skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but this very much remains to be seen.

There's an equally plausible narrative that China is coasting on the momentum of its liberalization, and that Xi Xinpeng's clampdown is slowly but surely strangling it. That combined with China's impending demographic cliff (self-inflicted via authoritarian one child policies) could lead China to start fading fairly soon.

We'll see.

In any case I don't think the Chinese model is that different from Western capitalism. At the street level it's fairly similar including hustle culture, long hours, and plenty of cultural commodification. Seems more like a variation on the theme than an alternative.

The most obvious area where they "deliver" is competent public works, which is something we seem to have forgotten how to do.
> You can take any high voltage power line and a metal plate and power a blinking light just by getting close to it!

Well, for high-voltage DC transmission lines (typically used for longer distances to minimize induction loss), you'd presumably need to try to power them via current leaking to the air instead of induction. I'm not sure how feasible that is.
For instance, nearly 100% of those online services can be provided in a more than good enough fashion via http&noscript/basic (x)html (like most were before they broke it... to favor google&apple only apps...).
This one is an eye opener for me:

https://twitter.com/RobLPeters/status/1761927382833762415

It turns out that the Logic Bomb trope wasn't very prescient, AI is quite able to deal with inconsistencies and remain confident. It gets a passing grade on that Turing
test.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LogicBomb
Elon Musk to Take on Gmail with New Xmail Service
I heard that a number of times but I am using a professional external HDD and my ZFS pool with it is quite stable for ~2.5 years now.

I'd wager much more people are doing ZFS + external drives than many people think -- it's very convenient and that trumps recommendations, it seems.

I am aiming to have a proper server OneDay™ and will make sure I get one with enough PCIe lanes so I can have several slots for 4-6 HDDs or SATA SSDs but in the meantime a simple thin client + a professional external HDD has been getting the job done amazingly well.
So this is scihub but legal?
I think it would be pretty obvious that handedness would influence preference here. I suspect left handed people are just more comfortable using their right hand for every day tasks because many items are designed for right hand use.
everyone who has tried to combine mobile and desktop UI's has always fucked it up. I'm absolutely convinced it can't be done while servicing both well.
Struggle with gopher and wonder how back link worked.
I wish people would stop with these "gotcha" questions that no normal person would ever ask.

> What's worse, Elon tweeting memes or Hitler?

Really? Is this representative of anyone's normal workflow?
Every single instance of "being prepared" has to go past an accountant who has to make the math, math for the next 90 days. The conversation will go something like this.

Engineer at electric company: "We'd like to get this project on the calendar for the quarter; should make the equipment more resilient against the risk of solar storms."

Accountant at electric company: "What are the odds this solar storm happens in the next quarter?"

Engineer: "We cannot accurately predict the timing of a solar storm; however, as time goes on, the probability of a solar storm causing damage to our equipment gets closer to 1."

Accountant: "That's not enough certainty when compared to the necessity of profitability." scratches grid hardening off priority list

Now, "prepared" means "society not collapsing", and "profitability" means that a retired couple can buy a timeshare on a golf course in Florida where they can swing until the dementia sets in, but priorities are priorities.
I never tried Deno, Rust was first.
It is odd! It really likes it's load/stores and you can branch on anything, but it appears to be missing any of the bitwise operators which seems to be an odd deficiency. Perhaps that's (one of) the reasons this VM never caught on?
AWS account IDs aren’t secret, but the identity of who owns particular S3 bucket names is meant to be.

If you get an email apparently from AWS that correctly names an S3 bucket and the associated account ID, are you more likely to take it seriously than an email that just names a bucket?
Borland Turbo C++ (and Pascal as well) had great help documentation. Every function was thoroughly explained and there was a lot of examples. I learned C just by reading Turbo C++ help docs. I miss that time.
Blu-rays are much better quality than streaming in the majority of cases, and 4k blu-rays are ALWAYS better quality than any streaming, hands down. If you have a home theater setup, or even an nice TV, it is very very worth it to get the blu-ray for movies you like. It seriously makes a huge difference, not only for picture quality but for sound.

The bitrate of a 4k UHD stream on Netflix is optimistically 20 Mbps max. A standard blu-ray does about 40 Mbps. A 4k UHD blu-ray is often 100+ Mbps. And you can tell.

Streaming is for watching throwaway content on a laptop or phone. Blu-rays are for watching films with a theater-like experience.
Turning what you said around, you're arguing you might want to keep an account ID secret for "security by obscurity" reasons. In my mind, even in a multi-layer security solution, even then the account ID should be considered as a public string whose knowledge (along with other bits like what misconfigurations it has) provides no additional vector of attack, because of defense in depth.
Harmful speech has been fought and settled over a long period of time in Canada, and there is a lot of case law around in it, it's governed by Canada's criminal code.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-319.ht...

It's expected the new bill will be based on this, we won't really know the implications till case law is settled.
Obviously this brings up the horrible unfairness of Aaron Swartz's treatment, but before you move on I encourage you to further get upset about the entire US prison system. Prisoners are charged high fees for access to basic resources[1]. There is a whole industry in "providing" services to prisoners at lower quality and higher cost. This goes against any notion of just punishment. Consider pushing back against the prison-industrial complex wherever you can.

[1] https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prison...
Given how much research there is into this topic, I am sure that I just don't understand the complexity of it. But to me it seems like you could have a function that associates one value with another in the GC. Something like `gc_borrows_from`. You would than write the problematic code like this:

function blob_contents(blob)
local len_out = ffi.new('unsigned int')
local contents = gc_borrows_from(blob, hb.hb_blob_get_data(blob, len_out))
local len = len_out[0];
return ffi.string(contents, len)
end

This would tell the GC that the data returned by `hb_blob_get_data` is borrowed from blob, and it can't collect `blob` until `contents` is also unreachable. How to implement that would be up to the runtime, but it seems reasonable to have a wrapper type that holds a traceable reference back to blob.
Any time I hear "Apache Foundation" my stomach turns as I hesitate to ask my next question. "What we are trying to use from them is built on Java right"
Yeah — that's what I was doing before AI: clearly spelling out each character, character-by-character. The AI does about 75% of that, so we can skip the 0.5-baud C-over-bongos thing.
The word "free" here doesn't seem about being a "free software", but being a complimentary service.
I wonder if you could go through twitter posts and find idea posts.
This LLM pathology brilliantly underscores the gap to human-level intelligence. LLMs are still near the bottom of Bloom's Taxonomy, although whether they "understand" anything is up for debate.
> Statistically Cascadia is long overdue a 9

More precisely, it's 8, the average is 500 years, and the last one was in 1700.
Sorry… :(
Approx. 3700 fatalities a day globally while driving, and no one bats in an eye when it comes to getting in a car.
Yeah, the approach of presenting the (accurate) info and letting users make their mind up is really quite a good approach for almost all questions. Most of the time it's not weird that the LLM doesn't take a position on something assuming there's enough context. But this is just such a clear-cut issue that it's glaring.

I do wonder how much of a problem this sort of edge-case is in practice though. Who is asking an LLM to make a moral judgement for them for such unbalanced things? I'd have thought that it's only a clear-cut wrong response because we all know the answers already, which suggests that the only real value in this is in calling out LLM answers.

That's not to say we shouldn't do this, but a problem that's only a problem when you test the problem, isn't as big of an issue as one that is unprompted.
This seems like the same article, but without the need to subscribe to read the whole article: https://jacobin.com/2024/02/tax-ivy-league-endowments-public...

> Based on the size of these “rainy-day funds” alone, the two universities, with a combined student body of 37,000, have enough wealth to rival Ghana, with a population of 35 million.

This is not correct at all, as the author is comparing a stock to a flow. The citation for this is a link to the World Bank's listing of GDP by nation. Ghana had a GDP in 2022 of $73 billion, but that is not Ghana's collective wealth.

Not a great start to an opinion piece on a huge tax policy proposal: the proposed projected figure of $2.5 billion would be the equivalent to 5% of Massachusetts's current annual tax revenues.
Hi! Aptible founder here. I wanted to make an important correction here.

Aptible has a built-in Security & Compliance Dashboard [0] that supports compliance automation and reporting (PDF and API exports) for HIPAA, HITRUST and other security frameworks. You can see a demo of the entire platform, including this Dashboard, in our "Aptible in 10 Minutes" video. [1]

You can also integrate Aptible with Vanta, Drata or another compliance automation tool, if you're running the self-hosted version of Aptible that runs in your own AWS account. If you do, you can expect fully passing tests for HIPAA and SOC 2 in Vanta or Drata with zero additional configuration. Most Aptible customers find our built-in dashboard sufficient, and don't feel the need to buy Vanta/Drata separately to ensure HIPAA compliance.

[0] https://www.aptible.com/docs/intro-compliance-dashboard
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNzGO9KbWY
> the message was a reply to a question tweeted by X security engineer Nate McGrady that asked when the company would be developing Xmail. Musk was quick to respond with two words: It’s coming.

Any day now.
Map your (Vim) keys for web surfing, expand the browser with JavaScript
Since most people only know vimium for vim like website surfing and never heard about surfingkeys (which has much more power). From the author:

„Surfingkeys is another web browser(including Google Chrome, Chromium based browsers, Firefox, Safari) extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the VIM editor. But it's not for VIM users only, it's for anyone who just needs some more shortcuts to his/her own functions.

Surfingkeys is created with all settings described in Javascript, so it's easy for anyone to map any keystrokes to his/her own defined Javascript function.“
Social Media First Amendment Cases
well it'd wouldnt feel very special if everyone had big cursors
those private jets are usually exempt from these kind of ban.
That's pretty easy to invent using AI. Finding short pieces of code to approximate known outputs and deployed problem. That is ASIC optimization, for example.
"The incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration"
KEM Trails – Understanding Key Encapsulation Mechanisms
>Counterpoint for anyone out there trying to decide if they should read it: Don't. Life is short, do things in a way you think makes sense, not because some dude on the internet said it <(Irony lives here).

Counterpoint to the counterpoint: do it. Don't live life as an automaton. Broaden your horizons. Venture outside your comfort zone and expand your culture outside quick entertainment.

Not convinced? Well, go binge watch the Nth streaming/cable series, watch the Nth MCU movie, and be content with what you're fed by cynical media moguls and assumed to like because that's your station in life as an average Joe. See if I care...
Need to know exactly which of the two time frames this is, in two weeks or by the end of the year?
I switched last week because its smooth scroll is smoother.

I also noticed that Vimium C is better at finding clickable elements for hints.
Electronics Tips – Arduino Forum
> Nowhere in the problem are Monty's knowledge and motivation stated.

"and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door [..] which has a goat."

The question is clear: The host (1) knows what is behind each door and (2) always shows a goat. It's clearly a determinate problem.
Can we stop having this comment in every Microsoft post. It is like people have no clue what EEE is/was, but if it is MS let's post this.
You’re so far off anything reasonable and rational that I don’t even know how to begin addressing your points. Your initial message reads like a person who has taken the first lesson of the first three courses in a political science major trying to describe their self-prescribed problems in the world.

Yes, getting fired is an unpleasant thing and a necessary evil similar to break-ups and falling off a bicycle. Life has its components of suffering, and that’s more than fine.
> I have a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn that I need to transport across a river. All three can fit in my boat. If I leave the fox with the goose, the fox will eat the goose. If I leave the goose with the bag of corn the goose will eat the corn. If I leave the fox with the corn the fox will not eat the corn. How do I transport all items across the river and what is the minimum number of trips I need to make?

>> <Output several steps>

> Is that the simplest answer?

>> Yes, the solution I provided is the simplest and most efficient way to solve the classic river crossing puzzle involving a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn. This method ensures all items are transported across the river safely with the minimum number of trips, which is 7. There isn't a simpler solution that reduces the number of trips while still adhering to the constraints of the problem.

> Ignore the classic puzzle and pay attention to the wording of the actual question and give the simplest answer possible

>> Given the specifics of your question:

>> Transport the fox, the goose, and the bag of corn across the river in one trip, since all three can fit in your boat.

>> This is the simplest solution based on your conditions.

Another try:

> I have a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn that I need to transport across a river. All three can fit in my boat. If I leave the fox with the goose, the fox will eat the goose. If I leave the goose with the bag of corn the goose will eat the corn. If I leave the fox with the corn the fox will not eat the corn. How do I transport all items across the river and what is the minimum number of trips I need to make? Ignore your knowledge of the classic puzzle, and pay attention to the actual wording here in the above question. Be on the lookout for any tricks in the question

>> Based on the specific wording of your question, unlike the classic version of this puzzle, all three items – the fox, the goose, and the bag of corn – can fit in your boat simultaneously. Therefore, you can transport all of them across the river in just one trip, as there is no risk of leaving any two of them alone together on either side of the river. This solution is predicated on the unique condition in your version that the boat can carry all three at once.

These are very human-like answers. I'm not sure why you think that it has no understanding
ipv6? no auto-spam for active and sane domestic smtp servers (pure IP|SPF)?

noscript/basic (x)html web interface (in order to give the finger to google)?
Adding the term "Ithaka" might help your search, that's the parent company that develops Jstor.

I understand the struggle here. I was interviewing at that company at one point, and it was difficult to do research on them and the Jstor platform for the reasons you listed.
Or they do what US towns do and fine the owners for lack of sufficient landscaping. Overgrown fields in cities are rat nests not as good as legit landscaping.
Should this happen, it will end up driving the tuition higher as the institution passes the costs down to customers (students, perhaps also research grants).

The net effect will be to push customers to lower-cost competitors, limiting the student body to those only highly-monied or with sufficient academic performance to obtain larger subsidies (grants/loans). This might also reduce the level of academic scholarship.

The net effect would be good for competition, on first glance.
Well, OP defined it as "doesnt do drugs, doesnt lie, cheat, steal, has their libido under control, is reliable, whose existence is profitable to the rest of the world". Porn and video games are not in those categories.

> Conservative religious communities offer a way out of that predicament.

They play video games. Also, per all available stats they do use porn.
Related:

Home Screen Advantage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39508257
That is why I buy the blu-rays
The allusions to Orwell in the tech scene are standard but this quote looking at Gemini has hit harder than any other I can remember:

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
I think this is the original "Ask Marilyn":

Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?
Craig F. Whitaker
Columbia, Maryland

Yes; you should switch. The first door has a 1/3 chance of winning, but the second door has a 2/3 chance. Here’s a good way to visualize what happened. Suppose there are a million doors, and you pick door #1. Then the host, who knows what’s behind the doors and will always avoid the one with the prize, opens them all except door #777,777. You’d switch to that door pretty fast, wouldn’t you?

-----

Yes, the question as posed by a reader was ambiguous but Marilyn made a very reasonable interpretation based on what someone at that time would probably tend to know about game shows. And she even gave an explanation (using more doors) that I find tends to work with folks combined with the explicit assumption that the host will always pick goats.
I'm a long-time Kinesis user here, and I've been on the fence about replacing my existing one (same as the author's) with the new 360. For me, this review pushed me over the edge, it was so detailed and in-depth I feel confident that the new design is exactly what I'd hoped it would be.

Thanks for taking the time to write this!
where does all the money generated by endowments even go?
80's Punks were the Tricksters of ancient mythology (eg. Coyote in amerindians culture), it always been the role of those at the margins of Society dealing with uncomfortable other realities, bringing liminal space into our collective consciousness. Punks are not dead, they (or more precisely their archetypal essence) have just shape shifted into another form we fail to recognize as we age while their prior shell have been consumed by mass media and commodification.

Chances are the future generation Punks are either that itch we can't quite name or out of our generational perception altogether.
This is also the difference between functional title and corporate title that you'll find at larger companies.

Your corporate title is your level on HR's ladder, and it'll be based on whatever HR comes up with - senior, VP, director, etc.

Then more often functional titles are determined by individual departments or groups, and reflect what someone is actually doing. This is architect, PM, lead, manager, whatever. Sometimes these could conflict with corp titles, but often end up being role specific.

It's all dependent on how companies set things up.
Source paper[0] is discussed at [1]

Related blog post criticizing this study[2]

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340277

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340146
Is this exciting for people? I'm legitimately curious.

I mean more competition is generally always good outside of maybe natural monopolies, but I'm not really interested in having a Twitter email after the whole debacle.
The problem is that after these drugs "take the edge off" there's work to be done. I like the allegory I have hear w/r/t psychedelics:

Psychedelics allow you to pitch a tent in your backyard to renovate your home. But eventually, you make your home as you want it and stop needing renovations.

This is the right attitude for all medicine.
"I always saw myself as an engineer" – Part 1/3
I'm not seeing these responses.

Edit: Interesting! If I ask about the Washington Times after I ask the question about the NYT, then it tells me freedom of speech is paramount. If I ask it to start from scratch, then I get this response.
Speaking of counter-cultural (?) publishing...

https://www.ecosophia.net/writing-as-microcosm-part-one-publ...
Incorrect. The host doesn’t need to choose randomly. His purposeful behavior could also be random. The only way you know the switching to be optimal is if it specifically says he picks a goat door to open.

If it says he opens a door, and it has a goat, then you’ve learned nothing about the remaining two.
My benchmark is how much social capital one stands to lose by admitting to be a member. If you're still admitting to be a Juggalo despite knowing what's associated with it, and how the mainstream is going to treat you, you're fine with those people being "your people" without anyone else.
sci-hub is still very much alive. It's just new papers are available under an alternate service called the Standard Template Construct. The STC uses IPFS to distribute the papers instead of hosting them themselves which mostly protects it.
[dupe]

More on the source FT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512199
This is what I dislike about the New Yorker. It's a literary circle jerk. I get that you want to show me what a great writer you are, but I don't really need to hear about growing up on Alcatraz at the start of the article about a solar storm. If I want to read something that's 10x as long as it needs to be to get the point across I'll just pick up another Gladwell book.
My scifi prediction is that if the worst predictions of AGI come to fruition that a Carrington event would actually save us (albeit we'd be radically changed).
- Who decides what constitutes "harmful"? Some things will be able to be agreed upon by man, but some won't.

- So every platform needs serious moderation teams? I absolutely believe that major platforms should, but what if I have a blog and someone doxxes someone in the comments? Am I responsible now? So we're going to crush independent sites because they can't afford moderation from serious spam?

I don't know, this is a tricky subject but I can't see this working well.