skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For dark net markets, it was commonly used to extract a ransom or to make other websites aware of their DDoS capabilities so that others pay the ransom too. But for a clear web website it's probably not a monetary incentive
> haven't gone through the kind of reign of terror that Scott's interlocutors claim they should have

There's another point about this as well. Scott claims in the article that his "alternate model" makes better predictions than his "Reactionary model" (which is something of a straw man, but let that pass). But if we look at the cases he cites, here is how they actually stack up against the models:

French Revolution: Ended up with Napoleon taking power as Emperor, i.e., a monarch. Sure looks more like the Reactionary model to me.

Russian Revolution: While the USSR did end up falling apart of its own weight after decades of terror gradually morphing into somewhat less terrifying bureaucracy, what has happened to Russia since looks more like "repressive monarchy" than "government mellows out and does pretty okay".

Chinese Revolution: I suppose that the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted some features of capitalism in order to allow the country to actually have some economic growth might count as a sort of "mellowing out", but it would still be very hard to make a case that China's government is closer to "doing pretty okay" than it is to "strong repressive monarchy".

In other words, even if we agree that the US and UK have reached Step 6 of Scott's "alternate model", historically, those countries (and other countries in the British Commonwealth, like Canada and Australia) are the only cases where that has happened. Historically, reigns of terror brought on by repressive regimes have in all other cases led to new repressive regimes.

(Btw, this is not to say that the Reactionary model's claim that the new monarchy in its last step is an improvement, is correct. The actual historical facts are that the new repressive regimes are often worse than the old ones.)
It’s almost like google intentionally kills good projects. I still miss Inbox more than anything. The snooze feature on an email was so amazing.
I've worked on HR software for a large organization in the US that relatively frequently gets sued on hiring decisions.

One of the features that the customer desired was essentially an overriding, free-form, editor for the recorded information, as part of the "get all of the information for a case to be submitted to the court" bit.

We didn't do it, because the entire development team thought it was ridiculous, and the person requesting it retired before issue boiled over.
Mac Virtual Display to VisionOS only supports a single monitor.
By the same logic, chemists in the USA should work on nerve gas, because if they don't North Korea will?
> assuring you will have a say

Suppliers don't get to pick which house the missile lands on.
The pilot of AF296 claims the crash happened because the fly-by-wire system preventing him from being able to select TOGA and from pulling up. The official investigation still found the pilot at fault, but there were also claims and later investigation that Airbus interfered with the official investigation, leading to general distrust of Airbus and the fly-by-wire system.
Interesting you mentioned using X-plane 12 on your M1. I had considered doing the same. Currently play MS Flight Simulator sometimes via XBox Cloud Gaming, over a VPN to Nicaragua. It isn't bad, but X-plane seems like it could be better for me.
It turned out the US system depended more on human virtuousness than many of us realized. Personally I've been kinda shocked to find out how much was just based on norms and traditions with no enforcement at all.
> What kind of world do you live in where you equate ESG with being harmful?

ESG in principle isn't harmful, but it does seem to attract grifters that game one or two of the E/S/G letters to make their firms appear more socially responsible:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-12/it-s-easy-to-make-oil-companies-esg
https://www.offshore-technology.com/features/revealed-the-oil-gas-companies-leading-the-way-in-esg-2/
https://www.ey.com/en_us/oil-gas/what-if-oil-and-gas-operators-view-esg-as-a-catalyst-for-innovation
One thing I didn't see mentioned here (or the article) that I discovered recently is the "Heroic" game launcher that works in Linux. It lets you start and run GOG and Epic games on Linux. GOG has some Linux stuff, but Epic is allergic to anything but Windows.

It looks like Heroic sets up your wine environment for each game.

I've only installed one game from that, but it seems to work pretty well. Very slick too.
Also, we don't have to get all of the water from desalination. Southern California can use desalination, which makes sense to the ocean, short distances, and solar power. That frees up Colorado River water that Nevada and Arizona can use.

Desalination will probably never be worth it from agriculture, but agriculture should survive on the water they can access after people.
They should have named it C8, the have will be confusing. It also doesn't feel like much of an upgrade to the C3.
Totally fair, the dynamic has changed and so has the customer experience..
Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
> there isn't a single decision in my life I would pass off to the worst person I could think of

This is actually the point though.

You shouldn't have to give power to an individual. If you're going to, you should give that power to a group of individuals who have to agree for the thing to move forward.

And then have checks on that group as well.

I live in South Carolina and one of the things I like about how this state works is that the governor is virtually powerless, so you never really have to worry about who is elected. There's certainly some degree of power outside of the veto, but for the most part the real power is with the state senate.

There are pluses and minuses to it. On the plus side, it means that things are slower to change. On the minus side, it means that things are slower to change.
I think there is more of an expectation here to Google simple things for yourself rather than condescendingly ask for a source that is a few keystrokes away.
> No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks.

To add a data point: Not only have my laid-off colleagues helped to finish and smoothly hand over tasks, but we are now actively rehiring some of them back.

To be fair, the company didn't pull any BS like e.g. Cloudflare telling laid-off employees that they are underperformers. In our case, it was crystal clear that we've lost clients and don't have enough work and money for salaries to keep everyone and that that's the only single reason they are being laid off.
> "Cats kill about 20-55% of the entire US bird population every single year. Somewhere between 1.3B and 4B birds per year in the US alone."

Humans eat 8 Billion chickens per year in the US alone: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22287530/chicken-beef-fac...

Some 15 MegaKilos of chicken: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/chicken-c...
$1M personal finance and wealth management software now free and open-source
Siri must not like me, she never does what I want.

"Hey Siri, turn off my alarm"
(ignores me)

"Hey Siri, turn off my alarm"
(ignores me)

"Hey Siri, I'm going to buy an Android"
(turns off alarm, refuses to elaborate)
I miss Inbox too, but Gmail now has snooze functionality built in.
It's January 11 and the following companies have done layoffs so far this year
I think you’re making gps point. No customer wants or expects spam crap in the everything store. The everything store doesn’t literally need to sell “everything”.
If kiwifarms ddosed everyone that they didn't like... plus, if anything KF has been surprisingly resilient to massive DDoS without any 3rd party protection service since they lost CloudFlare and other providers. So for this one specific thing, I think lessons can be learnt from kf on how to mitigate DDoS without 3rd party providers.
Is it an unfixed exploit when Apple knowingly left it as is for whatever reason?
No. Ad hominem literaly means "to the man". Attacking the speaker instead of the substance of what they said is a textbook ad hominem.

You just don't like what he said because it's true.
Right. Amazon profits, at least in the near-term, from the enshittification of Amazon. Results are obvious: it's a shitty experience.
Historically, the fact that lives of the public are clearly on the line was part of the argument for allowing partial delegation of safety oversight. The idea has been that any engineer/manager making these decisions will be regularly flying themselves/loved ones, so is going to be suitably cautious. This differed from the situation in coal mines for example, where the miners exposed to the risk were socially/culturally disjoint from engineers/managers.
We've thought briefly about cell-level caching; or at least it's a topic that's come up a couple times now with our users. Perhaps we could add it as a configuration option, at the granularity of individual cells. Our users have found that `functools.cache` goes a long way.

We also let users disable cells (and their descendants), which can be useful if you're iterating on a cell that's close to the root of your notebook DAG: https://docs.marimo.io/guides/reactivity.html#disabling-cell...
>They can't reason logically, draw meaningful conclusions, or grasp the nuances of context and intent.

Can you come up with some examples that would demonstrate this on ChatGPT (GPT-4)? I'm really curious, as last time I tried that I was not able to come up with good examples.
Well, there are over 400K parts in a 737 and they're building more than one a day. How many of those need more inspection? How many inspectors do you want to apply to this problem? How much growth of the FAA? How many/long to do a ground up review of every Boeing inspection process? How much more do you want to pay for every flight? What will be the impact on Boeing pricing vs Airbus worldwide?

HN is pretty strange these days. One day gov't is the problem, the next it is the only solution. We need "streamlining" of regulation for more nukes, but more regulation of Boeing because a door blew off over 100's of millions of flights. We need to get rid of the FAA and ATC and automate everything with software controls to prevent runway incursions. But we need to ban autonomous cars.
See, e.g., Licea v. Caraway Home Inc., 655 F. Supp. 3d 954, 968 (C.D.Cal. 2023) ("Indeed, at no point does Plaintiff bother to explain why any of his cited authorities are relevant to the instant action or how they should apply. Every law student is taught a variation on the 'issue, rule, application, conclusion' (IRAC) method for legal analysis.").
Amazon definitely tracks returns in their A/B tests, along with impact on long-term projections of customer value. What they also track is ad and sponsored products revenue. The sad truth with most Internet products is that advertisers are really good customers. They will pay you a lot of money with huge margins, and it's really hard for a business to say no to that.
I read all the accusations in detail trying to give Gay the benefit of the doubt but I concluded that she intentionally copy-pasted paragraphs and changed only a few words. These weren't summarizations- t hey were descriptions of the work she did for her analysis, but copied text from other analyses. I struggled to explain her actions as "a person who in good faith was doing independent research and inadvertently, without intent, produced text that is similar enough to text she had read to cause a plagiarism detector to trigger".

To the best of my knowledge, in my PhD, and the papers I wrote, I never did what she did. If I was going to include an idea from somebody else, it was either very clearly stated how I obtained the info, or I read something, and I completely rewrote it in my own words. This is consistent with how I was taught, from grade school through phd, and with how nearly everybody learns to not plagiarize.

If an undergrad did the same stuff she did, they would be in serious trouble at the very least. Ive seen some academics attempt to minimize this (and others get worried that they made have done the same thing as Gay) but the consensus seems to be that she actively and intentionally plagiarized at the paragraph level.

If there are folks who think they've done the same thing (like Dr. Tillery) they should report themselves to their dean and have an independent (outside the school) analysis to determine whether their work counts as academic fraud.

Beyond that Gay simply did not have the academic record required for a University President and the real mistake was placing her in that role when she was unqualified. Those actions will have dire consequences for the board members who made those decisions.
While it is incredible how far these compatibility layers have come, I've been working a lot with getting old games running on modern Windows and I'm continuously impressed at how few barriers there are. The amount of backwards compatibility built into the platform is staggering.

I would like to also shout out other projects like dgVoodoo, dxWnd, IPXWrapper, and the massive amount of work that's gone into sites like WSGF and PCGamingWiki. I've yet to run into a game I can't get working (and I've been going into some pretty obscure stuff) and the amount of work put into preservation is heartwarming to say the least.
You provide quotes but no attribution for those quotes.
Not only does this almost never happen to me, but Amazon has added a Refund button that works automatically. If you select “Remove from Library” within a time window, it asks if you want a refund now. I have run into some bad scans, but never had a problem getting an instant refund. What’s fascinating is how different experiences are.
Clippy has entered the chat.
Ads alongside content is worse than no content at all? How?
Spiritual successor to https://github.com/gravitational/gravity ?
I dunno, sentiment recognition and coordinated downvoting seems pretty simple for AIs ;-)
Down 90% since 2000.
Absent considerations about identities being stored by third parties, what is the downside of targeted ads? I found myself wishing for more targeted ads after listening to yet another random fast food ad the other day.
People always complain about pip and python packaging but it’s never been an issue for me. I create a requirements.base.txt that has the versions of things I want installed. I then:

pip freeze -r requirements.base.txt > requirements.txt

Install is then simply:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Updating / installing something new is a matter of adding to the base file and then refreezing.
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Hope the community finds this helpful. Remember – you have 30 days to file from the day you got your stock. Venture deals have sometimes blown up because the founders missed filing this back in the day.
Elbrus-8S
Good profit stems from good products, in this case aircraft.

Boeing's entire business is to make good aircraft.
Clearly not. This is wishful-thinking.
> Alexa for telling me that I have some notification before starting my timer

Device > Settings > Sounds > Notification > none

"Do Not Disturb" will suppress notifications without affecting alarms and timers.
Technically true, but that ignores the unusual rate of change.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Ah but which one to pick? There's 20 with different capitalized names, all using the same 3 stock images, all with a mix of good reviews and reviews for entirely different products.

It's good to have such choice.
Amazon's founding principle of "customer obsession" has been turned inside out -- at least when it comes to thinking of us consumers as the cherished customers. Those days are over.

The new "customers" at the center of Amazon's business model are a global assortment of insta-merchants that don't make the products, don't handle their own logistics and don't have recognizable brands. So -- whoosh! -- in comes Amazon as the ultimate partner/toll-collector. For a fee (or actually for many fees) it will shine up these impostors to the point that they can conduct a lot of business on the Amazon platform.

When Amazon provides distorted search results, my hunch is that it's providing boosted listings for whatever pseudo-merchants are willing to pay up. Or that have agreed to buy other Amazon services. And, hey, Amazon is going the extra mile to make them feel well-treated
If we cared about birds, the discussion would be about cats: https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mor...
> or are these intended primarily for hobbyists?

Cheap ICs and hobbyists-only do not go together. Cheap hobbyists ICs are almost invariably cheap because there's substantial commercial volume, and someone figured they could work for hobbyists as well.
> I think you'd have to make some outlandish claims if you wanted to connect most of the material you're trying to bring in to the direct topic of this piece.

I disagree. See the other comment I just posted upthread about what happens when you compare the actual historical events in the cases Scott cites to the two models he describes, the "Reactionary model" and his "alternate model". The fact that the particular "liberal democracies" Scott references, the US and UK, do their "state-sponsored violence" by proxy instead of directly is not a coincidence: it is what allows those countries to claim that they are "liberal democracies" and don't have "state-sponsored violence" for the benefit of their voters, while blaming those "repressive regimes" for all of the mayhem in the world--when in fact the "liberal democracies" themselves are just as much to blame.

> Stuff like "leftward-trending liberal democracies tend to become more and more permissive of egregious domestic political violence in other countries over time"

While I think this is actually true (the US has caused far more mischief recently in the name of "spreading democracy" than it did in the 19th century, for example), it is not the argument I was making. The argument I was making is simpler than that, and is summarized above.
Without a definition of "true understanding" this is meaningless.

Saying they "can't reason logically" is also purely subjective - you out the benchmark much higher than I do, given I've seen ChatGPT provide reasoning at a level many humans fail to reach on a regular basis. This does not mean it's good at it, but that humans reasoning ability is often rather poor.

I see nothing in this other than an argument from them not being good enough now coupled with unsupported implied speculation of what understanding and reasoning and intelligence implies that we have little evidence either for or against.

All in all this comes across as blind belief.
> Does anybody really think

Flamebait. As if anyone who disagrees is naive.
This is awesome. Thanks for releasing all of this Josh.
Not all life though right? Usually accompanied by extinction events. Worth remembering that too.
Can't wait for the next generation of porn addicts. Bring on the class-action lawsuits!
It's the hammer the fed knows how to use to fight inflation.

Hopefully this time it won't tip the entire economy into recession, but I feel for all the folks who are being laid off.
To clarify, there are no academic theories about where the Creator came from. Academic research on the matter would have to pre-suppose the existences of a Creator, and so far as I know there is no research group willing to take that as given.
Yes, there's 13 stores left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears
Metrics in Pinterest's Internal Growth Dashboard (2019)
Looking forward to the WASM integration. Being able to use plain filesystem such as nextcloud and able to run it there would be great. I have been trying to get juypterlite wasm in my next cloud alternative that I have been working so would love to try this.
"people in charge" doesn't just include elected officials, it also includes heads of corporations. Checks and balances has to apply to them as well, meaning that regulation is necessary.
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There's no love here. This is pornography we're talking about.
Olive oil consumption is beneficial to human health...
"A 2014 meta-analysis concluded that an elevated consumption of olive oil is associated with reduced risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular events and stroke," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet

Whereas...
"Theresa Cowan, 36, said she wanted to eat natural food like Mr. Johnson’s,"
"This month, more products, including powdered vegetables and pill supplements, became available on his website."
What is the difference in inner dialogue in happy vs unhappy people?

I guess the inner voice is what one strives to just observe and let be while meditating. After a good meditation session I feel less mentally tense (eg not clinging on to superficially important todo items).

Seems like inner voice is related to mental state in a major way. I have pretty severe adhd and am unmedicated so my inner voice is more like an old radio inbetween stations (= chaotic).
I bought another Macbook Pro because I've used Windows, Mac, and Linux and I like Mac the most.

I have an iPhone and I like that, too. I had an Android before.

Like you I'm not particularly price sensitive.

These are just my preferences, I don't think it makes me a cultist.
You’re not wrong, but it’s important to note that “life has adapted” means “billions or trillions of deaths”.
[January 2021] Boeing Charged with 737 Max Fraud Conspiracy and Agrees to Pay over $2.5 Billion: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...
They developed their own proof-of-work system to rate limit requests, using SHA256, implementation details here: https://archive.is/dfBVN

They also have servers in multiple countries. Some of these servers being blackholed by Cogent, by the way.
Centralized or Decentralized There Is No Question
I originally thought you were arguing that wind turbines should not be able to be installed on someone’s property if they can’t also go on the neighbors property, but now I’m not sure. Was your first comment sarcasm? Maybe I’m just misreading.
> let's say you want to show a welcome modal to all new users that sign up for your product.

Not sure if this is a good example; how many users sign up for the same product multiple times?
On [1] aren’t you off by several orders of magnitude, 1MHz is 1,000,000 Hz. You’re correct for 60Hz but then use that value for MHz which is quite a lot more clocks per second.
This is just all excellent. There are a lot of strange attitudes elsewhere in this comment section, ones that I don’t recognize from good senior engineers. Good ones realize that a lot of their job is improving the whole team. If junior engineers are constantly asking trivial questions, maybe they need to be taught to learn!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240112193755/https://www.amazo...
My favorite problem is "Hey Siri, navigate home" proceeds to open navigation and send me to a place that isn't my home. I can up open maps manually and click on "home" and it works totally fine, but for some reason, Siri finds a place called "home" that isn't actually my home to send me to.
I hate these kinds of titles. They can just recycle it again each year as progress will continue. It's like Apple's "our best device ever". Duh
Not OP, but probably because I don't have to waste 15 mins, and I haven't had a game fail me.

And I don't have to worry about Windows updates reverting the "15 min changes", or deciding that I need credits to use notepad.
More info here [1] and here [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_laser_therapy

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22l...