skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure where you are coming from.
Science has the Scientific method for proving hypothesis.

They developed a measles vaccine. Measles was almost eradicated. Deaths gone.

Anti-Science proponents stopped taking the vaccine.

Those people started getting sick with Measles again. And dying.

That seems pretty clear. A->B.

You don't have to invoke any mystical aspect of a belief in science that is causing misfortune.

Same with Covid. Red states/counties that are more anti-science, did not take as much Covid vaccine.
Their per-capital adoption was lower, and they had more sickness and death per-capita.

You can graph it and look with your own eyes. No mystical beliefs happening.
Part of me is actually happy that Google lost its shine. A part of this is certainly schadenfreude, for which I am obviously ashamed, but there is another side to it. I remember the awe/respect with which people thought of Google back in the mid-'oughts. Working there carried this huge cachet that few tech companies can compare to today (maybe OpenAI). All these amazing engineers went to work there and everyone was jealous of them. Then they always seemed to end up spending their time on Google+ or Play Store or some other application which was not as glamorous or interesting as you were expecting. It felt like a huge disconnect between the perception and reality. I don't mean to say it was a waste of talent, because clearly some of these things were a huge success. I am glad though that these days people may judge the idea of a big-tech career more objectively.
This ought to be solvable by adding some haptic/force feedback through brake pedal? For instance have a distinct click at some point in the pressure curve that means "at max regen braking" and if you keep pushing there's a bit of resistance and then another slight click that means you're engaging the friction brakes? Placed close together in the pressure curve, but still distinct enough to get consistent results?
>It’s not that I think the companies are the problem, it’s the machineries and imperatives of Late Capitalism, which for a while we foolishly thought Internet companies could route around.

A pseudo-communist critique of Google.

>But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.

A nostalgia-driven critique of Google.

This post is a bit of a mess. There is valid criticism too, but it sounds like the author doesn't know exactly what he doesn't like about Google anymore.

I can also say I used to find better articles on HN but clearly the userbase of this website has changed, despite the guidelines trying to insist HN doesn't change and it's just a "semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills". No, HN is worse just like most of the tech space.
The usual way is to require a custom CA for all clients, sounds like an ineffective setup if you can just ignore it. I.e. it should be a intermediate certificate for the proxy you need to acknowledge.
It's the "and leave it" part everyone is disagreeing with you about.

Major trauma changes you. There is no "leaving it." There is only relearning how to be the way you are now in the world so you can move forward.
Unpopular opinion but I think unproven unbacked anecdotes need to be punished, here and elsewhere. In my experience many of them could be easily debunked by someone with a deep understanding of the subject being talked about, but newcomers are given the wrong impression.
Ah, ok, I just tried and I'm wrong. That's correct, it provides full access.
I could imagine that one problem with “ideas to win” in general is that companies like Google often attribute their initial success to some skill, which they then try to replicate.

But maybe it was just luck.
> While this driver is more or less just a funny joke about Windows and Linux, it does bring up the possibility of doing more with the same bug check callback feature. It's not clear what you can and can't do, but if it's possible to run an emulator after crashing, then surely it's possible to do other things, too. That's all assuming Microsoft doesn't revisit this feature of Windows and concludes it's just a bit too easy to exploit.

Anyone else getting ChatGPT vibes from this conclusion?
IIUC they just mean that this retro design style for logos/icons wasn't Steve Jobs/Apple and Youtube specific
> The first link you provide actually says the first reason is due to security

To me personally the security claims don't make much sense either.

When I face disk space limitations I don't delete my spreadsheet of survey results that's full of private information. I just delete the original video of that public lecture that I've put onto youtube already anyway.

Now, for professors there might be a case for shunting the files they haven't touched in a few years into secure offline storage in case it contains forgotten private information. But it sounds like this applies to student accounts, and there's already a process to eliminate forgotten years-old data: Graduation.

IMHO it's far more likely this is a cost-saving measure.
Hi, I'm Alex, curriculum director at Math Academy.

Thanks for your comments. In response to the things you'd like us to have:

"ability to skip lessons" - we plan on introducing "mini-diagnostics" sometime soon, hopefully within the next few months. This will allow students to "place out" of certain content they know. The primary diagnostic assessment will have done most of the grunt work here, but mini-diagnostics can be used for fine-tuning the knowledge frontier.

"a reference page to track unlocked material" - This is an interesting idea that we can discuss.

"fewer multiple choice questions" - We're actively introducing "Free Response" across the entire curriculum. Complete coverage across all courses will likely take several months, maybe over one year. Many of our lower-grade students should be seeing lots of free-response questions already.

"more in-depth problems" - we have multipart problems in most courses. We plan to add many more. Introducing "challenge problems" into the curriculum is also something we have planned for the near future.

"proof-based math" - We plan on launching our "Methods of Proof" course within the next 6-8 weeks. This course is designed to introduce students to all fundamental concepts related to proof building: sets, logic, functions, relations, cardinality, proof by induction, direct proofs, counterexample, contrapositive, contradiction, and trivial and vacuous proofs, to name a few. Most of the content is already ready. We have a few technical challenges to overcome before it can be launched due to our new "proof" question format, but we have a clear idea of how these challenges are to be resolved, so 6-8 weeks is certainly realistic.
Hotmail is truly mind-blowing to me.

In my case ALL spam goes to inbox (a LOT) and ALL uselfull real emails go to the junk folder (very few).

I truly wonder how they do it. I can't get my head around it.
These videos were fantastic, thanks for linking them. The perfect balance of a little theory with practice and examples for someone who has an immediate need to control something but has never taken a control theory class.
"The non-normal culture wasn't proving itself."

Well, that was what made Google in the first place. That's a hell of a lot of proof.

What didn't work out was endless growth for the stockholders and "winning in every market".

I'm not sure when companies decided they can't just be fucking happy in their domain (and make the same thing, improve it slightly over time, sell it with a profit, and go on), and have to "win every market" or squeeze that market to death (probably around the time healthy profits became secondary to stock performance and enshitiffication began), but I sure wish we'd go back to before that.
I didn’t down vote.

You will have to make a realistic multi angle deep fake faces before it happens. Like the face geometry and looks has to perfectly match the other deeps fake and any other camera. Plus matching different type of lights, camera gradient, lens, types, etc…
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Who knows, some day it might be good enough that microsoft ports it to work directly on windows or via WSL2 for that purpose.
"MilkDrop 3.0 is a portable program that supports any audio source"

Unfortunately what they mean by "portable" is in the context of Windows only. :(
>Why is this relevant to people having the bandwidth to do backups at their own site?

By far the biggest reason most people do not do backups is because It Is Fucking Tedious And Expensive. Cloud storage is the answer to that problem.

It's only when we get to big enterprise companies (read: businesses that wouldn't classify as small business) that cloud storage becomes impractical or even legally infeasible. Of course, remember we are talking about the average guy at home.

>I setup a Synology NAS 8 years ago and I have not had to look at it since. Surely, the UI software is even easier to use these days.

I have a Synology NAS too, and I agree it is very easy to use... for special people like us who breathe computers.

>We have different expectations of people. At one point, average people did not have electrical, plumbing, washers, dryers, refrigerators, laptops, smartphones, etc.

I'm not sure if you realize that most people call up a professional technician or engineer for all of that if something comes up. Fridge or washer breaks down? Call. Toilet backs up? Call. Breaker keeps tripping? Call.

Now yes, an average person could hire someone to setup and maintain a NAS for him at home, but that's going to be far more expensive and a hassle than just forking over a Hamilton ($10 bill) or two to Microsoft or Google every month and making it all someone else's problem. It'll be managed better and he won't have strangers coming into his home, too.
Change IT provider!

The reason why things gets worse is not that the cloud companies are evil monopolies(they are for profit companies who cannot put the common good ahead of their shareholders financial interests) but that people refuse to look at smaller less hyped alternatives to what gets marketed by the biggest companies in the cloud sector.
Define "small" - cost of physical dimensions, independence of operation, or cost of near-zero usage. For example, S3 and Lambda are basically free for usage with near-zero traffic, but of course you give up independence.

Arguably more important than microcontroller scale, these days, is whether it runs well on Android. The cost of manufacturing custom hardware is enormous, but piggybacking off the Android ecosystem can often eliminate most of the need for custom hardware. Of course, Android is a very different target than Linux...
Disclaimer: Looking with my HPC admin hat.

To be able to store that amount of data on SSDs, you need tons of enterprise mixed load SSDs, and they don't come cheap in any sense or form.

To offset costs, you add tiering with mechanical disks, with varying capacities and readiness states.

Spinning up cold storage takes time and energy, and if you need a three year old CSV file summarizing your results, that's a lot of energy and time. The storage pipeline storing rest of your research might go to "sleep" again until you make sure that you gonna need rest of the dataset and everything to re-run some of the experiments.

The data access pattern maybe hitting some cold paths too often as a result, so Microsoft might be trying to confine research institutions to a warmer tier, and since that tiers are more expensive to operate, they might be slashing storage space. Otherwise the resident data might poison other user's access patterns.

This is not to say Microsoft is doing right, I believe the opposite, but this is why they might be doing it.
Scaling from a PC to a MCU is not incremental work.
Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect rights
> Oh and... if you want problems specific to Electron...

It seems you don't get my point so let me be explicit:

Pointing out issues with a single framework that powers a subset of software does not mean there is a general decline in software quality across the industry.
A class-light CSS approach, let me introduce Beer CSS
Chronological Snobbery
As a startup, my reason for using "cloud" (PaaS) is not to catch spikes, but because of focus. Every hour that I spend running around with HDDs, screwdrivers (or the cloud version thereof - storage, ansible, etc) is an hour that I'm not spending on stuff my customers need.

Why would this be any different for a government?

We don't expect our government to build their own cars, but to buy them from Volkswagen or Renault. Even when the government has a clear need for transport. Why do we then insist they build their own IT infrastructure?
It's not that hard to use.

Possibly easier to use a framework that includes a lot of things, rather than a language with no standard library that requires a soon-to-be-compromised dependency for every string function that QString already offers.
These devices, in their current form, aren’t something to wear while walking around town, like someone might do with headphones.

I predict that we will see people driving with these things on.

People are already so self-absorbed that they text and watch movies on their phones while driving. A lightweight, untethered headset is an ideal conduit for distraction in the car.
> There was never a realistic threat of Hamas "destroying all of Israel" from Gaza, regardless of what Hamas might have wished they were capable of

This is the argument I just don't get. Are you saying Hamas is not all that bad because, although they have clear genocidal intent, they are not likely to be able to carry it out?

Its like saying a hitman, who fails to carry out a plan to kill, is better than a driver whose car malfunctions and actually causes a fatal accident.
It would look much like any other institution full of people doing general web browsing. A university full of foreign students googling stuff in thier home languages. A hospital full of patients googling about random stuff. An airport full of international passengers surfing twitter feeds for war news.
By the time you've complied with all current codes, stairs themselves do take up an unreasonable amount of floor space.

But there's a usually-worse cost to the second set of stairs, that I'll call "geometry". A second set of stairs is not a giant support column, which you can wall off and ignore. The halls, doors, and such that it requires also suck up space, and impose many more restrictions on the layout of the actual living spaces for human beings - which are the sole reason for the building to exist.
A rapid prototype of Reddit as Material Design 3
If you install via apt you get no prompt whatsoever.
It’s legible to those who know it.
Very good question.

I explain her needs and desires do not necessarily align with his and that she must try to notice his (I describe them like do you hear he is yelling because of XYZ). This is largely futile. Because she notices he yells but doesn't understand why. He's only 3, so he mostly plays parallel (normal for his age).

I also describe the circumstances of the situation. Usually it is before dinnertime. So I explain right before dinner isn't a good time to play together. Because they trigger each other. So it is a good time to play solo and respect each other's boundaries. At that time they're hangry and difficult, so often some drama isn't avoidable.

Unfortunately some triggers cannot be avoided. They have to go bath sometimes, and we settled for once a week. He hates to wash his hair. Our daughter had same, as did I.
There are various 'safer' versions of it, a common one is strlcpy() from bsd (which is in glibc etc)

https://linux.die.net/man/3/strlcpy
The linked post is exactly about McGill, so I either didn't get the irony in your post or you should read the linked post and
https://www.mcgill.ca/polling/channels/news/important-onedri...
Politics. They've been pissed about Apple's policies for years.
> premeditated murderer

This is an opinion and not something backed by any known facts.
A useful tool for developers to find vulnerabilities or errors on a website
Funny but I do use it. My license signature is even in Gregg
Fido keys can also be used without password or even an account name (but with pin which becomes the second factor in that scenario). They are very resistant to phishing because they do a challenge response every time that's bound to the domain name of the requesting site. So typosquatting tricks won't work. The private key is generated and stored in the token and they are very resistant to extraction.

In general it's way safer than a password that can be intercepted and reused by anyone who knows it.
> To me this feels like a big inflection point, because around the stumbling feet of the Big Tech dinosaurs, the Web’s mammals, agile and flexible, still scurry.

Tangent: I kinda hate this metaphor. It reinforces this incredibly outdated idea that dinosaurs - or any other extinct life-form - went extinct because they were an evolutionary dead end. (Also, since I do not know a single nerd who isn't into dinosaurs the fact that nerds still use that metaphor surprises me)

Dinosaurs were doing great. They also were not slow or stumbling. They occupied every niche on the planet. The main reason most of them went extinct was a massive asteroid triggering the K–Pg extinction event (and even then birds are still around and doing just fine, thank you). That asteroid's impact resulted in really unusual circumstances where Earth was barely livable for a long period of time because the sky was globally blackened for years and all large plants died. Mammals being already small and nocturnal is what gave them an edge during this evolutionary "funnel" (and presumably the ancestors of modern birds had similar features).

If Big Tech really are metaphorically comparable to the big dinosaurs, then I don't want to think about what it would take for them to go down.

(this is not a defense of Big Tech, btw)
I don't understand in what respect this should contradict my statements. I answered to the argument "Several trillion dollar companies have large teams working on JavaScript engines, usually multiple engines each. The OpenSmalltalk VM is a volunteer effort of a very small community, with the main JIT produced primarily by a single person." and demonstrated that major performance breakthroughs were realized by small teams, in case of JS as we know by Lars Bak (who also was at Longview Tech) and Kasper Lund. Of course there were other attempts to make Smalltalk faster, but I concentrated on the ones really making a difference. I think the topic has been sufficiently discussed.
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"I thought the important thing in productivity is to produce" spot on!

As an example, I have a folder in my Zlinky account named "Zlinky Marketing" - on my travels around X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Web etc etc, as soon as I encounter useful marketing inspiration, I "native share" the content into the Zlinky Marketing folder and sometimes attach a note to the saved item for context. In addition when at a talk or conference, if I see a useful slide I take a photo of the slide and add it to my Zlinky Marketing folder.

When I sit down to work on marketing for Zlinky, I open the Zlinky marketing folder, and work through the different bits and pieces that I have saved. Eg today, I contacted an Australian specialist copywriter (I had saved one of his TikToks into Zlinky), reviewed an article on "How to get the best out of your Product Hunt launch" I had saved, and submitted our listing on HN as I took a screenshot of HN and saved it into the folder!

So Zlinky certainly helped me produce output today!
They had a Faradays cage for meetings.

Unfortunately they didn't always close the door
> I wish loaders would provide some feedback on what is going on.

Often there isn't much feedback that it is easy for the client-side to give, it doesn't get any feedback until the first byte arrives in response and the time between request and first byte is far more significant than the rest of the transfer.

For things like file uploads/downloads proper progress is very useful and it is irritating when that isn't present (uploading photos to facebook on a slow connection for one example). Client-side things like number crunching too.

One problem you see sometimes where things can be easily monitored and the user informed, is that developers neglect to test in less than ideal conditions. The process works within a second on their devices and connections so they don't think to include a progress indicator, it is only when someone tried the result on something slower (an old slow CPU over a patchy mobile connection) that this becomes apparent. Also more detailed progress information is on the “nice to have” list so gets passed over in favour of bug fixes and other feature updates.

> I often wonder why developers put tools like this on an extra domain instead of

I think just fashion/appearances. It may also be an SEO thing (short URLs doing better there?).
I have the same setup by the sound of it and set up HIBP to let me know whenever any email using my domain appears in the database.
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What can we do to stop this erosion of knowledge?
I think what GP meant was that money, beyond a certain point, means little. Upto that point money does mean a lot, and anybody who denies that has never lived in poverty.

What that specific point is, depends on who you're asking. If you ask me (a student in India), that point lies around $50k/year. For me that is an unimaginable amount of money, and I don't believe earning any more than that would result in a significant increase in quality of life.

But if you ask someone in USA, you might get a different answer. Maybe for them $300k/year is around where earning more wouldn't necessarily result in a significant benefit.

It depends on where you are, who you've been around, and what dreams you have.
ADHD is often comorbid with ASD and people with ADHD disproportionally use drugs and alcohol to self-medicate. I certainly focus much better on my work after a beer, but not two. Cannabis does it, too, but similar deal of "one, not two," just not as easily quantifiable.
I don't think any AI or AI safety researcher imagines that using anything like "treating others as you would want to be treated by them" will solve the alignment problem
>"Things were better when I was younger and still worked there"

You make it sound like having actually worked there, and knowing how Google was, versus what it is now, is a bad thing, that somehow "taints" your critique.

It's, on the contrary, one of the most important prerequisites to be able to evaluate current Google.