skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I question you "1 in 1M". I think it's probably multiple orders of magnitude more common that that. There is a continuum of how damaging that data leakage is, and/or who the data is flowing to.

Just through personal anecdote, I can think of maybe 5 examples of people I directly know 'retaining' stuff like outlook email PSTs, training documents, etc. And I'm sure there are many more people in my immediate circle who have done similar stuff.

The espionage situation is perhaps more rare, but still prevalent. It's a common situation for people to hang around outside the Foxconn campus soliciting data for the latest iphone / what-have-you. Lots of money to be made have a 2-3 month jumpstart on your competitors when you design a 3rd-party case, for example.
> Watching "modern IT" people demand special treatment because "modern IT" is just built different than modern flying or modern surgery is watching the height of arrogance.

Not really. In > 99.99% of software projects, the risk of an error leading to people dying is lower than it is for a surgeon or a air traffic controller.

Additionally, software is an extremely broad tool, like mathematics, that can be applied to nearly any domain. Consequently, slowing down devs via regulation as you suggest will also slow both technological progress and economic growth. In a few circumstances, the risk may be enough to justify that cost, but it there’s high bar to clear.
> Most people aren't actually interested in knowing what's going on. But one can find out. Even if one isn't conspiracy minded, it's quite obvious that oligarchs, their multinational companies and governments couldn't give a single fuck about normal people.

Yup, there are people who subscribed to the system and there are people that opted out.

I don't even try to explain to people anymore. If I did I am pretty sure there would be a downvote frenzy and then Dan might even get pinged.
I tend to use https://www.lightningmaps.org because it is less visually noisy but I believe it is ultimately sourced from Blitzortung. I unplug my computer whenever there is lightning nearby.
I have no interest in or relation to Brilliant Light Power other than as a long time follower. Mills went to court to defend himself against an accusation of fraud I believe. Wikipedia is about 10 years out of date. As for 'crackpot /con-man "free energy" scam' the theory is fully available for review. The energy is not free since it involves binding the electron in hydrogen more tightly to the nucleus thus releasing energy. Normal hydrogen is converted into its dark matter form.
Some background context:

- I self-taught myself coding at the age of 14 in 2004 with Flash/ActionScript using computers in my school's library. Very few people in my small town were interested in coding at the time so it was unusual.

- Studied Software Eng at university. Graduated early with a Info Tech degree due to high number of job opportunities (I was already working part time).

- I got in early on the web development trend.

- Joined an ed-tech startup. Got some shares. Has been slow steady growth but they haven't exited yet. Not sure I'll ever be able to sell.

- Launched an open source library which got thousands of stars on GitHub.

- Joined a startup backed by big investors including Y Combinator, Greylock Partners, A16z.

- Joined a $4 billion market cap crypto project in 2017 which got into the top 10 crypto projects in the world at the time. I was developer #6; the project started using the open source library I had built. Although the project slid in the rankings due to lack of marketing, it's still worth hundreds of millions and hasn't been hacked in 4 years since it started using my open source library. A lot of weird stuff started happening in my career after joining this project.

- Earned like $50K per year (average) from blockchain forging for about 3 years. I was earning 200% yield on my investment each year for 3 years which I used to fund my own time to work on side projects. Then crypto had a big crash though my principal is about the same as when I had started.

- During that time, I launched 6 different side projects with other people. All still running but none earning any revenue yet. Algorithms don't give them any exposure.

Unfortunately, even with this track record, none of this translated to significant long term income or opportunities. I have fewer opportunities today than I did when I just graduated from university in 2012.
Merchants make all their money from customers, so all costs are always passed on to customers. Nobody cuts their margins.
as long as it still does call screening im ok. the rest is AI hype garbage.
It's a shame that harmless political ideologies, like the belief that some people should be enslaved as chattel based on the colour of their skin aren't awarded the respect they deserve.

Next thing you know, people will start getting their knickers in a twist over someone flying a Daesh flag.
I can certainly relate but sometimes I wonder if the people we consider "normal" don't also see themselves as outside the norm.
Your bet is correct! These are considered `reports`. The default `task` view is called `next` (what are my next tasks), but there's plenty of others, plenty customization (sort order, filters, columns), for those built-in reports, and custom reports as well [1]

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/report/
Online discussion isn't the real world. I'm sharing thoughts in the spirit of positive discussion and didn't offend anyone.

Me thinking someone has low impulse control isn't an offense. Me telling them they have low impulse control is an offense (i never said this to anyone). Me being honest about the thought that came into my mind in a discussion board is also not an offense. And I cannot control the thoughts that come to my mind, only my actions after. If anything I learned to keep my mouth shut from this thread, it's the first and last time I discuss tattoos.
Blendersito – Blender Clone for Symbian S60v3
Big discussion a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818501
There's a gradient of risk, though. Suppose someone is sitting on 5 billion dollars unrealized gains by holding the index fund VT. The idea of "risking 100% loss" in VT is ludicrous.

Maybe unrealized gains tax can be formulated as "cushy gains tax" if riskiness can be quantified in a reasonable way based on an asset's age and metrics over time. Then if an asset's risk score is above X, you don't pay tax. If it drops below X, you start to pay tax.

This would probably lead to more innovation and fewer monopolies, as people are incentivized to invest in riskier companies, and companies are incentivized to self cannibalize to maintain a healthy risk score.
Come on. You know why they’re doing this: unhinged protest groups are literally pounding on the windows of schools and preventing students and teachers from getting down to learning
CRDTs are powerful, but it's unfortunate that they leave behind a trail of historical operations (or elements), both in their ops- or state-based variants. Even with compression, it's still a downside that makes me concerned about adopting them.

Even so, the discussion surrounding them made me excited by the possibility of implementing conflict-free (or fine-grained conflict resolution) algorithms over file-based storage providers (Dropbox, Syncthing, etc.).
By far the biggest thing people remember about Google+ was the hamfisting of it (several people lost their Youtube accounts) and yet people also reported that it was otherwise a good experience (compared to the Facebook feed); one thing Google had to contend with was Facebook not offering access to the social graph so they had to build the network effects by a more difficult route

eg Facebook replacing people's email addresses, one wonders if it was partly a way to fight Google+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
The benefits of front-running usually tend to be very transient. Placing a trade just before a large order, as opposed to after, will give you a short-term pop.

The way to make money when front-running is to buy early, wait for the pop, then sell immediately. The longer you hold on, the less of an impact that pop will have on your gains. Company fundamentals and market forces will overwhelm any short-term pop in the long run. Especially so for highly liquid stocks like VMWare where the decisions made by individual funds have a smaller impact on the stock price.

I'm saying all this because the guy was buying and holding for many years. He held on to VMWare for 4 years. And NetApp for over 2 years. At those timescales, the vast majority of your returns are independent of your decision to front-run the trade.

It does seem very coincidental that he bought and sold just before/during his fund's trades. But consider another possibility. He does a lot of active trading - the article mentions that most of his trades are unrelated to his fund's trades. On one of those occasions, he thought VMWare was a good buy, and so, bought the stock for himself. He's also on the fund's investment committee, where his job is to help the fund make good investment decisions. Unsurprisingly, he pitched VMWare as a good buy... because that's what he genuinely believes. The committee agreed with him, and bought the stock.

4 years go by, and he thinks VMWare is no longer a good stock to hold. Hence, he sells his holdings. As part of the fund's investment committee, he also expresses his genuine belief that holding VMWare would not be a good decision at this time. The committee agrees with him, and decides to sell the fund's VMWare holdings. All of the above seems extremely plausible and above-board.

I don't know the exact details of the case, so I'm not claiming the guy is innocent. But the information given in the article isn't as damning as it's presented to be. I'm just glad we have a criminal justice system to try cases like these, as opposed to a media witch-hunt
Fountain pens are awesome, if your keen to try something new.
As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Congress only falls into "periods of internal leaderlessness" because (1) it doesn’t matter so much when it does because Congress is relatively powerless (compared to a Westminster system Parliament), and (2) there is no mechanism to trigger an early election (again unlike the Westminister system)

If the US adopted a parliamentary system, then Congress would have to nominate a Prime Minister – and if it failed to do so within a reasonable period, it would be dissolved and a new election would be held for it. Fear of having to face the voters again is a great motivator for legislators to get their act together – especially since voters rarely take kindly to being called upon to vote again so soon.
It might be illegal but it is also understandable. comprehensible. If you were a local, this is the kind of initiative you might actually feel ok about.

The formalism of an entry tax like Venice just begs questions how it is spent. Not surprisingly there is very low trust in discretionary funds distribution from local government in a lot of places.

This initiative avoids tax, avoids supervision, has massive problems including systematic racism almost built into it (don't like chinese people? charge them double..)

So I hasten to add I don't "approve" of this, but I can totally see why they got here. And, I am reasonably sure in 25 years of business travel I have informally accepted some level of this, because opportunities to contest a printed menu bill you are proffered are few and far between. Since I was on expenses I took it in my stride. I don't see the point in being upset about things when there is a 3 to 1 or better income advantage on the floor.

The other side of this, restaurants in Venice charging dupe tourists thousands of euros for a glass of prosecco and lobster rolls is really bad. It's been a thing to lard the bill for rich out-of-town for centuries, worldwide. This kind of "local tax" approach is different, but equally contestable from the moral bleachers.
Starlink provided free internet services to Ukraine when Russia invaded but later on asked for payment.

Elon has a history of cancelling orders for Teslas if people criticise him.

I feel like Starlink isn't the sort of company the world should rely on for a safety critical service, free or not.
> you have to realize that there will be fewer such startups if a tax on unrealized capital gains is passed, and that VC activity, along with the future startups chasing their money, absolutely will move to countries without such a tax.

That's a bold claim. The tax-averse amongst us say that, but in my experience investment flows to the best ideas / best distribution / best businesses. If those people are in the US because they're citizens, the capital will flow to the US, and investors will take the hit.
The problem is mostly with how fonts are packaged, because even if you serve WOFF and WOFF2 in addition to fallbacks like TTF, then the font will most likely include a whole bunch of symbols that you won’t actually display.

A way around this would be to split the font into multiple subsets based on unicode-range, like how Google Fonts do it: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans&display=s...

Sadly, I never quite figured out how to do it for arbitrary fonts easily, so for example I still serve comparatively large PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono fonts just because I like how they look. Maybe some day I’ll figure it out and will be able to automate converting all of the fonts I want.

Here’s something silly: you could probably put GNU Unifont on some page, the OpenType version of which is like 5 MB alone: https://unifoundry.com/unifont/

All that said, the JetBrains Mono font is a pleasure to look at on the site, as long as I’m not on a limited data cap.
…Because Trudeau eliminated Canadian news and controls it all by funding only what he likes and spews his narrative !
Have your plans changed with all the recent news about tattoo ink? Do you try to vet the ink?
It wouldn’t be a rarity if you create an incentive structure that rewards overproduction
Not to get too deep in the underwater weeds here but sound propagation underwater is not omnidirectional like how sound propagates above water. And I’m not sure how true that is either

All that to say, I certainly understand the concern. But I would personally have to see evidence of harm
Updating Built-In Emacs Packages
Shun, ridicule and mock anyone who works in advertising. We do much the same to stalkers and while it doesn't eliminate them entirely, I have a hard time believing that you won't be deterred if you're considering starting to go into advertising and you are told in no uncertain terms this is only for bad people.

This is an industry where every willing participant should be treated as if they're an informer for a party that is hostile to you. Because they are.
I betcha it wasn’t perfectly through word choice alone as I can think of a few “tricks” that could be deployed undetectably.
It’s not one app but a mix of different things. Alarms to take supplements at meal times, Amazon subscriptions set to the right intervals so I always have oatmeal for my breakfast, supplements before they run out etc., alarms that tell me when to stop eating and start eating again after a 14 hour gap for IF, shopping in bulk at Costco and making sure there is nothing in the house that’s “bad” for me.

I’m not tracking my meals. I did use MyFitnessPal for a bit but I didn’t find it useful.
dupe? (3 days ago for the project's GitHub) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339308
Indeed, Apple Notes has a reasonably sophisticated CRDT, including support for tables: https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils/blob/master/notes....
Once, and once during Covid
I mean Trudeau got reelected during Covid too because he temporarily relaxed restrictions, just to crank them back into high gear after winning again.

Also, Doug ford is no conservative, he’s just liberal lite. A pathetic spineless being
I remember looking at this for the first time many years ago. I don't remember the exact steps that caused the circumstance to appear but I left the page open with the sound on. For quite some time after that I spent ages trying to figure out where the intermittent clicking sound was coming from. It drove me nuts. I felt very silly when I figured it out.

Would be cool to get a system and contribute. I find it crazy just how far some of the sensors are triggered.
> Does that mean that this mono project and its associated repo and what is within the dotnet repo are not the same and could (if they have not already) diverge?

Yes, they have diverged. Just as Microsoft forked the CLR to create CoreCLR, so too has mono been forked. Features like multiple AppDomains have been removed from this fork. Here is an example pull request:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/47955
"Gratuitous software" would be excessive and unnecessary software. Which I think a lot of commercial (particularly "news") websites qualify for, and "modern" websites in general. NPM makes it easy to just install something, which requires all kinds of other things, which duplicate each other, etc.

Strangely enough, I think the LaTex distribution qualifies, too. I tried to install it recently, and it wanted 1 GB of disk space! That's multiple times the size of the entire system disk when LaTeX was created...

Sooner or later a lot of the web is going to run on WASM, at which point we'll have a virtual machine running in a user program running on an OS which incompletely virtualizes the bare machine (hence why we've ended up with WASM). Extra gratuitousity if the browser is an Intel binary being run on an M* processor via Rosetta translation... Maybe eventually we'll realize that the OS needs to provide a full virtual machine, complete with window to draw in, filesystem isolation like Plan 9, etc. But, inertia will probably make it take while.
That's very open to malicious actors though. Suppose you set a fair market value on your house or car. If I'm evil it may be worth a small loss on my part to 'out-bid' you simply to take that asset away from you by force, perhaps at a very disruptive time.

It also has all the other problems with estimating the true value of an asset.
> And why 32 entries? I ran this benchmark with a bunch of different bucket sizes and 32 worked well. I have no idea why that worked out to be the best.

If you were using 2-byte ints, this is likely because cache lines are 64 bytes, so 32 entries would be exactly one cache line, letting each cache line hold an entire bucket, thus reducing those expensive main memory transfers.
But all the APIs in this collection of free public APIs are on someone else's computer.

Hence testing them daily to see if the someone else is still offering them.
"Why this, why now, why you?"

Why did Zucc stamp his name on this now, after putting $450m into Biden's campaign in 2020, and willingly censor in favor of the 2020 Biden campaign (covid + Hunter biden).

You've got to wonder why he seems to be signaling to the Trump campaign that he is taking sides.

My guess is either hoping for kickbacks or to thwart retribution for 2020.
Have you accounted for the population of Australian kernel developers?
Sneak a thermometer in there and I bet you could sell me some Tylenol or NyQuil.
A decent number of those fraud alarms are now fake which is extra fun. It's not just a bot problem, it's a bot mimicking the anti bot problem.
That's called bricktext[0], it used to be a thing you'd occasionally see on usenet and places like GameFAQs.

[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/bricktext.html (Also wow Google has completely erased this concept from its search results.)
Nice! I’m not seeing an implementation for actually completing the long list of things I have to do though. Perhaps that can be added in a future update? :-)
What you talkin aboot eh?
Honestly it doesn’t matter, it’s gamifying the activity that makes the difference for me. At the very least I’ll spend the recommended amount of time cleaning each tooth.
If I had transparent tattoos they wouldn't be visible by definition
Is that 300 ms including some sort of AI generation response time? If not, that's a really long time, and no Postgres data should normally be that slow.

I'm not really sure what you're building, but generally speaking your time-to-first-byte is bottlenecked by geography more than anything, unless your server is constantly under really heavy load.

Generally (and vaguely) speaking, because there isn't much detail in your post, IMO this is less a question of language & framework and more a question of caching and CDNs (unless every API request you respond with is totally dynamic). Depending on what you are trying to build, maybe some of that data can be cached/stored in edge nodes in a cloud KV of some sort (which will be duplicated to data centers around the world if you pay for it) so that each local user can get a fast response from their nearest edge.

Even if you just have one VM sitting in one single data center running Postgres, with some basic indexing, any normal web stack should get you well under 300 ms response time even from across the world. You can cache write-rarely-read-often DB/API content in Redis or similar, and you can cache HTML output in Varnish or similar.

And even if you do have a slow GPT in there that takes some time to respond, that should probably be a different API endpoint anyway (maybe on a different architecture) so the rest of the app isn't slowed down by it. (If by "task management" you mean something like Linear/Jira/kanban board style thing, basic UI states and such shouldn't have to go through a GPT).

If you need fast UI interactions (for things like dragging between columns), probably you can optimistically update it clientside and then send the state updates serverside in the background, and validate that they succeeded. Depending on your frontend framework this can be relatively easy (such as for react, in rtk-query: https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/usage/manual-cache-up... or swr: https://swr.vercel.app/examples/optimistic-ui or tanstack: https://tanstack.com/query/v4/docs/framework/react/guides/op...).

If your state model is especially complex, you can maybe also consider saving changes to some local datastore and then batch syncing them to the server every so often. But then having to deal with two-way sync can get really annoying, like if the user logs in on different machines... avoid that if you can; it's a lot simpler when everything is server-authoritative with no client being more than a second or two behind.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding anything...
With respect, I don't. I don't live in that part of the world and I guess I'm blessed enough to live in a place where what you're describing is not something people do.
It does indeed still work that way! We even still support the old, in-house VM, known as LSO2: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSO

We're hard at work adding Luau (https://luau.org) as a supported language for both in-world scripting as well as client/viewer-side scripting. As a handy byproduct of that, LSL will also gain the ability to be compiled to Luau bytecode, allowing us to eventually (someday, at least) shed any need for our custom-patched version of Mono 2.6. More juicy details here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Lua_FAQ

Source: I work at Linden Lab. If these sorts of things excite anyone, we're hiring!
https://lindenlab.com/careers
All democrats should move to Canada to experience socialism lite, which is what people voted the Democratic Party in for.
Do you use last-write-wins using the received order of operations on the server or using a logical clock?

I believe that for Notion the collaboration use case is more important than async editing, so a CRDT makes more sense, but for text editing apps that favor asynchronous collaboration maybe explicit conflict resolution is more reasonable.
Just CTRL-F for Citadel in any of their agreements.

Guaranteed someone is paying to front run for them.
if this doesn't work well with super high level languages, why would it work really well with LLMs?