skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't mind living in a vastly depopulated world with no electricity for a while. Sounds kinda exciting, actually, at least more so than the corporate AI dystopia? Until the cannabalism and such set in, at least.

On the other hand, I had to chug oil (on a dare) before and it was easily one of the worst experiences of my life. The aftertaste and slime lingered for hours and I felt ill for days. If I had to drink any more, I doubt I would've been able to keep it down at all, and would probably end up vomiting and getting dehydrated...

But you know what, mix that oil with some grains and sugar and whatever nuts or seeds you have and you'd probably end up with some very tasty cookies or bars. I once did a multi-day backpacking trip eating nothing but Clif bars every meal... wasn't great, and I never ate Clif bars again after that, but at least I didn't feel suicidal after every meal.
I work at Coda and would love to hear more about your experience. We are focused on our tables and formulas and I am surprised to hear that you had such a bad time with them. Feel free to reach out at gleb at coda dot io.
I understand your preference. I have two questions:

1) Do you think that an organization should have no protections in place?
2) Why not just work from the machine they provided you, and do everything else on a personal machine?
Not pedantic. Just accurate.

> an ELAM driver can't be guaranteed to load before another ELAM driver of course,

Thanks for the correction.
Good info thanks! And yeah, sounds like you have a solid head on your shoulders. I’m sure you’ll do fine.

The ‘overqualified’ bit sucks, and that was the classic line during the dot-com days they’d use for tech folks in other fields. I had friends just completely excise tech from their resume to get something landed.

We’ll see where this all goes.

Re: economic news - my take is that the left is being delusional in the ‘there are no problems’ direction, while the right is being delusional in the ‘everything is broken’ direction. Both are doing their damnest to manipulate everyone into believing their flavor of delusion.

Which makes sense, because traditionally incumbents get destroyed if there are economic issues, and both are in existential crisis mode right now.

Folks are starting to have to ‘look down’ though, and the timing is going to be pretty shitty.

Re: trades - yeah, any change is going to require ramp up time, investment of effort and learning, etc.

I’ve got some contractors (plumbers) and welders in the family, and used to be a certified welder - and it’s not like there aren’t tradeoffs there too vs tech. Especially if someone doesn’t have the habit of using PPE properly. That said, some areas are in very high demand - and can’t be outsourced - and pay very well. Especially for someone who can supervise or run a shop, and isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty.

They’ll do very well as boomers age too, as will nurses and Dr’s.
"THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS..."
I think having a Linux/BSD might be helpful here in the general case, because the culture is different.

In Windows land it's pretty much expected that you go to random websites, download random executables, ignore the "make changes to your computer?" warnings and pretty much give the exe full permission to do anything. It's very much been the standard software install workflow for decades now on Windows.

In the Linux/BSD world, while you can do the above, people generally don't. Generally, they stick to trusted software sources with centralized updates, like your second point. In this case I don't think it's a matter of capability, both Windows and Unix-land is capable of what you're suggesting.

I think phishing is generally much less effective in Max/Linux/BSD world because of this.
The fact Apple is not trying to be a tentacular behemoth syphoning profits in every enterprise environment does not invalidate the fact macOS is secure and performant.

Apple is a tentacular behemoth in the consumer space.
Bus drivers allowed themselves to be assigned routes over bridges that were not engineered or built well enough.

It's ridiculous to put the blame on IT managers for this. The fact that Microsoft Azure itself has been affected by this shows that this is not a problem that any middle manager at a small firm should have be held responsible for.
I would expect this to be a kernel specific bug. I'm on a company laptop with falcon, and we have linux systems using the same, no signs of problems so far.
Fragments. Damn good device.

https://www.consc.net/misc/moser.html
I’m comfortable with him holding apologies until after service is restored.

A lot of IT staff, including myself, woke up to this and are focused on triage and restoration.

Once the noise globally has died down then I’ll expect an apology, among other things.
Highly doubt it's an accident. The cruelty is the point: These voters/government deliberately make their laws as terrible as they legally can. They see the world as a hierarchy with in-groups and out-groups and see the law as a way to inflict cruelty on the out-groups.
Also be on the look out for high flyin' clouds and people dancin' on a string.
According the opponent process model of colour perception you need three axes to represent all colours: luminosity [L+M+S+rods], red-green [L-M] and blue-yellow [S - (L+M)].
And move to the next cushy job paid millions
Information finds a way [1]

[1] Around 28:00 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZX-1QybZEQ
Interesting, some portrait photographers use cross polarised light to eliminate reflection from glasses, but it has the side effect of eliminating reflection from eyes.
A very good ai search platform and very fast!
Failure to consider holistic societal gains is not something new for Americans at least. Both for tax payers and corporations, making any inmate a productive tax payer would be better for society and for shareholder value.
You’re technically correct, but try to zoom out for a minute and look at the subtlety of human nature.

This topic has fired every one up because it’s unnecessarily cruel, hurts families who didn’t do anything wrong, enriches companies not providing any value, and shows people trying to be “tough on crime” when very ironically they’re probably creating more crime by eroding support systems.

The parent commenter mostly expresses that outrage, and makes a passing comment about business competition.

By this time anything you said that could be perceived as possibly being near the other side of the argument is going to be taken as supporting the other side.

But they are two separate points that can be independently discussed you say? Technically that’s true, but humans don’t work like that.

Always step back and look at the biggest point being made and realize, there may be little room for nuance depending on the context.
What is the parable about the engineers who made a beautiful public bath that stopped working, and nobody understood how to fix it?
You might find, as you get deeper into the language learning journey, that this approach to practice is most popular among an extremely vocal group of intermediate language learners. But people who've been doing it for a long time tend to gravitate toward the parent poster's opinion.

I've also noticed that assiduously sentence mining your input and then drilling it in Anki is much more popular among people whose media consumption is almost exclusively video content. This resonates with the work of SLA researchers such as Paul Noble who've found that extensive reading is easily the fastest way to grow vocabulary in a new language. There's even some (scant) evidence that SRS combined with extensive reading is less effective than extensive reading alone for long-term vocabulary growth and retention.

It suggests, to me at least, that heavy reliance on SRS for vocabulary retention past the beginner stages of learning a language may not be a universal optimal path, so much as a backup option for people who don't enjoy reading. Like AlchemistCamp I do still like it a lot for specific things, and I'm not here to wag fingers at people who enjoy it (Above all else, make sure you're enjoying your study routine! Getting there should be 100% of the fun.), but I do still worry that many Anki users have a serious case of golden hammer syndrome.
>I really understand how the lack of a liberal arts education has crippled a lot of people.

I think I also see how a surfeit of liberal arts education, with all its absurdly relativizing, simplifying, hand waving fashionable criticism of everything "commercial" that it depends on has crippled your own perspective.

No, the modern world isn't a simplistic black and white case of a tiny rich world being that way only because it lives off the back of a massive toiling class of slaves. The reality is much more complex and mutually transactional. The same market dynamics that make more developed countries even wealthier also heavily contribute to improved living in countries still developing further, and vice versa.

Is there exploitation? Sure. The human world has never been perfect and even while it improves, many injustices remain, but to categorize the socioeconomic structures of today's world so simplistically as your comment does is to make an argument that caricaturizes both the genuinely wealthy and the billions of poor you implicitly claim to sympathize with. They too are looking for and finding their comparative measures of improved wealth specifically by being participants in the market system that they too help build and actively participate in, and which makes the consumer goods they seek more affordable than ever before for an incrementally more comfortable life.

It's not perfect, but it's far better than the vast majority of historical alternatives. If you hate it so much, at least lay out a practical alternative that's actually desirable and realistic enough for billions of people to embrace it in practice as they do largely capitalist markets. Can you?

While you're doing that, why not look at the actual numbers for how more people than ever (in the developing or third world too) live today compared to any time in human history and try calling it all bullshit. It's easy to compare a given situation to our ideal of "how it should be". It's however much more honest to compare it to a previous reality so that the hard increments of improvement can be appreciated.
So the updated advice is to not bring the phone when you're not about to commit a crime.
Nah, his God said it was fine... his God wants him to be the leader of the world!
Iran in particular has started to take foreigners hostage to trade prisoners with abroad. Laws don't matter much in Iran.
Not everything is there. There are still important limitations: https://spreadsheeto.com/mac-vs-windows/
Sounds a lot like my work laptop's antivirus software, which gives me a total of two minutes of internet from within WSL2 before blocking it entirely.
so much effort to constantly having to play whack a mole with a malicious industry that pays all your politicians election campaigns. I can't imagine the amount of mental gymnastics you have to engage in just having to justify your neoliberal ideology in your own head all the time.

Wait until you hear how much tax payers pay for school lunches and textbooks, prison libraries and commissaries. I also better not mention the bail bond industry. We just aren't doing neoliberalism hard enough yet, don't you see?
I don't think this comment makes sense. I'm not asking about your reading of the constitution. I'm trying to get you to admit that you don't care whether people die in poverty, and that you have no reason to think a small number of people would die if state assistance was removed. The moral claim (and your original argument was a moral claim) has nothing to do with whatever S1A8 is or does.
have you read the original post?

> Old Soviet style communities get hot water from central plants, mainly used for heating but also for showers, so when winter is over, they shutdown the heating plants for the season and no hot water at all

Because if you reread it, you'll get the ridiculousness of that claim. So what you saying that situation in ex-USSR is such that there is only hot water during the winter. This is ridiculous, even taking into account grievances you have about Russian infrastructure.
Just proves minor players in any space take in picky users from the major players.

The two buttons that should see most use (condense, ultra spellcheck) offer reduction of content but people who refuse to associate with gen AI kneejerk away from any of it regardless.

I don't think any boycott will achieve the AI rupture they want. People who don't get the best reasonable basic AI help will move to where they get the best AI and whatever their precious email medium means to them will be "destroyed" faster.
Is company B allowed to take the full brunt of all the problems when there is a failure, or does government protect it by limiting damages? If company B's cheaper choice leads to harm and lets people and estates sue company B into the ground, then company A is a safer investment even if it has lower returns. If government interaction limits such recovery options, then that is what leads to company B's higher returns not also having higher risks, so they'll be the better investment. But that is a result of government intervention, not the economic system in play.
Affective Forecasting (2022)
The bad managers are those who ask you for an estimate and then take it as a commitment.

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"How much time will this take?"

"Not sure; approximately 30 minutes, but could also be 20 or 40 minutes. If we are very lucky then 10 minutes, but if we are very unlucky, maybe an hour or more."

"Spare me the details, I just need one number for the report."

"Uhm, 40 minutes?"

"You just said that it would be approximately 30 minutes, didn't you?"

"Yeah, but I wanted to add some safety margin..."

"If we keep adding large safety margins to everything, then the project will take forever. As you said, some tasks are completed faster, some tasks are completed slower, on average it will cancel out. I need your best estimate."

"Uh, okay, then 30 minutes. On average."

...the next week...

"So, you guys told me this would take 30 minutes, but it actually took 35. I think we need to have a serious talk about your performance."
As another commenter said, the film was trying to make the opposite point: that Irons’ character knew full well — probably better than the other characters — what was going on.

But the detachment you mention can / is very important. When you’re working deep in the woods you really can’t see the forest for the trees. You may be working on a feature that will make the user’s life a lot easier, but the real customer is IT and your feature could be cut because the customer won’t like it (“this will add retraining cost”). In Margin Call, perhaps the thing that could increase your bonus is, from the overall company’s PoV a distraction because it’s more urgent to save the company (so bonuses can be paid out at all).

So a good manager operates at a higher level of abstraction. The best ones have a lot of experience so can see from the signals they get what’s happening at the lower levels of abstraction. Irons’ character is supposed to be one of those.

Of course the high level abstraction, when the boss fell upwards and doesn’t have the Fingerspitzengefühl to be able to see what’s below the surface, is a common problem. It can kill a company: look at how Welch and Immelt destroyed GE.

A good sign of this is also called out by a different commenter: opaque language is often used to try to cover up ignorance.
an audio driver once blue screen of death'd my windows whenever i started Discord.

i'm surprised i'm not hearing a stronger call for microkernels yet
> How does the law differentiate that from jQuery on a CDN?

Functional utility for the end user
Happy that this is finally done! Almost 3 years of work to remove Fibers. Looking forward to the next feature releases and where Meteor will go next.
100k feet in altitude may not be quite high enough to get that 'in space' feel. I think you can see the curvature of the earth and the sky above you is dark / blackish.
> ....how can this possibly be legal?

Because most of the people this happens to are black. (And the rest are white trash.)
To be fair, IBM products back in the day when that saying made sense never had these kinds of problems. It's straight up insulting to compare them to somebody like Crowdstrike.

Wintel won by being cheaper and shittier and getting a critical mass of fly by night OEMs and software vendors on board.

IBM was more analogous to the way Apple handles things. Heavy vertical integration and premium price point with a select few software and hardware vendors working very closely with IBM when software and hardware analogous to Crowdstrike in terms of access was created.
Did Crowdstrike forget the rule, that one does not simply deploy on Friday?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/f79iag/don...
> yellow crystals were revealed after NASA’s Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover’s arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur — and it’s the first time this kind of sulfur has been found on the Red Planet
> All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence.

This is just one of many views on the nature of happiness. For example, Buddhists have another view on it, including the possibility of achieving the unconditioned happiness (nibbana).

> Having children will affect your mindset and worldview; for almost everyone I know this change has been positive.

"Almost", so there's still a chance it could be a negative change on a personal level, even before considering genetic risks. I think a gamble like that can't be suggested to a depressed person.
Every Windows executable can crash a Windows system with the SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME privilege (which, contrary to the name, not only allows safe normal shutdowns) if they want to, though, which most of the time every user has.

The "if they want to" part is the difference, kernel drivers can easily cause BSoDs on accident, e.g. by writing to an invalid address, normal processes can't, they have to jump through hoops by choice.
I think you are taking heat from both sides.

On one hand, you are challenging the dominant narrative, so that gets some reaction.

On the other hand, the logic you are using includes bold and unsubstantiated claims about kickbacks, which alienates your message from the remaining readers.
I’d recommend the documentary BLAST! (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190065/) for a look at the scientific side of stratospheric ballooning, which personally would put me off wanting to ride in one.
The Rise of the Disappointing Duet
The Path to LLM-Based Machine Translation
I’d love for some flat earther influencers to board this.

That said this seems… dangerous. Giving me OceanGate vibes.
Navigating the Challenges of LLM Fine Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting
> It is a return to the status quo from before that case...

No; Chevron was a formalization of the status quo, not a change to it.

> the higher courts are going to start to refuse to hear cases that are clearly just "industry does not like being regulated in clear compliance with Congressional mandate"

Not when a single-judge jurisdiction in Northern Texas keeps happily issuing nationwide injunctions against things he doesn't like. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/07/texas-abortion-drugs...
Crazy isn't it, I had no issues because my group policy updates have been off since last year, guess the "everyone must forcefully update" for "security reasons" ended up backfiring, who could've thought
I think its important to understand that you're never found innocent; only not guilty. The difference here is that you're not guilty given the evidence and arguments presented to the court vs you've been proven innocent.

Secondly, the prison system in the US is meant to be one of vengeance and a continuation of slavery as clearly stated in the 13th amendment[1] rather than one of rehabilitation:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/
downvoted, because in your response you conflate two issues:

1. The problem with using Microsoft
2. The lack of institutional knowledge of securing BSD and MacOS and running either of those at the scale Microsoft systems are being run at.

The vast majority of corporate computer endpoints are running windows. The vast majority of corporate line-of-business systems are running Windows Server (or alternatively Microsoft 365).

That means a whole lot of people have knowledge on how to administer windows machines and servers. That means the cost of knowledge to adminster those systems is going down as more people know how to do it.

Contra that with MacOS Server administration, endpoint administration, or BSD Administration. Far fewer people know how to do that. Far fewer examples of documentation and fixing issues administrators have are on the internet, waiting to help the hapless system administrator who has a problem.

It's not just about better vs. worse from your perspective; it's about the cost of change and the cost of acquiring the knowledge necessary to run these corporate systems at scale -- not to mention the cost of converting any applications running on these Windows machines to run on BSD or MacOS -- both from an endpoint perspective and a corporate IT system perspective.

It's really not even feasible to suggest alternatives to any of the corporations using Microsoft that are impacted by this outage.

If you want to create an alternative to Microsoft's Corporate IT Administration you're gonna need to do a lot more than point to MacOS or BSD being "better".
My company has some bios bitlocker extension installed which prompts for a password on boot, so automatic updates (one of which tried to install last night) just get stuck there in jet engine mode. Normally this is extremely annoying but today I count myself lucky - aside from a couple of people with Chromebook thin clients I am the only person showing as online in Teams right now.
„Not to not provide information"
Funny enough, so are European Pigeons and Starlings. We have too many here in the States, but on the decline in Europe.

I'm guessing part of it is due to our sanitary habits here. Lots of food is trashed in a way that makes it easy for them to forge for it.
> It's trivial to make it so that a user can only install whitelisted software from private repos.

This is also straightforward on Windows with AD-managed Group Policies.
> The Gini coefficient is normally used to measure how the light in an image of a galaxy is distributed among its pixels. This measurement is made by ordering the pixels that make up the image of a galaxy in ascending order by flux and then comparing the result to what would be expected from a perfectly even flux distribution.

Interesting, I’d only heard of the Gini coefficient as an econometric measure of income inequality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
The original (in Minecraft) used the player handle so the site sortof has to ask you your name to reproduce that
I believe Apple prevented this also for this exact reason. Third-parties cannot compromise the stability of the core system, since extensions can run only in user-space.
To be clear these fees are just as bad at government run prisons and jails.