillance, either with laser microphones Van Eck phreaking, or with smart-dust and the like. These technologies aren't limited to just government surveillance, so I've been saying for ages now to anyone who will listen that we need to massively alter our "common sense" attitudes to crime and punishment before organised crime starts using it to automate mass-scale blackmail: a judge or a police officer snorting cocaine would be demonstrating poor judgement just to perform the act, let alone as a result of the drug itself, but society is much worse off if a mafia records them doing it so they can get their people off the hook for bigger crimes.

And no, governments can't just use such surveillance to arrest everyone who breaks the laws: my go-to example of this is heroin in the UK, because as far as I can tell nobody defends heroin, yet enough people use it (200k) that fully enforcing the "no possession" law for that substance alone and nothing else would nearly triple the current UK prison population (95k, though I'm assuming that at most only a small percentage of them are currently getting heroin into their prison).

I don't know what the best way to approach things like this would be, only that it's not going to be an easy thing that can fit into a comment box — the best I can do is say that my vibe is instant-and-tiny penalties, so a speeding offence might be £0.1/minute/(MPH over the speed limit)/(thousand pounds of monthly disposable income) or something like that.
And that’s kind of the point right? I mean, it’s very hard to be that honest and reflective with one’s self but everyone has their preferences of style, engagement tactics etc, and it’s very hard to get right.

I truly hope your impression isn’t reality but all i can say is in certain settings it’s worked great, in others it’s been meh. I’m subject to the same issues we all experience here.
These "knowledge brokers" already exist and companies buy their info. This would only make it so employees could do the same.
The structural pay gaps exist because salaries are not public in the first place.

Paying less due to gender and race is already illegal. The only reason it prevailed is because proving it is difficult if you do not have access to the data.
Probably live in Texas or the midwest where 5 hours is considered a short drive
But if that holds then he doesn't deserve any credit for writing the book right? Since it was already predetermined.
Own nothing and be happy, but pay taxes on all the things you don’t own, or else.
> It truly helps embodying thoughts and ideas

I agree the act of writing things out helps. But I strongly disagree this is specific to handwriting. Typing things out has the same effect.
Thankyou. And that's why I got a C minus for law.
I don't understand why my comment "pls.com for sale" was flagged?

The article mentions pls.com complaining they are being prevented from competing, and I went to check them out, and the domaon is for sale.

You don't find that interesting or topical?
I believe in the beginning of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings, he mentions a similar problem where it's equally difficult to imagine a universe that always exists as a universe that was created by "something" that always existed.

I'm sure I'm butchering something about this interpretation in the decades since I've read it.

My point is this seems to be a similar problem where it's equally difficult to imagine that consciousness is something that arises from sufficiently complex systems, as it is to imagine its inherent to all systems.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying I'm not certain you're right. I can see it either way.
~100x compression (from weird to weird.gz) is really good, no matter the input. Simple compressors like gzip are limited in what they can do. They have size-constrained dictionaries, cannot have symbols of less than one bit, etc... Gzip works fine with real life data, and does it in a reasonable amount of time using a reasonable amount of memory, but it may not fare well with such a torture test.

New, fancy, and really slow compressors with their contexts, arithmetic coders and neural networks will give a much better result, maybe close to ideal, but it will take orders of magnitude more time and use up GBs of memory doing so.
I thought some of that would be captured by the embeddings, crudely: ["english" + "dog" + "person"] = ["estonian" + "bad" + "person"]
The anarchist position is generally for the abolition of policing, and "defund the police" was a compromise position once it became clear the liberals would not join any coalition calling for outright abolition.
I think in the future, whenever elections are lost, blaming the electronic voting system is just too easy a scapegoat.

And, for any politician who does that... I can't say they are completely making stuff up. It might just be better if we acknowledge and accept that old technology isn't bad. Windows XP is perfectly fine for controlling CNCs and medical devices to this day, as long as it's not connected to the internet. Probably better for it actually, because it won't restart to install an update with modern Windows. I'm not in favor of "new for the sake of new."
> For hard problems, I may go for a walk, talk to a co-worker, research algorithms, build small toy codebases first

Everything about the JIRA/timetracking/project management regime is expressly designed to prohibit that - you're a programmer, program! Faster! Know the answer RIGHT NOW!
There are plenty of reasons to be critical of Elon, but the reorg at Twitter - removing all the cruft - is what every bigger-than-100-employees-company in the valley needs.
Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT
>In the US, we used to be able to tabulate votes in 1 day

Have we? Do you have a particular state in mind? As far as I know, all states have a post-election canvassing period of at least a week or two (if not longer) before official results are certified. Some states like California and New York are notoriously slow to certify. Election night results are always preliminary and subject to shifts, especially as mail and provisional ballots get processed.
I was listening to an economist podcast about insurance and they were interviewing a woman representing some segment of the insurance companies. She said that climate change played a role in pricing but the vast majority of problems were because of 1) Higher construction costs and 2) states not allowing insurance companies to raise rates to match the actual risk so they pull out.
There is no job security even then. Only wealth frees you.
Detroit is a city. They already try to encourage high-density living through the types of zoning they have. I don't see a fundamental issue with aligning their taxes to better facilitate their development goals.

Similar arguments would go for rural municipalities that might want to encourage multi-generational agricultural living, for example, if that's what you're getting at.
>Maybe the journals should get together and all their editors can decide to not publish research such as [insert literally anything here]

This is a terrible idea. Scientific publishers should not be in the business of restricting the domain of scientific research. Only democratic public institutions can have that responsibility, and they should use it as little as possible.
See my response to a sibling thread.
Why not consider it alive? The same with the fires mentioned in other comments. In The Andromeda Strain (the novel, don't remember if it's in the film as well), there's a scene where the characters are trying to determine a single quality they can look for that signifies life. They come up with energy conversion, and they do consider luminescent watch hands and geologic formations. It's been a long time since I read it, I don't recall them ending with back-patting and "mission accomplished" cheers, but the point of the scene wasn't to make a definite answer for the readers nor the characters - it was that when you're looking for life, perhaps your definition of "life" will need expanded. So why do we need a definition that absolutely includes This, and absolutely excludes That and The Other? What if we settle on a definition and found out it does apply to The Other, why must we change the definition instead of changing how we categorize The Other? Both are adjusting our model to fit new evidence. Why be so determined that Life Must Be Like Us And No Other?
You'd be surprised and I can't find the study anymore, but this is a very frequent thing.
That claim isn’t true. The book goes into details like this and taxes would go down for ~97% of parcels. It would go up a lot for parking lots in city centers and certain segments of commercial real estate.
My previous employer was so top heavy it was unreal.

I counted maybe 4-5 managers with some variation of Director/VP of Software/Engineering/SWE/SWEProject and yet more kept getting promoted into that echelon over my time there, with no clear indication of what most of them did. For a 400 person operation that did two giant layoffs.

On my end though, management was worse than useless and did absolutely none of the things that good managers I’ve had previously (or subsequently) have done.
Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
> "Pot is Dangerous" Blair

Or "Cannabis is infinitely more harmful [than tobacco]" Harper. The cards have been stacked against legalisation's success since before most of us were alive.
Density.

The current property tax system makes it more likely that (in your example) the law firm will push out the bakery. Because improvements are taxed adding more commercial space means paying more taxes, which makes it less likely to happen.

With an LVT, expanding the building (up or out) to add a second store/office is cheaper so you’re more incentivized to provide space for both
That would instantly eliminate all eCommerce. I think politicians still care enough about GDP that they wouldn't do that.
In the age of most projects having animated websites, videos on the homepages, ads for courses and maybe an online conference for launching a new version, I find this use of 2006-era blogspot strangely comforting.
>And this is mostly because everyone knows someone who's been ripped off online with no recourse. No one really trusts computers.

Online scams are a human problem, not a computer problem. People also get scammed via telephone. If someone asks you for your CC number and you give it to them, then the medium is not that important.
Considering my experience with anything digital made by (or for) Swiss government agencies, I can absolutely imagine that it's a horror show.

For example, we had a digital vaccination certificate application (before COVID, calm down tin foil hats). This application/website apparently had issues so bad that the government had no other option than to just close it down for good from one day to another. Essentially, f..d up beyond repair.

People couldn't even get their data out it anymore. It now seems that data rescue might be possible "soon"... 2.5 years after the platform has been taken down.

Basically, everything IT our government touches is doomed ;)

Source: I'm Swiss
There is not a single implementation from any major provider, including 1Password, that supports moving passkeys across ecosystems. When asked about this 1Password said that they're trying to lobby FIDO to support a migration spec but they don't have any timeline.

It's not that the arguments have been debunked, it's that advocates seem to almost purposefully misunderstand what people mean when they talk about attestation, portability, and account recovery. Registering multiple devices isn't portability. Keeping keys within a single ecosystem isn't portability.

Additionally, advocates ignore the current state of the ecosystem in favor of only talking about what the ecosystem is intended to be. A nontrivial number of services are using passkeys as a 2FA token. As a result, the current state of the ecosystem is that even ignoring the issue with providers, even websites themselves are not presenting a unified vision of what passkeys are intended to be. It borders on misinformation. No one is in alignment about what passkeys are, and multiple problems are being systematically ignored, and saying that the criticism is "debunked" isn't going to change that fact.
The old nodes are cheap because the investment has been fully paid off. There are only running costs and maintenance remaining. However, expanding productions of older nodes will be more expensive, especially if the equipment is not available in bulk anymore. Probably not as expensive as a new node though.
If you give him credit, it increases the chances that he writes another good book in the future.

Just because you don't have free will doesn't mean your behavior is not affected by your environment.
What if indeed. Most static analyses tools (disclaimer: anecdotal) have very little false positives these days. This may be much worse in C/C++ land though, I don't know.
A LLM would do pretty/very well in a leetcode interview
Sure, why not, I'm just thinking out loud to be honest and am probably biased towards feeling quite comfortable using something like ChatGPT. I don't ask ChatGPT to write code for me but regularly use it to explore, a bit like a rubber duck that talks back.

Just curious - why would you not feel comfortable using it in an interview? Interesting to hear a different POV.
A QA manager understands that far better than I would. I would communicate with the QA manager.
I think what the author means is, that online/digital voting is more insecure than paper voting.

I don't think that is a biased take. An attack on paper voting is always going to be more complex thus making it more secure.
I work on a monorepo and MyPy and Flake8 was such a PITA at first but after you use it for a while, you really see the value of type checking. Makes unit testing better and the code more robust in general. MyPy is seriously a great tool, especially with pydoc enforcements.
This is exactly what I was getting at. Unless you are pricing a unique home in the $1+million (not considering NYC, SF and other expensive markets for this price) they really are a commodity for pricing purposes. Those boutique homes on the other hand have a very limited buyers market and there is much more marketing and presentation involved to create a narrative, both with the seller and the buyers agent.
Our models of science are all going to be slightly wrong if there actually is a divine being that intervened in the events of history and changed or updated the laws of nature six distinct times during the genesis of the reality we know and experience scientifically. If this actually happened and we don't account for it, but try to answer questions with the incorrect assumption that the laws of nature have always been static and immutable, we're going to derive incorrect inferences.
I'm guessing that it having a "meaning of life" section could have something to do with that impression?
Unpopular, but correct. I can't imagine that if anyone else had purchased the company that there would have been a different result.

At times I see X struggle and perhaps they cut a bit too deep on the technical side of things. However, so many companies have some much fluff on the payroll. A lot of evangelists, developer pursuing passion open source projects, conference swag product purchasing experts, assistant to the director of SQL editor tooling, etc.
That's a bit like claiming that an astrophysicist needs to understand astrology to make informed nuanced claims. That is obviously absurd, it is the people making outlandish claims with zero concrete evidence that need to prove their claims.

Just because religion and credulity have been with us a long time does not give them any special status with regards to truth or proofs.
Wasn’t the Wii’s YT client infamously long lived?
There's a myriad of reasons that precinct got torched and the community it occupied doesn't want it back.
Sure, but he's still the person that was determined would get paid.
> Whatever protection I'm getting from non-consensual surveillance, I am declining it.

So far as I know, the only way to do that is to leave whichever country is doing this, which — trust me on this as one who has done so for slightly messier reasons — is a right PITA even when going somewhere else that has a functioning society. I don't think there's any other way to make yourself an "outlaw" in the old-fashioned sense of the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
Great idea, hopefully this will cause people to no hold on to land for years without any development. Detroit has a huge problem with this.
No, they actually buy that info from 3rd parties.

The puffery is that they say "top 10%" when they're " 'top' 40%".
I'm pretty sure I could handily beat any handwriting fan in "synthesizing ideas into their own words" if professors provided small Anki decks of their material after class. Sadly I've never heard of anyone doing this.
I never said I didn’t grind or I won’t grind to move up. It doesn’t change my opinion.
Savings are not passed onto the consumer. If they were, we'd all be working 10hr/wk and have free healthcare and insurance.
I think the concept is to build houses resilient enough to avoid storm and flood insurance altogether.
It is a pity I can't upvote you more than once ;)
I've heard tell of a parallel set of rules where the game is cooperative instead of competative, I would love to play that.
ha, wasn't aware but couldn't miss Wikipedia pointing out it is a controversial idea (The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory) https://archive.ph/CUMSb

Nevertheless quite interesting set of ideas conceptually
Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Bcwg5gByU
I work with the parent commenter above and have overseen 500+ tech diligence projects. We get to see a whole company's tech operations, so our views aren't necessarily just "consultant in a suit".

> Your view of bandcamp seems like a cartoonishly perfect representation of a consultant’s perspective with very little understanding of what the company actually does beyond the balance sheet.

And your comment reads like a typical HN armchair technologist.

> It’s not a very complicated product,

Yup, here we go. Classic "I could build this in a week".

>and it’s why most folks absolutely abhor private equity.

Actually it's not. Much of PE is what is driving people to start companies, because it provides a reliable exit path. I know many tech founders who are grateful PE exists, otherwise they would not have the capital available to them to grow their companies. People typically abhor large cap PE which focus on financial engineering. Many growth PE firms (the ones the parent and I usually work with) are value focused, which means focusing on profits (EBITDA) and growth.
This false claim needs to stop. Was never true.