skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now all of this is coming home to roost

This could be true of any country that's accepting immigrants. Inviting countries must be selecive of whom the let in, what they bring with them, and whether and how well the inbound population assimilate, thus retaining the essence of its extant values. When a country has no control of its immigration (whether by choice or otherwise), or is lax about it, all kinds of birds come home to roost. Some birds lay eggs; others just poop.
Came here expecting to find something from The Onion
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Because I happened to know it. They often make great stuff.
The point remains that they’re throwing stones in a glass house. There’s no reason that they should be held to any lower of a standard than any other company.
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Kind of by definition you can't pay more in taxes than you contribute to the economy, therefore unoccupied housing is a drain on the local economy.
At those speeds, the two are probably the same anyway.
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I love nextdns - pihole was fine but required admin, and I also had challenges vpn’ing in to use it out side of home. Whereas nextdns is simple to use, and effective.
They just refuse to take report, with some bullshit excuse. Like under $950 it is misdemeanor..

Everything in shop is locked up, but crime is down!
>If labeling has fuzzy boundaries, perhaps it shouldn't have strong implications.

Well, it's tricky because labelling is so useful (oftentimes crucial for communication purposes), but we would be hamstringing ourselves if we either a. held off on labeling things with fuzzy boundaries altogether or b. refused to entertain possibilities with strong implications because a labelled phenomenon has fuzzy boundaries.

Best to remember that labels are useful but with very important limitations. Ultimately, when we get out to the edge of our understanding the boundaries will always be fuzzy, at least until a breakthrough (and sometimes long after). Whenever you are at a boundary, continually remind yourself that the label is less important than communication and exploration of what actually appears to be going on.

Are viruses alive? This is a very interesting question to try and answer from different angles, but arriving on a definitive "yes or no" here is not at all the most important thing about viruses to be worrying about.
I'm not sure that we really should ever do it, but, I think if you're going to consider doing it you should consider doing it in the least risky way possible (long haul flights during cruise phase).

Let's even start with cargo only flights.

I do think the learning would be valuable because I know eventually we will develop pilotless planes, just not sure it will happen in my lifetime.
Just played with your app, I think is super cool! I especially liked the way that you can just click the next question within an answer, makes it super convenient and fun to use.

I'm currently also looking for a dev job. So you have 15 years of experience, live in California and struggle to find something? That sounds a bit demotivating to me lol, because I'm kinda half of all of that or a bit less.

I also like your LinkedIn analysis idea, should try that maybe, too.
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There are a few “Apple of X industry” companies out there, I think it’s pretty interesting that you can generalize the things that make them what they are.

Disney is the Apple of movies.

Nintendo is the Apple of video games.

They are usually the types of companies that tightly control almost all of their product, are at a premium price point, and have an “elevated” sort of brand recognition.

For example Nintendo is intent on tightly controlling their product experience. They use boring tech in creative ways and charge a premium for their content.

Disney is the same, they are the only theme parks with imagineers that custom make all the rides and experiences in their parks, they make their own software for the most part, and tightly control how their characters are used, etc etc

The biggest takeaway is that the companies have an intense focus on the quality of their product and that makes them the longest lasting and most elevated brands.

LEGO belongs in this group because they have a similar focus on quality I think. At least WRT their toys. I don’t care much for their theme parks..
Closest thing I can find to roll your own.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
Why? Because there's no word for "insurance of AI advise accuracy"? The whole point of progress is that we create something that is not a thing at the moment.
I don’t need the glasses to substitute my computer. I want to be able to use them outdoors as an AR device that will give me information on various spots. Even if I could run MacOS why would I write code on that instead of my keyboard that has haptic feedback.
I’m usually a fan of Taleb, but these hyperbolic analogies get real old.

I’ve been hearing about “end times debt levels are right around the corner” since I was a kid 40 years ago (my parents were “financial doomers”, always willing to talk about how demographics or interest rates or something else was going to kill the economy)

All I’ve ever seen that perspective do is result in people making very bad financial decisions for themselves.

Not a fan of that.

The truth of all this is very simple:

1. We, as a society make investments. In infrastructure, our kids, etc.

2. We, as a society pay for those investments over time.

As long as our return on the investments we’re making is decent, there is never a level at which debt is a problem.

If you think that we’re making bad investments (as a society), that’s a separate question than the overall level of debt in the society.
I used to use Personal Capital, but now I switched to SoFi Relay[1]

Personal Capital had problems maintaining connections to my accounts, especially to SoFi. Of course SoFi has no problems connecting to SoFi accounts. SoFi connects to 21 of my accounts; there's only 3 accounts that don't work: Apple Savings, Apple Card, and Treasury Direct.

I also wrote a web app to convert the SoFi relay summary into text that can be pasted into a spread sheet: https://tt.leftium.com/ (I just paste the HTML into the textbox, and the TSV data is copied to the clipboard)

[1]: https://www.sofi.com/financial-insights/
a non-trivial portion of residential real estate transactions across the USA never apply for a loan. In certain areas it is more so. When real estate retail value rises fast, money appears from everywhere -- hint, not from first time home buyers.

The USA Federal system of mortgage loan gurantees has been gamed seriously, over and over since the 80s. It is a whack-a-mole for enforcement. All the parties close to the transactions have exactly the wrong incentives, most of the time. One of the defendants in a recent "pay cash to get your kid into elite school via fake sports" scandal was a mortgage broker in San Diego County. The Judge after reviewing evidence, reportedly told the man on the record "you are a thief." etc
You hear about failure case studies too. I think it's more of a selection bias, or a narrative bias: they pick case studies that prove a point, the same way you look for and cite statistics and articles to support the point you were already going to make in an internet fight, rather than trying to represent the entire complexity of the domain you're squabbling in.
It's probably a good idea to check the permissions of that file, too, and emit a warning or exit with an error if the they're too permissive.
Well, you are more public persona than I, so you have to be more diplomatic :)
In my view, this is largely a lie in terms of the impact on themselves.
You're arguing as if these organizations are just going around shutting off sources of information for saying the wrong things. That's not what's happening, as even "the wrong things" and even psyops are in fact protected by the 1st Amendment.
Been procrastinating starting a blog for several weeks. I know a bit of code, but I was bothered about using github or the t e r m i n a l to write silly stuff online.

Thanks to your post about bearblog, I now have a blog.
A tiny website exactly like I wanted. With really nice themes (that I can customise since I know a bit of code !) all for a fraction of Squarespace asked me. And apparently I have anlaytics also ? Can't wait to use those.

So far, this is the tits. Would be happy with more products looking like this !
bear in mind that leadership is not the same thing as representation

people in congress aren't "leaders" in the same way people in the executive power are leaders.

in the executive power, the representative elected by the people must indeed be leaders in the full sense of the word.

but in the legislative branch, the elected people aren't leaders but representatives, this is perhaps too subtle of a difference for most voters?
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Just to provide some counterpoint to the echo chamber here - as a Dad of a six year old who played with legos as a kid and again now, I can affirm - Legos and the sets they put out now are way cooler now than when I was a kid!

You might worry that the less general purpose, specialized pieces might stunt creativity, but guess what!? The 6 year old has no problem taking them completely apart and building something off script.

It's the olds who worry about keeping them all together and not losing the pieces so they can still make the thing on the front of the box. The kids don't care and will happily take it all apart and build things we never would have thought of.
Basically every big diversified company is cutting back on anyone who can't spell "AI".

I appreciate the incompetence by which they are doing it as it they encourages the good people to leave.
Police stop taking reports of crimes they will not pursue or won't be prosecuted.

There is no "fact" saying how much crime is occurring, only a snapshot of how many reports were accepted and filed by the police.
For some reason I always used `screen` and never considered alternatives, it's just how I learned to use irssi.
Usually, but a mainframe is an on-prem solution and can only fill that part of a hybrid cloud strategy. I get the feeling IBM thought they'd lose the CTO crowd if they didn't say "cloud" every now and then.
Vehicles are getting so big they can smash through guardrails
> Forced prison labor is very clearly not chattel slavery.

But it is, if unpaid, slavery.

> And I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but it seems to me that "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" qualifies "involuntary servitude", not "slavery". And in any case, lawyers like to err on the side of ruling out any possible misinterpretation, no matter how ridiculous.

No. The distinction between the two is that involuntary servitude covers being forced to work while being paid or otherwise compensated; a slave, in contrast, doesn't get paid. Both are forced labor, but one is slavery. US prison labor may be one or the other, depending on payment.

(An English teacher would also sigh at you for your parsing of the clauses, I suspect. Your interpretation would require a different arrangement of the commas, i.e. Neither slavery COMMA nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted COMMA shall exist within the United States...)

> If one was with a child, and the child saw a chain gang working, and the child asked "Are they slaves?", no sane person would say "yes" and leave it at that.

Correct, because at a glance, you don't know if it's forced labor. Some states do voluntary work gangs; in some scenarios it's even considered a perk.
By definition, there's a deadline for preventing something from happening.
We're already in an extinction cycle, extinctions are happening at a rate of 100 to 1000 times the natural rate.

And as for absolutes, total extinction of large mammals comes to mind as a consequence after which humanity can't really do anything.
A modern mainframe is a system specialized in extremely high transaction throughput at extremely low cost-per-transaction, while guaranteeing data durability and computational correctness.
If you report a minor robbery to the police in any large American city and you aren't a public figure, there is functionally a 0% chance of them following up on it much less solving it. The only benefit for reporting is if you plan to make an insurance claim. If not, there is no point to reporting a minor robbery to the police.

Robberies and property crimes are hugely underreported in official statistics because the first time you try to report one you realize that it makes a bad situation worse by wasting your time after the event. That is what they're talking about.
They serve different uses.

A lawyer can handle the trial for you and things like that. The LLM can help you with issues of fact, etc. And could even make stronger privacy guarantees than a lawyer if setup right. (But I doubt that will ever happen.)
Under 18 but used it for nearly 20 years? Were you born at a negative number?
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When we mint the coin, we should put Taleb's face on it
Those banks effectively issued sub-prime mortgages, in part due to obvious fraud.

Will Canadians let them fail?
The issue is what happens to these toothbrushes in a couple of years when their vulnerabilities will be discovered. Their inevitable exploitation could be prevented by simply allowing to turn off bluetooth. Or even better, only enable bluetooth if the user wants to set up and use these smart features, at least in that case the vulnerable firmware can be updated using the smartphone app.
Your solution would involve massively raising the cost of suburban and rural living. If it doesn't involve that, then people won't move.

I'm generally in favor of that - but the people who won't even support $10/mo in electrical bills are not going to support tearing up suburbia.

Restructuring our infrastructure/society is not an easier ask than higher gas prices.
Man, I wish my father-in-law was using LSD with me!
Two reasons why it's a bad idea:

1. ChatGPT can't be held responsible, it has no body, like summoning the genie from the lamp, and about as sneaky with its hard to detect errors

2. ChatGPT is not autonomous, not even a little, these models can't recover from error on their own. And their input buffers are limited in size, and don't work all that well when stretched at maximum

Especially the autonomy part is hard. Very hard in general. LLMs need to become agents to collect experience and learn, just training on human text is not good enough, it's our experience not theirs. They need to make their own mistakes to learn how to correct themselves.
That's on you, I'm afraid. If you buy the big boxes of pieces, you can be just as limited as you want to be.
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Every internet-of-shit device should be legally required to go through a security audit, and the vendor should commit to mandatory 5 years of API being up + 5 years of security updates, with N days to fix CVEs with severity over a certain threshold.

Would make the shitty vendors think twice before creating piles of e-waste due to zero cost of entry.
We probably need different solutions for the pacific northwest and the southwest. From everything I've read, Chaparral tends to turn into grasslands if it burns too often. And Chaparral is the wildfire problem in the LA region.
lol. OK, that's hilarious. Is that Community TV show any good?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39211473

Take a look at Zeihan's video where he shows in a graph how US debt level compares to other major economies. https://youtu.be/mcZPOuI-vcU?t=939. US is in the middle of the pack. US is going to be ok.

Also, watch until 20:38. You will see how screwed up some countries are when it comes to debt.
There's lots of ways for this expectation to be broken.

The most obvious is UPnP, where the device can ask the gateway router to forward ports.

The second is the fact that devices on the LAN are accessible to other devices on the LAN. Malicious JS in a webpage can scan for and compromise other local devices.

And the third is the fact that whatever serves code to the toothbrush (whether it's firmware updates, or an HTML5 dashboard) can be compromised. In the latter case, it could be something as simple as persistent XSS.
Yes but deaths due to coronary heart disease would increase.
I was an op when I was under 18, stopped using IRC 15+ years ago, and used it in total for probably 15-20 years. I'm 39 and started at .. Idk, probably 8-9. I think I was an op from 12-16 maybe 17.

A lot of ops were people who synced (peered) their stable and moderated servers on good connections with efnet. Like, OC1-3 connections. My friends and I were pretty much apprentice network engineers to a family member who ran a NOC so we had.. servers..

edit: LOL I just looked up oc1-3 speeds. That used to be so fast.

OC1 - 52 Mb
OC3 - 156 Mb
I think they want to get their money out of china and parked into a safe place. If they pay off their mortgage, they don't want to find a new place to park their money, they can just keep the house as an asset. I think a lot of investing in china is real estate based and is part of the reason that market is struggling over there so much now. It would make sense for them to continue to follow that investing model when exporting their wealth to other countries.
Statistics from the police is the least accurate way to measure minor crimes, those stats mostly tracks how active the police is and not how much crime there is.

Or do you believe that Denmark and Sweden has the most cases of thefts in the world? These stats has nothing to do with how much theft is actually happening.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/theft/
Adam Neumann, ousted founder of WeWork, wants to buy back the company
the quality of content I see on Twitter is... gone
at least now that the king of england has cancer they can somehow negotiate their way out of having to reprint all their money? that should be more cost effective than exiting the commonwealth? ahahah
I get that a lot :P
Good points. The current product is a combination of prioritization and ability to execute. Some features undoubtedly were intended to make it but were cut/scaled back due to time while others are actual product decisions that indicate the direction Apple is taking us. I suspect the UI is a bit of both. Apple is -very- controlling of their UI and their default always seems to be 'remove the option from the user until we are absolutely forced to give it to them'. I can believe the home screen is a bit of product and time and it is possible the codec stuff is the same, but the cynic in me is still saying Apple has consumer unfriendly reasons for not supporting the codec.
I use SoFi Relay Insights[1] to help make a balance sheet of all my accounts once a month.

I made a web app to scrape my SoFi Relay data so I can paste it into a spreadsheet: https://github.com/Leftium/transform

[1]: https://www.sofi.com/financial-insights/
The best way to do this today is through any crypto exchange that supports USDC.

I just tested this - I went in to Robinhood and sent 0.01 USDC to a SOL address. It cost me $0.001 as a transfer fee and took about 30 seconds total. I agree the process could be a bit smoother, but it works fairly well.
I did not know about the CargoWharf frontend!

Writing your own front end to BuildKit can be pretty simple. At my work, this is sort of a starter task for everyone who joins the team.

My frontend was based on intercal and I don't recommend anyone use it but it was fun to play around with[1].

[1]: https://github.com/adamgordonbell/compiling-containers/tree/...
We had no doubts before but the harm this will cause is unbelievable.

At least until now you kind of sort of was forced to interact with actual human beings if you met them face to face although already the smartphone made a dent in that. Now... much less. See https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves/ for more.

Of course, it'll be a success, everyone was in agreement openly wearing a bluetooth phone headset https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluetooth_headset.jp... was basically a sure sign of the wearer being an asshole but Apple painted it white , rotated it downwards and presto! it's now trendy.
This is great if your source of truth can be NetBox alone but if NetBox is just a destination for generated workflows relying on things like actual DDI, which is what's actually required for the workflow, as the source of truth the idea every one will remember to update and cleanup NetBox falls apart.

Not to mention not every place can be assumed to declare their entire infrastructure in ansible chef or whathaveyou. If IT people everywhere got the time to redeploy their entire infrastructures only with what works for best practices to make their lives easier then IT people would probably be a lot happier :).
And good that they do, otherwise I would not get so much evergreen enjoyment from the cloud-to-butt browser extension I've had installed since forever.
I wonder how my children will live in this much better world where the climate is collapsing, a global war is looming, the spectre of unemployment due to automation is everywhere, surveillance will soon be unescapable with every person having a personal llm agent checking them, inequality soaring and so on.
Eh who cares, my genes tell me they must move forward so uhh sucks for my kids I guess