skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That stuff is exactly what the Tor Browser is for: <https://www.torproject.org/download/>. No need for any of that other stuff.
You say that like there's something almost un-professional about aspiring to sort a list of capacitors by stored energy.
Seems like HN broke the trailer on their site. Fortunately, it also lives on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBk1DK046k&pp=ygUMTmFldiB0cmF...

Glad they aren’t shy about their escape velocity roots. I swear, the ship in their logo looks just like a kestrel.
Not allowing the pension funds to be raided by the big steel and mining companies before bankruptcy? Job retraining and education programs? Relocation assistance? Healthcare and assistance for children so families didn't break up?

You can help cushion some the results of a disaster even if you can't stop the disaster.

I can go on and on. None of it ever materialized.

Reagan and Co. were definitely in the "We've done not a damn thing, and it didn't work." camp.
I haven't looked at the implementation yet but HashIds (the former project name) required a salt. It would be weird if they changed that.
That's a very specific form of "hiding information".

Hiding information about why or how much you want a good/service is absolutely not fraud, morally or legally (IANAL).

On the other hand, giving misleading info about something you're selling probably is.
So does stealth involve shutting down systems / power output etc.?

I always like a stealth system in space that involved not radiating, as well as avoiding active radar, too many sub sims in my youth :D

My favourite thing about The Expanse was when incoming radar stealth ships were finally identified by their bright drive plumes as they slowed for an attack.
That was the case for a while, but when they were updated to use GPLv3, Apple stopped updating them, probably to avoid licensing problems on iOS. Nowadays you can install them from Homebrew, MacPorts, straight from source, or other methods.
Yes, and Shannon published an early seminal paper for the random based NLP when deterministic NLP seems to be more intuitive at the time [1]

[1]Shannon, Claude E. "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English." Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 1951, pp. 50–64.

Edit: Thanks to ChatGPT I've managed to recall the paper
What do you mean, anti trust people immediately went after Google for removing 3rd party cookies. Can't win...
I always wanted to read, but really struggled with concentration. No mater how exciting the book was, I'd have to re-read the same page probably 3-5 times until I got through it, as my mind would wander. Uninteresting or boring stuff would be nigh on impossible to get through. Any reading "heavy" class in university felt like torture, which is probably why I enjoyed math so much.

Wasn't until I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and started on meds, that I could actually focus well enough to read books uninterrupted - and that reading became very enjoyable.
Some more discussion ended up over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38417493
https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/22/fednow-instant-payments-cre...

> FedNow launch hints at payments wars to come

> Pix, the Brazilian instant-payments system, was nonexistent pre-pandemic. Today, per Matera, a Brazilian payments software company, Pix sees 8.1 billion transactions per quarter. That's more than the next two highest payments methods — credit cards and debit cards — combined.
Credit card transactions have fallen by 20% in one year.
“Pix shows how intuitive payments can be," says Matera CEO Carlos Netto. "It poses the greatest threat yet to credit card dominance."

> Americans will be slow to give up their credit cards. But if merchants get aggressive in pushing us toward something more instantaneous, they could end up saving tens of billions of dollars in interchange fees.

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/fednow-could-sco...

> Walmart and Kroger are reportedly interested in using FedNow to give customers an alternative to card payments, according to Payments Dive, which cited comments from the retailers’ representatives during a panel at the Faster Payments Council spring meeting.

Soon.
Is there a similar condition for visitors to Times Square in New York City disapointed at not being mugged or seeing a rat?
> Nonstandard terminology warning: the author is using "autocorrelation" in a way I've never seen before.

That's a nice way of putting it. A more accurate description would be: the author is butchering the key essence of autocorrelation, since they don't clearly mention that it is a temporal relationship!

> What is autocorrelation?

> Autocorrelation occurs when you correlate a variable with itself.

Groan.

A standard definition is:

> Autocorrelation refers to the degree of correlation of the same variables between two successive time intervals. It measures how the lagged version of the value of a variable is related to the original version of it in a time series. Autocorrelation, as a statistical concept, is also known as serial correlation.
Love how simple the code is, with almost no external dependencies
Related:

The importance of cash in a technological society
(2 weeks ago, 123 pts, 161 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239286
knowing where the window is, you can generate something the user will click on a known position and then at the right time you trigger something like an administrator escalation privilege confirmation dialog and the user clicks that instead.

click jacking is always fun.
Sky's Recent IPTV Blocking Injunction Isn't Unusual, It's Extraordinary
Vintage Toilets in Pittsburgh
I was curious if the self assessment is done before or after the test.

Bing chat gave me this wild answer:

> The effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, participants may take a quiz and estimate their performance afterward, which is then compared to their actual results 1. Therefore, people estimate their ability before the test by Dunning-Kruger.

In the case estimation is done before: If you've had training, like a soup of ingredients, that matches the priorities and biases of the test it would be strange if no measurable effect remained.

If it's done after: You can create trick questions specifically designed to test if someone learned a specific thing. A good test would test for that. If someone didn't learn the specific thing they could give/guess the wrong answer with some confidence.

The design of the test has great influence on how poorly you'll think you've done. I would argue that the superior test is the one designed to fool you. Hans Rosling famously created a multiple choice test with 4 answers per question with average results below 25%.

On a more fascinating note, unskilled means all areas of expertise outside your own.

People who are universally unskilled in all areas are of course more likely to think they are unskilled. In reality these people know little bits about many things.

This in contrast with people who spend all day, every day, for their entire lives pondering topics inside their area of expertise. If you are doing one thing you aren't doing all of the other things.

Wikipedia had hilarious instances of experts contributing to countless articles accidentally ending up on the wrong page. Suddenly they have no patience, think they know everything and act like children. It's funny because you cant just ban valuable contributors.

I would love to see this DK test done with professors furthest removed from the area of expertise.
Bullshit? It's the government currencies that are bullshit. You're replying to someone who lives in a country that actually went through several currencies. They became so worthless they had to be replaced. If you search "Brazil" here on HN you'll find the top post is about how "fake money" saved my country. They essentially tricked everyone into believing this time was going to be different. I'm sorry but I don't believe these people for a second. And neither should you or anyone else.
Huh, everything about what you said seems off to me.

How did you anonymously fund your account at Mt Gox? Because I only remember them taking bank wires. I don't remember them ever having any kind of payment provider that would have accepted anything like pre-paid Visa cards, and in any case: by the time btc was at $15 - there was only one money transmitter (that wasn't a bank) allowing btc related transactions. I know this because I was debanked by two banks and had my paypal account suspended around that time.

How did you come to learn about bitcoin, this "dumb as shit" concept? Buying drugs on Silk Road? Because most of the early people came to it from reading the white paper after seeing it posted on the cipherpunk mailing list, or on a board discussing Austrian-economics/anarcho-capitalism... for those people it was a political act - not an investment (as you seem to view it).
In this instance, Google is actually the last browser to deprecate third-party cookies. Apple and Mozilla disabled them in their browsers over two years ago.
> And how many are just straight up lying to trump up their public image. A few names come to mind.

Considering how often some of those individuals trump up manic tweets at 3 in the morning, the answer might surprise you!
It will never be as safe. But we always accept various tradeoffs. Traveling in a car is less safe than sitting on the couch in front of the TV, yet people do it all the time.
Your analogy of a 'cows not producing plastic bottles of milk with neat little labels' beautifully illustrates the effort, thought, and skill that goes into programming and developing websites. Your dedication and passion for your work is genuinely commendable. Thanks for sharing this enlightening perspective!
Huh? 3 weeks vacation, $3,000 deductible and $8,000 OOP max for a couple. Not particularly notable, and higher than most OOP maxes I've had at private companies.

I mean, sure I can go to some concerts for free at the music school and use the makerspaces but that really doesnt make up for the $50k+/year I’m leaving on the table.
Did they clean up? When I was there a few years ago, most heavy traffic stations were full of litter and frequently smelled like piss.
No unfortunately (or not that I've noticed), though you drop out of stealth if you open fire or use your afterburners. It would be cool if you came out of stealth at half power; that would make it pretty costly, since power and power regen are the stats that dictate how long you can sustain your weapons in a firefight (missiles not withstanding).

That's very cool re: The Expanse. Alastair Reynolds, an astronomer turned sci-fi author, explores "weaponized astronomy" a lot in his books, especially the opening chapters of "Inhibitor Phase". Without too many spoilers, there's a ship that cools it's hull close to absolute zero and uses cryogenic gasses for thrust in order to maneuver, so that it isn't radiating IR. And they have to time their operations so that they aren't seen occluding the sun.
I see what you did there.

Also how many operate(d) far below their peak capacity due to sleep deprivation, and/or caused themselves other mental illnesses.
Strikes me as possibly cribbed from a recent essay... But if you found that brief discussion interesting, you may be interested in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y7WP47tL9zQwkLTqZ/a-conceptu...
Where are you moving off to?
Any local network usage should be nearly instantaneous.

My personal theory about the lag is that positioning the window is not synchronized to the JS thread, so the window moves before the JS thread is aware, which means you see the square move after the window has already moved.
We discussed this in a previous thread. The author is basically hypothesizing that perhaps people are so universally terrible at predicting their ability, their self-rating is like an unconditional random variable - just a random draw that is not influenced by their actual ability level at all.

If this is true, then when your actual ability is high, your self-rating is likely to be lower than your ability simply by random chance. For example, if ability ranges from 0-100, your actual ability is 99, and your self-rating is a uniform random number from 0-100, your self-rating is 99% likely to be lower than your actual ability. Conversely, if your actual ability is low, your self-rating is likely to exceed your actual ability level.

When it's explained clearly and simply, the criticism raises a lot of questions. Are people actually that bad at rating their own ability? I doubt it.
Wow - I had no idea Microsoft has put together such a deep learning resource. Fantastic.
Things have a way of getting worse. The cost of electricity to charge batteries (and my lights, air conditioner and so forth) keeps rocketing up.

A mileage tax is regressive in the extreme. Blue collar workers can't afford to live anywhere near jobs, and mass transit hasn't advanced at all, IMO, in 25 years or so.

The PUC used the incredible excuse to reduce buyback on home solar by saying that subsidizing "wealthy" homeowners burdened the less wealthy. BTW, they allowed a rate rise, so my electricity about doubled in cost.

I expect only negative progress on everything as long as agencies run things, and they are small enough to ... well, you know ....
> Anyway, what I really wanted to complain a bit about is the realm of software intended to be run on servers.

Okay.

> I'm not sure that Docker has saved me more hours than it's cost

I'm not sure what's the alternative for servers here. Containers have certainly saved me of a lot of headache and created very little overhead. N=1 (as it seems to be the OP).

> The problem is the use of Docker as a lowest common denominator [...] approach to distributing software to end users.

Isn't the issue specific for server use? Are you running random images from the internet on your servers?

> In the worst case, some Docker images provide no documentation at all

Well, in the same vein as my last comment, Docker is not a silver bullet for everything. You still have to take care of what you're actually running.

Honestly the discussion is valid, but I think the OP aimed at "the current state of things" and hit a very valuable tool that doesn't deserve some of the targeted cristicism I read here.

edit: my two cents for those who cannot bother and expect just because it's a container, everything will magically be solved: use official images and those from Bitnami. There, you're set.
Can you give examples where transactions result in negative sum due to asymmetrical power, and what the proposed solution is?

From my limited perspective, unless you actually do get rid of private ownership imbalances will exist and Power imbalances will exist regardless of the economic system.
I just want to do stuff with my life and have a nice home in a place I feel comfortable in. Why the heck do so many people in our societies work to yoke the pursuit of this sort of happiness to status games? I can guess why, rhetorical question.
I know I'm not smart enough on statistics or psychology to evaluate the article but it always struck me that D&K seemed to say something similar to what my grandpa said when I was a wee lad, "The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know", I know he wasn't the first person to say that, but he was the first person to say it to me. I don't know if D&K is autocorrelation or not, but I know that an awful lot of people seem to think they know more than maybe they actually do, probably me included. Hmmm, maybe the author of that article as well? I wonder if that occurred to him, seems like a glaring oversight not to at least recognize that possible irony.
Inflation basket isn’t a good measure for this. You need a custom basket that is mostly consumer goods and you need to pull out the hedonic adjustment because a tv is still a tv even if it’s slightly more modern
> It's a long term loss, despite a short term gain.

While I dislike market segmentation as much as anyone, it seems like it worked out ok for Nvidia.

It let them keep a (very) profitable segment of the business, which in turn financed other developments and let them become the GPU leader for a very long time.

No idea how it'll play out in the end of course, but we're definite past the whole "short term" time frame.
In my experience, productivity too.
I always take note of invoice numbers for this exact reason, they give you a feel for how busy they are.
More like stores have no inventory why bother going
GP mentioned Banner. The company that sells Banner (which uses Oracle on the back-end), merged with another, so now also sells a product in the same space that uses MSSQL on the back-end. The product that uses Oracle is priced lower than the one that use MSSQL by approximately the difference in DB license costs, so the two products come out pretty similar for total cost (I've heard that this pricing scheme was intentional to prevent one product line from cannibalizing the other after the merger).

Of the three public higher ed institutions within a 100 mi redius of me, all are Oracle on the back-end, two Banner and one Peoplesoft.

To the OP, your mom can watch university and community college job boards and search for keywords like "Banner" and "Peoplesoft". Banner jobs will likely be either one of, or a combination of Oracle DBA and writing PL/SQL.
I don't care about the energy usage as long as it buys us private global government-free currency. If that "inefficiency" is the price I pay it gladly. My only objection is the fact this energy is being poured into obsolete technology like BTC which doesn't provide us privacy. It should be going into Monero instead.
>Which is extremely easy to do; just a misplaced `mv` is enough.

Or `chown -r` or was it.. `chown -R`
> What if my website depends on third party cookies to function?

You have alternatives. Login, oauth tokens, other site-specific API keys, ...

> Aren't they an IETF standard

I don't think they are required to work the way tracking worked (across sites).
Maybe he was offered the job at Nvidia on the condition that he arrives with Valeo's code.
It's not 2500$ for the normal dish, and you just set it up on the patio on its legs. 250$/m for fast internet at sea is a freaking modern miracle as far as I'm concerned.
But we don’t know their true ability, only the results on one test. It could be they accurately predicted their ability but because of random chance they did better/worse than their guess. Then you would get the exact data that is observed.
I would think of it as annealing/gradient descent instead of some kind of Markov process where maybe you get lucky every 2-5 years. You are not breeding for the purpose of getting one animal with the trait (well you can, but not necessarily) so much as you are trying to influence a population of animals to display the traits you want over time. Maybe first generation you have an average yield of X across 100animals. And you don’t let the lowest yielding 50% breed (or just have them breed less so you can’t counteract inbreeding), now generation 2 has an average yield of 1.05X across 100animals. If you know the trait is heritable it seems pretty straightforward.

What’s challenging is I guess you can’t know a priori much about the actual genetics at play so at a certain point it becomes hard to know what’s simply phenotypic variance independent of genetics and what’s actually genes - it could take quite a while to be certain you’ve “converged”. Or for something more subjective/without an obvious strong genetic link, it could take a while to rule out the possibility of breeding for the trait at all.

Like for humans, I’m highly confident you could do some basic process over 10 generations to breed some ridiculously tall people. But it helps we know it has huge variance, is highly heritable, is easy to measure, and is polygenic. Probably a lot harder to try to breed “nice” people or people with thick skin. The fact dog breeders can do things like that is much more impressive IMO.
Ubuntu may have failed to replace Windows/Office, but there are more significant threats to Microsoft's market.

Some big companies (like the one I work for) are scrapping MS Office and Teams and moving everyone to Google Workspace.

Consumers who only use computers for web browsing are less likely to need Windows PCs - they could switch to Chromebooks, iOS/Android tablets or phones.
Hahaha, thanks for the flash back. Waaay back in m1975 when I was a freshman in college studying EE one of the first things they made us do is program a PDP8 manually with the switches and load the bootstrap loader for the paper tape. By then I had already played around with an Altair 8800 in high school running basic and cassette so I thought it was stupid at the time but then later I appreciated what I learned about machine code. Very cool web page. Great memories.
I was hoping it was trained ground up on old texts only. Now we don't really know, when it says something archaic, if it's because it's "pretending" to be old school, or because that is what it truly believes.
Our universe is a closed system. We cannot change its overall heat content. We can only move heat around within it.

Without tapping into another universe - which we're nowhere close to being able to even theorize about - all we have the ability to do is create a localized heating crisis within our universe.
Every metro feels like a miserable experience when compared to what you have in Tokyo. This extends to trains in Japan in general. Transport is expensive in Japan, but quality is unmatched on all aspects I can think of: timeliness, reliability, service, comfort, security, cleanliness, extensiveness,... From what I've heard, working for JR (Japan Rail) is considered a honor.

I think the Paris metro is average-good compared to my experience in other countries. It has its quirks, and strikes are a thing but I have used it extensively (I have lived in Paris for several years) without big problems, and I arrive most of the time within a few minutes of the expected time (in Tokyo, that's seconds!).
It's the Kestrel from EV: Nova (which as we all know is the ship that singlehandedly put Krain Industries on the map), with a little bit of red added.

They're pretty shameless! Lots of the ships are pulled from EV: Nova with cosmetic changes (no idea about the legality, I suspect they got permission but I haven't looked into it), and there's a setting that skins the UI to look like EV classic.
I am pretty sympathetic to a CSPRNG being the default in standard libraries and so on. The relative performance has vastly changed since the first stdlib random()s; modern hardware- or SIMD-accelerated functions run at GBs/second per core, and CSPRNGs are flawless PRNGs--no fussing about whether PCG's subtle patterns matter--but the reverse is definitely not true.

Making the default secure would be a pretty significant mitigation against something that commonly makes "common security bugs" lists like https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/wea...

If you consume many GBs/s/core of randomness, or you're writing a homebrew NES game, sure, you have a special case, code up a non-CSPRNG. But that isn't a reason for the default for everyone to remain a function that needs a warning label.
This looks great! Thanks!

What is the download process like in terms of parallelism? Serial? Limited to n? Etc?
I think what you're saying is that Max Planck knew a thing or two.
I understand the need for such a thing, but the wild amount of indirection that is needed in microservices world is astounding.

Hmm, that request didn’t make it through! I wonder if it was dropped by the database, the business logic, the spring http-handling framework, the retry annotation, nginx reverse proxy, the authentication sidecar, the “ambassador service”, the SQS queue, the internal VPN, or cloudflare?

Just writing it out makes my brain hurt.
The case in the original article is not patents at all. Closer to copyright? Idk if it's actually copyright or some other trade secret law (? sorry, don't know much about non-patent IP law)