skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This speaks a lot to me. If an integration was new, or I'd never managed resources before, or worked cross-org in any way, I'd just pick it up. I'd even do the PM's job of interviewing the customers, validating if we were targeting real painpoints, and attempting to drive product direction.

Over a few years I worked on several projects, which all became the company's product suite. They all gained adoption, became very valuable and were sold to several customers, but they were not reliable. Even less so after they moved me off. But they were solving real problems, and customers were still happy, and so the company still kept them alive with bigger teams.

The company attained unicorn status, but I never really got ownership of any 1 project or product. I'd get increasing requests for help across the growing product suite, was able to help effectively, and simultaneously took on new feature development work.

In the latter part of my time there, I found out I may have been in the bottom quartile of pay for the team I was in, while being perceived as the top performer by coworkers.

I was in a slow 'burn out' but never fully checked out. Maybe because I think I rarely put in over 50 hours a week. Never touched comms during weekends.
Good point. The chances are truly out of this world.
Ironically, this is how popular beliefs are supported, but I don't think anti-vax is one of them. The news tells people what they want to hear to keep them engaged to make money from advertising to them. That's why news organizations are split into partisan groups, they have to do that to serve their own markets. Anyone being neutral would alienate most of their audience by making them uncomfortable.

Remember when the correct belief about the origin of Covid was naturally occurring in an animal then spreading to people in a market? Turned out to be a big conspiracy and false. But the news kept telling people that because people had already formed political attachment to that belief.
Thanks! I'm going to try this right now.
How do you measure how much a person knows, and how do you objectively measure how much an LLM knows?

Here’s a very basic example of where an LLM is clearly more capable than a human: language translation. I would bet $10k at 10:1 that there are no humans who can reliably translate to and from as many languages as an LLM can.

It is very easy to measure knowledge: test the subject.

Personally, I can’t ever imagine scoring higher on a general knowledge test than a contemporary LLM.

Also, I don’t know of any humans that can run as fast as a car so I don’t know why any of this is surprising or farfetched.
Anti-Semitism in the context of what we're talking about.

There are many different flavours of antisemitism: from Judeophobia to unhinged criticism of the Israeli state to racial. And all of those can be further subdivided. All of these are very different and worth commenting on, but all I did was describe anti-Semitism as viewed by the Nazi world-view and some background on that. That is the only thing I'm talking about. I don't think I need to include an essay on antisemitism to make such a point.
So what you are saying is that, we've reached the point where our own most sophisticated computer models are starting to approach the same algorithms that define the universe we live in? Aka, the simulation is showing again?
Trying Out Cloudflare's `Foundations` Library for Rust
People are incredibly lazy and they also do their taxes at work. I'd expect a smooth curve right up to April 15.
If you sell arms to both sides and no fighting occurs on your territory…

No one has said there should be aggressive intervention in Ukraine or Middle East to minimize the environmental damage and financial impact of war.
Not at this risk, but possibly others. Requiring both is always better.
Many services won't even text 2FA codes to voip numbers, google voice included.

Some may call, most not even that.
Sure, I'll repost as a top-level comment.
Full thread from X:
I stumbled into a hobby business of building the ultimate Mac OS 9 machines for #RetroMac enthusiasts.

It started with my son...

I wanted him to have a classic Mac to play some of the great educational games that I grew up on. I considered various models—as a pseudo-collector, I had a bunch of classic '80s and '90s machines lying around, but I thought why not get the fastest PowerPC machine possible?

The issue is the last few years of PowerPC machines (2002-2006) boot only Mac OS X, not Mac OS 9. So I was thinking of a late '90s iMac, but then I stumbled upon something cool—a bunch of ROM hackers at https://macos9lives.com created a way for mid '00s Macs to boot Mac OS 9.

These machines came out after Mac OS 9 was discontinued so they're faster than anything that natively ran Mac OS 9. The most convenient to get due to space/shipping is a laptop or Mac mini G4. And they can be made even faster...

You can also upgrade them with an internal IDE to mSATA SSD adapter. So, you can basically put an SSD inside one.

There was only one model of PowerPC Mac mini (A1103) so you have to be careful which one you're buying. Make sure it has a Firewire port and only 2 USB ports.

So, I bought three of them that said they were untested on eBay. After getting one working, I decided to fix up/upgrade the same way the other two and try selling the upgraded ones on eBay.

I thought I was done then, but I saw a lot of 13 untested ones on eBay. Now that I knew the ins-and-outs of upgrading them so well I was like, well I could just keep doing this, so I bought the lot and another lot of 2 more.

So now I have 15 of them in my home. I'm cleaning and upgrading them one at a time. This is typically

- Clean

- Install SSD

- Install more RAM

- Put a new clock battery in

- Install Mac OS 9

Most of them don't come with power adapters so I'm now buying a bunch of parts in bulk:

- Power Adapters

- IDE to mSATA Adapters

- SSDs

- RAM sticks

- CR2032 clock batteries

- screws (yeah some are missing screws)

So far I'm not really making much money (pretty much breaking even) but it's kind of a fun hobby at this point and I think some people who need fast Mac OS 9 machines for their actual work (yes some people still use these for music production and print stuff) are benefitting.

Anyway, my latest one is up on eBay now if you want to bid:
https://ebay.com/itm/126433161881
As a C++ user, I definitely believe it.
If you found the video on Super Mario 64 being published with debug symbols interesting, check this out: After finding out about the debug symbols, a developer took a deeper dive through the codebase and optimized the ever living hell out of to get 60fps+.

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
A Red Queen's race is very hard. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Red_Queen's_race
You could try Syncthing
https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html
Pure ineffectual saber rattling. If it wasn’t, they’d first hit air defense installations. They know where they are. Iran wanted Israel to not intercept just a few of the things it knew it couldn’t intercept. It’d be absolutely moronic for Israel to respond to something so obvious. Next time they might not be so “lucky”.
This is a great article and an excellent breakdown of how what we hear on the news can be so off base.

Just to nitpick, this part stuck out to me:

>Fast forward two decades, and this outlook looks dangerously naive. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iran’s attacks on Israel, and a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan or the Philippines show the importance of ballistic missile defense as a way of blocking attacks by invading states. In 2006, in the middle of the War on Terror, it might have seemed inconceivable that just 18 years later, the world would see multiple authoritarian empires waging aggressive, expansionist wars, and that the U.S. and its allies would be playing a beleaguered defense. But here we are.

Hmm, one of those countries' actions is not like the others no? Iran's missle launch was not an invasion of Israel. It was definitely Israel who violated Iranian sovereignty first here, no? With the killing of IRGC commanders in a Syrian consulate. Neither country has attacked Israel recently. The US and Israel have assassinated targets in the country of Iran recently, while the reverse has not been true. Who is really invading who here? And in that sense, Yglesias' point that missile defense is only important if you want to meddle in and invade sovereign nations seems to be correct for the one conflict of these which existed back then (Israel v Middle East) (whatever you may believe about the value of such moves)
Imagine that any computation is a hash, then every possible thing becomes memoized not distinguishing between data/code. Then as a consequence you have durability, cache, security to an extent, verifiability through peers (could be trusted or degrees away from peers you trust).
ah bureaucracy! tell me, did one of those guys who wear a ridiculous giant white wig declare the divorce was final?
> locks me out of my 20 year old email account

And you effectively can't even run your own system, as has been discussed here many times.
That movie is a head fuck
>If I'm on the ground and an officer is yelling at me, I do not want other people even within that officer's bubble of space.

If you're in that position, particularly for something as simple as he took something you said the wrong way, the cameras might keep the officer from going overboard too.
Indeed, the first three words in the book version of this essay are credit to Christopher Alexander's original.
> An investigation by the Associated Press found that the two owners probably sent fake ashes and fabricated cremation records. They appear to have written on death certificates given to families, along with ashes, that the cremations were performed by Wilbert Funeral Services, which denies performing them for the funeral home at that time.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just perform the cremations? I don't understand how keeping bodies in storage would somehow be a better option.
I don’t consider this a micro-optimization.

My customer profile at the time was mom-and-pop small businesses. Bespoke application development that automated back office work delivered on ~6week timeline.

The size of their tech department was 0.

The goal with the architecture I delivered was to delegate as much as possible below a vendor boundary.

My solution was:
Cloudflare workers for compute.
R2 for storage.
Neon for database. HTML/JS/CSS for the frontend.

Neon wasn’t a micro-optimization. It was the only vendor in town that would own that much of the DB layer’s responsibility (D2 wasn’t prod ready yet).

12months in and so far so good. I’ve had to “come back in” for a total of 30minutes of maintenance when mobile Chrome broke uploading a photo via camera.
What held me back from using Python more is the absolute madness of these tools and the ecosystem. Like, Node looks like a tidy ecosystem in comparison. I've tried almost all the tools in those venn diagrams in the article and I probably had the most luck with poetry + pyenv. But then I started having version conflicts with the packages and gave up. Most packages out there are just released to Pypi with little consideration to the right dependencies to require. Other languages I used that have really solid package management tools: Ruby, Java, Rust, Go. Node with pnpm seems to be reaching a good point.
Probably goes without saying. People should be allowed to be safe in their home without being possibly killed by space debris. If not, humanity is doing something wrong.
https://excel1040.com is humming along quite nicely.
I think this is an interesting decision for a two party consent state. Typically in a two party consent state all private conversations cannot be recorded unless both parties agree to have it recorded. This means it is illegal to secretly record a private conversation. However, the judge ruled that “conversations concerned matters of public business, occurred while the deputies were on duty, and involved phones utilized for work purposes.” have no expectation of privacy.

As someone living in a two party consent state that is not Florida I am curious if this precedent will carry weight in my home state.
Naive Crypto Arbitrage with CCXT
As a USA resident, I was recently blocked from mexc, which was the last worthwhile exchange I had for arbitraging a couple assets. So, I'm open sourcing the code I used.

There's no chance this would produce any results with any reasonable-volume coins - I only had success on very low volume coins. Upside is limited, risk is high. I am just posting this in case anyone is interested in this kind of thing.

Feedback welcome!
The downside of course is if you do run into a problem, you have nor recourse.
Ask HN: Track Mail?
I am using hunter.io app for sending bulk mails, but did not get much more replies. I think mails may go into junk and spam folder. I there any way to fix this?

Or there any other app for sending bulk mails.
Before I understood the host/client nature of USB, I was convinced this magic non-existent USB-to-USB cable would let me connect any PC to any PC and copy between them like giant flash drives.
Always felt that was dubiously legal in places that require consent to record.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
OBJECT_NAME="pg_dump_$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ").dump.gz"
pg_dump --dbname="${DB_CONNECTION}" | gzip > "${OBJECT_NAME}"
rclone copy "./${OBJECT_NAME}" "cf:${CLOUDFLARE_NAMESPACE_ID}/db/"
YouTube algorithm weaponised to shut down Russia-Ukraine war reporting channel [video]
The channel "Reporting From Ukraine" posts frequent videos providing updates in the Russia-Ukraine war. Supporters of Russia have long been trying to shut it down by weaponising the Report button and it seems they have finally succeeded with the channel now scheduled for deletion along with all the channels that features translated videos.

They seem to be unable to get in contact with a human at Google with authority to investigate and evaluate things outside of the mighty algorithm so we are going to lose a valuable resource.
It seems there's been some effort to make it more broadly applicable. For example, some slides I found specifically mention they made effort to reduce examples from aviation in newer versions.

That said, for many applications following all of it is probably not worth it. It uses some very specific terminology with specific approved meanings for words that are commonly used. e.g "follow" can never be used in "follow these instructions", but in can be used in "follow the green lights to the nearest staircase". This makes a lot of sense, but sticking to one approved meaning for a hundreds of verbs and adjectives is hard word and requires specific expertise.
Rome had a few different approaches, the Vigiles mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Several countries had armies enforce legal codes. Some places had night watches run by their local communities. Some had night watches you could pay to avoid participating in. It was considered quite unpleasant and low class to perform a night watch, so the people paid to do it were often those who could not otherwise find work or found it difficult to work elsewhere.

In some societies you could seek justice via a duel, essentially calling out the criminal and relying on social pressure to see the duel adhered to.

In England there's a system of tithings, shires and shire reeves, individuals who were kept employed and told to keep the peace. The shire reeves could muster people to enforce the law, temporarily.

In the 1600s-1800s the monarchs in various countries instituted police forces, but they were typically plainclothes or carried only a symbol of office. (E.g. a badge) These police were closer to what we expect police to be in the modern era, but were not typically or consistently in the same visible, standard uniform. (Though they may have carried, e.g. a sword that might mark them out.)

The U.S. also had other police systems, including slave patrols, essentially self formed posses that would ride down escaped slaves.

In the 1800s, police forces in England thought, "you know what would deter crime? Visible police!" And they began to standardize uniforms with the intent to prevent crime, rather than react to crime. Prior to this moment, policing was typically reactionary -- an aggrieved party seeking justice. The innovation was that if people saw a neighborhood patrolled by uniformed police, they might believe that area was safer and criminals might go elsewhere.

Around the 1860s, this idea really took off, and you see many places copying it.

I'm on my phone, I'll dig for sources later.
Is every computation worth memoizing? I can think of very few computations I do that others would care about, and in those cases there's already a much more efficient caching layer fronting the data anyway.
What is it? Site isn’t loading for me
> Turned out to be a big conspiracy and false.

Did it now?

Lableak truther loses $100,000 in his own debate https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/lableak-truther-loses-...

Even with money on the line and an arsenal of medical expertise and documents that's not a case that can be conclusively made.
i'm not sure you're right, but i'd be interested to find out. i've found a lot of stuff in plato that contradicts what you're saying, although you're partly correct. did you want to refer to any particular passage in support of your point?
Assuming the person's arms were behind their back, making a V shape, the officer might have needed to bend a little to maintain a firm grip.
> For ramanujan god is more like an emotion.

for most jewish, christian, and muslim mystics and some theologians, as well.

the 'new atheist' conception of what "all christians" think about when they think about god is, well, not very representative.
Darknet Diaries has a couple episodes about this. Two I remember are:

* The Pizza Problem

* Tennessee
I suspect it won't help. If your key is compromised, the previous sessions are compromised as well. I.e. the attacker now knows the password.
I worked on Turbotax as a co-op back in 2009/10 so things have definitely changed but two things stood out to me. First, there were two “peaks” one around January 19th (when the first wave of W2s goes out) and one around April 15th.

Second, was around the migration from desktop to online. At the time, TurboTax was one of the earliest tax prep products that had a cloud offering. It had done so in a somewhat interesting way. In order to maintain parity between the tax calculations and segregate tax data, they were running an instance of the desktop software for each web user server side. It would then use a Java process to convert the desktop UI to HTML (somewhat IE specific) and output it back to the user. It was very inefficient from the resource side but it made me appreciate how nimble this large company was in adapting to new mediums.
Yet possible as proven here. Hitting a home is bad enough.

The chances will probably increase the more space debris is handled in this way.

Also, tell the family they just have “bad luck”.
>Although "Hinduism" is vast and covers quite a few disparate beliefs and philosophies, none of them (to my knowledge) even approximately equate God with an emotion.

Bhakti does.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakti

>covers quite a few

Tons.

>Hinduism

There is no such thing.

The term is a Western invention, by complacent sneering so-called scholars about India.
this is still just 'is A > B' cruft. Why add a pile of opaque superfluous - and presumably challengeable and likely biased - AI nonsense to that when you could just go "do your cell/rent/bank/travel records show you in the state for a suspiciously large proportion of the time you claim to be non resident", and then use that very clear, unambiguous, and free of hidden training set bias as the basis for determining whether people are sufficiently present to justify audits or a more deep investigation.

AI is just "let's create an opaque statistical model from biased source data" and say Good Luck! The first thing I would do if subject to any AI driven legal action would be to demand that they prove that the system isn't biased against me on the basis of protected characteristics which they could not do, and literally every study has verified that "AI" always exacerbates bias in the training set, because AI is not intelligent, all it is doing is creating a statistical model that reflects the training set.
Close. They were meant to be disposed via controlled entry on a Japanese craft, but the astronauts that were going to do the work were delayed due to issues with Soyuz, and they couldn't keep the Japanese craft around indefinitely due to other conflicts.
By removing apps from it's store that don't comply with those restrictions. GPL only applies if Apples distributes.

Makes me wonder, if App Store distributes a GPL app which doesn't link to source, is Apple obligated to distribute the source? Seems like they'd have to.
> The wisdom of local communities can be seen in angry letters to the council about how bike lanes are satanic

This is such a stupid dismissal and a provides a great example of what the article is trying to point out. This paternalistic ultramodernist and nearly authoritarian "we know better" mentality.
Can you list some examples where free-associations from LLM were useful to you?
I get a lot of spam on Twitter. I feel like you could eliminate a lot of it with basic heuristics -no AI required. Most of the bots that follow me or like my post are either trying to sell crypto or are scantly clad women. The bot accounts usually end with a lot of digits. The handles, accompanied with the fact that I’m overweight and not attractive, makes it easy to identify bots.
How do you know you're not on a logistic curve?

Don't you think costs and the availability of training data might impose some constraints?
Ah that makes much more sense! I recalled that it was Soyuz that was delayed, but had been thinking that if they were disposing they'd probably do it via Progress and so, was a bit confused. I remembered that the reason for the uncontrolled disposal was the Soyuz delay and just went with that.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

This is the first book that clearly made me realize that anyone can be very successful at any task that they pick. Talent is important but it's not the only and most important characteristic to success. People aren't born to succeed. They can and do learn how to do it. It's a learned process, not a God given gift.
Yes. Those are all excellent reasons to have an ID.
Well, that is true. It is long form, but it does cover a series of sub-topics, not just the primary one.

tl;dr modern capitalism cannot provide the optimal distribution of information needed to support maximum economic output and growth.

It's really a restatement of Jefferson's argument for public education: the increased economic bennifits of an educated population more than pay for the education.
I may not need PuTTY, but I like me a nice GUI that I can point and click with

ssh command is absolutely fine, but I much prefer a list of saved presets versus ~/.ssh/config file fuckery
> not sure it’s legal to pretend you want to pay for simswaps

I don't see a big difference between this, and sending fake phishing emails to employees to see if they bite, which is a fairly common practice.

In this case though, it doesn't necessarily have to be T-mobile that does it. It could be local law enforcement, and they could potentially trade immunity for information on real bribers.
In Sweden it's legal to record any conversation you are part of, secretly recording as a third party is not.

Just common sense really.

Just sayin'
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I'm very curious how a FL man deduces that the object was ISS debris, vs random explosive, plane part, university pet project, etc and all other million things that could potentially caused the damage
CVMFS is a mature entry in that space, heavily used in the physics community to distribute software and container images, allowing simple and efficient sharing of computing resources. https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs/