skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This take requires one to ignore all of the obvious places Wright has stolen the work of others, his blatant attempts to pass off forgeries and screenshots as evidence, etc.
Splitting sshd (from OpenSSH-Unix-dev)
Word

Obsfucated?

Anonymized?
> I was surprised to hear that with just 10 minutes of practice he can sustain up to 40 new cards added every day.

It'd take me over 10 minutes simply to add those 40 cards.

But if he's referring only to reviewing, it's believable. Personally, I don't think I can handle more than 10-20 new cards per day.

> I did quantum country a while back and I sometimes needed more than an hour to get through all the questions in a single practice session.

Are you literally going through all the questions? Isn't the whole point of SR not to do that?

If you meant it took you an hour to go through whatever subset is due for that day, my next question would be: Are you reviewing daily? SR algorithms assume you review daily, and that's the only sane way to keep the time low. As an example, out of a 2000 card deck, I had to review only 6 cards the other day.
I disagree with this. That suggests that thinking requires persistent, malleable and non-static memory. That is not the case. You can reasonably reason about without increasing knowledge if you have a base set of logic.

I think the thing you were looking for was more along the lines of a persistent autonomous agent.
As someone who reads Japanese passably well and uses a handful of Japanese apps and websites, I don't actually agree with this. Japanese apps certainly look more crowded than western ones, but it's mostly with irrelevant garbage, I don't think the density of useful info is actually all that much higher.
Instant purchase. This is one of the first apps I install on a new machine.
>The UI was much less visually dense, but more value-dense by orders of magnitude. The results speak for themselves: Google went from a $23B valuation in 2004 to being worth over $2T today — closing in on a 100x increase. Yahoo went from being worth $125B in 2000 to being sold for $4.8B — less than 3% of its peak value.

I liked the rest of the article until this nonsense statement.
As a long term apple customer I would be happy to throw away out of the window every single device and their entire walled ecosystem in face of a decent alternative.

Unfortunately (or thankfully, depends on standpoint) the benefits outweigh nuisances.
Nice try but that didn't work out. "Chat Control Advocates".

Edit: Child Protectors. Cheese Haters. Dickpic Stealers. Now i get all the ideas for funny euphemisms.
Private Equity "Adds Value" in a Fiat-Financed World
This seems like it might be interesting to me if I already had some understanding of neural networks. Unfortunately for me, I can't even complete the RNN because there's nothing to even suggest what I'm missing when I connect the dots in the only way that the UI suggests I can.
Very cool stuff Mr. Noren. Thanks for sharing!
Well, if any one had doubts Altman is the classic mold of fuck-it-we-know-better-than-anyone tech bro, this is your proof.
sometimes I write instructions using it, they become more structured, I hate writing instructions
Beware that Little Snitch and other similar network filter extensions leak your IP address to the remote server even if there's an explicit block for that server.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/6/3.html
Do the Amish Pay Taxes? (2019)
Visibility seems very poor. Beyond where the system should or could safely operate.

Maybe it could see better, doubtful, but too fast for conditions and the operator allowed for it.
This is the reason I don't envy the UI designers on products like MS Office. There are professionals who use products in the MS Office suite every day, but there are other users who only need to create the occasional spreadsheet or powerpoint. Even if you think Microsoft has done a poor job with the UI, one can't deny that reconciling the differences between casual and power users is a difficult job.
Mi interpretation is 4 millions exposed to Agent Orange, 3 millions developed medical conditions as a result.
I wonder if it's just harder for us, now. It used to be hard for humans to make fire: nowadays you have match stick or lighter technology to make fire just like that. I wonder if we as humanity will be able to build the technological harness around light just as well.
… or the lawmakers could (gasp!) do their damn jobs themselves and do their own research instead of relying on moneyed interests.
As an employer does a really simple challenge help weed out bad applications? For example “include the output of this function in the subject line”
I think that, for reasons that are various but ultimately just different flavors of the same reason, this seems to be the case for high end anything.

My 14 year old Kia Soul isn't in the shop nearly as often as any of the much younger midrange and high-end cars my friends typically drive. My $75 bottom-of-the-line Seiko 5 wristwatch doesn't need nearly as much maintenance as my old boss's Rolex or my dad's Breitling. (And a $5 quartz watch would require still less maintenance and keep better time too.) Our fancy Breville toaster oven seems to be reflowing the solder in its own circuit boards, and my parents' fancy Bosch laundry machines need to be replaced every 5 years, while our cheapo unit works fine and is older than some of my colleagues at work.

I'm guessing it's just that trying to pack more fancy features into a product means there's more to break. Or, e.g., if you've got a higher-end laptop then it might have higher-performance parts that generate more heat and degrade the plastic more quickly. Or they might have tried to distinguish themselves by using materials that aren't typically used for a reason. Stainless steel cars, anyone?
>As unemployment rises, the UBI can be raised. As it increases, some people will choose to cut back their hours, or drop out of paid work altogether, leaving room for those who want/need the extra money that paid work provides. At some point, the market will be brought back into balance

I couldn't make it more than a dozen sentences in before running into the illogical and unsupported claims. If unemployment is high, why would we want to drive more workers out of the labor market? How would this create "balance". Ubi would be highest with 100% unemployment.

I assume this comes back to the false idea that printing currency can be treated like real economic growth. You can print all the money you want, but at the end of the day someone has to grow the food and build the widgets.
Yep. I really can't stand tools made for professionals that paginate lists to 10 items at once. Even my invoicing software does this. I have 200 invoices in the system and can only see 10 at once? Maddening.
The thing Microsoft haven't grasped yet is that no matter how good their hardware gets it's still Microsoft and Microsoft hasn't been cool for 40 years. Apple can pull off that price because rightly or wrongly they're seen as status symbols to a degree. If I was running Microsoft's hardware division I'd be fighting hard to get an entirely new brand and no Windows logos on anything.
Reminds me of lightera and infinera
In Lisp one could have (-> a b c d), just like (+ (+ 2 3) 4) is (+ 2 3 4).
"The government of Vietnam says that up to four million people in Vietnam were exposed to the defoliant, and as many as three million people have suffered illness because of Agent Orange" according to linked Wikipedia article.
Like so-called “deep links” already extensively used by mobile apps.
Track Anything Rapter
They would have to have categories for Bluetooth devices such as human interface devices like keyboards (let's call them "HID"s) and audio devices. I dunno, seems like a lot of hard-to-implement monkey business.
His father having "a share in an emerald mine" doesn't mean Elon used his father's money for his business ventures, and it doesn't mean the share was substantial.

The idea that Musk has single-handedly held back public transportation is funny. Musk has zero control over the California government that has failed multiple times in building high speed rail.
Laravel. I had been developing web apps since I was 12 years old, but Laravel completely changed the speed at which I could deploy and maintain a production-ready app. And the ecosystem of plugins, add-ons and developer tooling is incredible.
Whacky AF! Not sure about the utility but wow that’s cool!
While I understand that the US is a much larger country, and to some extend have different requirements and the same things may not be profitable, why not "simply" require open access.

The Danish fiber infrastructure is in large parts build by the power companies, because they where doing the digging anyway. Other parts are build by ISPs, or as municipal projects. Once the fiber, or cable, is established all ISP can use it. This ensures that all companies have almost the same coverage and can offer their services around the country, but cutting down on the cost, by preventing parallel infrastructure from being build.

The areas where it's not financially viable to build out the infrastructure, like some islands, the municipalities or even the government, can step in an build the infrastructure, or pay a company to do it, and then leave the services to be offered by the ISPs.
Yes. The problem with automatically deriving tests from your implementation is that you’re no longer testing your intent, just your implementation. Your tests and your code will have the same bugs dutifully recorded in 2 places.

Your Beyonce rule no longer means “I meant to do that” it now means “I wrote what I wrote”
I really give zero shits about people receiving windfalls of over $1M in a single year. They can pay an extra 4K per million just fine. There are no tears shed for these people.
Is it true that the Likud was helping to finance Hamas’ opposition to the Fatah as a way to ensure a two-state solution would remain non-viable?
Likely a lot of small innocuous looking things amplifying and magnifying together.
I can not read the site. I set the body color to wheat using dev tools and now its much better visually.

The filters does not seem to do much at the moment
'What's the Problem?' Zelensky Challenges West over Hesitations
What does MCAD stand for? Is it a different version from regular SolveSpace, or are you just describing what it is?
Tons of data leaks all the time but surprisingly nothing seems to happen with it. Not only are companies not being held liable, but for some reason nobody is weaponizing that leaked data either. Imagine framing somebody with manipulated leak data, nobody even questions if it was ever real in the first place!
Yeah it's such a dumb way to end the article. Google in 2004 was a search company. Google in 2024 is an advertising company.
Hmm, fermions are still better for __power__ transport.
I think more people would belt up if they have animations of people cracking necks or getting sucked out of window in the preflight video.
In my experience, those grinding machines are good only for creamy peanut butter. I want crunchy.
Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
It's easier in that it's just an email and will probably be free.

It's harder because it couldn't be a targeted attack and would need to rely on the failure of the people handling the request. But failures happen... constantly.
Exactly. It's "the Great" because of what he did, not whether it was moral or right or whether he inherited the war machine that made it possible. Phillip built a war machine that could subjugate all of Greece. Alexander used it to do just that[*] and then to take over all of Persia (and then some) large as it was. Phillip had not ordered this. Phillip probably talked about this, but he was gone before Alexander started the war against Darius -- Alexander could have stopped short. At the very least Alexander had no fear, and Persia's size, and the size of Darius' army did not hold him back in any way.

[*] Well, "subjugate" -- he let the city states have a great deal of autonomy. And either because the Thebans destroyed Sparta, or because Alexander destroyed Thebes, or both, the wars in Greece stopped.
>Records are useful for running operations and debugging issues.

What type of sensitive logs would you want to keep for "running operations and debugging issues"?

>Widespread use of SSL/TLS along with the rollout of eSNI and DNS over HTTPS means the most interesting details of your browsing are encrypted.

What's the adoption rate for eSNI? My impression is that most sites still don't use it.

>"Customer A sent 57 and received 94 packets to/from IP W.X.Y.Z on YYYY-MM-DD" is certainly not full anonymity but it's not hardly the detailed breakdown that "browsing history" implies.

It could be pretty bad if it's shows you as using grindr.com or whatever.
Do you benefit if you don't use a government service but your neighbors do?

You benefit if the local businesses have reasonably priced Internet, rather than paying hundreds of dollars a month for "commercial" services from incumbents. You benefit if your neighbor's kids have access to better education because those kids are the ones that are going to provide essential services to you as you age. And so on.

Everybody benefits from infrastructure even if they don't use it directly.

P.S. Yes in this case your benefits aren't large, but (1) your costs are small because internet is a paid service so the vast majority of the costs are covered by those who directly benefit and (2) infrastructure is cumulative -- the benefit of public infrastructure is greater than the sum of the parts.
That’s a good point. There’s going to be huge correlations in individual income of high earners due to the market.
web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240521143121/https://www.nytim...
You don't think this is already the case for years?
Generally higher pay is better. It comes with more dignity and better treatment. As an extreme I tried volunteering and they didn’t value our time at all and didn’t even provide enough resources for everyone to work so half the people were waiting around.

I’d actually prefer a 500K per year job with 450 going to charity than an 80k job.
It looks like it could be printed flat and they are forcing everything in one print. That also increases the chance of failure and maximizes the resulting waste. I have wasted enough material with long multipart prints that I limit myself to ~8h if I can.
That’s a non-profit, so no.

Consider a billionaire that doesn’t work but has passive investments that pull in about $100M per year.

They can borrow against the assets for close to 0%, or they could donate the gains to their own charities, keep the assets in shell companies that own hotels they live in, etc, etc.

This 4% millionaire’s income tax won’t touch any of that.
> Tufte's examples of graphics with a low data-ink ratio (left) and a high one (right).

Isn't it the other way around? High on the left and low on the right?

EDIT: Based on the alt text both images should be swapped.
Yeah, that was one of my concerns launching this v1. So in v2 I plan to add a little explanation for each neural network, perhaps along with an animated video showing what the final architecture looks like. Thanks for the feedback.
The writing style is quite entertaining. You can tell that the judge was very tired of csw’s crap when he wrote this.
Threads link with slightly better videos: https://www.threads.net/@vantazach/post/C7IgkEAOIlu/?xmt=AQG...
From a purely objective standpoint, working at Big Tech and saving every possible cent until you have like 1-2 years worth of expenses saved up, is the most optimal strategy. You end up with a lot of flexibility so you can try different things if you feel burned out.

From a psychological point of view, fulfillment usually comes from doing something that is challenging, which means that the challenge has to align with what you perceive as value, which is a very personal thing. If work takes up a significant chunk of your time and energy, but its something that you don't see as valuable, you are probably going to burn out.

However, depending on your skill level and ability to figure out how to move internally to better teams, big tech work can be very easy, which means you aren't going to get burned out, which gives you both money and time to do things that are valuable.

For example, I used to work in Amazon, standard team that owned a few backend services. I dunno if it was just me, but I never had a hard time implementing features in fraction of the time that everyone else did, mostly because I knew and understood things beyond code (like for example, nobody on my team even knew that you could capture traffic with tcpdump and see the json request and responses directly). So as a result, I only did about 6 hours of actual work per week, but my "output" was the same or greater than teammates. Never got burnt out. My current job is pretty much the same pay, just actually part time contractually, because I really wanted to focus on improving my fitness for longevity which takes a bunch of dedicated planning and training - and this is the part that is challenging for me that I also find great value in.
Seems like a waste of money? I'm on the commission in my wealthy, dense urban area that oversees questions like "should we municipal broadband" and it is really difficult to make the economics of doing that make sense.
Anything that proposes solving complex problems with a single, simple solution is pretty much guaranteed to have a fatal flaw.

In this case: If you give everybody a baseline amount of income, then prices will invariably rise to absorb it all, returning everyone to their previous positions (and problems).

If you actually want to tackle the problem of poverty, you need to first solve the problem of monetary inequality, which invariably involves taking it from the rich (who have lots of resources to fight against such measures).
I'd settle for TFA using `who`/`whom` properly :)
This is a good article. I always try and articulate these point by talking about how useful and quick and dense phone books where when they existed.
And as for fast load times. Might I say that server side rendering may just have a reason to exist again!
Ask HN: What engineering blog posts have you found most captivating and why?
What engineering blog posts (specific posts, not entire blog sites) have you found most captivating and why?

My colleague and I are writing a book all about writing engineering blog posts. We’re curious to hear your thoughts on what characteristics are common across blog posts that are actually read to the end, shared, and remembered.
But that's the problem with science. (I love science!)

In general, for many horrific (from an individual standpoint) problems, the time delta between "hmm, that's potentially a concern, I wonder if there's a causal relationship" to "we've conclusively proved that will kill you, and horribly" is longer than it would take to die of old age...

...but the point may be moot, because you already died a long time ago from that thing there wasn't yet conclusive evidence about.

And yet, when I was a kid, they said eating eggs would kill you horribly. So... hard problem.
Some people in the US like to pat themself on the back about this. The reality isn't that impressive.

Because the US has basically no passengers on the rails, its of course far easier to get things on the rails. Given that the US basically doesn't have passenger, the number are not that great.

Plus, Europe has ocean on 3 sides and generally a much longer coastline so lots of stuff that in the US uses rail, in Europe simply uses water transport.

In general a lot more things simply use local resources, for historical and political reasons.

Switzerland for example matches the US in terms of cargo modal share. But if you look what we had to do to achieve this high % while still having very large passenger numbers its incredibly hard. Basically it requires a concerted effort by government to prevent road use and to have a concert policy of all government and private institutions working together to enable it.

If you compare the US freight system to a actual peer competitor, the Soviet Union, the US doesn't look that great:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/RailUSAv...

If the US actually had a concert policy of increasing modal share of rail compared to road freight transport, the US could do so, so much more. It would be a great thing for the environment and everybody in the US.
It's a very interesting point.

I am attempting (recently) to cut some chemicals and processed things from my house. Examples: using glass as much as I can, instead of plastic. Trying to use more local fresh ingredients in my cooking. Buying more from local stores rather than rely on the global supply chain. Trying and mostly failing to maintain a lawn (in suburbs) without some level of chemicals.

I know these are not all perfect examples.

Where things get tough is with time. It takes lots of time to re-engineer things down to simpler stricter needs. So, I still use grocery delivery, which generates a mountain of plastic, because I don't always have a span of time to get food I need.
It actually mentioned this in the article but it was kind of buried.

"These findings highlight the pervasive presence of microplastics in the male reproductive system in both canine and human testes, with potential consequences on male fertility."

This terrifies me. How are we supposed to avoid plastic when it's literally EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING?!??!?!
gifski is also maintaining consistent Floyd-Steinberg dithering across frames (basically dithering in 3 dimensions).

This allows more reuse of the background colors, and keeps file sizes lower by avoiding adding unnecessary temporal noise. Other converters that remap and dither each frame independently will needlessly create unique noise patterns in each frame.
Or like 450W panel for 74€ shipped, for example: https://www.leroymerlin.es/productos/energias-renovables/ene...
Where Youth Are the Most Unhappy, Relative to Older Generations
I love Sierra games growing up, but I've
come to understand that they were not great
games and often quite user hostile, but
benefited more from being early movers in an
underserved market.

Harsh, but so true.

(And I'm somebody who was absolutely enthralled by about a half dozen of their adventure games back in the day)

Even if Ken and Roberta hadn't lost control of the company, I'm not sure what Sierra would have offered the world creatively at that point.

They were eclipsed by LuscasArts in the world of point-and-click adventures, and it's not really clear they had another core competency on the game development side of things. If Phantasmagoria was any indication, they seemed to want to go in the direction of "Digiwood" games with FMV but that whole genre of games turned out to be a massive dead-end for the industry and is not particularly fondly remembered.

I still celebrate Sierra, though. They absolutely moved the industry forward, and were at the pinnacle of the industry for a decade or more. Few have achieved as much, or entertained as many! Roberta in particular is a bit of a hero of mine and on a personal note I love that her and Ken are still together after all these years.
That I think is a different feature. I am talking about the one that changes the resolution of the phone, essentially.

Display & Brightness -> Display Zoom
> This is Egypt's choice.

Doubly untrue today; Israel took complete control of it on May 6.
Man I really tried to like Amethyst, but I just...hated it. BetterSnapTool works well for me.
No - the lawmaker is a generalist and does not understand fully the issues for a particular proposal so they need a brief preferably from both sides.

For example could you suggest the correct law for dealing with the environmental impact of a new building? If not where would you get the information from?

Lawmakers do not have time to become experts in everything they deal with.
Big sierra fan her. For almost 20 years i was absent from video games until i became a father an play zelda - breath of the wild. It felt as great as kings quest 1.