skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top-down part is determining what skills you'll need, starting from the highest level and breaking them down as you go.

Then the bottom-up part happens as you actually start learning them, methodically, building back up toward those high-level skills.
I left all "popular" groups when I posted in a "anti-vaccine" group pointing how how one guy was so far off into the weeds that he might circle around to be being right someday. The mere fact that I posted in there over some ludicrous article/comments got me banned in 9 different "popular" groups, some of which I'd never even been in because I dared to post somewhere "unapproved".
Don’t stop at that, take it further handing over all decision making to LLMs, what could go wrong? In fact, replacing all jobs with LLMs should do in the minds of Silcone Valey venture capitalists. Again, what could go wrong LLMs can’t be used to fix with just one succesive prompt?
Exacerbated, you mean: "make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse."
High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists [pdf]
The going rate for a ton of iron ore is under $100. Pack 100 of those into a Starship, and your gross revenue will be a cool $10,000.
Silicon Valley expert traces Burning Man's impact on tech (2018)
It’s firmly in the “cost” center.
I am curious about what great role AI can play in the chartdb project?
I'm working on Facebook.js, a new API wrapper for the Facebook API.

http://github.com/leftmove/facebook.js

I was working with the Facebook API for another project, but I was surprised that a website as popular as Facebook had exclusively old API wrappers for it, that all required too much setup, and were cumbersome to write code with.

I wanted a better approach using the standards I have come to appreciate with modern API wrappers, and so I decided to start work on a more intuitive, faster approach for the Facebook API.

My initial launch goal is to allow for programmatic authentication, posting, and commenting, all with one setup command through a CLI.
You can also find asteroids that are enriched in platinum-group metals, by that same process. The shattered core of an ancient ("Iron catastrophe" differentiated) planet should be highly enriched in these metals.

16 Psyche might, or might not, be such an object. If so its surface is still covered by a "rubble pile" layer of rocky material.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-psyche-plan...

https://www.freethink.com/space/psyche-asteroid
Most kids don't build up knowledge over time, they forget it all over summer vacation.
No, that's exactly the trap that must be avoided:

Quoting Wikipedia [1]

> Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not.

For example, you'll hear the advice from the 1% of people who survived drinking every day and who might even think it was good for them, and not the warning from the 99% for whom it didn't work, or worse, who died from it. Unfortunately, you are 99% more likely to be like these 99% than like that 1%. (Numbers totally made up).

Intuition gets in the way with this kind of stuff. It's all too easy to be willing to take advice from old people who appear wise to us for all sorts of cultural reasons, but they are most probably not experts in this stuff and they actually most likeky really don't know better. They have a number of data point equal to 1. Our intuition makes it quite hard to understand this, even for people with scientific / statistics background, but all this stuff we know from this background doesn't stop applying when it comes to old people.

It doesn't mean it's not enjoyable or interesting to get an old person's view on this, but one should not forget to apply critical thinking.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I wrote a slightly different take on this here: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/parochialism-in-time-and-space
It's an investment, remember that - and one that will pay dividends. Best of luck!
Ruby's official documentation just got a new look
New computer game for blind and visually impaired people. I have computer prototype, but working on hardware to make it happen. Unfortunately, hardware isn't easy to tackle, I need to create custom keyboard-like buttons.

If you think about games, there is handful of them for blind and visually impaired players. But things got more interesting when keyboard is your screen.
Blackberry's revenue peaked in 2011, and things didn't really appear to be hopeless in 2014, with the iPhone 6. Apple had gone through roughly 3 major hardware revisions (3G, 4, 6) before RIM's hopelessness was reflected in their yearly revenues.

I'm not unconvinced that organizational rot in a slower moving company like Boeing took 3 decades to fully spoil the org.
That's not what survivorship bias means. More on this in my reply to your sibling comment.

> Of course, they may also have "better" genes.

That's part of the issue: they might have something different from you such that their advice may not apply to you. And since they have an exceptionally long life, they might not be like the majority. But you are likely to be like the majority (you probably don't know yet. If you knew you might not even need advice in the first place).

But we don't hear much about stuff to avoid from people who died younger. Not that those people also know about a number of data point of 1 anyway. That's why we need rigorous studies.
Maybe the point is that taking advice from ANY single person is a bad idea since thay are making conclusions from a sample size of 1, while a "scientist" is telling you things that are statistically more likely to help you?
FWIW Rust also has null-terminated strings available under its std::ffi module. I’m not sure it would be feasible to migrate C++ to the approach of multiple string types now, and I’m not sure it would have been the right approach for C++11 given C++’s approach to interop, but it’s definitely possible to support interoperability with those legacy APIs without constraining a default string type to null-termination.
Proteus effect on misogynistic behavior () in virtual reality
The license is the Business Source License, which is not open source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License

The current license says the terms shall change to Apache after two years a release has been available.

Not for me, but some might find it interesting.
Companies serving the military and companies serving the population at large should generally be separated.
Boeing's fall (thanks to the reverse McDonell Douglas takeover) was mostly as their defense arm grew. Huge margins, a very different type of working. Boeing stopped giving a damn about it's civil aviation business, as is exemplified by moving their HQ from civil manufacturing hub Seattle first to Chicago and now to Arlington County, Virginia literally to suck up to Washington and lobby 24/7.

That's a very different type of business.

If Boeing was forced to make money with a successful civil aviation business alone it would be run very very differently.
I've been super excited for Strix Halo, but I'm also nervous. Strix Halo is a multi-chip design, and I'm pretty nervous about whether AMD can pull it off in a mobile form factor, while still being a good mobile chip.

Strix Point can be brought down to 15W and still do awesome. And go up to 55W+ and be fine. Nice idles. But it's monolithic, and I'm not sure if AMD & TSMC are really making that power penalty of multichip go down enough.
Somewhat more threads is fine too. If it's tons of uncontrolled threads then they have a problem of fighting and slowdown even if memory use was zero, and once they fix that 64MB will also stop being a problem.
I can see your point. I should qualify that -- my comparison was just on the indictment only, in that they threw the crimes of every user into his indictment, like they did with Ulbricht.
It’s not revenue, it’s prestige. Except in Texas, where it’s both.
Worse-is-better, it’s not just for operating systems. Or maybe management is just another operating system.
Except that's capitalism for you. The profit motive means only those willing to put profit (and often very short term profit) ahead of everything else means that only unempathetic assholes (and often psychopaths) end up as leaders of these organisations.

So not everyone who is not a manager is good, but almost all top-level managers are bad. They need to be in order to make the decisions needed to advance short term profit before all else.
I published a revised version of my "Vim Reference Guide" ebook: https://learnbyexample.github.io/vim_reference/Introduction....

Then, I started working on an interactive TUI app for Python beginner exercises. I've previously written such apps for CLI tools (grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
This is absolutely true, also.

In fact, in Illinois there is a specific statute to cover this. The Dept of Corrections can simply dispose of someone's sentence and hand them to ICE for deportation. I knew a Mexican guy who had a 6 year term and I heard from him 6 weeks after he was sentenced -- he was back with his family in Mexico, having had his sentence terminated and quickly deported.
Same here.

I used to be one of the math/science wiz in grade school. I also got hammered on the work ethic part, multiple times. Unfortunately studying/working 12+ hours a day in the name of "work ethic" impacts my body beyond what I can handle, and mental health as well. That's not the way I operated growing up, and my body isn't going to handle it all of a sudden now.

Here I am, 3 cardiac arrests later, trying to figure out how to fit into a society where everyone seems to be hellbent on working every waking hour and eating UberEats while I'm trying to stay alive with immense amounts of self-care in my off-work hours (cooking healthy, hiking, actually disconnecting from the internet, etc.).
Alien and Aliens. Those two movies are the perfect blend of timeless action, scifi, and horror.

I’m feeling really hopeful for Alien: Romulus.
Very valid concerns! AMD's current die-to-die interconnects have some pretty abysmal energy/bit. Really hope they can pull off something similar to Intel's EMIB maybe?
Some countries require you to provide a government id, which is logged, to get a new sim.
Exploration geophysics (large area mapping in search of resources) loses money hand over fist .. it's like sinking money into lottery tickets .. and yet billionaires routinely dabble in it and a few own companies that take on contract work, lose money and act as tax write offs for other parts of their business.

It's about the contacts and the advance inside knowledge.

Circling back to an alledged "pedo web ring" ala, say, Epstein .. the big pay off wouldn't be connected to "services" and charging access to view materials, the real money (if any was being made) would be in "blackmail" and "quid pro quo" investment infomation etc.

Once a few whales are landed, say past and future POTUS candidates, C-Suites of mega tech companies, bankers, etc. what limit is there on making money from tips in exchange for keeping a few secrets?

I have zero knowledge re: the Telegram founder and any of this, but history is littered with rumours of elite clubs, cosy finnancial arrangements and getting away with the breaking of convential rules. (eg: one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_paedophile_dossier)
> By contrast, an attacker’s entire job is to attack the system.

If cyber defence is a sideshow to the actual businesses objectives, then surely the same holds of cyber attack and whatever the actual criminal/strategic goal?
Yeah I pretty much always think through the unit circle to get the value of sin(0) and cos(0) (unless I had been doing a lot of trig lately)

I remember drawing everything out on trig exams though and making myself an on-demand cheatsheet.
No, that doesn't matter in the least. It is trivial to kick him off the Western appstores and arrest him in Dubai, so it really doesn't matter. He was allowed to operate - almost certainly in some kind of a deal - until he wasn't.
Truth Is Multidimensional (2018)
> changes in the page table block the whole process, doesn't matter what combination of concurrency models you're using.

I don't think that's necessarily true --- adding a mapping doesn't need to stop other threads that share a page table unless they're also modifying the page table. I don't think the TLB would cache an unmapped entry, but even if it did, the page fault handler will check, see that it's fine and resume execution.

For unmapping, it's different, in that you have to do IPI TLB shootdowns, but that interupts, not blocks.
Durov is full of shit.

He'd have you believe that all messages are welcome on Telegram, that no material is censored, that it's all about free expression, that they're too small to provide moderation.

But when an account is flagged for spam, Telegram rapidly responds and restricts or kills the account. So they can and do moderate content.

It's just that accounts can get flagged for CSAM hundreds of times and Telegram takes no action.

They're making a choice to provide a platform for this material. That's against the law and prison time is absolutely justified.
Yes. It is. Just a giant flexing its muscles. Look but don't touch.

Why would you spend any of your finite attention here? It's a signal to researchers and would-be upstarts that Meta already lurks here.
Responding to the Discord point, charitably, I think the person you're replying to is saying that Discord is a poor documentation platform that has some fatal flaws, and I do think it has unfortunately replaced web forums in a lot of contexts, which means a couple things:

1. It's unsearchable and opaque: you can't really do anything but the most basic of searches on Discord and getting support or finding previous/similar questions can be incredibly difficult. This also has the strong disadvantage of being unarchivable with makes the next issue more important.

2. It's controlled by a single entity and the viability of Discord, from both a service provider perspective and a community perspective is uncertain. For all we know, Discord, the company, could die without any warning, or there could be policy decisions which make hosting communities untenable. If that happens, it'd be incredibly difficult to get stuff off of there. With more decentralized communities, or even centralized, but internet-visible ones, there are potentially archives and backups that can help restore information.

This, imo, makes it not a great choice for a software project's forum or whatever. Maybe general IRC-style chat where conversations tend to be relatively ephemeral anyway? Sure. But it's not a great forum or wiki replacement imo.
Professionally, I recently founded a startup focusing on education in dentistry. I've developed a platform to discuss and interact with cases online which I use for my own teaching, and thought other might also be interested. I've made some of the custom components (image editor, 3D viewer) freely available:
https://kigun.org/

Personally, I'm building a website which lets you quickly setup personal online dashboards, because I wanted to have an overview of all the sites I refresh often on one page:
https://frankendash.com/
Every America politician is an existential threat to world peace and stability.
> don't even get me started on the calculator which they have standardized on

What's a calculator? Is it a button-press-box or software? What should be the modern TI-84?
I hope you have a baby turtle too: https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1bkyopc/baby_turt...
Sorry for whataboutism, but Apple does the same thing. It claims in advertising that all cloud backups are "encrypted", but if you dig deeper, "encrypted" means "encrypted with a key that is stored in the cloud" (see the table in [1]). Apple also (exactly like Telegram) requires you to opt-in for E2E encryption of backups, it is not enabled by default and even in this case contact list backup do not support E2E encryption.

The article claims that "Contacts and calendars are built on industry standards (CalDAV and CardDAV) that do not provide built-in support for end-to-end encryption." but it seems like a weak argument. Nobody actually cares what protocol is used between a device and a cloud.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
Thanks God for HN not supporting inline image.
Myself! I ended up with an incredibly severe health issue due to repeated mismanagement/misdiagnosis by doctors over the last 5+ years, and now that I finally know what's wrong I can treat it effectively and maybe even recover.
I'm making a cyberpunk-like ttrpg system, that should be roughly backwards compatible with the old gear catalogs. But it adds better progressions, some fairly innovative (I think) die rolling systems that make better use of party skills, and a number of ways that roleplay changes the rules, and visa versa.
I just (like today) started working on an open-source, self-hosted, e2e encrypted, and free password manager.

I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.

The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.

Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords

My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.

LMK what you think!
Surprisingly safe? Right now the 737 Max is at 1 death per 3 million trips.

The 787 Dreamliner which came out 15 years ago, has no deaths at all.

It's not good. It's about 5x as deadly as the 747-400... And it just got started.
Interesting. There was one app I liked but Bose bought and it seemingly went into the bit bucket. I like the person-led tours such as exist in SF but it's often morw convenient and practical to have on-demand computer ones.
We are entering into an era of AI-generated programs. Brace yourself and enjoy the shitshow.
Fixed costs vs variable costs. That’s how capitalism works.
A biology/machine-learning blog!

https://www.owlposting.com/

Rediscovering an old love for writing that I thought had left me after highschool, now applied in the field I work in! Recommend starting your own blog if you're on the fence + being consistent about posting, it's extremely worth it
> widely using it for communications

it is hosted on Dutch and Western servers, and most chats are not e2e encrypted, especially group ones where you coordinate things like that. They are just incompetent and sloppy to use it for military, which probably already suffered for it greatly, but all the data was flowing unecrypted to closed-source servers in the Western Europe this whole time, so this has no new implications for anything.
A ComfyUI extension for advanced image control using Flux LoRA and ControlNet
I can see the function of mods being taken over by ai at some point. Pros might outweigh cons.
There is a legal process, though, at least in the USA.

You can get a warrant (a court order) to open a piece of mail, and the USPS isn't going to refuse to hand it over.

[technically they could, but someone would get stuck with contempt of court charges]
The main problem with Telegram is it’s not subject to Western surveillance and censorship. Best I can tell, it’s also not subject to Eastern surveillance and censorship which is why it was (unsuccessfully) banned in Russia in 2018. As of right now, this is one of the few places where you can find true information about WW3 which is currently ongoing in Ukraine. This is true of all sides of the conflict: the only truly uncensored source right now is Telegram, whether you’re in Ukraine, in Russia or in the west. People investing hundreds of billions of dollars into the war do not like this lack of control over the narrative. That is why Durov is in jail.
I’m building an integration platform, think Zapier or Workato.

We’ve been hand coding full-service integration workflows for 2+ years on a large B2B agency model, and in parallel have been building a platform using what we’ve learned to build better abstractions.

We’re at an interesting point where almost all new workflows are being built on the platform, and we’re serving over 100 clients.

We’re prepping for public release in the next few months.
> I'm sorry, but what else are defenders trying to do that isn't defense?

This is an uncharitably narrow reading of the post to which you're replying, isn't it? Defenders are trying to ship. To make money to make payroll. Create profit centers, not cost centers.

You can say that security is a feature and a load-bearing one, and I'd agree with you, but not everyone who makes decisions will do the same.
1. MD merging with Boeing and taking over management, basically. Management gurus hate this being pointed out

2. Moving headquarters to Chicago - part of the MBAs taking over

3. Losing the engineering first mindset - this is really the core of what happened there.

When the company kept focusing on stock returns and "financializing" the company, and did things like spinning off Spirt airplane assembly company, that was the real visible symbol of the problem. In the past few months they gave up and rebought them to join with Boeing.

The solution for being will be a multiple year transition of the company into being much more technology and engineering focused. They will have to eject the MBA type "reducing cost is the goal" type leaders. The problem is those are completely the leaders of the company today.
One thing I do want to mention as a vim limitation, even with neovim & it's headless+client modes, there is still only a single screen. I'd love a neovim where I can have multiple separate clients connected to the same session, but each as a separate viewpoint (but shared list of buffers, shared registers, shared so much).

Doesnt seem super applicable to window managers at the moment, but there being a singular screen does seem like a severe UI limitation.
I wish there were discussion websites for media like this. If I've finally watched a tv show, everyone is already talking about another season. I want some sort of "season one insulated forum" or something. For all those that are in the same "temporal" spot.
In cases where there is public evidence of illegal activity, where incidents have been reported to law enforcement, does Telegram provide LE with account information (e.g. phone number) for further investigation? Similar to Apple transparency reports? https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

https://restoreprivacy.com/telegram-sharing-user-data/

> the operators of the messenger app Telegram have released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in several cases. According to SPIEGEL information, this was data from suspects in the areas of child abuse and terrorism. In the case of violations of other criminal offenses, it is still difficult for German investigators to obtain information from Telegram, according to security circles.

Signal and Telegram were publicly sparring in May 2024, https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/chat-apps-government-ties-a...

> two popular chat services have accused each other of having undisclosed government ties. According to Signal president Meredith Whittaker, Telegram is not only “notoriously insecure” but also “routinely cooperates with governments behind the scenes.” Telegram founder Pavel Durov, on the other hand, claims that “the US government spent $3 million to build Signal’s encryption” and Signal’s current leaders are “activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad.”