skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What amuses me most about all this is that the conversation immediately drifts back to electric blowers, as if blowing is the only way to tidy up leaves. More often than not, they're actually just blowing "the problem" elsewhere and you've still got to pick them up.

What's wrong with rakes and towed sweepers?
Language should be adequate to the context of a conversation. If you were writing a legal document, or some policy for a kindergarten it might make sense to make that distinction, but this is a public forum with many non-native speakers. Child-raiser is a concept pretty much all of us are familiar with and if you say child-raisers we'll understand you mean people using the service because they care for young kids.
>If you could find a book just going through the relevant bits you wouldnt really have to "learn math again"

Hard to find a book or a course doing applied math just for AI and ML. I was interested in learning the math needed to understand quantitative analysis and I was lucky to find some resources doing just that.
The next generation of the fastest web bundler 'farm'
Farm's goal is to be the real next generation build tool, inherit all advantages from existing tools, and to be fast, powerful, consistent, and providing best development experience for web developers.
The daycare wasn't free, at least not when I started in early 2007, and the waiting list was huge.

It wasn't presented that way through my long interview process where the benefits were discussed a number of times. I relocated from Australia with a young family, and the cost and wait time for childcare was somewhat of a sour note amongst the holy-shit-is-this-place-real feeling of my first few months at Google HQ.
It definitely got raided by trolls. The second post is Super Mario Goatse (nsfw).
You don't need state intervention to get monopolies; actually it's quite the opposite - economies of scale push for consolidation, and you eventually need government to intervene. Whatever it was known for, the Gilded Era doesn't seem to be associated with large-scale government regulation, but you certainly had mega corps. And given enough leeway, the mega corps will start to take on functions you'd normally associate with government - company tows, stores, and scrip as examples.
Apple Offers to Open Mobile Payments to Third Parties Amid EU Antitrust Case
Nothing is more repetitive than disco’s Silver Convention.
That insanely high figure is also why the predicted labor strike against automation of long haul trucking likely won't happen. Very few love the job and most who have experienced it quickly leave. It's one of those cases where not many will be put out of work should self driving ever come to be. Short haul on the other hand seems to be growing, pays better and probably is more difficult to automate.
> It's easy to buy whatever utopia you care to imagine when you have unlimited money.

It's easy to think you've bought a utopia; money buys a lot of blindspots.
> it does bring up the possibility of doing more with the same bug check callback feature.

Personally I would just want a power off that does not make me guess if will cause the raid volumes to need to rebuild.

But since we are in the realm of possibilities and wishlists, Magic SysRq commands for the windows kernel would rank fairly high. [0]

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysrq.htm...
me too? The file was named users.xls.exe and it just opened a weird black screen for a minute and closed. idk
in files/DCN1.TXT there is essentially a hosts file, and in it are a bunch of udel hostnames that still existed when I was in undergrad and working for the EE/CIS lab. The PDPs were all replaced by sun systems at that point, but still served central roles in the infra and likely had the same IPs. I remember having a few 128.4 and 128.175 addresses memorized for various networking configs. those two networks were supposedly originally David's, but he had gifted 128.175 to UD and as a result the computer in my dorm (or I guess my wrt54g) had a full blown public IP in that range.
That doesnt help you because another neighbor is moving out and blocking the second staircase with another couch. This is the reason why you should have three staircases and only two neighbors. Though a problem arises if a neighbor is able to block a staircase and start a fire at the same time. That has to be checked beforehand.
> Linux developers who refuse to maintain distributions that run on computers that are more than about 15 years old.

I for one like to express my gratitude to this unnamed hero.

(I ought to be careful with my words as I actually have an Sandy-Bridge based server, but really expecting software updates on such elderly hardware is nuts as would be to expose it to the Internet)
Maybe read something like this: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-...
:)
They don’t need product management leaders. They need product managers.
But it's also the reasons why you are listening to the music.

E.g. if I'm working I don't want to focus on the lyrics. And e.g. if I go for a run, I also want to dive deep into my own thoughts instead of thinking or interpreting the song.

I think there's just maybe more activities now where you listen music as an addition rather than the main thing to do, so you want it to be a pleasant and stimulating background vibe of the sort.

In the past, you didn't heave easy to carry on ear or headphones, but now it's so much easier to just listen to everything while doing other activities.
"Get started for free" and there's no pricing page at all. It's not explained in the FAQ either.
I think it is possible to reconcile by saying that human life is sacred, but all other life is as well (i.e. human life is not more or less sacred than other life, but it is worth protecting nonetheless, along with all other life).

There is also less and less of a need for us to compete against (and make use of) other animals, so it may not be necessary to view ourselves (and an aligned AI) as being on the "opposing team" to other life. For example, if lab-grown meat becomes widely available, it may be a reasonable policy to forbid the killing of animals for consumption (and any other unnecessary purpose).

A governing AI that believes "all life is sacred" may simply accelerate our path towards that. (Or, it may lead to some other horrible outcome, of course, it's hard to predict as aligning AIs is difficult.)
If someone has any advice on how to spread the word and get more users - that'd be great!
A society is just a collection of individual human relationships. We need to teach not just knowledge but character.
I guess I’m not allowed to mock people anymore.
It’s a person who commutes from Tracy and lives with 5 other people in a 3 bedroom house and doesn’t have health insurance because they can’t afford the subsidized rate nor the deductible. Their mask is impenetrable and only drops once they pull into the drive thru in Hayward for some McChickens to tide them over for the last hour of the commute.
> How is a system package manager hiding the difference in complexity between Go executables, Electron apps, etc?

Consider:

apt-get install myapp

You have no way of knowing if this will install a bundled copy of Chrome or not.

CGO_ENABLED=0 go install example.com/myapp@latest

You can be 100% certain that it will produce exactly one static executable (OR fail to build anything), that all dependencies are pure Go, inspect the SBOM, read the entire source (including the compiler, which is reproducible), and so on. There are certain ways to sidestep these guarantees, but these involve very dark magic and are non-portable.

Also consider that the former command merely installs a pre-built artifact - try building Chromium from source. How is this not hiding complexity?

> My point was that a sane system package manager has maintainers for the packages and should not accept to ship a full OS in a single package.

How do you make that choice? Where do you draw the line? Why does Emacs make the cut, but VS Codium doesn't?
But it would only belong to those who own the AGI systems
Those of us "of a certain age," may remember Todd Runtgren's Utopia Softworks Flowfazer screensaver.

He was an Apple Registered developer, and we'd see him walking around the WWDC, in the '90s.
They might've started with GPT and edited.
> Which makes sense, since people who "migrated" to Threads mostly done so because they disagreed with Musk on politics.

Seeing an inflow of abuse caused by the elimination of any semblance of moderation, coupled with not wanting to see racist and fascist propaganda pushed by god knows what bad actors, is not exactly adequately described as "disagree with Musk on politics".

You're making it sound like people stopped using Twitter because they had an irrational dislike for someone, when even long-standing advertisers decided to drop Musk's Twitter due to the cesspool of hate speech and propaganda that it became.
Relatively few people were able to take advantage of the on-site daycare because of long waitlists and exorbitantly high prices (sometimes as much as $4-5K/month). I remember when I first joined in 2009 there was a bunch of friction because new arrivals - those who had joined post-IPO and whose stock was then underwater - could not afford it, and so it was felt like it was a perk that went exclusively to pre-IPO Googlers.

Sometime in the early 2010s, it also ceased to actually be on-site. I lived near the Bernardo/El Camino neighborhood in the late 2010s and the daycare on the corner there is actually one of the Google daycares shuttered in the recent announcement. It's more like 3 miles from campus. Most of the folks I know who actually optimize for commute time have their kids at private daycares in the Middlefield area.
"Apart from all the many succesful products, everything they did was a failure" is an empty statement which can be applied to any company. So yes, you can say that about Alphabet. You can also mention that they have a market cap of $1.8 trillion and are the fourth most valuable company in the world.
OpenBSD might work accidentally, but NetBSD intentionally supports old hardware.
Now why someone wants to run current software on museum-piece hardware is quite beyond me though.
> Maybe don't be critical of open-source developers for not supporting your ancient hardware

You must be like 20. I assure you when you reach 40, a 15 year old device doesn't seem ancient. It's something you bought a couple years ago.
Music distribution has changed so radically in the last 30 years that I'm not sure it's meaningful to make historical comparisons. The Billboard Hot 100 was once based purely on physical sales, but now incorporates online streaming and radio play.

Charts have always been a fairly poor indicator of what people actually want to listen to because of the huge incentives record companies have to manipulate them, but they're a particularly poor indicator now. The snake is eating its own tail - streaming and radio algorithms heavily rely on chart placement to build playlists, but those charts are determined largely by streaming and radio playlists.
Truly a sad event. I never met him but found his work to be so well explained, even in writing and practice. Wrote him an email once and got an informative and kind response. Highly recommend folks to read his website to get to know how to write well and convey complexity in detail, as a story.
I’ve seen an Apple mapping vehicle in my rural UK village so I assume they are spending real money on maps.
> But that is not a major disadvantage for everyone. It’s a disadvantage in those areas only.

Yeah, duh.

However from the original experience with Apple Maps, it was very US-centric and especially California-centric at the start.

And I assume even Americans and Californians want to travel to places with bad coverage.

So yes, this is a total blocker for people that live in those (many?) regions and a major issue even for people that don't live there.

Edit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/14wo26t/apple_ma...

Apparently it's basically NA, Western Europe, Australia. So that's what, 1 billion people? The remaining 7+ billion people, tough luck.
65 bits is incredible amount of entropy. Why do you think that's not enough? I'm using 10 characters passwords of lowercase letters almost everywhere and I think that's absolutely enough.

2 ^ 65 / 20 / 365 / 86400 = 58 494 241 735

I don't think Google would allow you to bruteforce account using 58 billions of attempts per second for 20 years.
Psychosis and psychopathic (or antisocial) traits are very different psychiatric phenomena. They are not even similar, also psychosis is often temporary.

So maybe people should look for a different "smart" way of describing craziness. Or, if you want to use psychiatric terms, subclinic antisocial persobality disorder is most closely related to business success, as far as I know.
The Apple advert that brainwashed America
Are you really taking a discussion about audio and making some sort of niche invented case of making a sound card be the analog to digital conversion from a software defined radio?

Even in that case 32 bit sampling is nonsense, the resolution of detecting voltages is never going to be accurate enough to need 4 billion different levels.
It's not free. It requires students to sign a bunch of ToS "agreements" that are terrible. It locks students in to learning on their software or using their overpriced cloud offerings.
Making $190k per month with an AI dating assistant
Thanks for that list! One of my favorite Wikipedia-isms are these very “list of” pages.

I’m pretty sure it was Keyhole, for what it’s worth. Curiously, both Google and Keyhole are In-Q-Tel investments, although I’m not sure if that impacted/steered/influenced the acquisition, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605121646/http://www.busine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

From that page:

> As of 2016, In-Q-Tel listed 325 investments, but more than 100 were kept secret, according to the Washington Post. The absence of disclosure can be due to national security concerns or simply because a startup company doesn’t want its financial ties to intelligence publicized.

> […]

> While In-Q-Tel is a nonprofit corporation, it differs from IARPA and other models in that its employees and trustees can profit from its investment. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that in 2016, nearly half of In-Q-Tel's trustees had a financial connection with a company the corporation had funded.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160831020609/https://www.wsj.c...

Which is to say, apparently insider trading isn’t just “illegal except when Congress/the President does it, except when it is illegal, actually,” if I’m parsing all this correctly; apparently In-Q-Tel gets special treatment too, in some cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#By_members_of_...
PostMarketOS Wiki has an entry about your phone, but it looks like it is not even booting yet:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_6_%26_6_Pro_...

I didn't find any info about this device in other mobile Linux distributions' websites (Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, etc.).
I don't think we're losing knowledge of how the Internet works, but we're almost certainly losing knowledge of why it was done that way. I remember Bob Braden saying (and I paraphrase):

"When we designed the early Internet, we had a huge blank space to work in, and we agonized over what the best way to do things would be. Ever since, people have been filling in all the other parts of that space."

This was 20 years ago, but he's probably even more correct today. Of course they didn't get everything right by a longshot, but we're definitely losing the rationale for why things were done the way they were. As a result, it's quite common to stumble into old problems that had been engineered around before.
Rust GUI Xilem 2024 plans
What did I upgrade to 4 then? Vue router? I guess I got confused.
It’s far more 5D chess than that.

Search costs nothing to run relative to ad revenue. Microsoft makes each query require 100x the cpu usage because users expect an LLM answer for results.

Microsoft’s share of search goes from 1% to 5%. Their cost go up but their sale of ads increases and they get valuable IP.

Google loses 5% share of market but its costs go up 100x.

Google can no longer finance its other bets like Cloud so effectively.

Microsoft meanwhile has a more compelling cloud offering.

Google starts to lose more ground on Cloud.

Amazon (not an AI company) lose ground to both.

Classic Art of War, if your opponent is strong, attack somewhere they are weak.
Thanks for checking it out. We are providing a public env for free right now, will get the private env online next week. Pricing will be posted by then.
What's the way to go with backends that send emails using gsuite's SMTP?
Webb finds signs of possible aurorae on isolated brown dwarf
Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order
I just hope that Gmail itself (as client) becomes something other than a Less Secure App. Right now I have to keep that LSA switch going so that my main Gmail account can SMTP send mail with credentials from my other many Gmail accounts. I've never understood why Gmail itself is a LSA in the eyes of other Gmail accounts.
Evil is not something that applies to a person only. A company can be evil too. Look at facebook
Absolute nonsense!!

Don't believe them. They have filed for bankruptcy for January 23rd 2024.

THEY WILL GO DOWN AND THEY KNOW IT.

CRIMINALS !!!
I use Thunderbird which already had a release this year. It's been using encryption since forever.

Luckily I don't use GMail for my mail.
you probably can't - the report is probably a massive mapreduce over all of googles access logs - the kind of thing they can do once, but they won't add a button to the dashboard for you to do yourself.
is it available to all employees and do they all get on a single waitlist or do executives get a preference.
I just dont think it would really help that often. It is not the stairwells that are burning, it is some appartment on a floor below. Your problem is going to be smoke and visibility, not some couch blocking the stair. If those stairs are connected, you will most likely have smoke everywhere and will have no clue if one stair is safer than the other.
Id argue that neoliberalism is not just a meme and what the author, i think, refers to with LSC is an underlying systemic property of capitalism, that tries to do its capitalism thing in a saturated world.

Capitalism is great in growing, greed is not per se bad but these capitalist incentives start to cannibalize everything once growth hits deminishing returns. The "good capitalist times" end exactly here. Thats what makes it "late stage" (e.g. after the european conquerors took the americas, where growth was still easy. Or consider the chinese development).

You think this incentive structure, which actually explains well enough recent developments and can be seen pretty much everywhere -- you dont even have to actively look for it -- is just a meme!? To me, this smells like your bias to unreasonably dismiss the far-radical-left explanation. Your loaded language (like mine here) lets me suspect a distorted perception.
I'm going to headcanon -- you can headcanon reality, right? -- that that was just one in a series of events, of mischievous soldiers/maintainers adding the erection and generals/the local clergy ordering the giant clothed, with no way to know the original state of the giant.
Man I wish I could be infected with this disease
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But surely the research data isn't stored on a personal onedrive folder. I mean what happenes if the researcher resigns, the university loses the data?
You're not wrong, likewise I've heard Meta can be seen as the company that started the TC war by paying 99% for their IC positions.

Also TC wars bled into Finance rolls where typically the smartest quants were going to trading firms, now could go to FAANGS for the same comp.
> at the end of the day this is the only job where you get paid to build completely nonphysical machines. I press keys that go clack clack, logic gates go flip flop, the electrons go zoom zoom, and my bank account goes ding ding.

From this day, this is going to be my life motive. I've been reading philosophy since i was 18. Stoics were my favourites and helped me through hard years and situations. But now, everything makes sense.
So what you're saying is not only did he access the database without authorization, he also exfiltrated their customers' data and processed that?

Yeah, my sympathies just evaporated. He crossed a line when he used the credentials he didn't have legitimate access to. But then he kept running. At that point how he exactly gained access to the credentials is almost irrelevant.
Mens rea is a factor in the severity of a crime. Also the prosecution argued that mens rea was established by his act of opening the software in a text editor to look for plaintext strings (which they incorrectly described as "decompiling" apparently).

It's hard to see his behavior as merely negligent when he knew the server he was connecting to didn't belong to his client (even if he thought it only had his client's data on it) and used credentials he only found by analyzing the software itself. I don't think he had malicious intent but it can easily be called reckless behavior.

Remember that he wasn't testing the software for security issues. He was hired by a user of the software to find out why it had undesired behavior (producing too much log output). He discovered the security issue accidentally while already illegimately accessing the software provider's servers.

To add to the pile of strained analogies: imagine you have stored things in a self-storage warehouse and the company that runs the place has given you a token fob to hand the receptionist whenever you want to access your stuff. The fob can easily be opened to allow replacing the battery. You decide to open the fob yourself and find a keycode inside of it. Outside business hours you go to the warehouse and enter the keycode yourself because you want to check on your stuff. But once inside you find that all the storage containers are ajar and have no locks and anyone with one of the token fobs could use the keycode printed inside of it to access anyone else's stuff if they visit outside business hours and use the keycode themselves.

You can argue you just wanted to access your stuff but by opening the fob (viewing the software file in an editor), noting down the keycode (copying the credentials), visiting outside business hours (opening a manual database connection) and then entering the building to find your storage container (running queries yourself) you have clearly crossed a line even if you didn't intend to access anyone else's stuff.

Basically there are two separate things at play here:

- The contractor analyzed the software in a primitive way to find a connection string to a server not operated by his client and decided to try it out and go spelunking despite knowing it was operated and owned by a third party.

- While doing so he found out that the connection string allowed him to gain access to other customers' data and a lot of end user data he didn't expect to be in that database, which he reported to the software company as a security issue.

The software company was clearly negligent and may have run afoul of privacy laws, risking a fine. But the contractor also gained illegal access to a computer system and used that access to go spelunking. The latter is what the court case is about.