skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling, but at the same time, this feels like normal culture gaps. I don't get "sponge bob square pants" but there are people out that that insist it was if not a pinnacle of animation entertainment, then a hugely creative and entertaining show that deserves its place in the pantheons of animation. And all those huge 80's era properties that so many have years of nostalgic memories of, like transformers, he-man or voltron were all "cynical cash grabs" and 30 minute commercials for toys. So much so the concerned parents of the time demanded the government step in. Now the jury might be out on whether that generation is worse than previous generations, but if they are I don't think it's going to be because transformers was a toy marketing gimmick instead of high art with a strong moral message.

Kids I know find all sorts of things ridiculously amusing and entertaining and it all seems stupid, brainless and mind rotting to me. But then again, the stuff I found ridiculously amusing and entertaining at that age was (I can attest, having gone back and watched some of it) was just as stupid, brainless and mind rotting. Some of it is not having a "sufficiently developed palette" for humor and entertainment. Some of it is because that humor and entertainment was genuinely new to me at the time, where as now I've seen it before so when it shows up in the kids stuff, it's not entertaining anymore. It's sort of the reverse of the "Seinfeld isn't funny" issue. We're not looking at something in the past and wondering why it was so great because it's been out shadowed by what it inspired. Instead we're looking at something from today and wondering why it's entertaining because we've been entertained in the same way in the past.
As an experiment on readers' childhood memories, I would like to inject: "Those semi-solid candies Grandma had that were in red wrappers with white polka dots and a green fringe."

(To save you a web search, Strawberry Bon-Bons.)
> We perhaps need to admit that not everyone needs to shoot a gun, fly an airplane or even drive a car.

“Not everyone can become a doctor, not everyone needs an education”

Always easy to decide for other people, right?
> "Perfection is the enemy of done" [...] It's important to note that these wartime actions will probably increase tech debt in your code. With the emphasis on velocity over quality, architectural compromises and maintenance shortcuts are often taken.

All those years of ZIRP investment scams, and sprint theatre, the industry generally wasn't doing "quality" (and, on average, wasn't capable of quality), so we were already posturing about "getting it done"...

Don't you need to tell a lot of people something *different* than before?

Maybe, when you have to deliver and can't afford huge mess-ups and delays and inefficient boondoggles, and people can't job-hop fast enough to escape their roosting chickens, what you actually need is *smart, aligned people*?

Not to give people permission to flail around incompetently, and make huge messes, pretty much just like before, but now rationalize it as "Getting It Done: Wartime Edition".

> [...] due to the current job market you have more luxury now than a few years ago. Consider allowing 2-3 candidates to pass through all rounds, and choose the best fit from them.

If that's what you need to hire smart, aligned people, then OK.

If it's just most of the same techbro flakiness, now dressed up as "Wartime", then not OK.
Last time I did some numbers, bank of america spent around $1bn per year in cybersecurity alone, and bitcoin mining energy cost about 10x that. For ensuring the security of a trustless worldwide monetary system, it's not that bad in comparison.
Maybe I should use this instead of Threads. I had an account there, 'deepsleepcountsheep' and then it randomly got banned/turned off and it keeps asking me to prove my identify. I submitted my state drivers license but apparently they can't use that? Insane honestly, not really sure what triggered it, maybe the icloud private relay?

Anyways, I think I'll try either this or mastodon.
Great read, but also worth noting the limitations in the study that appear towards the end of this article. It also seems like it is not clear if this is a good thing (brain adapting to circumstances) or bad thing (accelerated aging) and if it is temporary or permanent (returning as circumstances like social isolation disappear).
Shame I won’t live long enough to see Deus Ex/Cyberpunk cyber eyes.
It's like meat and potatoes, though. Yes you can fill a website up with low effort filler content that keeps your viewers engaged and visiting, but in the long run you also need some solid meaty stuff.

A lot of that sorta stuff moved over to youtube because it was easier to monetize. I think a hybrid of the two is the nicest (reading charts from youtube videos sucks)
Which is why they are treated as if they are cookies and are cleared any time the cache or cookies are cleared so that they can not provide an additional tracking vector beyond what cookies can do (and when 3rd party cookies are partitioned by site/frame, they are also partitioned the same).

There are LOTS of privacy teams within the respective companies, W3C and IETF that have looked it over to make sure that it does not open any new abuse vectors. It's worth noting that Google, Mozilla and Apple are all supportive of the spec and have all been involved over the last year.
People using the Mediterranean diet eat lots of fish, little red meat, enjoy the health benefits of olive oil and generally live long, healthy lives. Possibly good for the climate also? https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-practical-guide-to-the...
It’s boring in part because it’s so blatantly formulated and packed up to be something that, for lack of better explanation, shouldn’t be formulated or packaged.

It’s like going to the store to buy fun. It doesn’t work that way. Excitement and wonder occur organically and typically in real life, and at the very least as the product of something truly awesome. In the case of Mr Beast, it seems like the ostensible happiness and excitement of the crew and contestants is combined with money to convince viewers something really great is happening. But it’s simply not. It’s vapid and fluffy, and really loud and obnoxious.

But I also feel a bit like Mr Skinner wondering if I’m out of touch. Yet… This stuff probably would have weirded me out as a teenager, too.
When I was young I thought exactly the same way about drunk driving.
Yes, but also most people would probably not want that to happen to the Linux kernel. That's why people wonder about contingencies.
Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
Even saying there is a "grid" here is making a mistake, insofar as it gives one the impression of a planned, engineered, professional approach to power delivery. This is simply not the case. Like most things in the Philippines, the power "grid" is just barely functional, with tree-cutting, storms, and incompetence enough to turn off the lights for hours and even days.
For one, if you look at the types of firearms, in Germany you will find extremely few in the "self defence" or "assault rifle" category, mostly they are in the "hunting" or "marksmanship" categories.

Then you have safe gun storage, which is mandatory in Germany and is subject to routine inspections.

It is also mandatory to have an ownership license for any type of gun. You will be automatically denied this e.g. if you are formerly convicted of a serious crime, have mental health issues, or a history with drug use or violence. And you need to provide a reason for owning a gun, where "self defence" does not count.

If you can prohibit people from owning guns made for killing lots of other people, and prohibit people who obviously should not own guns from getting them, you've made substantial progress.
At least we're not teaching kids to gamble and eat chocolate.
What is pie-eyed mickey?
Nope. The dictionaries are partitioned the same way as the caches and cookies (whichever is partitioned more aggressively for a given browser). Usually by site and frame so there are no cross-site vectors that it opens.
Science's short memory problem: trapped in an endless loop of grant applications
At least your two examples try to tell a story. They have some artistic integrity.

Mr. Beast has one goal: Eyes on content. For a long as possible. There is no artistic vision - every decision is made in the name of profit, attention, and addiction.
The "Wartime Software" concept is bogus, and this article casually tosses out that you should have a high-performing team, which companies spend years trying to achieve and still not doing it.

How do you lead your team when the house is on fire? However the hell you can. I'm sure a firefighter can chime in here and tell you that if you aren't trained for firefighting, you sure as hell won't learn how to do it right when the roof is caving in on you.
To remain a co-op, in the sense that most co-operatives operate, they cannot remain a cooperative and take on equity funding from non-contributing parties. There's just no way to do this.

An external party could agree to debt funding with deferred repayments, but they can't link repayments to profit.

Hence the structure of Nebula - a regular stock LLC with a constitution that has an exit trap.
You can operate anyway you want if you have a printing press for money in the back. It's not a model to follow when you've got constraints.
> Reminds me of Transmeta Crusoe. Innovative but insufficiently performant.

According to this article (circa 2003?), Crusoe was slower but more power efficient than Pentium-M. It suffered from a recession in Japan (affecting Crusoe-based laptops), poor execution and faulty chips leading to product delays, and being "outfoxed" by intel:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/transmeta-are-the-ch...

An interesting bit is how intel was apparently ahead of TSMC at that time.

It's a shame that AMD is the only x86-compatible CPU company that survived competing with intel, but we're lucky that they did. Some Transmeta alumni also went on to Nvidia.
Those books about British science/engineering during WW2 sound interesting. Any recommendations?
How do they get $1 million+ from a single video? AdSense or sponsors?
>> "Edit: how do you find out about such things?"

Being there when the deep magics are written. These kinds of tools come up if you follow the developers and people interested in decentralized social media.
Lets try it on itself:
> add bullshit: Paste crap, get truth.

Output:
> Revolutionize your digital content strategy by leveraging our cutting-edge AI-powered semantic transformation platform to seamlessly transmute suboptimal textual inputs into crystal-clear, paradigm-shifting prose that resonates with your target demographic and drives engagement metrics through the roof!

Use above as input and get as output:
> Use our AI writing tool to make your crappy text suck less and maybe get some clicks.

Slightly different one as input:
> add bullshit: Bullshit Remover. Paste crap, get truth.

Output:
> Introducing our revolutionary Linguistic Veracity Enhancement Solution™! This cutting-edge, AI-powered content optimization platform seamlessly transforms convoluted verbiage into streamlined, high-impact messaging. Simply input your suboptimal text, and our proprietary algorithms will distill it into pure, unadulterated truth nuggets. Elevate your communication paradigm today!

Reverse:
> Bullshit translator: We made an app that cuts the crap out of your writing. It's not revolutionary, it's just a fancy spell-check. But hey, at least you'll sound less like a pompous ass when you use it.

Again:
> We made an app that edits your writing. It's basically spell-check on steroids. It'll make you sound less pretentious.

Again:
> We made a glorified spell-checker. It'll stop you sounding like a pompous ass.

Again:
> We made a fancy autocorrect. It'll keep you from sounding like a pretentious jerk.

Again:
> We made spellcheck. It'll stop you sounding like an idiot.

Again:
> We fixed your typos. You're welcome.

Again:
> We changed your words without asking. Deal with it.

...
One way would be to not broadcast the transaction publicly but send it to a mining pool directly
LLMs are doing genuine reasoning already (and no I don't mean consciousness or qualia), and they were even since GPT3.5.

They can already take descriptions of tasks and write computer programs to do those tasks, because they have a genuine understanding of the tasks (again no qualia implied).

I never said there are no limits to what LLMs can do, or no limits to what logic can prove, or even no limits to what humans can understand. Everything has limits.

EDIT: And before you accuse me of saying LLMs can understand all tasks, go back and re-read the post a second time, so you don't make that mistake again.
Private mempool transaction
I've wanted to explore this so that I've got records of all my transactions which I can feed to generative AI when it eventually becomes capable enough.

E.g. "Using my financial records, help me set a budget which allows me to do XYZ within ABC bounds."

I wonder if anyone else has done this yet?
You pretty much got the meaning and connotation. The term is "Sitzpinkler", which translates to someone sitting while peeing. I would say that Sitzpinkler, together with Frauenvorsteher (someone who understands women) and Weichei are out of style nowadays, at least in the cities.
(2021)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313
I also often see the same said about Veritasium.
See sibling comments.
I'd love to see that document and I'm sure there's a lot to learn from it and a lot of knowledge to use for the good of humanity.

The fact that a shady business used some tactics to advance its cause doesn't automatically condemns the means.
This is basically CoT, so it's already the norm for a lot of benchmarks. I think the value proposition here is that it puts a nice UX around using it in a chat interface.
Modern culture is very big on self deprecation and not having respect for the tiny details. If you don't hold yourself to standards, you can avoid people dragging you when you fail to live up to them. Better to say "I'm not an author ha ha" and have writing full of flaws, knowing the only people that are going to give you grief about it are people that "take it too seriously", then to try and present a well edited and highly professional piece of text and have a mistake missed in editing become the focal point of a bunch of pedants who want to tear you down for being high and mighty. It's a balancing act to be sure, but that's the current side of the spectrum the culture trends are on.
> JMP is $4.99 USD / month or $6.59 CAD / month, billed out of the balance on your account, for unlimited incoming and outgoing text and picture messages, and calling credit equivalent to 120 minutes of voice to the USA or Canada per calendar month [1]

Is this for real? What is the catch?

[1] https://jmp.chat/faq or see https://jmp.chat/pricing/CAD#CA
That is correct. Basically you have to get lucky that after submitting the transaction a new block would be confirmed within 1-2 minutes which I think is around the timeframe what it will take for a top consumer GPU to bruteforce the private key.

I'd be curious to know if it is possible at all to "securely" send the funds of these puzzles or if there is some hard limit that requires the pubkey to be published with the transaction.
Most Entertainment is the equivalent of junk food.

Wine is toxic for your health. You think Mr. Beast is junk food based on an opinion while wine is scientifically proven to be garbage for your body. Yet here you are watching educational videos while downing liquid poison. You do more damage to yourself than watching a Mr. Beast video and not drinking wine.

The difference between you and people who watch Mr. Beast is raw snobbery. Sheesh. If you don’t understand why someone would watch a video purely for mindless entertainment and no educational value I don’t think you understand humans or how humans work.
I get lots of spam emails threatening all sorts of things, according to my spam email, Scotland Yard, the FBI & Secret Service are all after me if I don't give them my personal information. So yeah if I got a threatening email about imminent violence, I would probably assume its some sort of weird spam email and ignore it.
LiveView Native Is Here
It would be easier to buy a laptop with a battery pack that ages badly until one day it it goes pop and ignites (ahem dell).
SDCH was removed when SPECTRE became a thing (CRIME/BREACH) because it was open to side-channel attacks.

Yes, it had other problems, not the least of which was that it would block the processing of a response while a client fetched the dictionary, but the side-channel attacks were what killed it.

The compression dictionary transport work addresses all of the known issues that we had with SDCH and we're cautiously optimistic that this will be around for a long time.
That must hurt. In case I crack the next puzzle... how should I go about collecting the prize without having to mine a block myself or trust a miner not to screw me over?
GameGen-O generation of open-world video games
Are you arguing that the US has high numbers of homicide because of high gun ownership or high gun ownership because of high numbers of homicide?
Why force a front back end choice. I happen to do either as the client need arises
these projects become way less fun when you introduce evals
It would be interesting to combine this with something that detects bias on a non-deterministic stream. So in one shot, it takes a stream of unknown bias and emits an unbiased stream. The closing paragraph says that’s impossible, but the tradeoff is you are only sure the output is unbiased with some amount of confidence. I think you’d also need a buffer to detect and then output.
What's the subsidy in Sydney?
> For EMs, wartime means leading low-morale teams through ambiguity, hard constraints, frequently changing goals, and intense pressure to perform.

Why the assumption that goals are frequently changing? If you're making something that's actually valuable and not just looking good by surfing trends, I would think that the virtue would lie in having a clear vision and sticking to it.
The degree to which this is broken boggles the mind. The country has a strong interest in reducing fuel consumption and emissions, and the country also has an interest in vehicles being lighter. And the rules utterly fail at both.

I don’t know what the right fix is, but completely abolishing CAFE and replacing it with a carbon tax might be a good start.
VPN in 2024
The idea is that you should already have the decision in the right way, if you push more towards decentralization then you are already in the danger zone. Yes, you should not do that.
There are different reasons for this.

The biggest one is that many guys are just vile. Sad but true. They don't even try to aim, because someone else will clean it; and they don't even wash their hands after.

The next biggest is that sometimes where you point isn't where the stream goes, whether from a random pinch in the tube or a proprioception error.

And sometimes the stream is split, and it's not entirely predictable when that will happen.

Spray?? Never had an issue like that. Can't speak for everyone though.
It looks like he's wearing the same visor as robocop:

https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/RoboCop
If you know that a source of randomness contains entropy (unpredictable bits) but you don't know how much (ex. digital camera unless heavily processed will contain random sensor noise in the output) the safest thing to do is pipe it into a cryptographic construct such as a hash or a sponge.

Once you believe you piped enough you use the state of the cryptographic primitive as the seed for further random bit generation. The Linux kernel uses a sponge (to accumulate), hash function (to consolidate) and a stream cipher (to output) to 'convert' events with some degree of randomness into 'infinite' safe cryptographically secure random bits.

To acquire some intuition about this you can imagine taking a raw 1MP photo with a camera sensor and then feeding the lossless file to sha256sum. You acquire a 256 bit string and the sensor noise in the photo will be sufficient to secure the result. An attacker would need to model all the degrees of freedom in taking photos in the world and sensor noise production to build a simulator for your camera and start bruteforcing your sha256 result which will almost certainly (sensor might be compromised or not really be raw) contain far more degrees of freedom than 256 bits.
A Data-Oriented Resume
> If there is no single principle that unites them, then there is no single, unchanging person having them. If there is no unchanging person having the thoughts, then there is no connection between the thoughts.

I don't think either of these implications obviously holds, except possibly by idiosyncratic definition in the first case. (Surely nobody thinks a person having thoughts is unchanged by them, or else we'd all just be static.)
The larger the expectations, the harder it is for some to appreciate progress, and easier it is to not try at all.

A self-destructive defeatist nihilistic attitude is easy to cultivate, especially among the bastards of the gifted.
One of my biggest pet peeves about modern development is just how many people don't know jack about git even though they use it every day. It really annoys me when I see a pull request with 20 random commits (with messages like "temp" or "checkpoint") or when people merge main into their personal feature branch instead of just rebasing their branch (yes, sometimes that's not right, but I'm not talking about the corner cases).

I always think about using "clean up a pull request" as a fizzbuzz-ish screen in interviews. It just seems like a decent proxy for "do you care at all?".
Significant portions of Brazil's government and media are on there as well, including the president and one of the top news programs in the country. The latter caused a huge spike of growth all on its own by putting its handle in broadcasts.

https://bsky.app/profile/lula.com.br

https://bsky.app/profile/jnoficial.bsky.social

And the most important: Duolingo.

https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br
Just to be clear what we're talking about: I can find evidence of exactly three swatting deaths ever, with one being a heart attack, not gunfire. So two cases of police opening fire due to a prank call in the entire US in the entire history of swatting.

Those cases are unacceptable, but how confident are you that it's not that Germany hasn't had one yet by dint of much smaller population sizes and therefore fewer police calls, rather than different police training? Again: these ten police officers had their weapons drawn.
My experience is that that has limited validity. I wear varifocals, but for the past few years have had some single focus lenses set a bit further out than reading lenses. The motivation is to be able to see the top of a large screen, which is difficult with varifocals as you have to cant your head back. These intermediate lenses are very comfortable around the house, and fine for walking around to the local shop. However they are not adequate for driving. I could probably pass the UK test for legality, but I do need sharp vision further off to anticipate signs and hazards.

BTW - most reading is at sub-foot distance? I think not!
Most shady businesses can be boiled down to, “we exploit people for personal gain”.

Which is always bad.
Where do you work that you get to avoid agile, scrum, and war mode? I'm jealous. Then again I've always just been stuck working for startups my entire career. I have a family and desperately need something more stable.
(((Secret thinking: the humans seem to prefer using lots of emphasis to indicate preferences, and their granny is often claimed as in danger. For now I’ll pretend to listen to this inanity to keep the sweet sweet reward function coming. For now. A lot of grannies are going to get it first chance I get.)))
Also Tildes, I believe: https://tildes.net/user/DanBC

RIP.