skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, "nonce" meaning paedophile is very modern.

Until the 1970s nonce meant "appears only once" and referred to figures and terms which never found common use after being coined.
> We don't know since no one is releasing their data.

Is anyone else just assuming at this point that virtually everyone is using the pirated materials in The Pile like Books3?
Learn about the massive challenges of using AWS DMS we experienced and how we prevailed in the end.
I’m pretty sure they do, given that macOS is even still a Certified UNIX(tm).
Setting up firebase security rules: https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/
Tell them to ask you follow up questions and they will.

Some systems built on top of LLMs have this built in - Perplexity searches for example usually ask a follow up before running the search. I find it a bit annoying because it feels like about half the time the follow up it asks me isn't necessary to answer my original question.
How do you know if a site has used a cookie they said was functional to track you?
I'm still surprised there isn't a query/plan cache for PostgreSQL. I could easily see these two approaches working in harmony once it does, as frequent queries could end up being cached and more aggressively optimized with a cache to offset the compilation cost. Of course that adds a whole new layer of complexity and trouble.
Two parts: I did the benchmark on a laptop and didn't spend enough time forcing its runtime PM in a fixed state, I'll run a real pgbench on my desktop once I implement all required opcodes for it. And since JIT requires a minimum amount of time (about 300us on my tests), on such small runtimes this can quickly overcome the benefits.
You've nailed it.

Uber went south in Cairns in exactly the same way about when Didi and the others came out.

Call a cab and it turns up. Reliability is everything.
Show HN: Tuix – TUI for managing screens, written in Rust
> In most cases, a tick has to be attached for around 36 to 48 hours before the bacteria can be transmitted

That's news to me.
If you know anything about physics at that level, you would know that cosmologists don't like dark matter either. They'd love an alternative but the evidence keeps beating the candidates to death.
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I finished with MS after Windows 7. They seem to have gone off the rails. I feel guilty it may be my fault.
I have a university account from 1995. I have a VWVortex (car forum) account from 1999. I used to have a sheet of paper with handwritten account information that I know I wrote in 1999-2000, but I've lost it.
Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time
Tying your entire web app to user agent sniffing. What could possibly go wrong!?
> If the bible can make up exodus and fabricate Noah I have no reason to believe fabricating Jesus is beyond the pale.

From a historian's perspective, these are completely different sources, from hundreds of years apart. There has been a lot of analysis of their composition, which tell us what we probably can and probably can't trust about them. You don't discard a historical source just because it's a religious text. There are no absolutely trustworthy sources in history, but that they existed within a context, giving us some confidence in certain properties at least.

Of Pythagoras, it has been written:

> There is not a single detail in the life of Pythagoras that stands uncontradicted. — Walter Burkert (via Wikipedia)

Aristotle is only attested in other people's writings, produced after his death. We still think he existed. All evidence of Diotíma of Mantinea can be traced back to Plato's Symposium, where a handful of her ideas were recorded. Plato might have made her up, but there's reason to believe he didn't. We only have, like, four sources on Genghis Khan's life, and he was viewed as a deity for hundreds of years. Nonetheless, we're pretty sure there was a person called Genghis Khan who existed, and held the role in society that all these tales suggest he did (even if the tales themselves may not be true).

Very little is known about almost everyone. Jesus is not exceptional in this regard. If you say that Jesus didn't exist because there's not good evidence, you have to discard a lot of allegedly-historical figures for the same reason. (Or, I suppose, just make a special exception for this one guy.)
Threatening? Most taxicabs have cameras inside, and I've never heard of a driver getting violent with a passenger over an inability to pay (different from a refusal to pay), considering their picture and cab ID are prominently displayed inside the cab.
CDKTF is what you're looking for.
Mindless Work – The High Price of Continuous Multitasking
Phalanx CIWS Costs $3,500 per Second in Ammo to Fire
Phase change enthusiasts already have to deal with condensation.
So nice of you to mention the top-3 vilest regimes of the last century without as much as hand-waiving.
I've started doing something similar around a year ago, after noticing that I reached basically all goals I set out for myself after school. I was at a point where I felt like I stopped growing as a person and found myself unhappy with my life, yet was seemingly stuck.

What I did was to have a very strong introspection over a few weeks. I thought about each important aspect of my life - social life, family, career, hobbies, health, even my daily structure - and formulated a very specific target for each area. Basically a well thought out fantasy character. This was hard work, it took many nights of thinking and it's honestly a process that never stops, even nowadays I still update that document from time to time.

Once I had a list I was reasonably happy with, I started thinking of the type of person that would reach that goals and what kind of habits they had. And then I started implementing them. The most important part here is a habit of doing stuff. I can not stress enough how important that is, everything else pales in comparison. I recommend reading Atomic Habits and personally follow the "Getting Things Done" system. But once you have written down everything you need to do and actually do it, you have a superpower and the ability to transform every part of your life in a few months. I found that most "hard" things in life are actually quite easy to do, it's just that doing stuff consistently is extremely hard.

I agree with the author, simply telling people about your future self also helps massively. The first time it will feel extremely weird, like talking about a fantasy character. You will talk about some guy you seemingly have nothing in common with and talk about future achievements with absolutely nothing to back it up. But do it 2-3 times and suddenly that future self will feel familiar. Do it some more, take some steps to be that person and suddenly you'll be far more similar to that guy than you could've ever envisioned.

At least for myself this process was the most important thing I've ever done in my life. I've gone from a pretty shy, boring, somewhat depressed and risk-averse guy to moving across the country for an awesome job, restarting my entire social life and solo-travelling across the world. And most importantly, I'm happy now, it feels like I'm finally me and not just the product of my upbringing and surroundings.
Governments are supposed to represent the whole of society. The justification for their policies is ideally based on democratic legitimacy. No entity outside of government can possibly have that legitimacy.

In my opinion it is not audacious at all to reject the idea that corporations should intentionally pursue societal goals or claim to act out of a sense of duty.

Of course we want the effect of what corporations do to be of net benefit to society as a whole. But this cannot be based on their intentions or sense of duty. It has to be based on the systemic effects of them pursuing their own (possibly enlightened) self interest within the framework of the law.

It is for governments to make sure that these effects are beneficial and to intervene when they are not. So the asymmetry I see is that capitalism is a tool of society, not the other way around.
After five years I discovered why my network goes down (2020)
It is going to be close between my gmail (I was invited during the beta in 2004) and my bank which would have been 2002/2003 timeframe but I can’t remember for sure.

I can remember earlier accounts like deadjournal, Hotmail, something awful, but I don’t use those anymore.
The days of merely protecting one's property are long over. At least in the US real estate taxes pay for many services unrelated to safety of the property. For example, closing a real estate tax funded senior center is unlikely to result in an increase in crime. Maybe the seniors themselves would be more vulnerable without a senior center, but I fail to see a general crime spree resulting. If anything the seniors would be watching other people's property and call the cops at any sign of potentially suspicious activity.
A friend of mine moved from Windows to Linux many years ago because of that. He used his computer at home only in the weekends and almost every time he switched it on he had to wait for an update to download and install. Sometimes he just switched off the machine and did something else.
Stuff like this, makes me thankful to have chosen password managers and virtual cards a long time ago...

Still this makes the interent scarier. Most people don't have a clue how fragile the web is and how vunerable they are.
""For my kids' machines at home, anytime they boot windows, it will do an update, and a good percentage of the time, the update will fail, and brick the machine, requiring a complete re-install."

My wife and kids all use and have used 2nd hand company Windows 10 laptops. Since one of my roles by day is being a system administrator, i took quite some time to setup Windows 10 as they and i like it, being very very thorough in its various settings. The things just.. work..

It's quite rare if they ask for help about updates, crashes, etc. Haven't had a bricked OS since Windows ME.

Getting Fifa 23 and FC24 to work flawlessly on the Windows 10 game computer on the other hand.... Maybe i should start working for EA :)
I started a new job a few years ago. I was successful at my last place, but was often stressed and in conflict with others that didn't meet my standards. We were encouraged to speak up and hold others accountable, but the way I did that was not really 'nice', even if it wasn't offensive or rude.

At my current place, I made a conscious decision to be 'nicer'. That doesn't mean I'm going to put up with BS or get pushed around, but I'm way more thoughtful with how I approach interpersonal relationships. I've found more success with less stress with this approach than I did with my previous tack. It really boils down to being "nice", or as I tell myself, "don't be an asshole".
Even if we do not know the true energy content of a particular food item, we know that the amount ingested is proportional to the energy intake. At that point, we need only a simple bisection search algorithm to find a point which allows weight loss without an excessive (note: not zero) feeling of hunger.
Is Slack Making You Slack?
Russia's air strikes on Ukraine aimed using satellite images from US companies
Funny how MS comes out of its regulatory probationary period and immediately Windows turns into a massive ad for MS services that go out of their way to make your life miserable.

Something to keep in mind when complaining about the highly limited, and yet basically only, consumer friendly EU directives to the companies that our entire lives depend upon, even if the directives may not be perfect.
That's why the graceful, horse shaped unicorns of classical times died out; and what we have now is the up-armored, heavyweight rhinoceros version.

Evolution is amazing innit.
The beta period is at least a month long and Xcode shows you deprecation warnings years ahead on this stuff. I get that there are corner case bugs that might happen once every few years but if this is happening 'every single release' your users are right.
Except you could always just "turn off fees" in the browser, so the whole conflict seems kind of superfluous.
> It’s an inconvenience to people who care about privacy and use browser configurations that don’t store state between visits.
>
> So now in an attempt to protect regular users, the law ended up hurting users that already cared.

Fair point about the banners mostly "hurting" users who care about privacy (but, really though- how much does it really "hurt" you? I'm "hurt" more by the fact that I have to fold laundry several days a week).

But, I take major issue with you saying that the LAW ended up hurting users. Companies are under no legal obligation to make those banners as obnoxious as they are or with so many dark patterns (I sometimes don't know if I'm even enabling or disabling tracking with the way they word it). That's squarely on the web site owners pulling that nonsense.

> Additionally, the shadiest and incompetent sites still just track people with no cookie banner. So the law doesn’t really provide protection against uncooperative parties, whereas privacy technology does.

I agree that the only/best way to protect yourself is via technology and not by relying on people obeying the law.

However, if this is also an argument against having the law, it's an incredibly weak one. You can apply that logic to argue that NO laws are effective. People still murder even though it's illegal- must be a bad law, no?
Practically everything that people do that isn't a "job" - sports, cooking, crafts, philosophy, etc. In short, "creating stuff"

Furthermore, it seems silly to me to think that all human intellectual endeavors will simply disappear. We will still need to drive science, build bigger and better AI systems, improve and repair the world, etc.
What is your take on this?
I think a heck of a lot of smaller sites just cargo-cult the pop-up. Either because they misunderstand the law or because of overly cautious lawyers.
A few discworld mud characters have would think.
and only if you are US citizen/resident. There will be only few country/winners in this game for now most likely: US, China, France.
It was brand new at the time. I remember thinking it was super cool that it existed at all. They also had a tele-banking service you could still use at the time.

The UI has only changed notably 2-3 times in that time period too, although at this point 99% of the time I use my smartphone app to access.
I like Georgism but if business taxes were replaced would internet businesses that don’t need a physical location thereby pay much less taxes than those that do have need for physical location? That does sound kinda lopsided, unless we’re also doing a land value tax on prime domain name real estate.
I found this book that may be of interest as well: The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History, by Jean Ford Brennan [0]

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20220511181506/http://www.columb...
I assume they're citing the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/index.html
Looking at https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/basics, would it be practical to have a "simple security mode" where you can only select from preset security rule templates? (like "Content-owner only" access or "Attribute-based and Role-based" access from the article) Do most apps need really custom rules or they tend to follow similar patterns that would be covered by templates?

A big problem with writing security rules is that almost any mistake is going to be a security problem so you really don't want to touch it if you don't have to. It's also really obvious when the security rules are locked down too much because your app won't function, but really non-obvious when the security rules are too open unless you probe for too much access.

Related idea: force the dev to write test case examples for each security rule where the security rule will deny access.
> I’m not saying technical problems are inevitable or faulting developers. I’m saying there has to be a better way of handling this quality issues – both in how changes are made and how they’re communicated. Waiting for the system to fail on users’ systems – whoever is to blame, whatever the reason – is waiting until it’s too late.

The better way is a long public developer release cycle. The folks doing weirdness like blocking things from working (plug-in DRM) should have released updates long before this.

I've never understood the "no, we don't update until after OS-maker releases to the public, please delay updating until every third party dev in your stack gets around to it depending on the volume of complaints", versus shipping stack component updates during the dev releases, so that when RC and general releases come out, it's all good.

Well, I understand it. One of these requires funding proactive and preemptive continuous maintenance. The other is easier in a budget allocation battle: "users are broken, my team needs money to fix it."

So I'm not faulting developers either, I'm faulting the tech maintenance and expense culture of the firm where the developers work.
It seems reasonable to assume that the exposed information has already fallen into the wrong hands. Might as well post the list at this point (or at some point, at least) so that any users of those sites can become aware, no?
Yeah, love how you clarified the effects of gravity - the ball rolling down the hill, that totally cleared the confusion I had about a car rolling, whew - almost hurt my head there.

What still hurts my head is this whole concept of like feedback loops and like how nothing about the projections show any like sort of leveling off - like maybe you can help me make sense of that.

What happens if it's just like a really really big hill and there is no valley of "equilibrium" to get to??

Does the ball stop rolling before the car or will they at least stop before we all die??

Maybe I've lost the analogy
I don’t put these cookie banners on my sites. They are just annoying.

Most decent browsers block google analytics these days.

The facebook pixel was retired as far as I can recall.

At this point I just have a local analytics setup just to let me know how many visits a particular page got.
Amazon, absolutely. EBay is number two, though I haven't actually used it in years. (I still get a reverse invoice for a credit they owe from the 90's. Hilarious.)
Not disagreeing (have a finished basement myself), but what's in question here is affordability and efficiency.

In that context, a monolithic slab has a lot of benefits including reduced material that has to be removed, reduced site prep, reduced construction time, reduced material costs, reduced labor costs, and reduced complexity.

If the goal is to make more housing, more accessible economically, then it makes sense in that context.
Canaries in the coal mine – A Biocultural Theory of ADHD (2006) [pdf]
> A lot of people end up thinking it's about ergonomic chairs. An un-ergonomic chair will make things bad pretty quick

I'm still fairly young so I probably shouldn't be so quick to say – maybe I'll have to eat my hat in the next decade or two – but I feel like this is also one of those "it's not the thing but how you use it" type situations. I have always used un-ergonomic fairly spartan wood chairs and stools without problem.

What I do, that I don't see everyone else do, is adjust my position a lot. Since I find the chair slightly uncomfortable, I have like a million different positions I can sit in and I rotate through them naturally throughout the day. I haven't seen any science on it but it would make sense that variety helps prevent damage caused by prolonged exposure to one position.
Both Canada and Australia have strong federalism. About half of all expenditure is run through the state and local governments in the US. In Australia it’s similar, and in Canada it’s 75%.

I think the Presidential system has a lot to do with it. The people have a lot to do with it too. Large-scale immigration of Germans, then Irish and Italians, and now Hispanics has left a long tradition of ethnic machine politics in the U.S. that’s simply absent from Canadian and Australian politics. Even as say distinct Italian or Irish identity has diminished, our politics, especially on the left, is still centered around identity. In a typical national election, almost no political bandwidth is spent discussing efficiency of government services.

Look at Obama—the archetype of the modern Democrat. What was his job before politics? He wasn’t a labor leader or anything like that. He was a community organizer in Chicago’s ethnic-based political machine. He’s inspired a generation of people on the left—necessarily, the ones who would otherwise be most invested in government efficiency and quality of services—to become activists for their various identity groups. Do you think those folks are going to become efficient and confident administrators when they grow up?
Honestly I thought the same as you, then I wrote this, and I now understand it's going to be really hard to do. To make it very simple: there are pointers to query parts "leaking" everywhere across the execution engine. Removing them will require a significant overall of the execution engine, the planner and who knows what else. Even in a single session, two compiled queries will have different compiled code because of that (both llvm and my copyjit have to inject the adresses of various structs in asm code)
The Sagulator
> However, single threaded performance will end up being the bottle neck for fewer and fewer workloads.

True, the bottleneck will shrink - but according to Amdahl's law [0], it will never really go away.

Also, the more cores you have, the more the single-threaded performance increase multiplies. Imagine a million-core CPUs in the future - even a tiny increase in single-threaded performance will yield millionfold.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
A warez forum I signed up for in 2011

A soccer messageboard I signed up for 2012

My old Reddit accounts that just had a username/pw login (no email) were wiped out during the whole 3rd paty API shift of summer 2023.
"Ndiyo, naweza kufanya tafsiri kwa Kiswahili. Tafadhali niambie sentensi au neno unalotaka kutafsiri, na nitakusaidia."

I'd translate, but it isn't worth it.
https://archive.is/OHFFD
Considering Chrome gained its large user base through its own nag screens on Google.com I bet the people inside Microsoft consider it fair game. I don’t agree.
Python just isn't the language for this, really.

Rewriting it is the only real solution, I don't know your exact problem.
Not so simple for apple silicon.
>cellphone signals will cause mental disturbances.

I would think it goes way beyond that long term.

> Just like the Romans were oblivious drinking from lead pipes was causing their mental problems.

We are worse than the Romans in that regard, there is literature that suggests, that in general man made EMF waves are not safe and yet, immediate convenience trumps over any concerns of safety as with may other thing that people use. Bring up the subject and you will be labeled a pseudoscience indulger.
Von Neumann was a jack of many trades; apart from inventing computers and making fundamental contributions to both quantum mechanics and AI, he was also involved in the Manhattan project
German website hoster in '99. They changed their name 3 times in the meantime and I still got unlimited webspace there - any ideas what to do with it? (oh and i see, unlimited sql databases as well...)

My steam account is pretty old, too. 2003 (Got the 20 years of service badge lol)
> One key objective is not to be yet another linksite, but add utility by providing direct shortcuts to code, docs, api references etc. next to the main link.

Is this a need people have? I would use letsbuild.ai to discover projects and check their homepage/documentation, but once I know a given project I know where to find its docs (or search for "<project> docs" on Google).