skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The annexation of Crimea didn't happen until the situation predicted by Burns played out exactly as expected. And the catalyst there was us backing a coup that overthrew a [democratically elected] Russian leaning President, sending the largely ethnic Russian regions (including Crimea and Donbas) into outright rebellion, starting the exact civil war Burns had predicted. Conveniently for furthering US interests in Ukraine, this predictable consequence also resulted in the disenfranchisement of a very large chunk of the entire Russian leaning voterbase in Ukraine, the normalization of groups like Azov, and so on. It's easy to see how such things could be alluring with a myopic analysis of the situation.

The importance of it being written by Burns is that there are a lot of cables written, often shooting in many different directions. But in this case, the intelligence on what would happen with Ukraine not only remained consistent, but the individuals writing it were and remained extremely high level players within the government. So the idea the US was, in any way, surprised by what happened can be quite safely discarded as false.
I’d be curious to see if you could convert svg to another format on the fly faster than the browser does. From my layman perspective that behavior sounds like initializing a bitmap to a max size and then parsing the svg into it.
If you want a summary I can give you a really quick one. I've watched this bias, manipulative and corrosive moderating action escalate from the moment the team was created.

I was there arguing against the moderation team when it was first founded because I believe in principles of consent and civility, not compulsion and coersion, which were already starting to manifest themselves in argument for the moderation team to begin with. I was very vocal at the time, but not radical, when I lost I didn't fight it. I just consented and watched as things got worse.

I've watched a lot of people, some who were quite prolific contributors walk away, I've watched extremely well reasoned positions, including some of my own going completely ignored or silenced, and I've watched technical problems that could and should have been addressed by some of these very same people (some of which were actively being worked on previously) go completely stale.

I understand the document is "a lot of words", which I am not necessarily a big fan of either. But we have tried several times to give specific examples of corruption and been shot down, so we felt the only way to show proper cause at this point, that would be impossible to dismiss, would be to compile a much longer and more thorough narrative.

And as it states at the top, it is by no means exhaustive. Only a few months worth of activity in the 4 years or so I've been watching this trainwreck. Also, the last few days have shown us almost and equal if not moreso amount of strife.
So this free site was not run by the government of Canada. Are you concerned that you just gave all of your personal and financial data to a third party site? If you’re not paying anything they’re likely data mining your data and selling it. And we haven’t even talked about the security implications of trusting your data to these companies.
Python is only used for prototyping within google. All production ai code is run on c++
and here I was wondering how he could make time for this and still be touring all the time
It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level, but it is expected for the same population to have the financial literacy to file their taxes accurately. Going further, the IRS already knows the details of most people’s taxes before they file, yet everyone is expected to complete what amounts to a complex task for many people. I cannot fathom why it is still done this way.
As I understand it, this system exists largely because ProPublica shined a light on how corrupt the TurboTax deals were and the IRS couldn't pretend they thought everything was okay anymore. I'm hopeful that the IRS knows that we're on to it and doesn't get cozy with them again.
So instead of that shallow caffeine buzz, and relying on a stress hormone for extra energy, why haven't I thought of this before..
"It may be slow, but it's hard to use!"
> I provided an example problem that might exist if that were the case and your response is ok let's make a different starting assumption?

Oh, I didn't realize your example was supposed to be different from my example. I thought you were adding on to it. If your example is different, then you left out several important numbers.

> at some point in this imagined scenario it ends up profit of 99% of expenses, which it seems from your previous example is not ok. The company with higher profit margins has more room to maneuver, can offer better perks to employees, can offer higher salaries

It can, but will it? How many industries do you see dumping all their revenue into extreme wages?

If that happens, fuck it, that's basically a utopia, maybe I should join those businesses.

But most of the time extra profit goes to the shareholders, not the employees. The money doesn't end up improving the company's hiring game.
Sounds like the same shtick I heard from Windows 8 apologists in the past. "Yes, yes, Microsoft is a ghoulish company; but look at how my laptop connects to my Xbox!"

Apple's whole premium marketing shtick feels gone. Not only has the halo-effect worn off now that everyone owns an iPhone, but they're portioning up their own operating system to endless service integration and nonsense software offerings. Who the hell is paying for Apple Arcade? What about Apple Music Voice? Does anyone still pay for Apple Fitness+ without having forgot to unsubscribe? The whole thing reeks of Microsoft trying to market Groove Music and Onedrive to an audience of confused senior citizens and barely-literate pre-teen gamers.

Their hardware revenue is threatened, their software revenue is headed towards the toilet, and their latest product category is a non-starter. If you aren't preparing to see the worst of what Apple is capable of, I advise you get ready (and perhaps an alternative smartphone you feel comfortable using).
> ("we had managers that were extremely good about work life balance" and "marathon not sprint" should tell you all you need to know.)

That's how all jobs should be though. The only time anyone should be sprinting is if the building is on fire. I guess Google is moving to a 9-9-6 schedule, and they want to do it in Munich where they can pay peanuts for it.
In the end an "idea" is by definition contrarian which is the opposite of the training objective of LLMs. The question is how far fine-tuning and tree-search can go to extrapolate from the data-manifold. And the answer is probably not that far, currently.
My employer submitted all my T4 information to the CRA. My investment services submitted all my tax forms to the CRA.

UFile downloaded everything for me, autofilled my return, submitted it online back to the CRA and charged me $30 for the privilege. LMAO
First off, I’m far more concerned about end-user security and privacy than anti-competitive moves.

For the latter I’m sure the FTC will cover that in their antitrust suit.

Secondly do you have a link for your targeting claims?
Most Americans don’t do their own taxes. They go to H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt, and if your family makes under $60k you are almost certainly paying no income taxes and are receiving a refund via the EITC, getting a check back. So people think tax preparers are voodoo priests that do their incantations to get free money because the average person can’t understand the jargon, can’t handle forms, and the whole endeavor is purposefully opaque.

I support free file for most people. I also support radically simplifying the tax code, which would make the Byzantines blush.
There is zero privacy both on Windows or Mac.
The analogy doesn't hold because Nike shirts looks and behaves just the same regardless of my jeans brand.

Whereas a green bubble means degraded experience for the entire messaging group just because of that one guy.
It works fine on Vaultwarden for me.
> And so perhaps the ethics of web scraping are not so straightforward.

It strikes me that the _ethics_ of web scraping are extremely straightforward and cognizable with a terse analysis:

* You can respond however you like to my HTTP request, and I can parse your response however I like.

Simple, traditional, common. This is the way that conversations have occurred since the dawn of human communication, no?

> the legal issues associated with it.

But aren't these, without exception, fabrics spun out of the cloth that shields established players with the threat of state violence? This is not particularly new, and seems to fit in the pathetic-and-predictable file.

Moreover, the broader cheap attempt to cast this in "intellectual" property terms, and to attach that to protection of artists and creators, warrants a very particular eye-roll for its illogic.
If this were to happen to an OSS product it would likely get a CVE, but it's less likely to get a report on the controller's behind this and a well written page with pretty graphics unless a security researcher wanted to bolster their credentials.

Cisco has enough money to fund their own security company which lets them also investigate issues and issue statements of the form: We are so significant that nation-states target our equipment. We are also so dedicated to security we will write up these reports to show this dedication.

Part of it is it makes them look cool. Part of it is if they don't they risk the govt dragging them through the mud, like CISA did for the MSFT email breach. CISA already releases a lot of alerts on Cisco as it is.
You have to define CPUs. Modern CPUs with billions of transistors and nanometer lithography? Or basic processors like a four-function calculator that you can build out of copper wire and relays?

Do you have books with the existing computer engineering literature in them and just no fabs, or do you have to rediscover boolean logic and information theory?
In today’s climate of protests this is something everyone needs to know. Police will detain and drop charges the next day simply to clear the area, and in the meantime they can seize your devices and look through them.

In the US, border patrol has a 100 mile jurisdiction from any border. Practically this means they can seize your devices with no pretext at all, and 5th amendment protections do not apply here.

That means anyone in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc can have their devices imaged and confiscated for any reason at all.

I don’t know of anyone who has had this happen but given everything going on in the world right now I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if next year we start seeing it happen everywhere
https://archive.ph/caerI
Dozens of languages don’t have that. My language doesn’t even have prediction, only broken autocorrect.
Do I get to run my exotic window managers via XWayland?
In the event of an apocalypse, how long until we could produce CPUs?

There are many books on rebuilding a civilization. I think this is too complicated of a question to answer in a meaningful way. If by apocalypse you mean a true reset of almost everything and only some humans survived but no information was in tact, probably several thousand years or more likely never.

People could draw on cave walls their memories of this civilization. CPU's have a complicated supply chain and there are a myriad of experts that specialize in specific parts of the motherboard, CPU, memory, etc... There is not a single person that has the all inclusive knowledge of engineering a CPU. This assumes we also have people that can refine all the minerals used to craft the parts, the energy requirements to do so and people remain that know how to do this. I assume an apocalypse means we lost many of the people that carry specialized knowledge so most of the R&D would have to be restarted from scratch, again assuming that only some humans survived and all data is gone, power is gone, libraries are gone, etc... This assumes this R&D is the priority of the survivors, which it would not be. Even if all this information was archived on the moon or satellites, nobody would know how to retrieve it and that is assuming any of the survivors even know of it. Current satellites would probably de-orbit in a few generations or sooner. Someone here more knowledgeable could comment on satellites not under active management by people or ground control automation systems.

I personally think their priority will just be survival, probably for quite a few generations. If we are being honest with ourselves, many people today would not survive on a scorched and tattered earth. Most would not even survive in the wild without an apocalypse. By the time a sub-set of the survivors pass hunting & gathering great filter, then agrarian and eventually industrial, all the tribal knowledge would have long since aged out. Maybe there could be campfire stories of the SeaPeaYou's, HighScrapers and falling Spams from the SkyNets. I know this sounds negative but I think this is the best case scenario.

My personal take-away from this thought exercise is to make the most of computers to augment life improvement and life enjoyment while I can and not depend on them.
Not enough details to answer. But it is interesting to think about exactly how many stacks and layers of knowledge are required for various common day to day things (including cpu).
We have two cats and they exhibit this behavior even with circles made with limbs. Like if I'm sitting at a table with my arms in front of me, one cat in particular will see it as an invitation to plop himself in the circle. Sometimes he doesn't wait for my arms, he'll just stand in front of me until I either make a circle for him or I move him. And sometimes, when I'm sleeping on my stomach and I'm doing that figure 4 thing with my legs, I'll wake up with a cat having a nap in the "leg circle".
I would still not refer to that type of complexity as "Typescript-style" if I'm trying to interpret the author. The kind they like is also "Typescript-style".
One was at Microsoft. He kept his office dark except for a large illumiated picture of Jesus on his wall. Everyone spoke reverentially of him and knew to leave him alone. Another was at a small company I worked at. He was my senior. He disappeared for 10 days and returned with about 10,000 lines of 68000 asm code that utilized all 16 32bit registers to pass parameters instead of the stack. I was tasked with testing it. I never found anything wrong with it that weren't minor nits.
> it is expected for the same population to have the financial literacy to file their taxes accurately

I assume most people have too much money taken out of their paycheck for taxes, so the net result is that the government takes in extra money.
Please do. I appreciate the thoughtful clarification.
Explored on this amazing blog series - https://blog.robertelder.org/how-to-make-a-cpu/
> They can't compete on hardware

Every iPhone generation is the most powerful phone on the market.
I guess it was originally done this way because in the past people actually had some semblance of privacy and the government didn't actually know a great deal about people's income.

Eventually, privacy was eroded away year after year to the point where the government now knows an extreme amount about each citizen.

I guess I'd refrain the question - instead of asking why do we need to do taxes when the government knows everything about us that they could do it for us, should we really have that little privacy? Maybe instead of changing the way we file taxes, we change the way the government is intimately entangled with our lives?

Of course, those ideas, liberty and privacy, small government, etc., isn't really fashionable with the latest generations and most people would gladly give up their freedom and privacy to save having to fill out some paperwork.
I'm building a high-performance PDF design tool that feels just as fast as native software.
The anti tax republicans believe that if Americans had an easier time filling their taxes then they would have less objections to the same or higher level of taxation.

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/26/175332655/what-would-the-u-s-...
> Do you think that you have a claim on ownership of the data because you drove by, saw what you liked, and decided that now you'll just rip the baton out of my hand?

Are you just trolling at this point?

_You are handing the baton over_ in an HTTP response. If you don't want to do that, then change the logic of your server.

Good grief man.
It is optional, yes, but in the past, there were no internet based middlemen taking a 30% cut. You paid the local kid driving the pizza to your house, not some nameless software developer making 200k+ a year.
Depends on how long roving bands of tribal warlords continued killing each other over previous food and water resources. It might take a minute to get the CPU factories retrofitted to run on diesel generators once a winner emerges and decides to dedicate his fuel stash to manufacturing CPUs.
In the event of TSMC's fabs being destroyed by China attacking Taiwan, how long until we could produce modern CPUs?
Pwnable – a site containing system exploitation challenges
My exact feelings on seeing Cello browser.
Exactly.

Knowing how to set it to require a passcode feels like absolutely important information if you're a political dissident, a journalist with valuable sources, if you live or are visiting somewhere where the police will harass you (or worse) for your private lifestyle, if you're employed by a corporation with trade secrets the government wants to spy on, or of course if you're just a straight-up criminal.

But if you don't fall into these and similar categories, then it seems totally fine to rely on biometrics.

Because this isn't at all a case where just because I have nothing to hide, means I'm cool with eroding privacy protections. The point is that you can protect yourself when you do have something to hide. But me relying on convenient biometric unlocking isn't preventing those who need to disable it from doing so. It's not even making them seem more suspicious, since my iPhone asks me to verify my passcode every couple weeks anyways, or every time it restarts.
Unless you test very high in your field, avoid a school having a great reputation in that field.

Nothing worse than entering physics class on day 1 and realizing that you're seated between Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac.

Good state universities have both excellent pools of students AND room for others. Go to UPenn and study business.
I disagree. While Vaultwarden may be a bit much to ask of the unwashed masses, the storage model of KeePass* is very easy to understand and works with any existing file synchronisation solution, which almost everyone already has at this point. The effort is nearly as low as with a cloud hosted solution, and the value/safety proposition is quite high.
This might work in cases where those with the data are engaged in noble acts, but not ever actor is.

I scrape and process websites of actors engaged in fraud. I do this to make the data more presentable to the proper authorities and to help uncover further evidence of their activities.

I suspect that asking for consent would be quickly denied and the data/evidence would quickly become inaccessible.
> Maybe the time is right to bring back manually curated lists of useful/interesting websites.

HN and other link-aggregation forums are more or less a crowdsourced version of that.
I really liked requesting an install CD from Ubuntu when I was in high school in Eastern Europe and installing it on whatever system I had access to.

It was one of the first pieces of mail that I received personally and it felt like Christmas.
Microsoft "doubling down" on cybersecurity
Use it for the things it’s useful for and avoid the addictionware, rage bait, gambling, and other trash.
It would obviously be possible, since we have CPUs now but once lived in caves.

You can work backwards from "Semiconductor fabrication", which (I guess) would look something like:

Microfabrication > Computation > Manufacturing > Electrical Engineering > Chemical Engineering > Metalworking > Power generation > Basic tools

As to how long this would take, that feels very speculative. Did anyone print a copy of Wikipedia?
Not sure if the wrapper you’re talking about is your own custom code, but I really like using einops lately. It’s got similar axis naming capabilities and it dispatches to both numpy and pytorch

http://einops.rocks/
Let’s say you travel to a foreign country that has some level of corruption in immigration.

Your devices might have or receive information their government or just some company in the country wants.

You get detained for extra questioning. Your belongings get taken for review.

What parts could a reasonably skilled person quickly replace in less than 30 minutes that would compromise security? THOSE are the parts they’re worried about.

The threat model of someone trying to secretly grind off and replace your NAND without your knowledge is what, exactly?
surprise heritage listing?

that's not a thing, you would 100% know when buying that a building was listed
> Can the Falcon 9 eventually challenge Soyuz for launch totals?

I hope not. Even launching every day - which is more frequent than today - it will take multiple years to get to the Soyuz numbers of launches - around 2000 or so? In those multiple years I hope Starship will firmly establish itself as the most preferable rocket of the SpaceX.
> At Thursday’s rally, Mishan Schexnayder, a parking officer with SFMTA, told CBS News that she was assaulted after giving out a parking ticket two years ago. Schexnayder said after she put a citation under someone’s wiper, he followed her and punched her window, and glass from the window cut her eye.

Cascading lawlessness. That person should have not only had their license revoked, they should be in jail. Instead “SFMTA is pressing charges but the case is still pending.”

New York fired en masse and replaced its police in 1857, when the corrupt Municipal police were replaced by the Metropolitans, consolidating “the police in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester County (which then included The Bronx), under a Governor of New York-appointed board of commissioners” [1]. Perhaps Sacramento can repeat the feat.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...
There's a book called the knowledge. I don't think it gives a specific answer, as it depends how soft the crash and what we have available to recover with. Not only does it take an enormous amount of knowledge to make all the machines that make the gadgets that make the chips, but to even have a society that can make and maintain those machines and the supply chain behind them may well require a large population and to feed that population you might need some petty modern technology.

My guess would be in the hundreds of years from the stone age, assuming we remember those technologies were possible, and we bootstrapped as fast as possible. In practise, you can imagine calamity would breed religious anchors that could weigh us down another thousand years.
As far as I know, there are only a handful of places in Vancouver where you can have alcohol in public. https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/alcohol-consumpt...

So, the answer is: no. People smoking meth today do so freely in and around the Skytrain stations where alcohol is not allowed.
"Almost every store" is a direct quote from nomdep.