skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole of the context* of the LOTR can best be understood through the lens of this comment by Tolkien:

> My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself

Paul Fussell in “The Great War and Modern Memory” (which I highly recommend) tied comments like these to the change in mentality of the (primarily) English upper classes and gentry. Just living and working closely with working and agrarian class soldiers led to a realization that yes, they struggled with poor boots through no fault of their own (an example Fussell quotes), only visible because for the first time they saw them as comrades due to the shared experience in the trenches.

And that changed the mentality of many in the upper classes, who came back from the war and voted liberal or even labour when before that would not have been even imagined.

This essay talks about the effect of capitalist colonialism in Viet Nam (I agree with the author’s point here) but Tolkien’s experience reflected the consequence of an interesting domestic shift in the British isles, as industrialization increased the separation between the classes. Contrast the comradeship of Henry V in Shakespeare’s eponymous play: a group of aristos and a mob of peasants looking for money and just a change of being stuck on the land: the trench experience was a forced reversion to a social propinquity common from ~800s to the 1700s.

* I don’t mean to imply there is a “correct” reading: it’s an adventure story, a masterful recreation of the tradition of the Sagas, and other things. But even as a naive 12 yo in the 1970s I realised it was a deeply conservative story.

Not a reactionary one: Tolkien doesn’t appear to want to go back. But a recognition of what (in his mind) was lost. Good riddance, as far as I’m concerned!

That sense of loss IMHO is much better captured by T. H. White’s roughly contemporaneous “Once and Future King”, a much more sophisticated, but less filmable, book.
The big players would be fools to sell data, as such. Their whole thing is that they are so big they can target ads effectively. You'd be a fool to sell that data. They sell ad targeting and ad placement, not the data to do those things.
I wasn't referring to this article.
Nah. While ensuring the integrity of your boot partition can be a security benefit, it isn't really the most attractive target for malware anymore.

And instead most use cases are levelled against you. For example some computer games now require Windows 11 and secure boot to be enabled for remote attestation. If the mechanism becomes more pervasive, we will see more of that. That is very likely the main motivation of Microsoft here as well.

And while there are enough methods for device identification and fingerprinting, I don't want my device to be cooperative here. I do not have evil maids either and the whole trusted computing stuff is badly designed, intransparent and mostly security fluff.

I do understand the security benefit for enterprises and disk encryption, but I use alternatives for security. Also Microsoft defacto has control about allowed and allegedly secure distributions. Yes, you can add your own key, but that will probably be as viable as running your own CA at some point.

Overall it just makes open computing more complicated and the security gain is negligible.

edit: No idea why you were downvoted. Many believe trusted computing to "just" increase security. But the intentions and mechanisms behind that aren't as neutral as some would like you to believe.

There are also other fights like AMD Pluton, which really lowers the desirability of AMD hardware for me. I though they could have been an alternative for Intel, which is fairly needed. But their developments aren't attractive if they invest in such technologies.

I also forgot that a TPM has an endorsement key that is used as a hardware ID. It cannot be changed by the user. The whole setup is a scam and scams are a security threat.

Secure boot and trusted computing should die, there are better ways to secure system integrity.
Regarding 2022:

> The presented data, especially for 2022, are thus preliminary and subject to backward revisions. The more recent data are usually more incomplete and therefore can undergo upward revisions over time. This implies that several of the reported excess mortality estimates can be underestimations.
Kubernetes is normally used on hosted servers and mDNS is normally used for home appliances like printers. I wouldn’t expect Kubernetes to be able to show that using .local is safe with mDNS.
I continue to be convinced that the only valid use cases for crypto are scams and money laundering -- chalk up this one to the latter.

Can anyone name an application besides those two things that traditional finance doesn't handle better?
Their logic is that the US government behaves like a communist regime, doing whatever it can to punish and silence real dissent (like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange), so they assumed it might just be using this as an excuse to punish a newspaper that often hosts anti-US-government content.
The functional load of tones (that is, the importance of a pronunciation difference for distinguishing words) in Chinese is comparable to that of vowels[1]

"Depending on how you view tones" dismisses the important phonemic value of tones. Writing Chinese completely phonetically includes writing the tones.

[1]https://faculty.washington.edu/levow/papers/fltonemandarin.p...
As China's Internet Disappears, 'We Lose Parts of Our Collective Memory'
>Can anyone name an application besides those two things that traditional finance doesn't handle better?

Buying drugs is an obvious thing that crypto's much better for. Similarly sending money to people in countries the US government doesn't like.
Not quite, but close, is the relatively new ARM instruction FJCVTZS which implements the rounding required by JavaScript.
thanks for sharing this. I initially wrote your comment off as an anti-vaxx lunatic but after reading the actual paper I decided to vouch for this comment instead after it's been dead.
Except of course it hits those who would not have had any problem with COVID in the first place: young people.

Personally, I'd like that explained to me before the shot.
Embrace it? Are there any stats on this? I didn't find any.

In my experience there are a greater degree of remote workers among the older part of the work force.
I think a considerable amount of the anti-remote push is also on managers from GenX as well, and I think we've considerably obviated much of the incentive to retire for the top end of decision-makers since their fortunes are increasingly tied up in their investments anyway and the control they exert can be really abstract and thus not very difficult to keep up
Does this thing have a secret programming interface like the GPU does?

What is an NPU exactly anyway? A GPU without graphics hardware that works mostly in INT8? Or is the architecture different in other ways too?
I wonder why Good Friday doesn't get bunting.
Yet another downstream consequence of forty years of unearned windfalls for homeowners.

At least medicine has given us breathtaking miracles to go along with insane cost growth. Housing has just been naked generational wealth transfer.
Unlike with numbers, day to day language needs to convey a larger variety of concepts hence why logograms are still needed. Much like how more advanced math requires different symbols and operators that are akin to mathematical logograms to convey additional concepts beyond the fundamental quantities of 0 to 9.

Alphabets are often linked to sound, and it would be a tremendous challenge to create an "alphabet" analogue that links to a set of fundamental concepts that you can somehow rearrange to form higher level concepts and can still be universally understood without it linking to sound.
Well really think about the mindset of someone who collectively hates “the state” do you think that person is going to be honest about their actions? Of course not everything is about yourself over everyone else. This is free speech and not a personal attack.
> They were full of the most disgusting bigoted hateful rhetoric.

Such as?

Excuse for doubting, but people - especially people on this board - tend to use those kind of words and accusations whenever there's somebody that has a different opinion on some issue.

I've only seen stuff published by Epoch Times occasionally and those times they've had a much tamer profile than what you're describing.
Pierre René Deligne
> [Quand trois poules] is intended to teach children the meaning of a few simple words. As such, it appears to adults as a succession of tautologies. Deligne argues that mathematical discourse proceeds in much the same way ...
Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change?
They're having another crack at it with GOV.UK One Login: https://www.sign-in.service.gov.uk/

I've participated in some user research with the team building it and I've also designed GOV.UK services pre-One Login that needed to verify people's identity. It's obviously a very difficult problem to solve when there's no universal central ID database. The people working on it are definitely cognizant of the failure of Verify and they're keen not to repeat it.

I do hate the 'GOV.UK One Login' name though. It's previously been called 'GOV.UK Account' and 'GOV.UK Sign In', I'm not sure what was wrong with either of those.
It's mostly up to you and your requirements. Most laptops should be fine, that doesn't really matter that much whenever do you use windows or Linux. I think thinkpads are way too over hyped. I would just grab something with good build quality, and specs you need. If you want something really fancy like fingerprint, smartcard reader make sure it's compatible with Linux, that's all.

I wouldn't recommend fedora as it uses RPM and SElinux which can be tricky, especially for beginners.

I am mid-advanced Linux user, I would went with Linux Mint, no matter is it for me or for somebody totally new.
The entire point of an indictment is to lay out a series of probable crimes in order to arrest the individual or individuals, stop the crimes in progress, and set up a potential prosecution. It is not a prosecution.

Further, as to prosecuting the thefts, for all we know that is the next step, or they have already done that and secured the cooperation of those conspirators as witnesses.
God I hate these interviews.

I'm 45, focus on Web development, have worked in-house on teams building ecomm carts/solutions for multi-million dollar per ear local companies, in design agencies focusing on custom $100k or templated $5k Wordpress websites, and have freelanced for everything in-between.

During COVID lockdown, I got burnt out at my existing employer, resigned, and took several months of. When I started looking for work again, one potential employer was a Wordpress 'freelance' company that gave me a LC test as a second round interview.

I BOMBED - like a 27%. I've been building sites and web applications for 15+ years and had zero idea what I was even being asked in any of the 3 questions on the 'test'. The company ended the interview process and advised I study Leet Code for 1 month and come back to re-test since my experience was outstanding for what they were looking for.

I did and got an even WORSE score: 13%. I spent way to much time on trying to cram useless (for my daily work) programming techniques to pass a useless interview test when I was told I had the experience they wanted - I've built custom WP solutions/themes/plugins since wordpress first rolled out.

TLDR: With 15+ years experieince in Web development, I still couldn't score higher than a 27% on a LeetCode test and got halted in the interview process for a position I was told I was WELL qualified for.

LeetCode tests for non-overly-technical positions is awful.
1. Sending money to dangerous people like Julian Assange.

2. Sending money to relatives in the third world

3. Keeping your savings when the currency of your nation is going through hyperinflation
How disingenous, this comedic scenario is literally a mainstay at any tech conference
is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?
That's pretty much the reason the world order looks the way it does. You could argue that people were happier as hunters and gatherers than as farmers, but agriculture allowed for growth in population and technology, leading to it plain outcompeting the hunting-and-gathering lifestyle. Same with industrialization and markets. You can have whatever social order you like if it's isolated, but the moment two groups clash over some resource they both covet, one of them will dominate, and the other perish - interacting societies are subject to natural selection.
I am oddly fine with leetcode interviews. Mostly because they are predictable, and you can study them over time.

They obviously are useless to measure how good a candidate is, but that is not my problem. I didn't pick the song, I just have to dance to it.
And better still, the severity of postvaccination myocarditis is much less than post-infection myocarditis.

However, the prognosis for myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination appears to be much less severe. In a study of nearly 4 million residents of Hong Kong, only one death occurred (1%) among 104 cases of postvaccination myocarditis, compared with 84 deaths (11 percent) among 762 cases of viral infection-related myocarditis (HR 0.08, 95% CI 0.01-0.57). In a surveillance study of cases of myocarditis related to COVID-19 vaccination in the United States reported to VAERS, among 484 hospitalizations there were no deaths, and evidence of ongoing myocarditis at follow-up cardiac MR was uncommon (13 percent)
> Yes, you're not allowed to do that under someone else's name, that's what the crime is.

But that's the objection. That's a stupid crime. The only reason anybody wants to do that is that they can't open one under nobody's name, even though there are legitimate and innocent reasons to want to do that.

> The entire point of money laundering is to make it as difficult as possible to find the original crime or connect it.

Money does that already by itself, because it's fungible. It's why AML laws don't work -- their effectiveness is basically zero. The harm they cause to innocent people far exceeds the benefits in rooting out undiscovered crimes -- not least because crimes that are causing harm to people are generally quite easily discovered, when the victims go to the police and report them.

> In an environment of anonymous payments, how do you prove X made a payment to Y?

You ignore the concept of wanting to do this at all and just prove that X committed the underlying crime. Because if there is no underlying crime then there is no need to prove whether or not there was a payment. The government has no legitimate interesting in proving what kind of literature or contraceptives you like to buy.

> You're not allowed to help people fence stolen goods, and it's not a defence to look the other way.

The way this is typically implemented is that the stolen goods are returned to the owner if you're caught with them. You don't actually get prosecuted unless they can prove you were in on it. After all, how is anybody supposed to know that? You go to jail because you bought something at a yard sale not knowing it was stolen?

But that's exactly why it doesn't apply to money. Money is entirely fungible. If a criminal steals your car and sells it to a chop shop for $5000, and then the chop shop spends the money at Walmart and McDonalds, and then the money ends up in their bank account from which it goes to their suppliers and shareholders and other customers, just exactly who are you supposed to be entitled to recover from? And what is your retirement fund manager supposed to do, investigate each of Walmart's customers to see where they got their money?

It would also be double counting. The stolen property is the car, not the money the thief sells it for. Unless the buyer didn't know the car was stolen, which is a separate crime with a different victim. And even then you're not trying to recover those specific bills or care about where they went after, you're just trying to recover any equivalent amount of assets from the criminal you can prove fraudulently sold a stolen car.

Investigating crimes is for the police, not corporations. When you force corporations to do it, they do it capriciously and oppressively, because there are no constitutional safeguards.
Oh, I am vaccinated (non-MRNA though). I am just running a social experiment. I am interested in what people think about the document.
As far as I understand this, this is quite an oversimplification. The differences between different dialects of Chinese is huge, especially in terms of vocabulary. The writing system isn't as purely logographic as it is often touted. There are only ~4000 characters in common use (university level literacy), but many more common words. So, lots of words are written with multiple characters. In Standard Chinese (corresponding mostly to the dialect of Beijing), each of the characters in a word represents a syllable in that word. This correspondence doesn't hold for other dialects.

Overall, people speaking other dialects of Chinese than the standard essentially write in a different language then they speak, unless they also adapt a different variety of written Chinese and lose any mutual intelligibility (a lot of such varieties exist, though few are standardized). It is in some ways like writing English words with the latin spelling of their etymology, say writing the English phrase "Jules appreciates art" and the French phrase "Jules apprecie l'art" both as "Iulius appretio ars".
Received: 9 June 2023
Accepted: 20 March 2024
First Published: 3 June 2024

Is it normal that it takes so long to go from Received to Accepted?
msgpack and "I can't believe it's not msgpack with the name changed to my own name" CBOR are basically that.
I know people in the four quadrants of {no-hire, hire} x {would not pass LC, would pass LC}. In my world, conditioning on [would pass LC] does not improve the hire odds.

Even worse: it misses out on the hire people with no formal training too busy to waste time on skills with little use outside of the interview (in the real world, they'd use a library).
I love how well he explains it, even to someone like me who knows p much nothing about cybersecurity.
>are we just going with a base assumption that interviewers can NEVER be trusted with anti-bias training and learning how evaluate people fairly?

Yes. Because interviewing is

1. hard, but no company has proper full time proctors. So "expert interviewers" are a rarity

2. not standardized in the slightest. So your performance varies entirely by the interviewer, their style, and their mood that day.

3. some weird blind test where you hope you studied the right topics. You're not getting the best out of a candidate, you're basically hoping they read your mind and know exactly what you want them to say.

>Is the culture just so broken at these companies that it’s hopeless to expect people NOT to blatantly exploit the system for their friends? Why don’t people get fired for doing that?

Sure. but that's a universal problem. "It's who you know, not what you know" is advice that has spanned centuries. I can't even blame the modern tech industry for that one.

That + the above issues with interviewing mean you're always going to go with a referral over a random applicant.
I just miss Windows 7 :(
I don't think it should be punishable to call for political opponents to be imprisoned.

But derailing a discussion from factual criticism into emotional populism appears extremely harmful to the concept of democracy itself to me:

In an ideal democracy, candidates would be elected based on how their political alignment and intended actions match up with voters. But if politicians denigrate their competition instead, and paint everyone outside their camp as enemy/traitor/unvotable, then this essentially frees them from having to compete on policy (which leads to incompetent politicians in power that are super hard to get rid of).
Sigh. This is the state of personal computing in the early 21st century. Most people are running operating systems and computers made by corporations that are actively user hostile, hungry for private data (except maybe Apple), and experts at dark patterns. Scammy behavior has become normalized throughout the industry.

Kinda makes me think, tech literate people have a moral responsibility to push back somehow and contribute towards a more healthy relationship between technology and humanity.
As consumer-hostile as Microsoft's practices are, and that these things needs to be optional, I find linking your Windows to a Microsoft's account still pretty useful. With it you can sync your Windows settings across different devices. You can use Find My Device. You can save your BitLocker's encryption key to the cloud. It helps when you forgot your login password. Copilot AI stuffs,... Turning off telemetry and deinstalling some bloatware requires clicking through a few menus, but it's still a mostly just-work experience compared to the amount of time I need to set up a Linux box.

On Linux, configuring the fingerprint to work everywhere requires reading through different online threads and edit a config file. Enabling TPM auto disk decryption involves 10 steps command line. Enabling proprietary video codecs necessitates adding a third party repository. And many other small issues that I have to troubleshoot (shutdown freezing, sddm crashing after wake-up from sleep, PackageKit unable to update package, having to turn on a kernel flag for touchpad to work...). I really want Linux to work for me but still have to decide to use Windows on my personal laptop, coming from someone who has to work with Linux everyday at work.
Consider the simple example of frequency aliasing. If you sample a 3.2MHz sine wave at a 1MHz sample rate, it looks the same as a 0.2MHz wave. But if you know a priori that the signal only has frequency components between 3 and 3.5 MHz, then you know the 0.2MHz you are measuring is actually 3.2MHz - you can fully reconstruct the original signal even though you are not sampling it fast enough.
The best interview I ever had was with GitLab, where they make a realistic PR/MR (but one that is obviously not actual code they'd use for anything, for the ones worried about doing free work for them) and you have to review it. It's exactly what I do at the actual job at least 50% of the time, and I'm sure from their side it gives them a lot of room to look into how the candidate works/communicates.

They then ruined it by still having a leetcode style interview afterwards which I found monumentally stupid, but oh well.
How long does it take in linux for the context menu to open? In fact, is there a context menu at all?
They're fine to filter fresh university graduates.

But if you have any sort of track record (previous employment/projects you can talk about, active github account), they're just insulting. They shouldn't be wasting your time if they could just have a look at the things you accomplished.

That there's companies who make all interviewees take them just means there's not enough competent software developers with sufficient self respect to just refuse that kind of nonsense.
Use Chris Tutus' Debloat utility https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Lots of languages are written with the Latin script despite being completely unrelated to European languages. Vietnamese for example, or Navajo.
> Coming from Real Engineering

One related problem I see is that Computer Science tends to be under-estimated by other engineering fields. A ton of software engineers did not study software. They learned to program as part of their engineering studies, and they believe that they learned both Computer Science and their engineering topic at the same time.

I may be biased, but I see fewer computer scientists pretend to be mechanical engineers because they once tuned a PID.