skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came to make the same comment. Vegas is a fun place. We spend some money and get some fun just like anything else.

And same. A couple of roulette results has us “positive”.
Ah, that's a thing I hear in Germany aswell. "they..." Who is they? It is a very dangerous narrative, somehow implying that a small minority controls everything and its only purpose is to undermine "our" freedom. Even worse, everything that is annoying / dangerous / anti freedom is the result of this one group "they".
What a big pile of BS. Yes lobbies exists, but it is not a single entity. Yes, political parties exists but they do not have absolute power. All these annoying things are the result of several parties and lobbies arguing and finding compromise. There is no they. It is the outcome of thousands of people thinking.

The straw anecdote is flawed. It is a one time transition. Why do you not take the plastic straws (which I guess are still sealed) out of the dumpster? We did the same thing. We are using those during private parties since years. When guests come to me asking why we are still using these, the awnser is to save the environment ;).
It really depends on what you’re selling.

I found a cofounder who knew the space super well (one of these folks). It’s a niche market, for people who manage massive budgets. We can probably save millions per year right out of the gate, so it’s an easy pitch.

“Hey, we designed this for you. Here’s how we save you $X per year. Plus here’s some references. We want $Y and you’ll save $Z net.”

Now, I chose this field because I had tried other side projects and businesses.

Worst one I had was a website called easy-a.net - we FOIA requested universities for the grades for every class for 5-10 years. We could then predict people’s grades & how much effort it’d take for a given semester based on a small sample of real data from that user.

Anyway, we had idk 250k students using it across 10-12 universities. Was crazy to see my whole campus try it out and I basically tossed it together in a night. That said, made no money. Trying to charge was pointless — college students don’t pay. Loved the product; no real net revenue (broke even)

I’ve done that a few times with problems I’ve had. And simply put, I didn’t want to do sales this go around (though it’s still necessary). This time I just picked super high value customer & figure out how to maximize value to them.

I started with who I wanted to help, then figured out their biggest issues.
You are overthinking. In the Internet age it is pretty easy to learn that Google never shows "Use Chrome" banner to users of Chrome.
Alex isn't that convincing. And what data? Are you counting his opinion as data?

Actually asking: Are there any studies that show high quality code is just as memory unsafe as low quality code?
Are there any studies that show excluding memory overrun bugs, rust code has a lower risk of being exploitable?
What about a memory unsafe language like C written to the MISRA C standards?

I'll happily admit I'm just an old dude angry on the Internet... doesn't mean I'm wrong :)
Combine low ARPU with perceived risk (in the wake of the Vegas hacks last year) and a termination for convenience clause and this is a no brained for Caesars. There’s just not enough upside for Caesars to host in their marquee properties.
Housing in Tier 1 cities still extremely unaffordable though.
Bags in my area have always been at least double-use, first you bring groceries from store, and then you use the bag for collecting trash to take it outside. In places where plastic bags are banned, what do they use to collect the trash? Plastic trash bags?

I also read that you need to use a cotton bag between 7000 and 20000 times before it becomes even environmentally neutral depending on production technology. So is it really useful to ban plastic bags, maybe an improvement in technology is needed, some new polymer formula which decomposes faster but still cheap to produce?
Bomb threat last year caused evacuation:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/def_con_bomb_scare/

In 2018 we had aggressive room searches post the Vegas shooting that caused a lot of friction:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/security-theater...

Point being that it’s been a rough ride over the last few years. Combine that with corporate events probably being far more lucrative for Caesars I.e suits drink and gamble harder than geeks - I’m not surprised by this.

TBH my team and I skipped DEF CON last year and threw our own event in Banff instead because DEF CON has become quite boring with long lines and a Groundhog Day feel to it. If you’re looking for a proper con check out a local B-sides or a smaller legit con like Shmoocon.
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> Indeed, the fire bombings that preceded dealt far more damage to Japan than both bombs, in real terms.

That is a better anti-fire-bomb argument than an anti-nuclear one. But I suspect the feeling in Japanese command would have been something like "agh, we're becoming a weapons testing range and we don't like that" and that surely contributed to a quick surrnder.
I love to build extensions.
Such a nice thing they made website source easy to read and manipulate for your own usage, and can even share your modifications to build an extension.
It is just like your newspaper, you can write on it, cut precies out, etc. You can do with the site what you want for yourself.
The newspaper designed also it how they like, but you can also grap your scissors and pen to change it for yourself.
From the post:

> I implemented imperative code that does what I’m proposing the transformer is doing. It produces outputs very similar to the transformer.

This means there is probably a way to bypass transformers and get the same results. Would be interesting if it's more efficient. Like given foundation model train something else and run it on much smaller device.
> Same applies to books and musics, to a lesser degree to magazines/news media. For some reason, it mostly doesn't apply to videogames

It absolutely does, but apparently not for your peer group.
> maybe someday I can evolve to look at the smartphone as a utilitarian device without the addictive qualities.

Good luck.

You won't though, "because sekhurity" - the trend points at everything using your phone as a second factor, and not even via the authenticator app, but vendor-specific push notifications, on a remotely attested phone. Banks and media companies are pushing hard for it.
soma.fm looks cool, thanks for the reccomendation
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Oregon quietly rolled out its TurboTax knockoff this year, as well, and it's pretty good for a v1. They plan to add more functionality each year.

No reason to have middlemen in this space.
> The idea of distributions is unique to Linux-based systems.

That's not quite true; there are illumos distros.
The IRS has the income part of your return, not necessarily the expense part. Most people hit the standard deduction, but to do it right you need to actually do the expense part and compare.

Also they may have problems retrieving data in realtime. The IRS was a batch operation historically, and transitioning to realtime is challenging.

I mean what, are you going to do, put ip a wait cursor while joe bob mounts tape number 2,578,998,321?
That's not what's happening.
Ah yes, the safer alternative of nudging your plane against the flying bomb.
My startup sells to news organizations. Several mentors have suggested that we don't bother with mid-market organizations and just focus on the biggest ones. The reason is that the biggest organizations are more capable of doing integrations, whereas midsize outlets are (to a surprising degree) held together by duct tape and baling wire. They are loath to integrate any new tech that might cause or reveal brokenness in their systems.

We have had some success with small/midsize organizations, but it does seem like the value-for-effort is perhaps best with large publishers (partly because the little guys pay very little in comparison).
I suspect it will feel more like 2010-2014. Layoffs have the potential to incubate disruptors.
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Why do you need a comma on a single line in 2024, you already have 2+1 extra symbols/value to separate: quotes and space
https://youtu.be/n0E7EaRLmSI
Dunno what to tell you, friend. Take it up with your local office of revenue, I guess. The government website is right there providing all the information I said and more. And if there are ever limitations relating to "the general public", the IRS isn't a member of that category.

AND, your bank and investment agencies definitely report everything you put into them. So now you must also be talking about non-disclosed property sales for _cash_, as in paper bills and coins under the mattress. Doing a lot of that, are you?

But tell me more about what percentage of all federal filings you believe would be affected by undisclosed property sales.
I was surprised that the once-only principle wasn't mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle#Estonia
To be honest, requiring an ID and a proof of vaccination to attend was against the anonymity principle of the convention in the first place.
Not sure I agree with the idea there are very few world class hackers there. I've watched a few of the capture the flags and almost immediately they went over my head and I felt inadequate. lol.
Hard agree. Better compartmentalization should be the norm. A true need-to-know basis policy requires way more discipline than we have today. That requires every level to actually be competent enough to deeply analyze the problems they're trying to solve and generalize their requirements. SOL on that these days.
Absolutely. I was talking to some more folks today. I just finished looking into this a few days back. I might write a book or something on this. It is crazy how much B.S. we are fed without talking about the spark. Building a good product and those things matter much later.
Don't forget that technology has a ratchet effect. It's gonna get worse over time.

> Payments: use a card, or cash.

The card part ends up requiring phone confirmation as a second factor, often online, occasionally offline.

> Health tracker: notebook and pencil

Convenience matters - notebook and pencil method cuts down people benefiting from health tracking by a couple orders of magnitude.
Fascinating data, thanks!
Correct. The incentives for individuals rarely align with the incentives of polities (and it can be argued those entities only exist in history books).

The bombs and their awesome power served to align the incentives of individuals in decision making positions with the incentives ascribed to the polity named Japan to issue surrender.
I understand your points.

My macro point was that the smartphone introduced several very sticky conveniences, so I kept my smartphone instead of adopting a light phone or similar device. Instead, I am working on treating it as an appliance or a utility device vs. a constant extension of my arm.

For example, my two vehicles can be accessed via a smartphone key/app or a card in my wallet. So my wallet is slimmer than before, but it has a credit card, vehicle access cards, insurance, license, etc. I now carry one credit card instead of multiple physical cards since my phone wallet has several to choose from for tap to pay.

I can unlock my home remotely or via a phone tap, watch tap, physical key, passcode, or remotely. Most phone lighting controls are convenient instead of getting up and going to the switch. But the phone allows for finer-grained control of light temperatures, brightness, electrical usage, etc.

If I was determined to rid my life of a smartphone, I could sell my vehicles, buy a non-smart lock for my home, and stop tracking my workouts and diet with the phone app.

At the moment, ditching my smartphone isn't an option. I'm taking steps to treat it like any other appliance or a utility vs. an entertainment or consumption platform, which is where I believe the addictiveness lies.
I love Piracy. 99% of the content on streaming services is recycled garbage. Good for the new generation but not for me.
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I went with a bunch of CS/bioinformatics/MD IITians to Reno, NV once. They were just there to gamble on games of chance. Personally, I think gambling is boring and stupid if the expectation isn't significantly positive. I'd gamble if skill was the dominating factor and the expectation wasn't so abysmal.
Having some data isn't the same as having all the data.
Worth mentioning here: my website, kleinbottle.com is hosted on a raspberry pi at my home. Cloudflare does a great job of keeping its content available while reducing bandwidth to my place. FoxyCart handles all the secure e-commerce stuff.

Advice and comments from HN makes all the difference —- thanks to all!
With enterprise, you can easily go 1 year with literally nothing to show for it.

If the sector has one adverse event in it, you won’t have much even after 2 years.

Small Buisness - at least there’s a lot of them and the constant interaction itself will propel you forward.
> The San Francisco Unified School District said Friday that it would reverse its decade-old policy, a move that comes after a similar recent change by the school system in Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard University.

“When you watch how this policy plays out, it is actually crushing the hopes and dreams of real children in our city, every single year,” said Annesa Flentje, a parent of three and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who in March 2023 became a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to reverse the San Francisco school district’s policy.

A study by Stanford University researchers released in March 2023 found that San Francisco’s policy largely failed in its equity goals, with the proportion of Black and Latino students enrolling in Advanced Placement math courses hardly moving.

Sounds like a change for the better, based on solid evidence. Too bad they took a years-long detour to the detriment of many students.
What if your car key is a smartphone app or a card in your wallet? Those were the keys that came with my car.
Yeah, this too.

I have been impressed that they're making progress though - wheels solve some problems conda used to solve; so doing ML stuff that is based on conda I can usually just use regular pip packages now which is very nice.
Those problems weren’t really problems at the beginning, though. USB 1/1.1 only had A for host connectors, and B for peripheral connectors. And people didn’t spend much time hot swapping devices back in the those days either. Most peripherals sat on a desk and didn’t move much. The meme about always having to rotate USB came about more so in the days USB flash drives. And in the early days of USB flash drives the issue wasn’t plugging it in, it was that windows didn’t include mass storage device drivers!

I think TRRS USB would have resulted in people confusing them with the much more common audio connectors and confusing host and peripheral. That could have killed USB from the start.
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My Apple Watch will unlock my home and car.
I'm biased because I'm neurodivergent, which means I don't have as much experience with neurotypical thought processes.

While I do use search engines and the resultant resources all the time, I don't follow steps completely cluelessly/mindlessly and later forget that I did it. I don't know what the equivalent would be for non-tech - I at least try to understand what a guide is doing so I can reproduce it independently later. I try to develop basic intuition for everything that I do. It is hard for me to imagine someone who lacks that ability. I don't mean to be offensive to anyone in particular, I just use "idiots" for the sake of argument to explain how any setting will eventually be found and changed.

Is it normal to forget the steps you took to accomplish a task? To, say, specifically turn off a setting for crash protection, then completely pull a blank if the program gets into a crash loop later?
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Even extremely-biased NYT (which had to retract an article built on lies from Israel officials) has noticed your army destroying neighborhoods.

Just like the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/01/world/middlee...
Which meme?
It opens people’s eyes, but to what?

Correct me if I am wrong, but the point of the American obsession on taxes links back to not tolerating bad leaders and the encroachment on freedoms.

In that sense, it seems here the goal is to make people aware of the ‘intrusion’ in their life and naturally will seek to reduce it.

Looking at the political rhetoric for the USA, there are many assumptions and conversations baked into that position.

For example, the assumption being that leaders are very likely corrupt, and the fewer resources they have to squander the better. Extending from this, it would be prudent to not work via government, and do so by private enterprise.

So on and so forth.

Why would people, logical people, continue to frame their RoI from government actions and public resources as a zero sum game?
Yes, There is great space for emotion, team loyalty in our lives, however economics and resource allocation for the betterment of all can be assessed objectively.

I assume that this is the intent of reminding people of how taxes are used.

Having it framed that way - “painful”, “eye-opening”, “taking from paychecks”, puts you actively in opposition to the government.

Isn’t the point to encourage attentive, engaged citizenry, not biased citizenry?

This defeats the purpose does it not?
I bet it was the googly eyes
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Too bad. Now I will definitely never go there. My work sometimes gets free tickets for black hat but that's a totally boring business conference. Not worth going to on its own. I hate mingling with sales suits, I'm a real techie.

Def con was something I would be looking forward to and if my work paid for black hat I could have stayed the extra days to go there.
> Dunno what to tell you, friend.

The adult thing would be "Wow I guess I had no idea what I was talking about".
Why is the IOF committed to a salted earth(genocidal) policy in gaza?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/01/world/middlee...
Yep, you got to look at what folks do, not what they say. The Republican actions tend to be raise taxes on the middle / lower class, lower taxes for the rich.
> they ruin social interactions in public situations (think "talking to people in the grocery line"

I DONT WANT TO TALK to people in grocery line, especially when I don't have a phone. I perfectly ok to just stand quietly.

> they're utterly toxic for teenagers

sometimes, and still we have to be sure that its a phone and not society.
The problem with TRRS is that the different pins get shorted together when plugging in or disconnecting it. This means devices now have to handle a dead short as part of regular operations, which seriously complicates the interface.

The hobbyist ergonomic keyboard community has used TRRS for the link between the left and right half of the keyboard for a while now, and it routinely causes issue due to people accidentally unplugging it while powered - which fries their keyboard.

I totally expect the 3.5mm Toslink plug to come back once we inevitable switch over to fiber, though!
After the impact of the MGM hack this year Cesars probably revisited their insurance on getting compromised. After the auditors and lawyers looked at all the risks they came across DEF CON and said no because of the wording of how DEF CON is marketed. Their choice was probably to drop them or loose coverage.

DEF CON is listed as a "hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada." where Blackhat is "Black Hat is an internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the most technical and relevant information security..."

I imagine places like the convention center cant afford or care about insurance at this level.
Reread it. It says it's possible to stream HD content on Linux instead of only SD. Chromebooks with ChromeOS and certain devices with Android use Linux too, but have worked to get L1 widevine drm working so they have higher resolution available.
Edge is good. I dunno why people try to say it isn't. Just use it, it's good.
Compartmentalize?

That you hear about one instance of elaborate leaking means small leaks happen for profit on a much larger scale.

Have people request access with a case number and a why, do grant access but log what they are accessing and have triggers on it.
There are many dedicated music players like that, that use micro SD. I have a Surfans F20, but I think it only goes up to 256gb SD card.
I mean, based on the past presidential deficits / spending patterns, there doesn't appear to be such a thing as a fiscal conservative.

If you're fiscally conscious, the best thing is to vote democrat, based on facts / history.
> One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue

> 12 years old, and as perfect as the day it came out of GabeN’s mouth.

I have not pirated a game in more than a decade, I bought a bunch on sale over Christmas though I likely won’t have the time (or hardware, HL:Alyx was cheap) to play them any time soon. Though it’s a bit of a minor chore I regularly purchase music I find via streaming (I like albums, offline use, and knowing it won’t go away). I’ve never felt the need to pirate a book.

I don’t pirate tv/movies much, mostly because I don’t watch them much due to all the other entertainment available. I did pirate Taskmaster, until they started publishing the episodes on YT.
Word Up video (with Levar Burton!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
Xcode's DX is probably a decade behind competitors, possibly even more. Android Studio is far better than Xcode because, for one, the dependency management and version control actually works and is mostly something you can safely ignore for most toy and small apps and ,for two, is a reasonably well rounded IDE built by a company that specialises in making IDEs. You're comparing Eclipse to Xcode when I don't think Eclipse has been used to build Android apps in 7+ years. The moment you have to do anything complex like even simply debugging errors and performance, Xcode falters and drops the ball. If all you're doing is building a +1 counter then I'm sure that works. For anything more complex, Xcode is hell. Or at least was when I was working on it until the pandemic post which I gave up

This isn't even going into what an utterly horrific editor it is that is plagued with bugs and is missing basic IDE features like a functioning autocomplete, refactoring etc. Mind you, at one point I was celebrating because they finally added highlighting your cursor line in an update after the extensions I used to add that broke. That's how bad Xcode was circa 2015 when simple text editors had those features baked in. If you're comparing Xcode to Eclipse and ranting about JS, then feels like you kept up with how engineering has evolved for Android and JS in maybe 5-10 years. In contrast, it feels like Xcode only adds incrementally miniscule changes and every time I look at it, they seem to not have improved it much at all

All this isn't even getting into what an awful experience simply updating the damn thing is. Why does it have to download 20GB every couple of months and why does it fail so often?

I'm sorry I'm so aggressive but nothing has made my hairs more gray than trying to work with Xcode. It is appalling that it's basically the only way you can develop apps for the Apple ecosystem
as you'd expect:

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