skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's Dennis Ritchie's recounting of it[1]:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/labscam.html

[1]: Which it turns out I submitted to HN a long time ago[2], but neither that nor any of the re-submissions over the years have had much discussion[3].

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2404615

[3]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=labscam
My company is largely remote at this point and is moving away from CA for cost/tax reasons. For some portion of companies this is just one more reason to move headquarters.

That being said, I live in a pretty population dense area and my largest cost by far is dedicated home office space. It would be nice for my company to pay for that but it would have also been nice for them to pay for gas for my commute when I had one.

I think CA is likely overplaying their hand. They are not the place of choice for many remote employees (because of taxes) and are trying hard to not be the place of choice for remote companies.
They automated the intent from their free will
The Swedish labor market is in large parts regulated with deals between employers and unions, Sweden doesn't have a legal minimum wage for instance. There's no law forbidding strike breaking, but it's very uncommon and against the spirit of the Swedish labor market since 1938, when the Saltsjöbaden agreement was signed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement
> When you take an action as aggressive as a strike, what exactly prevents the company from making an aggressive action in response.

In that part of the world, the implicit threat of further escalation from the other side.
Keeping in mind, this holds true in a runaway fashion if the only bottleneck to more intelligence is further intelligence.

I suspect physical limitations similar to how many runaway processes in the universe are more logistical than exponential in nature.
That'd be totally logical if there wasn't a large amount of investment money tied up in commercial real estate - we've seen a deluge of articles about how detrimental WFH is and many of these are coming from investment firms tied to commercial real estate. We're currently losing the battle of advocating for WFH even though logic is on our side - we don't need to give investors more ammunition for the propaganda mill.
I've got two monitors and a laptop on 1/3 of my computer desk. I'm huddled on a corner literally the point is right where I work. My mouse is 10cm from the desk edge. It sure feels like I need extra room.
This has been done in the industry from very early on and is typically referred to as "Contextual" advertising. I and the company I co-founded are huge proponents of contextual as it generates positive ROAS (return on ad spend). The "problem" is that a contextual impression typically sells for less than an impression that is leveraging audience (user) data, so there is a tremendous incentive from middlemen to collect and peddle data - so much so that the entire industry all but forgot about contextual for almost a decade. I do think however that the promise of accuracy in audience data is very much oversold and not worth the tradeoff in user privacy, particularly in the loosely coupled world of programmatic advertising, which is anything in the open web and not something like walled garden (facebook) ads.
I think I have basically the same opinion. It's not so much that I believe homeschooling is amazing in-itself, but rather that the public education system has so clearly deteriorated that it seems borderline criminal to subject your kids to it.

The question for me, personally, is private school vs. homeschooling. If you can avoid many of the downsides of public education via choosing the right private school (and being able to afford it), I do wonder if that would be superior to most homeschooling setups.
The age old question: how many innocent people we are ok with convicting in order to convict the guilty ones. Personally, I don't think a for profitbcompany should even play the smallest role in that.
Does this mean independent contractors and small (1-2 people) companies can start deducting these things?
That scene has been elided from recent reruns!
I don't think so? The full quote that I pulled out a piece of was:

> The monolith crowd claims it's easier to change/rewrite code in a monolith because it's all one big pile of yarn and if you want to change out one strand of it, you just need to know each juncture where that strand weaves into other strands.

I'm saying, in the monolith situation, with proper static analysis tooling - which even languages like python and ruby have nowadays - you don't "need to know" how all the strands weave into the other strands, you rely on the tooling to know for you.

And in my experience, static analysis tooling for navigating across service boundaries is, at the very least, far less mature, if not just entirely non-existent.
Open-source visualization toolbox for C++
A brand new account fishing for confidential info, that when asked why people should do so has gone off the deep end and started calling me names. Telling me to move to a corrupt country where I'd be welcome, etc.

To me (!), that doesn't seem like a level headed person that should be entrusted with anything important. You may feel otherwise of course. ;)
It is, and article hit pieces like this are exactly why it will continue to expand. Newsflash, there’s an actual large portion of the population that more and more doesn’t want what is taught to their children regulated by the government.
Feature request: Any chance of a "back in time" slider? I'm going camping this weekend for a bike race in Utah. Even there I don't recall being impressed by the stars there, compared to my childhood in Kansas, where I could see the Milky Way from my front yard. It would be interesting to compare this to what it looked like 30 years ago.
sounds like a bad CS program
maybe find a better college?
> underlying problem is the completely unregulated nature

No that’s literally the main benefit. People actually get to teach their own kids without state indoctrination (either left or right.)
Reminded me how i loved Arj back in the day, auto-splitting games to 1.44 disks to copy to friends' machines.
I always imagine if 23andme existed in the 1930s. Would have made the job of certain groups much easier. But that will never happened again.
There’s a whole spectrum of “home schooling”. At one end you have parents teaching their own kids, maybe using some online resources, libraries etc. but for many it is more like group schooling which is almost like a charter or private school where you join with other “home” schoolers but don’t have a traditional teacher and administration, it’s basically the remote work approach of school vs the in-office approach. Then you have actual private schools with a more traditional building and teaching method. And finally you have public schools, the default choice which used to be seen as the gold standard in terms of equal opportunity, but let’s forget about that because schools are “indoctrinating” kids now.
It's easy to understand why people looking up at this might consider it the work of the super natural.
You are most likely biased. I use RAR for most of my own larger archives, even on Linux (i use WinRAR via Wine - and yes i bought WinRAR some years ago :-P), mainly because its compression is much faster with comparable results to something like 7z/txz/etc.

Though i rarely distribute stuff in RAR.
This precisely. There's so many perfect little tools in the *nix environment, stable as rocks. There's one-character tricks in text editors that nets what you want from MSO or 90% of what people generally want from PS/Gimp/Krita, all while using the same text encoding that's been in use since 1974.

The big gap in users is between "computer familiarity" and "computer proficiency". People associate environments with home, and the older the enterprise user base is, the more they want their mouse menus and clicker buttons. Introduce a text interface, say so long to 90% of the enterprise users . . even if the windowed equivalent is a hellish nested circular menu labyrinth no one can use the same way twice running.
Don't be silly. This was a level-headed ruling that avoids retarding the progress of science and the useful arts.

I'd really like to see people drop the inequality argument. If you actually cared about that instead of virtue signaling, you'd push for a mandatory GPL-style license that forces models to be available to anybody that uses them. That would avoid trying to unsuccessfully put the genie back in the bottle, while also preventing a few companies from benefiting at the expense of everyone else. Just like OpenAI's original mission of making AI available for everyone, before they got dollar signs in their eyes.
For work, video games soundtracks (OST) work really well since they're not distracting. Some good ones: Cuphead, Guilty Gear XX, Doom Eternal, Skullgirls.
Perhaps we could have some sort of notable public figure that certified the change of names, so that legal and social structures depending on those names can be notified, records kept, and so on. Perhaps we could call these people "Judges".

Do we really need new rituals around identity like this? can't we use the existing ones?
I would much prefer “backpack funding” aka vouchers. The blue-state city I live in spends almost $25k per student per year and apart from a few magnet schools they are atrociously bad. Like the high school my kids would have to attend if I wasn’t wealthy had a student murdered outside of it a few years ago.

If you gave parents even 1/3 of that money the state would save a fortune and parents would be so much better off. The monopoly system of education we have is just so awful. I’m fine with having bonus benefits for special needs kids, and public schools should always exist to educate the high-needs students. But the system we have now is so laughably bad and segregated that anyone who defends it must have a financial stake in keeping it running.
This Didn't Have to Happen
I (in my 40s) finally gave in and got some reading glasses. Good decision. Now everything on my screen looks crystal clear and sharp and I can make the fonts as small as I like without eye strain. They do make distance vision blurry, though, which is annoying.
Did you use off the shelves DNA tests or something more complex and expensive?
It might be driven by transparency/security.

Safely letting users easily see what's in a suspicious RAR before just blindly extracting it or opening it in third party software (possibly with known/unknown exploits) sounds like a good security feature for an OS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-barefoot-bandit-colton-harr... and https://www.historylink.org/File/22562

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/barefoot-burglar-breaks-int...
> "Won't someone please think of the children^W cheaters?" This argument is preposterous. If you want to solve multiplayer game cheating, there's no solution other than to make your game fully server-based and stream a video feed to the client."

This isn't really enough these days. There's proof-of-concept videos on YouTube of people developing ML-Image Recognition aimbots that move a physical mouse.
we started with scheme, then C and then C++
It Can Take All Day to Clear 100 Miles of Road in Wyoming's 'Little Siberia'
Most definitions of ROI refer to monetary return. That's why it's typically a percentage.

Using concepts like ROI for non-profit operations is one of the signs how everything is made to emulate business.
I would prefer that my employer consider some of my expenses for working from home to be expenses rather than things that I pay out of my salary.

Suppose I have $500/mo in "real" expenses. I'm better off if my company reduces my otherwise-salary by $500/mo and gives me an expense reimbursement for even $400/mo. That $400/mo is non-taxable to me and tax-deductible to the company. So, the company saves $100/mo (the difference between $400/mo and $500/mo), and I have an extra ~$100/mo ($400 - $500/mo * (1 - marginal_tax_rate)), assuming a marginal tax rate (combined fed/state/local) of 40%.
In what way? What are the "necessary terms"? I honestly have read some of that legislation and didn't get clarity.

GDPR created a lot of burden for small companies and at the same didn't seem to offer that much protection against abuses from the likes of Google/Facebook.
Oops. This was not a weird thing to say, I misunderstood.
> Homeschooled kids frequently have to learn how to adult all at once

How does sitting in a room with a bunch of kids, all of whom are within one year of you in age, with an authority figure at the front telling you exactly what to do, teach you "how to adult"?

It might prepare you for Army boot camp, which is the only "adult" place you're likely to encounter that kind of environment. Even prison usually has a range of age groups.
Formbricks is a really awesome product.
If animal sacrifice became common again, I would expect articles to mention the fact that it was a human practice for millennia – and not pretend it's just a fringe thing those pesky Other People invented.

Homeschooling was also the default thing a ±century ago, while you'd need to go back pretty far to find true animal/human sacrifice in European/European-American culture.
Your Phone gives your mind what it likes most: Endless possibilities for novelty
For something more general, you'll have better luck on "Who's hiring" (tomorrow should be posted).
I'm being selective on something very specific ;)
More moving part. A network call can fail in more ways than a function call. Also something no one has mentioned until now, the more "services" you have the more of a pain in the arse it is to get a development environment running.
> and what makes you think windows users update their devices every single generation?

They don't, but the difference is that Windows users generally don't know or care about processor generations. In contrast, it's common for Mac users to know they have an "old" Intel-based Pro, an M1 Air, etc., and to use that knowledge to help determine when it might be time to upgrade.

You can test this by asking Windows users what CPU they have. For the few who know and who have an Intel CPU, you can ask what their Brand Modifier¹ (i3/i5/i7) is. If they know that, you can ask what the 5-digit number following the Brand Modifier is — the first two digits are the Generation Indicator¹. I'd be surprised if more than 0.01% of Windows users know this.

¹ Intel's name
> Everything I’ve read about Mozilla seems to say that they only spend a small fraction of their income on Firefox.

They spent 88% of income in 2020. 56% in 2021 through a combination of more income and less expenses. Mozilla Foundation expenses were 7% of of all expenses in 2021. What did you read? Where did you read it?
Life insurance doesnt apply to obamacare mecs.
That makes sense. And I'll add that feeling the reward was energizing. For whatever reason, I experienced interest from a few girls in high school even before I made much of an effort, and I had just enough success in my first two years of college to keep me going even when it wasn't going well.

I'd compare it to the sport of golf, in which it's well known that hitting just one good shot (straight and pure) in a hundred will keep a beginner playing for the next thousand shots because they feel sure that they can do it again.
What? In my experience, RAR is extremely un-Linux. It's not free software and not command-line friendly, and it seems mostly to be used by piracy weirdoes who need to split up files for uploading to newsgroups.

If you're on Linux, you make .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or something. Or .zip, I guess you see sometimes. But RAR? That's a windows people thing, in my experience.
Microsoft just fucked all disabled people. Bravo!
Yes, share of voice is a lot simpler to reason about and is still done nowadays. It all comes down to yield maximization. One buyer may buy x% of impressions of y quality, so the publisher/website will try to extract as much value from the remaining impressions by auctioning them. There's certainly a lot of lemons that are created in that process.
Very interesting results, but to imply that this is some kind of security vulnerability is humorous to me. Trying to prevent “prompt injection attacks” is the equivalent of trying to string replace quotes out of your SQL query. mysql_real_escape_string() anyone?

What are people doing with these LLMs where the worst thing that can happen isn’t just the legal team saying “We don’t want our AI to be tricked into saying something controversial and a user screenshotting it”?
> How else do you think a transcript should work? What makes you think a random private school transcript has anything else backing it up?

Are you saying things written on a fancy letterhead with a stamp can't be unquestionably trusted?
> Libraries exist? Do you think books fly onto library shelves for free? As far as I know, someone bought them. Your neighbour or friend also bought the stuff. I suspect you're not being straight here, I just have to ignore this whole line of reasoning since it seems so absurd.

First, there's this thing called a deposit library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit

Second: I, as a user of the service, who learns things, still pay nothing.

Should I be required to directly pay for the things I learned from, or is it sufficient that someone is? Because if the latter, then picking up a book from a normal (non-deposit) library, showing it to an OCR system, and having an AI learn from that, would involve just as much payment as I ever made to read a library book (with the possible exception of late return fines, I can't remember if I ever had any of those).
Don’t forget the need to send “naughty” files through corporate email. If you attach a .py/.bat/must-be-a-virus-extension, the entire message can get silently blocked. Compressing it with a trivial password can be mandatory.
It's funny how so much of social conflict today basically boils down to: industrial systems put in place in the 19th century aren't working anymore.
Yes it is. People forget this because they live in a bubble. It’s like remote work, nice for the laptop class, but not possible for the person growing your food and manufacturing your tesla.
What a weird example. Sacrifices have not been common in the west for thousands of years and the majority in the Middle East for over half that time as well. Seems like a bad faith gotcha
That is kinda what they're attempting to do with their move here.
This is how technology works. Bulldozers effectively replaced people with shovels. Excel effectively replaced accounting clerks. Generative AI effectively replace artists (to some capacity).

Most people care only about the output of a system, not about who the system replaces.
I found some scammers who were registering portions of public addresses as URLs. Not sure where they scrapped them from but it was surely to get around detection.

URLs would be like 123NotRealSteetCA, or even otRealStreetCalifornia, where NotRealStreet are actually real US addresses or portions or real addresses.
> any software of any version that doesn't force auto-updates (e.g. Chrome, Skype) can also be "finished" if the particular user is satisfied with that old version

That’s obviously not true. WordStar 4’s output is interoperable with newer software, it runs on today’s hardware with a little work, and a user won’t be under constant threat of getting hacked because they’re running an old version. It is safely “finished” in a lot of ways the other software Martin was using when he settled on WordStar is not.
> there's no significant money to be made here [...] Not that many people use non-Xbox controllers to begin with, and whatever licensing fees Microsoft will charge manufacturers may very well be offset by the costs of running the licensing program itself.

Ah yes, original (or licensed) game console accessories, the well known non-profit operation...

Yes, console prices are sometimes subsidized, but never accessories, quite the opposite. Or do you seriously believe that it costs MS or Sony $70 and more to manufacture a wireless gamepad?
23andMe website > settings > Research & Product Consents.

There are three options:

- Research Consent Document: Allow 23andMe researchers to use your genetic information to study a variety of topics, stripped of name and contact information and aggregated. May involve 3rd party collaborations including non-profits, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions. Results of research may be shared publicly.

- Health Records Project: Connect your data to your healthcare providers using "Human API"

- Individual Data Sharing: This is a supplement of the first one and includes additional data points, most of which come from interacting with the website.

This information is available directly on the page I referenced, not hidden in a ToS document.
The US and the USSR were both the biggest economic powers and the biggest industrial powers back then.

If anything, I think nukes actually reduced their strategic dominance because it prevented conventional conflicts because the fear of escalation and they couldn't use it nukes aggressively anyway (the US / China/ USSR love triangle in the 60-70 is a good example of that).
ooo, what are you working on?
That doesn't resolve the false positives, it just takes people who've been marked by an algorithm and puts them somewhere they're guaranteed not to have fun playing the game they bought.
> Extremely wealthy home schoolers with tons of resources have kids that perform well in college and have strong lifetime earnings. Everyone else not so much, unprepared for college, earnings well below their peers.

So... exactly the same as public schools, then?
2048 comes to mind as an example of such finished software
Is Disney's EPCOT returning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
Public schools are highly regulated, and are on average horrible.

I'd bet a lot on parents caring more about their kids welfare than regulators.
That’d be pretty incredible if it plays out in reality once products are released. Though it sounds too good to be true.

I’m skeptical since Qualcomm has failed for years to catch up to Apple processors in the smartphone market. So why would their first effort in desktop processors be so much better?
there's a 3x hill name in Pilton, uk/ on the site of Glastonbury festival

"You see, in Welsh (Romano-British), PEN means hill. In a slightly different version of Gaelic (more common in Ireland and Scotland), ARD means hill. So, Pennard Hill is "Hill Hill Hill". For generation after generation, newcomers to the region have been referred to "that hill over there" - and completely failed to understand. A few more millennia, and the name may be longer than the hill. "

from https://www.strum.co.uk/twilight/pennard.htm
I've lived all over the country. I was homeschooled as well and have a number of friends who were.

Anecdotal evidence is going to vary certainly and effect is highly dependent on the parent. But I've been around homeschooling groups for over 30 years now and the balance of them have been significantly ahead of the public schooled.
The kind of world he is advocating is just the real world as it is. You have to be extremely naive or privileged to think otherwise
You can already deduct many of these and should be. Talk to an accountant but deduction is usually ratio of usage for work vs personal. Also, keep your personal and work expenses very separate in case there is ever an audit.
With digital IDs becoming more integrated in daily life you would probably never even see the job posting.