skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can vouch for your siblings’ experience. Both me and my brother were raised by same parents but we turned out very different. I remember endless poverty, my parents fighting, lot of chaotic moments regarding my education progress and merits, being chastised for every little mistake and a lot of abusive parenting in guise of strictness and it had been so traumatic that I still suffer from panic attacks when I have waves of my childhood.

My brother has an entirely different memory, loving and supportive nurturing parents, wealth and prosperity, very friendly parents who never fought, lots of social interactions, overall a good childhood.

The thing is, when I was the only child, my father was rising out of poverty, I was born to a very underaged mother(she decided to keep my while my father wanted abortion), then my parents had extremely unrealistic expectations and wanted to raise me as the ideal model kid and unintentionally abusing me by following wrong parenting advises from wrong people because sadly children do not come with a user manual(my mom’s joke). But once my brother came in the family, my father has achieved wealth and better understanding of parenting and was less stressed, so he and my mom took their lessons from my childhood and raised my brother correctly(imho).

So, it is indeed possible to have entirely different childhood for siblings in the same house. Heck, when my brother was growing up, I still suffered some old strict parenting which was only limited to me because the dynamic was already there for me, but my brother was different.

My so often realises these beahviors when we get together at my parent’s place. My brother is sometimes surprised that, the parenting I received was something that he could never withstand and he is grateful that my parents did not repeat that, though sometimes he also claims that it could be different generation thing.

That being said, I have no grudge against my parents, poverty can make people do weird things and parenting is hard. But yes, living on the same house under same parents, siblings can have polar opposite experience.
> The US government is 10% of Microsoft's annual revenue just on security services

How are you able to conclude that?
Do the customers know what they actually need?
Meta's AI Needs to Speak with You
This reminds me of the famous Visual Studio rant by Casey Muratori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U

And the hundreds (if not thousands :D) of rants by Jon Blow saying how contemporary software performance sucks
Perhaps when we have a fully scriptable operating system, we might call it Lunatix =).
That's fine, but then the person making the comment should have added "among big cities".
I didn't say it did. The implication was that fear of unionization caused companies to take actions which degrades their workforce's capabilities as a side effect.

That said, other countries with unionized retail seem to be able to provide excellent customer service. So, maybe the problem isn't unions, but Americans (or Americans in unions)(or Americans in unions in a country where unionization has historically been waning). Or maybe your experience mischaracterizes the actual circumstances.
In my experience, that one-second wait to run a binary that you just built is due to realtime scanning by Windows Security. It's not very bright. It sees a new .exe file and assumes you downloaded it from the Pirate Bay, even though it was written by link.exe.

You can disable it as long as Group Policy doesn't dictate otherwise.
But we can differentiate grey from red, so there'd have to be something more to a specific grey blob to make us see it as red rather than grey (which is how we'd normally see a grey blob).

It doesn't have to be a strawberry (or rather a strawberry as part of a consistently lit scene), but it has to be something that makes our brain predict it is red.

The phenomena behind the illusion is "color constancy" - they way we (learn to?) see objects as being of a consistent color regardless of how they are illuminated.
Lungs are damaged by high PPO2, not high FO2.
The White House is a national security threat, according to polls of disgruntled americans, if Reuters and AP are accurate.
Disney started vaulting their movies decades before Bob Iger became president.
Well - it's not reneging. The court invalidated it.
> Comfortable because when my self-emptying dishwasher breaks, I can responsibly recycle it and get a new one. When my humanoid robot housekeeper reaches the end of its firmware updates, I’ll have to put it out to pasture.

Or... Don't? It's still a machine, regardless of having a human-shaped form. Until/unless we actually create conscious machines, they remain as disposable as any other machine, or a doll perhaps. If we do achieve machine consciousness then there will be ethical implications, but we aren't there yet.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

“NotPetya” and StuxNet were sophisticated worms/viruses which leveraged flaws in Microsoft products to ultimately bring down infra (ie, Iran nuclear program) or bring down countries (ie, Ukraine suffered attacks to energy sector)
I don't know how it works in the US, but this is very much the default when building public software in the UK, https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-...

> Public services are built with public money. So unless there’s a good reason not to do so, the code they’re based should be made available for people to reuse and build on.

> Open source code can be reused by developers working in government, avoiding duplication of work and reducing costs for government as a whole. And publishing source code under an open licence means that you’re less likely to get locked in to working with a single supplier.

Obviously there are exceptions made, but you have to explain why the exception is necessary. An auth library would be an example of where you might not want the code pubic.
I don’t understand your comment. Microsofts failures are a threat precisely because it is so used, especially by the US govt. And they may spend a lot on security, but their recent failures have been pretty amateurish. A recent breach they had was due to an old, non-2fa service account with a weak password and privileged access. See also the CISA report about last years breach.
“In [a Feb 2024] interview with PetaPixel, Sigma’s CEO Kazuto Yamaki explains that it hasn’t moved past stage two of three in the sensor’s development — a stage it has remained in since 2022.”

https://petapixel.com/2024/02/22/sigmas-full-frame-foveon-ca...
on the counter I think Australian retail is some of the best. fun, low pressure, engaging and helpful.
All I’m saying is that out of spec work does happen. I’m not defending it.
Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York
Ocado faces investor calls to abandon London listing for New York
> No, Google isn't "fascist" for firing you because you barricaded yourself in the CTO's office, intimidated and threatened fellow employees and live streamed the entire charade.

Someone walked by the sit-in, talked to the people protesting, security checked their badge and they got fired.

That seems pretty fascist to me. It also makes it quite clear that this action wasn’t taken due to the protest or actual actions, it was an action against their belief. Likely because these types of thoughts and beliefs could lead to financial damage to Google.

Also reading between the lines of the threat they sent out, the message is pretty clear. If you don’t support Israel you better shut up about it and pretend like you do. If we catch you reading a poster somewhere that’s spreading any other message you will be terminated immediately for thought crimes.
Cognitive Enhancement in a World of Superabundance
this is an absolutely valid Bayesian approach to this problem. sadly, this point is not even touched upon in this article, which deals solely with minutiae of the probability distributions (kurtosis, etc) of coins that are indeed fair.
The word `access` appears twice the pricing plan, both of them has a typo - at least a different one in both :)

But from a technical point of view I find it interesting that somehow you determine the business' poor ROI. Is there anything you can share about that, just for my technical curiosity?
We had a deal with Iran until Trump butchered it to not give Obama the victory. Well done.
I borrowed a Sigma DP1 which has this X3 sensor a long time ago. The colors are unbelievably good even today when viewed on a 4K OLED TV. However it was not without its problems, the photo quality degraded very quickly once you increased the sensitivity above the base ISO, and the autofocus was quite slow. Still, it was worth it for the amazing photos it produced.
It really doesn’t. It has no history or proactive understanding, it only runs a query when you ask it
Weekly Scroll: A Swift Backlash
The other encodings mostly exist for historical reasons; efficiency is just not a huge factor in 2024.
This is similar to what I read in a book called "The Biology of Belief" by Bruce H. Lipton.
Is the US really considered a secular nation? I mean _actually_ secular?
I think they'd be better for it at this point.

1. Musk has destroyed the brand for many of their potential customers (who tend to be "liberal")
2. He no longer will force the company to pursue foolish distractions like the CyberTruck.
Vision can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis, study finds
the market will determine what should and should not be audited, according to supply and demand. thinking that a couple employees that were not paid for with profit but with printed and taxed government dollars is not and never will be a substitute for the free market, which is a synonym for humanity. not respecting that fact will always result in loss and inefficiency. and no amount of paragraphs can undo that.
If I knew companies were recording my screen constantly I would just quit and save everyone the trouble of them getting on my case for not coding 100% of the time.

I know my screen can be checked at my current client, but I also know the product owners don't really care as long as the work is getting done on time (or at least they haven't bugged me about it since I've starting working with them a year ago and have given very positive reviews about me to my company).
I had a 11 year old SSD fail recently. The rest of my machine is still working fine at over 12 years old. Not sure it was write related. Could have been related to age of the components (caps in the controller?). The only reason I'll need to get rid of this rig (or turn it into a Linux box) is because of the TPM 2.0 requirement for Win11 and the upcoming EoL for older Win versions.
The problem is that not all the secrets are so easily extracted - sometimes the design/software is the secret.

If you put all the design up for nuclear weapons but just kept the nuclear codes secret it's great that no one can fire ours, but people could implement the design on their own with different codes.

To use a more realistic example, consider air defence missile systems use to shoot down incoming missiles and drones. The secrets here aren't keys, it's software-driven behaviours including the approach to identify radar tracks as hostile or noise, identify when to commit a missile and how to target it, the code implicitly contains the vulnerabilities where the radar tracking is less effective and more evadable and how the system tries to mitigate this, etc.

When you take away all the secret behaviours, you quickly end up with not much more than just the drivers connecting the hardware to the logic, which isn't a lot of code that's driving the funding. How you set a missile tubes tilt and direction is trivial stuff and is mostly reused from old platforms that were funded decades ago.

Additionally, there is some talk about how this is kind of like security through obscurity. When it comes to things like weapons and other high-tech capabilities, security isn't only security against being owned, it's security against your opponent closing the technological gap. Unfair wars, where you have a significant tech lead on your opponent, means your population bleeds less.
During the vi / emacs wars, the joke was that emacs stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping".

How times have changed.
Photo-similarity-search: Simple MLX CLIP based photo similarity web app
CSRB's report on the Exchange Online breach that dropped a couple weeks ago was pretty damning. Microsoft had a situation where a threat actor had access to the entirety of Exchange Online, and possibly their entire cloud. CSRB describes the entire incident as completely avoidable, and resulting from Microsoft's inadequate security culture, and it calls Microsoft out for making public statements about the breach and its response that it knew to be inaccurate.

The ONLY way that breach got detected was because the State department bought the premium package with extra logging that let them see when mailboxes get opened. It turned out, Microsoft had a signing key that could create access tokens for anything in their cloud, and it was stolen by Storm-0558. (More precisely, the key was only supposed to be useful for a portion of their services, but a bug allowed Storm-0558 to bypass that scope limitation.) And they used that to go read the e-mails of the State department and a bunch of other organizations, and private individuals. There was nothing customers could do to prevent the attack, and apparently no other indication in their logs that it was taking place, besides this category of entry that was gatekept behind a premium subscription package.

Microsoft generated the key in 2016 and discontinued it years prior to the incident, but it was never revoked. Microsoft didn't even bother with key rotations anymore after 2021 because one time they fucked it up and it caused an outage, so they decided to just not do that anymore. Also, Microsoft apparently didn't have any means of detecting the obvious use of a zombie key.

Also, Microsoft still doesn't really know how they got the key. They made a blog post about their theory, representing it as something they were highly confident in based on the evidence. After 6 months of pressure from the government, Microsoft finally updated the post to admit that they had no evidence of critical parts of what they claimed, and several key points in their narrative were factually incorrect.

Then earlier this year, Microsoft got hacked AGAIN because they had an unused-but-active test account with a guessable password and no MFA, and it was authorized for access to e-mail boxes of (at a minimum) numerous members of Microsoft senior leadership.

Microsoft has got serious problems.

edit: I keep futzing with my phrasing. Those wanting a much better account should just read the report, since it has a great deal more nuance and information.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review...
I engaged with him elsewhere in the thread on this topic. All you safely assume is that he's a troll.
> It’s not like giving them the source code would increase risk significantly

I like free software a lot, and do not know much about weapon development, but would not the software reveal a lot about capabilities of the weapon platform? The argument to keep the software private might not be motivated just by attempt to hide security holes, but also by desire to hide what the weapon can do, what are the operational limits, etc.
If you read Chancellor McCormick's ruling, the court found that most of those targets were not anywhere near "ridiculous," they were pretty much expected given the way Tesla was going. Tesla expected to hit most of them in 18 months or less.

Also, the court invalidated the pay package, not the board or the investors.
Believe it or not, USA government cares at least a little. USA did not institute the draft even when fighting on two fronts (Afghanistan and Iraq). USA made up for the lack in manpower with technology: Reaper drones, cluster munitions, night vision, precise artillery, overwhelming air power.
And if it were ten open-source projects then they'd have to defend themselves against nation-state attackers. They're not ready for it. The researchers that demonstrated an attack on Linux got vilified instead of the maintainers that had misplaced their trust. *Researchers* not a truly sophisticated and a well-funded threat actor. Do you see the issue?

Do you really think the alternatives are more diligent with their defense, 2FA, have spent as much time and effort on security?

I truly don't like Microsoft but this seems like shitting on them but I really don't see the point. Anything they use is going to be a "national security threat." I'd gladly see other vendors stepping up, but it's enormously difficult and we're not really there yet.
I would assume so, I find it crazy that they didn't file for this.
I'm not sure how that contradicts what I've said or why this means we should abolish philosophy departments. And for what it's worth, philosophy today tends to be clearer (to us at least), e.g. Dennett's work.
It has everything to do with being open/closed source. If it were open, you could trivially fix this behavior. Instead, and I quote:

"the DHCP server on these modems hands out leases with the DNS suffix fritz.box, which means that domains in DNS requests are appended with the suffix. Unfortunately, this setting cannot be modified...

...The only proper way to resolve this matter in my opinion is to disable the DNS suffix by default. So far there is no indication that AVM is planning to enable this option in the near future."
Same for me. It's as if launching a biodome into space is easier than just making a biodome on Earth and just keeping it there.
Well you can't not outsource your security because gov payscale limits do not match market reality. You have to realise that a ton of people who should be directly employed by NSA etc. are actually working for their contracts for this reason.
Back when I was deciding on my first DSLR, I deliberately chose the Nikon D40, at 6 megapixels, over the new D40x, which had 10 megapixels. I did this because I wanted the larger pixels, and thus better low light performance, of the former.

I wore the shutter out on that camera, it was awesome.
If you interpret this very strictly it could even imply that this editor couldn't be used to say write open source code that's distributed to the public. Basically all you could do with it is write code at home for your own use.
> Microsoft has a shocking level of control over IT within the US federal government

Apple has same within US schools oll over the country and nobody even cares. Your government will change but your children will be with you for a while.
TSLA the stock would probably dip and then recover as investors realize Musk's whims would no longer influence the stock price.

Tesla the company would be fine, and I presume a giant merger would occur in the future.
Um, yeah, that's… IMHO exactly where an MVP is supposed to end up. The “VP” says that.
> My siblings fail the marshmallow test over and over again as adults.

The marshmallow test is one of those pseudo scientific things that fails to replicate. It’s not actually a thing and has no proven correlation to anything of substance.
I assume it's the $20 billion in security services statement compared against their ~$200 billion yearly revenue. I'm not sure those security services are all for the U.S. govt though.
A slightly off topic and probably naive question: the article lists the top "institutional holders", starting with "Vanguard Group", "Blackrock Group", and "State Street Corporation".

Are these institutions that are holding Tesla stock on behalf of mutual funds or ETF's that they then resell to the public? Or are these direct corporate investments? Or something else?

More generally, who votes the shares that are held by these institutions? Does it differ depending on the purpose for which these shares are held? If it's held as part of a fund, do the owners of that fund get to decide, or does the management?
Ariel Pink is completely done as far as music journalism is concerned. After that tucker interview you wont hear about him again from critics I think
> In reality, if you don't know what's true

Right, so in that case it isn't clear that the committing the Gambler's Fallacy is going to fare any worse than other prediction models.

This is IMHO the best kind of nonsense -- by its own "nonsensical" arguments, it shows that the textbook-derived arguments aren't really that great either. Seriously, as the article points out, a lot about probability are just tautological based on artificial assumptions -- eg. "assume a fair coin", but of course coin tosses in the physical world aren't 100% fair.

I think the author will agree with your sentiment that people assuming convenient models is the problem. If I understand the article correctly, it wasn't to make the assumption as a general statement about coin/koin tosses, but to illustrate alternative processes/models over the textbook "fair coin toss", which in itself, has been demonstrated to be not so fair in empirical studies.
This is a more
broken-down version of the so-called “shit sandwich”.
I haven't been monitoring. I set up backups assuming there will be a failure. The few times I have seen symptoms of a failing drive, SMART didn't show any issues half the time.
I have experienced these sentiments at various jobs and times. I've also varied my types of jobs to be exploring new areas and higher challenges. Other times, I've found interesting/challenging ways to get work done which may (or may not) pay off in the future--things like code analyzers/generators, etc. On the other extreme, I was terminated early from a contract position for "doing math at work after hours"--I was bored and doing Project Euler with a random new language. I totally understood my work was done and was highly paid, so any excuse to cut costs made sense.

There's many kinds of 'programming' and the OP only seems to have done standard applications. Maybe get a job at Jane Street and they might be challenged. I myself don't think I'd qualify but I don't complain about the banality of mundane tasks--I find interesting and challenging ways to make software tools that help devs and/or help customers.

Somehow I've almost always managed to find a balance of keeping employers happy while carving out time to do experimental work. It's probably a combination of communication, alignment, and trust. Start small, show value in the kinds of things you're talking about, and demonstration is key--talk/complaining won't move the needle. And don't delay key deliverables to do something excessively unusual.
Yes, by default DNS suffixes are appended to short unqualified names only.
I'm still waiting for the mind your own business campaign to end people butting into what other people are building on their own property to show up, it's the actual campaign we need.
Downgraded my website to GitHub pages; couldn't be happier
Just didn't have enough to say to pay all that for a big-ass server. GitHub mobile app means I can update my site while sitting in conferences listening to boring rehash speeches.
VS Code has a strong plugin ecosystem, and is built around plugins. You can find plugins for everything, so whatever linting, code formatting, back end integration, custom renderers, menus, etc you want you can build and plug in if they aren't available already. Beyond that access to a project tree view / definition list toggle on the side, debug code at cursor, context menu options to refactor/find usage/etc, and easy pixel perfect control of pane layout when working with multiple documents simultaneously.

I never got that deep into vim/emacs but I wasn't impressed with their versions of the features I listed compared to what is available in a good IDE like intellij/vscode. I do wish the performance was a bit better but I have a beastly workstation so it's not a big deal.
> Imagine your best friend keeps interrupting you when you speak. Would you have a hard time telling them, “Hey, can you stop interrupting me?”

Yes?
You can use custom domains on medium.