skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found Anki useful for focusing piano practice. Each piece of music I have worked on over the years has a few tricky bars in it. Before Anki, I was really bad at remembering which bars I was bad at in each piece, and would tend to practice the bars I already know how to play, which is pleasant to do.

Today, I have one deck, which has a flashcard for each set of tricky bars from all the pieces I've worked on. Now when I sit down to practice the piano, I just load up that deck, and those bars are what I practice, and I grade myself on each flashcard to indicate how quickly I need to re-practise those particular tricky bars.

I've done this 5+ year now, and I'm impressed at how good the default algorithm seems to be at effectively ordering my piano practice sessions.
We have research but I think it’s far from rock-solid proven.

Like any idea about squishy human brains and its products it remains to be seen and can’t be as easily proven as for example research in Physics.

I would say current research has a probability of 50% of being correct at best.
Quite possibly, yes.

Also, even without AI, sufficiently cheap telepresence robots can do to for manual labour what Mechanical Turk and remote work (and possibly GenAI) is doing for desk jobs — "good enough" can be surprisingly poor quality if it comes with a small enough invoice.

However, my main point is that things are hard to predict.
Because voting is a multi-step process often involving more than one action. I have experienced all the below votes at governmental level, they are not hypothetical to me:

Sometimes the voter has the ability to add arbitrary options to the ballot.

Sometimes multiple values are allowed.

Sometimes there are positional votings.

Sometimes there is ranked-choice.

Sometimes you do not even want to submit the vote.

Looking only at "these are the options available, choose one and only one" is not a valid strategy for reaching the conclusion on what UI idiom to use.

I protest against the default assumption that radio buttons (no matter how much I like them) should be the default go-to for voting interfaces because of the context of voting is too complex.
For me COVID somehow coincided with the most depressive period in my life. The brain fog and tiredness was something that I had never experienced before.

My context window was so narrow felt like I was operating at 2 percent capacity. It’s normal for depression to cause fatigue but literally cleaning my apartment once a month would drain me for week and a half. I love to journal I’d sit down and somehow words weren’t flowing. The entire system was haywire.

I ate well, started even going to the gym but only at the end of summer 2023 did my energy slowly come back. I was also mistakenly attributing this to getting older.

My mind is now alpha zero and depression is gone. Crazy times pandemic plus depression plus bad SWE market. It was basically hell and I thought Id never recover. Health is the most important thing in this life.
Things You Need to Know About StartUp Health's Alzheimer's Moonshot
"...we’ve launched a new global initiative created to develop a collaborative innovation community alongside leading companies, research teams, and stakeholders with a mission to accelerate progress in prevention, diagnosis, and management of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias."
theres a couple of real dillers in there, edgeing on NSFW but no worse than a victoria secrets catalog
Hum... Floppy disks and "ain't broke" on the same phrase is an unusual combination.

But then, most of the times people use that phrase something is obviously broken.
I liked The Big Short, movie and the book, as a story and also because the author claims that it's based on true events. Now after seeing Michael Lewis fumble all over the place about SBF I'm not sure about the latter anymore.

Maybe Michael Lewis got too attached to his subjects and was hoodwinked or maybe he knew it was not all true and went along with them because they made for a good story.

All in all he lost his credibility big time, at least among lay (i.e., outsiders of Wall Street) readers. Later I read somewhere on Twitter that apparently WS folks knew his book to be a BS anyway.
If rust could support all of C's processors and platforms and produce equivalent sized binaries - especially for embedded ... then it'd be interesting to switch to. (as a start, it also needs a stable and secure ecosystem of tools and libraries)

Right now, it's mostly a special purpose language for a narrow range of platforms.
Tools for managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout
Probably straight-up illegal in most places, IMHO. (I was a director of a regulated small e-money issuer and we had to do KYC!)
Many managers will be happy to have people who are showing to work and just do their job. Isn't it the reason why people are hired? To do their job.

Of course everyone wants to get more for free, that is why do many complaints that people are lazy and don't do any extra work which can benefit their employer.
ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) is based in Atlanta. All of the NYSE and other exchanges they own are in Atlanta area. There are 26,932,748 people in the Piedmont Atlantic region Atlanta-Raleigh. Which has been growing like crazy. This is what drove the data center movement, not corporate welfare called state incentives. They would need the power either way.
I use the Azure equivalent of the AWS WAF but I have no direct experience with AWS WAF. Azure WAF leverages the OWASP ruleset[0] and many of those rules throw false-positives, SQL-related rules being one of the top offenders.

As you note, it requires adjustment due to overzealous rules. OWASP has Paranoia Levels[1] which allow you to be more targeted.

[0] https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset

[1] https://coreruleset.org/20211028/working-with-paranoia-level...
It's great when high quality decks exist, but I doubt they do for what I use it for. Also, even when they do exist, chances are still high you'll find pieces of knowledge missing, and will have to create your own card.
I think the demand for A tier players will skyrocket.

And you will see more demand for people with taste and intuition.

Like AI can generate images, but if you have someone without taste directing it, the results are going to be poor.

Personally, feel very excited. I have a vivid imagination but I always focused on writing instead of learning to draw or paint. I can finally use the skills I know (writing) to recreate the ideas I have in my mind.

Even for brand content, feels incredible that I can think “this landing page will probably look good if we have an abstract geometric shape here”, and then just…create it.
Android is even more expensive (in time, and money) to get up and running, these days.

For example, they force you to go find your country's D-U-N's number provider, which usually costs time and money -- unlike the US, where looking up your own number is free. Then they verify it. Apple just looks it up for you, for free.

When you register as a person, Apple just requires basic supporting documentation and doesn't require a real device. Google requires that you have a specific brand of device in-hand to sell an app, and won't let you use smaller, less known brands (at least in the US, even if the brand is popular where you live). This means you need to drop nearly $1,000 USD on a phone, just to make a free app. Apple is $99, all-in.

The play store (for me) was approx 955 + 25 + 15 to get an app listed.

So no, Apple is probably a less expensive gamble. Especially if you already have access to a mac (rented or paid).
...and about the written word, by Socrates

https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept13/2013/09/29/socrates-writi...
German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator
It’s kind of interesting to hear from someone who had a job offer from SBF until they asked questions, otherwise this could have been written by anyone months after the trial finished. Also I thought for sure the writer was going to mention the book, The Blind Side, where it appears possible that Lewis got the primary facts wrong because he trusted his source too much,but it’s only used for the title. For reference the NYTimes review of The Blind Side got it right 17 years ago where the primary sources for Lewis was his friend Tuohy and wife.
With Fastly WAF - SignalSciences, Distil Networks - Imperva, Akamai - StackPath. There are a few companies that started alone in this ecosystem and found the evolution path with the mayor CDN networks, those who have failed themselves in provide a good internal alternative service.

Human security - PerimeterX, Haproxy WAF, Datadome, are other players to different target audience.

If you have a good control over the app exposed, maybe you only need a WAF in the sense of stop stuff outside your infra. The sql injections, weird urls trying the way to /etc/passwd or related things look from the past and only makes noise nowadays. The real issue is when someone hits you in a rate impossible to manage with your resources or when it cost you more than the securing layer.
Open-source PixArt-δ image generator spits out high-res AI images in 0.5 seconds
The system is chaotic so even in principle it’s likely impossible.
The methodology seems to be: compare commit activity from 2023 to prior years, without any idea of how many involve Copilot. Then interpret those changes with assumptions. That seems a bit shakey.

Also: "The projections for 2024 utilize OpenAI's gpt-4-1106-preview Assistant to run a
quadratic regression on existing data." ...am I to understand they asked gpt to do a regression on the data (4 numbers) rather than running a simple regression tool (sklearn, r, even excel can do this)? Even if done correctly, it is not very compelling when based off of 4 data points and accounting for my first concern.
> The article’s central claim is that to quote these lyrics is to “wish death” on the people you’re naming. The context leads me to the exact opposite interpretation:

It leads me to the conclusion that the wish in the original lyrics was understandable and provoked, not that it wasn't literally what it says. Which certainly affects the view of Tupac writing and performing it, but not so much that of Tan referencing it.
Read more on this: https://text.npr.org/1227326215

> "They're getting away with it because everybody is doing it. And they're getting away with it because now it's the new normal," he said. "Workers are more comfortable with it, stock investors are appreciating it, and so I think we'll see it continue for some time."

> Interest rates, sitting around 5.5%, are far from the near-zero rates of the pandemic. And some tech companies are reshuffling staff to prioritize new investments in generative AI. But experts say those factors do not sufficiently explain this month's layoff frenzy.

They are simply bumping up their stock price. They were hiring and growing like little malignant cancers when that was the signal of "success", and now they are "streamlining", which is the new signal of "success".
Unless he runs out of memory.
> one can consider this true

Not without a solid result establishing so. But good luck with this, you'd probably need to compare our world with internet and a similar enough world but without it, which does not exist.

In any case, internet can't be reduced to "tiktok et al"
If it's chaotic, is it still fully deterministic?
Chess.com is one of the most underrated stories in startups
I actually hate this one because it’s completely unclear.

Does OFF there mean

-the setting is off

Or

-Slide this thing over to turn it off

I’ve seen it both ways. It’s confusing and not clear.
That definitely doesn't look like something that could handle a human walking, and seems to be using a very different technique.
Flappybird was made in Vietnam.
New Leaks Expose Web of Iranian Intelligence and Cyber Companies
Water rights must be used in accordance with the terms dictated by the State when they were assigned. It's literally "use it or lose it".

I finished building three ponds on my farm in 2022. The permits dictated the times of year that I could store water (vs letting the flow pass unimpeded), what I can do with the stored water, and the size and function of bypass channels. If they decide it's necessary, they can tell me to install flow meters and depth gauges.

In times of drought, they unilaterally can order me to leave my ponds empty and let all water pass through, because older water right holders get precedence. They can hold me accountable if I do not follow their terms, up to and including revoking my permits.

Honestly, I'm not really sure it was worth the effort and cost, because the whole point was to improve water security on my property... but I have no meaningful control. It's completely bonkers, because my ponds have unquestionably improved the watershed's ability to store water. If anything, they should be paying farmers to build more small ponds like mine.

In other words, these government regulations pose a significant impediment to solving the growing water crisis. No sane person would go near the process, which I now understand is why most of the ponds in this area were built without permits.
same with phd defense
I had always wondered what had happened to Hank Hill from Strickland Propane.
The same way any out of context attention seeking hurts your cause; by showing arrogance, and a disregard for others. People generally stop listening to whatever you have to say when you treat them with disregard.

When a law doesn't work, you don't go around breaking it, you work with the system we have to change it. Similarly, when people aren't listening to your message, you work within the system to get it heard.
Thanks for doing the calculations here, very helpful.

I do agree that tax rebates are less preferable to at-purchase rebates, though I wonder if there is an “ease of implementation” accounting difference for the government that isn’t obvious. Eg securing funding to pay out a cash rebate has a budget effect different than reducing tax collection.

More generally though, solar (and energy efficiency in general) has an interesting principal/agent problem - households in the bottom quartile or even half are not likely to have cash lying around to invest in 10-year ROI projects. So these efficiency gains often don’t get harvested. Solar financing is an option for these cases but it has its own implementation problems. The situation for renters is even worse; I’m sure that fixing the drafty windows in my apartment would pay off in 5 years, but it’s unlikely I’ll be here long enough to harvest that win, and there is no financial product that lets the landlord and me to coordinate on this.
Putting WAF on app and calling it a day is indeed putting lipstick on a pig.

I can imagine that might be needed if some company for some reason has to run some not really up to date stuff but yeah it is just a bandaid.
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This is a tale as old as time.

In a conversation with Phaedrus, Socrates worries that writing could impair human memory, as people depend on written words instead of recalling information. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)#Discussion...
Unless you're Donald Knuth, then please do so that people can format their math with your system for the next half a century (TeX was released in 1978).
And depending on what the kids are watching you can just outright buy the show or movie and stick it on repeat.
I got straight D's in cursive and told my teachers I'd type or print when I was an adult. I'm not sure if they believed me then, but the data are in now.
>Various attempts of mine to convince the UX team to meet with us were rebuffed.

I don't know how things must be going wrong that you decide to sabotage / avoid collaboration like that
Is the trash churned out by reddit really worth $5 billion? https://dumppit.pages.dev
Chicago has an abundance of deep narrow lots. It isn't uncommon to have to have apartment units that are 14-15 (4.5m) feet wide and up to 80 feet (25m) long, a hallway runs on one side with bed/bathrooms adjacent. There is no way you can adequately cover this with one AP unless you don't care about speed much on one end of the unit.
If you want uniform top 5GHz speeds you're going to need 2 or 3 APs.
I think many people will not read the book because of the reviews saying Lewis is compromised. But you should absolutely read the book. It's very good.

As Matt Levin says:

> You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.

It does give you an inside look at being on the ground at FTX in the days before and after the collapse and also spends a big part of the book on time at Jane Street, which fascinated me. Before this, all I knew was OCAML, and not the craziness of modern trading.

The big bet on Trump and the stock market election night 2016 is riveting. That insane idea SBF had, to pay Trump not to run again and talking to his people about it was also entertaining.

It's just not really a book explaining the fraud. It's a number of wild scenes from a strange person's life as it collapses. And yeah, it is probably a bit too sympathetic, but it's not shy about him being a weirdo, and EA people being all a bit strange, and Lewis trying to understand what is going on in this guys head.
There historically hasn't been much mass extinction in hot phases. It usually seems to happen when cold, especially if an asteroid has hit the place. I guess hot, life can move towards the poles, cold if everywhere freezes and plants die life is a bit screwed.
Can you draw them and share the picture online?
4chan is created for such pictures and nobody really cares.

Suddenly it became a problem now?
What the fuck is wrong with accepting well established intuitive conventions? How does such an braindead anti-feature ever get past a second person in reviews?
Netflix has among the lowest 4K quality among services though.

Compared to AppleTV+ and Disney+ and HBO MAX.
Yes! I’ll add on—endless requests from the suits to account for every task in a way that fits into one of their stupid (and usually new) buckets. Random 11th hour emergencies from poorly-vetted implementations. Having to fight leads and PMs of other teams to take ownership of or be flexible about _anything_. Tasks that are more about optics and saving face than about making anything better. Architects who “don’t write code anymore” but expect to be able to dictate how others approach the craft.
Ok, that actually sounds like it could be fun provided your hair is gray and/or missing.

There is something to be said about archaic versions of Windows and comparing/contrasting with Windows 11/Server 2022. Significant limitations especially with automation, but all of the work is hands-on, no major abstractions between you and the OS or software.
Agree. Also testosterone. I was lucky enough to have lab work before and after getting covid twice. My T numbers halved in less than a year. I was still within the “normal range” so it took some arguing with the doctors to get a prescription for a very low dose. Within 24 hours of starting, I felt like myself again. Brain fog was gone, energy was back, my mood rebounded. No negative side effects thus far. I had tried a lot prior to starting: intense therapy, ketamine, lots of exercise, losing weight, supplementation, lots of lab work. Nothing was as impactful as getting that jab.

Side note: the normal range for T is so wide that it’s meaningless.
No one even seems to want you (or provides a mechanism to) file international travel plans any longer. Been quite a few years since I've had an issue but I used to have some random declines for things like a $15 western US truck stop or a modest grocery purchase.
Isn't this terrible advice? It's basically saying "be OK with things not getting fixed".

I've always heard of Yak shaving as essentially necessary steps in order to actually resolve issues. It's absurd that one needs to shave Yaks but necessary to complete projects.

Isn't being a founder actually Yak shaving? Dealing with the weird abstract minutiae that are needed to make a business run?

If the advice had been to find creative ways to resolve dependencies, that would be one thing, but the point of this post seems to be "just fail".
Hardbool lets you use custom true and false representations with higher hamming distances. The sudo patch uses custom representations for their enum that have higher hamming distances. The only difference is that hardbool is for true/false and this patch is for AUTH_SUCCESS/AUTH_FAILURE/AUTH_ERROR etc. But that's irrelevant. It's the exact same technique.
No one has mentioned it yet, so I'll drop this alternative: https://mochi.cards/

Much prettier than Anki, has a simpler algorithm that doesn't require rating difficulty, and has lots of the same features. I'm a subscriber just because of the cloud sync - wish I could self-host but I'm happy to support the developer.
> How are you to prove one way or another short of finding system logs of an AI outputting the material?

I imagine the defense is the same as any other defense of "no, it was not me, it was someone other than me", you must establish your presence or activity at the time, or if they're the defendant, establish enough doubt to the prosecution's position.

Not a lawyer at all though.
I'm not aware of anything that depends on the SecureBoot status of a device, except possibly Widevine DRM for video streaming, but I don't see how that would be unique to ARM, disabling SecureBoot is also usually required on x86 for running alternative OSes without Microsoft's signed shim bootloader.

There is no Widevine support for OpenBSD anyway, so it's never been possible to watch Netflix. Fortunately, there are solutions for that...

Incidentally, Fedora Asahi Linux for Apple Silicon (ARM) got Widevine (hence, Netflix) working without any form of SecureBoot, they wrote about it recently on their blog.
Querying crt.sh helped me identify a dev service I was supposed to take down, but forgot about it. Nice alternative use case :D
The only STDs reliably prevented through condoms are probably HIV and trichomoniasis.

You can get all of the following (probably 99% of all relevant STD cases recruit from those) via kissing (and blowjobs) alone:

Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, urea/myco-plasma, crabs, HPV, HSV, several borderline-STD bacteria like H. parainfluenca.
I was looking forward to Michael Lewis’s book precisely because I wanted to see how these mistakes happened. Some of his other books were more like that.
They’re also the easiest to abandon of all of them (for their customers) as there’s no real pain or lock-in.

Amazon might be second easiest if you aren’t using AWS.
Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?
I wonder why they focused on cursive, and not something both legible and useful, like manual technical lettering.
Of the winners, I've only read The Three Body Problem, which I liked for a number of reasons.

I'm not familiar with any of the other winners.

Which of these are monsters on par with the big winners from the 60's through 90's?

There are a lot of people saying that the current trend is a backlash against sad puppies (which would also be wrong) while simultaneously denying that it was happening before sad puppies.

My experience is they were doing this, the sad puppies blew it up, now it seems to be happening with impunity. There are alternate more conservative cons out there, maybe the two groups have separated entirely.

Putting all the blame on the sad puppies (who, again are wrong, but I have to say this because people like painting anyone who disagrees as right wing fascist) isn't taking in the whole picture.
Feels like taking the average of all text on the internet, does result in barely OK output. Very few people are truly “average” in the numerical sense of the word, so you’re going to see better results from most devs compared to the coefficient soup that tries to find the commonalities between the best and worst devs.

Truth be told though, speaking as someone that still does not use LLM tools at work… “just OK” is totally viable for a lot of things. Prototypes yes, products expected to be around a while, maybe not.